Legendary Argyle girls basketball coach Skip Townsend has called it a career after winning his ninth state championship earlier this month.
DECATUR - Argyle got to Decatur pitcher Bryce Elder one time in Tuesday's District 9-4A opener, then spent the rest of the night trying in vain to extend that small lead.
Two of the area's most decorated players over the past four years capped their high school careers this past season, and the honors continue to roll in for both as Argyle's Vivian Gray and Guyer's Lauren Heard were both named to their respective all-region teams by Texas Association of Basketball Coaches.
Despite a first-round playoff exit in overtime fashion, the Guyer boys had a breakthrough year on the Class 6A state basketball landscape. That was led by a fantastic sophomore duo of point guard De'Vion Harmon and guard Jalen Wilson, and those two were selected to the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Class 6A Region I all-region team.
After falling behind 1-0 in the top of the first, Ryan responded quickly to knock off Braswell 4-1 on Friday and improve to 5-12-1.
Argyle was well represented on the District 9-4A all-district team, this after a dominating regular season that led to the Eagles winning 33 games and making a run to their first state tournament since 2012.
The fine folks at Dave Campbell's Texas Football needed a fill-in guest to co-host Wednesday's episode of DCTF Live, so I jumped on the opportunity and, alongside the great Max Thompson, was able to highlight our football-rich area, including Guyer, Ryan and Argyle, as well as other strong programs.
CARROLLTON -- The last time Argyle won a third-round playoff game was in 2012, and the Eagles went on to cap that season with a state championship. Coach Russell Perkins put the brakes on any predictions for the rest of this year's playoff run, but Tuesday's quarterfinal win was a dominant step in the right direction.
ARGYLE -- Nathan Priddy was likely the least concerned Argyle player on the court Tuesday when he went scoreless in the first half of the Eagles' third-round playoff game against Dallas Carter. After all, Priddy averages roughly 18 points per game and knew the defense would try everything to shut him down.
Argyle junior Gabby Standifer, who just helped lead the Lady Eagles to their third straight Class 4A state championship last weekend, was selected by the Texas Girls Coaches Association to play in the TGCA Red-Blue All-Star Game this summer in Austin.
SAN ANTONIO -- Argyle preached all year about staying patient and waiting for the right play to present itself. That play was there in the closing seconds of its Class 4A state semifinal on Friday afternoon -- the shot just didn't fall.
ARGYLE — Nathan Priddy struggled for the right words while being interviewed during the final week of his high school basketball career. Clearly nervous, he rarely took his eyes off the ground in front of him — unless to grab the attention of a nearby teammate.
After beating Paris in Saturday’s regional championship at Commerce, the Argyle boys basketball team found out who it will first face in the Class 4A state tournament this weekend.
SAN ANTONIO — Vivian Gray hasn’t had many games like the one she had on Saturday, and especially not on the state’s biggest stage for high school basketball. The Argyle senior star forward — playing in the eighth state tournament game of her decorated career — was in a shooting funk from the opening tip. So instead of a pretty, hot-shooting win like the one the Lady Eagles picked up in Friday’s state semifinal, they had to scratch and claw their way to a physical 40-30 win against Liberty Hill to claim their third straight state championship after losing in the final Gray’s freshman season.
COMMERCE — Argyle can say all it wants about its suffocating defense. But its offense isn’t bad, either. Behind 18 points from David Davis and 16 from Nathan Priddy, the 10th-ranked Eagles again showed impeccable balance on both ends of the floor while marching past Paris for a 53-34 win Saturday in the Class 4A Region II final at Texas A&M-Commerce. The win clinched the program’s first state tournament appearance since 2012.
SAN ANTONIO — The state tournament, in theory, is supposed to pit the four best teams in a given classification against each other for the right to hoist a trophy and be the last team standing.
ARGYLE — When the Argyle girls basketball season began in early November, Sophie Betzhold still was trying to help her volleyball team to a second straight Class 4A state championship.
CARROLLTON — The last time Argyle won a third-round playoff game was in 2012, and the Eagles went on to cap that season with a state championship. Coach Russell Perkins put the brakes on any predictions for the rest of this year’s playoff run, but Tuesday’s quarterfinal win was a dominant step in the right direction.
And then there were two. One week ago, seven Denton-area boys basketball teams were heading into the state playoffs, and after the first two rounds, only two of those seven remain.
COMMERCE — After a slow-paced game against a Bullard team that hit more 3-pointers than 2-point field goals in Friday’s regional semifinal, Argyle coach Skip Townsend and his team knew what was waiting for them in Saturday’s final with a trip to the Class 4A state tournament on the line.
The race to UIL basketball gold begins this week for seven Denton-area boys teams while the Ryan and Argyle are the only two area girls teams still alive in the third round of the state playoffs with regional tournament berths on the line Tuesday night.
The girls basketball playoffs are set to resume tonight as four area teams were crowned bi-district champions earlier this week.
Halee Van Poppel spent most of her high school career looking up to the senior leaders who helped turn Argyle into a dominant state title contender. Whether it was Katy Keenan in 2014 or the dynamic combo of Eighmy Dobbins and Alexa Bass a year later, Van Poppel had every opportunity to learn from the best.
ARGYLE — When a team shoots 9 percent from 3-point range and still wins by 30 points, plenty more went right. That was the case for Argyle on Friday. Despite obvious struggles from downtown, the two-time defending Class 4A champion got 20 points from Madison Ralston and 17 from Vivian Gray while holding fellow ranked team Bridgeport to nine points in the second half of a 52-22 win in the District 9-4A opener for both teams.
FORT WORTH — Jalen Wilson led Guyer with 21 points, but no shot was more important than his 3-point basket late in the fourth quarter that sealed the Wildcats’ 75-73 win over Garland Lakeview Centennial in the Orange division championship game of the Whataburger Tournament on Friday.
BRIDGEPORT — Aubrey advanced to the final of the Bridgeport tournament after defeating the host team 68-51, but fell short of the title as Class 5A Birdville dominated the Chaparrals 84-39 in Thursday’s finale.
FORT WORTH — Three Denton-area teams picked up first-round wins to open the Whataburger Tournament, as Guyer blew past Richland 76-59, Ponder scraped by Liberty Christian 66-59 and Argyle edged Wall 44-37.
Argyle got off to a hot start and used a 30-point effort in the third quarter to coast to a 68-21 win over Marshfield (Mo.) in the first round of the Pink & White Lady Classic.
ARGYLE — For Brock, it wasn’t pretty. Argyle senior Nathan Priddy scored 11 of his game-high 30 points in the second quarter to lead the Eagles to a convincing 59-44 win against Class 3A Brock on Monday.


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IN A SWIFT, BRUTAL DEVELOPMENT, America has suddenly become the greatest reality show on earth, its inhabitants in peril of being thumped as if they were nothing more than a prop conference table on the Apprentice set. There is something both comforting and invigorating about revisiting an earlier era when television was television and real life was real life, and when in the space between the twoat least in one singular caseart blossomed.
In 1995, the curators Julie Lazar and Tom Finkelpearl asked the artist Mel Chin to take part in “Uncommon Sense,” a group show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, dedicated to exploring art that engaged the public sphere beyond the confines of the museum. At the time, Chin was already known as a Conceptual artist whose wide-ranging, community-oriented work often extended far beyond the gallery or the studio. (In the sculptural-environmental project Revival Field, begun in 1991 while Chin was in residency at the Walker Art Center, for instance, he collaborated with botanists on the design of gardens of “hyperaccumulators”plants that are able to draw heavy metals from tainted earth, cleaning it in the process.) In response to Lazar and Finkelpearl’s request, Chin invited students and faculty from the University of Georgia and CalArts (schools where he was teaching at the time), along with additional artists and friends from across the US, to form a 102-person-strong collective that they dubbed the GALA Committee. The work that Chin and his group created over the following two years for the LA MoCA show, installed in 1997, was a blend of long-game Conceptualism, Dada-esque intervention, and whoopee cushion–style pranksterismall played out against the highly unlikely backdrop of the wildly popular prime-time soap opera Melrose Place.
The Aaron Spelling–produced Fox show, a Beverly Hills, 90210 spinoff, focused on a group of twenty- and thirty-something professionals all implausibly living in the same Los Angeles apartment complex, and was renowned for its combination of improbable melodramatic plots (kidnapping, double identities, and characters coming back from the dead) with topical social issues (unwanted pregnancy, child abuse, alcoholism). Approaching the show’s set decorator, Deborah Siegel, Chin offered to provide free props, on the understanding that these seemingly mundane objectsa quilt on a sofa, a Chinese takeout container, a baby mobile over a crib, fabric sold at a clothing boutiquewould also carry hidden political significance: The quilt, it turns out, was patterned with the chemical structure of the then-banned abortion pill RU-486 (and made its appearance when the pregnant character Alison [Courtney Thorne-Smith] snuggled under it), the container bore messages in Chinese related to the Tiananmen Square protests, the mobile was shaped like a television remote control, and the fabric’s print referenced the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory tragedy. Incredibly (what a thing!), Chin and the collective got the go-ahead, and developed and crafted objects in a labor-intensive, organizationally complex process that led to planted props in countless Melrose Place episodesand eventually resulted in the exhibition of those same props at Lazar and Finkelpearl’s LA MoCA show. In a final twist, that exhibition was itself captured on Melrose Place’s fifth season.
