The traditions of Druidry and Wicca in particular defined much of their practice in the 1960s. At that time there was also a movement to combine the seasonal festivals of the Druids (the solstices and equinoxes) with the ‘fire festivals’ into one system, resulting in the Wheel of the Year.
The Pagan Wheel of the Year (or Eightfold Cycle) consists of eight seasonal festivals- the Solstices and Equinoxes (for a total of four times during the year which are dictated by the relationship between the Earth and Sun), and the four ‘cross-quarter’ or ‘fire festivals’ which are not determined astronomically, but are related to the traditional pastoral calendar in the Northern Hemisphere.
The graphic on this page is a Druid version of the Wheel of the Year for the Northern Hemisphere; it uses modern researched Welsh names for the solstices and equinoxes, and shows some of the relationships between the holidays.
For Pagans that do celebrate the Wheel of the Year, these are the festivals in the Northern Hemisphere:
Festivals During Celtic Winter
Dates: Oct 31– Nov 2
Samhain traditionally marks both the end and beginning of the Celtic Year. Considered by many Pagans to be the most important of the four ‘cross-quarter’ or ‘fire festivals’, Samhain is also the last harvest of the year and a faerie time.
Other names: Alban Arthan Light of the Bear), Alban Arthuan (Light of Arthur), Yule
Dates: Dec 19–23 (date will vary by year)
The winter solstice is the day with the shortest daylight and longest nights, but it also marks when this starts to reverse and the daylight increases. This solstice is celebrated as the return of the sun at the darkest time of winter.
Other names: Oimelc, La Fheile Bride, La Fheill Brighde, Brigid’s Day, Bride’s Day
Dates: Feb 1–2
Imbolc is the first of four “fire festivals” in the Wheel of the Year and is also considered the first of three spring festivals. Even in this coldest time of the year signs of spring appear, and daylight is noticeably longer.
Other names: Vernal Equinox, Alban Eilir (Light of Spring), Alban Eiler (Light of the Earth), Ostara
Dates: Mar 19–23 (date will vary by year)
The vernal equinox is one of two days in the year when daylight and night are about equal. This is the second spring festival, and the signs of new growth are now well underway.
Festivals During Celtic Summer
Other names: Beltaine, Bealltainn, Calan Mai (First of May), Calan Haf (First of Summer), Boaldyn
Dates: May 1
Beltane occurs around May 1 in the northern hemisphere. It is the beginning of Celtic ‘Summer’, the second fire festival of the Celtic year, and the third and final spring festival of the year.
Other names: Alban Hefin (Light of Summer), Alban Heruin (Light of the Shore), Midsummer, Litha
Dates: June 19–23 (date will vary by year)
The Summer Solstice is the day with the longest daylight and shortest nights, but it also marks when this starts to reverse and daylight decreases. This solstice celebrates the height of summer.
Other names: Lammas, Lunasdal, Luanys, Gwl Awst, Goel Est, Goeul an Eost, 1st Harvest
Dates: Aug 1–2
Lughnasadh is the first of the three Pagan autumn harvest festivals. It is an agrarian-based festival and feast of thanksgiving for grain and bread, which symbolizes the first fruits of the harvest.
Other names: Autumnal Equinox, Alban Elfed (Light of Autumn), Alban Elued (Light of the Water), Mabon
Dates: Sept 20–24 (date will vary by year)
The Fall Equinox is one of two days in the year when daylight and night are about equal. It is a time of thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth, and is the second of the three pagan harvest festivals.


Instruction Manual and Software
The printed instruction manual applies to the XT10, XT8 and XT6 scopes and is well written (in proper English, not the terrible translated pigeon English we all love to laugh at!). It has clear descriptions and several black & white photographs showing the key points of construction, although a couple of them are a little dark. Reading the manual is actually quite a pleasure, compared to some I have read.
From the photo you can see that also included is an Orion Special Edition branded version of Starry Night Version 5.0 Astronomy Software for Windows and MAC. This also includes a bonus "SkyTheater" DVD, which is where;
"Your TV becomes a spaceship on a voyage through our solar system. Take off on an awe-inspiring tour of its mysteries in this feature-length DVD. Topics include: Earth's Moon, Finding Spacecraft, Meteorites, Inner Planets, Outer Planets, Moons of the Planets, and more."
The DVD is well presented and informative and I found it quite interesting to watch.
The Starry Night software is a basic introductory version (it requires purchase/upgrade to the Starry Night Pro version to actually be able to interface it with the IntelliScope), but it offers a useful means of learning the night sky if you have nothing else available. While there are several buttons and options available, it is not immediately apparent or intuitive how to use the software. It's not difficult, but to get the most out of it you should read the online help section entitled "Starry Night Basics", because this makes some additional buttons appear at the bottom of the screen and explains how to get going.
Don't limit yourself just to what is provided with the Orion XT, as there are plenty of other excellent astronomy software packages available. For a very realistic rendering of the night sky I highly recommend the free Stellarium software available from www.stellarium.org. Stellarium can not interface with the IntelliScope, but for a freebie it provides a wonderfully quick and natural interface for panning around the sky, and zooming in on stellar objects while you are learning about the constellations and would like some "eye candy". The other popular freebie is Carte du Ciel, but that is intended for printing sky charts of the sky, so its display doesn't look quite as "sexy" as Stellarium.
The manual provides sections for using the telescope, and useful reference formulas for calculating magnification and focal lengths, and notes on astronomical observing, covering observing sites, seeing and transparency, cooling prior to use, dark-adapting your eyes, eyepiece selection, and briefly astrophotography.
Of course there is a major section for alignment (collimation) of the optical system, with diagrams and more photographs detailing the process for the Primary and Secondary mirrors, and describing star-testing the telescope to check for proper collimation.
Finally care and maintenance is covered, which describes cleaning eyepieces, and stresses very rare cleaning of the mirrors, and to finish off the specifications of the XT6, XT8 and XT10 are included.
A parts list acts as a checklist for you to ensure you have everything from the start, listing the items that should be found in each of the 2 main boxes you should have received, one for the tube and accessories, the other for the dobsonian base. If, like me, you ordered additional items such as the Intelliscope Computer Object Locator, and other optional accessories you will likely have another package.
All parts are well packed with liner sheets, bubble-wrap, and foam padding. Once you have familiarised yourself with everything, you will probably be able to put everything together basically in a couple of hours. Thereafter you will spend more time getting used to using your scope and likely making adjustments, such as aligning the Finder Scope to the main tube, focusing, collimation or even some of the common modifications applied to these scopes by owners.
Over the next few pages I discuss the following topics:-


Leonardo Vilar, Carlos Castaño | GFACCT 2020
Chiribiquete 4.0: Ancestral Heritage and Digital Creation within Everyone's Reach.
With: Leonardo Vilar, Sonic Design. Carlos Castaño Uribe, Archaeologist and anthropologist.
Leo Vilar, from Sonic Design, will present the digital development and mapping process of some of this proyect around the findings of Chiribiquete, a natural and cultural treasure of the Amazon rainforest, located between Guaviare and Caquetá. It is also a recognition to the work of anthropologist and archaeologist Carlos Castaño, who recorded the great discovery in his book Chiribiquete.


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Amy Nevarre - Media Clerk
School Library Month
School Library Month 2019 at Eldersburg has us sharing our favorite fiction characters and discovering new favorites. Staff members are decorating their doors with their favorite book characters. Students are creating paper bag puppets of their favorite characters to display in the Media Center.
Author, Jen Calonita
We are excited to welcome Jen Calonita to our school on April 16th. She will be meeting with students in grades 3-5 to share her love of writing and reading. Students are often inspired to write or read new materials after an author visit so be on the lookout!
Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award
Students in all grades have been reading Black-Eyed Susan Book Award nominees this year. During the month of April, students will vote for their favorite book. Winners will be announced in early May.
Battle of the Books
We have 9 teams participating in the Battle of the Books this year. We will compete with other teams from Carrolltowne, Freedom, Linton Springs, and Piney Ridge Elementary Schools. The teams spend about 7 months reading and becoming experts on 10 books before the battle. Come cheer on our EES Battle of the Books teams as we defend our title on Friday, April 26th in the evening at Century High School.
EES is excited to partner with the Carroll County Public Library for the Summer Discovery Program. Children’s librarians from the Eldersburg branch of CCPL are coming to school on Thursday, May 23rd to teach the students about Summer Discovery and share some great new books with them. You can sign up online for Summer Discovery starting June 1st.
As a school, we read one book together each year. This year we read Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein. We partnered with our local elementary schools and the Eldersburg branch of the Carroll County Public Library to complete multiple scavenger hunts and brain teasers, just like Kyle and the other 11 contestants in the book. Eldersburg readers filled out over 200 scavenger hunts!!


