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Toasting the oats for this hearty muffin enhances their nutty flavor; orange zest contributes a citrus fragrance that plays well with the sweet dates.
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Calories | 252 |
Total Fat | 9g |
Saturated Fat | 2g |
Cholesterol | 36mg |
Sodium | 194mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 40g |
Dietary Fiber | -- |
Sugars | -- |
Protein | 6g |
Calcium | 0 |
Serves: 10
Total Time: 55 min
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- 1 cup(s) old-fashioned oats
- 1/3 cup(s) chopped walnuts (optional)
- 1 cup(s) whole-wheat flour
- 3/4 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup(s) whole flaxseeds, ground
- 2 teaspoon(s) baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt
- 2 large eggs
- 2/3 cup(s) packed light brown sugar
- 3/4 cup(s) buttermilk (see Tip)
- 1/2 cup(s) orange juice
- 1/4 cup(s) canola oil
- 2 tablespoon(s) freshly grated orange zest
- 1 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup(s) chopped pitted dates
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Coat 12 muffin cups with cooking spray.
- Spread 1 cup oats and the walnuts, if using, in 2 separate small baking pans. Bake, stirring once or twice, until light golden and fragrant, 4 to 6 minutes for the nuts and 8 to 10 minutes for the oats. Transfer to a plate to cool.
- Meanwhile, whisk whole-wheat flour, all-purpose flour, flaxseeds, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl.
- Whisk eggs and brown sugar in a medium bowl until smooth. Whisk in buttermilk, orange juice, oil, orange zest and vanilla. Add to the dry ingredients and mix with a rubber spatula just until moistened. Fold in dates, the toasted oats and nuts, if using. Scoop batter into the prepared muffin cups (they'll be quite full). Sprinkle the tops with the remaining 2 tablespoons oats.
- Bake the muffins until the tops are golden brown and spring back when touched lightly, 15 to 25 minutes. Let cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Loosen edges and turn muffins out onto a wire rack to cool slightly before serving.
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There's a lot of buzz going around from one USA political campaign arguing that the other side is launching a "war on women."
Whether you agree with this analysis or you feel it's a case of political hand-waving, the truth is that historically, women have often gotten the short end of the stick.
This was very much the case during the time of Jesus.
Interestingly, Jesus treated women differently than any other Jewish teacher of His day. Women played a prominent role in His ministry.
The following bulleted list unpacks that statement. It will give you a peak into how Christ viewed women during His earthy life, and how He views them today . . . for He is "the same yesterday, today and forever."
It must first be said that women in Jesus' day were treated pretty poorly both by the Jewish and Roman world.
They could not receive an education. They had no voice in their marriage, and they were limited to a special court in the Temple that was inferior to that of the men.
A Jewish man was not supposed to talk to a woman in public. If he did, it was considered a shame. Jewish women were to be seen in public as little as possible.
The prevailing view of women in the Jewish mind was that they were regarded as private property.
But Jesus of Nazareth turned all of this on its head.
In the following list, I'm deliberately not giving the Scripture references. The reason is because I want to challenge you to re-read the Gospels, and as you read, ask what role women played in the life and ministry of Jesus.
By doing so, you will see each point below emerge in the narrative.
A Survey of Women in the Gospels
- Elizabeth and Mary (not Zachariah and Joseph) were the first to receive the news of the coming Messiah. They were also the first to prophesy about the Christ child.
- The prophetess Anna helped pave the way for the coming of the Messiah, preparing those who were waiting for His arrival.
- Jesus came into the world through the womb of a woman. For this reason Mary, the mother of Jesus, is among the most beloved, honored, and respected women who ever lived. She shows us just how vital women are to God's eternal plan.
- It was unheard of for women to be listed in a Jewish genealogy. But the Gospels add women in the genealogy of Jesus.
- Jesus was introduced to Israel by John the Baptist as "the bridegroom." God, therefore, chose a woman – a bride — to depict that which Jesus came to the earth to die for.
- Jesus spoke to a Samaritan woman in public and told her some of the most amazing things about God that He ever shared with anyone. The disciples were shocked that He spoke to her in public. Not just because she was a woman, but because she was a Samaritan. Jews weren't supposed to speak to Samaritans.
- Jesus often used women in His parables and made them heroes. Think of the widow and her mite, the woman and the lost coin, the persistent widow and the unjust judge, the ten virgins with oil in their lamps, etc.
- Jesus allowed a "sinful woman" (which many believe to have been a prostitute) to kiss His feet. She also unbound her hair which was a scandalous gesture in that day. Yet Jesus allowed her to love Him extravagantly in the house of a Pharisee.
- Jesus allowed an unclean woman to touch Him. As a result, she was healed.
- Jesus became the defense attorney to a woman caught in the act of adultery. As a result, her life was saved.
- Jesus healed the daughter of a persistent Gentile woman and gave her one of the highest compliments He paid anyone. Her faith was peerless in His eyes.
- Jesus is said to have "loved" two women who lived in the little village of Bethany (Mary and Martha) along with their brother Lazarus. Mary and Martha were among Jesus' closest disciples and were probably the most prominent women in His life, next to His mother.
- Jesus entered into a woman's home (Martha) and taught another woman (Mary) specifically, along with His other disciples. For a Jewish teacher to come into a woman's house to teach was unheard of.
- Jesus allowed a woman (Mary of Bethany) to sit at His feet and learn from Him. To sit at a person's feet was to take the posture of a disciple. So Jesus allowed Mary to learn from Him the same way that He allowed His male disciples to learn from Him. Jesus allowed Mary to take up the space that was only designated for men (this is why Martha objected so strongly).
- Jesus said that Mary of Bethany would be mentioned and remembered wherever the gospel would be preached. An amazing honor. This was after Mary anointed His body for burial with a rare and expensive perfume.
- Jesus defended a woman on two occasions when her act of love and devotion were ridiculed and rebuked. Mary of Bethany was rebuked by her sister Martha and later by Judas and the other disciples. In both cases, Jesus rose to Mary's defense.
- A group of women followed Jesus along with the Twelve. They also took care of His needs out of their substance. This group of female disciples are called "the women" by Luke in the Gospels and in Acts. Jesus was the first Jewish teacher to have women disciples. And for a Jewish woman to leave her home and travel with a Jewish teacher was not only exotically rare, but it was considered scandalous.
- Jesus spent His last week on earth (before His resurrection) in the home of a woman. He stayed with Mary, Martha, and Lazarus in Martha's home in Bethany.
- Jesus' female disciples stayed with Jesus during His death, proving themselves to be more faithful than most of His male disciples. With the exception of John, Jesus' male disciples deserted Him during His darkest hour.
- Jesus' female disciples were the first to show up at His tomb to care for His body.
- The first eyes that witnessed the resurrected Christ were the eyes of a woman (Mary Magdalene). Ironically, during the first century, a woman's testimony was of no use in a court of law. Yet God in His wisdom allowed a woman to be the first witness to the greatest miracle ever accomplished.
