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Cabrini's core curriculum, Justice Matters, develops a common core of knowledge and connects the theory and practice of social justice to each student's major.
Justice Matters includes a sequence of developmentally linked, writing-intensive courses taken in the first, second, and third years, as well as a capstone project in the major during the fourth year.
It defines the contemporary Cabrinian education through academic excellence, social justice, and transformational learning.
Students learn skills that will advance their careers and that can be used for the benefit of their communities, linking theory to practice in the world, preparing them for professional careers through a rigorous liberal learning experience.
College 101 - A College Success Seminar that prepares students for the Cabrini College experience.
Engagements with the Common Good - A four-year, four-course sequence that raises awareness of social problems, explores their root causes, involves students hands-on in social justice issues, and connects the theory and practice of social justice to each student's major.
The Explorations – A range of courses that provides a broad exposure to various disciplinary experiences. In particular, these courses teach students to understand themselves as products of - and participants in - institutions, creative traditions, the historical process, and value-driven decision making.
The 21st Century Literacies - Foundational skills and general knowledge in information and technology, foreign languages and culture, mathematics, science, and religious studies.
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As the largest city in the United States and self-proclaimed "City that Never Sleeps", nearly anything is possible to find at any given hour in NYC. It is a multicultural epicenter with the headquarters of the United Nations seated in Manhattan. People from all over the world are taking advantage of our recovering real estate market to live in the most iconic metropolitan city in the world.
Living in NYC is unlike living anywhere else. NYC condos are eclectic. Some have hundreds of years of history in their walls and others are modern architectural phenomena. Over twenty different museums and cultural centers exist within NYC - without counting art galleries, which would number well into the hundreds. Every medium of performing art's highest standard is here. Drama, Music, Dance, and Opera are all measured by what they accomplish in NYC.
In addition, residents can enjoy one of the largest man-made parks in the United States - Central Park. They can feast from any type or style of cuisine imaginable. Being a major financial, cultural, and transportation hub, the possibilities of NYC real estate are boundless. The luxury of living in a NYC home is nearly incomparable to the pleasures of living in New York City itself. Sotheby's International Realty invites you to tour the NYC region and see all it has to offer in luxury real estate.

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It started in the garden. That's what 39-year-old Kevin Bell will tell you was the genesis of the idea that led him to use 3-D mapping technology to quantify the solar energy and food-growing potentials for every square foot in Salt Lake City.
Bell is a IT guy specializing in mapping and GPS (Global Positioning System) systems for the City of Salt Lake, and he's also an urban farmer. He and his wife, Celia, are something like rock stars in the local urban farming scene (if there could be such a thing). They work a 1.5-acre patch in Glendale. From this land they produce the lion's share of their food needs. They use advanced techniques for irrigation, planting and season extension to accomplish this, and everyone from hobbyists to community garden activists, agricultural professors to conservation students, consults with them on how to make things grow in the SLC.
Bell himself is an iconoclastic personality who defies pigeonholing. His lean frame, Nazarene beard and long, red hair all scream Rocky Mountain hippie-snowboarder, but he's a gun-owner and loves riding dual-sport motorcycles around the deserts and mountains of Utah. (He also rips up the backcountry on his split-board.) His interests in self-sufficient living intersect unexpectedly with his skills at data analysis. By day he's a techie wunderkind, and by night he's a back-to-the-land crusader committed to living as simply as possible. And, if you know Bell, you know all that works.
Three years ago, Bell was playing around with a data gift from the FBI. In preparation for security measures for the 2002 Winter Olympics, the bureau performed a 3-D mapping flyover of the city using LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging, basically RADAR with a laser instead of radio waves). The FBI uses this data to figure out places snipers or other such bad guys could conduct their nefarious business. After the sniper-free Olympics were complete, they gave the mapping data to the city.
Just for kicks, Bell used this LIDAR data to map his own farming plot and determine which portions received the most sunlight for each day of the year.
"I took home the data on my plot, looked up the sun angles for different times of year and, using the 3-D model, generated my own tool for looking at sun patterns on my yard," he says. "I could simulate the sunlight, find the hottest places and coldest places. I had a high-resolution analysis of the shadow patterns, and I laid out the pathways and structures in the areas that were least-optimal for growing."
With this personal project in his back pocket, Bell was brought into a city project that sought to create a solar map of Salt Lake as part of the Solar City program. "Since we had all of this 3-D data, I suggested that we incorporate the actual model of the city and estimate solar potential that accounted for every shape, tree, building, chimney and surface in the city."
So Bell created a number-crunching program that used the LIDAR data to take into account shadows cast by other buildings, trees, etc. The result was a city website to determine sun intensity.
"It's a visual map," Bell says. "You can see your house's solar potential and estimate your energy savings if you were to install a solar device."
No sense in putting expensive photovoltaic panels on your roof if it's in the shade most of the time, right?
"We'll see the most action with the site as the price for panels starts to drop," he says. "But it's also useful for investigating other passive solar devices like solar water heaters, which are relatively inexpensive.
Armed with the techniques for mapping solar energy potential, Bell once again stumbled upon a novel use for the LIDAR data, after a meeting kicking off a community food assessment. The assessment, which is still in progress, is an effort to evaluate the availability of food and food-growing potential around the county.
"So, we had quantified the 'sun-shed,' and we know how much sunlight falls on every square foot of land in SLC," he says. "We had this great idea. Why not evaluate how much food could be grown with that sunlight? Why not quantify the food shed?"
So Bell divided up the city, subtracted the hardscape (like driveways), structures and the tree canopy to come up with the total amount of arable land. University of Utah students helped out by using data from bio-intensive gardening guru John Jeavons, who has calculated calorie potential in the city by square foot. This combo allows users of the soon-to-be-completed website to calculate how much food they could grow on their property.
"Now, is everybody going to raze their yard and plant every square inch, like me?" Bell asks. "Well, no, but it's a starting point. You can see how much food you can grow if you use, say, 25 percent of your yard."
Bell's use of the 3-D mapping data has many more applications, especially when combined with other data sets. For example, he has combined the LIDAR, sun angle and vehicle accident data to determine what intersections are more dangerous at different times of day because of sun glare.
"Mapping traffic accident hot spots was something a transportation manager in the 1950s could only dream of," he says. "Back then you'd have paper accident reports and no way of making any sense of them, but now that we have all this in databases, we can use it in so many ways."


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The SEIDIO Desktop Charging Cradle for USB smartphones does exactly what it is designed to do.
The SEIDO Desktop Charging Cradle holds the phone upright and charges it in a reasonable time. It allows flawless syncing to a computer without any problems. The cradle also has a minimal footprint, taking up very little space on the desk.
Using the cradle for the first time is a bit awkward. The phone needs to be placed downward directly onto the USB connector. It took about a week to get the movement down, but after that, it is easy to use.
