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"Arr. Methinks the Pirate Mark does not like these sea shanties, laddy."
That was basically all I had to say after seeing Elf Power for the first time, when they opened for Wilco last year. I had no previous experience of the group, other than being aware that they were considered second-tier members of the Elephant 6 Recording Company stable– the pop-oriented not-quite-a-label indie conglomeration (big members: The Apples In Stereo, The Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel).
Maybe it was just excitement over seeing Wilco perform some of the new songs from their infamously delayed release Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but man, every song seemed to be in three/four time, with melodies that appeared to draw from mildly Irish folk songs about– you guessed it– the sea.
I was not expecting much more than heartsick waltz-time odes when I listened to the group's latest release, Creatures (2002), but I must say I was pleasantly surprised. In place of the mostly acoustic nautical themed songs that Elf Power performed during my first exposure, this go around, if I may be so bold, sort of rocked. In a lo-fi your-mom-might-dig-them sort of way.
You might be able to guess the Elf Power sound from their name alone– "nice-rock" would be a good term to describe their sound, and I'm going to bet they make a bundle from the baby-t's (the small shirts the ladies sometimes sport) they sell at shows.
Drums, guitar, bass, and some keyboards form the base on which singer/songwriter Andrew Rieger's high clean voice rests– mildly stereotypical indie-rock would be their genre.
Begun on a four-track in 1993 by Rieger and some of his roommates at the time, their first true release in 1995 was titled (in the humorous style Elf Power relishes), Vainly Clutching At Phantom Limbs. Four albums, (and probably many, many sea shanties) later, the group released Nothing's Going To Happen on October 1, an album of covers that also includes six tracks from the group's Come On EP, originally released in 1998 as a tour-only EP of one thousand copies.
The album is on Orange Twin Records, a label and website (orangetwin.com) run by the band to "raise funds for land preservation and sustainable development." They are currently constructing a 150-acre eco-village outside Athens, Georgia (at a former Girl Scout camp, no less).
I believe in second chances—one's first impression should not be the final say in the matter, especially in rock music. Therefore, I'll be at the group's show on October 9. But a few too many shanties, and you can bet I'm taking my eye-patched, peg-legged and shoulder-parroted ass out of there.
Elf Power with Antelope and Kid Dream & The Gang Got Shot at Tokyo Rose, October 9. $5, 10pm.

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For both the camaraderie and the cause, an elite group of retired champion female jockeys return to Old Hilltop on Friday, May 20, to compete in the Lady Legends for the Cure Race II at Pimlico Race Course.
Seventh on a 13-race card (post time 3:05 p.m. EST) anchored by the Grade 2 $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, the Lady Legends race is part of The People's Pink Party, a joint effort between Pimlico and Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world's largest breast cancer organization, to help raise money and awareness in the fight against the disease.
Seventy-five percent of the funds raised will go to the Komen Maryland Affiliate to use for community outreach programs in Maryland. The remaining 25 percent will go toward breast cancer research.
"It feels great to be back again," said Mary Wiley-Wagner, who finished fourth in last year's Lady Legends race. "It's an honor to ride with these women. And, being a breast cancer survivor, the Komen cause is near and dear to my heart."
The inaugural Lady Legends event was the first pari-mutuel race featuring retired female riders. Profiled on NBC Sports, it was also filmed as the climatic ending to the feature length documentary in production, JOCK, chronicling the story of the first generation of lady jockeys.
Seven of the Lady Legends return from last year: Wiley-Wagner, the wife of Maryland Jockey Club starter Bruce Wagner who ranked among the country's top five apprentice riders in 1983 and briefly returned to competitive riding in 2010; Patti "PJ" Cooksey and Maryland's own Andrea Seefeldt-Knight, the only females to ride in both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness; Barbara Jo Rubin, the first woman to win a pari-mutuel race in the United States; Mary Russ-Tortora, the first female to win a Grade 1 stakes race; Cheryl White, the first African-American female rider; and Jennifer Rowland Small, the top pioneer female rider in Maryland during the 1970's.
They are joined this year by Abby Fuller, the first female jockey to sweep the New York filly Triple Crown in 1985 with Hall of Famer Mom's Command, bred and owned by her father, Peter Fuller.
"I'm definitely a huge fan of these women," Fuller said. "I was probably about 9 or so when the first women started riding, so I'm very excited."
Gwen Jocson won the inaugural Lady Legends race, her 764th career victory, aboard Honor in Peace. Jocson tore ligaments in her hand while exercising horses for trainer John Servis over the winter, and will not be able to defend her title, though she will be on hand to support the group.
Wiley-Wagner, 47, made a brief comeback to competitive riding following the Lady Legends race, racing in Maryland, at Delaware Park and Monmouth Park. She had two seconds and two thirds in 17 mounts, her lone win coming on Nov. 24, 2010 at Laurel Park, exactly 367 from her final chemotherapy treatment.
"I just didn't want to go away," she said. "Having two daughters and being 47, I'm smart enough to know I'm not going to bounce back like I used to. I wanted to do it, but I wanted to mitigate the risk as much as possible."
Wiley-Wagner is named on 9-to-5 morning-line favorite Mass Destruction in the $31,000 optional claiming allowance at six furlongs on the main track for 3-year-olds and up.
"It's great to be able to give back and set the example for my children that sometimes life kicks you in the butt, but we get up and use it as a learning experience and do what we can with it," she said.
Fuller, 52, has fond memories of racing in Maryland. Mom's Command won the Grade 1 Selima Stakes at Laurel Park in 1984, and made her 3-year-old debut in the 1985 Flirtation Stakes at Pimlico, winning by 19 lengths after running six furlongs in 1:10 4/5.
"She absolutely aired," Fuller said. "It was the only time she ran in the mud. In the stretch, I was like, 'How can I not hear anyone?' I took a peek back and I couldn't even see them. We knew she was good already, but that was like, 'Oh my gosh.' "
Fuller won a career-high 145 races in 1985, and retired in 2002 with 579 career victories and $5.3 million in purses.
"I'm thrilled to meet Barbara Jo. I think she's amazing," Fuller said. "I said, 'You know what? If she can do it, I've got to do this.' It's so cool."
Seefeldt-Knight, 48, finished second in the inaugural Lady Legends race. The first female to win the Pennsylvania Derby aboard Valley Crossing ($158.60) in 1991, she retired in 1994 with 604 career wins.
"It was a lot easier to get fit this year than it was last year, going from a 16-year layoff to just a year layoff," she said. "I've known most of the girls and ridden with most of them, so it was great to catch up with them again. It was great to ride with Barbara Jo Rubin, one of my idols. A few of us are survivors, and most of us have known someone that's had breast cancer. It's all for a good cause, and that's what we're doing it for."
Russ-Tortora, 57, ran third in the 2010 Lady Legends race. She won the Widener Handicap on Feb. 27, 1982 aboard Lord Darnley at Hialeah, becoming the first woman to capture a Grade 1 race. She won 520 races and nearly $6 million in purses from 1980-94, and finished third in the 2010 Lady Legends race.
Like Wiley-Wagner, Cooksey, 53, is a breast cancer survivor. Fifth in the 2010 Lady Legends race, Cooksey ranks third all-time among female jockeys with 2,137 wins, retiring in 2004 with nearly $19.9 million in career purses.
Rubin, 61, finished sixth in the 2010 Lady Legends race. On Feb. 22, 1969, she became the first woman to win a race against males at a recognized track when she guided Cohesion to victory at Charles Town. That same year, she was the first woman named to ride in the Kentucky Derby, though her horse, Picnic Fair, was scratched before the race. Having overcome polio as a child, Rubin retired in January 1970 with 22 wins from 89 mounts.
After an injury ended her riding career in 1977 with 192 career wins, Rowland Small, 58, bred Touch of Class, a winner of two gold medals for jumping at the 1984 Olympics.
White, 57, made her riding debut on Ace Reward, a horse owned by her mother and trained by her father, Raymond White, who started two horses in the Kentucky Derby. A winner of five races on Oct. 19, 1983, White was also the first female steward at a California racetrack.