At age 40, author Tosca Reno found herself miserable, overweight, stuck in an unhappy marriage and living an unfulfilled life. Her self-esteem was at an all-time low. She barely recognized the woman she had become. Determined to change her life for the better, she entered the doors of her local gym and never looked back. The minute she hopped on the treadmill she felt like she was taking control of her life again. Her confidence grew as she found the motivation to take care of herself – something she had lacked for years. After learning how to Eat Clean, Tosca's life accelerated to new heights of health, vitality and confidence.
As she shed unwanted pounds, Tosca underwent a profound transformation. For the first time in her life she was happy to take center stage. She was confident, joyful and ready to take on the world. At age 42, with the support of her husband Robert Kennedy, she entered her first physique contest. Undaunted by the younger competitors, Tosca took fifth place in her class.
Tosca knew she had tapped into something wonderful and wanted to share it with the world. She realized that if she could make these small but pivotal changes in her life, anyone could. She began writing a column in Oxygen,
a renowned fitness magazine. Tosca shared her personal story of transformation, her triumphs and her challenges, as well as her advice to others. Readers were enthralled with Tosca, flooding her with fan mail and questions. Recognizing that others were as hungry for change as she once was, Tosca decided to record her journey in a book entitled The Eat-Clean Diet
®. The book initiated an eleven-title series
that has sold over two million copies! The latest in the series is The Eat-Clean Diet® Vegetarian Cookbook,
filled with 150 brand-new recipes for vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free eating styles.
Tosca’s ability to share her no-holds-barred wisdom in a firm but tender-hearted, concerned manner has made her a hot commodity. Along with her “Raise the Bar” column in Oxygen
magazine, she writes a column for Clean Eating magazine,
has been a host on Extra
and a guest on numerous national television programs including Good Morning America
and The Doctors,
was the star of her own reality show, Tosca: Flexing at 49,
and tours North America consulting and conducting seminars for companies, government agencies, schools and private organizations. Audiences are captivated by Tosca's high energy, no-nonsense delivery of her message, responding with everything from tears to laughter.
In 2012, Tosca hit the stage again for the Ontario Physique Association’s Oktoberfest Classic in the Bikini Grand Masters division. She took home top prize in her category at the age of 53, proving that you are only as old as you feel. She lives by the following credo by Goethe: “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
Tosca Reno was born in Lachine, Quebec. She graduated with a B.Sc. from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and a B.Ed. from York University in Toronto, Ontario. Tosca lives in Caledon, Ontario.


Then I remembered this book I bought my mom a few years ago. It had the cutest cover and sounded like a nice mom book. Perfect. So I marched to the library and asked the cute librarian where I may find a book that I think was called Mitford but I wasn’t too sure. She got all starry eyed and told me it was her favorite series and that I would become addicted. Thing is…she's like 85. That got me a little worried. But then I didn’t want to hurt her feeling so I got the book.
Okay. These books are pretty cheesy. Well they’re actually really cheesy. However, I LOVE them. Totally not what I would normally read but the characters have completely consumed me. I wish I lived in a little town like Mitford and was a Rector’s wife and ate at the same coffee shop every morning. The stories are really endearing and sweet all around. When I read them at night it’s perfect because while they capture my attention it’s not like I can’t put it down. I find that at times I laugh out loud at the dorkiest things or cry when something happens to a character I like. The author, Jan Karon, does a really wonderful job of making the characters seem like friends. I go back to the library every time I’m done with a book because I want to see what happens to them next. I only have two books left in the series and I haven’t read one for 3 months because I don’t want it to end. So if you’re looking for a nice easy read you should give these a try. If after reading you feel a little like you just read an adult version of Mr. Rogers, well I told you so. But honestly, is that really that bad?
P.S. I also did not order the accompanying cookbook off Amazon. I swear.
P.P.S. To check out more writing assignments and other book reviews go to Mama Kat's Blog!!
Have a great day!


King of the Black Covenant
In frostbog, where the shoreline shifts like the ever changing dunes of the southern sands, one island stands alone as an unchanging sanctuary from the bitter cold, beast, wind and wave. At least it used to. Long ago, but not so long that it's been lost from memory, a mad witch king took this fair isle as his own, and performed twisted and depraved experiments on his subjects, aiming to find the key to immortality, and then after, to achieve ultimate power. The gods watched his experiments and were intrigued. Those gods of good sent Angels down to stop the monster before he could achieve his goal. Those gods of evil sent demons from the pits of the earth to gain the power of his creations, so he captured them all, he took bodies from the graves, captured treants and fey, hunted down mindflayers and dragons, killed angels and demons alike and mixed them with the flesh of Human, Elf, Lizardfolk, and the like. And then, the men of the sanctuary fled, and banded with the barbarian tribes from around the still isle. This unlikely alliance, forged from necessity, the bonding of angels and demons, and even his own creations as one waged war against the Mad King and his few, but powerful allies. The war was unrelenting for several months. There was no room for weariness or rest, as the enemy didn't rest or let up. Raining death upon the legions of angels, demons, dragons, experiments, common people, and everyone else pushing back against him, the Mad King and his allies brought Hell to the material plain. However, as few as his numbers were, he was bound to fall. After months of seemingly endless casualties, the last of his allies still in the fight was at last slain. In the face of his own defeat, rather than face death which he feared so much, he fled to the bowels of his castle, locking himself in the dungeons and both physically and magically fortifying his defenses. There he stayed, where he is believed to have eventually rotted away. With the threat gone, the ruined citadel of the still isle had nothing left to do but rebuild, and the barbarian tribes sunk back into their hovel camps, and the angels and demons went back from whence they came.
That was 200 years ago. Now, something irksome is stirring in the bowels of the castle, fires burning from the tallest tower, men and women vanishing, some turning up dead, others, not turning up at all. Strange sightings from wolves to strange men in cloaks begin to crop up. Earthquakes shake the land as the sanctuary isle awakens. The mad king isn't gone at all, at least, not his legacy.


Balade commentée à vélo : Découverte du patrimoine arboré
The diversity of tree species in Le Havre may well surprise you. Some are remarkable and certified, such as the magnolia grandiflora near the Salacrou library, or the imperial tree on rue Gustave Flaubert. A circuit has been devised to discover the plant heritage that adorns our parks, gardens and streets in Le Havre. Come along for a bike ride, accompanied by a gardening guide.
Meet at the kiosk in Square Saint-Roch.
Duration: 2 hours
Ages 12 and up.
Registration required – number of places limited.
Bike not provided.
Please bring your children’s safety equipment and the materials needed for bike repairs.
- Free for all :


LSC - Emu Park Town Scavenger Hunt - Hosted by Youth In Livingstone
(Where): Emu Park Library 9 Hill St, Emu Park ...
(Time): 12:30 PM – 3 PM ... (Date): Monday, January 21, 2019
LSC - Emu Park Town Scavenger Hunt
Public Hosted by Youth In Livingstone
WHEN: Monday, January 21, 2019 at 12:30 PM – 3 PM
WHERE: Emu Park Library 9 Hill St, Emu Park
IMPORTANT: You will need to book for this event
HOW TO BOOK: do it online here
Think you've got what it takes to collect everything on your list an be the first person to finish?
Town Scavenger Hunt will start at the Emu Park Library!
Contact: ... Community Center Phone: 49133840
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Saturday, June 3rd at Morton Mandan Public Library
Children and families can develop their literacy skills through storytelling, singing, drawing, and writing at the Morton Mandan Public Library on June 3, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The library is partnering with the television network Prairie Public, and other organizations that provide services to families, to kick off its summer reading program. The PBS KIDS character Nature Cat will greet children and pose for photos throughout the day. The free event will include activities and the opportunity for kids to share their own stories through play. Free lunch is available while supplies last. In addition, everyone can choose a free book to take home.