The cradle only works with USB smartphones (models are available for Blackberry, Treo, iPhone, HTC and Samsung). The model I reviewed was for HTC phones, but I was able to attach it to the new Samsung Galaxy S III. However, the USB port on the HTC EVO 4G—and likely other HTC phones—is backward from those used on devices from other manufacturers. This means that the Galaxy S III faces away from the raised backing on the cradle, which is designed to keep the phone upright. I noticed the same thing when I attached smartphones made by Motorola and LG. So, be sure you get the model specific to your device.
A small light turns green when the phone is fully charged. The light is tiny, however, and easy to overlook. On the other hand, it is not distracting either.
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Volleyball Hopes For Perfect Weekend, Chance To Get Back Atop Ivy Standings
It isn't often when you find Penn and Princeton rooting for each other on the volleyball court. But the two local rivals will look to help themselves, and each other, when both Ivy League frontrunner Yale and Brown come to town for Princeton's final home weekend of the Ivy League season.
Though there are still four matches remaining in the Ivy League season, only three teams are still mathematically in the race. Reigning champion Yale has been the frontrunner all season, and it will head to the Palestra Friday night with a 10-0 Ivy record. The Bulldogs can eliminate third-place Penn (7-3 Ivy) with a win that night; the Quakers, winners of three straight, could affect the race in a major way with a win.
Regardless of the outcome at Penn, Princeton (8-2) will still be in the race by Senior Night, when the Tigers host Yale at 5 pm on Nov. 3. Exactly how alive they are in the race will depend on Princeton's success Friday night against Brown (2-8).
Princeton is two matches back of Yale. Should it defeat Brown, as it did 3-0 earlier this season in Providence, Princeton will be no worse than two back of Yale with three to play. If both Princeton and Penn win Friday, then the Tigers would have a shot to share first place with Yale when the two teams meet Saturday.
And if Princeton loses Friday, and Yale wins at Penn? Then all margin for error is gone.
Princeton kept itself in position in the Ivy League race with 3-0 home wins over both Harvard and Dartmouth last weekend. Freshman Kendall Peterkin was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week after the two victories; she averaged 3.7 kills per set and hit .354 to pace an efficient Tiger offense. She hit .435 with 12 kills and only two errors against a Crimson team that pushed the Tigers to five sets earlier this season. She also recorded a double-double (10 kills, 10 digs) in the victory over Dartmouth.
The Tigers come into the weekend with the top two players in both kills and points (Lydia Rudnick and Peterkin), the Ivy League leader in assists (Ginny Willis) and two of the Ivy's top three in hitting percentage (Leah Jordan and Tiana Woolridge). Yale, however, ranks first as a team in hitting percentage, opponent's hitting percentage, assists and kills.
The first meeting between Princeton and Yale turned late in the second set. The Tigers took the opener off Yale in New Haven, and they led 21-19 in the second set. Yale rallied to take the set and turned that momentum into a big early run in the third. Princeton battled back, but Yale held off the Tigers for the 3-1 win.
That match gave Yale sole possession of first place.
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For many thousands of years, human beings in this hemisphere have acknowledged, through prayer and ritual, the sacred power of this season—the power of the long dark and the first glimmer of light's increase. There is something about this time of year. These are the halcyon days, around the time of the winter solstice, named after the great bird of folklore who built her nest on the surface of the ocean and was able to quiet the winds while her eggs were hatching.
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ZF-2416: Documentation and Use Cases
Done as of Friday, 25 Jan 2008
Re-opening -- need to add i18n and use cases.
Documentation is updated to reflect current code, and includes sections on I18n and several advanced use cases. Cases I'd like to see, but which I have not completed and do not see as must-haves, include:
- Performing AJAX server-side validation
- Form using AutoComplete (probably should be on AutoComplete docs)
- Advanced decorator ordering
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La Monnaie ¦ MM Extra ¦ 1 FILM / 1 ARTIST ¦ Intro
Michèle Noiret
Films feed the imagination of certain composers and directors of opera. The Monnaie and the Galeries cinema are once again offering, during the season 2012-2013, regular events which will help you to understand the poetic universe of some of the great contemporary artists that are part of our programme. The idea is a simple one: each guest artist is free to choose one or more films. To accompany the showing of these films the artist will be invited to talk for 45 minutes, explaining and justifying their choice and evoking the personal links they cultivate with cinema in the context of their artistic activities.
Michèle Noiret proposes The Proces by Orson Welles.
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ZF-8819: Duplicate item in list in Zend_Session docs
Just a minor issue, but there is a duplicated item in the itemlist on the section 49.4.2. Error: Headers Already Sent. The second item seems more accurate, since it mentions "all actions".
Attaching a patch file. Not needed, actually, just for the record... :-)
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ZF-3111: Specify HeadLink setAlternate with 'media' attribute
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Dont Drink The Water (Without Taking Precautions)
A lot of folks believe that finding water in the wild is an easy thing to do, and it is in most of Americas climates.
I recently had a talk with Wallace Streete, Absolute Rights resident survival expert, about my trip to Cambodia a few years ago. He just got back from the same area and had a good laugh at me when I told him what I had done. I dont think Ive ever had a conversation with Streete in which I didnt learn something. This time was no different. After we finished talking, I wrote down what I learned because I knew I had to share it with you.
Where most people make mistakes is by both underestimating their environment and the way they purify what they need to drink. I certainly did, and I hope that you can learn from what I did.
As you know, water is one of the most critical things that we need for survival. The human body needs only 2 quarts a day to survive. That number might seem low, because we consume a lot of water and liquids in general all day long, but that is the baseline that we need to stay alive.
I personally suffered from dehydration and almost had heat stroke at one point in my life. On a trip to Cambodia just a few years ago, I was suffering through 110 degree weather and 100 percent humidity. Im from Washington, D.C. We dont get heat like that, and we have air conditioning to get relief on hot days.
But in Cambodia? Shocker! There wasnt regular A/C.
I was drinking water at what I thought was a regular pace until I came down with flu-like symptoms. I was cold thats right, freezing cold in the middle of a 99-degree evening and then I started to get dizzy.
Before I passed out, I chugged as much water as I could get my hands on, which I was told later saved me from heat stroke.
What I didnt think about in the middle of that chugging because, frankly, I wasnt thinking were all the bacteria and bugs in the water. I woke up in the morning feeling groggy from the dehydration, followed by an immediate sharp pain in my stomach.
Over the remaining two weeks of my trip, I ran to the bathroom constantly. You can go ahead and assume what was going through my body at that point; it wasnt pretty. All in all, I lost about 12 pounds from the runs over the remainder of my trip. I wasnt cured until I returned to the United States and took a very basic, and free, antibiotic that my doctor gave me.
