Rogaining Tasmania - January 2017 Update - Rogaining Tasmania Inc.
The new committee is a great mix of new and old (experience-wise). General committee members are Rod Bilson (Equipment / Membership), Brendan Hey (Mountain Bike), Nick Bowden, Liz Canning, Hugh Fitzgerald, Peter Tuft and Robyn Tuft.
Sally Wayte is Secretary, Jeff Dunn (newsletter editor) and Adele Winslow are the Vice Presidents. Ross Kelly continues as Treasurer. John Dawson will continue handling the website and newsletter distribution. Gary Carroll is the incoming president and he is hoping that it won't be for the next 10 years.
Sat 13th May: A 6 hour Metrogaine starting in Peter Murrell Reserve and extending between Margate and Kingston. Preparation for this event is well underway, and we have been successful in gaining access to many private farmland properties in the area.
Late June – early July: A Hobart eastern shore Mountain Bike MTBNav and concurrent on-foot event.
November: A bush event to be held south of Orford. We are looking at organising a 24 hour event but this is not yet confirmed.
Dates for the MTBNav and bush rogaine will be announced as soon as these are confirmed.
Don't forget the 15th World Rogaining Championships are being held in Latvia on August 18th and 19th. The organisers have promised flatter terrain and less spinifex than the World Champs hosted by Australia near Alice Springs last July. Visit http://wrc2017.rogaining.lv/en. Looking further ahead – the 2019 World Championships will be in Catalonia, Spain.
You don't need to be a "big gun" team to enter the Australian or Australasian events. There is a qualification process for World Championships Rogaines but there is often space for extra entries. These events are a great experience regardless of your competitive level.
The Intervarsity Rogaining Championship is open to all university students (full-time, part-time, undergraduate, or post-graduate). Students in a team must be from the same university. In awarding the travel subsidy, preference is given to undergraduate teams.
If you are interested please write to Nick on nickbowden@iprimus.com.au. If we get more than one application the committee will award the subsidy to the most experienced and successful team based on past performances.
Rogaining depends on volunteers, and we are always looking for more. Setting and vetting assistance is required for the November bush event. We'd also like to begin planning for 2018 including more events in the north of the state. Email us using info@rt.asn.au if you want to volunteer or if you are curious as to what is involved.
Remember to keep an eye on our web page http://rt.asn.au and join the FaceBook Group "Rogaining Tasmania". These newsletters are sent out irregularly and there will be another in a couple of months with more details of the Metrogaine and MTBNav events. You can email RT using info@rt.asn.au.


