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It is said that an Opera can only be as great as the characters portrayed within.

The Fates have blessed us with great potential, the cast has been drawn:

A Romantic Artist seeks to write his master piece, hoping to secure his name in history

A Wise Sorceress delves deeper into the lost knowledge of the Sorcerer-Kings

A Swordsman with words as sharp as his blade tries to hold onto his only love

A Shadow seeks those secrets you would do anything to protect

A Passionate Swordsman plays a dangerous game with the ladies’ hearts

We know how their stories start, in the Spring at a party celebrating a young lady’s coming of age. Each is present of their own accord but their fates will soon be interwoven for all eternity.

How our story’s end and the twisting path that leads us there has yet to be determined.

Will be a Wedding at Therons Castle, hosted by his Leige Lord, for his Lord’s Daughter.

-Lady Tanith’s husband will be unable to attend, and will invite Pen’Reail to escort her.
-Theron will invite Tshanja, and have a proper gift waiting for her.
-Alanya will task Sojan with guarding Cavala on the way to the Wedding, rewarding him with a proper gift.
-Kyler’s father will extend his invite to Kyler, since Azoth secured invite with Cavala. However Kyler heads out without a gift in his hands.
-Vrental’s Liege Lord is a Rival to Therons, and extends his invite to Vrental to spite the Wedding. He also sends Vrental with an approriate gift.

The Story will start at the edge of Lovelourn, for Vrental invites his friends to spend a few days in his castle before heading next door to the Province of Kluy.

How it will be remembered now lies in the hearts and minds of the Artists…

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Everything Announced From The The Fire Emblem Direct

As promised by Nintendo, the recent Fire Emblem-themed Nintendo Direct brought news of multiple new titles in the franchise. Not limited to the previously-announced mobile release, new Fire Emblem games were confirmed for the Nintendo 3DS and the Switch. Below is an embed of the Direct (if you missed it) and all the announcements with individual trailers.

Kicking things off was not the Fire Emblem mobile game as one would expect, but a new 3DS installment under the name Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. A re-imagining of the 1992 installment Fire Emblem Gaiden, this will mark the first time that western players will get to play through the quest of warriors Alm and Celica.

The focus of Echoes will be open-ended exploration, character progression, and dungeon crawling. Fire Emblem Echoes will launch much sooner than you’d think: May 19th in North America. The release will be accompanied by two new amiibo, a dual package of  Alm and Celica figures.

Nintendo also confirmed plans for an original Fire Emblem installment coming to the Switch sometime in 2018. Until then, the Tecmo Koei-developed Fire Emblem Warriors will represent the franchise later on in 2017. New footage was shown in the Direct to expand on what was shown in last week’s Switch Presentation.

Fire Emblem Warriors was also announced to be coming exclusively to the New 3DS family of systems as well, meaning no compatibility with older systems.

The final portion of the Direct focused on Fire Emblem Heroes, a strategy-RPG that marks the series’ long-awaited mobile adaptation. Heroes will collect Fire Emblem’s most iconic, and brand-new, warriors together to battle in your own army through the series’s traditional tactical battles.

The mobile game will include many Hero characters within its Story mode, downloadable updates, Orbs that summon Heroes, and Hero Battles where you can challenge opponents to recruit as an ally. Each Heroes have different attributes and ranks, which can be increased through battles (5 stars will be their maximum rating).

Fire Emblem Heroes was initially announced as a timed exclusive for Android phones, but has since been updated to confirm that it will launch on iOS and Google Play stores on February 3rd. Interested players can switch on a notification to alert them to its release beginning on January 19th.

Until the game’s launch, the Fire Emblem Heroes website will offer additional interactivity with the game’s Hero list. Players the world over can vote on their favorite Fire Emblem Legend character every day until release, where upon a a winner will be chosen. Nintendo Account holders will get 200 Platinum Points when connecting their account to the site.

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When he's not writing about or playing all the great Nintendo games, Alex Irish works by day at a local book emporium, and the rest of the time, he illustrates and writes online. His favorite video game franchise is Pokemon, but his favorite video game is Resident Evil 4. He also can tell you everything about animation history, from past to present.


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October 23, 2013

Toledo's Chronic Urban Flooding

One of the projects I have been working on as a Digital Coast Fellow is researching and writing up this mini-case study about Toledo's chronic flooding issues for the Great Lakes Planning Guide.  Two thoughts about this process:
1.  It's really hard to distill such a rich story into just a couple paragraphs!!  Research took quite a while, and locating appropriate images that really do help tell the story (with attendant sources and permissions) was a bear of a project in and of itself.
2.  Although this is a local story, as part of the Planning Guide, it reminds me that individual stories like this are a part of the whole.  Climate change causes more frequent and heavier rainfall in many places, and stories like Toledo's help bring peoples' attention to the importance of mitigating climate change itself by decreasing our individual engagement in carbon-emitting practices, as well as proactive planning and management of infrastructure.  I am proud that this is a piece of the repertoire of work that I do.

Naval Observatory Digital Coast presentation and tour

My favorite part of going to present at the Naval Observatory was all the really cool old telescopes and rare books I got to see during the tour we had after my presentation.  They were edited out of the blog post that I wrote for work, but I'll share them here for you because they're awesome.  But, yeah, I got to present Digital Coast to a bunch of Dept of Defense folks.  Yippee!
An original edition of Copernicus’ book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium from 1543, in which he describes that Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around

The observatory’s 26-inch diameter refracting telescope from 1873

October 17, 2013

Old Buildings on Stilts

Back in February of last year, I was riding my bike near Mt. Vernon Square in DC, and I noticed a parking lot that had four old buildings on stilts parked in the lot.  I thought it was very strange at the time.

Since then, what I think is happening is that they are utilizing the structure of these old buildings to build a new, modern building around, so that it maintains a sort of "Main Street, USA" feel.  What do you think?

October 13, 2013

Contortionist's Mat for Performance

When I perform contortion, I almost always have a move or two that necessitate my back being hard against the floor.  If I have no padding, I end up with a bruised spine.  Frown.  So, I use a yoga mat to keep me safe.  But I have been embarrassed at how unprofessional it looks to have an ugly green yoga mat on a stage.  It looks like an ugly green yoga mat, not like the supporting prop of a professional contortionist.

Right?  It'd be such a rad performance photo, but that damn mat just looks janky!  Photo by Brian Hoeg
I have been on the lookout for an answer to my problem for a very, very long time.  I found a company that makes circular yoga mats, which is pretty cool, but they're hella expensive, and they also come in bright colors that indicate that it's yoga class time instead of professional gig time. So I was delighted to find a BLACK yoga mat (I thought they just didn't exist!) on clearance at T.J. Maxx the other day!  I decided to take matters into my own hands and create what I needed.