Friday's race will include $20,000 in bonus prizes. In addition to her earnings in the race, the winner will receive another $6,000. Other prize money: $4,000 (second), $3,000 (third), $2,500 (fourth), $1,500 (fifth) and $1,000 (sixth through eighth). Pimlico will match the amount wagered on Friday's winner and make a contribution to Komen Maryland.
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Historia vol.57 n.1 Durban May. 2012
A hundred years of History at Rhodes University: some reflections on the department's centenary colloquium, September 2011
Paul Maylam*
Department of History, Rhodes University, Grahamstown
In 1911, W.M. Macmillan, who would become the most distinguished South Africanist historian of his generation, was appointed as the first lecturer in History (and Economics) at what was then Rhodes University College. To mark the centenary of its founding the Rhodes History Department held a two-day colloquium on 16-17 September 2011. The event brought together almost 50 current and former staff and students. Some delivered papers reflecting on the history of the department; others spoke about their present research interests. Among the participants there was a representative from every decade since the 1940s - Rodney Davenport having been a student in the department from 1943.
Providing the link back to the founding of the department was W.M. Macmillan's son, Hugh, who came out from Oxford to talk about his father's days in the Eastern Cape. Macmillan was a remarkable figure. During his years at Wits in the 1920s he would write important books - Bantu, Boer and Briton (1929) among the most important - providing a revisionist interpretation of South African history. He also carried out an extraordinary amount of fieldwork, pursuing his deep interest in contemporary socio-economic issues such as poverty, landlessness and conditions of rural and urban life. He travelled the length and breadth of South Africa, by cart, rail, road or sea, interviewing local people, in particular farmers. He conducted research into white poverty in Grahamstown, and produced a pamphlet calling for sanitary reform in the town (something required today in some areas where the bucket system still operates).
Macmillan was, too, a public intellectual who spoke out on political issues - a tendency that brought him into conflict with the Wits authorities. And he was an inspiring teacher. Among his students at Rhodes were Margaret Hodgson (later Ballinger) and A.L. Geyer. At Wits, two of his students, C.W. de Kiewiet and Lucy Sutherland, would go on to become outstanding historians.1 During the six years Macmillan spent at Rhodes, from 1911 to 1917, he was severely constrained in what he could teach, given the kind of secondary sources available. He was acutely aware of the dire limitations of the literature on South Africa:
What passed for South African history when I started my teaching career was the tale of the conquest of a new country by lonely and scattered white men, with no regard whatever for the interests or the fate of ... [indigenous people]. History was the triumph of white power in crushing all these peoples.2
This wariness was well justified. Among the prescribed history texts at Rhodes in 1911 were C.P. Lucas' H-istorical Geography of the British Colonies, and J.R. Seeley's Expansion of England. Lucas had a thoroughly simplistic view of the country's past: "South African history", he wrote, "consists largely of wars and treaties with Boers and natives."3 Lucas' work was full of the old Eurocentric stereotypes: indigenous people readily described as "savages"; Shaka deemed responsible for "wholesale extermination".4
Seeley's approach was informed by his own firm sense of Anglo-Saxon superiority, and by an unabashed Whig view of history. Students would have read that "slowly but surely England has grown greater and greater".5 All this was very much in keeping with the founding ethos of Rhodes University College, established in 1904 with the clear purpose of extending and strengthening the imperial idea in South Africa and, as John Darwin has put it, making Rhodes "the engine room of English cultural ascendancy in South Africa".6
Macmillan thus preferred to teach European and British history. But he was far from being Eurocentric. In the context of South Africa during the second and third decades of the twentieth century, he was a radical thinker. He opposed the segregationist thought and practice which was dominant among both liberal and conservative whites, preferring to espouse the idea of South Africa as a single society. Moreover, his combined interest in history and contemporary issues, as well as his pursuit of research in both, set him apart from other academics of his era. W.M. Macmillan gave the Rhodes History Department a good start.
Rodney Davenport provided another link back to the early history of the department as he reflected upon his days at Rhodes. He had met W.M. Macmillan and studied under and/or worked alongside some subsequent heads of department, before himself taking up the position in 1975. Michael Roberts held the chair of History from 1935 till 1953, but was out of the country between 1943 and 1945, performing war service as an information officer and then joining the British Council in Sweden. Rodney Davenport took courses in History under Winifred Maxwell in 1943 and 1944, before himself entering war service in Italy just before the end of the conflict. In 1943 and 1944 the History Department was very much a "one-woman show", as Winifred Maxwell did most of the teaching. Like Macmillan before her, she also displayed an astute understanding of contemporary issues, giving a public lecture series on world affairs, during which she predicted with great foresight the future rise of Asian states.7
Rodney Davenport's return to the department in 1946 to take History honours, coincided with the return of Michael Roberts. Davenport remembers Roberts' "homely honours tuts ... He would rise from his piano stool ... then set us in easy chairs in his lounge to get us talking about our essays for the honours course in seventeenth and eighteenth-century European history".8
Michael Roberts must surely have been one of the most formidable scholars ever to have taught at Rhodes University. Possessed of a remarkable mind, he knew long passages of Dickens by heart and could quote extensively from Jane Austen, Trollope and various poets. He was also a gifted musician. When I interviewed him a few weeks before his death late in 1996 he told me that he had stopped listening to the Thursday night concerts on the radio because he could play the music better in his mind.
It was as an historian that Roberts established an outstanding international reputation. He was appointed to the chair at Rhodes in 1935 at the age of 27, having obtained a brilliant first at Oxford. During his sixteen years at Rhodes he became renowned for his fine teaching. A student taking Roberts' first-year history course in 1939 later recalled how he "at the very first lecture was struck, not to say dazzled, by the effortless articulateness and the urbane, ironic style of the lecturer".9 Six of his Rhodes students would later move into chairs of history: Leonard Thompson, Rodney Davenport, John Omer-Cooper, Jeffrey Horton, Andrew Duminy and Basil le Cordeur.
In 1954 Roberts left Rhodes to take up the chair of History at Queen's University, Belfast. By that time he was establishing himself in the field of Swedish history. He would eventually publish several books in this field and, in the view of one renowned Swedish historian, would achieve "single-handedly more than all other historians together" in "making Swedish history known in the Anglo-Saxon world".10 Roberts was remembered by colleagues for the "remarkable (at times almost terrifying) versatility of mind and range of knowledge" that he displayed in research seminars.11 Geoffrey Parker has described him as "one of the most erudite, prolific, and influential British historians of the twentieth century".12
The two decades from 1954 to 1974 might well be described as the age of Winifred Maxwell, who occupied the chair during those years. While she had been a one-woman show during Rodney Davenport's first two years as a student, this appears to have still been very much the case in the early 1960s. When Peter Kallaway and Eddie Webster took History honours at Rhodes in 1964, all four courses were taught by Maxwell.
She maintained something of an Oxford tradition at Rhodes, following in the footsteps of previous Oxford graduates, Macmillan and Roberts. She had obtained a first-class honours in modern History at Oxford. As the editors of her festschrift would write soon after her retirement, "An Oxford emphasis on logic and accuracy, as much as Italianate inspiration, has accompanied Winifred Maxwell to the academic (and other) frontiers she has fought upon".13
During her 21 years in the chair, student numbers in the department increased from 75 to over 200. Among her students from the late 1950s and early 1960s was a particularly able group who went on to distinguish themselves in further study at Oxbridge - among them Vic Gatrell, Geoff Ellis, Deryck Schreuder and John Benyon. There was later a time in the 1980s when the chairs of History at the University of Cape Town, Wits, the Durban and Pietermaritzburg campuses of the University of Natal, and Rhodes, were all held by Maxwell's former students (respectively, Basil le Cordeur, Bruce Murray, Andrew Duminy, John Benyon and Rodney Davenport). No wonder that the president of the South African Historical Society, Professor Noel Garson, at the society's fourth biennial conference would describe her as the "doyen of modern South African historians" in recognition of her contribution to historical scholarship in the country.14
One particular honours course introduced by Maxwell came to be much talked about at the centenary colloquium. This was the "Age of Anne". Why, people have often wondered, should a university in the Eastern Cape have developed a special honours course on the twelve-year reign of an English queen at the beginning of the eighteenth century? The explanation to emerge at the colloquium was that Maxwell had acquired a sizeable body of primary sources for the period and saw the course as providing valuable training in historical research. Former students who took the course (myself among them) could not remember too much of its content, but did value the experience of working extensively with primary material (the department still holds the collection of sources, long after the demise of the course).