- In the whole of Jesus' public ministry there was nothing in His words or deeds that indicated any concern to restrict the spiritual service of women.
Key Take-Aways
Jesus came into a world where the cards were stacked against women. The ways in which He engaged, conversed, healed, and recognized them in His teachings were radical for His culture, but they were second nature to Jesus.
The Son of God was keenly aware that the image of God was both male and female (hearkening back to Genesis 1), and His life and ministry reflected that awareness.
Remember, Jesus is the human face of God. So His opinion of women reflects God's opinion of them.
Consequently, anytime women are oppressed or suppressed on the planet, the Lord would seek to the liberate them.
Jesus is the greatest liberator in the universe. And freeing women to their God-given callings is one of the things He does best.
Among other things, this would include the following:
- In the spirit of Mary Magdalene — the first woman to set eyes on the resurrected Christ – women are free to testify to the good news of Jesus and His resurrection.
- In the spirit of Mary – the mother of Jesus – women are free to fulfill God's will and calling, saying "be it unto me according to your Word."
- In the spirit of Mary of Bethany, women are free to worship Jesus Christ extravagantly. And they are free to sit at His feet as disciples, along with His male followers.
- In the spirit of Anna, women are free to prophesy by the Holy Spirit. In this way, women are called to serve as spiritual priests along with men because they are part of the priesthood of all believers and they too possess the Spirit.
- In the spirit of the Canaanite woman who persisted in her request for Jesus to heal her daughter, women are free to press into the Kingdom of God and wrestle with God until they receive His blessing.
- In the spirit of the women who traveled with Jesus – Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Susanna, and others – women are free to follow the Lord wherever He goes and serve Him out of their substance.
- In the spirit of the Samaritan woman whom Jesus met at Jacob's well, women are free to pioneer evangelism and church planting initiatives.
The call to follow Jesus as a full-fledged disciple and the call to serve God goes out to all women just as it does to all men.


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The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $12.4 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study the predictors of smoking patterns from adolescence through young adulthood.
The grant builds on previous research conducted at UIC to better understand why some kids try cigarettes and quit, while others go on to become regular smokers.
The project will follow approximately 1,200 Chicago-area youth, first identified during mid-adolescence, who are now entering young adulthood -- the period of highest risk for establishing smoking and dependence, said Robin Mermelstein, professor of psychology and director of UIC's Institute for Health Research and Policy.
"We have a large group of individuals who we started to follow when they were in 9th and 10th grade," Mermelstein said. "Now they are transitioning into young adulthood, when there are multiple risks that they are encountering, such as tobacco use, increased alcohol use and a variety of other risky behaviors that may make them more vulnerable to developing a whole host of negative health outcomes."
Rates of smoking among adolescents have declined, but unfortunately, not fast enough, according to Mermelstein.
Recent studies have shown that in 2008, almost 45 percent of high school seniors smoked during the preceding 30 days, and 11 percent smoked daily.
The multi-level study will focus on the social and emotional contexts that may influence smoking and explore genetic markers for the development of dependence.
The researchers want to track the young adults in their day-to-day lives to find out how they are feeling, to learn what tobacco advertising they are exposed to, and to assess how their social lives and perceived pressures change in this very transitional time, according to Mermelstein, principal investigator of the study.
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LAKEWOOD RANCH — It's taken six years, but Living Lord Lutheran Church finally has broken ground on an expansion to its existing building.
Church members and leadership celebrated July 19 with a special ground breaking event for the new 3,500-square-foot expansion, which will provide more space for worship and fellowship.
"It's been an exciting process," Pastor Jeff Gross said. "This is the (design) that feels right. The church is the people, and the place where the people come together. It has to be a hospitable place — a place that gives glory to God. This building will serve the people best."
Instead of building from scratch, church leaders have opted to utilize the existing structure and add to it. Pews will be removed from the existing sanctuary, converting it into a fellowship area. The new sanctuary will be built attached to it, extending northward and adjoining to the existing sanctuary space.
The church's stained-glass windows will be removed during construction and incorporated into the new worship area.
The design features a joint use of worship and fellowship, which provides an overflow area for guests if the sanctuary becomes too crowded. It also will allow the church to host wedding receptions, funerals or other events as well as more meetings for local charities and organizations.
"We like to be able to serve the community," Gross said. "We have meetings here almost every night — Alcoholics Anonymous, Boy Scouts, Manasota BUDS. Church isn't here just to serve itself but the community."
Gross said the expansion, expected to be finished before Thanksgiving, will not be the church's last. Eventually, he and others hope to expand and upgrade the church's kitchen facilities, create more office space, add a gymnasium and expand the youth ministry.
"This (project) really has challenged us to move beyond our comfort zone," Gross said. "It's also a realization of how blessed we are."
The church's first expansion about six years ago included an education building for Sunday school and the preschool that meets at the church.
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As the first church in Lakewood Ranch, Living Lord Lutheran Church has assisted several churches as they started up, including Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church, Pastor Jeff Gross said.
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I would like to repair an older Kohler tub/shower that is dripping. I have removed the handles (plastic tulip-shaped, by the way), unscrewed the escutcheon/valve extension combo, and now am looking at the yoke with stems. I cannot figure out how the stems are retained in the yoke. Any ideas how to remove them? Thank you. |
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i've had faint sulfur smells on the last few batches i've made with various belgian strains. but on each one, i had about 10 days in primary and 14 days in secondary before kegging. the beers were excellent within 5 days after kegging, with no sulfur.
I added about 5 cups of watermelon juice to a kolsch yesterday. I racked the beer on top of the juice in secondary. Its been over 24 hours and I have no sings of fermentation. I thought it would have re-started rather quickly.... Hmmmm. I guess just give it some time.
I used Wyeast American Wheat yeast and I had quite a sulfury smell.. When I racked onto the watermelon it smelled a little sulfury still but I think after the recommended secondary it should fade.. I wouldn't worry..
I've been getting requests for this one for some time now. How are the watermelons you guys are getting. I thought they weren't really in season for another month or so.
Well when I made mine the watermelons I got were tiny but now I see normal watermelons being sold everywhere...
Just bottled mine today... The sample taste was a nice wheat that finished with a strong watermelon flavor... I can't wait until it's carbed up.. Going to be great!!
I brewed my first ever 10 gallon batch of this yesterday. I have my daughters graduation party coming up at the end of July and SWMBO insisted I do 10 gallons. Things went well and both carboys are bubbling away as I type. I wish I would have re read the thread first as I probably would have through in some Carapils for the heck of it. I think I'll add the extract on this batch to at least one of the kegs for a little taste test comparison.
Ya this beer is a huge hit with the ladies ill be making it again, no doubt. That extract is some potent stuff it doesn't take much, but I'm sure u probably know that.


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Form 2 sandwiches with the bread and chocolate. Transfer to a hot panini press or waffle iron and cook until the bread is golden and the chocolate has melted, 2 to 3 minutes. (Alternatively, cook the sandwiches in a hot grill pan, turning once and pressing down frequently.)