These props were recently shown again at New York’s Red Bull Studios in a multifaceted historical resurrection: “Total Proof: The GALA Committee 1995–1997,” curated by Max Wolf. Alongside some hundred-plus objects (reassembled here for the first time after being auctioned off in 1998, with the proceeds donated to women’s literacy programs), the show presented a selection of Melrose Place clips highlighting some of the most absurd juxtapositions Chin et al. created: Amanda (Heather Locklear) with a sculpture of a T4 virus in the background of her visit to the LA MoCA show; advertising executive Billy (Andrew Shue), with a gay-rights poster at an ad-agency presentation; Sydney’s (Laura Leighton) blind date escaping naked from her apartment, clutching a pillow embroidered with an illustration of HIV to his groin. A number of the show’s sets, too, were reconstructed for the installation: the apartment complex’s Spanish Colonial Revival entryway; the interior of Shooters bar, the characters’ perennial hangout, complete with pool table and bottles discreetly labeled to gesture at social issues related to alcohol consumption; and even the complex’s poolthough drained of water and, in a nod to relational aesthetics, reimagined by Chin as a sofa-filled conversation pit.
Most interesting, however, were two additional elements: a dark room replete with beanbags in the back of the space, where the show’s seven seasons were streamed on a loop, and a collection of the rich ephemera related to the project’s plottingletters and faxes between the production staff and GALA members and among those members themselves (“We have a new set of pool balls. The 8 ball has the contour of Africa painted. . . . This piece is about the economic isolation and exploitation of Africa”); script pages (at one point during the project, GALA began to receive advance teleplays with which to work); copies of Chin’s personal mailer (“Friends of Mel Newsletter”); and sketches and diagrams of props in development.
These contrasting sides of the projectone having to do with the prone, viewing body, the other with the thinking, conspiring mindare equally significant, though the beauty of the thing was, at least partly, the potential futility of the group’s endeavors: so much planning and scheming and plotting that went into the construction of a joke, as all the while an awareness hovered that that joke might, in the end, remain private. Chin has spoken of his interest in the project’s viral sensibilityits dissemination of messages via television in a way that didn’t counter or subvert the medium but was hosted by it. Yet at the heart of the venture was also an embrace of its potential impotence: the understanding that viewers, motionless in their beanbags, might easily evade the blink-and-you-miss-it GALA infection.
This, however, doesn’t suggest that the work of the GALA Committee was meaninglessquite the opposite. By forging ahead collaboratively even while recognizing its own possible invisibility, the Melrose project acknowledged both the enormous power and pleasure of television and the importance of art qua artbecause of, rather than in spite of, the latter’s relative ineffectiveness. In the early days of 2017, we would do well to take a page from GALA’s playbook: We can open up a lot of room for art, not to mention politics, by reinserting reality into its representations.
Naomi Fry is a writer living in Brooklyn.
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More than 5,000 teachers and 400,000 students will benefit from a financial literacy programme spearheaded by NTU’s National Institute of Education.
School is the perfect place to learn how to budget and invest. In fact, lessons on financial planning could be infused into core subjects like Mathematics, English Language or Social Studies classes.
Instead of teaching percentages as formulas, why not get students to analyse restaurant bills and discounts in advertisements, suggests Dr Koh Noi Keng, the Chair of the Citi-NIE Financial Literacy Hub for Teachers. The Hub was launched on 31 October 2007 by the National Institute of Education and Citi Foundation to cultivate sound financial habits and decision-making by promoting financial literacy in schools.
Citi has contributed a million-dollar grant to the initiative and has pledged another S$750,000 over two years to take the teaching of managing one’s money a step further. The financial support received will double as the sum pledged attracts a matching government grant.
Under the latest initiative, trained teachers will be empowered to act as financial education ambassadors in their respective schools. Through coaching, special workshops and access to training resources, they will tutor their peers and start a financial literacy plan and curriculum in their schools.
The Citi-NIE Financial Literacy Hub for Teachers has already trained more than 2,000 teachers from 240 schools, who have, in turn, reached out to over 150,000 students. Over the next two years, 3,000 more teachers will be trained to incorporate financial concepts in their daily lessons. This will benefit another 250,000 students. Financial literacy in everyday life
“What’s important is sustaining the virtuous cycle of teaching and learning so that we’re building capacities and ensuring sustainability and scalability of the mission,” said Dr Koh. “Having teachers drive the financial literacy efforts within their respective schools also promotes ownership and empowerment.” This creates a multiplier effect, she adds.
There are many ways to integrate financial planning into the curriculum. Even special enrichment or post-examination programmes, such as carnivals or camps, have a role to play. “Our financial literacy carnivals are fun and exciting platforms where students will run through an Amazing Race to different stations and compete in games related to financial education,” notes Dr Koh. Whichever platform is used, the ultimate goal is to cultivate a deep appreciation for financial literacy.
“We are happy to have such a strategic partnership and collaboration with Citi,” said Prof Lee Sing Kong, the Director of the National Institute of Education. “It is important to impart financial literacy to students as it is a lifelong skill which will allow them to make wise financial decisions throughout their lives, as students, adults and parents.”© Corporate Communications Office and Citi-NIE Financial Literacy Hub for Teachers

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Large Wooden Fishing Boat on Stand
Large Wooden Fishing Boat on Stand - If she could sail the sea what salty sea-dog tales she'd tell, but she'll have to be content sitting in the window on her stand or adorning the mantle looking nautical and nice! She has a smaller sister ship too which can be found in our Nautical Niceties Collection.
Approximate size is 40 x 28 x 8.5cm
Really lovely boat, well made and arrived promptly
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Reservations are at capacity. A rush ticketing line will form 30 minutes prior to the event with seating available on a first come, first served basis.
Art is a reflection of the place from which it emerges. Tell Them We Were Here chronicles the work of eight Bay Area artists and how each extends the legacy of local activism. Embedded within their practices we see the most pressing issues of our time: prison reform, homelessness, racial equity, feminism, environmental justice, and income inequality. In an age of hypercapitalism, these artists represent an empowering alternative worldview that emphasizes creativity and community over capital.
The film follows the work of artists Sadie Barnette, Amy Franceschini (Futurefarmers), Jim Goldberg, Tucker Nichols, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Alicia McCarthy, Nigel Poor (Ear Hustle), and Michael Swaine.
Join us after the screening for a Q&A with the filmmakers, Griff and Keelan Williams, as well as featured artists Sadie Barnette, Jim Goldberg, and Tucker Nichols.
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I thought of the title for this post earlier today, because today was the first official day that I returned to my allotment garden in the Egebergløkka community garden. Back to the garden reminded me of the song Woodstock by Crosby Stills Nash & Young, not for any other reason than that the lyrics include a line 'And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden'. Just goes to show you what kind of associations your brain will make if you let it. But I understand wanting and needing to get myself back to the garden. I've been dreaming of it the entire winter.
I did a lot of work today to prepare the garden for this year's planting. It helped that the temperature was around 70 degrees Fahrenheit, making it that much easier to be outdoors working and enjoying the lovely weather. I spent most of the afternoon raking leaves and dead grass, removing dead plants, and putting all of it into black garbage bags. I realized how much I miss pure physical work that doesn't give you much time to think about the myriad of things that cause distress and anxiety. My friend at work says that gardening is my form of meditation. I think she's right. I have no need to sit still and meditate; I immerse myself in the necessary work of the garden and find peace. I have already measured out the area I need to install a greenhouse and marked it with stones, and am waiting for the annual board meeting that will hopefully approve the purchase of standard-size greenhouses by individual gardeners. I also need to buy a new garden hose, so I've been looking around for a good one.
I took some photos of the first flowers to show their faces in the garden this year. The Norwegians call them 'snøklokke'; in English they're called snowdrops--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galanthus
Galanthus (snowdrop; Greek gála "milk", ánthos "flower") is a small genus of about 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. The plants have two linear leaves and a single small white drooping bell shaped flower with six petal-like (petaloid) tepals in two circles (whorls). The smaller inner petals have green markings........Most species flower in winter, before the vernal equinox (20 or 21 March in the Northern Hemisphere), but some flower in early spring and late autumn.
The birds were also out in force today, chirping happily with each other. There were several butterflies as well, and a big furry bumblebee. Seeing them all made me happy. The world seems to be as it should be--all is right with the world--when nature is happy and content. Then I am happy too.
Tomorrow I will post some photos of the garden, and my layout for the garden for those of you who are interested in seeing how I am planning it.


