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Groups step up to prevent student homelessness during academic breaks
Paying for summer and winter housing can shape a student's future
By Betty Márquez Rosales, EdSource
Without her full-ride scholarship to Cal State San Bernardino, third-year sociology student Syerra Gardner may have been unable to pursue higher education altogether.
"I knew that I had to graduate high school, but I just didn't know what I wanted to do after," said Gardner, who learned about the scholarship from a high school counselor while living in a homeless shelter. "She was just explaining all these great things that I'm able to apply for to be able to make a life for myself, and I took the
Syerra Gardner
Syerra Gardner is a third-year student on a full-ride scholarship at Cal State San Bernardino.
But Gardner could have faced homelessness again if it wasn't for programs and scholarships that make it possible for her to stay in the dorms over winter and summer breaks. She lives in campus dorms, a cost that her scholarship covers during the school year, where she typically has access to the school's meal plans. During academic breaks, she largely relies on canned food, her campus food pantry, or CalFresh, the state's food benefits program.
Even if colleges have empty dorm rooms for the winter and summer breaks, students who need places to live have to come up with the money to cover the dorm room and board costs.
Without a safe family home to rely on, Gardner is left to fend for herself during those academic breaks. For students like her who can't afford the housing and living costs, that's where organizations play a crucial role, like GiveBack, which awarded Gardner the full-ride scholarship, SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit working to end homelessness through policy advocacy and funding for students, and Guardian Scholars, a chapter-based organization on college campuses that helps support former foster and homeless youth.
Such support for students like Gardner is life-changing. But, getting the help can be all-consuming.
When the onus is placed on off-campus organizations or the students themselves to seek resources that will cover the cost between academic breaks, the result is an exhausting, stressful focus on housing and food security rather than focusing on doing well in school.
Students who leave school or don't do well in class are often dealing with other distractions like their living arrangements, said Bryan Spencer, assistant director of the Education Opportunity Program at San Diego State University, which operates their campus Guardian Scholars. "If we can eliminate or reduce those barriers as much as possible, it really gives every student the best opportunity to focus on their academics, their career transitions, and getting involved on campus."
As such, their Guardian Scholars program has created a unique housing solution by partnering with the university and the San Diego Housing Commission, which is operated by the city's Department of Urban and Housing Development. When students apply to the California State University system and self-identify as current or former foster youth, under legal guardianship, or unaccompanied minors, the Guardian Scholars staff emails them separately with a program application. Students can then receive a housing scholarship, where the amount depends on several factors, such as whether they live on or off campus, the size of their housing unit and whether they have roommates.
Students who live on campus may sign a housing contract for year-round housing that includes winter and summer breaks. If they live off campus, the housing scholarship will set up automatic monthly payments to the landlord for the duration of the housing contract.
As long as the student remains enrolled in classes, they do not have to worry about their housing.
"The housing award is a game changer," said Spencer, who has worked on the San Diego campus since 2006. Before the housing award was implemented, Spencer and his colleagues would often help support students in crisis housing situations. Typically, before the winter and summer breaks, students would share that they would soon have to couch-surf or have nowhere to live, and staff would step in to find housing or funding for them.
Now, six years later, he can't recall any student facing a similar housing crisis.
The team hopes the housing support model can be replicated across California. For campuses that might not yet be able to, advocates suggest using available resources in creative ways.
"It is difficult for schools to intercede and provide year-round comprehensive support on students' behalf, but I think that there are resources and opportunities that exist on campus that could benefit these students," said Jordyn Roark, director of youth leadership and scholarships at SchoolHouse Connection.
For example, Roark continued, campuses often hire students as orientation leaders to help sign up incoming freshmen for classes and to welcome them onto campus. These orientation sessions are often on a staggered schedule to keep the orientation groups smaller, and they may include staying on the campus for a few days.
"Maybe doing some targeted outreach to students that need housing and seeing if they're interested in participating as an orientation leader would provide them with employment during the summer, as well as housing," she said.
To help students, SchoolHouse Connection offers $2,000 scholarships and other emergency funding.
"We give it to them in the way that they feel would most benefit them. We try to be as unrestricted as possible," said Roark. "The flexibility with funding ensures that students can apply it toward any living expense, such as housing, a laptop, a cellphone or meals."
Securing stable housing through summer and winter breaks can sometimes make or break a student's ability to graduate from college, according to advocates.
While Gardner has family in Southern California, moving in with them even for a short period of time would take her back to the unstable and sometimes unsafe homes she experienced before college.
She began attending college after a few rough and unstable years in high school, moving from one grandmother's house to a friend's home to her second grandmother's home. She was living by herself in a homeless shelter when she was awarded the full-ride scholarship during her senior year of high school.
"It was just so amazing," said Gardner, who only applied to that one scholarship. "Everything was going great from there."
During Gardner's first summer break, she was awarded a SchoolHouse Connection scholarship. She had to sign her first loan to cover some housing costs for her second summer break.
Now in her third summer at CSU San Bernardino, she's received an additional grant from GiveBack. She's covering the remaining balance through her on-campus job working as a teaching assistant to children who have disabilities.
While resources for students like Gardner often exist on California campuses, students are largely left to fend for themselves when trying to access them.
"This housing crisis for students comes down to a campus-by-campus approach, where every campus provides something different, and oftentimes what they provide is buried under web pages, long resources, and deep in offices that students aren't even aware exist," said Roark. "What I find is that our students don't even know where to begin to identify those resources."
Roark and other advocates are fueling a movement by way of a federal policy called the Higher Education Access and Success for Homeless and Foster Youth Act of 2022, to hire a liaison at every college campus so that students facing homelessness know exactly whom they can go to when they are in need. According to them, such liaison roles would function similarly to the liaisons that every K–12 school across the country is federally mandated to hire to help connect young homeless students with resources available to them.
Those K–12 liaisons are hired under the McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act, which requires that every public school district, county office of education and charter school hire a local liaison to ensure that homeless youth in grades pre-K through 12 are identified and have education services coordinated for them to increase their chances of succeeding academically.
Upon graduating next year, Gardner wants to use her life experiences to help children facing similar challenges.
"I want to be able to experience the world, meet all types of different kids, help them in the situations that they're in — whether they've been adopted, in foster care, homeless, or have incarcerated parents," she said. "I just want them to be able to know that you're not alone in the situation."
This article originally appeared in EdSource.
Betty Márquez Rosales, EdSource
Betty Márquez Rosales is a reporter for EdSource. She previously worked on reporting projects for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times, Fusion and local news publications across California.
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Kayvon Beykpour, head of consumer product at Twitter, said in a podcast with Nilay Patel that Twitter HQ prioritizes accelerating Twitter's product cadence in order to continue competing with platforms who offer new features and tools. Some of these new products include, Topics, Spaces, Super-Follows and more. Twitter is introducing these concepts to keep their users engaged and give them the opportunity to have a single application with many capabilities.