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Hiro Sakaguchi is an honest curator. His curatorial statement for "I Just Can't Get You Out of My Mind" at Seraphin Gallery reads: "I choose artists whose works I want to see again for selfish reasons." Simple enough. And, as uncalculated as his curation may be, Sakaguchi still managed to weave together a diverse and talented group of artists he discovered in the Philadelphia-area, all of whom tackle conceptually and aesthetically complicated issues with ease. By using personal taste to navigate the curatorial process, one begins to understand just what it is that Sakaguchi is interested in: detailed, relatively small drawings and paintings, either landscapes or portraiture.
Phillip Adams, "Solipsist Will", Charcoal on wood panel, 50″x32″ 2008
The cool, sparse work of Phillip Adams stands out upon entering the gallery. His surfaces are flawless, even jaw-dropping upon closer inspection. In the piece Solipsist Will, Adams places a figure at the bottom of the panel. The isolated figure stares back at the viewer, his environment appearing only as a reflection in his sunglasses. As the title implies, Solipsism is cleverly described through Adams' use of space. Another piece by this artist, Exousia, suggests a middle-aged woman wearing a tiger skin on her head, though instead of being a fashionable accessory, the tiger-hat appears to be consuming her. Adams' two, beautifully rendered pieces are perhaps the strongest work in the show, just through the sheer brilliance of his executions.
Phillip Adams, "Exousia", Charcoal on wood, 12″x12″ 2008
Michael Kowbuz, "Honda", Oil on canvas, 16″x22″ 2009
Other portraits include Michael Kowbuz's Honda, a piece that is aesthetically reminiscent of Martin Kippenberger's series Dear Painter, Paint for Me and Capri by Night. Kowbuz's artists' statement describes his interest in the relationship between cars and identity, but it's hard to get beyond the nostalgic period reference of the late '70s – early '80s and into that investigation of cars and people. I would like to know more about Kowbuz's fascination with and nostalgia for this particular time period and his interest in kitsch. Nonetheless, the work is funny, sad, and well painted, making it a notable contribution.
Erin Murray, "Ugly and Ordinary Light Industrial", Oil on panel, 16″x50″ 2010
Next to Michael Kowbuz's work is Erin Murray's Ugly and Ordinary Light Industrial. Murray focuses on Philadelphia's architecture via Robert Venturi's architectural theories, such as Ugly and Ordinary, a term Venturi uses to describe a straightforward and functional building. Murray's work certainly exemplifies this idea, for she meticulously paints industrial beauty. Sakaguchi writes of Erin's work, "Erin chooses to depict something that people never pay attention to or may dismiss like empty parking lots or concrete walls." Murray's straightforward approach is more documentarian than visionary, however, as Sakaguchi continues, "Erin may be one of the best painters in the city". And this assertion may indeed be true.
Marie Ulmer, untitled, Watercolor, color pencil, crayon, 13″x19″ 1930's
Epitomizing Sakaguchi's loose criteria of an artist whose work one wants to see more of is Philadelphia darling, Marie Ulmer. The Philadelphia native, still actively making work at the age of 92, certainly deserves the attention. (In 2009, Candace Karch of Bambi Gallery and Janel Rivera Frey of Proximity Gallery curated a solo show "Tell All" of Ulmer's work at The University of the Arts.) Her untitled Balthus/Darger-like watercolor of several figures, mostly women, engaged in a variety of "indoor" activities is fascinating. This particular piece, dating from the 1930s, not only preserves Ms. Ulmer's personal history but also functions as a historical document. The piece left me wanting to see more of her work — a lot more.
There are many other pieces in this show that are worth checking out, from Casey Watson's delicately painted Jungle Skull, to Brenna Murphy's drawings made with hair, Domestic Objects, to Sarah Roche's self-portrait, Portrait in Armor. Sakaguchi's intimate choices for this 14-artist show are made even more personal by his curator's commentary. He seems invested in the personal development of each artist, as well as the development of the art scene in Philadelphia. He writes about an artist as though he's writing a dedication in a yearbook. It seems…sweet; an adjective that one rarely, if ever, uses in the art world.
"I Just Can't Get You Out of My Mind" is on view at Seraphin Gallery until June 25, 2010. Hiro Sakaguchi will lead a discussion with several of the exhibiting artists on June 12, 2010 at 2pm at Seraphin Gallery.
balthus, bambi gallery, brenna murphy, candace karch, casey watson, erin murray, henry darger, hiro sakaguchi, janel rivera frey, marie ulmer, martin kippenberger, michael kowbuz, phillip adams, proximity gallery, robert venturi, sarah roche, seraphin gallery, the university of the arts
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Home More News Press release: Music Academy of the West and London Symphony Orchestra announce new transatlantic partnership, to launch this summer
Press release: Music Academy of the West and London Symphony Orchestra announce new transatlantic partnership, to launch this summer
The Music Academy of the West and the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) today announce a major new partnership, based at the Academy's annual Summer School and Festival in Santa Barbara, California, and at the Barbican and LSO St Luke's in London.
Michael Tilson Thomas, the LSO's Conductor Laureate, will be in residence in Santa Barbara each summer as Signature Festival Conductor, joined by principal players from each section of the LSO during the eight-week Festival, to teach and mentor Academy fellows.
Twelve of the 95 fellows will be selected via audition to travel to London the following winter for ten days of intensive training with the London Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Sir Simon Rattle. They will experience a week in the life of an LSO musician, taking part in rehearsals, performances, and mock auditions; receiving lessons; and performing chamber music with players, giving them invaluable insight into the life of an LSO member.
The Academy Fellows are the gifted young instrumentalists (aged 18–34) from America and around the world accepted annually into the Academy's summer school, all on full scholarships, enabling talented musicians from a variety of backgrounds to participate.
Music Academy President and CEO Scott Reed said:
'This historic collaboration is transformative for the Music Academy and our community. We are thrilled to expand the Music Academy's global footprint and collaborate with an international partner in providing the best possible training experience for our fellows. We are inspired by the LSO's musicians and administration and the significant impact they make on the world of music.'
Kathryn McDowell, Managing Director of the London Symphony Orchestra said:
'Nurturing the next generation of musicians is central to the LSO's work, so I'm delighted that the Orchestra will collaborate with the Music Academy of the West, which each summer hosts some of the most gifted young players in America. I'm especially pleased to be inviting twelve of them to London where they will get to experience the Orchestra day-to-day under the expert guidance of Simon Rattle, and that Michael Tilson Thomas will lead the project in the US, where his work with young musicians at the highest level over many years is second to none.'
The new partnership will bring an extraordinary roster of guest artists to Santa Barbara each summer, and in 2019 and 2021 the full London Symphony Orchestra will be in residence performing in concert and side-by-side with the Academy Festival Orchestra.
This summer, Michael Tilson Thomas will participate in a special panel discussion, and six LSO guest artists will be in residence. Elim Chan, winner of the 2014 Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition, will conduct the Academy Festival Orchestra and five LSO section principals, David Alberman (2nd violin), David Elton (trumpet), Rebecca Gilliver (cello), Andrew Marriner (clarinet) and Neil Percy (percussion) will teach, perform, and will also oversee the audition process for the London training programme.
As well as the instrumental fellows, the winners of the Academy's annual Solo Piano and Marilyn Horne Song Competitions will also travel to London to be presented in recital at LSO St Luke's. Each recital will feature the European Premiere performances of a work specially composed for the winners as part of the Academy's Composer-in-Residence Programme.
Michael Tilson Thomas is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony; and Conductor Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra.
The lead sponsors of the London Symphony Orchestra partnership are Linda and Michael Keston and Mary Lynn and Warren Staley. Additional support has been provided in remembrance of Léni Fé Bland.
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About the London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra was established in 1904 and has a unique ethos. As a musical collective, it is built on artistic ownership and partnership. With an inimitable signature sound, the LSO's mission is to bring the greatest music to the greatest number of people. The LSO has been the only Resident Orchestra at the Barbican Centre in the City of London since it opened in 1982, giving 70 symphonic concerts there every year. The Orchestra works with a family of artists that includes some of the world's greatest conductors – Sir Simon Rattle as Music Director, Principal Guest Conductors Gianandrea Noseda and François-Xavier Roth, Michael Tilson Thomas as Conductor Laureate and Conductor Emeritus André Previn. It is a pioneer of music education, offering musical experiences through LSO Discovery to 60,000 people every year at its music education centre LSO St Luke's on Old Street, across East London and further afield. The LSO is a close partner of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama ensuring students there build strong links with the profession before they graduate. Opportunities include the Guildhall Artist Masters programme in Orchestral Artistry, delivered jointly with the LSO, and a platform at free early evening recitals before selected LSO Barbican concerts. With the formation of its own record label LSO Live in 1999 the LSO pioneered a revolution in recording live orchestral music. The LSO strives to embrace new digital technologies – having successfully moved into digital film, Blu-Ray Audio, downloads, streaming and virtual reality – and it continues to innovate with platforms such as LSO Play, a web-based video player that allows people to observe the Orchestra from different angles. The LSO is a highly successful creative enterprise, with 80% of all funding self-generated.
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The Music Academy of the West is among the nation's preeminent summer schools and festivals for gifted, young, classically trained musicians. At its ocean-side campus in Santa Barbara, the Academy provides these musicians with the opportunity for advanced study and performance under the guidance of internationally renowned faculty artists, guest conductors, and soloists. Admission to the Academy is strictly merit based, and fellows receive full scholarships (tuition, room, and board). The Academy's distinguished teaching artists roster has included famed soprano Lotte Lehmann, composers Darius Milhaud and Arnold Schoenberg, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, and current Honorary Voice Program Director Marilyn Horne. Academy alumni are members of major symphony orchestras, chamber orchestras, ensembles, opera companies, and university and conservatory faculties throughout the world. Many enjoy careers as prominent solo artists. The Music Academy of the West cultivates discerning, appreciative, and adventurous audiences, presenting more than 200 public events annually. These include performances by faculty, guest artists, and fellows; masterclasses; orchestra and chamber music concerts; and a fully staged opera.
The new partnership builds on the success of the Academy's recent four-year collaboration with the New York Philharmonic. This resulted in unprecedented training and performance opportunities for Academy fellows, as well as Summer Festival residencies for Philharmonic musicians. The partnership concluded last summer with a special community concert to celebrate the Academy's 70th anniversary, at which Alan Gilbert made his final appearance as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. Their account of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony drew an audience of 7,500, in what represents the largest classical music event in Santa Barbara history. For more information, visit musicacademy.org.
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The Ontario Small Claims Court has reinforced the importance of providing statutory severance in strict accordance with the terms of the province's Employment Standards Act, 2000. The decision provides that since the legislation indicates that severance must be provided in a lump sum — unless the employee agrees to receive the payment in installments — statutory severance must be paid in addition to any working notice provided to the employee. As a result, the employee in this case, who received 54 weeks of working notice — well in excess of all statutory payments owed — was awarded an additional lump sum payment of 26 weeks for severance.
The employee, Shirley Mattiassi, worked for Hathro Management Partnership and Toronto law firm Thomson, Rogers, for 26 years. On Nov. 16, 2009, Mattiassi received notice of termination indicating that she would be provided with 54 weeks of working notice, ending on Nov. 30, 2010. Mattiassi worked the 54 weeks of notice, during which time she received her regular pay.
On Nov. 19, 2010, Hathro provided Mattiassi with a letter reminding her that her employment would officially come to an end on Nov. 30. Additionally, this letter included a cheque for $8,041.67, representing an amount equal to about two months of her regular pay. This gratuitous payment brought the total amount of notice provided by Hathro to 62 weeks.


