#john muir college

[humanoidhistory]

Electrophysics Research Building at John Muir College, San Diego, 1966, designed by Mosher and Drew. Photo by Robert Mosher.

(UC San Diego)

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday: Paste Paper Edition

In 1942, Harvard University Press printed 250 copies of Decorated Book Papers: Being an Account of the Designs and Fashions by the bookbinder, author, and creator and collector of decorative papers, Rosamond Bowditch Loring. Published by the Harvard College Library Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the 234 sale copies of the first edition sold out within months, despite the “then considerable price of ten dollars” and the economic stressors of the war. In addition to eight plates reproducing examples of 18th century decorative papers, the first edition includes twenty-five samples tipped in, many of which are from the author’s own extensive collection. 

While Loring collected a variety of a decorative papers, the examples shown here are from the chapter on paste papers, Loring’s area of creative specialization. The sample papers included in this chapter are all Loring’s own work, or that of her student, Veronica Ruzicka, who bound the first edition (it is worthy to note that Ruzicka is the daughter of illustrator, wood engraver, and type designer Rudolph Ruzicka, whose work we have highlighted several times). Ruzicka also contributed an essay when a second edition of the book was finally published by Harvard University Press in 1952, along with Dard Hunter and Walter Muir Whitehall. 

Rosamond Loring (May 2, 1889 – September 17, 1950) studied book binding under Mary Crease Sears at the Sears School of Bookbinding in Boston. Sears, about a decade older than Loring, had had to battle to learn the trade; women were barred from the Bookbinders Union but most commercial binderies were happy to hire women for particular tasks, such as sewing sheets, but maintained a strict separation of roles, preventing employees from learning the whole binding process from start to finish. Eventually, Ms. Sears secured an apprenticeship in France to complete her studies and opened her binding school in Boston shortly after, training several generations of women binders. While studying under Sears, Loring became frustrated with the lack of options for quality endpapers and became determined to make her own, which she sold to other binders at Ms. Sears’s studio. Her first major commercial commission was for the Houghton Mifflin publication of The Antigone of Sophocles, translated by John J. Chapman (Boston, 1930).

Our copy of Decorated Book Papers is a gift of Dick Schoen. 

-Olivia Hickner, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[haveyoureadthispoll]

Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw away the maps. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.

[derseprinceoftbd]

How do I make more friends?

My name is Zoe. I am 18, Jewish (ambiguous denomination, Kosher and cleans for Passover), and a non-passing trans woman with she/her pronouns. ♉️ I speak English and very basic Spanish. I live in the upmost area of Manhattan.

I am not romantically involved currently. I am not wealthy. I am currently attending John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and intend to go into Law. I do not have a ton of free time, and am occupied weekday mornings, due to college and household responsibilities. I am good with pets. I have consistently recieved extremely good test marks on English and Social Studies in my life.

I love playing chess, which I am relatively good at. Homestuck is a special interest of mine. I like classic literature, including short stories; my favorite Author is Borges, and I have been told I have good reading comprehension and interesting perspectives. I am currently reading Nona The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. I enjoy Battle Shonen Manga. My favorite movie is Dr. Strangelove. I have almost zero video game experience. I do not tend to fixate on particular musical artists; I would describe my favorites as They Might Be Giants. My favorite song is Teenagers by My Chemical Romance.

I was homeschooled. I have been described as a people-pleaser, and generally accommodating. I have ADHD and OCD. I am tolerant of all different opinions, but will not hesitate to express my own. My Homestuck Classpect is Derse Prince of Light, though I would not say I express any great devotion to that self-consideration. I am very into new experiences, though not anything fundamentally expensive.

I prefer communication via the social media chat client Discord, where my handle is ZoeConfident.

I don't know what to do with any of this knowledge. Ideally I'm looking for someone between the ages of 17 and 22 who just... wants to talk sometimes? I don't really know, I just feel like I don't really have a lot of peer interaction.

[cryptidswitch]

Get To Know Me Tag!

LI was tagged on my old blog by the ever gracious @salemssimblr​

So now I’ll answer it here :P

Show your wallpaper and the last song you listened to

Currently I have a wallpaper from Wallpaper Engine (so the rain and the leaves move!) which is the Mystery Shack from Gravity Falls! This is the night version and then there is a sunny version for the day time it automatically switches to!

The last song I listened to was Anything You Want by JAWNY!

Currently reading?

Right now I’m about to hop back into listening to Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir! My boyfriend read through Gideon and I told him when he started listening to Harrow I’d go back and listen to the rest of it so we could talk about it.

Last movie?

Ponyo! Watched it with the kiddo (not that she paid any attention to it haha)

Last show?

Guys Grocery Games! We finally got access to Food Network on streaming again (thank you MAX) and my mom, Matt, and I binged like half a season today lmao

Craving?

Currently craving these microwaveable shepherd’s pies things that I’m not even sure if they make anymore but the brand was called Crikey’s lmao. I know that’s weirdly specific but cut me some slack, it’s shark week

What are you wearing right now?

Ohhh, are you so curious ask game? ~eyebrow waggle~ God I need to go to bed lol. Currently in a pair of super soft grey jogger pj pants and an olive green crop top cami

How tall are you?

For the longest time I measured in at like 5′4″ and some change but that’s because they always told me to put my back against the wall and I couldn’t do that and stand straight apparently so I’m actually 5′6″ and some change!

Piercings?

Just two lobe ear piercings!

Tattoos?

Currently none, I’ve got several I want but the money and time never seem to line up x.x

Glasses or Contacts?

I have glasses that I need to wear more! I don’t think I’ll ever do contacts tbh

Last thing you ate?

Right now I’m eating Skittles :P

Favorite Color?

Emerald green, any shade of purples, and black!

Current Obsession?

So, I’m an absolute slut for stationary and back to school/college season is coming up and I’m practically frothing at the mouth for all the new stationary coming out! Otherwise I’ve been really into stuff from the Edwardian era lately!

Any Pets?

I’ve got two cats that hate each other lol. One is a one eyed, black and white, manx cat named Ciel (after the anime character) and Smudge who is a teeny tiny tortoiseshell cat

Favorite fictional character?

This is such an evil question lmao. I have fallen deeply in love with Gideon and Harrow from the Ninth House series. Jude Duarte from The Folk of the Air series made me obsessed with the name Jude and I just adore her. Charlie from The Book of Night is a complete and total badass! Kaz Brekker and Inej from Six of Crows, Delilah Greene from Delilah Greene Doesn’t Care, Booker and Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite, Iron Bull and Blackwall and Cullen and Josephine from Dragon Age Inquisition, Arthur and John from Malevolent, Jon and Martin and Bashira from The Magnus Archives, Caduceus Clay from Critical Role campaign 2, and many MANY more! I can’t pick favorites lol

Last place you traveled?

Last place we went to beyond our usual haunts was the mall down in Cincinnati to attempt to go to the Squishables store for Mother’s Day (it hadn’t actually opened yet in spite of what google said)

I will tag anyone who would like to do this!