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Citizen Genêt Affair Summary
The Citizen Genêt Affair — also known as the French Neutrality Crisis — was a diplomatic incident between France and the United States that took place from 1793–1794. In 1793, France declared war on Britain. Under the provisions of the 1783 Franco-American Alliance, the French appealed to the United States for support and sent Edmond Charles Genêt to America to negotiate. However, instead of going to Philadephia to meet with President George Washington, he started by gathering American citizens to volunteer to help France fight Britain and Spain. Washington responded by issuing the Proclamation of Neutrality, which Genêt ignored. Soon after, Genêt defied Washington and sent a ship — a Privateer — out of Philadelphia to attack British ships. This could have led Britain to declare war on the United States. Washington and his cabinet responded by asking the French Government to recall Genêt and send a new Ambassador. The French agreed and sent a replacement — but also accused Genêt of treason. Genêt asked for political asylum in America, which was granted, and he spent the rest of his life living in New York. The affair deepened the divide between political parties in the United States but also led the government to define its policy regarding neutrality and the passage of the Neutrality Act of 1794.
Citizen Genêt Affair Quick Facts
- The Citizen Genêt Affair is also called the French Neutrality Crisis.
- Edmond Charles Genêt was the first Ambassador to the United States from the Republic of France.
- Genêt arrived in Charleston, South Carolina on April 8, 1793, and called himself “Citizen Genêt” as a way to emphasize his pro-revolutionary stance and support for the French Revolution.
- President George Wahington issued the Proclamation of Neutrality on April 22, 1793.
- Genêt was very popular and many Americans supported both him and the French Republic because they believed the French Revolution was a similar event to the American Revolution.
- In June 1793, the Jacobins took control of the French government from the Girondins.
- Genêt wrote a formal complaint to Washington that was published in newspapers.
- On August 1, 1793, the United States government formally requested to have Genêt recalled by the French government.
- While Genêt was in America, the Jacobins took control of the French government. In January 1794, Genêt was suspected of remaining loyal to the previous government and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
- Genêt requested asylum from the United States.
Citizen Genêt Affair History
The French Revolution started in 1789, just six years after the 1783 Treaty of Paris brought an end to the American Revolution. The French Revolution, which was inspired by the American Revolution, changed the landscape of politics and society in Europe. However, it also affected the development of the United States in two significant ways:
- It contributed to the growing divide between political parties — the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans.
- It led to the development of American foreign policy regarding neutrality.
Impact of the French Revolution on America
In 1793, the United States was still a young nation and George Washington had just started serving his second term as President of the United States. Efforts to stabilize the country and allow it to grow were affected by domestic incidents — primarily the rise of political parties — and a significant international event — the French Revolution.
It was in April 1793 that news reached America that France had declared war on both Great Britain and Spain. This caused issues for the United States on all fronts due to treaties that were agreed to with those nations during and after the American Revolutionary War, and negotiations with Spain over access to the Mississippi River.
- Treaty of Alliance with France (1778) — France agreed to provide military support to the United States and declared war against Britain. The Franco-American Alliance helped lead to the United States winning the American Revolutionary War.
- Treaty of Paris (1783) — Great Britain agreed to recognize the United States as an independent nation and established boundaries between U.S., British, and Spanish territories in North America.
- Jay-Gardoqui Negotiations (1785) — The Treaty of Paris gave Americans access to the Mississippi River, which was essential to trade and shipping. However, in 1784, Spain closed the Port of New Orleans to Americans. John Jay was sent to negotiate a treaty to restore access, however, the treaty was rejected by Congress. Spain retained control of New Orleans and maintained a strong presence in the Southern portion of the present-day United States.
After declaring war, France asked the United States to provide military support in the Western Hemisphere. This put the United States in a precarious situation. Any wrong move could possibly lead to war with any of the countries, which the United States was not prepared for.
Genêt Named Ambassador to the United States
In November 1792, the French Republic — under the control of the Girondin Party — was expecting war with Great Britain and Spain and decided to take action. The Girondins were confident that the United States would honor the Treaty of Alliance and appointed Edmond Charles Genêt as French minister to the United States.
In January 1793, two weeks before France declared war on Great Britain, Genêt was given specific instructions to:
- Convince Americans to support the Treaty of Alliance and participate in the French war effort by helping defend French colonies in the Caribbean. To do this, France would hire Americans to operate as Privateers on its behalf, which would attack British merchant ships.
- Request the United States immediately pay roughly two-thirds of the $4.4 million dollars that it borrowed from France during the American Revolutionary War.
- Negotiate a new commercial treaty between the two nations.
- Use the United States territory as a base of operations for French military efforts to take Canada from Great Britain and Louisiana from Spain. He was also given permission to enlist American citizens and Native American Indians in French service
- Offer the United States access to the Mississippi River once the Spanish were removed and the opportunity to acquire Canada once the British were removed.
It is important to note that Genêt was not told to ask the United States government to honor the Treaty of Alliance. Doing so would likely have led both Great Britain and Spain to declare war on the United States.
Citizen Genêt Arrives and Sets Up Privateers
Genêt arrived in Charleston, South Carolina on April 8, 1793. Soon after, he started issuing commissions to American ships to act as Privateers and attack British merchant ships. Under the agreements, the ships were authorized to seize cargo from the ships they captured. Genêt also promised their actions would be protected by the authority of the French government. Genêt negotiated these agreements with the support and approval of William Moultrie, the Governor of South Carolina.
President Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality
America was divided. The new French government was born out of the French Revolution, which was popular in America. However, the United States was still a very young nation and had a strong trade relationship with Great Britain that was vital to the economy. President George Washington decided to protect the economic interests of the United States and issued the Proclamation of Neutrality on April 22, 1793.
“Whereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great-Britain, and the United Netherlands, of the one part, and France on the other, and the duty and interest of the United States require, that they should with sincerity and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers:
I have therefore thought fit by these presents to declare the disposition of the United States to observe the conduct aforesaid towards those powers respectively; and to exhort and warn the citizens of the United States carefully to avoid all acts and proceedings whatsover, which may in any manner tend to contravene such disposition.
And I do hereby also make known that whosoever of the citizens of the United States shall render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations, by committing, aiding or abetting hostilities against any of the said powers, or by carrying to any of them those articles, which are deemed contraband by the modern usage of nations, will not receive the protection of the United States, against such punishment or forfeiture: and further, that I have given instructions to those officers, to whom it belongs, to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons, who shall, within the cognizance of the courts of the United States, violate the Law of Nations, with respect to the powers at war, or any of them.”
Citizen Genêt Defies President Washington
Genêt did not understand the authority of the Presidency under the United States Constitution. He believed the office was still ceremonial in nature, as it had been under the Articles of Confederation. As a result, he continued to solicit support for the French cause. In fact, he went as far as to accuse President Washington of being under the influence of Great Britain. Genêt aligned himself with the Democratic-Republicans, who were more favorable to the French cause.
Genêt finally arrived in Philadelphia on May 16, 1793, and discovered the Federal Government condemned his actions. Four days later, all French privateers were ordered to leave American ports. On June 11, Thomas Jefferson, the Secretary of State, notified the French Government that the United States refused to pay the loans in advance, as requested. The Girondins had planned to use the money to fund the Privateers and to buy weapons and ammunition. Without the money, Genêt’s mission would be a failure.
The Little Sarah Affair
Despite the setback, Genêt pushed forward with his plan to outfit Privateers. A British ship, the Little Sarah, was captured and taken to Philadelphia. Jefferson warned Genêt that it would be illegal for him to arm the ship — while in an American port — to be used to attack foreign ships.
Genêt renamed the ship La Petite Démocrate — “Little Democrat” — and placed 14 guns and a crew of 120 men on board.
Alexander Hamilton found out what Genêt had done and notified Thomas Mifflin, the Governor of Pennsylvania. On July 6, Mifflin called up the militia and ordered it to keep the ship from sailing out of port. Genêt was furious and actually threatened to use force if the ship was not allowed to leave port.
Jefferson met with Genêt and explained to him that Washington’s authority in the matter of neutrality was absolute, and the authority was given by the Constitution. At the time, Washington was at Mount Vernon, and Genêt agreed to keep the ship in port until he returned to Philadelphia. When Mifflin was notified the ship would not leave, he sent the militia home.
The President’s cabinet met the next day and discussed the situation. Hamilton and Henry Knox wanted to use the militia to blockade the port and keep the ship from leaving. Jefferson disagreed and insisted the ship would remain until Washinton returned. There were also reports that a French fleet was set to arrive soon. If there was an incident with the Little Democrat, it could lead to war with France.
When Washington returned, he notified Genêt that he expected the Little Democrat and all privateers to remain where they were. Three days later, Genêt defied Washington and ordered the ship out to sea.
Genêt’s Preparations for War
While the Little Democrat Affair was taking place, Genêt had already put other plans in motion.
- He organized a military expedition in Kentucky to undertake an expedition against New Orleans. An attack on New Orleans with an American force would undoubtedly lead to war between the United States and Spain.
- He was outfitting ships in New York and Baltimore as Privateers and planned to send them to attack British merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean.
Washington Agrees to Ask France to Recall Genêt
On July 23, Washington informed his Cabinet that he agreed they should ask the French Government to recall Genêt and send a new Ambassador. Washington also believed it was critical to keep the relationship with France strong, so Washington proposed sending Gouverneur Morris to France to meet with the French Government. Morris would take copies of all the letters and articles Genêt had written, as a way to show how he tried to undermine the American Government. Alexander Hamilton also recommended publishing all of Genêt’s correspondence, as a way to undermine Genêt’s popularity with the American public. The meeting ended without making a decision on how to proceed, but the groundwork had been laid for Genêt’s recall.