COVID-19 has led to more face-to-face digital communication products entering the market. In response, Twitter has launched a function called "Spaces." This product allows users to talk about what is going on in an audio-based conversation rather than messaging with 140 characters or less, similar to a competing product, Clubhouse. "Connection" is one of Twitter's top priorities for their users. "Topics" is another product that allows users to follow a specific topic they are interested in. When users follow a topic, Twitter works to recommend content and tweets about that topic in your feed. More than 100 million users have followed the 6,000 topics available on Twitter, which has allowed users to feel connected to their interests. People who are big fans of content creators can subscribe to creators and get exclusive content through "Super-Follows."
Innovation and developing new features is critical to be on the leading edge of technology and drive user engagement. Beykpour says that introducing these products to keep up with the current market can be both a great and challenging thing. Twitter has received a lot of love and hate regarding the introduction of new features. For a service with more than 200 million users every day, there is a lot to improve on, which includes taking big swings and risks.
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Howson masterpieces arrive in Macclesfield
Two of the greatest works by famous Scottish artist Peter Howson OBE have arrived in a Macclesfield art gallery.
The two pictures, each a whopping six foot high, were purchased by the town's Gateway Gallery from a private Howson collector who now lives in Spain.
One of the paintings is part of a series of "Dosser" potrayals produced by Howson in the 1990s, the other called "Dark of the Sun" (pictured) an almost biblical scene of men and dogs storming a town's fortified wall.
Howson, whose style and subject matter have been compared to Hieronymus Bosh is sought after by collectors worldwide. His famous collectors include Madonna, David Bowie and Stephen Berkoff, but he is also in a large number of public galleries.
Prices for his art can vary depending on the quality and size, but his record for a painting at auction stands at almost £350,000, for a triptych sold in New York.
The gallery said the prospect of bringing the paintings to the gallery was too good to miss. "As soon as we were offered them and saw them in the flesh we just knew we had to have them, despite the fact that they take up a huge amount of gallery space.
"Paintings of this quality and size by the artist rarely appear on the open market, most of them are in museums, " said manager Louise Griffin.
Howson, who is famously a sufferer from Asperger's syndrome, shot to fame in the late 1980s as part of the so-called "New Glasgow School" a group of talented artists including Adrian Wiszniewski, Steven Campbell and Ken Currie, who set out to prove that figurative painting could still have a relevance and impact in an art world obsessed by conceptual art.
His work has encompassed a number of themes. His early works are typified by very masculine working class men, most famously in The Heroic Dosser (1987). Later he was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum of London to be the official war artist for the Bosnian war.
Here he produced some of his most controversial and outstanding work. One painting Croatian and Muslim, detailing a rape, created huge controversy and became the first painting by an official war artist that the Imperial War Museum had ever refused to hang. It was later bought by David Bowie.
More recently, as a recovering alcoholic, he has turned to Christianity and produced a series of paintings depicting his struggle against addiction
His paintings have been used on postage stamps and in 2012 he was the subject of a BBC Documentary The Madness of Peter Howson.
The gallery would not be drawn on how much the paintings would be sold for, but said "At this level and at this quality it tends to be a negotiation process between the buyer and the seller."
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Ryan Reynolds finally gave the world a sneak peek at Deadpool 2's newest cast member with a Tweet on July 31. The 40-year-old actor shared a photo of the gorgeous Zazie Beetz, who plays Domino in the hotly anticipated action flick. She's pictured wearing a skin-tight ensemble laying on top of Deadpool. Ryan captioned it, "Some people just know how to work a red carpet." Clearly, he's definitely in support of this casting choice!
Some people just know how to work a red carpet. #Domino#DeadPool2pic.twitter.com/llCc8JfKT6
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Now that filming for the sequel is underway, the world is buzzing about Zazie! Here are five things you need to know about the newest member of the Marvel family.
She stars in the hit drama Atlanta
You may recognize Zazie's gorgeous face from the popular FX show Atlanta. The actress masterfully plays Van, a young mother in a tricky love affair with leading man Donald Glover, the father of her child. The hit show scored the Golden Globe for Best Television Series - Movie or Comedy in 2016 and is up for six trophies at next month's Emmys.
Zazie stars opposite Donald Glover in TV's Atlanta.
Her relationship with actor beau David Rysdahl is adorable
The couple keeps their romance hush-hush but have reportedly been dating for about a year. They recently took a trip to China together and appeared arm-in-arm on the red carpet for the premiere of David's film The Revival. David is currently with his ladylove in Vancouver, where Deadpool 2 is filming.
Let me tell you, the best club is the couch. I love you @davidrysdahl
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She's an outspoken activist
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Silence is violence #womensmarch
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Hallo Oma!
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In an election where both candidates for President profess a faith that teaches a preferential option for the poor, it is lamentable that there has yet to be a real discussion about equality in American society. As has been the case for the past five election cycles, we continue to engage in a debate that pits "cultural" against "issue driven" politics.
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Ana has trained most of her life to achieve one goal: to prove that anything men can do, she can do better. Now she's Sector One's first female Rider, and being the best is the only way to ensure she won't be its last. Distractions aren't allowed–especially not her painful attraction to the reserved but demanding leader whose stern, grumpy demeanor has already gotten into her head.
Deacon has spent the last twenty years trying to atone for his past, but the blood he spilled as a mercenary and assassin will never wash away entirely. If his Riders knew the extent of his sins, he'd lose their trust and respect. It's easier to keep them all at arm's length, especially Ana. But his newest recruit's stubbornness is starting to crack his defenses.
And their sparring matches are driving him wild.
The passion sparking between them can't be denied, but neither can the vengeance barreling toward Deacon. When his old squad comes back to punish him for his betrayal, Ana and the Riders are squarely in the line of fire. The only way to save his people may be to make the ultimate sacrifice.
But first, he has to convince Ana not to follow him straight into hell.
With just a week to go, enjoy one more excerpt from Deacon!
Ana spent an afternoon and evening being frustrated with Deacon. When he skipped the training session she'd arranged with Ashwin, the confusing tangle of emotions churning in her middle boiled into hot anger. But when he didn't appear the next day—not for breakfast, not during their afternoon debriefing, not even for dinner—her anger twisted with infuriating shards of sympathy and performed some sort of sinister magic.
By the time Ana was sprawled on top of her brightly colored quilt, still clad in her sweatpants and sports bra, guilt had wiggled its way deep into her heart and planted hooks that left her bleeding.
She knew what she'd put on Deacon. She knew it like no one else but Gideon could know. It was the truth that drove her out of bed before dawn and settled in her bones as a soft ache when she'd trained too hard. It was the weight that kept her up some nights, staring at the stucco ceiling by the light of a single flickering candle, her restless mind refighting sparring matches she'd lost.
Being worshipped was a double-edged sword.
She still remembered the first time it had happened to her. Every detail of the moment was carved into memory. Ivan's gray T-shirt with the rip along the hem. The faint smell of paint from her newly detailed motorcycle. The vague throb of the fresh ink on her shoulder, and the way the breeze tickled over the bare skin of her arms—she'd worn a tank top that day deliberately, proudly.
Showing off her Rider tattoo.
The little girl had been nine or ten. Brown skin a few shades lighter than Ana's, with silky black hair as curly as Ana's own. She'd shaken free of her mother's hand and bolted across the parking lot as Ana kicked down the stand on her bike, her big eyes going impossibly wide.
"Girls can be Riders?"
With that sweet, innocent question, Ana's life had changed forever.
She'd loved it, that first time. And the second, and the third. Even the tenth time still made her heart leap. But after three short months, she'd been swallowed whole by the hopes of dozens upon dozens of little girls—
