I grew up in a “Reading House.” My grandmother loved to read. We used to joke that we could sit her on the sofa with a book and a beer and we wouldn’t hear a peep from her all day. But we never did that because she was always making us laugh with her silly songs and stories too. My mother loves to read, and I would rather read than do many other things. My kids love to read and I am thrilled by that. I had written in someone’s comments how if you know and like to read, you can do anything in the world that you want.
As for my favorite childhood books:
- Raggedy Ann and Andy Thank You, Please, I love You Book.
- Nancy Drew- and when I could scam them from my brother- The Hardy Boys
- Richard Scarry
- Judy Blume books
- Beverly Cleary
- Gone With the Wind (yes, that is whenI was older, but I love it!)
My mom also took us to the library to get a book called “No Fighting, No Biting” about sibs that squabble. My kids now have that too- not that it keeps them from squabbling any more thanit did me and my brother. LOL
Even though I might not have passed on the particular books I read, I am so happy that my kids love to read. And they share books with me too, like the Harry Potters, Lemony Snicket, and Eragon.


Vasilis, Zervos. "Conflict in Space". In Hartley, K, Braddon, D (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of Conflict, Edward Eldgar Academic Publishers, UK (forthcoming).
Vasilis, Zervos. "Economics of the Procurement Process" in Smith, LJ, Bauman, I (eds.), Contracting for Space, Contract Practice in the European Space Sector, Ashgate Publishers, UK (forthcoming).
Vasilis, Zervos. 2009, "The Impact of Defense Integrators and Standards on Vertical and Horizontal Innovation in the Defense Industry", (with Peter Swann) Defense and Peace Economics, Vol 20, No 1.
Vasilis, Zervos. 2008, "Whatever Happened to Competition in Space Agency Procurement? The Case of NASA", Journal of Applied Economics, Vol XI, No 1.
Vasilis, Zervos. 2008, "Technology, Security and Policy Implications of Trans-Atlantic Partnerships in Space: Lessons Learned from Galileo" (with Donald Siegel), Research Policy, Vol 27, Issue 9.
Vasilis, Zervos. 2007, "The Performance of UK Takeovers: Does the Nationality of the Acquirers Matter? (with Aoife Hanley), International Journal of the Economics of Business ,Vol 14, No 2.


Thus reads the ancient prophecy that starts the Silver Dragon on his chosen path of destiny. The Silver Dragon, Robert Alexander the Third, known to all as Robbie, decides to defy tradition, leave his village and go searching for the legendary Great Shining Dragon. Unbeknownst to him, his path will lead him to three ferocious Red Dragons, each of whom he must somehow overcome to fulfill his Quest.
As the story unfolds, Robbie — in the company of the audacious, educated mouse, Wilberforce Abercrombie the 27th — discovers his own extraordinary personal power as well as the true meaning of love and friendship.
This exciting adventure story of self-discovery is a fable that will appeal to all ages.
This is a magical, truly engaging adventure for young and old. The original, heartfelt story takes flight on the wings of a silver dragon and is filled with memorable characters, important life lessons and the inspirational message that to search and find one's soul purpose is the most divine journey of all. I highly recommend this wonderful book for both children and parents!
Laurel Dewey, author of Protector
The Silver Dragon's Quest is the story of Robbie, a young silver dragon who exhibits extraordinary courage in his quest to find the Great Shining Dragon. With his friend Toby, and a quirky mouse companion, Wilberforce Abercrombie the 27th, Robbie bravely battles his way through many adversities to achieve his goal. This is a most imaginative and delightful tale with exciting twists and turns, one you will thoroughly enjoy reading to your youngsters, and they will undoubtedly keep you turning page after page.
Beyond the obvious story line, a thread of Conscious Wisdom will be recognized by the sensitive adult - a thread which listening children may absorb unconsciously, and to their benefit. Zoe Topping is an author with a rare, almost mystical touch. While keeping us involved in the colorful adventures of the Silver Dragon, she subtly stirs within us a realization of our own eternal Inner Journey. Topping's first book, The Silver Dragon's Quest, holds a promise of becoming a modern classic which can only leave us hoping for more.
Melissa Dixon, Award winning poet,
author of Slow Spring Water
If you are looking for a story filled with adventure, magic and spirituality, this is the book for you. A tale which entwines the eternal battle between good and evil with personal spiritual growth, this story is a delight, taking the reader to the fantasy world of dragons and one particular dragon's quest.
A book that can be read on two levels, The Silver Dragon's Quest is fast paced and action packed as Robbie takes to the skies on his adventure of a lifetime. Underlying the story is the ongoing theme of good versus evil, courage, commitment, and a deep sense of spiritual and personal progression showing that all things eventually work for the common good.
I liked this book because it contains many messages relevant to life and how best to live it, cleverly incorporated in Robbie's adventures and the lessons he learns from the people, dragons and mice he meets along the way.
The Silver Dragon's Quest will appeal to the young and not so young alike, a story which conveys an element of spirituality and magic, and which will pass on to everyone a little piece of the enchantment to be found in the world, if only we know where to look.
Vanda Inman, Creative Writing Tutor, www.writespace.co.uk
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"A magical, enchanting story of friendship, loyalty and the triumph of good over evil."
"Spectacular storytelling, weaving fantasy and spirituality into a wonderful adventure of magic and mystery."


We are dancing Sarah’s Circle, sisters, brothers, all.
Here we seek and find our story, sisters, brothers, all.
We will all do our own naming, sisters, brothers, all.
Every round a generation, sisters, brothers, all.
On and on the circle’s moving, sisters, brothers, all.
(to the tune of “We are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder”)
What is Sarah’s Circle?
Sarah’s Circle is a non-denominational women’s only book club to read and discuss books about spirituality, with a focus on feminine spirituality. Our Spiritual Book Club is a little more than the average book club. If you are seeking the support of other women in your spiritual journey or are looking for an interesting and deeper book club to join, then this is the group for you! It is open to all women in the community, not just members of PACC. We’re always delighted to welcome newcomers! And if you’ve been on our list, but haven’t really attended in a while, why don’t you come to see the fun you’re missing!
When does it meet?
Sarah’s Circle is planned as a monthly meeting, in the Fellowship Room at PACC, on a Saturday morning. Our club explores Spirituality through novels, science, philosophy and theology. If you would like to join the Circle, or would like more information, please contact the church office by calling 781-643-8680 or via email.
What are we doing next?
Our next meeting is Saturday, August 31st in the Fellowship Room at PACC from 10 AM till 12 noon. Those who wish to meditate may come at 9:30 AM.
For August, continuing on with our explorations of women and their lives in the 19th and early 20th century, for August we are returning to the 1800’s to read The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth, which is a new biography about the wife of Charles Dickens. The same man who wrote such inspirational stories as “A Christmas Carol”, tried to commit his wife to an insane asylum.
Here is what Amazon.com has to say about this book:
Catherine Hogarth, who came from a cultured Scots family, married Charles Dickens in 1836, the same year he began serializing his first novel. Together they traveled widely, entertained frequently, and raised ten children. In 1858, the celebrated writer pressured Catherine to leave their home, unjustly alleging that she was mentally disordered-unfit and unloved as wife and mother. Constructing a plotline nearly as powerful as his stories of Scrooge and Little Nell, Dickens created the image of his wife as a depressed and uninteresting figure, using two of her three sisters against her, by measuring her presumed weaknesses against their strengths. This self-serving fiction is still widely accepted.
In the first comprehensive biography of Catherine Dickens, Lillian Nayder debunks this tale in retelling it, wresting away from the famous novelist the power to shape his wife’s story. Nayder demonstrates that the Dickenses’ marriage was long a happy one; more important, she shows that the figure we know only as “Mrs. Charles Dickens” was also a daughter, sister, and friend, a loving mother and grandmother, a capable household manager, and an intelligent person whose company was valued and sought by a wide circle of women and men. Making use of the Dickenses’ banking records and legal papers as well as their correspondence with friends and family members, Nayder challenges the long-standing view of Catherine Dickens and offers unparalleled insights into the relations among the four Hogarth sisters, reclaiming those cherished by the famous novelist as Catherine’s own and illuminating her special bond with her youngest sister, Helen, her staunchest ally during the marital breakdown.
Drawing on little-known, unpublished material and forcing Catherine’s husband from center stage, The Other Dickens revolutionizes our perception of the Dickens family dynamic, illuminates the legal and emotional ambiguities of Catherine’s position as a “single” wife, and deepens our understanding of what it meant to be a woman in the Victorian age.
Here is a link to the book on Amazon.com: https://smile.amazon.com/Other-Dickens-Life-Catherine-Hogarth-dp-0801447879/dp/0801447879/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1564443961
For more information, please contact the church office by calling 781-643-8680 or contact Merrith Sabo-Jones via email.
What topics/books are coming up next?
Sometimes, for more broad subject topics, we choose a single topic to read about, allowing members to choose their own book on that topic. As a “free choice” month – it’s up to you whether you chose to read a large, scholarly tome, or a shorter, more-accessible paperback. We return to everyone reading the same book for more narrow-focused topics. Whenever we choose a topic instead of a specific book, we will also discuss which books address the topic as well as which books might be found in our current book list. So, here is an ongoing list of topics that we would like to pursue; if you have additional suggestions, please bring them to the next meeting!
- Communicating with spirits/angels
- Different Religions (e.g. Hindu, Confucianism, Catholicism, etc.)
- Spiritual People
- Mother Earth/Goddess/Gaia Spirituality and Religions
- Greek Myths
- Native American Spirituality
- Island Culture Spirituality (e.g. Hawaii, Bali, Cambodia)
- Celtic Spirituality
- The Celestine Prophecies
- Expressions of Spirituality via the Arts
- Everyday Spirituality
- Inclusivity/Exclusivity within Groups
- Community Making
What books are being considered for possible future discussion?
Click here to see our current book list. These books include books that the Circle has read, as well as books suggested by members, and books that some of the members have read previously.


