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The world of Brother Cadfael.
The tapestry of the twenty books in the Brother Cadfael Chronicles is a medieval one, drawn by Ellis Peters from the twelfth-century England that she had studied and mastered thoroughly. That historical mastery and her literary artistry were two of the reasons among several that Birmingham University bestowed on her an honorary Master of Arts Master of Arts
a degree, usually postgraduate in a nonscientific subject, or a person holding this degree
Noun 1. Master of Arts - a master's degree in arts and sciences
Artium Magister, MA, AM degree and that Queen Elizabeth II presented to her the Order of the British Empire.
Ellis Peters is the pen name of Edith Pargeter, and under her own name she wrote scores of books, some of which are The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet, The Eighth Champion of Christendom, A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury, and Reluctant Odyssey. Again as Ellis Peters she wrote the thirteen Detective Felse novels that combined with the Cadfael Chronicles merited her the British Crime Writers Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger The Cartier Diamond Dagger is an award given by the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain to authors who have made an outstanding lifetime's contribution to the genre. The most recent winner is John Harvey. Winners
- 1986 - Eric Ambler
As impressive and meritorious as the complete Ellis Peters/ Edith Pargeter literary legacy is, it is the Cadfaelien novels that most arrest our attention, a tapestry formed from the warp of power politics some eight hundred years past but as modern as yesterday and the woof of emotions, temperaments, and ambitions of characters as human as members of one's own family. The overriding political situation throughout the chronicles is the English Civil War English civil war, 1642–48, the conflict between King Charles I of England and a large body of his subjects, generally called the "parliamentarians," that culminated in the defeat and execution of the king and the establishment of a republican commonwealth. , a war between cousins for the succession to the throne. While Henry I of England was still king, his barons swore fealty fealty: see feudalism. to Empress Maud, Henry's daughter, as successor to the throne. When Henry died in 1135, however, Count Stephen, Maud's cousin whom Henry had reared and knighted, seized the throne and had himself crowned as king, even though as late as 1131 and again in 1133 he too had sworn fealty to Maud. Maud's partisans believed that she as Henry's only living child should be queen and that it was right to stand by her faithfully. They were particularly angered that the barons who had sworn fealty to Maud took Stephen's seizure of the throne meekly and forgot their oaths. On the opposing side, there were many lords, as Cadfael himself summarizes, "'who would say, better a man for overlord o·ver·lord
1. A lord having power or supremacy over other lords.
2. One in a position of supremacy or domination over others.
o than a woman. And if a man, why, Stephen was as near as any to the throne. He is King William's [William the Conqueror's] grandchild, just as Maud is.'" (2) This statement is Cadfael's summarizing only, not a statement of agreement.
In addition to the outright seizure of the throne, Stephen, once king, affronted, attacked, and greatly offended the Church in the persons of certain of its bishops. Even Stephen's younger brother, Henry, Bishop of Winchester and papal legate who had been Stephen's staunch adherent adherent /ad·her·ent/ (-ent) sticking or holding fast, or having such qualities. , began to feel sympathy for the empress Maud once she had actually arrived in England and based herself in the city of Gloucester. She had been innocently residing in Normandy. Furthermore, when in power, Stephen, although amiable in some ways, showed himself to be lethargic, having to be stung into action. Consequently, half the barons finally recollected their oaths, declared themselves for Maud, and entered her cause with bloodshed. It became a mad age with two monarchs in the field, a dozen petty "kings" taking advantage of the turmoil to try to establish their own private realms, and even people like Bishop Henry hovering among at least three loyalties. In the year 1141, for example, Bishop Henry, because of shifting fortunes of the two contenders to the throne and the pope's insistence, twice had to reverse the Church's endorsement in public statements. England thus torn in two, with a hampered divided law of the land, emboldened lawless, restless, masterless renegades to feast on the country's inviting, open wounds, as Peters's The Virgin in the Ice so hauntingly illustrates. Historically, then, this was an age rife with murders and crime that fictionally tested the detective skills of Brother Cadfael and his secular cohort, the upright Hugh Beringar, undersheriff Un´der`sher`iff
n. 1. A sheriff's deputy. when they first met but sheriff by the King's full appointment after the murder of former sheriff Gilbert Prescote.
Within this macrocosm of England lies the microcosm of the Benedictine Brothers' Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul at Shrewsbury. This monastic enclave is composed of the great church, an adjacent cloister cloister, unroofed space forming part of a religious establishment and surrounded by the various buildings or by enclosing walls. Generally, it is provided on all sides with a vaulted passageway consisting of continuous colonnades or arcades opening onto a court. , a separate and distinct abbot's lodging, a guest hall, an infirmary, various barns, stores, and stables, a cart shed, a mill, and Cadfael's freestanding workshop at the edge of his enclosed herb garden amidst extensive "pease" fields. Also within the enclave's limits are orchards, timberlands, and the large open expanses called The Gaye--the abbey's main vegetable gardens--and The Horse Fair. This last area is the site of the annual St. Peter ad Vincula Saint Peter ad Vincula (Saint Peter in chains) may refer to one of the following: Festival
- annual feast on 1st August in the Traditional Catholic Calendar
A point of great significance at this juncture in our discussion and throughout the Cadfael Chronicles is the independent status of the abbey and the unrivaled role of the abbot. He is an aristocrat and the equal of a baron, but within the bounds of the enclave he is absolute master. He can stretch his hand over anyone on the premises, including the impertinent IMPERTINENT, practice, pleading. What does not appertain, or belong to; id est, qui ad rem non pertinet.
2. Evidence of facts which do not belong to the matter in question, is impertinent and inadmissible. , the miscreant mis·cre·ant
1. An evildoer; a villain.
2. An infidel; a heretic.
[Middle English miscreaunt, heretic, from Old French mescreant, present participle of , the lawfully accused, and he or she will be protected even against kings. Such prestige and power make the position of abbot a coveted one for an ambitious man, and covetous cov·et·ous
1. Excessively and culpably desirous of the possessions of another. See Synonyms at jealous.
2. Marked by extreme desire to acquire or possess: covetous of learning. ambitious men do exist in the abbey. Repeatedly we are reminded that the brothers are still men, men who at times raise angry voices and speak contentious words; men who though fallible fal·li·ble
1. Capable of making an error: Humans are only fallible.
2. Tending or likely to be erroneous: fallible hypotheses. fail at times to keep that fact in mind. Some brothers thoroughly dislike other brothers: old Brother Rhys in A Morbid Taste for Bones has never liked the fawning, sycophantic syc·o·phant
A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people.
