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On the surface, it is a correspondence between friends: Did you read the book I sent? Did you like it?
Generic questions for most, perhaps, but the inquiry was from Stanley Kubrick, and the questions concerning Arthur Schnitzler’s book Traumnovelle were addressed to Anthony Burgess. A series of letters in 1976 between Kubrick and Burgess in the Ransom Center’s Anthony Burgess collection shed light on the early stages of the work that would later be translated into Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999).
In 1976, Kubrick, sensing his research for his planned biographical film about Napoleon Bonaparte would not pan out due to financing problems, was looking for a post-2001, A Space Odyssey (1968) project. He first read Schnitzler’s dream story in 1968 and was so enamored of it, he sought the film rights, but, fearing his involvement would inflate the price, he convinced Jay Cocks, a journalist at the time, to acquire the rights by proxy.
Kubrick even had in mind an actor for the role of Fridolin: Woody Allen.
During this time, screenwriter Terry Southern, who helped Kubrick turn the script for Dr. Strangelove(1964) into a hip satire, gave Kubrick a copy of A Clockwork Orange.Kubrick put the Schnitzler project on a back burner, which placed Southern in a bit of a bind with Mick Jagger and The Beatles.
It was understood that once the rights for A Clockwork Orange had been optioned by producer Si Litvinoff, Southern would write the screenplay, Jagger was to play the part of Alex and the rest of the Rolling Stones would play Alex’s droogs. The Beatles were to compose and record the music. Litvinoff had shopped the idea around to a dozen different directors without success. As the original plan was coming apart at the seams, it was reported that actor David Hemming, star of Blowup (1969), was under consideration for the lead. A petition signed by Marianne Faithful, each of The Beatles, and a few hangers-on in the London Bohemian underground of the time—including The Flasher and Strawberry Bob—was sent to Southern denouncing his perceived treachery.
The rights for A Clockwork Orange sold for $500, $2,000, or $5,000, depending which account you read. Burgess was unimpressed with his financial gain on the deal and dismayed that he had suddenly, in the eyes of the press and public alike, become an “expert” on juvenile violence. He was thankful though, that in conversation with Kubrick, he did get the idea for his next novel, Napoleon Symphony.
After the release of the film A Clockwork Orange (1971), Kubrick used his Napoleon research in the making of Barry Lyndon (1975). It would be another 20 years before the Schnitzler project would culminate in the film Eyes Wide Shut, which is listed in Guinness World Records as the film with the longest continual shoot: 400 days. In retrospect, 400 days isn’t long at all, considering the making of the film took 30 years from gestation to final cut.
But in 1976, Burgess still felt undercompensated after the film version of A Clockwork Orange had become a critical and commercial success, and it must have rankled him that a few critics pointed to satirized authority figures in the film as resembling rumpled versions of Burgess himself. As for the exchange of letters between Kubrick and Burgess, you can sense a certain edginess in Burgess’s response to Kubrick’s complaints that in Traumnovelle “[t]here is, I fear, a narrative anti-climax which I have not been able to improve without doing violence to what I believe were Schnitzler’s ideas …”
“The question is,” Burgess writes, “do you want me to do anything about it? If so, how and when and for how much?”
As Elizabeth Bennet commented in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, poetry is not always the food of love. “If it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination,” she tells Mr. Darcy, “I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.”
For Hartley Coleridge’s sake, let us hope Ms. Bennet was wrong. Hartley, the eldest son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, composed this sonnet for Valentine’s Day in 1810, at the age of 14. Throughout his youth he was considered a bright and imaginative child. In “Ode: Intimations of Immortality,” William Wordsworth described six-year-old Hartley as the “best philosopher” who “read’st the eternal deep.”
Hartley led a troubled life, however. Estranged from his parents at a young age, he was raised by poet Robert Southey. He attended Oxford and went on to receive a scholarship from Oriel College. Although expected to excel, alcoholism and inattentiveness to his studies caused him to lose his scholarship. His sister Sarah dubbed him “our Trouble in the North.”
Soon after losing his scholarship Hartley moved to London, where he worked as a private tutor and published poetry in the London Magazine. He excelled at writing sonnets and published a short collection, Poems, in 1833. It was received positively, as was his collection of author biographies Biographia Borealis; or Lives of Distinguished Northerns, which came out the same year.
Hartley’s continued instability, however, cut short his literary career, forcing him to return home to the Lake District at Grasmere. Although this valentine hints at a romantic streak, he never married. Yet he occasionally wrote sentimental musings from the point of view of “a whimsical Old Bachelor acquaintance of mine,” and many of these bear a resemblance to this early sonnet.
In 1943, the Allies of World War II established the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program—an organization tasked with recovering, restoring, and returning stolen or lost cultural artifacts. The members of the MFAA, known as the Monuments Men, included over 300 artists, architects, educators, directors, and scholars. Together, they made an unprecedented effort toward cultural conservation.
Lincoln Kirstein—art critic, writer, and co-founder of the New York City Ballet—served the Monuments Men in France and Germany from 1944 to 1945. While abroad, he maintained a close correspondence with Russian artist Pavel Tchelitchew, whose archive resides at the Ransom Center.
Through his letters, Kirstein expresses a deep reverence for his responsibilities and appreciation for the artwork itself. His solemnity is, however, shrouded by a veil of casual quips. On March 10, 1945, Kirstein candidly opens his letter to Tchelitchew by writing, “As you know, my work is to help prop up what war has knocked down, and to try to pick up the pieces if there are any left, to try to keep people from scratching names on carved stone and if an armoire is broken it need not be used for kindling.” Yet, to be sure, Kirstein does not ignore the severity of the situation. He closes the same letter by writing, “Do not believe that the war will either be over early or easily. I don’t read the newspapers, but I don’t have to.”
By May, Kirstein’s “work” was more exciting. He writes to Tchelitchew on German stationary—which he claims belonged to Nazi leader Hermann Göring—of a recent near-disaster.
“This is my lovely new note-paper. It used to belong to Göring. He had 50 Cranachs, and some fine German medieval sculpture, he also had a lot of expensive Gobelins and some christ awful modern things. Hitler did much better. Picture little Lincoln in a salt mine, facing the van Eyck Transfiguration of the Lamb, the Czernin Vermeer and most wonderful, the Bruges Madonna and Child of Michaelangelo, and the Dirk Bouts Louvain altar. Criminal bandits and murderers, they had planned to destroy the mine by bombs in each chamber and then flooding with salt water. The nice (and heroic) austrian museum guards and miners saved the mine by taking out the bombs, and blowing up the entrances to save the things. Marvelous Polish, french, belgian, and italian things. As you can imagine it was very funny and saugrenu. The “Peace” was even more comic, and I saw a lot of German army surrender in a most unbeaten way.”
By July, however, this excitement again waned. Kirstein complains to Tchelitchew of “nothing but tedious work and horrible Germans,” laments that there is “absolutely no one to talk to,” and describes himself as a “gloomy intellectual misfit.”
Perhaps partially instigated by boredom, Kirstein then shifts his rhetoric from that of dismay to that of veneration. He writes:
“Yesterday I had a very exciting day, as I was left alone and went down to Hitler’s house which is our art-collection depot, and spent the whole day looking at really amazing pictures. They are stacked up like books against the wall, and the frames are often heavy, but the glories are undiminished. Painting is so wonderful. Few people but you know the secrets of the renaissance attitude, the absolute devotion to the métier, the rewards of glorious workmanship and heavenly color.”
He continues by praising Titian and Raphael, Watteau and Vermeer, while also adding a bit of personal, poetic color:
“Also a lot of other unimportant pictures, a picture I guess you would not like but which is so wonderful, a lot of cowy cows and very tawny horsy horses, in a wild later summers landscape with all the leaves madly tossing against wild clouds, and the horses sniffy and neighing with pleasure, in the midst of which a very heavy healthy pink sexy goaty old man is flirting with Mercury who wears a sort of orange satin Turkish towel, Rubens, on an oak panel, fresh as a daisy and absolutely the packed-up glory of sensuality.”
These accounts of his service constitute a small part of Kirstein’s letters, usually claiming only a paragraph here and there. He preferred, it seems, to write to Tchelitchew about what was to him most familiar and precious: art, artists, friends, and ballet. Between insults directed at the Germans, he playfully teases the likes of Pablo Picasso and Ezra Pound. While writing of recovered Rembrandts, he begs to be sent copies of contemporary magazines. Thus, through his letters, Lincoln Kirstein displays a fundamental characteristic of the Monuments Men: he was one of many artists working in the service of art.
The film The Monuments Men, directed by George Clooney and starring Clooney, Matt Damon, and Bill Murray is in theaters now. The film is based on Robert Edsel’s book of the same title.
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According to Mary Evelyn, the wife of John Evelyn, a renowned English intellectual, diarist, and horticulturalist in the late seventeenth century, it cost £313 and 1 shilling to set up a proper upper-class household for eight people in London in 1675. In today’s dollars, the dishes, silver, glasses, linens, and kitchen equipment required would cost approximately $62,000—without buying any furniture. It would then cost £480, 4 shillings per year (approximately $95,000/year today) to maintain and staff that house and a small, two-horse stable. This household would then have a weekly budget of £2, 13 shillings, 4 pence for meals and £4, 12 shillings, 3 pence for other household supplies like soap, candles, and fuel (approximately $1,444 today).
On her own account, this imagined household was quite frugal. Mary Evelyn wrote this set of itemized household management instructions to the Evelyns’ young family friend, the newly married Mrs. Margaret Blagge Godolphin, who was about 22 years old at the time. (The document can be viewed in full in the Ransom Center’s Carl H. Pforzheimer digital collection.) As she remarks in a short preface, Mary Evelyn provides in her accounting for “some variety, but [no] Dainties or Entertainments,” because Mrs. Godolphin has such a “just & regular life” and her husband is “so good & soe reasonable.”
Dear Child, Of ye 500 [pounds per annum]. which you tell me is what you would contract your Expenses to, and that you are to provide your Husbands Cloaths, Stable, and all other House-Expences (except his Pocket-money) I leave you 20 l. over, and for your owne Pocket [etc].40 l. (in all 60 l.) and that little enough considering Sickness, Physicians, and innumerable Accidents that are not to be provided ag[ain]st with any certainty. But (as ye Proverb you know is) I am to cut ye Cloake, according to ye Cloth; and I have done it as near as possibly I could, with some variety, but without Dainties or Entertainments; you living so just & regular a life, & having so good & soe reasonable a Husband; and I pray God to bless you both & pardon ye defects of my Obedience to your earnest Desires, who shall ever remaine,
April 13. 1675
While Mary Evelyn cautions her young friend that she must always be wary of surprise medical expenses that could impact her budget, she goes on to illustrate the variety of fare the Godolphins might enjoy on such a budget with a sample week-long menu of three-course meals. She summarizes these courses in a table as follows:
Additionally, Mary Evelyn provides the young Mrs. Godolphin with some very sound advice about how to pick a head housekeeper, advising the young woman to insist on firm bookkeeping practices without trying to micromanage her servants:
if you have a faithful Woman, or Housemaid it will cost you little trouble. It were necessary yt such a one were a good Market-woman, & whose Eye must bee from ye Garret to ye Cellar; nor is it enough they see all things made cleane in ye House, but set in ord.r also; That if any Good be broken or worne out they shew or bring it to her that she may see in what Condic?n it is, that nothing bee hid or imbezel’d. Use as seldom Charewomen and Out-helpers as you can they but make Gossips. She should bee ye first of servants stirring and last in bed, & have some authority over ye rest, & you must hear her and give her credit, yet not without your owne Examination & inspection, that Complaints come not to you without cause. It is necessary alsoe she should know to write and cast up small sums & bring you her Book every Saturday-night, which you may cause to be enter’d into another for your Selfe, that you may from time to time judge of Prices & things w.ch are continually altering. This Servant is to keep your Spicery, Sweet-meats Cordial waters [etc.] & ye rest of ye Servants are to account to her; & such a Server (I tell you) is a Jewel not easily to be found.
The recipient of these instructions, Margaret Blagge Godolphin, was renowned in her own time for both her beauty and religious devotion. In her teenage years, she was a Maid of Honor to the Queen in the court of Charles II. Her letters demonstrate her success at establishing a circle of admirers and friends at court, John Evelyn among them, but they also reveal an extreme frustration with the moral depravity of her fellow courtiers. She was especially impatient with her superiors’ endless card games and fashionable worldly activities that kept her from her prayers. After several years she managed to get away from the Restoration Court to serve Lady Berkeley but was soon obliged to go abroad with her while Lord Berkeley served as the English ambassador to the court of Louis XIV. From Paris, she wrote to John Evelyn of her admiration for the cloistered life of nuns even though life among Catholics exposed to her the superstitions of the Roman Church and confirmed her Protestant faith. Despite her desire to dedicate herself to a life of religious devotion after her time in Paris, John Evelyn—who had become a sort of spiritual mentor to her—persuaded her that her most pious act as a 22-year-old woman would be to follow through with a long-term engagement to be married to Lord Sidney Godolphin, the King’s Master of the Robes.
Not long after marrying, Margaret Godolphin asked the Evelyns for help with her home economics. This seven-page document thus reveals Mary Evelyn’s attempt to help her devout young friend establish a household that would provide her a refuge from the world of high society she found so tiresome. By Margaret Godolphin’s own account, it worked. She wrote of her thankfulness for the blessings she was able to enjoy after her marriage: her health, her husband, her time to herself, and her “house quiet, sweet, and pretty.” Sadly, Margaret’s enjoyment of this place of respite and meditation was cut short when she died after giving birth to her son Francis in her third year of marriage.
These household management instructions by Mary Evelyn were among Margaret Godolphin’s papers that John Evelyn set in order upon her death. Evelyn eventually turned these into a biography that remained unpublished until the nineteenth century. The Ransom Center possesses the instructions, which were enclosed in a letter sent to Samuel Pepys by Evelyn in 1685. Evelyn’s cover letter offers some humble commentary on the utility of the instructions that is tinged with regret for the loss of his dear young friend. Evelyn expresses his hope that the methodical recommendations of his wife might be helpful to other virtuous women Pepys knows. Evelyn hesitantly offers his own daughter, Susanna, as an example of such a virtuous woman who might benefit from these instructions. In parentheses, though, he adds a caveat that thinly veils a regret-filled critique of his other daughter who had recently eloped without the family’s consent and subsequently died of smallpox: “if God give her [Susanna] Grace to make a fitter Choice than her unhappy sister.” Evelyn’s rather bleak references to his own kin in this letter are strikingly juxtaposed against powerful and wistful expressions of love for Margaret Godolphin, now deceased for seven years, whom he calls “that concealed saint, and incomparable Creature, so well known to me, & my wife in particular.”
