text: Women History Makers EDCI658 Fall 2006 1 Marva Collins "The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another" 2 Marva Collins Grew up in Atmore, Alabama at a time when segregation was the rule Attended a school where Black people were not permitted to use the public library, and her schools had few books, and no indoor plumbing Graduated from Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia She taught school in Alabama for two years. She moved to Chicago and taught in Chicago's public school system for fourteen years. Dissatisfaction with the education received by her two youngest children in prestigious private school 3 Marva Collins Open her own school on the second floor of her home. She took the $5,000 balance in her school pension fund and began her educational program with an enrollment of her own two children and four other neighborhood youngsters Westside Preparatory School was founded in 1975 in Garfield Park, a Chicago inner-city area During the first year, Marva took in learning disabled, problem children and even one child who had been labeled by Chicago public school authorities as borderline retarded At the end of the first year, every child scored at least five grades higher 4 Marva Collins CBS program, 60 minutes, visited her school twice The little girl who was labeled as borderline retarded graduated from college Summa Cum Laude Some Marva's students entered the most prestigious universities in the country such as Harvard, Stanford, and Yale She was featured on Good Morning, America, 20/20, Fox News, and many more programs A made-for-television movie titled, The Marva Collins Story starred Cicely Tyson and Morgan Freeman first aired in1 1982, and is still presented on television 5 Marva Collins Some of her awards are The Jefferson Award for Benefiting the Disadvantaged The Humanitarian Award for Excellence Legendary Women of the World Award Many honorary doctoral degrees from universities such as Amherst, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, and Clark University The prestigious National Humanities Medal from President Bush in 2004 6 Marva Collins Business organizations she has spoken to The National Girl Scouts The National Retailers Association The National Dairy Association The European Division of IBM Xerox Corporation The Million Dollar Roundtable The Young President's Organization (YPO) The National Bankers' Association Anheuser-Busch,C Coors she has trained executives of Long John Silvers. 7 Marva Collins Program and Method Her educational program and method are based on the Socratic method emphasizing logical analysis and sound reasoning skills Her reading materials deliver abstract ideas She encouraged multiple interpretations not one correct answer Her 4th graders read Plato' Republic and reflect on the big question: "what is justice ?" She reads all the materials to be given to her students in advance and develops an voluntary list called "wordsto-watch" 8 Marva Collins Program and Method When teaching reading, Marva asks her students to predict what is going to happen from the title and from the earlier paragraphs By posing questions along with the process of reading, she seeks to cultivate meta-cognitive skills such as reasoning, providing evidence, and analyzing She always asks her students to justify their answers Her classroom management strategies are to involve all her students in the class discussion and to encourage self-discipline using reasoning She was against abuse of worksheet, workbook, or seatwork on the ground that these methods do not encourage analytical thinking 9 Marva Collins Quotes Effective teaching, I firmly believe, requires "repetitiondrill," "repetition-drill," "repetition-drill." One cannot plant a seed at night and have beans the next morning. It is foolish to expect anything that hasn't been planted, nurtured, tended to, fed, and cared for. If a student of mine doesn't respond to one teaching approach, I'll try many different ways to get my point across. I'd rather spend time teaching than testing and labeling. If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide 10 Marva Collins Quotes I have a dress code for staff and students in my school. Both are expected to arrive each day dressed like professionals in the one case, and, in the other case, come to school prepared to study and learn and practice the excellence that is required in the world of successful people. Certainly, we should teach children how one dresses for work and how one should carry oneself with pride and dignity. 11 Marva Collins Quotes I was in a Florida school last week where one of my charges had kicked the principal, and she was walking with a cane. He had bitten another teacher. When I began the class I said, "I am honored that you would allow me to be your teacher today. Of course, I only know how to teach bright boys and girls; good looking boys and girls, and I can tell that all of you are bright, and you are, emphatically, good looking." I added, "However, if there happens to be any dumb children in this class, you may leave now. If there are any ugly children in this class, you, too, may leave." Continuing, I stated, "I only know how to teach bright, wonderful, good-looking boys and girls." Not one student left the classroom. 12 Marva Collins's Books Marva Collins' Way, by Marva Collins with Civia Tamarkin The Marva Collins method; a manual for educating and motivating your child by Marva Collins Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers, by Marva Collins Values: Lighting The Candle of Excellence: A Practical Guide, by Marva Collins A conversation with Marva Collins: A Different School by Marva Collins Grandma, What Is Learning? by Marva Collins Redeeming Education by Marva Collins The School that Cared: A Story of the Marva Collins Preparatory School of Cincinnati, by P. Kamara Sekou Collins 13 Marva Collins Online Resources http://www.marvacollins.com/biography.html http://www.marvacollinspreparatory.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marva_Collins http://www.usdreams.com/Collins9091.html http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Marva _Collins/ 14 Lynn Cheney The Second Lady 15 Lynne Cheney and History Education "One of the important lessons we can learn is that freedom isn't inevitable. This realization should make the liberty we enjoy all the more important to us, all the more worth defending." Lynne Cheney has loved history for as long as she can remember, and she has spent much of her professional life writing and speaking about the importance of knowing history and teaching it well 16 Lynne Cheney and History Education she published American Memory, a report that warned about the failure of schools to transmit knowledge of the past to upcoming generations She launched the James Madison Book Award Fund, which presents a yearly award of $10,000 to the book that best represents excellence in bringing knowledge and understanding of American history to young people 17 Lynn Cheney Publications She is author or co-author of eight books Kings of the Hill (second edition, 1996, Simon & Schuster), a book about political figures, among them Henry Clay and Sam Rayburn, who played powerful roles in the House of Representatives. She wrote this book with her husband, who was a Congressman from Wyoming from 1979 to 1989. Telling the Truth (Simon & Schuster), analyzed the effect of postmodernism on study in the humanities. 18 Lynne Cheney Publications Children's Books America: A Patriotic Primer, released in May 2002, is an alphabet book for children of all ages and their families that celebrates the ideas and ideals that are the foundations of our country. A Is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women, published September 2003, tells the story of women's contributions to American history When Washington Crossed the Delaware: A Wintertime Story for Young Patriots, released in October 2004, is a straightforward yet elegant retelling of history She donated her revenues from these books to charity 19 Lynn Cheney Publications Our 50 States: A Family Adventure Across America America : A Patriotic Primer Sisters http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0811-07.htm "Let us go away together, away from the anger and imperatives of men. There will be only the two of us, and we shall linger through long afternoons of sweet retirement. In the evenings I shall read to you while your work your cross-stitch in the firelight. And then we shall go to bed, our bed, my dearest girl." 20 Lynn Cheney Dated Dick Cheney since high school and married in 1964 They had two grown daughters Mary and Elizabeth and four grandchildren http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/1041706213-4831947?url=searchalias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=lynn+cheney http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/08/01/ mary/index.