#southern harmony 29 years old

[brittanyemorrisjudge]

DISTRICT JUDGE BRINGS DEMANDS FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY TO THE LOCAL LEVEL

NOVEMBER 2020 // HOUSTON, TX: Native Houstonian Brittanye Morris has devoted her career to a variety of areas of law, concentrating on property law in and around the Houston area. Morris, a 29-year old woman of color and a rising force for common-sense government, recently won an uncontested race to become Harris County District Court Judge for the 333rd District in Houston, TX. At a time where citizens are demanding that politicians serve constituents’ interests at an unprecedented decibel, Morris’s election brings some harmony to an otherwise cacophonous fever pitch.

Morris entered the Democratic Primary race for the judgeship against incumbent Daryl Moore. She defeated Moore on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, topping him by a landslide 56,175 votes. This sizable victory highlights Morris’s own efforts as a competent conduit for justice. It also highlights the overwhelming support she’s earned from her local community.

She brings fresh eyes, grit, and a wealth of life experience to the bench. Seated before a soul food feast at iconic Harlem eatery Sylvia’s Restaurant, Morris recounted her incredible journey with vigor.

Morris’s mother was an educator in the public school system, and her father a police lieutenant. An achiever since childhood, Morris earned her Bachelor’s in Political Science with a minor in History from the University of Houston, and her Juris Doctorate from Thurgood Marshall School of Law at the prestigious Texas Southern University.

A driving spirit and fierce intellect carried Morris through the difficulty of paying her own way through law school, balancing a full course load against part-time shifts at the local post office. “It was just impossible,” she said emphatically. Fortunately, ‘impossible’ was only a feeling and not a fact. Morris graduated on time and continued to intern for the Bankruptcy Trustee’s Office while committing herself to studying for the grueling bar exam. “It wasn't easy by any stretch of the imagination,” she said, “but I think it's those trying times that really made me appreciate where I have gotten in life.”

Morris’s experience-rich background lends a core competency to her legal expertise. “I’ve been through situations to where you're working the best you can, and for whatever reason, your ends don't meet,” Morris recalled. “That’s a different perspective than someone who had a life where things were afforded to them.” Harris County is the third most populous county in the United States. The Houston Metropolitan area needs genuine, representative leadership just like any East Coast hamlet or bread basket village. “The pendulum is shifting,” Morris noted. “In our community in particular, more and more people are wanting more representation. More and more people are wanting more diversity on the bench.”

Morris upholds an honest commitment to participating in the place she represents. Her professional ethos encouraged her to go grassroots, an approach which contributed to her monumental victory at the polls. “What people tend to forget so often is that it's your community, your constituency, that gives you that seat,” she stated. “It is not yours. It belongs to the citizens and the community in which you serve.” Mobilizing her passion for community engagement and lived experience, Morris regularly attended town halls and civic club meetings across the county. She went to the neighborhood clubs and visited different religious organizations. “The courts are tools for the people to access justice. So in a true sense of that, then why not go into the community?” she asked.

“First and foremost, I want to create a judiciary that's going to be open, accessible, and transparent,” Morris said. More tangibly, she’d like to pioneer teen court programs in local high schools, which allow students to foster their own peer-determined legal precedents. She’s interested in avenues that expand and nourish collective civic engagement. In order for sweeping change to take root, our government needs an infusion of authenticity in the form of real people resolved to enact meaningful, actionable change. Morris is less talk and more walk. She moves from a place of informed balance, equidistant from head and heart, but marrying the unique forces of both.

She pointed out that “when you think about the Greats of any time, they weren't Great at their time. It wasn't until long after they left this Earth that they became historical icons.” Rather than worrying about how history might remember her, Morris focuses her energy where it’s feasibly useful instead. “I really feel like representation matters, and certain voices have been marginalized,” Morris said. “But at the end of the day, for me, it's very important just to live in a way that I'll be proud of and my children will be proud of.”

For those looking to leave their own positive mark on history, Morris offered, “Be open. That’s the biggest advice I can give to anybody… It’s those opportunities, those possibilities and those twists and turns that get you where you ultimately need to be.” It’s how she managed to overcome every challenge she’s faced so far. It’s how she’ll successfully overcome those that still lie ahead.

#Brittanye Morris Judge #Honorable Brittanye Morris Judge #Judge Brittanye Morris #Brittanye Morris

[slowturning]

The Black Crowes - Sometimes Salvation

To lessen my troubles I stopped hanging out with relatives And empty saviors like you I wish I had a nickel for every miracle That you easily tricked me into

TBC Tunes 

#southern harmony 29 years old #tbc #sometimes salvation

[borisbubbles]

My favourite Dorian Quotes

Just as an addendum, since my previous didn’t exactly put across the hilarity of Dorian, here are my favourite quotes/conversations/reactions by Dorian Pavus in Dragon Age 3.  Edit 22/01: added a few more because Dorian just keeps giving.  60.  Dorian: Come on Varric, just answer the question. 😣 Varric: My mother didn’t raise any morons, Sparkler. 🙄 Dorian: But you must have an opinion! And you’re a Dwarf! Completely unbiased. Varric: There is no way I’ll answer “Which Inquisition Mage is the best dressed?”, not for all the gold in Orzammar. Vivienne: Also, the answer is obvious. 🙂 59. Dorian: So what's your estimation, Varric? Think we could win? Varric: 😱 You aren't asking me to give odds on our beloved Inquisitor's success?! 😛 Dorian: What would that look like? Three to one? 🤣 Varric: In his favor?  Dorian: After Corypheus pulled an archdemon out of his arse, are you joking? Inquisitor: You would actually bet against me?  Dorian: Now now, if I weren't here, it would be five to one at least. 😘 Inquisitor: I’ll take those odds, actually. 😏 Dorian: This is why I adore him so.  😍 58.  Cassandra: So Bull, about Dorian... Iron Bull: Yep, it’s true. 😁 Dorian: By all means, let’s discuss this all together. 🙄 Cassandra: If you’re both pleased Dorian: He’s happy, I’m happy, everybody’s happy!  Iron Bull: Awww, you’re happy. 😍 Dorian: 😣 Cassandra: 😄 57. You joke! they’ll be writing books about you, boring ones that will get it all wrong. Just you wait!   56.  Iron Bull: Yesss, we’re going to fight the dragon, boss? Oh THIS is gonna be GOOD.  Dorian: You are way too excited about this. 😑

55.  Blackwall: How do you get your hair to do that, Dorian? With magic? Dorian: With proper hygiene and grooming. Maybe the three of you should get acquainted. 🙄 54.  Cole: You’re happier now, Dorian Dorian: Oh is that what this light tingly feeling is? I suppose you’re right. 😏  Cole: Wishing but wondering, wounded and whistful Cole: What if he doesn’t want me after? Dorian: But he did. 😁 Cole: Now you’re smiling. It’s good.  😃 53. Varric: Does this shit make any sense to you? Dorian: Are you referring to the giant gaping hole in the sky, or the creature from a Chantry cautionary tale pretending to be a god? Varric: Either. I’m feeling generous. Dorian: What’s the matter? Some pretender comes along, tears the place down, declares himself king. That’s half of history. Varric: Corypheus is like that drunk uncle who refuses to leave the party? Dorian: Even after he puts a hole in the ceiling. Terribly common.  52.  Sera: You gonna warn me the next time you’re throwing your magic around? Dorian: As long as you’re careful where you shoot all those arrows Sera: You magic me, I’ll put three in your eye! Dorian: 😅 Now we can live together in peace and harmony!  51. Vivienne: Dorian, what did you think of little Sera’s last Red Jenny mission? Dorian: Hmm... I’d call it ‘medium’. 🤔 Vivienne: ‘Medium’, my dear? Dorian: It wasn’t rare, and it certainly wasn’t well done. 😏 50. Cole: Dorian, what is 'a slave'?  Dorian: FESTISBEIUMOCANAVERUM! 😨 Cole: You said I could ask questions! Dorian: I know I did, just... go ask the Inquisitor that one. 49. An optimist! 🤣  such a rare breed, I have stumbled upon a unicorn. 48. Dorian: What I wouldn't give for some proper wine.😫 Vivienne: Skyhold's steward is a sadistic little man who is trying to kill us. 🤢 Dorian: Perhaps he found a bargain he couldn't pass up, on vats of vinegar? 47. Cassandra: Why are you looking at me like that, Dorian? Dorian: I am trying to imagine what you would look like... in a dress.😈 Cassandra: Keep wondering. If my uncle couldn't put me in one, neither shall you. 46. Dorian: How do you want to be remembered, Cassandra? Valiant yet sexy rebel against the status quo? Cassandra: I don't have any control over how I'll be remembered. 🙄 Dorian: Sword raised high, blue scarf dramatically fluttering in the wind, sun rising behind you? Cassandra: Blue scarf?😒 Why would I be wearing such a thing? Dorian: It's a painting, of course! Work with me( It'll be fantastic! 🤗 45. Dorian: Why is it so cold? How do you southerners stand it? Iron Bull: What's the matter? Not enough slaves around to rub your footsies? Dorian: My ‘footsies’ are freezing, thank you! 😒 44.  Blackwall: Dorian, I’d appreciate it if you stopped refering to me as ‘that hairy lummox”.  😠 Dorian: When did I do that? Blackwall: At the tavern, the blacksmith’s, the stable. You said it to the gateguards when we left Skyhold! Dorian: hmm... 🤔 yes, that does sound like me.   🤗 43. Dorian: Watch out where you point that thing! 😡 Iron Bull: Dirty! 😏 Dorian: Vishante kaffas, I meant your weapon! 😡 42. Dorian: What would you say Blackwall's best feature is, Vivienne? Vivienne: His absence, of course. 🙄 Blackwall: I can hear both of you. 😒 41. Dorian: Did you know we are actually related Inquisitor? Inquisitor: We, what? Dorian: Not first cousins or anything. Can you imagine?  Dorian: I however did a bit of digging in my family tree, and somewhere down the netheregions of my line there was also a Trevelyan. Dorian: Perhaps the one who went to Ostwick to establish the branch? I knew we looked so alike for a reason. 😏 Inquisitor: Um, yay?  Dorian: Indeed! 😁 Yay! 40. I’m always nice. 😏 39. Dorian: I don't know if you've heard, but the rumours are that you and I are... intimate. Inquisitor: That's not such a bad thing, isn't it? Dorian: I don't know, is it? Inquisitor: Do you always answer a question with a question? Dorian: Perhaps you would like me to answer in a different fashion? 🤔 Inquisitor:  If you're capable. 😅 Dorian: 😘🥰😚 Dorian: 'If you're capable.' The nonsense you speak. 🤭 38. Dorian: You caught the eye of a young woman in that last village, Blackwall. Blackwall: I'm sure you're mistaken. 😒 Dorian: You're right. She was undoubtedly looking at me.🤭 37. Dorian: Vivienne, I have only the one question - why the Orlesian fixation with masks? Vivienne: It is The Game, darling. You never show the players your true visage. Dorian: A strange custom in a culture where people assassinate each other for putting too much salt in the soup Vivienne: An extra hurdle to be overcome. Fail at The Game, and you die. Dorian: And you people call Tevinter barbaric. 🙄 36. Dorian: You are smiling a great deal these days, Cassandra. 😉 Cassandra: I am not... smiling. 😒 Dorian: Now you're not, but only because I pointed it out to you. Cassandra: I am not a giddy schoolgirl! 😡 Dorian: That would have been easier to believe if you hadn't just blushed. 🤗 35. You’ll be surprised at the credit my tongue gets me, your Reverence.  34. Dorian: Sera, I see you are having fun with your illustruous paramour- Sera: WHAT? 😨 Is it showin'? Dorian: What? NO, oh heavens NO. 🤢 Dorian: I meant to ask if you're enjoying your new relationship. Sera: Then why not just say that? 🙄 Dorian: I did... in words you apparently don't understand. 😑 Sera: What's the point of words you know and others don't? Who'd you say them to? 🙄 Dorian: Letmejustdobothofusafavorandretractthequestion. 😡 Sera: Pity, because we're doing great. That's why I'm following her around with weirdies 🤗 33. It was fun to goad you, Cassandra. You get that knot between your eyes when you're flustered - Ah, look, there it is! Delightful!  🤗 32. Dorian: I half expect my mother to materialize from the crowd to criticise my manners. Inquisitor: Where would we be if you mother we really here? Dorian: Short one mage, after he's been dragged out by his earlobe. Inquisitor: I have a hard deal imagining that. 😅 Dorian: Picture me a young boy of five years then. She certainly always has. 🙄 31. Dorian: 'Official Mage to the Orlesian Court'. Well that sounds exciting. 🙄 Vivienne: It's an esteemed position, darling. One many mages should envy. Dorian: Yes, I suppose being paraded around like an exotic peacock is better than frantically running from templars. 🙃 Vivienne: Better an exotic peacock than one Tevinter rat amongst many. Dorian: Oh? A dig at my homeland? This should be fun. 😏 30. Sera: Dorian? Those words you say. What do they mean? Dorian: What, you mean like mendicant or ultimatum? 🤨 Sera: No, arse, when you're mad. 'Pish-anty cough-ass'. You're swearing, I know it. Dorian: Ah, 'vishante kaffas'. It's Tevene, relics of the old tongue. We still use the colorful phrases. Sera: And it means what? Dorian: Literally? 😏  'You shit on my tongue.' Sera: 😂 Why not just say that?  Dorian: A mystery for the ages.  29. Sera: Demons! Flappy robes! Dorian: Thieves! Dog Stink! Sera: Culty shits! Dorian: Treacherous teyrns! Sera: Wha- It’s not a proper game of ‘Your people are shit” if you just make up words. 🙄 Dorian: A ‘teyrn’ is a Fereldan title, just below that of a king. I thought you of all people would know that. Sera: Well that’s just... I... smartasses 🤬 Dorian: Too late! I believe that’s my round. 🤗 Sera: Piss! 😠 28.  Vivienne: You’re rather amusing, Dorian. Dorian: Your outfit’s entertaining, I’ll give it that.🙄 Vivienne: Pretending to be a shark from a land of sharks. But you’re not a shark and you’ll never be one, darling. They knew this as much as we do.   Dorian: I could have of course pretended, wore fancy clothes, convinced everyone I’m something I’m not.  Dorian: Then I could take a position at court, whore myself out, and desperately hope no one realizes what a fraud I am.  Vivienne: Such snapping for a fish without teeth! 😂 Inquisitor: I cannot believe the way you two speak to each other. 😨 Vivienne: Inquisitor whatever is the matter? We’re having a perfectly civil conversation. Dorian: It’s true. I’ve heard worse from the gardener back home.  27.   Dorian: Varric, you owe me five royals. I’d like them paid in candied dates. 😉 Varric: I haven’t lost that bet yet, Sparkler. Dorian: You said we would be arse-deep in trouble. This is more like knee-high. Varric: I didn’t specify whose ass, did I? 😏 Dorian: Leave it to a dwarf always lowering the bar. 🙄 26. I hope you tried the ham they were serving, by the way. Tasted of despair. Fascinating. 25. Dorian: Vivienne, we can continue this dance forever if you like. Vivienne: Certainly. Provided both of us are capable. Dorian: I mock Orlesian frippery and nonsense, you slam Tevinter decadence and tyrrany. Dorian: There's however something more important we must remember. Vivienne: And what might that just be? 🤨 Dorian: At least we're not Antivan. Vivienne: 🤢 Quite right. Thank the Maker. 🙏 24. Cassandra: You're not as handsome as you think, Dorian. Dorian: Ah, but I must be! Or you wouldn't have been thinking about it all this time.  😏 Cassandra: Anyone who claims it as often as you must be dreadfully concerned they're not. Dorian: Look at this profile - Isn't it incredible? Dorian: I picture it in marble. 😏 Cassandra: 😒 23. Flying cows over Minrathous? Preposterous! Okay that one is actually true, but the cows didn't have wings. 22. Dorian: I have only one question, Sera: did you cut your own hair?  Sera: Yeah. Why wouldn't I? 🙄 Dorian: You could try using something other than a rusty butter knife. Sera: Oh, excuse me while I dig up my diamond-studded hair-cutting whatevers. 🙄 Dorian: Scissors. 😏 The word you're looking for is "scissors." 😏 21. Iron Bull: Quite the stink-eye you've got going, Dorian. Dorian: You stand there, flexing your muscles, huffing like some beast of burden with no thought save conquest. 😡 Iron Bull: That's right. These big muscled hands could tear those robes off while you struggled, helpless in my grip. Iron Bull: I'd pin you down, and as you gripped my horns. Iron Bull: I. Would. Conquer. You. 😏 Dorian: Uh. What? 😨 Iron Bull: Oh. Is that not where we're going? 🤐 Dorian: No. It was very much not.😳 20. You can't call me pampered, Varric. 🙄 Nobody has peeled a grape for me in weeks. 19. Sera: Dorian are you going to warn me the next time you bust out in demons or sumthin? Dorian: 😂 How exactly do you picture me 'busting out’? Dorian: I am just walking along and *OOPS* - demon? Dorian: I mean it could happen, after years of training. You could also trip and impale your eye on an arrow. 😏 Sera: So are you going to warn me or not? 🙄 Dorian: Certainly. But only because you're so dear to me. 😘 18. Dorian: For being so unnerved by magic, you aren't shy about benefiting from its effects.🤔 Sera: I don't. I use normal things, not magic. 🙄 Dorian: You consider swathing yourself in flame or ice 'normal' and 'not magic'? 🤨 Sera: For one: it comes out a bottle. Sera: For two: I mess up, I get burned. You mess up, your head chucks up a demon. Sera: For three: Bottle, little burned, no demons. So there. 🤗 Dorian: That was only... you know, if it lets you sleep at night, never mind. 😒 17. Festis bei umo canaverum! I swear, if you don't come through this, I will kill you. 😖 16. Dorian: The first time I entered the Fade it looked like a lovely castle full of silks and gold. 😍 Dorian: I met a marvellous desire demon as I recall. We chatted and ate grapes before he tried to possess me. 😇   Vivienne: 🙄😒😠😡🤬 Dorian: Yes? I hear your southern Harrowings are slightly more strenuous. 😏 15. What do they call this place? A "bog"? Lovely word for it.  🙄 14. Dorian: Solas, what is this whole look of yours about? Solas: I am sorry? 🙄 Dorian: No, that outfit is sorry.😷 What are you supposed to be, some sort of woodsman? Dorian: Isn't that a Dalish thing? Don't you dislike the Dalish? Or is it some sort of statement? Solas: No. 😠 Dorian: Well, it says "Apostate hobo" to me. 😏 Vivienne: Unwashed apostate hobo, more specifically. 🙂 13. I AM TOO PRETTY TO DIE 😭 12. Dorian: Amatus, it's been so long. Did you miss me? Inquisitor: A little bit. Dorian:  😂 'a little bit' he says. I'll show you a little bit! Just you wait. 😏 11. Dorian: Sera, where do you get your arrows from? You have so many. 🤔 Sera: From your arse. That's where. 🙄  Dorian: My arse should open up a shop. It's apparently quite prolific. 😁 10. Ah, this reminds me of the time Mother took me boating in summer. Or rather, she had the servants take me on the boat while she sat inside with a cool drink.🙄  09. Inquisitor: Things are going well with the Bull, I take it? Dorian: He's glad I've returned, if that's what you mean. Nearly crushed three of my ribs with that ridiculous hug. 🙄 Inquisitor: You say that as if you don't like it. 🤨 Dorian: For such a great beast, he can be such a terrible sap 🙄 Dorian: [bullvoice] "I want to talk about my feelings, Dorian". Dorian: Ugh. 🙄 Inquisitor: 😂 you do like it Dorian: Quiet you! He'll overhear, and then where I'll be?🤫 08. Dorian: Sera, I cannot believe you, of all people, are scared of magic. Surely you can see nothing wrong with a properly used tool? Sera: What about all the mages waving their proper tools in people's faces? Dorian: There's an image. 😁 Sera: "What about Corfyface? How many proper tools does he have under him? Dorian: That's not... I don't think I can continue. 😬 Sera: I don't care how gifted you are, don't cram it where it's not wanted. 😡 Vivienne: Maker, how does she not know? 🙄 07. Just once we should enter a cave and see normal sized spiders. 🙄 06. Cassandra: After all the places we have been, I hardly expected us to find ourselves in another cave. Cassandra: Still, as mad as our lives had been, I would take any chance to be together.  😘 Dorian: Why seeker, after all these years, I never realized you felt this way!! Cassandra: ... Dorian: ... Cassandra: 😒 Dorian: Oh, you meant him. 😶 05. Mountains! 😠 Cold! 😠 "Let's bring Dorian!". 😒 04. Dorian: I heard a little rumour that somebody has been doing some training. As an assassin no less. Inquisitor: I thought the skills might come in handy. Dorian: Yes, I suppose a little flair is welcome, with all the killing you do. Inquisitor: I don't kill that many people. 🙄  Dorian: Are you joking? I'm only surprised you didn't kill someone walking over here. 🤨 03. Cole: Breath painful, stabbing, and then real stabbing, lungs full, frothing, scent of apples as it all goes black. Dorian: 'Death By Applepie' - A lovely poem by our dear friend Cole.  02. Blackwall: Corypheus, one of yours isn't he? Dorian: One of my mine? 🙄  Like a pet? 🙄 Like a giant darkspawn hamster with aspirations of godhood? 🙄 Dorian: "Dorian, why can't you look after your little friends. Corypheus peed on the carpet again". Dorian: In this analogy, 'the carpet' is Haven. 😏 Blackwall: Is he or isn't he a Tevinter magister? 😒 Dorian: Meaning 'the source of everything bad in the world'? They are the same, yes? 😑 Blackwall: Sigh. Feels that way at times. 🙄 01. Inquisitor: No matter what happens, I wouldn't trade the years I spent with you for anything. Inquisitor: I love you. Dorian: I knew you'd break my heart, you bloody bastard. 😭

