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exactly @Troy use the community for you

In ode to Aretha Franklin I wanted to focus on her song writing. Listed below is the songs she wrote or her a member from her sanguine wrote on her various albums excluding the mention of the first album. I think it is telling she started having a gospel album and in the end has an album that is entitled a brand new me. Taking a look at the covers to all her albums, like ella fitzgerald or sarah vaughan , or many other black songstresses whom white owned media did not and do not present youthfully. No shame exist in displaying one who has lived long beyond the common, but I find it too common in media to not show black female artists when young. Which song is your favorite from the Written/Sung by Aretha Franklin? There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood" (William Cowper) was the first song on her solo album Songs of Faith "Without the One You Love" (Aretha Franklin) 2:48 The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin 1962 "I Wonder (Where Are You Tonight)" (Aretha Franklin, Ted White) 3:16 Laughing on the Outside 1963 "Without The One You Love" (Aretha Franklin) (3:34) Yeah!!! 1965 "Take It Like You Give It" (Aretha Franklin) – 1:50 "Land of Dreams" (Aretha Franklin) – 2:12 Take It Like You Give It 1967 "Don't Let Me Lose This Dream" Aretha Franklin, Ted White "Baby Baby Baby" Aretha Franklin, Carolyn Franklin "Dr. Feelgood" Aretha Franklin, Ted White "Save Me" Aretha Franklin, Carolyn Franklin, King Curtis I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You 1967 "I'll Keep On Smiling" (Aretha Franklin) "Take a Look" (Aretha Franklin) Take a Look 1967 "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" (Aretha Franklin, Ted White) 2:25 "Good to Me As I Am to You" (Aretha Franklin, Ted White) 3:56 Lady Soul 1968 "Think" Aretha Franklin, Ted White Aretha Now 1968 "Don't Let Me Lose This Dream" (Franklin, Teddy White) "Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business)" (Franklin, Teddy White) "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" (Franklin, Teddy White) Aretha in Paris 1968 Note: first live album "Dr. Feelgood" (Franklin, Ted White) - 3:18 "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" (Franklin, White) - 2:18 "Think" (Franklin, White) - 2:15 "Ain't No Way" (Carolyn Franklin, White) - 4:12 I added her sisters song Aretha's Gold 1969 greatest hits album "Call Me" (Aretha Franklin) - 3:57 This Girl's In Love With You 1970 "Pullin'" Carolyn Franklin, Jimmy Radcliffe <her sister> "You and Me" Aretha Franklin "Spirit in the Dark" Aretha Franklin "One Way Ticket" Aretha Franklin 2:52 "Try Matty's" Aretha Franklin 2:32 Spirit in the Dark 1970 "Dr. Feelgood" Aretha Franklin 7:06 "Spirit in the Dark" Aretha Franklin 5:33 "Spirit in the Dark" (Reprise with Ray Charles) Aretha Franklin 8:53 Aretha Live at Fillmore West 1971 "Dr. Feelgood" (Aretha Franklin, Ted White) - 3:18 "Call Me" (Aretha Franklin) - 3:18 Aretha's Greatest Hits 1971 "Day Dreaming" Aretha Franklin 4:00 "Rock Steady" Franklin 3:15 "All the King's Horses" Franklin 3:56 "First Snow in Kokomo" Franklin 4:04 Young, Gifted and Black 1972 "Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)" (Aretha Franklin) "So Swell When You're Well" (James Booker, Aretha Franklin) "Angel" (Carolyn Franklin, Sonny Sanders) her sister "Sister from Texas" (Aretha Franklin) "Just Right Tonight" (Aretha Franklin, Avery Parrish, Buddy Feyne, Quincy Jones, Robert Bruce) "Master of Eyes (The Deepness of Your Eyes)" (Aretha Franklin, Bernice Hart) Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) 1973 "Rock Steady" - 4:19 contains an alternate introduction exclusive to this compilation "Dr. Feelgood" - 3:18 "Day Dreaming" - 3:49 "Call Me" - 3:24 The Best of Aretha Franklin 1973 quadraphonic sound "Oh Baby" (Aretha Franklin) "If You Don't Think" (Aretha Franklin) Let Me in Your Life 1974 "Without Love" (Carolyn Franklin, Ivy Jo Hunter) her sister "With Everything I Feel in Me" (Aretha Franklin) "Sing It Again - Say It Again" (Carolyn Franklin) her sister With Everything I Feel in Me 1974 "Mr. D.J. (5 for the D.J.)" (Aretha Franklin) "As Long As You Are There" (Carolyn Franklin) her sister You 1975 "When I Think About You" (Aretha Franklin) 4:46 "A Tender Touch" (Aretha Franklin) 3:58 "Meadows of Springtime" (Aretha Franklin) 5:26 "Mumbles / I've Got the Music in Me" (Clark Terry, Aretha Franklin, Bias Boshell) 3:40 "Sweet Passion" (Aretha Franklin) 7:12 Sweet Passion 1977 "I'm Your Speed" (Aretha Franklin, Glynn Turman) 3:40 Almighty Fire 1978 second collaboration with curits mayfield, he wrote all other songs "Ladies Only" (Aretha Franklin) – 5:15 "Honey I Need Your Love" (Aretha Franklin) – 2:45 "I Was Made for You" (Clarence Franklin) – 4:03 her son or brother "Only Star" (Aretha Franklin) – 5:04 La Diva 1979 "Together Again" Franklin, Phil Perry, Chuck Jackson 3:34 "Love Me Forever" Franklin, Rev. Patrick Henderson, Kenny Moore 4:47 "School Days" Aretha Franklin 4:54 Aretha 1980 "Without the One You Love" (Aretha Franklin) - 3:36 "I Wonder Where Are You Tonight" (Aretha Franklin, Ted White) - 3:15 Aretha Sings the Blues 1980 "Whole Lot of Me*" Aretha Franklin 3:23 "Kind of Man*" Aretha Franklin 4:19 Love All the Hurt Away 1981 "I Wanna Make It Up to You" (Franklin) Jump to It 1982 "Giving In" (Clarence Franklin) – 4:38 her son or brother Get It Right 1983 "Who's Zoomin' Who" Aretha Franklin, Preston Glass, Walden 4:44 "Integrity" Franklin 5:38 Who's Zoomin' Who? 1985 "He'll Come Along" Aretha Franklin Aretha 1986 "He's the Boy" Aretha Franklin "Think (1989)[6]" Aretha FranklinTed White 3:39 Through the Storm 1989 "You Can't Take Me for Granted" (Aretha Franklin) "What Did You Give" (Aretha Franklin) What You See Is What You Sweat 1991 "The Woman" (Franklin) – 7:41 A Rose Is Still a Rose 1998 "So Damn Happy" (Aretha Franklin) - 4:29 "You Are My Joy" (Franklin) - 2:34 "You Are My Joy (Reprise)" (Franklin) - 2:33 So Damn Happy 2003 "The Lord Will Make A Way" (Traditional, Arranged by Aretha Franklin) – 5:43 This Christmas, Aretha 2008 ? I was unable to find out the writers to these songs Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love 2011 "Think" Aretha FranklinWhite "Angel" Carolyn FranklinSonny Saunders A Brand New Me 2017 It ends with Respect from Otis Redding, not accidental to me, she really liked Redding, Cooke and those Southern Balladeers. Also consider the Dinah Washington Album, I heard it, it is a true ode. Her Sparkle film soundtrack album is underrated for the timing of it side quality having all song written from curtis mayfield. Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics 2014 is another gem, showing how much she listened to other singers honestly.