Thus, this document reveals the trust John Evelyn placed in his wife Mary’s expertise in planning, budgeting, practical math, and management skills, and provides a fascinating glimpse into the details of how a small upper-class London home operated in the late seventeenth century. Its cover letter to Pepys also provides a context that allows us to glimpse this document’s status in its afterlife as a kind of talisman that preserved for the Evelyns a tiny bit of the intimacy and spirituality of their friendship with the young Margaret Blagge Godolphin.
Transcriptions of Mary Evelyn’s Household Management Instructions are provided by Catherine Harris and Patrick Naeve, student volunteers from The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Liberal Arts Plan II Honors Program.
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Among the papers in the recently acquired Billy Collins archive are materials related to his poem “The Names,” which was written to commemorate the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Interspersed throughout the poem are the names of 26 victims of the attacks, one name for each letter of the alphabet, from “Ackerman” through “Ziminsky.”
Collins, a native of New York City, was the U.S. Poet Laureate when the attacks occurred in 2001. He wrote the poem and read it at a special joint session of Congress on September 6, 2002.
One of the notebooks in Collins’s archive contains his notes and early drafts of the poem, along with lists of names for different letters of the alphabet. An annotated typescript shows a later draft of the poem with Collins’s handwritten notes and edits.
The archive will be accessible in the Ransom Center’s reading room once it has been processed and cataloged.
The Harry Ransom Center has acquired the archive of American poet Billy Collins. The materials span Collins’ personal and professional life from the 1950s to the present and documents in detail his creative development.
Collins, born in 1941, is known as a poet for the people, with a witty, conversational style that welcomes readers and illuminates the profound details of everyday life. He has described the beginning of his poems as “a kind of welcome mat … inviting the reader inside.” This accessible style and public presence have garnered a wide following, and from 2001 to 2003 he served as Poet Laureate of the United States.
“Collins is one of a very few poets whose poems are widely read,” said Harry Ransom Center Director Stephen Enniss, “and it is a great pleasure to extend the Center’s holdings in this way, with the archive of a poet beloved by readers everywhere.”
Within the archive are dozens of notebooks, which include Collins’ observations, notes, doodles, clippings, and extensive drafts of poems, both published and unpublished. It also includes desk diaries or datebooks that document his life as a teacher, poet and public figure. The earliest materials in the archive include childhood compositions and early family photographs. Also documented is Collins’ career as a teacher and his later emergence as a poet in the late 1970s. Audio and video recordings and drafts of speeches and talks document a full public life as one of the country’s most popular poets. The archive includes extensive correspondence, both personal and professional.
“I am deeply honored and not a little intimidated to have my papers join the literary trails of so many illustrious writers housed at the Harry Ransom Center, several of whom I count among my literary heroes,” said Collins.
Collins will be speaking at Austin’s Paramount Theatre on Thursday, Jan. 23, at 8 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online or by phone at 512-474-1221.
Farley P. Katz is a tax lawyer in San Antonio who collects rare books, manuscripts, and “too many other things.” He is one of the contributors to the medieval fragments project, a crowdsourcing research project headed by archivist Micah Erwin to identify fragments of medieval manuscripts bound into rare books at the Ransom Center. Katz describes a recent discovery below.
The Flickr posting noted only that the fragment includes a calendar possibly from a book of hours (a medieval devotional book containing prayers, hymns, and religious calendars and often painted miniatures). There was text below the calendar that included French words. I could make out “C’est mon” and “Et tout,” but little else was easily readable. The fact that each line began with a capital letter, however, suggested that it might be a poem.
Usually if a text is well known, it can be identified by searching on Google with a few strings of words (using quotation marks so that only the exact phrase is sought). While reading the words may not be so easy given the antiquated scripts and condition of the fragments, it helps to have some knowledge of the languages the texts are written in and the nature of the manuscripts themselves. Here, I tried a number of searches, but the few phrases I could make out were insufficient for this purpose. Then, I tried searching “C’est mon” and “book of hours.” Success! I found an article by two scholars, Kathryn M. Rudy and René Stuip, about a French prayer book that contained a calendar for each month that was followed by rhyming lines of poetry. Those for March appear to be close or identical with the first four lines on the Ransom Center’s fragment:
Au-bin dit que mars est pril-leux. (1 Albinus)
C’est mon, fait Gre-goir, il est feux. (12 Gregory)
Et tout prest de don-ner des eaux.
Ma-ri-e dit: il est caux. (25 Annunciation, Lady Day)
They translate as: “Albinus says that March is changeable. That’s right, says Gregory, it’s fire, and quite ready to give water. Mary says it’s hot.”
Rudy and Stuip explained that these are not mere amusing rhymes, but actually a complex mnemonic device known as a “Cisiojanus” (from Circumcisio Januarius, referring to the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ, celebrated on January 1). The number of syllables in each poem equals the number of days in the month. So for March, which has 31 days, there are 31 syllables. The most important saints or holy days of each month are identified by name and numerical position in the poem. Thus, the first syllable of the March rhyme starts with the name Aubin and St. Albinus’s day was March 1. Similarly, the twelfth syllable of the rhyme starts with Gregoir, whose feast day was March 12.
Cisiojani (the plural form) originated in Germany in the twelfth century in Latin and were later produced in vernacular languages, ultimately making it into early printed books. Manuscripts written in French of Cisiojani, however, are quite rare. It’s difficult to date the manuscript fragment because the text is obscured, but an educated guess would be fifteenth century.
Although I have not seen the book “in person,” the catalog states that it has a “Fanfare” binding. Fanfare bindings are ornate bindings in which the covers are divided into many compartments often filled with gold tooling. They originated in France in the sixteenth century and spread throughout Europe. Since Uzielli 99 contains manuscript waste from France, it most likely was bound there.
Identifying this manuscript fragment at the Ransom Center thus not only adds to the limited body of knowledge about French Cisiojani but also provides evidence of where an early bookbinding was probably made.
During the late medieval and early modern period, it was a common practice for bookbinders to cut out the sturdy parchment leaves of outdated or unwanted handwritten books to reuse those leaves as covers or binding reinforcements in new “cutting edge” printed books. This practice lasted until roughly the seventeenth century, when the sources of handwritten books began to dry up and binding practices continued to evolve. Today, many of these medieval fragments—or “binder’s waste”—can still be found within the bindings of early printed books in collections throughout the world.
In July 2012, Cultural Compass posted a story about a project in the archives and visual materials cataloging department to survey medieval binders’ waste. As an outgrowth of this project, we took images of those fragments and posted them to a Flickr account in an attempt to “crowdsource” the identification of their texts. We also created a Twitter and Facebook account to broadcast our progress. At the time of that 2012 blog post, the response was promising but not conclusive. Around 16 of the 40 items had been identified in the first few months, but there were many more fragments to identify.
Now, 369 images, several conference presentations, and more than 67,000 views later, there’s evidence that crowdsourcing can work with even the most archaic of subjects. Twenty-eight individuals (from amateur enthusiasts to established scholars) contributed to the project by providing input via comments on the Flickr page. A number of other individuals assisted through emails or phone calls. Thus far, 94 of the 116 identifiable fragments have been identified, and nearly 57 percent of those were identified through crowdsourcing (by date, region, or the text itself).
The fragments span several centuries, regions, and genres. Ranging from choirbooks to Hebrew commentaries to philosophical and legal texts, they provide valuable insights regarding the fate of handwritten books after the introduction of printing. And, thanks to the number of views, a relatively obscure subject has received generous attention. Readers may be interested to note that Google Books played a significant role in identifying many of the texts. While a few items remain unidentified and we come upon new fragments with some regularity, the bulk of the work is complete.
I would like to take this opportunity to express our deepest gratitude to all those who followed or contributed to the success of this project. We did take the time to confirm each and every attribution, and the degree of accuracy has been quite impressive. It is my hope that people will continue to assist in this effort when new fragments are uncovered.
Crowdsourcing is now moving beyond the introductory phase. And although it is not an appropriate solution for every problem, there is no question that it has the power to bring together diverse groups of individuals to collaborate in ways not previously thought possible. There are many more fragments of medieval manuscripts scattered throughout the world’s great libraries—collaboration and discovery await!
On December 31, 1956, writer and political activist Nancy Cunard visited the Keats-Shelley House in Rome. She went there to contribute an account of one of her earliest, most intimate experiences as a young writer and to memorialize her connection with one of the most important figures of the Romantic period, John Keats. Although Keats had been dead for many years before Cunard was born, she vividly remembered meeting him—in a dream.
Cunard writes that the dream occurred when she was 15 years old, during “a summer of adolescence” when she was “troubled by her own lines and words.” She had read nearly everything Keats had written, “knew much of him by heart,” and believed herself “in love with him.” In the dream, the likeness of Keats told Cunard that she “should write, that [she] should be a poet.” Cunard was moved by the dream and continued to feel connected to Keats throughout her life. She signed off the piece she prepared for the Keats-Shelley House by writing, “thus, to the treasure of this house, I offer my small leaf… with love, and with a tear.”
Cunard’s dramatic prose reflects her own dynamic life and personality. The British writer and political activist was the daughter of a baronet. She attended private schools in London, Germany, and Paris, where she met the friends who would later call themselves the “Corrupt Coterie.” Despite her privileged upbringing, Cunard was quick to jump into the fray of political activism and regularly spoke out against fascism and racism.
The Ransom Center recently acquired several items relating to Cunard’s pilgrimage to the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, including Cunard’s personal copy of Neville Rogers’s book Keats, Shelley & Rome: An Illustrated Miscellany. Other related materials were laid in the pages of the book, including a postcard sent to Cunard by Vera Cacciatore—then curator of the Keats-Shelley House and a friend of Cunard—and a letter sent by Cacciatore, thanking Cunard for a recent review on Byron and imploring her to visit again.
One highlight of this acquisition is the original typescript Cunard presented to the Keats-Shelley House, her four-page account of her childhood dream of Keats. These materials join the Ransom Center’s extensive Cunard collection, the bulk of which were acquired between 1969 and 1977. The collection includes manuscripts of her works, personal papers, and correspondence, as well as poems and essays by many of her friends and associates.
The Center also recently acquired Cunard’s library.
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas shook America’s understanding of trust, security, and rational behavior. In the five decades following, a multitude of historians and writers have been moved to study the event, many with particular interest in the assassin himself, Lee Harvey Oswald.
In 1995, Norman Mailer released Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery, an 828-page biography of Lee Harvey Oswald. Written three decades after the assassination of President Kennedy, Mailer’s account of the man and the events offers a unique, in-depth study of Oswald’s relationships and character with specific focus on his time in the Soviet Union.
Born in New Orleans in 1939, Oswald spent his childhood in Dallas, Fort Worth, and New York City before joining the United States Marine Corps at 17. Throughout his life, Oswald was reprimanded for temperamental and reckless behavior, traits that repeatedly manifested themselves in spontaneous and rash decisions. Three years after enlisting, Oswald abandoned the Marine Corps and—having developed an increasing interest in Socialism—moved to the Soviet Union, where he expressed his desire to renounce his United States citizenship. There he met Marina Prusakova. They married within six weeks of meeting and had their first child within a year. After three years in the Soviet Union, Oswald returned to the United States.
Mailer’s archive, which resides at the Ransom Center, contains the author’s preliminary research for Oswald’s Tale—his 28th book—as well as drafts of the manuscript throughout the publishing process. Mailer’s notes include handwritten annotations, Russian vocabulary flashcards, and interview transcripts with a variety of Oswald’s acquaintances, including Marina Pursakova herself.
One early note, scrawled sometime between 1992 and 1993, reads, “It will be noted that this book is called a mystery… Let me propose that a mystery… creates a form of its own between fiction and non-fiction.” He asserts that “the author did his best to make up no dialogue,” and to “attribute no private motives to his real characters.” “Still,” he writes, “it is a most peculiar form of non-fiction since it requests the reader’s collaboration.”
Oswald’s Tale provides the reader with an in-depth perspective of the events, motivations, and emotions that ultimately drove Oswald to murder. The author undoubtedly makes his own speculations about the subject’s character, but his depiction of the facts encourages the reader to develop their own understanding of Oswald. Thus, Mailer’s Oswald’s Tale—and the collection of associated interviews, notes, and manuscripts—exists as an interactive reflection on the unforgettable tragedy of November 22, 1963.
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When Lauren Walier was born, she weighed less than a pound at 14 ounces, and the doctors said if she was ever to walk, the amount of energy needed to move her legs would feel like walking with 100 pound cinderblocks on her feet.
At the 6th annual Walk, Run, Roll in Lauren’s Shoes, at the Outer Harbor’s Wilkeson Pointe, many people will wear ankle weights to on a small-scale, simulate what Lauren and others with cerebral palsy live with each day.
Cerebral palsy is caused by brain damage before, during or immediately after birth. It’s the most common childhood motor disability. When Lauren found out six years ago that there was no federal funding for cerebral palsy, she started the Make LemonAide Foundation for CP.
As in, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
As Lauren grew, the now-21-year-old struggled with mobility, and walking was a big if. She started physical therapy, and five years ago, standing up was a challenge. Today, she just doesn’t walk, she waltzes.
CP affects more than mobility. In the past year, she’s had 22 surgeries on her airway, and is due for another. She hopes to get her voice back to normal while getting enough airflow to breathe.
Through the foundation, she’s raising money for advanced CP treatments, and for more therapists to be trained in Western New York. She’s also fighting for inclusion and acceptance.
“Just because I accept and love myself, doesn’t mean that everyone sees you that way,” she said.