[Latin s Brother Jerome, clerk to Prior Robert. In truth, on most occasions Brother Jerome's much noise and small effect hardly challenge notice among the other truly dedicated brothers. Brother John in the same novel scorns--albeit with a touch of envy--Prior Robert for his machinations, his overly dramatic staged conversational responses, and his show of studying for sainthood while keeping a weather eye on the secular prospects around him, all for his own glory. Brother John is not amiss in his view, for Prior Robert--of fine, frosty face frosty face
sheep's face covered by harsh, chalky white hairs. , tall, patrician presence, silver hair and brows--contrives to look every inch the mitred patriarch that he yearns to be and with unbounded hubris Hubris
An arrogance due to excessive pride and an insolence toward others. A classic character flaw of a trader or investor. unquestioningly assumes that he will be when Abbot Heribert is called by the legatine council at King Stephen's behest to give account of his stewardship at the abbey. Even though Abbot Heribert has left Prior Robert in charge during his absence, the pervading sense among the brothers is that Prior Robert has usurped the abbacy. As King Stephen has seized the nation's throne, Prior Robert has thought to seize the abbey's rule. When Heribert returns, he is indeed brother, not abbot, for the council has named Father Radulfus to the position. When Brother Heribert introduces Father Radulfus, he admonishes,
Receive your new abbot and reverence him, as I ... have already learned to do.... There was a profound hush, and then a great stir and sigh and smile that ran like a quiet wave all through the assembly in the great court. Brother Mark clutched Cadfael's arm and buried what might otherwise have been a howl of delight in his shoulder. Brother Jerome visibly collapsed, like a pricked bladder, and turned the identical wrinkled mudcolour. Somewhere at the rear there was a definite crow, like a game cock celebrating a kill, though it was instantly suppressed, and no one could trace its origin. It may well have been Brother Petrus, preparing to rush back into his kitchen and whip all his pots and pans into devoted service for the newcomer who had disjointed Prior Robert's nose in the moment of its most superb elevation. (3)
Here the vanity of ambition, the prideful counting of one's chickens, the slightly malicious pleasure taken in someone else's downfall, and even Brother Heribert's manner of presentation of the new abbot, calculated as a small revenge against Prior Robert, italicize i·tal·i·cize
tr.v. i·tal·i·cized, i·tal·i·ciz·ing, i·tal·i·ciz·es
1. To print in italic type.
2. To underscore (written matter) with a single line to indicate italics.
3. that these men are brothers, yes, but saints, no.
As one could rightly anticipate, Brother Cadfael is the most compelling individual in the widely diverse cast of characters Ellis Peters has assembled. When we first meet him in A Morbid Taste for Bones, he is a man fifty-seven years of age who has been a monk for seventeen of those years. Prior to entering the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, he had a wide ranging career as an adventurer, soldier, and seaman. Notably, he was with Godfrey de Bouillon Bouillon, town (1991 pop. 5,468), Luxembourg prov., SE Belgium, in the Ardennes on the Semois River, near the French border. It is a small manufacturing and tourist center. at Antioch when the Saracens surrendered it, Godfrey being the historical figure who was particularly distinguished among the Crusaders for his piety and simplicity and whose deeds were glorified glo·ri·fy
tr.v. glo·ri·fied, glo·ri·fy·ing, glo·ri·fies
1. To give glory, honor, or high praise to; exalt.
2. in the Chanson de Geste chanson de geste
Any of several Old French epic poems that form the core of the Charlemagne legends. More than 80 chansons de geste have survived in 12th- to 15th-century manuscripts. . (4) Cadfael took to the seas as captain when the King of Jerusalem ruled all the coast of the Holy Land, serving valiantly against the corsairs for ten years. Brother Cadfael, with his characteristic straightforwardness says that he learned from his experiences in the Crusades that the heathen were frequently kinder than the Christians. As a soldier he obeyed orders that often forced him to do things he "would be glad now to think [he] had not done. That's one reason [he] accepted in the end another discipline." (5) In these early years he was turbulent, insubordinate in·sub·or·di·nate
Not submissive to authority: has a history of insubordinate behavior.
in , and incorrigibly in·cor·ri·gi·ble
1. Incapable of being corrected or reformed: an incorrigible criminal.
2. Firmly rooted; ineradicable: incorrigible faults.
3. rash, qualities that even after he selected a life of quietude surface sufficiently to make him "prickle prickle /prick·le/ (prik´il)
1. a small, sharp spine or point.
2. a tingling or smarting sensation.prick´ly to the sting of battle." Furthermore, even as he recalls the look, the stench, the desolation of gutted towns that he had experienced as a soldier, he has to admit that at least a tinge of "the old enthusiasm" still burns forth at the scent of action. These occasions arise when Hugh Beringar, with the Abbot's blessing, enlists Cadfael's assistance in certain phases of murder cases that are inextricably in·ex·tri·ca·ble
a. So intricate or entangled as to make escape impossible: an inextricable maze; an inextricable web of deceit.
b. connected to the civil war.
As the youthful brothers contemplate Cadfael with curiosity because he had come late in life to his vocation, they also speculate about the women he must have encountered in his premonastic years. At different times throughout the chronicles Cadfael recalls the women he had known between east and west, none of whom, he believes, had ever felt wronged when he departed. Some he remembers by name: Arianna, Bianca, and Miriam, but in the third chronicle he accidentally meets Rachel Vaughn, who some forty years prior had been his affianced, a fact that none but the two of them knew. At seventeen years of age, "he had taken the Cross and sailed for the Holy Land, and for all his vows to return to claim her, with his honours thick upon him, he had forgotten everything in the fever and glamour and peril of a life divided impartially between soldier and sailor, and delayed his coming far too long; and she, for all her pledges to wait for him, had tired at last and succumbed to her parents' urgings and married a more stable character, and small blame to her." (6) For one brief moment when he meets Rachel again and admires her young son, he questions what it might have been like for him to have had such a son. Then several years later, again by accident or force of fate, he discovers that he does indeed have a son from those venturesome years, and in the final chronicle of the series, Brother Cadfael temporarily exiles himself from the order to aid that son, imprisoned and certain to die if he is not freed.