So for years training in primary research at Rhodes was conducted in the field of British rather than South African history. After Rodney Davenport returned to the department in 1965 he shared with Winifred Maxwell the responsibility for teaching South African history at the third-year level. He taught the post-1860 course which I took in 1969, at a time when the significant historiographical developments of later years were yet to occur. For insight into the history of African societies one was still dependent on the work of anthropologists like Monica Wilson, Isaac Schapera, Eileen Krige and Hilda Kuper. A student wanting to read about black political opposition in the twentieth century would have had to rely on Eddie Roux's Time Longer than Rope (1979). The Simons' Class and Colour only appeared in 1969, and Walshe's Rise of African Nationalism in 1970. Davenport could, however, lecture on episodes of twentieth-century African resistance - the Bambatha Rebellion, for instance, and the Bulhoek massacre of 1921. And he distributed to students unpublished papers by Ranger on the 1896-97 chimurenga. This at the time was the latest work, at the cutting edge. In the field of political economy none of the fresh revisionist work of the 1970s, by Legassick and others, was yet out. Davenport urged his students to read one pioneering article - Blainey's "Lost Causes of the Jameson Raid" - which offered some kind of materialist analysis of the raid.
All this serves to underline the (perhaps obvious) point that the teaching of history at any time is constrained by the limitations of knowledge at that particular moment. Historians of later eras might look back with some contempt at the work of earlier generations, failing to take into account the conditions of possibility for knowledge production and transmission in those earlier times.
Rodney Davenport took over the chair from Winifred Maxwell in 1975. By this time African History was becoming a rapidly growing field. As African countries had gained their independence, so had the demand grown for a history of the continent that was freed from old colonial assumptions and stereotypes. African History as a field of research and teaching grew slowly in South Africa, lagging behind some other African countries. Davenport was keen to be involved in the catch-up process, and so brought two Africanist historians, Julian Cobbing and Jeff Peires, into the department in the late 1970s. Their arrival allowed for the introduction of two undergraduate African courses and an African special subject as an alternative to the Age of Anne at the honours level.
In the 1960s a gendered understanding of history had not developed at Rhodes, as was the case with most history departments across the world. Two papers at the centenary colloquium dealt not so much with questions relating to history and gender, but rather with the gendered experience of students at Rhodes. Rosemary Jackson wrote of the humiliations endured by women students in the early 1960s - the awful first-year rituals, often involving the parading of young women students before the gaze of senior males; and the draconian disciplinary rules and procedures which came down particularly hard on women students deemed to have deviated from genteel feminine norms. Rosemary also remembered being refused entry into History honours by W.A. Maxwell, even though she met the entrance requirements. There was a sense that she favoured her "laddies".15
Another gendered understanding of student life at Rhodes was offered in a paper by Robert Morrell. His perspective was that of a former male history student of the late 1970s who is now one of South Africa's foremost scholars in the field of masculinity studies. He argued that many white middle-class male students spend time in a phase or space that is termed "guyland" - an intermediate, indeterminate period, perhaps lasting some years, between leaving school and "settling down". It is a time when these young adult males enjoy newly acquired liberties - such as the right to vote, drink and drive a car - without being burdened by heavy responsibilities. In this space masculinity tends to gain expression in various activities - chief among them, drinking, courting, playing sport, and sometimes fighting. Those who did not conform to these behaviour patterns - perhaps those whose orientation was not heterosexual, or those engaged in left-wing politics - were often mocked by the "guyland" majority for being unmanly or unpatriotic.16
In reflecting upon the history of history at Rhodes University over a 100-year period, one is struck by both the continuities and discontinuities. Among the latter there is the obvious break with an older Eurocentric tradition. Although W.M. Macmillan was not Eurocentric, the South African texts available to his students in 1911 were crudely so. In the ensuing decades some of this crudeness would have been filtered away, but as late as the 1960s the overwhelming focus of history courses was either on Europe or on Europeans in South Africa. A major shift occurred in the 1970s with the introduction of courses in African History. The broadening of the geographical scope of the department's courses has continued into the present, so that students now have some exposure, albeit limited, to South Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas, as well as to global perspectives.
In the field of South African History alone there has been a remarkable broadening in the range of themes that can be covered. Themes such as ethnicity and nationalism were barely on the agenda of historians and social scientists in South Africa 40 years ago. Now there is a vast literature on Zulu nationalism, Afrikaner nationalism, and coloured identity, and a growing body of work on English and Indian identities. Urban history was hardly developed at all in South Africa in the 1960s, but it has become a vast field. So it is now possible to set an essay on District Six or Sophiatown, and direct students to at least ten texts on each; or on gangs on the Rand, for which there is extensive published work. The department now offers courses on gender history, environmental history, the history of health and disease, film and history, the history of popular culture. Most of these have a strong South African focus. One could run a course on the social history of South African sport. None of this would have been possible 30 or 40 years ago, such has been the burgeoning of historical literature on South Africa in recent decades.
Among the continuities in the department's history one should note the Oxford influence. This was particularly evident from 1911 to 1991, during which time the leading figures in the department - W.M. Macmillan, I.J. Rousseau, Michael Roberts, W.A. Maxwell, and Rodney Davenport - were all Oxford graduates (although Davenport's main field of study was theology at Oxford). This Oxford influence meant that the Rhodes department would consistently operate in an empirical tradition. This was a tradition which, in Davenport's words, was committed to
seeking the truth with the self-imposed impartiality of Thucydides and Ranke, and based on the evidence of documents classed as primary and secondary, and presented as a form of narrative literature with as much showmanship as was necessary to engage the mind of the reader, but not too much more.17
In his autobiography, W.M. Macmillan admitted that he never developed a capacity for abstract reasoning,18 and as a sharp observer, his method was clearly more inductive than deductive. According to Geoffrey Parker, Michael Roberts "frowned upon those who devoted their energies to discussions of historical theory and method".19 And Rodney Davenport shared W.A. Maxwell's "very, very strong insistence on not reaching historical conclusions without producing the evidence".20 In the past two decades the Rankean approach to history has been subjected to sharp critique in the department's honours historiography course. So there has been a departure from a narrow empiricism, in the belief that one cannot take theory out of history. But an emphasis on empirical substantiation has remained a key element in the department's overall philosophy and teaching practice.
Another continuity has been the department's firm, ongoing commitment to undergraduate teaching. This was very much the emphasis during the Winnie Maxwell era. Most of her top students did not stay on at Rhodes for their masters or doctoral degrees, instead proceeding to universities in the United Kingdom or North America. Maxwell herself was first and foremost a teacher of undergraduates. This was her great strength and her main contribution to the discipline in South Africa. With very few publications to her name she would have struggled to build an academic reputation in the present era. Had she devoted much more time to research and publication, one wonders whether her impact would have been significant as it was.
In the past two decades the department has maintained this emphasis on undergraduate teaching. Julian Cobbing in particular has devoted much of his time and energy to first-year teaching over the past decade, developing a highly popular, successful semester course in which he both historicises and analyses what he sees as the modern world crisis. This is a course with a strong presentist dimension - in keeping with the spirit of W.M. Macmillan, who consistently maintained a strong interest in contemporary issues.
While the department has in recent years kept up an emphasis on undergraduate teaching, it has also developed a considerable research capacity. There has been a steady output of publications, and there are currently fourteen students registered for postgraduate research degrees. Former Rhodes history graduates gave papers at the colloquium. A striking feature of some of these was both their interdisciplinary character and their focus on contemporary issues. Young historians are moving easily across disciplinary boundaries and are not feeling bound to work within an orthodox historical framework. This was evident at the colloquium, where former graduates offered a range of papers on their current research interests: Nomalanga Mkhize on Karoo farm workers; Rebecca Hodes on sexual and reproductive health in South Africa; Luvuyo Wotshela on the Eastern Cape's marginalised histories in the late apartheid era.