And she hadn't seen it coming.
She should have. The other Riders always attracted excited young boys and swaggering teens. Kids didn't understand the more serious implications of a Rider's duties. They didn't understand death. They just saw heroes, larger than life and celebrated by the sector—and they wanted to be heroes, too.
The boys had never doubted they could achieve that goal. But the girls… The intensity of their newborn excitement clung to Ana like invisible threads wrapping her tighter and tighter. Their dreams weighed ten thousand pounds.
Ana had to carry them alone.
No wonder she'd lashed out at Deacon. Even when he scraped her nerves raw, he'd always been a solid, unshakable foundation. The hero of heroes, uncompromising and unchanging. The wall she threw herself against in order to toughen up. She needed him to be something more than human so she could believe it was possible. Because a human couldn't hold up under the pressure Ana felt every time a little girl's eyes lit up at the sight of her. A human would falter. Fall. Eventually, it had to happen.
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The truth has changed
Gasland director Josh Fox is staging a frontline resistance
Natasha Berting
The Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning writer-director and fracker-botherer has a few things to say about misinformation and propaganda – if you can handle the truth
The rules have changed.
The water has changed.
The climate has changed.
The truth has changed.
We must change.
Josh Fox is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning writer-director best known for Gasland, a 2010 documentary exposing the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking". In the years since, Josh has become internationally recognised as a spokesperson and leader on the issue of clean energy.
In 2008, Josh Fox's family was offered the sum of $100,000 to allow a natural gas company to use their land in northern Pennsylvania for fracking operations. This alarmed the filmmaker and journalist, who suspected the process posed hidden dangers to both human health and the environment. Camera in hand, he spent the next two years following the gas drilling boom across the United States and uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination.
"I discovered an environmental catastrophe like nothing I'd ever seen before," he said in an interview with Grist. "The whole country was getting fracked, and everywhere I went, water was ruined, the air was poisoned, and the land had been scarred, ripped apart, and toxified."
The material he collected became the 2010 documentary Gasland, a gripping exposé which would be hailed as one of the most effective and expressive environmental films of recent years. The film was watched by millions of people around the world, and earned a Special Jury Prize at Sundance as well as an Oscar nomination. It also catapulted Josh into the spotlight, and made him the subject of a vicious smear campaign at the hands of big oil and gas.
Posters for Gasland (2010) and How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change (2016)
Fortunately for the rest of us, Josh has yet to back down or crack under pressure. In the years since, he has become internationally recognised as a leader on the issue of clean energy, working with fellow environmental activists like Bernie Sanders, Nina Turner and Bill McKibben to pass historic bills that would help phase out the use of fossil fuels.
He has also continued to produce a number of ambitious, inventive, and socially-conscious films, often through International WOW, the production company he founded alongside a diverse group of artists from the United States and Asia.
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In 2017, he was awarded his third Environmental Media Association award for Best Documentary for the deeply personal How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change. Travelling to twelve countries on six continents, the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some of the worst consequences and asks, what is it that climate change can't destroy?
With Indigenous filmmakers Doug Good Feather and Myron Dewey, he also produced, co-directed and co-wrote the critically acclaimed feature, Awake, A Dream From Standing Rock, which tells the dramatic story of the historic native-led peaceful resistance at the Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.
Poster for Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock (2017)
It was during the Trump presidency in 2018, that Josh embarked on his latest project, The Truth Has Changed. Initially conceived as a one-man play, the piece powerfully traces Josh's personal experience grappling with the misinformation and propaganda which manipulate our current media and political ecosystem. At once poignant, critical and intimate, the performance now lives on in the form of a book as well as a serialised film, the first few episodes of which can be viewed online.
Josh Fox performing The Truth Has Changed (2021)
For Josh, the true power of cinema lies in its ability not just to educate, but to energise the masses. "The cure for climate depression," he likes to say, "is the climate movement." This is why the stories he tells – whether performed on stage, through the strum of a banjo, or via the silver screen – are all designed to remind you that there are "open arms and open hearts waiting for you to join them in the streets."
The cure for climate depression is the climate movement.
This is what a true film activist looks like. As a result of Josh's activism and campaigning on the issue of gas drilling Josh was awarded the 2010 Lennon Ono Grant for Peace by Yoko Ono. Due to his extensive work in environmental activism, he was later appointed to the Democratic Platform committee in 2016 by Bernie Sanders. The work of the committee led to the passing of historic amendments that will phase out fossil fuels and set goals towards 100% renewable energy development. This work is ongoing.
Bali-based Natasha Berting graduated in Graphic Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in 2015 and is now the online editor of What Design Can Do.
This article was originally published by our friends at What Design Can Do, an international platform about the social impact of design.
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HAUTE COUTURE WEEK IN REVIEW
FASHION, PARIS
Cara Delevingne walks as a bride for the finale of the Chanel haute couture show
Last week, Haute Couture Week descended upon Paris from January 19-24. Although fashion month is soon to begin (New York Fashion Week kicks it off February 6), these six days celebrate the highest couture fashions from the most prestigious houses in the fashion industry. Unlike ready-to-wear fashion weeks where designers can stage shows independently, designers who show at Couture Week are chosen by the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Paris and protected by French law, further adding to the clout.
Designers that showed during the week began with Atelier Versace; ended with Ralph & Russo; and filled the interim with Schiaparelli, On Aura Tout Vu, Christian Dior, Giambattista Valli, Alexis Mabille, Chanel, Stéphane Rolland, Bouchra Jarrar, Alexandre Vautheir, Julien Fournié, Girogio Armani Privé, Maison Martin Margiela, Frank Sorbier, Elie Saab, Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Yinqing Yin, Valentino, Viktor&Rolf, Serkan Cura and Zuhair Murad.
On the whole, themes trended toward romantic femininity with classically flattering shapes and pastel colors. "Light," "delicate," and "soft," have been words most flowing from the pens of fashion critics for many of the collections, especially Chanel and Dior, and soft florals and embroideries decorated the gowns of Elie Saab and Valentino.
Other designers took a more contemporary approach: Versace channeling Grace Jones in slinky dresses often including hoods and pieces of fur; Stephane Rolland's structural silhouettes inspired by origami; Valli emphasizing a more boisterous body type with pouffy skirts and peplum tops. Nevertheless, even for the more modern takes on the female form, nothing erred on the tomboy or androgynous trends of late. So, don't expect to see any looks borrowed from the boys gracing red carpets this awards season (celebrities often look to these collections to choose their gowns).
A look from Dior
And, as with any fashion week, there were some moments more buzzed about than the rest. Lady Gaga, who was recently announced as the campaign face for Versace, sat first-row already adorned in dress from the collection she came to see – a fashion-world faux pas. Karl Lagerfeld sent his Chanel dolls walking around an elaborate ice-palace set in sneakers, ending with a bridal-gown-clad Cara Delevingne trotting down to the rhythm of a full orchestra. Marco Zanini debuted as the new designer for Schiaparelli, which hasn't shown a collection in 60 years. Dita Von Teese walked in Gaultier's show; Kim Kardashian sat front row at Rollande's; and, as is always bound to happen at some point, a model tripped and fell during Saab – a solitary flaw during a week that has been touted as unusually astute to what women have been asking for, responding in high fashion.
Tags: Cara Delevingne, Chanel, CHRISTIAN DIOR, FASHION WEEK, Haute Couture, Mode A Paris, The Untitled Magazine, Untitled-Magazine
CHARLES MARVILLE & PARIS AS MUSE @ THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART - JAN 27 - MAY 4
RICHARD TUTTLE @ PACE GALLERY - NEW YORK - FEB 7 - MARCH 15
The Untitled Magazine January 29, 2014