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Being a fan of comic books is hard if you're female. Not only are any ovary-packing characters in the pages of comics often willfully objectified with absurd proportions and insanely skimpy costumes, but also they're often "fridged." [If you're unfamiliar with this term, educate yourself here.] Still, there'll always be Wonder Woman, who somehow sustains her integrity no matter how many ill-conceived makeovers are foisted upon her. So I find it personally thrilling that documentarian Kristy Guevara-Flanagan has used this legendary warrior princess as a jumping off point to explore the evolution of feminism in American society.
In her latest documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, Guevara-Flanagan talks with TV's Wonder Woman Lynda Carter, The Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner, second-wave feminism icon Gloria Steinem, and third-wave feminist/punk rocker Kathleen Hanna about this comic icon's influence on the American zeitgeist over the past 70 years. And as the clip below--courtesy of THR --shows, the filmmaker also reveals how Wonder Woman has inspired everyday women, like Carmela Lane, a Wonder Woman fan and mom:
But beyond showing how Wonder Woman's personal and societal impact, Guevara-Flanagan's doc also investigates how societal pressures and fear of women's liberation pushed back and transformed Wonder Woman and how women in general were portrayed in popular culture. You get a taste of that—as well as the doc's graphic-charged sensibility--in the long-form trailer below:
And last but not least, a sneak peek at a dynamic new poster depicting Wonder Woman and the movie and TV heroines she inspired.
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines makes its world premiere this Saturday at the SXSW Film Festival.


