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A Bag of Wheat, a Flood, a Fold-Out Couch: The Moth StorySLAM in San Francisco
David F. Young
Posted on March 18, 2014 (May 15, 2018) by editor
The ten readers selected for The Moth StorySLAM at the Rickshaw Shop at the night's end.
In 1997, in hopes of recreating the experience of swapping stories with his friends on long summer nights in Georgia, poet and novelist George Dawes Green founded The Moth. Since its first event, held in the living room of Green's New York City apartment, The Moth has grown into an influential organization known for bringing out original and affecting stories from everyday people around the world. The stories can be funny, or sad, or dramatic, or light, but, above all else, they must be true. The rules are simple: start with the theme for the night, come up with a story drawn from your own authentic experience, hone it until the stakes are real and the consequences apparent, and keep it within the constrained time. Then, if you are picked and get to climb up on stage, no notes are allowed.
This basic, but fundamental, formula has spawned multiple iterations of The Moth. There's The Moth Mainstage, which invites well-known artists, scientists, and celebrities (Salman Rushdie, Malcolm Gladwell, and Dan Savage have all spoken), as well as anyone with anything interesting to say, to tell their story, many of which are available to watch online. There's The Moth Radio Hour and The Moth Podcast, both of which collect the best Moth stories and sometimes even dig deeper, exploring how those stories came to be. There's a book that features adaptations of stories that have previously been performed, as well as several Moth community and education programs. But on a recent Monday night at the Rickshaw Shop, an event space decorated with bicycles and drab couches in San Francisco's Hayes Valley, I had come to what was perhaps their most inclusive, interactive, and widespread program of all: the open-mic Moth StorySLAM.
The night's theme was "Escapes." The host pulled a name out of a brown cloth bag, announced it, and a short woman, her brunette hair tied up into a bun, emerged from the crowd. Each StorySLAM allows only ten storytellers to take the stage, though often many more will submit their names. This woman had the daunting task of being the first. With a slight nervous warble that slowly dissolved as she went on, she told a moving story of running away from her father and his alcoholism as a teen, only to be picked up by a series of truck drivers, who eventually, and unexpectedly, delivered her back home. She finished just before her allotted five minutes were up, and soon a petite woman in her sixties took her place. Sporting bright silver hair and a sweater that hung off her in elegant waves, she began, tantalizingly, with, "I once was exchanged for a bag of wheat." What followed over the next five minutes (plus one extra as she rushed toward her end) was a story about visiting Russia from her native Ukraine, her illicit thesis, and a stern border officer who would not let her through. When she was done, another story came. And then another. And another. In little over an hour, ten stories had been plucked from the crowd.
Although the performers displayed a range of different styles and techniques, they each unraveled a narrative that was undoubtedly and authentically theirs, fully clothed in their personal quirks. One woman told a story of the chickens she owned as a young girl, her eyes widening each time she described them, as if everything she said had just happened to her. An energetic, middle-aged man inhabited two characters at once, moving from one side of the mic to another with quick, fluid steps, as he described his relationship with a troubled student. A fireman, tall and athletic with a sharp, angled chin, had to stop himself as he described the aftermath of a gruesome accident early in his career. Tears welled up in his eyes as he remembered, then his gaze dropped. Several audience members had to look away.
The best stories of the night were able to combine elements of theatre with the intimacies of conversation, and then surprise the audience with sharp narrative turns. I was drawn into the details of one man's story as he wryly described a harrowing camping trip he took in a canyon with an old girlfriend. There was a cut finger, a flood, a race to get out, then a rescue as the water continued to rise. By the story's conclusion, though, with a few clever, well-placed lines, he had deftly moved from the fast-paced action to a more nuanced remembrance of his failed relationship. The night's winning story belonged to Mark Voshrow, a tall, lanky man in his twenties who spoke with an excitable, intoxicant glee. He spent his five minutes recounting, with increasing urgency, the time when his friend accidentally got him stuck in a fold-up couch. His fingers lost feeling and his lungs lost air, but eventually a neighbor came and—as Voshrow illustrated with his whole body, swinging his long arms around—released him from his cage. The comedy (as well as the significance) of this action quickly became devastating as Voshrow reached the end of his story and turned it on its head. His story earned him his prize and a slot at The Moth's San Francisco GrandSLAM Championship at the Castro Theater in April.
Before the night was over, the host invited up all the storytellers who were not picked to recite what would have been their first sentences. One by one, they approached the mic: some sheepishly, some with a noticeably teasing delight. The effect was invigorating, reminding us of the emergent possibilities of stories, of the questions that lay within them, the way they somehow open up the world. With that, the audience filed out into the evening, where the air hummed with the first warmth of spring. Around me, I could already hear people sharing their stories.
The Moth San Francisco GrandSLAM Championship will take place on April 8 at The Castro Theatre. You can buy tickets here.
Posted in Theater ReviewsTagged GrandSLAM, Rickshaw Shop, San Francisco, StorySLAM, The Moth
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Female Candidate Stumps For Shan Vote in Mandalay
Loss of Market Access a 'Clear Possibility' if Rights Issues Not Addressed, EU Warns
Myanmar Fails to Advance in World Bank's Ease of Doing Business List
Tatmadaw Detains 15 Kachin Aid Workers Near Laiza
Camp For Displaced Hindus in Rakhine Short of Food, Manager Says
Sri Lanka's 'Lord of the Rings' Back in Power, Pro-China Strongman Wiped Out Tamil Rebels
Success of Current Gov't 'Pivotal' to Myanmar's Future: Japanese Ambassador
'Shines With the Color of Pearls': Myanmar's Trade in Human Hair Booms
India's War on Red Tape is Working, Says World Bank
German Firms Urged to Cut Dependence on China
Veteran Artist Shares Vision of 'Splendid' Yangon
EU Delegates Encounter Broad Show of Opposition to Ending Trade Preferences
Two Rural Road Development Dept Officials Charged with Taking Bribes
Bangladesh, Myanmar Set Date For Start of Rohingya Repatriation
Thousands of Refugees Arrive in Lashio After Fleeing Clashes in Northern Shan
Analysis: Muse-Mandalay Railway Agreement with China Raises Debt, Conflict Fears
Ex-Child Soldier Aung Ko Htwe Acquitted of Latest Charge
Only a 'Peace Approach' Can End the Cycle of Conflict in Myanmar
Kitchen Building Material Could Cut Urban Flooding by Half: Scientists
China Factory Growth Weakest in Over 2 Yrs, Slump in Export Orders Deepens
From 'Cardboard Nannies' to 'Fruit Money': Fast-Paced Hong Kong Slow to Adapt to Its Elderly
Dig Into a Turkish Feast at Sule Shangri-La
First Group of Rohingya to Be Repatriated Next Month
Govt Says Karen Armed Group Not to Blame For Stalled Peace Process
Stoking the Embers of Fear in Rakhine State
President's Office Presses Yangon Govt to Drop Incitement Suit
US Restricts Exports to Chinese Semiconductor Firm Fujian Jinhua
Indonesia Hunts For Victims, Wreckage of Air Crash; Survivors Seen Unlikely
Myanmar Garment Workers Demand Sacked Colleagues Get Jobs Back
Ten Things to Do in Yangon This Week
President Warns of Legal Action For Loss of Public Funds
Yangon Gov't Must Answer Auditor General's Claims: President's Office
Labor Groups Implore Visiting EU Officials Not to Withdraw Trade Preferences
Police Constable Charged in Shooting Death of Detainee
Landmines Injure 7 Civilians in Northern Shan in October
Hundreds More Flee Intra-Ethnic Fighting in Northern Shan
Analysis: Why Did the KNU Temporarily Leave Peace Talks?
Indonesian Plane with 189 Aboard Crashes into Sea Near Jakarta, Wreckage Found
For Taiwan Youth, Military Service Is a Hard Sell Despite China Tension
The Thai Charmer Who Made a Fortune and Won Soccer's Biggest League
Sri Lanka Crisis Turns Violent as One Killed at Ex-Minister's Office
Myanmar, India Appoint Operator for Sittwe Port Project
Lawyer For Eleven Media Journalists Says Govt Stalling Mediation
USDP Criticizes Ruling Party's Trips to Minority Areas Ahead of By-Elections
No Deals on Secession, Military Integration Without Consent of Shan People: RCSS
Hundreds Flee Fighting Between RCSS, Two Northern Alliance Members
Northern Rakhine Women's Center to Open to 'Promote Social Cohesion'
Lawmaker Files Slander Complaint Against NLD Spokesman
Nang Htwe Hmone addresses the audience at the 30th anniversary of the Democratic Party for a New Society in Myingyan, Mandalay Region, in October. / Aung M-Zaw / Facebook
By Nyein Nyein 1 November 2018
CHIANG MAI, Thailand — A total of 69 candidates from 24 parties are contesting the 13 seats up for grabs in Saturday's by-elections. Only seven of them are women.