Scholastic Book Fair online 2-4 p.m.
- Scholastic Book Fair online 2-4 p.m.
This year our book fair will be on zoom, please wait in the waiting room until someone is available to help you. Books purchased during your zoom visit will be added to your homework packed to be picked up on March 5th. The payment will be through eWallet, no cash or card payments will be accepted.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 843 8392 8218
February 22nd to February 26th
2pm to 4pm
eWallet set up:
Scholastic Store Online and Virtual Fair:
https://www.scholastic.com/bf/delmarschool Books ordered online or on our virtual fair will be shipped out to your home.
If you have any questions please email me at:


League of Women
Voters of Westerville Study, 1992
League of Women Voters of Westerville voted to study the financing of the Westerville Schools at its annual meeting in May
1991. The Education Study Committee (Betsy Guckeyson, Karen Hedden and Mary Kaul)
decided to provide the members with a brief history of the school system as background for understanding its local monetary
group met in October with Ray Bertelson, Director of Planning for the Westerville Schools.
During that time, he directed his remarks to the questions provided him by the National League's booklet Know Your
Schools. He indicated that the Westerville Library has an excellent resource
book written by Dr. Harold Hancock of Otterbein, called The History of Westerville, should we wish to pursue more information. [He also mentioned hat
the library has an original work by Thomas Jefferson--his
handwritten New Testament for legislators.]
actual Westerville School District began m
1855. However, before that there was education going on, less formalized to be
sure, in homes and kitchens. The first "school began in 1808 in a home near what
is now 3C and 161, about at K-Mart, on the Griswold farm. Mrs. Griswold taught
her children and the Phelps children. The Griswolds and the Phelps, the first
settlers, arrived in 1805. The township area, established by the 1787 Northwest Ordinance, was named for a town in Connecticut, from where the Griswolds and Phelps came. In 1811,
classes were held in the Phelps new barn.
Blendon Township Trustees created six school districts in 1826--(1) Central College, (2) Westerville, (3) an unnamed area,
(4) Blendon 4 corners (3C and 161), (5) Cherry Bottoms. (6) Hempstead.
Blendon Township had a one-room
log schoolhouse at that time at the Pioneer Cemetery (across from what
is now Bob Evans). Each district was expected to provide a school for its children.
Village of Westerville was founded
in 1838 following a donation of 27 acres of land, a small portion of which was for an educational institution and the remainder
for town lots to be sold for its support. The Westerville boundaries were established in 1839, with West Street on the west, Vine Street on the east, Home Street on the north and Park Street on the south.
campus became the Blendon Young Mens Seminary," a Methodist college-prep institution.
Students there heard debates on the evils of war, intemperance and slavery. This
secondary school foundered due to competition from Ohio Wesleyan and later, in 1847, evolved into "Otterbein University," open to men, women and blacks.
It, as well as several churches, became the dominating presence in the area, forcing an ever-reluctant village to build
sanitary water supplies and streets, and to keep its community dry.
Westerville School District built its
first school on Home Street in 1855 near where the Mann Nursing
Home is now. Some controversy occurred, but was quickly quieted, when two blacks enrolled in 1859. As if predicting the times to come, that school lasted 11 years before it was outgrown.
1866, the district built another school near the site of Emerson -The Union School." It contained one room (two rooms were
added in 1879) that served students from Blendon Township, which had six schools by that time, and some from Sharon
(Worthington) Township. High school students
came there in addition to some Westerville elementary students (hence the name, Union"). About 172 students were enrolled but actual daily attendance was much less. With those number of students, they had to rent out spaces elsewhere, upstairs of the now "Calico Cupboard,"
which was then the City Hall.
1882, the high school course of study took two years. In 1889, it was lengthened
to three years; in 1900, four years. The first high school commencement was held in 1876, the second in 1882. After that,
at least one person graduated every year with the exception of 1900 when the course of study was extended to four years.
defeated a bond issue in 1884. By 1892, with an enrollment of 245, including
50 students in the high school, the district put another bond issue on the ballot to build more buildings. It failed. The issue finally passed in 1896 by eight votes
and The Vine Street School" (Emerson) was built-but not without controversy as some people struggled to stop its construction.
It had six rooms, seven teachers, and just under 300 students. There was a major
dedication ceremony, with the governor and the superintendent of Columbus
In 1908, the district added
four more rooms to Emerson, as well as a drinking fountain and inside toilets. It was still serving as a high school for extended areas and was recognized as a very important one with quality athletics
(especially basketball) and academics. It was a "no frills" education, however-just reading, writing and arithmetic.
1921, spurred on by removal of North Central accreditation because of its poor facilities, the Westerville Citizens for Better
Schools," spearheaded a drive for a new high school on State Street. A totally secondary 7-12 building, "Westerville High School." (Hanby) was constructed in 1923. It served Genoa
and Sharon Township high school
students as well as students from Central College. Genoa paid a dollar a day tuition for its students. Students came by trolley
from Minerva Park.
1930, in a joint decision by the Board of Education and the Cornell family, it was agreed to name all of the schools after
poets. After voters approved a bond issue in 1929 for an elementary school on Hiawatha, Longfellow opened in 1931. Whittier was built in 1958, Hawthorne in 1959. In 1958, the League
was instrumental in encouraging the building of a new high school. However, "James Russell Lowell High School" opened in 1960 to complaints about its name. It
was changed to "Westerville High School," with the
old Westerville High School then getting
its name of "Hanby Junior High School,"
thus honoring Otterbein's most famous graduate.
the depression, the schools benefited from government aid. They received surplus food and unemployed persons did custodial
work. A garage and workshop were constructed in 1934 with labor paid for by the government.
WPA funds assisted in developing land near Otterbein Avenue for an
saw the establishment of the Ohio Board of Education. In 1955, Central College petitioned to become a part of the Westerville school system.
aftermath of WWII brought people to small towns and suburbs. Westerville was no exception.
It grew at a particularly fast pace, however, during the 1960s and 1970s. Between 1964 and 1972, the average growth rate was
Ridge, finished in 1964, was the first school to be named by location and development.
Annehurst, in 1969, was so named for the same reasons. Walnut Springs,
1965, originally called Westerville Junior High School, was
later re-named for its location at Walnut and Spring roads. Blendon Junior High School, 1969, was named for Blendon
Township. (In the late sixties, classmates
of two Westerville graduates and Vietnam casualties memorialized them with the garden, flagpole and plaque in front of Westerville South and with the carpeting
in its auditorium.]
(1972) took its name from the street commemorating the owner of the American Issue Publishing Company. [Earnest Cherrington, famous in Westerville history, came
to Westerville in 1909 to produce and publish anti-saloon, anti-alcohol literature.
Westerville became the national center of the Anti-Saloon League. At its height,
Cherrington employed 200 people, operating his company 24 hours a day. So much literature was published and mailed during
those times that Westerville became the smallest community in the nation to have a first class Post
growth occurred in the early seventies. Westerville High School was on split sessions- juniors and seniors in the morning, freshmen and
sophomores in the afternoon. Kindergarten classes were held in churches. A bond
issue passed and Pointview opened in 1973. Returning to naming schools after authors and poets, Mark Twain and Robert Frost
came on line in 1974. Growth continued to drift north. Because Westerville North High School was so named in 1975, Westerville
High School on Otterbein became Westerville
South High School.
1976, the State Board of Education gave Sharon Township's Westerville School District land
to Columbus in compensation for their taking over the debt-ridden Mifflin schools.
At that time, the district lost 2,485 students to Columbus. Since 1942, however,
the Westerville City School District has experienced only three years where there has not been an increase in enrollment. It
has experienced also many bond issues and operating levies passing and failing, especially since 1974 when the state changed
the way voted millage is collected.
schools were built in 1989 to accommodate an again burgeoning school system-Wilder Elementary, McVay Elementary (McVay donated
the land), and Heritage Middle School. Major renovations and additions were made to North and South High Schools.
1991-1992, the Westerville School District had 12,390
students. In 1963, it had 4,000. It
is now the tenth largest school district (out of 612 districts) in Ohio. The projections indicate that the district, which extends well into Delaware County
on the North, as far south as Morse Road, as far west as 1-71 and Schrock Road,
and as far east as the east side of Hoover and Little Turtle, will grow by at least 2,000 more students in ten years.