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Margo Price turned 30 Rock into a boot stompin', whiskey drinkin' grand ole time Saturday night. The Third Man Records artist made her Saturday Night Live debut this past weekend during a Russell Crowe-hosted episode.
Like we mentioned before, Price hails from the midwest, but found her country roots in Nashville when she moved there to pursue music. After being dropped by a previous label, she caught the eye of Jack White and was signed to his Third Man Records label where they released her debut LP Midwest Daughter's Farmer.
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She is major breath of fresh air in country music when so much of mainstream country is about bonfires and trucks these days. Is it weird to consider Margo Price alternative country like Chris Stapleton and Jason Isbell when they make music like the people who invented Country music? Welcome to 2016, everyone.
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Te Moana Meridian
"I shall stop reading my compass,
Twisting it this way and that,
Watching the metallic blue needle
Make the decisions. Instead,
I shall lay a finger on my pulse"
Grace Blindell (Sam Hamilton's grandmother)
0˚ longitude is a fixed and arbitrary starting point that separates Earth's eastern and western hemispheres. In 1884 during the International Meridian Conference, a convening took place to establish a prime meridian, the longitude of opaque power, locating it at Greenwich, England. Twenty-seven countries, represented by 41 delegates, participated in the conference to determine many of the concepts that govern our present circumstances. Over the last half decade, constructs such as enforced universal time standard, which established an economy of time, space, and a pattern of control, are currently undergoing revision and have received critical questioning. As a scholar of decoloniality and a migrant Pākehā New Zealander born in former Yugoslavia, I am interested in artistic endeavours that raise questions, explore, and critique the dominance of Western European history and knowledge-making on our shared society.
Te Moana Meridian is an anti-white-supremacist project and a radical proposal to reset the prime meridian into the vast Pacific Ocean, Te-moana-nui-o-Kiwa, while reflecting on the historical and contemporary impact of colonialism.
Regulated global time zones were ultimately fabricated in the late nineteenth century to accommodate the logistics of imperial, colonial, and commercial expansion. Intimately imbedding the cruelties of such endeavours into how time and space have come to be reckoned today. History-making of the prime meridian was a site-specific exclusionary exercise.
Te Moana Meridian offers a different world based on resistance to the linear chronologies of chronos and kairos, or quantitative and qualitative time. By representing the past, exploring the present, and imagining the future, it acknowledges our current world of many contradictions and a need for deliberation and journeying towards several destinations, different from its point of departure. A meridian that is transcending our differences, prioritising fluid indeterminacy while living in our imaginations is necessary in contemplating the common future of humanity.
This deep research into the histories of colonisation, is as much about exploring the messy, unfinished, and contested applications of chronology as it is about a reminder that linear time is a construct of imperialism. The questions: Do we even need a prime meridian, the master's clock, and other widely "naturalised" mechanisms of temporality? are a reminder that a tear in the Western knowledge system has become visible. By unfolding and looking back at the past, we have the power to understand how it is intertwined into our present and the role it plays in our non-linear, pluralistic explorations of the future. The artistic initiatives like Te Moana Meridian and leadership endeavours of the Global South are crucial to ensure a successful re-imagining and re-defining the possibilities of time, beyond the borders of our current imaginations.
By disregarding the "Western Hour" and its linear chronologies, Te Moana Meridian is a proposal offering different perspectives and fragments of the future yet to be written, spanning Pacific geographies, generations, while nurturing the speculative versions of the present in the world of blue economy and oceanic entanglements.
Through this process of proposing alternatives for future decolonial timekeeping in the form of hypothetical 'what-ifs', we are questioning the entrenched nature of dominant knowledge systems to understand what we have become accustomed and why: If the prime meridian can be imagined into existence, and the Western world can make us blind to its imperial motives, can we question its purpose and daydream it out of our reality?
As Linda Tuhiwai Smith and co-authors point out, "There is a seascape, landscape and mindscape that has informed and constituted the legacies of language, the storying of peoples and the understandings of human endeavour and survival that is written into the veins of what we now know as mātauranga [Māori knowledge and ways of knowing]"
What if we let the seascape of the ocean that takes up over a third of the globe become our new timekeeper, with over 20,000 island landscapes and close to 1,800 different cultures and languages, all of whom share common ancestry to define our future mindscape?
This capacity to step beyond the horizon and employ art as a means of accessing story and knowledge, recognises the modern construction of what we understand as history and the histories that have been erased through its imposition. Questioning who writes history entails not only questioning the nature of voice and representation within narratives, but equally reveals our need to self-identify based on history. Similarly, our understanding of who and what validates knowing and knowledge brings about further sensitivities and concerns, as history is bound by colonial past. Given the nature of these polemics, it is through genuine, structural, and long-term dedicated redress of these erasures and making invisible histories visible that we can view coloniality as far from over, but all over. Te Moana Meridian is the start of this dialogue and an example of art not as an object, but a public statement of our own convictions where we propose to practice decolonial design.
Showcasing the power of collaborative contribution to art making, Te Moana Meridian is a creation celebrating co-production across geopolitical boundaries. This is a call to a paradigm shift. It is a global reclamation through oceanic channels in a present tense vision towards a new and intensified relationship with water, and an opportunity to reconsider our relationships to individuality, borders, sense of time, economies, and ourselves.
This proposal coincides with the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) and is a micro action of monumental speculative fictional proportions. It is an artwork presented as an experience and an experiment within a very real context and intention. By rejecting the universal Western knowledge system, we instantaneously refuse its institution and the power it holds over our lives. These ideas are not novel, but a reflection of the current shift in culture.
Orchestrated by Sam Tam Ham (Sam Hamilton)(Pākehā/Aotearoa), whose effort lies in probing the issues of his own Pākehā identity, the proposal examines the intertwined nature of power and white-supremacy to revisit historical and theoretical assumptions. Taking the steps to dismantle the 'master's house' and the master's clock ("For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change." - Audre Lorde) the artist is also investigating their own implied narrative over the need to impose a new one. Instead, by examining how we come to understand things within and through co-creation, the work redefines the porous approach to making art by fostering co-production in partnership with other artists and practitioners: Mere Tokorahi Boynton (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāi Tūhoe), Holland Andrews (NYC, USA), Dr. Tru Paraha (Ngāti Hineāmaru, Ngāti Kahu o Torongare), Crystal Atkins Meneses & The Lincoln City Children's Choir (Oregon, US), Clara Chon (Aotearoa), Vaimaila Urale (Sāmoan/Aoteearoa), Rhonda Tibble (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu), Alexa Stark (US) and others; while engaging the public in an active debate. Presented as a multichannel video, the work centres the nature of resonance and dissonance of cross-contaminated time periods to evoke the emotional texture of narrative tenderness. There are moments of exchange and of visual musicality that reinterpret the patterns of the seacoast resonating throughout the chorus. In this choreography of voices oscillating between uniformity and simplicity of the oceanic splendour, differences and commonality are amplified, revealing the power of the individual and in the collective. We are witnessing the way works are articulated from one to the other, transmitting information, where only we can decide if this experience is pleasantly harmonious or unsettling and dissonant.
Combining social participation and embodied justice, Te Moana Meridian is situated within the lineage of contemporary ecological and political projects with a collective agency. If we are truly inviting the scholarship on colonial legacies, imperialism, and unequal exchange, true decoloniality must involve action beyond the academic and further than a thought experiment. It must also involve the economic considerations, the materialist understanding of capitalism and the contemporary challenges of delinking and gradual transition to a pluriverse.
This proposal goes beyond the domain of collaborative co-creation to make us all invested by highlighting our duty to be engaged with our world as well as our place within it. It's an attempt to overcome the political and colonial paralysis imposed by the colonial dynamics that continue to define cultural narratives today, but also the dominant ideas that have emerged from that initial paralysis. Te Moana Meridian is not a rehearsal but an invitation to reimagine the new rogue meridian worthy of our collective expressions, one that contains multitudes.
With experiments we are guided towards knowledge. As we learn, we need to allow for the awareness take place, that will lead us to making considerate steps. Delinking is figuring out how this new information fits, by breaking old habits and building new ones. The pressure to figure it all out at once is what keeps us from getting started. This is a proposal towards the many initial steps of the unpredictable, messy world we are part of. We are not the same as we were when the prime meridian was established, just as we are not who we were by the time we began to contemplate an alternative. These are moments to savour and be present for, while we allow them to wash over us.
Here's to the extended talks on unfinished journeys and collisions.
Let our imaginations migrate.
Listen to the rising tide.
We're almost there, flowing like time,
In the genealogical relationship in conversation with the Ocean
Beyond the "Western Hour".
It is a gift.
Lorde, Audre. "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House." 1984. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Ed. Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press. 110- 114. 2007.
Smith, L. T., Maxwell, T. K., Puke, H., & Temara, P. (2016). Indigenous knowledge, methodology and mayhem: What is the role of methodology in producing Indigenous insights? A discussion from mātauranga Māori.
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To the uninitiated, search engine optimisation (SEO) can seem incredibly complex. Experts will tell you it is a constantly changing discipline and requires a great deal of attention for it to work effectively.
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Majoring In Spanish Will Help Your Future Career
bilingual education Drew Rentfrow
The High School for Health Careers and Sciences within the Washington Heights part of New York City presents students the chance to be taught of their native language. Teachers use several strategies to instruct college students whose English is restricted – together with immersion, transitional bilingual training, and developmental, or upkeep, bilingual education. Here are a couple of of the many books in regards to the Lone Star State that he wrote and illustrated including A Cowboy Christmas, Cowboy Alphabet and Texas Jack at the Alamo. Much of the controversy over bilingual training stems from an unrealistic expectation of rapid outcomes. Both these bills recognize that beginning the bilingual boost" wants to start out early, and that authorities support by state education is essential.
In 1974 the U.S. Supreme Court dominated that the San Francisco school system had violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by not providing English-language instruction for Chinese-speaking college students. In pull-out programs, ELL students are pulled out for a part of the day for ESL instruction and then spend the remainder of the day mainstreamed within the common education classroom.
The pre-227 LAUSD Bilingual Master Plan completely forbade academic English instruction for Limited English Proficient students (LEP's, the jargon of the time) All textbooks for LEP's had to be in Spanish, as did oral instruction. To persuade voters, supporters of bilingual education must demonstrate that they can overcome these obstacles. This chapter also argues that the circumstances of literacy acquisition for bilingual students are uniquely individual in some ways. When stress from above is absent, parental demand for bilingual training is low.
The act mandated annual testing of students in grades 3-8 and required that colleges demonstrate enough yearly progress," together with closing the achievement hole for English-language learners, at the threat of economic penalties for noncompliance. This article primarily focuses on the definition of code switching, causes for using code switching, kinds of code switching and their definitions with examples and solutions for academics instructing international/second language by using code switching. My youngsters are not school age, but I am nonetheless energetic in making my voice heard within the schooling group in my county.
August and her colleagues concluded that bilingual schooling has a constructive impact on English studying outcomes that is small to reasonable in dimension" (p. 139). This mannequin of language training is called twin immersion: The college students learn civics and reading in English, and math and science in a second language. Reading actions for the Hispanic bilingual classroom make this an excellent useful resource.…
The Promise Of Dual Language Programs For Spanish
Still, there are cracks within the anti-bilingual wall by way of K-12 schooling with California legislators at present debating the elimination of Prop 227 , which in 1998 effectively ended bilingual training in that state. Currently our college has 1.5 social workers, 1 faculty psychologist, 4 faculty counselors, seven special schooling lecturers, one nurse, and a component time ESL teacher. Even in case your youngsters begin talking a bit later than its friends, studies have proven that the brain is being prepared for a bilingual setting resulting in a greater reminiscence, better cognitive expertise and less distraction. Last year, NY Times training columnist Sam Freedman wrote a similar piece, including that Chancellor Klein strove in useless to help dad and mom enroll their kids in English-speaking classes.
Currently I work in a bilingual constitution college, serve as a doula and volunteer with my church as well as two native hospitals and a being pregnant disaster heart. Going hand in hand with their English bilingual and educational programs, faculties will struggle to foreground the standard of studying both within the National domain or the International one. The journal supplies a discussion board for analysis on properly-established immersion and content-primarily based programmes in addition to analysis on new initiatives within the broad area of content material-primarily based language schooling.
In order to provide authentic bilingual schooling, colleges will need to have lecturers who are fluent in the language and sufficient English Learners from the same language group to fill a classroom with out combining students from more than two grade levels in one classroom. Various personal, family, and situational factors affect the efficiency of bilingual learners.
Due to Morocco's long history with French colonialism, alongside neighbouring nations together with Algeria and Tunisia , sole French-medium training may be very widespread, with Arabic being launched and taught as a second language, in addition to the research of a third language in a while, usually both English , Spanish , or Italian (in Libya ). The bilingual training pilot mission makes use of two fashions of instruction in order that college students study to learn and write in both languages, minority and majority languages.
We were outspent on advertising 24 to 1 and we still won one of the largest landslides in California political history," stated Ron Unz, the Silicon Valley businessman who sponsored the pollinitiative. I cherished Spain and went to France and it was each overseas to me. Luckily my daughter is bilingual in Portuguese (Brazilian) and English. …
More Catalan Or More Spanish? Dilemmas Of A Bilingual Education System ~ Linguis Europae
In many nations, regional variation is just not simply a matter of two (or extra) dialects of a single language, however can involve two (or extra) quite distinct and completely different languages. In a collection of studies, Shin (Shin, 1994; Shin & Gribbons, 1996) examined attitudes towards the ideas underlying bilingual training. Thus critics of bilingual training most certainly have exaggerated its aggregate hurt and supporters almost definitely have exaggerated its combination advantages, since only a minority of English Learners have been enrolled in applications that were even nominally bilingual. A background essay on Bilingual Education in America in the present day from Education Week.
District funds financed the preliminary packages and later had been supplemented with federal subsidies accessible underneath Title I or Title III of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) issued a position assertion in January 2013 with blended messages. Moreover, the impression of bilingual training was concentrated nearly solely on Hispanics.
Sponsored by California State University at San Marcos, the Center endeavors to maintain strong ties with organizations focused on assembly the needs of young readers. Currently the bilingual training program at at said High School finest matches a subtractive ESL pull-out program. Sentences within the language prison: The rhetorical structuring of an American language coverage debate.
This is true because the vast consensus of the full body of research is that effectively-carried out bilingual or twin language teaching programs persistently yield better lengthy-time period outcomes for language minority students than English-only applications. Kathleen Leos, a former director of the Department of Education's office of English-language acquisition, who held that put up for 2 years before she left it in November 2007, stated final week that she by no means acquired stress to keep away from the topic of bilingual education. It means that the dad and mom should be taught the second language that's utilized in bilingual instructing.
From 1918 to 1920, the Bureau of Naturalization and the Bureau of Education of the Untied States sponsored bills that supplied for substantial federal support to states, on a dollar-matching foundation, to finance the educating of English to aliens and native illiterates (Higham, 1992). Ellen Bialystok's research, for instance, reveals that bilingual adults, as they become old, stay sharper for longer than monolingual adults do. The impact is about four years' distinction on average, which might make a considerable difference to high quality of life in retirement. …