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Author and artist David Macaulay has demystified the workings and origins of everything from simple gadgets to elaborate architectural structures. A favorite with readers of all ages, this Caldecott Medal-winning artist is the subject of this exciting exhibition that takes an in-depth look at Macaulay’s artistic process and extensive body of work, including The Way Things Work, Castle, Cathedral, City, Mill, Ship, and Mosque.
Contents: Approximately 125 original works of art; studies, sketchbooks, foam core models and book dummies; original manuscripts and correspondence; artifacts including hand-built models, reference materials and personally significant objects; documentary and reference photographs: introductory and biographical panels and object/extended indentification labels.
Security: High, all works must be within sight of a trained security officer/staff member at all times during public hours.
Environment: Light level -18 to 22 footcandles for paintings and 5 to 7 footcandles for works on paper and other light restricted objects. Humidity -50% plus or minus 5% and temperature 68 – 72 degrees, no direct sunlight and no direct contact with light fixtures or heating, air conditioning, ventilation, or electrical outlets.


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McNay Art Museum
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6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
Galleries | Art,
Jane Dunnewold’s textiles fuse fine art and traditional quilting techniques, resulting in works rich with tradition and innovation. By layering dyed patterns and using different types of cloths from around the world, Dunnewold offers a sense of exoticism that is otherwise grounded in an inherently disciplined craft. Join us for a talk with the artist. Wine reception begins at 6:00 pm.


Introduction to Cosmology
by David H Lyth
Publisher: arXiv 1993
Number of pages: 53
These notes form an introduction to cosmology with special emphasis on large scale structure, the cmb anisotropy and inflation. In some places a basic familiarity with particle physics is assumed, but otherwise no special knowledge is needed.
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by Grigory E. Volovik - Oxford University Press
There are fundamental relations between two vast areas of physics: particle physics and cosmology (micro- and macro-worlds). The main goal of this book is to establish and define the connection of these two fields with condensed matter physics.
by Mark Trodden, Sean M. Carroll - arXiv
These proceedings summarize lectures in elementary particle physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They provide a pedagogical introduction to cosmology aimed at advanced graduate students in particle physics and string theory.
by T. Padmanabhan - arXiv
Here is an introduction to several advanced topics in contemporary cosmology. Topics covered: the thermal history of the universe, linear perturbation theory, theory of CMBR temperature anisotropies and the inflationary generation of perturbation.
by Massimo Giovannini - arXiv
The main motivations and challenges related with the physics of large-scale magnetic fields are briefly analyzed. The interplay between large-scale magnetic fields and scalar CMB anisotropies is addressed with specific attention on recent progresses.