#Dragon Age #Dragon Age Inquisition #DAI #DA3 #Dragon Age 3 #Dorian #Dorian Pavus #Pavus

[virtualrenfaire2020]

Virtual Ren Faire 2020 Calendar

We have activities and themed days, plus we’ve compiled a bunch of livestreams from some fantastic performers to enjoy during our Faire. The calendar is updated daily, so stay tuned for more events!

Saturday, March 28

Opening day!

Join us on Opening Day for a day of faire activities. Share photos, videos, and stories relating to your ren faire experience! 

Submissions will be open starting today for the Costume Contest!

O.W.L. Fest - 7:30 AM PDT

An all-day series of concerts with a wizardly theme. A new artist is live every half hour until 7:00 PM, so tune in anytime! Don’t forget to refresh the page between concerts to listen to the latest stream. The current lineup is: Tonks and the Aurors, Lauren Fairweather, Ashley Hamel, Hawthorn & Holly, Grace Kendall, Kalysta Flame, Pussycat Dolores, The Purebloods, Flitwick and the Charmers, Losing Lara, Muggle Snuggle, Percy and the Prefects, Ludo Bagman and the Trash, Draco and the Malfoys, The Mudbloods, The Lovegoods, Alas Earwax!, The Blibbering Humdingers, Abby Ritter, The Swedish Shortsnouts, Kirstyn Hippe, POTTÖRHEAD, The Arkadian, Karl-Johan, and Toucan Dubh.

Check out the Facebook livestream concerts here.

Ye Banished Privateers Virtual Release Party - 11:00 AM PDT.

“Let’s party like it’s 1720! Borders are closing, people are being forced to shut their doors. Our global world is growing smaller, but Ye Banished Privateers believes in staying connected through the crisis. On march 28th we were planning to throw a big release party for our new album Hostis Humani Generis in our home town Umeå, Sweden, which naturally had to be cancelled due to the corona pandemic. Instead we’ll be hosting a live streamed event, at 19.00 cet 28/3 that will be worthy of an official release concert. We want to try and make this something special and grand . . . let’s stand together in all safe ways possible.”

Check out the Youtube livestream concert here.

Pub Crawl - 1:30 PM PDT. 

We’ll be hosting a BYOB pub crawl. Keep an eye out for the tag vrf2020 pub crawl for more info. Please follow local drinking laws and drink responsibly!

Cyrus Pynn (The Swordsman) - 2:00 PM PDT.

“I am a self taught professional sword swallower who perfected the art at the Coney Island Sideshow School, where I learned to present it in an entertaining and classy manner. Since then I have pushed the limit with this dangerous feat as I have traveled across the United States performing with Carnivals, Festivals and Variety Shows . . . Demonstrating the world's most dangerous stunt in an entertaining, classy manner featuring comedy, audience interaction and, of course, death defiance! ‘Down the Hatch without a Scratch!’“

Check out the Facebook livestream show here.

Andrea Beaton - 4:30 PM PDT.

“Andrea grew up in a musical family in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.  Both the Beaton and MacMaster sides of her family are well known and respected as some of Cape Breton's finest musicians, dancers and composers. She has made 6 solo CDs, a duo album with her father Kinnon, and published 3 books of tunes.”

Check out the Zoom livestream concert here.

The CRAIC Show - 5:00 PM PDT.

“The CRAIC Show is an intense & wildly entertaining act, made up of five international travelers who, in 1541AD, were banded together on an ancient battlefield. This unique merging of music from far away lands brings a sound that is unlike any other . . .  Ever-changing and constantly blending styles, The CRAIC Show is always bringing a fresh, high energy blend of World Medieval Music to a modern audience.” 

Check out the Facebook livestream concert here.

Erin Rae - 7:00 PM PDT.

“Gifted with a unique ability to fuse musical genres and influences to craft songs that feel fresh and wholly her own, with her new album Putting On Airs, Erin Rae has thrown down a direct challenge to the stereotype of what a Southern singer should be. Both lyrically and sonically, she strikes a fiercely independent chord, proudly releasing a deeply personal record that reflects her own upbringing in Tennessee, including the prejudices and injustices that she witnessed as a child that continue to impact her life to this day. According to Rae, ‘this album was born out of a need to do some healing work in my personal life, in order to address some fears and patterns of mine to allow my true feelings to come to the surface.’”

Check out the Instagram livestream concert here.

Sunday, March 29

Submissions remain open for the Costume Contest!

Alistair McCulloch - 11:30 AM PDT.

“Alistair is one of Scotland's best known fiddle performers and teachers.  His trio features Aaron Jones of Old Blind Dogs, and former Capercaillie whistle wizard Marc Duff. Alistair has taught a generation of rising stars at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.”

Check out the Zoom livestream concert here.

Linda McRae - 1:00 PM PDT.

“Linda’s love of Canadian, American and British music early on in her career resulted in multiple band configurations from roots-rock to punk to folk . . . When Linda steps onto a concert stage, into a recording studio, workshop or mentoring session, there is an effortless passion, a love of what she does and a connection with fans and friendships built and treasured. A multi-instrumentalist Linda works tirelessly as a touring singing songwriter, performing at premiere venues across Canada, the US and Europe while turning out new works.”

Check out the Facebook livestream concert here.

The Glow Bubble Show (Meadow Perry) - 4:00 PM PDT.

“Meadow Perry is a Philadelphia based Magician, Bubble Artist and Actress. Known for her beloved children's character, Meadowlark the Faerie, Meadow has been performing in various genres from the stage to private events for over 15 years. The Bubble Magic of Meadow Perry is a show that takes the visual art of bubbles, theatrical storytelling, enchanting magic, thrilling music, & a touch of sophistication to create a unique and entertaining show that has been described as ‘A mesmerizing, spellbounding experience! Charming and interesting, Meadow takes the rules of bubbles outside the box!’”

Check out the Instagram livestream show here.

Monday, March 30

Submissions remain open for the Costume Contest!

Merchants’ Monday

Show our wonderful shops some extra love today!

Shannon Lay - 12:00 PM PDT.

“There is an entire sub-genre of poetry devoted to rivers and their persistent, meditative flow . . . For transcendent folk-pop artist Shannon Lay, the river is all of the above: It’s the metaphor driving her latest album, the exquisitely uplifting August (Sub Pop Records, out August, 23rd)—which doubles as an aural baptism renewing her purpose for making music. ‘I always picture music as this river. Everyone’s throwing things into this river, it’s a place you can go to and feed off of that energy,’ she says, ‘and feel nourished by the fact that so many people are feeling what you’re feeling. It’s this beautiful exchange.’”

Check out the Instagram livestream concert here.

Jesse Linder, Bard - 5:00 PM PDT.

“. . .'Singer of Songs, Teller of Tales.’ Jesse performs as a solo artist and as a member of 3 Pints Gone, and has been a member of Separated at Birth, CrossRogues, and Tippler's Way. Jesse sings at Renaisance faires, American reenactments, Irish pubs, and coffeehouses throughout the Midwest. He currently has three solo CDs and five group CDs in print.”

Check out the Facebook livestream concert here.

Steven Greenman - 6:00 PM PDT.

“Steven has worked with some of the world’s leading klezmer ensembles, is a founding member of Cleveland’s East European ensemble Harmonia, and has been a guest soloist with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, performing his own arrangements of gypsy and klezmer music.”

Check out the Zoom livestream concert here.

Tuesday, March 31

Submissions remain open for the Costume Contest!

Time Travel Tuesday

Share your favorite photos and costumes from any time period, from Ancient Greece to 2265. After all, in quarantine, time all feels a little wibbly wobbly!

Jonathan Cannon - 5:30 PM PDT.

“Jonathan has studied klezmer, Romanian, Celtic, and American fiddling, performs regularly, with award-winning Boston klezmer band Ezekiel’s Wheels, and for contra dances.”

Check out the Zoom livestream concert here.

Wednesday, April 1

Submissions remain open for the Costume Contest!

Anne-Mari Kivimäki & Palomylly - 10:00 AM PDT.

“Anne-Mari Kivimäki & Palomylly is an impressive sound mix with stories, archive recordings, jouhikko, double bass, vocals and accordion. Kivimäki’s music has a hypnotic pulse and it’s made for the love of old stories. Kivimäki has gathered her Palomylly band from the musicians on her successful Lakkautettu Kylä (A Closed-Down Village) album.”

Check out the Facebook livestream concert here.

Troy MacGillivray with Sabra MacGillivray - 4:30 PM PDT.

“Troy is a brilliant fiddler, pianist and stepdancer from Nova Scotia.  He’s been featured at many festivals including Celtic Connections in Scotland, East Coast Music Awards, Celtic Colours Festival in Cape Breton, the Barbados Celtic Festival and the Edinburgh Fiddle Festival.”

Check out the Zoom livestream concert here.

Thursday, April 2

Submissions remain open for the Costume Contest!

Cookie Segelstein with Josh Horowitz - 10:00 AM PDT.

“Founder of Veretski Pass, and fiddler with many other top klezmer bands, Cookie has taught workshops round the world, and has been featured in an ABC documentary and a film starring Robert DeNiro.  Josh founded the band Budowitz and has played with Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Theodore Bikel, and accompanied Itzhak Perlman on PBS.”

Check out the Zoom livestream concert here.

Oshima Brothers - 3:00 PM PDT.

“Raised in a musical family in rural Maine, the brothers have honed a harmony-rich blend of contemporary folk and acoustic pop. On stage, Sean and Jamie create a surprisingly full sound with dynamic vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, octave bass, loops, and percussion. The brothers live in Maine but are often on the road performing, producing music videos, and dancing.”

Check out the Facebook livestream concert here.

Friday, April 3

Submissions remain open for the Costume Contest!

Furry Friends Friday

Ever dressed your pet up for the faire? Show us your photos and costume ideas! Or show us your faire-themed fursuit. You do you.

Let’s Get Traditional (The Minstrel Rav’n) - 4:00 PM PDT.

“The Minstrel Rav'n travels the lands Telling Songs and Singing Stories about Taverns, Pirates and Elven Lasses. Songs of Adventure, Drinking... and things a bit on the Naughty Side!”

Check out the Facebook livestream here.

HST (Ed, Lilly & Neil Pearlman) - 4:30 PM PDT.

“HST (Highland Soles Trio) is 3/5 of a family band, with dancer Laura Scott and Jesse on whistle. HST has toured the US and Scotland with new and old tunes in the Scottish tradition.”

Check out the Zoom livestream concert here.

Saturday, April 4

Gráinne Brady - 12:30 PM PDT.

“Gráinne is an Irish fiddle player from County Cavan in Ireland and currently based in Glasgow where she leads sessions and plays with Top Floor Taivers, string group The Routes Quartet, and Gaeilge/Gàidhlig supergroup LAS.”

Check out the Zoom livestream concert here.

Pub Crawl - 1:30 PM PDT.

We’ll be hosting a BYOB pub crawl. Keep an eye out for the tag vrf2020 pub crawl for more info. Please follow local drinking laws and drink responsibly!

Costume Contest Judging - 6:00 PM PDT.

Submissions remain open for the Costume Contest until 6:00. Winners will be chosen between 6:00 and 7:00 PDT.

Sunday, April 5

Jenna Reid - 11:30 AM PDT.

“Jenna is a member of the great fiddle bands Blazin' Fiddles, and RANT.  Born & bred in Shetland, she learned fiddle from the late Willie Hunter. Following her music degree, Jenna performed with Dóchas and Deaf Shepherd before joining her current bands.”

Check out the Zoom livestream concert here.

Closing Day

We’re sad to see you go, but we hope to catch you at an IRL faire next season!

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Without

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Katara sat perfectly still at the table, listening to the raised voices. Across from her, Zuko mirrored her posture. He held his tension in his eyes and Katara could see the tiny lines around the right one. Katara held hers in her shoulders, and she could feel her muscles seize as she continued to hold the pose.

Every single minor king and Kuei’s representative was at the table, with the Air Nomad Council and Rohan representing Urban Dust. Thuy was overwhelmed and sat next to Hakoda, her shoulders hunched and her eyes darting around. A woman from the Swamp Tribe sat on Thuy’s other side and was making a point of not looking at Katara.

Most of the people yelling were angry about Katara’s upcoming nuptials. She had invited them to a summit at the South Pole to talk about it. Instead, it was a bunch of angry old people trying to tell her what to do.

“My esteemed guests,” Katara said, raising her voice to be heard over the din. “I suggest you take your seats.”

The people arguing paused and begrudgingly sat down, but one of the Earth Kingdom kings immediately spoke up.

“We demand an explanation for the recent trade agreement between the Fire Nation and the Water Tribes.” He said, slamming his fist down on the table. It was made out of ice, so whatever effect he was going for, his flesh only thumped lamely against the surface.

“What is there to explain? It’s a forthright document.” Katara asked.

“You’re giving them equitable drilling rights for oil in the south western sea.” The king said.

Katara blinked at him, feeling the numbness of anger begin to form in her mind.

“And? Those waters are completely within our boundaries.” She replied.

“The Southern Air Temple shares those borders, yet they were given nothing!” The man said.

Katara closed her eyes and counted to three before opening them again.

“Why would I consult with the Air Nomad council over trade that involves my water, my oil, and my borders?” She asked. Unfortunately, she wanted to ask why an Earth Kingdom king would be so interested in Air Nomad trade.

“What if they wanted to drill?” The man asked petulantly.

“Then they can come to me the same way the Fire Nation minister of trade did.” Katara seethed.

“We don’t even have the industry.” Rohan added then rubbed their eyes and continued. “We don’t even care about oil, we use renewable energy.”

“By the way, I’ve been meaning to have my energy minister talk to you about that.” Zuko said, reaching his hand across the table toward Rohan.

“This is exactly the problem!” A queen shouted. “All of the Avatar’s instructors are cavorting about and making deals outside of their official positions.”

“It’s favoritism.” A third person added.

“I met with the trade minister in Republic City! How is that favoritism?” Katara demanded.

“Katara.” Hakoda said gently and Katara forced out a deep breath.

“I know exactly what the problem is, and unfortunately for all of you, I’m not politic enough to beat around the bush.” Katara said and looked around the table. “More of my people voluntarily came to the Earth Kingdom’s aid than the Air Nomads. The Earth Kingdom kings and queens were more interested in fighting each other over the centuries that your navy was laughable. My people sent ships. They sent food and literally ended droughts for you. And you never sent anything back. You didn’t even send my mother’s body back.”

Sliding her chair back from the table, Katara stood and ran her hands over her abdomen. She would never get used to the touch of finer clothing, and it shocked her enough to lighten her mood.

“The Earth Kingdom was fine seeing us go without for so long. We would never rise up to threaten you if we couldn’t even feed ourselves.” Katara said.

“No see here-” The first man to speak tried to stand up but Katara pulled his chair back in with the barest flick of her wrist.

“My people will not continue to go without any longer. The Fire Nation has produced most of the technological marvels of this age, and only requires the most minimal amount of oil in their production of plastic. I can sell a sustainable amount of oil for a good price and invest that money in my tribes. It has nothing to do with the fact that I will be marrying the Fire Lord.” She finished.

“But won’t you be the Fire Lady?” Thuy asked. Katara turned and the others murmured behind her.

“Won’t the Fire Nation be your people too?” Thuy continued.

Katara held her breath to keep herself from visually reacting. Thuy had just managed to undo weeks of work in a question. All because of teenage romantic ideals.

“One kingdom acting with two hands makes it a lot easier to manipulate things.” A queen remarked and Katara’s upper back seized.

Katara whirled on the Earth Kingdom contingent and barely repressed a snarl.

“I am one kingdom with three hands already.” She stated. Taking in and releasing a shaky breath, Katara retook her seat.

“Katara will be Fire Lady,” Zuko said calmly. “But she won’t have any power in the Fire Nation. They never do. She’d be just as subject to flattery and manipulation as any other person in that position would be. And many rulers have been controlled by their spouses.”

He turned to smile down at the Earth Kingdom side of the table. Many of the sovereigns looked away.

“The spouse of the King or Queen of the Water Tribes doesn’t even get a title.” Katara said. Then, looking at Thuy’s pained face, went on. “I try to do my best for everyone when I’m in a situation. Outside of, you know, war.”

“You did fight in the war, didn’t you?” Zuko said brightly. “What did you do again?”

“Hmm, you know, I think I sank the entire Fire Nation navy. Sorry about that by the way.” Katara said, genuinely apologizing at the end.

“That’s okay. You see, I actually fought on your side as well.” Zuko replied.

“You mean for the Earth Kingdom liberation?” Katara put her hands to her cheeks in mock surprise. “I had forgotten!”

“This chincery is extremely rude.” A king muttered.

“But extremely funny.” Rohan said.

“Rohan!” Tenzin whispered sharply.

“We understand what you’re doing, Queen Katara.” The king said.

“Do you?” Katara asked and leisurely turned to address him. “Because I don’t understand why you’re sitting here having a hissy fit if you did.”

