As a pregnant lady, you may be interested in getting some good books. I mean, the internet just doesn’t cut it. And as I said, a lot of those sites end up with a bunch of scary comments about miscarriages and illness. I have known of pregnant ladies who stay away from reading any books or sites, but as you might have guessed, I’m not really that type of person. In fact, I highly recommend reading a good selection of books — but you don’t need to go overboard.
You’ll need …
A great reference book. I totally do NOT recommend What to Expect When You’re Expecting. It’s not written by doctors, and it just kinda tells moms to avoid every little thing possible. It’s information light, and condescension heavy. Instead, I highly recommend the Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy. This book is a true treasure — if you only buy ONE book for your pregnancy, this is really the one you need. It is divided into three sections — pregnancy, childbirth, and your newborn. It’s written by health care professionals, and has a non-conversational this-is-what-you-need-to-know kind of tone. It provides information on every option for pregnancy and labor, has charts for when you should call the doctor according to the week of pregnancy, and it tells you what to do with your newborn once you get it home. It’s well organized, well laid out, has lots of great information, and it will help you chill out when you perceive a potential problem.
For natural birth planners, you’ll need: Your Best Birth by Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein. Ricki Lake — she’s at her least ridiculous in this book — and Abby Epstein are the minds behind the eye-opening documentary, The Business of Being Born (available on Netflix instant). (I recommend this for natural birthers as well.) This is the companion book, which details why pregnancy and childbirth are treated differently in the U.S. than in other countries, and it tells American mothers about all of their options when it comes to their own births. Ricki and Abby both tell their own birth stories in Your Best Birth, all of which are vastly different experiences (hospital birth with an epidural, home birth with no medication, and an emergency c-section). The best part about this book to me was the lists of questions to ask your doctor, midwife, hospital, and doula. They also go over how to write a birth plan and the things you may want to include. A quick, easy, fun and thoroughly informative read!
For the natural birth planner, you’ll also want to read … Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth. I’ve already written a full review of this fabulous classic, and yeah, I still think it’s pretty much the best thing ever. Ina May Gaskin is a total badass — a rogue, self-trained midwife who started her own birthing center at a commune in Tennessee. This book is her guide, her philosophy, and her experience. The best thing? The first third of the book is written by her patients, giving glimpses of their positive, natural birth experiences. Then, Ina May details all of the different ways and methods to cope with labor — particularly the more difficult labors. She is unflappably calm and amazingly creative, and gives you a lot of ideas to hold in your personal labor arsenal. For example, if you open your mouth during pushing, you’re less likely to tear. If you’re muscles are tight, and someone rocks you back and forth, you’re more likely to relax and have it easier. And you get to read Ina May’s amazing statistics for her commune birthing center at the end. Also, it’s well written and has a good sense of humor!
For coping with labor pain in a natural way, check out: Birthing from Within by Pam England and Rob Horowitz and Hypnobirthing by Marie Mongan. Both of these books are designed around a “method” to deal with labor, so you may want to choose one ore the other. However, I think checking out a little of both is important because it gives you a chance to gather more tools for your labor arsenal. Birthing from Within does have some wacky stuff about creating birth art to express your fear, which I’m not really into, but some people might find cool. What I really liked about Birthing from Within is the varied methods of coping with pain and the suggestions for how to cope with post-partum stress. Hypnobirthing has a lot about the history of childbirth, and it explains the self-hypnosis methods for dealing with labor. It has a great deal of wonderful information about pregnancy, and it explains meditation you can practice and use during childbirth. Also very well written and engaging. Highly recommended!
Breastfeeders will need … A good breastfeeding book. The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding By La Leche League International comes highly recommended. It’s the one I have, and there’s a ton of great information in it … but … it gets a bit preachy. If you are someone who knows you’ll get cranky at super preachy breastfeeding dogma (i.e. “There’s no such thing as not producing enough milk. If you’re not producing enough milk, there’s something wrong with you.”), then don’t get this one. I haven’t checked any other ones, but The Nursing Mother’s Companion comes highly recommended as well, and I would definitely give Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding a good try since Ina May pretty much rules.
Everyone needs … Baby Bargains! As you know, I totally support Baby Bargains. The authors claim they’ll save you lots of dough when buying your baby gear, but I’m not sure if that’s the main benefit of this tome. The main benefit? I found out about everything available on the market, got familiar with brands, and got good ideas for what I needed and didn’t need. From this book, I got the crib recommendation that led me to choose Westwood, the idea to purchase the Arm’s Reach Mini Co-Sleeper, and the suggestions as to what brands to include on my registry. That said, the authors, Denise and Alan Fields, are parents and not consumer reports experts. It’s also good to get opinions from other sources — I choose friends and family, and Amazon reviews!
And if you’re interested in a book for your partner … Get The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin. This is the to-go reference for the person in your life who will be supporting you through labor — significant other, friend, mom and dad … etc. This has all the information that that person can tell you throughout your pregnancy — exercises, health, nutrition, and all the stuff they can tell you about labor while you’re in it — medical interventions, options, and positions, and what you can expect after the birth — how to identify postpartum depression, how you can be supported in breastfeeding, and how to clean your baby. It’s good for that person in your life to have all the info. As much as you can cram in your brain, you won’t remember all of it, and it’s good to have someone there to remind you and make sure you’ve got what you need.
I’ll have another addition after Sam is born — the best books for having a baby!
What is the first book that every pregnant woman in America reads? That’s right. They read What to Expect When You’re Expecting. This is the very first book I picked up. I actually downloaded it onto my husband’s Kindle the very day I found out I was in a family way. I had always thought it was the go-to pregnancy guide, the one you see in the movies, the one that you can always consult when you have a question, an infallible authority on all things pregnant.
I did consume the whole thing in one day. I was at my husband’s family’s house, scared to tell anyone about the pregnancy because it was so early on. As I read more and more of What to Expect When You’re Expecting, instead of becoming more informed, I became more and more alarmed. I read that I should not be using whitening toothpaste, nor should I use face wash with salicylic acid. There’s a whole section on all the things that can go wrong, entitled “The Complicated Pregnancy.” This nearly did me in. I’m a worrier anyway, and these “helpful” pieces of information put nightmares into my sensitive brain. Phew.
Why did I introduce my review of Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth with a review of a totally different book? Well, to me, they seem polar opposites. Of course, the two books have different goals. What to Expect When You’re Expecting is a general guide, and Ina May speaks of labor and delivery only. To me, though, the feelings that I got from each of these books are completely opposite. With What to Expect When You’re Expecting, I felt overwhelmed and frightened; Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth made me feel positive, enlightened, and empowered.
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth is unique in the world of books for pregnant ladies. First of all, Ina May Gaskin, the author, is a midwife with over thirty years of experience, who birthed on “the Farm,” a commune in Tennessee, starting during the late 1960′s. In other words, she’s a total badass. She’s informed and educated in ways that most doctors are not — she has attended all of her own births, developed her own philosophy of post-partum care, and will try a multitude of techniques with her patients in order to make their labors comfortable and their babies healthy. She’s also a damn fine writer. She lets her delightful sense of humor flow through her anecdotes and advice, and you can feel her personality coming off the page. For an English major dork like myself, Ina May Gaskin’s writing is a welcome breath of fresh air.