On the 25th, Washington instructed Jefferson to collect his correspondence with Genêt, and it was read before the Cabinet on August 1. Once the letters were read, Washington and the Cabinet agreed to ask for Genêt’s recall. They also composed a letter that explained the reasons for the request. The situation dragged on through the month of August as the Federalists — led by Hamilton and Knox — and Democrat-Republicans — Jefferson and Edmund Randolph — on the Cabinet debated on whether or not to make a statement to the American people. The Federalists wanted to make a statement, but the Democrat-Republicans were concerned it would affect relations with France. Washington decided to wait. Soon after, popular sentiment started to move in favor of neutrality and a statement from the President was not needed.
Rules of Neutrality Defined
On August 3, the Cabinet defined the “Rules of Neutrality,” which were sent to President Washington.
1. The original arming and equipping of vessels in the ports of the United States by any of the belligerent parties, for military service offensive or defensive, is deemed unlawful.
2. Equipments of merchant vessels by either of the belligerent parties in the ports of the United States, purely for the accommodation of them as such, is deemed lawful.
3. Equipments in the ports of the United States of vessels of War in the immediate service of the Government of any of the belligerent parties, which if done to other vessels would be of a doubtful nature, as being applicable either to commerce or War, are deemed lawful; except those which shall have made prize of the subjects, people, or property of France coming with their prizes into the Ports of the United States pursuant to the seventeenth Article of our Treaty of Amity and commerce with France
4. Equipments in the Ports of the united States, by any of the parties at war with France, of vessels fitted for Merchandize and War, whether with or without Commissions, which are doubtful in their nature as being applicable either to commerce or War, are deemd lawful; except those which shall have made prize, &c.
5. Equipments of any of the vessels of France, in the Ports of the United States, which are doubtful in their nature, as being applicable to commerce or war, are deemed lawful.
6. Equipments of every kind in the Ports of the United States, of privateers of the Powers at War with France, are deemed unlawful.
7. Equipments of vessels in the Ports of the United States, which are of a nature solely adopted to war, are deemed unlawful; except those stranded or wrecked, as mentioned in the eighteenth Article of our Treaty with France⟨,⟩ the sixteenth of our Treaty with the United Netherlands, the ninth of our Treaty with Prussia, and except those mentioned in the nineteenth Article of our Treaty with France, the seventeenth of our Treaty with the United Netherlands, the eighteenth of our Treaty with Prussia.2
8. Vessels of either of the parties not armed, or armed previous to their coming into the ports of the United States, which shall not have infringed any of the foregoing rules, may lawfully engage or inlist therein their own Subjects or Citizens, not being inhabitants of the United States; except privateers of the Powers at War with France, and except those vessels which shall have made prize, &c.
Recall Letter Finalized
On August 23rd, Washington and his Cabinet finalized the recall letter. The letter and documentation were sent to France. Washington and the Cabinet agreed to wait two weeks to notify Genêt so that he would not have a chance to respond before it reached France.
French Leaders Agree to Recall
Morris met with French leaders on October 8 and presented the letters and documentation. The Jacobin leaders had already made accusations against Genêt that he was actually in America to undermine the French cause. When they came to power in June, the Jacobins charged at least 40 leaders of the Girondin Party with treason and had many of them executed. The letter asking for Genêt’s recall and the explanation for the request helped convince the new government that Genêt was working with the Girondins and was also guilty of treason. The French agreed to recall Genêt and replace him with a commission. They also told Morris that Genêt would be punished for his actions.
The United States Gives Genêt Political Asylum
The new French commissioners arrived in Philadelphia in February 1794. By then, Thomas Jefferson had resigned as Secretary of State and been replaced by Edmund Randolph. Randolph told the commissioners that, as far as the United States was concerned, being removed as Ambassador was enough punishment for Genêt. The United States refused to extradite him to France and allowed him to stay in the country. Genêt was given political asylum and the affair came to an end.
The Outcome of the Citizen Genêt Affair
Neutrality Act of 1794
On March 13, 1794, the Senate passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited citizens from enlisting or accepting commissions in foreign military forces, fitting out foreign privateers and warships, or participating in filibuster expeditions. It also made it illegal for citizens to wage war against any nation that was at peace with the United States.
Edmond-Charles Genêt’s Life in America
Genêt spent the rest of his life in New York. In 1794, he married Cornelia Tappen Clinton, the daughter of George Clinton, the Governor of New York. They lived on a farm he called “Prospect Hill” in East Greenbush, New York, along the Hudson River. He lived as a gentleman farmer and wrote a book about inventions. He had 5 children with Cornelia. Genêt died in 1834.
Citizen Genêt Affair Significance
The Genêt Affair forced the United States to formulate a consistent policy on the issue of neutrality. Washington’s Cabinet signed a set of rules regarding policies of neutrality on August 3, 1793, and these rules were formalized when Congress passed a neutrality bill on June 4, 1794. This legislation formed the basis for neutrality policy throughout the nineteenth century. The policy of neutrality would be challenged during the administration of John Adams when the XYZ Affair led to the Quasi-War with France.
Citizen Genêt Affair Frequently Asked Questions
Citizen Genêt was Edmond-Charles Genêt, the first Ambassador to the United States from the Republic of France. Genêt was responsible for encouraging Americans to go to war with Great Britain and France. This led to President Washington’s 1793 Proclamation of Neutrality and the passage of the Neutrality Act of 1794.
Citizen Genêt Affair for AP US History (APUSH)
This section provides information for kids doing research and students preparing for the AP U.S. History (APUSH) exam.
Citizen Genet Affair Definition for APUSH
The Citizen Genêt Affair was a diplomatic incident that took place from 1793–94. It led to a defined policy of neutrality for the United States regarding its involvement in foreign affairs. The incident furthered division between political parties in the United States and led to the Neutrality Act of 1794.
Interesting Facts About the Citizen Genêt Affair
- Edmond Charles Genêt served as French minister to the United States from 1793 to 1794.
- At the time of Genêt’s service, American foreign policy was dominated by events surrounding the French Revolution.
- President Washington declared a policy of neutrality in the war Great Britain and Spain were waging against the French revolutionary government.
- The French sent Genêt to the U.S. in 1793 with instructions that would bring him into direct conflict with the U.S. of neutrality.
- When Genêt arrived in the U.S. in 1793, he called himself “Citizen Genêt” to emphasize his pro-revolutionary stance.
- Rather than traveling directly to Philadelphia, the U.S. capital, Genêt spent a month in the South, where he spent time encouraging privateers to attack British ships and promoting revolution in Florida, Louisiana, and Canada.
- By the time Genêt arrived in Philadelphia in May to present his credentials, his actions had eroded his credibility with most of Washington’s cabinet.
- Eventually, Genêt’s staunchest defender in Washington’s cabinet, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, was forced to disassociate himself.
- Washington and his cabinet unanimously agreed to request that France recall Genêt, in August 1793.
- By the time the request for Genêt’s recall reached France, the Jacobins had assumed power, and the Reign of Terror had started.
- Believing that Genêt’s actions had hurt France’s position with the U.S. government, the Jacobins not only recalled Genêt but also issued a warrant for his arrest.
- Knowing that Genêt’s return to France would almost certainly mean he would be put to death, Washington allowed him to remain in the U.S.
- Genêt spent the rest of his life as a farmer in New York state, where he died in 1834.
Overview of George Washington’s Neutrality
This video from Tom Richey discusses George Washington’s foreign policy, including his Neutrality Proclamation, the Citizen Genet Affair, the Jay Treaty, and Pinckney’s Treaty. It also covers the conflict between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton concerning the French Revolution. This lecture was designed chiefly for AP US History (APUSH) students but is good for anyone with an interest in foreign policy, diplomacy, or early US History.

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LATEST: British singer Brian Harvey has finally allayed fears his recent accident was a third suicide attempt - by explaining how he came to be crushed under the wheels of his own car in May (05).
The former EAST 17 star was released from hospital last month (JUL05), seven weeks after receiving life-saving treatment for a broken leg, a shattered pelvis, severe abdominal injuries and fluid-filled lungs sustained in the freak accident.
But he denies reports he was trying to take his own life again, insisting he opened his Mercedes' door to be sick, but fell out of his seat and was pulled under the wheels as the car reversed backwards.
He says, "I had just been stuffing my face with a load of jacket potatoes and I felt sick, so I opened my car door to be sick.
"Instead of putting my foot on the brake, I put it on the accelerator and it flew back. I must have hit four or five parked cars.
"My stomach was pushed into my lungs, which collapsed, and I was told the heel of one of my feet was found up round the back of my head.
"If you were going to commit suicide you wouldn't do it like this."
But he admits he was treated in a rehabilitation centre for clinical depression in April (05) and tried to commit suicide twice before the accident - he was rushed to hospital in May (05) after collapsing at his east London home following an overdose of sleeping tablets.