I wanted to share that story with you to make three very important points:
Whats the bottom line? If you drink bad water, you can die very quickly. You really cant trust any of the sources of water in the wild that youll have. It is critical that you purify whatever water you put into your body. And its easy. There are kits for that. Even if you dont have a kit, you can boil your water to quickly kill any bacteria and bugs that may be in it.Quote:
Always be prepared. I was not. I wasnt drinking enough water to begin with, and I didnt have a very basic antibiotic that cured what could have easily killed me. The kicker was that it was such a common antibiotic that it was literally free. If things head south, you may not have access to antibiotics like the one I was given. They certainly didnt have them in Cambodia.
Pay attention to your environment.I certainly didnt. As Americans, we take a lot of things for granted, including air conditioning, a decent climate and clean water. I stupidly assumed that I was going to have these luxuries when I went to Cambodia. Yes, now I realize how stupid I was. It is critical that you know what you are getting into and where you are going to need to go in the case of an emergency. If you dont, youll be in trouble like I was.
Always make sure the water you drink is purified. I dont want to recount the stern lecture I got from my doctor after my trip. I also dont want to recount what I suffered through throughout my time in Southeast Asia. I literally would have died had I not had that basic prescription. I was losing 6 pounds a week. Now granted, it gave me that swimsuit body that I wanted, but I was on the way to the grave.
Did I say boil? You dont even have to do that. In actuality, most bacteria in water are killed off at lower-than-boiling temperatures. But Ill tell you right now, after what I went through, I will always boil water before I drink it in those conditions again.
The take-away here is simple: Be safe and in the best condition you can be if a crisis occurs, even if its self-inflicted. Dont be unprepared like I was in Cambodia. Know what the conditions are where you are headed; get your supplies in hand and your protocol in order. And be smarter than they think you are.
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Henrico County has hosted a Fourth of July celebration annually since 1981, but this year's event will offer a later start time and expanded hours and be highlighted by new entertainment.
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Celebrate Independence Day in Henrico! The county's annual event is new and improved this year with a later start time, expanded hours and new entertainment, including the Richmond Symphony and a laser light show. Lewis Ginter is also offering free admission all day. On Saturday, check out the first annual Innsbrook Taste of Virginia, the family movie at Varina Library or Anthony Snape and special guest Jess Labus at The Tin Pan. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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by 3rd-6th generations of Titus family quilters & quilt lovers.
In 1852, a planter by the name of Simeon Lake, his wife, Nancy, and their children migrated to Texas from South Carolina, via Arkansas. They traveled over land in four wagons pulled by 10 oxen. They brought with them five slaves, Edward "Ned" Titus, his wife Chlorie (Dunbar) Titus and their three children. The male slaves helped with the outside work and the females did all the cooking and housework. The household chores consisted of cleaning, washing, ironing, sewing, cooking, and quilt making, etc.
Ned and Chlorie had eleven children. One was named Walter. When Walter matured, he chose for his wife...Miss Patsie Reddick. They became the parents of one daughter, Ellen Anna Titus who was born in 1884.
Patsie was considered to be a good housekeeper, cook and mother. She was talented at quilt making. She had all the skills a man was taught to look for in a woman. She taught all these skills to her daughter, Ellen Anna, at a very early age. Ellen Anna wed at the age of 15 to Willie Anderson Durham. Her mother died in 1925 ???. They had eleven offspring of which four were daughters. Their names were Clara-born in l903/Lillie-born 1904/Gladys-born in 1906/and Katie Mae-born in 1917.
Ellen Anna followed in the footsteps of her mother and trained her female offspring the same skills she had received when she was maturing. Her youngest daughter, Katie Mae Durham-Tatum, says her mother started the training as early as eight years old. This turned out to be a wise decision on her mother's part, because Katie Mae's mom died when she was twelve years old. Katie Mae married at the age of l5 and assisted her father to raise her two younger brothers, Alonzo and Harold. She says she was completely on her own and was forced to make covers for her bed, because she couldn't afford to buy store bought ones. But the fact that she loved quilt making made the chore enjoyable. She consider knowing how to do so as a blessing.
Patsie Reddick and her daughter, Ellen Anna,established a solid foundational legacy of African American M-provisational quilt making that has survived the rigors of time through five and hopefully six generations.
The Titus family lineage has culminated into the creation of a series of reversible story quilts, which Patsie's great, great granddaughter, Sherry A. Byrd works on passionately, in her spare time.
I, (Sherry) was born and raised in Fairfield, Texas, which is approximately an hours' drive south of Dallas, Texas and also approximately an hours' drive east of Waco, Texas. Fairfield is the county seat of Freestone. The town's centennial year was 1951... the year I was born.
As a child I was introduced to quilt making via my maternal grandmother, as I stated earlier in this article. We called her "Big Mama"; her real name was Gladys Celia Durham-Henry ( b.1906-d.1996). Of all the girls in her family...Gladys was the only one who bore children. Her sisters had none.
I did not learn to quilt by actually making one of my own when younger, but instead, for the first eighteen years of my life I observed quietly as my grandmother, created beautiful folkart pieces. Occasionally, she commandeered my assistance in tacking (tying strings) when adding a lining to a top to complete one of her amazing creations.
Quilt making at the time I was maturing was on the decline, not only in Texas, but nationwide. No longer was it mandatory for young girls to learn the skill so as to be prepared to keep their families warm in the wintertime.Yet because of my close association with my grandmother and her strict adherence to, as well as, love of the traditional skills she had been taught at an early age...she had a strong influence upon me and molded many of my viewpoints in life,on quilting and various other things.
I was always curious about sewing and couldn't resist the wonderful sounds made by my grandmothers' old Singer sewing machine. Nor could I resist the beautiful colorful cloth scraps used in the quilts and the erattic M-provisational designs of the quilts always captivated my attention. Tying strings was boring, but watching a quilt come together was indeed, very fascinating. So to avoid having to tie too many strings, I usually ended up just passing through my grandmother's work area...to take a peek...on my way to do other favorite things, such as sneaking real chicken eggs from the hen house to put in my mud cakes...while "Big Mama" was busy quilting,of course.
I always wanted to make something pretty... just like "Big Mama", but it wasn't going to happen right then...unless of course it was the doll clothes I could make when "Big Mama" gave me cloth scraps and a needle and thread.
May 1969...I graduated from High School. In the Fall I entered Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. I graduated in 1972 with a BA in History (My major) and Art (My minor).
While attending SHSU I met my husband,Curtis Byrd, Sr. We married in1973. After that I became very busy with having children (9 total), training and raising them physically and spiritually (Jehovah' Witnesses), and helping my husband provide for us with his recycling business and other various types of employment.There was still no time for quilt making!!!!
1984...brought a dramatic change to my life.Our seventh child, a son, was stillborn. To cope with the stress, grief and depression,...I turned to quilt making. I started with small cribsized quilts and gave them away to friends who had recently given birth. When the projects proved successful, I decided to tackle a full sized quilt. I did not even get it completed before Curtis (my husband), declared that this quilt was "his quilt"....so it was named "Dad's quilt". It continues to decorate our bed, every winter, even after approximately 27 years.
|Dad's Quilt published in November 2000.