Ms. Gaskin’s book also has another unusual aspect to it: her entire first section is filled with the diverse voices of the women whose babies she has birthed. This section takes up about a half of the book — what other author would give such a large portion of her book over to the writing of others? The birth stories, written by patients of the Farm, are overwhelmingly positive. Though all the stories are positive, they are also all real. There are stories of women who have had c-sections and chose to birth vaginally. Others recount breech births, painful labors, stalled progress … all of the things that can happen and end up concerning some women (and their doctors) so much. The overarching theme is still one of female power, health, and ability. All of these women give birth naturally, attended by the midwives of the Farm.
I used this part of the book as my daily dose of positivity. All of theses stories also contained valuable information on the most interesting, exciting, and feared part of pregnancy: birth. Gaskin then moves on to write about all of the technicalities of labor and delivery, writing about all of the options available to a woman, as well as pain coping techniques backed by fascinating anecdotes of births on the Farm.
Ms. Gaskin does spend some good time throwing stones at the modern pain-coping techniques and perhaps unnecessary testing. However, she also carefully explains each one so that parents reading her book can make informed decisions. I will say that, unlike other books touting natural childbirth, the Guide to Childbirth does not push faulty information on how “harmful” ultrasounds are. Gaskin does include her opinion that ultrasounds are not necessary, but that’s as far as she goes. (It’s a total pet peeve of mine when I read statistically unsound information about how harmful this routine procedure is. Again, I don’t like alarmist crap.)
I know that I will go back to this book time and time again. I will likely re-read parts of it closer to my due date, for the pain-coping techniques, as well as the incredibly positive and uplifting stories of childbirth. I would absolutely recommend this book to any expecting mother, whether or not she’s going for a natural childbirth. I give it a solid A on the Savvy Mom scale of approval.
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“Be”- There are currently six hip hop “recordings/albums” in the Library Of Congress, with Jay-Z’s “Blueprint” this year, to be the seventh. Its surprisingly that “Be” is not one of the first six added to the list. Be is just a classic all around album. Classic in 2005 and still classic now. Not too many tracks, no fillers, no stupid unneeded skits, not overly produced and not flooded with guests. If Be was released today it would still be called a classic. This one should be added to the library soon.
“Illmatic”- Not much needs to be said about this album. Many rap fans consider this album to be utter perfection. An intro, 8 cuts with one guest apperance. The guest appearance was perfection, the intro was perfection, and each of the 8 cuts were perfection. For those that don’t consider this the perfect album, its the absolute closest of any rap album ever released. It deserves to be in the Library Of Congress for sure.
“Reasonable Doubt”- We love the fact that the Library Of Congress acknowledges that “Blueprint” is a worth of an induction. In fact, the news that “Blueprint” was chosen inspired this blogpost. As much as we love Blueprint though, we feel that “Reasonable Doubt” slightly edges out as the superior album. If the Library Of Congress was to add to this to their catalog in the near future, it would make Jay-Z the only rap artist with two recordings in their catalog. Another win for HOV.
“Ready To Die”- “Ready To Die” shouldn’t be left of any rap list. It deserves to be on hip-hop’s Mount Rushmore, it deserves to be in top rap albums of the 1990s and in the top rap albums of all time. It deserves to be on the top list of albums all time regardless of genre. To us honestly, “Ready To Die” is our favorite album of all time. Biggie happens to be our favorite rapper of all time, so “Ready to Die” gets the number 1 spot EASILY. If you think Nas is the goat and “Illmatic” is the goat album, we don’t think anything negative about that. If you feel 2Pac is the goat and “All Eyez On Me” is the goat album, we won’t argue with you. Those albums all timeless classics and are way up on our list as well. We just feel that Biggie was the greatest to ever touch a mic, and because of that, his music deserves to be in the Library Of Congress along with Tony Bennett, Metallica, and U2.
“The Chronic”- The Chronic sets the scene for all-things-rap after 1992. The Chronic is the start of EVERYTHING. Rap should be B.C. (Before The Chronic) and A.C. (After The Chronic). The Chronic launched Death Row Records. The Chronic launched Suge Knight’s career. The chronic launched the careers of Dr. Dre and at the time a young skinny rapper named Snoop. “Doggystyle” was a huge success because the “Chronic” was a huge success first. The Chronic inspired east coast rappers to step up their game commercially. The Chronic inspired Biggie and Puffy to create “Ready To Die”. 2Pac eventually joins Death Row Records because they are the most successful music label in the world. It all starts with “The Chronic” and the Library Of Congress should consider that fact.


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On November 20, 1994, at a joint session of the members of the organization, Nanuli Shevardnadze was elected President. She is an Honored Journalist of Georgia and had been working on the staff of the journal “Sakartvelos Qali” (Women of Georgia) for more that three decades. She is the founder and editor- in- chief of the newspaper “Peace to All” and she is an elected member of the Presidium and Committee “Motherhood and Childhood” of the Mutual Assistance Foundation of the International Academy of Information.
Through the recommendation of the Foundation Nanuli Shevardnadze’s biography was entered into the World Encyclopedia under the “Elite” index – “The Golden Fund of Charity”. For her active participation in the campaign aimed at the eradication of poliomyelitis and for her personal contribution to the vaccination process she was awarded the “Minor Golden Medal” and Honorary Certificate by the World Health Care Organization. She is also the holder of the “Great Golden Medal” for her contribution to improving the health care system. For her long and productive activities in the field of journalism, the Journalists’ Federation of Georgia awarded Nanuli Shevardnadze the Niko Nikoladze Premium, and the “Saqartvelos Respublika” (the Republic of Georgia) newspaper gave her the medal – “Golden Bird” and named her the Laureate in the nomination – For Kindness and Humanism. She is also a member of the “Order of Saint Anne” of the All-Ukrainian International Rating for Popularity and Quality – “Golden Fortune”. On November 20, 1994, at a joint session of the members of the organization, Nanuli Shevardnadze was elected President. She is an Honored Journalist of Georgia and had been working on the staff of the journal “Sakartvelos Qali” (Women


About a week ago I finished reading The Art of Learning, by Josh Waitzkin. What a fantastic book! This book is a must read for anyone. Especially the ambitious.
Just as a little background, the author, Waitzkin was a multiple-time national chess champion and competed in multiple world championships. He was subject of the novel and movie: Searching for Bobby Fischer and had been a seemingly natural chess wizard since the age of nine.
Searching for Bobby Fischer was released around the time Waitzkin was 16. The publicity hurt his game and his love for chess.
A few years later, Waitzkin found a new love: Push Hands Tai Chi. Incorporating his learning style into his new art, Waitzkin quickly rose to become a world champion in two different kinds of Push Hands competitions.
Based on this background (basically a brief summary of the introduction), Josh’s experiences have proven that he has mastered how to learn. He shares his techniques with the reader and are quite inspiring.
These techniques are applicable to any trade, with business and entrepreneurship as no exception. Reading this book with an entrepreneurial lens has revealed to me many new techniques in approaching business as a concept, science and art.
An underlying theme to this book is that in order to remain competitive, we must constantly improve. We have to search, study, research and learn new ways to perform in our trade.