“Katara.” Hakoda said and Katara shook her head.

“I think a lot of people made a lot of money during the war, and they want to continue to tiptoe through peace whispering about shadows to keep people afraid. Either we are committed to this peace and we go on with our lives, or we openly admit to suspecting each other and see if those whispers come true.” She said.

“I am marrying Katara for love, not for power.” Zuko said.

“That’s easy to say, young Fire Lord.” Tenzin said. Zuko looked at Katara and she nodded.

“Yes, we’re young, but we’re not foolish. My uncle says that wisdom comes from survival, and I have survived more in my young life than many of you.” He said and then composed himself. “So on the new year, after my marriage, I will be formally announcing the Fire Nation’s transition to a constitutional monarchy.”

“Our marriage will be a symbol of unification, but the power will belong to the citizens of the Fire Nation.” Katara said and smiled lovingly at Zuko.

“Ahhhh, I get it now.” The Swamp Tribe representative said.

“What?” A queen demanded.

“As I am now the Avatar’s master, I understand the importance of having different perspectives. So the Water Tribe will be ruled by a triumvirate. And as neither Sokka nor myself are Chief Hakoda’s heir, eventually things will settle out to be more equitable.” Katara clarified.

“And where is the Earth Kingdom left in all of this?” A king sputtered and now the entire other half of the table glared at them.

“What business does the Earth Kingdom have in the rulers of foreign nations?” One of the monks asked.

Shamefaced, the king lowered his head.

Glancing to her side, Katara caught Thuy’s eye and smiled. Still looking overwhelmed, Thuy nodded curtly and gave her a watery grin in return.

The four nations were going to live in harmony again, whether they liked it or not.

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[bookofjin]

Annals of Taihe 19 (495)

[From WS007. On 11 March, the Emperor crosses the Huai. Initially he intends march all the way to the Jiang, but in the end settles for sending messengers to denounce Xiao Luan for his crimes. After touring the eastern provinces, he returns to Luoyang on 23 June.]

[Taihe 19, 11 February 495 – 30 January 496]

19th Year, Spring, 1st Month, xinwei, New Moon [11 February], a court banquet with the crowd of subjects at Xuanhu.

On guiyou [13 February], decreed prohibitions for the people north of the Huai, they did not get to intrude and plunder. Transgressors would receive the great punishment as sentence.

On jiaxu [14 February], a call to arms, explaining about Xiao Luan.

On bingzi [16 February], Luan's Founding State Marquis of Longyang county, Wang Lang, came from Woyang to surrender.

On renwu [22 February], military exercises to the west side of the Ru River. Greatly furnished the Six Armies.

On bingshen [8 March], the General who Pacifies the South, Wang Su again and again routed Xiao Luan's generals, and seized his Inspector of Ning province, Dong Luan.

On jihai [11 March], the Chariot Drove to cross the Huai.

2nd Month, jiachen [16 March], favoured the Bagong Mountain. On the roads it rained considerably, decreed to leave for cover. Saw the army soldiers who were ill, and personally grieved and cared for them.

On wushen [20 March], the Chariot Drove to tour the Huai and go east. The people were all calm in their places, and gathered and moved to collect along the road.

On renzi [24 March], the state of Gaoli dispatched envoys to court to present.

On bingchen [28 March], the Chariot Drove to arrive at Zhongli.

On wuwu [30 March], the Army soldiers seized 3 000 of Xiao Luan's troops. The Emperor said:

When there is a lord being a lord, what are crimes of his people?

Then he dismissed them to return home.

On xinyou [2 April], the Chariot Drove to issue out from Zhongli, wanting to overlook the Jiang River.

The Minister over the Masses, Feng Dan, passed away.

On renxu [3 April], therefore decreed to turn around the host.

On dingmao [8 April], dispatched envoys to overlook the Jiang, and count out Xiao Luan's repugnant crimes of killing his lord and installing himself.

3rd Month, wuyin [19 April], favoured Shaoyang.

On wuzi [29 April], the Grand Teacher, Feng Xi, passed away.

On yiwei [6 May], favoured Xiapi.

The state of Dengzhi dispatched envoys to court with tribute.

Summer, 4th Month, gengzi [11 May], the Chariot Drove to favour Pengcheng.

On xinchou [12 May], the Emperor made to undertake mourning for the Grand Teacher, Feng Xi, at the places where he was travelling.

On dingwei [18 May], a special amnesty for Xu and Yu provinces, for their soldiers of the river transports, and remitted three years of taxes and levies.

On xinhai [22 May], decreed to bestow on those ninety years and older be bestowed three grades of feudal rank, those eighty and older be bestowed two grades of feudal rank, those seventy and older be bestowed one grade of feudal rank. The the orphaned and solitary, elderly and ill, who were not able survive by themselves were bestowed grain and silk. Those whose virtue had been on display in the hills and parks to be drawn so their names would be known. Those of Xiao Luan's people who had surrendered be given remittance of fifteen years.

On guichou [24 May], favoured Xiaopei. Dispatched envoys to use the grand sacrificial animals to worship at the Temple of Gaozu of Han.

On jiwei [30 May], travelled to favour Xiaqiu. Dispatched envoys to use the grand sacrificial animals to sacrifice at Dai Peak.

Decreed that the military officials of the lodged guard be increased in rank, one grade.

On gengshen [31 May], travelled to favour Lucheng. Personally sacrificed at the Temple of Master Kong.

On xinyou [1 June], decreed to designate four people of the Kong clan and two people of the Yan clan as officials.

Decreed that the Inspector of Yan province recommend from within his section gentlemen talented and capable in [matters of] army and states, and wardens and stewards active in government, and draw them up so their names would be known.

Also decreed to bestow on the people of Yan province feudal rank and millet and silk like in Xu province.

Also decreed to select one person of the various Kong lineage sons, and ennoble him Marquis of Chongsheng [lit. “Marquis who Venerates the Sage”], with an estate of 100 households, so as to offer the sacrifices of Master Kong.

Also decreed that Yan province to make for Master Kong a park with cypresses, repair and decorate the grave mound, and furthermore build an inscribed stone tablet, praising and exalting the Sage's virtue.

On wuchen [8 June], travelled to favour Queao.

The Taihe [“Grand Harmony”] Temple was complete.

5th Month, jisi [9 June], the King of Chengyang, Luan, at Zheyang had lost the advantage. Reduced him to be King of Dingxiang county.

The King of Guangchuan, Xie, passed away.

On gengwu [10 June], moved August Empress Wencheng, Ms. Feng's spirit tablet to the Taihe Temple.

On jiaxu [14 June], travelled to favour Huatai.

On bingzi [16 June], stayed at Shiji.

On gengchen [20 June], the August Heir-Apparent paid court at  Pingtao City.

The states of Gaoli and Tuyuhun both dispatched envoys to court with tribute.

On guiwei [23 June], the Chariot Drove to arrive from the southern offensive. Announced it at the Grand Temple.

On jiashen [24 June], eliminated idle officials' beneficence so as to employ it for supplementing army and state.

On yiyou [25 June], acted out the rite of drinking to the arrival, and distributed and bestowed proportionally.

On jiawu [4 July], the August Heir-Apparent was capped at the Temple.

6th Month, jihai [9 September], decreed that they did not get to use the speech and words of the northern customs at the imperial court. If there were someone who disobeyed, they would be dismissed from their posts and offices.

On xinchou [11 July], decreed to remit for those army soldiers who had accompanied the Carriage across the Huai three years of taxes and levies.

On guimao [13 July], decreed the August Heir-Apparent to proceed to the Pingcheng Palace.

On renzi [22 July], decreed that for Ji# province, Dong commandery, Xingyang, and the various counties south of the He through which the Chariot had Driven: Those hundred years old and above be bestowed provisional county Prefects, those ninety years and older be bestowed three grades of feudal rank, those eighty and older be bestowed two grades of feudal rank, those seventy and older be bestowed one grade of feudal rank. The orphaned, elderly, widowers and widows who were not able survive by themselves be bestowed grain and silk.  The filial and brotherly, the upright and right-principled, and those civil and military officials who had responded to requirements to be drawn so their names would be known.

On guichou [23 July], decreed sought out the lost books of Under Heaven. Those who had what the private chamber was without that would be employed for aiding and profiting the times would be given generous rewards.

On yimao [25 July], a special amnesty for Liang# province, remitted for the people three years of land taxes.

On bingchen [26 July], decreed that people who had moved to Luo, when they died they would be buried South of the He, and did not get to return north. Hence the people of Dai who had moved south would be fully be people of Luoyang in Henan.

On wuwu [28 July], decreed to change to lengthen the chi, and enlarge the dou, relying on the rules and measures of the Rites of Zhou, and distributed them Under Heaven.

8th Month, jiachen [12 September], favoured the Western Palace. On the road saw destroyed cemeteries and exposed coffins, paused the palanquin to cover them.

On yisi [13 September], decreed that the 15 000 soldiers of Under Heaven's martial and brave to become the Feathered Forest, and the Rapid-as-Tigers, and use them to supply the lodged guard.

On dingsi [25 September] the various accompanying troops who had accompanied on the campaign and who had suffered wounds, all were allowed to return to their origin. The Jinyong [“Metal-Walled”] Palace was completed.

On jiazi [2 October], guided the crowd of subjects on successive banquets in the halls and fore-halls.

9th Month, gengwu [8 October], the Six Palaces and the civil and military officials fully moved to Luoyang.

On bingxu [24 October], travelled to favour Ye.

On dinghai [25 October], a decree said:

Of those various who have old tombs, whose inscribed records are existing, and whose illustriousness was known by the people of the times, for the Three Excellencies and the ranked [officials] accompanying the Excellencies, the distance from the tomb will be thirty paces; for the Supervisor and Prefect of the Master of Writing, and the Nine Classes, fifteen paces, for the Yellow Gates and the Five Colonels, ten paces. For each it is not allowed to till and plant [on them?].

On renchen [30 October], the dispatched a Gentleman of the Yellow Gates to the grand sacrificial animals to worship at the tomb of Bigan.

On yiwei [2 November], the Chariot Drove to return to the Palace.

Winter, 10th Month, jiachen [11 November], a special amnesty for Xiang province. The people hundred years and older be provisional commandery Wardens, ninety and older be provisional county Prefects, eighty and older be bestowed three grades of feudal rank, seventy and older be bestowed two grades of feudal rank. The orphaned, elderly, and chronic ill who were not able survive by themselves were bestowed grain and silk.

On bingshen [3 November], the Chariot Drove to arrive from Ye.

On xinyou [28 November], decreed that in the provinces and commanderies' where there variously were scholars or commoners who acted by the guidelines and cultivated attentiveness, and whose thoughts in writing were bold and uninhibited, whose talents excelled in the management of functionaries, and who were capably of involving themselves with government affairs, they were hence to timely issue out and dispatch them [?].

On renxu [29 November], decreed that the various provincial shepherds were to precisely classify their subordinate officials, examine their gains and losses, doing the division of the three levels, so that it become known. [The Emperor] wanted to personally review and raise or lower them.

Decreed Xu, Yan, Guang, Nanqing, Jing, and Luo provinces to continue with the strictness and military preparations, they should attend and betake themselves to collecting together.

11th Month [3 December – 31 December], travelled to favour Weisu Mountain. Discussed and settled the Circular Hill.

On jiashen [21 December], had affairs at the Circular Hill.

On bingxu [23 December], a great amnesty Under Heaven.

12th Month, yiwei, New Moon [1 January], guided and saw the crowd of subjects at the Guangji [“Brilliant Eminence”] Fore-hall, circulated and published the classification orders, and made the beginning of the great selection.

On xinyou [27 January], the Great General of Agile Cavalry and the Shepherd of Si province, the King of Xianyang, Xi, became Senior Combined Grand Commandant. The former King of Nan'an, Zhen, was restored to his original fief. Used the Specially Advanced, the King of Guangling, Yu, as Great General who Conquers the East, Opening Office with Ceremony Similar to the Three Ministers, and Inspector of Qing province.

On jiazi [30 January], guided and saw the crowd of subjects at the Guangji Fore-hall, and distributed and bestowed caps and clothes.

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[dailyaudiobible]

12/14/2020 DAB Transcript

Jonah 1:1-4:11, Revelation 5:1-14, Psalm 133:1-3, Proverbs 29:26-27

Today is the 14th day of December welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today as we continue our journey and take the next step forward through the Scriptures. We’re moving at a rapid pace. We move at a rapid pace during December because we’re moving through so many different pieces of…well…different texts in the Scriptures. And, so, we began the book…we began the week yesterday by reading in its entirety the book of Obadiah, which is the shortest book in the Old Testament just 21 verses and we spoke about that. Obviously, we read the whole book of Obadiah. So, we've got new territory to enter into today and we will read in its entirety the book of Jonah, which is another one of the minor prophets.

Introduction to the book of Jonah:

Jonah obviously, Jonah and the whale, this is a Sunday school story, a very, very famous story but the story in its full context is pretty unique. So, Jonah is a prophet who lived in the northern kingdom of Israel and where he came is just due west of the southern bit of the Sea of Galilee. And he lived during the reign of King Jeroboam the second. Here’s something that makes Jonah really unique in the Bible. Most of the prophets that…that come along, they are calling their own people to repentance. Jonah's mission wasn't to talk to his own people. He was to travel to the city of Nineveh, which at the time was one of the largest cities in the world. So, you know, like in modern times like he’s commanded to go to Mexico City or he’s commanded to go to New York City or Los Angeles or London or Cape Town or, you, know, name of a large city. Actually, the archaeological ruins of Nineveh still exist. There near the city of Mosul and Iraq. Many, many of these ancient ruins have been destroyed or at minimum damaged in the recent decade by Isis. So, the long and short of the story is that Jonah has no desire to obey this assignment whatsoever. God wanted him to go to a people who were considered the enemies of Israel, and not just the enemies of Israel but the enemies of God. So, Jonah doesn't obey. In fact, he goes in the other direction like he doesn't…it…it's really interesting…you gotta get out a map to see what we’re talking about because this is a tremendous journey from where Jonah lives all the way to Nineveh, a journey that would've taken months. There was, you know, no jumpin’ on a plane. So, Jonah actually goes in the other direction. So, if we had a map of Israel and we’re lookin’ at the sea of Galilee and we’re like, “okay, so Jonah lived somewhere to the west of this we would see that for him to go to Joppa to get on a ship would mean for him to go to…essentially we’re modern-day Tel Aviv is on the West Coast of Israel. He was going in the wrong direction. He was truly running from God. So, as we probably all know Jonah ends up in the belly of a great fish and…and he’s there for three days repenting and then he eventually gets spewed out on the shore alive - a fantastic story. And we look at it through different lenses. Like as Christian people, following Jesus there’s this foreshadowing, right, of Jesus in the story. Jonah is the belly of the whale for three days and then he’s spewed out and it's like a resurrection type story. But like the Bible does most of the time, it's also a mirror. And, so, when we look at our own lives and see how fear and pride get in, we realize that they lead us into disobedience. I mean once we’ve got fear, pride, and disobedience going on we will notice probably very quickly that we are running from God. And we should realize that running from God is not…it's not an option because it's not really a possibility, right? So, if we go to the Psalms and say, “where can I run, where can I flee from your spirit? If I go to the other side of the Sea you are there. If I go into the grave you are there. If I go up to the heavens you are there”, what we are realizing is that running from God is not a possibility. He's everywhere. And Jonah’s story is a story of a man on the run from God who gets thrown into the open sea to drown. He gets swallowed by a fish. We think what a dramatic thing. And indeed yes, but that fish that swallowed Jonah while he's on the run from God became his salvation. He would have drowned in that storm. So, yeah, probably riding around in some kind of whale submarine for a few days wouldn't have been comfortable and…at all…like I can’t…I don't even know where…I don't even…I don't even know where to go with that. It would've been terrifying. But it was what God used to save Jonah's life to get him back onto dry land and get him to complete the mission. So, what we see is that Jonah does indeed go on the run from God and gets swallowed by a whale but that never had that happen. Jonah could've obeyed. He could’ve just gone on his mission, saved a lot of time and a lot of grief. Do you see the mirror? Do you see when we get pride and arrogance and all of this stuff going on and fear and disobedience and rebellion and we are on the run from God we are only wasting time. We’re going in the wrong direction. We’re gonna have to come back. We could just obey. And we might also find that we are on the run from God how life can feel like it is swallowing us. And we can be so mad. We can be mad at God that we are on the run from Him and life is swallowing us, or we could throw up our hands in surrender and repentance and realize maybe this thing that has got us swallowed right now is taking us back to safety so that we get another chance to obey. So, let's hold onto that as we dive in here. We will read Jonah in its entirety, four chapters. We’re reading from the Good News Translation. The book of Jonah.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for the story of Jonah and we've talked about it and now we've read the whole thing and we look at the way that the whole story ends. Jonah does obey You and then he is so upset that You are kind and gracious. And we confess, that's inside of us too. Maybe it doesn't see the light of day a lot but that's inside of us too. And, so, we repent of that. Between the book of Obadiah yesterday and the book of Jonah today and the theme of Your care and long-suffering, kindness for people and Your distaste, and that's a lightweight word, Your complete dissatisfaction with the way that we can behave toward one another, the way we can stand back, and watch family get hurt, the way that we can stand back and watch brothers and sisters in Christ get hurt. We see in the Psalm today how wonderful it is, how pleasant for God's people to live together in harmony, O Lord God this is our desire going forward going into a new year. This year has indeed revealed many of the places that we are divided. Now we need to come together as one following Your Holy Spirit's guidance, not following a person or anything else, being led by Your spirit to a higher calling, one that models for the world what it is supposed to look like to be a redeemed son and daughter of the most-high God. And we just blend the culture and behave the same way that we see be…being demonstrated, being modeled. You've called us to something new, a new way of doing this, a way in which we can become like the Savior, we can become Christ like in this world. And, so, help us Holy Spirit to take all that we are learning, even as things speed up here in these last days of the year, all that we are learning and plant it in the soil of our lives so that it creates change in us. Come Holy Spirit we pray. All of this we ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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It’s Christmas time so we got a couple of Christmas things going on. We are inviting you to get involved in our annual Christmas party, which is a virtual Christmas party, and you participate by adding your voice. You can call in a Christmas greeting to the community that you’ve been sharing all year as we’ve moved through the Scriptures. You can do that by using the prayer line. So, the Hotline button in the app, the little red button up at the top or the phone number 877-942-4253. So, yup, call in your holiday greetings now to be included in the…in the Christmas party that we have. Each year Jill and I, we get together and have a conversation, just kinda look back over the year and talking about life for us and where we feel like the Lord's leading things in this community. Maybe the next word for the next year, not maybe, the word for the next year. And, yeah, we spend some time together like that and then we…then we listen to each other talking about Christmas and get some hot coffee. I love it. It makes…it makes me cry every year. I love it. It's like one of the most beautiful…I look forward to it. I love it. So, if you want to participate you can call in now. Here’s the rule. That's the prayer line and normally that’s like a one call thing. Right now, if you have a prayer request or a holiday greeting just make sure they’re separate. Call in your holiday greeting and if you have a prayer request or encouragement call that in separate so that we can keep them separate or they'll have no home, they’ll have no place to go. So, just observe that. And I would say we are down to our last couple of days. Wednesday will be the last day that we will be able to do these calls. So, yeah, don't procrastinate.