In her eulogy at Macmillan's funeral in 1974, Lucy Sutherland stated that Macmillan used "all his powers of historical imagination to recreate the past, relate it to the present, and apply it as a guide to the future".21 This is still the approach as the department strives, through the study of History, to help students make better sense of the world we live in today, and make them better equipped to cope with what threatens to be a difficult future. We proceed on the assumption that one cannot properly understand any present-day issues without looking at them historically. It goes without saying, too, that any effective teacher of History has to encourage independent, critical thinking among students. This means that the record of the Rhodes History Department itself should be subjected to critical analysis. There were, indeed, some critical comments expressed at the colloquium. Ashley Westaway, for instance, argued that the department had paid insufficient attention to the regional history of the Eastern Cape, and had not properly grappled with issues of history and community engagement. Alan Webster asked why the department was not attracting more black students into its courses.
These are challenging matters that have been discussed extensively within the department. The limited presence of black students cannot be put down to any kind of Eurocentric orientation in our courses, most of which have had an African focus. It is more likely due to a perception that a History major does not open up clear-cut career paths. There are limits to the offerings that a small department such as ours can put forward, but it has been the case that in recent years the department's emphasis, at least at the first-year level, has veered more towards the global than the local. We recognise the gaps and the shortcomings, but like to think that over the past 100 years the department has made a valued contribution in South Africa both to teaching about the past and to historical research.
* Chair of the Department of History, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.
1. See the two colloquium papers on Macmillan: H. Macmillan, "The Travels and Researches of W.M. Macmillan in Southern Africa, 1915-32"; and B. Murray, "W.M. Macmillan and the Making of History at Wits, 1917-1933".
2. W.M. Macmillan, My South African Years (David Philip, Cape Town, 1975), p 162.
3. C.P. Lucas, Historical Geographyy of the British Co/onies, Volume 4 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1900), p 225.
4. Lucas, Historical Geography, pp 15, 136, 191, 271.
5. J.R. Seeley, The Expansion of England (Macmillan, London, 1911), p 162.
6. J. Darwin, "The Rhodes Trust in the Age of Empire", in A. Kenny (ed), The History of the Rhodes Trust (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001), p 496.
7. See the paper delivered by Rodney Davenport at the colloquium, T.R.H. Davenport, "Oxford at Rhodes? Its Middle Age, 1943-1990".
8. Davenport, "Oxford at Rhodes?"
9. G. Parker, "Michael Roberts 1908-1996", Proceedings of the British Academy, 115, 2002, p 337.
10. Parker, "Michael Roberts", p 343.
11. Parker, "Michael Roberts", p 340.
12. Parker, Michael Roberts", p 352.
13. J.A. Benyon, C.W. Cook, T.R.H. Davenport, K.S. Hunt, "Winifred Maxwell, Historian", in J.A. Benyon, C.W. Cook, T.R.H. Davenport and K.S. Hunt (eds), Studies in Local History: Essays in Honour of Professor Winifred Maxwell (Oxford University Press, Cape Town, 1976), p 7.
14. Benyon et al., Studies in Local History, p 11.
15. R. Jackson, "Rosie Writes Back: A Women Student's Experience at Rhodes University in the 1960s", paper presented at the colloquium.
16. R. Morrell, "Pissed and Punching: Masculinity, Politics and the Extra-curriculum at Rhodes in the 1970s", paper presented at the colloquium.
17. Davenport, "Oxford at Rhodes?", p 1.
18. Macmillan, My South African Years, p 24.
19. Parker, "Michael Roberts", p 352.
20. N. Southey, "Interview with T.R.H. Davenport", South African Historical Journal, 26, 1992, p 23.
21. Foreword to Macmillan, My South African Years, p vii.


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The Artspace houses and manages the Kansas City Art Institute's permanent collection of fine art. KCAI began acquiring works in 1885. Today the collection includes an eclectic range of more than 1,000 objects including paintings, sculptures, ceramics, contemporary and historical prints, works on paper, design objects, folk art, outdoor sculptures and a range of decorative art and collectibles.
The permanent collection serves as a teaching collection. "Selections from the Collection" exhibitions are organized thematically to complement programming and other exhibitions at the Artspace. These are curated by the Artspace staff and shown in the Roger L. and Joni Cohen Resource Room. Academic interns have opportunities to provide curatorial and managerial support for the permanent collection including curating "Selections from the Collection" exhibitions or other special projects in the Resource Room.
The KCAI permanent collection has the largest holding of artwork by Missouri self-taught artist Jesse Howard. The collection includes more than 100 signs and sculptures by Howard. Howard's pieces have been featured in main gallery exhibitions at the Artspace including "Signs of the Times" and "Now Read On: Jesse Howard and Roger Brown."
The permanent collection also features a special collection of prints produced by Landfall Press, owned and operated by Jack Lemon ('63 painting) in Santa Fe, N.M. These prints have been featured in Artspace exhibitions including "Landfall Press: 1970–2000," "Big and Beautiful," "Storyline: Inviting Narratives," "Process in Printmaking" and "Chicago Art: Early and Contemporary Imagery and Influence."


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This forest is a large expanse of land owned by Konohagakure's Nara clan. Located on the outskirts of Konoha, it is a unique forest within the Land of Fire. Many deer reside here as the clan looks after them and often times use their antlers in medicines, one such being the remedy to the Akimichi clan's Three Coloured Pills. According to Shikamaru Nara, no one but members of the clan are allowed to step foot into the forest without permission.[1]
The Akatsuki member Hidan — though currently still alive — is buried here, trapped in a grave made for him by Shikamaru. As he buried him, Shikamaru swore to Hidan that the Nara would keep him buried there for all eternity.[1] In the anime, Kabuto Yakushi was able to sneak into the forest and collect some of Hidan's DNA for later use.[2]


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la vie en rose
Posted by Smokey Stover on June 13, 2006
In Reply to: La vie en rose posted by Jeremy Petroc MacKenzie-Williams on June 13, 2006
: la vie en rose? - I think translates to my life in the pink. Anyone any idea what it is trying to convey and where it was originally used
I believe that your translation is correct, and implies more or less the same as "life through rose-colored glasses" without implying the deception inherent in a rose-colored filter.
To someone of my generation, "La vie en rose" means one thing: the song written by Edith Piaf in 1946. A huge number of people who can't quite remember Piaf's name, or even one line of the song, remember the tune.
Edith Piaf (December 19, 1915 - October 11, 1963)[1] was one of France's most loved singers and a national icon. Her music reflected her tragic life, with her speciality being the poignant ballad presented with a heartbreaking voice. Among her most famous songs are "La vie en rose" , "Hymne à l'amour" , "Milord" , "Non, je ne regrette rien" .
She was named Edith after the executed British nurse Edith Cavell (Piaf -Parisian jargon for "sparrow"- came from a nickname she would receive twenty years later).
Her signature song, "La vie en rose" (which was voted a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1998) was written in the middle of the German occupation of Paris in World War II. During this time, she was in great demand and very successful. Singing for high-ranking Germans at the One Two Club earned Piaf the right to pose for photos with French prisoners of war, ostensibly as a morale-boosting exercise. Once in possession of their celebrity photos, prisoners were able to cut out their own images and use them in forged papers as part of escape plans. Today, Piaf's association with the French Resistance is well known, and many owe their lives to her. After the war, she toured Europe, the United States, and South America, becoming an internationally known figure. Her popularity in the U.S. was such that she appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show eight times and at Carnegie Hall twice (1956 and 1957). She helped to launch the career of Charles Aznavour, taking him on tour with her in France and the United States.
At the early age of 47, Piaf died of cancer in Plascassier, on the French riviera, on October 10, 1963, one day before her friend Jean Cocteau.... She was buried in Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Although she was forbidden a Mass by the Roman Catholic archbishop of Paris (because of her lifestyle), her funeral procession drew hundreds of thousands of mourners onto the streets of Paris and the ceremony at the cemetery was jammed with more than forty thousand fans. Charles Aznavour recalled that Piaf's funeral procession was the only time, since the end of World War II, that Parisian traffic came to a complete stop....
Today she is still remembered and revered as one of the greatest singers France has ever produced. Her life was one of sharp contrasts: the range of her fame as opposed to her tragic personal life, and her fragile small figure on stage [she was 4'8" tall] with the resounding power of her voice.
La Vie en Rose, lyrics by Edith Piaf.