Business is probably the best example of a trade where we must constantly improve so we can not only compete, but survive in an ever increasing competitive environment.
Josh presents clear and well articulated methods for how to learn, improve and learn some more. His tactics for optimizing performance, concentration and recovery time are awe inspiring.
I would be doing a grave injustice to this wonderful book if I attempted to summarize his techniques here, so I urge you to read the book yourself. I promise you won’t be disappointed.


At Pinkwell Primary School, we believe reading underpins all aspects of learning. Studies show that reading for pleasure makes a big difference to children’s educational performance. Evidence suggests that children who read for enjoyment every day not only perform better in reading tests than those who don’t, but also develop a broader vocabulary, increased general knowledge and a better understanding of other cultures. In fact, reading for pleasure is more likely to determine whether a child does well at school than their social or economic background.
We encourage a love of reading in a number of different ways:
Every child from Year 1 upwards takes part in guided reading activities in class in our daily Guided Reading session each morning. Children work in groups to read and understand texts appropriate for their reading ability. Regular reading and discussion of the text read are vital in developing children’s decoding, reading and comprehension skills.
Each class has a different class reader each term. This book can be used for both shared and guided reading. The books are rotated each term so that every class in a year group gets to enjoy every book. Teachers have chosen the books based on what they know the children enjoy, as well as their knowledge of authors and high quality writing.
Every child is expected to read to an adult at home for at least 15 minutes every day using their banded home reading book from school. You should try to ask your child questions about what they are reading to develop their reading and comprehension skills. Children’s home reading records will be checked daily by their class LSA and their banded books changed if necessary.


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‘Waterstreet’ is a feature length documentary exploring the history and evolution of Australian culture and identity, through the rise and fall of one of Australia’s most prominent legal figures, Charles Waterstreet.
Five years in the making, the documentary captures in often shockingly intimate and confronting detail, Waterstreet’s decline from his place as one of Australia's most recognisable, celebrated and successful criminal barristers, precipitated by allegations of improper conduct, bankruptcy and the inevitable toll of a life lived to excess - and without consequence.
Through the exploration of Waterstreet's life and meteoric rise to prominence, the film also examines and investigates the systems, structures and characteristics that make up our unique Australian history and the fast-changing social and political climate of recent years, with the intention of examining who we are, where came from and where we are going.
Waterstreet's journey begins as the eldest child of a staunchly Catholic family growing up in post-war regional Australia in the 1950s.
A family of publicans, the young Waterstreet would spend his formative years surrounded by misfits, drunks and outcasts, bearing the lifelong scars of an absent and fiercely alcoholic mother at a time where ‘mental health’ was a phrase confined to the halls of overcrowded sanatoriums.
Blessed with a natural intellect, wit and charm that would propel his eventual pilgrimage to Sydney, he quickly became one of Australia’s rising legal stars and part of the ‘bourgeoise bohemian brethren’ of artists, entertainers and intellectuals that were considered the custodians of art and culture in the 70s and 80s.
‘At the height of his professional career, Waterstreet battled addiction in all its forms - alcohol, drugs, sex and any vice that he could lay his hands on, all the while fighting and often winning the unwinnable cases that captured the nation’s attention, cementing his reputation as a resourceful ‘Larrikin of Law’.
It was a fast-living heady life of sex, drugs and excess that culminated in his immortalisation as the inspiration for the fictional barrister Cleaver Green, on ABC TVs, ‘Rake’.
Further notoriety would follow when his portrait won the coveted Archibald Prize.
But success would be short-lived, as allegations of improper conduct resulted in him being tried and convicted in the court of public opinion, swept up in the scrutiny of the newly-mobilised #metoo movement which would prove to be the beginning of his professional downfall.
A high-profile bankruptcy, unwanted publicity and shame soon followed.
Suddenly, a life lived on the edge would come crashing down around him leaving him broke, unemployed, estranged from his friends and family, his future and very survival, uncertain.
The documentary itself comprises of raw, intimate and often confronting material, including uncensored interviews with Waterstreet himself, complemented by musings by the heavy-hitters of both the legal, social and entertainment circles that enrich his story and personify this specific perspective in Australian psyche.
These interviews are accompanied by unique and captivating archival footage and observational, fly-on-the-wall style vignettes that capture the absurd and often shocking moments of a life in decline.
After five years of self-funded development, Canvas Film are seeking to crowd fund $50,000 toward completing a rough cut of the Waterstreet Documentary.
The rough cut will allow Canvas Film to screen the documentary to distributors and for submission to film festivals.
All donations are 100% tax-deductible and will be used towards the completion of the film.
Donations can me made through The Documentary Australia Foundation project page.


The Baikonur Cosmodrome exhibition opened at the Baikonur station.
The Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan on October 19-21, 2022 in the city of Almaty will be organized the I International Congress of Archivists "To Open Society - Open Archive".
On September 22, in the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, there was a meeting with the Representative of the UN Department of Global Communications and the Head of the UN Information Office in Kazakhstan, Vlastimil Samek.
September 20 will be the XI International Scientific Historical Conference “History. Memory. People"
The Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan is a recruiting archive, operates with organizations-sources of acquisition in Astana and Almaty. The Archive stores the documents of the country's political history, starting from 1918. It fulfills social, legal and thematic requests of individuals and legal entities (state service "Issuance of archival references"), provides access to their funds through the reading room (work with researchers).
Information system with information about the composition of the Archive funds (remote work is possible after registration)
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Information about the procedure for individuals and legal entities to apply for the issuance of archival certificates (application form. Required document. Term of execution)
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TIFF: “Carry It On” is a tribute to the life of Canadian-American Indigenous singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie | India is blooming
The life, music and activism of Canadian-American singer-songwriter Sainte-Marie has broken down barriers to become an inspiration to fans and fellow musicians. Now, a documentary premiering at TIFF captures it all.
Directed by Madison Thomas and starred onscreen by Madison Thomas and legendary Indigenous singer-songwriter Andrea Warner, Buffy Sainte-Marie’s documentary “Carry It On” had its world premiere at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival ( TIFF) depicting Sainte-Marie’s life, music and activism breaking down barriers to become an inspiration to fans and fellow musicians.
Directed by Lisa Meeches and Stephen Paniccia in Canada in 2022 from production companies Eagle Vision and White Pine Pictures, and edited by Brina Romanek, the documentary is an inspiring biography of Sainte-Marie, as well as a testimony to the tribute paid to the life and career of Sainte-Marie.
She was the first Indigenous person to win an Oscar in 1983 for Best Original Song “Up Where We Belong” which was co-written by her and featured in An Officer and a Gentleman). Additionally, she was also the first recurring Native guest star on Sesame Street.
Being more than just a singer, Sainte-Marie’s integrity and insistence on tackling topics that others were reluctant to earn her great respect.
When she appeared on the television show The Virginian in 1968, she asked producers to hire native actors. She remains one of the few pop artists to refuse to have her rights bought out by Elvis.
For this reason, she was targeted. Angered by his activism, the FBI demanded that radio stations refuse to play his records in an attempt to derail his career.
With her art and activism deeply intertwined, Sainte-Marie is also withdrawn and said she really shouldn’t be the only Native North American to win the Oscar so far.
