"Zulman Inc would like you to give feedback on why you are removing this book from your collection and what can they do to improve your experience." The gentle calm voice of Madonna, optimized to insinuate the maximum effect of empathy, gentleness and feminine repose that federal regulations on artificial personal assistants allow, filled Edward's ears.
He listened to the whole sentence calmly and then said "No feedback."
"Would you like me to find you a new book?"
"Not at the moment."
"Perhaps a TV show?"
"No, thank you"
"Would you like me to show you what's trending?"
"No. I would like you to leave me for now."
"Okay. I am here whenever you need me. Just to recap today's news..."
"No news please."
"I will update your account preferences according to this choice. Have a goodnight."
"Sir, have you changed your mind about the feedback?"
"No I have not changed my mind. It's the only one I got."
"I'm sorry but I cannot understand you."
"Would you like me to today's trending videos with the tag humor?"
"No. No trending videos. Can you open the library for me?"
"Ah, looking for a book? Zulman is the best place for top selling books and magazines. Would you like me to go through the top seller list for the 31st week of the year?"
"No, no top selling books. And before you ask, no trending books either."
"Alright. Would you like me to go through the trending books by the top critics for the 31st week of the year?"
"No. Can you just open the library?"
"Opening library. There is a sale on Naked heart - A soul's undressing part 3."
"Please... switch to the personal collection."
"Switching to personal collection. Nothing new added. Would you like me to find something new to read from the store?"
"No. Just go through the collection. Filter by authors named Ember Blessing."
"Two titles by Ember Blessing found. No titles with the genre Philosophical Fantasy found in the store. 5432 titles with unique genre are available in the book store. Would you like me to read..."
"...the first paragraph from a book selected suited to your age group, locality and recommended by people in your area? No payment is required for this preview. Say Terms and Conditions to review indirect charges and data collection policy."
"Are you sure?"
"Would you like to take a short survey?"
"Just open the damn book, would you?"
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Last night was the weekly meeting of my writing group at our local library. I specifically decided to join for accountability purposes - I need to know I've written something during the week and deadlines really work for me!
As well, it gives me an opportunity about once a month to read to the other members the most recent segment of the book I've been working on, Star Many Says… an Introduction. And there's an ulterior motive as well. It's an opportunity for me to become more comfortable in telling, speaking, my story to people who are not familiar with energy medicine, expanded realities, channelled transmissions, Shamanic practices - things I consider a part of my everyday life.
That said, I truly am looking for insights into the writing process, hearing what works and what doesn't as they listen to me. Can they follow the narrative thread? Is the writing too much? Too little? How’s my grammar? But every time I read to the group members there are always questions asked from sheer curiosity and a struggle to understand the how, what and why of Star Many.
One group member, months ago, asked if I was trying to convince her that what I talked and wrote about was real. What a good question!! And I could honestly answer “No. I'm not trying to convince any of you of any of this. This ismy reality and I'm trying in the simplest most direct way to tell my story of what has been happening in my life. I made a commitment to help Star Many reach out to a large audience and writing a book is one way to do this.”
And writing this blog is another. Please help - please share!!


July 23 - Aug 2:
DEMOS & TALKS
These artists have created unique video demonstrations for you to enjoy. All artists are exhibiting artists in the 2020 show. Click the + buttons below to reveal each video.
Painting the Beach - Painting with Acrylics - Kerry Seifried
This demo covers the artist’s inspiration and process of working with acrylics. Some of the video will be in time-lapse mode.
Creating Serigraphs - Andrea Fritz
Andrea is an acrylic and serigraph indigenous artist. This video outlines her process for creating a serigraph piece such as included in this year’s show.
Painting Fur in Acrylics - Jen Wright
This video outlines the artist’s process of painting fur in acrylics, and answers the questions that she most commonly gets asked in live demos. (25 mins)
Creating Custom Glass Panels - Bill Jamieson
For this demonstration, Bill explains the process of creating custom cast glass architectural panels – from consultation, to concept design, through the full process of creation. (25 mins)
These artists have created live scheduled talks for you to enjoy. After each talk, a recording of the talk will be posted in the section below. All artists are exhibiting artists in the 2020 show.
Monday, July 27, 2-3pm - LIVING WITH YOUR NEW ART - Shannon Lee Rae
This talk, given by SFAS’s Design Team Lead, Shannon Lee Rae (also an exhibiting artist in this year’s show), covered good practices for hanging art in your home:
Tuesday July 28, 2-3pm - Artz4Kidz Talk: Where do your ideas come from? - Catherine Fraser
For our ‘Artz4Kidz’ day, Catherine discussed “Creativity in Art – a young person’s perspective”. A recording of the talk can be seen below. For a list of the books mentioned in this talk, please scroll down below the video.
- “Drawing with Children: Creative teachings and learning method that works for adults too”, by Mona Brooks – 1986 and revised edition 1996
- “Drawing With Older Children and Teens”, by Mona Brooks, 1991
- “Discovering The Inner Eye”, by Virginia Cobb, 1988
- “Trust The Process An Artist’s Guide To Letting Go”, by Shawn McNiff, 1998
- “Imagination In Action Secrets For Unleashing Creative Expression”, by Shawn McNiff, 2015
- “Art Heals. How Creativity Cures The Soul”, by Shawn McNiff, 2004
- “Painting The Spirit Of Nature”, by Maxine Masterfield, 1996
- “In Harmony with Nature”, by Maxine Masterfield, 1990
- “The Creative Eye: Drawing, vision and the brain, revisited”, by Heather Spears, 2020
Wednesday July 29, 2-3pm - Smoke & Charcoal Underpainting - Catherine Fraser
Thursday July 30, 2-3pm - Seniors' Tea Talk: Capturing Uluru - mary e coakley
Friday July 31, 2-3pm - Creating Custom Glass Panels - Bill Jamieson
Listen in as Glass Artist Bill Jamieson explains the process of creating custom cast glass panels – from consultation, to concept design, through the full process of creation.
Saturday August 1, 2-3pm - Weaving Art from Nature - Lydia Miller
Lydia is a Fibre Artist who focuses mainly on weaving in 3D. When sculptures are being formed, she collects material from her direct surroundings; wood, plant matter, animal matter, etc. Lydia explains how forms take shape throughout her process, and how the materials naturally play off of each other with her subtle manipulations to guide them. Lydia encourages conversation to the issues that inform and inspire her practice, specifically social and environmental justice, and the responses that are evoked by her sculptures.