Welcome to The Lawrence Tool Library!
The Lawrence Tool Library is up and running! The goal is to be able to supply the people of Lawrence with the tools they need for home repairs, projects, art, or whatever tickles your fancy!
Currently the Tool Library is for Lawrence Creates Makerspace members only. For access click the link below.
If you are not a member feel free to get in touch and we can get membership on-board.
Feel free to reach out to Eric about how to become a member by reaching out to him through email at [email protected]


Paper delivered to Appalachian Studies Association, 2017 by Kelsey M. Wagner, Appalachian State University:
"On Track to Empowerment: The "Guild Train" of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen"
Abstract: In 1961, The Louisville and Nashville Railroad donated two train cars to the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen (KGAC) for an innovative project that would work to both showcase exceptional craft and teach community members and children textile based craft skills for enjoyment and profit. The guild gutted the two train cars, turning the cars into a truly mobile workshop on wheels.
From 1961 to 1967, the KGAC “Guild Train” travelled the train line, stopping in towns throughout Appalachia and offering citizens the chance to learn ceramics, weaving, woodworking, metals and other valuable skills that could be turned into small forms of income. In areas where poverty was prevalent, the KGAC took extra care to promote the community strength of guilds and helped artisans and crafters build networks and even start their own co-ops in order to sell their work, connect with other crafters, and find educational and material resources.
Through archival research at Berea College and oral histories with locals who frequented train workshops, this paper examines the effects the KGAC had both on the community members they trained as well as the community development and economic benefits that came about as a result of this guild. Using intersectional theories and looking to KGAC as a seminal example of guilds, this paper explores the dynamics of race, gender, and class when applied to guild membership and creative output.


An Unfinished Life (2005)
To escape from the abusive boy-friend, Gary Winston, Jean Gilkyson moves with her young daughter Griff Gilkyson to the ranch of her father-in-law Einar Gilkyson in Wyoming. It was a move made without previous notice and Jean and Einar are disaffected because he blames her for the death of his beloved son in a car accident. At the same time, Einar, who does not know that he has a granddaughter, is taking care of Mitch Bradley, his friend who was attacked and seriously wounded by a bear. While Mitch heals his wounds and forgives the bear, Einar also changes his feelings regarding Jean, finally understanding that accidents happen and accepting her and loving his grand-daughter.
Rated PG-13 for some violence including domestic abuse, and language.
Runtime: 108 min
Country: Germany | USA
Company: Miramax Films
Faith Review, An Unfinished Life by Star Crawford
Film Title: An Unfinished Life
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Original release form/venue: Theatrical release
Current Availability and format: Available via online retailers in DVD form
Story elements: An Unfinished Life tells the story of a family torn apart by grief and loss. Einar Gilkyson is a broken man running a ranch in Wyoming with his long time friend, Mitch who was attacked by a bear one year earlier. Much like Einar and Mitch, the ranch is not what is once was. Everything changes when Einar’s estranged daughter in law, Gene, arrives with her 11 year old daughter Griff in tow. Mitch has never forgiven Gene for his son’s, death 11 years earlier. He also hasn’t forgiven himself for being too drunk to help Mitch during the bear attack. Gene, is also broken and running from an abusive boyfriend. She has not forgiven herself for the death of her husband, Griff and is stuck in the guilt and loss.
The story unfolds as Einar begins to form a bond with his grandfather, and the joy that comes from being able to move forward and re-enter life. While their relationship blossoms, Gene’s relationship with Einar is still in shambles as both are too stubborn and proud to forgive each other and let go of the past. Once trouble from the past arrives, Einar and Gene begin to move past some of their pain. The bear that attacked Mitch resurfaces in town, and instead of allowing Einar to kill her, Mitch has Einar take care of the bear. In doing this, Mitch shows Einar what true forgiveness and healing looks like, and in turn Einar opens his heart more to Griff and eventually Gene. Finally, when Gene’s old boyfriend arrives and threatens her, Einar comes to her defense and it is the beginning of a new start for them as a family.
The film shows the brokenness of humanity and how we live in and with that brokenness every day. It gives a shining example of the pain that comes with holding on to resentment and angry and the relief and freedom that forgiveness brings. An Unfinished Life even teaches us about family and what that means. The relationship between Mitch and Einar is one filled with love, respect, and frustration, but they are the closest family in the film. Hallstrom gives us and illustration of family can and should be, and shows how healing is possible in a family with time, understanding and love.
Film Language elements: The most important element is the characters. As with most of Hallstrom’s films, you are able to connect with the characters and feel their emotions with them. Another important element is the setting. The rustic backdrop of Wyoming allows all of the emotions to feel as raw as the surroundings. Einar is a simple man of few words, which is what one would expect from a cowboy, so when he begins to open up and show emotion, the audience can truly feel and see the changes happening to him.
Audience/Cultural context elements: The audience for this film is adults 18 and older. The film is rated PG-13, and it could be shown to teens, with parental permission. There is some adult language, and the abuse scenes should be handled with respect by the viewers and the facilitator.
Theology is found: Theology is found outside of the movie. We bring our beliefs about forgiveness, grace, and acceptance into conversation with the film.
Theological themes for conversation: How do we learn to forgive? What is our responsibility to our family? What is the church’s role in helping people mourn? How can we help see death as a friend?
Suggested use of film: This film would be great to use with teens to being the conversation about family relationship, forgiveness, even death. The film is not limited to teens, so these themes could be applied to all adult age groups. As with other Hallstrom films, because they are character driven, I believe it is important for the entire film to be shown.
Concluding or summary remarks: While the abuse storyline is the not the most prominent one in the film, it is important to not gloss over the issue. Some time should be devoted to topic. The difficult task will be incorporating this discussion into the other topics of family, forgiveness and healing. It would be powerful to have a conversation about what forgiveness can look like after abuse has occurred.


Cinderella - Certificate PG, Running Time 105 min
The story of "Cinderella" follows the fortunes of young Ella whose merchant father remarries following the tragic death of her mother. Keen to support her loving father, Ella welcomes her new stepmother Lady Tremaine and her daughters Anastasia and Drizella into the family home. But when Ella's father suddenly and unexpectedly passes away, she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel new family. Finally relegated to nothing more than a servant girl covered in ashes, and spitefully renamed Cinderella since she used to work in the cinders, Ella could easily begin to lose hope. Yet, despite the cruelty inflicted upon her, Ella is determined to honor her mother's dying words and to "have courage and be kind." She will not give in to despair nor despise those who abuse her. And then there is the dashing stranger she meets in the woods. Unaware that he is really a prince, not merely an employee at the palace, Ella finally feels she has met a kindred soul
Friday 27th March – Thursday 2nd April at 5.00pm
Friday 27th, Sunday 29th, Monday 30th, Tuesday 31st March & Thursday 2nd April at 2.00pm
Home (II) - Certificate U, Running Time 94 mins
When Oh, a loveable misfit from another planet, lands on Earth and finds himself on the run from his own people, he forms an unlikely friendship with an adventurous girl named Tip who is on a quest of her own. Through a series of comic adventures with Tip, Oh comes to understand that being different and making mistakes is all part of being human. And while he changes her planet and she changes his world, they discover the true meaning of the word HOME.
Saturday 28th March & Sunday 29th March
Humpty Dumpty and the Big Book of Nursery Rhymes (Live Show) - Certificate U, Running Time Live Show
Rose is lost in Rhyme Town! Fortunately Humpty knows how to get her home, but to do this he needs the help of all your favourite nursery rhyme characters.
Saturday 28th March & Wednesday 1st April at 2.00pm
The Audience must help Humpty & Rose collect the magic to get home by meeting Old King Cole, Little Bo Peep, The Grand Old Duke Of York, Little Miss Muffet and all the other folk of Rhyme Town and singing their songs.
Full of audience participation with bright colourful costumes and a full cast of professional actors, this show travels at a thousand smiles an hour – hold on tight!
The Divergent Series: Insurgent - Certificate 12A, Running Time 119 mins
Friday 27th March – Thursday 2nd April
THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT raises the stakes for Tris as she searches for allies and answers in the ruins of a futuristic Chicago. Tris (Woodley) and Four (James) are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine (Winslet), the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris's family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as they unlock the truth about the past and ultimately the future of their world.
Show times are subject to change without notice
To book now, click BOOK ONLINE or call 0844 879 9152 and select Option 4


International Academy of Design and Technology, AAS Graphic Design, summa cum laude
Middle Tennessee State University, BS English, art
kfx graphic design, Principal: July 2006 to present. Freelance graphic design for multiple clients
Goldner Associates, Art Director: September 2007 to February 2009. Direction for promotional products, catalogs, and web projects
g r a p h i c d e s i g n
Kids Need to Read. Kids Need to Read works to create a culture of reading for children by providing inspiring books to underfunded schools, libraries, and literacy programs across the United States, especially those serving disadvantaged children. Thistle Farms. Thistle Farms is a non-profit business run by women who have survived lives of violence, prostitution, and abuse. Thistle Farms products are hand-made by the very women they benefit. All proceeds go back into Thistle Farms and the residential program, Magdalene.
First Management, Graphic Designer: September 2005 to September 2007. Creation of all printed and web materials relating to multiple properties