The documentary features Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joni Mitchell, Robbie Robertson, John Kay, Jackson Browne, Taj Mahal, Sonia Manzano, George Stroumboulopoulos, Jeremy Dutcher, and filmed by Gabriel Levesque, Andy Hourahine and Jon Elliott.
The film is publicized by V Kelly & Associates and distributed by White Pine Pictures of Canada.
Winnipeg-born filmmaker Madison Thomas was nominated for a 2018 Canadian Screen Award for her work on the award-winning series Taken. Its features include Ruthless Souls (19). Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On (22) is her last film.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)
Image: Carry It On by Buffy Sainte-Marie. Image credit: TIFF


The day Collette was born, was a rainy day. The young girl always knew that because her mother would always repeat it. Rain, she would quote that rain only helped common people, that rain wasn't for someone of their stature. Collect knew from a young age that the standard for her being was higher than everyone else's for her. She was a priest's daughter, in a family with a member of the clergy. She was supposed to be proper, obedient, and pure. She grew to understand that being quiet was better, but a part of her was too loud to be ignored. Her family would speak about her like she was possessed, strange and demonic. They have tried so many memes to fix her, ones that left bruises and whelps. So she learned that the special moments she had, where animals seemed to be especially curious of her, where she seemed to be doing things that she saw no one else being able to do, were her secret moments.And so when she went out, when her mother was busy and her father was away, she was able to practice those special things to make them less surprising and more expected. When 16 winter cycles had passed since her birth, she stumbled upon a small house, practically a shack, in the woods. Inside was nothing mostly, no food or blankets or anything of value, but she could feel that there was something important here. Before she left, she was holding a book.That book would help her learn twice as much, twice as fast as anything she could do on her own. She learned many things, all set spells and runes and potions all written in fancy lettering on an old parchment. With more knowledge came this pool to continue and continue and continue. All of the secret castings and paranoia seem to leave her mind when she was training her skills. Because it had been fortnights since her father had spoken against her, all of the bruises in the pain were gone, only silence as they ignored her existence.So she relaxed, decided not to go out to study the book and its unique wordings, no when they were gone she decided that she would practice in their home with the fire from her candle, and her own flame of Discovery in her heart. That would be her downfall, the thing that changed her life of quiet into a life of running.For her father was not supposed to come home, and he was not supposed to see the flames dancing by her touch, she was not supposed to show him the happy smile she got when she was able to do something that she never knew she could do. That day her magic went dark, she needed a notebook and no time to show her the spell she cast.Shoving her hands out in front of her, throwing a hand out, trying to catch anything to stop him. She didn't realize what she was doing until after it was done, watching us as her father looked more and more broken and not knowing how to stop her power from leaking out.She wonders when her father died, during or after the magic had finally stopped breaking out of her. And when her mother came in, and saw it, she wondered if it hurt when the magic picked up on our anxiety and made her an orphan.After 18 and 1/2 winter cycles, made her way outside of her home, nothing but the grimoire she had found in the woods with her, and blood still soaking her clothes for my parents, as blood dripped down her nose from the magic taking too much.
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2 edition of An Annotated bibliography of CED resources found in the catalog.
An Annotated bibliography of CED resources
Westcoast Development Group (Vancouver, B.C.)
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Annotated Bibliography on Human Resource Development. Abston, K. A., & Stout, V. J. (). Organizational effectiveness: Exploring what it means in human resource development. Online submission. Paper presented at the Academy of Human Resource Development International Conference (AHRD), Columbus, OH, Feb 22–26, Writing an Annotated Bibliography An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents used for researching a topic. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.
How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography (from Olin Library Reference, Cornell University Library). Cremmins, Edward T. The Art of Abstracting. 2nd ed. Arlington, Va: Information Resources Press, American Psychological Association. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 6th ed. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, Author: Brenda Ellis. Resources for a Literature Review or an Annotated Bibliography Annotated bibliographies and literature reviews are very common forms of writing. The intent of each is to assist you, as the researcher, in gathering resources, identifying trends and problems in the research field, and analyzing those resources to assist your own research.
The following reading provides a good overview of annotated bibliographies: Annotated Bibliographies. The Annotated Bibliography in CRIT The purpose of your annotated bibliography will be to provide related resources to others with the same critical inquiry question that you are : Liz Gauffreau. Developing the Library Collection: A Workbook of Policies and Resources is intended to assist the reader with developing policies and forms as well as offering resources for collection development in any Catholic library. Included in the workbook are sample policies and forms and a bibliography of resources.
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An Annotated Bibliography of Africentric Resources. Mary A. Love, Compiler. In Cooperation with The Committee on Black Congregational Ministries. Education and Leadership Ministries Commission. National Council on the Churches of Christ in the United States of.
Book 4: C.S. Lewis-An Annotated Bibliography and Resource From the Back Cover This bibliography and resource consists of a chronological introduction to the development of Lewis's works, a copious bibliography and a guide to the study of Lewis, an introductory essay on Christology in Lewis, and a glossary for those unfamiliar with some of the Author: P.
Brazier. Annotated bibliographies are aggregated lists of resources that correlate with a research topic. Students and An Annotated bibliography of CED resources book actively seek out exceptional resources about a specific research topic and develop of list of the best resources they’ve found.
An annotated bibliography is a bibliography where references are given annotations or notes. There are generally four types of annotations - Descriptive annotations that describe the work; Summary annotations that provide a summary of the key points of a particular work; Critical annotations which evaluate where the work fits or doesn't fit within your research topicAuthor: Karen McNally.
Introduction to Resources for Rare Books: An Annotated Bibliography This LibGuide presents select reference resources for various fields of study in the history of the book. The selected resources are relevant to researching both the subject as a whole, as well as specific holdings within the Department of Special : Gabriel Swift.
Provenance Research in Book History: A Handbook. The British Library studies in the history of the book. London: British Library, The standard introduction to the field of provenance research.
Supersedes Pearson's self-published Provenance Indexes for Early Printed Books and Manuscripts: A Guide to Present Resources. (Pearson, ).Author: Gabriel Swift. An Annotated Bibliography can include any type of resource unless otherwise specified by the assignment.
This can include (but is not limited to): Scholarly materials; Interviews; Government documents; Websites; Books; Media; Annotated Bibliographies can be a great resource for students before they write other types of assignments, like literature : Luann Edwards. Annotated bibliography definition: An annotated bibliography is a comprehensive listing of sources related to a specific topic or area of study.
Annotated bibliographies provide: Evidence of your ability to locate, analyze, and compile a list of high-quality resources associated with a topic/5(18). An MLA annotated bibliography and an APA format annotated bibliography are bibliographies that include a concise explanation, or annotation, of each listed source.
Depending on the assignment, this annotation may be solely descriptive, or analytical/5(). Consider the purpose of your annotated bibliography and/or your instructor’s directions when deciding how much information to include in your annotations.
Please keep in mind that all your text, including the write-up beneath the citation, must be indented so that the author's last name is. An annotated bibliography is a descriptive list of resources (books, articles, films, sound recordings, Web sites, etc.) focusing on a common theme.