A passionate advocate of Shan culture, Nang Htwe Hmone is running with the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) party for the Shan ethnic affairs minister seat in Mandalay. There are 29 ethnic affairs minister posts across the country, directly elected — unlike other ministers — by the members of each ethnic group in the region or state.
Nang Htwe Hmone, 53, has been in politics for the past 29 years, since joining the SNLD in 1989, and is now a member of her party's central committee. She lives in Muse, in northern Shan State, and as a lawyer who fights for land and human rights. She ran for a seat in the Upper House of the state legislature in the 2015 general elections but lost.
Ethnic Shan in Mandalay are voting for a new ethnic affairs minister because the incumbent died in January. Candidates from the ruling National League for Democracy, its main rival, the Union Solidarity and Development Party, and the Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP) are also campaigning hard for the seat. One prominent candidate is former Deputy Hotels and Tourism Minister U Sai Kyaw Ohn of the SNDP, who was also a Lower House lawmaker during the previous administration.
The Irrawaddy senior reporter Nyein Nyein spoke with Nang Htwe Hmone about her experiences during in this election campaign and the challenges she has faced.
What challenges have you faced campaigning for the ethnic affair minister post that are different from those of running for the state, region or union parliament?
There are many, because the area is too vast. For instance, in Myingyan, a constituency in Mandalay Region, there are only 22 Shan people and they live scattered. So in such cases we cannot go there because the campaign cost is too high. It is also the same for towns like Yamaethin. So we would not be within the budget (if we went there), which is no more than 10 million kyats ($6,227) for the campaign according to the Union Election Commission (UEC).
There are just over 40,000 eligible voters in the region according to official figures. How many people were you able to meet during the campaign?
I went to mobilize people in 21 of the 28 townships in six districts of Mandalay. Shan reside in almost every townships, except three. I did not make it to four townships, such as Kyaukse and Myingyan, because there are very few Shan in those areas. I went mostly to Mogok and Pyin Oo Lwin, where many Shan live, and also to Mandalay. But I could not make it to every place because Mandalay Region is huge. It is also hard for us to know exactly where Shan reside, so I campaigned door-to-door.
How enthusiastic are the Shan to vote in the upcoming by-election?
After I decided to contest this post, I looked at the voter lists and I copied them. There I found that many of the names are not Shan. They are Burmese, Indian and Chinese names, so I was worried. People do not understand how to raise issues if there is something wrong with the voter list. At that time it was August. Thank you to the UEC, because it made a public announcement encouraging voters to check the list and make corrections or to add their names if they were not on the list. Everyone who is over 18 years old can vote and the young voters need to be aware too. But the public did not know and did not understand.
When we were able to start campaigning on Sept. 3, we educated voters and encouraged them to check the voter lists and follow the procedures if their names were not on the list. Many did not know how and we helped them by sharing information about going to the village-level electoral commissions to check.
But in Mandalay, Shan are also busy with their businesses and they could not check. Now we are hearing that their names are not on the voter lists or that their names appear two or three time on the lists. Only those who could check within two weeks after the voter lists were updated can vote now, and those who did not have time to check have to let it go.
What are the current needs of the Shan people and what can you do for them?
What I saw during the campaign was that many Shan are not on the voter list to vote for the Shan ethnic affairs minister because they are registered as Bamar on their IDs and household registration. So they have lost their right to vote (this time). They want to be Shan, of course. It is one of the many things I want to change.
In Mandalay's Pyin Oo Lwin and Mogok townships, I met many Shan, but they cannot speak the Shan language. So one definite thing is we have to help them learn the language. Currently the ethnic language classes are taught outside of the school curriculum. So I have been thinking about how to help them.
What challenges have you faced as a woman candidate, since your rivals are all men?
During the campaign it is normal that one side attacks another. But we avoided using impolite words that would damage another party or individual. But we would be showing great magnanimity towards our opponents if there were none. Also, I am lucky that I have not faced any security threats being a woman candidate.
Do you expect to win in this by-election? And if so, to what extent?
My campaign has mainly focused on the Shan voters in Mogok and Pyin Oo Lwin. I dare not say whether I will win. But I think the support is more than 50 percent.
You are the only woman candidate for the SNLD, and there are relatively few women candidates in this by-election. Women face more challenges when they enter politics, but they keep participating. Why do you think women continue to choose to take part in politics?
There are more women than men in the world, in Myanmar, and even in the Shan community. Then there are many women who are leading businesses. I became interested in politics in my youth, and there are many women who can lead in politics, like those who are leading their households and who are famous.
Women think sharply. Men and women think differently, and the country can succeed when these two opposite ways of thinking are combined, like a family with both a man and a woman working together to make a better life.
What are the other challenges for Shan people, besides the development of Shan literature and culture?
I would focus on the development of Shan literature and culture, but we also have other challenges. What I want to achieve is to open up their thinking and make them get on well in society. Our people are afraid to go to governmental offices, and they always step back when there are cases to deal with. I want to help them change that thinking. When they are aware, they will stand up for themselves, and I believe that would help them have peaceful lives.
What would be your message to the voters, especially the young voters who just turned 18 this year?
The youth are the future leaders. Therefore, you need to take part in political activities. Instead of wasting time at the teashops, please share your efforts for the country. Also, I would like to urge all the eligible voters in Mandalay not to forget to go to the polling booths to cast their votes on Nov. 3.
Topics: Election, ethnic affairs minister, Nang Htwe Hmone, Women
Nyein Nyein The Irrawaddy Nyein Nyein is Associate Editor at the English edition of The Irrawaddy.

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Small Heath
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For other uses, see Small Heath (disambiguation).
Green Lane Masjid, formerly Green Lane Public Library and Baths (Martin & Chamberlain 1893-1902)
Location within the West Midlands
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Birmingham Hall Green
52°27′46″N 1°51′15″W / 52.46285°N 1.85424°W / 52.46285; -1.85424Coordinates: 52°27′46″N 1°51′15″W / 52.46285°N 1.85424°W / 52.46285; -1.85424
Small Heath is an area in South-East Birmingham, West Midlands, England. It is situated on and around the A45 (Coventry Road).