Des yeux qui font baiser les miens,
Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche,
Voilà le portrait sans retouche
De l'homme auquel j'appartiens.
Quand il me prend dans ses bras,
Il me parle tout bas,
Je vois la vie en rose.
Il me dit des mots d'amour,
Des mots de tous les jours,
Et ça me fait quelque chose.
Il est entré dans mon coeur
Une part de bonheur
Dont je connais la cause.
C'est lui pour moi, moi pour lui
Dans la vie;
Il me l'a dit, l'a juré pour la vie.
Et dès que je l'aperçois
Alors je sens en moi
Mon coeur qui bat.
- la vie en rose antiquary 13/June/06
- la vie en rose Smokey Stover 14/June/06


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Islamic fascists attack the First Amendment
An editorial from the Investor's Business Daily:
The Jihad on Free Speech
Islamists have launched a hostile takeover of American language through an increasingly aggressive and organized censorship campaign that threatens free speech.
Over the past few weeks, there have been an alarming number of cases of Muslim pressure groups trying to force Americans to conform to a pro-Islamic speech code.
They've insisted on censoring any speech or expression that offends them, including TV ads, Christian symbols, speeches and even parts of speech.
In some cases, the targets of their wrath have caved in to their demands.
• Last week, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester, Mass., canceled a talk on Islam by author Robert Spencer after local Muslim groups, egged on by Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, enlisted a sympathetic Boston Globe reporter to smear Spencer as a "bigot."
"We applaud the diocese's decision," CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper gloated.
• Last month, Hooper penned a column demanding the Associated Press drop from its new Stylebook the word "Islamist" to describe militant Muslims who support jihad and Islamizing the West, such as members of the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR itself. He doesn't like the "pejorative" ring to it, accurate as it is.
CAIR already got the U.S. government to scrub the term. Now it's bullying the press not to use it.
• CAIR at the same time is running ads on buses in Chicago and San Francisco redefining the term jihad. The whitewash campaign, dubbed "MyJihad," aims to convince Americans that jihad merely means "to struggle," not wage war.
• Speaking of ads, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and the Muslim Institute for Interfaith Studies joined forces last week to condemn as "racist" a light-hearted Super Bowl commercial featuring an Arab walking through a desert with a camel. Coca-Cola dropped everything and consulted with the groups on bended knee.
"We did express regret that the ad had been misunderstood," Coke said.
• Islamist groups like CAIR are feverishly trying to insert their own word "Islamophobia"---into the popular lexicon. They use this term, ad nauseam, to describe anyone who speaks critically of the violent nature of Islam.
• Recently they petitioned the United Nations to take action to limit free speech when it's deemed offensive to Muslims, citing a "striking increase in Islamophobia." They hope to one day criminalize it, and they're inching closer and closer to that goal.
• Swayed by such international pressure, the Pentagon last month ordered crosses and other Christian symbols removed from military chapels where our soldiers pray in Afghanistan. Why? They insult the local Muslims.
Crescent moons and other Islamic symbols are perfectly fine, however, and will remain at the mosques the U.S. has erected on those same bases for Afghan interpreters and security trainees.
Here's what's really outrageous about this trend: In many cases, the Muslims demanding greater respect for Islam are the very reason it gets such a bad rap.
Some of the same Islamic groups arguing that their religious rights supercede everyone else's free-speech rights have actually been read their rights as terrorist suspects.
Several former officials of CAIR, for example, now sit in prison on terror-related convictions.
And the Justice Department has ID'd its founder and the entire organization itself as unindicted terrorist co-conspirators, after linking them to both the terrorist group Hamas and the radical Brotherhood in the largest terror-finance case in U.S. history.
Unless Americans want to live under de facto blasphemy laws, they'd better start standing up to these Islamofascists.
Thanks to Jihad Watch for the link.
Thanks to Jihad Watch for the link.
Labels: Islamic Fascism, Media


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Jake Gyllenhaal has revealed the bond between him and Michael Pena in new film End Of Watch is real.
The Brokeback Mountain star and Michael play patrol cop partners in the movie - written and directed by former US Navy serviceman David Ayer - and they worked hard for months to build up a strong working relationship.
Jake said: "I spent five months preparing for the movie together with Michael for a 22-day shoot, which is the shortest movie shoot I did in my career.
"We had not worked together before this movie, but five months together was enough to create a real friendship. We spent almost every day together. We did tactical training with live ammunition, we did ride-alongs with LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department). We did fight training and sparring five days a week in a dojo, and in between we were rehearsing the scenes - each one we did over 100 times each. And after five months we actually became real friends."
The Donnie Darko star insisted the film would not have worked without his friendship with Michael.
Jake said: "What sets it apart from all of the other cop genres that we've seen in so many mediums is the real friendship between these two guys and the fact that their relationship is potentially threatened.
"End Of Watch doesn't exist without the bond between them. I've been in films where my character drives the whole movie, and is required to carry every scene. This film is different. We're two pieces of a whole, and this doesn't work without either one of us."
:: End Of Watch opens in cinemas on Friday, November 23
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LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Prosecutors decided there's not enough evidence against Too Short to prosecute him on a felony drug charge made against him a week ago.
Los Angeles Police arrested the West Coast rapper for meth possession and driving under the influence of alcohol on a Hollywood street during a traffic stop last Wednesday.
The Los Angeles district attorney dropped the meth charge against Todd Anthony Shaw -- that's the 46-year-old rapper's real name -- but sent the drunken driving charge to the city attorney for possible prosecution, district attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison said Wednesday.
Too Short's manager David Weintraub acknowledged to CNN that Short's breath test at the scene tested "0.01 above the limit in California."
"As for drugs- we call bull," Weintraub said. "Short was diligently searched and cuffed prior to being placed in the disgustingly filthy patrol car. Ask yourself, how did the police not find the drugs on the initial search but only after they brought Short to the precinct?"
The patrol car "smelled like vomit and was littered with remnants from prior arrests of the evening," he said. "Any assertion that Short was carrying powder is ridiculous! Every rap fan knows Short's into weed!"
He tried to run away after blowing into the intoxication meter, Officer Cleon Joseph told CNN last week. "He didn't get very far at all."
His manager said there was a reason for that. "In the past, Short, like many others has been mistreated by law enforcement and these unfortunate prior incidents lead to the complications after the stop," Weintraub said.
The Oakland, California-based rapper collaborated with Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G. (both now deceased) and other major artists in the past three decades. Major songs on his resume include "The Ghetto" and "Blow the Whistle."
CNN's Carolyn Sung contributed to this report.


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It appears that Google is nearly ready to launch its much-anticipated online music store.
While rumors have been circulating about the upcoming release of Google Music, Spanish tech site TecnoDroidVe over the weekend published what it claims are Google Music screen shots. That prompted quick online speculation that the online music store is just about ready for launch.
"It looks good," said Zeus Kerravala, principal analyst with ZK Research. "iTunes makes it very easy to buy music -- so easy you don't even think about it. Google needs to do the same. In addition to looking nice, Google needs to make sure it's as easy to use as possible."
Google did not respond to a request for comment.
Kerravala said the service may look ready to go, but it's not clear where Google stands on content.
Various online reports have contended that Google, which has remained mum on everything about a potential music store, has inked deals with music industry players Universal Music Group and EMI. However, reports also maintain that the company has yet to set up any deals with the likes of industry heavyweights Sony Music and Warner Music Group.
There's a lot of speculation that despite their lack of deals, Google could launch the new online music store as soon as this week.
Google Music, which would be a direct challenge to Apple iTunes and Amazon.com's Cloud Player service, would be linked directly to Google Music Beta, a cloud-based service launched in May. Music Beta is set up to let users store music and then stream it to their mobile devices or PCs. However, it does not enable users to buy music.
When Google Music Beta was launched, it was widely assumed that an online music store would be next in line.
"Music is very important to keep eyeballs on Google," said Kerravala. "The smartphone is so much more than a phone. People want music, movies and games on their phones. If I can't get what I want when I want it on Android, I'll go elsewhere."
Google appears to be focused on integrating its upcoming Google Music service with its other services.
The Wall Street Journal reported late last month that Google Music will be tied to Google+, the company's new social networking site.