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Well inside it is all loose wire. I just had some 14/2 Romex laying around so cut it up into sizes I needed. You could've just as easily used wire off a spool or whatever. Keep in mind the designation 14/2 actually means "2 14 gauge wires and a ground" so there are three wires in the cable when you cut it open. It might be hard to see in the picture but there is actually a bare ground running around in that pile of wires. The wire diagram, even as crudely as I drew it, helps show what goes where though and shouldn't be all that hard to follow. I'm actually replacing my Love controller this weekend so if you want better pics I can lay things out while it is open and snap some.
That would be great if you had some pictures. The diagram made sense to me except for the neutral wires. I think I better read some basic manual on electrical wiring. If I need to I guess I can just strip out that 14/3 to get what I need as long as I know which wires are hot, ground and neutral.
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What sort of heat source are you all using? Just a light bulb with a clip on shade? I am storing this thing in my root cellar in North Carolina. Am I going to get incredible electrical bills during the winter if I set to 70 F to carb my bottles?
I use a clamp on lamp with a 60w ceramic "bulb" heating element in it. Cheap, easy to setup and works well enough for where I use it.
I am building today and when I cut open one of the 14 gauge wires from the 3/14 wire I purchased there are just many strands of what appear to be copper wire. All the wiring diagrams I see online show a single wire inside the insulation. Am I using the wrong type of wire? I feel like this is dangerous b/c it is so tough to get all those little strands of wire connected directly against the outlets.
Should be a solid wire. I wouldn't use anything but solid wire for internals like that. What kind of wire is it and were did you get it from? I just have some Romex (14/2 NM-B) laying around that I strip what I need out of. The benefit of that is the wires are all color coded where if you had just a spool of 14 gauge wire it wouldn't be.


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This is a discussion on Random Thoughts within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Originally Posted by QKShooter Our one park gets completely covered with Goose crap. I don't take my dog there anymore. Watch out for that Goose ...
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
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We have geese everywhere...right up until goose hunting season.
During goose hunting season and for quite awhile after...they get real timid and maintain a very low profile.
Then, they figure it all out and play billy bad ass in the parking lot...right up to hunting season.
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Basically, there are two priorities when using a software component, particularly a 3D modeling kernel:
As a developer for 3D ACIS Modeler, I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make 3D ACIS Modeler faster and, at the same time, more correct. Conventional wisdom often laughs at people who try to compromise correctness for speed: if there is a mathematically right answer, that's always what you should get.
On the other hand, there is a point where if an operation is too slow it is useless. For example, a faceting algorithm that took 2 hours to facet a sphere would be pretty much useless. Interactive applications push this idea even further. If you want to call an API every time the end user drags their mouse on the screen, the API speed limits your frame rate. To achieve 10 fps, you need the API to take less time that .1 sec. With the computer power that is available today, there are some amazing things CAD applications can do (e.g., the pull operation in SpaceClaim Corporation). ACIS is driven by our customers. This blog was prompted by a project Matthias and I are doing in R25 to make entity-entity distance interactive.
So how can we make 3d more interactive? I have a couple of ideas, but I'd love to hear yours as well:
The idea for this post started on Aug 11, 2011, when I read Gregg's post about choosing a scripting language for 3DScript, the CGM interactive test bed. That article had a lot of good ideas, but I feel like it kind of missed the point regarding Lisp/Scheme/Functional Programming. He used a do loop to try to make the point that the syntax is rather goofy. The reason scheme came up at all is that it is used as a scripting language for acis3dt.exe our 3D ACIS Modeler Test application.
I actually agree that the syntax for a do loop is goofy. However, learning about Lisp (and the lispy features of perl, see http://hop.perl.plover.com/) has made me a much better programmer than I would otherwise be. In some ways, this thesis is older than the hills. To illustrate this, Google various subjects surrounding Lisp, Functional Programming, etc., for example, map-reduce. When I talk with other programmers, I get the feeling that the message bears repeating.So please bear with me while I sketch a few specifics. Also, feel free to add your own in the comments:
- Writing programs as compositions of simple (but high order functions), makes it much easier to reason about them:- There are a few functional programming clichés that often help in dramatically speeding things up - Memoization - Make the algorithm lazy
- The literature on Lisp has lots of discussion about how you can convert between recursion and iteration.
A common anti-pattern in legacy code is monolithic and large functions which give a detailed to do list. Typically, I end up extracting functions from the huge monster, turning them into classes, and then parameterizing their behavior. This is really almost the same thing as taking a code snippet, making a closure over the variables you need to encapsulate, etc.C/C++ still tends to be ubiquitous because:(a) So many system libraries are written in C or C++(b) Well written C++ can be very fastHowever, C-style languages don't lend themselves to simple and concise reasoning about code. If there were a well-established Lisp with a good linker, it might eat C's lunch.
Here's a cartoon on the subject http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lisp.jpg
What do you think?
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The R24 release of 3D InterOp is now available for download. Although they are available online, not everyone pours over the 3D InterOp Release Notes for R24 like we might hope. What follows is a shorter summary of what's new in 3D InterOp Suite R24. The description of what's new falls into three areas; new products, functional enhancements, and platform changes.Addressing the first, 'new products' area, several additions are included in the R24 release of 3D InterOp. 3D InterOp Graphical now provides the ability to import Solid Edge files. In addition, the new Solid Edge Reader Component allows the import of product structure or exact geometry. The Solid Edge Reader Component is also available as a Direct translator or a Parasolid kernel-based translator. Still on the subject of expanded graphical import, the STEP Graphical Component in 3D InterOp now supports importing graphical PMI from STEP files.Beyond data translation, many applications have a need to publish graphical data. 3D InterOp Graphical now provides support for writing 3D PDF files. This provides an easy way to distribute 3D information to an audience using the ubiquitous Adobe PDF Reader.The second area describes the functional enhancements in the R24 release. This is by far the largest area with significant enhancements to every translator. As with each release, 3D InterOp R24 includes faster performance for every translator, especially for large multi-body parts. By leveraging the benefits of multi-processing, most applications should see up to 40% faster translation.One of the unique characteristics of 3D InterOp translators is the ability to import the various data types as independent chapters of a book. Applications can selectively access product structure, graphical data, geometry, or PMI information. This offers tremendous flexibility to application developers. However, once an application imports data, R24 provides the ability to associate information between these different 'data buckets'. For example, applications can relate PMI information with the Geometry that's associated with a given GEOMTOL. Or functionality can be presented which allows a user to associate (or link) the graphical display with the associated PMI information highlighted. In other words, this new functionality provides full associativity with owning model geometry and datum / datum targets enabling the applications to walk from graphical PMI to semantic PMI similar to originating source CAD system.