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/mrscheney/bio.html http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0811-07.htm 21 Diane Ravitch 22 Diane Ravitch Diane Ravitch is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and former United States Assistant Secretary of Education who is now a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education She was born in 1938 in Houston, Texas, where she went to public schools. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, has a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and lives in Brooklyn, New York City 23 Diane Ravitch Assistant Secretary of Education (1991-1993) to Lamar Alexander during George H. W. Bush administration She led the federal effort to promote the creation of state and national academic standards She was a member of the National Assessment Governing Board from 1997 to 2004 (Appointed by Secretary of Education Richard Riley in 1997 and reappointed in 2001) From 1995 until 2005, she held the Brown Chair in Education Studies at the Brookings Institution and edited Brookings Papers on Education Policy Before entering government service, she was Adjunct Professor of History and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University national academic standards 24 Diane Ravitch Published Works The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn (2003) Left Back: A Century of Battles Over School Reform (2000) National Standards in American Education: A Citizen's Guide (1995) What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? (with Chester Finn, Jr.) [1987] The Schools We Deserve (1985) The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980 (1983) The Revisionists Revised (1978) The Great School Wars: New York City, 1805-1973 (1974) 25 Diane Ravitch Published Works Edited fourteen books some of them are The American Reader (1991) The Democracy Reader (with Abigail Thernstrom) [1992] Learning from the Past (with Maris Vinovskis) [1995] New Schools for a New Century (with Joseph Viteritti) [1997] She has written more than 400 articles and reviews for scholarly and popular publications 26 Diane Ravitch's International Influences She has lectured in Poland, the former Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic, Romania, the former Soviet Union, Hungary, the former Yugoslavia, Germany, Japan, Nicaragua, and throughout the United States. Her lectures on democracy and civic education have been translated by the USIA into many languages, including Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Russian, Belarussian, and Ukrainian. Her books have been translated into many languages, including Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, Swedish, and Japanese 27 Diane Ravitch She was elected to membership in the National Academy of Education (1979) the Society of American Historians (1984) the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985) the Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (2002) She was selected as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar in 1984-85, the first person chosen from the field of education studies She was awarded the Henry Allen Moe prize in the humanities by the American Philosophical Society in 1986 28 Diane Ravitch In 1988, she was designated an "honorary citizen of the state of California" by the State Legislature in recognition of her contributions to the state's history curriculum and its human rights curriculum In 1989, she received the Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award in 1989 She was honored as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library in 1992 The Library of Congress invited her to deliver lectures in 1993 in honor of the 250th birthday of Thomas Jefferson She received the Leadership Award of the Klingenstein Institute at Teachers College in 1994 and the Horace Kidger Award of the New England History Teachers Association in 1998. 29 Diane Ravitch In 2004, she received the Leadership Award of the New York City Council of Supervisors and Administrators. In 2005, she received the John Dewey award from the United Federation of Teachers of New York City; the Gaudium Award of the Breukelein Institute; and the Uncommon Book Award from the Hoover Institution In 2006, the Kenneth J. Bialkin/Citigroup Public Service Award was conferred on her. She was awarded an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, by the following institutions: Williams College; Reed College; Amherst College; the State University of New York; Ramapo College; St. Joseph's College of New York; Middlebury College Language Schools; and Union College. 30 Diane Ravitch Her most recent book The Language Police (2003) was a criticism of both left-wing and right-wing attempts to stifle the study and expression of views deemed unworthy by those groups. (See political correctness & multiculturalism) The book asserts that "pressure groups from the political right and left have wrested control of the language and content of textbooks and standardized exams, often at the expense of the truth (in the case of history), of literary quality (in the case of literature), and of education in general" Publishers Weekly wrote: "Ravitch contends that these sanitized materials sacrifice literary quality and historical accuracy in order to escape controversy" 31 Diane Ravitch Her critique of Multiculturalism and her calls for higher standards in public life have drawn fire. She is independent politically and was appointed to public office by both Republican president, George H. W. Bush and Democrat president Bill Clinton 32 Diane Ravitch Quotes Behind this disagreement are two different assumptions: I assume that our education system should aim to educate everyone who comes to school; the other side says that ability is distributed along a bellshaped curve and that we should not be overly concerned about the laggards because we will always need people to pick up the trash and sweep the streets. I confess that I get confused at this point because the current argument favoring low or no standards is coming from people who claim to be on the left. 33 Diane Ravitch Quotes Some evidence recently surfaced, which suggests that a democratic society pays a price for widespread ignorance. The Princeton Review, best known for its test preparation services, analyzed the vocabulary used by the presidential candidates in the campaign debates of 2000 and compared it to the vocabulary levels used in earlier campaign debates. 34 Diane Ravitch Quotes The Princeton Review obtained transcripts of the Gore-Bush debates, the Clinton-Bush-Perot debate of 1992, the Kennedy-Nixon debate of 1960, and the Lincoln-Douglas debate of 1858. It analyzed these transcripts using a standard vocabulary test that indicates the minimum educational level needed for a reader to understand a document. This test is ordinarily used to evaluate textbooks and other educational materials. 