And then the other thing that’s going on is the Daily Audio Bible Shop. Normally we have a Christmas box each year. Due to, you know, the circumstances that pandemics bring to the world we just…we’ve have had to juggle. And, so, we’re just inviting you to check out the Daily Audio Bible Shop. There are a number of fantastic gift ideas in there, things that you may want to gift to yourself and definitely things you may want to gift to others. So, check that out. If you spend $40 or more in the Shop, we will send you the 2020 Christmas ornament that we normally include exclusively in our Christmas boxes. But this year…yeah…it's a little different. You can make up your own Christmas box and we will be happy to include that as long as supplies last. So, check that out as well.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com. And I cannot thank you enough. I cannot…I cannot thank you enough. It’s so shocking that every day we’re here and we’re in this together. And, so, thank you. If what we’re doing as a community bringing God's spoken word read fresh every day and offered freely to the world to anyone who will listen to it wherever they may be whatever time it might be and to build community around this rhythm of showing up every day, just showing up every day. If that has made a difference then thank you for your partnership, especially this time of the year. So, there is a link on the homepage. If you're using the app you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner, or the mailing address is PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And, as always, if you have a prayer request or encouragement or holiday greeting you can it the Hotline button in the app, which is the red button up at the top or you can dial 877-942-4253.

And that's it for today. I’m Brian I love you and I'll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello greetings Christopher who started listening when he was nine and called first and called again when he was 19. Thank you for returning to us with a message of gladness for the family that follows Jesus in the Bible here. I’ve been here for around I think eight years now and Father is so good. I can’t help but to be returning because this is…it’s like the walking staff I hold onto when I walk through the day. And I begin with it and I thank the Lord for the word He speaks. His word is continual. It doesn’t change. I praise the Lord for your…for being with you in your study, for blessing you as you continue and find a job and to make your plans for life and I pray that He will inspire you and bring good people into your life as you continue your family and your faith and joy in the Lord. Amen.

Hello, my name is Carolyn and I’m in North Carolina and I’m requesting prayer for myself and for my husband. We just passed our first year of marriage and we’re experiencing some…some difficulties. I believe there’s…there’s some mental illness going on and we just need some prayer for our marriage. Just that God will open eyes and open our years and our hearts and help us to treat each other better, to get some help for the mental illness issues and just to overcome this spirit or whatever it is that is causing problems within our marriage. I lost my best friend this year and it’s just been a really difficult year. So, other than my Lord I have no one else to talk to. And I am prayerful that He will see us through this. Thank you.

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family this is The Openhearted Overcomer. I’m calling in this morning because my heart is heavy for those who are experiencing mental health conditions or have family members or friends who are. This is a difficult time of year for people with brain disorders. And, so, I’d just like to lift up a prayer now for all of you who are experiencing this in your life in some way shape or form. Dear heavenly Father I just thank You for life. I thank You for our complex brains that You’ve given us so that we can love and learn and give and grow together. I pray for those people who are experiencing chemical imbalances in their brain and they don’t feel the joy that Christmas spirit should have. And Father God I just pray that You will lift depression and You will cause all of these brain chemicals to come into balance, especially at this time of year so that we can experience the joy and the gift of Jesus Christ. I pray for all of those who are discouraged by brain disorders. Father, we know that a brain disorder is similar to any other disorder, it’s chemical, it’s biological and we’re just asking for healing Father God. We just ask that Your Holy Spirit descend upon all of those who are listening. We thank You that Your healing brains and that You are bringing joy in the midst of pain and sorrow. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Good morning DAB family this is Donna from Cleveland Ohio. This is my second call in seven years that I’ve been listening. I want you to know that I love you all and that I pray along with each and every one of you. I have a son 23 years old, Max, who left home in February to travel across the country. He’s been traveling as a homeless person living out of his car. On November 23rd he called to inform me that he would be leaving the next day for Somalia. I pleaded with him not to go. So, I prayed for his safety and the next day I got a message that his vehicle had been stolen along with his passport and everything he owned. I know that God saved him from who knows what. But I ask for your prayers for his salvation. I thank you all for listening.

Hey, DABbers this is BFG, a first-time caller from Great Britain with a praise report. A quick background is that my wife and I have a heart to create a healing and retreat space for people affected by complex PTSD. So, in the summer we found a beautiful quiet and light space in Scotland close to the sea and next to the mountains with some buildings we could develop. It does mean a relocation. So, we put our home on the market and I expected God to send us a buyer immediately but when that didn’t happen, I began to wrestle with God and question him every time we had a viewing. My incredible wife though stayed quiet be faithful to the word that you heard at the start of the year, go from your country your people and your father’s house out to the land that I’ll show you. Genesis 12. There is something awesome about the faith and prayers of a mother, a mother knows what it is to carry something inside of her and simply trust. And my wife is no different. So, my praise point. On Tuesday we got an offer on our house. It’s all suddenly become very real and scary but that evening through a devotional knowing what we needed God in faithfulness brought the same word again, go from your country your people and your father’s house out to the land that I’ll show you. And this has so encouraged and strengthened us despite all the unknowns to continue to trust that God’s in control, that He will bring the resources to create a healing space, that we just need to stay in step with Him. So, Father God we give You the honor praise and glory and declare that You alone are sovereign. We praise Your name and ask that You continue to increase our faith and thank You that You’re patient with us. Thank You for the faith of my wife, for Brian and the DAB family and that they are faithful to Your calling. Lord this community truly is Your word made flesh. I love you all.

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Dr. Robert B. Ayer, Sr.

By Joanna Grey Talbot

The story of one of Gainesville’s first Black physicians began in pre-Civil War South Carolina. Robert Bunyan Ayer was born on September 16, 1862, to Robert Ayer and Jannie Dickerson in Bufords Bridge, South Carolina.  Typically enslaved workers took on the last name of their white owners so it is likely that Robert was born on one of the plantations owned by Lewis Malone Ayer, Sr. in the Bufords Bridge area. According to the University of South Carolina Archives, the Ayer family owned over 8,000 acres and multiple plantations - Patmos, Runnymede, Harmony, Pineland, and Campfield prior to the war. At Lewis Sr.’s death in 1863 he owned 161 enslaved workers, which likely included Robert, his parents, and siblings.

In the 1870 census Jane Ayer was still living in Bufords Bridge and working as a farmhand. Her children were Evins, Mary (both working as farmhands), Robert, William (both in school), Julia, and Rebecca. After extensive research I was unable to find them in the 1880 or 1890 censuses so, unfortunately, there is a big gap in the family’s history. I do know that at some point during those 20 years Robert went to medical school, married Adriana Colclough, and moved to Gainesville.

Robert and Adriana are first listed in the 1900 census living at 202 Bay Street (4th Street). Robert was working as a physician and they owned their house. His office and drug store was located at the corner of W Union Street and S Garden Street (SW 1st Avenue and SW 1st Street). Their two children, Irwin and Vernon, Robert’s step-father and mother, Jack and Jane Elliott, sister, Annie Hagood, and niece, Maggie Benson, were living with them. Living in downtown Gainesville, the children would have attended Union Academy, the premier school for Black children in the county.

Pleasant Street postcard, courtesy of the Matheson History Museum collection

At this point in history, being a physician was a highly respected position and Dr. Ayer used his influence for good in his community. He was a member of Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church, served as Chairman of the Board of Union Academy, and assisted the county during inquests and with the treatment of prisoners. County Commission minutes ranging from 1902-1910 list payments to Dr. Ayer for “professional services” at inquests, at the Florida Farm Colony, and as a witness. In 1906 he even ran for City Alderman according to the Daily Sun, but came in seventh out of seven with the first three being elected.

Receipt from Dr. R. B. Ayer, physician, surgeon and druggist - 1924, courtesy of the Alachua County Clerk of the Court Ancient Records

Based on his career as a physician and the fact that he owned his home, Dr. Ayer was one of the more wealthy Black citizens in Gainesville. According to the State Library & Archives of Florida, he owned a car. In July of 1910 he registered his Model D Brush (10 horsepower) and in July of 1911 he registered his Semi-Tour Overland (25 horsepower). On May 28, 1905, the Daily Sun reported that Dr. Ayer had installed in his drug store “a fine Victor talking machine, which he purchased from [agent] Moses Edelstein. [...] Dr. Ayer will no doubt attract customers to his store as a sugar bowl attracts flies ‘in the good old summer time.’” In October 1906 the Gainesville Sun reported that he was one of 15 new subscribers to the Southern Bell Telephone Company service. The Daily Sun also reported in March 1907 that Dr. Ayer had bought a “Best Fancy” light from the Gainesville Automobile Company and had installed it in his drug store - “It is handsomely finished in Oriental brass, and yields from 700 to 1,000 candle-power. It is unquestionably the finest lamp in Gainesville.”

Advertisement for the 1910 Brush in a 1909 issue of the Daily Sun

Sometime between the 1900 and 1910 census he divorced Adriana and married Ella. Robert bought a new home at 108 W Columbia Street (NW 7th Avenue). He and Ella had four children together - Helen, Orion, James, and Robert, Jr. Gainesville City Directories and Census data continued to list Robert, Sr. as a physician until his death on October 29, 1937. He is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery with both of his wives and two of his children.

Even with all that Dr. Ayer accomplished in his community, his greatest legacy was his children:

Vernon Alexander Ayer (1891-1976) -  According to his WWI draft registration he attended Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency at Old General Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and then moved to New York City to open his practice. In 1942 he married Gertrude Elise Johnson, the first licensed Black female principal in the New York Public School System. Her obituary states that she “was a pioneer in vocational guidance for minority students. She also played an active part in the cultural life of Harlem in the 1920's.” Dr. Vernon Ayer retired as the director of the Central Harlem District Health Center.

Irwin Robert Ayer (1889-1945) - Irwin worked as a postal carrier in Gainesville. He served in the 92nd Infantry Division, known as the Buffalo Soldiers, during WWI. After training at the Tuskegee Institute he shipped out to France in June 1918 and fought in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in November. According to documentation from the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Johnson City, Tennessee, Irwin was injured in the war and had a limb amputated. In despite of his injuries, he continued to work as a postal carrier, even living with Vernon in New York City for a while. By 1935 he was back in Gainesville and living with his mother, Adriana. At some point before 1942 he married Josie, who was working for the Afro-American Life Insurance Company.

Helen Jeannette Ayer (1910-1982) - Sadly, I could not find much information about Helen except that she married Clarence Richmond in 1937 and he served in the Korean War.

Orion Thomas Ayer (1913-1998) - Orion was the second child of Robert to become a doctor. He attended Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. His WWII draft card listed him as working at Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. It was during this time that he met and married his wife, Helen Viviane Matthews. In 1945 they moved to Gainesville where he set up his practice on NW 1st Street. In 1949 he joined the staff of Mercy Hospital in St. Petersburg, the only primary care facility for Black citizens from 1923-1966. In 1964 he was elected as Chief of the Division of General Practice at Mercy and Mound Park Hospitals. Dr. Ayer was also active in the Civil Rights Movement in St. Petersburg.

James William Ayer (1922-2007) - James lived with the extra challenge of being deaf. He worked a variety of jobs, such as dishwasher at the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house and laborer at the Seven-Up Bottling plant in Jacksonville. James married Virtez Allen in 1944 and they lived in Jacksonville with their son, Thadeus.

Robert Bunyan Ayer, Jr. (1929 - ) - I’ve been unable to find much information about Robert, Jr. except that he lived in Gainesville so it’s possible he is still living.

Dr. Vernon Ayer’s passport application in 1920 for a trip to Brazil, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration

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Shenzhen Building News, Guangdong Architecture

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28 Aug 2020 Prince Plaza, Shekou District Design: OMA / David Gianotten photograph © Seth Powers, courtesy of OMA Morden Wharf Greenwich Peninsula Prince Plaza was commissioned by CMSK (China Merchants Shekou Holdings). The mixed-use podium tower is located at Shekou’s most prominent view corridor linking the Nanshan mountains and the Shenzhen Bay.

26 Aug 2020 SUSTech School of Medicine & Hospital – Tender

25 Aug 2020 Shenzhen Fuwai Hospital Phase III

7 August 2020 SHUIBEI International Centre Building, Luohu Architects: Aedas photo : CreatAR Images SHUIBEI International Centre Building Design Shaping the city’s skyline with contemporary urban renewal developments, he states that, “Urban regeneration is not simply replacing old and weathered buildings with new ones, but rather building a new relationship and a deeper connection between the city and its people through these new developments. This connection requires more than just space as it also integrates everyday organic synergy from the community.”

13 May 2020 China Resources’ MixC Market Hall Architects: 10 DESIGN image courtesy of architects office China Resources’ MixC Market Hall Sungang MixC Market Hall, China Resources’ new mixed-use development is under construction in Shenzhen, China with anticipated completion by Q3 2022. Located on a former industrial zone, this retail-gastronomy destination will provide an immersive gastronomic experience under one roof.

18 Feb 2020 C Future City Experience Center, Shangsha Architects: CCD/ Cheng Chung Design (HK) image courtesy of architects office C Future City Experience Center Shangsha used to be a coastal fishing village, which has developed along with the renewal of the city, while now it is witnessing the rising of C Future City. Through reflecting on the values that rooted in the village, CCD finally decided to take “marks of the fishing village” as the starting point for the design.

10 Feb 2020 Qianhai Talents’ Apartments Design: Foster + Partners image © Foster + Partners Qianhai Talents’ Apartments Shenzhen An innovative residential project in Shenzhen aimed specifically at the rental market. The project is envisaged as a building exclusively for ‘talents’ – professionals who would have an intensive work-centred lifestyle.

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16 Dec 2019 Ensue Luxury Restaurant, Futian District Design: Chris Shao Studio LLC photographer : Common Studio: Lit Ma & Kelly Puleio Studio Ensue Luxury Restaurant in Shenzhen Simple and natural elements engage the guest with a new experience of fine dining, by way of redefining a luxurious and opulent experience with a more naturalistic aesthetic that still embodies refined detail.

14 Dec 2019 Huitong Hybrid Tower Design: Jaeger Kahlen Partners Architects photographer : 叶文锐 Wenrui Ye Huitong Hybrid Tower in Shenzhen A novel idea in skyscraper design: part world-class office space and part high-tech car park. By efficiently and seamlessly integrating parking spaces into the design, JKP increased buildable area under zoning regulations and maximized the value of the project to both the users and the city.

8 Nov 2019 Konka Tower Architects: Mecanoo image courtesy of architects Konka Tower The city is searching for new models for urban and architectural innovation to replace the traditional model of large-scale indoor shopping malls and focus on flexible development.

21 Sep 2019 MORPH, Nanshan District Architects: Various Associates photograph : Shao Feng MORPH, Nanshan District Occupying a corner of a building, MORPH is a mixed-use space with a total construction area of 1,000 sqm. With an urban park and Houhai business circle nearby, it’s a rare tranquil place amidst the hustle and bustle of the downtown area.

11 Sep 2019 Typhoon-proof Shenzhen East Coast

16 July 2019 Futian Civic Cultural Centre Building

5 July 2019 Folding Residence, Longgang District

3 July 2019 Sheraton Shenzhen Nanshan, Xili Hotel

18 June 2019 The King’s School Shenzhen International, Nanshan Architects: Walters & Cohen image from architects The King’s School Shenzhen International Building Located in Nanshan, China, the school offers pupils aged 2 to 18 a combined Chinese and British curriculum, with a greater emphasis on the latter as pupils progress through the school.

8 Jan 2019 Qianhai Data Centre Architects: Mecanoo image from architects Qianhai Data Centre Shenzhen Building Infrastructural facilities are the functional heart of modern cities. Although usually concealed, these buildings are essential for urban daily life. When visible, they have the capacity of being a symbol of the technological achievements of our time.

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7 Aug 2018 Shenzhen Energy Company Office Skyscraper Architects: BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group image : Chao Zhang Shenzhen Energy Company Office Skyscraper Building The new home for Shenzhen Energy Company looks different because it performs differently: the building skin is developed to maximize the sustainable performance and workplace comfort in the local subtropical climate of China’s tech and innovation hub.

8 Aug 2018 Sunac – Smart Valley Shenzhen Architects: BLVD International image courtesy of architects Sunac – Smart Valley Shenzhen Building The overall design intentionally breaks people’s stereotyped perception of the tediousness of science and technology, integrates the ecological concept into the geometry and modernity of technology, and transforms the lines of science and technology into the surface treatment in the real space.

11 Aug 2018 Shenzhen Bay Square Waterfront Design: MAD Architects image courtesy of architects Shenzhen Bay Square Waterfront by MAD Architects MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, win two international competitions – the winning masterplan (36 hectares), and architectural design (15 hectares), will see an ambitious urban development project bring a vibrant cultural complex to the area that connects Shenzhen city to the waterfront, surrounding ecological corridor, and nearby mountain ranges – creating a harmony between humans and nature.

26 Jul 2018 Forest and Sports Park in Guang Ming Architects: LOLA, TALLER and L+CC picture courtesy of architects office Forest and Sports Park in Guang Ming LOLA, TALLER and L+CC won the international competition for a 600 hectare forest and sports park in Guang Ming, Shenzhen, China. The other competitors were JCFO, SWA and TCL.

10 Jul 2018 Qianhai SZ-HK Fund Town Architects: Leigh & Orange photo : Leigh & Orange Qianhai SZ-HK Fund Town Building The project is located at the Qianhai district in Shenzhen China. Known as “Qianhai SZ-HK Fund Town”, it consisted of a variety of low-rise building typologies designed to suit different office and commercial uses. These include midrise row-offices, corporate villas, stand-alone retail pavilions and a basement retail street.

7 Jul 2018 Longgang Chuangtou Tower Architects: URBANUS Architecture & Design photograph : SHU He Longgang Chuangtou Tower in Shenzhen Building The architecture is a container that captures light, just like how a musical instrument captures music. Light needs a structure that can show it. VC&PE has an open spatial structure, is interspersed with deconstructed blocks, and has a rhythmical unit form, which gives light the best expression carrier.

4 Jul 2018 Pingshan Performing Arts Center Design: OPEN Architecture photograph : Zhang Chao Pingshan Performing Arts Center Building OPEN’s Pingshan Performing Arts Center in Shenzhen has moved another step closer to its expected completion this year. With the building envelope now fully installed, the focus has shifted to the interior fit out and landscape construction phase.

5 Jun 2018 Space in Mutation, Berlin, Germany Curated by Doreen Heng Liu, NODE Architecture & Urbanism, Shenzhen Collage Shenzhen © NODE Architecture & Urbanism Space in Mutation Opening: Friday, 29 June 2018, 6.30pm Exhibition: 30 June – 15 August 2018 Location: Aedes Architecture Forum, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin Opening Hours: Tuesday-Friday 11am-6.30pm, Sunday-Monday 1-5pm Special Opening Hours: Saturday, 30 June 2018, 1-5pm

Symposium: Friday, 29 June 2018, 4pm Location: ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin

9 May 2018 DJI’s new HQ, Shenzhen, China Architects: Foster + Partners image : Foster + Partners DJI HQ Building News Foster + Partners today unveiled their vision for the new headquarters for DJI, the world leading robotics company, currently under construction in Shenzhen.

2 May 2018 Shekou Sea World Culture and Arts Center Architects: Maki and Associates photo © Shu He Shekou Sea World Culture and Arts Center The building highlights openness and connectivity, so that people, space and nature can have quiet dialogues. The lighting coincides with them to hide among buildings and landscapes to give off soundless beauty.

