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Peola Edit - Immitation To Life 1934 video link https://photos.app.goo.gl/ygTE8oLvs651m3V86
From a easy glance Delilah can be deemed the prototypical Black Mamme. But, if you listen clear to Delilah ,while her manners toward white people is never not :congenial; happy; thankful or similar tone, she never suggest her motherhood to Peola is in adoration to her being "so light" or "high skin"; but her adoration is to her daughter whom she incubated. Throughout the Peola edit Delilah constantly opposes suggestions from Beatrice Pullman that Peola need to live in her fantasy or hide from truth; while she also never suggest her motherhood is erroneous in loving but did apologize for exposing her.
Throughout the edit, Peola's inability to accept her background or contrast to her mom escalates: from childhood being called black or her passing failing, going to a high tone black folk negro school, to passing as a white female working in a store, to her passing ultimatum that crushed her mother heart; in the timeline, the relationship between blacks side whites is a constant unchanging factor, even though the story show no straight violence. Sequentially, Peola unaccepting stance has no communal or collective aid in a changing environment beyond herself or her mother; Delilah comprehend her only solution will be in herself, as she allude to peola father inability.
In the end, the quantity from black people in Delilah funeral does not show a black woman who merely rejected owning 20% to a hit firm; but a black woman who clearly helped many more in the black community than suggested in any public way.
I will say, the phrase from Peola, "I killed my own mother" , while common drama from the time is untrue. The environment killed your mother, through the death from peola father and then peola passing ultimatum. The environment in the u.s.a. made two people delilah love despise their person or feel unsettle constantly, leading to both killing themself in one way <father murdering himself through exhaustion or physical> or another <peopla rejecting her mother in public thus killing the existence to herself>.
If anything the lesson in the Peola edit is how hopeful can a person be. Delilah hope/faith when alive was not enough to save her husband or her daughter. In death, her daughter had illumination or an epiphany. But how many will give their life to hope and simply not give up on hope like Delilah?
your thoughts?Louise Beavers- Delilah <her last name is johnson but in the original credits no last name is given >
Fredi Washington- Peola <age 19>
Dorothy Black- Peola <age 9>
Sebie Hendricks- Peola <age 4; she is not in the original credits>
Claudette Colbert- Beatrice Pullman
Rochelle Hudson- Jessie Pullman <age 18>
Marilyn Knowlden- Jessie Pullman <age 8>
Baby Jane- Jessie Pulman <age 3>Video Link
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ygTE8oLvs651m3V86youtube link
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Song: Nonqonqo (To Those We Love) link https://photos.app.goo.gl/dKeXz3NEExQRWbgq7
Singer: Letta Mbulu's side Choir
Writer: Miriam Makeba.
Film: A Warm December
Film Score writer/conductor: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Thespian in scene: Esther Anderson side Sidney PoitierA Warm December is not a pure or honest Black Film, the writer was white. Like Black PAnther or Shaft, Black thespians or directors is not enough to be a true Black Film. Black people need to be producer/director/writer/thespians to make a true black film, sequentially many films do not fit that bill. But, in terms of interpretations to Black life in film, the loving between the lead couple in
A Warm December is unique.
First, it is not fornicatively raw. The film show passion but not lust, and that is rare in imaginations concerning black lovers in film. The reason is not unknown. Only a people can describe their existence best. The article linked immediately below list film the article author consider Black cinema. If Black Cinema is defined as Cinema where Black people are producers in essential/director(s) in majority/thespians in majority/writer(s) in majority what film in said list are valid?
https://blackinmotionpictures.tumblr.com/post/175078478469/the-top-10-highest-grossing-films-in-black-cinema
The answer is : Girls Trip, Get Out from the top ten in that list.
I am not suggesting that Black thespians/writers/directors/producers are blockaded from working side non blacks, especially in modern USA. But, if a film is not dominated by any particular phenotypical group in creation then it is a statian film; no particular phenotypical label is warranted. ...Well, the lyrics to the song is below, enjoy and I hope if you have not seen the film you will.Song Lyrics:
Bahleli bonke etilongweni
Bahleli bonke kwaNongqongqoBahleli bonke etilongweni
Bahleli bonke kwaNongqongqoHee hee hee halala
Hee hee hee halalaNanku nanku nanku sobukwe
Nanku nanku etilongweniNanku nanku nanku sobukwe
Nanku nanku etilongweniYini baba Luthuli
A uzotheni uzotheniNanku nanku nanku Mandela
Nanku nanku etilongweniNanku nanku nanku Sisulu
Nanku nanku etilongweniYini we maAfrica
A uzotheni uzotheniYini we maAfrica
A uzotheni uzotheniBahleli bonke etilongweni
Bahleli bonke kwaNongqongqoBahleli bonke etilongweni
Bahleli bonke kwaNongqongqo
VIDEO
link
https://photos.app.goo.gl/dKeXz3NEExQRWbgq7
youtube link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VJGq7z6mk&feature=youtu.be
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The September Equinox 2018 will occur or did occurred September 23rd 1:54 in the morning, thus why I posted this earlier. May all in the northern hemisphere have a lovely harvest in autumn. May all in the southern hemisphere have a blossoming spring.
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After reading the article defend integrated peaceful multiversity/multiculturalism as more successful in any government than monoverse or monocultural domination over other cultures?
The article make a great point. Many people in the usa speak the idea that peaceful integrated multicultures is positive, advantageous... but provide examples. Let us be honest, Every government in the American continent <usa/mexico/haiti/brazil> all started based on one culture or community. Whites in the usa/blancos in brasil/negroes in haiti/mestizoes in mexico. In history, the romans, british empire, japanese empire all were monocultural in creation or expansion. Countries like China or Kemet <egypt> in composition utilized multiculturalism but it was through war, whether Narmer or the Mad Matyr. The Mongols were started or expanded monoculturally, but after Temujin died, the pieces to the empire reflected the culture each had in it which each mongol leader accepted.
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If you like to craft or cosplay check out these links
#makers job board
https://jobs.makershare.com/cosplayers
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New Poetry by Indigenous Women
CURATED BY NATALIE DIAZ
work from Abigail Chabitnoy, Tria Blu Wakpa, Heather Cahoon, and Sara Marie Ortiz
https://lithub.com/new-poetry-by-indigenous-women-3/
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Introducing the, Der Tchrumpfs. I have more stories and some examples. For those in my reading group I invited your opinion and I know some said you wanted crisper detail. But, beside that no words on the plot or jokes thus I unchanged them. #DerTchrumpfs
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/der-tchrumpfs
Nederlandse versie
https://www.kobo.com/nl/nl/ebook/der-tchrumpfs-1
Remember, my other short story collections, some more voluminous or polished than the Der Tchrumpfs is in other entries in my short story collection
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exactly @Troy use the community for you
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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.
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“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.
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@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.
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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.
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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
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@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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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&tab=comments#comment-437
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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
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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
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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&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/
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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
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 PliersBlacksmithAnvil:
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!
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to see more, view the following link, not free, must have a cable/stream subscription
https://www.viceland.com/en_us/video/states-of-undress-packing-heat-in-heels/5925d4f08bd5c6e92027e5a1
...while talking about trump
14-Year-Old Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Among the Worst in U.S. History
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/10/23/headlines/14_year_old_gulf_of_mexico_oil_spill_among_the_worst_in_us_history