(Top Left)
1986....I came across an ad in a supermarket tabloid paper that simply read..."I buy quilts,old and new". I called the phone number listed and made acquaintance with Mr. Eli Leon, a collector and scholar. He was researching African American quilts. This relationship directed my quilt making on a journey that has been and still is a wonderful one.
Eli bought some tops from me and had them hand quilted by other African American quilt makers who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. He then curated the exhibit "Who'd A Thought It: Improvisation In African American Quiltmaking.This exhibit was groundbreaking in that it traveled to 30 venues in twenty states and placed the host, Museum of Craft and Folkart, San Francisco, on the map as a major player in the museum world.
|Double Medallion
One of Sherry Byrd's two quilts that appeared in "Who'd A
Thought It" Traveling exhibit (l987-97), Museum of Craft and Follk Art
San Francisco, California. The exhibit traveled to 20 states and 30 venues
I introduced Eli to my mother and grandmother. He traveled from California to Texas to purchase quilts and tops from both of them. He also purchased tops from my daughter, Bara. These quilts were exhibited as a group at the High Museum in Atlanta, GA, in the exhibit "No Two Alike"...1996-97...during the same time that the Olympic Games were taking place there.This was also the same year my grandmother died. How proud she must have been to know that her quilts were being hung in a museum. Never in all their days had she or her sisters dared even to dream of such a thing taking place in their lifetimes.
The success of these exhibits stirred in me the desire to know why so many people were becoming so interested in throw together quilts. So I launched my own research into the topic. It led me to the discovery of a wonderful and fantastic family legacy of quilt making.
During the research period wonderful and amazing events began to unfold which added to the richness of the experience. In 1997, British Airways commissioned fifty ethnic artworks from around the world to have painted and displayed as liveries on 300+ Boeing jet tail fins. They wanted to create a new image for themselves. My M-provisational abstract quilt.."Champaigne" was chosen as one of those artworks. It became a part of British Airways "SkyHigh Gallery".
Next in 1998, Texas Folklife Resources Gallery director, Pat Jasper, contacted my mother, Laverne Brackens and me. She curated the exhibit "Quilts of Color:Three Generations in an Afro-Texan Family." This exhibit included quilts by Gladys Henry, Katie Mae Tatum, Laverne Brackens and Sherry A. Byrd.
It included percision made, as well as, M-provisational abstract quilts. The Titus family speaks two quilt making languages fluently.
There were four apprentices who made quilts for the exhibits' workshop. They were Sarah Byrd, Cephas Byrd, Nikki Brackens and Tysha Brackens. They are hopefully a part of the sixth generation of upcoming quilt makers that is formulating in the Titus family at present.
|Quilts of Color Workshop
Summer 1999
Texas Folklife Gallery_ Austin ,Texas
At the "Quilts of Color" workshop, September 18,1999, I presented for the first time, the story quilt "Homegrown/Handmade/Passed-On Family quilt or just "Homegrown". This reversible story quilt was composed as a result of the research that I had compiled previously. I worked on it progressively for close to three years and it was not complete when shown at the workshop.It is created totally and completely from recyled materials.
Homegrown chronicles the history and background of the Titus Family, basically from Africa thru the year 2000.
|Sherry Byrd explaining "HOMEGROWN" Story Quilt
at the Quilts of Color Exhibit Workshop
The crowd loved it...even though it was nowhere near complete. The quilt had such a great impact that, Suzanne Seriff, a guest curator attending the workshop for the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum (which by the way was also not complete at that time)... invited me to exhibit the story quilt at the inaugural opening of the temporary exhibit "It Ain't Braggin' If It's True". By the time the two years wait was up, I had managed to bring the story quilt to a relative completion.
The crowds loved it once again, as the following quotes reveal:
July 2,200l
"....I cannot tell you how much the visitors to the museum have raved over your quilt. So many stop, and look and study it, and try to read the script and tease the stories out of the images! It is really something else!"
Suzanne Seriff, Guest Curator
"It Ain't Braggin' If It's True"
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
Austin, Texas
December 2001
Dear Mrs. Byrd
"......The exhibit has been a great success...thanks to lenders such as yourself for sharing artifacts with a wider audience...."
January, 2002
"..........We are pleased to have had your wonderful quilt in our exhibit. "It Ain't Braggin' If It's True"....thank you for your participation in our exhibit. Over 500,000 visitors have come to see the museum since we opened last April..."
Meredith Sutton
Museum Registrar
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
Austin, Texas
The greatest honor resulting from the Bob Bullock Museum experience was the fact that President George W. Bush, First Lady, Laura Bush, Mrs. Jan Bullock, governor Rick Perry and wife, former Texas governors, Preston Smith, Dolph Briscoe, and Bill Clements, along with a crowd of 500 Texas state government officials and their family members...were among the over 500,000+ visitors who had the opportunity to view "Homegrown" at the inaugural opening of the state museum. African American "Throw Together m-provisational quilts had indeed come a long way in the history making process... from covering slave beds to works of Art on museum walls!!!! It was truly amazing and a wonder to behold.
Meanwhile, I had been working on a second story quilt project for about 20 years... at least since 1986. I was collecting patchwork blocks from individual family quilt makers to create a reversible sampler and story quilt to commemorate the legacy of sewing skills in our family. The tradition of quilt making had been around so long and the passing down of the skills from generation to generation needed...as far as, I was concerned ,some kind of recognition. This story quilt became "Jazz With A Needle And Thread" or just "Jazz". It was featured at the five year anniversary of the Texas State History Musem in 2006 in the exhibit "It (Still) Ain't Braggin'"."Jazz" captivated and dazzled an audience of 30 children and 40 adults on July 26, 2006 at a "High Noon Talk". The "Tell and Show" Lecture was declared the best of the series of High Noon talks that had been given at the museum that summer.
I am presently working to complete my third reversible story quilt...titled "Lone Star Braggin' Rights: It's A Texas Thang!!!" Maybe it too will out perform its two predecessors with its beauty, historical significance and charm. We'll just have to wait and see.
Meanwhile I'll try to make myself content with recording and blogging about my family's quilting history and that of Freestone county as a whole.To keep up with the Titus family quilt makers and others from Freestone County, Texas....be sure to visit us regularly at www.quiltstoriesbysherryann.blogspot.com.
And that brings us pretty well up to date on my quilt making adventures. Its such a privilege to be able to share our legacy with a wider appreciative audience. Thanks.
Sherry Ann
|Homegrown Reversible Story quilt
|Jazz With A Needle And Thread
Reversible Story quilt


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So I did a bunch of radio work this past weekend and didn't have time to post it (and at times, didn't have time to get a link to it) until now.
When you get a chance, check out the following bits of audio:
Friday Night I appeared on Brian Carriveau's Cheesehead Nation show on Blogtalkradio.com. We talked about the first few rounds of Packer picks, which I actually like quite a bit. (about 10 minutes at the front but the ep goes much longer)
I'm at the top but stick around for the whole show as they break down some of the picks more in depth later on. It's good stuff, and Railbird Central is a great place to go for Packer stuff.
