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“State the idea you wish to express as clearly as possible, and in terms preschoolers can understand.” Example: It is dangerous to play in the street. ​​​​​​

“Rephrase in a positive manner,” as in It is good to play where it is safe.

“Rephrase the idea, bearing in mind that preschoolers cannot yet make subtle distinctions and need to be redirected to authorities they trust.” As in, “Ask your parents where it is safe to play.”

“Rephrase your idea to eliminate all elements that could be considered prescriptive, directive, or instructive.” In the example, that’d mean getting rid of “ask”: Your parents will tell you where it is safe to play.

“Rephrase any element that suggests certainty.” That’d be “will”: Your parents can tell you where it is safe to play.

“Rephrase your idea to eliminate any element that may not apply to all children.” Not all children know their parents, so: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play.

“Add a simple motivational idea that gives preschoolers a reason to follow your advice.” Perhaps: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is good to listen to them.

“Rephrase your new statement, repeating the first step.” “Good” represents a value judgment, so: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them.

“Rephrase your idea a final time, relating it to some phase of development a preschooler can understand.” Maybe: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them, and listening is an important part of growing.

In working on the show, Rogers interacted extensively with academic researchers. Daniel R. Anderson, a psychologist formerly at the University of Massachusetts who worked as an advisor for the show, remembered a speaking trip to Germany at which some members of an academic audience raised questions about Rogers’s direct approach on television. They were concerned that it could lead to false expectations from children of personal support from a televised figure. Anderson was impressed with the depth of Rogers’s reaction, and with the fact that he went back to production carefully screening scripts for any hint of language that could confuse children in that way.

In fact, Freddish and Rogers’s philosophy of child development is actually derived from some of the leading 20th-century scholars of the subject. In the 1950s, Rogers, already well known for a previous children’s TV program, was pursuing a graduate degree at The Pittsburgh Theological Seminary when a teacher there recommended he also study under the child-development expert Margaret McFarland at the University of Pittsburgh. There he was exposed to the theories of legendary faculty, including McFarland, Benjamin Spock, Erik Erikson, and T. Berry Brazelton. Rogers learned the highest standards in this emerging academic field, and he applied them to his program for almost half a century.

Timeless (2016) S1E012 - The Murder of Jesse James 

Bass Reeves, protrayed by Colman Domingo. Rufus Carlin, protrayed by Malcolm Barrett.

Watch it  here , get Bass Reeves: Tales of the Talented Tenth  here

He was assigned to bring in the notorious female outlaw Belle Starr. Once she got wind who was after her she turned herself into the federal court.

Reeves was one of a few Marshalls who would venture into Indian territory *oklahoma*. After the age of 67 he retired in 1907. He enjoyed his short lived retirement as a police officer in Muskogee Oklahoma, his assigned beat had 0 crime reported until he died at the age of 71 of Bright’s disease.

One of his famous tactics was, if he was captured or in danger by a criminal he was hunting down, he would ask them to read a letter from his wife before they killed him. He used their distraction to free himself and get the upper hand.

He was also a freed slave. George Reeves, his owner and reason for his surname, took Bass with him to fight in the Civil War. However, George became violently angry after Bass beat him at a card game, and Bass was forced to fight him (or kill, on some accounts) in self defense.

After running away and entering Native American territory, Bass learned how to speak the languages of the ‘Five Civilized Tribes’ (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee, Seminole). This part of his life is where he mastered marksmanship. He got married and had a family after the Emancipation Proclamation was declared, and then later became a Marshal, going on the adventures listed above (and many more… Another famous criminal that Bass captured was Bob Dozier.)

I will always remember that twice a week, around the kitchen table, my sister would sit down with my dad for hours, and they would try to work out her math homework. I should mention that my dad is an artist, and art teacher. Truth be told I think he struggled with math just as much if not more then she did. But twice a week you could hear them downstairs, going back and forth, trying to figure it out together. Some nights would be smooth and easy, some nights I could hear them arguing from one floor up about factors or equations, not in anger but in mutual frustration.