Ricki and the Flash is a music comedy drama about the high price of a musician's pursuit of fame.
The new doc comes courtesy of '20 Feet From Stardom’ filmmaker Morgan Neville.
Gaz Coombes has reworked the title track from his latest solo album 'Matador' and is planned to be released as a limited edition EP on numbered and...
Pine will star opposite Gal Gadot in the upcoming Warner Bros. comic book movie.
The model turned actress was promoting her new movie ‘Paper Towns’ on the early morning talk show.
Sweet Baboo (aka Stephen Black) is set to release his fifth studio album The Boombox Ballads on August 14th through Moshi Moshi.


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Amtrak’s latest East Coast high-speed train plan could get you from Philadelphia to New York in 37 minutes, according to Philly.com.
The faster service is part of a major plan, according to Philly.com, that would:
- Create 40,000 construction jobs a year for 25 years
- Create 22,000 new permanent jobs
- Be completed in phases, ending in 2040
- Accommodate trains traveling 220 mph
- Expand Market East station in Philadelphia
- Send bullet trains through tunnels under Philadelphia
- Cost $151 billion
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Fort Campbell schools to get fire prevention training
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. –
The Fort Campbell Fire Department is teaming up with the Fort Campbell School System and Campbell Crossing to promote National Fire Prevention Week.
Firefighters will visit installation elementary schools to educate children on the importance of fire safety Sept. 24 through Oct. 1.
A static display featuring a fire truck with a crew member in full bunker gear will be on on-site at the schools to provide fire safety tips to students.
Firefighters will also take children through the fire prevention smoke trailer. The trailer simulates a real fire by filling up with smoke and sounding a fire alarm. The school visit dates are as follows:
Lincoln Elementary, Sept. 24
Barkley Elementary, Sept. 25
Marshall Elementary, Sept. 26
Lucas Elementary, Sept. 29
Jackson Elementary, Sept. 30
Barsanti Elementary, Oct. 1
The Fire Department along with Campbell Crossing will host a movie night at The Commons at Werner Park on Saturday Sept. 27 at 5:30 p.m.
Movie night will kick off with a few videos on fire safety followed by the main feature, The Lego Movie. The event will also include fire truck tours, bike raffles and light refreshments and popcorn.


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RESTORE’s ‘Sol’ Edition Debris Japan for Designer Toy Awards
RESTORE will have some goods up for grabs at this years Designer Toy Awards, which is taking place this Saturday, October 13th. Exclusive to the DTA’s is the ‘Sol’ Edition of his epic Debris Japan figure, that features a GID vinyl with a cracked paint application that was applied by HAND! Each figure comes accessorized with cloth headband, fundoshi, and paper talisman. They are limited to 10 pieces and will retail $110.
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Presentation Highlights Synalloy’s Outperformance in Both Peak and Trough Periods of the Business Cycle
Highlights Privet/UPG’s Disingenuous Campaign to Gain Control of Synalloy’s Board and Business Without Paying Shareholders a Premium
Addresses the Lack of Substance in Privet/UPG’s Stated Operating Plan and Expresses Concerns About Integration with UPG
Explains That Cumulative Voting Essentially Guarantees Privet/UPG Significant Board
Representation and Cautions Shareholders that Voting on Privet/UPG’s Proxy Card Can Have Unintended Consequences Because of Cumulative Voting
RICHMOND, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 4, 2020--
Synalloy Corporation (Nasdaq: SYNL) (“Synalloy” or the “Company”) today announced that it has filed a detailed investor presentation titled “Building Long-Term Value for Shareholders,” highlighting Synalloy’s plan to create value for shareholders, excellent, long-term performance in its sectors, and cautioning shareholders about Privet/UPG’s efforts to gain control of Synalloy’s Board and business, without paying a control premium, based on a series of “Business School” strategies that lack depth or evidence that the dissident nominees can deliver on their promises.
Synalloy encourages shareholders to read the investor presentation, as well as its proxy materials and shareholder letters, and learn how to vote the BLUE proxy card for Synalloy’s experienced directors. These communications can be found on the Company’s Investor Relations website, here: https://synalloy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Synalloy-Investor-Deck-FINAL.pdf.
Highlights from the presentation include:
Synalloy is a top-performing metals and specialty chemicals business
- Synalloy outperformed peers through the business cycle peak at YE 2018
- 2019’s infrastructure spending recession led to a decline in volumes and prices, which hurt Synalloy’s primary business, Bristol Metals
- Synalloy has reacted aggressively, cutting costs and debt, and has grown market share in 2020
- Synalloy is a cyclical business that must be evaluated from peak-to-peak and trough-to-trough, not year-to-year
- From the time Mr. Bram became CEO of Synalloy through May 31, 2020, Synalloy’s stock outperformed the median TSR of the peer group selected by ISS
Synalloy has the right plan and team to create value for shareholders
- Strategic plan focuses on profitable growth, cost management, safe operations and balance sheet management
- Synalloy has a history of successfully acquiring, integrating and operating complex, cyclical manufacturing businesses
- Executive team and Board are experienced and qualified, with years of transparent, excellent business performance; CEO has been active buyer of Synalloy stock in the open market
- The Company is committed to running a full strategic alternatives process as soon as feasible (post COVID-19 crisis)
Privet and UPG are running a disingenuous campaign to gain control of the Board and business of Synalloy
- Privet praised Synalloy and its management, and coveted Synalloy’s assets and operations, for years
- Privet was stymied in its acquisition efforts by its own failure to secure financing
- Now, Privet and UPG have manufactured disingenuous, false and misleading complaints to gain control of the Board and business of Synalloy without paying shareholders a premium or having to finance an acquisition
- Privet and UPG never approached Synalloy with any complaint or demand before nominating a control slate
- Synalloy made multiple efforts to find a collaborative solution to avoid the cost and distraction of Privet/UPG’s proxy contest. Privet/UPG have rejected our offers, refusing to have meaningful settlement talks unless we first agreed to substantial management and board overhaul criteria.
UPG’s interest appears to be in integrating its opaque business with Synalloy, presumably to benefit UPG
- If successful in this campaign, the dissidents intend to name UPG’s co-founder and manager as interim CEO of Synalloy and then “integrate” UPG and Synalloy’s supply chain, marketing, back office and technology operations
- The dissidents have not demonstrated the benefits to be gained for Synalloy with such an integration
- UPG’s conflict of interest and desire to cost share/shift with Synalloy may make Synalloy unattractive to an acquiror, precluding a value maximizing deal for Synalloy shareholders
Privet and UPG’s stated operating plan is a hollow platform and there is no evidence that the dissident nominees can execute on it
- The dissident’s “plan” does not reflect an understanding or appreciation for Synalloy’s complex operations, markets or value drivers
- No one on the dissident’s slate appears to have operated or overseen a similar business
- The dissident nominees have significant conflicts of interest, some of which have not been disclosed by the dissidents
Because of cumulative voting, the dissidents are assured of significant Board representation even without any unaffiliated shareholder support
- Cumulative voting is extremely rare in election contests and should be a critical consideration for shareholders who wish to avoid unintended consequences
- The dissidents could elect three directors (depending on the turnout at the annual meeting), even without any other shareholder support
- With even modest support from shareholders, the dissidents could obtain control of Synalloy despite Synalloy’s long record of successful operations and TSR outperformance
Synalloy’s Board urges shareholders to return the BLUE proxy card to support Synalloy’s comprehensive slate of experienced directors, who are committed to enhancing value for ALL shareholders.
Synalloy’s Board urges shareholders to support the Company by voting on the BLUE proxy card today.
The Choice is Clear – Please Sign, Date and Promptly Return the BLUE Proxy Card
The Board urges you to carefully consider the information contained in the Company’s proxy materials in connection with the 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and cast your vote on the BLUE proxy card.
- DO NOT return the white proxy card sent to you by the Dissident Group
- DO NOT vote by responding to the email solicitations sent to you by the Dissident Group
Should you have any questions, please contact the Company’s proxy solicitor Morrow Sodali LLC:
509 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Shareholders Call Toll Free: (800) 662-5200
About Synalloy Corporation
Synalloy Corporation (Nasdaq: SYNL) is a growth oriented company that engages in a number of diverse business activities including the production of stainless steel pipe and tube, galvanized pipe and tube, fiberglass and steel storage tanks, specialty chemicals and the master distribution of seamless carbon pipe and tubing. For more information about Synalloy Corporation, please visit our website at www.synalloy.com.
This press release may include “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the federal securities laws. All statements that are not historical facts are “forward-looking statements.” The words “estimate,” “project,” “intend,” “expect,” “believe,” “should,” “anticipate,” “hope,” “optimistic,” “plan,” “outlook,” “should,” “could,” “may” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including without limitation those identified below, which could cause actual results to differ materially from historical results or those anticipated. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. The following factors could cause actual results to differ materially from historical results or those anticipated: adverse economic conditions; the impact of competitive products and pricing; product demand and acceptance risks; raw material and other increased costs; raw materials availability; employee relations; ability to maintain workforce by hiring trained employees; labor efficiencies; customer delays or difficulties in the production of products; new fracking regulations; a prolonged decrease in nickel and oil prices; unforeseen delays in completing the integrations of acquisitions; risks associated with mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and other expansion activities; financial stability of our customers; environmental issues; negative or unexpected results from tax law changes, unavailability of debt financing on acceptable terms and exposure to increased market interest rate risk; inability to comply with covenants and ratios required by our debt financing arrangements; ability to weather an economic downturn; loss of consumer or investor confidence, risks relating to the impact and spread of COVID-19 and other risks detailed from time-to-time in the Company’s Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filings. The Company assumes no obligation to update the information included in this release.