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Q: programmatically trigger click event in svg rect element How to programmatically trigger click event in svg rectangle element  element?
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A: How about this
document.getElementById("targetElm").dispatchEvent(new Event('click'));

Here's a working example...

document.getElementById("targetElm").dispatchEvent(new Event('click'));
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    <rect id="targetElm" onclick="alert('hi')"/>
</svg>

i.e. create a click event and dispatch it to the element. Although you don't seem to have any handler for the click event in your question.

A: You can use Highcharts' internal function called firePointEvent for this:
var chart = Highcharts.chart('container', {

  series: [{
    type: 'column',
    data: [1],
    point: {
        events: {
        click: function() {
            console.log('Click event fired');
        }
      }
    }
  }]
});

chart.series[0].points[0].firePointEvent('click');

Live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/BlackLabel/xbkwqzc5/


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Wanda Ślędzińska (ur. 25 września 1906 w Niżniowie, zm. 9 listopada 1999 w Stryszowie) – polska rzeźbiarka, pedagog, profesorka rzeźby krakowskiej Akademii Sztuk Pięknych.

Życiorys
Córka Heleny Justyny Matyjewicz i Władysława Ślędzińskiego urzędnika kolejowego, właściciela gospodarstwa rolnego. W 1923 ukończyła Prywatne Seminarium Nauczycielskie Żeńskie w Stanisławowie. W latach 1923-1929 studiowała na Wydziale Rzeźby Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie. Równocześnie jako wolna słuchaczka studiowała przez cztery semestry historię sztuki i archeologię na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim. W 1933 wraz z m.in. Jackiem Pugetem i Stefanem Zbigniewiczem została członkinią efemerycznej grupy Artystów Rzeźbiarzy "Start". Od 1933 należała do Związku Polskich Artystów Plastyków, a od 1935 do Zrzeszenia Artystów Plastyków "Zwornik". W 1937 przeniosła się do Warszawy. W czasie wojny przebywała w Stryszowie u rodziców i udzielała lekcji muzyki. W 1945 zamieszkała w Krakowie i rozpoczęła pracę jako asystentka u prof. Xawerego Dunikowskiego na krakowskiej Akademii Sztuk Pięknych. W 1957 była na stypendium we Włoszech. Od 1958 prowadziła samodzielnie pracownię rzeźby. W 1966 została kierowniczką II Katedry Rzeźby, będąc pierwszą kobietą na stanowisku kierownika katedry. Pozostała kierowniczką, aż do przejścia na emeryturę w 1970 r. Na prośbę studentów i studentek w roku akademickim 1970/1971 była promotorką dyplomów i prowadziła konsultacje. Do uczniów Wandy Ślędzińskiej należeli m.in. Wincenty Kućma, Zygmunt Piekacz, Józef Sękowski, Stanisław Lenar, Jan Siek, Teresa Wojtasiewicz-Siek, Helena Łyżwa, Jerzy Nowakowski, Janina Jeleńska-Papp, Aleksander Śliwa, Bogumił Zagajewski. W jej rodzinnym domu w Stryszowie odbywały się okazjonalne spotkania kulturalne, w których brała udział m.in. Wisława Szymborska, Kornel Filipowicz, Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa, Jacek Puget, Bogusław Schaeffer, Anna Wallek-Walewska i inni. Tworzyła kameralne rzeźby w gipsie, drewnie, w sztucznym kamieniu. Jej dzieła były utrzymane w tradycji realistycznej. Pozostawiła w swym dorobku dzieła rzeźbiarskie, wśród których prym wiodą głównie kobiece studia portretowe. Zmarła 9 listopada 1999 w Stryszowie i została pochowana na miejscowym cmentarzu.

Jej prace znajdują się w Muzeum Narodowym w Krakowie, w Muzeum ASP, w zbiorach PAU, UJ i Akademii Górniczo-Hutniczej oraz w posiadaniu rodziny.

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Linki zewnętrzne

Absolwenci Akademii Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie
Ludzie urodzeni w Niżniowie
Polscy pedagodzy
Polscy rzeźbiarze
Urodzeni w 1906
Wykładowcy Akademii Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie
Zmarli w 1999
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Eek.. it's nerve wracking, this trend prediction thing! When I did my nail day at #LFW with The Body Shop, nail artist Glenis Baptiste gave me lots of encouragement. I knew I wouldn't have to do any real shaping backstage but nonetheless, I wanted to know what shape nails are heading for this season. Thankfully, it's the good old squoval, because, as Glenis points out, "it's easy to maintain and suits more nails beds, whether they're small or large." Although at the shows there were some pointy nails around, it's quite a hard look to maintain because it needs to be perfect. Break one nail and all the points have to come off!
Anyway, The Body Shop asked me to predict which colours from their new Colour Crush collection I thought would be the top sellers. I've picked them out above, and we'll revist in around December time to see whether I got any right at all. I'd love to know what you think – do they look like best sellers to you?


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Crysis Remastered Delayed
by Shaik | Jul 1, 2020 | 0 comments
The German video game and software developer, Crytek's Crysis Remastered delayed.
Crysis Remastered was announced in April 2020 for PC, PS4, Switch, & Xbox One for a July 2020 release, but now it has been pushed back a few weeks, here's a statement from the developer:
Dear Crysis fans,
As you know, Crysis Remastered will be coming into the world this year—and at the same time the Crysis IP will debut on Nintendo Switch!
Your passion for the Crysis franchise deserves an undeniably high-quality game, and we are committed to delivering just that. To ensure that we meet that commitment, we will need to delay the launch date (all platforms) and trailer premiere by a few weeks. Because they already started, pre-orders for Switch will stay open, but pre-orders for all other platforms will be delayed as well.
The features you're looking forward to are already set, but we want to take the time on polishing the game. You might be aware of the leak yesterday, and we want you to know: we've seen all the reactions—the good and the bad—and we're listening! We're still working on a number of things in game, as well as the storefront. Please keep the love coming, and rest assure, you'll have the game you love shortly!
This extra time until release will allow us to get Crysis Remastered up to the PC- and console-breaking standard you've come to expect from Crysis games. We hope you understand what we're up to—stay with us while we take the time to make a few more improvements. Stay tuned, and we'll have that game in your hands as soon as we possibly can.
We'll keep you updated on our progress, so please hang in there, and check back here for updates!
Team Crysis
The classic first person shooter from Crytek is back with the action-packed gameplay, sandbox world, and thrilling epic battles you loved the first time around—now with remastered graphics optimized for a new generation of hardware.
Suit Up – Your Nanosuit's speed, strength, armor, and cloaking allow creative solutions for every kind of fight.
Adapt – In an ever-changing environment, adapt your tactics to dominate on battlefields ranging from frozen jungle to alien environments.
Customize – A huge arsenal of modular weaponry provides unprecedented control over play style, with options ranging from the experimental to the alien.
Conquer – Life-like enemy AI require a strategic and flexible playstyle, as new challenges—including a zero-g battlefield– require players to take the offensive and be proactive.
Explore – Choose your own path through the open world of Crysis, destroying obstacles, driving vehicles, and using the environment itself against your enemies.
Crysis Remastered will now launch sometime in August 2020 for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
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Financial watchdogs launch probe into JPMorgan Chase
by Daily Sabah with Wires
ISTANBUL Finance
Turkey's banking and capital markets regulators launched an investigation into JPMorgan Chase and other banks over complaints it received after the Turkish lira plunged nearly 5.5 percent on Friday and the main share index fell sharply.
The Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK) said on Saturday it received complaints that a report JPMorgan Chase published on Friday hurt the reputation of Turkish banks and caused volatility in financial markets.
JPMorgan Chase recommended investors go short on the lira, targeting a move to 5.90 against the U.S. dollar, citing a recent drop in Turkey's net foreign exchange (forex) reserves for the move. The BDDK underscored that the JPMorgan Chase analysts' note had misguiding and manipulative content which resulted in volatility in markets on Friday. The necessary administrative and judicial processes would be followed, it said.
The Capital Markets Board of Turkey (SPK) followed BDDK's suit and said it had launched a probe after receiving complaints that the JPMorgan Chase report was misleading and caused speculation on the Istanbul bourse.
The Turkish lira tumbled 5.5 percent against the U.S. dollar on Friday, its biggest one-day fall since a currency crisis took hold in August, raising concerns that Turks are buying more foreign cash as ties with Washington deteriorate. The dollar closed the day at 5.76 against the Turkish lira while it reached as high as 5.83 during the day.
The regulators' actions are the latest official measures to counter the lira's sharp decline. The central bank said on Friday it was suspending one-week repo auctions "for a period of time," a policy tightening move to squeeze market liquidity and support the lira. Turkey's main index BIST100 was down 3.45 percent at Friday's close, while the banking index had declined 6.64 percent.
The total forex deposits and funds including precious metals of Turkish individuals hit a record high of $105.74 billion in the week to March 15, data from the Turkish central bank showed on Thursday.