I remember the day that she passed. My sister couldn’t wait until my dad’s school day ended, so she called him at work. She gleefully announced to him “I got a D-!”. We could hear him through the phone as he exclaimed “She got a D!” excitedly to his class. Still through the phone we heard his students clapping, laughing and whooping in congratulations. Seldom has a grade in our household been so celebrated.

From an essay she wrote:

I saw no reason, why women, ipso facto, should be incapable of leading a good climb. They had, as a matter of fact, already done so, on some few scattered occasions. But why not make it a regular thing, on the usual climbs of the day?…I decided to try some climbs not only guideless, but manless.

See also:

Virginia Hall (one-legged spy who climbed mountains to escape Nazis)

Gertrude Bell (mountaineer, explorer, and diplomat)

Fannie Quigley (miner, hunter, and brewer who used mine shafts as beer fridges)

Ashima Shiraishi (incredibly successful teen mountain climber)

Lhakpa Sherpa (who has climbed Everest more than any other woman)

Junko Tabei (first woman to summit Everest)

Welcome to our weekly roundup of cherished news bits! This week’s batch:

☠ When life gives you lemons, make this “goth af” black lemonade recipe. 

☠ A historic survey of ancient love curses frequently shows us “people with more social power trying to enspell people with less.”

☠ In a heartfelt post on his website, Invisible Monsters author Chuck Palahniuk reveals that he’s nearly broke due to embezzlement. 

☠ Europe’s oldest tree – at 1,230 years – is enjoying a growth spurt. 

☠ Have we really been saying “gerrymander” wrong all this time? Bonus question: Does it matter? 

☠ Why we’re still haunted by Picnic At Hanging Rock – as well as other tales about lost daughters.

☠ These Edward Burne-Jones masterpieces to about to be united for the first time: Briar Rose and Perseus cycle of paintings will be the centerpiece of an upcoming Tate Britain retrospective.

☠ Until recently, Walt Whitman’s 1852 novel Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography was lost. Now it’s available as a free audiobook!

☠ Track the ascent of WWE’s rising star Bianca Belair in this new promo that even showcases (at 3:50) her signature hair-whipping move: 

Since this has blown up and become news, I’m going to lay out here all my interactions with FanX (Salt Lake City’s Comic Con).  

On May 6, this piece ran in the Salt Lake Tribune. The next day, I emailed Blake Casselman. He’s been the person I usually dealt with whenever I was invited to attend FanX as an author, and in my experience, a good guy. My email: 

Blake replied promptly. I’m uncomfortable generally posting private emails, but he was polite and seemed supportive. In it he included a bullet point list of the things FanX was doing to address the issue of harassment and he invited me to pass it along to any other concerned authors. Not included was any mention of what I had requested: a public statement clarifying or refuting Dan Farr’s public comments. My reply: 

He replied that a statement from Dan Farr and Bryan Brandenburg would be coming out shortly. (At this point, 16 days later, it still hasn’t come out.) I thanked him. He asked me if Bryan could be in touch with me too and I said yes.

In the meantime, FanX posted their new harassment policy. Blake pointed me to it. My email reply: 

On May 17, I was one of many people who received this email: 

I read the confidential report that they put together on the sexual harassment accusation from fall 2017. Since it’s confidential, I won’t post it, but there were a number of red flags for me and a lot of language that seemed to belittle the accuser and protect the harasser. I was surprised that Bryan and others thought that the report would be the final word and satisfy everyone. My email response to their report:

I was going to try to let it go, because I have a deadline this week and I really needed to get back to work. But I was so troubled, a few minutes later, I emailed him this: 

Since Bryan Brandenburg went ahead and tweeted a screenshot of my first email to him along with his reply (although he deleted parts of his email and didn’t announce that–more on that later) I will post his full email here.