Saturday I joined my good friend Matt Levine of The Final Score of WSTC/WNLK in Connecticut to talk some Jets and Giants as well as some general NFL Draft stuff as well. I uploaded it here so you can hear what I had to say from Radio City. (about 20 minutes long)
On Sunday I got to hoof it to the home of Sirius Satellite Radio and join Cecil Lammey of 104.3 The Fan in Denver and Footballguys.com as well as Russ Lande, analyst for SportingNews.com's NFL Draft Warroom and head of GMJr for three hours of 2010 NFL Draft recap.
As Cecil's show (every Sunday on the Fan) is on in Denver, we covered a lot of Broncos (and Tim Tebow) but also hit on the Draft in general and the AFC West as a whole.
You can also get a behind the scenes look at the three of us on this episode of Blurb TV. In fact you can get a look at ALL of my experience at the 2010 NFL Draft here at Thundering Blurb or over at my channel on Viddler as well.


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I'm just reading about this on a news site. Scary sh*t!
The eye of the storm is thrashing out 240kph winds! F*ck!
Wishes of safety for all KO members nearby.
I'm just reading about this on a news site. Scary sh*t!
The eye of the storm is thrashing out 240kph winds! F*ck!
Wishes of safety for all KO members nearby.
I never lost my power for more then a few hours until hurricane Irene back in late August of 2011. Since then I've lost my power 4 times for at least a day, this will most likely be number 5. More importantly there's lives at stake here and i hope everybody along the eastcoast shoreline has safely evacuated. I also hope the Hudson River doesnt reverse, we might not have a Knicks game at home for a while
Also read it could flood the NYC subway... Sounds bad fingers crossed it turns out better than expected.
You mean FrankenSanta. No work for me 2mrw!
And thank you to Crazy, smokes and other out of the area Knick fans for the well wishes
Well I live on the Gold Coast, Australia and the weather is always fine. So if any of you cop a beating in the storm and want to de-stress and lay on the beach for a few days (Knicks games on tv included) swing by!
No school or work today, and MTA service is suspended. I hope everyone is safe.
The Knicks are taking the same precautions for Hurricane Sandy as other residents in the New York area.
An hour after practice on Sunday, a team spokesman sent a news release suggesting that the Knicks could cancel Monday's practice in Greenburgh, N.Y. The team will make a decision Monday morning based on an evaluation of the storm's trajectory.
"I still want to practice regardless of what the weather looks like," Coach Mike Woodson said. "Some of the guys that are out there are closer to the practice facility where we practice. My concern is the guys in the city and making sure they give themselves enough time to get up to practice. Hopefully, things won't be that bad."
Carmelo Anthony is one of the players who live in the city. He plans to stay at [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] until he is required to leave for practice.
"I don't take anything for granted," Anthony said. "I'm scared of Sandy. Just the thought of New York having a hurricane doesn't sound right. I'm not playing with this weather."
Jason Kidd doesn't live in Zone A, the low-lying areas where Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called for a mandatory evacuation by 7 p.m. Sunday. Kidd said he would have no problem challenging Hurricane Sandy.
"We just hope that it's not as bad as they're saying," he said. "You just hope everybody is safe and that we're not out of [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] for a long time."
Read more: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]Hurricane Sandy has knocked out Monday's Knicks 11 a.m. practice in Tarrytown. Several Knicks, including Jason Kidd, Kurt Thomas and Carmelo Anthony, live in Manhattan and had too many obstacles in getting to upper Westchester.
Sandy couldn't have come at a worse time for coach Mike Woodson, who viewed these last few days of practice as vital for their preparations with the season opener Thursday in Brooklyn vs. the Nets followed by Friday's home opener vs. the defending champion Miami Dream Team.
Rotation players J.R. Smith, Marcus Camby, Rasheed Wallace, Ronnie Brewer and Amar'e Stoudemire combined to play just four preseason games. Stoudemire is the lone player definitely out for the opener. In one sense, the day off could benefit Tyson Chandler (knee bone bruise) and Camby (calf strain).
However, Woodson viewed these final days as key to establishing oncourt chemistry and developing teamwork. Tuesday's practice could be in jeopardy, too, as projections are the hurricane growing worse.
Sunday, after the Knicks practiced at the Garden for the first time all preseason, Woodson said, "I was telling (the PR staff) to get cots because I still want to practice regardless. Some guys are closer to the facility. My concern is guys in the city making sure they give themselves enough time to get to (Tarrytown).��
Kidd joked, �Coach said no matter what we�re having practice tomorrow, if you have to swim to get there, you have to get there,�� said Kidd.
Carmelo Anthony was more realistic Sunday.
�I don�t take nothing for granted,�� Melo said. �I�m scared of Sandy. Just hearing of New York having a hurricane, it doesn�t sound right. I�m not one to play with Mother Nature. I�m staying in. I�m not coming out.��
This Sh*t better not knock my power out -_-
Stay safe everyone
No matter how bad Sandy is it will never reach the scale of what you guys in Asia and the Pacific experience with those Tsunami's. So far as of Monday noon in NY it has not hit so we got a day off for nothing and if it hits late today/tomorrow we will probably get another day off.
That's BS about them cancelling today's practice, the weather wasn't bad enough for them to cancel it and if the guys that live in Manhatten didn't want to drive up there they could have gotten a car service. The practice facility is only about a 40 minute drive from Manhattan. Don't expect a practice tomorrow if they don't today. I think a reason for Woody wanting these practices before opening day is to see if he can get Rasheed into the mix with Amare out, I don't think that's going to happen now, I doubt Woody runs a full practice a day before opening day.
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Renew our commitment: for a really sustainable world, OKBrussels, October 28, 2011.
Associations 21 for Sustainable Development is a network of associations and organizationsof the civil society working in different fields: environment, culture, agriculture, social economy, education, gender, social work, North-South relations, human rights, etc.
Cfr founding charter:http://www.associations21.be/Charte-fondatrice Since 2006, we develop together a critical transverse thinking, so as to allow everyone access, here and there, now and later, to quality of life. As part of the major group "NGOs" defined in the Rio Declaration, we contribute to social dialogue in Belgium, in order to integrate sustainable development principles into all policies and, eventually, into society.Facing huges problems...