1.1 Victorian development
1.2 Muntz Street
1.3 World War II
5 Parks and sport
8 People from Small Heath
9 In popular culture
Small Heath, which has been settled and used since Roman times, sits on top of a small hill. The slightly elevated site offers poor agricultural land, lying on a glacial drift of sand, gravel, and clay, resulting in a heathland that provides adequate grazing for livestock.[1]
The land therefore seems to have developed as a pasture or common land, on which locals could graze their animals. However, the site lies directly on the route between Birmingham and Coventry, and so was probably used by drovers transporting animals to and from the two cities, and the livestock markets within each.[1]
The Coventry Road itself was first recorded in 1226, leading from the Digbeth crossing of the River Rea. At this time Birmingham was a medieval market town whilst Coventry was a major city of national importance. In 1745, the Coventry Turnpike was created with tollgates at Watery Lane Middleway, Green Lane, and the River Cole. At Holder Road a milestone showed 105 miles (169 km) to London.[1]
Victorian development[edit]
The first recording of Small Heath was noted in 1461, which term applied to a narrow heath between Green Lane and the Coventry Road, where the baths and library were built later.[1] The 1799 opening of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal (now the Grand Union Canal), from Digbeth to Warwick, defined the southern edge of this scattered rural community.[1] In 1852, this definition was enforced with the opening of the Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, which follows the same route.[1]
As Birmingham developed, the wealthy began to look for space outside the crowded inner city. Small Heath, a green site close to and within a fast developing city, began to be developed from 1834 when large houses first appeared east of the Small Heath between Green Lane and Grange Road. The next developments were mainly terraced housing estates laid out for the working classes as far as Charles Road.[1]
Muntz Street[edit]
View towards one end of the ground, showing a roof, supported by several pillars and bearing a clock, covering the central part (behind the goal) of an otherwise open terrace
Muntz Street and surroundings in 1890
The development of properties in the area was made much easier and cheaper through the extraction of the local clay, which was then locally turned into bricks. The largest local clay pit was located on Cattell Road.[1]
Members of Holy Trinity Cricket Club, Bordesley had formed the Small Heath Alliance Football Club in 1875 as a way of keeping fit over the winter. After playing in Bordesley Green and Sparkbrook, in 1877 they moved to what became called the Muntz Street stadium, which rented for an initial £5 a year from the family of Sam Gessey, a Small Heath player.[2] The field had a capacity of 10,000 spectators, and was bordered on two sides by developed streets, Muntz Street on the western side, Wright Street to the south; the other two sides of the enclosure adjoined farmland.[A]
Also serving as the headquarters of the Small Heath Athletic Club, the initial capacity was raised by the addition of a wooden stand and the terracing raised to expand the capacity to around 30,000. In 1895, the football club bought the lease to the ground, which had 11 years remaining, for a sum of £275.[3]
Small Heath Athletic Club (later called Small Heath Harriers) established its headquarters at the Muntz Street ground from the club's foundation in 1891. Though primarily a cross-country and road-racing club, they also participated in track and field athletics, and during the summer months the athletes were allowed to train on the football pitch.[4] After Birmingham received its city charter in 1889, the club was renamed Birmingham City Football Club.[1]
Eventually the ground proved too small for the football club's needs, and rising rents forced the development of a new stadium. The club built a new stadium nearer the city centre, St Andrew's. The last game at Muntz Street was played on 22 December 1906, when Birmingham beat Bury 3–1 in the First Division in front of some 10,000 spectators.[5] St. Andrews hosted its first game in December 1906. Within months the Muntz Street had been demolished, the land cleared and housing built in what became Swanage Road;[6] no plaque commemorates the site, but the street of the same name remains.[2][7]
World War II[edit]
By the outbreak of World War II, BSA Guns Ltd at Small Heath was the only factory producing rifles in the UK. The Royal Ordnance Factories would not begin production until 1941. BSA Guns Ltd was also producing .303 Browning machine guns for the Air Ministry at the rate of 600 guns per week in March 1939 and Browning production was to peak at 16,390 per month by March 1942. The armed forces had chosen the 500 cc side-valve BSA M20 motorcycle as their preferred machine. On the outbreak of war the Government requisitioned the 690 machines BSA had in stock as well as placing an order for another 8,000 machines. South Africa, Éire, India, Sweden, and the Netherlands also wanted machines.
The Government passed the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939 on 24 August allowing the drafting of defence regulations affecting food, travel, requisitioning of land and supplies, manpower and agricultural production. A second Emergency Powers (Defence) Act was passed on 22 May 1940 allowing the conscription of labour. The fall of France had not been anticipated in Government planning and the encirclement of a large part of the British Expeditionary Force into the Dunkirk pocket resulted in a hasty evacuation of that part of the B.E.F following the abandonment of their equipment. The parlous state of affairs "no arms, no transport, no equipment" in the face of the threat of imminent invasion of Britain by Nazi forces was recorded by the Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke in his diary entries of the 1/2 July 1940.[8]
The creation of the Home Guard (initially as the Local Defence Volunteers) following Anthony Eden's broadcast appeal to the Nation on Tuesday 14 May 1940 also created further demand for arms production to equip this new force. BSA, as the only rifle producer in Britain, had to step up to the mark and the workforce voluntarily went onto a seven-day week.[9] Motorcycle production was also stepped up from 500 to 1,000 machines per week which meant a finished machine coming off the production line every 5 minutes. The motorcycle department workforce had been left intact in 1939 due to demand which was doubled following Dunkirk. At the same time BSA staff were providing lectures and demonstrations on motorcycle riding and maintenance to 250,000 officers and men in all parts of the UK.
The BSA factory at Small Heath was bombed by the Luftwaffe on 26 August 1940 resulting in one H.E.bomb and a shower of incendiaries hitting the main barrel mill, the only one operating on service rifles in the country, thereby causing the unaffordable loss of 750 machine tools but no loss of life.[10] Two further air raids took place on 19 and 22 November 1940.[11] The air raid of 19 November did the most damage, causing loss of production and trapping hundreds of workers. Two BSA night-shift electricians, Alf Stevens and Alf Goodwin, helped rescue their fellow workers. Alf Stevens was awarded the George Medal for his selfless acts of bravery in the rescue and Alf Goodwin was awarded the British Empire Medal. Workers involved in the works Civil Defence were brought in to help search for and clear bodies to get the plant back into production. The net effect of the November raids was to destroy machine shops in the four-storey 1915 building, the original 1863 gunsmiths' building and nearby buildings, 1,600 machine tools, kill 53 employees and another 50+ local residents, injured 89 (30 of them seriously), and halted rifle production for three months. The Government Ministry of Supply and BSA immediately began a process of production dispersal throughout Britain, through the shadow factory scheme.
Business[edit]
There are two large supermarkets, Asda and Morrisons and the outdoor pursuits centre Ackers Trust. There is also a business park that is home to the former Birmingham Cable Company (now Virgin Media), the international CADCAM company Delcam and kitchen appliance repair specialists Repaircare. In recent years, the Coventry Road has attracted a growing increasing number of ethnic fast food restaurants.[citation needed]
Until 1973, Small Heath was the home of the massive Birmingham Small Arms factory on Golden Hillock Road and Armoury Road, manufacturing amongst other things, bicycles, motorcycles, guns and cars including taxi cabs, dominating the local and national economy. The factory was briefly acquired by Norton Villiers Triumph following their takeover of BSA but closed down, much of it being demolished following the collapse of the British motorcycle industry. A business park now occupies the site whilst the remaining buildings are still used for manufacturing.
On Coventry Road, many Bangladeshi restaurants have opened, serving traditional Bangladeshi dishes as well as Indian cuisine.
Housing[edit]
A large number of mostly terraced houses were built around Small Heath towards the end of the 19th century, and over the next few decades these buildings became the residence of numerous Irish immigrants. In the 20 or so years that followed the end of World War II, the area attracted more immigrants - mostly from the Indian sub-continent. Immigrants from the West Indies also settled in Small Heath, but Pakistani immigrants, including a large majority from Azad Kashmir, were by far the most significant people to settle in the area. House prices have been steadily increasing on a par with other areas within Birmingham.
Population[edit]
The total population of the area is approximately 36,898, based on 2007 estimates.[12] The majority of residents are of South Asian origin, mainly of Pakistani (51%) and Bangladeshi (9%) descent, while people of White British ethnicity form 22% of the population. There are also a large amount of East African residents from Somalia and Eritrea that live in Small Heath[13] The majority of residents are also Muslim; and there are many mosques in the area, the largest in Small Heath being the Ghamkol Shariff Masjid which is also one of the largest in the UK.[citation needed]
Parks and sport[edit]
There are several parks and green spaces in the suburb, of which the largest (Small Heath Park - formerly known as Victoria Park) occasionally hosts festivals. An episode of Charlie's Garden Army featured a permanent installation in Small Heath Park. Small Heath is home to Birmingham City Football Club's St. Andrews stadium.
Transport[edit]
Small Heath is centred around the Coventry Road that formed part of the main route from Birmingham to Coventry, but the section of Coventry Road that passes through Small Heath was bypassed by a dual carriageway that opened in January 1985.
It is served by Small Heath railway station on the North Warwickshire Line. The Grand Union Canal also passes through the area. Local transport connections are very good, with a mainline railway station and many bus routes to other parts of the city.
In the early years, horse-drawn buses ran along the Coventry Road, linking Small Heath with the city centre and with other nearby districts. In 1882, the building of a tramline along the Coventry Road to Small Heath Park was authorised, and four years later, the Coventry Road steam tramway route was opened to a terminus near Dora Road. In the early years of the 20th century, this line was converted for use by electric trams.[14]
Politics[edit]
Small Heath is part of the Birmingham Hodge Hill constituency, which is held by Labour MP Liam Byrne. The constituency has a high proportion of people of South Asian origin, and this section of the community has historically supported the Labour Party.
Part of Small Heath now falls in the constituency of Birmingham Ladywood, represented by Labour MP Shabana Mahmood.
People from Small Heath[edit]
For a full list, see Category:People from Small Heath, Birmingham
In the BBC2 series Peaky Blinders, Small Heath is the home base of the Shelbys and core members of their gang, the Peaky Blinders.[15][16]
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^ a b Beauchampé, Steve (26 December 2006). "100 years of St. Andrews – Part One". The Stirrer. Retrieved 4 February 2009.