35 Diane Ravitch Quotes The results? In the debates of 2000, George W. Bush spoke at a sixth-grade level (6.7); Al Gore spoke at a high seventh-grade level (7.9). In 1992, challenger Bill Clinton scored in the seventh grade (7.6), President George Bush in the sixth grade (6.8), and Ross Perot at a sixth-grade level (6.3) (I am also confused why the left presidents scored higher) Our contemporary politicians, who found it necessary to speak to us as sixth and seventh graders, compared unfavorably with Kennedy and Nixon, both of whom spoke in a vocabulary appropriate for tenth graders. And they, in turn, looked sophomoric when compared to Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, whose scores, respectively, were 11.2 and 12.0 36 Diane Ravitch Quotes That may be a tough question to answer briefly. I would say that it (9/11) must be treated as the worst terrorist act in all history, the worst single loss of life on American soil other than in one Civil War battle. The event itself must be described in its true horror. The perpetrators of the evil must be identified clearly and their affiliation with radical extremist Islam must be explained. The explanation must show how this form of extremism seeks to create a theocratic society that threatens our most basic values; that it is non-democratic, does not believe in women's equality, does not tolerate freedom of speech or expression, seeks to impose religious rule over all institutions. That it is antimodern and is a threat not only to us but to world peace and development. 37 Diane Ravitch Online Resources http://www.dianeravitch.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Ravitch http://www.hoover.org/pubaffairs/dailyreport/ archive/2866856.html http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/i nterrogatory091603.asp 38 Deborah Meier "I wouldn't give the same test to everyone. I would rather test students in the same way that we test most things, by having good conversations" 39 Deborah Meier Deborah Meier has spent more than three decades working in public education as a teacher, principal, writer, advocate, and ranks among the most acclaimed leaders of the school reform movement in the U.S. Meier was born in New York City in 1931 Was educated at Antioch College (B. A.) and the University of Chicago (M. A.) She began her teaching career in Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia as an elementary and Head Start teacher 40 Deborah Meier For 20 years, Meier helped revitalize public schools in New York City's East Harlem district In 1974, Superintendent Tony Alvarado asked Meier to test her theories in a new elementary school in Harlem's District 4, where test scores were the lowest in the city She founded Central Park Elementary School (CPE), a highly successful alternative school emphasizing active learning based on Dewey's progressive thoughts Within the next dozen years, Meier opened two other Central Park elementary schools and, in collaboration with the National Coalition of Essential Schools, the Central Park East Secondary School 41 Deborah Meier Give teachers autonomy Give parents voices Her school reached a graduation rate of 90% and became a model for Small School Collaborative Meier is currently the principal of the Mission Hill School, a K-8 pilot elementary school recently established in Boston's Roxbury community Received a MacArthur Fellowship and several honorary degrees form from Bank Street College of Education, Brown, Bard, Clark, Teachers College of Columbia University, Dartmouth, Harvard, Hebrew Union College, Hofstra, The New School, Lesley College, SUNY Albany, UMASS Lowell, and Yale 42 Deborah Meier Meier documented her story and experience at Central Park East Secondary School in The Power of their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem (1995) Will Standards Save Public Education? (2000) In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization (2002) With Ted and Nancy Sizer, Keeping School: Letters to Families from Principals of Two Small Schools (2004) Co-edited with George Wood, Many Children Left Behind (2004), all published by Beacon Press 43 Deborah Meier Quotes The standardization movement is not based on a simple mistake. It rests on deep assumptions about the goals of education and the proper exercise of authority in the making of decisions– assumptions we ought to reject in favor of a different vision of a healthy democratic society By shifting the locus of authority to outside bodies, it undermines the capacity of schools to instruct by example in the qualities of mind that schools in a democracy should be fostering in kids–responsibility for one's own ideas, tolerance for the ideas of others, and a capacity to negotiate differences 44 Deborah Meier Quotes The coalition of experts which produced A Nation at Risk were wrong when they announced the failure of American public education and its critical role in our economic decline. Constructive debate about reform should begin by acknowledging this misjudgment. But it should then also acknowledge the even bigger crisis that schools have played a major part in deepening, if not actually creating, and could play a big part in curing. This crisis requires quite a different set of responses, often in direct conflict with standardization. 45 Deborah Meier Quotes An understanding of this other crisis begins by noting that we have the lowest voter turnout by far of any modern industrial country; we are exceptional for the absence of responsible care for our most vulnerable citizens (we spend less on child welfare–baby care, medical care, family leave–than almost every competitor); we don't come close to our competitors in income equity; and our high rate of (and investment in) incarceration places us in a class by ourselves. All of these, of course, effect some citizens far more than others: and the heaviest burdens fall on the poor, the young, and people of color. 46 Deborah Meier Quotes What is quality teaching? "Teaching that engages — or reengages — kids and their curiosity about the world, gets them asking questions and subjecting their own and other people's ideas to tough testing, that calls upon the best habits of mind and imagination, that makes perseverance seem obvious and natural, that widens their horizons in terms of subject matter, people, and places" 47 Deborah Meier Quotes How do race and class play out in relation to teaching quality? "For significant conversations to take place we need a teaching force that reflects the diversity of learners — that is able to grapple with the various perspectives and difficulties that we experience as learners in our society. How things "seem to be" through the eyes of males vs. females, blacks vs. whites, the well-off vs. the poorly off is critical to developing schools that take advantage of our children's multiple strengths." 48 Deborah Meier Quotes What I wanted was to create thoughtful citizens — people who believed they could live interesting lives and be productive and socially useful. So I tried to create a community of children and adults where the adults shared and respected the children's lives 49 Deborah Meier Online Resources http://www.deborahmeier.com/ http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/innovators/me ier.html http://www.pbs.org/merrow/tv/trust/interviews.html http://bostonreview.net/BR24.6/meier.html http://bostonreview.net/BR24.6/meier2.html http://schoolredesign.net/srn/server.php?idx=545 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Meier http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/20_02/deb o202.shtml http://www.missionhillschool.org/dmeier/deb.html 50


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Greg Whiteside has a huge grin on his face and a sparkle in his eye. The second-year law student is talking about a project he helped launch with Student Legal Assistance (SLA) and the Calgary Urban Project Society (CUPS) a little more than two years ago.
"It's the first of its kind in Western Canada, but the model is quite popular in the U.S.," says Whiteside about the Health-Justice Partnership between the organizations, which received funding from the Canada Summer Jobs program with the assistance of Kent Hehr, LLB'01, Member of Parliament for Calgary Centre and Minister of Veterans Affairs. "Medical-legal partnerships exist in some hospitals in the U.S., but there isn't anything similar here. It's really an emerging field in North America."
"All Canadians — no matter their means — should have the right to a fair trial and access to a modern, efficient justice system," says Hehr. "Last year we committed an additional $88 million over five years for legal aid funding partnerships with the provinces, and also put in a further $30 million per year in ongoing funding. While Canada Summer Jobs is a separate pool of funds from our work on legal aid, our commitment to access to justice is a value that I and this government hold dear and continues through into programs just like these."