On one hand, concerns expressed by the visionary heads of the Rio Summit in 1992 have now become urgent and immediate problems: 1. In 20 years, the production of wealth has exploded but these are less and less spread. There are still many hungry (1 billion) while in 2011, global food production could be enough to feed 6 billion people, provided that provided that the global food system is controlled and modified. . Meanwhile, around the world, inequality is still growing.In Belgium, according to the General Report on Poverty published in 1994, between 6 and 7% of people were then living below the poverty line. Now in 2011, they are 15%. In 2015, most of the objectives of the Millennium Development Goals will not be achieved. 2.The pressure of human activity on resources has also emphasized; particularly, the ecological footprint of industrialized countries is still growing. Consequently, humanity has exceeded the limits of Earth's biocapacity and the most vulnerable populations are the most affected, especially in developing countries. The three major Rio conventions of 1992 (climate change desertification and biodiversity) have failed to contain global warming, desertification and biodiversity loss. 3.Liberalization has facilitated the globalization of trade without internalizing social and environmental costs. The financialization of the economy has pushed these trends and changed the balance of power in favor of financial institutions, so that it has been more and more difficult to take measures towards sustainability. 4.In this context, repeated crises and austerity programmes cause social conflicts and push numerous people in misery.... Seizing countless opportunitiesOn the other hand, the commitments made in 1992 have led many initiatives across associations, companies, local authorities and States, many of whom have proven their relevance and are now credible solutions to get the humanity out of these multiple crises.There are countless examples in the following fields: agro-ecology & farming in the perspective of food sovereignity, renewable energy, social economy, green building, waste reuse, waste reduction ..., complementary currencies, solidarity-based initiatives...Last but not least, the successfull experiences of participation of those concerned, particularly the poorest, and of involvment of cultural actors in this dynamic of change.The challenge: proactive and courageous policies, effective regulationIt is now time to bring out such initiatives of their niches and to break the "glass ceiling" that prevents them from transforming the world ... and society.To achieve such a goal, proactive policies and effective regulation are crucial, because the market can't regulate itself. It is also possible because for 20 years, the concept of sustainable development made its way into institutions and in minds. Given the crises described above, the biggest part of the world's population is now ready to understand their relevance and emergency.So as in Belgium, it is high time to apply the "durability testing" (impact assessment of decisions on sustainable development), enshrined in law and mandated but not yet implemented. Yet this tool being ?oiled? at different power levels, we could make it effectively inspiring for others countries.Renew our commitment yes, if it is for such a goal!The final declaration of the Rio Conference in 2012 has to be an inspiring and motivating document for all stakeholders invited to renew their commitments for the future, while taking into account not only the "emerging challenges" but also all those who waited too long for the decisive stage of regulation.This commitment will be meaningful only if it is based on:? thorough analysis of the reasons why our development patterns aren't sustainable? an alternative proposal responding to the whishes of the majority, by insuring social justice in the redistribution of the wealth produced? a drastic reduction of the footprint of industrialized countries while preventing runaway in some emerging countries.Renew our commitment: yes, but how?This commitment can be translated into sustainable development Goals (SDG). At first, they should not compromise the continuation of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Anyway, for those SDG to be acceptable, relevant, realistic and measurable by all parties, their definition will take some time. It is thusreasonable to agree the SDG to take over the MDGs as from 2015.Managing transition to fair and sustainable ways of lifeThe first theme of the conference -a green economy- is reductive, even though the following clarification was added: "In the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication."By the way, green economy is presented as the main solution. Decoupling is one of the measures but not the only one to allow a real change of paradigm & civilization. The priority is now to put the social pillar in the heart of the debate. Indeed, allowing more fairness in a world with limited resources, requires not only technical changes but also social and cultural innovations.The economy is not a goal but a tool that must be converted so as to allow transition to a fair and sustainable patterns for all.Furthermore, the aim is to fight against inequality and not against poverty (certainly not against the poor!)Why transform the economy?Because since 1992, overall wealth produced by growth), exploded! But translating these gains in economic welfare is less efficient. Between 1990 and 2001, for every $ 100 increase in GDP / person, only $ 0.6 helped reduce extreme poverty ($ 1 / day / person). So, for every dollar allocated to poverty reduction, $ 166 come from production and consumption. The poor performance of the current economic model not only does not contribute to reduction of inequalities, it exacerbates also dangerously environmental degradation.How to transform the economy? 1.Ensuring compliance with social and environmental standards 2.Internalizing in costs all social andenvironment costs. 3.In these perspective, it is necessary to go beyond GDP with a set of indicators, focusing on the ecological footprint (which should be as close as possible to 2 ha / person / year), on employment, inequality (a GINI index as low as possible), well-being and the realization of human rights. According to the Human Development Index (HDI), the minimum level to achieve worldwide minimum = 0.8.Equity, redistribution, participationCurrently, the least developed countries lack the financial means to implement such a policy. However, these countries are in the frontline to face famine and climate change.Meanwhile, in Northern countries, societies are increasingly dual.Therefore, it is urgent to: 1.Ensure, in each State and at the global level, more redistributive policies that reduce inequalities and ensure the realization of basic human rights for all. 2.Protect Social Security where it exists (eg in Belgium) against the austerity policies, and promote it where it remains to be established. 3.Recognize gender differentiated impact of climate change and strengthen the role of Women, as agents of change, in the decision-making processes by improving access to resources, land and skills ensuring their right to sexual and reproductive health and education as mentioned in Chapter 24 of Rio Declaration (1992). 4.Consolidate the role of policy as regulators. 5.Control and regulate financial markets, therefore tax havens must be forbidden. 6.Create tax instruments harmonized on global level: financial transactions tax, carbon tax wealth tax, withdrawal from the Agreement of Chicago giving the airline industry an exemption from tax on kerosene. 7.Establish fully participation processes that systematically take into account the views of civil society on different power levels, particularly in the context of international meetings; for example, the new "Committee for Food Security" (CFS) established within the framework of United Nations (FAO).Reduce the environmental footprintThe drain on natural resources should be minimized, while maximizing the positive social and environmental effects of new production and consumption models.Therefore, the following steps need cooperation rather than competition between States, in order to:
1. Set product standards on global level, so as to ban pollutants on global level as well.
2. Subordinate world trade agreements to treaties on labor, environment, agriculture and human rights, so that it really takes into account needs and potentials of people, preservation and restoration of natural resources. So, prices in B to C exchanges should really internalise the costs of different production processes and marketing patterns so that they become sustainable and in order to stop dumping.
3. Reach a binding, ambitious and fair climate agreement, so that EU is committed to reduce GHG emissions by at least 40% within Europe and to finance the climate fund for developing countries. 4. Ensure greater coherence for all SD policies.This requires:
? a "no harm" procedure so as to avoid conflicting policies or measures (eg, a Belgian or European climate policy inducing land grabs and a netto increase of greenhouse gases beyond our borders).
? Reinforced analysis tools: systematic impact assessments ? including gender among other criteria ? of trade policies, financial, agricultural, climate, cooperation, etc. .... on SD.
? Stated objectives to fight inequalities (not against the poors but with their participation)
? stricter application of the precautionary principle to new technologies.Our ?common's? futureThe international community must now integrate a hierarchy of rights giving primacy to the commons and public interest. Therefore:
1. Basic rights all over the world must be realized with respect for international human rights and environmental conventions. These, like food security, must be above trade laws in the hierarchy.