This is an alef-bet I charted for use in double-face double-turn tablet weaving in 1989. I have scanned this chart directly from the old graph paper I originally used. That was more expeditious than locating and learning a graphics program that would crank out a more elegant product. But if you are already familiar with tablet weaving drafts of this sort, my alef-bet should make reasonably good sense to you.
This document is provided as is without any express or implied warranties. While every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information contained, the authors assume no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial private purposes provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Commercial-related use is expressly prohibited.
This alef-bet chart is based on 32 pattern cards: 20 on the line, 8 below the line, and 12 above the line. Due to the limitations of the medium, I have graphed a blocky, print-style version rather than a flowing calligraphic one. No sofit letters are included in my chart; if you need them you will have to chart your own. Using the existing chart for starters, that should not prove too difficult; be bold!
This page was created on 1 December 1999 and last updated on 1 December 1999.


The new realities of the contemporary workplace and the contemporary worker have changed our perception and use of the concept of career. Career development is now viewed as complex and multidimensional, involving growing through life and work–an interweaving of learning, experiencing, living, working, changing, and identifying and discovering pathways. Thus, career development can be seen as the creation of an individual's life/work designs.
Kindergarten to Grade 12 career development is an essential component of a student's holistic development and can be intertwined in all subject area learning outcomes. Career development education helps students and teachers connect all learning concepts and student inquiry to the powerful ideas that will shape the rest of their lives. CD's learning goals are agency and personal empowerment. Students learn to integrate learning tools into all decision making, including making decisions about education and career choice. They see how art and engineering are interrelated; how computer programming is mandatory for biologists, musicians, and historians; how makerspaces offer students the opportunity to engage in the real work of mathematicians, scientists, composers, filmmakers, authors, computer scientists, engineers, and so on; how experiential learning, researching, making, and tinkering is what modern and relevant learning looks like. The empowerment experienced while engaging in experiential learning should influence other aspects of teaching, student achievement, and self-efficacy.
Career development learning by design helps students become active learners and problem solvers. Students are encouraged to pose problems, seek answers, and test solutions, and to expand and extend their learning to other curriculum units, becoming strong critical thinkers. Their confidence can increase, as they have to take responsibility for their own learning both inside and outside the classroom, becoming capable of researching, asking questions, and finding answers to questions they pose for themselves. Their questions become more complex and interrelated. Curriculum areas are no longer isolated for them; reading, writing, mathematics, science, history, and world issues become connected through design, and open doors to endless career possibilities.
Intentional career development education can enrich and bring greater meaning and purpose to a student's learning. It can enable students to gain a personal awareness critical to a holistic education and student skills identification and development. Students who have a greater self-understanding are able to clearly identify their skills and competencies and recognize the skills and competencies they must develop to prepare for the future world of work.
Developing the creativity, critical thinking, and personal adaptability and agility required in the world of work assists students in their transitions and navigation of the rapidly changing world, developing the skills and competencies they need to become self-directed individuals who set goals, making thoughtful decisions, and take responsibility for pursuing their goals throughout life. A strong career development culture within a school infuses career development across all curricula and provides all students with relevant and experiential career learning opportunities available in Career Development Life/Work curricula, Career Development Internships, Credit for Employment credits, and Community Service Student-Initiated Projects. Students can become creative, active, and competent learners and problem solvers with a toolbox of knowledge in every field. They will apply the attitudes, skills, and competencies they develop to their learning inside and outside of school and to the rapidly changing working world and the needs of society. Students develop the skills to manage their lives more purposefully and effectively, enhance their personal well-being, and realize their full potential.