Because the sequence of novels proceeds steadily in a progressive tension, those works do not allow Ellis Peters to explain how and why Cadfael accepted the tonsure tonsure (tŏn`shər) [Lat.,=to shave], formerly, practice in some Christian churches of cutting some of the hair from the scalp of clerics. . But knowing that her readers want to know that how and why, she answers in a short story titled "A Light on the Road to Woodstock." In her "Introduction" to A Rare Benedictine, the volume that contains the story in question as well as two others, she says:
So here he is, not a convert, for this is not a conversion. In an age of relatively uncomplicated faith, not yet obsessed and tormented by cantankerous schism, sects and politicians, Cadfael has always been an unquestioning believer. What happens to him on the road to Woodstock is simply the acceptance of a revelation from within that the life he has lived to date, active, mobile and often violent, has reached its natural end, and he is confronted by a new need and a different challenge. (7)
In the short story, Alard, who had been a monk of Evesham but left when he could no longer endure living his life in one place, is returning to the monastery. As Cadfael observes his eagerness to return, he muses, "There must indeed be something desirable and lovely to cause a man to look towards it with that look on his face." (8) Alard has helped Cadfael's "revelation from within." Then, because Cadfael's service to Roger Mauduit is concluded by agreement, because a child moves Cadfael to unbuckle his sword in a parish church and lay it on the lowest step under the altar, where it looks strangely appropriate and at peace, and because Prior Heribert whom Cadfael had fortuitously assisted is returning to the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul in Shrewsbury, Cadfael asks to be taken along--and is.
In the novels themselves the question of why people enter orders is frequently raised, but it surfaces in terms of others, not Cadfael. In Confession of Brother Haluin, Helisende's mother was widowed and, as the custom was, she began to be "talked about and bargained about" and pressured to marry again. For her, entering the convent was "one way to escape." Brother Elyas in The Virqin in the Ice entered the cloister after his wife died to escape the loneliness, but that which was hard to bear alone was no easier among many brothers. Here and elsewhere, we see that those choosing the cowl for escape rarely find peace. Brother Paul in The Devil's Novice provides another cause for receiving the tonsure. "'With lands to keep together, and one or two stout sons already, it's a [father's] way of disposing profitably of the third.'" (9) That third son might be either a babe in arms or an adult, but the difference when the son is grown is that he enters with his own full consent. "'The cloister can be a promising career, too. But the babes in arms no, that way is too easily abused.'" (10) In the course of several narratives we learn that the person entering as a child often loses family love and warmth and never really recovers from the separation. Further distress arises from severing the children from the "very sight and sound of women, half the creation stolen out of their world." So, halfway through the chronicles, Abbot Radulfus, recognizing that "we wrong women and we wrong these boys, to send them unprepared into maturity, whole men, defenseless against the first pricking of the flesh," (11) rules that the abbey will take no more oblates--babes or children--only those of "manhood's years." The ideal situation, though, as is the case with Brother Mark in Monk's Hood, even though first he came unwillingly to the abbey, is when "vocations strike from heaven like the random arrows of God." (12) This was so for Cadfael, and for him taking orders was in no way second best.
As a brother, Cadfael shows himself to be an ordinary, decent, fallible man who chose the cowl with both eyes open. He repeatedly confesses himself "a great sinner" but constantly demonstrates that for him the cowl is both fitting and becoming. He wants for nothing that is needful need·ful
Necessary; required. See Synonyms at indispensable.
needful·ly adv. and hankers for nothing beyond his needs. As fitting as the habit is, however, Cadfael's wearing it in no way suggests that he accepts unquestioningly every doctrine, practice, or position of the Order and the Church. He repeatedly petitions St. Winifred, patron saint of the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, and believes in the efficacy of those petitions. And yet, even as he reverences her he questions the practice of acquiring relics, the "wanting to fondle fon·dle
v. fon·dled, fon·dling, fon·dles
1. To handle, stroke, or caress lovingly. See Synonyms at caress.
2. Obsolete To treat with indulgence and solicitude; pamper. " a saint's bones. He is instrumental in the Shrewsbury abbey's acquiring the reliquary reliquary (rĕl'əkwĕr`ē), receptacle containing the relics of saints and other sacred objects of the Christian religion. Reliquaries were often designed in shapes that reflected the nature of their contents, such as hands, shoes, of St. Winifred, but it is he who almost single-handedly accomplished the hoax of Brother Columbanus's translation out of his body up to heaven and St. Winifred's reburial Noun 1. reburial - the act of burying again
burying, burial - concealing something under the ground in her Welsh grave. He tolerantly recognizes the great rivalry among abbeys for relics like St. Eadburga's finger bone in The Virgin in the Ice but in The Holy Thief questions what kinds of bones certain professed relics really are. He is dubious about stones from Calvary and the Mount of Olives Mount of Olives: see Olives, Mount of. , "a drop of the Virgin's milk, a shred of her robe, a little flask of sweat of St. John the Baptist John the Baptist
prophet who baptized crowds and preached Christ's coming. [N.T.: Matthew 3:1–13]
See : Baptism
John the Baptist
head presented as gift to Salome. [N.T.: Mark 6:25–28]
See : Decapitation , a tress from the red hair of Saint Mary Magdalene." (13) Furthermore, Cadfael generally honors the Church Fathers but not every one of them all the time. He takes exception, for example, to some of St. Augustine's writings, for Cadfael was "never going to surrender his private reservations about any reputed saint who could describe humankind as a mass of corruption and sin proceeding inevitably towards death, or one who could look upon the world, for all its imperfections, and find it irredeemably evil." (14) No, Augustine had a certain unbending rigidity, Cadfael thought, that offers little if any compassion to anyone with whom he disagrees. That is not Cadfael.
Earlier we noted that the cloister could provide a promising career, and that is certainly so for Brother Cadfael, who for more than fifty years had developed no skills apart from those he needed for crusading and adventuring. Once retired from those pursuits, he discovers an innate devotion to life and growth and finds his career among the gardens and the herbarium herbarium, collection of dried and mounted plant specimens used in systematic botany. To preserve their form and color, plants collected in the field are spread flat in sheets of newsprint and dried, usually in a plant press, between blotters or absorbent paper. of St. Peter and St. Paul. The herbarium with its workshop is Cadfael's pride, for growing herbs, drying them, making remedies for all the ills that visit humankind, and physicing those within the abbey as well as a great number of souls without is an atoning career. "'To heal men,'" he says, "'after years of injuring them? What could be more fitting?'" (15)
Brother Cadfael, whose native tongue is Welsh, is literate in English and learned Latin with great effort in his maturity. He did master Latin, to be sure, but it remained a foreign tongue never to be read easily. Nonetheless, he studies Aelfric's list of herbs and trees from England of the previous century and a half. No doubt Cadfael learned his Latin from Aelfric's grammar, glossary, and colloquy col·lo·quy
n. pl. col·lo·quies
1. A conversation, especially a formal one.
2. A written dialogue.
[From Latin colloquium, conversation; see that were long the standard texts for Latin study in the English monasteries. However that may be, Cadfael's diligent and ongoing study of the list of herbs and trees helps make him the medicinal expert whom even practitioners in other houses consult. Furthermore, the care with which Cadfael grows and cures herbs makes him the source of several kitchens' required flavorings. Even further, Cadfael's inquisitive nature leads him to experiment with various combinations of aromatic flowers and herbs to create perfumes. These efforts would at best have been frowned on had they been meant for scents for women's vanity, but Cadfael engages in them as an act of worship, providing aromatic oils for the lamp on St. Winifred's altar. Thus, producing these perfumes is not only permissible but also praiseworthy praise·wor·thy
adj. praise·wor·thi·er, praise·wor·thi·est
Meriting praise; highly commendable.
praise .