2. It is time to shift land, agriculture and trade policies by giving primacy to the right of use for soil and natural resources rather than to exchange laws.So as to stop merchandising of commons, the principles related to the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity (TEEB), should be reviewed. Ultimately, credible alternatives to emissions trading and other ?rights to pollute? should be defined because so as they are, they increase inequalitites.
Agriculture: a priority solution
During Rio UNCSD Summit, a particular attention should be given to the entire food system. On this point, Associations 21 refers to the common declaration of civil society entitled "Rio +20: time to act" www.timetoactrio20.orgIndeed, agriculture is both a problem and the main solution to feed the world on a sustainable way, while ensuring food sovereignty principles and self-sufficiency.In that perspective, let:
1. relocate production and diversify consumption and food processing by reducing the power of oligopolies.. 2.Stop land grabbing. 3. Give priority to the food function in land use including ensuring Women?s acces to land. 4. Support farming and agro-ecology. 5. Replenish food stocks at the regional level to ensure the supply of distressed areas and to avoid speculative outbreaks of prices, while ensuring proper management of stocks in order to avoid waste. 6. Improve the local processing, including by Women, to increase the added value and therefore the management and control of income on the spot of production.Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development: providing the means to act multilaterallyInstitutional reform considered in the Rio+20 process is an opportunity for adopting within the UN institutions a strategy to integrate the principle of sustainable development into all policies and institutions. To do this: 1. The coordination of different agencies and programs must be provided by an executive body with the authority and resources needed to monitor and sanction, if needed. In that perspective, the "Commission of Sustainable Development" (CSD) must be transformed and eventually merged with ECOSOC. 2. Beside this, it is now time for UNEP to become a true World Environment Organisation, like the WTO and the ILO, the WTO being subject to compliance with social and environmental standards in all economic policies. 3. In order to legitimate taking account of sustainability on all levels, we also advocate the creation of an international panel of experts on sustainability like the IPCC (for climate) and the IAAST (for Agriculture and Food). Such a panel should be balanced regarding to gender and South//North. 4. The recommendations from the Committee for Food Security (UN / FAO) must be applied in the regions and states with the participation of civil society. 5. Environmental justice must be ensured and the principle 10 of Rio Declaration must be implemented. Therefore Arrhus Convention should be extended worldwide. 6. A multilateral protocol should ensure implementation of the precautionary principle before any use of new technologies. 7. The framework for action should include accountability mechanisms for authorities. They should be accountable to the major groups and create services "ombudsman" for future generations.
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Three is a magic number, says veteran actor and playwright Ted Swartz. "That's true in baseball, theater and comedy," he says. "I generally listen when things come in threes." The adage has served him well for more than 20 years, as Swartz '89, M.Div '92, has engaged with the unlikely trio of theology, comedy and issues of faith. First with Lee Eshleman '86 in Ted ...More


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You know, there are a lot of people weighing in on this Amber Cole thing. But most of the conversation is about her, as is par for the course in our culture. The boys involved are still anonymous in the eyes of the world. For me, I always wonder why there aren't open letters to these kids? There are tons to Amber Cole -- people saying they could be her father, people saying STFU with all that victim-blaming and feminist-scapegoating madness -- but no one seems interested in writing letters to the boys involved.
But hey, maybe it's just me. I guess when one of your friends -- along with a person who sexually assaulted you - ends up in jail for gang rape, you start thinking about things a bit differently.
After I wrote the Not Rape Epidemic, right after I submitted the essay, but before it was actually published, I ran into an old friend at my local library. I hadn't seen this friend in a decade -- indeed, I didn't remember her name until I left the library. Yet somehow, we both happened to be in the same library, at the same time, on the same day, after not seeing each other for ten years. We say hey, make small talk.
And then she asks me: "Did you know T got out?"
We both were silent for a second. We hadn't talked since before the incident. She didn't know that I had been to that trial. She didn't know I had seen the girl. And I had forgotten she was far closer to him than I was. When T and the other kids were sentenced, we calculated they would get out when we were in our 30s or 40s. We didn't realize how the system works, and how a lot of people end up released early. T had been incarcerated from age 14 to about age 24.
"His sister called me," my friend continued. "She asked me if I wanted to come to his his welcome home party." She looked at me, stared hard so I could feel the weight of her pain.
"How am I supposed to look at him after he did something like that?"
Folks have been largely silent on the role of boys and men in all this. Who, exactly, taught this young kid that the right way to treat a girl who likes him is to ask her to perform a sex act in public? (If the rumors are to be believed, she was attempting to win his affection.) Who taught the boy with the camera that they could video record sex acts and upload them to the internet without consent of the principals? Who the hell is the third kid who is just watching? Why is he hanging around while this is happening? Is anyone concerned that the things these boys learned, either explicitly from their peers or implicitly from society? That these actions got two of them arrested? Started them down the pipeline for incarceration? May have them branded as a sexual offenders for the rest of their days?
Oh, but that's cool right?
When Jimi Izrael writes:
I am Amber Cole's father and this should go with saying: I am angry with those boys. But I knew those boys. Those boys were my friends. I grew up with those boys, hung out with those boys.
He writes that he is the other guy. But there are no other guys. My friend didn't have problems with gathering female attention. He didn't seem like the type to do something like a brutal gang rape ending in sodomy. And, if what I knew about his personality wasn't completely wrong, he probably did not participate. But he was there. He watched. He did not help this girl, being beaten bloody by one of his friends. He didn't stop the act. Maybe he tried to intervene, maybe he didn't -- I don't know, he had already been tried and sentenced. But he was there. And he left with the other perpetrators. That's why they have accessory charges.
And that's why I don't want to think about him, and that's why my friend didn't want to look him in the face. Because he was there and said nothing.
Our culture teaches boys that this is okay. That it is okay to use people. That you are expected to disregard a woman's feelings, to do what you want with her, to find women who are pliable who you can mold, who will seek your favor and happily trade a few moments on her knees for her affection. Our society teaches boys that this is ok, that this is what you do with women. The onus is on women not to be used. Men do not hear "don't be an abuser" in the same way men don't hear "don't be a rapist." The onus is always on women keeping themselves safe, on women not putting themselves in positions to be attacked or exploited. And when something does happen, when teenagers being teenagers suddenly becomes a nation newsstory, everyone wants to talk about what the girl should have done to prevent herself from being in the situation.
Once again, we aren't talking to the boys.
So if the boys don't know what is wrong, or why what they did was wrong, they will never know. Because we don't talk to boys in that way. We want them to muddle through on their own, we allow them to consume messages that say the path to proving your masculinity lies in dominance, in the subjugation of women for sexual means. Because that's all this really is. A boy, thinking he could be seen as cool, if he could get this girl to do this thing while his friends watched. A girl, thinking she could win this boy, by doing this thing, not realizing this wasn't a game she could ever win.
We talk about the school to prison pipeline. We don't talk about this.