Important Other Information
The Company, its directors and certain of its executive officers are participants in the solicitation of proxies from the Company’s shareholders in connection with the Company’s 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The Company has filed a definitive proxy statement and BLUE proxy card with the SEC in connection with any such solicitation of proxies from the Company’s shareholders. SHAREHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO READ SUCH PROXY STATEMENT, ACCOMPANYING BLUE PROXY CARD AND ALL OTHER DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY AS THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Information regarding the identity of potential participants, and their direct or indirect interests, by securities holdings or otherwise, are set forth in the definitive proxy statement and other materials filed with the SEC in connection with the 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Shareholders can obtain the definitive proxy statement, any amendments or supplements to the proxy statement and other documents filed by the Company with the SEC at no charge at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies are also available at no charge at the Company’s website at www.synalloy.com.
Phil Denning, ICR
Source: Synalloy Corporation


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(Arnauld Pierre in Francis Picabia, singulier idéal (exhibition catalogue), p. 279, translated from the French)
Executed circa 1925-26, Couple amoureux belongs to one of the most celebrated series of works in Francis Picabia’s œuvre: the Monstres. Dubbed the ‘Monster’ paintings by Marcel Duchamp, the series is notable for Picabia’s preoccupation with rhythm and symbols which are given precedence over and above any other pictorial element, including line, mass and colour. Unrestrained by the rules of human and animal anatomy, the fantastical deformations and distortion of features in the works that ensued were utterly unlike anything that came before.
The ‘Monster’ series also marked an important return to the medium of painting for Picabia. Having broken off from the official Surrealist movement, Picabia left Paris in 1925 and moved to the Midi, where he built the Château de Mai. Here, he abandoned the experiments with various media and techniques that had characterised his Dada years and spent his days in the château’s vast studio painting with great verve in both oil and Ripolin. Taking inspiration from themes that abounded in popular imagery at the time, Picabia reimagined romantic motifs into more subversive and often provocative compositions that arrest the gaze. The present work belongs to a group of ‘Couples’, highly stylised depictions of men and women, often embracing, that, as Maria Lluïsa Borràs notes, resemble stills advertisements from contemporary films: ‘This protracted series of couples transformed into notable examples of signic automatism may have had its origin in the film and play reviews that filled so many pages of Comoedia, which were nearly always illustrated by photographs of the two leading characters in the work under review – almost invariably represented with their heads very close together’ (Maria Lluïsa Borràs, Picabia, London, 1985, p. 290). Other influences include Old Master paintings that Picabia returned to at this time as well as ancient frescoes, such as those displayed in the collections at the Museo Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (fig. 2). No doubt fascinated by the distortions that resulted to figures depicted in flattened planes and the rhythm of the compositions that were unrestricted by the rules of naturalistic representation, Picabia seems to have sought to emulate their exaggerated features, notably the recurrent sign of an eye.
In the present work, the artist uses warm pink tones to emphasise the couple’s passionate aura whilst behind them, an intricate pattern of lines and shapes—in greens, blues and yellows—blend subtly with other graphic elements, situating the elegant silhouettes within a pastoral landscape. The simplified forms and lines painted in black and white and surrounded by bright colours are used to signify various elements of the composition, a style that came to be known as signic automatism. Freeing his hand from all control by reason, Picabia submitted himself to the rhythm of line, mass and colour. The multiple contours that emanate from the couple’s heads further resemble representations of an “exteriorisation of sensibility”, which Picabia likely encountered thanks to his contemporary Marcel Duchamp’s fascination with the illustrated drawings of occult researcher Albert de Rochas. Although Picabia continued to work in the field of automatism, however, most recent critics, including Bernard Noël warn against any anachronistic Surrealist reading of Picabia’s experimental lines. Instead, he argues, Picabia’s work of this period was distinguished by its associative-destructive practise, which differs to the Surrealists’ aims in that ‘automatism aims to translate the workings of the mind and thereby benefits from a deliberate mental orientation, while Picabia’s works abandon themselves to incoherence, surrendering themselves to destiny to provoke the unconscious.’ (quoted in Andrew Rothwell, ‘“Je détruis les tiroirs du cervau” : Reading Incoherence in Picabia and Automatic Writing’ in Dada and Beyond, New York, 2015, vol. I, p. 226, translated from the French).
Picabia’s highly revolutionary and radical practice had an immediate and profound effect on Pablo Picasso who had spent much of the summer of 1925 with Picabia and his family. During this summer, Picasso instantly adopted Picabia’s use of crude paints such as Ripolin enamel, and applied the figurative assemblage-like language of the Monstres to some of his most celebrated works, including Les Trois danseuses (1925) and Le Baiser (1925). Maria Lluïsa Borràs emphasises Picabia’s influence on Picasso’s own visual and aesthetic ideas : ‘The critic writing for Cahiers d'Arts, a review very close to Picasso, who revealed the influence of the latter on Picabia, could not see that our painter was in fact fifteen years ahead of the creator of the Demoiselles d'Avignon, who would later take inspiration from works by Cranach, Altdorfer, Poussin and Courbet. He was indeed ahead of Picasso, who—in the 1950s—went on to transform works by El Greco, Delacroix, Velàzquez and Manet using a process that was not fundamentally different from the one employed by Picabia in the 1920s’ (Maria Lluïsa Borràs, Picabia, Paris, 1985, pp. 292-93).
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Chunky Shrapnel screens at the Rio
By Steve Newton
MONDAY: The Invisible Orange presents Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin, performing the live score of Dario Argento’s Suspiria, at the Rickshaw Theatre.
MONDAY: the Vancouver Canucks take on the Montreal Canadians in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.
MONDAY TO FRIDAY: the City of Vancouver’s annual Festival of Lights is a winter wonderland featuring more than one million lights decorating 15 acres of VanDusen Botanical Garden.
Krystle Dos Santos is at Guilt and Co.
TUESDAY: Underneath the Harlem Moon is a smokey Soul-era Harlem cabaret at Guilt and Co. curated and produced by local vocalist Krystle Dos Santos.
WEDNESDAY: screening at the Rio Theatre of Chunky Shrapnel, a feature-length live music documentary from the Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard.
WEDNESDAY: screening at the Rio Theatre of Neil Young: Harvest Time, Bernard Shakey’s docu-film that takes an intimate journey inside the Harvest album, with never-before-seen performance and rehearsal footage. Neil is Shakey, by the way.
Rodney Decroo performs at VIFF Centre
THURSDAY: singer-songwriter, poet, actor, and playwright Rodney DeCroo presents an evening of poetry and music at the VIFF Centre, including the world premiere of the 36-minute web series Dr. Theodore Fishpants Poems About Magical Creatures.
FRIDAY: American comedian and actor Kevin Hart performs standup comedy show as part of his Reality Check Tour at Rogers Arena.
FRIDAY: first violin and assistant conductor David Lakirovich leads the Vancouver Symphony in a program featuring Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at the Orpheum Theatre.
FRIDAY: Ballet BC presents Winnipeg Royal Ballet performing its distinctly Canadian retelling of Nutcracker at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
Courney Marie Andrews plays the WISE Hall
FRIDAY: Timbre Concerts presents Americana singer-songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews at the WISE Hall, with guest Marin Patenaude.
FRIDAY: the Vancouver Men’s Chorus presents its festive celebration of holiday songs, Making Spirits Bright, at the Vancouver Playhouse.
FRIDAY: Nancy Ho and Arash Narchi host Laughter on the Drive, a fundraiser for the BC Crisis Centre featuring comedians Jacob Samuel, Kwasi Thomas, Tanya Sabrina, Danielle Florence, Aidan DeSousa, Martin Navarro, and Toben Spencer-Iang at Havana.
FRIDAY: MRG Concerts presents eclectic American alt-rock band Fishbone at the Rickshaw Theatre, with guests Jer.
Blues Hoodoo plays Bez Arts Hub
FRIDAY: Blues Hoodoo, an instrumental jazz-funk fusion band composed of guitarist Konrad Breuers, keyboardist Stuart “Stubop” Young, saxophonist Ian Putz, bassist Shawn Stewart, and drummer Ron Wells–plays the Bez Arts Hub in Langley.


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The rain started to fall just as we passed the "Welcome to Wales" sign and didn't really stop until we left the principality.
But, hey, that's what you expect when you go to Wales, isn't it?
I don't know whether we are just unlucky, but every time we visit Wales it rains... not that we let it put us off.
This time, we were heading for North Wales, an area I haven't visited since I was a child, so I was keen to check if it was still as green, pleasant, and wet as I remembered it. In short, the answer is "yes".