As previously discussed in this blog, the Chicago Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance (the "CRLTO") imposes many obligations on landlords that are strictly construed. One of these requirements is found in Section 5-12-170, which requires all landlords under the CRLTO to attach a copy of the ordinance to the lease when initially offered to the tenant. A copy of the four page summary can be found on the City of Chicago's public website. In a recent First District Appellate case, Kopnick v. JL Woode Management Company, LLC, a landlord attached only a two page summary that left out references to several chapters of the CRLTO. 2017 IL App (1st) 152054, ¶ 22. The court specifically noted the City of Chicago's website and held that it was subject to judicial notice. Id. at ¶ 26. As such, the summary attached to the complaint could not have been a CRLTO summary described in Section 5-12-170. Id.
The tenant further argued that the lease failed to attach a summary of the most current security deposit information in order to comply with Section 5-12-170. Id. at 33. However, as this was raised for the first time on appeal, the court did not address this issue. The court did, however, agree that a separate summary was required and we note that this information is also included on the City of Chicago's public website. Id. at 28.
While the penalty for a violation of Section 5-12-170 is only $100.00, the tenant is further entitled to all attorneys' fees incurred in the litigation. Additionally, Section 5-12-170 states that a tenant can terminate the lease if a summary of the CRLTO is not provided. While not discussed in the Kopnick case, a consistent ruling would mean that a tenant could terminate the lease even if a partial summary was provided.


This Birchover Classic is a prime example of a well looked after campervan. Taken in part exchange, it has one owner from new and full service history, along with 43,686 miles. In excellent condition, this Birchover comes with 12 months warranty and is built on a Highline VW T5; as such it comes with cruise control, air conditioning, rear parking sensors, 16" alloy wheels, body coloured bumpers and more! It has also been fitted with a Dashcam and a Kenwood/Garmin SatNav.
The traditional campervan side conversion features a fully equipped kitchen with a fridge, grill and hob. Packed with stylish features, the VW based campervan also includes two front swivel seats, which help to form a comfortable dining/lounge area with the table slotting easily into place.


And yes, I did take them out for a walk. And yes, I did roll my pants cuff. No, this wasn't just so that I can brag about my awesome avocado socks.
I want to talk to you about the World Down Syndrome Day, why people are wearing funny or unpaired socks on this day and some thoughts I had regarding work, business, life.
Let's start with the very beginning – my unpaired socks :D.
Unpaired socks became the symbol for the Down syndrome during a campaign begun by an organisation called Down Syndrome International – the aim? Encouraging people to start conversations about diversity, inclusion, uniqueness, acceptance!
But why socks? What's the connection with the Down Syndrome?
Well, chromosomes in the human cells look like socks. Our DNA is found in our chromosomes – and almost every cell of our body has the 46 chromosomes specific to humans. In the case ofDown syndrome, there's an extra chromosome present. Hence, an unpaired / mismatched sock.
This is more than just a symbol for the Chromosomes. By the way, 21st of march (the 3rd month) wasn't randomly chosen! It comes from trisomy – the triplication of the 21st chromosome!
For me, it also reminds us how something that small and apparently insignificant, can have such a major impact on somebody's lives. And that just like how somebody might look at you like you're a bit weird for wearing mismatched socks, they could look in a similar manner to somebody that has Down Syndrome!
Now, while I was walking around, sporting my mismatched socks, I was desperately trying to find other people wearing them as well. To my dismay, put of hundreds/thousands of people I've came across, I haven't seen one other single person wearing mismatched socks. That's when doubt started kicking in!
Do they not care at all?
Or do they not know?
Is there really nobody else around me?
m wearing the mismatched socks?
Maybe I should just stop. Go home. There's nothing I can change, anyway!
That's when I realized I had allowed myself to entertain too many negative thoughts about it.
So what if nobody sees me? If nobody else is doing it?
I know why I'm doing it. And I'll keep doing it in the next years as well. Even if nobody is there to see it.
Because it's the right thing to do! And because sooner or later, more people doing the right thing, even when nobody is watching, will lead to a critical mass that will create a ripple in society.
It's the exact same thing… at work, in business, in our family life.
Am I always doing the right thing? Am I giving my best, even when nobody is watching? If yes, sooner or later, that critical point will approach and things will radically change at work, in my business or family.
The 21st of March. Save this date in your calendar and next year, join me in wearing mismatched socks – in order to raise awareness and support people with Down syndrome!
Are you giving your best and doing the right thing, even when nobody is watching you? If yes, how did this impact your life? If no, what's stopping you?
I'd be happy to hear your thoughts on this!


Black Tiger Jared gears up.
Black Tiger Allen gets help putting on his new Gorget with the help of his mother.
Black Tigers of Tokyo mascot. "Sisko the Brave"
My Dragon flag in the center of the field. It looks pretty sharp I think!
I pose here with Teresa!
This was Allen's first event. He did very well!
The first tournament scenario was the "BELL" scenario. Everyone got 4 small brass bells attached to their right leg. You could wager a bell in a one-on-one fight. If you won, you got the losers bell. At the end of the day, the person with the most bells wins.
It was a bit breezy, but that was cool, it made the red, blue and dragon flags stand out!
Here the 8 Tokyo Black Tiger fighters pose before we start the days fighting.
Kevin versus me, Kage. Tim is in the background.
Here I "marshal" or referee a bout between Jared and Largo.
I got Teresa to hold my sword so I could take her photo. Sisko protects his lady from the rear!
Tim had put enough time in as a Black Tiger student, and wanted to be a Black Tiger, so he was "corded" with the Black Tiger Student Black Cord.
Here I give a quick little speech about how Tim had earned his cord, and the virtues of honor and swordsmanship that goes with our school's mentality.
I tie on the Black Cord of our newest official Black Tiger, Tim!
A simple two teams fighting to the death scenario.
Here we fight for control of the central flag. Every two minutes the controlling team gets one point. This is a resurection battle lasting 10 minutes. Below is the Blue Team.
Lord Vail and Largo face off during the battle.
Evenly matched, the flag in nobody's control.
The Blue Team advances, taking control of the flag!
Next scenario was the "Plant the Flag" battle. You had to put your flag into the enemies flag holder on the other side of the field.
Between mele fights, we fight for bells. Here, I fight with Jared, using the Battle Flags as a parrying device. Only the flag tho, not the flag pole.
Lord Vail squares off with Lord Wilhelm, fighting for bells!
With knives in hand, Largo, Andrew, Allen, Tim, Jared, James and Kevin prepare to eat!
Unknown gentleman on the right, followed by Lord Wilhelm, Lord Vail and Baron Stephen. Yep, Stephen has a beard now!
Lady Teresa, Lady Hilda, and Lady Marisa.
Standard two army fight, no resurection.
Total free for all fight, the last two standing was me and Lord Vail. He kept dancing around the Dragon Flag, using it as a shield in the strong wind. It almost worked, but I did prevail and win this event.
The most popular fights were the "Protect the Princes" fights. I have a good amount of video of these, but only this one photo. The Princess, who cannot fight but carries a flag, is protected by 5 guards. The 10 bandits attack in two waves trying to "touch" or kidnap the princess. If the princess can touch her blue flag on the red flag, located on the other side of the field, she wins! We must have played this scenario about 5 times. We would have played it more, but the day was over, and people had to go. It was a lot of fun.
Group shot of the fighters from that day.
Baron Stephan, ?, Lord Wilhelm, Lord Aaron, Andrew, Jared, James, Kage, Allen, Tim, Kevin, Lord Vail and Largo.
Everyone said that they a really great time, and I know I had a blast. Hopefully we can do this all again before too long!