First I made a compass with a thumbtack, piece of string, and a white marker,
and I created two large and two small semicircles (ignore the mistaken attempts)

Secondly, I cut them out and made sure the edges met perfectly.
I cut small pieces to support the large pieces (so it could all be glued together).

Here they are centered and perpendicular to one another.
First I hot glued down the centerline of the large pieces.
Then I glued the centerline of the small pieces.
Finally I glued the small circle to the large circle.

Okay, it is all stuck together. Maybe I need to iron that edge down?

Ta-Da!  It works!

Vintage Brass Corners to the Rescue

Someone gave me this wooden box a while back and I like it but was afraid i'd either really hurt someone or something with the corners, or that the corners would chip off.  So I found some vintage brass corners to wrap around that will both bolster and smooth-ify the corners.  I finally found a flat-head screwdriver small enough to do the work today.


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November Meeting Recap!

Fall Events:

Riversports Pint Night – Thanks to Riversports Outfitters for including us in another great season of pint nights! We appreciate the support.

Bike Raffle – HUGE congrats to Corey Korpela for winning the Santa Cruz/Juliana bike raffle! Enjoy your sweet new ride. And THANKS to Harper’s for their awesome support and sponsorship.

Fall Fest – Mud and awesomeness!! Fantastic event once again. Many, many thanks to Brian and Mary Beth for letting us stomp all over their yard and for being such gracious hosts!

Urban Wilderness Work Day – Thanks to the 41 volunteers who came out to help! We got lots of work done in the woods and cleaned up our adopted street. And thanks to Cycology for lunch. Great work, great community, once again.

New Business:

SORBA Meeting Recap

We talked a little about the SORBA meeting last month. IMBA is making some changes and restructuring that will affect us at the club level. They are implementing a new dues structure. The dues will be going up, but we will see more of that money staying here with us. This is a good thing.

Oh Christmas Tree!

Get your tree this year from Andrew at Smokey Mountain Vintage Lumber! Ask them to donate 10% of your tree purchase to AMBC. They’ll do it!

Blue Ridge Mountain Sports Donation

Thanks to this great regional retailer for a donation from their sticker fund. $1168 to AMBC!

Clay Guerry with TVA spoke about Loyston Point, Knoxville area’s newest mountain biking destination. Everyone involved is thrilled with the response to this new trail system, but they ask that we let the new trail breathe and not ride it until it is ready. Thanks!

December 12Sharp’s Ridge Work Day – Saturday, 9-12, lunch by TVB.

December 13AMBC Holiday Party at Suttree’s Tavern! – Sunday at 6:00 pm, come out and join us for some holiday cheer! Eat, drink and be merry! Knock out some shopping at the merch table. We’ll see you there!

December 18Tour de Lights – Everyone’s favorite bikey holiday event! Decorate your bike (and yourselves!) and join the bike parade from Market Square through the historic downtown neighborhoods and back again. Read more here.

January 1 – Mail Run – Big South Fork; Start 2016 out right and join us for a New Year’s Day ride at BSF! “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” No excuse to miss this!

**No December Meeting! We’ll see you in 2016!

October 2015 Meeting Recap!

The Wood Property trails are under construction and NOT open to AMBC members or the public. Please DO NOT ride there until the trail system is officially open. We hope to celebrate this great addition to the Urban Wilderness with the Legacy Parks Foundation in the Spring of 2016!

Recent Events:

Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day

This was a great event! There 60 people out for the event held at the Wood property beginner loop. We love to see such enthusiasm for mountain biking from the parents and kids. We can’t wait to get more involved in this event next year!

Oak Ridge Trail Day

Brad Spears shared the back story of the Oak Ridge trail project and the success of the recent work day. There were 53 people out to build the 1.3 mile “Sink Hole Trail” in the North Boundary area! This is significant in that it could open the door to over 22,000 acres of land owned by the Department of Energy in Oak Ridge. Great job on this to everyone who helped and thanks to the sponsors: RSIUCORKnoxville Bicycle Company, and Yee Haw Brewing.

12 Hour HOT Race

Thanks to John Baker & Co. for another fantastic 12 Hour HOT Race! It never disappoints. And many thanks to all the awesome volunteers!

Open Streets

What a fun day for our city! Were you there?! Want to do it again?? Write your local government representatives and tell them!

Coming Attractions:

River Sports Pint Night!

This month’s Pint Night at Riversports Outfitters is benefitting the AMBC! Tomorrow night, 6-9 pm. The first 200 people get a custom pint glass filled with a delicious beer and one refill for a mere $5 donation to the club! Yakima is the sponsor and is sure to have cool stuff for raffle. Food truck too! Ride down and join us!

AMBC Fall Fest

It’s here!! Saturday, November 7 at Helix Lane! Here’s the main things to know:

  • It’s awesome. Done.
  • Park and Ride! There is very limited parking onsite so PLEASE park at Anderson School and ride in.
  • Spend the night! There will be onsite camping, which is fun and SAFE! Feel free to set up your campsite Friday night, or drive in Saturday and set up and then park offsite.
  • Learn all the skills! There are clinics galore! Read about them here.
  • We need a ton of volunteers to pull this off! Please let us know if you can help out for a very short shift. You’ll still get to ride and play!
  • Eat breakfast! TVB will be cooking up a hot breakfast on Sunday morning and they promise an exciting culinary experience!

Work Days:

  • November 21 – Mead’s Quarry – We’ll be working in Marie Myers and on trash cleanup on our adopted street Burnett Creek Road. Sponsored by Cycology Bicycles.
  • December 12 – Sharps Ridge – Sponsored by TVB.

One More Thing!

Congress is considering three amendments to the transportation bill that would significantly reduce federal bike funding by cutting two critical programs, the Recreational Trails Program and the Transportation Alternatives Program. RTP directly impacts our quality of riding in Knoxville and is responsible for more than 10 Miles in our Urban Wilderness. The most recent project is the 6 miles that Legacy Parks is currently building at the Wood Property. Follow the People for Bikes initiatives and let our representatives know the importance of these programs. Click here for more information!

We’ll see you at the next meeting on Monday, November 23!