Our base for the short break was Barmouth and, although it's classed as North Wales, it is actually about halfway down on the west coast.
Its slogan is "Where the mountains meet the sea", which sums up the little resort perfectly.
The twist-and-turn roads into the resort do lose their appeal after the first hour or so - there are no main roads as such to Barmouth - but your first glimpse of the sea more than makes up for the journey.
We travelled through the Snowdonia National Park and the view as you drop down from the mountains to the coast is breathtaking.
It always amazes me that so few people seem to be aware of how fantastic many of Wales's beaches are... and Barmouth is no exception.
Huge, wide, clean, sandy beaches stretch right along the coast, making the resort ideal for a family summer holiday.
However, in the spring, the beach was out of bounds unless you wanted brisk, bracing walks, so we had to find our entertainment outside the town.
The Llechwedd slate caverns were recommended to us, so we decided to head north and visit them.
This proved to be a good choice. Even though there were some things to see outside, two underground rides down into the disused lead mines made up the bulk of our time, meaning that the weather made no difference to our enjoyment.
This part of Wales really is like being in a foreign country.
The scenery is unique and, as we headed towards the Llechwedd caverns, it became obvious that Welsh was spoken by the majority of people living there, with English being the minority language.
Driving to the mines was like a journey through a film set. Tiny cottages were dwarfed by huge piles of slate stockpiles, a legacy from the days when slate mining was the main industry in the area.
After a whole day at Llechwedd, we were in need of a hot bath and food, so headed back to our hotel, the Bae Abbermau, set high above the bay at Barmouth.
Bae Abermau is the Welsh name for Barmouth Bay, so you might expect the hotel to be a traditional sort of place, an impression reinforced by its dignified dark stone facade.
You couldn't be more wrong. Stepping inside, the decor is the kind you would expect to find in a trendy city-centre boutique hotel... minimalist, clean lines and, for most rooms, spectacular views of the mountains and bay.
We were in a family room - easily big enough for two adults and two children - and the predominantly white decor made a pleasant change from the chintz so often found in hotels.
After a good sleep and fortified by a hearty breakfast, we bade goodbye to Barmouth and headed for Portmeirion.
Started by architect Clough William- Ellis in 1926, the purpose of the village was to demonstrate how a naturally beautiful site could be developed without spoiling it.
It`s bizarre that Llechwedd's towering slate piles are less than a half-hour drive from Portmeirion's Italian-style grandeur, but it just serves to prove how varied a holiday in Wales can be.
Portmeirion has a fairytale feel about it. The visitors standing on every corner consulting maps reminded me of a previous trip to the theme parks in Florida.
We spent a very pleasant morning pottering round the village and, after lunch at the recently-opened Castell Deudraeth hotel just outside the village, set off for our journey home.

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Waiting has never been easy for me. Whether I’m waiting for little things…the coffeemaker, my book I ordered to come in the mail, even (or especially) that rollercoaster line that lasts two hours…or waiting for the big things…college graduation, marriage, pregnancy…I always find myself struggling to make the most of that idle time. I want meaning! Direction! Routine! Productivity! Results! If I have too much quiet time, I tend to freak instead of think. I scramble instead of rest. I make lists instead of putting my feet up. I stay busy instead of reflecting.
These last few weeks (and now mere days) of waiting on our daughter have been disorienting. The first couple weeks off work were easy to fill. I had SO many tiny onesies and dresses and leggings to wash, several items to still purchase at the store, and lots of organizing to do. There was painting, cleaning, getting-rid-of and re-finaggling of the house. But once those tasks were done, I entered this time and space that was/is eerily quiet. The days at home get a little lonely. And while rest is essential these days, it sometimes makes me feel bored and useless. During times of boredom, if I’m not careful, I will simply let my mind fill up instead of filling my mind with good things, preparation kinds of things.
One thing I found myself doing was thinking about my past while trying to imagine my new future…and between the two, I wondered: Where does my bucket list fit in? If I didn’t do them in my past, are they a lost cause now that I’m having a kid? And I get that nudging fear…what if I never do them at all now that we are starting a family? What if I never live in New York City working at a journalism job. Travel to Africa for a year to write and take photographs? Hike for days in the Grand Canyon? Learn to surf in Australia? Become a teacher? Write a book? The list really could go on forever. There are thousands of things I’d love to do before my time’s up, and I began to feel a little trapped by the concept that I chose to have kids FIRST, the arguably more time-consuming off my bucket list, thus shrinking my potential for doing most other items on my list.
I think these thoughts are present because I have so many friends now doing some really lovely things with their lives. Laura just left for a year in Paris. Ashley is leaving soon for a few months in Europe. Sam is starting grad school in Austin, TX. So many new possibilites and amazing opportunities. It’s intoxicating.
I also think these thoughts are present because just last week, my mom and I were lunching at the Olive Garden. We were talking about where we were in life, if it’s where we thought we’d be, etc. I was telling her about my lovely friends and their lovely adventures. She is very aware of the many things I desire to do, and she asked me: Do you have any regrets?
I will be 27 in about two weeks, so I feel way too young to consider that I have huge regrets in my life. But I feel like if you showed my life to my 18-year-old self, I might have answered yes, there are regrets! Because you never lived out of state! You live ten minutes from mom and dad and from your old high school! You married your high school sweetheart and didn’t do much traveling and never made it to Africa! WHAT ARE YOU DOING getting pregnant at this inopportune time? You haven’t LIVED! So irresponsible! (I wasn’t quite that militant at 18 but definitely had lofty dreams).
But my immediate answer to mom was no. Because if I flip flopped my life right now…if I imagine myself having let Cody go, my love and best friend from the time I was 15…if I imagine myself in a loft apartment in New York working a swanky journalism job…if I imagine myself having traveled to many countries and taken many photographs and written many stories and met many amazing people… When I imagine all that, I can also see something else. I know myself. And I know that I would have been sad on my 27th birthday if I were nowhere near the ability to be married and have a family. I’d love my life, to be sure, and hopefully wouldn’t waste it thinking about what I didn’t have yet (since 27 is still so young). But I know deep down, no matter what I’ve ever wanted to be, mom was always at the top of the list. It was the ONE thing that had to fit in, no matter what I did.
And lately, I’ve felt blessed…almost in a crushing way…that I get to experience this now. That I get to watch my body strain and suffer to carry this little girl. That I get to see Cody just a little disappointed every day that goes by in which Heidi has not come yet. That when I’m in the hospital, I get to hand this tiny little girl to my parents…to my brothers and sister…to Cody’s family. That I get to see Cody and I in her face, when it doesn’t seem that long ago he and I were just kids. That I get to experience the extreme highs and lows of being a parent. That I get to trudge through those first few sleepless months filled with endless laundry and midnight feedings and falling alseep on the couch with my daughter snuggled on my chest. That I am bringing an entirely new realm of possibilities into my life, by the grace of God.
And that within her life, my entire bucket list could still exist. We could share many of the same passions. She’s not less opportunity for me. She’s more…more growth, more stretching, more breaking and mending, more love.
I am trying my best to be patient, but as you can see, there is so much to look forward to. And I’ve just never been very good at waiting.
“Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the desert
and streams in the wasteland.”

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There are moments on Killa Season when Cam'ron comes across as a little too tough, like Yosemite Sam. Even when the Harlem emcee attempts to touch the heart, he draws blood. But as long as you know what you're getting into, it's brilliant. "You Gotta Love It" (Cam's Jay Z dis) and "Touch It or Not" seethe bluster and testosterone, and are buoyed by Cam's hypnotizing wordplay. Though less cohesive than the near-classic Purple Haze, there's still enough heat here to declare it straight piff.

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Lonnie Blalock, 56, of Coalfield, died Friday, Oct. 26, 2007, at his home.
A devoted husband, father and a friend to all, he loved the outdoors, gardening and hunting. He was a coal miner for many years and will be missed by all who knew him.
He is preceded in death by parents, Henry and Phronie Blalock; brothers, David Blalock and Lowell Blalock; and sisters, Joyce Blalock and Mildred Smith.
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In Katie Couric Apologizes for Anti-Vax Episode, but It’s Not Enough, Phil Plait (DBA “Bad Astronomer”) explains why Ms. Couric’s mea culpa for her giving excessive credibility to the incredible, post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc stories of parents claiming vaccinations caused problems for their children. Mr. Plait, who branches out beyond astronomy to cover scientific matters in general from time to time, comes to essentially the same conclusion as Michael Hiltzik: No matter how strong her disclaimer, and Ms. Couric’s falls a bit short of being an abject retraction, she can’t take back the effect of having provided the highly visible stage for the anti-vaccination advocates.
It’s coverage like this, the embrace of facilitated communication, and even the pervasive endorsement of learning styles that makes it hard for reason and evidence to make headway in providing services for individuals with disabilities. Those of us who champion evidence-based approaches sometimes feel like were swimming upstream in sewer.