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The government bailed out U.S. financial institutions to the tune of about $700 billion through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) after the financial crisis, and distributed billions more through other programs.
After billions of dollars was handed out to banks like Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC), and Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C), financial firms deemed "too big to fail" only got bigger as they fed off the government subsidies. Bailouts that were supposed to be used for lending to U.S. businesses and consumers were actually put toward other investments. And many banks kept the use of bailouts a secret since they were doled out quickly in a "no strings attached" fashion.
U.S. bank bailouts also have been blamed for encouraging reckless behavior from banks that knew the government would step in with extra money if the bank got in financial trouble.
The Dodd-Frank Act attempted to end forced bailouts of "too big to fail" institutions by preventing the Fed from emergency lending to a financial institution. It gives the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) the power to dismantle a failing bank and impose losses on shareholders and bondholders. The provision was intended to avoid taxpayer-funded bailouts and market-disrupting bankruptcies, like that of Lehman Bros.
But many analysts are skeptical about whether or not this "Orderly Liquidation Authority" mechanism will ever be invoked, or work as intended.
Changes to the liquidation authority are still being hammered out in Washington. The latest alteration was approved last week, giving the FDIC the power to take up to two years of Wall Street executives' pay if the compensation is found responsible for a firm's collapse.
U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets Mary Miller this week warned against making too many changes to Dodd-Frank because they could threaten the intended protection of the U.S. financial system.
"Scaling back or repealing major parts of the Dodd-Frank Act or not providing regulators with the funds they need to implement the Act will leave our economy exposed to a cycle of collapses and crises," Miller said in remarks to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's (SIFMA) Regulatory Reform Summit.
Washington is still debating the specifics of the law, which was approved last July. S&P said any decisions altering the Dodd-Frank Act as it's finalized could change its views on the chances of future U.S. bank bailouts.


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Jörg-Uwe Klütz (* 21. Juli 1968 in Quakenbrück) ist ein ehemaliger deutscher Fußballspieler und heutiger -trainer.

Karriere
Der Abwehrspieler Klütz kam über die Stationen TV Groß Mimmelage, BV Quakenbrück und VfL Herzlake 1990 zum Zweitligisten Hannover 96. 1992 gewann er mit Hannover den DFB-Pokal. Im folgenden Jahr trat man im Europapokal der Pokalsieger in einem deutsch-deutschen Duell gegen den SV Werder Bremen an und unterlag (1:3, 2:1). In der Liga rutschte der 1989 in die Zweitklassigkeit abgestiegene Verein immer weiter nach unten, ehe man 1996 in die Regionalliga abstieg.

Daraufhin wechselte Klütz zum VfB Oldenburg, der gerade in die 2. Bundesliga aufgestiegen war. Es folgte allerdings der direkte Wiederabstieg. Klütz blieb noch zwei Jahre im Verein und spielte mit dem VfB in der Regionalliga. 1999 ging er zum BV Cloppenburg, bei dem er noch neun Jahre spielte (1999/00 in der Regionalliga und von 2000 bis 2008 in der Oberliga). In seiner letzten Spielzeit, 2007/08, gelang Klütz mit dem BVC die Qualifikation für die Regionalliga West. Er beendete danach seine Spielerkarriere und wurde im Dezember 2008 Trainer in Cloppenburg. Nach dem Abstieg in die Oberliga führte er den Verein im Jahr 2012 als Vizemeister der Oberliga Niedersachsen in die Regionalliga Nord zurück. 2015 gab Klütz sein Traineramt ab. Heute ist er als Berater für den Verein tätig.