Aligning with CUPS' mission to help people "overcome the challenges of poverty and attain brighter futures," the Health-Justice partnership brings legal help, and legal health, to help clients address all issues of poverty and the underlying concerns, and looks at the person as a whole when creating and implementing a healing and recovery plan.
As Whiteside points out, giving clients the legal avenues to ensure child support gets paid, or bylaw tickets are dropped, helps them address their more immediate issues, such as finding a place to live, dealing with medical issues, or getting childcare so they can work.
"We've learned that our clients have so much to deal with. Legal problems are never a priority, creating a vicious cycle that becomes difficult to escape. The services provided by CUPS fall in to a state of instability when the client is unable to pursue legal avenues for other issues. We're hoping to end that."
Database improves visibility of information across CUPS departments
Whiteside launched the project in 2016 with friend and undergraduate student Alex Van Olm, who is the technical guru behind the project. Van Olm is responsible for integrating legal services with the CUPS database. It gives practitioners in the housing and education departments at CUPS access to all the information about a client, and refers them to the appropriate people, including Whiteside. The database allows easy access to information that will help all service providers understand a patient's legal situation and how this may affect any medical, housing or family programming developed on the patient's behalf.
"I saw people in triage while working at the Rockyview Hospital who had been arrested and were brought in by the police to get medical attention," says Van Olm. "I knew there had to be a link to help people in similar situations, so I began researching medical-legal partnerships, and created a research proposal to incorporate the idea at SLA."
Van Olm was responsible for writing a research proposal and securing ethics approvals — for both the university and CUPS — for the project, which examines health provisions and health outcomes. He and Whiteside spent the summer of 2016 working with the housing and education departments to figure out how the existing databases were handled.
"As an undergrad student, it was a huge undertaking to balance my course work with getting sign-offs and approvals on all of the research requirements, but the payoff is great," says Van Olm. "The practitioners at CUPS love the new database because they see it as upstream advocacy, rather than treating people retroactively, and they can easily refer clients to SLA through the system."
Increasing access to justice for Calgary's marginalized populations
The project helps to increase access to justice for some of the city's most vulnerable citizens, one of SLA executive director Michelle Christopher's passions.
"Initiatives such as this one really help to address the access to justice gap, and to ultimately minimize it," says Christopher.
"We kept hearing from students that they wanted to participate in more outreach activities, especially in the inner city, so this was a great opportunity to engage with CUPS. Add to that the support from the federal government to provide summer employment opportunities for students through the Canada Summer Jobs program, and the province's Summer Temporary Employment program; it's really a win-win situation."
"With many young people have difficulty finding valuable work experience, the Canada Summer Jobs program is one way in which the Government of Canada is helping youth overcome barriers to employment," says Hehr. "Budget 2016 added $113 million per year for three years to the existing CSJ base funding of $107.5 million, enabling the program to double the number of students employed each year. In 2015 we had some 150 applications — now we've broken 250 applications to the program for Calgary Centre — with programs just like the University of Calgary's Law Student Legal Assistance team benefiting from this increase in funding."
As Christopher explains, it is important to understand that for vulnerable populations, health and legal issues are often intertwined, and that health-harming legal needs disproportionately affect people in poverty. Research done through other medical-legal partnerships shows that if you alleviate clients' legal problems first, health problems are reduced.
Helping lawyers become engaged in the broader community
Whiteside's moonshot goal of the project?
"I want to help the legal profession understand that when we take ourselves out of the silos, we can learn way more from the doctors, social workers, and psychologists, which will help us become better practitioners, to better engage in the community, and to help us approach law in a way that addresses what is really happening in our community."
Moving forward, Whiteside and Van Olm will use the database to extrapolate their findings from surveys and research to measure the impact and success of the program. The project will expand further to create a partnership with Alpha House this summer, furthering SLA's impact on improving access to justice for marginalized communities.
"It just makes sense to go where the people are, rather than them trying to come to us. By breaking down that additional barrier, we are able to help more clients get their lives back on track," says Christopher.


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"Okay," I said. Could he sense I was hiding something? Reading William was near-impossible pretty much always.
"Also, you left this," William added, holding out the old camera.
"I didn't feel right taking it," I replied, shrugging.
"It'll just gather dust at mine. You'll actually use it. Besides, aren't couples meant to give gifts? Even if they are secret ones," William said, grinning.
"Well then I have to get something for you," I murmured, feeling my cheeks flush. Why did that always happen when he was around? He laughed, dropping the camera on my bedside table and wrapping his hands around his waist from behind. I leaned back into him automatically, resting my head against his shoulder.
"I've got a lot of stuff, I don't need more," he said, kissing my head and nuzzling my hair. I didn't like the answer, but I knew he was right. I'd seen the flat full of boxes.
"Fine," I muttered. He chuckled at my tone and lowered his head, one of his hand lifting to angle my face. The kiss was sweet and achingly short. It surprised me when he pulled away before it could go farther.
"Want to watch a movie?" he asked, surprising me.
"Sure," I replied, though I wondered why. In the end I picked the primeval series rather than a movie. Mostly because William had said he hated modern stuff, and I was determined to change his mind. As I put in the disk he scanned the other DVDs I had, laughing.
"Why do you have a series about vampires and werewolves?" he asked, picking up the first season of Being Human.
"Diane bought it for me," I grimaced. William laughed again, putting it back. I was starting to really like the sound of his laugh. It was a soft, child-like sound that made it hard to believe he was an elder. He cocked an eyebrow and I realised I'd been starring. I looked away, turning on the TV and starting up the series. I grabbed the remote and sat on my bed. William joined me. By the end of the first episode I was snuggled against him, laughing at the dialogue. I could tell he was resisting, but he gave himself away everytime he gave a quiet chuckle and smiled. We watched a few more before I started yawning. William stole the remote from me, smirking at my frown.
"You should sleep," he said, turning off the TV and DVD player.
"You realise I'm not a kid, right?" I countered.
"I'm very much aware you're an adult," he replied, an edge underlying his words as his smirk widened. I refused to acknowledge my blushing. Maybe it'd make it go away if I pretended it didn't happen. Yeah right. William lifted a hand, running a thumb over my cheek, smiling. The kiss was like the first one when he'd come inside. I couldn't help a small growl when he pulled away too quickly.