Figure 1: Linking between Graphical PMI and Mechanical/Semantic PMI
Several of the translators now allow the import of materials properties. Material properties could include name, density, or strength. This is now supported in the CATIA V5, NX, Creo, SolidWorks, and Inventor Reader Components. For even more flexibility, the CATIA V5, NX, Creo, and SolidWorks Reader Components now support User Defined Attributes (UDA). This allows applications to import custom name and value pairs.Although platform changes are not the biggest news, they tend to affect the largest number of users. Mac OS X has changed significantly for this release. The product is now available as 64-bit binaries with the architecture name 'macos_a64'. This new 64-bit support replaces the previous 32-bit support. Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 support was upgraded to Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 (SP1). Additionally, 3D InterOp now supports the Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 32-bit compiler and Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 64-bit compiler on the Windows 32/64-bit (excluding Windows XP) operating systems.R24 marks the beginning of depreciation for the gcc 4.1.2 (RHEL 4.0 OS), VS 2005 for (Microsoft Windows), and IBM VisualAge C++ 10.1 (Microsoft Windows) compilers. R24 is the last version that supports Windows Vista, Windows XP, as well as the VS 2008 compiler.Hopefully, this overview has piqued your curiosity to learn more about the R24 release of 3D InterOp Suite. The best resource to see more detail is the 3D InterOp Release Notes for R24. There's also an excellent on-demand webinar 3D InterOp R24 - Much More Than Just Reading Data hosted by Vivekan Iyengar, Director of Product Development for Spatial.
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Original title page | |
Author | L. Frank Baum |
Illustrator | W. W. Denslow |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | The Oz Books |
Genre | Fantasy Children's novel |
Publisher | George M. Hill Company |
Publication date | May 17, 1900 |
Followed by | The Marvelous Land of Oz |
Original title page | |
Author | L. Frank Baum |
Illustrator | W. W. Denslow |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | The Oz Books |
Genre | Fantasy Children's novel |
Publisher | George M. Hill Company |
Publication date | May 17, 1900 |
Followed by | The Marvelous Land of Oz |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900, it has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of both the popular 1902 Broadway musical and the well-known 1939 film adaptation.
The story chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz, after being swept away from her Kansas farm home in a cyclone.[nb 1] The novel is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. Its initial success, and the success of the 1902 Broadway musical which Baum adapted from his original story, led to Baum's writing thirteen more Oz books. The original book has been in the public domain in the US since 1956.
Baum dedicated the book "to my good friend & comrade, My Wife", Maud Gage Baum. In January 1901, George M. Hill Company, the publisher, completed printing the first edition, which totaled 10,000 copies.
Born on May 16, 1856, in a frame house in Chittenango, New York, Lyman Frank Baum was the seventh child of Cynthia Stanton and Benjamin Ward Baum, an affluent oil baron.[1] Raised in Rose Lawn, the Baum country property on the outskirts of Syracuse, Baum had a sheltered upbringing. As a child, he was extremely bashful and was diagnosed with a deficient heart.[2][3] Baum spent considerable time playing with his imaginary friends and reading books.[3] When he was 15 years old, he and Harry, a younger brother, produced The Rose Lawn Home Journal.[4] When he was 18 years old, Baum spent much time around local theaters and hoped to pursue acting. Though his father initially opposed his dream he later capitulated. Baum traveled through different states and worked at various jobs to support his acting career.[5][nb 2]
In 1882, Baum married Maud Gage, daughter of suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage. His new mother-in-law believed that Baum was idealistic and wrote in a letter that he was "a perfect baby". However, she encouraged him to put to paper the many tales he had related to his sons for many years. Maud Gage, a practical woman, served as a foil to Baum. She was consistent and wary of their finances, complementing her husband, an imaginative dreamer.[3]
Despite his reputation for being a progressive thinker because of his support for women's suffrage and writing the story "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" with a female protagonist, Baum wrote numerous racist remarks about Native Americans. While he lived in Aberdeen, South Dakota, he wrote a column for their newspaper called "Our Landlady" and made fun of the practices of the Lakota and Sioux tribes. He previously claimed that bigotry was intolerable, but his writings show otherwise. He was later concerned about the town of Aberdeen's being invaded by the Natives, still afraid of another incident like the Battle of the Little Bighorn fourteen years after it happened.[6]
The book was published by George M. Hill Company. Its first edition had a printing of 10,000 copies and was sold in advance of the publication date of September 1, 1900. On May 17, 1900, the first copy of the book came off the press; Baum assembled it by hand and presented it to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster. The public saw the book for the first time at a book fair at the Palmer House in Chicago, July 5–20. The book's copyright was registered on August 1; full distribution followed in September.[7] By October 1900, the first edition had already sold out and the second edition of 15,000 copies was nearly depleted.[8]
In a letter to his brother Harry, Baum wrote that the book's publisher, George M. Hill, predicted a sale of about 250,000 copies. In spite of this favorable conjecture, Hill did not initially predict the book would be phenomenally successful. He agreed to publish the book only when the manager of the Grand Opera House, Fred R. Hamlin, committed to making The Wizard of Oz into a musical stage play to publicize the novel. The play The Wizard of Oz debuted on June 16, 1902, at Hamlin's Grand Opera House. It was revised to suit adult preferences and was crafted as a "musical extravaganza". The music was written by Paul Tietjens and the costumes were modeled after Denslow's drawings. Anna Laughlin starred as Dorothy, Dave Montgomery was the Tin Woodman, and Fred Stone was the Scarecrow. Montgomery and Stone immediately became stars, with the Chicago Tribune's printing pictures of the two in their costumes and stating, "To Montgomery and Stone, The Tribune awards the honors of pioneers in original comedy."[9] After Hill's publishing company became bankrupt in 1901, Baum and Denslow agreed to have the Indianapolis-based Bobbs-Merrill Company resume publishing the novel.[9]
Baum's son Harry Neal told the Chicago Tribune in 1944 that L. Frank told his children "whimsical stories before they became material for his books". Harry called his father the "swellest man I knew", a man who was able to give a decent reason as to why black birds cooked in a pie could afterwards get out and sing.[10]
By 1938, over one million copies of the book had been printed.[11] Less than two decades later, in 1956, the sales of his novel grew to 3 million copies in print.[9]
Dorothy is a young orphaned girl raised by her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in the bleak landscape of a Kansas farm. She has a little black dog Toto, who is her sole source of happiness on the dry, gray prairies. One day, Dorothy and Toto are caught up in a cyclone inside their farmhouse which was deposited in a field in Munchkin Country, the eastern quadrant of the Land of Oz. The falling house kills the evil ruler of the Munchkins, the Wicked Witch of the East, for which the Munchkins are extremely grateful.
The Good Witch of the North comes with the Munchkins to greet Dorothy and gives Dorothy the Silver Shoes (believed to have magical properties) that the Wicked Witch of the East had been wearing when she was killed. In order to return to Kansas, the Good Witch of the North tells Dorothy that she will have to go to the "Emerald City" or "City of Emeralds" and ask the Wizard of Oz to help her. Before she leaves, the Good Witch of the North kisses her on the forehead, giving her magical protection from trouble.