Kassy O’Roarke Pet Detective Mysteries
Twelve-year-old Kassandra O’Roarke wants to win the Thompson prize at her school newspaper. Her pesky little brother Percy tries to help. That’s when the trouble begins.
When Apollo the cougar cub goes missing from their petting zoo, Kassy puts her detective skills to the test to find him before Animal Control does. To get him back, Kassy must reconcile with Percy, break Apollo out of Animal Control, and risk being grounded for life.
Cub Reporter is book one in the Kassy O’Roarke Pet Detective Mysteries by Award-Winning and Bestselling author, Kelly Oliver.
“Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter is a juicy middle grade mystery in which a young investigator learns that it’s okay to be vulnerable.”
“For everyone who’s into adventure, mystery, and a whole bunch of Middle-Grade fun, this first in series does the trick! Beware, you won’t want to set this book down anytime soon. Recommended.”
“A new literary role model in the style of Nancy Drew will find her way into the hearts of her audience.”
—Recommended, US Review of Books
“[Will] entertain both animal and mystery lovers of all ages. Most highly recommended!”
—Reader’s Favorite Reviews
“Oliver writes in a breezy, kid-friendly style that’s perfect for early middle schoolers… the book is a polished, convincing, kid-centered adventure, with endearing characters and a strong sense of middle-school humor…a strong series debut.”
“Engaging and fun…Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter is well-written and likely to entertain both animal and mystery lovers of all ages. It’s most highly recommended.”
—Jack Magnus, 5-Star Review, Reader’s Favorite Reviews
“Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter is a whole lot of fun and delivers in every way an adventure story should. The twists and turns in the mystery are clever and unpredictable”
—Sarah Scheele, 5-Star Review, Reader’s Favorite Reviews
“I was hooked by the first page and enjoyed the entire story. The plot has twists and turns and is sure to keep readers on their toes as they read it.”
—Kristen Van Campen (teen reviewer), 5-Star Review, Reader’s Favorites
“Kassy O’Roarke is a modern day Nancy Drew. I love Kassy. The themes of loyalty and friendship are strong…making this the perfect middle grade novel. I adore this book and cannot wait to purchase it for my students. They are going to love it!”
—Librarian Fitz Bookstagrammer


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I used to be your everyday, average girl but all that changed
one night in Dublin, when I saw my first Fae, and got dragged
into a world of deadly immortals and ancient secrets...
In her fight to stay alive, Mac must find the Sinsar Dubh—a million year old book of deadly black magic, which holds the key to power over both the worlds of Fae and Man. Pursued by assassins, surrounded by people she knows she can’t trust, Mac finds herself torn between two dangerous and powerful men, V’lane, a lethal Fae prince and the mysterious Jericho Barrons.
For millennia the shadowy realm of the Fae court has coexisted with that of humans. Now the walls between the two are coming down and Mac is the only thing that stands between them.
" I loved this book from the first page... More. I want more."
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The LUCI lab has had several papers accepted to CHI 2011. The list of accepted works was just released and includes the following by students, researchers, and faculty:
Situating the Concern for Information Privacy through an Empirical Study of Responses to Video Recording by David Nguyen (LUCI Ph.D.), Aurora Bedford and Alex Bretana (Informatics undergrads) and Gillian R. Hayes (LUCI faculty)
Unpacking Exam-Room Computing: Negotiating Computer-Use in Patient-Physician Interactions by Yunan Chen (LUCI faculty), Victor Ngo and Sidney Harrison (Informatics Masters students) and Victoria Duong (UCI undergrad).
Comparing Activity Theory with Distributed Cognition for Video Analysis: Beyond “Kicking the Tires.” by Eric Baumer (former LUCI post-doc) and Bill Tomlinson (LUCI faculty)
Infrastructures for low-cost laptop use in Mexican schools
Ruy Cervantes (Informatics Ph.D.), Mark Warschauer (Ed. Dept.), Bonnie Nardi (LUCI Faculty), and Nithya Sambasivan (Informatics Ph.D.)
Designing a Phone Broadcasting System for Urban Sex Workers in India
Nithya Sambasivan (Informatics Ph.D.) and Ed Cutrell (Microsoft)
Classroom-Based Assistive Technology: Collective Use of Interactive Visual Schedules by Students with Autism
Meg Cramer (LUCI Ph.D.), Sen Hirano (LUCI M.S.), Monica Tentori (UABC), Michael Yeganyan (LUCI M.S.), and Gillian R. Hayes (LUCI Faculty)
Homebrew Databases: Complexities of Everyday Information Management in Nonprofit Organizations
Amy Voida (Informatics PostDoc), Ellie Harmon (LUCI Ph.D.), Ban Al-Ani (Informatics Faculty)
Why Do I Keep Interrupting Myself?: Environment, Habit and Self-Interruption
Laura Dabbish (CMU), Gloria Mark (Informatics Faculty), Victor Gonzalez, (ITAM)
Refraining from Technological Intervention by by Eric Baumer (former LUCI post-doc) and Six Silberman (former LUCI Ph.D. Student)
Alex, Aurora, Bill, David, Eric, Gillian, Sidney, Six, Victor, Yunan, Ruy, Bonnie, Nithya, Meg, Sen, Monica, Michael, Amy, Ellie, Ban, and Gloria!


Join us for a Bronx StorySLAM hosted by The Moth. Arrive by 7pm for the opportunity to put your name in The Moth “hat”. At 7:30pm names are picked, and one by one, storytellers take the stage to tell a five minute story about the theme of the evening, MAMA RULES!. Of the ten featured storytellers, one winner is chosen.
The Moth is excited to be back in The Bronx! We have set aside a handful of complimentary tickets for Bronx residents. Please RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.org if you are interested in this offer. **Complementary tickets are now sold out**
$10 General admission tickets are now available at themoth.org. Tickets may be available at the door, but the majority of tickets are available online. Seating is first come, first served.
7:00pm Doors open
7:30pm Stories begin
Theme of the night: MAMA RULES!
Prepare a five-minute story involving a mother or mothering! Your womb of origin or the person who raised you. Mother love: making it all better or setting you straight. Maternal instincts and mother-powered superhuman acts. (LIfting a car, anyone?) Mama's boys, Mommy Dearest and Mr. Mom also welcome. Becoming a mother, finding a mother, or finally recognizing the wisdom of the one you got. (Please be sure that you bring a story about a mother, not an homage.)
Public and Community Enagement Programs are made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.


Название: Root Double: Before Crime After Days Год выпуска: 2012 Жанр: Adventure / Visual Novel Разработчик: Yeti Издательство: Yeti Платформа: XBOX360 Регион: NTSC-J Тип издания: Лицензия Прошивка: 14 wave (LT+1.9 / 14719) Язык интерфейса: Японский Размер файла: 7.3 GB (+5% для восстановления)
Об Игре: Root Double: Before Crime * After Days is the next visual novel from Yeti and Ever17's director, Takumi Nakazawa. The Xbox 360 title takes place in 2030 AD after an accident at a research facility, one which serves as a major part of the game's city and its 180,00 residents. Those inside the government-run facility aren't allowed contact with anyone outside unless they have permission.
After the accident, you have two routes to choose from. In each you'll get a different protagonist and meet different characters. In one path, Watase Kasasagi is a part of the search and rescue team, but lost his memory in a previous, unrelated incident. Take the other path and you will follow Natsuhiko, a high school student and a loner who was at the lab the day of the accident. His mother is a scientist who is apparently more interested in her research than paying attention to him.
Скачать игру: Root Double: Before Crime After Days (2012/NTSC-J/JPN/XBOX360)Лицензия