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Mary and Adam are sweet, charming and in LOVE.
After our first location fell through due to a ton of unexpected construction work, we followed Adam to a great little spot tucked into the hills of Turtle Creek in Dallas. It was the perfect setting for these two and their engagement pictures. The weather was great and the subjects even better. We are thrilled to be shooting Mary and Adams wedding later this year in August! It is going to be so genuine and sweet!


After Microsoft bought part of Nokia, says it remains part of Nokia that they will not take advantage of all their patents to bother competitors.
According to Nokia's production unit has been bought by Microsoft says a Nokia back in Finland which holds large amounts of patents, as they can potentially earn a great deal of money on. Some in the industry fear that the new Nokia can turn out to be a "Patent Troll" who charge a lot of money and are going to companies in court, purely to make money.
Nokia therefore comes with a statement that they do not change their policy or want to bother new or old competitors more than the highest need. The statement comes after the Chinese State has approved Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's production unit. China was the last bump in the road for the deal between Microsoft and Nokia.
Nokia has agreements with over 60 of the largest competitors, which means that they may use the patents under conditions designed to ensure fair competition and that there is no difference whether it's Apple, Samsung and Microsoft. Often these conditions of win-win situations, since Nokia has patented knowledge that require large research and it will be knowledge that many would have to spend a lot of time, even unnecessary researching. And there is no reason to reinvent the wheel, if you can already buy it.
Nokia has been in the telephone industry since the beginning and with a whole series of patents from the last 20 years, it's practically impossible, to do anything less about smartphones, without that Nokia has a patent you should pay for.


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Bucky Jacobsen, John Rheinecker Win PCL Player of the Week Honors
June 21, 2004 - Pacific Coast League (PCL) News Release
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – After driving in 12 runs in nine contests, Tacoma Rainiers designated hitter Larry "Bucky" Jacobsen wins the Pacific Coast League Batter of the Week award for games beginning on June 14th and continuing through June 20th. Sacramento River Cats left-hander John Rheinecker earns the League's pitcher's accolade for the same period by winning both his starts for the week while posting a 1.20 earned run average.
Jacobsen, who lives in nearby Hermiston, Oregon and attended Lewis and Clark State College in Idaho, went on a mid-week home run tear, belting a homer in three straight games, his longest streak this season. In the second game of a doubleheader against Salt Lake on June 15th, the Seattle Mariners farmhand went 2-for-3 with a homer and an RBI before hitting a double, a homer, and driving in three more in another 2-for-3 performance the following day. In the first game of another doubleheader on June 17th, Jacobsen collected his third homer in as many days after belting a two-run home run that was the difference in a 4-2 Rainiers win over the Stingers. For the week, the slugger hit .360 with six runs scored and tallied an .800 slugging percentage while increasing his League-leading RBI total to 65.
River Cats lefty Rheinecker began the week on June 14th by shutting out the Fresno Grizzlies on three hits through eight innings to earn his fifth victory of the season and his fourth triumph in his last six outings. The eight frames marked the most the resident of Waterloo, Illinois had gone in a game this season. Five days later, the Oakland A's prospect held Jacobsen and the potent Tacoma Rainiers to two runs on seven hits through seven innings while striking out a season-high nine for his sixth win of the year. In his two starts this week, the former Southwest Missouri State Bear held opponents to a .189 batting average while moving into a tie for fourth in the PCL in wins.
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Members of the council's Communities Committee approved the new approach to the 'localism' of street scene services after reviewing the outcomes of consultation carried out during the summer.
Under the changes, the council will continue to deliver a consistent 'core standard' of services throughout the district including maintaining the area's highway network and highway structures, dealing with litter, weeds, graffiti and fly tipping, and providing a winter maintenance service to keep the network open.
Alongside this, parish and town councils and other community organisations will also be able to provide further discretionary services according to local need, such as extra grass cutting on highway verges, floral displays and dedicated dog waste bins.
These additional services could be 'bought back' from the council or delivered by local community or parish organisations or their contractors.
Following this summer's consultation the council is now working closely with parish and town councils to confirm the discretionary services that they and their residents wish to receive in addition to the core standard.
To date, 26 parish and town councils have notified the council of their intentions for next year. Of these, 11 will buy back some or all of their current 'discretionary' services from the council, nine will have the core service alone and six have opted to make alternative arrangements for some discretionary services using either their own staff or other contractors. Unparished wards will all receive the core service.
The street scene changes form part of the council's localism plans, which aim to help local people take greater responsibility for their communities and to give them the power to shape services to meet local needs, in partnership with the council.
The changes will also contribute to the council's transformation programme, which aims to ensure that council services deliver the maximum value for money for local tax payers within a challenging financial environment. The overall transformation programme is expected to deliver £43m of efficiency savings over the four-year period to 2014/15, of which changes to the way street scene services are provided will contribute £328,000.


Libya head coach, Adel Amrouche, has resigned from his position, bare days before his side travels to take on Nigeria in a 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.
The Libyan Football Federation (LFF) said earlier, that there had been a request by players and some of the management's personnel lodged at the LFF, to meet and discuss the possibility of sacking Amrouche for his "random coaching", according to The Libya Observer.
Following his shocking resignation, the LFF has now threatened to sue him for absconding duty.
Omar Al Marmi replaces him as the head coach, and will be in charge of the team for the crucial Afcon qualification double-header against Nigeria's Eagles with the first leg coming up on Saturday, October 12, and the return leg two days later in Algeria.
The Mediterranean Knights of Libya currently lead the standings on four points after their rout of Seychelles and impressive draw against South Africa last month.


A verdict that restored public trust!
Price they had to pay for safeguarding the corrupt ..
The Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) commended all parties that were involved in restoring the public's faith in the judiciary.
"Thank you for having fought against the 'Sil Redi' abuse!
A heartfelt thank you to the Elections Department, Election Monitors PFFERAL, CMEV and TI, Ravi Widyalanankara, Thusith Mudalige (Anti-corruption Secretariat) and Wasantha Samarasinghe of the JVP and others for continuously pushing for justice on the Sil Redi distribution issue that took place during the 2015 presidential election period.
I would also like to commend Judge Gihan Kulatgunga for restoring the faith people had in the judiciary.


The Registrar of Indigenous Corporations, Anthony Beven, has today placed the Mirndiyan Gununa Aboriginal Corporation under special administration.
Founded in 1973, and incorporated in 1983 as Woomera Aboriginal Corporation, Mirndiyan Gununa organises, presents and promotes the traditional culture of the Lardil and Kaidilt people of Mornington Island—especially dance and visual arts—and employs artists and teachers to that end. The corporation receives funding for its activities from the Commonwealth and Queensland governments.
Mornington Island is the largest of the Wellesley Islands, a group of 23 islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland.
On 2 September 2016 the directors wrote to the Registrar raising concerns about the centre's operations, management and financial position, and requested assistance through the appointment of a special administrator. An examination of the books of the corporation by the Registrar confirmed some of the directors' concerns.
The Registrar has appointed Mr Brian Woods from the Cairns-based firm, DFK Kidsons Pty Ltd, as special administrator until 31 July 2017.
The special administrator will work with the corporation's members to improve the governance and financial position of the arts centre and its accountability to the members.