The fullness, the authenticity, and the artistry with which Ellis Peters creates the manners, mores, customs, characters, and monastic practice of twelfth-century England are so superb that one might well read the Cadfael Chronicles for those dimensions alone and be more than satisfied. But all of that is in truth the context for intriguing mysteries--intricately plotted, ingenious puzzles. The central incidents range in part from the Welsh opposition to relocating St. Winifred's remains to the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, through the attempted theft of St. Winifred's bones; the disappearance of a fleeing brother and sister and their accompanying nun; the hanging of the ninety-four defenders of Shrewsbury Castle in the raging civil war; the disappearance of a disliked, rigid, letter-of-the-law, inhumane parish priest; the scheduled May-December wedding contracted by greedy guardians; and finally to Brother Cadfael's leaving the abbey temporarily to rescue his son.
Whatever the scenario, however, the major crime is murder, or murders. Both Brother Cadfael and Sheriff Hugh Beringar use every skill at their command to discover the murderer and his or her motive for taking another person's life, and the brother, the sheriff, and at times even some princes purpose to have justice done. "Justice," however, does not have an agreed upon meaning, largely because murder is differently viewed. In Dead Man's Ransom, for instance, Hugh Beringar sees Eliud's murder of Gilbert Prestcote as just that--pure and simple. As a man of law he declares that Eliud will have his trial and he, Hugh, will do what he has to do. Brother Cadfael, on the other hand, argues that he as a Welshman recognizes degrees, distinguishes between homicide and murder, and holds that "'even the worst may sometimes be compounded for a lesser price than hanging.'" (16) Repeatedly different and varied voices assert that death avenged by a second death amends nothing. Consequently, the murderer's flight to regions beyond the legal jurisdiction of Sheriff Beringar is the most prevalent conclusion to killings. Even in the discussion of St. Augustine's writings mentioned earlier, Eliud notes that Augustine went through many changes of mind over the years and then asks, "'Cadfael, did you ever think what a waste it would be if you burned a man for what he believed at twenty, when what he might believe and write at forty would be hailed as the most blessed of holy writ?'" (17) Cadfael answers, "'That is the kind of argument to which most of men never listen ... otherwise they would balk balk
the action of a horse when it refuses to obey a command to which it usually responds. See also jibbing. at taking any life.'" Ellis Peters balks so that not once in the twenty chronicles is it even considered that a murder should be avenged by lawfully taking the murderer's life. Strong opposition to capital punishment capital punishment, imposition of a penalty of death by the state. History
Capital punishment was widely applied in ancient times; it can be found (c.1750 B.C.) in the Code of Hammurabi. is a major article of the gospel according to Ellis Peters. Incidentally, that gospel is also filled with many pithy pith·y
adj. pith·i·er, pith·i·est
1. Precisely meaningful; forceful and brief: a pithy comment.
2. Consisting of or resembling pith. axioms, a few of which are, "Where there's no sense there's no feeling"; "There is no need to despise the gifts of the world when they come honestly"; "Where mutual love is ... it [is] hard to consider any place too holy to house it" (a response to two young people having made love in the church); "If you ask for nothing you deserve nothing"; "What is done matters, but what is yet to do matters more"; and "Truth should never be feared as harm."
Throughout the Peters corpus we are dazzled by insistent virtuosity: history made live and immediate; characters as vivid as oil paintings but infused with the realities of hopes, fears, hatreds, tears, ambitions, disappointments, abilities, and disabilities; landscapes, manners, and customs that enchant and involve. But halfway through the collection in The Pilgrim of Hate--novel ten of the twenty--Ellis Peters steps away from the this-worldly for a few paragraphs to give us the opportunity to be in the presence of the divine. The day is the festival of St. Winifred, the reenactment re·en·act also re-en·act
tr.v. re·en·act·ed, re·en·act·ing, re·en·acts
1. To enact again: reenact a law.
2. of the arrival of her reliquary in Shrewsbury four years earlier. As the throngs reach the great abbey church, the clamor of the festival fades to the great silence of worship. Every inch of space in the nave is filled with humanity, but all are as still as "the candle flames on the altar. Even the reflected gleams in the silver chacings of the casket [are] fixed and motionless as jewels.'" (18) As the sobering solemnity SOLEMNITY. The formality established by law to render a contract, agreement, or other act valid.
2. A marriage, for example, would not be valid if made in jest, and without solemnity. Vide Marriage, and Dig. 4, 1, 7; Id. 45, 1, 30. of the Mass proceeds, it is impossible for those present "to withdraw their eyes for an instant from the act of worship on which it [is] centered or the mind from the words of the office." (19) Individuals are unaware of a single face in that multitude, only aware of the presence of humankind that absorbs one's own identity. When the Mass ends, those with petitions to make go forth on their knees to touch and kiss the reliquary, and at the end of the long line of petitioners comes Rhun, on crutches because of a badly withered leg and twisted foot. Upon reaching the three steps to the altar where St. Winifred's casket lies, he drops his crutches and moves forward, "as a child learning to walk ventures across perilous distances to reach its mother's open arms and coaxing, praising blandishments that wooed it to the deed." (20) When he arrived at the altar his leg smoothed into shapeliness shape·ly
adj. shape·li·er, shape·li·est
1. Having a distinct shape.
2. Having a pleasing shape.
shape and his foot straightened. Throughout his hesitant ascent, every soul in the abbey church holds his or her breath, stirs not a finger, and utters not a sound. We as readers respond in like fashion, for as Tim O'Brien, winner of the National Book Award for Going After Cacciato, has said somewhere: "With good writing the most profound response is finally holy silence."