"My," he murmured, raising an eyebrow. "I didn't realise you wanted me that badly."
"Says the guy who kissed me first," I threw back, scooting closer. He noted the motion with amusement.
"I wouldn't have done it if I didn't think you'd be receptive," William replied, leaning back on both arms casually.
"What are we going to do?" I asked, surprising him with a serious question. "Eventually someone's going to notice your scents hanging around. And with the Francis thing sorted, we have no reason to see each other," I rambled nervously.


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Next generation anode to improve lithium-ion batteries
|A paper describing the research was published in the journal Scientific Reports ("Tin nanoparticles as an effective conductive additive in silicon anodes"). The project was led by Lorenzo Mangolini, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering in UCR's Bourns College of Engineering.
|The silicon-tin nanocomposite developed at UCR viewed by high angle angular dark field imaging. The larger green particles are silicon and the smaller red particles are tin. (Image: UC Riverside)
|Lithium-ion batteries, the most popular rechargeable batteries in personal electronics, are composed of three main parts: an anode, a cathode, and a lithium salt dissolved in an organic solvent. While graphite is the material of choice for most anodes, its performance is a limiting factor in making better batteries and expanding their applications.
|Both silicon and tin have been investigated as novel high-performance alternatives for graphite anodes. In the current research, Mangolini's group showed for the first time that combining both materials into a single composite leads to dramatic improvements in battery performance. In addition to tripling the charge capacity offered by graphite, the silicon-tin nanocomposite is extremely stable over many charge-discharge cycles, essentially extending its useful life. These features, coupled with a simple manufacturing process, could help the expansion of lithium-ion batteries for use in next-generation vehicles.
|"Lithium-ion batteries are growing in popularity for electric vehicles and aerospace applications, but there is a clear need to alleviate range anxiety--the fear that a vehicle won't have enough charge to reach its destination--before we will see large-scale adoption. Any technology that can help is welcome, as long as it is simple and scalable, and our technology meets both those criteria," Mangolini said.
|Mangolini said adding tin to the silicon, rather than another conductive material such as carbon black, would circumvent the low conductivity of silicon without decreasing energy storage.
|"The synergistic effects between these two materials lead to batteries that exceed the performance of each of the two components alone, an improvement that is a result of the high electrical conductivity and good energy storage capacity of tin. This can be achieved with the addition of even minor amounts of tin, as small as 2 percent by weight," he said.
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Every bowler has a desire to get five or more wickets in a match but Only few did it. Here is a list of top 10 Best Bowling Figures in ODI's. CH Vass is the leader of this List With 8 Wickets, no one ever achieved the feat accept Vaas. mr Boom Boom is 2nd with 7/12 bowling figures in 2013 vs West Indies. have a look at the list.
One of most under-rated fast bowler of this era "Tim Southee" is the most recent inclusion in this list. Southee has scalped 7 wickets vs England in group match of world cup 2015, distroy them to 123 in 33.2 overs.
Best Bowling Figures in ODI
12. Ajantha Mendis – 6/13
Srilankan Mystry Spinner Ajantha Mendis has the 10th Best Bowling Figures in ODI's. he Picked up 6 Wickets Against India in 2008, Giving Away Just 13 Runs.
11. Anil Kumble – 6/12
One of all time greatest spin bowler in the history, Anil Kumble. he is the former indian Captain. Has Best Bowling Performance Was Against West Indies in 1993, When He Got 6 wickets for Just 12 Runs. his performance ranked as No 9 in List of Best Bowling Figures in ODI's.
10. Stuart Binny – 6/4
Young Indian All-Rounder Stuart Binny Became with 9th All Time Best Bowling Figure in ODI against Bangladesh 17th of June 2014. he help India to Defend a very Low Total of 105 runs with his 6 for 4 Runs Performance, that was actually Best Ever Bowling Figures for Any Indian Bowler in ODIs. Binny Bowled only 4.4 overs 2 of them was maiden, and give away just four runs.
9. Winston Davis – 7/51
Former West Indies Fast Bowler, Who repersented His National Team in 15 Tests and 36 ODI's. Winston Davis has the record of 8th Best Bowling Figures in ODI's. he got 7 wicket against Australia in 1983.
8. Aaqib Javed – 7/37
Aaqib Javed, the Former Pakistani Pacer has the 7th Best Bowling Figures in ODI's. Aaqib got 7 wickets against india at sharjah, giving away just 37 runs. Aaqib's 7/37 Bowling Figure Remained World Record from 1993 to 2000.


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Esta casa oferece o conforto e charme de uma escapadela de férias perfeito. Apenas a cinco minutos a pé da Vail Beach, onde você pode apreciar a grandeza do de Block Island Southern Shore .......... O espaço confortável sala 2 º andar tem janelas de cada lado, com vista para 4. 5 hectares de belos terrenos privados . Nosso grande lago de água doce é o nosso centro de interesse e um ímã para BI Wildlife. .... A Bluestone Terraço fora do quarto principal tem mobília confortável e uma churrasqueira a gás. A área da cozinha no segundo andar está totalmente equipada com micro-ondas, máquina de lavar louça, fogão a gás e geladeira. O espaço também está equipado com TV a cabo, videocassete / DVD e Stereo. (Sem máquina de lavar e secar roupa) .......... Apenas 3 km pitorescas de Old Harbor ou New Harbor. Um local perfeito para artistas e famílias. Nenhum animal de estimação.