^ Jawad, Hyder (2006). Keep Right On. The Official Centenary Of St. Andrew's. Liverpool: Trinity Mirror Sport Media. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-905266-16-6.
^ "History: Small Heath Harriers". Solihull and Small Heath Athletic Club. Retrieved 25 November 2012. [permanent dead link]
^ "Birmingham Again Victorious". Birmingham Daily Post. 24 December 1905.
^ Inglis, Simon (1996) [1985]. Football Grounds of Britain (3rd ed.). London: CollinsWillow. ISBN 0-00-218426-5.
^ "Historical plaques in Birmingham, United Kingdom". Open Plaques. Open Heritage C.I.C. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
^ War Diaries 1939 -1945 Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, London 2001, ISBN 0-297-60731-6
^ BSA Centenary 1861 - 1961, BSA Group News, No.17 June 1961, The Birmingham Small Arms Company, no ISBN
^ BSA Centenary 1861 - 1961, BSA Group News, No. 17 June 1961, The Birmingham Small Arms Company, no ISBN
^ Godwin, Tommy It wasn't that easy - The Tommy Godwin story, John Pinkerton Memorial Publishing Fund, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9552115-5-3
^ Resident Population Estimates by Broad Age Band - Small Heath Neighbourhood Statistics (ONS). Retrieved on 2009-06-24.
^ Ethnic Group - Small Heath Neighbourhood Statistics (ONS). Retrieved on 2009-06-24.
^ Hardy, P. L. (1972). "A transport history of Yardley". Acocks Green Historical Society. Archived from the original on 6 October 2007.
^ Lockley, Mike (Sep 28, 2013). "Peaky Blinders pub could be yours for £175,000". Birmingham Mail.
^ Bradley, Michael (September 12, 2013). "Birmingham's real Peaky Blinders". BBC News. West Midlands.
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Ben Sasse is a United States Senator, representing the great state of Nebraska.
He was elected in a 2014 landslide, winning each of Nebraska's 93 counties, and securing the second-largest margin for a new senator in the history of the state. Living off of a rickety old campaign bus, he and his family campaigned tirelessly on a common-sense platform of restoring the Constitution to its rightful place and encouraging a more constructive politics where every public official works to make the American Dream achievable for every family. He believes in term limits and a humbler Washington, where the federal government does fewer things, but the more important things, more urgently, more transparently, and with less partisan screaming. Healthy lives are lived primarily in the private sector, and the vast majority of good policy is created at the state and local level -- and Washington should get better at talking honestly about these essential American realities.
A fifth-generation Nebraskan, Ben grew up walking beans and detasseling corn, experiences that taught him the value of hard work. A graduate of Fremont High School, he was recruited to wrestle at Harvard and then earned a PhD in American history at Yale. Ben comes to the Senate having spent the last five years as a college president. When he was recruited to take over the failing Midland University, Ben was just 37 years old, making him one of the youngest college presidents in the nation. The 130-year-old Lutheran college was on the verge of bankruptcy when he arrived, but became one of the fastest-growing higher education institutions in the country by the time of his departure.
Most of his career has been spent guiding companies and institutions through times of crisis with straight talk about the core issues. He has worked with the Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey and Company, as well as private equity firms and not-for-profit organizations, to tackle failing strategies across a broad array of sectors and nations.
Ben believes that we have a moral obligation to pass along a country as great and free and opportunity-filled to the next generation as we were blessed to inherit from our grandparents. This will require a more serious Congress, committed to reforming entitlements, telling the truth about fake federal budgets, modernizing national security for the age of global terror networks, and helping the next generation recover a sense of optimism about the American Dream for everyone of every race in every neighborhood.
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2018 When Are You Reading Challenge
July 1, 2018 July 1, 2018 / amoralegria / Leave a comment
I've decided to join a reading challenge! This challenge, called When Are You Reading?, is to read a book set in each of the following time periods for a total of 12 books. Since I'm joining this half way through the year and I belong to 3 book groups, so I don't always seek books written in certain time periods, below is what I have come up with for 2018 so far. I have written reviews about a few of these books, but not all. Some of my reviews are not even online, so I will post them as separate blog posts. Meanwhile, everything I have read can be found on Goodreads.
The complete challenge will include 12 books from the following eras:
• Pre 1500 Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan (NF)
• 1500-1599
• 1700-1799 Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon (currently reading) (F)
• 1900-1919 My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier (F)
• 1920-1939 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (F), Before We Were Yours by Lisa
Wingate (F)
• 1940-1959 Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir… by Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila
(NF)
• 1980-1999 Everybody's Son by Thrity Umrigar (F)
• 2000-Present The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel (NF)
South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby (F)
• The Future The Wanderers by Meg Lowery (F)
Book Review: "A Gentleman In Moscow" by Amor Towles (Long)
July 1, 2018 July 1, 2018 / amoralegria / 1 Comment
I am including this book review that I wrote last January, for a reading challenge I just found out about: When Are You Reading 2018.
Rating: 5 stars, BEST BOOK
Finished reading: January 5, 2018
This turned out to be a wildly popular book and last April a friend of mine and I attended an event at which he spoke, answered questions, and autographed books. There were hundreds of people crammed into a small junior high auditorium and many eventually had to be asked to leave, for safety reasons.
Before the event: The people on the stage were asked to leave.
After the event: Amor Towles signs autographs.
A Gentleman in Moscow takes place shortly following the Bolshevik Revolution, in 1920s Russia (then being known as the Soviet Union). A young nobleman (the "Count" as he is mostly referred to in the novel, although his name is Alexander Rostov) is brought in front of the Emergency Committee of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, accused of writing a subversive (but acclaimed) poem, "Where Is It Now?" For this "crime," he becomes a "Former Person" and is sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life.
House arrest in this case is the Hotel Metropol, where the Count currently resides. At the age of 33, he is still a young man and such a sentence presumably confines him to a very restricted world. He can no longer walk in the park, enjoy the fresh air or scent of the flowers, or greet passersby with a friendly word. To add insult to injury, he is evicted from his elegant suite of rooms in the hotel and reassigned much smaller quarters on the sixth floor. This means giving up many of his treasured possessions, but he manages to transfer some of his most valuable furniture and other belongings into his crowded room. Since no one else seems to live on that floor, he devises a means to extend his quarters into the next room, which was empty, by carving a door into the back of his armoire. When he has been there for four years – it is now 1926 – he contemplates suicide, but just as he is about to commit the act of throwing himself off the roof, he is interrupted. He then resigns himself to his proscribed life, such that it is, and manages to live a fulfilling life.
You see, the Hotel Metropol turns out to be a more intriguing place than he expected, thanks in part to a young girl in a yellow dress, Nina, whom he meets while having dinner in one of the dining rooms. She explores the entire hotel, enters into salons during meetings by hiding in the balcony, and has managed to obtain a master key that opens every room in the hotel. Fascinated by her intrepidness, the Count follows her on these explorations, getting himself dirty in dusty balconies and testing the energy of his less agile body by squeezing into small spaces on his knees.
Eventually, Nina is sent away to school and he doesn't see her again for many years. But one day, Nina reappears as a young woman and asks a very important favor. She and her compatriots are going to the interior to educate peasants (she and her friends having embraced the revolution wholeheartedly) but she has a young daughter and cannot take her with her. It would be dangerous and no proper life for a 6-year-old. She tells the Count it would only be for a short time; that she would come back to get the girl in the space of a month.
Reluctantly, the Count agrees. He has no knowledge of how to care for a child and at the beginning, their relationship is very awkward, with long stretches of silence on the child's part. A month turns into several months, months into a year – in short, Nina never returns for her daughter and the Count ends up being a father to Sophia, who calls him "Papa."
But she, too, must have an education. She is enrolled in a local Catholic school, but continues to reside with the Count in his small attic apartment. When she gets older, however, she begins to follow her passion of being a concert pianist, an unexpected turn of events for the Count. A series of circumstances ensue which cause the Count, in his love for his adopted daughter, to make some drastic decisions.
I loved the novel not just for the story but also the humor and INTELLIGENCE throughout the narrative, many interesting characters, and beautifully written scenes.
Some of my reflections and favorite passages:
p. 144, re the process of change: And suddenly, the Count has his own moment of lucidity…and now understood his place in the passage of time. As we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to fade. We are familiar with the songs our grandparents favored… At festive holidays, the recipes we pull from the drawer are routinely decades old, and in some cases even written in the hand of a relative long since dead. … The oriental coffee tables and well-worn desks that have been handed down from generation to generation [,] despite being "out of fashion," not only do they add beauty to our daily lives, they lend material credibility to our presumption that the passing of an era will be glacial.