Each entry in an annotated bibliography has a full citation and an annotation ranging from a few sentences to several paragraphs. An annotated bibliography is a list of the sources (e.g. books, journal articles, etc.) that you used to research a topic in preparation for writing a term paper.
An annotated bibliography is an expanded version of a regular bibliography —those lists of sources you find at the end of a research paper or book. The difference is that an annotated bibliography contains an added feature: a paragraph or annotation under each bibliographical : Grace Fleming.
Below is a detailed, annotated bibliography of a variety of children's literature. This is a great resource library of useful materials for education. Picture Books: Picture books should have illustrations that go along with the words of the story. You should be able to understand the general idea and plot of the story by the illustrations alone.
This book provides an annotated bibliography of sources concerning instructional patterns for research libraries. Written for an academic audience, the author provides information on how such a bibliography can be used.
Although it does not provide information on how to compile an annotated bibliography, the book proves a good source for Size: 28KB. African Methodist Episcopal Church Christian Education Department.
P.O. Box Nashville, TN Phone: Fax: E-mail: [email protected] Choose your sources Before writing your annotated bibliography, you must choose your sources. This involves doing research much like for any other project. Locate records to materials that may apply to your topic.
Review the items Then review the actual items and choose those that provide a wide variety of perspectives on your topic. Article abstracts are helpful in this process. Annotated bibliography is used to maintain an account of all the books and the concise description of the books.
This layout gives an overall idea of all the books and the zest of the books available. This is a tough process as a lot of research has to be done on the books to write a brief about them. Annotated Bibliography Criteria: 1.
Picture Books: Picture books should be colorful and catch the reader’s is important for the pictures to follow the story in a.
A bibliography is an organized list of sources (books, journal articles, web sources, etc.) formatted in a particular citation style (such as MLA, APA, or Chicago).
An annotation is a descriptive paragraph. So, an annotated bibliography is a bibliography that contains a descriptive paragraph about each of the sources listed in the : Amy Gilbert. Bullying: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature and Resources [Skinner, Alison] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
Bullying: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature and ResourcesAuthor: Alison Skinner. An an n otated bibliography is the full APA Reference of a source followed by notes and commentary about a so urce. T he word “annotate” means “critical or explanatory notes” and the word “bibliography” means “a list of sources”.
Annotation s are meant to be critical in Author: Suzanne Schriefer.An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation.
The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.


In one of the saddest episodes of the brief history of the United States, men, women and children were taken from their ancestral land and homes, herded into makeshift shelters with very few facilities and little food, and then forced to march a thousand miles to a land they had never seen, a land that was as desolate compared to their former home as the Sahara would seem to many of us.
Some four thousand men woman and children died on this journey.
The route they traveled as well as the journey itself became known as "The Trail of Tears" or, as a direct translation from Cherokee would be, "The Trail Where They Cried" "Nunna daul Tsuny".
Many years ago an old man who has long since passed related this story to me.
His grandfather, as a boy, befriended an old Cherokee Indian chief who had been among the few Cherokee that had hidden in the Smokey Mountains of east Tennessee and not been taken to Oklahoma. This friendship between the old Indian Chief, whose name has since been long lost to history, and the young man grew into a strong bond.
Near the end of his life the chief visited his friend and asked him to come with him on a journey, a journey that would be the chief's last, as it was soon time for his spirit to join his ancestors with the Great Spirit in their Sky House.
This troubled the young man but he accompanied the old Indian and they traveled west for some time. Eventually they arrived at a rocky peak somewhere on the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee. Standing here, looking out over the rolling hills of middle Tennessee the old Indian told his friend a short story.
The white man had discovered gold in northern Georgia in 1828, and by 1829 had begun to mine it. The only problem was the Cherokee people who owned the land in that area, and the state of Georgia began to plan for their forced removal. This led to the United States passing the Indian Removal act in 1830 and president Andrew Jackson quickly signed it into law. These events led directly to the Trail of Tears.
Upon learning that thousands of innocent people died for man's lust for gold the young man felt great remorse for his forefather's actions, even though he himself had not had a hand in it.
As he stood there feeling sad inside he noticed the old Indian had a smile on his face.
He asked the old man why, after such a sad story, was he smiling?
The old man walked to the edge of the cliff and stretched out his arms and said; "I am smiling because of what the white man doesn't know and what he will never know. If only the white man had been our friend he could have learned the secrets we have known since before our ancestors came to these mountains."
"What secrets?" The young man asked.
The old Indian chief just smiled even more and stood silently looking into the distance. Finally he turned and said, "I can never tell you, all who know the secret except myself have went to their ancestors, and I have vowed to take the secret with me when I go, but I can tell you this much. If only the white man knew what the Cherokee have always known he could now be shoeing his horses and mules with gold." With this stunning revelation the old Indian chief turned and walked from the mountaintop and would never speak of it again. Soon after returning home he died, and as promised, took the secret to his ancestors.
©2003 Dave Cole


Turkish Tapestry, A Travellers Portrait of Turkey
One wonders if these stone monuments still stand in splendid isolation in the virtually featureless landscape. This book is a homage to the work of Haynes in 2 ways. Most of his photos were scattered even in his lifetime, either languishing in institutions, unnamed, unsigned, or claimed and used by others, without any credit given to him. By a series of circumstances Haynes, despite his lack of training in archaeology or for leading a dig, found himself responsible for an excavation in Nippur, present day southern Iraq, on behalf of the 'Babylon Exploration Fund', that lasted for four seasons.
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In the final season of digging , virtually unsupported by any assistants, Haynes hit a major lode of tablets of which 23, were extracted. However like his photos, this glory was short-lived as others quickly dismissed or denigrated Hayne's efforts. Cornucopia magazine subscription offer for ATS members. So when I noticed a sign by a river in western Turkey a few years back, I was immediately taken with the idea of travelling it.
They were perplexed; there is little by way of travelling tradition on the Meander. People cross it by bridge as they once crossed it by cable-ferry, and they fish in it, but there are very few boatsmen. So it was a surprise to discover a foreigner in a red canoe trying to make his way down this river. I covered the entire river either by canoe or on foot; I only abandoned the canoe when I was obliged to do so, either on account of dangerously fast-flowing gorge sections around the town of Cal on for much of the lower plain on account of there being insufficient water.
Do you however think progress in modern Turkey has somewhat bypassed these market towns along the river?
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These towns do have a backwater quality in that they remain agricultural centres rather than industrial or service-oriented ones. Nor are they much visited by tourists. There is a palpable sense that modern Turkey is focussed elsewhere. Can you tell us more about your first exposure to the country and your experiences then?
I first visited Turkey in as a teacher of English. I was 22 and impressionable; the impression Turkey then made has stayed me with until now. Do you think this quintessentially Ottoman-Turkish hat, that was banned to the pain of death in , is a good guide to understand the republican revolution that brought secularism and modernity to the country, and were you happy with the way the idea of the book evolved through your travels to the places associated with this transformation?
I think the fez is an excellent entry point for foreigners trying to engage with something of the cultural strains and stresses that Turkey is subject to. The river, as I show in the book, is in large part a mess. So I certainly worry for the future health of this once-lovely river. Do you think here in the West we are still a million miles from understanding things we think we know, such as Santa Claus?