[shivtomdivorce]

Katie’s Top Books of 2022

feeling in the mood to talk about some favorites from this year so a list of my favorite reads (in order that i read them with no summaries at all):

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - I put off reading this for so long bc i was intimidated by the writing style but this was such a delight. i loved reading from Piranesi’s pov and being inside his head

No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull - one of my favorite things to read are books that do something new or different with the povs. i flew through this book and check the author’s twitter about once a month for news on the sequel

Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson - This is the third book in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series which is the most complicated fantasy series I’ve ever read but its so worth it to put in the time. so far this installment has the most compelling plot and characters

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel - She is my favorite author and this book helped solidify that. i love the way she weaves seemingly separate narratives together (also this is maybe favorite cover of the year

The Idiot & Either/Or by Elif Batuman - Lumping these two together i loved both of these books so much i would read infinite volumes of Selin going through her life. these books capture the both mundanity and absurdity that (in my experience) are true to college life (particularly the scene where Selin comes home to a stingray in the sink that a roommate left with no explanation)

 Age of Madness Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie - I marathoned these books back to back and this series has probably the most well written characters in fantasy that i’ve read. this is my favorite fantasy series and the trouble with peace is my favorite of the three

Book Lovers by Emily Henry - this book made me cry like a baby i loved it so much 

Sellout by Dan Ozzi - the only non fiction on the list... learning more about this era of music was so fascinating and so fun and introduced me to thursday which i am thankful for

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo - i love Nghi Vo and will pick up anything she writes. the prose in this book is just a delight to read 

If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga - i picked this up on a whim and im SO glad i did this has probably the coolest format i’ve read in a long time. i loved how much this book made me think and how much the book argued with itself

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - showstopping spectacular made me cry a lot i think Muir is just a genius and i loved the experience of reading this

Wall of Storms by Ken Liu - i think this series is one of the most underrated, the political intrigue is top notch and the writing is both incredibly straightforward but also so beautiful. another one that made me cry 

heres to reading more really great books in 2023

[with-a-martyr-complex]

With A Martyr Complex: Reading List 2022

Adapted from the annual list from @balioc​, a list of books (primarily audiobooks) consumed this year. This list excludes several podcasts, but includes dramatizations and college lecture series from The Great Courses, which I consume like a disgusting fiend.

Introduction to the Qur'an by Martyn Oliver with Tahera Ahmad (for Quranic recitation)

Conquistadors by Michael Wood

ROAR: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life by Stacy Sims and Selene Yeager

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe 1500-2000 by Vegas Gabriel Liulevicius

This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Coup de Grâce: A Novel by Marguerite Yourcenar (Translated by Grace Fick)

Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima (Stanford Press Translation)

Classical Mythology by Elizabeth Vandiver

Metamorphoses by Ovid (Translated by Frank Justus Miller)

Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power (A method for getting what you want by getting off on what you don't) by Carolyn Elliott

Fascism: A Warning by Madeline Albright

The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self by Leo Damrosch

Greek Tragedy by Elizabeth Vandiver

Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiaticall and Civil by Thomas Hobbes

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

Natural Law and Human Nature by Father Joseph Koterski

Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming by Jonathan Shay (Foreward by John McCain and Max Cleland)

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Translated by Clarence Brown)

Treason by Orson Scott Card (Originally published as A Planet Called Treason)

The Modern Political Tradition: Hobbes to Habermas by Lawrence Cahoon

Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault (Translated by Alan Sheridan)

Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

History of Sexuality: Volume I by Michel Foucault (Unidentified Translator)

Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault (Translated by Richard Howard)

Lent: A Novel of Many Returns by Jo Walton

Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon by Suzanne M. Desan

The Stranger by Albert Camus (Translated by Matthew Ward)

10 Women Who Ruled The Renaissance by Joyce Salisbury

A Brief History of the Samurai by Jonathan Clements

Because Internet: Understanding The New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima

The Republic by Plato (Translated by Benjamin Jowett)

Nona The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Davos Man: How The Billionaires Devoured The World by Peter S. Goodman

The Birth of The Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries by Alan Charles Kors

(Spooky) Litigation: The Practice of Supernatural Law (Volume 1) by Jeffrey A. Rapkin

Emperors of Rome by Garrett G. Fagan

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Francis of Assisi by Ronald B. Herzman and William R. Cook

Impact Winter by Travis Beacham

Popes and The Papacy: A History by Thomas X. Noble

Misery by Stephen King

The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher

The Aeneid by Virgil (Translated by John Dryden)

The Aeneid of Virgil by Elizabeth Vandiver

The Industrial Revolution by Patrick N. Allitt

[Redacted] by [Redacted]

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (Translated by Duke Classics)

America and the World: A Diplomatic History by Mark A. Stoler

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo (Translated by William Scott Wilson)

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Voltaire and The Triumph of The Enlightenment by Alan Charles Kors

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Translated by Constance Garnett)

Incomplete books: Jacques the Fatalist, The Just City, On Killing

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Great Courses consumed: 17

Non-Great Courses Nonfiction consumed: 16

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Works consumed by women: 17

Works consumed by men: 37

Works consumed by men and women: 2

Works that can plausibly be considered of real relevance to foreign policy (including appropriate histories): 10

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With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, fiction division: It’s a tie between Lent and Coup de Grace, I just couldn’t decide between the two. Feel free to mock me for my indecision.

>>>> Honorable mention: The Stars My Destination, Misery

With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, nonfiction division: The Guns of August

>>>> Honorable mention: Living the French Revolution and The Age of Napoleon, Greek Tragedy, Conquistadors, The Aeneid of Virgil

>>>> Great Courses Division: The Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries

The Annual “An Essential Work of Surpassing Beauty that Isn’t Fair to Compare To Everything Else” Award: We

>>>> Honorable mention: Crime and Punishment (This may have suffered from me reading while quarantining, I could easily have swapped it with We under other circumstances)

>>>> Nonfiction Division: Leviathan

>>>>>>>>Honorable Mention: Discipline and Punish

The “Reading This Book Will Give You Great Insight Into The Way I See The World” Award: War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

>>>> Honorable mention: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Leviathan

The “This is Kooky Made Up Nonsense But Still Worth Checking Out” Award: Existential Kink

The “Reading This has Allowed Me To Stop Caring About Its Author Too Much” Award: The Benedict Option

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This marks the first year where I’ve reached my goal of at least 1 book per week for the year, and I’m reasonably proud of that. I’m especially proud that I didn’t overload the list with short works to reach that goal and was able to tackle some difficult or long works while maintaining a solid pace. I did find myself reading fewer literary works than I tend to prefer, and my nonfiction that wasn’t lectures was lower than I’d generally like (however much I do love lectures). 

Goals for next year: more foreign policy reading, more literary fiction, write something of my own.

[worldenough-and-time]

ten books

Thanks @spindrifters for the tag!

(In no particular order)

1. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (no surprise given my handle, but this is maybe my favorite book ever. I reread it last year to confirm, and yes it still is the best, and I made the mistake of reading the ending while away for the weekend at a friend’s wedding and I cried my fucking eyes out and then I did just a little bit of psilocybin and sang country songs with my friends and had a long talk with my other friend about our creative aspirations and then I was seriously ill for about a week after that, which may or may not have had anything to do with the choices I’d made the previous evening. Anyway, it’s just a great love story. I’m a simple girl.)