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Brand Spots
Rock the Sidewalk and ReRock are just a few of the many editorial / animation projects we have worked on for the Express brand. We shot these videos at Skyline Studios in Manhattan working alongside fashion photographer Greg Kadel - capturing models posing and primping for our cameras.
ReRock, which is set to the music of Wolfmother, was the first broadcast commercial that aired on MTV.
Rock the Sidewalk:


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Having personally been a fan of this band for coming up on a decade - and rarely missing a show of theirs each and every time they play New York - well it would have taken wild horses to keep me away from this one.
Joining me for this afternoon journey was fellow MOG music writer Rob - who goes by the screen name of Madrid Spacestation Spain.
I've since given him the nickname of 'drid, and it appears to be very well received.
The Raveonettes are an internationally well-known band who have released a decade of innovative and exciting albums.
Their latest may very well be their best.
They opened this day's show with the lead single off of Raven In The Grave (their latest album) - the anthemic and inspiring "Recharge and Revolt"
"I recharge & revolt my time has come
And I'm tempted to duel even the sun
I'll dodge the rays and kill it with my gun"
Since I was shooting photos and videos of the show, it was essential to have the "pit pass" wristband.
Using this photo opportunity to display my treasured Raveonettes pin collection. Vintage "Pretty In Black" ones stand alongside current "Raven In The Grave" models.
Having access to the "backstage" area allows for certain opportunities.
Like having a photo taken with featured artists themselves.
Here Mr. Sune Rose Wagner strikes a "tough guy" pose, egged on by the individual I enlisted to shoot this one. We all had a good laugh.
However, it was a rock show we came here to see, and what a glorious one it was.
Wagner and his bandmates played an impeccable set.
Of course that means Mr. Wagner's long-time parter in crime - the Lovely Ms. Sharin Foo
Sune, of course, is the mastermind that makes it all "go"
A brilliantly prolific songwriter, Sune's skills as vocalist, guitar player and producer are known industry-wide.
Another highlight of the set comes from the aforementioned Raven In The Grave album
"War In Heaven"
Sharin mostly plays bass again, for all but two songs during this set. Her voice has always been the perfect compliment for Sune's, and on this day we again were witness to that.
The current Raveonettes also employ two wonderful multi-instrumentalists, who mostly play percussion, but also quite capably fill in on backup guitar - and bass when Sharin temporarily puts it down.
The current new t-shirt design.
Having full access to the stage area allowed for roaming around and shooting from different angles.
The packed crowd was very much into it all
Side-stage shots makes for interesting perspectives as well
The crowd, eagerly pressed up against the barricade
Listen to the drumming, in particular. Sharin has been quoted as saying the inspiration for this percussive rhythm came from Kate Bush's masterpiece "Running Up That Hill"
You can absolutely hear it.
Sharin puts down the bass and takes the mic solo to sing "Forget That You're Young"
"The only reason [wish] I can't hurt . . .
[to have] a heart of stone"
Another fave and a truly wonderful song from their latest release:
For their grandest of grand finales
the band plays an inspired "psych rock" raveup of "Aly Walk With Me"
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ACOMA PUEBLO, N.M. — In a desperate attempt to make it to the front door, Robin Sanchez crawled across the living room floor. Her former husband, just out of jail and intoxicated, used a wooden slat from one of the kitchen chairs to beat her.
She recalls how she was about to open the door when a loud crack resonated across her head. Blood gushed down her face as she heard her 3-year-old daughter cry: ''Daddy, don't be mean to Mommy.''
That September night in 2011 ended outside their home on the Acoma reservation in western New Mexico with tribal police officers, guns drawn, ordering Kirby Sanchez to release the mother of his child from a chokehold.
Scenes like this are far too common in Indian country, where violent crime rates on some reservations are 20 times the national average. Women are especially vulnerable; federal statistics show that nearly half of all American Indian and Alaska Native women have experienced physical violence, sexual assault, or stalking by an intimate partner and 1 in 3 will be raped in her lifetime.
That is why hope was high in 2010 when President Obama signed the Tribal Law and Order Act, an overhaul to give tribal leaders more authority to fight crime on reservations.
Among other things, the law expanded the sentencing authority of tribal courts, allowed for the appointment of special US attorneys to prosecute violent crimes on reservation land, and revamped training for reservation police officers.
But 2½ years later, implementation of the law remains a mixed bag on reservations nationwide.
From New Mexico to Mississippi, law officers, prosecutors, health care workers, and victim advocates have been trying to chip away at the problem, but former US Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat who was the chief sponsor of the bill, admits change is slow.
''It can be life or death for people,'' Dorgan said.
Many of the 566 federally recognized tribes have blamed a lack of funding for not moving ahead more quickly. While the federal government is providing some money for new programs, tribes are responsible for funding other elements of the law. In other cases, tribal governments are still deliberating exactly how to institute the new measures, which require rewriting tribal constitutions or criminal codes.
The Hopi of Arizona were among the first in the nation to raise criminal sentences under the law. The tribe spent 18 months updating criminal codes to create a new class of felonies that could result in more jail time for offenders.
Few tribes have put together all the pieces required to boost jail time, but progress is being made on other fronts. The Southern Utes in Colorado are now contracting with the federal government to hold detainees. On South Dakota's Rosebud Sioux reservation, tribal officials worked with the US attorney's office to create a diversion program to keep juveniles out of trouble.
In Montana, special teams of tribal and federal officials were established last summer to investigate sexual assault cases.
The FBI has added a dozen victim specialists, and about 30 more US prosecutors are working in tribal areas than there were four years ago. In New Mexico, for example, an assistant US attorney is stationed in Gallup, near the Navajo nation.
Nationally, more than 2,000 criminal justice professionals have been part of a US Department of Justice training initiative to improve prevention, investigation, and prosecution of reservation crime. And the Indian Health Service last year more than tripled the number of workers trained to respond to sexual assault cases and conduct forensic exams.
At the Acoma Pueblo, officials started a new wellness program to rehabilitate repeat offenders who are on probation by monitoring their alcohol use; providing substance abuse and mental health counseling; and helping them earn GED certificates or return to college.
''We're changing our jail to more of a healing center and it's working,'' Acoma public safety director Glenn Kelsey said.
Tribal officers are also funneling more cases that involve habitual offenders such as Kirby Sanchez to US courts, where punishments can be stiffer.


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Meet the Author
Beverly Cleary
Although her books have been enjoyed by generations of kids, Beverly Cleary herself didn't enjoy reading as a child — at least not at first. In first grade she was grouped with the slowest readers in her class. By second grade, she says, "although I could read if I wanted to, I no longer wanted to. Reading was not fun. It was boring. Most of the stories were simplified versions of folktales that had been read aloud to me many times. There were no surprises left."
But on a rainy day in third grade, Cleary had a life-changing experience. Out of boredom she began reading The Dutch Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins. "To me, a solitary child," she explains, "the idea of twins was fascinating. A twin would never be lonely…. In this story, something happened. With rising elation, I read on. I read all afternoon and evening, and by bedtime I had read not only The Dutch Twins but The Swiss Twins as well. It was one of the most exciting days of my life."
When Cleary became a librarian, she met children who were bored with traditional children's books, just as she had been. So she began writing a book of her own, the book that became Henry Huggins. When she finished the book, Cleary had an experience most authors only dream about: Her manuscript was accepted by the first publisher she sent it to. That was 50 years ago. Now she has many beloved books to her credit and is appreciated by young and not-so-young readers alike. In 1995, bronze statues of her three best-known characters, Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Henry's dog, Ribsy, were dedicated in a park in Portland, Oregon, where the young Cleary lived and where books featuring those characters are set.
Beverly Cleary encourages young people who would like to be writers, but she also offers very practical advice: "If you're serious about becoming a professional writer, prepare to have some other way of earning a living. Many fine writers don't earn enough to live on. Read widely. Master the tools of writing. I know that spelling, punctuation, and grammar are boring, but they are necessary."