“Toni Morrison and Adaptation” A Special Issue of College Literature – Call for Proposals Edited by Stacie McCormick and Rhaisa Williams A Word from “College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies” : The year 2020 will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Toni Morrison’s inaugural novel, The Bluest Eye, a work that engages in innovative methods of adaptation by transforming the Dick and Jane primer into a powerful narrative charting the move from innocence to experience as inflected by blackness. In 2006, the novel was adapted into a stage play written by Lydia Diamond. Indeed, Morrison’s work both engages in the act of adaptation (modifying folktales, images, and song into narrative) and continues to be adapted in other formats (notable instances are Beloved, Jazz, and The Bluest Eye). The 50th anniversary of The Bluest Eye serves as an apt occasion to reflect on the transformational and intertextual character of Morrison’s work. For this special issue, we invite essays that analyze Morrison’s artistic and intellectual imprint on the stage, screen, and through lyric. We seek essays that theorize Morrison’s work in relation, but not limited to: Theories of adaptation Black artistic and cultural formalism Black feminist artistic practices Critical engagement with Morrison’s stage plays and/or operas (Margaret Garner; Desdemona; Dreaming Emmett; New Orleans, A Musical) Children’s Literature (The Tortoise or the Hare, co-authored with Slade Morrison) Film and stage adaptations of Morrison’s novels (Jazz, The Bluest Eye, Beloved) Music – How hip-hop, classical, jazz artists adapted Morrison’s work; How Morrison produced work in different formats such as “song cycles” or operettas Visual Art Recuperation of history and culture Forms of intimacy Regional theater communities Embodiment Multiple temporalities Commemoration Deadline for submissions is September 1, 2018. Please click here for more information on the publication and submission guidelines. http://centerforblackliterature.org/submit-toni-morrison-and-adaptation-a-special-issue-of-college-literature/