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Sentences with Tradition, Tradition in a Sentence in English, Sentences For Tradition
1. It’s a time-honored tradition.
2. I believe in traditional marriage.
3. They must keep up the family traditions.
4. That tradition has fallen by the wayside.
5. Alex believes in traditional gender roles.
6. I think it was a very traditional ceremony.
7. Jessica turned her back on the old traditions.
8. Fashion designers are breaking with tradition.
9. The villagers must keep up the family traditions.
10. The doctor uses traditional methods of treatment.
11. Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.
12. Naginata is one of Japan’s traditional martial arts.
13. You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice.
14. You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions.
15. Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.
16. Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
17. Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.
18. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors.
19. Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
20. Each holiday tradition acts as an exercise in cognitive development, a greater challenge for the child.
21. Lemons are a citrus fruit that people often use in traditional remedies because of their health benefits.
22. Traditional rugby with 15 players on each side consists of two 40 minute halves and a 10 minute half time.
23. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
24. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
25. I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
26. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.
27. Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
28. The Islamic Psychology line integrates traditional Islamic principles and psychology to develop an Islamically orientated approach to psychotherapy.
29. The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
30. My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I’d like to go fairy tale all the way.
31. I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody’s civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.
32. The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
33. I’m just part of a tradition of people who aren’t pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I’d just think they’re… sensible.
34. Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.
35. We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can’t have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.
36. I know I’m not known as method. By nature I’m not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.
37. When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature – this very unique to Japan.
38. The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group – to say nothing of gay marriage – are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

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Additional Initiative Goal: $600,000
- Actively pursue a central location in Downtown Raleigh.
- Implement the gospel in the hope of healing our city's social and racial divides.
- Hold to a vision for Downtown Raleigh that is bigger than what developers have in mind.
- Acknowledge that Raleigh's "financial renewal" is not a prosperity for all.
We can't ignore that Downtown Raleigh is the intersection of the rich and poor, of black and white, of power brokers and the powerless. We can commit to worshiping where God has called us.


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Financial times bitcoin upcoming capital crisis
This article first appeared on The Financial Times. the next financial crisis. for Circle Internet Financial, which aims to use bitcoin to handle.My analytical framework attempts to differentiate the two, as each comes with its own set of (related) issues.Why this rush by companies to buyback their own stock, and in the process artificially boost their Eearning per Share.Bitcoin Latest Breaking News, Pictures, Videos, and Special Reports from The Economic Times.Yet underpinning this Bubble was the market perception that the West would not allow a Russian collapse.
There was ample evidence suggesting Russia was a house of cards.
With such faith and the accompanying explosion in speculative trading, leverage and a resulting massive derivatives overhang, any break in confidence would lead to illiquidity, panic and a devastating bust.Making the Most of Your Personal Freedom and Financial Opportunity Around.
Prepare for the Coming Financial Earthquake - Daily ReckoningIn the long-term consumers need to protect themselves notably against financial fraud but also the impact of cyber warfare on the wider world.
4 Disruptions from Cryptocurrencies that Banks Won’t SeeThere Has Been Just One Buyer Of Stocks Since The Financial Crisis.Avivah Litan, an analyst at Gartner, told NBC News that the data gathered in these data breaches was not necessarily just going to be used to steal money and identities.
Because it tells us that financial. rolling up to a venture capital fund with a whizzy idea for a bitcoin.Your Ringside Seat For The Global Financial Crisis. Stocks up, USD recovering. Bitcoin,. but when the good times seem likely to roll on forever, why the hell.Millions to be Hit Hard by this U.S. Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings.
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And instead of shying away, I am going to continue riding this market higher, until the system tells me otherwise.Instead, it might end up playing a key role in cyber warfare.Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, bitcoins are issued and.Why Is the Ethereum Price Rising. movement of capital from Bitcoin to.
Another Financial Crisis is Building - wealthdaily.com
This financial bubble is 8 times bigger than the 2008 subprime. and founder of Sovereign Man.For those of a more military leaning cyber hacks are very serious indeed.This is why, despite early warnings signs, my subscribers and I will continue to add stocks to our portfolios and ride this great bull market.
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Did Goldman Sachs’ Latest Move Into Main Street BankingEquifax is yet another example of incompetence on the part of data-heavy company, with little recourse for customers affected.
On the Dalian Commodities Exchange the price swings are much wilder.For instance, in the 18 months leading up to the market peak in March 2000, the Nasdaq soared 270%.All manner of financial, government and infrastructure companies have been hacked.

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Virgin Australia, the second largest airline in the oceanic country, voluntarily declared bankruptcy on Tuesday after failing to reach a rescue agreement with the government.
In a statement to the Australian stock market, the company said the move would help “recapitalize the business” and ensure it emerged “in a stronger financial position after the COVID-19 crisis.”
The company, which has 91 aircraft and some 10,000 workers, has been drowned by high debt and a slowdown in activity following the pandemic of the new coronavirus.
Virgin Airlines requested financial aid from the Australian government, led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, to deal in the short term with part of a debt close to 5,000 million local dollars (3,160 million US dollars or 2,910 million euros).
However, the Executive finally refused to agree to a rescue valued at around 1,400 million local dollars (890 million dollars or 815 million euros).
“Our intention is to embark on a process to restructure and refinance the business and remove it from management as soon as possible,” said new administrator Vaughan Strawbridge of the Deloitte auditing firm.
British tycoon Richard Branson, who owns the Virgin group and holds 10 percent of the airline’s shares, asked in a letter to his workers not to give up and criticized the Australian government’s decision.
“In most countries, the government has come out to help airlines in this unprecedented crisis for the sector. Sadly this has not happened in Australia,” he said.


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The Masterís Way
Not ours to know the reason why unanswered is our prayer,
But ours to wait for Godís own time to lift the cross we bear.
Nor ours to know the reason why from loved ones we must part,
But ours to live in faith and hope, though bleeding be the heart.
Not ours to know the reason why this anguish, strife and pain.
But ours to know a crown of thorns, Thy grace for us to gain.
A cross, a bleeding heart, a crown, what greater gifts are given?
Be still, my heart, and murmur not, these are the keys to heaven.
'Tis ours to know the better part, whereby a crown is won,
Then loving God I ask not why, "Thy will, not mine, be done."
Yea, Thy way, Lord, not mine, I pray; I give to Thee my will,
And humbly seek Thy grace and aid, this better part to fill.
It was not always thus with me. I loved my way the best,
But that is past, Thy way is mine, in it alone is rest.
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Dr. Neil Chadwick)

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This is a metaphor for the whole philosophy of the left, isn’t it?
The Blaze reports:
SJW college kids demand fellow students pay feminists for their ’emotional labor’
Some students at New York’s Sarah Lawrence College, ranked one of the most expensive private schools in the nation, demanded that fellow students pay campus activists for their “emotional labor,” the College Fix reported Wednesday.
A Facebook thread about both a python released by a student on campus and a popular tree scheduled for removal went viral among the students, according to the College Fix.
Soon, social justice warriors became angered that students were talking about trees and snakes and not social justice issues. The post then devolved into SJWs demanding money from other students, including some students called out by name to make payments.
SJW students facilitated the opportunity to make these payments by posting a link that was connected to 17 Venmo — a money exchange facilitation phone app — accounts, mostly belonging to female students of color.
“In honor of Women’s History Month, and the labor that women and femmes of color do for Sarah Lawrence every month of the year,” the post, which featured a picture of a poster with the words “Give your $ to Women & Femmes of Color” written in glitter, said.
The College Fix said the idea was inspired by the #GiveYourMoneyToWomen hashtag that was created on Twitter by prominent feminists.
SJWs first invaded the Facebook thread about the released snake after one student became frustrated that students were giving more attention to a snake than “systematic racism,” “sexual assaults,” and “anti-Muslim hate crimes.”
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Vegetarian diets fit into the Weight Watchers program.
Don't count Weight Watchers out of the equation if you are vegetarian and considering a weight loss program. Weight Watchers has been an effective program for many people striving to lose weight, offering an educational framework that can help people make long-term, lifestyle changes improving the likelihood of success. According to WeightWatchers.com, the program is flexible and can be easily incorporated into the vegetarian lifestyle.
Weight Watchers Program
Weight Watchers features a points system to track dietary intake. The program's points system helps a participant take into account dietary fat, protein, fiber and carbohydrates when making decisions about foods and portion sizes for weight loss. In general, you'll learn how to make healthier decisions and put yourself in a position to lose weight by consuming fewer calories. No foods are necessarily off limits, but high calorie density foods are kept to reasonable portions to keep daily points goals in line.
Vegetarians and Weight Watchers
As a vegetarian, you would follow the same point tracking system that anyone else would, only you would omit the animal proteins of your choosing. Any form of vegetarian diet can fit into the guidelines of Weight Watchers, according to WeightWatchers.com. You simply track intake for the foods you do eat following your customized number of points per day based on gender, height and weight. Even meat substitutes such as tofu, veggie burgers or tempeh have point totals that can easily be tracked.
Vegetarians and Weight Status
Research may indicate that vegetarians generally have lower body weights than non-vegetarians.An analysis of 12 studies published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine in 2016 showed that people who were assigned a vegetarian diet lost significantly more weight than people assigned a non-vegetarian diets for weight control. People who aimed to reasonably restrict calorie intake at the same time lost even more weight. With these findings in mind, a vegetarian approach to the Weight Watchers plan could be beneficial.
Though vegetarian eating plans easily fit into Weight Watchers guidelines, WeightWatchers.com suggests that caution be taken even when choosing plant-based foods. Too much of even healthy foods like nuts, avocados or fruits can hinder weight loss efforts. For this reason, track everything using the points system to ensure your success.