On her way down the road of yellow bricks, Dorothy frees the Scarecrow from the pole on which he is hanging, applies oil from a can to the rusted connections of the Tin Woodman, and encourages the two of them, including the Cowardly Lion, to journey with her and Toto to the Emerald City. The Scarecrow wants to get a brain, the Tin Woodman wants a heart, and the Cowardly Lion wants courage. All four of the travelers believe that the Wizard can solve their troubles. The party finds many adventures on their journey, including overcoming obstacles such as gaps in the yellow brick road, vicious kalidahs (beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tigers), a river, and a field of deadly poppies.
When the travelers arrive at the Emerald City, they are asked by the Guardian of the Gates to wear green spectacles as long as they remain in the city. The four are the first to ever meet the Wizard. He appears to each of them as someone or something different. Dorothy sees the Wizard as a giant head, Scarecrow sees the Wizard as a beautiful woman, Tin Woodman sees the Wizard as a terrible beast, and the Cowardly Lion sees the Wizard as a ball of fire. The Wizard agrees to help them each the Wicked Witch of the West, who rules over the western Winkie Country, is killed. The Guardian of the Gates warns them that no one has ever managed to harm the very cunning and cruel Wicked Witch.
As the friends travel across the Winkie Country, the Wicked Witch can see them coming and sends forces to kill them. First, she sends her 40 great wolves and the Tin Woodman manages to kill them all with his axe. Second, she then sends her 40 crows to peck their eyes out and the Scarecrow manages to kill them by breaking their necks. Third, she summons a swarm of black bees to sting them but the Tin Woodman serves as a buffer sitting atop the Scarecrow's extra straw that hide the other three. Fourth, she has her Winkie soldiers attack them but the Cowardly Lion's stance repeals them. Finally, she uses the power of the Golden Cap to have the winged monkeys capture Dorothy, Toto and the Cowardly Lion, and immobilize the others by un-stuffing the Scarecrow and denting the Tin Woodman. This plan is successful and the survivors are carried to the Witch.
The Wicked Witch forces Dorothy to do housework for the castle, all the while scheming to steal Dorothy's magical shoes. The Lion is locked up without food until he will submit to being a pack animal; Dorothy sneaks him food at night.
The Wicked Witch tricks Dorothy out of one of her silver shoes and Dorothy in anger throws at the Wicked Witch a bucket of water. Dorothy is shocked to see the Witch melt away. The Winkies rejoice at being freed of the witch's tyranny and they help restuff the Scarecrow and mend the Tin Woodman. The Winkies love the Tin Woodman, and they ask him to become their ruler, which he agrees to do after helping Dorothy return to Kansas.
Dorothy, after finding and learning how to use the Golden Cap, summons the Winged Monkeys to carry her and her companions back to the Emerald City. The King of the Winged Monkeys tells how he and the other monkeys were bound by an enchantment to the cap by the sorceress Gayelette.
When Dorothy and her friends meet the Wizard of Oz again, he tries to put them off but Toto accidentally tips over a screen in a corner of the throne room where hides the Wizard. He is found to an ordinary old man who, by a hot air balloon, long ago came to Oz from Omaha and has longed to return to his home and again work in a circus.
The Wizard provides the Scarecrow with a head full of bran, pins, and needles ("a lot of bran-new brains"), the Tin Woodman with a silk heart stuffed with sawdust, and the Cowardly Lion a potion of "courage". Their faith in the Wizard's power gives these otherwise useless items a focus for their desires. In order to help Dorothy and Toto get home, the Wizard realizes that he will have to take them home with him as he has been growing tired of being cooped up all the time, and wanting to return to circus work. He and Dorothy make from green silk a new balloon.
At the send off he reveals himself to the people of the Emerald City one last time and appoints the Scarecrow, by virtue of his brains, to rule in his stead. Dorothy goes after Toto as he chases a kitten in the crowd. She attempts to return to the balloon, the tethers break, and the Wizard floats away.
Dorothy turns to the Winged Monkeys to carry her and Toto home, but they cannot cross the desert surrounding Oz, subsequently wasting her second wish. The Soldier with the Green Whiskers advises that Glinda, Good Witch of the South, may be able to help Dorothy and Toto get home. Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion journey to Glinda's palace in the Quadling Country. Together they escape the Fighting Trees, tread carefully through the China Country where they meet Mr. Joker, and dodge the armless Hammer-Heads on their hill. The Cowardly Lion kills a giant spider who is terrorizing the animals in a forest and he agrees to return there to rule them after Dorothy returns to Kansas. Dorothy uses her third wish to fly over the Hammer-Heads' mountain, almost losing Toto in the process.
At Glinda's palace, the travelers are greeted warmly, and it is revealed by Glinda that Dorothy had the power to go home all along. The Silver Shoes she wears can take her anywhere she wishes to go. She tearfully embraces her friends, all of whom will be returned, through Glinda's use of the Golden Cap, to their respective kingdoms: the Scarecrow to the Emerald City, the Tin Woodman to the Winkie Country, and the Cowardly Lion to the forest. Then she will give the Golden Cap to the King of the Winged Monkeys, so they will never be under its spell again. Having bid her friends farewell one final time, Dorothy knocks her heels together three times and wishes to return home. When she opens her eyes, Dorothy and Toto have returned to Kansas to a joyful family reunion.