@Mel Hopkins not you think , you know or,at least, you are 100% correct . And, yes, I am not suggesting,100%, that making money must have criminality but I am telling that 99.9% does, not in alway straight but it does. Excellent example: Robert Johnson sold something worth more than any price long term and sold it for fiscal profit, and was glorified from like minded folk, black or non- black, after doing it. Many hip hop artists did likewise, betraying their youth or their home life for the imagined gangster rapper imagery, that white owned corporations preferred over social critiques or artistic mobilizers. The problem is simple, define morals. Morals are not set in stone. Second, more importantly, function. Said black folk are looking to reject or deny function to remain in some ruleset, morals, while making money. At the least, that does not serve the function of making money to the best ability or serving a communities needs.

Thoughts to AMP, do you use email? The three articles below discuss the basic structure or some other development points to the larger project. But, as a yahoo email user for a long time, I recall many including myself asking yahoo to focus on email in years past and they did not. When I look at instagram if this email push can grow, it will reinvigorate email cause email offers a privacy wall that the public bases simpyl do not. but the public bases allow for interactivity that email did and in modernity, usually do not. Thoughts https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/13/google-launches-amp-for-email-to-bring-web-like-actionable-content-to-gmail/ https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/amps-new-horizons/ https://www.emailonacid.com/blog/article/industry-news/amp-for-email-what-you-need-to-know-about-googles-new-interactive-email-eff/

true @Troy Just today @Mel Hopkins the mayor to new york city, blamed trumps election or racial biases publicity in the usa on rupert murdoch or fox news. He blames someone whose role is to make money through the media for placating how white people raise themselves in their community. It is not murdoch's fault that he saw a mob and played to it, to make money, in the usa, where making money is the way to anything. Again, merit does not matter. De blasio today suggest a certain philosophical merit must come before fiscal profiteering when the fiscal profiteering is the philosophical merit. One note, when chernobyl happened the soviet russian government had soldiers pick up the waste, all those soldiers died of radiation sickness. Over 10,000 have died from the world trade center wreckage, but if we all recall, mayor guiliani let those people ,fiscally poor people or municipal workers,pick up waste just like the soviet government did the military at chernobyl... ah welll