Photography CreditCleary
Other Books Written by Beverly Cleary
- Henry Huggins
(illustrated by Louis Darling)
- Ellen Tebbits
(illustrated by Louis Darling)
- Henry and Beezus
(illustrated by Louis Darling)
- Otis Spofford
(illustrated by Louis Darling)
- Henry and Ribsy
(illustrated by Louis Darling)
- Fifteen
(illustrated by Joe Krush and Beth Krush)
- The Mouse and the Motorcycle
(illustrated by Louis Darling)
- Mitch and Amy
(illustrated by George Potter)
- Socks
(illustrated by Beatrice Darwin)
- Strider
(illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky)
- Ramona's World
(illustrated by Alan Tiegreen)
- Runaway Ralph
(illustrated by Louis Darling)


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Continue Discovering How To Turn Your Website Into a Client Attracting, List Building, Money Making Machine!
Hey Fellow Heart Centered Business Professionals, Are You…
Freaking out because your email list isn't growing, or (gasp!) you don't even have one at all?
Anxious that no one seems to know who you are on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn?
Confused by all the options and choices you see inside WordPress?
Frustrated at how hard it is to create new content for your website?
Worried that the way your website looks on a smartphone is turning away new clients?
Ticked off that your website doesn't show up in Google?
What if I told you that YOU can turn your site into a money making machine, all by yourself?
…and that you can start attracting more new clients right now without having to hire a web techie, a social media manager, or a copywriter?
Building an email list and a tribe of social media followers is crucial to getting more clients…
…because without a steady stream of new clients creating income for you, you have no business!
You have what the IRS calls a "hobby".
And frankly, lying awake at night, wondering when the next client will call or email is an awful place to be in. You're running on adrenaline all the time… the stress wears you down… and you feel like a total fraud trying to help people when you can't even help yourself!
As a former office worker myself, I confess it wasn't that long ago that I too felt overwhelmed about how to grow my business.
Give Your Site a Money-Making Makeover in the Website Marketing Workshop…
And get more clients, more followers on social media, and grow your email list!
Refresh Your Website
Create Content Easier
Get More Followers
Grow Your Email List
Get Found in Google
Sell From Your Website
Track and Analyze Your Visitors
Book Clients Online
This Course Shows You How to Unleash the Growth Potential Hidden in Your WordPress Site
Here's How the Website Marketing Workshop Coaching Program Works
Training Videos
Live Group Sessions
Downloadable Action Checklists
Downloadable Webinar Replays
The Website Marketing Workshop is an online coaching program. You will discover how to transform your website step-by-step in this course, and have the chance to ask your questions about your situation.
For each Module, there is a series of online Training videos for you to step through at your own pace. Then each month we have 2 live group calls.
Just do the easy activities that I show you and bring any questions you have to the Live Group Calls…
…and if you have to miss a call, don't worry. You can submit your questions ahead of time, and listen to the answers by replay! (For your convenience everything's recorded and stored in the online members area for one year. And you can download the webinar replays and all the materials to your computer and keep them forever!)
Plus we will have a Facebook group to answer your questions.
Refresh & Rejuvenate Your WordPress Site Inside Out
Do you find all the choices and options inside WordPress overwhelming or confusing?
Do you have lots of plugins or themes installed that you are no longer using? But now you're unsure if you can delete them?
And how does your site look on a smartphone or tablet (iPhone, Android, iPad)? Is everything easy to read and pleasing to the eye? Or do you have to squint or search for your glasses to read tiny text on that small screen?
Smart phones and tablets are everywhere now. Some websites see 80% of their traffic coming from these devices.
But here's the problem – many websites cannot be easily read on mobile devices.
Someone comes to your website and they get interested in what you have. They want to give you money, but they can't read your website. And often times they won't even be able to see the order button!
In this module you will discover…
- Essential plugins that are easy to install and make your site easier to use.
- Which plugins you can (and should!) delete to make your site secure against hackers.
- An easy to install plugin that will make your site mobile ready, converting more visitors to clients.
- Review important WordPress settings so your site looks and functions at its best.
- Demystify the options and choices inside WordPress.
Grow a Big Email List from Visitors to Your Site
Everyone who comes to your website is also a potential new client or customer.
But what do you do when they leave without buying or setting up a consultation?
Chances are they won't come back on their own…
You need to capture their email.
Build a big email list of people interested in you, and you will be able to generate new sales on command.
You need to ask people to join your list on every page of your website. And you need to give them a reason to do it.
Give them a sample of you (like a free report, video training, or consultation). Something so they can get to know and trust you before they buy.
In this module you will discover…
- Email marketing completely explained and demystified.
- Step by step overview instructions to setup any email marketing system.
- How to easily add stylish email signup boxes anywhere on your site: on your sidebar, in the middle of an article, at the bottom of an article, pop-ups, and fly-ins.
- How to hookup any of the following email services with your new email signup boxes such as Aweber, MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, Constant Contact, ActiveCampaign Mad Mimi, InfusionSoft, iContact, GetResponse, MailPoet, Feedblitz, SendInBlue, and Ontraport and more
Get More Followers on Social Media & Watch Your Ideas Go Viral
Every visitor to your website is also a potential new member of your tribe.
But all the different social sites today can make it so confusing…
…how do you know which ones to spend your time on?
Do you really have to be on *every* social site to be successful?
In this module you will discover…
- The pros and cons of the major social media sites.
- How to decide which social sites you should be on, and which ones you can safely ignore.
- How to get new social followers when people visit your site with easy to add social media buttons. You'll finally start growing a following to match your expertise!
- How to get people to share your articles, blog posts, and ideas across the web with easy to add sharing buttons. Imagine the excitement when thousands of people share what you have created!
Create Content Faster for Your Site
Creating content for your website can be frustrating for some of us.
Knowing a few simple techniques and tricks can make all the difference in creating content that shows potential clients who you really are and how you can make a difference in their lives.
In this module you will discover…
- How to develop a habit and system for creating content for your website (and for later posting on Social Media).
- Finding inspiring images for your articles and blog posts.
- How to easily add images and videos to your pages and blog posts.
- How long your articles/blog posts should be.
- How often to blog on your website.
- How to make the right image from your blog post show up when you post it to Facebook.
Get Found in Google when Your Ideal Clients Search
There are millions of sites on the internet today.
It can be frustrating when you go to Google and search like your customers would, but you don't show up!
To get your site to show up in Google, you need to know what Google is looking for, and how to easily add those things to your pages and blog posts.
In this module you will discover…
- How to write articles that will make you show up higher in Google.
- How to optimize any page or blog post for Google rankings.
- Simple adjustments to make to your site that will help improve your rankings.
- Which plugins you should use to improve your rankings in Google.
Make Money Online: Sell From Your Website
Selling directly from your WordPress website is just what you need to grow your business.
With WordPress it is easy to add payment buttons for your training courses, your coaching programs, or just about anything you'd like to make for sale.
In this module you will discover…
- How to add easy payment buttons to your site.
- You can use PayPal, Stripe, Amazon, or any shopping cart you like.
- And you can do this in just minutes, no techie skills required.
Use Google Analytics to Understand Your Visitors and Improve Your Website
It's one thing to apply all of these marketing tactics to your business, but are they working?
Without tracking your statistics on your website, you don't really know WHAT is happening.
In this module you will discover…
- How to Add Google Analytics to your WordPress Website
- How to look at your statistics to understand what is happening on your site.
- And how to improve your website to make it more 'sticky' so that people stay there longer, and convert from prospects to customers.
Live Coaching Calls
Twice a month we will have live coaching calls where you can bring the questions you have about Transforming your website from what you have learned in the course to the live calls and get feedback and answers from Christina Hills. Can't make a Session? No problem, just Submit Your Questions Ahead of Time and I Will Happily Answer Them.
(For your convenience everything's recorded and stored in the online members area for one year. And you can download the webinar replays and all the materials to your computer and keep them forever!)
"Christina Hills has a natural talent for teaching, and is able to teach very effectively even with the built-in restrictions of the online world. On the live webinars, she uses a hands-on approach to teaching, using either her own website or one of the students' site. She asks for a lot of feedback from students as she teaches, and often asks (and then answers) the question, "Where am I and what am I doing?", just to make sure we're all staying with her. I'm a leadership and team building instructor and coach myself, and Christina is clearly among the best instructors I've ever encountered. The Website Creation Workshop, the Website Marketing Workshop, and the WCW Club, have combined been one of the best learning experiences of my career. My website is several orders of magnitude better than ever, at a fraction of the cost of my former professional website designer. I heartily recommend Christina without reservation!"