2. Beautiful World, Where Are You By Sally Rooney (Everyone has the Sally Rooney book that feels like she read their fucking diary and this one is mine. No, I won’t tell you which parts. But I will tell you that I think the Wedding Chapter in this book is maybe the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read. I’m not exaggerating. I slept with this book next to my bed for weeks and finally to break my attachment to it and read something else, I gave it to my friend who hates Sally Rooney to read on her way to London. She did hate it- couldn’t even get past the phone sex scene, which honestly if you don’t think that’s one of the most romantic things you’ve ever read, I really don’t know how to help you. How could you not love this book??! It’s half emails!)

3. The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (I know this is a series but idc, if I could only pick one it’d be The Dream Thieves but all these books are the Books of My Heart. I reread them pretty much every year. Look, sometimes you’re in college and for the first time in your life you have Guy Friends, and you are a little bit in love with all of them, even though you are all young fucking idiots, and it feels like a revelation for some reason. Anyone? No? Just me? Well, Maggie Stiefvater wrote a book series about that experience so now I don’t have to.)

4. Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (This book feels like falling in love. All my favorite books feel like falling in love.)

5. Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (This is really a catch all for the whole series but I’m a Harrowhark bitch through and through, also this book literally rewired my brain such that I could only write in second person for like two months. I think Tamsyn Muir is a mad genius.)

6. Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (Might be recency bias but I just finished one and really really loved it!)

7. The Host, Stephanie Meyer (I know this is such a weird pick and I could just… not, BUT I unironically love this book. I read it in high school I’ve reread it several times since, it’s kind of a comfort book? Idk how to explain it, but cringe is dead so here we are.)

8. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (look, you either love JG or you don’t, but I love his writing so much and this book came out my senior year of high school and I carried it around with me in my backpack for months and whenever I would feel sad I would reread it in the middle of class and Mel and I tried to adapt it into a piece for our HS speech team and I can still recite quotes from it and it still means a lot to me.)

9. Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya (okay I know this is a manga series and it’s technically 23 books, but Furuba is my Bible, and any list without it would be wrong. I read it for the first time at 12 and I reread it every couple of years and every time I come away with something new. Also I think the original TokyoPop translation is far superior to the Viz editions and it makes me sad that they’re harder to find these days. The 2019 anime adaptation is beautiful but again, I think the TokyoPop translation is better than the anime subs. This series fucking raised me. That is all.)

10. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (look LOOK, it might be the great American novel, okay? It feels so stupid to have it on this list, like, Sam, people fucking know The Great Gatsby is good, we all had to read it for school. Idk man. I love Fitzgerald, truly the saddest sad sack there ever was. His wife was infinitely cooler than him. But God damn could that man write a sentence.)

[toughgirlchallenges]

Audrey Payne - Long-distance backpacker, writer, and nature nerd. Overcame a debilitating back injury to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail and recently published a memoir about it!

In this episode, we sit down with Audrey Payne, a long-distance backpacker, acclaimed writer, and nature enthusiast who calls Boulder, Colorado, her home. Audrey's incredible journey from overcoming a debilitating back injury to thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail (AT) forms the heart of our conversation. Raised in Upstate New York and inspired by her transformative experiences abroad in New Zealand and Madagascar, Audrey has always had a deep love for the outdoors. Her passion led her to pursue environmental science and journalism, but the pressures of her studies and early career eventually led to burnout and a severe back injury. Undeterred, she found inspiration in Bill Bryson’s "A Walk in the Woods" and set her sights on the AT, a journey she chronicles in her newly published memoir.

Throughout our chat, Audrey shares the highs and lows of her trail life, from the supportive community she found to the physical and mental challenges she faced. We explore her trail name ‘Glowstick,’ her trail family dynamics, and the lessons learned from her trek. Audrey also opens up about the post-trail depression she experienced and how writing her memoir helped her process the journey. As she plans future hikes, including the possibility of tackling the Pacific Crest Trail, Audrey’s story is a powerful reminder of resilience and the joy of embracing life’s adventures. Tune in to hear her inspiring story and gain insights into the life of a dedicated thru-hiker and nature lover.

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Show notes

Who is Audrey 

Being a hiking and backpacking enthusiast 

Living in Boulder Colorado, USA

Growing up in Upstate New York

Her early years and her passion for the outdoors

Spending a summer abroad in New Zealand at 16 

How it changed her life

Spending time in Madagascar for a semester abroad during college

Staying environmental science and journalist with a minor in anthropology 

Dealing with burnout and how it happened. 

Moving to Washing DC to study for a Masters Degree in Public Relations. 

Working for an entertainment communications firm 

Dealing with a back injury while having to work all the time

Starting to think about the Appalachian Trail (AT)

Getting inspired by Bill Bryson and his book; Walk in the Woods

Making the decision to start taking the first steps towards achieving her goal of walking the AT

Getting to the start line 

Landing her dream job at World Wildlife Fund

Connecting with an old friend from college who also wanted to hike the trail

Having a good boss

1 month before the start!

On the start line of the Appalachian Trail in 2018

Loving every moment and feeling so happy and grateful

Getting her trail name, ‘Glowstick’

Day to day life on the trail and being part of a trail family

Food and nutrition on the trail and eating on a budget

Craving and what it’s telling your body

The ice cream challenge…

Key lessons learned from taking on this challenge

Dealing with conflict on the trail and the break up of the trail family

Being anaemic 

Wear and tear on your body on a thru-hike

Writing her book 5 years after the hike

Post Trail Depression/Post Trail Blues 

Getting the urge to write and writing non stop

Hiking on a regular basis and making it apart of her life

Future hiking dreams and planning to hike the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in the future 

Hiking the John Muir Trail and why the PCT might be the wrong trail for her

Taking the time to figure out which trail to walk in the future

How you can connect with Audrey and follow along with her future journeys 

Why you should keep an open mind 

Grab the opportunities when they arrive

  Social Media

Website: sunstrucksite.wordpress.com 

Instagram: @audipayne 

Facebook: @audipayne 

YouTube: @AudreyAdventures 

Book: Where the Rhododendrons Bloom: A Thru-Hiking Adventure on the Appalachian Trail 

    Check out this episode!