What was the most remarkable discovery for you during the research for this book? That a Turkish hospitality was abundantly confirmed in the fact that many local people put me up for the night, fed me, bought me tea or offered me company or directions and b that I did not once run into a bureaucratic blockage. Generally, what I love about Turkey is that there is so much to learn. This is an infinitely complex and rewarding country, with the capacity to keep students of its life and culture busy for ever.
Do you sometimes have to consciously stop yourself from veering too deep in your meanderings for the sake of the flow of the narrative? Wonderful and moving place. I think that Gaziantep is fabulous; great food, wonderful old quarters and excellent heritage accommodation of the sort that, hopefully, may begin to proliferate across the interior. Should morality enter the decision making process of a writer?
And while there has been a marked downside in areas where tourism has been applied on an industrial scale, not least in terms of landscape ruination, I do not think this is primarily the fault of the tourism writer.
Do you think you were a bit unfair on the hoteliers of this out-of-the-way town? I have to be in the business of telling it as I see it even if that means occasional insults. A dangerous time, no doubt, but one which showed the immense adaptability of the local people.
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Some of my books are published in other languages. Suffice to say it has a strong historical bent and is set in the relatively recent past. Philip Mansel recently provided Levant, John Murray a broad-brush account of the nabob dynasties of Ottoman Turkey. The Whittall clan, the most prominent and prosperous of the British merchant princes, is of great interest. So a memoir by one of their number is particularly welcome. What it lacks in coherence as biography is made up for by the real charm of its intimate style. The years before World War I were the heyday of the expatriate communities trading in Constantinople and Smyrna.
He grew up virtually trilingual: Greek and French, the lingua franca of expatriate society, as well as English; thanks to a German governess, there was a fourth language; and, although contact with Turks, while wider than usual for the Levantine trading community, was not very close, Turkish was a fifth and Italian a sixth. His memories of a somewhat gilded childhood, in the first hundred pages of this book, provide the intimate detail which the conventional histories lack. In , he left Turkey at the age of eight.
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Inevitably, there is little detail on adult Whittall life in Istanbul. The last two-thirds of the book are a memoir of a student in England and a North London GP, devoted to the welfare of his patients. With a gift for conversation with whomever he met and a passion for wild flowers, Geoffrey got what he could from four somewhat humdrum years as an Army medic in World War II. This book is a straight piece of historical non-fiction, a crucial early turning point of the relations between England and the Ottoman Empire.
The author has painstakingly translated the old English text to modern prose, making it an effortless pleasurable read despite the fact some crucial pages of the original manuscript are missing. The original author was Thomas Dallam, a 24 year old organ builder who accompanied his highly embellished piece that was also a clock. This was a gift to the Ottoman Sultan and in Thomas Dallam accompanied this organ in its eventful voyage from London to Constantinople.
The diary starts in February just before the departure of the powerfully armed ship, necessary in those days of constant warfare with Spain and its satellite, Flanders and Thomas Dallam listing purchases and baggage that included a little harpsichord. The diary is illuminating on a number of levels. The period was one of where the distinction between approved naval action and impounding of ships and cargoes versus outright piracy was blurred. More than once, to the consternation of Thomas Dallam and the crew the corruptible captain of their ship let go captured laden ships in return for an obvious bribe that he alone pocketed.
The descriptions of the voyage are particularly pertinent where the overland return leg of the journey through Ottoman occupied Greece are concerned. This is the first account in English of a journey across the mainland of Greece. Another high-point in terms of glimpses to the past is the moment Thomas Dallam was able to glimpse through a grating the Imperial Harem, the first likely description of these concubines by a foreigner. Another interesting revelation was that the two interpreters Thomas Dallam dealt with were English by birth yet had fully integrated into the palace system by converting to Islam.
Perhaps it is a small piece of a puzzle that also explains how a small island nation in turn became a super-power. When did this interest start? My interest in Greece, Ancient and Modern, started at school. When I lived there in the early seventies I was curious about the reality of the Ottoman era that lay behind the vigorous opinions of ordinary Greeks. This interest spread to the rest of the rich and varied culture and history of the Ottoman Empire. What were your chief sources of information for this research?
The single most useful source was the Oxford English Dictionary.
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I looked up almost every word to make sure what they meant at the time. The immediate short-term benefit was to enhance the standing of England in general and the English ambassador in particular in the eyes of Sultan Mehmet III and his advisers. This facilitated negotiations for trading concessions granted in I cannot see any direct longer term benefit, especially as Sultan Mehmet died in and the organ was destroyed as irreligious by his son Ahmed I. Through the Levant company, chartered in , English merchants already had trading posts, called factories, in the Ottoman Empire, primarily in Constantinople, Smyrna, Alexandria and Aleppo.
We also know from Dallam that they had consuls in Chios and Patras. English exports were dominated by woollen cloth, followed at a distance by metals such as tin. Imports included luxury goods such as silks and spices. The main commodities were wine and currants — hence the consuls in Chios and Patras.
What most surprised me was the position of England in a wider world. Commercially and politically England had vital interests in the Mediterranean. There were many ships and many Englishmen in the region, from diplomats to galley slaves. To what extent do you think Dallam felt this tension while resident in Palace, yet impressions clearly coloured by the typical arrogance of the Westerners of the time?
English arrogance, if that is the word, derived from insecurity. Despite the failure of the Armada in England was threatened by a much more powerful Spain and its allies. The Ottoman Empire was the superpower of the day. They had fierce trading rivals in countries such as France and Italy. On an individual level foreigners were at constant risk of abuse, extortion and sanction for giving deliberate or unintended offence.
So they put on a bold face. If Westerners seemed arrogant they were matched by the apparent arrogance of the Turks.


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PRESENTATIONS & MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS
If These Walls Could Talk: Researching Your Historic Home, Westcliff & Westcliff West Edition. Neighborhood Association, Fort Worth, TX. June 10, 2019.
Digital Tools: Teaching With Archives. Society of Southwestern Archivists, Tucson, AZ. May 16, 2019.
If These Walls Could Talk: Researching Your Historic Home. Mayor's Community Engagement Workshop, Fort Worth, TX. February 16, 2019.
We've Only Just Begun: Transitioning from Archivists' Toolkit to Hosted ArchivesSpace. Midwest Archives Conference, Chicago, IL. March 24, 2018.
Looking Forward to Look Back: Digital Preservation Planning. Academic Library Association of Ohio Annual Conference, Columbus, OH. October 27, 2017.
Save Your Memories - Personal Digital Archiving. Student Workshop, Dayton, OH. November 17, 2016.
Hands-on UD History. Student Workshop, Dayton, OH. October 13, 2016.
Personal Digital Archiving. Library Professional Development, Dayton, OH. March 31, 2016.
Ask the Archivist. Panel Member. Society of Ohio Archivists and Ohio Local History Alliance Meeting, Worthington, OH. October 2-3, 2015.
Primary Sources in East Texas Digital Archives & Collections. Invited to speak to Texas History elementary school teachers about utilizing the primary sources available through ETRC’s digital repository. October 2, 2012.
Viewshare & CONTENTdm. Invited to give a presentation at webinar focusing on customizations and extensions of CONTENTdm. September 27, 2012.
