ÿþ+<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Roy Lisker's Ferment Magazine</TITLE> </HEAD> <STYLE type="text/css"> <!-- .box {width: 600; text-align: justify; margin-left: 40} .emph {font-family=Arial, Espy Sans, Helvetica, SansSerif; font-size: large; color: black; font-style: bold} A:link {font-family=Arial, Espy Sans, Helvetica, SansSerif; color: darkblue; text-decoration : none; font-style: normal} A:active{text-decoration : none; background : transparent;} A:visited { background : transparent; text-decoration : none; } A:hover{ color: yellow; background:maroon;} --> </STYLE> <BODY BGCOLOR="blanchedalmond" LINK="darkblue" VLINK="darkblue"> <DIV class=box><P CLASS=emph> <H1 ALIGN="CENTER" style ="color:maroon">Ferment Magazine</H1> <H2 align ="center" style ="color:purple">Editor: Roy Lisker,PhD<P> <img src="berkeley003.jpg"></h2> <H2 align ="center" style="color:red">Welcome to the<br> Ferment Magazine Home Page</H2> <h3>On May 12th, 2012 I appeared on the radio show hosted by Steve Allison<I>"River Valley Rhythms"</I> (WESU FM 88.1), for an interview and poetry reading.The reading was unusually successful. You can listen to it at</h3><h3 align="center"> <A href="http://archive.org/details/RiverValleyRhythms05-10-2012">Radio Interview</A></h3><h3> The first 7 minutes or so are taken up with some debris from a previous program,and introductory music(the song from the film "Baghdad Cafe"). The recitation/interview follows this and lasts 45 minutes</h3> <h1 align="center"><A href="folders.html">Folders</A><P> <hr> </h1> <h4>This photograph of myself was taken by activist Gene Keyes, at the 50th Anniversary Reunion of the Committee for Non-Violent Action,held in Voluntown, Connecticut, June 11-13, 2010.</h4><h4 align="center"><img src="voluntown.jpg"><P>For other photos of persons present at the reunion, several of whom are very famous in the anti-war movements of the 60's and since, go to <A href="http://www.genekeyes.com/CNVA/CNVA-Reunion-2010-p.2.html">CNVA</A><hr></h4> <h1 align ="center" style ="color:indigo"> Bulletin Board!!</h1><h4 style ="color:red"> On returning from New York yesterday afternoon, I found this postcard and photograph in my mailbox:<P></h4><h4 align ="center"> <img src="gw funeral.jpg"><P>Funeral Procession for George Whitman<P><img src="postcard1.jpg"><P>The Shakespeare and Company Bookstore<img src="postcard2.jpg"><P>Message from Sylvia Whitman</h4><h4> The card is from Sylvia Whitman, daughter of George Whitman, founder and manager of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris since the late 40's. George died a few months ago. Her message reads:</h3><h4 style ="color:maroon"><I>    "Dear Roy, Thank you for the kind card. It means so much for us to receive so many kind words of love and support. George's spirit lives in the bookshop and we are continuing his work.<br>    I enclose an image from his funeral which was very beautiful.<br>     love Sylvia and all from Shakespeare and Company"</I></h4><h4>     The photograph shows the funeral procession in a cemetery identifiable as the Pere Lachaise, where, among many others , Oscar Wilde, Isadora Duncan, and  Abelard are buried, a kind of Parisian version of Westminster Abbey<hr> </h4> <h4 align ="center" style ="color:maroon">Report on a conversation<br><A href="essays2/lanzmann.html">Claude Lanzmann and Paul Holdengr&#228ber</A><br> March 21, 2012 at 7:30 PM<br> Celeste Bartos Forum auditorium<br> New York Public Library<br> 5th Avenue and 42nd Street<hr></h2><h4 align ="center" style ="color:green"> May 6, 2012:<br> A report on the proposed use of Boston University's biodefense lab in downtown Roxbury (NEIDL) for research on 13 or more of the most horrible diseases known to mankind<br><A href="Neidl.html">BU NEIDL</A> <hr></h4><h4> I do appreciate it when someone notifies me to report a broken link. I welcome all forms of communication that correspond to any enlightened definition of sanity.<P> For the background to the on-going debate about the right to call myself <I>Dr.</I> Roy Lisker, go to</h4><h4 align="center"> <A href="cass.html">Council of Autonomous Scholarly Support</A><P>(<I>I am sometimes at a loss to decide the field in which my degree has been earned. I might as well call myself a Doctor of Philosophy. given that very few philosophers (in the sense of classical Greece) have positions in contemporary American colleges or universities.</I>) <hr> </h4> <h2 align ="center"><A href="citations.html">Endorsements and Cavils</A></h1><h4><hr></h4> </h5> <h4 align ="center" style="color:red">This website is made possible through the<br> active support and encouragement of<br> <img src="montclair.jpg"><br> <A href="http://www.smullyan.org">Jacob Smullyan, <br>Benjamin, Jeremy and Gabriel Smullyan,<br>Anne-Marie Hantho,<br>and others.</A><br>(These names overlap but are not co-extensive<br> with the sentient life forms in the picture.) <hr></h4><h3 align="center"><A href="earnings.html">Financial Statement 1955-2005</A><hr></h3> <h2 align="center" style ="color:green"> New Editorial</h2><h3 align ="center">April 3,2012<A href="Editorial2012/edit15.html"><br>Watch as President Obama launches the next pre-emptive strike</A></h3> <h2 align="center" style ="color:maroon" >New Science Editorial</h2><h3 align ="center">April 16,2012<br> <A href="Editorial2012/sciedit13.html">Mathematics at the crossroads:between the AMS and the MAA </A> <hr></h3> <H3 align ="center" style ="color:purple"><A href="Consultant.html">Mathematics Consultant for the Arts and Humanities</A><hr></h3> <h4 style ="color:green">This photograph of me was taken in the winter of 2000. As president of the <I>Middletown North End Action Team</I>. I was doing my part in cleaning up the grounds of what has since become the neighborhood's pride and joy:</h4><h3 align ="center"><A href="http://www.neatmiddletown.org">The North End Community Garden.</A></H3><h4 align ="center" style ="color:green"> <img src ="garden.jpg" align ="absmiddle"><P> A report on the 8-year struggle of the North End Action Team to obtain decent living conditions for the residents of Middletown's North End, may now be read at</h4><h3 align ="center" style ="color:maroon"><A href="NEAT/nehi1.html">History of the North End Housing Initiative</A></h3><h4 align ="center"> <HR></h4><H2 align ="center" style="color:red">A Life in Pictures:<br> Ages 2 to 70<P><A href="Photobiography/lpictures.html">Photographs of the Author</A><hr></H2> <h2 align="center"><A href="newsletter.html">Ferment Newsletter</A><hr></h2><h3 align ="center" style="color:green"> Browse the<br><A href="catalogue.html">Ferment Press Catalogue</A><hr></h3> <h3 align="center" style ="color:purple" >Address and E-Mail</h3><h4 align="center" style ="color:maroon">Roy Lisker<br>8 Liberty Street#306<br>Middletown, CT 06457<br><A href="mailto:rlisker@yahoo.com">rlisker@yahoo.com</A></UL> <HR></H4> <H3 align="center"><A href="home2.html">Editorials</A><br> <A href="home3.html">Travelogue/Biography</A><br> <A href="home4.html">Ferment Press</A><br> <A href="home6.html">Links</A> <HR> </h3><H3 style ="color:indianred;text-align:center;font-style:italic">Go To<br><A href ="home2.html">Editorials</A></H3><HR> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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