Yalsa futures report
قبل يوم منذ 16 ساعة 4/6/1442 بعد الهجرة Nov 24, 2017 · The YALSA Future’s Report report shows that many libraries are continuing to grapple with diminishing resources while at the same time struggling to meet the needs of a changing teen population. Additionally, significant developments in technology have led to the need to rethink how services for and with teens are best created and delivered. Jul 20, 2016 · YALSA recently released their three-year organizational plan, which will stretch from now until 2018. It’s ambitious and builds off of the YALSA Futures report, published in December 2013. This plan calls for an understanding of a YALSA librarian’s changing role and the need for YALSA to adapt to these changes in the next three years.
Carla CelsoLibrary Media Specialist, Arthur L. Johnson High Schoolccelso@ clarkschools.org · Linda BraunProject Manager, YALSA, Future Ready with the
Brands can no longer rely on a URL to find this generation. Our new Youth Futures report examines the ways they are using the online and offline worlds to create Project Title: Future of Youth Public Librarian Education; Category: Lifelong learning; YALSA revised their professional competencies to include concepts such as environmental scan, we examined the top 2017 US News and World Repo Winner of the 2014 Red House Children's Book Award. 2014 Children's Choice Book Awards Finalist for Teen Book of the Year. A YALSA 2014 Best Fiction for 7 Jan 2020 2 NOVEMBER 2019 MONTHLY REPORT. STATELIBRARY. is, how to be involved with creating future summer programs, and the importance
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The latest commodity trading prices for oil, natural gas, gold, silver, wheat, corn and more on the U.S. commodities & futures market. New executive research reveals five epiphanies that will help business leaders increase competitiveness and navigate change in the aftermath of the pandemic. 3/6/1442 بعد الهجرة Response and Future Readiness. INTERIM COMMISSION REPORT. START READING 21/4/1442 بعد الهجرة Co-Chair’s Interim report - summary Show More The Task Force’s work is made possible by the generous funding and support of the Governments of Germany, Italy and Switzerland Future of Libraries Task Force Preliminary Report. The Ad Hoc Task Force on the Future of Libraries was charged with developing a vision of how the MIT Libraries ought to evolve to best advance the creation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge, not only to support MIT’s mission but also to position the Institute as a leader in the reinvention of research libraries.
We hope this will support many current and future members, especially those considering volunteer opportunities. If you are considering volunteer opportunities and have questions about the Short Term Leave Plan, please feel free to reach out to me and/or Kelly Czarnecki, YALSA President-Elect.
(Libraries)989-317-4760 email@example.com · Linda BraunProject Manager, YALSA, Future Ready with the Library firstname.lastname@example.org. Carla CelsoLibrary Media Specialist, Arthur L. Johnson High Schoolccelso@ clarkschools.org · Linda BraunProject Manager, YALSA, Future Ready with the 8 Jan 2014 From News Release: This report provides a roadmap for the library community for working with teens, said Shannon Peterson, YALSA President.
About this Group 👐 Anyone can view all content in the group, but only people who join it can post to it. Anyone can join to participate. Purpose: Provides a broad framework for information exchange on current research developments, tools, and activities affecting networked information resources and metadata; coordinates and actively participates in the development and review of standards May 16, 2018 · The content below is organized by the main areas in YALSA's Competencies for Librarians Serving Youth document.. Do you know of a great continuing education or professional development resource that would be of interest to individuals who work with teens through libraries? See full list on booklists.yalsa.net Nov 05, 2018 · (From left) Brandon Sanderson, Roshani Chokshi, Leigh Bardugo, Sabaa Tahir, and Tochi Onyebuchi. When the Young Adult Library Services Association’s (YALSA) 2018 Young Adult Services Symposium opened November 2 in Salt Lake City, all eyes were on five fantasy and sci-fi authors who shared personal stories of reading, writing, interacting with fans, and responding to criticism. Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures; Public Library Assn. (PLA) Reference & User Services Assn. (RUSA) United for Libraries (Trustees, Friends, Foundations) Young Adult Library Services Assn. (YALSA) CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), selected five books as finalists for the 2021 Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award , which honors the best nonfiction books written for young adults between November 1, 2019 and October 31, 2020. Dec 10, 2020 · The buildup to the 2021 Youth Media Awards (YMA) continues as YALSA announced the five finalists for the William C. Morris Debut Award, which is given each year to a book published by a first-time author writing for teens “and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.”


Organisations or individuals applying for investment related to publishing and distribution are required to complete the publishing application form.
Art Tasmania will invest in costs related to the publishing of:
- theatrical works
- literary fiction
- literary non-fiction
- poetry and graphic novels
- pamphlets covering the content and/or the interpretation of a small museum or collection.
Catalogues that are for promotional purposes (e.g. exhibition catalogues) may be considered; however applicants should consult a program officer before submitting an application for this purpose.
Arts Tasmania will not invest will in the publishing of:
- educational books (primary, secondary and tertiary)
- university theses
- dictionaries and encyclopaedias
- books which are primarily collections of interviews
- instruction manuals
- gardening and cooking books
- personal growth, lifestyle and hobby books
- specialist books focusing on topics such as philosophy, theology, psychology, medicine, law, the physical and natural sciences
- catalogues that are primarily for archival, indexing and documentation purposes.
Publishers may apply to Arts Tasmania for project funding towards activities that directly benefit Tasmanian writers. Publishers will need to demonstrate that these activities provide Tasmanian writers with profile, development, income or other opportunities to further their careers. Arts Tasmania grants cannot be used to fund book printing costs, but printing costs can be supporter by Arts Tasmania's low-interest loans.
For use in applications that involve publishing and distribution.


The Forensic Examiner® is the official peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute. This site serves as your source of information for all aspects of the journal, including article archives, contact information, and of course, advertising information.
The Forensic Examiner® is increasingly being accessed from the internet. As such, The Forensic Examiner® is transitioning to an online, continuously published journal. As The Forensic Examiner® has gained popularity and recognition as the world's leading forensic magazine, demand for access along with submission rates have greatly increased. The Examiner's transition from print to online availability is a response to the changing nature of journalism and scholarly publication, as well as a move to take advantage of the many opportunities offered by advances in technology and social media. This is an exciting time for the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute® as the transition to online, continuous publication will drastically increase our readership, while enabling the ACFEI to rapidly review and publish articles. Therefore we are enthusiastically taking the step towards removing the limitations of print production and offering The Forensic Examiner® online. To learn more, please visit our submissions page.
Thank you for visiting, and remember to check out www.acfei.com for questions about membership, certification, and other opportunities!
Small Cues – Major Effect: How an Auditor Training Exercise
Revealed a Multi-Generational Fraud
Research has shown that forensic accountants and auditors must possess certain skills and abilities that discourage reliance on routine behavior in audits.
The Psychological Forensic Expert Witness: Ethical Considerations
Psychologists are often called upon to provide testimony and evidence in judicial matters. In these roles the professional psychologist is either a psychological expert witness or providing their services as a forensic psychologist (American Psychological Association [APA], 2003).
Transnational Terrorism: The Role of Financial Intelligence Examined
Transnational terrorism remains at the forefront of concern on the part of most security agencies throughout the Western World and indeed in many other parts of the world as well, particularly the Middle East, North Africa, Pacific Rim, South and Central Asia.
Professionals Need Protection in Child Custody Evaluations and Social Studies for the Court
As a clinical psychologist who has been providing evaluations for the family court system in Texas for over twenty years, this evaluator has witnessed what appears to be a deterioration of services being provided to the courts and to the attorneys and their clients over the years.


The cooperative research project, Arthur Schnitzler digital. Digital Critical Edition (Works from 1905 to 1931), is being conducted by scholars at the Bergische University Wuppertal, the University of Cambridge, University College London and the University of Bristol, in partnership with Cambridge University Library, the German Literary Archive at Marbach, the Arthur-Schnitzler-Archive Freiburg, and the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of Trier. The German team, which began its work in January 2012 and is supported by the Union of Academies, is editing texts from 1914 onwards; the British team, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), began its work in January 2014 and is editing texts from the period between 1905 and 1913.
The aim of the project is to produce a new critical edition in digital form, to be published on an open access online platform hosted by Cambridge University Library. In contrast to those of other representative figures of the classical Modernist period, the works of the great Austrian writer, Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), have until now not been made available in a scholarly edition. Historical critical editions of works from the early period (up to 1904) have begun to be produced in print and e-book form by a team based in Vienna, supported by the FWF (de Gruyter 2011ff.), while our project exploits the potential of digital methods for its editions of works from 1905 onwards. The project draws upon the enormous store of archival material, saved in 1938 and transferred to Cambridge University Library, which still holds the larger part of the literary estate (a smaller collection is housed at Marbach, with individual holdings elsewhere). Our research will provide insights into Schnitzler’s working methods and the aesthetic principles that guided them. This will shed new light on an author whose rich and varied oeuvre helped to define the whole period of classical Modernism (c. 1890-1930), with a highly developed sensitivity to its problems and contradictions.
The online portal will for the first time draw together the physically dispersed archival holdings in a virtual form, combining the functions of digital archive and edition. The collected extant material – both manuscript and typescript – will be digitally reproduced, transcribed, and made accessible through commentaries, registers etc. Through different textual views (diplomatic transcriptions, genetically interpreted reconstructions, amended reading versions) a multi-perspectival edition will be produced, with due regard to both ‘textuality’ and ‘materiality’. Beyond this, the digital medium will open up the possibility of representing in an appropriate manner the rich picture of Schnitzler’s mode of writing. With its hypertextual structures and resources for non-sequential ordering, the digital edition will capture the systemic interdependence of composition processes that sometimes stretched over decades, with complex networks of transmission crossing textual and generic boundaries.