IMBA-SORBA Advocacy Leadership Training Weekend

Love your local trails? Want to be more involved? Are you already serving as a chapter officer? Join us for the IMBA-SORBA Advocacy Leadership Training weekend and spring meeting of the SORBA Board of Directors. We’re meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee for a weekend of socializing, advocacy training, and bike riding. The event kicks off Friday evening March 30th and runs til Sunday April 1st.

Meet Dave Wiens at the Friday social and hear him give the keynote address at lunch on Saturday. Mike Van Able, IMBA Executive Director, will also be there to meet you and talk about the IMBA and SORBA relationship.

Sig Hutchinson will hold a session on Saturday. Sig is a dedicated advocate and a dynamic speaker that you wonâ€™t want to miss.

The Volunteer Rewards Dinner will be held Saturday evening at the Ijams Nature Center.

Group rides are held on Sunday at the local trails. Come out and enjoy the work of the Appalachian Mountain Bike Club.

The cost is $30 for the whole weekend. Or if you are only attending the dinner on Saturday the cost is $20.

Registration is now open! Sign up today!


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Time Line of African American History, 1852-1880

Daniel A. P. Murray born. Born in Baltimore on March 3. Murray, an African-American, was assistant librarian of Congress, and a collector of books and pamphlets by and about black Americans.
Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, published on March 20, focused national attention on the cruelties of slavery.
Lincoln University chartered. Initially known as Ashmun Institute, Lincoln University was chartered in Oxford, Pennsylvania, on January 1. It was one of America's earliest Negro colleges.
Booker Taliaferro Washington born. Born in Franklin County, Virginia, on April 5, Washington was the first principal of Tuskegee Institute (1881), and was the individual most responsible for its early development. Washington was considered the leading African-American spokesman of his day.
Supreme Court rules on the Dred Scott case. On March 6, the Supreme Court decided that an African-American could not be a citizen of the U.S., and thus had no rights of citizenship. The decision sharpened the national debate over slavery.
John Brown's raid. On October 16-17, John Brown raided the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (today located in West Virginia). Brown's unsuccessful mission to obtain arms for a slave insurrection stirred and divided the nation. Brown was hanged for treason on December 2.
The last slave ship arrives. During this year, the last ship to bring slaves to the United States, the Clothilde, arrived in Mobile Bay, Alabama.
Abraham Lincoln elected president. Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected president on November 6, 1860.

Census of 1860.

	U.S. population:  31,443,790   	Black population:  4,441,790 (14.1%)
Slavery abolished in the District of Columbia. Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia -- an important step on the road for freedom for all African-Americans.
The Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took effect January 1, legally freeing slaves in areas of the South in rebellion.
New York City draft riots. Anti-conscription riots started on July 13 and lasted four days, during which hundreds of black Americans were killed or wounded.
The Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteers. On July 18, the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteers -- the all-black unit of the Union army portrayed in the 1989 Tri-Star Pictures film Glory -- charged Fort Wagner in Charleston, South Carolina. Sergeant William H. Carney becomes the first African-American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery under fire.
Equal pay. On June 15, Congress passed a bill authorizing equal pay, equipment, arms, and health care for African-American Union troops.
The New Orleans Tribune. On October 4, the New Orleans Tribune began publication. The Tribune was one of the first daily newspapers produced by blacks.
Congress approves the Thirteenth Amendment. Slavery would be outlawed in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment, which Congress approved and sent on to the states for ratification on January 31.
The Freedmen's Bureau. On March 3, Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau to provide health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated slaves.
Death of Lincoln. On April 15, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated; Vice President Andrew Johnson, a Tennessee Democrat, succeeded him as president.
Ratification of Thirteenth Amendment. The Thirteenth Amendment, outlawing slavery, was ratified on December 18.
Presidential meeting for black suffrage. On February 2, a black delegation led by Frederick Douglass met with President Andrew Johnson at the White House to advocate black suffrage. The president expressed his opposition, and the meeting ended in controversy.
Civil Rights Act. Congress overrode President Johnson's veto on April 9 and passed the Civil Rights Act, conferring citizenship upon black Americans and guaranteeing equal rights with whites.
Memphis massacre. On May 1-3, white civilians and police killed forty-six African-Americans and injured many more, burning ninety houses, twelve schools, and four churches in Memphis, Tennessee.
The Fourteenth Amendment. On June 13, Congress approved the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing due process and equal protection under the law to all citizens. The amendment would also grant citizenship to blacks.
Police massacre. Police in New Orleans stormed a Republican meeting of blacks and whites on July 30, killing more than 40 and wounding more than 150.
Founding of the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan, an organization formed to intimidate blacks and other ethnic and religious minorities, first met in Maxwell House, Memphis. The Klan was the first of many secret terrorist organizations organized in the South for the purpose of reestablishing white authority.
Black suffrage. On January 8, overriding President Johnson's veto, Congress granted the black citizens of the District of Columbia the right to vote.
Reconstruction begins. Reconstruction Acts were passed by Congress on March 2. These acts called for the enfranchisement of former slaves in the South.
Fourteenth Amendment ratified. On July 21, the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, granting citizenship to any person born or naturalized in the United States.
Thaddeus Stevens dies. Thaddeus Stevens, Radical Republican leader in Congress and father of Reconstruction, died on August 11.
Massacre in Louisiana. The Opelousas Massacre occurred in Louisiana on September 28, in which an estimated 200 to 300 black Americans were killed.
Ulysses S. Grant becomes president. Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) was elected president on November 3.
Fifteenth Amendment approved. On February 26, Congress sent the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution to the states for approval. The amendment would guarantee black Americans the right to vote.
First black diplomat. On April 6, Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett was appointed minister to Haiti -- the first black American diplomat and the first black American presidential appointment. For many years thereafter, both Democratic and Republican administrations appointed black Americans as ministers to Haiti and Liberia.
Census of 1870.
	U.S. population:  39,818,449   	Black population:  4,880,009 (12.7%)
The first African-American senator. Hiram R. Revels (Republican) of Mississippi took his seat February 25. He was the first black United States senator, though he served only one year.
Fifteenth Amendment ratified. The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on March 30.
The Fisk University Jubilee Singers tour. On October 6, Fisk University's Jubilee Singers began their first national tour. The Jubilee Singers became world-famous singers of black spirituals. The money they earned built Fisk University.
Civil Rights Act of 1875. Congress approved the Civil Rights Act on March 1, guaranteeing equal rights to black Americans in public accommodations and jury duty. The legislation was invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1883.
The first African-American to serve a full term as senator. Blanche Kelso Bruce (Republican) of Mississippi took his seat in the United States Senate on March 3. He would become the first African-American to serve a full six-year term. Not until 1969 did another black American begin a Senate term.
Birth of Mary McLeod Bethune. Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, government official, and African-American leader, was born on July 10 in Mayesville, South Carolina.
Clinton Massacre. On September 4-6, more than 20 black Americans were killed in a massacre in Clinton, Mississippi.
Birth of Carter Godwin Woodson. Carter G. Woodson, who earned a doctorate in history from Harvard and was known as "The Father of Black History," was born on December 19, 1875, in New Canton, Virginia.
Race riots and terrorism. A summer of race riots and terrorism directed at blacks occurred in South Carolina. President Grant sent federal troops to restore order.
A close presidential election. In the presidential election of 1876, the outcome in the Electoral College appeared too close to be conclusive in the campaign of Samuel Tilden (Democrat) versus Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican).
The end of Reconstruction. A deal with Southern Democratic leaders made Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) president, in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the end of federal efforts to protect the civil rights of African-Americans.
The first African-American to graduate from West Point. On June 15, Henry O. Flipper became the first black American to graduate from West Point.
Census of 1880.
	U.S. population:  50,155,783  	Black population:  6,580,793 (13.1%)
James Garfield elected president. On November 2, James A. Garfield, Republican, was elected president.