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CURT Sway Control Kit
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CURT Sway Control Kit is adjustable and easy to install. It comes with a sway unit, a trailer-mounted attachment ball, and bolts, a hitch-mounted attachment ball, a weld-on tab, a mount reinforcement plate, and attachment clips. Though a weight-distribution hitch is not an ideal solution for trailer sway on its own, CURT weight distribution hitches are made to be combined with a sway control unit and many are available with sway controls included for a complete package.
- Features adjustment bolt to accommodate different load sizes
- On/Off handle makes it easy to engage or disengage sway control as needed
- Two sway control units are recommended for larger trailers
- Compatible with most A-frame trailers (bolt-on bracket included)
- Includes sway control unit, trailer-mounted attachment ball & bolt, hitch-mounted attachment ball, weld-on tab to adapt for left-hand use or for use without weight distribution hitch, mount reinforcement plate and attachment clips.
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The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) on Sunday accused the Yemeni internationally-recognized government of hindering the Saudi efforts to help sign the Riyadh Agreement, through military escalation in Abyan governorate.
The STC leading board, led by Ahmed Bin Boraik, called the Arab coalition to "secure the declaration of the pact as dated on Tuesday, commence implementing its provisions and be strict towards any party hindering the application," the STC website reported.
The board appreciated Saudi efforts to stop "provocations by the Yemen legitimate" government.
The STC Security Belt forces and tribesmen in Ahwar, Mhafad, Lauder and Modeah districts of Abyan have "fended off the provocative military escalation by terrorist groups covered in army uniforms," it added.
This escalation is aimed to obstruct the "deal that help solve general problems, bring security and stability to southern provinces, and direct resources across the country in the face of Houthi militias."
The government uses the policy of "torture and imposing a persistent blockade on Aden by deliberate obstruction of services in the city," the STC claimed.
On Friday, Saudi and Yemeni officials said the deal would be officially inked Tuesday at a ceremony to be led by Saudi Crown Prince and attended by Yemeni President and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince.
Following indirect talks in Jeddah, the Saudi-brokered deal provide for the formation of a 24-minister technocrat government equally shared by northern and southern governorates.
A joint committee supervised by the Saudi-led coalition would secure the pact's application.


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A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a woman and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his delusions. The woman continues to visit and as his madness deepens, it begins to look as if some of the events he's experiencing may be hallucinations. Written by
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Seduction. Romance. Murder. The things one does for love.
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playing Peter Loew ate a real cockroach for this film - it reportedly took three takes. He once said about the experience, "Every muscle in my body didn't want to do it, but I did it anyway." See more
The blood patterns/stains on Peter Loew's shirt vary after he kills the girl in the night club. See more
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2019 PGA Valspar Championship Preview
Dustin Johnson leads the 2019 PGA Valspar Championship field.Johnson’s the only golfer on the BetAmerica board offering odds of less than +1000. Check out analysis of Johnson’s chances along with analysis and picks for underdogs up to +4000 and underdogs up to +6000.
PGA Valspar Championship Favorites:
Johnson was in the hunt at last week’s The Players Championship. He finished tied for fifth and only 3 strokes off winner Rory McIlroy. Although Johnson deserves to be favored, it’s tough to back any golfer at such low odds.
Looking elsewhere among the favorites, Sergio’s got a big shot this week to take the Valspar Championship. Garcia didn’t play badly at TPC-Sawgrass, finishing at 8-under. He was 8 strokes off McIlroy, but it was a decent effort.
If Sergio peaks this week, he could win. He finished 2 strokes off winner Paul Casey at the 2018 Valspar.
PGA Valspar Championship Pick: Sergio Garcia +1550
OUTSIDERS WITH A CHANCE
Defending Valspar Champion Paul Casey offers excellent odds at +2150. Casey shot a -10 to win this tournament in 2018. Although Casey’s played great, he’d have lost badly without the 65 he carded in round 4. Before the 65 round 4, Casey had shot a 71 round 3 and a 70 round 1. Unless he repeats a 65 round during this year’s tournament, he should finish out of the top 10.
Jim Furyk played his way into golf fans’ minds last week when finishing second behind Rory McIlroy in The Players Championship. Last year at the Valspar Championship, Furyk shot a 6-under. That was only 4 strokes off Casey.
Furyk presents a great value play at +3200. He’s the golfer to back among the mid-range choices.
PGA Valspar Championship Pick: Jim Furyk +3200
Major Odds Dogs Worth Considering
Jason Kokrak shot a -5 at the 2018 Valspar Championship. Because he’s had decent success at the tournament, we must consider Kokrak a live longshot. However, Kokrak might not offer the most value based on the odds.
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Ryan Moore shot a -9 at The Players Championship. Moore carded 3 rounds under 70: a 67-round 1, a 69-round 3, and a 69-round 4. If he hadn’t imploded last Friday with a 74-round 2, he might have snuck into the top 10. Heck, who knows? He might have had a chance to challenge Rory for the trophy.
Moore’s terrific play at TPC-Sawgrass might be a sign that his form’s turning around. He had a terrible time at the 2018 Valspar, but if his form is indeed turning around, he’ll have a chance to win on Sunday.
PGA Valspar Championship Pick: Ryan Moore +4500

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E3 2020 has officially been canceled, and the internet is reacting to the news.
It's never enough for us.
We've got it all. Three-dimensional gameplay without glasses. Heaps of DLCs in all colors, shapes, and sizes -- add-on campaigns, flashy costumes, ultra-powerful weapons. Brilliant artwork and stunning environments years in the


Acer Aspire AS7741G-3647 is a 17.3-inch laptop equipped with a 2.4GHz Intel Core i5-450M Processor, 4GB(2x 2 GB) DDR3 SDRAM memory (8GB Max), and 500 GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive. It sports a 17.3-inch (1600×900) TFT LCD display with LED blacklight, Integrated ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650 Graphic Controller, Super-Multi DVD±RW Drive, Integrated High-Definition Audio CODEC, Built-in Speakers and Microphone, 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN, webcam, 5-in-1 Card Reader, 6 cell battery. The laptop runs on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit operating system. Needless to say, such a configuration is good enough for our daily use, people are super satisfied with it.
As a high-configured 17.3″ notebook, the Acer Aspire AS7741G-3647 could be a great desktop replacement, so if you've been tired of your desktop PC, it's right time to replace it with this one.
Of course, these Acer Aspire AS7741G-3647 laptop is also great for entertainment use, the large screen makes sure you enjoy brilliant experience with it. So it would be a good idea to watching movies with this Acer notebook, you'll even have home theater experience with it.
The Acer Aspire AS7741G-3647 comes with many attractive features, let's sum up.
Features & Specs:
- Processor: Intel Core i5-450M Processor(2.4GHz, 3MB L3 Cache)
- Chipset: Mobile Intel HM55 Express
- Memory: 4GB(2x 2GB) DDR3 SDRAM memory, Max Capacity upto 8GB
- Hard Drive: 500GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
- Display: 17.3″ (1600×900) TFT LCD, w/ LED blacklight, Support Acer CineCrystal Technology
- Graphics Module: Integrated ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650 Graphic Controller
- Optical Storage: Super-Multi DVD±RW Drive
- Audio: Integrated High-Definition Audio CODEC; Built-in Speakers and Microphone
- Connectivity: Gigabit LAN; 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN
- Interface: 3x USB 2.0 Ports; 1x VGA Port; 1x HDMI Port; 1x RJ45 Port; Audio I/O Jacks
- Card Reader: 5-in-1 Card Reader, Supports Optional Secure Digital Card, MultiMedia Card, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, xD-Picture Card
- Camera: Integrated Acer Crystal Eye WebCam
- Battery Pack & life: 6-cell 4400mAh Lithium Ion Battery, Upto 3.0 hours life time
- AC adapter: 90W AC Adapter
- Dimensions (WxDxH): 16.3 x 10.8 x 1.1~1.4 inch / 415.0 x 275.0 x 27.1~34.3 mm
- Weight: 7.3 lbs/ 3.3 kg
- Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Of course, these are just the key features this laptop delivers, you'll find out more when you get the laptop.
Price as Reviewed: $763.99 (on Amazon)
Well, what do you think about the Acer Aspire AS7741G-3647 17.3-Inch Laptop?