Discover the mysteries that await in Mechagon comic, written by Matt Burns, a senior writer on Blizzard Entertainment’s creative development team, and illustrated by Miki Montlló, an artist who has been working in animation (for studios including Filmax, Cartoon Saloon, and Laika), games, and comics for 12 years.
“No one is immune from death—no one except the people of Mechagon. At least, that’s what the stories say. Most gnomes think Mechagon is just a far-fetched legend, but not the old, scarred explorer Kervo. After years of obsessive research, he has set off on what might be his final adventure: a daring gambit to find Mechagon and uncover the secrets of immortality before his own time runs out.”
Mechagon is a formerly unexplored part of Gnomish lore in World of Warcraft, having not been mentioned before its inclusion in the game with patch 8.2 and having no lore leading up to it. Or, more accurately, no lore prior to a new comic that outlines one scarred Gnomish explorer seeking out the ancient legendary realm of Mechagon, something so shrouded in mystery that no one else even believes it’s real.
The comic is free for anyone to peruse and details the journey of Kervo as he struggles to find Mechagon and prove that it’s real. Although he may not walk away with the proof that he had hoped to find.


What can we learn from the detailed exegesis of Carl von Clausewitz for the study of strategy? Based on a detailed reading of Clausewitz’ book On War, this paper proposes that Clausewitz’ reflections on strategy unfold along two parallel arguments. First, he explores the principal difficulties of a positive theory of strategy. This critical inquiry shows how quantities and qualities influence each other in war; how events emerge rather uncontrollably from the interplay of action and reaction; and how the fog of war puts a veil of uncertainty over all information. Clausewitz’s fundamental critique leads him to the conclusion that a normative theory of strategy is impossible.


New Defender's Study Bible Notes
19:4 Have ye not read. In response to a vital question about the most important of all human institutions (marriage and family), as His authority the Lord quotes the account of creation in Genesis. It is obvious that He—contrary to the opinion of modern intellectuals and liberal theologians—regarded the creation record as historically true and divinely inspired.
19:5 cleave to his wife. Modern critics often allege that the first two chapters of Genesis are two different and contradictory accounts of creation. Jesus, however, quoted from Genesis 1:27 and Genesis 2:24 as perfectly complementary and of absolute authority. Furthermore, He was there at the beginning!
19:6 let not man put asunder. The creation account is thus the foundation for the institution of marriage, which was validated by the Creator Himself and established to be a lifelong union between one man and woman, who were commanded to “be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28).


From the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, as North American and European powers competed for influence in Latin America and an army of archeologists searched for ancient monuments deep in the region's interior, a diverse group of individuals scouted the continent’s cities looking for manuscripts, documents, and printed material from the colonial and early Republican era. Sharing both a passion for collecting and an acute sense of intellectual opportunism, European and North American collectors purchased these articles by the thousands, amassing a cornucopia of rare books, letters, acts, maps, drawings, diaries, histories, and poems considered almost worthless by their former owners. In time, their collections found their way into the shelves of public and university libraries in countries such as the United States, England, Germany, and Canada—libraries that often agreed to pay a hefty sum in order to increase their holdings on a region considered of increasing strategic and economic value. Among the most important of these collectors of Latin Americana were Obadiah Rich (1783-1850), an American consul in Spain whose collection of early books on the history of Latin America was acquired by the New York Public Library in 1897; John Carter Brown II (1797-1874) and John Nicholas Brown (1861-1900), whose holdings form the basis of the John Carter Brown Library, an institution that owns the world's largest collection of books printed in Latin America prior to 1820; Edward E. Ayer (1841-1927), a timber magnate turned bibliophile who donated his books on indigenous and colonial era history to the Newberry Library and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago; William Edmond Gates (1863-1940) and Charles Wilson Hackett (1881-1951), academics who made important contributions to the Mexican collections held by Tulane, Princeton, and the University of Texas; Bernardo Mendel (1895-1967), an Austrian emigrant who made his fortune in Colombia before settling in the US and selling his valuable collection of books and documents to the Lilly Library at Indiana University; Gregory Javitch (1898-1980), a Russian Jew who fled Nazi-occupied France and immigrated first to Palestine and then to Canada, and whose interest on the fate of North American Indians led him to collect books about the displacement and genocide of indigenous societies, which are currently held at the University of Alberta; and, finally, the Argentinean scholar Ernesto Quesada (1858-1934), whose donation of over 82,000 books to the State of Prussia—together with the 25,000 items collected by the geographer Hermann Hagen (1889-1976) with the support of Mexican president Plutarco Elías Calles—enabled the creation of one of the greatest European institutions devoted to the study of Latin America: the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut in Berlin. By tracing their dealings with booksellers, librarians, and intellectuals—such as José Vasconcelos (1882-1959) and Germán Arciniegas (1900-1999), among others—this research project explores the contributions that these collectors made to the establishment of the field of Latin American Studies in countries such as Canada, the US, and Germany, and how their actions transformed the politics and aesthetics of book collecting in the region. In so doing, this research aims to illuminate an aspect of the transatlantic book trade that has received scant attention despite its relevance to our understanding of the transfer of intellectual and artistic resources from the South to the North. Furthermore, this research on the collection and collectors of ancient Latin American books and manuscripts seeks to contribute to current discussions on cultural colonialism, the public role of intellectuals and bibliophiles, and the right to cultural memory.
Prof. José R. Jouve-Martín
José Jouve Martin (Ph.D. Georgetown University, 2003) is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University.


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A series of portraits to celebrate the BVLGARI x Save the Children collection this Giving Tuesday. Thank you BLVGARI for 10 amazing years of partnership with Save the Children. I am so excited to be a part of the #GiveHope campaign. There is nothing more important than a child’s potential and belief in themselves. A healthy childhood includes education, love, nurture, and self worth so that our children can grow into strong individuals with a voice and the idea that they can in fact have dreams and see them come to fruition in real life.
From a young age, my most prized possession was my public library card. I wanted to read, write, speak, and sing. I am so grateful for that library card which expanded my mind as a child and made me feel like I could be whoever I wanted to be. Having access to books and stories and the world empowered me. I believe there is nothing more valuable than a child’s potential and making sure they really see it in themselves.
You’ll find the charity’s emblem on the back of this beautiful necklace. For every piece sold, a part of the proceeds will be donated to the Save the Children organization to fund programs that support to the world’s most vulnerable children and young people.


Join Women in NAAAP's Book Club!
Spotlighting Asian-American women in literature – we celebrate narratives and authors that cover cultural identity, heritage, adversity, and perseverance.
We will meet once a quarter to discuss our thoughts, feelings, and personal experiences as it relates to the book!
Book Club is a great way to network and meet others with common interests. Whether you’re a casual reader or avid reader, all are welcome to join!
WiN is excited to announce this season’s book selection,
“The Storm We Made” by Vanessa Cham
Vanessa Chan’s debut novel is a spellbinding, sweeping narrative about a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWII—and the shocking consequences that rain upon her community and family.
Date: February 25, 2024
Upcoming Book HE/SHE/THEY
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“Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee
Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan’s finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee’s complex and passionate characters — strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis — survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.
“Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Malinda Lo
Set in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the Red Scare, Lo’s historical fiction navigates the crossroads of identity, sexuality, love, and duty. Join us in discussing this award-winning coming-of-age story.
“Minor Feelings” by Cathy Park Hong
Through cultural criticism and her individual life experiences, Hong creates a narrative that challenges Asian American people to reflect on their own race, politics, and identity. She cleverly uses humor to unpack the complexities of being Asian in America and the “minor feelings” that arise when the American perception of Asian identity contradicts reality.
“Crying in H-Mart” by Michelle Zauner
Zauner’s memoir touches upon growing up as Korean-American in the US, forgoing the presence of her mother, and embracing her identity. She eloquently captures the ties between the remembrance of loved ones, Korean culture, and childhood memories to Korean cuisine.


Welcome to the Scyld ClusterWare HPC Reference Guide. This document describes Scyld ClusterWare commands that can be invoked by the ordinary user and the maintenance utilities that are intended for the cluster administrator. It also provides in-depth information on the configuration file /etc/beowulf/config and the cluster node file system table /etc/beowulf/fstab. The document also includes an extensive library/function reference for the Beostat Beowulf Status library and the BProc Beowulf Process Control library.
The Scyld BeoMaster functionality is implemented through several packages, notably the following:
The BProc package, which implements the Scyld BProc unified process space functionality.
The libbeostat package, which monitors the state of the compute nodes and gathers performance metrics, making these metrics available through a library API
We welcome any reports on errors or difficulties that you may find. We also would like your suggestions on improving this document. Please direct all comments and problems to firstname.lastname@example.org.
When writing your email, please be as specific as possible, especially with errors in the text. Please include the chapter and section information. Also, please mention in which version of the manual you found the error. This version is Scyld ClusterWare HPC, First Edition, published October 2006.