President Garfield assassinated. President Garfield was shot on July 2; he died on September 19. Vice President Chester A. Arthur (Republican) succeeded Garfield as president.
Tuskegee Institute founded. Booker T. Washington became the first principal of Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, on July 4. Tuskegee became the leading vocational training institution for African-Americans.
Segregation of public transportation. Tennessee segregated railroad cars, followed by Florida (1887), Mississippi (1888), Texas (1889), Louisiana (1890), Alabama, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Georgia (1891), South Carolina (1898), North Carolina (1899), Virginia (1900), Maryland (1904), and Oklahoma (1907).
Lynchings. Forty-nine black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1882.
Civil Rights Act overturned. On October 15, the Supreme Court declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional. The Court declared that the Fourteenth Amendment forbids states, but not citizens, from discriminating.
Sojourner Truth dies. Sojourner Truth, a courageous and ardent abolitionist and a brilliant speaker, died on November 26.
A political coup and a race riot. On November 3, white conservatives in Danville, Virginia, seized control of the local government, racially integrated and popularly elected, killing four African-Americans in the process.
Lynchings. Fifty-three black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1883.
Cleveland elected president. Grover Cleveland (Democrat) was elected president on November 4.
Lynchings. Fifty-one black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1884.
A black Episcopal bishop. On June 25, African-American Samuel David Ferguson was ordained a bishop of the Episcopal church.
Lynchings. Seventy-four black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1885.
The Carrollton Massacre. On March 17, 20 black Americans were massacred at Carrollton, Mississippi.
Labor organizes. The American Federation of Labor was organized on December 8, signaling the rise of the labor movement. All major unions of the day excluded black Americans.
Lynchings. Seventy-four black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1886.
Lynchings. Seventy black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1887.
Two of the first African-American banks. Two of America's first black-owned banks -- the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order of the Reformers, in Richmond Virginia, and Capital Savings Bank of Washington, DC, opened their doors.
Harrison elected president. Benjamin Harrison (Republican) was elected president on November 6.
Lynchings. Sixty-nine black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1888.
Lynchings. Ninety-four black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1889.
Census of 1890.
	U.S. population:  62,947,714  	Black population:  7,488,676 (11.9%)
The Afro-American League. On January 25, under the leadership of Timothy Thomas Fortune, the militant National Afro-American League was founded in Chicago.
African-Americans are disenfranchised. The Mississippi Plan, approved on November 1, used literacy and "understanding" tests to disenfranchise black American citizens. Similar statutes were adopted by South Carolina (1895), Louisiana (1898), North Carolina (1900), Alabama (1901), Virginia (1901), Georgia (1908), and Oklahoma (1910).
A white supremacist is elected. Populist "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman was elected governor of South Carolina. He called his election "a triumph of ... white supremacy."
Lynchings. Eighty-five black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1890.
Lynchings. One hundred and thirteen black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1891.
Grover Cleveland elected president. Grover Cleveland (Democrat) was elected president on November 8.
Lynchings. One hundred and sixty-one black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1892.
Lynchings. One hundred and eighteen black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1893.
The Pullman strike. The Pullman Company strike caused a national transportation crisis. On May 11, African-Americans were hired by the company as strike-breakers.
Lynchings. One hundred and thirty-four black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1894.
Douglass dies. African-American leader and statesman Frederick Douglass died on February 20.
A race riot. Whites attacked black workers in New Orleans on March 11-12. Six blacks were killed.
The Atlanta Compromise. Booker T. Washington delivered his famous "Atlanta Compromise" address on September 18 at the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition. He said the "Negro problem" would be solved by a policy of gradualism and accommodation.
The National Baptist Convention. Several Baptist organizations combined to form the National Baptist Convention of the U.S.A.; the Baptist church is the largest black religious denomination in the United States.
Lynchings. One hundred and thirteen black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1895.
Plessy v. Ferguson. The Supreme Court decided on May 18 in Plessy v. Ferguson that "separate but equal" facilities satisfy Fourteenth Amendment guarantees, thus giving legal sanction to Jim Crow segregation laws.
Black women organize. The National Association of Colored Women was formed on July 21; Mary Church Terrell was chosen president.
McKinley elected president. On November 3, William McKinley (Republican) was elected president.
George Washington Carver. George Washington Carver was appointed director of agricultural research at Tuskegee Institute. His work advanced peanut, sweet potato, and soybean farming.
Lynchings. Seventy-eight black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1896.
American Negro Academy. The American Negro Academy was established on March 5 to encourage African-American participation in art, literature and philosophy.
Lynchings. One hundred and twenty-three black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1897.
The Spanish-American War. The Spanish-American War began on April 21. Sixteen regiments of black volunteers were recruited; four saw combat. Five black Americans won Congressional Medals of Honor.
The National Afro-American Council. Founded on September 15, the National Afro-American Council elected Bishop Alexander Walters its first president.
A race riot. On November 10, in Wilmington, North Carolina, eight black Americans were killed during white rioting.
Black-owned insurance companies. The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Insurance Company and the National Benefit Life Insurance Company of Washington, DC were established. Both companies were black-owned.
Lynchings. One hundred and one black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1898.
A lynching protest. The Afro-American Council designated June 4 as a national day of fasting to protest lynchings and massacres.
Lynchings. Eighty-five black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1899.
Census of 1900.
	U.S. population:  75,994,575  	Black population:  8,833,994 (11.6%)
Lynchings. One hundred and six black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1900.
A World's Fair. The Paris Exposition was held, and the United States pavilion housed an exhibition on black Americans. The "Exposition des Negres d'Amerique" won several awards for excellence. Daniel A. P. Murray's collection of works by and about black Americans was developed for this exhibition.