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[ad_1] Berkeley | $1.98 MillionA 1926 Tudor Revival home with three bedrooms and three and a half bogs, on a 0.1-acre lotThis home, which has been owned by the identical household for 50 years, retains a lot of its authentic architectural particulars, together with hardwood flooring, built-ins and molding. It's on a tree-lined road the place many homes date to the Twenties, within the Claremont district, just a few blocks from Claremont Membership & Spa, a resort that opened in 1915.John Muir Elementary Faculty is half a mile away. Driving to the campus of the College of California, Berkeley takes about 10 minutes. Downtown Oakland is quarter-hour away. San Francisco is a couple of half-hour drive, relying on visitors.Measurement: 2,847 sq. toesWorth per sq. foot: $695Indoors: From the sidewalk, a stone path leads throughout a garden to the entrance entrance.The arched wooden entrance door opens right into a lobby with hardwood flooring and a staircase with its authentic wrought-iron railing. To the left is a lounge with a bay of tall home windows overlooking the entrance yard and a hearth flanked by extra home windows.To the appropriate of the lobby is a eating room with wrought-iron lighting fixtures, extra tall home windows and a door to the butler’s pantry. Past the pantry is a kitchen with white cabinetry, a white-enamel vary, and entry to a sunny breakfast room and a powder room.All three bedrooms are on the second flooring. The first bed room, which overlooks the road, has a walk-in closet and a rest room with a mixed tub and bathe that's shared with the second bed room. The third bed room, in the back of this degree, has an en suite lavatory with a stall bathe. Each visitor rooms have entry to a room that might be used as an workplace or playroom.A laundry room, an area used as a house gymnasium and a full lavatory are within the partially completed basement.Out of doors house: Behind the home is a terraced brick patio with raised backyard bins and ample room for entertaining. The connected storage holds two vehicles.Taxes: $24,796 (estimated)Contact: Mavis Delacroix, Compass, 510-541-4020; mavisdelacroix.comLos Angeles | $1,999,999A not too long ago renovated condominium with two bedrooms and two bogs, in a 1981 constructingThis condominium is on the highest flooring of a constructing south of Beverly Boulevard, lower than a mile from the middle of West Hollywood. Throughout a renovation accomplished in the summertime of 2023, new flooring and home equipment have been put in, and a custom-built bar was added to the loft subsequent to the non-public roof deck.The house is a couple of 10-minute stroll from Cedars-Sinai Medical Heart, and about quarter-hour from the upscale Beverly Heart shopping center. It's also inside strolling distance of Bristol Farms and Ralphs grocery shops, a canine park and a tennis membership. Driving to Century Metropolis takes about quarter-hour. Santa Monica is about half-hour away.Measurement: 2,419 sq. toesWorth per sq. foot: $827Indoors: The house’s entrance door opens right into a lounge with excessive ceilings, white oak flooring, a wood-burning fire with a marble fireside and a wall of home windows. On one facet of this house, doorways open to a balcony; on the opposite, a staircase leads as much as a loft that features as a second lounge, with a built-in bar that features a fridge and doorways that open to a non-public roof deck.The eating space, across the nook from the lounge, connects to a kitchen with white oak cupboards and flooring, marble counters, chrome steel home equipment and a breakfast nook with glass doorways that open to a Juliet balcony.Each bedrooms are on the principle degree, off a hallway extending from the entryway. The first suite, on the far finish, features a bed room giant sufficient to comfortably maintain a king-size mattress; a walk-in closet with a custom-built storage system; and a rest room with an extended, marble-topped vainness, a walk-in bathe and a deep soaking tub.

The visitor room subsequent door has the usage of a rest room off the hallway with a bathe that has a glass door. A stacked Miele washer and dryer are in a nook off the hallway.Out of doors house: The roof deck is enclosed by partitions with lattice insets and features as an out of doors lounge, with sufficient house for lounge furnishings and a grill. The balcony off the principle degree, which presents views of the Hollywood Hills, has room for a restaurant desk and chairs. This house comes with two parking spots in a safe storage.Taxes: $24,996 (estimated) and an $895 month-to-month house owner affiliation priceContact: Nick Collins, The Company, 310-433-4946; theagencyre.comMurrieta | $1.95 MillionA 2010 home with 4 bedrooms and three bogs, on a 10-acre lotThis home is close to the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, a 9,000-acre expanse of open house, and Cleveland Nationwide Forest, attracting hikers, campers and people in search of scenic drives. It's a couple of 20-minute drive from supermarkets and big-box shops, in addition to public elementary, center and excessive faculties.Driving to Riverside or Irvine takes about an hour. San Diego is 90 minutes away.Measurement: 3,014 sq. toesWorth per sq. foot: $647Indoors: A protracted driveway results in the connected three-car storage subsequent to the principle entrance.The entrance door opens right into a brilliant lobby. Straight forward is a lounge with a hearth, sliding-glass doorways that open to a patio and entry to a house workplace with a wall of built-in bookshelves.The lounge is open to an up to date kitchen with an outsized middle island, chrome steel home equipment, together with a wine fridge, and entry to a breakfast room with extra sliding-glass doorways that open to the patio.The first suite, off the lounge, has a sliding-glass doorways within the bed room that open to the patio; the lavatory has a walk-in bathe and a separate soaking tub.The opposite three bedrooms are off a hallway extending from the lounge. All are sufficiently big to carry queen-size beds; one has sliding-glass doorways that supply out of doors entry and a view of mountains within the distance. Two full bogs are off the corridor. A laundry room with a side-by-side washer and dryer can be on this a part of the home.Out of doors house: The patio behind the home is partially shaded, with loads of room for out of doors eating. The property contains an in-ground pool and spa with unobstructed mountain views. From there, a path results in a patio with a hearth pit.Taxes: $24,372 (estimated) and a $143 month-to-month house owner affiliation priceContact: Sean Caddell, Sean Caddell & Associates, Pacific Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty, 858-472-1074; sothebysrealty.comFor weekly e mail updates on residential actual property information, enroll right here. [ad_2] Supply hyperlink

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

RICHARD WAGENER

Today we present three wood engravings by Northern California engraver and fine press publisher Richard Wagener (b. 1944). Wagener has an undergraduate degree from the University of San Diego and a graduate degree from ArtCenter College of Design. He has been engraving wood for over forty years and his work has been in a number of fine press editions, most notably with Peter Koch in Berkeley and the Book Club of California. In 2006 Wagener established his imprint Mixolydian Editions, to publish fine press editions of his own work, and Magnolia Editions, a fine art print studio in Oakland, California, providing artists with technical expertise and access to advanced printmaking tools. His collaboration with David Pascoe of Nawakum Press earned them the 2016 Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design, and Wagener was also awarded the 2016 Oscar Lewis Award for contributions to the book arts.

The prints shown here are from broadsides included in portfolios of the deluxe editions of Parenthesis. Journal of the Fine Press Book Association. The first, a 2000 engraving entitled Euphorbia halipedicola, was printed at Wagener's Mixolydian Editions in 2015 with Bruce Whiteman's 2002 text Succulent for the portfolio of Parenthesis 29, Autumn 2015. The next two were printed for the portfolio of Parenthesis 24, Autumn 2013: the first, Outlook Juniper (2009) was printed with a text by John Muir at the Havilah Press in Emeryville, California; the next, Koch Peak, with a text by Peter Koch, was printed by Wagener in an edition of 175 copies.

Our run of Parenthesis is another donation from the estate of our dear friend Dennis Bayuzick.  

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Tooning in 7. Craig Clark part 1 of 7

DL : Who are you and what are you best know for?

CC : I'm Craig Clark, LA local freelance animator. Mostly know for The Kustomonsters TV and Movie series, The Simpsons OG crew, and Forest Gump JFK animation at ILM.

DL : So, growing up, how was your childhood?

CC : Awesome! I was born in Santa Monica and later moved to Malibu. I had an ideal beach city based childhood as a minority kid. Lots of TV, skateboards and football.