Alfred Corn’s tenth book of poems, titled Tables, appeared in January 2013 with Press53. He has also published a novel, titled Part of His Story; two collections of essays; and The Poem’s Heartbeat, a study of prosody. His work as a poet brought him the Guggenheim fellowship, the NEA, an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and one from the Academy of American Poets. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, and UCLA. He spends part of every year in the U.K., and Pentameters Theatre in London staged his play Lowell’s Bedlam in the spring of 2011. In 2012, he was a Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, preparing a translation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies and returned as a Life Fellow for a second residency in 2013. His first ebook, Transatlantic Bridge: A Concise Guide to the Differences between British and American English, was published in 2012. In 2014 Barrow Street Press published his eleventh volume of poems, titled Unions, and Eyewear will publish his second novel, titled Miranda’s Book.
Coming in 2014:


A product of the SN 1604 Nova Remnant Dispersal Depository
In the fourth year before the nova, an organization undertook a plan to spread the system’s cultural artefacts throughout near space using the nova’s dying light and blast front. In the years between the founding of the organization and the supernova, the organization expended its resources to fulfill its founders’ vision. Various technologies would be used to perform this dispersal, including lightsails, waveriders, and ephemeral masers.
Uncertainty surrounding the phenomena of nova waveriders and lightsails led to inaccurate estimations of the required physics. When the nova occurred, only one lightsail rode out the wavefront.
Lightsail Library brings these works to your infosphere as part of the SN 1604 Nova Remnant Dispersal Depository’s mission to spread the remaining culture of SN 1604’s system to the far reaches of space.
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don't touch me / ne me touchez pas (2003) was a work about intimacy and attitudes in front of the computer screen.
Since 2020 Flash technology is obsolete, so this piece is now archived:
Original story PuddingPaard told by Annie Abrahams:
“'Don’t touch me' by Annie Abrahams, displays the photograph of a woman lying on a bed, as a voice starts telling a story. But if the user rolls the cursor of the mouse over the picture, a text immediately appears on the screen, expressing the woman’s refusal (« don’t touch me ») and she changes positions. The vocal tale stops immediately and restarts from the beginning. On the fourth attempt of caress with the mouse, the window closes up. This way, the user is made to reflect upon what an interactive gesture is and to think twice before interacting with the work (whether by clicking or rolling over). Interacting is thus staged and shown. Annie Abrahams forces us to be passive to become aware of the nature of the interactive gesture. In this work, interacting stops the narrative : narrativity and interactivity are here incompatible. The loss of grasp is characterized by the impossibility of acting.”, Bouchardon, S. (2008). « The rhetoric of interactive art works', actes du colloque international DIMEA 2008, 10 au 12 septembre 2008, Athènes, Grèce, ACM Proceeding Series Vol. 349, 312-318.
“The story Don't touch me has a vocal, visual (the woman displayed) and written-textual dimension (the three messages of refusal). It also has a gestural dimension: it is through the action of the user that the vocal narrative makes sense. This is an interactive story that is based on a play between interactivity and narrativity (Ensslin, 2012). Interactivity prevents narrativity insofar as the gesture of the user stops the narrative. The author also plays on the apparent incompatibility between narrativity and interactivity to teach the user to resist his desire to click, but also to apprehend differently the representations - especially online – of the female body. The vocal narrative can only be interpreted through the gesture of the user: it makes sense because it is interactive.


The Writer’s Cottage
Located in the charming railroad town of Ashland, Virginia
Ashland is a small, Victorian-era Southern train town 90 miles south of Washington, D.C. AMTRAK stops in the center of town. The Writer’s Cottage is within walking distance of the Henry Clay Inn, the popular Ashland Coffee and Tea, Iron Horse Restaurant, Trackside Grill, Cross Brothers Market, a public library, and The Caboose Market and Café. Ashland was the model for Ryland Falls in Theroux’s novella, “Giovanni’s Light,” which she described, tongue-in-cheek, as a town that “reminds you of the happy childhood you didn’t have.”
The Writer’s Cottage is a cozy, Craftsman-style bungalow with a living room, large dining/seminar space, eat-in kitchen, separate writing room, bedroom and fenced garden. Centrally heated and air-conditioned, it is furnished with the things that most writers need: books, magazines, a CD player, wi-fi, a printer, and lots of places to sit and read and relax, including a comfortable sofa for taking naps.
To date, the Writer’s Cottage has hosted a fascinating variety of writers who have used their time to work upon novels, memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, and journals. Usually, they come with a very sharp focus as to what they hope to accomplish. Occasionally, the focus is developed after they arrive. In several instances, they have returned for a repeat engagement. There has been only one major improvement since the Cottage opened – a larger, Queen-sized bed. It is now very comfortable for a couple of any size.


Files in the top-level directory in any check-in
Clojure library for automating and tracking infrastructure improvements
Build a namespace in your project that depends on
Then build a function that invokes
with-infra-tracking!, which opens
up a tracking database that you can then pass to
perform and keep track of infrastructure updates and rollbacks.
src/pleroma.clj for a complete working example
Things I've learned along the way.
Do all your waiting at the end : If you build out, for example, a Digital Ocean droplet and a database, you should : initiate creation for each of them and then wait instead of waiting for each one : separately
Build out "permanent" structures first : Databases that you intend to reuse between components, or even to : keep in use later on, should likely be built out early on in : the process. That way, for example, if you make architecture changes you can : rollback just to the database and roll forward a new architecture.
Copyright © 2023 Stephen Castro-Starkey
This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the Eclipse Public License, v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version, with the GNU Classpath Exception which is available at https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.


On this page I keep track of my reading / learning. Apart from books on the craft of coding / tech, if you look for book recommendations Tim Ferriss podcast is a good place to start. If you want to recommend me a title feel free to ping me on Twitter.
If you want to roll your own bookshelf, start adding books on FBreadinglist then load http://fbreadinglist.com/bookshelf.php?id=YOUR_FACEBOOK_ID in an iframe on your site. Alternatively you can use Bookshelf creator to generate raw HTML/CSS (no iframe).
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. - George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons


Hugi Pataw (1848-1933)
Baghdad, Iraq, c. 1925
78 rpm recording
- Taqsim (improvisation) on Iraqi santur in awj mode.
- Peste in awj mode. (2:30)
The Maqam Awj is derived from the Maqam Segah (sikah) and its tonic is on awj (B-half flat). It is sung to classical Arabic verses without any rhythmic accompaniment. It includes the following modulating pieces: Sufyan, Hakimi, Musta'ar, Mukhalaf Kirkuk, and Qadirbayjan.
Hugi Pataw bin Salih bin Rahmain was born in the Tatran district of Old Baghdad in 1848. Pataw was one of the most famous santur performers in the modern history of this instrument in Iraq. He learned from Muhammad bin Salih al-Santurachi (born late 18th century) and headed chalghi bands to accompany some of Baghdad's best singers during the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Ahmed Zaydan, Hasan al-Shakarchi, Khalil Rabbaz, Hajj Jamil al-Baghdadi, and Yusuf Huryesh. He famously performed for the Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum at the residence of Yusuf Za'rur when she visited Iraq shortly before his death in Baghdad on February 27, 1933.