Personal Digital Archiving. Invited by the Timpson Genealogy group to speak to their members about protecting their digital memories. September 19, 2012.
Crossing into Consulting: Tale from the Trenches. Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, August 2012.
East Texas Digital Archives & Collections. Poster, Bright Ideas Conference. Nacogdoches, TX, April 2012.
Project Don’t Runaway. Southwest CONTENTdm User Group Conference, Amigos Library Services & OCLC. Houston, TX, December 2011.
Organized Chaos: Using a workflow to maintain control over digital material. Digital Preservation: What’s Now, What Next, Amigos Library Services. Online, August 2011.
Arthur Weaver: Standing Tall. Black History Month Celebration, African American Heritage Project & East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches, TX, February 14, 2010.
The Importance of Oral Histories. Northway Landing. Nacogdoches, TX, November 2009.
African American Heritage Project at the ETRC. Black History Month Celebration, African American Heritage Project & East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches, TX. February 2009.
Public History in Nacogdoches County. East Texas Historical Association Conference. Nacogdoches, TX, September 2008.
Mahdeen: The story of a Nacogdoches Company. Poster, Bright Ideas Conference. Nacogdoches, TX, April 2008.
PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS
Ainsworth, Kyle, Jennifer Brancato, and Linda Reynolds. "I Found It in East Texas: The Role of the East Texas Research Center in the Public's History." East Texas Historical Journal, Spring 2012.
Brancato, Jennifer. "#AskAnArchivist on October 30!" University Libraries Blog, University of Dayton Libraries. October 27, 2014.
Brancato, Jennifer. "UD Alumna and Local TV Personality Bette Rogge Morse." University Libraries Blog, University of Dayton Libraries. January 23, 2015.
Diarra, Bemba and Jennifer Brancato. "American Archives Month." University Libraries Blog, University of Dayton Libraries. October 15, 2013.
Milligan, Joan and Jennifer Brancato. "1485 Bible Added to Rare Books Collection." University Libraries Blog, University of Dayton Libraries. February 18, 2014.
Owens, Trevor. "Better Know a Viewshare: Exploring Texas Funeral Records." The Signal, Digital Preservation Blog, Library of Congress, April 18, 2012. Interviewed about using Viewshare, a program developed by the Library of Congress.
"The Power of Collaboration." Archival Outlook, September/October 2011. Interviewed about the first annual I Found It In The Archives! contest. An ETRC patron won the national competition that year.


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A must for anyone wanting to improve their lives and their positive thinking. There have been more millionaires and indeed, billionaires, who have made their fortunes as a result of reading this success classic than any other book every printed. NAPOLEON HILLS's "Think and Grow Rich" is the authors most famous work.
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Napoleon Hill was an American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time. Hill's works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success. "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" is one of Hill's hallmark expressions. How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach for the average person, were the focal points of Hill's books.
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This month's New Moon falls at 24 Taurus 36, conjunct fixed star Capulus; the sword hilt in the constellation Perseus. By Ptolemy's reckoning, this star is of the nature of Mercury and Mars. It bestows a determined and headstrong nature, not easily swayed from a chosen course; Shakespeare chose Capulet (derived from the same Latin root) to name one of the warring families of the reckless and headstrong lovers in his most well-known play.
The first aspect the New Moon makes is a trine to Mars, exalted in Capricorn, further underlining the warrior-like energy of this New Moon. The harmonious nature of the aspect encourages us to temper our actions with intellect, much as Minerva's gift of a shield of wisdom helped Perseus combat the Gorgon Medusa and the sea monster Cetus. There are parallels to be drawn with the Buddhist concept of 'right action'; the sixth part of the Eightfold Path which counsels us to act honourably and with respect for the lives and will of everything living.
One of the greatest achievements of the magicians of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was to develop a system of correspondences where tarot cards, mythology, astrology and Kabbalah are interlinked. In this system, the myth of Perseus and Andromeda corresponds with the tarot card 'The Lovers', Gemini the Twins, the Hebrew letter Zayin (meaning 'sword') and the path on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life which links Binah (Saturn, Wisdom, Understanding) with Tiphareth (the Sun, Beauty, Harmony) The essence of this path, and the opportunity of this month's New Moon, is the alchemy which arises from the fusion of opposites, the balance between the senses and the intellect, and the harmonious unity of the personality with the higher self which leads to knowledge of the true will:
"The boat responded
Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar
The sea was calm, your heart would have responded
Gaily, when invited, beating obedient
To controlling hands"
The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot
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Moonbeam Crenshaw returns as the Braille reader of the stars!
Browsing: Horrible Horoscopes
Moonbeam Crenshaw finds a clear night, and shows his illiteracy with the stars.
Moonbeam Crenshaw reads the stars through a cloudy night in order to tell us what to expect. Allegedly.
Moonbeam Crenshaw returns to tell us how the coming week will treat us!
Moonbeam Crenshaw returns to tell us how to live our lives, one life at a time.
It is the Year of the Rabbit! But since Moonbeam Crenshaw does not know where to find Chinese zodiac symbols, he is keeping with his normal horrible readings.
Moonbeam Crenshaw can’t see the stars through a snowstorm, but he’s reading them anyway!
Moonbeam Crenshaw returns to show how he illiterately reads the stars.
Moonbeam Crenshaw opens up the new year with some words of wisdom.


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Mission: Black List #1 is the true story of Sergeant Maddox’s efforts to discover the hidden location of Saddam Hussein after the fall of his regime in 2003. Mission: Black List #1 is told from the point of view of its protagonist, Sergeant Maddox.
The story begins with Sergeant Maddox’s arrival in Iraq in July 2003 and extends through to when he pinpoints Hussein’s location, just hours before the expiration of his tour in December 2003. Central to the story are the interrogations of progressively more important insurgents as Sergeant Maddox closes in on Hussein’s location.
During these interrogations, Sergeant Maddox undergoes his own process of self-discovery, as he learns the art of interrogation, how to find the right psychological lever among the target’s fears, hopes, ambitions and pride that, once pressure is applied, coaxes the target to divulge the information he conceals. From the clutter of truth and lies that Sergeant Maddox learns in these interrogations, he assembles a blueprint that leads him to the leaders of the insurgency and, ultimately, Saddam Hussein.
When Sergeant Maddox first joined his unit in Tikrit in June 2003, it was clear to him that he would have to earn the respect of both the soldiers performing the midnight raids against the insurgents as well as his fellow members on the intelligence team, and, as his methods began to show extraordinary results, he found that he had earned not only their respect, but also their trust.
Other main characters in the story include Lee, Sergeant Maddox’s good friend and fellow interrogator, Bam Bam, the team commander who risks his career to pursue Sergeant Maddox’s leads, Kelly, the intelligence analyst on the team, and Basim Latif, the driver for the leader of the insurgency whose information enabled Sergeant Maddox to connect the links of the chain of relationships among the insurgents that led to Saddam Hussein.


New Danish 4-volume book maps human consciousness
Qvistgaard Publishing Releases "The Ringbearer's Diary": A Four-Volume Book Mapping Human Consciousness
"Ancient myths, classical music and dream language - including the corridor system in the Cheops Pyramid - may be used to map human consciousness", says Danish author Peter Kjaerulff in "The Ringbearer´s Diary", published April 2014, in English and Danish by Qvistgaard Publishing, Denmark.