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Fußballtrainer (Deutschland)
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Fußballspieler (VfL Herzlake)
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Chucky: It's 'Kill or Be Killed' in Chilling New Trailer
Paul Dailly at July 26, 2021 9:00 am .
Chucky is about to kill again.
In a full-length trailer for the Child's Play continuation, we are introduced to the characters who will be stalked by the iconic killer doll.
We meet Jake, the kid who purchases the doll at a neighborhood yard sale, to which we can only say the following:
Biggest. Mistake. Ever.
Thanks to Chucky, Jake quickly becomes iced out by everyone, largely because death follows him everywhere.
That's what happens when you have a killer doll.
Chucky still has the killer wit he's had since the beginning, and the tone of the new series is not teen drama, which is a good thing.
Far too often, horror movies to TV adaptations lose a lot of the horror in favor of teen drama angst, and that's not the correct way to tell this kind of story.
In the new Chucky television series, after a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town's hypocrisies and secrets.
Meanwhile, the arrival of enemies - and allies - from Chucky's past threatens to expose the truth behind the killings, as well as the demon doll's untold origins as a seemingly ordinary child who somehow became this notorious monster.
Barbara Alyn Woods will play Mayor Michelle Cross on the series, which finds her "maintaining Hackensack's safe image with the rising tide of mysterious violence, which she has no idea has been caused by a child's doll," according to the character description.
Barbara's real-life daughter, Alycia Alyn Lind, is also set to star on the series as Lexi, Michelle's daughter.
Jennifer Tilly will also be reprising her movie role, but the trailer did not show her, so we'll be on tenterhooks until the premiere date.
Devon Sawa has snagged a recurring role, while Alyn Lind is set as one of the four teenage leads alongside Zackary Arthur (Transparent), Teo Briones (Ratched), and Björgvin Arnarson (The Seventh Day).
Brad Dourif is also returning as the voice of Chucky.
Don Mancini — who wrote the original Child's Play film and all six sequels — serves as creator, showrunner, and executive producer.
Check out the full-length trailer below and hit the comments with your thoughts.
Chucky launches on October 12 on USA and Syfy.
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Read The Good Lord Bird Online
Authors: James McBride
The Good Lord Bird (10 page)
BOOK: The Good Lord Bird
I grabbed it, and as I done, we heard horses coming fast on the other side of the creek. Fred snapped over his shoulder, "Hide quick!"
I had just enough time to jump into the thickets holding that bird as several horses splashed across the creek, came straight up the bank, and busted through the thickets and to where Fred was standing. They came straight on him.
There wasn't nowhere to run, for we had tied our horses a quarter mile off, and they'd come from that very direction, which meant they likely found our mounts anyway. I had just enough time to dive deep into the thickets before they sloshed up the bank and marched up to Fred. He stood there smiling, wearing all his hardware, but his seven-shooters wasn't drawn. The only gun he had in his hand was that squirrel gun, and it was spent.
They sloshed up the bank right to him quick as you can tell it. There were maybe eight of 'em, redshirts, and riding in the lead of 'em was Rev. Martin, the feller Fred drawed on back at the Old Man's camp.
Now Fred was thick, but he weren't an altogether fool. He knowed how to survive in the woods and do lots of outdoor things. But he weren't a quick thinker, for if he was, he'd'a drawed his heater. But two or three thoughts at once was more than he could handle. Plus he didn't recognize the Reverend right off. That cost him.
The Reverend was riding with two men on either side of him bearing six-shooters and the rest behind him heavily armed. The Rev hisself wore his two shiny pearl-handled numbers on his belt, which he likely stole off some dead Free Stater, for he hadn't had them things before.
He rode right up to Fred while his men surrounded Fred, cutting off his escape.
But still Fred didn't get it. Fred said, "Morning." He was smiling. That was his nature.
"Morning," the Reverend said.
Then Fred's mind checked itself. You could see his head cock to the side, something whirring in there. He stared at the Reverend. He was trying to figure out whether he knowed him.
He said, "I know you . . . ," and quick as you can tell it, without a word, the Reverend, setting atop his horse, drawed his shooter and took him. Blasted Fred right in the chest, buttered him with lead and powder, and the blessed God, the ground caught him. Fred twitched a few times and breathed his last.
"That'll teach you to draw on me, you apple-headed, horse-thieving, nigger-loving bastard," the Reverend said. He come down off his horse and took every single gun Fred was wearing. He turned to the others. "I got me one of Brown's boys," he said proudly. "Got the biggest one."
Then he throwed his eyes to the woods 'round him, where I was hiding. I held tight to where I was. Didn't move an inch. He knowed I was close.
"Look for the second rider," he barked. "There was two horses."
Just then another feller spoke up, a feller sitting on a horse behind the Rev. "You ain't had to shoot him cold-blooded like that," he said.
Rev. Martin turned to the man. It was the feller that had caught me in the woods just a while before. He was still holding my squirrel gun, and he weren't pleased.
"He would'a returned the favor," the Reverend said.
"We could'a exchanged him for one of ours," the feller said.
"You wanna change out prisoners or fight a war?" the Rev said.
"He could'a aired me out an hour ago back down the creek there and he didn't," the man said.
"He was Free State!"
"I don't give an owl's ass if he was George Washington. The man didn't draw on you and he's deader'n a turnip. You said you was looking for a cattle rustler and nigger thieves. He ain't no cattle rustler. And the nigger he had weren't nobody's nigger I know. What kind'a war rules is we fighting under here?"
This started a hank between 'em, with several taking this feller's side and others holding with the Reverend. Several minutes gone by as they wrangled, and by the time they finished, dusk had come. Finally Rev. Martin said, "Brown won't tarry when he finds his boy dead out here. You wanna wait till he comes?" That done it. That silenced 'em all, for they knowed there was consequences to the whole bit. They took off on their horses without another word.
I come out the clearing in the dusk, and took a long look at my old friend in the growing darkness. His face was clear. He still had a little smile on his face. I can't say whether his superstition about that Good Lord Bird done him in or not, but I felt low, standing there holding that dumb bird. I wondered if I should wander someplace and fetch a shovel with the aim of burying Fred and the bird together, since he called it an angel and all, but I quit that idea and decided to run off instead. Weren't nothing to this life of being free and fighting slavery, was how I thunk of it. I was so bothered by the whole bit I can't tell it. I didn't know what to do. The idea of running back home to Dutch and trying to work it out, that worked in there, too, truth be to tell it, and I aimed on seeing to that, for Dutch was all I knowed outside the Old Man. But to be honest, I was broke up by the way the whole deal added up, me running 'round as a girl and not knowing what to do. I couldn't think of nothing to do at the moment, and as usual, the whole business just wore me out. So I set on the ground next to Fred and curled into a ball and fell asleep next to him, holding that Good Lord Bird. And that's how the Old Man found me the next day.
A Sign from God
woke up to the sound of cannon fire and the Old Man standing before me. "What happened, Little Onion?"
I gently set the Good Lord Bird on Fred's chest and explained to him who done the deed. He listened, his face grim. Behind him the sound of gunfire and artillery cannon boomed and sent grapeshot slinging through the woods right over his head. Me and Fred had wandered right near Osawatomie, and the fight that Weiner and them had joined in had spilled over into there just as Weiner said it would, with blasting full out. The men ducked low on their horses and held on while the grape whipped past, but none of 'em moved off their mount as the Old Man stood over me. I noted Jason and John among them, but nobody weren't explaining how they got there and why the Old Man weren't in federal prison. They was all hot, staring at Fred, especially his brothers. He was still wearing his little cap, with the Good Lord Bird now perched on his chest where I had rested it.
"Is you gonna find the Reverend?" I asked.
"We ain't got to," the Old Man said. "He has found us. Stay with Fred till we get back." He mounted his horse and nodded toward the sound of the fighting. "Let's go!"
They dashed toward Osawatomie. The town weren't but a short distance off, and I cut through the woods a few steps to a high knoll, where I could see the Old Man and his men take the trail that circled 'round and led to the river and the town on the other side of it. I didn't want to set 'round with Fred and that dead bird asleep in death, and there weren't nothing to say to him nohow.
From where I was, I could see the town. The bridge crossing the Marais des Cygnes River leading to Osawatomie was swarming with rebels who had hauled two cannons over it. A few hundred yards off was the first cannon, which was perched downstream, along a grassy ridge, where you could wade across the water. There were several Free Staters firing on our side, trying to make it across there, but rebels on the other side was holding them off, and every time a group of Free Staters got close in, that cannon cleaned them out.
The Old Man and his boys busted right through them and charged down the hill and into the shallow water like wild men. They come up on the other side firing, and just like that sent the rebels on the other bank scrambling.