We don't tell boys what they learned is wrong. So we shouldn't be surprised if they repeat the behavior, if that behavior becomes habit. We tell them, in our actions and words, that this was okay. Because there's little outrage directed at these boys. So if they draw the conclusion that "she shouldn't have let me do it" instead of "that whole situation that I orchestrated was wrong, and I hurt someone else very badly, and I hurt myself," we shouldn't be surprised.
And if these boys then repeat that behavior, then we shouldn't be surprised.
Because we are too busy lecturing Amber Cole. We don't know what's going on with these boys. And so, it is only a matter of time before the women who know them cannot bear to look at them either.
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In her four books about her family, Patti Davis, the rebellious daughter of the late President Ronald Reagan, has been outspoken and honest, committed to telling the truth as she sees it no matter how uncomfortable others may be. But in her latest work, Till Human Voices Wake Us, she tries her hand at a different kind of tale—a delicious, scandalous yet entirely fictional love story. Till Human Voices Wake Us is about a woman who tragically loses her young son, then falls in love with her sister-in-law.
Davis talked to MORE about the book, finally having the freedom to write what she wants and, yes, her dad.
MORE: Where did the idea for Till Human Voices Wake Us come from?
Patti Davis: I actually started it 12 years ago because I overheard a couple of strangers talking about two sisters-in-law who had fallen in love with one another and simultaneously divorced their husbands. The only other part of the conversation that I heard was that they had no history of being gay or bisexual or anything; they just fell in love. So when I sat down to start putting it into a novel, I thought, Well, there has to be some way into this story. I mean, two women, sisters-in-law, don't just sit across the lunch table and go, "Oh my god, I just realized I love you." That's when I remembered another story from my past that was tucked away in my brain. I knew a woman many years ago who lost her toddler, a little boy, in a swimming pool accident at home. And what really struck me was that she said, "I don't know to this day who left the screen door open." I read into it that she thought maybe it was even her and that she had blocked it out. So that's how I started the book. It made sense to me in that when everything inside of you just breaks apart, something totally unexpected like falling in love with your sister-in-law could move in.
MORE: The book is self-published. In fact, you've spoken publicly about publishers not wanting to take the book on. Why do you think they were reluctant?
P.D.: Oh, I know exactly why: I am known for nonfiction work. Even though I've written a few novels, I'm known for writing about my family. And I think something that happens in the world of publishing is, you are put in a box, and shame on you if you try to get out of it. This novel made the rounds a couple of times, and editors loved it but yet no one would publish it. The agent who really took this book under his wing and nurtured it with me until he passed away in 2003, Jed Mattes, said to me, "You know, if you weren't you, I could sell this book really easily."
MORE: You published it through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing and their print version, CreateSpace. How is it selling?
P.D.: It sold really well right away. I promoted it on Twitter and on Facebook. Now it's kind of up and down and I do sort of obsessively check the rankings, but that's another thing I think that self publishing shows you: Putting your work out there is supposed to be a marathon, not a sprint. And when you are conventionally published, if you don't sell a lot of books right out of the gate, you're looked at as a failure. I've been called a failure.
Kindle Direct Publishing and CreateSpace are really giving writers the opportunity to put their work out in the world, and I just can't say enough about them.
MORE: Joan Baez once said to you, "When do you get to say what you want to say?" Was it nice to finally be able to write freely without a publisher setting guidelines?
P.D: Well, Baez was speaking in another context: It was the '80s at the height of the anti-nuclear movement. And I was protesting my father's policies. But it was kind of a transcendent moment for me because even though I'd just met her, I felt like she was reaching way inside of me and was realizing not that I wasn't saying what I wanted to say about that particular issue, but that I felt sort of imprisoned. Which I did. I felt imprisoned as a first daughter and as the offspring of this iconic figure, which is a typical response for children of famous people. You feel like you don't have the room to say what you want to say.
Moving on to the publishing word to me was kind of an extension of that. There is something infantilizing about it. You're asking permission for your work to be put out into the world. And so I feel like I can say what I want to say now not only about my work but about the experience of it being out in the world. Whereas before with every book it was like, "Well, no, you should say this." In the past, I was reviewed for me. I wasn't being reviewed for my book.
MORE: Till Human Voices Wake Us is written in first person, but you started the book in the third person. Why?
P.D.: I can't quite remember if when I started it I had an instinct that it should be in first person, but I remember trying to force it into third person. And Jed Mattes said, "Why is this in third person?" and I said, "Well, I don't want people to think it's me." And he said, "You know, the voice that a book is supposed to be told in, it's inherent in the story. You can't force it to be something that it doesn't want to be." And he said, "I think this story cries out to be in the first person. This is such deep stuff—the grief, the falling in love. It cries out to be told in this person's voice." And I knew he was right.
MORE: In a recent article, you said you didn't want to write another Fifty Shades of Grey. How is this book different?
P.D.: There are some love scenes, but the emphasis is on love. And when I got to those love scenes, I didn't want to be graphic. I didn't want it to turn into something that took you outside of the love story. So I was very careful how I described it. And, really, what I thought about when I was writing it was, How would two straight women feel? Technically it's not too hard to figure out what you're going to do [in bed with another woman]. But if you've never done it before, I think you'd be very scared. They were both very scared and very nervous.
MORE: At its heart, the book is really about an age-old dilemma: inconvenient love. Why was that appealing to you?
P.D.: As I said, when I overheard the conversation, I thought, Well, this is a version of inconvenient love that at that point I had never thought about. And it had so many dimensions to it—the breaking apart of two marriages at the same time, the extended family and how they feel about that. It just had all these different layers to it.
MORE: The issue of gay equality and gay marriage is dominating the headlines—did you always plan to publish the book at a moment like this?
P.D.: No. That was one of those happy coincidences that happens to writers sometimes. You know, every writer loves those because it makes us look really smart, but the truth is, it was just a coincidence.
MORE: You recently said you believe your father would have supported gay marriage. Why was it important for you to say that?
P.D.: Obviously the gay community is still by and large very angry at my father for his tardiness in addressing the AIDS issue. It seemed a perfectly organic thread in all of this—in the novel that I'm publicizing right now and in what's going on in the country and the way the ultra-conservative right keeps using my father for anything that they want. So I did feel that it was an important point to make. I can't defend or make excuses for his tardiness in addressing the AIDS issue. He was late in coming to that. But it wasn't because of any kind of prejudice on his part.
You know, my father's flaw was that he trusted people around him too much. And he delegated authority and put too much trust in the people around him. And I think the people around him did not want him addressing anything that had to do with gay people. So the fact that there was AIDS out there, and that so many people in the gay community were ill or dying, was I think something they kept from him. When his friend Rock Hudson died is when he did address it and speak out. But, you know, I never did ask him toward the end or before Alzheimer's claimed too much of him, "Do you wish that you had spoken up sooner?" In my heart I think he probably in retrospect wished that he had.
Till Human Voices Wake Us is available on Amazon Kindle for $2.99 and in paperback for $8.99.
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