Campfires of Freedom: The Camp Life of Black Soldiers During the Civil War
African-Americans - both freemen and ex-slaves - enlisted for a variety of reasons, from patriotism to sheer poverty. Like many of their white counterparts, they attributed theological significance to the war

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Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery

Previously untapped documents and period photographs casts a dazzling, fresh light on the way that abolitionists, educators, missionaries, planters, politicians, and free children of color envisioned the status of African Americans after emancipation

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Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers
Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers
This historical exploration denotes the uneasy alliance between black soldiers and white officers who, divided by racial tension and ideology, were united by the trials and bonds of the war they fought side by side

Black Troops in the Union Army
The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865
The first work to fully chronicle the remarkable story of the nearly 180,000 black troops who served in the Union army. This work paved the way for the exploration of the black military experience in other wars. This edition, with a new foreword by Herman Hattaway and bibliographical essay by the author, makes available once again a pioneering work that will be especially useful for scholars and students

A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs
A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs: Reminiscences of My Life in Camp With the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, Late 1st South Carolina Volunteers
Taylor was born a slave in 1848 on an island off the coast of Georgia. She gained her freedom and worked as a laundress for an African-American Union regiment during the war. She offers fascinating details about her life with the troops

Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry
The history of how our culture determines manhood. Although a rather detached supporter of abolition, Shaw was skeptical about the fighting abilities of freedmen, and initially declined the command. When he did accept, he was aware that the eyes of the nation were on his regiment, and his training of them was relentless. The 54th measured up by proving itself in battle

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Freedom For Themselves

Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era
The processes by which black men enlisted and were trained, the history of each regiment, the lives of the soldiers' families during the war, and the experiences of the colored veterans and their families living in an ex-Confederate state

The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois: The Story of the Twenty-Ninth U.S. Colored Infantry
Study in the lives of black recruits in the Civil War era, and a journey into the hinterlands of an American racial pathos. Throughout this study, Miller explores in detail the biographies of individual soldiers, revealing their often convoluted histories

Strike a Blow
Strike the Blow for Freedom: The 6th United States Colored Infantry in the Civil War
The recruitment, training, battles and finally the mustering out of the 6th. The 6th shared some of the same influences that shaped the formation of many military units of that time

Black Confederates
Black Southerners in Confederate Armies
Official records, newspaper articles, and veterans' accounts to tell the  stories of the Black Confederates. This well researched collection is a contribution to the discussion about the numbers of black Southerners involved and their significant history.

Grand Army of Black Men
A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army 1861-1865
Almost 200,000 African-American soldiers fought for the Union in the Civil War. Although most were illiterate ex-slaves, several thousand were well educated, free black men from the northern states

District of Columbia. Company E, 4th US Colored Infantry at Fort Lincoln

Johnsonville, Tenn. Camp of Tennessee Colored Battery

Black slaves who fled to Union lines, or "contrabands," often proved themselves extremely useful, even before the government enlisted them into service. A group of "contrabands" appear on this calling card. Calling cards, or cartes de visite, with photographs were popular during this era partly because photography was relatively new and the cards provided a means of sharing likenesses with friends and relatives. This one includes images of white officers of the 2nd Rhode Island Camp at Camp Brightwood in the District of Columbia. On the left is Capt. B. S. Brown. In the center is Lt. John P. Shaw, killed in action at the Wilderness, Virginia, May 5, 1864, and on the right is Lt. T. Fry. The "contrabands" with them are not named.

A group of "contrabands." [Stereograph] ca.1861 published later
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Kids Zone Underground Railroad
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Benjamin Oliver Davis First Colored U.S. General

"A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs," by Susie King Taylor, was
First published in 1902. A new edition, edited by Patricia Romero and featuring an introduction by Willie Lee Rose, appeared in 1988. In that new intro Rose declared, "There is nothing even vaguely resembling Susie King Taylor's small volume of random recollections in the entire literature of the Civil War, or in that of any other American conflict insofar as I am aware." Indeed, this book is a rare and valuable historical document.

Taylor was born a slave in 1848 on an island off the coast of Georgia. She gained her freedom and worked as a laundress for an African-American Union regiment during the war.

Taylor recalls how she learned to read and write and then herself became a teacher. She offers fascinating details about her life with the troops. She had many different duties beyond laundry service. I loved the episode where she recalls concocting "a very delicious custard" from turtle eggs and canned condensed milk, and serving it to the troops.

Taylor condemns the lack of appreciation shown for both black and white Civil War veterans. She also condemns early 20th century racism. Reading her book I was reminded of W.E.B. Du Bois' classic "The Souls of Black Folk," which was first published around the same time; I think the two books complement each other well.

Taylor ends on a note of hope and pride, noting "my people are striving" for better lives. This book is, in my opinion, an important milestone in African American literature.

In the summer of 1865, a former slave by the name of Jourdan Anderson sent a letter to his former master. And 147 years later, the document reads as richly as it must have back then.

This letter was dictated and sent to the New York Times in addition to Mr. Anderson

Dayton, Ohio,

August 7, 1865

To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee

Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin's to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance.

I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get twenty-five dollars a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy,—the folks call her Mrs. Anderson,—and the children—Milly, Jane, and Grundy—go to school and are learning well. The teacher says Grundy has a head for a preacher. They go to Sunday school, and Mandy and me attend church regularly. We are kindly treated. Sometimes we overhear others saying, "Them colored people were slaves" down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master. Now if you will write and say what wages you will give me, I will be better able to decide whether it would be to my advantage to move back again.

As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor's visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to. Please send the money by Adams's Express, in care of V. Winters, Esq., Dayton, Ohio. If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith in your promises in the future. We trust the good Maker has opened your eyes to the wrongs which you and your fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making us toil for you for generations without recompense. Here I draw my wages every Saturday night; but in Tennessee there was never any pay-day for the negroes any more than for the horses and cows. Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hire.

In answering this letter, please state if there would be any safety for my Milly and Jane, who are now grown up, and both good-looking girls. You know how it was with poor Matilda and Catherine. I would rather stay here and starve—and die, if it come to that—than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters. You will also please state if there has been any schools opened for the colored children in your neighborhood. The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits.

Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.

From your old servant,

Jourdon Anderson.

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Bubble Sextant

This instrument was developed for the Navy by the Aeronautical Instrument Section of the National Bureau of Standards in 1924, and produced by the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company. The instrument bears a plaque that reads “BUBBLE SEXTANT / U.S. NAVY / BUREAU OF STANDARDS / MODEL NO. 2 / 1924 / NO. 4.” Phillip Van Horn Weems, who donated this example to the Smithsonian, noted that "Six sextants were made at the time for $250,000 each. Bausch & Lomb lost money on the deal but naturally recuperated on later orders and on later models. I drew this sextant from the storeroom in North Island, at the Naval Air Station, San Diego, and made numerous tests with it, along with Byrd, Lindbergh, Ellsworth, etc. etc."
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Tsunami Aftermath in Sri Lanka

An earthquake in the Indian Ocean at the end of 2004 was the trigger of a series of tsunamis in south-east Asia, with waves of up to 30 meters high. Over 230,000 people in 14 countries were killed and millions more were displaced. The extent of the world-wide effort was in correlation to the size of the natural disaster: some 14 billion US dollars were donated by the world in humanitarian aid.

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Slow Food Onboard the Ark of Taste 2016

Farmers are Part of Slow Food

By Pacita ‘Chit’ Juan

Yes, it’s not just consumers and diners and chefs. It all starts with the farmer.

Slow Food is about enjoining farmers to keep planting our old heirloom varieties of food. And we have just the event cooked up (pardon the pun) for it on August 6 as our volunteer chef Margarita Fores (Asia’s Best female chef) shares her famous Grace Park restaurant menu with our farmers, yes real farmers that you the reader will help feed on this special day, this special lunch. We will finally break bread with the people who really feed us—the farmers.

As we were planning our third WOFEX event, we know that the public is really interested in helping preserve traditional cooking, heirloom varieties of rice and cacao and souring agents. What better way to cement the relationship between farmer and consumer but to have them come face-to-face. Just like people who have never touched soil, nor planted anything, many consumers have never met a farmer.

So we thought a special meal with a farmer may be a life-changing experience for both consumer and farm guy. The consumer knows about organic and slow food, but the farmers simply plants and reaps. We need to be on the same page. Plant old varieties. Use heirloom seeds. Practice natural farming. Nothing artificial. Use soil instead of other media. (That’s what Earthbeat Farms did. They shifted from hydro to soil).

Earthbeat Farms joins Slow Food

Earthbeat Farms joins Slow Food

And on August  6, we will be able to also talk to the farmers and ask why they do or do not yet grow our traditional varieties—like Siling Labuyo, Batwan, Sua, Tabon Tabon, and why they stopped growing heirloom rice varieties. It will be a fun lunch talking about the same ingredients our grandmothers used but maybe some farmers do not know anymore. It may be that they think there is no market for these “old varieties”. Not everything is about newer choices, higher yields, and seeds that are nowhere to be found (check out the prominence of seedless fruits now). It used to be that our mothers planted the very seeds in our fruits at the table in our backyards. Today, mothers are proud to find fruits that are happily seedless without thinking of its effects on farming and sustainability.

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  1. fat around nipples

    i have never taken a pro hormone or steroids...over the last 3 months my pecs have shaped up nicely, but i still have some extra fat right around my nipple area...can anyone recommend a workout that could eliminate that? i thought maybe doing more flat chest exercises but thats about all i could come up with...i'm currently on a cut now that just started less than a week ago so that might be able to help out....any kind of help is appreciated

  2. I've heard decline bench press helps.

  3. Doing decline bench will shape the lower pec possibly making it look better but in order to lose that fat you have to keep your diet clean. There are no workouts you can do to spot reduce fat. Just watch what you eat and continue to work out your chest from all angles.

  4. At 127lbs are you sure you want to cut? Also at that weight I wouldn't bother with trying to target, you just need larger pecs full stop.

  5. If you want to shape your Pecs you actually need to gain muscle everywhere. Eating more healthy fats, carbs and lean proteins will help you gain some good mass. I would suggest you gain more muscle before cutting, otherwise you won't have a lot of muscle to show off (with you being only 127 lbs). Having more muscle will help you drop fat anyway. Doing compound movements will help you out a lot as well, dips are a great movement for hitting your chest as well as your triceps.

  6. i don't weigh 127lbs anymore,that was about a year ago, i just forgot how to change it...i currently weigh 142lbs and last week weighed in at 148lbs, i don't know if that scale was correct though, but no more 127 lbs

  7. Yep, as above, diet is the key here and bigger pecs. My pecs dont start looking really good until I get to around 10%BF or less.

    I do love decline bench. Bring it down to around your collar bone before the press.
    Also, standing cable flyes for me. SLOW and stretched back, being careful of the shoulders. Then contract without leaning forward, just using the pecs to flex and bring the handles down toward your lower abs. Really hits the outer and lower pecs and seems to widen the pecs well.

    But again, clean diet is the real thing for this area to have that squared off muscular look, and some mass...

    Good luck, Bro!

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Dendrobium Stamen: Beam Rifle

Finally getting my lazy arse around to the beam rifle. I should have had this entire Gundam colored already, but sitting back on the couch sure is nice once in a while. :)
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Introducing the new UCL MA/MSc in Digital Humanities

From the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Team
The Masters degree in Digital Humanities at UCL draws together teaching from a wide range of disciplines, to investigate the application of computational technologies to the arts, humanities, and cultural heritage sectors. Attached are a poster and a brochure highlighting the features of the degree and the range of disciplines included in the programme; we would appreciate if you could please post and circulate these as appropriate.

The strength of our programme is that it will allow students who have a background in the humanities to acquire necessary skills in digital technologies, and will also make it possible for those with a technical background to become informed about scholarly methods in the humanities. In addition to their studies, the students will undertake a work placement, which will provide them with knowledge and hands-on experience in the field of Digital Humanities, and a skill set relevant to the cultural and heritage industry, publishing, and beyond.

This programme is by definition and purpose multi-disciplinary and aims to build and enhance on existing UCL resources. The students will have the opportunity to access not only UCL departments, library services, museums and collections, but also the numerous museums, galleries,libraries and archives based in close proximity to UCL in London.