I have questions about the first paragraph. Yay that they’re taking action! But…what about this time? When the accused is a best-selling author? Do rich, powerful men get a pass? Do they work under a separate policy? And I’d like them to acknowledge publicly: do they have a personal relationship with Richard Paul Evans? Are Dan or Bryan friends with him? Are they part of his fraternity for men “Tribe of Kyngs”? Is that clouding their judgment?

But that last paragraph: 

I can’t count everything problematic with it. My response to Bryan and the last time I communicated with him: 

(for full disclosure, his emails wrap weird, so screenshots were way too long and I’ve cut and paste his email into another document and screen capped those, but I have the original emails if needed) #receipts

I was so bugged by that crazy email that–without revealing who or what organization–I tweeted the last paragraph of it, not including the first paragraph in case it was confidential information: 

I figured Bryan Brandenburg didn’t see anything wrong with what he wrote me, and I honestly hoped that if he saw a general negative reaction to his email on twitter, he might be sparked to take a closer look, invest in some introspection, and be sparked to make a change on his own before we went public. Nope. (A fellow author saw my tweet and told me that she got the exact same email! They actually felt good enough about that sexist paragraph to cut it and paste it into an email for someone else!)

But I got a call right after this from a reporter at the Salt Lake Tribune, and discouraged by Bryan’s email, not believing that any real change was going to happen with people who write emails like that unless they’re forced to change, I decided to give an interview. 

Soon after that I received an email from Dan Farr, co-founder of FanX. Nothing explosive in it, he was polite and made an offer to speak to me, via email, phone, or in person, to explain, etc. My response: 

During all this, I’ve been emailing and texting with other authors, who unbeknownst to me initially, also had been communicating with FanX about their harassment policy. They had also been given the runaround. Lots of people were trying to work privately with these guys for weeks and sometimes months. None of us were seeking to escalate this. Then FanX (presumably Bryan Brandenburg) started to subtweet me, followed by this tweet from FanX’s official twitter account: 

In this screen grab, I blocked out my private email address. He didn’t do me that curtesy. Four times he tweeted my email to him with my private email address. I don’t know if it was malicious or retribution for saying that I was going to speak to a reporter or for calling him on his sexist email, but I note that he took the time to notice the worst sentence of his email and delete that before tweeting it but didn’t take the time to notice my private email address and delete that. 

Also you can see from all my email correspondence that his accusation “because we wouldn’t apologize for not publicly banning someone” is a lie. But thanks for taking my concerns seriously, Brad! You’re a listener! </endsarcasm> #forgivememypettinessIamtired

FanX has not contacted me. To be fair, as soon as I saw one of the tweets where they put out my private email, I emailed Dan, Bryan and Blake telling them to never contact me again, so I am glad they are respecting that. I do not want to have anything more to do with them.

I have seen that Bryan Brandenburg put out a public apology in which he personally mentions me. I am sure he is sorry. This has been a PR disaster for him and his organization. After all this, I do not personally feel that an apology, made under duress, is enough to restore my confidence in FanX and its leadership. So I will not be attending the con (one of my kids really wanted to go and cried when she found out–that was really hard). I do not want to be the catalyst for taking down FanX. I really hope they turn it around. But there are years of problems (I’m just learning about the Orson Scott Card controversy–ask some FanX people about that) and a pattern of behavior. So I’m not sure what it will take for them to regain the confidence of many of us in the Utah fan community.

This post has a plot summary that explains more about this concept and why it’s so harmful.

It is deeply deeply transphobic. It is lesbophobic as it features a corrective rape narrative (a lesbian does have sex with him and then decides she does love men after all). 

Here is a review of the book by a trans man. I have yet to find one by a lesbian but will edit this if I do. 