Trips to courthouses across Nebraska raised important questions about how to conduct research on sexual violence in rural spaces.
NYU’s Riot Grrrl Collection is that of a movement that provided a new path for young women’s sexuality
Simon Copland highlights the big questions and controversies addressed at the 2016 Homosexual Histories Conference
Can an archive offer “proof” that historians often seek out?
The Parker-Hulme murder gripped the town of Christchurch, New Zealand in the summer of 1954.
Interviewed by Heike Bauer and Jana Funke Erwin J. Haeberle is the founder of two archives – the “Haeberle-Hirschfeld-Archive” and the “Archive for Sexology” – which between them constitute one of the most significant collections of sexological work and related materials available. Initially a literary scholar in the 1960s, Haeberle’s discovery of the […]
Claire Hayward On Saturday 6 December, historians, archivists and activists joined together at London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) to discuss ‘Lines of Dissent’. The 12th LGBTQ History and Archives Conference at LMA chose queer inheritance as its theme this year, which was run in collaboration with the Raphael Samuel History Centre (RSHC). (Disclaimer: […]


In the sci-fi book Aoleon The Martian Girl a young boy from Nebraska is whisked away on an adventure to Mars.
Brent LeVasseur, a sci-fi author, will take you on a wild adventure to the Red Planet and beyond! Join Aoleon and Gilbert and fly away in her saucer for an out-of-this-world reading experience you will never forget. With over 150 full color illustrations throughout the series, you will not only read about the strange and wonderful Martian civilization, but you will also SEE it through the author's eyes.
Brent LeVasseur - Science Fiction Book


March is Reading Month: Let's Celebrate!
Happy March! Though this month marks a full year of this pandemic-era life, it also brings something worth celebrating: National Reading Month.
The March is Reading Month movement is meant to promote literacy and a love for reading. In an era where students are growing up in front of screens, it’s important that students feel as connected to books as they do to digital media. Students need access to impactful and immersive stories that ensure their love for reading is not lost over time. Lifelong reading fosters critical thinking and analytical skills that students need to navigate the world – both inside and outside the classroom.
There’s a multitude of factors that play into students’ disinterest in reading or low literacy skills, but a simple way to improve students’ interest is by connecting them to a good book. When students find a book that they connect to, their love for reading and their literacy and reading comprehension skills grow. They also gain perspective.
Reading about characters who speak different languages, grow up somewhere else, or who have distinct experiences reminds students what makes us unique and what unites us. When students see themselves in books, their confidence and self-love grows, as well.
DCAN is celebrating March by sharing reading lists for elementary, middle, and high school students. Representation, diversity, and inclusion in media are so important, and for that reason, our lists highlight stories by authors of color. You’ll find picture books, graphic novels, and multiple genres in our book lists.
Find them all here:
We hope that you can share the lists with students – and even read some yourself! (Children of Blood and Bone and Brown Girl Dreaming are some of my top recommendations).
The unfortunate truth is that there are many systemic issues at work that contribute to inequities in literacy that cannot be solved simply by sharing a book. Fortunately, though, Detroit has organizations and coalitions that offer support and resources to combat these inequities. One of those initiatives is 313Reads. They offer unsettling data statistics about literacy in Detroit and Michigan:
Only 9% of Detroit third grade students got a score of “Proficient” in the 2018-19 academic year.
83% of low-income first graders in Michigan are not able to read proficiently.
Low-income students are 65% more likely to fall behind their reading level by fifth grade.
Connecting students to impactful, engaging stories is one way to combat these stats, but partnering with literacy campaigns and organizations is even more effective. We can help students unlock their endless potential by connecting them to the proper tools. Read more about the important work of 313Reads and how they support our community:
313Reads is a collective impact coalition dedicated to increasing access to literacy support for young children in Detroit with the goal of every child reading at grade level by grade three. We do this by working with city-wide partners while focusing on literacy access, equity, and justice. We are the Detroit chapter of the National Campaign for Grade Level Reading and have partnerships ranging from local to national. We do not work with families directly; instead we are the organizing body that coordinates collective impact efforts among organizations based on democratic decision making.
We operate with the basic understanding that Detroit children, families, community members, and community organizations are brilliant and can do anything when we have access to high quality opportunities, resources, and support. The unacceptable literacy inequities that impact our children are the product of systems that reproduce inequitable distributions of those opportunities, resources, and supports. Our collective impact network is committed to addressing systemic inequities through the levers of Early Language and Literacy, Summer and Out-of-School Time Learning, and Early Childhood Enrollment and Attendance.
To stay up to date on all things early literacy, follow us on Facebook and Twitter @313Reads and sign up for our newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/f2c151550f04/313reads-partner-newsletter
We wish you a happy and healthy March. Happy reading!


The 8 Best Books for Organic Farmers in 2022
Start growing your fruits and veggies the right way
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Organic farming is as old as agriculture itself, but many farmers have become reliant on ways of farming that unfortunately cause more harm to themselves and the environment than good. Pesticides filled with chemicals and poor crop management can backfire, harming nature and crop yields in the process. Thankfully, many organic experts can help you get back to basics and fight with nature rather than against her. So take a look at these best organic farming books for some key tips and insights when it comes to sustainable practices, having the right mindset, and getting back to basics.
Best for Cultivating The Right Mindset: Working With Nature – Shifting Paradigms
The modern farming movement is powered by a belief that you must fight nature: your food will be better if you spray pesticides to ward off bugs and undesirable weeds, GMOs are a great idea and help feed the world more efficiently, and Frankenfoods are a testament to human creativity. To be a prosperous organic farmer, you are going to have to let go of all of those unhealthy attitudes and learn how to work with, rather than fight, Mother Nature.
Learn fascinating facts about how weeds and plants work together. Did you know paying for removing weeds with chemicals could lead to paying to add nutrients back into the soil, a double whammy! Find out how compost tea can heal the worn-out Earth and learn more helpful strategies renew the ground.
This 200-plus-page book will give you an excellent understanding of the interconnected processes that control the farmer’s life: sun, soil, water, other plant and animal systems and even the air surrounding your plants are all relevant factors, and learning how to work with them will lead you to great organic successes.
Best for A Comprehensive Overview: The Organic Method Primer
This book is old school and hard to find, but it is probably the best book to help you understand the fundamentals of organic gardening and the principles behind it. It was written by the Dr. Bargyla Rateaver, the preeminent expert on organic farming who started the organic method in California and organized the first organic conference.
It’s technically the first textbook ever written on the topic so that it might overwhelm the casual reader or gardener, but if you are serious about starting your organic farm, it’s chock-full of amazing tips that seem unusual or odd but are backed entirely by science. Understanding the why behind organic gardening is the greatest motivation to make the switch. If you are not sure if organic gardening is right for you, this book has the potential to sway you.
Best for Making Mulch: The Rodale Book of Composting
If you are not using artificial fertilizers, you are still going to need something to feed your plants. Thankfully, composting is an Earth- and wallet-friendly alternative to buying bags of the modern stuff. But you can’t put just anything in your compost pile, and this book will show you exactly what you can and cannot use to fuel your fertilizer.
But beyond that, there are tactics you can use to produce top-notch mulch: this newly updated book will show you how, using the latest tools and techniques. There are even individual sections to help guide you in the event you should find yourself advising an apartment dwelling friend or leading a community that would like a non-traditional compost pile of their own.
Best for Picking Plants: The Gardener’s A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food
When you are an organic farmer, your world is a whole lot larger than that of an organic gardener’s, but that does not mean that this book does not have valuable information to teach you. You will still have to decide how many of which plants to spend your time growing, and this book gives you in-depth information on over 765 fruits, vegetables, herbs and even nuts.
You will learn which work best for what climates, how to plant and water them, the proper soil types and spacing requirements, and even the first and last times you should plant them. In addition to learning about the plants themselves, you will also learn recipes for naturally fighting off insects, animals, and diseases.
Best for Fruit Lovers: The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits & Berries
Who does not love good, wholesome, delicious organic fruit? This book will teach you how to grow the tastiest of nature’s delights the natural way. Cultivating an orchard requires passion, but if you have the proper space and dedication, you can make it work. This book will teach you all about the hidden growth cycles of trees, how to connect with nature, how to design your planting strategy and even advanced techniques like grafting two varieties together.
No matter where you live, you will find a seasonal calendar that includes the best trees to plant in your area — as well as ones to avoid. In addition to pome and stone fruits that grow on trees, you will also learn how to grow all sorts of berries. Moreover, you will also gain insider knowledge on how native pollination and biodiversity work to support your efforts.
Best for Advanced Farmers: Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual
This is not a book for beginners. Advanced organic farmers learn not just to work with nature, but to design and maintain their farms in such a way that they contribute to the already existing ecosystem. Permaculture, short for permanent agriculture, is the study of just that. Inside this text, stuffed with academic research, case studies, diagrams and complex topics, you’ll learn a complete history of how people have worked with the land sustainably across a variety of cultures — and how failing to do so leads to disaster. You will discover a way of viewing the world as interconnected, and you will learn how to use that understanding to shape your farming methods.
Best for Troubleshooting: The Non-Toxic Farming Handbook
If you farm for long enough, even the most knowledgeable and careful people will inevitably run into a few problems along the way. When you are facing a problem with your plants, pests, disease or planning, this book will become your go-to. It is approachable enough for a beginner because it summarizes complicated research on biology, soil recovery, and weeds in a way that anyone can understand.
And that makes sense: It is written by an international agronomist who runs a soil testing lab and consults for farmers around the world who has a broad academic background — not to mention a Ph.D. in biophysics. This book is a great read and is an excellent reference book to have on hand.
Best for Learning From The Ground Up: Secrets of the Soil
The soil is a living organism — it is full of thousands of different components, and making sure the dirt on your farm is in top condition is a crucial part of growing the best organic food. This book covers innovated and sometimes wacky theories — from biodynamic agriculture to “Sonic Boom” ways of stimulating faster plant growth and even how you can use rock dust to transform depleted soils.
Just because you are farming organic does not mean you need to miss out on the latest technologies in agriculture; you can still use them to your advantage, just in ways that benefit you, your plants and the planet.