@Mel Hopkins Everyone,I repeat everyone, in the usa is in a mental conditioning program to suggest merit not making money is the key. My pleasure, but we all suffer from that. As someone who prefers efficient municipal structure, I do not know how many time I spoke truth to inefficiency in the usa /nys/nyc municipal structures when in truth i wasted and still waste my breath; cause said systems are not meant to be efficient but tools for those who have the most money to control. The true answer is always in the usa, very simple. Make money and do what you want. Crude, inefficient, non sustainable but that is the way in the usa. When DT first went bankrupt who saved him. new jersey and the banks led by goldman sachs who held his real estate transactions as well as alot of atlantic city property. If DT went bankrupt the first time, like many fiscally common folk <red/black/white/or other or any> Atlantic city would had plummeted in value and caused a severe depreciation in the banks. Whom we all learned later had too many DT -esque deals they were holding which is why the federal elected official class did to the banks what the banks side the elected officials class from the state of new jersey did to trump, made the later too big too fail. Sequentially, Donald trump did not strictly go bankrupt the first time and the last two were mere repetitions to the first. DT calls it the art of the deal when it is simply modern global fiscal capitalism. People who have money are deeply connected and will protect each other's finances to protect each other's finances. I don't know what they gave obama/clinton/emmanuel/et cetera for that blank check but they all paid when trump was elected as president. the party of lincoln party elders lost leadership to a man who has allegiance to nothing but his personal benefit. the party of andrew jackson was exposed as internally deeply dysfunctional. Returning, DT's fiscal condition is about protectionism from the fiscally wealthy and people do not admit it, though it was said enough to be common knowledge. We all know the truth behind DT yet we do not say it. We all know the truth behind the too big too fail but we do not admit it. Obama himself talked about the system falling down. that is a lie and we all knew. the banks falling down side all but one from the major usa car companies falling down would not had caused chaos. but it would had deleted many fiscally wealthy people's finances. And, those people used their money or power from money to maintain their fiscal wealth. Does it mean the banks or car companies are educated? how educated are the people in the banks in the center to the global empire when they have every advantage to make profit while be stable and failed? how educated are the people in the car companies when they are in the center of the global empire and yet fail to make a cost efficient technically superior automobile? How many people in the banks or car companies merited their job or were given their job? Many people allude to merit to everything else but having money and being cutthroat or coercive to keep it, no matter what.

Part to the end of this article is what I would had written otherwise, you wrote: "The reason, however, is this; Apple is run by people whose goal is to make money by any means. So, if you find you're in a place far different than you'd envisioned for yourself. Stop doing what you've always done. Lose the fear and do whatever it takes to allow you to live your dreams." I would had rewrote the last line:"Lose the fear and do whatever it takes to allow you to live your dreams." as "Lose the fear and make money whatever it takes to allow you to live your dreams." I know just one simple part. But, when you talked about apple's fiscal profiteering, your point is true. The USA or the european colonies that preceded it,financially, is a place for money makers. From those early whites, to the white murderers to red folk or enslavers to black, to later yellow or black folk in the fiscal illegal world, money making is the way it happens in the u.s.a.. Labels and rank don't have a value that you may find in parts to europe/africa/asia. I think sometimes people in the usa, do not speak bluntly enough to that. That is how donald trump went bankrupt three times but and came back financially from each.

Unconventional Art deviantart competitions- DeviantArt, in collaboration with Ripley's Believe It or Not!, wants you to break out of your creative norms and take part in the Unconventional Art Contest! Inspired by Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odd Is Art, a book showcasing innovative art, we challenge you to change up your usual process and create pieces using unconventional means. From painting to sculptures and everything in between, undertake an artistic experiment and share what you come up with! Common materials can be used in daring new ways or odd items can be used to create something new. I must admit I am thinking of developing a program to make art. Not a new idea, but something I never did and thus a worthy project this year, but what will the art be? Any ideas? till august 20th https://www.deviantart.com/go/journal/Ripley-s-Unconventional-Art-Contest-754841619

My Wellington Wells We happy few postcard entry is set. Do you know the references? The competition still has time to submit if you are interested. https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Summer-Bank-Centennial-PostCard-Wellington-Wells-758711598?ga_submit_new=10%3A1533870702

I finished the Maple Story MApleize me contest entry. Enjoy the coloring pages to my entry, if you are part of my email newsletter. If you go for it, you still have a solid day in time, please share. Here is the link to my entry. https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Me-Maplelized-758393673?ga_submit_new=10%3A1533699970 For the record, the following link is to my original informing to the contest https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/194-richard-murray-creative-table/?page=4&amp;tab=comments#comment-437

Ok, for those in my email listing,tell me if you want to join it and we will connect, I have submitted to you my epistle or dialog entries to fiyah or killens respectively. I admit, more in the email to that purpose. But, please take a gander at the killens review contest or the fiyah magazine open contest and submit your own work. One day I hope to get us all to make a collection of submitted works. anyway, some new competitions are below. Like the Onmyoji contest, I have no idea what MapleStory is or never heard it before, but I will create something for this open art contest. It is till august 8th so let us all give it a go. https://www.deviantart.com/go/journal/MapleStory-Mapleize-Me-Challenge-755298025 ///////////////// As some of you know, I write letters, and the theme of this open art contest, to compose a postcard, is perfect for me. ... yes I do not know what we happy few is nor heard it before but , if any of you are artists , join me and make something, it is a matter of creation from your heart, not quality The We Happy Few Contest Begins At 12:00:00 p.m. (PT - Los Angeles Time) On July 24, 2018 And Ends At 11:59:59 p.m. (PT - Los Angeles Time) On August 14, 2018 (The "Promotion Period"). https://www.deviantart.com/go/journal/The-We-Happy-Few-Wellington-Wells-Postcard-Contest-750861444

