According to the Lady Churchill website the zine has "a full-size platen press in a dusty garage with no electricity. If this excites you and you want to work on it, contact us."   They also list that they are interested in "chefs, bakers, gardeners and so on and on. We are seriously interested in more translations — especially of Angelica Gorodischer. However, we are monolingual (sorry) which makes the editorial process difficult. If you are a grad student looking for a translation project which may be of interst to us, we recommend Gorodischer's Trafalgar and Prodigies."

For a bit of short-story-poetry-strange-article-have-some-time reading, look up this zine in the title list under Humanities International Complete.

"By long tradition and persistent metaphore, football as been associated with war."

A 1986 Smithsonian piece reveals how Coach Shaughnsessy of the 1933 Bears developed the now familiar T-formation using a German general's battle tactics. 

The military tactical ideas of German General Heinz Guderian were applied by U.S. football coach Clark Shaughnessy from a European battlefield to American football. Shaughnessy came up as a tackle-turned-fullback at the University of Minnesota, Minnesota, in 1911-1913, and went back on to coach at Tulane and Loyola of New Orleans, Louisiana. By 1933 he was at the University of Chicago, Illinois. But he was in some sense an anomaly in U.S. sports--an athlete with a creative, inquiring mind. As it happened, another interest of Shaughnessy's was military tactics. By long tradition and persistent metaphor, football has been associated with war. In the years between the wars, Shaughnessy kept looking for ideas useful to football in the writings of then known military strategists. Thus he was reading Heinz Guderian when Guderian had no status or celebrity. The German strategy of the spring of 1940 was based on the tank theories that Shaughnessy had studied in Chicago, Illinois. He had been experimenting with Guderian's tactical ideas for the Bears in 1939. But now he began translating the darts and arrows of the actual German battle to the x's and o's of football plays.

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Click here for information on prevention measures one should practice during cold and flu season.

There will be free flu shots at these times/places in Alva and Enid:

Enid- 10/6 Cherokee Conference Center (downtown Enid) from 1:00-6:00 pm.  The flu clinic in Enid will be Tuesday, Oct. 6.  At this time, it is scheduled from 1:00-7:00 but that is subject to change depending on how much vaccine we get.  It will be at the Cherokee Conference Center.  This will be the 1^st flu clinic and will be seasonal flu.  High risk people will be first to get it, then we will go from there. 

Alva- 10/13  Woods County Health Dept. will be giving flu shots to the general public from 8:30 am – 6:00 pm. at the fairgrounds women’s building.

After Oct. 13 WCHD will continue to give flu shots at the health dept.  Monday, Tues., Weds. from 8:00-11:00 and 1:00-4:00 until the vaccine is gone.

The advantage of getting the shot at the fairgrounds is process time.  There will be numerous nurses and nursing students present to administer the shots.  When receiving the shots at the health dept. office, time may be a factor as we will also be continuing other clinics as usual throughout the day and we will have 2 nurses.

This vaccine is for the seasonal flu only.  We have no H1N1 vaccine at this time.  There is no charge for the flu shots.  However, WCHD asks that anyone with Medicaid or Medicare health insurance please bring their insurance cards with them.

The Alva and Enid NWOSU campus libraries now have the Amazon Kindle available for checkout!  Students, faculty and staff now have the opportunity to utilize the newest innovation in reading technology.  The Alva and Enid editions of the Kindle both have 50 + titles available for reading at the push of a button including Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik, and The Next 100 Years : A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman.  Classic novels such as The Three Musketeers and Tales of the Jazz Age are available to read on the Kindle as well.  The device may be checked out for up to two weeks.  If you are interested in checking out the Kindle or putting your name on the hold list for the device, please see Mrs. Graybill in Alva, or Mrs. Moore in Enid. 

Device Details:

Slim:  Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines

Lightweight:  At 10.2 ounces, lighter than a typical paperback

Paper-like Display:  Reads like real paper; now boasts 16 shades of gray for clear text and even crisper images

Long Battery Life:  25% longer battery life; read for days without recharging

Read-to-Me:  With the new text-to-speech feature, Kindle can read every newspaper, magazine, blog, and book out loud to you, unless the book's rights holder made the feature unavailable

Titles Available:

When we think of Hawaii, our minds often drift to the idyllic vacation resorts, the wondrous beaches, and the tropical splendor.   It is not often that we relate the island paradise to a cultural convergence of authorship.  In taking a look at some of the more uncommon titles in Northwestern Library’s new Humanities Database, I came across yOiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal (if you can pronounce that first word, kudos!).  One of the articles of interest in a 2003 volume of this short running publication involved the meaning of authorship in Native Hawaiian Design. 

For Native Hawaiaans, authorship is typically more complex than a singular notion of individual genius. In Hawaiian, the author is traditionally the mea haku, the one who composes, invents, puts in order, arranges or braids. Hawaiian concepts of authorship greatly differ from western ones. This is true even with the advent of printing, when the mea haku became alternately known as the mea kakau. Currently, the meaning of authorship in the field of graphic design has expanded to include more than the western notion of a single source. Designers can now contemplate authorship as being the product of any number of author functions.

Read some other articles of interest in yOiwi, or search for topics in several areas of the Humanities by accessing this new database through NWOSU’s EBSCOhost portal today!

I was just browsing through some of the titles in the new Humanities International Complete database (located here) when I came across what appears to be a publication titled Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary.  Now that's the kind of title you need to stop a browser dead in their tracks! 

It turns out that this is a full text electronic book (accessable right here, right now) that deals with the question "why can't anybody spell?"  I ask myself that everyday.  Why did I go through pre-school trying to obliterate all the vowels in my middle name?  Why did I sit at a spelling test in first grade for half an hour before I remembered "of" wasn't spelled with a "V"?  Why do I still sometimes have the obtuse desire to put an "E" in "only"?  The articles in this book surely contain the answer (or at least some good ancedotes such as the article WHALES WAIL IN WALES: English Homophones).

AMAZON REVIEW:

Weird or wierd? Necessary or neccessary? Recomend or recommend? English spelling is fiendish, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it.

Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary is at once a celebration of spelling and a solace to anyone who has ever struggled with the arcane rules of the English language. As amusing as he is informative, Vivian Cook thrills the reader with more than a hundred entries -- from photographs of hilariously misspelled signs to quizzes best taken in private to schadenfreude-rich examples of spelling errors of literary greats -- that will tickle the inner spelling geek in every reader.

It all adds up to a gem of a book that takes a wry look at the hodgepodge evolution of spelling and the eccentric way it actually works.

To see this and other articles like it, check out our Communication and Mass Media Complete database (link)