In these few pages in question there is no disputation about the Church Fathers, no hint of the abbey's suspect orthodoxy, no cynicism, no imposition of human pride, will, or ambition. The pages present the grace and mercy of the Faith and the simple unassumingness of a lad's private faith. The Faith and faith, the centrality of Brother Cadfael's life, are placed in the chronicles centrally and explicitly only this one time. For anyone personally attuned to the blessings of belief, the response of holy silence to these pages might possibly be more than a response to good writing.
At the close, Ellis Peters's Brother Cadfael novels, which can be said to have everything, captivate the mind and ensnare the heart. They are indeed the works of a virtuoso but also the achievement of a poet.
(1.) Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, vol. 4 (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1981) and Ellis Peters, The Summer of the Danes (New York: The Mysterious Press, 1992), end paper.
(2.) Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (New York: The Mysterious Press, 1994), 5.
(3.) Ellis Peters, Monk's Hood (New York: The Mysterious Press, 1992), 203.
(4.) Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones (New York: The Mysterious Press, 1994), 2.
(5.) Peters, One Corpse Too Many, 45.
(6.) Peters, Monk's Hood, 32.
(7.) Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine (London: Headline Book Publishing PLC, 1990), 7.
(8.) Ibid., 29.
(9.) Ellis Peters, The Devil's Novice (New York: The Mysterious Press, 1997), 8.
(10.) Ibid.
(11.) Peters, Monk's Hood, 64-65.
(12.) Ellis Peters, The Rose Rent (New York: The Mysterious Press, 1997), 27.
(13.) Ellis Peters, The Holy Thief (New York: The Mysterious Press, 1994), 23.
(14.) Ellis Peters, The Heretic's Apprentice (New York: The Mysterious Press, 1991), 17.
(15.) Ellis Peters, The Devil's Novice, 32.
(16.) Ellis Peters, Dead Man's Ransom (New York: The Mysterious Press, 1997), 257.
(17.) Peters, The Heretic's Apprentice, 209.
(18.) Ellis Peters, The Pilgrim of Hate (New York: The Mysterious Press, 1997),145.
(19.) Ibid.
(20.) Ibid., 147.
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The apartment is very spacious and provides many home comforts. It is situated in a quality gated development for those guests/families seeking a relaxed environment as a base from which to savour the varied and diverse pleasures of Ibiza!
Guests will have the chance to enjoy a large master bedroom with en suite bath/shower, two further spacious double bedrooms and a family bathroom. All bedrooms have large fitted wardrobes and mirrors.
Camp bed/ travel cot for is also available on request.
The lounge has comfortable seating and a flat screen tv, sky, Bose iPod dock and dining table.The kitchen is fully fitted with all white goods.
The spacious terrace is ideal for al fresco dining/entertaining whilst enjoying the stunning sunsets directly in front of the apartment or for lazy afternoons watching the boats sailing into San Antonio harbour.
Damage deposit: A damage deposit of 500 Euros/Sterling will be charged pre-arrival. The deposit, whether paid locally or into UK bank account, will be fully refunded on safe return of keys and apartment inspection (assuming no breakages, damage or losses have occurred).
- Suitability:
- Long-term Renters Welcome
- children welcome
- non smoking only
- pets not allowed
- not suitable for elderly or infirm
- wheelchair accessible
About Chris
Chris spent many years in Ibiza working for Thomson Holidays back in the 1990's as an Overseas Rep. He is now married to Joanne and have a lovely daughter called Molly. We holiday at the apartment whenever we can.
James (Jo's brother) and wife Pauline are also coowners of the apartment and share the love of Ibiza bringing their son Stanley on holiday here at least 3 times a year
Chris purchased this apartment in 2009
Why Chris chose Sant Antonio Abad
Ibiza has always been Chris's second home and he married Jo here in Ibiza in 2007 after he introduced her to the island and she fell for the Ibiza charm. In 2009 an opportunity arose to purchase Ibiza Seaview from a good friend. As this was the apartment we had used whilst reseearching and preparing for our wedding we could not let it go.
What makes this apartment unique
Location, Location, Location - You cannot beat sitting on the balcony sipping a drink watching the sunset and having the best seats in the Bay to watch and listen to the music and vibe from Kumharas (without their prices). A ferry ride away from San Antonio and close to great bars and restaurants in the Bay.

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Alice has to retrieve a cloth at the top of a dunk tank that's in the backyard. She manages to get herself up there – getting down is the problem.
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There was a time when there was nothing like David Letterman on television.
Letterman was the guy who dropped bowling balls and watermelons from the roof of a tall building. Letterman was the guy who had a writer come on to read, straight-faced, from "The Family Circus."
Letterman was the guy who let his stage manager recap "Melrose Place," let two Bangladeshi gift-store owners named Mujibur Rahman and Sirajul Islam serve as "roving correspondents," and always - ALWAYS - bit the network hand that fed him. (Or, perhaps, gave the "GE handshake" to his corporate bosses.)
He took elements of Steve Allen, Ernie Kovacs, Johnny Carson and Mad Magazine, ran them through his own skewed perspective, and came up with something new: the anti-talk show.
Letterman announced Thursday that he was stepping down from "The Late Show with David Letterman" sometime in 2015.
If you were a celebrity who came on "Late Night" (his 1980s NBC show) or "The Late Show" (his CBS successor) simply to chat about your new movie or album or TV show, good luck to you. Dave - he was always "Dave" - might be interested, but more likely he was bored or cranky. He much preferred the Steve Martins or Bill Murrays of the world who would use their spot to do something silly.
It was a comedic style that never really captured Middle America - for most of their 20-year rivalry, Jay Leno's ratings were much higher than Letterman's - but influenced a generation of comedians and comedy writers.
"The Simpsons," Ben Stiller, Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, any comedian or comedy that used irony, silliness, absurdity and a little bit of antagonism as their stock in trade - Dave made network television, previously an irony-free zone, safe for all of them. (There was more than a little Letterman in Garry Shandling's curdled, insecure faux talk-show host, Larry Sanders.)
"He did the thing that everyone's tried to do since and has never done, which is to take the talk-show form and redo it," Jerry Seinfeld, an early Letterman guest, told Rolling Stone in 2011. "The mindset was, 'We're tired of pretending there are no cue cards and no cameras and nothing's rehearsed. It's late, and we're going to take over this little piece of territory and do our own thing.' Now that mindset is everywhere."