Poetry and Some fun things Poetry what is your favorite recent poem, recent poem defined as being made in the last ten year? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/poetry/how-young-writers-are-leading-a-poetry-comeback Some fun things some fact to various writer, some you may know, enjoy https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/02/21/20-quirks-strange-habits/ What do you think of the free preview? https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/03/13/exclusive-preview-of-holly-evans-latest-book/ a talk to characters https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/03/16/play-time-fun-and-pain-in-characterization/ what is a favorite opening line to a book? I used : in that pleasant district of merry england which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and vallies which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster <Ivanhoe> , in the land of ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three <howls moving castle> https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/06/14/ten-great-first-lines/

INSPIRATIONS- listed below that may provide you more courage in your heart or hope in yourself, though I hope you don't need it If you are a newly indie author and have doubts, generated from various sources https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/02/26/indie-author-101/ if you are a female author and you feel your voice is not being accepted through the publishing house https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/03/08/empowering-female-writers-through-self-publishing/ if you are barely making a penny, how one author makes six figures https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/03/09/how-i-make-a-six-figures-income-from-my-writing/ LGBT fiction authors https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/03/12/the-queer-eye-lgbt-voices-in-fiction/ and three more LGBT authors https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/06/28/three-kwl-authors-to-read-to-keep-the-pride-spirit-alive/ From instagram to movie deal https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/03/19/turning-my-instagram-followers-into-book-buyers-and-a-movie-deal/ write yourself https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/05/22/now-is-the-time-to-be-the-writer-you-want-to-be/ Mom's just want to do too! https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/05/30/balancing-work-life-and-motherhood/ Never to old to write, thus why i keep telling all of you to keep journals https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/06/13/never-too-late-writing-in-retirement/ many will think you are crazy, or taking too big of a risk, if you truly can, keep going for it https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/06/27/how-generating-a-super-marketable-hook-has-transformed-my-career-twice/

Questions to think about The following Kobo article made me think, about my emailing list and the kind of various people in it. Three question I never explicitly asked, i should had asked before: how many books do you read per month, what is the average price of books you read per month, and how many from my work have you read? So, I ask all of you to do likewise to your readers. I imagine the answers may surprise. https://kobowritinglife.com/2017/11/28/multi-layered-readers-and-how-to-reach-them/ The following kobo article made me wonder a nice question: I add it to the prementioned: how many years in your life did at least one book you read inspire you? https://kobowritinglife.com/2017/11/30/4-ways-good-stories-move-us/ I have never read an author biography, I always go straight to page one when i consider a book. Another question: how many books did you buy in your life, best memory, based on the author biography? I know many people bought books after seeing a movie or after many other folk bought a book. I bet none of those folk read the biography? https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/02/23/what-makes-a-good-author-bio/ What is a favorite line to a book you read? I am not too proud to ask: what is a favorite line to something I wrote, poetry or prose? I used : in that pleasant district of merry england which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and vallies which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster <Ivanhoe> , in the land of ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three <howls moving castle> https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/06/14/ten-great-first-lines/ I have been told by some I need to revise sunset children stories OR the gospel of Joseph. what books do you think need to be revised that you love? what books from me do you think I need to revise? Doesn't everything demand revision eventually? https://kobowritinglife.com/2018/06/18/how-to-revise-your-novel/

Six ways to repair broken plastic. , yes glue is the sixth and the most affordable or safest to the others https://makezine.com/2017/02/16/plastic-repair/ BUT the video to one method, plastic welding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRCMIDILfEI&amp;feature=youtu.be for the kids- 8 possible science fair projects, i suggest the generator https://makezine.com/2017/02/14/8-projects-to-inspire-your-next-science-fair-experiment/