Mexican Family History
Mexico Phone Books are an authentic Mexican information resource and provide:
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Why are Mexico Phone Books such a good resource?
Most reference directories, including those found at the world's largest family genealogy library (The Family History Library in Salt Lake City, UT), do not collect or provide information on individuals that are living; they can only collect information on the deceased.
If you are looking for information on a birth parent, a mother, a father, or other relatives still living in Mexico today, then you will need one of the few resources that Genealogy Reference Experts such as the librarians quoted above recommend -- the Mexico Phone Book.
What do I need to do first for my family genealogy?
much as possible about the person you want to find.
Many people beginning their family genealogy contact our company without having this basic and necessary information.
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Common in the USA, a reverse lookup allows you to enter a phone number to receive the address of the person listed for the phone number. Mexico is one of a few countries that does not have or legislatively prohibit a system for reverse lookups. You need a resource that allows you to search for the person by name and that also lists the related telephone number.
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There is limited genealogy information on individuals living in Mexico on the Internet. Personal records in Mexico are not readily available online. Sites claiming to offer telephone numbers for Mexico usually only have listings for a limited number of businesses. You want a resource that will have the most current listing of names for individuals living in Mexico.
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Another challenge is that some people do not read or speak Spanish. Much of the available resources for family information will be in Spanish. If you don't know Spanish, you may want a service that will do the research for you.
Who can benefit from Mexico Phone Books?
Individuals, law firms, U.S. Circuit Courts and many other organizations contact Mexico Phone Books in an effort to find someone in Mexico. Many librarians keep copies of Mexico phone books at their Reference Desk because they receive so many calls from people wanting information that can be found quickly and in some cases only found in these directories.
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About the Book
This novel tells the story of Min Green and how she and Ed Slaterton met at a party, saw a movie, followed an old woman, shared a hotel room, and broke each other's hearts.
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"Irresistibly offbeat...a singular sensation. Handler skillfully evokes the voice of a teenage girl...The result of the Handler-Kalman coupling, a witty and achingly true-to-life account of young love, makes me hope they stay together for a long time."—VanityFair.com
"The Lemony Snicket author (writing under his own name) convincingly inhabits the mind of Min, a teenage girl reeling from her first heartbreak. This poignant, bittersweet novel centers on a box of objects infused with memories of her brief, unforgettable love."— Entertainment Weekly
“It's easy to predict how Handler's story will conclude from the book's few pages. It's more difficult to take such an everyday tragedy with a predictable ending and elevate it to an end point of enduring, emotionally effective art.”—Los Angeles Times
"Filled with long, lovely riffs of language… exquisite scenes of teenage life and the sad souvenirs of one high school relationship, “Why We Broke Up” is a silken, bittersweet tale of adolescent heartache."—New York Times Book Review
"Handler shows exceptional skill at getting inside Min's head and heart."—Publisher's Weekly, starred review.
"...will no doubt be one of the most talked-about romances in teen literature. Handler frames their lives together with a sharp, cinematic virtuosity that leaps off the pages. Their relationship sparks and burns with so much passion, honesty, enlightenment and wonder. A poignant, exhilarating tale of alove affair gone to the dogs."—Kirkus, starred review
"Handler offers a heartbreaking, bittersweet, and compelling romance with a unique angle and flare."—SLJ, starred review
"Anyone who's ever dealt with a bad breakup will love this book."—American Cheerleader
"Brilliant...Maira Kalman's illustrations endow [the book's] inanimate objects with all of Min's emotion. The male and female bottle caps of Scarpia's Bitter Black Ale from that first night they met seem to pulse with tension; pages of rose petals nearly fall from the book. This book will resonate with teens—and even adults—because far too many of us have stood in Min's shoes."—Shelf Awareness
"The novel effectively describes the joys, heartbreaks, disappointments, and regrets experienced by Min, and will be sure to resonate with all young adults."—Library Media Connection
"Handler takes a tired old saw, the romance between senior basketball co-caption Ed Slaterton and junior cinephile Min Green, and injects us into the halting, breathless, disbelieving, horny, and nervous minds of two teens who feel 'different' only in how they define themselves in contrast to each other—that dumbstruck, anthropologocial joy of introducing foreign films to a dude schooled only in layups, and vice versa. Handler’s genius is to make us hear those minor-key notes as if they were playing on our first—and last—dates, too."—Booklist, starred review


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Exceptional Performances Bring Single Mother’s Struggles to Life
Full Time (À plein temps)
Year Released: 2021, 2023 Music Box Films streaming and DVD
Runtime: 1h 28m
Director(s): Éric Gravel
Writer(s): Éric Gravel
Cast: Laure Calamy, Anne Suarez, Geneviève Mnich, Nolan Arizmendi, Sasha Lemaitre Cremaschi, Cyril Gueï, Lucie Gallo, Agathe Dronne, Mathilde Weil, Dana Fiaque, Mareme N'Diaye
Language: French with English subtitles
Where To Watch: now available on DVD and digital https://www.musicboxfilms.com/film/full-time/
RAVING REVIEW: Prepare yourself for an equally entertaining and thought-provoking cinematic journey. Éric Gravel's FULL TIME takes us through the ups and downs of the life of Julie Roy; a character brilliantly brought to life by Laure Calamy. This film celebrates the resilience of the human spirit as we follow Julie's everyday struggles as a single mother.
FULL TIME delivers a powerful narrative that keeps viewers satiated. Calamy's performance beautifully complements Gravel's keen direction, while Irène Drésel's electrifying score further intensifies the film. We explore universally relatable themes, dissecting societal challenges, the government's responsibility in supporting its citizens, and the pursuit of stability in a chaotic world. The movie's ability to provoke introspection and self-reflection in viewers showcases the power of its storytelling.
Set in the backdrop of Paris, Julie, a hotel maid and single mother, contends with many challenges, from her ex-husband's debts and low wages to her children's nanny quitting and strikes jeopardizing her punctuality at work. Gravel's directorial finesse captures the ever-present tension, creating an atmosphere that resonates with viewers.
A notable aspect of FULL TIME is Julie's sense of isolation, this is done through various ways throughout the film, but arguably the most potent form is showing how Julie just doesn’t have time for others—underscoring the harsh realities of modern life, making Julie's story all the more poignant and relevant.
As a recipient of the Best Director and Best Actress Horizons (Orizzonti) awards at the Venice Film Festival, FULL TIME stands as a testament to the skill and dedication of its cast and crew. The film dodges clichés and melodrama, providing an enjoyable experience while delivering a meaningful message, a rare feat for any movie. Instead, offering a fresh perspective on human nature's heroic and imperfect aspects.
In conclusion, FULL TIME is a riveting and thought-provoking film that skillfully showcases the challenges faced by a single mother in an accessible and engaging way. With exceptional performances, a directorial style that accentuates the gritty realism of life's trials, and a unique blend of genres, FULL TIME is a must-watch for everyone, not just movie buffs.
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In this video Ant Hampton, one of the creators of The Quiet Volume, shares his insights and observations about the show and tells us how he thinks this production at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Reading Room will be a truly unique experience. The Quiet Volume is an intimate theatrical experience about books, reading, and the communal experience of the library. Two participants sit side-by-side at tables and don headphones. Taking cues from words both written and whispered in their ears, they find themselves burrowing an unlikely path through a pile of books. Performances June 18-28, 2013, as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
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MASTERING THE MYSTERIES OF STEPFAMILES ($15.00 *)
Nancy Landrum, in collaboration with Mary Ortwein and IDEALS for Families and Communities, has adapted their popular Mastering the Mysteries of Love curriculum for use with stepfamilies. In Mastering the Mysteries of Stepfamilies you will find effective communication and conflict resolution skills with highly recommended guidelines that help stepfamilies successfully navigate their complex issues. You will learn to communicate respectfully, make agreements you can keep, and rediscover your love for one another!
The – page Participant Book is divided into 8 sessions:
Session 1: participants will be presented with general information and misinformation. The RE Skills taught are Showing Understanding and Expression Skills.
Session 2: participants will use Discussion Skill as they explore three of the mysteries of Stepfamilies:
- Mystery # 1: How do my spouse and I build a strong and healthy marriage?
- Mystery #2: How do I help my children feel secure?
- Mystery #3: How do I build a good relationship with my step-child?
Session 3: participants learn to use Problem Solving Skill to master Mystery #4, creating safe and comfortable stepfamily boundaries.
Session 4: parents learn to use Conflict Management Skill solve Mystery #5: How to discipline effectively.
Session 5: parents are introduced to Mysteries # 6 & 7: How to manage a workable relationshp with an ex and how to support my child’s relationship with the bio-parent by using Coaching Skill
Session 6: participants are taught Self-Change Skill and Helping Others Change Skill as they determine how to handle Mystery #8: How to choose between different family traditions.
Session 7: the family is taught how to maintain ther skills. Mystery #9 is How to protect your strong stepfamily. Mystery #10 gives advice on when stepfamilies need to seek more help and where to find it. Maintenance Skill is taught.
Session 8: celebration!
Mastering the Mysteries of Stepfamilies Leader’s Guide ($ —– w/o binder; $—– w/binder)
The 237 page Leader’s Guide provides the facilitator with comprehensive intructions on how to present the material to participants. Part One of the Leader’s Guide gives a history of Mastering the Mysteries of Love programs. Part Two contains extensive outlines for each of the 8 sessions. Each segment contains background notes, detailed, step-by-step outline of how to present the material and skills, and experiential exercises. The Appendix contains a General Guide to MML Coaching and a Guide to Phone Coaching the MML Series.
Powerpoint Presentation: Mastering the Mysteries of Stepfamailies ($—-)
Colorful graphic presentations of the Mastering the Mysteries of Stepfamilies material that promises to keep participants eyes on you instead of their participant books.