Book Beginnings On Fridays (The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August by Claire North)
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this memeis
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the
opener inspires. Please remember to include the title
of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August by Claire North
The second cataclysm began in my eleventh life, in 1996. I was dying my usual death, slipping away in a warm morphine haze, which she interrupted like an ice cube down my spine.
Harry August is on his deathbed. Again.
time Harry dies, he is reborn in exactly the same time and place, a
child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen
No matter what he does or the decisions he makes,
when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, and nothing
ever changes. He only knows that there are others like him, living with
but apart from the rest of us.
As Harry nears the end of his
eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. 'I nearly missed
you, Doctor August,' she says. 'I need to send a message. It has come
down from child to adult, child to adult, passed back through
generations from a thousand years forward in time. The message is that
the world is ending, and we cannot prevent it. So now it's up to you.'
is the story of what Harry August does next - and what he did before -
and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot


Once Upon A Time,
in a world where the mind, body, and spirit were still mysteries waiting to be unraveled, there lived a remarkable woman named Dr. Constance Santego. Her story was one of transformation, resilience, and an unyielding quest for knowledge.
Dr. Santego’s journey began as a young entrepreneur, a serial innovator who took charge of her first company at the tender age of twenty-seven. She seemed destined for a life in the business world, but fate had other plans. A debilitating back injury forced her to relinquish her entrepreneurial dreams and set her on an unexpected path.
Embracing this unforeseen twist, Dr. Santego turned her focus to holistic healing. She embarked on a journey of learning, earning certificates and diplomas in spiritual and natural healing from renowned institutions worldwide. This newfound knowledge paved the way for her to engage with clients seeking healing, and she began to see the interconnectedness of the mind, body, and spirit in achieving well-being.
In 1999, a new chapter unfolded as she established a holistic healing college. This institution gained accreditation and became a platform for Dr. Santego to share her skills and wisdom, guiding others on the path to harmonizing their bodies, minds, and spirits.
As the years passed, another remarkable chapter emerged. In the midst of the challenges brought by the Covid era, Dr. Santego redirected her focus towards writing and publishing. As a Canadian author, she penned a substantial collection of books, including the renowned series “Secrets of a Healer” and “Nine Spiritual Gifts Granted By Spirit.”
But her journey didn’t stop there. Dr. Santego assumed the roles of founder and CEO at BookWizard Hub Inc., a venture dedicated to aiding authors throughout their publishing journeys, showcasing her dedication to supporting others in their creative pursuits.
Dr. Santego’s belief was that healing was not mere magic or make-believe; it was a gateway to quantum energy, where the seemingly magical became science-based and factual. Her mission was to prove that anyone could learn what she knew, that it was not just a matter of belief, but of provable facts.
Her favorite class to teach was on the subject of spiritual enlightenment, and her goal was clear: to make the mystical tangible, to bring the ethereal into the realm of science. She empowered thousands of students worldwide, teaching them to unlock the mysteries of the “Nine Spiritual Gifts” from the Bible.
Through her writing, she invited readers to awaken to the spirit world, where their gifts granted by Spirit awaited discovery. Her manuals were for those fascinated with learning healing modalities, while her novels explored metaphysics and the afterlife.
Dr. Santego’s impact reached far and wide, as she delivered keynote speeches on “The Inner Genie” and “The Nine Spiritual Gifts granted by Spirit” across Canada, the United States, and Mexico. She shared her wisdom with audiences eager to explore the depths of holistic healing and spirituality.
Her educational journey was as diverse as her interests, spanning disciplines from holistic health and bodywork to business, writing, and spirituality. Dr. Constance Santego became a symbol of lifelong learning, an embodiment of the idea that knowledge knows no bounds and that true growth is an ongoing journey.
In the end, Dr. Santego’s story was not just about her own transformation, but about the countless lives she touched and inspired on their journeys toward well-being and self-discovery. Her life was a testament to the power of resilience, adaptability, and the pursuit of knowledge, reminding us all that, indeed, “Shift Happens… Create Magic!”
Dr. Constance Santego
The holistic brilliance of the human body. It's like a perfectly orchestrated symphony where every note, every instrument, plays a crucial role in maintaining harmony.
One of the most captivating aspects of our existence is the intricate workings of the mind is that the average person has around 6,000 thoughts per day?
The soul, the very essence of our being, is a topic that never ceases to amaze me. It's like the eternal flame that burns within us, connecting us to something greater .


Welcome to flumbles
"The idea of the Shnugglefluffles came when we were on a long 'naptime' drive on a particularly sleep-deprived weekend. Looking for a distraction from everything going around in Little M's head."
"I needed something to help my little toddler to focus on, so i started to tell him a story... this is when the Shnugglefluffles joined our family"
Adam. Creator of the Shnugglefluffles
Not the greatest sleeper, Little M would struggle to get to sleep and often wake up until he was around three years old. At nap time stopping at traffic lights would be a risk and whilst holding him, he knew if you even thought about sitting down.
As advocates of gentle parenting, we tried everything to help and support him and always followed a positive bedtime routine. Then at around three and a half years old, he gradually became the best sleeper out of anyone in the family.
Feeling safe and loved he has grown up to be a confident, happy and charming young boy.. who still has great affection for the Shnugglefluffles who were regularly part of his bedtime journey.
I would like to think the books played a part, but I am not sure that was the case. Do the bedtime books guarantee your toddler will finish the story, turn over and instantly go to sleep? If it did, they would be on sale for a lot more money and we would be living in a house made of lavender, camomile and the snoozy sparkles from the stars!
The books have been written and developed to be the 'last book before sleep time' offering consistency and routine to help your child understand that after the book is finished, it is time to go to sleep.
Each short story follows a pattern, of calming actions that help prepare your toddler for lights out and magical dreams, highlighting the opportunities to explore in our dreams.
I would love for the Shnugglefluffles to become a part of your little ones early childhood memories, especially with our fully personalised books, which include your child's name, look-a-like character and introduction note that they can keep as they grow older.
Thank you for visiting, welcome to flumbles (the land of the Shnugglefluffles) and sweet dreams!


Five starred reviews!
THE KEY THAT SWALLOWED JOEY PIGZA has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and, most recently, The Horn Book. As Joey himself likes to say, "Pawzzitively brilliant!" Read excerpts from the reviews here.
Jack is Back as JOEY PIGZA! Exclusive Jack Gantos Video Interview
The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza is Named a Young Reader Finalist for the 2014 Kirkus Prize!
This is the first year for the Kirkus Prize!
Books that earned the Kirkus Star with publication dates between November 1, 2013, and October 31, 2014, are automatically nominated for the 2014 Kirkus Prize, and the winners will be selected on October 23, 2014.
Mackin Interviews Jack Gantos
Mackin interviews Jack Gantos about his favorite books, his drawing habits, and more. Read the interview here.
TULSA LIBRARY TRUST WILL PRESENT THE 2014 ANNE V. ZARROW AWARD FOR YOUNG READERS’ LITERATURE TO JACK GANTOS
Newbery Medal-winning author Jack Gantos is the winner of the Tulsa Library Trust’s 2014 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers’ Literature. He will accept the award at a public presentation at Hardesty Regional Library’s Connor’s Cove, 8316 E. 93rd St., Aug. 22 at 7 p.m.