But under certain circumstances, the Count finally acknowledged, this process can occur in the comparative blink of an eye. Popular upheaval, political turmoil, industrial progress – any combination of these can cause the evolution of a society to leapfrog generations, sweeping aside aspects of the past that might otherwise have lingered for decades. And this must be especially so, when those with newfound power are men who distrust any form of hesitation or nuance, and who prize self-assurance above all.
The Count had himself as a bridge between the past and this new society: In his heart of hearts, he had imagined that…these aspects of his life were lingering somewhere on the periphery, waiting to be recalled. But looking at the bottle in his hand, the Count was struck by the realization that, in fact, it was all behind him. Because the Bolsheviks, who were so intent upon recasting the future from a mold of their own making, would not rest until every last vestige of his Russia had been uprooted, shattered, or erased.
It was at this realization, in 1926, when he had been living in the hotel for four years, that he decided to "shed this mortal coil" once and for all. We of course realize he won't go through with it, as this is only about a third of the way through the book!
p. 164 – re exile, abroad vs. in one's own country: As long as there have been men on earth, reflected the Count, there have been men in exile. … But perhaps this was to be expected. After all, exile was the punishment that God meted out to Adam in the very first chapter of the human comedy; and that He meted out to Cain a few pages later. Yes, exile was as old as mankind. But the Russians were the first people to master the notion of sending a man into exile at home.
…[I]n another country, a man might immerse himself in his labors, build a house, raise a family. That is, he might begin his life anew.
But when you exile a man into his own country, there is no beginning anew. For the exile at home…the love for his country will not become vague or shrouded by the mists of time. In fact, because we have evolved as a species to pay the utmost attention to that which is just beyond our reach, these men are likely to dwell on the splendors of Moscow more than any Muscovite who is at liberty to enjoy them.
pp. 297-8 – What price development? What did the USA and the USSR sacrifice to achieve their aims – "brushed the past aside instead of bowing before it." The Count is in conversation with Osip, a man from the Kremlin that he has befriended, in which the Count expresses concern about "the burning of Moscow, and the toppling of statues, and the silencing of poets, and the slaughter of fourteen million head of cattle." Osip says:
[D]o you think the achievements of the Americans – envied the world over – came without a cost? Just ask their African brothers. And do you think the engineers who designed their illustrious skyscrapers or built their highways hesitated for one moment to level the lovely little neighborhoods that stood in their way? … we and the Americans will lead the rest of this century because we are the only nations who have learned to brush the past aside instead of bowing before it. But where they have done so in service of their beloved individualism, we are attempting to do so in service of the common good. The Soviets "attempted" to evolve "in service of the common good."
Russians had a proclivity to destroying what they created. The Count's friend, Mishka, was right, but Osip said the destruction of monuments and masterpieces was essential to the progress of a nation (p. 301).
Former vs. Latter; Inward-looking vs. outward looking: What are "conveniences" and do they really matter? "…in the end," the Count says, "it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most." (e.g. keeping appointments, having to make your own breakfast, lack of freedom of movement, raising a child, commitment to a partner.)
Book Review: "Everybody's Son" by Thrity Umrigar (Spoiler Alert)
July 1, 2018 / amoralegria / 1 Comment
SPOILER ALERT: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOLERS! I am including this entry from my personal journal in May for Sam Bishop's When Are You Reading 2018 Challenge.
Everybody's Son by Thrity Umrigar
Finished reading: May 24, 2018
This morning I finished reading Everybody's Son by Thrity Umrigar. I give it 5 stars for its insightful presentation of the dilemmas of race, class, and politics in our society. Chapter 40 (the last chapter) is the best – a culmination of everything, I guess.
The story starts with Anton, a 9-year-old mixed race boy, trapped in a hot apartment during a heat wave. He doesn't know his father or even who he is; his mother left to buy crack from her dealer, saying she'd be back in half an hour, locking the door from the outside, presumably to protect her son. But she doesn't come back and after a week, he breaks out of the apartment by hurling a chair through the window, climbs out and cuts his leg on the jagged glass.
He limps down the street, looking for help, looking for his mam. He is picked up by authorities and taken to Children's Services. He is placed in foster families – the first one doesn't work out, but the second one is a childless white couple who lost their teenage son five years before in a car accident. They take in Anton and grow to love him. David (the father) is a judge with considerable influence in the community.
Meanwhile, Anton's mam is arrested when she is found in a crack house. She apparently had been raped by her dealer who then kept her high and semi-conscious for several days. Whenever she was conscious, she asked after her "baby boy."
Anton is eventually adopted by the white couple and grows up with every advantage of an upper-middle class family. But to do so, David pulls some strings to extend Anton's mam's prison sentence and then persuades her to give him up altogether. Anton goes to Harvard Law School and becomes a judge himself. Eventually he wins election to Attorney General of the state and runs for governor.
The author presents the dilemmas of race and class as Anton goes through his life, occasionally clashing against racial stereotypes, emotional traumas and activism, the stresses of a political career, and eventually when he goes to Georgia to look for his birth mother. In the South, he encounters racism as he never had experienced before growing up in the Northeast, and finds out who he really is. In a way, one could say this is a coming of age story.
The story is written primarily in 3rd person singular, mostly Anton's point of view, but one chapter – the one about 9/11/2001 is written in 3rd person plural, conveying a collectiveness, a unity in what Americans of all races and classes felt on that day. Another short chapter is only one sentence – using "after" as a separation and linking of clauses, giving a feeling that the events happened very fast.
Good quote: (p. 298) "But now he knew the truth. There were no adults. There were just tall children stumbling around the world, walking pools of unfinished hopes, unmet needs, and seething desires. The unsuccessful ones ended up in asylums. The ones who learned to masquerade those needs became politicians."
Notes on "South Pole Station" by Ashley Shelby
I am blogging my notes on books in order to participate in a reading challenge called When Are You Reading 2018. This is not a book review. My "notes" on books usually are more like rambling thoughts. I wrote this in my journal on May 17, 2018:
South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby
I hate extreme cold weather and therefore am sort of fascinated by the kind of people who would choose to work in Antarctica, when even in the summer, the temperature hovers around -40°F. I wrote some notes, (POSSIBLE SPOILERS) most of which are quotes:
p. 121 "Metaphorically, all research is a long walk."
p. 122 "The urge to jump affirms the urge to live." This is called the high-place phenomenon, when we experience a strange urge to jump overboard or off a high place when we look down. It is the brain's misinterpretation of the instinctual safety signal.
p. 179 Sal gets upset when Cooper asks how the universe started. Sal's answer concludes with "That may work in art, Cooper, but that doesn't work in the real world."
This is an insult; although she didn't take it as such, I did. It's this attitude by scientists, politicians and others who see art as outside the real world. Of course, the imagination figures into the creation of art, but what art is IS part of the real world.
p. 298 (Chapter narrated by Frank Pavano) "Democrats…would…dig into my past and reveal the plagiarism charges…It was part of the narrative, and that the mainstream media's refusal to allow me, a man of faith, to be "born again" would only increase the public's support. Again and again, the media underestimated the importance of the lost lamb to the churchgoing American." (Emphasis mine.)
At first, I agreed with the idea that "intelligent design" scientists should have equal opportunity to research funding – why not? If they're wrong, the research will show it. But in the chapter on Pavano (pp. 282-300), in which manipulation invades the scientific method, part of the "Plan" was to manipulate the data if it didn't support their hypotheses (and their political agenda). So perhaps the South Pole scientists were right to refuse to cooperate with a researcher supposedly sent in the name of science to the South Pole to do research to support the conclusion that "intelligent design" (i.e. a universe created by God) is correct.
At the end of the book, I was surprised to find out that Sal's hypothesis about the universe being made up of membranes which occasionally run into each other and create new universes, was proven wrong; he did not believe in the Big Bang theory. Yet ultimately his research supports the "inflationary" theory of most other scientists. He, as a ethical scientist, owned up to this and did not try to manipulate the data. Anyway, I was surprised because his hypothesis sounded plausible to me and I thought perhaps in the last 15 years or so, when I have not kept up with prevailing scientific theories about the origin of the universe, this idea of "branes" might be correct. Isn't that like string theory?