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We've stayed at four different places on Block Island over the past decade, and this property is our favorite by far, though it was not the most expensive. We came early in the spring, the year before last, when the Island was still quiet and remained chilly even in the afternoons. It was the first place we'd rented only from internet views, and I was a bit apprehensive not to have scouted it out first. From the moment we opened the door we were enchanted. Richly colored wood floors and ceilings, and a big open great room, decorated with bright yellows and blues, gave the cottage a warm and cozy feel (along with a heating system thet kept the actual chill well at bay). It was easy to imagine, though, that later in the season it would feel breezy and open to the Island's winds on long hot summer days, and that the outdoor shower would be in regular use. I was pleased by the 'little things' that made us feel as if we were staying in a friend's well-appointed home, rather than a rental pooperty. The furniture, wall hangings, linens, kitchen items - everywhere you turned there were nice quality furnishings, artfully arranged . . . not the mish-mosh leftovers or plain servicibility that sometimes makes do in furnished places. It was a place of quiet, calm beauty, inside and out. The grounds were lovely, casually landscaped with an old-fashioned sensibility that reminded me poignantly of my grandparents' New England country home in spring, with its stone fences, blooming forscythia and budding fruit trees. Getting to the beach was an easy walk, even for those of us who aren't as athletic as we once were; it was great to have it right there. No need to plan a trip or find the car keys. Just wake up in the morning and wander down before breakfast if you like. The propertys' owners weren't at home next door while we were there, but they were helpful on the phone when we wanted advice about living on the Island -- a nice balance of inobtrusive availability that allowed us to enjoy the cottage as our own, but with help if needed. The only complaint I could muster was that the queen sized mattress was past its prime, but I see that it has now been replaced. Photos, books and notebooks from other visitors made the cottage seem alive with the energy of many seasons' vacationers. For us, it was a magical place that enabled us to truly escape life's stress and pressure for a time. We plan to return often.
I found this adorable cottage on line and took it site unseen. I was very, very pleased with the location and amenities of the cottage.
There is a quaint pond with deer in the yard early mornings.
The propery was very clean with high speed internet available. The owners are next door on occasion and were very helpful giving me beach chairs and lending sheets and towels, since I now live in Florida.
I would be happy to reccomend this to anyone and I am staying again this year!
Downside was the bad bed in Master but the owner is buying a new one for this year. Also, not for people who do not want to walk down stairs to go to the bathroom. It is a reverse living plan so bath is off bedrooms.
Duck Crossing is charming and the best beach is right down the street!
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Shimla, July 10 (UNI) The Himachal Pradesh's State Level Single Window Clearance and Monitoring Authority (SLSWCMA) today cleared nine new industrial proposals, amounting to Rs 1,095 crore, taking the total investments in the state to Rs 30,655 crore since the announcement of the special industrial package.
The State Level Single Window Clearance and Monitoring Authority, which held its 32nd meeting here today under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, cleared nine new industrial proposals that would provide employment to over 3,100 people. Speaking on the occasion, he said among the major investors were Met Trade India Limited, which would invest Rs 497.87 crore and provide employment to 681 people Plaza General Cable Energy Limited, which would invest Rs 142 crore and employ 210 people.
Mr Dhumal said several others industrial units have expressed their willingness to set up their units here in view of the industrial friendly environment of the state, best climatic conditions and basic industrial infrastructure availability.
In all, since the announcement of the Special Industrial Package for the State, the Authority had so far cleared 10,866 such proposals and permitted expansion of 318 additional projects for total investment of Rs. 30,655.75 crore, he said.
He said these units would also provide employment to about 3.79 lakh people of the state.
The state government would discourage industrial proposals with high pollution, power consumption and low employment generation potential, he said.
The Chief Minister said all such projects had been put under the negative list, which would be considered only on case to case basis after taking all related aspects into consideration.
Himachal would also not allow any industrial activity at the cost of the environment and interest of the state, he said.
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Today its time for Andra Pradesh and Tripura to play against each other after the complition of Ranji Trophy 2015-16 series. Till now their is no information about the venue so our experts have a drawback of not taking the survey of stadium rightnow but today they predict on the bases of both the teams. Now we talk about the team:
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Andra Pradesh :- We have no doubt by saying this that Andra Pradesh performance was really so impressive as they are always trying to have maximum fours and sixes. Team players also having the strenght to have a heavy sixes over the audience all the players are always thankful to their captain for this.
Tripura :- I must say that Tripura is also one of the impressive performance team who's players always have the capacity of making as much as possible from the inning and their captain keeps them always alert at time of fielding which help them to save maximum boundries.
Andhra Pradesh vs Tripura, Group C Vijay Hazare Trophy 2015, Prediction
The Match Prediction Andhra Pradesh vs Tripura, Group C Vijay Hazare Trophy 2015 is:
Andhra Pradesh – 46%
Tripura – 54%
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With the arrival of the new engine option (NEO), the A330 Family continues to go from strength-to-strength. Technological advances in modern engines and wing design further enhance the performance of this aircraft; delivering savings on fuel burn while simultaneously helping the environment.
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Likewise, various names exist for self-storage facilities. In all, expect to come across five general types of storage facilities.
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Seeking Lower Costs
To get the most bang for your buck and avoid breaking the bank, shop around for the best prices and only rent storage space you know you will need. The larger the item, the more space required.
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Packing Tips
An art form exists when it comes to packing - you don't want to throw whatever you get your hands on in a box. To be more efficient, fill the boxes with similar items. For example, don't mix glassware with utensils. Always try to fill the box to capacity, and remember, anything left unpacked will become dusty. If you're storing fragile items, consider packing them in a separate box filled with foam peanuts for extra protection.
From there, you can create a label system to help locate specific boxes within the unit. Markers tend to wear out after time. Label makers are a smart, inexpensive option to help you identify a box's contents.
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Glassware and valuable china should all be individually wrapped and placed in reinforced or separate boxes. You can then use the label maker to ensure the word "fragile" is somewhere on the box.
Storing Furniture
Different pieces of furniture require certain methods of storage. Special bags will protect any couches and chairs you're storing. When you bring these items to the unit, be sure to stand them up to maximize space.
Bed frames should ideally be taken apart before being put into a storage unit, while mattresses can be wrapped in a protective seal and stood against a wall. If you're unable to take apart the bed frame, do not store any materials nearby that may taint the color of the bedding.
For smaller tables, try to take them apart. If that's not possible, place a moving blanket on the floor and then place the table on top with its legs facing upward, and then wrap them in a protective material. For chairs, place them upside down on a table also covered in protective material.
Dressers can be placed against the wall and also used as a space to store boxes. Additionally, the drawers can house small fragile items. Just be sure to use stretch wrap to prevent the drawers from opening.
Lamps should be disassembled, wrapped in protective material and placed in boxes specifically designed to store lamps. When it comes to televisions, protect them as much as possible. If you're storing a TV, you'll likely want to rent a climate-controlled storage unit because extreme temperatures may cause some issues with liquid crystal displays.
In general, furniture should be stored with care and covered in protective material whenever possible. Ensure your storage space can hold multiple large furniture sets as well.