In “Katie Couric backs off from her anti-vaccine show–but not enough,” Michael Hiltzik provided a sensible and nuanced analysis of Ms. Couric’s recant of her recent mistaken grant of airtime to anti-vaccination advocates. Mr. Hiltzik gives Ms. Couric credit for “fessing up” to many of the mistakes in the show but he very simply noted, “You should read [her entire Huffington Post article]. But you should know that Couric didn’t go far enough.”
After cataloging the many appropriate retractions in Ms. Couric’s mea culpa, Mr. Hiltzik explains the basic problem: People are going to remember the heart-wrenching scenes from the original broadcast, not the cool, rational explanation of the print retraction. I recommend readers review his well-reasoned and -written column.
The Little Keswick Foundation for Special Education, a philanthropic group associated with the Little Keswick School in central Virginia, announced that Ross Greene, author of The Explosive Child and Lost at School, will speak at its 16th Annual Education Symposium scheduled for 10 October 2013 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at Piedmont Virginia Community College’s V. Earl Dickinson Center. The session, entitled “Collaborative & Proactive Solutions: Understanding and Helping Behaviorally Challenging Kids (and their Caregivers),” is open to the public and there is no admission fee.
A child psychologist, Ross Greene has taught courses for the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech. He is founder of Lives in the Balance, a non-profit devoted to explaining and supporting his theraputic approach, called “Collaborative Problem Solving.” In addition to his books, Professor Greene has published research articles in well-respected journals such as Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, American Journal of Psychiatry, and Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.
Continue reading ‘Little Keswick to feature talk by Ross Greene’
Phil Plait, who is known for his “Bad Astronomy” Web presence (and let’s not confuse that with astrology, which is bad, forsooth!), hit the Internet with a critique of Jennifer “Jenny” McCarthy’s appointment to host a television show. Over on his Slate blog, Mr. Plait (he has a Ph.D. from the university where I teach, so I could say “Dr.” but we refer to each other as “Ms.” or “Mr.” in this neighborhood) provides what I might describe as something close to a blistering indictment of the appointment:
I was hoping I wouldn’t have to write this post, but here we are: The daytime talk show The View has indeed hired Jenny McCarthy as a co-host. I wrote about this last week, alerting people to the possibility, and now it’s now been confirmed. She’ll find her spot on the program this fall.
Continue reading ‘Bad Astronomy on bad TV programming’
Over on Scientific American, Janet D. Stemwedel reprised a blog post she ran in 2009 about how people who refuse to vaccinate their children against major diseases are taking advantage of the efforts by others to protect their children and their neighbors. She refers to people who adopt this strategy as “free-riders” (and I’ll leave it up to readers to review the full discussion of the term), while making the important arguments about people considering staying out of the herd, if they’re not willing to do their part for the herd.
Read the newer version entitled “The ethics of opting out of vaccination” and the original entitled Trust and accountability in the vaccine-autism wars as well as the follow-up piece with her discussion of comments “Vaccine refuseniks are free-riders” (beware: the link to the second post that appears in the last post goes 404).
Yesterday I wrote about how, when people consider individual cases, the possibility of improvement for children with Autism might make otherwise inert therapies appear to be beneficial. In yesterday’s post I referred to research by Molly Helt and colleagues (2008) about recovery among individuals with Autism, and I hinted about an important recent study by Deborah Fein and her colleagues (2013) related to that phenomenon. Today I discuss that second study.
The more recent study is just another among many by Professor Fein, who was a principal author on the Helt et al. (2008) study, and who has been doing exemplary work about Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) for many years. In this one she provides new data about “recovery,” a word they rarely use in the course of their article.
Continue reading ‘Can a child recover from Autism?’
Liza Long is the author of the post, “I am Adam Lanza’s Mother,” that has gone viral in the few days following the mass murder that Mr. Lanza apparently committed at Sandy Hook Elementary School 14 December 2012. In it, Ms. Long—who obviously is not the deceased mother of Mr. Lanza—makes an important, impassioned, and strong case for focusing on mental health issues among children and youth. Here’s the beginning of that post.
In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness.
Continue reading ‘Mothers agree on helping children with mental illness and their families’
In Nature a group of researchers from Denmark and Iceland report the results of their studies of mutation rates of Icelandic parent-child groups. They found that the level of new mutations, called a “de novo mutations,” in their samples when father’s average age was 29.7 was 1.20?X?10?8 per nucleotide per generation, but that number increases by two every year. In round numbers one might estimate that at about 20 years of age a father’s single sperm cell could carry 25 new spontaneous mutations, but at 40 years of age it might carry more than 65.
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On my blog:
- A larger-than-usual collection of online reading in the Sunday Salon
- The weekly celebration, 5 Things I Loved About Last Week
- Part 2 of #cyberPD, Wild Readers in a College Children’s Lit Class
- A review of a picture book biography of Babe Ruth
- An excursion into the world of TV, Top Ten TV Shows
I loved Jimmy Gownley’s graphic novel, The Dumbest Idea Ever!, a memoir about how he became a graphic novelist. Gownley has some important things to say in this book about creativity, inspiration, and effort, but it’s also a quick fun read about a kid in middle school and high school trying to manage his life and find time for sports, homework, friends, and comic books. This is a book that will appeal to many readers–a must for every middle school and high school classroom library.
Absolutely Almost is unusual in that it is a literary middle-grade novel featuring an absolutely ordinary kid who’s average in most things and below average in school. Albie’s struggles with school and learning were so poignant to me. It was hard for me to read the scenes with his parents, who put so much pressure on him to achieve in ways that he simply can’t. He works so incredibly hard and improves dramatically on his spelling tests, but because he doesn’t get 100%, his father doesn’t even recognize his progress. This is a book parents need to read, and it’s also a book that teachers need to read and share with their students.
I’ve read a couple of Lisa Graff’s other novels as well and found myself incredibly impressed by the stylistic differences between this book and her other books. She can write so lushly and evocatively, but that wouldn’t be a voice or style suited to Albie’s first-person narration.
The cover of Bunny Days by Tao Nyeu suggests a story full of pastel prettiness with happy bunnies and bears. And each of the three short tales in Bunny Days does end with the assurance, “Everyone is happy.” But this is a bizarre little book. I absolutely loved it, but it’s probably not for everyone.
The hapless bunnies have a series of misadventures that involve household appliances. First, they get muddy and Bear saves the day by throwing them into the washing machine (conveniently located in the field). (He hangs them out on the line to dry. The image of little bunnies clipped to a line with clothespins is both hilarious and mildly disturbing.) Then Mrs Goat accidentally vacuums them up when she’s vacuuming over their burrow. Bear saves the day by slicing open the vacuum bag and then blasting the dusty bunnies with an industrial fan. In story #3, they don’t get dirty, thank goodness, but something even worse happens: they are separated from their tails as they’re playing hide and seek in a hedge that Mr Goat happens to be trimming with large hedge clippers. Once again Bear saves the day by sewing their tails back on. I had to share the spread of the little rabbit peeking between its fingers as Bear stitches its tail back to its bottom: apparently this image has been highly traumatizing for some small children, at least if we are to believe Amazon reviewers.
In a review that’s definitely worthy of the 100 Scope Notes One-Star Review treatment, one Amazon customer notes that her “relatively tough toddler” cried when he saw the bunnies tails being cut off and sewn back on. She concludes, “Don’t buy if you like bunnies….or your children.” Which is my new favorite sentence ever.
I’m Bored, written by Michael Ian Black and illustrated by Debbie Ridpath Ohi, cleverly explores the eternal problem of bored kids (well, eternal except in my house. I am not sure my children know there is a word for the condition of feeling bored. Not that they’re never bored. They just don’t know they can complain about it. Let’s keep it that way.) She encounters a potato who is even more bored than she is, and as she tries to explain to the potato why he shouldn’t be bored playing with her, she discovers that she’s actually not bored at all. And the highly bored potato gets exactly what he deserves in the end.
Buffalo Music, written by Tracey Fern and beautifully illustrated by Lauren Castillo, is the fascinating story of how one Texas pioneer woman helped to re-establish a national bison herd after the animals were nearly hunted to extinction. It’s a fictional story but based on the efforts of a real person, Mary Ann Goodnight, who witnessed the disappearance of the wild herds in her area of Texas, took in orphaned buffalo calves, and built one of the first captive buffalo herds in America. She even sent some of her yearlings to Yellowstone National Park to help re-establish their herd.
This was a special story for us to read: we live a few miles from Custer State Park, which has a large bison herd, and there are also a couple of buffalo ranches on our drive to Rapid City. It still amazes me that I live in a place where you can actually take buffalo sightings for granted!
We enjoyed Rukhsana Khan’s Ruler of the Courtyard, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. It’s the story of how one young girl allows her terror of chickens to overwhelm her good sense and how she pulls herself together and overcomes her fear. I normally like Christie’s work, but I found the illustrations in this book rather ugly.
Bad Bye, Good Bye is an exquisitely written and illustrated story for the youngest readers about the challenges of leaving home and moving to a new place. Deborah Underwood’s text is so spare and poetic, and Jonathan Bean’s art is brilliant. Every writer who wishes to write in rhyme needs to study Underwood’s writing, because she is one of the few authors who consistently manages to surprise and enlighten with her rhyme–even when using the simplest of rhymes.


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