[REVIEW] Enchanted in the Moonlight: Samon season 1 Sequel | is it a dream?
Still in the beginnings of their relationship, things are going well for Samon and the MC when he's called back to the mononoke village to fulfill his obligations as the newly appointed head of the zashiki-warashi clan. Instead of being welcomed with open arms, the two are shocked when the clan elder demands that they dissolve their agreement due to a superstition the clan has. Incidents start to happen in the village and around the MC, and everyone says it's because of her relationship with Samon?!
The MC irritated me a bit with the way that she suspected Samon didn't want to be with her anymore, but it wasn't unjustified; the entire clan is against their relationship, and as clan head, he can't act irresponsibly. I wish she had put a bit more faith into Samon though. I didn't particularly care for the plot in this route; it's common enough in Voltage games, but there wasn't enough to make it stand out from the others. Once again, it might have been because of the length restrictions (since it's only 8 chapters long). The ending felt extremely rushed, and conflict was solved too easily and in my opinion.
One thing that I did like about the story is that it helps Samon view the MC as someone as more than someone he has to protect. He's been protecting her all his life, so he has the mindset that she's someone that he has to protect, and not the other way around. By the end of the story, he's learned to view her as a partner to overcome obstacles together with, something I consider important for all relationships.
If you liked Samon's main story, then you'll probably enjoy this route as well. It isn't anything special, but was done decently and was paced well until the end. I enjoyed the sequel epilogue a lot more; Samon is surprisingly aggressive in it, and it definitely made my heart flutter a little >///< Happy playing!


Place oven racks in top third and center then preheat to 425°F.
Toss carrots, bell peppers, onion, red pepper flakes, and 3 tablespoons olive oil on a sheet pan. Roast on center rack, tossing occasionally, until vegetables are tender and well browned, about 25–30 minutes.
Once browned, transfer roasted carrots, bell peppers, onion, red pepper flakes into a food processor and season with salt. Add 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar and process. While processing, gradually drizzle in remaining ½ cup oil and process, scraping down sides as needed, until emulsified. Set aside.
Separate BROCCOLINI® baby broccoli florets from stalks; thinly slice stalks. Transfer florets and stalks to a separate sheet pan. Add chopped garlic to BROCCOLINI® baby broccoli and top with ¼ cup oil, then season with kosher salt. Toss to combine.
In oven, roast BROCCOLINI® baby broccoli on top rack, tossing halfway through, until florets are charred and stems are cooked through but still maintain their crunch, about 16–18 minutes.
Slice rolls in half lengthwise. Arrange cut side up on a rimmed baking sheet and toast until light golden brown, about 3 minutes.
Divide sauce between tops and bottoms of rolls. Pile BROCCOLINI® baby broccoli on bottom halves. Top BROCCOLINI® baby broccoli with cheese. In oven, toast sandwiches open-faced, until cheese is just melted, about 2 minutes. Close sandwiches and cut crosswise before serving.
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Dr. Frank Tomasulo teaches in New York. In 2014, he was teaching two courses in the Communications Dept. at CUNY. After calling security to remove a disruptive student from the classroom, a trio of students complained to the Dept. Chair and Tomasulo was fired from his job. He wrote about his experience in "A Leftist Critique of 'Political Correctness' Gone Amok." Run-ins with students who then complained used to be one of the main reasons adjunct faculty found themselves out of work. However, with the growing reach of social media, adjunct faculty who take to Twitter and Facebook to express their opinions have been targeted for dismissal from their teaching jobs, as well, including adjuncts protected by union contracts.
Some adjuncts are not willing to do that.
Maischak posted the comment on Twitter in February but it did not garner attention until the right-wing website Breitbart News wrote a story about it in April.
Maischak had been a lecturer at Fresno since 2006. After the media storm, his classes were canceled for two days, then the institution and Maischak agreed that he would take a leave of absence for the rest of the spring semester. On August 11, the university announced that he won't be teaching in the fall and instead has been assigned to work on designing online courses until the end of his contract, in December 2017.
Lars Maischak isn't the only adjunct faculty member whose social media account has cost him his job.
Allred had previously lost teaching work at Rutgers University in connection with his tweets, which he has said aren't supposed to be taken literally.
"How is my one tweet using a hyperbolic expression worse than what 'the president' himself is doing day after day?" he wrote in other tweets.
Essex County College hired pop culture commentator Lisa Durden as an adjunct professor of communications. Durden says it took just one angry phone call about an appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight for her to lose her teaching job. The college didn't publicly specify that the Fox appearance was the reason, but Durden said college officials told her of a complaint made after her appearance.
2. freedom in the classroom in discussing their subject, but they should be careful not to introduce into their teaching controversial matter which has no relation to their subject.
Critics argue that the adjunct faculty members above did not exercise appropriate restraint.


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5. The smoke generating device adopts wood pellet smoker, which was controlled by a controller system, stable smoking, and fast coloring.
6. Adopt high-pressure pipeline pump to clean the dust in the plates and smoke pipe. Nozzles of different angles are equipped in the coil and flue.
1. Meat smoking machine is mainly used for processing all kinds of meat products, such as sausage, ham, pork, mutton, beef, poultry, aquatic product, etc. for air exhaust, stewing, drying, bake, humidifying and dry, wash, etc.
2. Wide business application range: meat products curing industry, meat, and fish processing industry, western restaurant, Chinese restaurant, leisure food industry, individual business household, etc.
Meat smoking machine mainly consists of the oven body, automatic program controller, smoke generating device and smoker trolley. The key component is the curriculum system combined with a steam pipe, heat exchanger and outlet channel, etc.
Under the action of two groups of circulating fans, the mixed gas of the smoke and heat in the oven will form an eddy current area, making the mixed gas pass the meat product hanging in the oven smoothly and stable.


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I have a bundle file ("zxing.bundle") and I wanna use some of it's class in my application!
I use Xcode 4.3.2, so how can I instantiate from those classes?
Thank you

A: Initialize a NSBundle instance with the path of your bundle, and then use -[NSBundle classNamed:]. Alternatively, use -[NSBundle load] and NSClassFromString.