Programmable LED Clock a 60-bulb ring of programmable SK6812 RGB LEDs under frosted acrylic glass https://makezine.com/2017/02/13/programmable-led-wall-clock/ image set https://imgur.com/gallery/pyFfR video https://imgur.com/hkJb7Hw black smithing basics https://makezine.com/2017/02/06/blacksmithing-basics/ Hammers and Long Handled Blacksmith Pliers: It might seem absurd to say this, but obviously your average everyday carpenters hammer won’t work for bending white-hot metal. If you’re working with metal you’ll want a few heavy machinist hammers, and at least 1 Ball Peen or Flat Peen hammer. This will make life immeasurably easier when working with the anvil and leg vise. In addition to this, if you’re going to be doing any “forge welding” (a process described later) you’ll need a large, heavy, long-handled sledge hammer. A Hardy Log: Or a ‘tool log’, anyways. A log with some metal hooks attached to it that you can hang your hammers off of is a mainstay of any competent blacksmiths shop. You could go out and get yourself a fancy metal tool-rack, but it’s probably cheaper just to go into the woods and find an old chunk of wood. Logs are usually my first choice when it comes to equipment racks due to their surprising resistance to the heat of the forge.Bach Ritterburg Tool Pliers BlacksmithAnvil: Anvils can be surprisingly inexpensive on places like craigslist or just general antiques shops. Worse comes to worst, you can ask any friends you’ve got that live on farms: most old estates used to have personal farriers, and so there’s probably a decent chance you’ll find a farriers anvil. Though there are many types of anvils out there, I’ve found that farrier’s anvils are set up the best way for bending metal. Rather than just giving you a flat surface, they give you a jutting horn with which you can bend your metal, and overall provide an easier platform for turning iron and steel into malleable putty. They also have strategically placed holes in them for the purposes of adding tools and attachments to your anvil should you choose. A Partner: Blacksmithing in teams of two is almost as old as the trade itself. Usually the teams of two would include one apprentice working the bellows, and one master smith actually heating and manipulating the metal. As forge welding became more popular, teams of two grew in popularity also, as a result of the fact that you need an incredibly heavy sledge hammer to slam down on the heated metal, while somebody holds the two pieces of metal together in the right position. Even if you’re not working with forge welding, having a partner is important for safety reasons, and just because it’s always fun to have someone to talk with while you’re hammering away. Quenching Bucket: This one is relatively self-explanatory. You don’t need an oil quench bucket or heat sink if you’re not forging high-grade steel, so if you’re just starting out, a simple wooden or metal bucket filled with water will work perfectly for quickly cooling down your crafts and forgings. The point here isn’t necessarily that you cool it particularly quickly or in any specific way, but rather that you get the danger of super-heated metal out of the way when you’re done with whatever you’re doing. Quickly hardening some small parts can also be important for making complex bends and hooks. Important Extra Bits and Pieces Undeserving of their own Category: • Anhydrous Borax: This is necessary for forge-welding • Large Rasp/File: This is for filing down burs. Even if you don’t need it initially, you’ll need it as you progress. • Forge tools: These are for moving and manipulating the coal. They can be little more than a long handled rake to move around the coal or a long piece of metal that you can use to shovel the coal into the firepot. • Clinker Breaker: These are incredibly important and often unused in forges. Clinker Breakers are used to break up the little deposits of metal that will colelct in the bottom of your forge. They can be purchased online, and are essential to keeping your tuyere and firepot clean. • Safety Equipment: For the love of goodness, please get yourself a decent blacksmithing apron. This will keep motel metal, sparks, and burning coals off your body, and trust me, you don’t want any of those things hitting anywhere vital!