"I have stayed with Christina Hills long finishing the Website Transformation Program, not only because I had to sidetrack to something else for a while but because she and her staff are such wonderful go-to people for the problems and the "unknowns" that crop up when one is being one's own webmaster. I would urge anyone who is either developing or simply maintaining and tweaking their own website to take this program. I have benefited significantly from the knowledge gained and have improved both my "live" and my "student" websites greatly as a result."
"Christina breaks down complex processes into easy to follow steps and as an instructor she puts extra effort and energy into all of the live calls. The Website Transformation Course goes above and beyond what it promises, plus it delivers a whole lot more. I can't thank you enough. Wonderful!"
BONUS: Let Your Clients Automatically Book Appointments from your Website
If you do client work, then you know how much time it takes to book appointments with them.
Either you or your assistant have to go back and forth in email (or by voicemail) trying to find a time that works for both of you.
Now you can eliminate all that back and forth wasted time by letting clients book their own appointments directly onto your personal appointment calendar!
In this bonus module you will discover…
- How to take appointments right on your website using an easy to install plugin.
- Why you should use this for both paying clients and free sessions for potential new clients.
- How this will save time for you and make your clients happier as well.
BONUS: How to Create "One Page Design" Visual Websites
BONUS: Private Facebook Group
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Who is this program designed for?
A: This program is designed for people who have been through the Website Creation Workshop; or people with a WordPress website and the foundational knowledge of WordPress, wanting to learn more and to improve their site. If you do not yet have a WordPress site, click here to check out my foundation WordPress class.
Q: How many calls are there a month?
A: There are 2 live group calls a month.
Q: What is the schedule for the live calls?
A: The twice monthly live group calls are on different days and at different times each month to accommodate your schedules. We will post them in the online members area so you may get them on your calendar. Send us an email for the next scheduled call to email@example.com.
Q: Can I get the downloads of the monthly Webinars?
A: Yes, the Webinar replays will be online each month in the members area for you to download or watch online.
Q: How long can I access the live call replays?
A: You have access the live call replays that happened during the last 12 months. For your convenience, we also provide download links for the live call replays on the individual webinar pages.
Q: Do I have to Attend ALL the live Webinars?
A: No! The live group webinars are for you to ask questions about transforming your website and what you have learned in the course. You pick the webinars that are convenient for you, and come to as many or as few live calls as you want. All of the training materials are in the members area and the calls will all be recorded for easy playback.
Q: Can I join during the month?
A: Yes, you can join at any time and will receive access to the content.
Q: How long are the Live Calls?
A: The live calls are generally 75 minutes, but sometimes they end a bit early or sometimes they go a little longer. 90 min max. We like to give time for Questions and Answers.
Q: How will I get my questions answered?
A: The questions are answered during our monthly live calls. We encourage our members to submit their questions ahead of time. Each webinar has its own call information page including an area to submit questions prior to the call so that Christina can best help you! If you can't make it to the live webinars, again you may submit your questions ahead of time and Christina will happily answer them and you may watch the replay at your convenience.
The Facebook group is also available for members to seek support from their fellow members. Christina hangs out there on a regular basis, but please note that its not meant to be the place to get quick answers from her.
Q: How often am I billed?
A: If you choose the monthly membership, you are billed automatically every 30 days.
If you choose the annual membership, you will be prompted to renew when you membership is almost up.
Q: Can I cancel at any time?
A: Monthly Plan: Yes, you can cancel at any time by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com and we will cancel future payments. Please note that we need at least 5-day advance notice before your next billing cycle to process your cancellation. Once your payment has been processed, no refund will be issued.
Annual Plan: Yes, you can cancel at any time by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com and we will give you a prorated credit back for the remaining months in your year.
Q: Is this program for a Mac or a PC?
A: You can use either a Mac or a PC computer to go through this training program. And you can use either to transform your websites with WordPress.
Q: Will you teach me WordPress in the Website Marketing Workshop?
A: No, this program is NOT a WordPress training program. It is designed for people who already know the basics of WordPress and want take their WordPress course to the next level. It's for people who have already taken the Website Creation Workshop, or who already know WordPress.
Q: What if I don't have a WordPress.org site yet?
A: If you don't have a WordPress.org site yet, you'll want to take my foundation WordPress training the Website Creation Workshop. Go here to get on the notification list for the next class: https://websitecreationworkshop.com/blog/next-workshop/
Meet Your WordPress Transformation Teacher!
Christina Hills is an expert in simple solutions for WordPress websites and is the creator of the long running Website Creation Workshop Program for non-technical business owners.
Since 2008, Christina has helped more than 2,000 independent experts and professionals create their own websites in WordPress.
She is a 12 year online marketing veteran and a former special effects movie animator, with film credits from George Lucas for Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and ET. She is also a wife and mother and lives with her family in San Diego, California.
"Christina Hills has been my go-to mentor for building my own website since 2012. Her trainings have empowered me to maintain control over my own website, which has been crucial to updating my website in a timely, affordable manner. When I was ready for my business to expand and take advantage of the modern and very real need to have social media, email marketing, SEO, and appointment tools better organized and managed on my website, I took Christina's Website Marketing Workshop. In fact, I'd been asking her for a course like this! The result for me has been a complete website makeover that I'm really proud of and very excited to unveil. Many of my friends and colleagues have bought into expensive funnel templates or prefabricated websites and experience a lot of frustrations considering the cost. On the other hand, I've learned how to take control of every aspect of my website because of Christina. I would not have been able to pull this off without being a part of the Website Creation Workshop AND the follow up course: the Website Marketing Workshop. I'm so happy with what I've learned that I'm retaking her updated course to stay on top of my business as it continues to grow."
"My experience with Christina started in 2009, when I signed up for the first (I think) of the Website Creation Workshops; and I have continued to enlist in her courses ever since because of the excellence of her instruction and her ability to ensure that her students LEARN! There are many facets to this ability of hers, but the one I am most impressed with is her ability to ensure that her students learn the material she is trying to teach. Christina knows her stuff! But even more important she knows the difference between the essential fact and the trivialities. I feel very blessed that I have experienced Christina's teaching, and have been able to profit from it! "
"I have taken two of Christina Hills courses and I have built two websites. One for my husbands silk screening business and another for my own coaching business. I have found her courses to be logical, thoughtful, creative and easy to follow. I'm an educator at heart and the curriculum is fantastic. I think sometimes we all sign up for online courses, and we don't always complete it or get what it is that we're looking for. I absolutely received what I'm looking for from her courses. Christina goes above and beyond to make sure that you received what it is that you need for whatever your situation, and I couldn't be happier! Thank you."
"As a small business owner responsible for several websites besides my own, the Website Marketing Workshop gave me the next step up I needed to more efficiently secure and manage those sites. As a creative professional, the more in-depth training on search engine optimization, social media, and selling online gave me the confidence to take my own business to the next level along with improving sites for my clients. Better yet, I'm now able to get my website work done so much more quickly and I have far more time to pursue my creative work. Thank you!"
"What makes Christina Hills' programs so valuable is because of the way that they are built, organized, sequenced and made available 24 hours a day. One huge advantage that Christina Hills' has over a lot of other people that offer similar online learning programs is that she is an excellent teacher. Not only is the course work excellent, but Christina is also very generous with her time, resources and insight. Some providers of online learning create canned programs that they then record and sell these as a learning experience. The people I am talking about give very little of their personal time and often respond to questions only by email. As a result these other programs lose the human connection that Christina provides consistently."
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We are convinced you will be 100% satisfied with this Website Marketing Workshop membership club and I know that if you follow the steps and do the work, you will have a truly transforming experience for you and your website! You'll like the personal touch of interacting with Christina, and having her help you in YOUR business with YOUR questions, not just automated stock answers. Go into the members areas, watch the videos, download the checklists, interact in the Facebook Group. Then if you are not completely satisfied, contact us to by email, let us know why and we will cancel all future payments. (Please note that we need at least 5-day advance notice before your next billing cycle to process your cancellation. Once a payment gets processed, no refund will be issued.)
-Christina Hills, Your Teacher and Coach for WordPress
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