The book was illustrated by Baum's friend and collaborator W. W. Denslow, who also co-held the copyright. The design was lavish for the time, with illustrations on many pages, backgrounds in different colors, and several color plate illustrations.[citation needed] In September 1900, The Grand Rapids Herald wrote that Denslow's illustrations are "quite as much of the story as in the writing". The editorial opined that had it not been for Denslow's pictures, the readers would be unable to picture precisely the figures of Dorothy, Toto, and the other characters.[12]
The distinctive look led to imitators at the time, most notably Eva Katherine Gibson's Zauberlinda, the Wise Witch, which mimicked both the typography and the illustration design of Oz.[13] The typeface was the newly designed Monotype Old Style. Denslow's illustrations were so well known that merchants of many products obtained permission to use them to promote their wares. The forms of the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, the Wizard, and Dorothy were made into rubber and metal sculptures. Costume jewelry, mechanical toys, and soap were also designed using their figures.[14]
A new edition of the book appeared in 1944, with illustrations by Evelyn Copelman.[15] Although it was claimed that the new illustrations were based on Denslow's originals, they more closely resemble the characters as seen in the famous 1939 film version of Baum's book, starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, and Bert Lahr.[16]
Baum explores the theme of self-contradiction in The Wizard of Oz.[17] The Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion all lack self-confidence. The Scarecrow believes that he has no brains, though he comes up with clever solutions to several problems that they encounter on their journey. The Tin Woodman believes that he lacks a heart, but is moved to tears when misfortune befalls the various creatures they meet. The Cowardly Lion believes that he has no courage even though he is consistently brave through their journey. Carl L. Bankston III of Salem Press noted that "These three characters embody the classical human virtues of intelligence, caring, and courage, but their self-doubts keep them from being reduced to mere symbols of these qualities."[17]
By the end of the novel, the characters attain self-fulfillment when they have met their objectives. To convince the characters they have the qualities they desire, the Wizard places an amalgamation of bran, pins, and needles in the Scarecrow's head to inspire intellect; gives a silk heart to the Tin Woodman to inspire love; and a drink to the Cowardly Lion to inspire bravery.[17]
The character of the wizard supports the theme of self-belief and how important it is. Dorothy and her companions believed the wizard to be powerful and even when they found out that he wasn't, they continued to ask him to grant them their wishes. Baum biographer Rebecca Loncraine points out that the story is a critique of power and shows how "easily people who lack belief in themselves can become willing participants in the deceptions practiced by manipulative figures who rule over them" [18]
Baum acknowledged the influence of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, which he was deliberately revising in his "American fairy tales" to include the wonder without the horrors.[19]
Local legend has it that Oz, also known as The Emerald City, was inspired by a prominent castle-like building in the community of Castle Park near Holland, Michigan where Baum summered. The yellow brick road was derived from a road at that time paved by yellow bricks. These bricks were found in Peekskill, New York where Baum attended the Peekskill Military Academy. Baum scholars often reference the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (the "White City") as an inspiration for the Emerald City. Other legends allude that the inspiration came from the Hotel Del Coronado near San Diego, California. Baum was a frequent guest at the hotel, and had written several of the Oz books there.[20] In a 1903 interview with Publishers Weekly,[3] Baum said that the name "OZ" came from his file cabinet labeled "O-Z".[21]
Another influence lay in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. A September 1900 review in the Grand Rapids Herald called The Wonderful Wizard of Oz a "veritable Alice in Wonderland brought up to the present day standard of juvenile literature".[12] Although Baum found Carroll's plots incoherent, he identified their source of popularity as Alice herself, a child with whom the child readers could identify; this influenced his choice of a protagonist.[19] Baum was also influenced by Carroll's belief that children's books should have many pictures and be pleasurable reads. Carroll rejected the Victorian-era ideology that children's books should be saturated with morals, instead believing that children should be allowed to be children. Building on Carroll's style of numerous images accompanying the text, Baum amalgamated the conventional features of a fairy tale (witches and wizards) with the well-known things in his readers' lives (scarecrows and cornfields).[22]
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is considered the first American fairy tale because of its references to clear American locations like Kansas and Omaha. While agreeing with authors like Carroll about fantasy literature and its importance for children along with numerous illustrations, Baum also wanted to create a story that had recognizable American elements in it like farming and industrialization.[23]
Many of the characters, props, and ideas in the novel were drawn from Baum's experiences. As a child, Baum frequently had nightmares of a scarecrow pursuing him across a field. Moments before the scarecrow's "ragged hay fingers" nearly gripped his neck, it would fall apart before his eyes. Decades later as an adult, Baum integrated his tormentor into the novel as the Scarecrow.[24] According to his son Harry, the Tin Woodman was born from Baum's attraction to window displays. Because he wished to make something captivating for the window displays, he used an eclectic assortment of scraps to craft a striking figure. From a washboiler he made a body, from bolted stovepipes he made arms and legs, and from the bottom of a saucepan he made a face. Baum then placed a funnel hat on the figure, which ultimately became the Tin Woodman.[25] John D. Rockefeller was the nemesis of Baum's father, an oil baron who declined to purchase Standard Oil shares in exchange for selling his own oil refinery. Baum scholar Evan I. Schwartz posited that Rockefeller inspired one of the Wizard of Oz's numerous faces. In one scene in the novel, the Wizard is seen as a "tyrannical, hairless head". When Rockefeller was 54 years old, the medical condition alopecia caused him to lose every strand of hair on his head, making people fearful of speaking to him.[26]
In the early 1880s, when Baum's play Matches was being performed, a "flicker from a kerosene lantern sparked the rafters", causing the Baum opera house to be consumed by flames. Scholar Evan I. Schwartz posited that this may have inspired the Scarecrow's severest terror: "There is only one thing in the world I am afraid of. A lighted match."[27]
In 1890, while Baum lived in Aberdeen which was experiencing a drought, he wrote a witty story in his "Our Landlady" column in Aberdeen's The Saturday Pioneer.[28] The story was about a farmer who gave green goggles to his horses, causing them to believe that the wood chips they were eating were pieces of grass. Similarly, the Wizard made the people in the Emerald City wear green goggles so that they would believe their city was built from emeralds.[29] Baum, a former salesman of china, wrote in chapter 20 about china that had sprung to life.[29]
During Baum's short stay in Aberdeen, the dissemination of myths about the plentiful West continued. However, the West, instead of being a wonderland, turned into a wasteland because of a drought and a depression. In 1891, Baum moved his family from South Dakota to Chicago. At that time, Chicago was getting ready for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Scholar Laura Barrett stated that Chicago was "considerably more akin to Oz than to Kansas". After discovering that the myths about the West's incalculable riches were baseless, Baum created "an extension of the American frontier in Oz". In many respects, Baum's creation is similar to the actual frontier save for the fact that the West was still undeveloped at the time. The Munchkins Dorothy encounters at the beginning of the novel represent farmers, as do the Winkies she later meets.[30]
Baum's wife frequently visited her niece, Dorothy Louise Gage. The infant became gravely sick and died on November 11, 1898, of "congestion of the brain" at exactly five months. When the baby, whom Maud adored as the daughter she never had, died, she was devastated and needed to consume medicine.[31] To assuage her distress, Frank made his protagonist of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz a female named Dorothy.[32] Uncle Henry was modeled after Henry Gage, his wife Maud's father. Bossed around by his wife Matilda, Henry rarely dissented with her. He flourished in business, though, and his neighbors looked up to him. Likewise, Uncle Henry was a "passive but hard-working man" who "looked stern and solemn, and rarely spoke".[33] The witches in the novel were influenced by witch-hunting research gathered by Baum's mother-in-law, Matilda. The stories of barbarous acts against accused witches scared Baum. Two key events in the novel involve wicked witches who both meet their death through metaphorical means.[34]
Baum held different jobs, moved a lot, and was exposed to many people, so the inspiration for the story could have been taken from plenty of different aspects of his life.[35] In the introduction to the story, Baum writes that "it aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heart-aches and nightmares are left out" [36] This is one of the explanations that he gives for the inspiration for the Wizard of Oz.