All images are courtesy of www.ivereadthat.com. This blog also appears as part of Crime Fiction Week at
One Saturday in the mid-1980s, I was in the Parkview library in Johannesburg, aged probably twelve or thirteen, a precocious bookworm who had exhausted the children’s section. My mother, who was a voracious reader herself, and who was tired of my nagging for something new to read, handed me a book by Ruth Rendell. “You might like this,” she said. It was The Tree of Hands. Memories from when you are young are always so vivid, so my recollection of that day is suffused with the smell of the books, the sunlight through the narrow windows, shining on the parquet floor, and the squeaky, squashy, sweat-inducing blue plastic of the chair I sat in to begin reading.
Ruth Rendell took me by the hand, plucked me out of 1980s Johannesburg, and drew me into London, her London. She did it with her spare, beautiful writing, her ability to create characters who are mentally ill, and wrong-headed, yet whose thought processes we can follow, and with whom we still empathise. Her plotting is impeccable and careful, and she places every clue and hint we need to fully appreciate her brilliant climax and denouement. She opened my eyes to what books could do. “One day,” I remember thinking, “I want to be able to write like that.”
That first encounter with her writing was more than thirty years ago, and I have read her work ever since. I enjoy the Inspector Wexford mysteries, but especially love her more psychological stand-alone books, especially those written as Barbara Vine. Her vivid evocation of the feel and geography of North London played a part in my choosing it as my home in 2000, and even though I have never written crime novels, her skills with plotting and character development have probably influenced my writing more than anyone else I have read.
I give you all this background so you can understand how I felt when I was given the opportunity through the Royal Society of Literature to attend a crime writing masterclass with Ruth Rendell herself. It’s not possible to overestimate her influence on me, and the thought of being in a room with her was overwhelming. When I learned that our assignment for the class was to write a 30-word opening sentence for a crime novel which we would be expected to read aloud, I almost needed resuscitating. Then I went online and read interviews with her. In many of them she sounded a little forbidding and cold, unwilling to discuss her personal life, giving ill-prepared or prying journalists short shrift. Now I was just plain terrified.
I couldn’t have been more wrong. As we filed into the conference room in Somerset House where the class was to be held, she smiled warmly. She is in her early eighties, slim, beautifully dressed, clearly fit and in good health. She spoke clearly and quietly, reading from typed notes, and pausing to go round the room and ask us all questions. Most of those in the class were comparatively inexperienced, aspirant rather than practiced writers, but she listened to everyone’s thoughts, questions and contributions with equal seriousness and answered them carefully.
She opened by saying that we should always seek to write a good novel, not a good crime novel. Crime may play a part in it, but there is no reason why books in that genre should be considered second-best. She spoke about choosing a geography which we knew well, both to save research and to give our work the ring of truth. With regard to character, she gave one tip so breathtakingly simple, and yet so brilliant, I have yet to stop thinking about it. “Even if you are writing a very bad or evil character,” she said, “Give them something to love. A parent, a child, a pet. It allows us to engage with them and empathise with their inner life.” She also suggested giving a character an interest or passion to make them well-rounded and interesting. “Give them a taste for something,” she said, “And if they’re a very good character, maybe give them a taste for something unsavoury.” It was as close as she could come to explaining her own magical abilities with character, although I fear in less skilful hands, giving your protagonist a taste for booze and a butterfly collection would not make them as curious and fascinating as her finely drawn masterpieces.
She spoke about her process, and how it differs from that of her close friend PD James. She says she does research, preferring books to the Internet, but using all sources. However she is not overly concerned with police procedure, or accurate details about guns, and in all her years of writing has only ever consulted the police once. Rather cheekily, she said, “If you want to know about police procedure, television dramas are excellent. As are the books of PD James.” She begins writing at the beginning, and writes chronologically, going back to change or edit as she goes on, allowing the plot to develop organically.
Ruth Rendell noted that people always ask what she uses to write, and that people often seemed to think writing on computer was somehow to be frowned upon, and that ‘real’ writers work in longhand. She said she felt that was irrelevant. “It is what happens between the brain and the hand that matters.”
In terms of the mechanics, she has indeed moved with the times and has three laptops in different rooms in her house, moving from room to room with her work backed up on a memory stick. She has a table beside her work stations with copies of Roget’s Thesaurus and Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, as well as Fowler’s Modern English Usage.
As a contrast, PD James plans her novels to the last detail, then writes them in longhand and has them typed by a secretary. She will frequently work out of sequence, writing a key or climactic scene first.
What to write? Not surprisingly she said that the Agatha Christie-esque notion of a stately home and a “whodunnit” crime solved by a detective is old-hat. She talked about how she grew up reading Christie and Dorothy Sayers, unable to recognise her own family or people she knew in their worlds of aristocrats, bishops and professors. “Every tiny village in every book I read had a professor in it,” she said drily. “A type of person I had never met.” She urged us to write about real, everyday people, about how we live now, and to write about the why, rather than the who or how of crime.
She talked about creating suspense, about beginning from the very first line, with something that makes the reader desperate to read on. You want them to say, “I could not put it down,” she said. This was the point where we all read our first lines. She listened seriously and responded to each one, then read us her favourite opening line from one of her own novels, the now-famous one from A Judgement in Stone.
“Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.”
She then answered questions from the floor. The first question, unremarkably, was “How many books have you written?”
“I don’t know,” she said, brushing it aside impatiently. (I know the answer; it’s more than seventy, with the most recent due out in July 2013).
“Which is your favourite of your own books?” she was asked.
She said that she has always loved the books she has written as Barbara Vine (I concur, King Solomon’s Carpet is my personal favourite), and she named A Judgement in Stone and Talking to Strange Men as two particular favourites.
She answered questions about which aspects of writing she found hard. “I find it difficult to write action,” she said, “To move characters quickly from place to place.” One writer spoke about his difficulties with a feature of his work. “If you find something difficult, like me with my action,” she said kindly, “I would say just avoid it.” That got a big laugh.
And finally she urged us all to walk. To enjoy the exercise and to take the time to think and, “listen to the rhythm and the resonance of the words in your head.”
“The world is not very friendly to aspiring writers,” she said sympathetically. However she does scorn anyone who suggests that she has ‘made it’ and should stop writing and retire. She has no intention of doing so while she still enjoys it. And she spoke of the joyous discovery of being a writer.
“There you are, alone with your novel, longing to know something you do not know.”
I have wandered in the imagination of this wonderful writer for decades. In three hours, I could not hope to learn a fraction of what she knows, nor approach her skill. But when I hesitatingly read my written and rewritten first line, and she nodded kindly and said, “Hmm, yes, that makes you want to read on,” she closed a circle, and made the dreams of a thirteen-year-old South African girl come true.
One monkey, one typewriter, seldom Hamlet.