DL : So What made you wanna get into animation?

CC : A steady diet of classic LA TV cartoon reruns. I started out as a child actor at age 8. I did one educational film directed by cartoon voice actor Shep Menkin. I later switched to animation at age 14, where I mentored at Duck Soup Produckions in Santa Monica.

DL : So did you have Preston Blair's How to Draw Animated Cartoons book?

CC : Yes! Yes, I picked that ups at the Santa Monica air store, Mittels. Got them both. I use It as a text book while teaching my animation classes at Santa Monica College.

He shows me a video with porky pig on how to animate on a musical beat

DL : Well, that book is such a great help! I have it at home. I mean, the way he shows how to walk cycles and character movement is purely genius!

CC : I agree. Here's that Shep Mention movie I did in 1968. https://youtu.be/u3qiLTp64Bo?si=1xdyuqAESw0F6srT

DL : I'm watching the short Right Now.

CC : cool!

DL : So I got the basic gist of the short, YOU want to go help the chickens as the other boy promised you but he changes his mind at the last second.

CC : Yes, It was a tough time in 1968, the story was needed for the kids...I guess. I had an agent from 1970- 1972, no work,  Only two black boy actors were working then, George Spell and Marc Copage (Julia TV show), so I went to animation, lol.

DL : So, how was working on the Film as a child actor? Were you payed? Was a grown up with you? Did you get a 30 minute break every 1 hour?

CC : Yes I was paid $55, which was a lot for an 8 year old kid in 1968. I bought my very first 45 record, "Here Come the Judge" by Shorty Long. Yeah I got lots of breaks. We shot in Santa Monica at my school John Muir, Hollywood, and Malibu.

DL : Ah, do you royalties from the film?

Sends me a video of the song “Here Comes the Judge” by Shorty Long

CC : No royalties, it was an educational non union film. Funny Shep later did voices on some Charlie Brown specials I animated on. I did not know at the time.

DL : So, ironic! So how was your high school years?

CC : I went to Santa Monica high school. We all rode the bus from Malibu. I played on the football team and studied art. We had great teachers from SM College teaching us, they were very exacting and inspiring. I was already doing animation tests at Duck Soup Studio on the side.

DL : Ah, so how did you get into animation?

CC : At age 14 I used to help my mom's first grade class by teaching the kids how to draw cartoons. One of the kid's dad was an animator who was working with Corny Cole. Corny brought his just finished Flip Wilson special to the class and showed a 16mm print. Later Corny invited me to Duck Soup Studios in Santa Monica by the beach. They studio offered me a mentorship by doing tests, they would film the tests on the tail end of there commercial reels and give me pointers. I later worked there for five years while going to college on summer breaks Upon graduation I've been freelancing ever since.

Duck Soup spot....https://youtu.be/ZmoMCnzXTkY?si=M3dXoeZWKGVrBvzs

He sends me a 1980 commercial for 9 Lives cat food featuring Sylvester the cat.

Directed by Duane Crowther, Layouts Corny Cole, Animation Abby Paliwoda, Jeff Howard, Backgrounds Toby Bluth, Animation asst. me

DL : WAIT! Don Bluth's BROTHER did background design!

CC : Yes, He also directed Babes in Toyland for MGM. The Bluths went to Santa Monica High School as well.

DL : Yeah, knew that! Shame he died in 2013.

CC : We was a great painter......master at watercolor. His nephew Colby is a friend of mine and does great watercolors as well. Colby did the bg for this quick Fosters Freeze spot I animated. https://youtu.be/7dYpT-dY60s?si=HAN3xSv148-6e99s

He sends me a commercial for Foster’s Freeze’s Ice Cream which he and Colby Bluth worked together on.

DL : COOL! So what apart did you animated on the Sylvester 9 Lives ad?

CC : I assisted on the Sylvester stuff behind Amby. I was 19 years old just starting. We later worked together just the two of us on Tony the Tiger spots... https://youtu.be/zLrvjgwTpLk?si=g9Lgm65QZ86QKa-Z

He sends me a commercial for The vain of my existence, Frosted Flakes Banana Flavor which he and Amby worked together on.

DL : Smooth Animation for the time, when Hanna Barbera and Filmation was shoveling cheap looking stuff.

CC : thanks!

DL : How did you felt about the animation Industry at that point, in the 1970s to the early part of the 80s?

CC : I wanted to stay doing fully animated commercais, and maybe some feature work, but the work was spotty. I did not want to do Saturday morning. I loved many of their concepts but a lot of it was really crappy. I liked what Bakshi was doing and some of the indie features. I could never get into Disney, but many of my assistants did for some reason. So I just figured I would be an independent animator and be part of that scene. There was an off the lot Westside LA Disney incubator division were projects like Tron, Roger Rabbit, and Brave Little Toaster came from. I was part of that. Projects Brought from outside the studio into the lot, mostly during the Tom Wilhite era. When MGM was still happening in Culver City, we had a great film lab and several studios here on the westside in the 70s -80s. MGM, Fox, Boss Film, Dream Quest, Duck Soup, Tigerfly, West Indigo,... it was cracking.

DL : So, how was the environment at Duck Soup?

CC : It was a family, very creative , and with tip top talent. Very inspiring

DL : Any stories at the studio?

CC : yup. I met Grim Natwick at the studio back in 1974 when I was 14. I had no idea he was the creator of Betty Boop at the time. I would have asked him about Louis Armstrong. Later I found out that my grandmother used to cook for Louis Armstrong in the 30's on Fridays. He returned to New Orleans from his Cotton Club West residency in Culver City, he later took his band to New York to do a Betty Boop cartoon. Grim probably met him but I did not know at the time.  The Duck Soup logo has a real 30's rubber hose vibe to it, so there is a connection.  I think the TV show Duck Factory was inspired by it. When I worked there there were 4 directors, Duane Crowther, Roger Choinard, Randy Akers, and Frank Terry... all master designers and animators. https://youtu.be/wVzJVa_EHQs?si=Ku1sSTcE9XtRxFSE

He sends me the theme song to 1984 NBC sitcom, The Duck Factory.

DL : So You were at Spungbuggy Works in 1981. You were assistant  animator on a Superman hot cocoa ad.

CC : Yes

DL : But you were still at Duck Soup, how was that? Did you had a contract with Duck Soup?

CC : No, it was all freelance. 30 second commercials are all Donne in 8 weeks, you go back and forth to different studios. animators and directors too. Superman spot was Bill Kroyer director.

DL : I thought it was Richard Williams.

CC : No.

I send him the Superman Anti-Smoking PSAs animated at Richard Williams studios.

Even Gabor Csupo worked at Spungbuggy on Dutchboys paint. Williams had their own studio in the valley, they worked directly on cell ...no paper. I never worked there though.

DL : Wait? Dick was in LA? I thought he was still in  London? When did he start up a LA division?

CC : He had a studio on Cahenga  as well as London early 80's. Barbara Cimity was the producer....she is at Six Point now. Williams had just finished Raggedy Ann.

DL : Well, that's something I thought i'll never hear of today.