The original illustrator of the novel, W.W. Denslow, could have also had an impact on the story and the way it has been interpreted. Baum and Denslow had a close working relationship and worked together to create the presentation of the story through the images and the text. Color is an important element of the story and is present throughout the images with each chapter having a different color representation. Denslow also added characteristics to his drawings that Baum never described. For example, Denslow drew a house and the gates of The Emerald city with faces on them. In the later Oz books, John R. Neill, who illustrated all of the sequels, continued to include these faces on gates.[37]
Baum did not offer any conclusive proof that he intended his novel to be a political allegory. Historian Ranjit S. Dighe wrote that for sixty years after the book's publication, "virtually nobody" had such an interpretation until Henry Littlefield, a high school teacher.[38] In his 1964 American Quarterly article, "The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism",[39] Littlefield posited that the book contained an allegory of the late 19th-century bimetallism debate regarding monetary policy.[40] At the beginning of the novel, Dorothy is swept from her farm to Oz by a cyclone, which was frequently compared to the Free Silver movement in Baum's time.[39] The Yellow Brick Road represents the gold standard and the Silver Shoes which enable Dorothy to travel more comfortably symbolizes the Populist Party's desire to construct a bimetallic standard of both gold and silver in place of the gold standard. She learns that to return home, she must reach the Emerald City, Oz's political center, to speak to the Wizard, representing the President of the United States.[39] While journeying to the Emerald City, she encounters a scarecrow, who represents a farmer; a woodman made of tin, who represents a worker dehumanized by industrialization; and a cowardly lion, who represents William Jennings Bryan, a prominent leader of the Silverite movement.[41] The villains of the story, the Wicked Witch of the West and the Wicked Witch of the East, represent the wealthy railroad and oil barons of the American West and the financial and banking interests of the eastern U.S. respectively. Both these groups opposed Populist efforts to move the U.S. to a bimetallic monetary standard since this would have devalued the dollar and made investments less valuable. Workers and poor farmers supported the move away from the gold standard as this would have lessened their crushing debt burdens. The Populist party sought to build a coalition of southern and midwestern tenant farmers and northern industrial workers. These groups are represented in the book by the Good Witches of the North and South. "Oz" is the abbreviated form of ounce, a standard measure of gold.[42]
Littlefield's thesis achieved some popular interest and elaboration[43] but is not taken seriously by literary historians.[citation needed] Littlefield's argument was taken seriously by the 1980s by many political scientists but has since been refuted.[44][45] Ellen Brown in her book, Web of Debt (2007), examines the literary allusion to money creation in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and starts each chapter with a quote from Baum's book.[46][47]
The Wizard of Oz has been an inspiration for many fantasy novels and films. It has been translated or adapted into well over fifty languages, at times being modified in local variations. For instance, in some abridged Indian editions, the Tin Woodman was replaced with a snake.[48] In Russia, a translation by Alexander Melentyevich Volkov produced five books, The Wizard of the Emerald City series, which became progressively distanced from the Baum version, as Ellie and her dog Totoshka travel throughout the Magic Land.
In 1967, The Seekers recorded "Emerald City", with lyrics about a visit there, set to the melody of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy".
In 1982, Philip José Farmer published A Barnstormer in Oz, whose main character, Hank Stover, is the son of Dorothy Gale. He finds himself transported to Oz after he flies his plane into an enormous green cloud, and finds he must resolve a civil war.
In 1992, Geoff Ryman's novel Was was published in the UK. It imagines three interwoven narratives, one of a real-life "Dorothy Gael" whose experiences are far from wonderful, a second loosely based on Judy Garland's own childhood, and a third a gay male actor who loves the 1939 film. Was was republished in 2014 by Small Beer Press.
In 1995, Gregory Maguire published Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, a revisionist look at the land and characters of Oz. Instead of depicting Dorothy, the novel focuses on Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West. The Independent characterized the novel as "an adult read reflecting on the nature of being an outcast, society's pressures to conform, and the effects of oppression and fascism".[49] Universal Pictures, which bought the novel's rights, initially intended to make it into a film. Composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz convinced the company to make the novel into a musical instead. Schwartz wrote Wicked's music and lyrics, and it premiered on Broadway in October 2003.[49]
Many of these draw more directly on the 1939 film adaptation, a now-classic of popular culture shown annually on American television from 1959 to 1991, and shown several times a year every year beginning in 1999.[50]
In 2014, characters Dorothy Gale and The Wicked Witch made appearances in the episode "Slumber Party" from the ninth season of the TV series Supernatural. The ABC/Disney series Once Upon A Time also utilizes elements of the story with Dorothy and Glinda as background characters.
This last story of The Wizard is ingeniously woven out of commonplace material. It is of course an extravaganza, but will surely be found to appeal strongly to child readers as well as to the younger children, to whom it will be read by mothers or those having charge of the entertaining of children. There seems to be an inborn love of stories in child minds, and one of the most familiar and pleading requests of children is to be told another story.
The drawing as well as the introduced color work vies with the texts drawn, and the result has been a book that rises far above the average children's book of today, high as is the present standard.
The book has a bright and joyous atmosphere, and does not dwell upon killing and deeds of violence. Enough stirring adventure enters into it, however, to flavor it with zest, and it will indeed be strange if there be a normal child who will not enjoy the story.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz received positive critical reviews upon release. In a September 1900 review, The New York Times praised the novel, writing that it would appeal to child readers and to younger children who could not read yet. The review also praised the illustrations for being a pleasant complement to the text.[51]
During the first 50 years after The Wizard of Oz's publication in 1900, it received little critical analysis from scholars of children's literature. According to Ruth Berman of Science Fiction Studies, the lists of suggested reading published for juvenile readers never contained Baum's work. The lack of interest stemmed from the scholars' misgivings about fantasy, as well as to their belief that lengthy series had little literary merit.[52]
It has frequently come under fire over the years. In 1957, the director of Detroit's libraries banned The Wizard of Oz for having "no value" for children of today, for supporting "negativism", and for bringing children's minds to a "cowardly level". Professor Russel B. Nye of Michigan State University countered that "if the message of the Oz books—love, kindness, and unselfishness make the world a better place—seems of no value today", then maybe the time is ripe for "reassess[ing] a good many other things besides the Detroit library's approved list of children's books".[53]
In 1986, seven Fundamentalist Christians families in Tennessee opposed the novel's inclusion in the public school syllabus and filed a lawsuit.[54][55] They based their opposition to the novel on its depicting benevolent witches and promoting the belief that integral human attributes were "individually developed rather than God given".[55] One parent said, "I do not want my children seduced into godless supernaturalism".[56] Other reasons included the novel's teaching that females are equal to males and that animals are personified and can speak. The judge ruled that when the novel was being discussed in class, the parents were allowed to have their children leave the classroom.[54]