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Birkbeck, University of London, recently asked me about my inspiration for my first novel, The Music Book. Here’s what I wrote: http://www.writershub.co.uk/blog-piece.php?pc=2435
I’m pleased to announce that The Music Book is now officially published and available for purchase as an eBook for the Amazon Kindle (and smartphone/tablet/PC via the Kindle app). Purchase links can be found on the ‘Where to buy’ page.
Edward Glover is a historical novelist and author of The Herzberg Trilogy, The Executioner's House, and his latest novel The Lute Player.
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The People of The United Methodist Church
Our History . . .
The United Methodist Church is the expression and hope of a rich tradition of spreading the gospel to every corner of human society. The Methodist movement, led by John and Charles Wesley, began in England after each of the brothers had transforming religious experiences that moved them to work for the renewal and revival of the Church of England. They took their message out of formal worship settings, directly to the people in the fields and streets. They formed small groups—many led by laypeople, both men and women—to nurture people in the Christian faith. Their message of personal experience of God’s love nurtured in faithful community through study, worship, and service found willing audiences among a broad range of people, from the elite to the poorest of the poor.
In the mid-1700s, the Methodist movement spread to the New World. Leadership included laymen and laywomen, both European Americans and African Americans. John Wesley sent lay preachers, including Francis Asbury, to America to strengthen the work of the movement. Wesley later sent Thomas Coke, an Anglican priest whom Wesley had ordained a superintendent (later called “bishop”), to oversee the American movement.
In 1784, at the famous “Christmas Conference” in Baltimore, Coke ordained Asbury a superintendent and several others as deacons and presbyters. The Methodist Episcopal Church in America was born with an emphasis on strong discipline; ordained and lay preachers who traveled from town to town (circuit riders) to preach, teach, and spread the gospel through revivals and camp meetings; and a system of regular conferences to conduct the business of the church.
Two other churches were being formed in America about the same time as the Methodist Episcopal Church. Philip William Otterbein, a German Reformed pastor, and Martin Boehm, a Mennonite, preached about spreading the gospel (evangelism) and personal experience of the Holy Spirit. Their followers organized the Church of the United Brethren in Christ in 1800. Also at the turn of the nineteenth century, Jacob Albright, a Lutheran farmer who had ties to both the United Brethren and Methodist movements, took his message of evangelism and the ministry of all the people to German-speaking settlements in Pennsylvania. The Evangelical Association was formed by his followers. These two churches merged in 1946 to form the Evangelical United Brethren.
In 1939, three Methodist bodies (Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal South, and Methodist Protestant churches) merged to form The Methodist Church. The United Methodist Church is the result of the 1968 union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren.
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Russia’s interference in 2016 marked only the latest chapter of a hidden and revelatory history. In Rigged, David Shimer tells the sweeping story of covert electoral interference past and present. He exposes decades of secret operations–by the KGB, the CIA, and Vladimir Putin’s Russia–to shape electoral outcomes, melding deep historical research with groundbreaking interviews with more than 130 key players, from leading officials in both the Trump and Obama administrations, to CIA and NSA directors, to a former KGB general.
What Americans should make of Russia’s attack in 2016 is still hotly debated, even after the Mueller report and years of media coverage. Shimer shows that Putin’s operation was, in fact, a continuation of an ongoing struggle, using familiar weapons radically enhanced by new technology. Throughout history and in 2016, both Russian and American operations achieved their greatest success by influencing the way voters think, rather than tampering with actual vote tallies."
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5. Immigration Controls: A Cruel Twentieth Century Aberration
Teresa Hayter (activist and author), Oxford, U.K. Human beings have always migrated. Practically every nation state in the world is the product of successive waves of migration. 'National culture' is an illusion, peddled by the right wing and the racists. States have for centuries, from time to time, given themselves the right to expel people. What is new, and a twentieth century phenomenon, is the attempt by nation states to stop people entering their territories in the first place. At a time when the rich countries themselves recognise that they need more rather than less immigration in order to prosper and even survive, they continue to build ever more vicious structures of repression to keep 'the unchosen' out. This requires explanation. It is not clear that the continued existence of immigration controls can be explained in any way other than by racism. The arguments of economic self-interest on the part of the states applying controls are weak or non-existent. If governments had a real concern about the numbers migrating (rather than merely a desire to act tough to appease the racists and thus, they hope, win votes), they could refrain from military intervention and other actions which force people to flee. An ideal situation would be one in which nobody is forced to migrate, but everybody is free to migrate if they wish to.
6. ‘Frame-breaking: Globalization, Romanticism, Postmodernism.’
Ian Haywood, Roehampton University, London, U.K.
In this talk I will suggest that important and useful parallels exist between the postmodern, globalized condition of modernity and the Romantic era in which migration/exile, nationalism and nostalgia first become powerful political and cultural discourses in opposition to Enlightenment barbarism (war, political economy, imperialism, tyranny). Specifically, I will focus on Byron, the archetypal Romantic radical wanderer and first great European literary celebrity. The Byronic ‘exile’, I will suggest, represents an alternative modern subjectivity: a complex trope of fluid individualism, alienation, pleasure, excess, play, cosmopolitanism, sexual transgression, celebrity, satirical jouissance and strategic nationalism.
I will illustrate these ideas with examples from Byron’s political and literary career, beginning with his defence of the Luddite ‘frame-breakers’ (the basic model of the violent, dispossessed national working class), and drawing on his more famous achievements, the ‘Oriental’ tales, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan. I will end with a brief consideration of J. M. Coetzee’s novel Disgrace, in which Byronism is put forward as an ambiguous resolution of the conflicts between an instrumentalist modernization, the collapse of liberal humanism, women’s emancipation, and violent nationalist territorialism.
7. The Nostalgia at Homeland: Modern Bulgarian National Identity and Economic Existence Abroad
Zhivko Ivanov, Paiissiy Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
This paper examines the relationship between: economic reasons for emigrating; renewal of the national and patriotic discourse observed abroad; and the redefined national identity of Bulgaria in the European context.
The new forms of distanced emigrant nationalism are available in discursive practice – in electronic fora, websites for emigrants, discussing groups, etc. Cases of traumatic nostalgia are often manifested there, continuing even after a final return home. Both instances of destroyed identity and of economic and social satisfaction are evidenced in the process of surviving in a host country far away from home. In fact, we can observe the rise of a new Bulgarian networking community revolving a great variety of attitudes and opinions about the national and global, about home and abroad, about host country and homeland. Using the words of Lies Sercu in National Helpdesks for Intercultural Learning Materials: A Guideline (Utrecht 1999), ‘Immigration, tolerance, … integration, ethnicity, race, … discrimination, exclusion,… equal opportunities, multicultural… These are just some of the beacons guiding a debate on diversity, which is sweeping through public life in North America and Europe, and of which echoes can be heard in many other parts of the world’(12). As part of the process of border removals and due to the transitions taking place in Bulgarian society on a number of levels, many of the above listed “hot issues” become relevant to contemporary Bulgarian and many more will gain relevance in the future. Multicultural and intercultural issues, which have been recurrent motifs in present day public debates, are also, logically, reflected in educational policy making, since education in general, and especially in the state-run obligatory schooling system, is seen as a key location for influencing developments in society. To a great extent reflecting the above-outlined tendencies, in several countries in Europe a number of National Helpdesks have been founded. In general, Helpdesks address themselves to teachers, teacher trainers, textbook authors, publishers, policy makers. Their purpose is to provide practical advice to educational practitioners related to pursuing the objectives of intercultural education. The primary focus of their work falls on teaching materials and media, mainly on textbooks, since, as empirical studies have established, it is what teachers predominantly use in their daily practice. As legal entities, being NGOs, Helpdesks position themselves proactively and become manifestations of a democratic, pluralist and civil society. … In our approach to the analysis of textbooks and the educational and legal documentation which they implement we engage in two acts: a) that of researching the textbooks for evidence of how they create and confirm majority national and minority ethnic identities; how they invent ways of belonging to the Bulgarian nation state and observing the established ‘order’, and b) that of crossing the boundary of the established norms and seeking to fulfil the Mission of the Helpdesk to promote intercultural education by pointing at and suggesting ways to overcome the negative consequences of constructing national identity as fixed, closed, and unchanging and of marginalising the nationally and ethnically different in the Bulgarian society. It is the heritage of long dating back to antiquity partition which already started to form in Imperium Romanum. Balkans already in antiquity were on the borderland of Latin West and Greek East whose further separation happened in the Middle Ages. The dismemberment was intensified by the Islam expansion, which thanks to Turkish after Constantinople fall in 1453, engulfed almost all Balkan Peninsula. This is how the cultural and civilizing circles were formed which were to influence the countenance of this region of Europe. The borders between the territories marked by the circles are not definite and it is difficult to attribute particular countries to one specific circle. In most cases the borderlines will go through within particular countries and form sort of a net depicting not only ethnic settlement but also cultural and civilizing order which does not depend on national affiliation but on the religion of the region. This situation contributes to inevitable conflicts and to a dialogue which continues despite disagreements. While our continent is still uniting, the events of conflicts and dialogue which have been going on for long time on the south-west borderland of Europe should be the source of reflection over future model of EU. If the unity of our continent is not to be the illusion of integrated community only on the legal and economic ground, so it must be reinforced by more stable foundation than global market. Countries whose relations are based on euros or unified legal system are not strong enough to fight national egoism and antagonisms. There must be ideas that can integrate Latin and Byzantine traditions into one European civilization. And if Muslim Turkey is to join EU it would be necessary to work out a new modus vivendi on the level of the dialogue between civilizations. All those problems have focused for a long time in the land of Balkans. Defining the model of the ancient, and afterwards of the Christian ascesis gradually clears up the notion of man and world in a historical perspective, and, unexpectedly at first sight, draws the picture of the globalized world of today. On the one hand the ancient philosophy considers the world to be a cosmic unity in which the natural and the human determine each other, and on the other hand the Christian vision sets the body as separated from the supreme function of the Spirit which is eternal, while the body is ephemeral. In that sense the ascesis is an internal effort, a spiritual exercise, not a physical torment and a wearisome labour. In today’s modern world the idea of ascesis has thinned to a pedantic rationality and love of economizing. The insane consumption drive of the postindustrial world is an expression of a one-way compensation against the shrunk range of the intimate human experience. Through the ascesis the Christian does not simply overcomes problems and fears, but ascends his spirit to a greater horizon. Globalization uses diets and body restraints, which have nothing in common with the genuine Christian ascesis, in which food abstention represents surmounting of the non-durable and the transient. Today’s models of diets, emptied of spiritual substance, are not related either to the ancient (natural-human) or to the Christian ascesis, which leads to salvation. The mailing list is one of the market squares of the information age. It is thus a site of community formation and identity construction across all layers - individual, gender, community, ethnicity, nationality and race in relation to one perspective of homeland or another. The discursive production of ‘homeland’ in any of these contexts is complex due to the intricacy of joggling multiple positionings of individuals and groups within interconnecting and multiple layerings of home, community and identity (cf. Kondo, 1996: 113). Diaspora Nigerians like other new immigrant communities contend with their locations on the margins of Western societies and the struggle to enter the mainstream and at the same time maintain some relevance to their Nigerian homelands. They thus inhabit the interface of memory and reality and tap into a mix of present and past referential resources to do so. Mailing lists and their narratives become tools for inscribing homeland identities within Nigeria’s virtual diaspora as a specific community of practice. This paper will explore data from a corpus of interactional emails collected from Chat-Afrik a virtual community of Nigerians who are physically located in different parts of the world. As the old joke has it, nostalgia is not what it used to be. If nothing else, the recent growth in academic exploration, governmental management, and international manifestations of ‘cultural memory’ indicates a crisis in our understanding of temporality which is assuming global proportions. The loss or decay of the ‘aura’ of the past is, as Benjamin argues, a mark of modernity, and the concomitant search and desire for ‘origins’ intensifies a sense of ‘transcendental homelessness’ which is the modern condition (Lukacs). But this is also to forget that ‘modernization itself created the auratic effect to begin with’ (Huyssen). This paper will argue that the processes of remembering and memorialization, as ways of thinking about the historical world, no longer give expression to a belief in a telos of history in which collective nostalgia marked boundaries between a nation’s past and present. While such memory exercises were inherently conservative, they nonetheless embodied a sense of historical development which could be usefully and effectively mobilised as an instrument of progressive transformation and resistance. The paper will also argue that the course of globalisation has intensified this sense of amnesia by promoting certain forms of neo-conservative ‘tradition’ while effectively neutralising other forms of radical memory. I will explore these issues as they are materialised in texts, monuments, conserved ruins, etc, and ask where are the contemporary ‘lieux de memoire’ which counter the reductionism of globalised collective memory?
14. Re-Imagining the Homeland in a Post-Colonial Context
Dennis Walder, Faculty of Arts, Open University, U.K.
This focuses upon the remarkable recent outpouring of attempts by South Africans to reinstate the most derided figure on the old neo-Darwinian racial map, i.e. the Khoisan or Bushman (the very naming is subject to ongoing controversy), in such works as Andre Brink's recent novel The Other Side of Silence, set in German SWA 1890s, some poetic renderings of San songs by Watson and Krog (representing English and Afrikaans SA), and some docu-prose attempts to represent the Kalahari Bushmen as ultimate victims of neo-colonial capitalism. The migrant-European angle would be produced by my own 'reflective-nostalgia' (as defined by Svtelana Boym) perspective, in terms of struggling to come to terms with family links to the German settlement and the so-called Second Reich.