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By guitarman001, May 24, 2011 in The off-topic forum
guitarman001
Location:Edimbourg
This news show is AMAZING!!! Been watching it for weeks now - WAY better than BBC/Sky and tells the brutal truth! Right now banging on about financial terrorists, near-zero interest rates, how we're basically being financially raped etc etc. In fact I'm sure they must read HPC!! I CANNOT go back to BBC?Sky now - this is just amazing! It's the closest thing I've seen to truth on a news channel!
Lol - and right now they're talking about the 'new world order' - what is going on!!
What is this channel all about? 'Russia Today' but in English? Telling the truth about things? You MUST watch it if you haven't already!
scrappycocco
Doesn't seem as one sided as the others, they even have celente and that alex jones on sometimes.
ken_ichikawa
Location:Manchester / Bolton
Yup I've been pushing it for months and few people listened! You probably caught the Kaiser report (430 and 830 Tues and Thurs). They tell you all the stuff which the BBC doesn't tell you.
The youtube channel is here
http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday
BobBobson
I watch Russia Today as well. Infact it is just about the only TV station I watch apart from a few music vid stations (I cant stand BBC/ITN/C4 etc). However, dont fool yourself into thinking that it is unbiased. RT is the english voice of Putin. Just watch how the tone changes when they are reporting on anything to do with Russian international affairs and even worse than that, when they are reporting on internal Russian affairs.
okaycuckoo
Cartoon show for goldbugs.
cashinmattress
Plus they have mad max. Always fun to tune into his shows.
Yes, it was the Kesier report that I saw.
I guess all stations have a bias - I'll perhaps have to switch between them all.
I love RT. It's a soapbox for the Kremlin, but there are plenty of nuggets of truth in there.
That's how I look at it, you need to cross section all news sources and find the truth which lies in the middle.
I feel RT is definitely an important addition to the equation.
In my younger days I used to listen to Radio Moscow and it was fascinating how polarised the news was to our own. The conclusion I came to was to listen to both and somewhere in the middle lay the truth.
I suspect the same applies now to the different TV news channels too.
Anything they say about Russia and the ex USSR is to be taken with some cynicism, anything else however has some interesting perspectives on it. Like the youth unemployment thing they ran a few weeks ago.
The BBC doesn't talk about it.
Or the way NATO is over stepping its boundaries. RT mentions it, BBC/SKY only talk about how Gadaffi is evil.
Location:North West
Keiser Report is essential viewing.
Riedquat
I can't imagine them being particularly balanced about anything that NATO gets up to to be honest. The only question is whether or not they go further in the opposite direction than the likes of the BBC - is a simple average of the two accurate, or do you still need some weighting?
Out of interest, is RT available on Sky? I'd never bother getting it myself, but considering how many people subscribe to Sky in this country, it'd be good to know they might stumble across this channel.
Personally, I gave up watching TV as soon as I left home. Then when I worked abroad I didn't have access to the usual main stream media sources and sought out my own news, which was made easier thanks to bloggs, social media and channels like RT. I didn't realise quite how much I'd expanded my knowledge until I'd returned to the UK full of concern and anger over events and crises very few of my friends were even aware existed.
sun n sea
Independent Russian reporters open the front door and take a bullet in the brain... the rest work at places like RT.
Reports on Libya don't mention Russian made Grad rockets, show civilian casualties in Misrata and don't give voice to the rebels in the East who want MORE NATO action not less.
The financial stuff is mildly interesting... but again the conclusion comes first and the story & facts are hammered to fit. Keiser NEVER reports on Russian economics because he'd be dead by the time he reached the car park.
R K
Location:Republik of Mancunia
If you think RT is 'the truth' it just goes to show how effective Putin's propaganda has been.
I can fully understand why it appeals to the love China/hate the FED, Tyler Durden is kool metals gang. It's almost written for them. Oh wait a minute, it is!
Let me know when Keiser does an in depth expose of the Russian central bank or Roman Abramovich won't you...............should be worth watching his summary execution.
The rest of it is just Russian 'history' propaganda and Russian/Chinese relationship building.
It's about as close to the 'truth' as Coronation Street but less entertaining.
Just caught some of it 10 minutes ago speaking about our relationship with the US. Some guy went on to say that relations with Gordon Brown were strained, and that to be honest, he was an embarrassment on the international stage lol..
Yeah, it's at about 510 or so, a few clicks above BBC24.
Some examples would be appreciated.
Max keiser's show is generally spot on. Don't lump him in with the rest of RT. Though he may dodge 'russian' issues (for a good reason), his analysis of the world financial system and the crisis is totally correct. Probably the only place on TV where you can actually hear something approaching a description of the terrible situation the world finds itself in.


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In case of inclement weather, the league will inform you if the game is called at least two hours before game time.
All teams must send a team roster to Jason Grodsky before the first game. The principal, athletic director and the coach must sign the roster. The roster must have the players first and last name, grade and date of birth. When a new player(s) need to be added to the roster, email Jason Grodsky @ jasongrodsky10 [at] gmail.com CCD players must be identified on the roster.
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If a team has played an ineligible player, they will forfeit all games that the player has participated in.
If your school has three or less people come out for your team, you may drop them to the next level, but you can only have two in the game at the same time.
If your 5th or 6th grade teams need to be divided, they must be divided of equal strength. In 7th and 8thgrade you can choose to divide into an A and B team.
Arrangements for a canceled game must be made before the end of the season. Notify Jason Grodsky of the teams, date, time, and location of the make-up.
If a team forfeits twice, it will have to pay a Forfeit Fee of $50.00 before they are able to continue playing in the league. League fees are $300 per team and are due in full prior to the season.
PROTEST – All protests must be made in writing within 24 hours following the game and accompanied by $40.00. If league officials and referees of the game allow the protest, the game will be replayed. Referees will be appointed by the league and replayed at a time satisfactory to both schools, but no later than the end of the season.
1. Games will consist of 7-minute quarters for 5th and 6th grade. There will be a 5-minute break at half time. We will have a running clock in 5th and 6th grade. The clock will stop for free throws, substitutions, time outs, and for all whistles in the last one minute of the game if neither team is ahead by 15 points. The 7th and 8th grade will play 6-minute quarters and the clock stops for ALL whistles unless one team is winning by at least fifteen (15) points. At this point, the clock will only stop for free throws, substitutions, and time outs. Backcourt pressure for 5th and 6th grade will be allowed in the last quarter only. 7th and 8th graders can pressure the entire game. 5th and 6th graders must discontinue the press with a 10-point lead. 7th-8th grade must discontinue the press when leading by 15 points.
2. Overtime periods will be two minutes. There is no limit to the number overtimes.
3. The "Girls" Basketball will be used for ALL girls' games and 5th and 6th grade Boys games.
4. A 10-minute grace period will be allowed before a forfeit will be called. If a team is late, they must begin play as soon as they have 5 players, within the 10-minute grace period.
5. Following the 1st game a minimum of 5 minutes will be allowed for warm-up.
6. The free throw line for 5th grade girls will be moved up 18 inches.
7. All substitutes must be at the scorer's table prior to the whistle for a substitution to be granted. The referee may allow a substitute to enter if he/she is not at the table, BUT THE CLOCK WILL NOT STOP IN 5thgrade (as detailed in Rule Number One).
8. The seat belt rule will not be enforced. However, coaches may only stand if they are talking to their players or otherwise coaching. Addressing officials must be done from a sitting position unless otherwise requested by the official. Any coach yelling at the officials (including those at the scorer's table) will be asked to sit for the remainder of the game. If at any time anyone on the bench, including but not limited to players, coaches, or attendants acts in an unsportsmanlike manner, the head coach will be REQUIRED to sit for the rest of the game. Actions would include taunting, yelling at the refs, etc.
9. Only the head coach may leave the bench to instruct their players. Leaving the bench will only be allowed to instruct players.
10. If a player or coach receives two technical fouls, he/she will be disqualified from the game. A player who receives an unsportsmanlike technical foul must be removed from the game and may not reenter prior to the next dead ball. Any player or coach who receives two technical fouls is disqualified and will be suspended at least one (1) additional game to be served immediately.
11. Any foul language by a player, coach or fan will not be tolerated and can lead to expulsion from the gym. Any player/coach ejected from the game is automatically suspended until a discussion is held between the league officers and the school contact person. Any fan ejected is subject to further ban from ALL NSCL gyms.