CC : Yes.

DL : So how was that studio?

CC : Richard was trying to finish the Thief and the Cobbler on the side.....There was and animator at Filmfair working on it in the ink and paint department in the 80's. I never worked at Williams, but I did take his class in San Francisco in the 90's.

DL : Thought he taught only in Vancouver as he moved there in ‘95?

CC : He was flying around teaching classes before he released his book. They were 3 day classes....excellent.

DL : Well back to the question, how was was Spungbuggy Works!

CC : I was fun! Corny and Frank Terry directed there a lot. There was a good relationship with Duck Soup, they had completely different clients. Spungbuggy got a lot of the Post cereal stuff, Duck Soup was Kellogs. Spungbuggy had a lot of the Raid bugs stuff, that was cool. They were on Sunset Blvd on the strip, they had more of a Hollywood hipster vibe like Jay Ward. Duck Soup was more beachy 30's - 40's retro. Spugbuggy also did a lot of Live Action, with fun casting calls. Rows of folks all looking the same...

DL : Any stories on Spugbuggy?

CC : My 1969 Volkswagen square back trying to make the left hand turn into the parking lot on a 45 percent grade on La Cienega Blvd.....that's what I remember. lol. I also worked there summer and winter breaks while in college. They would try a lot of strange techniques like painting water colors right on the cels. It gave it a really funky look, like Hubley films or something. I first woke with Gabor Csupo there on a Dutch Boy paints spot. Upon graduation I would be his six employee in his home studio. Later I worked for him starting up the Simpsons TV show, and after that he had a studio, Klask Csupo emplying over 500 people...

DL : Gabor at this time was just a assistant animator who was already a professional animator from Hungary. Which I think he was laid off from Hanna Barbera at this time, As that studio was sending more stuff to Wang Film in Taiwan.

CC : Spugbuggy era https://youtu.be/QCmEUyTZ7Tk?si=fOY5Iu01sGApyItp

He sends me a commercial for Golden Crisps he and Csupo worked on for Spugbuggy.

correct about HB.

DL : Yeah I talk to Greg Bailey about this, He was among the foreigners who were at the studio in the 1979 season. He said that Bill would tell them to marry an american because he wasn't going to keep them employed for longer. Glad Gabor married Arlene!

CC : haha. Yeah! They also had a studio dog named Stocky who would lick your elbow while you were working. Gabor was a good businessman.

DL : So You worked at Filmfair right?

CC : Yes. Frank Terry was there too. They did animation and Live Action and actually had a little stage. Donkey Kong, Keeblers Cookies, and the Al Jeareau video were their highlights. I wore a suit to the interview, they said they would hire me if I never wear that suit to work. lol.

DL : Can you answer this question? WHO the HELL is GUS JEKEL?

CC : He owned the place. they hade other studios in London and New York I think.

DL : I can't find anything on this man! On Wikipedia, it said that he used to work at Disney, but his IMDB has diddly squat about that!

CC : He was a producer. Actually Swinton Scott worked there with me at the same time. He might know more. The late Rusty Mills was there too with me. They always had a lot of work over there, but I think they had a lot of overhead with that huge building. There were a lot of annexes, expanding and contracting all the time. I likes seeing the Keeblers Elves miniature sets, that was cool.

DL : SO guess what? the UK division is more well known than the US one. They produced Paddington Bear, Simon and the Land of Chalk Drawings, The Herbs, The Wombles, etc

CC : Wow!

DL : You ever knew or watch these programs?

CC : Paddington yes. cute show.

DL : Simon was on Captain Kangaroo.

CC : Hey, alright

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Professor Emeritus Willard R. Johnson, political scientist who specialized in African studies, dies at 87

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Professor Emeritus Willard R. Johnson, political scientist who specialized in African studies, dies at 87

Willard R. Johnson, a professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Political Science who focused his scholarly research on the political development of Africa, died in late October at age 87. Johnson served as a member of the MIT faculty for nearly 60 years, while also founding and participating in numerous civic initiatives aimed at making political and social advances in Africa and the U.S., and building engagement between the two regions.

Johnson joined the political science faculty in 1964 as an assistant professor. He was the first Black faculty member at MIT to rise through the ranks and achieve tenure from within, and he created a broad portfolio of accomplishments. Johnson conducted extensive fieldwork in Africa, published important contributions to the study of African political institutions and independence movements, advocated for the inclusion of more Black scholars in the MIT community, and served as a leading voice at MIT and in the Boston area against South Africa’s apartheid.

Johnson also held visiting positions at Harvard Business School, Boston University, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, in addition to his time as a faculty member and emeritus professor at MIT.

Johnson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1935 and moved to Pasadena, California, where he graduated from Muir High School. He earned his AA from Pasadena City College in 1955, and a BA in international relations from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1957. At UCLA, he served as student body president, and also helped to found the campus’ chapter of the NAACP. Notably, he was also responsible for bringing W.E.B. Dubois to campus as a speaker. Johnson later received his MA degree in African studies with distinction from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, in 1961, and his PhD in political science from Harvard University, in 1965.

Johnson’s Harvard dissertation, “Cameroon Reunification: The Political Union of Several Africas,” formed the basis of his first book, published as “The Cameroon Federation” by Princeton University Press in 1970. In a review of the book in the Journal of Modern African Studies, W. Norman Haupt wrote, “This carefully prepared book is based upon a sound, objective understanding of local facts and preferences,” while noting that it “is filled with those minute details of history which make for exciting reading.”

Johnson himself would say that his most important accomplishment while at UCLA was meeting his wife, Vivian Johnson. They not only formed a lasting bond in marriage, but also became scholarly collaborators and jointly published “West African Governments and Volunteer Development Organizations: Priorities for Partnership” (University Press of America, 1990). Political scientist Pearl T. Robinson of Tufts University called it “required reading for anyone seeking insights into the struggles that are being waged to promote increased political pluralism and alternative development strategies in contemporary Africa.”

Johnson remained impressively active in politics and public service throughout his life. From 1968 to 1970, he took a leave from MIT to serve as executive director of Circle, a Roxbury, Massachusetts-based community development organization. In 1972, he directed the Africa Policy Task Force for the George McGovern for President committee, and served on the Democratic Party Advisory Council’s Foreign Affairs Study Group. He also served on the U.S. National Committee for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Johnson later became a leading voice at MIT, and nationally, in the anti-apartheid movement. He led the Boston chapter of TransAfrica’s Free South Africa Movement. As Johnson noted, in an interview for the Department of Political Science’s 50th anniversary celebration, he was arrested, along with Nobel laureate George Wald of Harvard and other local luminaries, at an anti-apartheid rally in Boston. Johnson was proud to be actively involved in Nelson Mandela’s visit to Boston in 1990, part of the anti-apartheid leader’s momentous trip to the U.S.

In 1991, a few years before stepping down from his faculty position, Johnson founded the Kansas Institute for African American and Native American Family History, which promotes the preservation and documentation of family identity, traditions, and accomplishments of members of the African American and Native American communities of the Midwest.