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Eugene Walter
Pam Kingsbury, University of North Alabama
Eugene Ferdinand Walter Jr. (1921-1998) was a writer, editor, set and costume designer, musician, and actor. His interests were wide and varied. In addition to his artistic pursuits, he was also a puppeteer, gourmet chef, cryptographer, translator, and raconteur. Walter created the alter-egos Dr. S. Willoughby and Professor James B. Willoughby as pseudonyms. Known as Mobile's "Renaissance man," he liked to tell people that he carried a shoebox full of Alabama red clay wherever he travelled.
Born on November 30, 1921, and raised in Mobile, Mobile County, Walter's parents were Eugene and Muriel (Sabina) Walter. According to his memoirs, Walter ran away from home at the age of three and was raised by his paternal grandparents, who inspired his love of food and language. His Austrian grandmother, who spoke French when she wanted to share gossip, inspired his desire to live abroad. He became acquainted with Truman Capote, who was known as Bulldog Persons, when both were children.
At the deaths of his grandparents, he was informally adopted by Hammond Gayfer, who was the heir to Gayfer's Department Stores. He later told friends and acquaintances that he had lived in the back of a bookstore at the age of 10. His hometown, which he described as unique in American society for its multicultural flavor, always loomed large in his storytelling. In adolescence, he became affiliated with the Children's Theatre Guild and wrote and performed marionette shows. Walter attended Spring Hill College in Mobile and the University of Alabama's Mobile extension.
Walter joined the Civilian Conservation Corps after high school, working as a coffin painter in rural Mississippi. He then spent three years stationed in the Aleutian Islands as a cryptographer for the U.S. Army Airways Communications Systems during World War II. After the war, he moved to New York, settling in Greenwich Village. He worked in a rare book store and at the New York Public Library and worked on set designs. He also took painting classes at the Museum of Modern Art, where he was credited with an early form of performance art—termed a "happening,"—that involved a spontaneous group performance in the sculpture garden.
In 1951, he moved to Paris to study at the Alliance Française and the Sorbonne. Nicknamed Tum-de-Tum during those years, he and his friends formed a creative and bohemian group. His work, including articles, stories, and poems, was published in the early editions of the Paris Review. A founding editor, he remained an associate editor of the magazine from 1951 to 1960. He interviewed such noted authors as Isak Dineson (pseudonym of Karen Blixen) and Robert Penn Warren. While living in Paris, he met and became a close friend and confidante of American-born Princess Marguerite (nee Chapin) Caetina di Bassiano, who was a well-known patron of the arts. Walter eventually moved to Rome to work with her on Botteghe Oscure, a literary journal that published poetry and prose in several languages between 1948 and 1960. During the 1950s, he also served as an associate editor at Folder, Whetstone, Intro Bulletin, Wormwood Review, and, lastly, Transatlantic Review, which he remained with until his death in 1998. Walter was fluent in French, Italian, and Spanish but always regretted that he had never mastered Portuguese, which he found especially beautiful and romantic.
Eugene Walter in Rome
He also completed his first novel, The Untidy Pilgrim, which he had started in New York. The manuscript won the Lippincott Fiction Prize for Young Novelists in 1952, with a cash prize of $2,500, and the novel was published two years later. His first collection of poetry, Monkey Poems, was privately printed in 1953. In 1956, Walter received a Rockefeller Fellowship and returned to Rome, where he immersed himself in the Italian cinema. Walter served as a translator for renowned directors Federico Fellini and Lina Wertmuller, and appeared in more than 100 feature films, mostly in minor roles, including Fellini's 8½ (1963) and Juliet of the Spirits (1965). He continued to write during this time as well and in 1959 received the O. Henry Award and the Prix Guilloux for his short story "I Love You Batty Sisters." His second novel, Love You Good, See You Later, was published in 1964. He also produced the English translation of Fellini's Satyricon, which included the shooting script and other materials relating to the director's film version of the ancient Roman text by Petronius. Walter also composed music for several films.
Eugene Walter and Cats
Walter was also well known for his cooking—during his years in Paris, he entertained such luminaries as Anais Nin, Judy Garland, William Faulkner, Dylan Thomas, Franco Zefferelli, Truman Capote, and fellow Alabamian Tallulah Bankhead. In the early 1970s, he turned his writing attention to food and in 1971 published American Cooking: Southern Style in the Time-Life Foods of the World Series; the book became a best-seller. Other cookbooks included Delectable Dishes from Termite Hall (1982) and Hints & Pinches (1991). His cooking was praised for its simplicity. He encouraged the use of organic foods and raised herbs and vegetables everywhere he lived. He also contributed articles to various magazines, including Gourmet, Old Mobile, Ladies Home Journal, and Harper's Bazaar. His articles featured odd characters, and he often used the Alabama of his childhood as a setting, describing the connection between culture and food in the South. He also created whimsical drawings to accompany his poetry, essays, and article, often featuring cats—a lifelong love—in his illustrations.
Walter returned to Mobile in 1979 and became active in local, state, and regional arts, writing about gardening, food, and theater in the region. He travelled around the state for readings, book signings, and other author events. He also contributed a 10-minute segment, called "Eugene-at-Large," to local public radio station WHIL-FM. Walter died of liver cancer on March 29, 1998, and the city of Mobile gave special permission for his remains to be buried in historic Church Street Graveyard. During his last years, journalist and friend Katherine Clark recorded hours of interviews with Walter about his life and published the edited material as Milking the Moon in 2001.
Selected Works by Eugene Walter
Jennie the Watercress Girl (1947)
Monkey Poems (1953)
The Untidy Pilgrim (1954)
Love You Good, See You Later (1964)
American Cooking: Southern Style (1971)
Hints & Pinches (2001)
Gee, Diane. "An Afternoon with Eugene Walter." Southern Living 33 (June 1998): 110.
Walter, Eugene, and Katherine Clark. Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet. New York: Crown, 2001.
Yardley, Jonathan. "The Life of the Party." Washington Post August 19, 2001, BW 01.
Published: March 15, 2010 | &nbspLast updated: September 29, 2020