Most storage facilities have security measures in place. They are generally accessible for a certain number of hours and have a manager on site, in addition to security cameras. They also require you to submit a special code to enter. You should also make sure the property is adequately lit for visits in the evening.
You will need to have your own lock for your storage unit. Keyless locks, padlocks and disc locks are all viable options, said Moove In Self Storage.
Self-storage units come in many sizes, types and costs. If you're looking to clear out space from your house, consider renting a storage unit to keep your personal items safe. You can store just about anything, from furniture to old vinyl collections and clothes. By choosing the right storage unit, you can store your items in a secure location while gaining back some much needed space in your house.


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Adan LopezSpectator
@lopezLocale: San Gabriel Valley
Healing up from minor surgery this week and I'm trying to find something to read. Mountains, running, wandering, climbing, early California, the American West, are all topics I can't get enough of, especially stories involving hardship and the early mountain men. What you got?
Btw, Dylan, thanks for recommending "You Can't Win", its now one of my favorite books.Apr 25, 2012 at 3:43 pm #1871156
W I S N E R !BPL Member
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. I love his prose…Fiction, but set in the west, loosely based on the exploits of the Glanton Gang (scalp hunters who I went on to study after this book). Pretty insane stuff. Also good is the Border Trilogy, also McCarthy. Again, not the nonfiction you're possibly looking for, but some pretty great writing.
Empire of the Summer Moon (S.C. Gwynne)is pretty good historical reading…Story of Quanah Parker and the Comanche resistance on the plains. Loosely overlaps with some of the period/events in Blood Meridian.
Still think you need to check out Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath…I know you like the period.
Could loan you any of these….
I still have to borrow You Can't Win…Apr 25, 2012 at 3:50 pm #1871159
Nick GatelBPL Member
@ngatelLocale: Southern California
Well, since you just did R2R2R how about
The Man Who Walked Through Time, by Colin Fletcher
Grand Obsession: Harvey Butchart and the Exploration of the Grand Canyon, by Butler & Myers
Also good reads by Fletcher,
The Thousand Mile Summer
The Man from the CaveApr 25, 2012 at 3:57 pm #1871164
Jerry AdamsBPL Member
@retiredjerryLocale: Oregon and Washington
Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild – about a guy that went into the wild in Alaska surviving on the land but eventually dies
or Into Thin air – Everest climbing accidentApr 25, 2012 at 4:04 pm #1871167
Laurie Ann MarchMember
@laurie_annLocale: Ontario, Canada
Forever on the Mountain by James Tabor
Touching My Father's Soul by Jamling NorgayApr 25, 2012 at 4:21 pm #1871175
Leigh BakerMember
@leighbLocale: Northeast Texas Pineywoods
not exactly in your genre but
Sunk without a Sound The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen & Bessie Hyde by Brad Dimrock
A Long Trek Home by Erin McKittrick
Good luck with your recovery!Apr 25, 2012 at 5:08 pm #1871194
DougBPL Member
In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon, by Redmond O'Hanlon, or any O'Hanlon book, really. He's a hoot, a regular riot. And a crazy man. Love his writing, you'll laugh all night long.Apr 25, 2012 at 5:40 pm #1871203
Jim ColtenBPL Member
@jcoltenLocale: MN
Paddle to the Amazon by Don Starkell … 12000 miles by canoe from Winnipeg to the mouth of the AmazonApr 25, 2012 at 5:50 pm #1871209
Stephen BarberBPL Member
@grampaLocale: SoCal
If you have a Kindle, there's a ton of folks who've written up their AT PCT and CDT hikes. I can easily "loan" you some of those…..PM for details.Apr 25, 2012 at 5:54 pm #1871211
jeffrey armbrusterBPL Member
@bookLocale: Northern California
"The Last Season"; I've sadly forgotten the author. Any synopsis won't do it justice; however, the book is about a Sierra Nevada park ranger with youthful literary ambitions–a connection to Wallace Stegner–early love and a mysterious death…ah heck just read the book!
Also: John Muir is a really good writer. Let me re-state the obvious. So is John McPhee. Any of McPhee's books on Alaska are great; so is "The Control of Nature"; and above all his Pulitzer Prize winning "Annals of the Former World".
And of course Edward Abbey.
Other than that, the new translations of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky by the Pevears are terrific. I always like the Russians when I'm bed-ridden. I also like them when I'm hiking!
Oh and David Mitchell is the best contemporary writer going, imho; try Cloud Atlas if you like meaty and challenging with big rewards.
Give us something here: what's the last book or two that you enjoyed?Apr 25, 2012 at 5:54 pm #1871213
rOg wBPL Member
@rog_wLocale: rogwilmers.wordpress
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Joe ClementBPL Member
@skinewmexicoLocale: Southwest
I keep hearing comics talking about "50 Shades of Grey".Apr 25, 2012 at 6:54 pm #1871250
Adan LopezSpectator
@lopezLocale: San Gabriel Valley
I enjoyed "you cant win" by Jack Black. Love the way they talked, learning all the early slang terms and just the hobo life, fascinating stuff. Also, many of John Muirs writings held me for a while, I'm a nature boy at heart. Recently, " for whom the bell tolls", very good as well. Already started Craig's suggestion, "grapes of Wrath", and I have to say so far, the way this guy describes the world around him, I'm hooked.
Keep them coming!Apr 25, 2012 at 6:59 pm #1871254
Bob GrossMember
@b-g-2-2Locale: Silicon Valley
Early California and the American West?
Sierra Crossing, First Roads To California
by Thomas Frederick Howard
–B.G.–Apr 25, 2012 at 7:05 pm #1871259
d kBPL Member
I second the recommendation for the Quanah Parker history, just read it recently myself.
In the Land of White Death, by Valerian Albanov.
Depending on whether your surgery was anywhere near your rib cage or belly, you might not want to follow this recommendation: anything by Tim Cahill, particularly Road Fever. But you will laugh hard and often, so beware.Apr 25, 2012 at 7:09 pm #1871263
David DrakeBPL Member
@daviddrakeLocale: North Idaho
+1 Blood Meridian. Brutal, terrifying, use of language that rivals any of the classics.