Having drawn your attention to the programme, we would kindly ask you to share this news with anyone you think may be interested, such as potential students, librarians, and those interested in digital
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A Boatless Booze Cruise

Norcross Jun 7th, 2016General Ramblings

Recently on WP Tavern, an article was posted about WordCamps, alcohol, and after-parties. Should WordCamp Afterparties Be Alcohol Free? has certainly got a lot of people talking, and this isn’t the first time the topic of alcohol and tech conferences has come up. There have been numerous things written about the pros and cons of having alcohol present, along with individual people’s experience dealing with these events. Some of those experiences, sadly, involve various forms of harassment and even sexual assault. These stories are not to be taken lightly. That said, I’m a straight white male in tech, so most of the things that have a negative effect on people don’t really apply to me. I’m playing life on easy mode, and I totally understand that fact.

But when it comes to booze, I do have some experience, and probably a perspective many people don’t have. For those that aren’t aware, I’m a sober alcoholic with almost 13 years between me and a drink. I hadn’t even begun learning to program when I quit drinking, so every single event I’ve ever attended in the tech world has been during my sobriety. I have, however, attended many parties where I participated in the drinking festivities, and I’m acutely aware of what can happen when someone has a bit too much to drink.

tl;dr The alcohol isn’t the problem, rather, the structure of the entire event.

WordCamps are put on by volunteers. Having been an organizer of two of them, I know it’s a thankless job and involves a LOT of time, and involve a lot of moving parts to coordinate for the hope of having an event go off smoothly. Most of the organizers are not professional event planners (I sure as hell am not one) and the logistics of certain things are very difficult to pull off, even for a seasoned veteran. The standard after party goes like this:

  1. Show up to bar
  2. Door person gives you a few drink tickets
  3. Get drink from crowded bar
  4. Attempt conversation over loud music
  5. Be given more tickets because not as many people showed up as planned
  6. Shout over music and other people, lose your voice
  7. Leave with a small group of people and go somewhere else

Notice that nowhere in that list does it say “get drunk”. Because I firmly believe that people who want to get drunk will get drunk, regardless of the logistics. A free drink or two (or a code of conduct for that matter) isn’t going to change that. But the whole setup DOES lend itself to problems. From my vantage point, a large part of the problem is that the parties are sold as “networking opportunities”, but often are so loud and cramped that you can’t even have a conversation with someone without shouting. You simply cannot take the “meet a few friends for drinks” idea and scale it to 500 people. It just doesn’t work that way. Being in a place with 400 people is WAY more uncomfortable to me than being around alcohol. And I have a suspicion I’m not the only one who feels this way. In the time I’ve written this, I’ve had no less than 6 people, all of whom have attended at least 10 WordCamps, tell me that they stopped going to the after party because they’re simply too loud.

The best after party I can remember was at WordCamp San Diego in 2015. The party itself was held at the venue, which removed a lot of the “bar” atmosphere. It was large and spacious, allowing people to hang out and talk to each other with as much or as little crowd as they wanted. They had actual places to sit down. It was well lit. Was there alcohol? Yep. Did it dominate the event? Not in the least bit. And a bunch of us DID go out afterwards and get dinner and hit a few spots in downtown San Diego. A good time was had by all.

In short, creating an environment that makes people comfortable will go a lot further than just removing booze. Making people feel at ease without a drink in their hand will likely curb a lot of the issues people see. Those that want to get loaded can (and likely will) get loaded, but they’ll easily become the exception rather than the rule.

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  1. Robert Gadon

    Hear, hear Norcross. Well spoken. I too attended #WCSD15 and appreciated the fact that the AfterParty was held on site. It was easy to transition from the day’s sessions to mingling and eating afterwards in what was a large and comfortable space. As an older person who experiences some hearing loss, I don’t appreciate loud venues where I have might have to shout to be heard. And while I enjoy a beer now and then, drinking alcohol has never been the motivator for attending a WordCamp AfterParty.


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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Attention: BSIE 2-1 and BBTE 2-2D

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The Kanazawa Nishi station of Ishikawa Prefectural Police arrested a 57-year-old unemployed man with no fixed abode on suspicion of theft on July 13. According to the police announcement, the suspect was trying to steal two manga books (selling price: 1,120 yen/US$14.15) at the bookstore in Kanazawa-city around 6:30 pm of the day.

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I'm surprised to learn that manga costs more in the US and Japan than it does in my country (If that is an average selling price). Though it is less available here.


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Friday, 3 August 2012

The Two Worlds of Charlie F - review

The Two Worlds of Charlie F, produced by Bravo 22 Company is an extraordinary piece of work;  for a number of reasons.

To begin with this isn't a commercial piece of theatre.  Originally it was intended to be shown only for two nights in the West End.  It was meant to be a workshop within which wounded, injured and sick service personnel were able to consider and hopefully come to terms with the difficulties they were facing on return from Iraq and Afghanistan, and I think I gathered in one case Northern Ireland.  On its two nights in the West End, with an audience of the great and the good from the world of theatre, it was received with such rapturous applause that it was decided it would go on a limited tour.

This work is unlikely to become a wildly successful commercial venture.  The play is performed by a team mixed between professional actors and injured, sick and wounded service personnel, who couldn't be expected to sustain the physical demands of a full scale tour.  At the heart of the venture, then, must be the aims of the British Legion who funded it, to provide a space for the veteran soldiers to recover from the worst wounds they carry:  those in their minds.  The audience were struck by how hard it is to make out who was an actor and who was a veteran soldier, which is a testament to the acting as much as to the direction, but what is more extraordinary is the commitment on the part of those involved in the project to a piece of work which won't be commercially big bucks, which is altruistic in offering a space to people who are in desperate need of some explanation of suffering beyond what they had imagined they might have to face.
Part of the extraordinary character of this piece of work is down to an unassuming brilliance on the part of the writer, Owen Sheers.  In the pre-show talk, the director spoke about the uncharacteristic selflessness of the actors, who instead of being egotistic as actors often have to be, had devoted themselves to supporting others in the development of the piece.  This might be said even more of the poet Owen Sheers.  This is an unusual piece of writing:  sociological in character.  Sheers listened to the soldiers talking about their experience in order to produce this work and had that skill which academic researchers look for in top interviewers, to allow participants to speak with their own voices, not to filter out with their ears what they choose not to hear.  He picked out phrases which occurred again and again on the part of participants as well as those which stood out as expressing something ringingly important about what they were going through.  What emerges is a mosaic of voices with a deep and rich authenticity, rather than the analytical viewpoint of one individual.  There is a place for the intelligent individual view of events, offering us insight from one person's intellect, but this was not that place.  In choosing to act as a filtering channel for the raw emotions expressed by returning veterans, Sheers made a more magnificent achievement than if he had given us just his idea of what they were going through.  Giving such complete powers of expression to the soldiers, he probably sank his own agenda too well to get a combination of Nobel peace prize and prize for literature but he and the project team deserve them.
One recurring theme in the writing is the soldiers talking about how war is the same over the centuries:  people fight with stones, swords or guns but always on the bodies of people.  Two veterans spoke about their first coming out of a coma of terrible injury to find themselves lying with the blue sky above.  "I thought I was in heaven," says Charlie F, "but it was Selly Oak, Birmingham."  The audience laughed, then he said, "No, really.  With the blue sky above and a buzzing noise in my ears, I thought I had gone to heaven."
I was reminded of the scene in War and Peace, when Prince Andrei first comes back to consciousness on the battlefield, lying staring at the blue sky above him.  A celestial feeling of peace comes over him, looking up at the blue sky in the aftermath of the dreadful destruction of battle.  This is a turning point in the Prince's life, leading him away from the trivialities of aristocratic life in St Petersburg towards the values of a simpler, more rural existence focussed on family.
In Sheers's sensitive account, returning to family emerges as one of the most difficult problems for the soldiers.  Physiotheraphy and earnest support to take part in trips to the North Pole or be involved in the paralympics demonstrate to wounded ex-soldiers that they can still engage in a life of pride in physical achievement.  However meaningful relationships with their lovers and families become impossible to sustain.