For most gun makers designing a concealed carry pistol it’s been a race to the bottom: smaller, thinner and shorter — balancing defensive caliber options with the ability to be concealed, and largely leaving the comfort of carry to holster makers in the accessory market.
Well, get ready to take everything you thought you knew about concealed carry handgun design and throw it all out the window.
With a long line of revolvers and autos that held to standard, tried and true designs, Taurus USA is set to fundamentally change the way many handgun owners think about carrying concealed with the launch of its new Curve pistol.
Dubbed “The Gun You Wear,” the Curve is just that. One of the first handgun designs that attacks the actual shape of the gun in order to make it more comfortable to carry, the Curve literally contours to the body, allowing shooters to tuck the six-shot .380 inside the waistband without a hint of a print.
“We asked ourselves the question ‘are guns comfortable to wear?’ and the answer was ‘no,’ ” says Taurus USA Product Manager Rob Crescenzi. “We thought a gun should be made to fit the contours of your body.”
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After three years of development and several patents built into its design, what emerged was a small, light handgun that offers a host of advantages other pistols in its class don’t. With an integrated LaserLyte light and laser molded into the frame, a heavy-duty clip mounted just under the slide and a trigger-guard mini holster that pulls off when the pistol is drawn, the Curve is ready for personal protection straight out of the box.
To help keep make the Curve as streamlined as possible, Taurus included an innovative “bore axis” sighting system, eliminating the need for iron sights that could snag on clothing during a heated draw. Add all those features together with an included extra magazine and Taurus Security System locking device and it’s hard to believe the Curve comes in at an affordable MSRP of $392.
Shooters seeing the Curve for the first time might be a bit skeptical about how the handgun actually handles. With its weird shape, curved magazine and boxy lines, can the Curve actually shoot when it counts?
After firing several boxes of .380 at an indoor range near Taurus’s Miami, Florida-based U.S. headquarters, it’s pretty clear the shapely Curve has no problem throwing lead down range. Most shooters experienced few if any malfunctions and the included laser sight made hitting the mark a breeze.
But like anything in life, the Curve isn’t going to be everything for everybody looking for the perfect concealed carry handgun. For one, sized similar to a smartphone, the Curve is little (think Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 380). If you’ve got big hands and long fingers, the grip is a little tougher to negotiate and the trigger doesn’t break without negotiating a better pull.
And with the slight curvature of the magazine, it’s necessary to manually pull the spent mag out of the grip rather than let it drop to the ground for a reload.
The “small-grip-big-hand” conundrum also rears its ugly head when you tuck the Curve inside the waistband for concealed carry. It’s tough to gain a purchase on the gun for a draw since there’s not a lot of real estate to grab onto for a pull. That’s why keeping it as a pocket pistol might work best for the larger set, as the trigger guard holster conveniently loops around the shooters belt, pulling the holster off during a pocket draw.
Sure, nothing’s perfect. But there is no doubt Taurus pulled off one of the most “outside the box” concepts in the pistol market with its Curve. And for the smaller framed shooter or female who needs personal protection in a handgun that won’t stand out against tailored clothing, the Curve sets the bar high for a “gun you wear.”
Caliber: .380 ACP
Action: Double Action Only (DAO)
Capacity: 6+1 Rounds
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Quinn Insurance told some of its claims managers to offer vouchers for Quinn hotels, golf facilities and insurance discounts to facilitate a cost-effective settlement of claims.
The company wrote to remote claims managers earlier this year suggesting they use the vouchers as a "negotiation tool" to help "bridge the gap" between claim amounts and settlement amounts.
Payment incentive structures for claims managers in the insurance industry often provide higher pay for managers who keep claims payouts to a minimum, thus costing the business less.
Media spokespeople for the Quinn Group were contacted last week and asked whether giving vouchers for hotels and golf courses was permitted. "Any services provided to Quinn Insurance or its customers by other Quinn Group companies are fully imbursed by Quinn Insurance," said a statement. No further comment was provided.
The Financial Regulator's consumer protection code says all claims must be paid within 10 days of settlement. However, from a regulatory perspective, an insurer has discharged its responsibility to the claimant once it has no remaining liability, as would be the case once a customer endorses the claim form.
It is also understood any payments made by an insurance firm to another company within the group would be visible to the financial regulator.

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Source: Tigers, Valverde agree to terms
The Tigers are poised to sign the veteran closer they hoped to add. They agreed to terms Thursday with Jose Valverde on a two-year contract with an option for a third, a source close to the negotiation confirmed to MLB.com pending a physical.
Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports first reported the deal, worth $14 million plus a $9 million option for 2012. Tigers officials would neither confirm nor deny the agreement.
By signing the Type A free agent, the Tigers would give up their first-round pick in this summer’s First-Year Player Draft, which would be the 19th overall selection. It would mark the first time since 1991, after the Tigers signed Rob Deer, that Detroit has given up its first-round Draft pick. However, the Tigers have two compensation picks coming at the end of the first round for losing relievers Fernando Rodney and Brandon Lyon to free agency


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Urvashi Rautela has joined in as the panelist at the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival 2022 where the actress is being elected as the only Bollywood female celebrity as a jury member of the ceremony.
Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival is India’s most prestigious award ceremony. A press conference was held recently that was attended by Urvashi along with other personalities like Subhash Ghai, Annu Kapoor, Pragya Kapoor, Anil Mishra from the Ministry of I&B, Col. Tushar Joshi, and Mayor of BMC – Smt. Kishori Pednekar who was the guest of honor at the press conference.
Talking about her excitement, Urvashi said, “Post being Miss Universe Judge and the jury I’m truly honored & humbled to be the jury at the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2022. I’m glad they welcomed me as someone who’s an influential, rare and unique artist with talent and conviction to lead the prestigious panel . As someone who’s committed, passionate and generous as a panelist. Many film festivals are reaching out to mainstream and parallel cinema actors from the Indian film industry to head panels, become part of juries and even lead some masterclasses.”
Urvashi Rautela who recently judged the Miss Universe Pageant 2021, also bagged appreciation for her international song Versace Baby alongside Arab superstar Mohamed Ramadan. Urvashi Rautela will be soon seen in the Jio studios web series Inspector Avinash opposite Randeep Hooda in a lead role. The actress is going to play the lead role in a bilingual thriller “Black Rose” along with the Hindi remake of “Thiruttu Payale 2”. Urvashi Rautela will be making a Tamil debut with the 200 crores big-budget film The Legend opposite Saravana. The actress has also signed a three-film contract with Jio Studios and T-Series.