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At its best, Letterman's late-night show was unpredictable, particularly in the 1980s, when it was all new. He once used pictures from an old Sears catalog over the opening credits. He did a "360-degree show," letting the camera rotate all the way around during the course of the hour. (At the half-hour mark, Letterman was upside-down.)
His interviews - the "talk" of talk shows - were often deliberately devoid of content. Sometimes he used his guests for comedy bits, as when Steve Martin - allegedly on the set to promote a movie - deplored Letterman's questions and then had the Late Show Gospel Choir launch into a gospel song about himself.
Other times they were, shall we say, antagonistic. Perhaps the most famous example was an appearance by actor Crispin Glover ("Back to the Future") in 1987. At one point, Glover got up to demonstrate a roundhouse kick. Letterman went to a commercial break. When he returned, Glover was gone.
Of course, Letterman reveled in friction. Both Cher and Madonna had tetchy interviews with the host. He made much of an alleged feud with Oprah Winfrey. During the "Late Night" days, he booked people like Brother Theodore or "American Splendor" cartoonist Harvey Pekar - types who were the very antithesis of talk-show guests, types that made audiences uncomfortable.
Letterman grew up a bit when he went to CBS in 1993. With NBC, he wore blazers and sneakers, very much the impish college boy. Suddenly he was in nice suits and shined shoes. The guests became more of the A-list variety, though Dave was still the type to make room for a musician like Warren Zevon, a personal favorite who would never have passed muster on Leno's "Tonight."
But it probably says something that Letterman's most striking moments of recent years came when he dropped the ironic pose and spoke from the heart. These moments - paying tribute to mentor Johnny Carson, thanking his heart surgeons, talking about his son, confessing to an affair - made the very private host seem a little more approachable.
Given some of the stories about Letterman's self-loathing that his former partner and onetime head writer, Merrill Markoe, has told over the years, he probably hated that.
Who shall be the heir?
Perhaps all that irony doesn't make sense anymore.
With Jimmy Fallon's takeover of the "Tonight Show," commentators have been making much of a "return to earnestness," playing up Fallon's niceness and wide-eyed wonder. Fallon himself has named Steve Allen as a model, not so much Letterman. (Conan O'Brien would never have said that.)
And there's something a little awkward about Letterman, the King of Absurdity, still presiding over his anti-talk show circus at the age of 67. It's not that he can't pull it off - it's that he's been doing it for so long that his original college student audience now has children (and grandchildren!) of their own. They have so many more options, and Dave is now one of many.
Who can replace him? Craig Ferguson, whose show follows Dave's (and is produced by Letterman's company, Worldwide Pants), is both earnest and oddball - but maybe a little too fringe-y for the 11:30 p.m. ET slot. There are whispers about Stephen Colbert, fully invested in his own ironic character.
But maybe the point is that nobody can replace Dave. After all, there's a little Dave in all of them.
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Business dinner in San Antonio
I need to host a number of business associates for dinner in San Antonio, we will all be from out of town and interested in appropriate spots for group dinners.
More info would be helful, i.e. location, how many people, budget, availability of transportation, type of food.
Generally, most steakhouses are good for this (Ruths' Chris, Kirby's, The Palm, Morton's)
There are also rests on the N side that I go to for business functions (Brasserie Pavil, Silo, Thai Chili).
Bohanan's is good, but very expensive.
I agree, Bohanan's is a great place. Other great places with private rooms for business dinners would be The Little Rhine Steak House: has a great private room underneath the steakhouse with wonderful Texas history. Boudros has several private rooms with excellent food. You could also rent a private barge for dinner on the riverwalk. Zinc's has one of my favorite private rooms and is owned and catered by Boudros. Chart House at The Tower of Americas is so beautiful with a revolving view of the city and a place for a wonderful business dinner. For mexican food El Mirador has a room and Acenar is a really good modern tex mex restaurant. On the north side of San Antonio I suggest Paesano's at the Quarry, they have a private wine room for dining or Maggianos. All of these restaurants are active members of The Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and their support helps The Chamber create a healthy business climate in San Antonio. If you would like more information about restaurants or San Antonio please email me @ firstname.lastname@example.com or go to our website www.sachamber.org. Have a wonderful time in our beautiful city!
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Paesanos Restaurant
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You can't go wrong with Biga on the Banks...Chef Bruce Auden has numerous chef-of-the-whatever nominations, every one from the James Beard Foundation to the Best Chefs of the Southwest and his food is great. Also, the restaurant is gorgeous.
There's a new place called LeMidi in the old Weissman restaurant locale. I read good things about it, 'tho I've not been yet. Both these will be fairly pricey, but almost a guarantee of perfect food and service. Enjoy the beautiful city.
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Le Midi is in a space on Houston Street which was previously a Japanese restaurant. I don't think anything has gone into Weissman's old Sandbar/Le Reve space.
I have taken clients out to Scenic Loop Cafe. It's about 20-25 mins NW of town. Nice drive and food is excellent with a Cowboy / Southwestern flair. Everyone has always loved the place. Sometimes they will have some live music on their outdoor patio area. I've heard rumor that George Strait is a part owner of the place - not sure if any of the locals can confirm or deny this rumor...
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We were visiting San Antonio for the weekend and wanted a nice dinner and I looked at this site for recommendations. I just wanted to say Thank you for mentioning Grey Moss Inn. My husband and I had a wonderful time and this restaurant was absolutely a highlight of our trip. We arrived to find 6 deer in the field by the parking lot eating their dinner and walked into the courtyard of the restaurant to be greeted by the manager with an outstretched hand welcoming us. He suggested on this cool evening to sit outside under one of the gas heaters. It was a perfect night. The patio is surrounded by original stonework and they have a few lights strung and some background wind chimes. Inside was also quite quaint with several small rooms connected together. Our waiter Greg, expertly suggested a good bottle of wine (the list was fantastic and had several gems from smaller wineries) to pair with our food. We started with the Chirizo stuffed quail. It was spiced nicely and we will remember the dish for a long while. The second appetizer was the Escargot, which was also very tasty and the bread that was provided to dip in the garlic butter left in the dish was a nice touch. We split the house salad for the day and they split it in the kitchen for us. The salad dressing was perfect, not heavy, not light and enhanced the mixed greens. I couldn't decide between the Prime Rib (slow roasted to rare and then finished on the grill) or a Rib Eye so I let our waiter choose for me. The Prime Rib was excellent and I had plenty to take with me that will turn into a Rib Eye Sandwich today. My husband had Bison KC Strip which was beautiful and cooked perfectly. We shared a few bites of their seasonal Pumpkin Cheesecake and coffee and have already started thinking about how we bring friends and family out here on our next trip to San Antonio.