Johnson’s 2001 paper published in the Black History Bulletin, “Tracing Trails of Blood on Ice: Commemorating ‘The Great Escape’ of 1861-62 of Indians and Blacks into Kansas,” chronicled a significant episode in this underexplored regional history. He remained active with the Kansas Institute for African American and Native American Family History until his passing.

Johnson also founded the Boston Pan-African Forum, a group promoting mutually beneficial relations between the United States and the people of Africa, and remained an active part of it throughout his later years. 

Throughout his time at MIT, Johnson was an active voice in support of diversifying the Institute faculty and student community, and pushing for greater opportunities for Black faculty and students alike. Johnson was proud of the accomplishments of Institute students such as Georgia Persons PhD ’78, a political scientist who is now a professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech; and Marsha Coleman-Adebayo PhD ’82, a leading advocate against workplace discrimination whose experiences helped generate passage of the Notification and Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act, signed into federal law in 2002. 

In seeking to build stronger ties between scholarly communities, Johnson also initiated a joint seminar in political science between MIT and Howard University, in the mid-1970s, an effort concluding with combined class session for all the participating students from both institutions.

Johnson remained a visible presence in the political science department following his transition to professor emeritus in 1996. Colleagues fortunate enough to cross paths with him were greeted with a tremendously warm smile. Those who knew him during his time on the faculty have fond memories of him stopping by their offices to check in, inquire about family members, and give the distinctive encouragement and kind understanding which, through his extraordinary experience and character, only he could offer.

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Mount Shasta—Reality or Hoax?

Mount Shasta—Reality or Hoax?

(Shared from ‘Mu the Motherland‘)

Mount Shasta is a dormant volcano rising 14,179 feet in the Cascade Range of Northern California. The mountain is composed of four major volcanic cones built of layers or strata—each one created in its own eruptive period and overlapping with the others. There is a fifth cone, the Red Fir Cone, which outcrops lower on the mountain at 6340 feet and is often referred to as ‘Ancestral Mt. Shasta’ with rocks dated back about 590,000 years. (Most of what can be seen is less than 200,000 years old.) In comparison, the Shastina cone is only about 9700 years old and the last eruption was about 200 years ago from the Hotlum cone.

Image Source: College of the Siskiyous Library

The Cascade Range is part of “The Ring of Fire”, a chain of volcanic arc and trenches that border tectonic plates, so it’s no wonder that those that are sensitive to earth energies feel an intensity in this area. It is also not unusual for Native Americans to gravitate towards these energies. In fact, Shasta is a modernized spelling of “Sastise” the name used by Klamath Indians to describe an enemy tribe on the other side of the mountain; suggesting that they regarded the peak both as protection and a power source. The mountain was first summited in 1854 by Elias Davisson Pierce and party. Author Joaquin Miller spent four years in the area and John Muir survived an overnight snowstorm on the summit in 1875. Did any of these people, see or hear anything unusual? If they did, they didn’t report on it. However, advance to 1987 and Shasta was labeled a power point site for the Harmonic Convergence—the first synchronized peace meditation. Many consider the mountain to be one of the Seven Sacred Mountains of the World and Native Americans consider the area to be a place of balance between earth and the universe.

So, where did all the speculation begin about mystic temples hidden within the mountain and the advanced Lemurian civilization that is believed to live there? Well, it started with a teenager—a resident of Yreka—Frederick Spenser Oliver and his book ‘A Dweller on Two Planets’. Oliver wrote about mystical beings, sacred brotherhoods, temples, mysterious lights, and spaceships, but he insisted that he was not the author, but was channeled by ‘Phylos the Thibetan’. Oliver died at the young age of 33 and the book was published posthumously in 1905 by his mother and a group of friends.

Then, the ball seems to have been picked up again in 1931 when Wishar Spenle Cerve (pseudonym of Harvey Spencer Lewis) wrote and published through the Rosicrucian Order, ‘Lemuria, The Lost Continent of the Pacific: The Mystery People of Mount Shasta’. Cerve wrote that Lemurians were tall, graceful, and agile, with larger heads and much larger foreheads than average humans. If you peruse the local bookshops you will come across many accounts of Lemurians coming into town for supplies, often paying with gold nuggets. It was these stories that spurred the metaphysical tourism that is still prevalent today.

In 1934 author Guy Warren Ballard (pen name Godfre Ray King) wrote a memoir, ‘Unveiled Mysteries’, describing his meeting with “Saint Germain” on Mount Shasta. Yes, this is the same Saint Germain who worked at the Court of France during the French Revolution. His wife, Edna (after her husband’s death in 1940) continued to publish information about these encounters for the “I AM” movement and the group she formed continues to visit Mount Shasta.

There is so much written, filmed, and presented about Mount Shasta—the list of information is endless and easily accessed on-line. However, the one account that struck me as valid and unexplainable is the widely reported incident of a 3-year-old boy. In September 2011, a 3-year-old-boy and his dog wandered off from Fowler’s Campground at McCloud Falls, which is down the hill from Shasta sparking a desperate search of the area. The dog was found, wet and cold, but alive near some rapids. The search continued on the assumption the toddler might have been swept away in the rapids. Local news covered the search and the boy was found. However, his rescue came with an interesting story of being captured by a robot and taken to a creepy place. He described a cave and a woman, a grandmother, who told him he was from outer space and he was placed in his mother’s womb. This same woman took the boy back to the river and told him to wait for the searchers, which he did and was found. Most people dismiss the story as an over-active imagination of a small boy. However, it’s interesting that the dog was found first, alone, and the boy appeared later. Hmmm.

Finally, Pluto’s Cave, north of the mountain was prehistorically occupied by Native Americans and after the gold rush, secret societies conducted initiations and rituals there. Today many believe that it is a portal into Inner Earth and an underground secret city. The cave is managed by Klamath National Forest and is a lava tube that can be hiked into for approximated 1200 feet. The cave itself is larger than those found in the Hawaiian Islands. There are multiple lava flows visible in the cave walls. Most expert on the supernatural nature of Shasta and these tubes is author, Dustin Naef, who says that numerous hikers have reported seeing people literally walk into the rocks walls and disappear, presumably to enter the Hollow Earth and possibly the secret city of “Telos”.

Critics and skeptics argue that the Lemurian legend and the idea of an underground city beneath Mount Shasta are nothing more than imaginative folklore and unsubstantiated claims. They point out the lack of concrete evidence and scientific support for these beliefs. Skeptics argue that the stories surrounding the Lemurians and the Subterranean City of Mount Shasta are primarily based on subjective experiences, personal anecdotes, and channeled information, which are difficult to verify or validate.

Despite the lack of empirical evidence, the allure of the Lemurian legend and the Subterranean City of Mount Shasta persists. For believers, the stories offer a sense of wonder, hope, and spiritual inspiration. They find solace in the idea that there may be a hidden realm of enlightenment and higher consciousness accessible to those who seek it. The myth of the Lemurians and Mount Shasta also serves as a metaphorical representation of humanity’s longing for a more harmonious and spiritually connected existence. One thing that is undeniable is that Mount Shasta exudes power—physical and spiritual power. How each of us use nature’s power is an individual preference, but it will not and cannot be denied.