Bring me men to match my mountains
Bring me men to match my plains
Men with empires in their purpose
And new eras in their brains
–Sam Walter Foss, The Coming American
In the early pre-dawn of the Cimarron national Grasslands, with the coyotes making their last rounds, singing before they slunk to their dens for the day, I stood and watched the curtain of light unfold across an ever clouding sky. The grasslands, the plains of the southwestern corner of Kansas were awakening; and they appeared to be angry. As passengers on wagons along the Santa Fe Trail awoke on mornings like this they added another fear to the list of many — weather. Regardless of preparations or guile, of planning or purpose, this land decides what will happen at any given moment. And today, it would decide for me.
From the southernmost corner of what many regard as the greatest Indian empire ever assembled — that of the Oglala Sioux Chief Red Cloud — I set out to follow the Santa Fe Trail into northern New Mexico. Red Cloud was a plains Indian at heart and was largely afraid of mountains, preferring to use the low hills of the front range for religious ceremonies and stick to the grasslands. You could see people coming from a long way away on the plains and, if you were as ruthless as Red Cloud, you could build an empire there. With hands bloodied with the lives of other tribesmen and white men alike, he did just that. And as I rolled up the Cimarron Canyon and over the mountains of Taos Pines, I found some wisdom in sticking to the prairies.
The grade and terrain of the mountains ground my progress to a slow crawl and the pounding snowstorm threatened forward progress at all. I imagined Red Cloud sitting on Point of Rocks watching the plains and enjoying the satisfaction of ruling a land he knew, could predict and could manage. But I also thought of the people moving west, people who thought of a new era, people who viewed hardship as investment rather than omen. And so on I climbed, up and over the mountains of Ponderosa and Lodgepole pine, across the broad saddles dotted with high lakes, and down to Santa Fe. From there I followed an old friend.
Last Fall I spent a couple of weeks riding the southern edge from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific, and for most of the entire trip, I had the Rio Grande river on my left shoulder. Today, after falling out of Colorado and gaining strength from tributaries in northern New Mexico, the Rio Grande was back, but this time, on my right shoulder. From Taos down through Santa Fe, the river led me out to the carved sandstone buttes and Mesas of central New Mexico and then bid farewell at Albuquerque as it turned south and east to the southern edge. I continued west to the New Mexico Arizona border where, after 10 1/2 hours at the wheel, I stopped. Tomorrow I will, as others before have done, continue west and cross the Mojave Desert, pushing to the Pacific again. Pushing to the edge.
From men like Red Cloud who built empires on the plains, to others who conquered the mountains in search of a new era, there has been one constant. The land alters us. It changes plans, it gives sustenance, it takes away will. In the end, the old ways of fear and bloodshed were replaced — with the help of the land — with a single, united piece of ground linking cultures, topography, families and foes, from east to west, north to south, into an unbreakable chain of liberty. Liberty birthed in the east, manifested and sustained by the sacrifices made pushing west, and matured by the certainty of common dependence. We didn’t build an empire after all. We built a nation.
But we had to get to the western edge to start knitting it all together. And I have a ways to go yet.


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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The projects were creative, informative, and fun. The illustrations were great. The basics of soap crafting were presented. What I liked most of all was the author's love for this particular craft coming through clearly. With some other soapmaking books, I learned but I didn't really start to think about creating new soap designs. I felt this author was sharing her works and encouraging me to try my own. She was positively infectious. I really appreciated that. I wrote down ideas for no less than five new soap designs while I was reading the last part of her book. I say, thanks Ms. Westerman! This is just the type of book we need
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Sometimes it is hard to buy gifts for children. I cannot keep up with what are “in” toys… dolls that look like their owners or cars that change into robots. Throw in concerns about toxic plastics/paint, choking hazards, excess packaging, product recalls and it is enough to suck all the fun out of gift giving. I like to buy our family’s favourite books as presents. Our eldest daughter thinks that books are “boooring gifts”. <said with the eye roll> How can you go wrong with a great story?
I rely on books to help with parenting challenges too. Afraid of the toilet flushing? What is wrong with Grampa? Off to the library I go to find a book. Thank goodness for stories that explain a challenge in an uncomplicated, encouraging way.
There is a lack of good children’s books about earth friendly action. Environmental issues are not always cheerful, but a story for young people told with graphic photos of oil slick coated birds and clear-cut forests is frightening. (The book I describe I found in the early reader section ages 3+) It is difficult to find a positive message without a preachy/scary tone.
We are experiencing a Dr. Seuss revival in our house. Our youngest daughter is enjoying reading his books all on her own. I dug out my childhood collection and made a surprising discovery. I forgot about The Lorax by Dr. Seuss! It is a whimsical story about conserving the earth’s resources and it is wonderful. Forty years later the message continues to resonate. It is about losing Brown Bar-ba-loots, Truffula Trees and Swomee-Swans and the forests they inhabit. It is rhyming fun with colourful illustrations and catchy “Seuss-isms”.
Here is an excerpt
“But now,” says the Once-ler,
“Now that you’re here,
The word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear.
UNLESS someone like you
Cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better.
“SO…Catch!” calls the Once-ler.
He lets something fall.
“It’s a Truffula Seed.
It’s the last one of all!
You’re in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds.
And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs.
Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care.
Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.
Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack.
Then the Lorax
And all of his friends
May come back.”
Warning: The Dr. uses the word “stupid” and “shut-up” in the story. (Gasp!)
New publications of The Lorax print on recycled paper. Random House, Conservation International and Dr. Seuss Enterprises launched an initiative on Earth Day 2008. It is an effort to raise awareness of environmental issues and inspire earthy friendly action worldwide. There is an interactive website too with games and information for kids of all ages. www.loraxproject.com
If you are looking for a good green story for the little reader in your life…I recommend this book. Do you have a favourite? Please share :)


I've written two novels since my retirement in 2008. The first is a romance,Songs of Sadness, Songs of Love. The second is an action/mysteryThe China-Africa Parallax: A Ryan and Gillian Mystery.
Among the textbooks I have written areLinguistics for L2 Teachers, Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 2001; and Language Exploration and Awareness: A Resource Book for Teachers, 3rd edition, Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 2006. This textbook was translated into Korean by Pagijong Press, Seoul, South Korea. 2010.
I am presently writing my third Ryan and Gillian novel, The Nathan Culper Brotherhood. You can follow my progress on novel #3 here at this blog site.
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CHINA-AFRICA PARALLAX: A RYAN AND GILLIAN MYSTERY, by Larry K. Andrews. (Action-Thriller. Author
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in their way in order to achieve their ultimate goal: China’s economic and
military domination of the world. This is a fast-moving mystery with an
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wife, Gillian Davies, characters introduced in Songs of Sadness, Songs of Love,
assume perilous, key roles central to the FBI strategy to thwart the
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The Welwood Murray Memorial Library was designed by architect John Porter Clark, and it opened in 1941 on the corner of South Palm Canyon Drive and East Tahquitz Canyon Way in Palm Springs. The library originally shared space with the Palm Springs Desert Museum (now known as Palm Springs Art Museum). The building was designated a Class 1 Historic Site by the Palm Springs City Council on October 3, 1984. Stop by the library to learn more about the history of Palm Springs and the architects that created this architectural mecca. The Paul Kaplan Group specializes in unique properties and real estate by notable architects.
Next on the list of the Palm Springs Historic Site Preservation Board Historic Sites is The Cornelia White House.
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Check out the Fall (October) edition of The OPLIN Circuit.
- OPLIN Stakeholders meeting
- Ohio Means Jobs website details
- Ohio Web Library online survey
- Scheduled E-Rate workshops
- Ohio Digitization Hubs project
The 2014 OPLIN report to our stakeholders (public libraries) will take place at the OLC Convention and Expo on Wednesday, October 8 at 1:15. Everyone is welcome to attend! This meeting will be both an annual report to Ohio public librarians and an opportunity for librarians to influence the future direction of OPLIN. Staff will review what has happened over the past year and report on some federal and state initiatives that have affected both the OPLIN network connections and the Ohio Web Library collection.
As you may know, E-rate is undergoing significant changes this year, so OPLIN, the State Library, the regional library systems and OLC have worked together to make a significantly increased number of E-rate workshops available. All workshops are free of charge.


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If you live in the Lewis-Clark Valley, don’t miss these local events!
November 30th: Small Business Saturday
918 6th Street, Clarkston, Washington
I will be on hand Saturday afternoon to talk with you about Arrow: The History and People of an Idaho Community and celebrate local authors.
December 4th: Tragedies and Oddities from the River’s Edge Presentation and Book Signing
The Juliaetta Community Library
205 Main Street, Juliaetta, Idaho
From 5:00-5:30 p.m. I will present a short overview of Arrow’s history and a few of her wilder stories. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
December 13: Book Signing
His Story Christian Gift Center,
1702 21st St, Lewiston, ID
Local author Glo Richards and I will be available to sign copies of our books from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. I’m also delighted to offer a new, brighter edition of my devotional Out from the Shadows: 31 Devotions for the Weary Caregiver and my original book, Song in the Night.
Image courtesy Grace Thorson