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Genesis Down And Out Lyrics
Last updated: 06/22/2014 04:25:36 PM
It's good to be here! How've you been?
Check my bags, boy! Where's my room?
I sit on the phone, that's my game,
Keep up the pressure all the way!
I don't want to beat about the bush
but none of us are getting any younger.
There's people out there who could take your place.
A more commercial view! A fresher face!
I need a shower, take a nap
I'll meet you in the bar, we must have a rap.
There's a lot on the line, a lot to say.
There's something I must tell you today.
You and I both know the score,
you can't go on like this forever.
So it's with regret that I tell you now
that from this moment on,
you're on your own!
I don't talk round corners, it's right between the eyes
If you're slow they'll run past you,
Stand tall, see them falling over.
I walk a straight line, it's right between the eyes.
Well show me the door, show me someone who'll do it better.
The drinks are on me, be my guest.
Smoke a cigar? Take the best.
Don't hedge your bets, we can make a deal,
you got it in your pocket, how do you feel?
So glad that's over, now you know,
but I'm only acting under orders.
And looking down on you from way up here.
You've got to sink or swim, get off the floor!
I don't talk round corners, it's right between the eyes
If you're slow they'll run past you,
Stand tall, see them falling over,
I walk a straight line, right between the eyes.
Well show me the door, show me someone who'll do it better.
When Did You First Hear This Song? | Reviewer: DJ Minteer | 6/22/14
Okay, it's almost embarrassing to admit that the first time I heard the song Down And Out was in June 2014. For cryin' out loud! I've been a fan of rock music for many decades. And progressive rock groups, with those more complex music arrangements, were always my preference. Seems as if there were so many bands like that back then. Back in the late seventies and early eighties, my recollection of Genesis was that they were good, with some catchy tunes. Period. Oh, if I'd only heard Down And Out on the radio I would have been obsessed. But this kind of song didn't get mainstream radio play. Was it the time signature?
So all I really heard from Genesis was the more poppy tunes. And many of Phil Collins' ballads over the years I never really cared for. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the musicianship but it didn't seem my style. I admit that I really never gave Genesis or Phil Collins a chance. Not sure why. My loss.
Fast forward to 2014. I'd almost gotten to the point where I didn't listen to the classic rock radio stations because it seemed like I'd heard it all, in some ways (some songs) too many times. I'd catch myself listening instead to all the brand new pop music - and really liking it. In fact, having recorded for many years myself and knowing what all goes into recording and producing music, I marveled at some of what I considered to be genius productions. There are some damn good song recordings these days.
Getting to the point now... Just last week I mentioned to a coworker, who I knew to be a drummer, that he probably liked so and so drummer back in the day. He told me, "Yeah, he's great, but some music and drumming that I really like are from a few Genesis albums, And Then There Were Three, and Trick Of The Tail." I thought, what? These albums are back to the era of my high school days. What crowd was I running with who didn't turn me on to this music, along with their other smokable condiments? We chatted a bit about music and I become real curious about these two albums.
So, the first album I listened to, And Then There Were Three, the very first song on it, Down And Out, just blew me away. Words cannot do it justice. I just listen and listen to it. Better late than never, as they say. Sheesshh.
Quite a crankin' little tune! | Reviewer: Jerry W. | 5/18/14
Over the years, as a fan of Genesis, somehow I never gave "And Then There Were Three" a fair listening. While there are a few stinkers on the album, "Down And Out" is an exception. This song is surprisingly strong showing Collins, Banks and Rutherford at the top of their game. Good lyrics, killer drumming and wailing keyboards are just a few of the great things this song offers. Mike Rutherford steps up as guitarist and delivers a good aggressive guitar line while Banks solos over the top. Excellent forgotten tune!


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nice cheap, easy to use and so far very accurate gps
nice cheap, easy to use and so far very accurate gps
having just purchased a first GPS I have been quite impressed with simple operating systems, and so far very accurate messages...
if you just want to use this unit in one city and chuck it out in a few years when the maps are outdated , then its good, but it. But if you travel (and want to download maps), or live in a city that is rapidly expanding (want to update maps), then avoid this. When it comes to online updating and downloading, Navman are not supplying the service.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
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The hospital agrees to let Vinnie film a documentary about Doogie. However, his annoying techniques and intrusive behavior annoy Doogie who must tell a family that their daughter might have cancer.
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FINALLY, I can be The Silver Surfer in real life.
FINALLY, I can be The Silver Surfer in real life.
Shout out to these Charleston Bros for doing what Bros do when it rains -- Go wakeboarding.
It just doesn't get any more rad than this.
This is so awesomely dumb, and it'll make you want to throw in a fat lip and try it right away.
One of my favorite wakeboarding videos of all time is Minnesota-bred wakeboarder Josh Tranby shredding a cranberry bog during a Red Bull "Winch" Session.
Wake boarding in a canal isn't anything new, but it's looks pretty fun.
I mean, the wakeboarding is pretty good too.
Meet Robert Pokovec and Dominik Hernler, two daredevils who seem prone to shredding up some of the most beautiful spots in the world.
I can't remember the last wakeboarding video we've featured around here.
Look, we've got spring fever and it's been a while since we've posted any wake smut.
If you're in the habit of keeping a bucket list, here's an item to add: Surfing the wake of a boat with frolicking, happy dolphins.


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|ABSTRACT These reports document recreation use and estimate carrying capacities for the Klamath River in northern California. The river section studied runs from Interstate 5 near Yreka to the town of Orleans, and includes the lower sections of the Scott and Salmon River tributaries. A major highway runs along the river throughout the study area, with numerous; access points. The study covers the summer river running season and the fall salmon/ steel head fishing season. Because of the... "Klamath River recreation study, part II: fall season, September 15-December 15": p. 75-147 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Part I: Summer Season, June 15 - September 15 2691 Findings, Conclusions and Recommendations 2695 Introduction 2699 Environmental Setting 26911 Existing Data and Literature Review 26915 Data Collection Methods 26917 Survey Results 26919 Carrying Capacities 26939 Social Carrying Capacities 26948 River Use Conflicts 26953 Sanitation Problems 26955 Appendix A: Actual Use Observed by Section and for the Entire Study Area 26957 Appendix B: Number of People and Groups... Recreational Use and Carrying Capacity For the Klamath River by Bo Shelby K r i s t e n S t e i n Water Resources Research Institute Oregon S t a t e University C o r v a l l i s , Oregon W R R I - 9 2 Ju| y RECREATIONAL USE AND CARRYING CAPACITY FOR THE KLAMATH RIVER by Bo Shelby, Principal Investigator Kristen Stein, Research Assistant College of Forestry Oregon State University This report combines completion reports for two projects concerning recreational use of the Klamath River. These...