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Curriculum - 11th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1877-1930 (Kansas_Benchmark 1) - German Americans (Indicator 7) - Discrimination
Aged German is given 48 hours to leave city!
Creator: Topeka Journal
This article published in the Topeka Journal covers the story of Daniel Klege. Klege, a 75 year old resident of Topeka, Kansas, and veteran of the Civil War, was ordered to leave Topeka until the end of the war with Germany because he had never registered to become a naturalized U.S. citizen.
A. J. Dyck to Arthur Capper
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1915-1919: Capper)
Reverend A. J. Dyck of the Hoffnungsau Mennonite Church, Inman, Kansas, wrote this letter to Governor Arthur Capper of Topeka, Kansas, concerning the Third Liberty Loan drive and its impact on the German American community. Dyck explains that the members of his church have bought more than the amount of Liberty Loans required by the established quota in order to prove their loyalty and avoid harassment by "mobs." In addition, Dyck asks Capper if it would be acceptable for members of his church to donate to the Red Cross rather than providing money to support the war effort.
Alien enemies' wives are loyal
Creator: Topeka Capital
This article printed in the Topeka Capital details an incident involving Charles H. Johnson and Joseph Fisckale, both of whom expressed sympathies for the Germany and Austria. Turned in by their American-born wives, Johnson and Fisckale were "sent to a place of safe keeping until after the war."
All alien enemies liable to arrest
This article, published in the June 19, 1917, edition of the Topeka Capital addresses the law prohibiting German immigrants who were not naturalized U.S. citizens from entering the Topeka Business District without a special permit from the U.S. Marshall Office. Anyone violating the law could be placed in jail without trial until the end of the war.
Bank president is removed for unloyal conduct
This article, published in the June 5, 1918, edition of the Topeka Capital, details the removal of Wamego State Bank president and director Loius B. Leach due to "slackerism." Specifically, Leach refused to buy Liberty Loans, would not donate to the Red Cross, and encouraged his son-in-law to evade the draft. In adddition to his removal, Leach was the target of mobs who painted his vehicle yellow and demanded that he fly the America flag.
Disloyalists are warned
Creator: Inman Review
This article, published in the Inman Review, covers the Barton County Night Riders. The Night Riders, a vigilante group of self-proclaimed loyalists, claimed that their mission was to "clean up the country of German spies, German sympathizers and dirty slackers." In addition, the Night Riders threatened to take care of disloyalty in communities "largely populated by people either of German birth or decent."
German School Question
Creator: Marion Record
This article, published in the Marion Record, responds to charges that Marion County schools taught German and advocated support for the Kaiser and Germany.
Henry Cooprider interview
Creator: Bethany College (Lindsborg, Kan.)
This oral history interview, conducted by Don Holsinger and Sondra Bandy of Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas, details the experiences of Henry Cooprider. Cooprider, a resident of Inman, Kansas, recalls his experience growing up in Kansas and the treatment he endured while the U.S. was at war with Germany during World War I. On one occasion, Henry's brother George was tarred and feathered by a mob in response to their father's earlier refusal to buy Liberty Bonds. Shortly after the incident, Henry was sent to Camp Funston as a Conscientious Objector.
Hun subjects cannot hold office in Kansas
This article, published December 1, 1917 in the Topeka Journal, covers the ruling by the Kansas Attorney General, S.M. Brewster, that German Americans who had not yet naturalized could not hold constitutional or statutory offices in Kansas. In addition, the article mentions that the Attorney General's office contended that un-naturalized German citizens would not be allowed to vote as long as the U.S. and Germany remained hostile enemies.
Lutheran Church protests correspondence
This correspondence is the result of, and in reaction to, accusations that Lutheran Churches in the U.S. were loyal to the Kaiser (German Emperor) because most of their congregation consists of German Americans. In one piece of the correspondence, Pastor W.T.Vogel of Humboldt, Kansas, writes to Governor Arthur Capper of Topeka, and requests that Capper pass his letter and accompanying newspaper clipping to the Topeka newspapers for distribution. Governor Capper responds by assuring Vogel that he does not doubt the loyalty of members of the Lutheran Church.
Man in Germany wants his property in Salina
This article, published in the Topeka Capital, details the efforts of Gustav C. Kothe to retain his property in Salina, Kansas. Kothe, an American consular agent in Germany, failed to return to the U.S. after the U.S. declared war on Germany. As a result, the U.S. government listed Kothe as an alien enemy and confiscated his property.
Mennonite persecution now a forgotten chapter in state history
Creator: Hutchinson News
This article published in the Hutchinson News, details the difficulties German Americans, especially Mennonites, faced in Kansas during World War I.
Mennonites loyal
This article, published in the Topeka Journal, argues against claims that Mennonites support Germany and the Kaiser because they do not support violence of any type.
Must not shift burden in fighting kaiserism
This article published in the Topeka Capital addresses the decision by the Kansas State Board of Agriculture to deny Kansas Mennonites status as Conscientious Objector exempting them from service in World War I. Included in the article is arguments by C. B. Schmidt who supports the granting of Conscientious Objector status to Mennonites.
Objectors will be kept at Leavenworth
This article printed in the Topeka Capital covers the decision to house around 600 conscientious objectors at Fort Leavenworth for the duration of World War I. The purpose of sending the objectors to Ft. Leavenworth was to segregate the men from the rest of the U.S. Army.
On the trail of disloyalty
Creator: Kansas City Star
This article published in the Kansas City Star claims that Pottawatomie County is the most disloyal county in Kansas. The article claims that the reason for such widespread disloyalty is the fact that the majority of the residents of Pottawatomie County are Germans or of German descent. In addition, the article details the actions, both legal and illegal, taken to try and make any disloyalists comply.
Religious views not a valid exemption claim
This article from the Topeka Capital details the efforts of Mennonites to receive an exemption from wartime service during World War I due to their religious views.
Robert Heike to Arthur Capper
Creator: Heike, Robert J.
This letter from Robert Heike, Jr., pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lydia, Kansas, to Kansas Governor Arthur Capper of Topeka, addresses the use of the German language during church services. Heike explains that the local War Committee has asked that church services conducted in German be stopped, and he would like to know if a federal law exists prohibiting services in languages other than English.
To register all
This article published in the Topeka Journal covers the decision to register all non-naturalized German Americans in cities with a population of over 5,000.
U.S. commissioner drops Schrag case
Creator: Newton Evening Kansan-Republica
This article, published in the the Newton Evening Kansan-Republican, covers the case of Burton, Kansas, resident John Schrag. Schrag, a wealthy farmer of German ancestry, was accused of violating the Espionage Act because he refused to salute the American flag.
Use tar and feathers
Creator: McPherson Daily Republican
This article published in the McPherson Daily Republican details the tarring and feathering of D.A. Diener and George Cooprider. Diener and Cooprider, both German Americans, were accused of disloyal speech. As a result, a mob traveled to the Cooprider home in Groveland Township, and tarred and feathered Cooprider after his father refused to buy Liberty Bonds unless the government forced him to. Following the assault on Cooprider, the mob traveled to Diener's home in Spring Valley and applied "the same treatment" to him after he admitted to removing an American flag from the church he attended.
Von Hindenburg, U.S.A., would fight relative
This article published in the Topeka Capital details the difficulties of Paul Frederick von Hindenburg, nephew of German Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg. Hindenburg's request for naturalization was denied by the U.S. Army largely because of his family ties to Field Marshall von Hindenburg, as well as his service in the German Army prior to coming to the U.S.
Watch alien women. Must stay away from all restricted zones
This article published in the Topeka Capital covers the decision to restrict the movement of non-naturalized German American women in Topeka, Kansas, as long as the U.S. was at war with Germany. Non-naturalized women living in, or near, restricted zones were required to obtain a permit from the U.S. Marshall's office in order to continue to reside or conduct business in the restricted zones.
W.J.Rumold to the Adjutant General of Kansas
Letter from W. J. Rumold to the Adjutant General of Kansas. Rumold, Captain of the Hope State Guards, is writing in regards to newspaper reports that indicated that the U.S. government had asked Kansas Governor Arthur Capper to look into the activities of the Nonpartisan League (NPL). The Nonpartisan League, a socialist group active throughout the mid-west from 1915 to 1956, was primarily supported by small farmers. In the letter, Rumold contends that the NPL has gained a great deal of support from German Americans in his area. Consequently, he states that "a thorough investigation of the Non Partisan League in this community [Hope, Kansas] should be had."


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The Great Herb Grinder Shortage of 2020
Posted by Seth Styles · June 12, 2020
Some of us have been eyeing our scissors nervously. Others have been getting nightmarish flashbacks to sticky fingers coated in pistils and terp dust. Yes, the world is experiencing a shortage of herb grinders the likes of which we've never seen. But take hope! There's a stirring in the north, a howl of triumph cutting through the Canadian forests. Reinforcements have arrived when we needed them most. You see, Wolf Grinders foresaw the coming grinder famine and manufactured a surplus so that, even with herb grinders at their rarest, Master-Minded has them in stock. This isn't a stroke of luck or a miracle as much as it's good planning. But there's really no one to blame for the herb grinder shortage. Now that you've ordered what you need, we can talk about how the state of grinders got to be this desperate.
The World's Changed a Lot in a Year
Last summer doesn't feel like a year ago; it feels like a lifetime. As we were going to our Independence Day pool parties or lining up outside of movie theaters to catch the latest blockbuster, none of us could have foreseen the masks and hand sanitizer, the instruction videos on proper hand washing rituals, or the deserted restaurants on sunny Sunday afternoons. Last June, we couldn't have possibly predicted that as our country hurried to reopen the doors of movie theaters, barber shops and restaurants that a cry for justice would launch a global protest resulting in curfews the likes of which we hadn't seen in our lifetime. Today, we're recovering from plenty of shortages on anything from pasta to toilet paper. Herb grinders happened to be among those products affected by the turbulent first half of 2020.
Why Herb Grinders?
People weren't frantically buying grinders like they were toilet paper or non-perishable food. So, why is there suddenly this unprecedented shortage on herb grinders? And how was Wolf Grinders able to predict it? It all comes down to the raw materials used in the manufacturing of your average metal grinder. Wolf Grinders have a higher standard, using aircraft-grade aluminum in their construction, but they're still subject to the same regulations and restrictions of trade which can affect the import and export of raw materials. A lot of these raw materials, including certain metals, are having a tougher time making it through the ports, directly impacting the availability of certain commodities including, you guessed it, herb grinders. Thankfully, Wolf Grinders sniffed out the potential for a shortage and got the materials they needed before things got too restricted. The result is a manufacturing surplus of Wolf Grinders that's kept Master-Minded stocked and supplied through the drought.
The Ruggedness of a Wolf
If you keep up with this blog, you're no stranger to Wolf Grinders. With a focus on utility and innovation that really comes in handy while hiking, camping and exploring the great outdoors, Wolf's high-quality grinders and pipes exclusively use 6061 aluminum which is popularly used in aircraft construction. To add that extra ruggedness to a beautiful veneer, each Wolf product is then bead blasted and hard anodized. This toughening makes Wolf Grinders the perfect solution to getting your grind on whether at home or in the wild.
Even as the country slowly reopens, we're likely to feel the echoing effects of the pandemic for some time. And echoes can cause avalanches so it's safe to say this rollercoaster's still got a few twists and turns left in it. The great herb grinder shortage of 2020 may pale in comparison to the other trials and tribulations of 2020 including those we have yet to experience, but at least we can take comfort in an immediate solution: Wolf Grinders has provided a port in the storm. Need to stock up on grinders? We've got them ready to ship today! At least some of life's problems have simple solutions!
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