This book gives out incredibly harmful notions about trans men and lesbians that are used to hurt them in real life. It’s so entrenched in the narrative that I don’t see how the film can be any better. You can find more info in this twitter thread

I’d like to tell people to boycott it but I can’t tell you what to do. So instead I’m going to ask that you share this because it being named as an exciting new LGBTQ film is going to make LGBTQ teens want to see it. And they should know before hand how hurtful it could be. They should be able to arm themselves with that knowledge. 

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Universal:

Homemade artisan herb bread, home grown and dried apples and prunes, uncured beef sausage, munster cheese. Made a small bag from cheesecloth and tied it closed.

Discussion thread here.

Dwarf:

Garlic chicken livers, smoked and peppered cheese, spiced pork sausages, hard tack, dried vegetables, dried wild mushrooms.

Discussion thread here.

Elf:

Top left to right: Evereskan Honey Comb, Elven Travel Bread (Amaretto Liquer Cake with custom swirls), Lurien Spring Cheese (goat cheese with garlic, salt, spices and shallots), Delimbyr Vale Smoked Silverfin (Salmon), Honey Spiced Lichen (Kale Chips), and Silverwood Pine Nuts.

Discussion thread here.

Halfling:

From upper left: “Honeytack” Hard tack honey cakes, beef sausage, pork sausage mini links, mini whole wheat toast, cranberry cheddar cheese mini wedge, mini pickles, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, lower right is my homemade “travel cake” muesli with raisins, golden prunes, honey, eggs and cream.

Discussion thread here.

Half-Orc:

Wrapped in cheesecloth and tied in burlap package. Forest strider drumsticks, molasses sweet wheat bread “black strap”, aged Munster, hard boiled eggs, mixed wild nuts.

Discussion thread here.

Orc:

Orcs aren’t known for their great cuisine. Orcs prefer foods that are readily available (whatever can be had by raiding), and portable with little preparation, though they have a few racial delicacies. Toughs strips of lean meat, bones scavenged from recent kills, and dark coarse bread make up the bulk of common orc rations.Fire roasted rothe femur (marrow is a rare treat) [beef femur], Strips of dried meat (of unknown origin) [homemade goose jerky], foraged nuts, only edible by orcs….nut cracker tusks [brazil nuts], coarse black bread, made with whatever grains can be pillaged [black sesame bread], Pungent peppers [Habanero peppers stuffed with smoked fish and olives].

More images here. Discussion thread here.

Gnome:

Pan fried Delimbyr smelt, spiced goat cheese (paprika crusted hand pressed Fontina), Gnome shortbread (savory pistachio), glass travel jar filled with Secomber Red (wine), hard boiled quail eggs packed in rolled oats (to keep safe), dried figs from Calimshan, and Southwood smoked goat sausage (blood sausage).

More images here. Discussion thread here.

Lizardfolk:

Lizardfolk are known to be omnivores, forage for a surprising variety of foods found within the confines of their marshy environs, in this case the Lizard Marsh near Daggerford. Fresh caught boiled Delimbyr Crayfish on wild chives, coastal carrageen moss entrapping estuary brine shrimp (irish moss, dried brine shrimp), Brackish-Berries (blackberries), Blackened Dart-Frog legs (frog legs) on spring sprouts (clover sprouts), roasted bog bugs on a stick!

More images here. Discussion thread here.

Drow:

From top left: Menzoberranzan black truffle rothe cheese (Black Knight Tilsit), Donigarten Moss Snails (Escargot in shallot butter sauce), Blind cave fish caviar in mushroom caps (Lumpfish caviar), faerzress infused duck egg imported from the surface Realms (Century egg), Black velvet ear fungus (Auricularia Black Fungus Mushroom).

Initially I usually handle it by announcing gloomily that I can no longer write, have never been any good at it, and anything I’ve managed to do so far in the writing business was probably just sheer blind luck anyway.

Then I mope a bit. I drink a lot of tea.  Check with Amanda and find out if she’d still love me if I never wrote anything again (she always says yes). Call my agent to apologise because, obviously, she will have to spend the rest of my life and hers getting me out of any existing writing contracts.