Prince Bay Development Design：John Portman & Associates image © John Portman & Associates Prince Bay Shenzhen Development News John Portman & Associates is happy to announce a first-place finish in the international design competition held by Shenzhen Prince Bay Shang Long Real Estate Co., LTD for the architectural and engineering design of Prince Bay lot DY02-06A in Shenzhen, China.

23 Apr 2018 ROARINGWILD · UNIWALK Interior Interior Design: Kingson Liang | DOMANI photograph © Shaon Liu Store Interior Shenzhen City China’s native original Tide brand ROARINGWILD roaring in the 7th year, the brand rooted in Shenzhen which opened the first entity stores. Space designed by DOMANI, consistent of the fierce strokes presented shake the soul of the visual impact and sensory illusion.

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Hallmark Channel June Weddings 2019 Movies Schedule: ‘Wedding March 5’ And More

By Rachael Ellenbogen @TheRachaelE

05/09/19 AT 10:58 AM

Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Summer is in full swing, but June Weddings is right around the corner!

Get ready for five new movies, including some sequels, some second-chance romances, some musicals and some stars making their Hallmark Channel debuts. The 2019 lineup kicks off on June 1 and runs through the end of the month.

Don’t miss a single one with this full June Weddings 2019 schedule of movies:

“Wedding at Graceland” (June 1 at 9 p.m. EDT)

After “Christmas at Graceland” smashed all sorts of Hallmark holiday records in 2018, Kellie Picker and Wes Brown are returning for more with a June Weddings sequel movie. Priscilla Presley and Lee Brice will guest star in the new flick.

According to the synopsis, “Though separated for years, Laurel Couper (Pickler) and Clay Sheppard (Brown) have known one another since childhood, so it’s no surprise that five months after meeting again at Graceland last Christmas they’re deeply in love and ready for marriage. Sentimental reasons dictate the one place to tie the knot is Graceland’s much-in-demand Chapel, meaning the couple either has to wait a year...or somehow pull together a wedding on the one available date only three weeks away.

“Three weeks it is, setting in motion a mad scramble to the altar, complicated by competing sets of well-meaning parents, each claiming to know what’s best for the couple. In this battle of traditions -- extravagant southern vs. classic sophisticated -- can Laurel and Clay somehow please everyone and still please themselves in time for a June wedding?”

“Wedding March 5: My Boyfriend’s Back” (June 8 at 9 p.m. EDT)

Jack Wagner and Josie Bissett are back for the newest installment in their “Wedding March” series, and they’re bringing Cindy Busby (“Marrying Mr. Darcy”) and Tyler Hynes (“Flip That Romance”) along for the fun!

Jack Wagner and Josie Bissett, pictured in a promo for “Wedding March 4,” are returning for a new installment in the franchise. Photo: Crown Media / Allister Foster

“Wedding planner Annalise (Busby) must wow investors with a wedding at Mick and Olivia’s (Wagner and Bissett) inn when she finds out the best man is her ex-boyfriend Brad (Hynes),” the synopsis reveals. “Now dealing with the guy who broke her heart, not to mention ten extra relatives showing up, Annalise really feels the pressure when an investor arrives without warning.”

The synopsis continues: “Luckily, she and Brad work through their awkwardness and he helps out by taking the potential financier river rafting to give Annalise time to execute a superb wedding. Love is everywhere, especially when Mick and Olivia celebrate the 25th anniversary of their first date with surprises galore.”

“Love, Take Two” (June 15 at 9 p.m. EDT)

“Roswell, New Mexico” star and “Hellcats” alum Heather Hemmens and “Scandal” actor Cornelius Smith Jr. are making their Hallmark debuts this June with a reality show rom-com.

“Lily Bellenger (Hemmens), the executive producer of a popular reality wedding show, returns to her college town to film an episode in which three couples plan and execute their weddings for a potential prize of $50,000,” the synopsis reveals. “While there, Lily encounters her old college beau Scott Meyers (Smith Jr.), who just happens to be one of the grooms to-be who is getting married on her show.”

As the two spend time together in the week leading up to Scott’s on-camera nuptials, their feelings for each other start to return. Lily and Scott are forced to reconsider their futures and what, and who, makes them the happiest.

Cornelius Smith Jr. and Heather Hemmens make their Hallmark debuts next month with “Love, Take Two.” Photo: Crown Media / Ricardo Hubbs

“The Last Bridesmaid” (June 22 at 9 p.m. EDT)

Longtime Hallmark stars Rachel Boston and Paul Campbell are teaming up for the first time with this new June Weddings premiere. The cast also includes Jeremy Guilbaut (“Jingle Around the Clock,” “A Harvest Wedding”).

“Becca (Boston) is always a bridesmaid, but at her cousin’s wedding she meets and bonds with Kyle (Campbell), the handsome videographer covering every stage of the planning, and the charming best man, Aidan [Guilbaut],” the synopsis teases. “Perhaps she won’t be the last woman standing for long.”

“In The Key of Love” (June 29 at 9 p.m. EDT)

The final June Weddings movie of 2019 will see more Hallmark Channel debuts being made when “Greek” and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” alum Scott Michael Foster and two-time Tony nominee Laura Osnes join the family. “When Calls the Heart” actress Andrea Brooks also stars.

“It’s been two years since Maggie (Osnes) left Nashville to take over her grandmother’s photography business, leaving her boyfriend, Jake (Foster), and their singing duo Colby & Case behind,” the synopsis reveals. “Her life is content until Jake’s sister, Jennifer (Brooks), surprises Maggie by showing up on the island to get married with her brother Jake in tow.”

The synopsis continues: “Being the wedding photographer, Maggie is thrust into spending time with Jake as she photographs all the pre-wedding events. Tensions run high until Jennifer convinces them to sing her favorite duet together for her first dance. As they rehearse, they begin to see each other in a new light and old patterns start to fall away. But have they grown enough on their own to be able to finally work together in harmony?”

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Historical reading list

Hello, world. A while ago I made a list of history books to read that would take me chronologically from the Big Bang up to the present. I did it on a Word document and haven’t had time to compile the list on Goodreads, but I wanted to post it here as a stopgap for anyone interested. There’s a penchant towards my own heritage, which comes through the United States and Mormonism, with, for instance, at least one biography on every American President (through Obama). But I tried to be broad because as I read these I want to gain a broad understanding not just of history but of different global cultures today; hence so many titles dealing with religion or mythology in general. There’s a smattering of fiction thrown in there where it fits historically, like The Iliad, Divine Comedy, or Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and I have other reading lists dealing with topics like art, music, religion (outside of history, like books about Buddhism or Joseph Campbell essays), and contemporary work in natural sciences/conservation/mass extinction, so by and large books relating to those things don’t appear here, but I still hope it’s useful. 1.     A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking 

2.     The First Three Minutes, Steven Weinberg

3.     Lives of the Planets: A Natural History of the Solar System, Richard Corfield

4.     From Dust to Life: The Origin and Evolution of Our Solar System, John Chambers & Jacqueline Mitton 

5.     Plate Tectonics, Stephen M. Tomecek

6.     On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin (1859)

7.     The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

8.     Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth, Dorling-Kindersley

9.     Prehistoric Life: Evolution and the Fossil Record, Lieberman and Kaesler

10.  Life: An Unauthorized Biography (newest edition), Richard Fortey

11.  The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions, Peter Brannen

12.  When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time, Michael Benton

13.  Trilobite!, Richard Fortey

14.  Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods, Danna Staaf

15.  Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy, Mark Witton

16.  Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History, David E. Fastovsky & David B. Weishampel

17.  The Complete Dinosaur (second edition), M.K. Brett-Surman

18.  Tyrannosaurus Rex: The Tyrant King, ed. Peter Larson and Kenneth Carpenter 

19.  Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea, Michael J. Everhart

20.  The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, Steve Brusatte

21.  All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals, John Conway 

22.  Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds, John Pickrell 

23.  Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds, John Long and Peter Schouten

24.  The Origin and Evolution of Mammals, T.S. Kemp

25.  Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution, David Rains Wallace 

26.  After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals, Donald R. Prothero

27.  Walking with Beasts: A Prehistoric Safari, Tim Haines 

28.  Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, Lars Werdelin and William Joseph Sanders 

29.  The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction, Jamie Woodward

30.  Prehistoric America: A Journey through the Ice Age and Beyond, Miles Barton

31.  Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America, Paul S. Martin and Harry W. Greene 

32.  The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin (1871)

33.  Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins, Ian Tattersall 

34.  Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth, Chris Stringer

35.  How to Think Like a Neanderthal, Thomas Wynn & Frederick Coolidge 

36.  The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain, Terrence W. Deacon

37.  The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age, Richard Rudgley

38.  Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari

39.  The Dancing Universe: From Creation Myths to the Big Bang, Marcelo Gleiser

40.  Primal Myths: Creation Myths Around the World, Barbara Sproul

41.  A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis, Marcel Mazoyer

42.  Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America’s Clovis Culture, Dennis Stanford & Bruce Bradley

43.  Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction, Amanda H. Podany

44.  The Epic of Gilgamesh (2100 BC)

45.  Abraham: The First Historical Biography, David Rosenberg

46.  A History of Ancient Egypt, Marc Van De Mieroop

47.  Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many, Erik Hornung

48.  The Search for God in Ancient Egypt, Jan Assmann

49.  The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day, tr. Raymond Faulkner

50.  The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs, Jan Assmann

51.  The Family Haggadah 

52.  The Iliad, Homer (ca. 1180 BC)

53.  The Odyssey, Homer (Fagle translation)

54.  1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric Cline

55.  Transformations of Myth through Time, Joseph Campbell

56.  The Spirit of Zoroastrianism, Prods Oktor Skjaervo

57.  In Search of Zarathustra: Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World’s First Prophet, Paul Kriwaczek

58.  Isaiah: Prophet, Seer, and Poet, Victor Ludlow (700 BC) 

59.  Rereading Job, Michael Austin (600 BC)

60.  How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now, James L. Kugel

61.  The Cambridge Companion to the Bible

62.  Illuminating Humor of the Bible, Steve Walker

63.  The Mother of the Lord, vol. 1: The Lady in the Temple, Margaret Barker

64.  The Holy Bible, New International Version

65.  The Art of War, Sun Tzu (500 BC)

66.  The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome, Susan Wise Bauer

67.  The Maya, Michael Coe & Stephen Houston (newest edition)

68.  Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain, Ronald Hutton

69.  Celtic Myths and Legends, Peter Berresford Ellis

70.  Celtic Gods and Heroes, Marie-Louise Sjoestedt

71.  Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel, William Dever 

72.  The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World, John Boardman

73.  D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths

74.  Mythology, Edith Hamilton 

75.  Bulfinch’s Mythology 

76.  The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso

77.  Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions, H.R. Ellis Davidson

78.  Early Irish Myths and Sagas, Jeffrey Gantz

79.  From Sphinx to Christ: An Occult History, Edouard Schure

80.  Buddha (Penguin Lives Biographies), Karen Armstrong

81.  Buddhacarita, Asvaghosa (ca. 500 BC)

82.  Buddhist Scriptures (ca. 500 BC) 

83.  Ramayana (ca. 500 BC) 

84.  Mahabharata (ca 400 BC)

85.  Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India, Roberto Calasso

86.  Tao Te Ching (ca 400 BC) 

87.  The Zhuangzi (446-221 BC)

88.  Old Myths and New Approaches: Interpreting Ancient Religious Sites in Southeast Asia, Alexandra Haendel

89.  The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World’s Greatest Civilization, Anthony Everitt

90.  Democracy: A Life, Paul Cartledge (ca. 450 BC)

91.  Histories, Herodotus (440 BC)

92.  History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides (410 BC)

93.  Meno, Plato (380 BC)94.  The Republic, Plato (380 BC)

95.  The Symposium, Plato (370 BC)

96.  The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle (350 BC)

97.  On the Soul (De Anima), Aristotle (350 BC)

98.  Poetics, Aristotle (335 BC)

99.  Alexander the Great, Philip Freeman (ca 330 BC)

100. Letters (to Herodotus, Pythocles, & Menoeceus), Epicurus (ca. 200 BC)

101. Analects of Confucius (ca 200 BC) 

102. Dhammapada (a Buddhist text) (200 BC)

103. The Lotus Sutra (ca 100 BC) 

104. Why Buddhism is True, Robert Wright

105. Cicero: Selected Works (Penguin Classics), Marcus Tullius Cicero (ca 63 BC)

106. Caesar: Life of a Colossus, Adrian Goldsworthy

107. The Conquest of Gaul, Julius Caesar (ca 50 BC)

108. The Aeneid, Virgil (19 BC)

109. Search, Ponder, and Pray: A Guide to the Gospels, Julie M. Smith

110. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Reza Aslan

111. How Jesus Became God, Bart Ehrman

112. A History of the Devil, Gerald Messadie

113. Metamorphoses, Ovid (8 AD)

114. The New Complete Works of Josephus, Josephus 

115. A New History of Early Christianity, Charles Freeman

116. The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels

117. The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume, ed. Marvin Meyer

118. A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Karen Armstrong 

119. Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible, William Goetzmann

120. The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius (Penguin Classics tr. James Rives) (ca 140 AD)

121. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius (180 AD)

122. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, Peter Heather

123. Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, Peter Brown

124. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World, Bart Ehrman 

125. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, Catherine Nixey 

126. A History of Christianity, Diarmaid MacCulloch

127. Everyman’s Talmud (ca. 200) 

128. Confessions, St. Augustine (397)

129. The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Saints

130. The Silk Road in World History, Xinru Liu

131. Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome, John Man (400s)

132. The Consolation of Philosophy, Ancius Boethius (524)

133. One Thousand and One Nights (ca 600)

134. The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, Norman F. Cantor

135. Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth, Joseph Campbell ed. Evans Lansing Smith

136. Le Morte d’Arthur, Thomas Malory (1485)

137. The Making of the Middle Ages, R.W. Southern

138. Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, Jack Hartnell

139. The Age of the Vikings, Anders Winroth

140. The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings, Lars Brownworth

141. The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion, Daniel McCoy

142. Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, H.R. Elllis Davidson

143. Norwegian Folklore, Zinken Hopp 

144. Holy Misogyny: Why Sex and Gender Conflicts in the Early Church Still Matter, April DeConick

145. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes, Tamim Ansary (610…)

146. Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong

147. The Holy Qur’an

148. Mohammed and Charlemagne, Henri Pirenne (700s)

149. Beowulf (Heaney translation) (by 900s)

150. A History of the English Speaking Peoples, vol. 1: The Birth of Britain, Winston Churchill

151. The Tale of Genji, Lady Murasaki Shikibu (1000s) 

152. The Sagas of Icelanders (1000) 

153. Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England, Alison Weir (1100s)

154. Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales, ed. Stephen Knight & Thomas Ohlgren

155. Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography, Stephen Thomas Knight

156. Book of Divine Works, Hildegard von Bingen (1163) 

157. The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition, C.S. Lewis

158. Money: The Unauthorized Biography: From Coinage to Cryptocurrencies, Felix Martin

159.Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection, John Man (ca. 1200)

160. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford

161. The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, Jack Weatherford

162. Kublai Khan: The Mongol King Who Remade China, John Man

163. St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Francis of Assisi, ed. G.K. Chesterton (1200s)

164. St. Francis of Assisi, Omer Englebert 

165. The Poetic Edda (1200s) 

166. The Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson (1200s) 

167. The Saga of the Volsungs, Jesse L. Byock (late 1200s) 

168. The Travels of Marco Polo, Marco Polo (1200s)

169. Revelations of Divine Love, Julian of Norwich (1300s) 

170. Outlaws of the Marsh, Shi Nai’an (1300s) 

171. Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong (1300s) 

172. Robert the Bruce: King of Scots, Ronald McNair Scott (early 1300s)

173. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1320) 

174. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Barbara Tuchman   

175. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared M. Diamond

176. Marriage: A History, Stephanie Coontz

177.  The Future of Marriage, David Blankenhorn

178. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (1400) 

179. The Civilizing Process, Norbert Elias  

180. The Samurai: A Military History, Stephen Turnbull 

181. 1421: The Year China Discovered America, Gavin Menzies

182. The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453, Desmond Seward 

183. Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words (early 1400s)

184. History of Creativity in the Arts, Science, and Technology: Pre-1500, Brent Strong

185. The Illustrated History of the Sikhs, Khushwant Singh (late 1400s)

186. The Aztec, Man and Tribe (1400s-1521) 

187. The Aztecs, Michael E. Smith

188. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles Mann

189. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, Charles Mann 

190. Conquistador Voices, Volume 1, Kevin H. Siepel

191. Conquistador Voices, Volume 2, Kevin H. Siepel

192.  In the Hands of the Great Spirit, John Page

193. Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance, Lisa Jardine

194. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Jacob Burckhardt

195. The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall, Christopher Hibbert 

196. The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli (1513)

197.  Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson

198. Utopia, Thomas More (1516)

199. She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, Helen Castor

200. The Reformation: A History, Diarmaid MacCulloch

201. Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World, Eric Metaxas

202. The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself, Daniel J. Boorstin

203. Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics), ed. M.A. Screech

204. Spice: The History of a Temptation, Jack Turner 

205. The Age of Exploration: From Christopher Columbus to Ferdinand Magellan, Kenneth Pletcher

206. Journey to the West, Wu Cheng’en (1500s) 

207. How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City, Joan DeJean

208. A History of the English Speaking Peoples, vol. 2: The New World, Winston Churchill

209. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870, Hugh Thomas

210. The Life of Elizabeth I, Alison Weir

211. The Faerie Queen, Edmund Spenser (1590)

212. The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street, Charles Nicholl

213. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599, James Shapiro 

214. London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd 

215. Galileo: Watcher of the Skies, David Wootton

216. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War, Nathaniel Philbrick (1620)

217. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, David Hackett Fischer 

218. Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age, Michael North  

219. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, Edwin G. Burrows & Mike Wallace

220. The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy, Peter H. Wilson 

221. Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Timothy Ferris

222. The Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes (1651)

223. Ethics, Benedict de Spinoza (1665)

224. The Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a 17th-century Italian Convent, Jeffrey Watt 

225. The Great Fire of London, Neil Hanson (1666)

226. Paradise Lost (1667) 

227. The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) 

228. The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Modern Library Classics), Samuel Pepys ed. Richard Le Gallienne (late 1600s)

229. The Scientific Revolution, Stephen Shapin

230. The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution, David Wootton 

231. Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton, Richard Westfall (1642-1726)

232. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

233. Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, John Pickstone

234. Two Treatises on Government, John Locke (1689)   

235. The Penguin Book of Witches (1692)

236. In the Devil’s Snare, Mary Beth Norton (1692)

237. Memoirs of Duc de Saint-Simon, 1691-1709: Presented to the King, Duc de Saint-Simon 

238. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift (1726) (and A Modest Proposal)

239. The Major Works (Oxford World’s Classics), Alexander Pope (early 1700s)

240. China: A History, John Keay

241. The Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin (1700s) 

242. Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio vol. 1 (1740) 

243. Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio vol. 2

244. Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio vol. 3 

245. The Story of Music: From Babylon to the Beatles, Howard Goodall

246. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, Christoph Wolff (early 1700s)

247. A History of the English Speaking Peoples, vol. 3: The Age of Revolution, Winston Churchill 

248. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, Lawrence James 

249. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith (1759)