This fight was hotter than Black Jack. The town was in a state of panic and there were women and children about, scattering every which way. Several homesteaders was desperately trying to douse the fires on their homes, for the Reverend's riders had torched several houses, and the Rev's men shot them as they tried to put out the flames, which gived the busy homesteaders one less task to do, being that they was deadened. Altogether the Free Staters in town was badly organized. The Missourians' second cannon was on the other side of town, blasting away, and between that one barking on one end of town, and the other barking at the riverbank on the other end, they was cleaning up the Free Staters.
The Old Man and his men charged out the water with guns blazing and cut to the right toward the first cannon that was downstream. The Free Staters who couldn't cross on account of that cannon took courage when the Old Man's army come and runned past them to take the bank, but the rebels at the cannon held. The Old Man's men hacked and shot their way halfway to the cannon working alongside the creek, which ridged up as it reached the cannon. They pushed the enemy back, but more enemy arrived on horses, dismounted, regrouped, and swung that cannon to bear on them. That thing blowed off to deadly effect and halted the Old Man's charge cold. Sent grapeshot whistling into the trees and cut down several Free Staters, who fell down the riverbank into the creek and didn't get up. The Old Man mounted a charge again, but the cannon sent another volley that sent the Old Man and his men backward again, this time several falling halfway down the riverbank. And this time the rebels leaped out from behind the cannon and charged.
The Old Man's men was outgunned and his boys fell back farther to the ridge, the creek right at their backs now, no place else to back up. There was a line of timber at the riverbank there, and he shouted quickly to his fellers to mount a line, which they did, just as the rebels charged the riverbank again.
I don't know how they held it. The Old Man was stubborn. The Free Staters was badly outnumbered, but they held on until a second party of rebels flanked them from the rear, on the same side of the stream. A few of the Old Man's team turned 'round to fight them off while the Old Man held his boys on the line, urging his men on. "Hold men. Steady. Aim low. Don't waste ammunition." He walked up and down the line shouting directions as bullets and cannon shot tore the leaves and limbs off the trees 'round him.
Finally, behind him, the Free Staters trying to hold off the rebels in that direction quit and run for it across the river, eating lead the whole way, and several of them breathed their last in the river. It was just too many enemy. The Old Man was cut off from a clean retreat now, taking fire from two sides, with the cannon blasting grape at him and rebels closing from the other way, with the creek behind him. He weren't going to make it. He was defeated, but he wouldn't give in. He held his men there.
The Missourians, cussing and hollering, quit for a minute to move their cannon closer, and took some lead from the Old Man's men. But they got it mounted up again within fifty yards or so of the Old Man's line and blowed a big hole in the line, sending several of his men into the water. Only then did he give up. He was done. He hollered, "Back across the river!" The men gladly did it, scrambling fast, but not him. He stood, big as you want, firing and reloading until the last man got out the tree line, hit the bank, and waded across. Owen was the last to go, and when he was at the riverbank and seen his Pa weren't there, he turned back, hollering, "Come, Father!"
The Old Man knowed he was defeated, but couldn't stand it. He squeezed off one more blast from his seven-shooter, turned to run, and as he did, a cannon volley whipped through the tree line and got him. He was hit square in the back and went down like a rag doll, knocked clean off the ridge and back into the bank. He rolled off the ridge down to the river's edge and didn't move. He was done.
Dead.
He weren't dead, though, only stunned, for that ball had spent itself before it got to him. It plunked a hole in his coat and pierced the skin of his back and lost juice right as it got to him. The Old Man's skin was thicker than a mule's ass, and while that ball drawed blood, it didn't go deep. He jumped up quick as you can tell it, but the sight of him falling off that ridge toward the water drawed a cheer from the Missourians at the top of the bank who smelled red meat but couldn't see him at the water's edge, and several jumped down to the bank after him, only to find the Old Man waiting with that seven-shooter which was still dry and loaded. He busted a cap into the face of the first man, cracked the skull of the second man with the butt of that thing—that gun is heavy as the dickens—and sent a third to his Maker with his broadsword just as easy as you please. A fourth feller ran down toward him, and when the poor bastard got over the ridge and seen the Old Man still living, he tried to stop hisself and scramble back to safety. But Owen had scrambled back to the bank to help his Pa and busted a shot at him and blowed out his spark.
It was just them two going at it close, and the sight of them two fighting off rebels attacking 'em from all sides now caused a round of cursing and swearing from the Free Staters who made it to the other side of the river, and they blowed several rounds into the rest of the charging Missourians, who was at the top of the ridge near the tree line. The rebels scattered and fell back. This gived the Old Man and Owen time to get across the river.
I had never seen the Old Man retreat before. He seemed a queer figure there in the river, in a broad straw hat and linen duster, his coattails flung out behind him, arms outspread on the water, as he waded over, a revolver held high in each hand. He climbed onto the opposite bank, out of range of the rebels now, mounted atop his horse, and scrambled his horse up the bank to where I was, followed by the other men, all of 'em joining me on the knoll.
From that knoll you could see Osawatomie clear, the town blazing brightly in the afternoon sun, every house burning to the ground, and every Free Stater stupid enough to hang 'round and try to put out the fire eating his house getting shot to shit by Reverend Martin and his men, who were drunk, laughing and whooping it up. They defeated the Old Man and hollered it all across Osawatomie, several shouting that he was dead and claiming to be the one who done it, whooping that they'd burned his house to the ground, which they'd done.
Most of the other Free Staters who survived had taken the tall timber once they got across the creek to our side. Only the Old Man and his sons remained on our side, watching the rebels celebrate: Jason, John, Salmon, the two younger ones Watson and Oliver, who had joined us, Owen course, all of 'em atop their mounts, staring angrily at the town, for their houses was burning up, too.
But the Old Man didn't look at it once. When he reached the knoll, he slowly paced his horse back to Frederick and got off it. The rest followed him over.
Fred was where we left him, his little cap atop his head, the Good Lord Bird atop his chest. The Old Man stood over him.
"I should'a come out of hiding to help him," I said, "but I don't know how to shoot."
"And shoot you should not," the Old Man said. "For you is a girl soon to be a woman. You was a friend to Fred. He was fond of you. And for that I am grateful to you, Little Onion."
But he might as well have been talking to a hole in the ground, for even as he spoke, his mind was somewhere else. He knelt over Fred. He looked at him several minutes, and for a moment, the old gray eyes softened and it seemed like a thousand years had washed over the Old Man's face. He sighed, gently pulled Fred's cap off his head, pulled a feather off the Good Lord Bird, and rose. He turned and stared at the town grimly, burning in the afternoon sun. He could see it plain, the smoke spiraling up, the Free Staters fleeing, the rebels firing at them, whooping and hollering.
"God sees it," he said.
Jason came up to him. "Father, let's bury Frederick and let the federals have the fight. They'll be here soon enough. I don't want to fight no more. My brothers and me, we had enough. We're decided on it."
The Old Man was silent. He fingered Fred's cap and eyed his sons.
"Is that how you want it, Owen?"
Owen, setting atop his horse, looked away.
"And Salmon. And John?"
Six of his sons was there: Salmon, John, Jason, Owen, and the young ones, Watson and Oliver, plus their kin, the Thompson brothers, two of them. They all looked down. They was spent. Not a one of 'em spoke up. Didn't say a word.
"Take Little Onion with you," he said. He tossed Fred's cap into his saddlebag and made ready to get on his horse.
"We've done enough for the cause, Father," Jason said. "Stay with us and help us rebuild. The federals will find Rev. Martin. They'd catch him and put him in jail, try him for Fred's killing."
The Old Man ignored him and mounted his horse, then stared out at the land before him. He seemed to be someplace else in his head. "This is beautiful country," he said. He hold out the feather from the Good Lord Bird. "And this is this beautiful omen that Frederick left behind. It's a sign from God." He stuck it in his weathered, beaten straw cap. It stuck straight up in the air. He looked ludicrous.
"Father, you are not hearing me," Jason said. "We are done! Stay with us. Help us rebuild."
The Old Man stretched his lips in a crazy fashion. It weren't a real smile, but as close as he could come. Never saw him out and out smile up to that point. It didn't fit his face. Stretching them wrinkles horizontal gived the impression of him being plumb stark mad. Seemed like his peanut had poked out the shell all the way. He was soaked. His jacket and pants, which was always dotted full of holes, was a mass of torn and ripped clothing. On his back was a bit of blood where he'd taken a grape ball. He paid it no attention. "I have only a short time to live," he said, "and I will die fighting for this cause. There will be no more peace in this land until slavery is done. I will give these slaveholders something to think about. I will carry this war into Africa. Stay here if you want. If you're lucky, you'll find a cause worth dying for. Even the rebels have that."
He turned his horse 'round. "I have to go and pray and commingle with the Great Father of Justice upon whose blood we live. Bury Fred right. And take care of Little Onion."
With that, he turned on his horse and rode off east. I wouldn't see him again for two years.
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