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"There are also many other things that Jesus did, but if these were to be described individually, I do not think the whole world could contain the books that would be written." Jn. 21:25
Dear Jesus, you give us your word, your holy word, as a guide to our lives. The Bible is a library of your word and the Church holds our tradition and the contents of our faith. Thank you for these gifts as we pray for understanding and clarity so that we may do your will in this world. Amen.
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Welcome to the vibrant world of Rowan University, where the colors green and gold paint a picture of an enriching academic and social experience. In this article, we’ll delve into the heart of campus life at Rowan, exploring the various facets that make this university stand out. From academic pursuits to extracurricular adventures, we’ll guide you through the journey of being a proud Rowan Owl.
Discovering the Campus: A Visual Feast
1. The Greenery of Rowan
Nestled amidst lush landscapes, Rowan University boasts picturesque surroundings that provide a serene backdrop for the academic journey. Explore the green spaces that invite tranquility and create an environment conducive to learning.
2. Architectural Marvels in Gold
Unveil the architectural wonders adorned in gold hues that define Rowan’s campus. From modern academic buildings to historic structures, every corner resonates with a blend of tradition and innovation.
Academics: Where Green Minds Thrive
3. Diverse Academic Programs
Rowan University takes pride in offering a diverse range of academic programs, catering to students with varied interests. Unravel the myriad options that empower students to pursue their passion.
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Meet the dedicated faculty members who contribute to the success of Rowan’s academic community. Learn about their expertise, mentorship, and commitment to fostering an atmosphere of learning.
5. Cutting-edge Research Opportunities
Explore the research avenues that allow students to engage in groundbreaking projects. Rowan encourages a culture of innovation, providing resources for students to explore and contribute to their fields of study.
Campus Life Beyond the Classroom
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Immerse yourself in the diverse range of student organizations that cater to every interest. From academic clubs to cultural societies, Rowan fosters a sense of community and belonging.
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Discover the artistic soul of Rowan through its vibrant arts and culture scene. Attend performances, exhibitions, and events that showcase the talents of the Rowan community.
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Cheer for the green and gold! Rowan’s athletic programs boast excellence on and off the field. Dive into the spirited sports culture that unites students, athletes, and fans.
Navigating Resources: The Golden Path to Success
9. State-of-the-Art Facilities
Experience the top-notch facilities that Rowan provides, creating an environment conducive to learning and personal development. From libraries to laboratories, students have access to resources that amplify their educational journey.
10. Career Services
Uncover the career services that guide students towards success beyond graduation. Rowan’s commitment to professional development equips students with the skills and resources needed for a competitive job market.
11. Internship Opportunities
Rowan bridges the gap between academia and industry with robust internship programs. Explore how students gain real-world experience, setting the stage for future career success.
As you embark on your academic journey at Rowan University, remember that the green and gold colors not only symbolize the campus but also represent a commitment to excellence, growth, and community. Whether you’re navigating the vibrant campus life, engaging in cutting-edge research, or cheering for the Profs, Rowan University offers a holistic experience that shapes individuals into well-rounded professionals.
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- What makes Rowan University unique? Rowan’s unique blend of academic excellence, vibrant campus life, and a supportive community sets it apart.
- How can I get involved in student organizations? Explore Rowan’s Student Center and online platforms to discover a wide array of student organizations catering to diverse interests.
- Are there opportunities for undergraduate research? Yes, Rowan encourages undergraduate research, providing numerous opportunities for students to engage in meaningful projects.
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- How does Rowan support career development? Rowan’s career services offer guidance, workshops, and networking opportunities, ensuring students are well-prepared for their professional journey.