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Articles from "Food for Thought":
Transferring Reading Skills from Stevenson to Other Materials
Some students transfer automatically, others must be guided.
We are sometimes asked about the following situation. Students fail to learn to read after several years of instruction while using several different interventions. Then they are put into the Stevenson Program and they begin to read effectively and consistently. However, they do not transfer their skills to other materials. In these other materials, the students do not successfully read the same words they read frequently in Stevenson. If this has happened to your students, we have some simple solutions.
First, make sure your students are comfortable. Children who have previously failed often sometimes become attached to the specific book (in this case a Stevenson reading book) in which they read successfully. It is almost as if
Common Core Standards - Again
Most educators can't escape the issue
If you are tired of hearing about the common core standards, we don't blame you. However, the adoption, or lack of adoption, of the standards is affecting almost all public educators, at least to some extent. If you would like to know more about the relationship between the Stevenson Reading Program and the relevant Common Core Standards, you can click here to read more. If you would like a wider perspective, we recommend a recent issue of
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The Home Stretch
Making the most out of the last few weeks of school
Some schools systems will wrap up their academic year as soon as May 21, some will finish a full month later and most will finish in between those dates. Whether you have seven more weeks or only two, you still have time to do something important for your students – let them feel success.
Most of you reading this newsletter are working with struggling readers. By this point in the school year, it is clear what aspects of reading most confuse each student. If you are not using the Stevenson Program, you probably think it is too late to try Stevenson to alleviate a student's struggles. It is not. We can show you how. If you are already using Stevenson, you have probably found your students are doing quite well with most things, but still laboring with
Happy Holidays - Don't Forget Yourself
We wish you a wonderful holiday season. Teachers, who are often parents as well, are used to taking care of others, so don't forget - take care of yourself too. Get some rest. Have some fun.
How Are Your Students Enjoying Their Frosting? Sometimes Review Can Enhance the Taste.
Lessons 15 through 19 of the Basic Blue Core Manual establish a foundation for all the suffix work that is woven into the remainder of the Stevenson Program. While the essential concept of adding suffixes to words is reviewed several times at different points in the program, your instruction will proceed more smoothly if students really master Lessons 15-19 before covering much more of the Blue Level. Stevenson makes the whole process of adding suffixes easier to understand by making these phonics elements more concrete and more memorable. For example, students scrape off one kind of frosting from their layer cake words and then add a different flavor. However, if your students have very significant learning problems, the transition from single syllable (one-beat) words to two syllables (beats)
Common Core Standards and the Struggling Reader
In the Spring of 2013, we wrote an article about some of the teaching issues that arise when struggling readers encounter the Common Core Standards. Of course, we are not the only ones to have concerns in this area, and this topic is undoubtedly going to be an ongoing subject of discussion. Education Week recently published a multi-part report entitled, "Diverse Learners and the Common Core." You might be interested in the whole report, but we particularly liked the piece called "Common Core's Promise Collides with IEP Realities." In the article many educators seemed worried about cognitively impaired pupils in particular. However, some degree of conflict exists between the standards and the needs of any atypical learner. Consider dyslexic students, children with ADHD and pupils with auditory processing issues. They all require some amount of special instruction. We are not suggesting that high standards be abandoned, only that the standard bearers need to consider the needs of all learners. If you would like to check out the Education Week article, click here.
New Assessment Tool for Overlapping Strategy Now On Web Site
We recently posted a new, simple assessment tool that you can use with students who are following the Overlapping Strategy. This startegy is an approach to starting the Stevenson Program. It covers key information from the first level of the program and teaches it concurrently with the second level (thus "overlapping" the content of the two levels). The Overlapping Strategy is usually used with struggling readers at the upper elementary or middle/high school level - students who don't need to repeat letter level phonics, and who have at least a small amount of reading skill already. The assessments are simply a few word lists used to help you determine which phonics elements are most problematic for the student. Along with the lists and directions, you will find some suggestions for varying the pace and emphasis of your instruction as you move through the materials. This new teaching tool can be found under the "Teaching Resources" section of this website (fourth item), or you can simply click here and print it.
Common Core State Standards and the Stevenson Program
A national movement has been underway for several years now with a with a perfectly reasonable goal: to develop common core educational standards that will apply nationally, rather than have fifty different sets of standards from each state to which educators and publishers must adjust. These are intended to be minimum standards, not complete specifications for all curricula at all levels. They are also not intended to preclude local decision making.
All good intentions aside, however, the Common Core State Standards create some thorny issues. We won't try to weigh all the advantages and disadvantages of the CCSS in this article. However, we thought we would make a few points that might help teachers who are using, or want to start using, the
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A new school year is well underway, and if you work with struggling readers, there are bound to be new challenges. Perhaps you have different students than you expected, new records to keep, or a new schedule. If any of your problems involve implementing the Stevenson Reading Program in one way or another, do not forget that free consultation is available at 1-800-343-1211. Our office hours are M-F, 9-5 Eastern Time, and we are often in the office late. If a consultant is not available the moment you call, the office will make arrangements for a phone appointment. We are happy to help however we can.


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Virtualizing history: even Colonial Williamsburg needs the cloud
Summary: How America's first colonial capital cleared up its information storage bottlenecks.
Here's a disconnect. I just saw this piece about Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, implementing a virtualized, tiered storage pool to manage its information and content.
Yes, behind the blacksmithing and glass-blowing and butter-churning you see as part of the 18th-century technology on display, there is an infrastructure capable of supporting up to 100 TBs of raw storage, mainly rich media files.
David Vallente explains that the historical site -- which has 3,500 employees -- was overloading its tier 1 storage devices, creating disruptions in the ability of employees to store and access image files and documents. In fact, Colonial WIlliamsburg's 70 departments each had their own storage solutions.
The organization addressed this issue through a file virtualization approach, which created a centralized pooled storage for use by all departments. Colonial Williamsburg is also planning to deploy storage to cloud resources. Vallente urges the creation of global resource pools and automated data migration to meet growing data demands. And, he adds, "including the cloud in plans is timely and sensible, especially for mid-sized and small organizations that lack advanced recovery capabilities."
Patrick Henry and George Washington probably would have approved of the sensibility of managing information this way.
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