12. All jerseys are to be tucked in, unless designed to wear out. All shirts worn under the jersey must be of the same color/shade as the dominant color of the uniform. There will be no jewelry of any kind permitted. No taping of earrings will be allowed. No jewelry or lights on shoes allowed. With teams having similar colored jerseys, the host/home gym team is responsible for wearing a different color jersey. If neither school is at home, a coin flip will be used to determine who will wear the different color jersey. The host school will provide the jersey.
13. While the league does not mandate specific playing time rules for any grade (deferring that role to each of the member Schools), it is the League's recommendation that in the 5th and 6th level all kids play equally over the course of the season. However, each player must play at least one full quarter in 5th and 6th grade. The League recommends that on the 7th and 8th grade level that all players play in all games and that equal playing time be sought when possible. Furthermore, the league recommends if a player is NOT going to get equal playing time in the 5th and 6th grade levels (injury, discipline, player's choice, etc.) that the Coach communicate that to the opposing Coach BEFORE the game.
14. All Schools must have a school designee in attendance at away games. This designee can be a parent, coach of another grade level team, teacher, administrator, pastor etc. This designee will operate as person responsible for spectators of his or her school.


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Spiritualist Lecturers' Appointments and Addresses.
Lecturers, Appointments, and Addresses.
Published Gratuitously Every Week.
Arranged Alphabetically.
[To be useful, this list should be reliable. It therefore behooves Societies and Lecturers to promptly notify us of appointments, or changes of appointments, whenever they occur. Should any name appear in this list of a party known not to be a lecturer, we desire to be so informed, as this column is intended for Lecturers only.]
J. MADISON ALLYN, trance and inspirational speaker, author of the Panophonic System of Printing and Writing, will lecture Sundays on Spiritualism, and where desired give week-evening instruction in the new Shorthand. Address, care Banner of Light, Boston.
C. FANNIE ALLYN will speak in Londonderry, Vt., during July; in Dover, Aug. 4 and 11; in Putnam, Conn., Aug. 18 and 25; in Milford, N. H., Sept. 1 and 8; in Worcester, Mass., during November. Will respond to calls to lecture week evenings in vicinity of Sunday engagements. Address as per appointments, or North Middleboro, Mass.
J. G. ALLBE will receive calls to lecture and organize Children's Lyceums. Address Chicopee, Mass.
CHARLES A. ANDRUS, Flushing, Mich., will attend funerals and lecture upon reforms.
MRS. SARAH A. BYRNES will speak in East Boston, Mass., July 7 and 14; in Hudson, July 21 and 28; in Lynn during August; in Stanford, Conn., Sept. 1, 8, 15 and 22. Would like to make further engagements for the fall and winter. Address, 87 Spring street, East Cambridge, Mass.
MRS. A. P. BROWN will lecture in Lynn, Mass., July 21 and 28. Will make a few more engagements in the vicinity. Will also attend funerals, and speak week-evenings. Address, St. Johnsbury Centre, Vt.
MRS. M. A. C. BROWN will make engagements to speak wherever the friends may wish. Address, West Randolph, Vt.
MRS. H. F. M. BROWN, P. O. drawer 6325, Chicago, Ill., care of Spiritual Republic.
MRS. EMMA F. JAY BULLENE, 151 West 12th st., New York.
MRS. E. A. BLISS, 250 North Second street, Troy, N. Y.
WILLIAM BRYAN will answer calls to lecture in Michigan and Northwestern Ohio until further notice. Address, box 53, Camden P. O., Mich.
M. C. BENT, inspirational speaker. Address, Pardeeville, Wis. Sundays engaged for the present.
MRS. ABBY N. BURNHAM, inspirational speaker, will answer calls to lecture. Address, Auburndale, Mass.
J. H. RICHFORD, inspirational speaker, Charlestown, Mass.
REV. ADIN BALLOU, Hopedale, Mass.
DR. J. K. BAILEY, Quincy, Ill., will answer calls to lecture.
DEAN CLARK, inspirational speaker. Address, Camden, Me., till further notice.
MRS. LAURA CUPPY is lecturing in San Francisco, Cal.
MRS. AUGUSTA A. CURRIER will answer calls to speak in New England through the summer and fall. Address, box 315, Lowell, Mass.
DR. J. H. CURRIER will answer calls to lecture. Address, 199 Cambridge street, Boston, Mass.
ALBERT E. CARPENTER will answer calls to lecture. Also pays particular attention to establishing new Lyceums, and laboring in those that are already established. Address, Putnam, Conn.
P. CLARK, M. D., will answer calls to lecture. Address, 15 Marshall street, Boston.
J. B. CAMPBELL, M. D., the seer and healer, will receive calls to lecture and attend evening meetings and funerals. Address, Cincinnati, O.
MRS. JENNETT J. CLARK, trance speaker, will answer calls to lecture on Sundays in any of the towns in Connecticut. Will also attend funerals. Address, Fair Haven, Conn.
MRS. HETTIE CLARK, trance speaker, East Harwich, Mass., will answer calls to lecture or attend funerals.
DR. JAMES COOPER, Bellefontaine, O., will take subscriptions for the Banner of Light.
IRA H. CURTIS speaks upon questions of government. Address, Hartford, Conn.
MRS. ELIZA C. CLARK, inspirational speaker. Address, Eagle Harbor, Orleans Co., N. Y.
MRS. D. CHADWICK, trance speaker, will lecture, hold séances, give tests, and prescribe for the sick. Address, box 279, Vineland, N. J.
THOMAS COOK, Berlin Heights, O., lecturer on organization.
MRS. AMELIA H. COLBY, trance speaker, Milford, Ill.
MISS LIZZIE DOTEN will lecture in Bangor, Me., during July. Will make no further engagements. Address, Pavilion, 57 Tremont street, Boston, Mass.
DR. E. C. DUNN, lecturer and healer, Rockford, Ill.
J. T. DOW, lecturer, Cooksville, Rock Co., Wis.
DR. H. E. EMERY will receive calls to lecture. Address, South Coventry, Conn.
A. T. FOSS will speak in Willimantic, Conn., during August; to Stafford Springs during November. Permanent address, Manchester, N. H.
MRS. MARY L. FRENCH, inspirational and trance medium, will answer calls to lecture, attend circles or funerals. Free circles Sunday evenings. Address, Ellery street, Washington Village, South Boston.
DR. WILLIAM FITZGIBBON will answer calls to lecture on the science of Human Electricity, as connected with the Physical Manifestations of the Spiritual Philosophy. Address, Philadelphia, Pa.
REV. J. FRANCIS may be addressed by those wishing his services in Southern Iowa and Missouri, at Nevada, Iowa, till further notice.
DR. H. P. FAIRFIELD will answer calls to lecture. Address, Quincy, Ill., drawer 2479.
J. G. FISH, Hammonton, N. J.
MRS. CLARA A. FIELD will answer calls to lecture. Address, Newport, Me.
C. AUGUSTA FITCH, trance speaker, box 1835, Chicago, Ill.
MISS ELIZA HOWE FULLER will answer calls to lecture wherever the friends may desire. Address, LaGrange, Me.
ISAAC. P. GREENLEAF, Kenduskeag, Me.
MRS. LAURA DE FORCE GORDON, Denver City, Col. Terr.
JOHN P. GUILD will answer calls to lecture. Address, Lawrence, Mass.
MRS. C. L. GADE (formerly Mrs. Morris) trance speaker, 11 Cedar street, Room 6, New York.
N. S. GREENLEAF, Lowell, Mass.
DR. L. P. GRIGGS, inspirational speaker, will answer calls to lecture. Address, Fort Wayne, Ind.
MRS. EMMA HARDINGE can be address, care of Mrs. Jackson, 40 East 51st street, New York. Mrs. Hardinge sails for Europe July 20.
W. A. D. HUME will speak in Fitchburg, Mass., July 7 and 14. Address as above.
LYMAN C. HOWE, inspirational speaker, New Albion, N. Y.
S. C. HAYFORD will answer calls to lecture and organize Children's Lyceums, if desired. Address Bangor, Me.
J. HACKER, Portland, Me.
MRS. SUSIE A. HUTCHINSON will speak in Buffalo, N. Y. during July and August in Cleveland O., during September, October and November.
CHARLES A. HAYDEN will speak in Charlestown, Mass., July 7 and 14. Permanent address, Livermore Falls, Me.
J. D. HASCALL, M. D. will answer calls to lecture in Wisconsin. Address, Waterloo, Wis.
D. H. HAMILTON lectures on Reconstruction and the True Mode of Communitary Life. Address, Hammonton, N. J.
MRS. ANNA E. HILL, inspirational medium and psychometrical reader, Whitesboro, Oneida Co., N. Y.