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Updated: Oct 7, 2022
The full match schedule for the FIH Hockey Men’s World Cup in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela, India has been announced.
Wales will face home nation rivals England in their first match of the World Cup. Playing on the opening day of competition, the team will play in the first-ever FIH World Cup match hosted at the new Birsa Munda Stadium in Rourkela.
They play Spain in their second match two days later at the same stadium, before moving to the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar to take on hosts India in their final pool match.
Wales Pool Matches at FIH Hockey Men’s World Cup
Friday 13th January – Wales v England – 11:30 GMT Sunday 15th January – Wales v Spain – 11:30 GMT
Thursday 19th January – Wales v India – 13:30 GMT
There will be 44 matches played in total and the final will take place on Sunday 29th January at 13:30 GMT. A full math schedule is available here.
Ticket sales for all the matches will open shortly. In the meantime, you can register your interest at https://fih.formstack.com/forms/world_cup_tickets_pre_registration
How to Watch
In the UK, all matches will be streamed on BT Sport.
World Cup Pools
Wales have been drawn in Pool D for the World Cup with India, England, and Spain.
Pool A- Australia, South Africa, France, Argentina
Pool B- Belgium, Japan, South Korea, Germany
Pool C- Netherlands, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand
Pool D- India, Wales, Spain, England


When Gilmore Girls first aired in 2000, a story about a single mother with an unnaturally close relationship with her daughter, it hopped along, perhaps unintentionally so, on the third wave of feminism. When Lorelai Gilmore was 16 years old, she gave birth to her daughter, also named Lorelai but better known as Rory. Set in a small fictional town of Stars Hollow, the story kicks off 16 years later and follows the duo through ups and downs, peppered with pop cultural references.
Apart from Lorelai and Rory setting the bar for mother – daughter relationships, Gilmore Girls also offered a plethora of female characters with an accuracy that is often unparalleled by the mainstream media, even today. As the name of the show suggests, it deals with the Gilmores and boy, does it deal with the Girls.
“Who cares if I’m pretty if I fail my finals?”
While Rory became the lead Gilmore Girl over the course of the seasons, she had been a good influence; thoughtful and inspiring from the get go. The list of her virtues is far too long and yet, neither she nor the show explicitly talked about women’s issues (bearing in mind the exception of ‘That Damn Donna Reed’). In fact the show revolved particularly around the romantic lives of the Gilmore Girls, thereby ensuring a place in the genre of ‘silly, drama shows’.


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Q: Do you know someone who makes decorative pillows from cross-stitch? Thanks. — M.G., Fayetteville
A: That takes a unique talent to do cross-stitching, according to Alex Abbott, the 23-year-old owner of AHA Designs Custom Pillows and Embroidery in Fayetteville.
She said she didn’t know of any business in town that makes custom pillows from cross-stitch.
But Abbott can take a piece of fabric that is cross-stitch, and turn that fabric into the pillow of your nightly dreams.
“I work out of my home,” she said. “I have a start-up business that I started out of high school. I always had a thing for interior design. One of mom’s best friends taught me to sew.”
The number for AHA Designs is 977-5505.
Q: Are there any plans to put stoplights up at the top of the exit ramps from Interstate 95 at Exit 41 (Chicken Foot Road). With all the Gray’s Creek traffic, it is difficult to get off I-95 onto Chicken Foot Road. — C.W., Hope Mills
A: Good news, C.W. The state Department of Transportation plans to put a stoplight at the exit from the southbound lanes of the interstate and has a plan that will help with the exit on the northbound side.
DOT plans to install the stoplight at the southbound exit, along with another traffic signal at the nearby intersection of Marracco Drive and Chicken Foot Road, according to Andrew Barksdale, a DOT spokesman. Workers also will realign slightly Marracco Drive and Chicken Foot Road, he said.
The two signals at the southbound ramp for I-95 and Marracco Drive intersection "will help create some traffic gaps to allow traffic exiting 95 to more easily pull onto Chickenfoot Road/N.C. 59,” he said.
The two new lights are part of a project that the DOT plans to award this month, Barksdale said. The project includes replacing the bridge of I-95 Business, also known as U.S. 301, he said.
Barksdale said workers will build the new bridge next to the existing structure so traffic will continue to use the old bridge while the new one is built.
The estimated cost of the project is $22.1 million.
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Car 54, Where Are You?Pretzel Mary - Season 2, Episode 12 - Dec. 2, 1962 - The boys finally bust a nasty nuisance in the Park - "Pretzel Mary". When they see her deplorable living conditions they replace her furniture - not realizing what they're taking away.
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Chase's 35 points lift Nevis past W-H-A, to conference's top spot
Published 01/19/2013, Park Rapids Enterprise
Taylor Chase scored 35 points as the Nevis boys basketball team took over sole possession of first place in the Northland Conference standings with a 69-51 win over Walker-Hackensack-Akeley Tuesday night at Walker.Word count: 224
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All the stories in Out of the Gutter 8 that were previously published I've already read. I think they are great choices for the book. Great work by editors Matt Louis, Joe Clifford, Tom Pitts and Court Merrigan.
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The Bohusleden Trail, Stage 27
Högstad - Strömstad
Stage 27 of the Bohusleden Trail takes you from Högstad to Strömstad, a 15 kilometre stretch. It’s a varied walk, with a bit of everything, including some road walking and winding forest paths, finishing in the centre of Strömstad, with a view of the boats and islands.
Several detours to ancient remains
The 27th stage of the Bohusleden Trail offers anyone interested in history a real smörgårsbord. The stage starts in Högstad, but you are soon surrounded by lovely hilly woodland, where you’ll pass a great many ancient remains. A short detour will take you to a Bronze Age grave site, just before Bovall. The trail then continues along country roads before you turn off again. You can follow the marked detour here (around 150 metres) to Rogstads Hillerns shelter, where you’ll get a stunning view of Strömstad and the Kosterhavet Sea to the west, from the top. Immediately after the detour you’ll pass an impressive giant’s cauldron.
At Jonsbo you can also make an approximately 10 minute detour to visit an interesting historic manor house, Blomsholms Säteri. It was built as far back as the 17th century by a German nobleman, Anders Blume. One of the biggest stone ship grave settings in Sweden, believed to be from early Iron Age, is found here. The stone ship is just over 40 metres long and consists of 49 raised stones in the elongated oval shape of a ship. There’s also an ancient field system and an early Iron Age burial site with a large stone circle. Nearby is the Chatarina Skog, an enchanting, somewhat overgrown wood. In the 1700s a French inspired nature park was laid here by the lady of the manor, Chatarina Blume.
Photographer: Krisitna Gillerstedt
Bohuslän’s biggest burial mound
The Bohusleden Trail takes you on to Grönehög, an Iron Age burial ground, which contains Bohuslän’s biggest barrow, amongst other things. Not far from Grönehög the trail crosses the historic transport route Galärleden, which today is used as a combined walking and canoeing trail. The route was laid in 1718 when Swedish soldiers hauled twelve large galleys from Strömstad to Idefjorden. The ships were dragged over land and through bogs when they couldn’t be rowed across water, with the aim of being able to attack Norway from an unexpected direction.
Towards the sea in Strömstad
After continuing along winding paths you will finally reach the charming coastal town of Strömstad, where you’ll be rewarded by a lovely view of the Kosterhavet Sea from this busy seaside and shopping town. The path ends here in the middle of the town, by the harbour. It is in fact the only time the Bohusleden Trail reaches the sea. Take the opportunity to visit the Kosterhavet National Park, and go island hopping to the Koster Islands, where there are lots of pretty walking trails. In Strömstad there’s a large range of lovely accommodation, good food and events to enjoy.
Fact about the trail
The stage is 15 kilometres long.
The stretch takes approximately 4-5 hours to walk.
The trail is waymarked with orange on trees and posts, which makes it easy to guide yourself whichever direction you are walking in, or however many sections you walk. At the start of each stage there is a board with information about distances, symbols and facts about the right of public access.
Level of difficulty:
The trail is classified as moderate. The stage is very varied, and is mostly on forest paths through beautiful, wild landscapes. You’ll walk a few kilometres along country roads and immediately after the trail becomes very hilly, as you climb over a high hill. The last part of the stage is easy walking in forests, before arriving in the town of Strömstad.
Start and end:
The stage starts in Högstad, a 10 to 20 minute bus ride from Strömstad. Högstad bus stop is about 500 metres from the start of the stage. There’s also a small car park just after the country road a little bit past the start.
How to get here:
Stage 27 is in the municipality of Strömstad in Northern Bohuslän. It’s an easy drive of less than two hours to get to Strömstad from Gothenburg or Oslo. By train from Gothenburg it’s approximately two and a half hours.

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