Ordeal by Hunger hits all your topics. It's the first (and maybe the best) well-researched history of the Donner Party. Written by George R. Stewart, a fantastic California writer (prof. at Berkeley for years) who's somewhat neglected these days. Also wrote the novel Storm (where the main character is a storm ravaging the CA coast–gave birth to the tradition of naming storms/hurricanes and inspired the song, "They Call the Wind Maria." And wrote Names on the Land, an amazing book about place names across America. And his masterwork, Earth Abides, a (nominally) post-apocalyptic novel unlike any other in the genre (also one of the first of that type).
Other good non-fiction would be Wilderness and the American Mind, Roderick Nash; Basin and Range, John McPhee; and Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez.
Edit: missed the McPhee recommendation up thread. So that's a +1 as well.Apr 25, 2012 at 7:11 pm #1871266
Nick GatelBPL Member
@ngatelLocale: Southern California
Steve Roper's Sierra High Route has a lot of history about the early explorers and climbers in the area.
Mount Whitney: Mountain Lore From the Whitney Store, by Thompson & Newbold is interesting.
And I Alone Survived, by Lauren Elder is a true story about a small plane crash near the Sierra Crest.
Edward Abbey, just about anything is good – some is a little historical.
Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance, by Stephen Herrero is good.Apr 25, 2012 at 7:12 pm #1871267
Ceph LotusBPL Member
@cephalotusLocale: California
Hunger Games TrilogyApr 25, 2012 at 7:16 pm #1871269
Tim ZenSpectator
@asdzxc57Locale: MI
if you like chic lit then "wild"Apr 25, 2012 at 7:18 pm #1871270
Carl ZimmermanBPL Member
Undaunted Courage: Meriweather Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, by Stephen Ambrose.
The Lewis & Clark Expedition. Fascinating. Love Ambrose's style of writing.Apr 25, 2012 at 7:24 pm #1871273
Jay WilkersonBPL Member
@creachenLocale: East Bay
(Hatchet) A survival story in the wilderness and a quick read.Apr 25, 2012 at 7:29 pm #1871276
Marc EldridgeBPL Member
@meldLocale: The here and now.
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry DanaApr 25, 2012 at 8:04 pm #1871285
Mary DBPL Member
@hikinggrannyLocale: Gateway to Columbia River Gorge
"Listening for Coyote" by William L Sullivan. Oregon author hikes across the state from Cape Blanco to the bottom of Hell's Canyon and meets many interesting people as well as scenery. His purpose was to link most of the wilderness areas in Oregon shortly after the 1984 Wilderness Act, but it's the people he met who provide the most interest.Apr 25, 2012 at 8:07 pm #1871286
Eugene SmithBPL Member
@eugeneiusLocale: Nuevo Mexico
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Phillip Connors
Description on Amazon:
A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Journal and talked his way into a job far from the streets of lower Manhattan: working as one of the last fire lookouts in America. Spending nearly half the year in a 7' x 7' tower, 10,000 feet above sea level in remote New Mexico, his tasks were simple: keep watch over one of the most fire-prone forests in the country and sound the alarm at the first sign of smoke.
Fire Season is Connors's remarkable reflection on work, our place in the wild, and the charms of solitude. The landscape over which he keeps watch is rugged and roadless—it was the first region in the world to be officially placed off limits to industrial machines—and it typically gets hit by lightning more than 30,000 times per year. Connors recounts his days and nights in this forbidding land, untethered from the comforts of modern life: the eerie pleasure of being alone in his glass-walled perch with only his dog Alice for company; occasional visits from smokejumpers and long-distance hikers; the strange dance of communion and wariness with bears, elk, and other wild creatures; trips to visit the hidden graves of buffalo soldiers slain during the Apache wars of the nineteenth century; and always the majesty and might of lightning storms and untamed fire.
Written with narrative verve and startling beauty, and filled with reflections on his literary forebears who also served as lookouts—among them Edward Abbey, Jack Kerouac, Norman Maclean, and Gary Snyder—Fire Season is a book to stand the test of time.
*This is high on my list to read Adan- have only heard good things about this book, but cannot recommend it with any authority, just hearsay my friend. We could read it together and do a little post R2R2R long distance book club. ;-p
I've read Cormac's "The Road", "No Country for Old Men", as well as "All the Pretty Horses". I'm going to take Craig up on the suggestion for "Blood Meridian", its the first in McCarthy's Border Trilogy. You should do the same.Apr 25, 2012 at 8:54 pm #1871299
Paul WagnerBPL Member
@balzaccomLocale: Wine Country
Mountaineering in the SIerra Nevada. And it's out of copyright, so it's free on a Kindle or Nook. Great story about one of California's first geologists. He climbs several peaks in the Sierra in hobnail boots, using only a lariat that he borrows from a mule drive for a climbing rope. And his character sketches of the people he meets in the early days of California are VERY funny.
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Escape Everyday
This story is not about me it is fiction. But the message still holds true, I hope you like it and I will be writing more, coming soon.
In this little house of mine,
Woe and terror were betrothed.
The fear of death was always certain.
Nowhere to hide, nowhere to go. I flung myself against my pillow. I thought it would guard me, defend me from this home. With volatile batterings bleeding through my dome. Everyday I suffered
Everyday I was alone.
Those insufferable nights, where I knew I wasn't home.
I wasn't welcome here, they often would say. But then why is my heart beating? Why do I have a room to stay?
I had no answers, no reasons for my days.
My only escape was through writing and I found a pencil one day. Wrote on anything I'd find; Tissue, napkin, anything that I could, to escape and write away.
I escaped from perilous dungeons, I conjured worlds where there was no pain, no beatings daily, no food being thrown away. I of course thought that this was my way to escape. To leave this world behind and escape the violence in my life.
I wished someone could hear it, the things that I would say. But when it came time to show them, they had all but gone away.
But then one day changed everything. I saw that a window was unlocked and if I could undo the latch, then I would be free, free to run away. Share my words with those, who were in a situation like my own, show them that there is a way to survive, in this crooked place called home.
I undid the latch and was free and I ran as far as my feet could take me. I stumbled through hills, wooded forests and rivers. But eventually I made it, to a world that I once thought had never existed, a place where you are appreciated and loved. As if it didn't matter, from where you'd come from.
I finally was able to do what I loved and still do to this day.
Write stories for the people, whose lives that they'd wish would go away.
Stories of freedom and hope for tomorrow. Be free to escape and don't give up, until you've seized your glory. They'd make it out I'm sure, just like you or I.
Who would finally escape,
Escape, everyday.