JOSEPH J. HATLINGER, M. D. inspirational speaker, will answer calls to lecture in the West, Sundays and week evenings. Address, 25 Court street, New Haven, Conn.
MISS NETTIE HAYDEN will receive calls to lecture in Massachusetts. Address, No. 20, Willmot street, Worcester, Mass.
MRS. S. A. HORTON, Brandon, Vt.
MISS JULIA J. HUBBARD, box 2, Greenwood, Mass.
MRS. F. O. HYZER, 60 South Green street, Baltimore, Md.
DR. E. B. HOLDEN, inspirational speaker, will lecture in Norfolk, N. Y., July 7; in West Stockholm, July 14 and 28; in Fort Jackson, July 21 and Aug. 4. Address, No. Clarendon, Vt.
CHARLES HOLT, Columbus, Warren Co., Pa.
MOSES HULL, Hobart, Lake Co., Ind.
MISS SUSIE M. JOHNSON will speak in Rock Island, Ill., during July; in Springfield during August; in St. Louis, Mo., during September. Permanent address, Milford, Mass.
W. F. JAMIESON, inspirational speaker, care of the Spiritual Republic, P. O. drawer 6325, Chicago, Ill.
S. S. JONES, ESQ.'s address is 12 Methodist Church Block, South Clark street, Chicago, Ill.
O. P. KELLOGG, lecturer, East Trumbull, Ashtabula Co., O. will speak in Monroe Centre the first Sunday of every month.
CEPHAS B. LYNN, semi-conscious trance speaker, will lecture in Lynn, July 14. Address, 567 Main street, Charlestown, Mass.
J. S. LOVELAND, Chicago, Ill., care Spiritual Republic.
MRS. E. K. LADD, trance lecturer, 179 Court street, Boston.
MRS. F. A. LOGAN will answer calls to awaken an interest in, and to aid in establishing Children's Progressive Lyceums. Address, Station D, New York, care of Walter Hyde.
B. M. LAWRENCE, M. C., will answer calls to lecture. Address, Hammonton, N. J.
MARY E. LONGDON, inspirational speaker, 60 Montgomery street, Jersey City. N. J.
JOHN A. LOWE will answer calls to lecture wherever the friends may desire. Address, box 17, Sutton, Mass.
MR. H. T. LEONARD, trance speaker, New Ipswich, N. H.
MISS MARY M. LYONS, inspirational speaker, present address, 98 East Jefferson street, Syracuse, N. Y.—will answer calls to lecture.
DR. LEO MILLER is permanently located in Chicago, Ill., and will answer calls to speak Sundays within a reasonable distance of that city. Address P. O. box 2326, Chicago, Ill.
MRS. SARAH HELEN MATTHEWS, East Westmoreland, N. H.
DR. G. W. MORRILL, JR., trance and inspirational speaker, will lecture and attend funerals. Address, Boston, Mass.
LORING MOODY, Malden, Mass.
B. T. MUNN will lecture on Spiritualism within a reasonable distance. Address, Skaneateles, N. Y.
MRS. MARY A. MITCHELL, inspirational speaker will answer calls to lecture upon Spiritualism, Sundays and weekday evenings, in Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri. Will attend Conventions when desired. Address care of box 221, Chicago, Ill.
MR. & MRS. H. M. MILLER, Elmira, N. Y., care W. B. Hatch.
PROF. R. M. M. COAN, Centralia, Ill.
DR. JOHN MAYHEW's present address is 50 Montgomery street, Jersey City, N. J. He will answer calls to lecture in the East until September.
DR. W. H. C. MARTIN will receive calls to lecture. Address, 173 Windsor street, Hartford, Conn.
MISS SARAH A. NUTT will answer calls to lecture. Address, Claremont, N. H.
C. NORWOOD, Ottawa, Ill. Impressional and inspirational speaker.
J. WILLIAM VAN NAMEE, Munroe, Mich.
J. L. POTTER, trance speaker, West Salem, Wis.
DR. D. A. PEASE, JR., Detroit, Mich.
MISS NETTIE M. PEASE, trance speaker and test medium, Detroit, Mich.
DR. W. K. RIPLEY, box 95, Foxboro', Mass.
DR. P. B. RANDOLPH, lecturer, care box 3352, Boston, Mass.
J. T. ROUSS, normal speaker, box 281, Beaver Dam, Wis.
A. C. ROBINSON, 15 Hathorne street, Salem, Mass., will answer calls to lecture.
J. H. RANDALL, inspirational speaker, Upper Lisle, N. Y., will lecture on Spiritualism and Physical Manifestation.
AUSTEN E. SIMMONS will speak in Woodstock, Vt., in the first, second and fifty Sundays of every month during the coming year. Address, Woodstock, Vt.
MRS. E. W. SIDNEY, trance speaker, will answer calls to lecture. Address, Fitchburg, Mass.
ABRAM SMITH, ESQ., inspirational speaker and musical medium, Sturgis, Mich.
MISS MARTHA S. STURTEVANT, trance speaker, Boston, Ma.
H. B. STORER, inspirational lecturer, 75 Fulton street, New York.
E. SPRAGUE, M. D., inspirational speaker. Permanent address, Schenectady, N. Y.
DR. WILLIAM H. SALISBURY, box 1313, Portsmouth, N. H.
MRS. C. M. STOWE will answer calls to lecture in the Pacific States and Territories. Address, San Jose, Cal.
FRANCIS P. THOMAS, M. D., lecturer, Harmonia, Kansas.
MRS. M. S. TOWNSEND, Bridgewater, Vt.
MRS. CHARLOTTE F. TABER, trance speaker, New Bedford, Mass., P. O. box 392.
J. H. W. TOOHEY, 42 Cambridge street, Boston.
BENJAMIN TODD, San Francisco, Cal
JAMES TRASK is ready to enter the field as a lecturer on Spiritualism. Address, Kenduskeag, Me.
MRS. MARY E. WITHEE, trance speaker, 71 Williams street, Newark, N. J.
N. FRANK WHITE, Seymour, Conn.
MRS. M. MACOMBER WOOD, 11 Dewey street, Worcester, Mass.
F. L. H. WILLIS, M. D., 29 West Fourth street, New York.
MRS. S. E. WARNER will lecture in Richland Centre, Ill., during July; in Rochester, Minn., during August. Will answer calls to lecture week-evenings in vicinity of Sunday appointments. Address as above, or box 14, Berlin, Wis.
E. V. WILSON will speak in Galesburg., Ill., during July. Permanent address, Babcock's Grove, Du Page co., Ill.
MRS. HATTIE E. WILSON, (colored) trance speaker. Address, East Cambridge, Mass., for the present.
ALCINDA WILHELM, M. D., inspirational speaker, can be addressed during June care of H. Staff, St. Louis, Mo.; during September and October, care of A. W. Pugh, P. O. box 2185, Cincinnati, O.
E. S. WHEELER, inspirational speaker. Address, care this office, or 5 Columbia street, Boston.
LOIS WAISBROOKER can be addressed till further notice at Forestville, Fillmore Co., Minn., care of A. B. Register.
MRS. N. J. WILLIS, trance speaker, Boston, Mass.
F. L. WADSWORTH's address is care of the R. P. Journal, P. O. drawer 8325, Chicago, Ill.
HENRY C. WRIGHT will answer calls to lecture. Address care of Bela Marsh, Boston.
PROF. E. WHIPPLE, lecturer upon Geology and the Spiritual Philosophy, Sturgis, Mich.
MRS. E. M. WOLCOTT will speak in Montpelier, Vt., July 7. Will answer calls East, West, North or South. Address, Danby, Vt.
MRS. MARY J. WILCOXON will lecture in Brooklyn, N. Y., till July. All wishing to engage her services for the fall months please apply immediately. Address. 80 Clinton avenue, Brooklyn.
MISS H. MARIA WORTHING, trance speaker, Osweo, Ill. will answer calls to lecture in the trance state, also to organize Children's Lyceums. Address, Buffalo, N. Y., box 1454.
JONATHAN WHIPPLE, JR., inspirational and trance speaker. Address, Mystic, Conn.
A. A. WHEELOCK, St. Johns, Mich.
MRS. JULIETTE YEAW, Northboro', Mass.
MRS. S. J. YOUNG, trance lecturer, 56 Pleasant street, Boston, Mass.
MRS. FANNIE T. YOUNG, Boston, Mass.