Feminist author Margery Hourihan has described the book as a "banal and mechanistic story which is written in flat, impoverished prose".[57]
Providing a twenty-first century perspective about the novel, Leonard Everett Fisher of The Horn Book Magazine wrote in 2000 that Oz has "a timeless message from a less complex era, and it continues to resonate". The challenge of valuing oneself during impending adversity has not, Fisher noted, lessened during the prior 100 years.[58]
In a 2002 review, Bill Delaney of Salem Press praised Baum for giving children the opportunity to discover magic in the mundane things in their everyday lives. He further commended Baum for teaching "millions of children to love reading during their crucial formative years".[22]
Baum's novel has been adapted and retold numerous times. In some cases, the adaptations bear only a slight semblance to the original edition.[59] By its centennial, the novel had been translated into 22 languages such as Swahili, Tamil and Serbo-Croatian.[5]
To celebrate the centennial of the book's publication, the University Press of Kansas published a new edition titled The Kansas Centennial Edition. Illustrated by Michael McCurdy, the black-and-white pictures spanned 24 full pages. Andrew Karp of Utopian Studies critiqued the illustrations as being "stunningly detailed" but "somber, sharp-edged, and stark". Whereas W.W. Denslow's illustrations in the first edition portrayed Dorothy and her friends as exuding warmth, McCurdy's depicted Dorothy as "plain, dumpy, even ugly" and her friends as frightened. Karp concluded that the centennial edition, because it is considerably dismal, more resembles the beginning of the 1939 MGM movie than Baum's first edition.[60] Robert Sabuda created a pop-up book to commemorate the book's centennial. Baum scholar Michael Patrick Hearn called the book a "fond tribute" to W. W. Denslow and an "inventive interpretation" of Baum's novel. Sabuda used Denslow's first edition illustrations as "color linoleum cuts" and improved upon them by portraying the features that Denslow failed to capture.[61]
The 2002 Sterling Publishing edition of the novel was illustrated by Michael Foreman with bright watercolors. Reviewer Heide Piehler of School Library Journal applauded Foreman for his "skillful command of color and light to emphasize the story's sense of adventure and enchantment". Piehler also admired the "subtle humorous details", including the winged monkeys' adorned with "Red Baron-style goggles". In her generally favorable review, she critiqued Foreman's depiction of a normal Dorothy as a "disappointment".[59]
Baum wrote The Wizard of Oz without any thought of a sequel. After reading the novel, thousands of children wrote letters to him, requesting that he craft another story about Oz. In 1904, he wrote and published the first sequel, The Marvelous Land of Oz, explaining that he grudgingly wrote the sequel to address the popular demand.[62] Baum also wrote sequels in 1907, 1908, and 1909. In his 1911 The Emerald City of Oz, he wrote that he could not continue writing sequels because Ozland had lost contact with the rest of the world. The children refused to accept this story, so Baum, in 1913 and every year thereafter until his death in May 1919, wrote an Oz book, ultimately writing 13 sequels. The Chicago Tribune's Russell MacFall wrote that Baum explained the purpose of his novels in a note he penned to his sister, Mary Louise Brewster, in a copy of Mother Goose in Prose (1897), his first book. He wrote, "To please a child is a sweet and a lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward."[9] After Baum's death in 1919, Baum's publishers delegated the creation of more sequels to Ruth Plumly Thompson who wrote 21.[22] An original Oz book was published every Christmas between 1913 and 1942.[5] By 1956, five million copies of the Oz books had been published in the English language, while hundreds of thousands had been published in eight foreign languages.[9]
The Wizard of Oz has been adapted to other media numerous times, most famously in the 1939 film starring Judy Garland. Prior to this version, the book had inspired a number of now-less-well-known stage and screen adaptations, including a profitable 1902 Broadway musical and three silent films. The 1939 film was considered innovative because of its songs, special effects, and revolutionary use of the new Technicolor.[63]
The story has been translated into other languages (at least once without permission), and adapted into comics several times. Following the lapse of the original copyright, the characters have been adapted and reused in spin-offs, unofficial sequels, and reinterpretations, some of which have been controversial in their treatment of Baum's characters.
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Are Penny Rile southern peas good at the green shell stage? |
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They're okay. I don't do many cowpeas as green shell, so don't take my word as the final authority. I find them difficult to shell out at that stage. But they taste good. I don't have much experience with many other cowpeas. So I can't tell you if it's "cowpeas" that I find difficult, or "Penny Rile Cowpeas" which are hard to shell. Well, let's see if someone else with experience will show up and put in their opinion. George |
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- Posted by farmerdilla (My Page) on Tue, Apr 28, 09 at 8:22
My primary use of southern peas is as green shellies. I don't care that much for them dried. While I grow a dozen cultivars at one time or the other, I have not grown Pennyrile so I cannot directly answer your question. I do not find most cultivars, particularly larger peas difficult to shell in the green stage. |
Farmerdilla, I lack experience with many types peas. But my guess is that Penny Rile is about the same as some other cream pea. What do you think of cream peas for shellies? George |
- Posted by farmerdilla (My Page) on Tue, Apr 28, 09 at 18:26
O.K., I'll fling some up against the Pencil Cob corn once it gets big enough, and report back on the flavor of fresh- shelled Penny Rile. I may have to interview a deer to get the information. |
I too will have to try them. Being a transplanted Yankee I haven't gotten 'round to trying them as green shell. I like them dry, so much, that I tend to hoard them for that kind of usage. Farmerdilla, what do you think of Kentucky Red? Someone gave me some, and I'm planning to put out a row. George |
- Posted by farmerdilla (My Page) on Mon, May 4, 09 at 12:46
I prefer all southern peas in the shelly stage. In the dry stage to me there are several I do not like. Whippowill is one I love in the shelly stage but don't care for in the dry stage, Holstien is another. Most of the cream peas are very good in the dry stage same for the light colored eye peas Its the darker colored peas which are too strong a flavor for my taste when dry. The key to shelling southern peas is to pick when they are ripe, if still green you will tear up your fingers trying to shell. Peas are ripe for fresh shelling when the pod turns yellow for most varieties or purple for the purple hull types. If the pod is still green or not all yellow they will be hard to shell.BTW Farmerdilla what did you think about the flavor of the holstien pea, I think it resembles the taste of boiled peanuts more than a pea. Rodger |
- Posted by farmerdilla (My Page) on Mon, May 4, 09 at 15:39
Rodger, it is ok as a green shellie. Little stronger flavor than California # 5, but similar enough that my wife will usually eat them. She will not touch crowders. I rarely ever eat dried cowpeas so I can't comment on dried flavor. I eat all peas with snaps, so I like the green immature pods also. |
I am the same here. Best way to eat southern peas is fresh shelled with a few snaps. We can most of the fresh shelled peas and snaps then also freeze a few. Frozen peas better match fresh for taste but I have limited freezer space with hundreds of varieties of seeds to keep plus we do our own butchering which takes up valuable freezer space.Rodger |
Rodger, thanks for the tip on shelling. Though I've gardened all my life, I'm a relative novice with cowpeas. They just weren't on the menu where I grew up. Here on Gardenweb, I think it's good to remember that there are probably many "novices" out there, who will benefit from information that might seem "just too basic" for those who know. Thanks Farmerdilla! I didn't even know that Kentucky Red is not a standard. The seed sure is pretty. But then, all cowpea seed is pretty! George |
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