finalist in the Jaeger competition on deviantart https://www.deviantart.com/go/journal/The-Global-Jaeger-Contest-Regional-Spotlight-750988306 my entry https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/194-richard-murray-creative-table/?page=3&amp;tab=comments#comment-409

yes @Mel Hopkins I have nothing against Justine or fiyah magazine but. a black writer, suggesting that a white writer is not warranting the fandom or the support cause the content in work from said white writer or perception to the value in said work is negative, is no other than what white media do to black artists all the time. I don't want white people to change. I want black people to be free from white physical assault. White people writing books or making movies or producing paintings where they depict their interpretation to black people as negative or positive is not a physical assault, it is emotional, pride based, but not physical. Some in the black community seem to want whites to speak well to blacks and I oppose that position. Donald Trump speaking ill to the central park five was negative, was ill, but the central park five suffered cause the assailed white woman who lied and the NYPD who interrogated, Trump is not the one who led to the pain the central park five went through. Birth of a nation, the original, is a vile movie to Black people, but that film was not hanging black people or incarcerating black people falsely, or financially entrapping black people through tricks, all supported through government initatives or actors, in 1915. That was city councils, mayors of cities, state legislators, state governors, federal representatives, federal senators, the president, white owned private enterprise. are the cause. The napir of american race relations, what I call the burning of southern black folk, was the fault of the us federal military leaving the south, which oddly enough they would had to return 100 year later, not the confederate flag, or statues or books written from whites.

Justina Ireland, an editor at FIyah magazine , stated the following: Are people really that mad that they stripped Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from an award? That’s silly. She’s dead. It’s not like she cares. And it’s not like her books changed the world for the better. ... The Little House on the Prairie books reinforce the idea of white exceptionalism and the inherent benefit of colonialism without contending with any of the moral and physical drawbacks of such exploitation. Also, they are boring as fuck. Someone replied: First of all not true. And if you find them boring as F*&#.....maybe that says more about your attention span. Now, while the personal attack toward ireland is unwarrant or a false claim, the reality is, ireland's original position has flaws. First, Art does not have to be liked or admired by all to be admired by many. IReland ask, are people really that mad? yes. fans of wilder's work are. Some fans to any artist like said artist to be adored, admired, honored in ways like titling awards. IReland is an editor to a writing magazine and stated, that wilder's book didn't change the world for the better OR it reinforced idea's of white exceptionalism and amendments. Her first point is artistically sinful. The artist creates. The artist create from the soul, the charlatan does not. Wilder created from her soul. And like any artist, I include myself or Ireland side Wilder, it is up to others to feel beauty or wisdom or an infinite set from other states to anything we create. Not everyone likes the sistine chapel ceiling, but Michelangelo emitted his soul. And like mein kampf, the declaration of independence, or the revolution will not be televised, did these artistic entries change the world or were reflections to the world changed. If people like your work, they do, and your lucky. Poe died penniless, his art did not change the world when published. yet, after his death, epiphany amongst the readership. In similarity to the work from phillip k dick. If Wilder's soul wanted to emit white exceptionalism and inherent benefit of colonialism without contending with any of the effects from exploitation toward others... then she may have succeeded. But, that is her soul's business. I don't like little house on the prairie, mein kampf but others have the right too. Art is not meant to reflect one viewpoint or one lifestyle, art do reflect all lifestyle. USA is over 300 million people, ten percent is 3 million. I imagine wilder can get 9 million. I recall a show that was on tv for a long time called little house on the prairie, which i was not a fan to either, so many liked the books. ... In the end, Ireland's argument is to question why the uproar, but her position, at least the position i read, is absent any value. WIlder's work has fans who are mad at her name being treated as unworthy, or to said fans her work has influenced their life to various grades, or from her soul emitted a culture that many <enough to make a media uproar> like. In the USA organizations from private to public are trying to please a growing populace that has historically been bereft honor from private or public organizations and want to see those who emit what they do not like or who have insulted them be taken from acclaim, through naming buildings, statues, award names. If I had power over the award I would had replaced Wilder's name a while back, cause she is not the best in my view. But, an argument does exist. Is it wise to change these labels now? It is not true to state that a large populace in the usa is white and do not like non white. That is an honest statement. And, most people in the usa are white. Are these delabelings values from the collective soul or a lie covering truth? What say you? ... If I had my choice I would call the award, Association for Library Service to Children for best children's book, call me silly but why give one artist the title to an award that will be throughout time. it is not a one off. https://twitter.com/justinaireland/status/1011251924757352456

semifinalist for the jaeger competition https://go.deviantart.com/journal/The-Global-Jaeger-Contest-Semi-Finalists-750396655 here is my entry https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/194-richard-murray-creative-table/?do=findComment&amp;comment=409