Additional Reference Source: College of the Siskiyous Library Mount Shasta Fact Sheet

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Pioneering US Journalist Barbara Walters Dead at 93

Legendary News broadcaster Barbara Walters has died, she was 93. Her death was announced by ABC news in a special broadcast.

Barbara Walters joined ABC in 1972 and quickly became a household name in the United States. She was the first female anchor on an evening news program and in 1979 became a co-host of the award-winning "20/20" news show. In 1997, she launched "The View." Both 20/20 and The View remain staples on American televisions screens today.

Walters' career spanned five decades, during which she won 12 Emmy awards. She is survived by her daughter Jacqueline Dena Guber. She was married four times to three different men, trying twice with TV executive Merv Adelson.

This June 5, 2003 file photo shows co-hosts, from left, Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, Joy Behar and Barbara Walters on the set of "The View" in New York. In July 2006, Jones surprised the audience by announcing that she would be leaving after 10 years. It was six years before she was welcomed back onto the ABC show as a guest. © AP Photo/Ed Bailey

Known for her interviews, Walters got her start as a correspondent before working her way up to news anchor.

"We were all influenced by Barbara Walters," ABC News' David Muir said in a tribute that aired Friday. Muir called her an "extraordinary human being, journalist, pioneer, legend."

Posting on Twitter, Disney CEO and former President of ABC Television, Bob Igor posted on Twitter about Walters' life and death.

"Barbara was a true legend, a pioneer not just for women in journalism but for journalism itself. She was a one-of-a-kind reporter who landed many of the most important interviews of our time, from heads of state and leaders of regimes to the biggest celebrities and sports icons. I had the pleasure of calling Barbara a colleague for more than three decades, but more importantly, I was able to call her a dear friend. She will be missed by all of us at The Walt Disney Company, and we send our deepest condolences to her daughter, Jacqueline."

Walters was born on September 25, 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts to Dena and Louis Walters. Her dad was a nightclub owner and Walters joined the news business after her family went broke. She went on to interview some of the richest and most powerful people in the world.

Walters' longtime representative and friend Cindi Berger responded to the news by calling Walters "a trailblazer not only for female journalists but for all women," noting that she passed away peacefully and while surrounded by loved ones in her home.

In this Oct. 7, 2014 file photo, Barbara Walters addresses an audience at the John F. Kennedy School of Government on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The Investigation Discovery channel said Thursday that "Barbara Walters Presents American Scandals" will debut Nov. 2. The hour-long episodes will focus on the big news stories Walters covered during her career. © AP Photo/Steven Senne

Before working at ABC, Walters graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in the 1950s and got work as a writer for NBC's Today show in 1961. Later she would become the show's first female host and won her first Emmy for her work there in 1975. The next year she would join ABC's Evening News as the first female co-anchor of an evening news program.

During a 2014 ceremony that renamed part of the ABC News' Headquarters "The Barbara Walters Building" Walters explained what she thinks her legacy is.

"[I]t's not the interviews with presidents, or heads of state, nor celebrities. If I have a legacy, and I've said this before and I mean it so sincerely, I hope that I played a small role in paving the way for so many of you fabulous women."

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Ran out of room in the replies.

@into-the-infinity-of-thots this is part of the issue is that you’re framing Christianity to be a single belief. Christianity is as wide and complex and diverse in its expressions of belief as any other religion. The Christianity—and not even that, just the Catholicism— practiced in my college town is different than that of my hometown. We have the same basis of faith but Catholicism has a culture to it just as much as any other faith. The cultures are different. So even within the same religion you cannot view us as a monolith. We are united by our common faith, but they are practiced and expressed in different ways.

Christianity is an umbrella term for a group of belief structures that all have different names and different doctrines in the same way that Judaism is. The same way Islam is. To say “Christianity sucks” is to group my friend Inkwell, a liberal Quaker, in with such hate groups as the WBC. Which is not only unfair to Inkwell, but is also blatantly untrue.

Also, not to beat this dead horse, but leftist Christians exist. I am Catholic. I am queer. I am a leftist. I’m a whole ass commie and Saint John Paul II is rolling in his grave as I say it, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t believe in the Catholic faith, that I don’t subscribe to the articles of the Creed that I recite every week, that I don’t take communion every chance I can. I believe in a universal base income, free healthcare, land back initiatives, et cetera et cetera. So not only is Christianity not a monolith, but “leftist Christian” is not an oxymoron.

Not to mention that Christianity is embedded in numerous cultures. Mexico and Ireland come to mind. The Irish language has Catholicism built into it. “Dia duit,” “Dia is muire duit.” Greetings that literally mean “God with you” and “God and Mary with you” respectively. Dia de los Muertos is a major nationwide holiday in Mexico. You cannot separate many cultures from the religions that are embedded in them.

As a parting thought: how many articles of a particular faith must “suck” in order for you to dismiss all faiths that share that name? At what point does antitheism towards other faiths become acceptable because they “suck”?

Okay I need to yell about antitheism because it’s so painfully rampant in leftist spaces, and there seems to be an emphasis on being antitheist specifically towards the Christian God and the countless denominations that believe in Him. Things like “well if he’s so loving then why xyz thing that’s bad in the world,” or “there cannot be a god that is both all knowing and all loving because xyz thing” or, as I encountered literally today, “you don’t actually love your faith or your god because you misunderstand your religious texts” and proceeding to say that there are no verses about God loving everyone, or “Catholicisms only value is in its aesthetic,” which I also saw today.

Leftist and otherwise progressive spaces seem to be suddenly okay with antitheism when it’s towards Christians because it’s, I don’t know, punching up? People have been hurt by it and the vast majority of oppression in the world is perpetrated in the name of Christianity, and therefore it’s okay to be blatantly disrespectful of something that is important to literally billions of people and brings joy to their lives? My faith brings me joy and hope and love and fulfillment. I am Catholic not for the church, but for the God that I love and who I know loves me. The church is the vessel through which I feel most connected to Him. And yet I am told that I misunderstand my own religious texts (that I have studied, by the way), that I am somehow unintelligent for believing in a higher power. Antitheism of this nature is in largely online spaces, I’ll admit, like in multiple different discord servers that I have been a part of that had “religion” on their blacklist, but really only meant Christianity. Pagans, Muslims, Jewish folks, all were allowed to talk about their faith and their holidays and their beliefs and practices, but as soon as I mention my excitement for Easter, or my preparation for Lent, I’m in violation of the blacklist and get a warning or a kick or whatever the case may be. And why? For those hurt by the church? It seems to be difficult for some to view the situation with any nuance and understand that healing from religious trauma can include deconstructing and reconnecting to your religion.

Also, please don’t hear me say that this is equivalent to the systemic oppression of religious minorities or that it is appropriation. It absolutely isn’t. But there’s an important point here to be made about systemic oppression (which this isn’t) and interpersonal prejudice/discrimination (which this is). You can experience discrimination on an interpersonal level and that is what a lot of antitheism is. Devaluing my beliefs and my intelligence on the basis of my being Catholic is interpersonal discrimination. And the fact that it is permissible because it relates to Christianity is as well.