250. Candide, Voltaire (1759) 

251. Treasury of North American Folk Tales, Catherine Peck

252. Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, Fred Anderson

253. Benjamin Franklin, Edmund S. Morgan

254. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

255. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, Robert Massie

256. A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn

257. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (1776)

258. Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, Sylvia Nasar

259. Common Sense, Thomas Paine (1776)

260. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Bernard Bailyn 

261. The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon S. Wood

262. 1776, David McCullough

263. The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson

264. History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, Mercy Otis Warren

265. Washington’s Crossing, David Hackett Fischer

266. George Washington, A Life, Willard Sterne Randall

267. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, Gordon S. Wood

268. Washington: A Life, Ron Chernow

269. The Grand Idea: George Washington’s Potomac and the Race to the West, Joel Achenbach

270. His Excellency: George Washington, Joseph J. Ellis

271. James Wilson: Founding Father, 1742-1798, Charles Page Smith

272. The Constitution and Bill of Rights, James Madison

273. The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1788)

274. The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government, Fergus Bordewich

275. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Jack Rakove

276. Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies, Erwin Chemerinsky

277. That’s Not What They Meant, Michael Austin

278. The Second Amendment: A Biography, Michael Waldman

279. That’s Not What They Meant About Guns, Michael Austin

280. Taming the Electoral College, Robert Bennett

281. Why the Electoral College is Bad for America, George C. Edwards 

282. Faust, Goethe (1790)

283. The Ancien Regime and the Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville

284. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama

285. The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine (1791)

286. A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)

287. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

288. A History of Japan: Revised Edition, R.H.P. Mason

289. John Adams, David McCullough

290.  Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams, Joseph J. Ellis

291. The Scramble for Africa, Thomas Pakenham

292. Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow 

293. Alexander Hamilton: The Formative Years, Michael Newton

294. Alexander Hamilton: Writings (plus Farmer Refuted, Washington’s farewell address, & the Reynolds Pamphlet)

295. The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine (1804) 

296. Jefferson and His Time, Dumas Malone

297. Thomas Jefferson, Willard Sterne Randall

298. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, Jon Meacham

299. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Joseph J. Ellis

300. Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination, Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter Onuf

301. Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson, Paul Finkelman

302. The Founding Foodies: How Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin Revolutionized American Cuisine, Dave DeWitt

303. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Lewis and Clark (1806)

304. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, Andrea Wulf 

305. A History of the English Speaking Peoples, vol. 4: The Great Democracies, Winston Churchill 

306. The Cambridge Illustrated History of France, Colin Jones

307. France, a History: From Gaul to De Gaulle, John Julius Norwich

308. Napoleon: A Life, Andrew Roberts

309. The Brothers Grimm (1812) 

310. James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, Jack Rakove

311. James Madison: A Biography, Ralph Ketchem

312. The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies, Alan Taylor

313. The Naval War of 1812, Theodore Roosevelt

314. Bolivar: American Liberator, Marie Arana (ca. 1810s)

315. The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness, Harlow Giles Unger

316. The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America, Jay Sexton

317. The English and their History, Robert Tombs

318. An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins, Grant Palmer 

319. Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, D. Michael Quinn

320. Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy, Miranda Wilcox & John Young

321. Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic, Charles Edel

322. John Quincy Adams: American Visionary, Fred Kaplan

323. John Quincy Adams, Robert V. Remini

324. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, Richard Bushman 

325. Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery

326. By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion, Terryl Givens 

327. Understanding the Book of Mormon, Grant Hardy

328. The Book of Mormon: Revised Authorized Version 

329. The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, D. Michael Quinn

330. Banishing the Cross: The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo, Michael G. Reed

331. This Is My Doctrine: The Development of Mormon Theology, Charles Harrell

332. The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, John L. Brooke

333. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 1, B.H. Roberts

334. Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero, Lucy Riall (1834 revolt)

335. Road to the Sea, Florence Dorsey 

336. Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times, H.W. Brands

337. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Jon Meacham

338. Jacksonland, Steve Inskeep

339. Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville (1835)

340. Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics, John Niven

341. The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin (1839)

342. Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives, Sunil Khilnani

343. Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Times, Freeman Cleaves

344. John Tyler: Champion of the Old South, Oliver P. Chitwood

345. Self-Reliance and Other Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)

346. Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard (1843) 

347. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)

348. Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Margaret Fuller (1845)

349. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, Daniel Walker Howe

350. Nightfall at Nauvoo, Samuel W. Taylor 

351. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 2, B.H. Roberts

352. Journey to Zion: Voices from the Mormon Trail, Carol Cornwall Madsen

353. 111 Days to Zion, Hal Knight 

354. The Gathering of Zion, Wallace Stegner 

355. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 3, B.H. Roberts

356. The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants on the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60, John D. Unruh

357. So Far from God: The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848, John S. D. Eisenhower

358. The Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman (1849)

359. The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream, H.W. Brands 

360. Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau (1849)

361. The American Transcendentalists 

362. The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America (James Polk), Walter Borneman

363. Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico, T.R. Fehrenbach

364. Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest, K. Jack Bauer

365. The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, Andrew Delbanco

366. Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President, Robert J. Rayback 

367. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) 

368. Walden, Henry David Thoreau (1854) 

369. Franklin Pierce, Michael Holt

370. President James Buchanan: A Biography, Philip S. Klein

371. Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism, Terryl Givens 

372. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 4, B.H. Roberts

373. American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857, Sally Denton

374. America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink, Kenneth Stampp

375. The West Indies and the Spanish Main, Anthony Trollope (1860)  

376. Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Janet Browne

377. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, James McPherson

378. Centennial History of the Civil War, vol. 1: The Coming Fury, Bruce Catton

379. Centennial History of the Civil War, vol. 2: Terrible Swift Sword, Bruce Catton

380. Centennial History of the Civil War, vol. 3: Never Call Retreat, Bruce Catton

381. Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, Fred Kaplan

382. The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln through his Words, Ronald White

383. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

384. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin

385. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South, Stephanie McCurry 

386. The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War, William Freehling

387. Andersen’s Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen 

388. Matthew Brady’s Illustrated History of the Civil War

389. With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Oates

390. A Short History of Canada (6th ed), Desmond Morton 

391. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years, Carl Sandburg

392. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, Drew Gilpin Faust

393. Abraham Lincoln, Lord Charnwood  

394. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, Jung Chang

395. Andrew Johnson, Annette Gordon-Reed

396. Biographical Supplement and Index, Harriet Sigerman 

397. Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah, Claudia Bushman

398. Development of LDS Temple Worship, Devery Anderson

399. The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz 

400. Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, John C. Turner

401. Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900, Leonard Arrington 

402. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 5, B.H. Roberts

403. Grant, Ron Chernow

404. Grant: A Biography, William S. McFeeley

405. American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald C. White

406. Complete Personal Memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant 

407. Capital (Das Kapital), Karl Marx (first edition 1867, third 1894)

408. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, Louis Menand

409. Black Reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

410. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, updated edition, Eric Foner

411. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, Steven Hahn

412. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown

413. Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, T.J. Stiles

414. Rutherford B. Hayes, Hans Trefousse

415. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche

416. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, Friedrich Nietzsche

417. Assassination Vacation (James Garfield), Sarah Vowell

418. Destiny of the Republic (James Garfield), Candice Millard 

419. Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur, Thomas C. Reeves

420. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Adam Hochschild 

421. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney  

422. More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910, Kathryn M. Daynes 

423. The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy, Carol Lynn Pearson

424. Selected Writings, José Martí (Penguin Classics)

425. Dawn of the Belle Epoque, Mary McAuliffe

426. Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character, Henry F. Graff

427. Manning Clark’s History of Australia: Abridged from the Six-Volume Classic, Manning Clark

428. The Making of Modern Ireland, 1603-1923, J.C. Beckett 

429. Benjamin Harrison, Charles W. Calhoun

430. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, Jacob Riis (1890)

431. Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919, Mike Wallace 

432. The History of Spain, Peter Pierson

433. Presidency of William McKinley, Lewis L. Gould

434. The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois

435. Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris

436. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris

437. Mornings on Horseback (Theodore Roosevelt), David McCullough

438. Marie Curie: A Life, Susan Quinn

439. The Shame of the Cities, Lincoln Steffens (1904)

440. Albert Einstein: A Biography, Albrecht Folsing 

441. Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Albert Einstein (1905)

442. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair (1906)

443. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, Doris Kearns Goodwin 

444. The Life & Times of William Howard Taft, Harry F. Pringle

445. The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve, Peter Conti-Brown 

446. Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism, Bhu Srinivasan

447. The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, Margaret MacMillan

448. July 1914: Countdown to War, Sean McMeekin 

449. The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman  

450. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918, G.J. Meyer 

451. Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History, Catharine Arnold

452. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, John Milton Cooper

453. Women and the Vote: A World History, Jad Adams

454. Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes, Diane Atkinson

455. The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times, Francis Russell

456. A History of Russia (new edition w Mark Steinberg), Nicholas V. Riasanovsky

457. The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga, John Curtis Perry and Constantine V. Pleshakov

458. Ten Days that Shook the World, John Reed

459.  Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” Zora Neale Hurston

460. Coolidge: An American Enigma, Robert Sobel

461. Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties, Lucy Moore 

462. Herbert Hoover, William Leuchtenburg

463. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 6, B.H. Roberts

464. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, Liaquat Ahamed

465. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, David Kennedy

466. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Walker Evans and James Agee

467. Black Elk Speaks, Black Elk

468. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Conrad Black

469. FDR, Jean Edward Smith

470. The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Kirstin Downey

471. Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, Jonathan Alte

472.  Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 1, The Early Years, 1884-1933, Blanche Wiesen Cook

473. Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 2, The Defining Years, 1933-1938, Blanche Wiesen Cook

474. Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 3, The War Years and After, 1939-1962, Blanche Wiesen Cook

475. No Ordinary Time (FDR), Doris Kearns Goodwin

476. Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges

477. The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War, Andrew Roberts

478. Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder 

479. Leningrad, Anna Reid

480. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

481. Churchill: Walking with Destiny, Andrew Roberts 

482. Memoirs of the Second World War, Winston Churchill 

483. The Destruction of the European Jews, Raul Hilberg

484. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

485. Night, Elie Wiesel

486. Hiroshima, John Hersey

487. Nuremberg Trials: The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity, Paul Roland 

488. Truman, David McCullough

489. Gandhi: An Autobiography, Mahatma Gandhi

490. The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, Louis Fischer 

491. The Arabs: A History, Eugene Rogan 

492. Mao: The Unknown Story, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

493. Inside Red China, Helen Foster Snow

494. Red Star Over China, Edgar Snow

495. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, David Halberstam

496. An American Childhood, Annie Dillard 

497. Eisenhower in War and Peace, Jean Edward Smith

498. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, James D. Watson (1953)

499. Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, Brenda Maddox 

500. Mississippi Trial, 1955, Chris Crowe 

501. Sake & Satori: Asian Journals, Joseph Campbell

502. A Concise History of Germany, Mary Fulbrook

503. The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth and Corporate Power, D. Michael Quinn

504. Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch, Irene Bates

505. The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (1963)

506. A Thousand Days (JFK), Arthur M. Schlesinger

507. An Unfinished Life (JFK), Robert Dallek

508. A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present, 2nd ed., Richard J. Reid

509. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 1: The Path to Power, Robert Caro

510. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 2: Means of Ascent, Robert Caro

511. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 3: Master of the Senate, Robert Caro

512. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 4: The Passage of Power, Robert Caro

513. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 5: untitled/unreleased, Robert Caro

514. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63, Taylor Branch

515. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65, Taylor Branch

516. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68, Taylor Branch

517. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X & Alex Haley 

518. The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

519. Lakota Woman, Mary Crow Dog

520. The Bomb: A New History, Stephen Younger  

521. This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age, William Burrows 

522. A History of the Modern Middle East, 5th ed., William Cleveland

523. Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi, Katherine Frank 

524. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall 

525. The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam

526. Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam, Gordon Goldstein

527. To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family, JoAn D. Criddle

528. All the President’s Men, Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward

529. Nixonland, Richard Perlstein 

530. The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics, Bruce Schulman

531. Gerald R. Ford, Douglas Brinkley

532. Pedestals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights, Martha Bradley 

533. Petals of Blood, Nugi wa Thiong’o (1977 Kenyan novel)

534. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

535. Spear of the Nation: South Africa’s Liberation Army, Janet Cherry

536. Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa, Antjie Krog

537. Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter, Randall Balmer

538. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A. Caro 

539. President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, Lou Cannon

540. 1983: The World at the Brink, Taylor Downing

541. A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End, Peter Kenez

542. Lost Lives (the Troubles), David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeley, and Chris Thornton 

543. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, Juan Gonzalez 

544. As Texas Goes: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda, Gail Collins

545. Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Jon Meacham

546. First in His Class (Bill Clinton), David Maraniss

547. Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, Gore Vidal (2002) 

548. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 11, 2001, Steve Coll

549. Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, Peter Baker 

550. Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape, Kirk Savage

551. The Formations of Modernity, Stuart Hall & Bram Gieben

552. Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It, Lawrence Lessig (he wrote a sequel, same title with “2.0” in 2015) 

553. All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis, Bethany McLean

554. Back to Work, Bill Clinton

555. Beyond Outrage: What Has Gone Wrong with our Economy and our Democracy and How to Fix It, Robert Reich 

556. A Governor’s Story, Jennifer Granholm

557.  Life, Inc.: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take It Back, Douglas Rushkoff

558. Dreams from my Father, Barack Obama

559. Barack Obama: The Story, David Maraniss

560. The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, David Remnick

561. Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President (Obama), Ron Suskind

562. Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward

563. Hard Choices: A Memoir, Hillary Clinton

564. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama

565. The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency, Chris Whipple

566. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates 

567. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, David Treuer

568. DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution, James D. Watson 

569. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, Evan Osnos

570. Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, Larry Bartels

571. The Post-American World: Release 2.0, Fareed Zakaria

572. What Happened, Hillary Clinton 

573. THE NOT YET WRITTEN DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S SCANDALS

574. How Democracies Die, Steve Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt

575. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, Jon Meacham

576. America: The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges

577. A Call to Action, Jimmy Carter

578. I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai

579. A Path Appears, Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn

580. The History of Creativity in the Arts, Science, and Technology: 1500-Present, Brent Strong 

581. Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking  

[tiffanyfaye]

Moon Phases and Astrological Transits for August 2021

By Tiffany Faye, 7/29/2021

Traditional Energies for the month of August:

Northern Hemisphere - While focusing on peace and balance, take the steps needed to start the next phase of any goals.

Southern Hemisphere - This is the time for forgiveness, healing, and motivation, all aimed towards starting a new chapter in your life.

Moon Phases for August 2021 (DE, USA):

Waning Gibbous - August 1st to 7th

Crying Moon - August 7th

Dark Moon - August 8th

New Moon - August 9th

Waxing Crescent - August 9th to 14th

First Quarter - August 15th

Waxing Gibbous - August 16th to 21st

Full Moon - August 21st (Maiden Full), August 22 (Mother Full), August 23rd (Crone Full)

Waning Gibbous - August 23rd to 29th

Third Quarter - August 29th

Waning Crescent - starts August 31st

Overview of the meanings of each phase, as well as correspondences for lunar magick, at end of article

Astrological Transits for August and their Meanings:

Sun in Leo Square Uranus in Taurus - August 6th. This is the time to practice patience and finding a balance within yourself for the energies surrounding selfishness, lack of discpline, agressiveness, and being unsatisfied are increased.

Mercury enters Virgo - August 11th. This a great time for mental work, gaining knowledge, or undergoing research. You may find yourself more thorough in your work and thinking more rationally, as well as increased skepticism and realism.

Venus enters Libra - August 16th. This can be a confusing time. You may experience increased fellowship and harmony in your life while becoming more frustrated. Listen to your heart to find a balance.

Uranus begins its Retrogradation into Taurus - August 19th. You may find yourself more dissatisfied with the circumstances surrounding your life and because you may experience some mismanagement of resource. You may become attached to old belief and fear change despite being desiring change as well

The Sun enters Virgo - August 22nd. You may experience excessive OCD during this time and as such may develop stress and start criticizing yourself. Combat this by focusing on the now, simple things in life, and putting you desire for perfection in organizing something, whether that is your life, or something physical.

Double Full Moon in Aquarius - August 22nd. The 2nd full moon in the same Zodiac sign during the same calendar year, the first being on July 23rd. The focus of a Double Full Moon is to be aware your situations that were brought up from the first full moon but weren't dealt with. For this Double Full Moon, focus on self-improvement through changing the processes you follow through life and having positive interactions with those closest to you, whether they personal or professional relationships.

Mercury enters Libra - August 30th. Practice patience, diplomacy and reflection through having honest dialogue with the people in your life but remember your point of view is always important. This is a great time for creative and artistic activities. Pay attention to any events that happens during this time and reflect on their meaning and how it makes you feel.

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[bookofjin]

Annals of Yanhe 1

[From WS004. Feng Hong of Northern Yan is called by his courtesy name Wentong to avoid the name of Emperor Xiaowen of Wei.]

[Yanhe 1, 17 February 432 – 5 February 433]

1st Year of Yanhe [“Extended Harmony”], Spring, 1st Month, bingwu [17 February], venerated the Foster Empress Dowager as the August Empress Dowager. Installed the August Empress, Ms. Helian. Installed imperial son Huang as August Heir-Apparent. Paid visit to the Grand Temple. A great amnesty, and changed the inaugural.

On jisi [11 March], a decree said:

We, though insignificant personally, obtained serving the Ancestral Temple, ponder revealing the vast foundation and broadly purify the nine undertakings. Coming across the last cycle, Under Heaven split apart and crumbled. Truly employing frequent campaigns, netting sometimes tranquil rest, from the Shiguang era until today, in the space of nine years, the military chariot ten times has been lifted up. The crowd of leaders, civil and martial, shouldering halberds and wearing armour, combed by wind and washed by rain, stamping shoes on spear-points and blades, equally toiled with Us.

Relying on the assistance of gods and honoured, generals and soldiers proclaimed merit. Employing the able to destroy and break the strong foot-boys, [they] overcame and annihilated the great loathsome. Troops did not do the utmost in martial ability, and the two robbers were fully wiped out. The leaders did not disobey the regulations, and the distant region so was tranquil.

Increasingly so the time's airs are harmonious and in accord, auspicious omens also come down widely in the commanderies and states, they are not possible to fully record. How are We, a single person, alone responding to this safekeeping? These are also caused by the crowd of princes' unity and cooperation. The excellencies and ministers following this examined the meetings of the various Heavenly People, and requested to establish assisting deputies.

In all cases the acts of celebrating and rewarding are the means by which to praise and venerate past deeds, the banner to display the worthy hence the blessings without limits for perpetuity. Should for Kings, Dukes, Generals and below, widely increase feudal rank and salary, unfold the state's hereditary families, restore discarded officials, lift up the capable and unconfined, get rid of and eliminate bothersome elaborations, alter and settle ordinances and regulations, and make an effort to follow light restrictions, eliminating the old and stripping off the new, so as to set right a united government.

The crowd of minsters will deeply ponder bringing about achievements, rectifying themselves on the Way of Straightness, establishing merit and establishing service, not anyone to be idle and neglectful, and declare to Us their thoughts on it.

2nd Month, bingzi [18 March], travelled to favour the Southern Palace.

3rd Month, dingwei [18 April], retroactively conferred on the Lady Ms. He to be August Empress.