Book One "˜Wolfgang' of this 4-volume work not only deals with the life and death of Mozart, the legendary Atlantis and the legends of Moses and Ramses, but also presents a groundbreaking parallel double study of Tolkien´s and Wagner´s Ring-stories, while a completely new interpretation of The Great Pyramid opens a door to the depths of the human mind.
"The Ringbearer´s Diary" is a superior work of literature that will appeal to everyone, a fairy tale with nuances and suspense to match Tolkien, a self-help book whose depth and humanity ensure its immediate usefulness - and also a wonderful autobiographical, cultural and historical novel. The language is clear, strong, yet immensely compressed and full of humor.
Author Peter Kjaerulff says:
"As an independent researcher, I have reached results engendered by the understanding of two forces present in the universe: the energy of harmony and that of discord. By observing these entities, I have elaborated a detailed map of the human consciousness. The energy of discord has successfully covered up human consciousness for millennia, blocking our possibility of answering the Big Questions. Obser-vation of the interaction between the two forces enables me to account for all "mechanisms" of human life. Straightforward answers are offered also to problematic ethical questions. I am indebted to J.R.R. Tolkien and to Richard Wagner; thanks to them I have been able to trace "The Cursed Ring" and reveal its innermost nature."
Qvistgaard Publishing is proud to present the first step of the complete release of this 4-volume work.
Book One: "Wolfgang" is released April 2014 in English and Danish, as an e-book in the digital formats pdf, epub and mobi (for Kindle). Price (English e-book): Â£16,5 /â‚¬20.
Book Two: "The Ring and the Pyramid" will be published later in 2014 or in early 2015.
Book Three: "The Sphinx" Part 1 "˜The Machine', and Part 2 "˜The Tree' are scheduled for publishing in 2015.
Finances permitting, the books will later appear in print.
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How labs cultivate change through innovation and collaboration
The struggle to solve local and global issues often appears to pitch large corporations and governments against activists, artists, workers and ordinary citizens. But what happens when these entities consciously join forces and share resources to create social change?
It’s happening more than you might think—in a growing phenomenon known as social labs. And Labcraft offers an intimate picture of this new and evolving landscape—where seemingly disparate stakeholders network and align as learning communities who collaborate for positive change.
Social innovation labs do what we expect laboratories to do—invent and experiment. But their “test tubes” are real-world challenges. And as they explore new connections, new ideas, and new initiatives, they often generate new perspectives and promising solutions.
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The Making Of Labcraft
A fittingly collaborative effort in itself, Labcraft was written in a four-day “Book Sprint” by representatives from seven innovation labs from around the world. These practitioners share their stories, experiences and perspectives, and consider their commonalities and differences. They offer humble observations about their struggles and successes, and detail how they navigate their unique dilemmas and paradoxes.
From workspaces and funding to impact measurement and power dynamics, Labcraft explores what it takes to cultivate a nimble and responsive environment—and gives a face to the poignant potential of these creative new collaborations.
Change makers everywhere will be uplifted and inspired by this hopeful, fascinating window into emerging frontiers for building a better world.
PRAISE FOR LABCRAFT
Across the world we’re seeing an explosion of interest in social and public innovation labs, in all shapes and sizes. Running them well is much more a craft than a science, which is why it’s so good to see serious practitioners here sharing experience and ideas, so as to help others achieve more hits and fewer misses.Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive, Nesta, UK
An insightful and delightful voyage through and wonderful mix of stories and practical insights that help anyone on this quest of new thinking for a better world.Louise Marra, Executive Director, Auckland Policy Office, New Zealand Government
A timely, accessible yet sophisticated contribution written by practitioners for practitioners. Packed with stories and accounts of first-hand experience, this short volume brings to life the work of labs and will be a great resource for all those interested in this new exciting way of promoting social innovation.Davide Nicolini, Professor of Organization Studies, Warwick Business School, formerly Tavistock Institute, UK
A CO-CREATED BOOK
Watch the video to learn how this book was co-created by 12 people in 4 days.
In search of new strategies to promote knowledge production and learning by and between Innovation Labs, Natural Innovation teamed up with Hivos and the Warwick Business School to write a book through a Book Sprint, a rapid and collaborative writing methodology designed and facilitated by Adam Hyde.
MORE PRAISE FOR LABCRAFT
This is an important piece of reading for anyone interested in driving system level change and learning from the experts in the growing global lab movement. Uniquely written by fellow travellers holding direct experience designing and developing labs, you will take away a set of clearly written stories which illustrate how system change theory can be brought to life.Charmian Love, CEO, Volans, UK
This is a very topical book. Under significant reform pressure, our institutions have responded by trying to extend existing logics. But more and more they are waking to the realization that a better tomorrow will emerge by developing new logics. Labs are a critical discourse in enabling this transformation to flourish.Marco Steinberg, Founder, Snowcone & Haystack, Finland
Never has a craft held such promise. With gentle audacity this book changes everything we thought we knew about change. A candid, brave, tantalising insight into what deserves to be the defining skill-set of our age. The world looks different now. So too do our prospects for change.Jonathan Robison, author, entrepreneur and co-founder of Impact Hub, UK
Changemakers of the world unite…and buy this book! Labcraft brings engaging stories and thoughtful insights from the front lines of social change. Drawing on experiences of pioneering labs in Europe, North America, Asia and Latin America, this book empowers social innovators to fix their aspirations on systems changing solutions to tough societal challenges.Tim Draimin, Executive Director, Social Innovation Generation (SiG), Canada
A ‘lab report’ about labs, Labcraft is an optimistic account and invitation to explore the world of social labs, loaded with inspiring stories collectively written by a group of lab practitioners from around the world.Eduardo Staszowski - Director Parsons DESIS Lab at The New School, New York
Social Labs are an important frontier in global efforts to make progress on complex social, political, economic, and environmental challenges. As such they are the subject of much trial, error, confusion, and learning. This book makes a valuable contribution to this exciting new field.Adam Kahane, Chairman, Reos North America and author of 'Solving Though Problems'
Practical, sensible and yet unwaveringly inspiring. This great little collaborative book delivers a much needed comparative outlook and reminds us of lessons learnt along the way. A must read for anyone who wants the nitty-gritty and the fun if social innovation.Catherine Fieschi, Director, Counterpoint, United Kingdom
Labcraft is an extremely timely contribution to the movement of social innovation labs. Both reflective and practical, this important book is a must-read for anyone wishing to engage in the art and craft of generating societal change. Highly recommended.Christian Bason, Director, MindLab, Denmark
Social Innovation Labs are spreading around the world, often seen as high-potential vehicles for systems change. But running such labs is not easy. As the authors of this book show, it is a craft. Being lab practitioners, they provide honest insights into their practice, useful for everyone wanting to create a better world.Joeri van den Steenhoven, Director, MaRS Solutions Lab, Canada
An inspiring dive into Labs’ world. A fresh, coherent and illuminating effort to share the essence of these surprising experimental places for social innovation.Sebastian Gatica, Director, CoLab UC, Chile