I've worked, not in Afghanistan, but in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan just the other side of the mountains where the 'great game' was played.  It's an experience which is at the heart of anthropology, to go to an area of the world where everything is different:  the women here immured in compounds, the level of poverty so great, the dusty mud-brick houses, yet everything is the same:  people are people.  I remember once in a café in Peshawar, my friends and I were - as usual, shown to the purdah room because some of us were women.  I'd expected a cubby-hole behind dark curtains in which we would have to hide to eat our food but instead we were taken to an upstairs room with one mud-brick wall halfway open to the light and air and a big cage of brightly coloured budgerigars along another.  On the wall was a poster with pictures of Mujahideen on it.  We asked the young boy who brought us water in a jug to wash our hands (there was no tap of course) about it, he said they were his brothers and cousins, they had died in combat and gone to heaven because they died on jihad.  He too was keen to go and fight the Russians, to die in combat and go straight to heaven.

In the play one veteran soldier speaks of having young boys of 11 coming running at her with a gun in their hands.  She would shoot over their heads, hoping they would drop their weapons and run but if they didn't, it was Them or You.  Another soldier spoke about bad days, when he might have to phone his children's mother and say, I can't have them over this weekend.  The actor playing the therapist asks if he can talk to his family about why but of course the soldier dismisses this with scorn.  Tell your 11 year old that you can't play with him because you're thinking about how you shot up some of Those 11 year olds?

It's in the intimate closeness of sexual relationships that the damage most becomes apparent of course.  In that moment of deep warm human contact, the memories of cold human conflict must become unbearable and so sex becomes unbearable.  The friend who kindly took me to the play wondered if Owen Sheers had also spoken to wives, girlfriends and mothers about the troubles they experience in trying to support returning veteran soldiers but I think probably he could get an excellent sense of how impossible this is from the soldiers themselves.  That perhaps is one of the great tragedies of their situation, to know what the partners they depend on for emotional support have been through and are going through, to know why, yet not to able to resolve the difficulties which plunge the whole family into such trauma.

Another facet of the war which emerges from a sociological rather than an artistic writing of the piece is the involvement of soldiers from other areas of the world, from former colonies.  Because Sheers was working with the veterans themselves and representing their reality, he didn't airbrush out the significant presence of, for example, Caribbean members of the armed forces;  Charlie F is a Canadian.

It seems churlish to quibble about anything which might have been improved in such a fascinating and different dramatic production.  The only area I wondered about was the more dramatic performance element.  The stylised scene in which silhouette figures moved against the light across the stage to represent battle, the dance of veterans with women partners.  The words were so dramatic that I felt the work could have stood without these parts, the direction so ably brought out the Shakespearean dance between light rapier strokes of humour and heavy serious emotional passages.

At the end of the piece Charlie F speaks some words which I suspect are in Owen Sheers's voice, rather than the soldiers' voices;  Sheers gives us an opportunity to reflect on what we had seen in a broader frame of thinking.  (Again in a classic Shakespearean style;  a character will often stand up at the end of a Shakespeare play to make a speech which lifts the dramatic story up and asks us to reflect on wider meanings of life as we leave the theatre.)  Sheers seemed to be asking us to consider something more than the opportunity for the wounded, injured and sick soldiers to work through their grief and difficulties, more than the chance for the audience to experience the cathartic voyeurism of understanding what they go through.   I'm not sure I accurately remember the words, so it could be that this is just what I wanted to take from the play.  In the spirit of Derrida's Death of the Author, then, I thought Charlie F said that so long as we went to war, there would always be more wounded and also that there are many more who are wounded in the world.  I understood this to be a critique of what Eisenhower called the Military Industrial Complex and also a suggestion that there are many more people who have not been injured or wounded in conflict but who are also limping through the world unable to sustain meaningful warm relationships.  We might think about a different kind of world than one in which the Military Industrial Complex is so dominant, one focussed on enabling people to be happy when they find someone who loves them, instead of frightened.

This piece of work in itself is a positive sign that we might start to turn towards that different kind of world:  commercially unlikely to make large sums of money, altruistically devoted to allowing an authentic, raw and difficult emotional set of voices to come through to us in the comfort of our theatre seats, exploring not one simple viewpoint of the situation but the complicated nest of human relationships between different soldiers fighting, some of them children, the band of brothers bond between comrades in arms, the fractured love of veterans and their families, the final appeal of Charlie F:  there are not two worlds, only one.

  1. This is Charlie F's life mother here! (I never thought I would call myself that!) Your review popped up this morning on my Google Alert! I very much enjoyed and appreciated your perspective and will forward to my large distribution list on Cassidy's/Charlie's recovery. Owen is truly brilliant -- by allowing the soldiers voice through the collective script, they are less hampered by reservations arising from their own stories. Your guess that Owen spoke with the wives is correct...he did. Thanks for seeing the depth of what is portrayed on that stage. And I love single malt, too!

  2. I am so thrilled that you enjoyed the review. It can be nerve-wracking writing about something which is so important. Thank you so much for letting me know that you thought the way I wrote about the piece of work is OK. It's an amazing piece of work - and Charlie F is even braver to talk about what he has been through than he was to go to war. You must be a super mum.
    Single malt is the best, isn't it!


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