On renshen [13 May], the King of Xiqin, Tuyuhun Mugui, sent off Helian Ding to the Imperial City.

Summer, 5th Month [14 June – 13 July], a great inspection of the multitudinous followers in the southern suburbs, wanting to chastise Feng Wentong.

Liu Yilong dispatched envoys to court with tribute.

6th Month, gengyin [30 July], the Chariot Drove to attack Helong. Decreed the Supervisor of the Left of the Masters of Writing, An Yuan, and others to station south of the desert, so as to prepare against the Ruanruan.

On xinmao [31 July], the Concurrent Cavalier in Regular Attendance, Deng Ying, was sent to Liu Yilong.

Autumn, 7th Month, jiwei [28 August], the Chariot Drove to arrive at Ru River.

On gengshen [29 August], dispatched the General who Calms the East, the Duke of Xuancheng, Xi Jin, to issue out the population of You province and the Dingling of Miyun, more than 10 000 people, to transport siege equipment, set out on the southern road, all together assemble at Helong.

The Emperor arrived in Liaoxi. Wentong dispatched his Attendant Imperial Clerk, Cui Pin to offer and present oxen and alcohol.

On jisi [7 September], the Chariot Drove to arrive at Helong, and overlooked its walls. Wentong's Grand Warden of Shicheng, Li Chong, Grand Warden of Jiande, Wang Rong, and more than ten commanderies came to surrender. Issued out their population, 30 000 people, to dig out encircling moats so as to defend them.

This Month [12 August – 10 September], erected the Eastern Palace.

8th Month, jiaxu [12 September], Wentong sent several ten thousand people to set out from the city and challenge to battle. The Duke of Changli, Yuan Qiu, with the Duke of Hejian, Yuan Qi, struck and routed him. The dead were more than 10 000 people. Wentong's Master of Writing, Gao Shao, led more than 10 000 families to guard Qianghu Stronghold [?].

On jimao [17 September], the Chariot Drove to chastise Shao.

On xinsi [19 September], beheaded him.

Decreed General who Pacifies the East, He Duoluo to attack Wentong's Grand Warden of Daifang, Murong Xuan, at Hou Stronghold; The Great General who Consoles the Army, the King of Yongchang, Jian, to attack Jiande; the Great General of Agile Cavalry, the King of Leping, Pi, to attack Jiyang. All took them. The people who had been captured alive were distributed and bestowed on the generals and soldiers each proportionally.

9th Month, yimao [23 October], the Chariot Drove to return west. Moved the population of Yingqiu, Chengzhou, Liaodong, Lelang, Daifang, and Xuantu commanderies, 30 000 families, to You province, and opened granaries so as to aid them.

Winter, 10th Month, guiyou [10 November], the Chariot Drove to arrive at Ru River.

Tuyuhun Mugui dispatched envoys to court with tribute.

11th Month, yisi [12 December], the Chariot Drove to arrive form the attack on Helong.

12th Month, jichou [25 January], Feng Wentong's Duke of Changle, Chong, and his mother [and?] younger brother Lang, and Lang's younger brother Miao used Liaoxi to belong to the interior. Wentong dispatched general Feng Yu to besiege Liaoxi.

Before this, commenced summoning the worthy and good, but in the provinces and commanderies there was much pressure to dispatch them. A decree said:

We eliminated the pretenders and pacified the brutal, campaigning and chastising for several years. Thinking to obtain the gallant and worthy, joining together splendour and governing the Way, for that reason decreed the provinces and commanderies to seek out and praise the hidden and unattached, to advance and lift up the worthy and capable.

The lordly masters of ancient times, nourished aspirations for a crossbeam gate, their virtue completing legacy and achievements, their talents were indulged [by?] their generation. Some of a harmonious look and elegant step, after instructed three times then they arrived. Some fussed and rushed, fearful and fretful, carrying the cauldron and then freed themselves. Though they followed [?] rather dissimilarly, they aided the times as one.

The various summoned people all will be presented the notification with courtesy, trusting them to advance or withdraw, what is there about pressuring to dispatch them! These Inspectors, wardens and stewards circulating praise [but] neglecting the purpose, how then to brilliantly increase, therefore are the means by which to make clear Our lack of virtue.

From now and afterwards, each will order the hamlets and villages to push forward and advance, the wardens and stewards are only circulate Our humble heart's thoughts of seeking the worthy. On arrival, at that time, since they are lifted up out of order, follow their talents in civil and military matters, and rely on them with government affairs. Should clarify and circulate the directive, so that all cause it to be heard and known.

This Year, Tufa Rutan's son Baozhou abandoned Juqu Mengxun and came running. Used Baozhou as Duke of Zhangye.

#ws004

[memorylang]

2020’s End and 2021’s Beginning | #48 | December 2020

If 2020 came in a flash, it ended with a fade. Still, it was a pleasant fade. I describe here my U.S. adventures from Christmas to New Year’s. For photos from these stories, you can check my WeChat or Instagram @memoryLang. I also reference tales from Christmas 2019 and New Year’s 2020, about which you can read in December 2019 and January 2020 stories. Onward to adventures! 

Christmas 2020

Since my family couldn’t attend Midnight Mass as we usually do, a sister and I instead decided to carol at home. The year before, when I’d come home from Mongolia, we’d caroled at church. This time we caroled to Sister’s own piano accompaniment, with lyrics in old hymnals and online. We enjoyed singing harmonies inspired by Pentatonix and various years of choir. Through this, Dad mostly slept while other siblings did other activities. Our youngest sister was with her boyfriend’s family, our older brother with his girlfriend’s, and our stepsisters with our stepmom at their place. 

On Christmas Day, my siblings and I readied the house while Dad helped our stepfamily finish cooking. The evening before, we’d done cleaning with Dad, too, but Dad always had more for us to do. Then the stepsisters and Tita arrived, bringing food with which we filled the kitchen island upon which my siblings and I had draped a large cloth. We watched online a Christmas liturgy while waiting for my older brother and his girlfriend to arrive, I botched the before-meal prayer since I was put on the spot, then we enjoyed a delicious meal of both American and Filipino dishes and desserts. 

After the meal, we had about a half hour before Stepsisters needed to head to work, so we moved from the dining room to the living room for gifts. We began our Secret Santa. I delivered my gift first, to my youngest sister. She and the others felt amused that I’d simply wrapped the Amazon box in which her gifts came, scribbled out “Alexa” from some ads then wrote her name half a dozen times instead. Our oldest stepsister couldn’t make it since she was home with her partner and their newborn. But, she video called in to see my sibling’s reactions from her gift. 

As gifts that I’d received from my youngest stepsister, I’d gotten new travel items, like a journal and eye mask. I felt delighted. From my dad and Tita, I received a new brainstorming notebook and a jacket coincidentally in my Hogwarts house colors of silver, black and yellow. From myself I received a CrashCourse Mongol t-shirt that even a Mongol friend recognized and loved! 

National and State Parks, Monuments and Forests

From the next days, Dec. 26 to 29, my national parks friends and I embark on our last trip of the year, to see a collection of sights in Arizona. Over the next few days, we see Walnut Canyon, Petrified Forest, Meteor Crater, Sedona's Devil's Bridge and the Grand Canyon. I feel awed by the spectacles and amazed by the geological history of this earth. My friends and I take lots of photos. 

As on our other road trips, we talk politics and life goals and telenovelas, too. As a group of minorities, we’re pleased with the presidential election results that released since our previous road trip. Still, we’re glad that the current administration has been able to get COVID-19 vaccines out to people even before the year’s end. I feel relieved that my prospects of returning to Peace Corps Mongolia seem more likely. Till then, we’re also glad that we’ll get more stimulus money to help cover our weird year’s last expenses. As for the telenovelas, I find out about Turkish and Hispanic stories, popular characters and a global community of viewers. Between the day’s adventures, I complete online at our hotels some freemium Pokémon yearend challenges, too. 

Of the sights we behold, I’m most awed by the Grand Canyon. My family had visited it the year before we moved to Vegas, but that was over a decade ago. During that trip, my youngest brother had gone off the path to return down a slope to our minivan and had encouraged Mom to follow. Well, Mom slipped on the rocks and broke her ankle, which cut short that trip. I didn’t remember much from the Grand Canyon because of that. 

On this trip, my friends and I see the snow-covered Canyon blanketed by encroaching cloud banks only sometimes split by sunlit rays. I love the rainbow of colors, from the red rocks to the aqua Colorado River. The pines of green and dark brown hold sheaths of white. The sky shows hints of violet from the blues and pink as our sun sets. 

And the sheer faces of the rocks, my God—They were so steep! I’d wanted to hike into the Canyon, but the ice made that less safe. Instead, a friend and I hiked the southern Rim Trail to its first lookout points. I felt quite a fill of wonder. We saw fauna, too, perhaps elk. The animals added to the natural grandeur that we saw on our trek. With our trip having built up in scale from the smaller Walnut Canyon and Petrified Forest to the epic Devil's Bridge in Sedona, the Grand Canyon truly felt like our grand finale. 

New Year’s Eve 2020

Just after midnight passed to begin Dec. 31, 2020, I was taking a few hours to wrap up my year-in-review post for WeChat, to share with my Chinese family and friends. Concluding it, I slept many hours. I re-awoke during what was daytime for Dec. 31 in Vegas but in Asia just past midnight to begin Jan. 1, 2021. For the next hour, Chinese and Mongol friends wished me Happy New Year, and I returned the greetings. 

Vegas and Siblings 

After I broke from my New Year’s greetings, my siblings and I spent a little over an hour playing Nintendo Switch games. My little sister with whom I’d sung carols on Christmas Eve did the “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” yearend event, so I joined her in co-op to gather resources on her island. Our younger brother wanted to play “Smash: Ultimate,” so the three of us played that next, including for the first time the Roy amiibo that our older brother had gifted me for my July 2020 birthday. I played a lot of Byleth and Corrin since I’d still “Fire Emblem: Three Houses” on my mind. (Just before Christmas, I’d finally reached the time skip in the Blue Lions story.) 

After the games, our sister wanted to hike the Lone Mountain on the west side of the Vegas valley. So, we hopped in a sedan to ride over. Though on the day before, Sister had let me practice driving for my first time in over a year, I didn’t feel like asking to take on the highway. I comfortably rode in back. 

The hike felt surprisingly strenuous, given that the small peak sat right there in Vegas. Though, our hike was much quicker than my national and state park and monument trails. The scenery reminded me of my trip to Red Rock Canyon back on Nov. 18 with another friend. With no discernable single path up Lone Mountain, I remembered hikes on Mongolia’s mountains. My siblings and I found its summit windy. I registered our names in a composition notebook at the top, then we proceeded down. On our way home, we passed through a shopping plaza from which I’d accompanied Tita to pick up food for my older brother’s March 2020 birthday. I felt amazed by how many months have passed. 

Back at the Vegas house, I showered and had meal of Christmas leftovers. Then I finished packing my small personal item for my Allegiant flight, hopped back in a car with my younger sister, finished my last social post of 2020—a family-focused reflection—then began my march to airport security for Terminal A. 

Even though I reached the airport at my flight’s boarding time, the place was so empty that I went through security and found my gate before staff finished boarding passengers. I’d received a message that a Mongol friend wanted me to review her personal statements before she submitted them for U.S. college applications. So, I finished reading and commenting on those aboard my flight before staff had us turn our devices to airplane mode. I felt stressed about having dropped my learner’s permit card somewhere, penned a last journal entry of 2020, slept through most of my flight then felt relieved when a flight attendant found my ID card before our plane descended. 

Reno and Friends 

I disembark from my flight to Reno just after 8:40 p.m. I feel touched on my walk from the terminal by the voice of Mayor Schieve in an ad, “If this is your first visit or your home away from home, welcome to Reno.” At this moment I realize that Reno really is my home away from home. 

I exit the airport, where my guy friend who’d married last year walks up to me. To my surprise, his red sports jersey contains two Chinese characters, “火箭,” in gold across the top. He asks about their meaning. Given that we’re at New Year’s Eve, I think at first, “fireworks.” But, I know those characters as “烟火” /yānhuǒ/. 

Certainly, his jersey’s first character, “火” /huǒ/, means “fire.” As for the second, I only recognize parts. The top’s ⺮ /zhú/ radical means “bamboo,” while the bottom part resembles “前” /qián/, which means “before.” As for what fire, bamboo and before mean together, I’m not sure. 

While we walk, I at last consult my Pleco dictionary app. I scribble in the “箭” to see that it’s pronounced /jiàn/ and means “arrows.” This explains the presence of the bamboo radical. Thus, “fire” and “arrows” taken together, “火箭” /Huǒjiàn/, mean, “Rockets.” My friend explains that this is a sports team. 

After getting in the red vehicle with his wife whose first wedding anniversary was just the day before, my friend explains that he’d gotten to learn about Chinese characters in his religious studies course about contemporary Daoism. So cool! 

The couple and I had kept in touch the past year over video, but this New Year’s Eve is our first time together in the same city since my return to the Peace Corps in January. I’m elated to see them again! My friends and I arrive at the newish fencing studio of our friend who owns it and was part of their wedding party last year. Turns out that he’s relocated to a larger studio since the time that my friends took me fencing in the spring of 2018, before my second trip to China. This new studio used to be a mechanic shop apparently, so it’s quite spacious. 

2020 Ends in Dodgeball 

Though I don’t recognize the few others present, I’m warmly greeted by one who’s the girlfriend of our fencing friend. She introduces me to others. I’m touched by folks’ inclusiveness. I’m amazed to find on the food table Pizza Plus, as, just a few days before, I’d weirdly craved some Reno-Sparks Pizza Plus (which I hadn’t eaten in over a year). God blesses us. 

For the next few hours, after a series of mostly leg stretches, we play a physically distant sport that I haven’t played in years, dodgeball. While I’m not used to dashing with a facemask on and sanitizing my hands between rounds, I have great fun. While my aim remains lacking, I can for the most part still dodge, and I’m able to swipe balls to hand to my more capable teammates. To my surprise, I receive MVP status from folks after finishing a round by catching a  teammate’s fumble and getting our last opponent out. 

A couple hours in, we switch games to a form of “Mushroom Ball,” a free-for-all type of dodgeball game in which we individually try to take out other players before someone gets us. In this game that we play till just before midnight, I do much better. I’m able to catch and throw at close range against folks who don’t notice me. Still, the amount of times others hit me causes me to really work my legs, since we squat when we’re out. My legs haven’t recovered much from the recent dodgeball, the afternoon Lone Mountain hike nor the evening flight from Vegas. Yet, I love the fun. 

2021 Begins 

My friends new and old walk out into the cold night of light snow, where one pops a shower of confetti and another a champagne bottle when we see fireworks appear across the valley of Reno-Sparks. We chat about our resolutions and take selfies. I recount memes about how saying, “2021,” sounds like, “2020 won.” We laugh and return inside as the wind picks up. 

I discover that I don’t much like the taste of even flavored champagne, but thankfully my friends’ cookies have enough sweetness to cut the bitterness. My friends mention that their family always bakes holiday cookies, which brings back vague memories from their wedding when I stayed with their family at an Airbnb. Our 2019 had ended in what felt such different times. 

My friend in the Rockets jersey talks up my accomplishments and Mongolia service, which makes me feel both bashful and delighted. Turns out that some of the folks at this little get-together had been looking into Peace Corps service! I share my experiences with them and my hope to return. One woman and I had even taken a class together in fall 2017, which feels like a remarkable blast from my undergrad past. Before the couple who brought me from the airport drives me to my family’s house, I exchange contact info with my new friends. I’m surprised to realize that the new fencing studio is just a few blocks from the neighborhood in which I’d lived from fall 2017 to spring 2019 graduation. 

Into the New Year

I arrive at the now-quiet Reno house, where I continue to exchange New Year’s greetings over social media well past midnight. I shower then get my bearings while others are still out and about. After resting away the rest of my morning from aching over the eve’s soreness, I play some seasonal events on the freemium Pokémon games. Then, I reengage on social media with New Year’s greetings. 

Quite liking the quiet home, I bring together this New Year’s blog story. Oddly enough, many of the couches that were in Vegas during Christmas are now here in Reno, since my parents and siblings had moved them while I was in Arizona. Curiously, the little neighbor boy had alluded to this when calling from his window when he saw me having just returned to Vegas. Before I’d left Vegas for Reno, I’d seen him on a hoverboard that he and his siblings had gotten for Christmas, reminding me of the one that my Mongol host family had gotten the August 2019 week when we’d said goodbye. 

Here in Reno, there are Christmas leftovers brought up from Vegas, too. So, I’m grateful not to cook. For dinner, I reunite with the couple who’d greeted me last night, and we enjoy sushi to celebrate the end of their brief return to northern Nevada, in the fellowship of our fencing instructor friend and his girlfriend. I heard such wonderful stories from everyone and feel quite inspired for whatever blessings may come. Life’s been nice. 

My New Year���s theme is, “serenity,” through which I mean to focus less on the things I can’t control and more on those that I can. Part of this will involve closing up some old projects and making myself ready to go back to Mongolia as soon as the time comes. This is at least going to soak up the first quarter or half of 2021. Perhaps when I’m back in Mongolia I’ll focus more on readjusting. 

In the meantime, I’m trying to finish moving through the stories, “Kafka on the Shore” and “The Brothers Karamazov,” while I work on my memoir writing. I’m looking to finish my close-read of “The Souls of Mao” while I re-re-(re-, etc.)revise my thesis for journal submission. And, I’m looking to complete “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” while I tidy my things. I always welcome new suggestions to my lists, and you can see mine on Goodreads. 

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! 

I look forward to writing to you soon in 2021. May you stay vigilant against the spread of the Coronavirus disease, as we await wider access to vaccines. I pray that soon our lives will open into the new world that we’ll know when we can at last be together again. 

Sincerely, Daniel Lindbergh Lang

You can read more from me here at DanielLang.me :)

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Wadi

Sunday Evening Thoughts

November 3, 2019

                                                     Wadi

Dear Paul and Rachel,

The priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and they brought out all the unclean things that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord; and the Levites took them and carried them out to the Wadi Kidron. II Chronicles 29:16

During the cleansing of the Temple at the beginning of the reign of Hezekiah of Judah (715-687 BCE), local religious objects were destroyed and dumped into the Wadi Kidron, according to II Ch 29:16. In reading this text, a bell went off and jogged my memory about the Wadi Kidron. What is the Wadi Kidron? Then I remembered, we spent the better part of a full day wandering around the Wadi Kidron or the Kidron Valley as part of our tour of Old City Jerusalem. 

(Visualize the picture as if no modern houses or roads are there. The Kidron Valley extends from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea - about 20 miles.)

From the southwest side of Old Jerusalem Walls, one can enter directly into the Kidron Valley from the Dung Gate. Obviously, as the gate name implies, animal and human waste must have been transported through this gate, so as not to spread disease by transporting it through other gates where food and people congregated. Looking out into Kidron Valley from the western wall of Old Jerusalem, we see thousands of various tombs including the Tomb of Absalom, the Benei Hazir Tomb, and the Tomb of Zechariah. 

(Benei Hazir Tomb on left and Zechariah’s on right.)

Slightly further up the hill from the tombs on the opposite side of the Kidron Valley from the Old City (about a mile-and-a-half) is the Mount of Olives, the place Jesus went to pray after the Last Supper in Jerusalem and where His execution occurred, according to the Gospels.