Submit to Fall/Winter 2018 Killens Review of Arts & Letters SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 Theme: Gathering at the Waters: Connecting Family and Community through Literature and Art The theme of "Gathering at the Waters" connotes bringing together family and communities to look at the ways in which we affect and are part of each other's lives. For the upcoming issue of the Killens Review of Arts & Letters, Spring/Summer 2018, we want to continue that exploration of "connecting family through literature and art" in the works of writers of the African diaspora. We seek submissions of creative nonfiction, fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, poetry, memoir, photography, and visual artwork on the subjects of family, community, and unity in narratives that tell of healing, nurturing, cleansing, and reflection in the times we live in. Please visit the link below for more information on submission guidelines. VIEW SUBMISSION GUIDELINES!!! http://centerforblackliterature.org/killens-review-fall-winter2018/ SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES: Please submit to only one category at a time: essay, fiction, interview, poetry, prose, and art. We aim to respond to your submission within two months. Please make sure the pages are numbered. Essay, Fiction, and Prose:  Please send one piece at a time. We have no set maximum length or minimum length for prose submissions. (The average word count is about 1,500–2,000 words.) Most submissions, however, are between 2,000–4,000 words.  Please set up your submission in Microsoft Word format, letter-sized with ample margins, double-spaced, using a standard typeface (e.g., Times New Roman, Helvetica, Arial) and font size (12 point is best).  Include your name, title of the work, and page numbers on your submission.  Also include a one- to- two -sentence bio about the author. If the submission is an academic essay with references, please include your bibliography at the end. Please do not submit book manuscripts. Poetry: Please send up to three poems. Art and Photography: We welcome all types of image submissions. Please include a short note about the context of the images and title and/or caption information. Please include no more than six hi-res jpegs (at 300 dpi). Electronic and Postal Submissions: Kindly e-mail material to writers@mec.cuny.edu and CReynolds@mec.cuny.edu with “Killens Review 2018” in the subject heading. Please include a brief introduction of yourself and of the work being submitted. On the first page of your submission be sure to include: 1. Your name 2. Telephone number 3. E-mail address Kindly send your submissions no later than January 26, 2018, to: writers@mec.cuny.edu. Make sure you have “Spring 2018 Killens Review” written in the subject line. Or mail material to: Killens Review of Arts & Letters Center for Black Literature, Medgar Evers College 1650 Bedford Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11225

Happy June Solstice everyone, in the northern hemisphere, welcome the summer, in the southern hemipshere, welcome the winterIn a solstice the sun appears to be overhead the farthest from an equator, during the equinox, the sun is directly overhead the equator for less than a secondAurora borealis in Eskilstuna Mikael Sjöstenhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/micke66/16246783823/in/photolist-DUFyZr-qKF1Nt-reG3PC-reGXx5

Competition of Black owned Fiyah Magazine Issue 8 Theme: Pilgrimage | Accepting submissions July 1, 2018 – July 31, 2018 Every journey starts with a single step, and this issue is all about the trip, not the destination. We’re looking for stories of journeys to new worlds, of returning to lost worlds, and journeys of the soul. But, like always, make it weird, make it magical, make it Black. We accept submissions of short fiction 2,000 – 7,000 words and novelettes up to 15,000 words. Poetry What we want in speculative poetry is verse that struggles, reveals, instructs, comforts, and fights back. We are looking for weird, complex, honest and challenging work with a clear speculative element from black authors. You can check out this post from our Poetry Editor for more on what we’d like to see in your poetry. < http://www.fiyahlitmag.com/2017/02/07/poetry-editors-note/ > Submission Formatting The subject line of your submission must read “FICTION SUBMISSION: [Story Title]”. Submissions should include a cover letter written in the body of the email. Click here to learn more about how to write a professional cover letter. < http://inkhaven.net/2010/04/lessons-from-the-slush-pile-your-cover-letter-and-you/ > Submissions should be attached as a .doc/.docx file to your submission email. Stories pasted into the body of an email will not be accepted. Submissions should be submitted in proper short story manuscript format with your name, address, email address, and the story’s total word count on the first page. Click here for an example of proper short story manuscript format. < https://shunn.net/format/story.html > Email your submission to: submissions@fiyahlitmag.com