(Old photo from the early 1900’s at the Tomb of Absalom without roads and housing. Note: Old City Jerusalem in background.)

My biggest frustration with the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is the lack of cooperation in even the most minute details of everyday life. For example, the Israeli government does not pick up trash in East Jerusalem, a mainly Palestinian neighborhood. It seems to me, basic services like trash collection and drinking water could be performed with little effort from the Israeli government. This becomes absurd as you walk along mixed neighborhoods that have Palestinians on one block and Israelis on the next. My gut says rats do not discriminate between Israelis and Palestinians. And God forbid, the local Israeli government would repair sidewalks in Palestinian neighborhoods. One would think of the four billion dollars the U.S. gives yearly to Israel, they would fix the sidewalks and pick up the trash for the benefit of all people living in the region, but alas, over three billion of the aid is military hardware. 

Poor Kidron Valley! 

For the last three millennia, the Kidron Valley has been used as a dumping ground, and this continues to this day. The sewage and other human waste is dumped into the Kidron Valley, and according to recent articles in The Jerusalem Post, Palestinians and Israelis cannot get together to solve the sewage problem. This has become a new problem for Israel as they continue to steal Palestinian land and build Jewish settlements, because the sewage must go somewhere. 

The Palestinians won’t cooperate with Israel because it would show weakness on the PLO’s part by capitulating with the unrecognized Israeli government, and Israel will not build sewage treatment plants because it would assist the Palestinians and make their life a little better. So they are at another — sic! — stalemate. 

One thing for certain, the sh_ _ is going somewhere! And that is the Kidron Valley. Poor Kidron Valley! Why do people hate you so much?

I started thinking about where is the world leadership to solve this problem? One answer, at the most basic level, is Pope Francis — specifically his encyclical Laudato Si (Praise to You). Francis begins his Catholic teaching by quoting his namesake Francis of Assisi, “Praise be to you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and who produces various fruit with coloured flowers and herbs.”

(Note: Free to read in pdf form on the Vatican website.)

Herbs aside, once again Pope Francis presents a holistic approach to the human condition. Humanity is intimately tied into the earth — Mother Earth, using Francis’ terminology. Mother Earth, the womb from which all life is produced; Mother Earth, the placenta that nourishes all life. 

Rather than me explain Laudato Si, here are some of Francis’ own words that I thought was interesting:

Our Common Home — In the words of this beautiful canticle, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us. “Praise be to you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us…” [Yet] Some forms of pollution are part of people’s daily experience.

Climate Change — The climate is a common good [a moral issue], belonging to all and meant for all. ... A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system.

Global Inequality — The human environment and the natural environment deteriorate together; we cannot adequately combat environmental degradation unless we attend to causes related to human and social degradation… The foreign debt of poor countries has become a way of controlling them, yet this is not the case where ecological debt is concerned. In different ways, developing countries, where the most important reserves of the biosphere are found, continue to fuel the development of richer countries at the cost of their own present and future. The land of the southern poor is rich and mostly unpolluted, yet access to ownership of goods and resources for meeting vital needs is inhibited by a system of commercial relations and ownership which is structurally perverse.

The Mystery of the Universe — Yet it would also be mistaken to view other living beings as mere objects subjected to arbitrary human domination. When nature is viewed solely as a source of profit and gain, this has serious consequences for society. This vision of “might is right” has engendered immense inequality, injustice and acts of violence against the majority of humanity, since resources end up in the hands of the first comer or the most powerful: the winner takes all. Completely at odds with this model are the ideals of harmony, justice, fraternity and peace as proposed by Jesus. 

The Common Destination of Goods — Whether believers or not, we are agreed today that the earth is essentially a shared inheritance, whose fruits are meant to benefit everyone. 

Modern Anthropocentrism — Practical Relativism — A misguided anthropocentrism leads to a misguided lifestyle. … I noted that the practical relativism typical of our age is “even more dangerous than doctrinal relativism”.

Integral Ecology — Ecology studies the relationship between living organisms and the environment in which they develop. It follows that the fragmentation of knowledge and the isolation of bits of information can actually become a form of ignorance, unless they are integrated into a broader vision of reality.

Cultural Ecology — Many intensive forms of environmental exploitation and degradation not only exhaust the resources which provide local communities with their livelihood, but also undo the social structures which, for a long time, shaped cultural identity and their sense of the meaning of life and community. 

The Principle of the Common Good — An integral ecology is inseparable from the notion of the common good, a central and unifying principle of social ethics. The common good is “the sum of those conditions of social life which allow social groups and their individual members relatively thorough and ready access to their own fulfillment. 

A New Lifestyle — Today, in a word, “the issue of environmental degradation challenges us to examine our lifestyle.”... Christian spirituality proposes an alternative understanding of the quality of life, and encourages a prophetic and contemplative lifestyle, one capable of deep enjoyment free of the obsession with consumption. We need to take up an ancient lesson, found in different religious traditions [emphasis mine] and also in the Bible. It is the conviction that “less is more”. 

In thinking about the Kidron Valley, I recalled, “I’ve seen a recent picture of it, but where?” Then it dawned on me, we have had a Fritz Eichenberg lithograph print on our stairway for 30 years called “The Long Loneliness”.

(A pregnant, distraught Mary, whispered to by the Angel Gabriel, is pondering her situation in her window in Jerusalem with the Kidron Valley and the future crucifixion of Jesus in the background.) 

Just in time for Christmas!

Have a good week!

Love,

Dad

P.S. I wish the Temple priests had found a better way to dispose of their trash, but perhaps this will brighten the environmental disaster we are creating. It is the 1969 original presentation of the song, “I love trash.” Crank it up!

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21 Sep 2021 Forest Glamp, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Nova Scotia Design: Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes photography : Adrien Williams + Maxime Brouillet Forest Glamp, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François

16 Sep 2021 Out(side)In House, Scarborough Bluffs, Ontario Architecture: Atelier RZLBD photograph : Borzu Talaie Out(side)In House in Ontario As nature seeps through a crack of a stone, or as from a wound of one’s heart blooms a new, unforeseen joy and peace, a nameless empty room becomes a sanctuary, a small universe, whereone’s soul can truly rest. Located near Scarborough Bluffs, the panoramic horizon of Lake Ontario, Out(side)In House offers a void that leads the inhabitants to see the inner horizon, suggesting life inits deeper meaning.

Sep 17, 2021 Kennebec Lakehouse, Arden, Ontario Design: Zerafa Studio Llc. photo : Tom Arban Kennebec Lakehouse in Ontario Kennebec Lakehouse is a year-round vacation home located on Kennebec Lake, a finger-lake in Arden Ontario. The 2.8 acre site is defined by its dramatic topography, sloping down from the roadway to Kennebec Lake from south to north.

Aug 5, 2021 Saltbox Passive House, Bromont, Québec Design: Atelier L’Abri photo : Raphaël Thibodeau Saltbox Passive House, Bromont The Saltbox Passive House is a primary residence designed for a family of four and built on the southern flank of Mont Gale in Bromont, in the Eastern Townships. The 3,100 sq. ft. single-family home, built on three levels, sits in a meadow at the edge of a wooded, protected area on a 2.5-acre lot.

23 Jul 2021 The Monocular, Chester Basin, Nova Scotia Design: RHAD Architects photo : Julian Parkinson Monocular House, Chester Basin The Monocular was designed to choreograph one’s experience of the dramatic waterfront site. Thus, it was treated as a Monocular, framing the view of the Basin beyond.

22 Jun 2021 Lake of Bays Cottage, Lambton Shores, Ontario Architecture: Altius Architecture photograph : Greg Van Riel Photography Lake of Bays Cottage, Muskoka, Ontario A longtime client of Altius, the owners of this residence started looking for a cottage home in 2007. After four years exploring Ontario cottage country, they purchased Lake of Bays Cottage from a colleague but immediately began to doubt their decision. However, this doubt quickly melted away after they had spent their first summer there.

8 Apr 2021 Black Point Residence, Black Point, Halifax, Nova Scotia Design: Peter Braithwaite Studio photograph : Yurii Suhov Black Point Residence, Halifax, Nova Scotia This expansive Black Point Residence was designed for a retired couple looking for a summer home where their extended family could all gather and spend time together. Located in the harsh climate of the Northumberland Strait in Black Point, Nova Scotia, the architectural design pushes the limit of maritime vernacular seaside fishing and boat sheds.

1 Apr 2021 Kahshe Lake Cottage, The Muskoka Region, Ontario Architects: Solares Architecture photograph : Nanne Springer Kahshe Lake Cottage, Muskoka Region The story of Kahshe Lake Cottage started in 1987, when architect Tom Knezic’s parents bought the water-access property and built a small bunkie as a temporary shelter. Their goal was to then design and build their dream family cottage. When the 1989 recession hit, their plans went on hold.

Mar 29, 2021 MTR Residence, Mont-Tremblant Design: Alain Carle Architect photograph : Félix Michaud MTR Residence, Mont-Tremblant Québec Located on Lac Tremblant, one of Québec’s most highly esteemed lakes, the site presented features as spectacular as they were restrictive. Very steep terrain and high rock cliffs allowed few options for implementation or traffic on the site. A very large flat rock cap on the edge of the lake was chosen as “level 0” and allowed creation of the MTR Residence project’s anchoring identity.

4 Apr, 2021 Elm House, Tupper School District, Halifax, Nova Scotia Design: Peter Braithwaite Studio photo : Julian Parkinson Elm House, Halifax Home, Nova Scotia This house displayed great potential for the young family who had recently purchased the property. Over the decades, this residence had been the subject of a number of poorly executed renovations.

14 Apr 2021 Sandy Cove House, Digby, southwestern Nova Scotia Design: Habit Studio with houdinidesign Architects photo : Bridget Havercroft Sandy Cove House in Nova Scotia Sandy Cove House is a large two-storey timber frame house that reflects the form and layout of a traditional Nova Scotia barn. The client, who was inhabiting only the second floor, wanted to transform the main level from a garage and utility room into valuable living space.

13 Mar 2021 Smith Bay House, Prince Edward County, Southern Ontario Design: Solares Architecture photo : Nanne Springer Smith Bay House, Prince Edward County Smith Bay House, located on a flat stretch of land just a stone’s throw from the water, is an embodiment of serenity and style. A young Toronto family dreamed of a new sustainable home in the countryside, and Smith Bay House delivers that getaway.

Yakisugi House, Calgary, Alberta Architects: Alloy Homes Incorporated photo : Joel Klassen Yakisugi House, Calgary Property A phenomenal custom home whose every angle is designed to frame beautiful views to the downtown skyline. A 20′ grade difference between the street and back alley led to some unique architectural solutions including a detached garage with tunnel and green roof.

4 Feb 2021 Gouldburn Modern, Ottawa Design: Shean Architects photo : Younes Bounhar – Doublespace Photography Gouldburn Modern House, Ottawa The Gouldburn Modern displays a harmony between new and old, where an addition at both the front and the rear offer a creative way to emphasize the connection of traditional form and modern materiality. The interior of the home was renovated utilizing a clean and pure palette to brighten the home.

12 Jan 2021 Fold House, Southern Ontario Architect: PARTISANS photograph : PARTISANS Fold House, Hamilton, Ontario Fold House is a residential property in Hamilton, Ontario that “folds” into the contours of a hillside through its undulating wood and steel structure. The two-story residence is concealed through the land’s topography with the pool pavilion nestled into the lower part of the hill and features an eighty foot long by ten foot tall sliding glass facade that provides sweeping views from a burrowed vantage point.

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16 Dec 2020 Lambton Farmhouse, Lambton Shores, Ontario Architecture: Shean Architects photograph : Chris Berg Lambton Farmhouse, Ontario Lambton Farmhouse is located in the fields of Southern Ontario, sits a modern farmhouse. The form takes influence from the gradual slopes that the surrounding landscape forms. Tiered levels offer optimal views of the exterior, where large windows are placed to allow for natural light to enter many sides of each space within.

8 Dec 2020 Le Littoral, La Malbaie, Québec Design: Architecture49 photo : Stéphane Brügger Le Littoral Residence, La Malbaie A couple passionate about gastronomy and great lovers of Charlevoix dreamed of designing a contemporary residence in this exceptional natural setting. This was to both enjoy a pied-à-terre in the region, but also to create a high-end tourist home where families, friends, or colleagues could gather.

26 Nov, 2020 Maison Koya, Saint-Sauveur Design: Alain Carle Architecte photo : Raphael Thibodeau Maison Koya, Saint-Sauveur The Maison Koya site is part of a real estate development on the approaches to the town of Saint-Sauveur in the Laurentians. This area is in Montréal’s second ring of outlying communities, where the occupants have chosen to settle to combine a lifestyle in a natural setting (in the mountains) with the conveniences of a small regional town.

18 Nov 2020 Double Header House , Victoria, British Columbia Design: D’Arcy Jones Architects photo © Sama Jim Canzian Double Header House, Victoria, BC Double Header House was designed to be both open and private, while bold and modest. This single building has two units. Designed for three generations to live side-by-side, the units are separated by interlocking private courtyards, a common stair and air-locks.

17 Nov 2020 Forest House I, Bolton-Est, Eastern Townships, QC Design: Natalie Dionne Architecture photo : Raphaël Thibodeau Forest House I, Eastern Townships Forest House I is the latest work by Montréal-based studio, Natalie Dionne Architecture. The firm has earned widespread praise over the years for its contextual approach, its creativity, and its attention to detail. Forest House I adds to a rich portfolio of original, residential homes, equal parts urban and rural.

26 Oct 2020 Blackwood Studio, Hinchinbrooke

20 Oct 2020 Cowley Avenue House, Ottawa

8 Oct 2020 Wendover House, Ottawa

31 Jul 2020 Chester Cottage in Nova Scotia

14 Jul 2020 Portland Residence in Mont-Royal, Québec

4 Jun 2020 Lake Huron Summer House, Ontario Architects: Saota photograph : Adam Letch Lake Huron Summer House in Ontario This summer house is set on the banks of Lake Huron in a small, remote Canadian town about an hour’s drive from London, Ontario.

14 May 2020 Abacus House on Bras d’Or Lake, Nova Scotia

4 May 2020 103, Land House in Meaford, Ontario

24 Apr 2020 La Frangine Residence Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury

22 Apr 2020 Lakeside Cabin in Lac-Brome, Quebec

31 Mar 2020 Ravine House near Don River Watershed

4 Feb 2020 Rodeo Drive House, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Architects: Alloy Homes Incorporated photograph : Joel Klassen Rodeo Drive House in Calgary, Alberta This family home is built on a small, triangular lot that was considered virtually unusable. Situated atop a ridge overlooking the Calgary Stampede Grandstand, the views are magnificent from the upper floors.

1 Feb 2020 Modern Farmhouse, Calgary, Alberta Architects: Alloy Homes Incorporated photograph : Joel Klassen Modern Farmhouse near Calgary, Alberta The architecture is inspired by the simple lines and humble materials of the adjacent working ranch.

31 Jan 2020 River’s Edge House, Calgary Architects: Alloy Homes Incorporated photo : Joel Klassen River’s Edge House in Calgary, Alberta This new Canadian family home was designed and built to feel like it had been a part of the neighbourhood for years. The property is wrapped in low-maintenance natural materials designed to weather gently and enhance its character over the years.

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5 Nov 2019 The River Cabins, Wheatley River, Prince Edward County Design: Nine Yards Studio photograph : Tamzin Gillis, Nine Yards Studio Prince Edward County Buildings The smallest province in Canada, Prince Edward Island is celebrated for its vibrant arts and culture scene and is renowned for culinary experiences featuring world-class seafood and produce.

21 Jun 2019 Muskoka Boathouse in Ontario

16 Jun 2019 Pilon-Hébert Residence in Potton, Québec

11 Jun 2019 Powder Snow House in Bromont, Québec

28 May 2019 Hatley House in Québec

14 May 2019 Church Residence in Frelighsburg, Québec

17 Apr 2019 Gazing House in Scarborough Junction, Toronto

20 Mar 2019 Residence Le Nid on the St. Lawrence River, Quebec

17 Mar 2019 Dans l’Escarpement in Saint-Faustin-Lac-Carré

30 Jan 2019 La Barque Residence in Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm

11 Dec 2018 TRIPTYCH House in Wentworth-Nord, Quebec

3 Dec 2018 Friesen Wong House in Okanagan, British Columbia

2 Dec 2018 Shelter on a Rock in Racine, Québec

14 Nov 2018 Long Horizontals House in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François

2 Oct 2018 Vallée du Parc Residence in Shawinigan, Québec

16 May 2018 Gulf Islands Residence, Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, western Canada Architects: RUFproject photograph : Ivan Hunter Gulf Islands Residence

20 Feb 2018 La Cornette House, Township of Cleveland, Québec, Eastern Canada Architects: YH2 photo © Francis Pelletier La Cornette House in the Township of Cleveland Built on the slope of a small hill, La Cornette is a country house open to the pastoral landscape that surrounds it. Under a soaring roof resembling a nun’s cornet wimple is a roomy dwelling modelled on traditional Quebec houses of old that lodged large families and their relatives.

19 Feb 2018 La Luge Cabin, La Conception, in the Laurentides region of Quebec Architects: YH2 photography © Francis Pelletier La Luge in La Conception Mostly dedicated to the enjoyment of Quebec’s winter, La Luge is a secondary home lying in the midst of the forest. Nestled on its site, surrounded by dense vegetation preserving the house’s privacy, La Luge integrates a private spa which occupies almost a third of the useable area, adding on to the traditional countryside living spaces.

16 Feb 2018 Window on the Lake, Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, Mauricie region, province of Quebec Architects: YH2 photography © Francis Pelletier Window on the Lake in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton The house stands on the site of an old family cottage, just steps away from the shores of Lac Plaisant in the Mauricie region. Thanks to its simplicity, restraint and refinement, the project embodies the architect’s attempt to capture the essence of cottage life – a wooden home designed for vacations and enabling true communion with nature.

9 Feb 2018 Sky House, Stoney Lake, Ontario Design: Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster photography : Doublespace Photography Sky House on Stoney Lake Negotiating the steep topography of a lake-side site, this holiday house consists of two volumes stacked on one another. The lower volume nestles into the landscape so that it is barely visible as one first approaches the house.

6 Feb 2018 The Wooden Wing, Lac-Supérieur, Quebec Design: YH2 architecture photography : David Marien-Landry The Wooden Wing in Lac-Supérieur The Wooden Wing is a large cottage on the shores of Lac Supérieur, in Quebec’s Laurentians. The house is perched on a sizeable outcrop of granite bedrock, giving it a commanding yet intimate view of the lake and Mont Tremblant, on the other side.

4 Feb 2018 Withrow Laneway House, Calgary, Alberta Architects: Studio North photo : Mark Erickson Withrow Laneway House in Calgary Affordable housing in a thriving city like Calgary is a challenge for many, not the least for two newly graduated professionals starting a design studio with big dreams and a limited budget. We see alleys as a new place for community and dwelling. This project offers an opportunity to save one of Calgary’s heritage houses and to build an affordable, compact living space in the inner city.

19 Jan 2018 Indigo Lane House, Whistler, British Columbia, western Canada Design: Stark Architecture Ltd. photo © Krista Jahnke New House in Whistler, BC A crazy site! But one of the greatest things about Architecture is having lots of constraints. The more constraints, the more inventive you have to be. The site drops steeply from the road, almost a 25 ft sheer drop down to a flat site, with retaining walls below.

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