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If you would like to do a course or learn something that PCS does not offer, there are a number of sources of information and advice available - either by telephone, local information points or the internet.
Some of the main sources are listed below. You will find other sources of information in your local area - such as libraries, colleges and careers services.
A good first port of call is learndirect, a free national telephone helpline - 0800 100 900 - offering advice and information on learning and career opportunities. Lines are open 9 am to 9 pm Monday to Friday and 9 am to 12 noon on Saturdays.
Learndirect holds a large database of information about learning and career options and can refer enquirers to local organisations that can provide more in-depth information, advice and guidance.
Learndirect also has a website You can search for courses by subject and geographical area and the site also has information about funding for study, childcare and learning for those with disabilities.
Find out more on the Learndirect website.
Nextstep is an information and advice service funded by the Learning & Skills Council. It provides free information on learning and work to those aged over 20.
Local nextsteps centres provide information on courses locally, have an online learning and work advice facility and an online CV builder.
To find out more about Nextstep and to find your local centre on the Directgov website.
For literacy and numeracy materials please visit the BBC Skillswise website.
To learn about computers and the internet please visit the BBC Webwise website.
The education and learning pages on the Directgov website has links to learndirect, guides on qualifications, help with finding providers and colleges and information on skill development. See the Directgov website.
Many local careers services offer advice and guidance to adults, however, they may charge for this. Careers libraries, housed within local careers services, colleges and universities, contain books and other literature on career and learning opportunities.
Some also house Training Access Points - information databases from which you can get information about learning and training opportunities. Public libraries are also a good first point of contact if you are looking for information about learning. Most public libraries now also offer access to the Internet.
Further education colleges and universities offer free educational advice and guidance to prospective students.
There is a map of universities in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on the University of Wolverhampton website from which you can access universities' web sites.
The Open University offers degree and postgraduate courses by distance learning - ie you study at your own pace in your own time with support from a tutor at a distance. See the Open University website or call the Open University on 0870 333 4340.
National Extension College offers a wide range of courses available by open and distance learning, including GCSE’s, A levels and degree courses.
Find out more on the National Extension College website or call 0800 389 2839 for information and advice on NEC courses.


llan has been taught by some of the best minds in Eastern Medicine and Eastern Philosophy. To find out more about Ilan’s teachers, please follow these links.
Ikeda Masakazu – Ilan’s teacher’s teacher, an authority in Meridian therapy and oriental medicine. Ikeda Masakazu is the author of many books including The practice of Japanese Acupuncture and Moxibustion and Integration of Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine: Theory and Practice
Edward Obaidey – Ilan’s teacher/Sensei who runs a busy clinic in Tokyo and is a true healer and inspiration. Edward Obaidey has written A Long Road- An Acupuncture Travelogue with 4 volumes to date.


FILMMAKER: Franck Bieleu
LANGUAGE: French with English Subtitles
Banned in Cameroon, The Big Banana illustrates the poor working conditions in banana plantations and exposes the adverse impact on the people of a corporatocracy government that affords super profits for corporations at the expense of the local population.
The Big Banana outlines land grabbing tactics by company Plantation du Haut Penja (PHP) and the ensuing devastation for communities: poverty, pollution, and sickness from pesticides.
Bieleu, who spent two years filming residents in the remote countryside of Cameroon also features local cooperatives resisting the devastation through business alliances with fair trade organizations. As a result, The Big Banana not only exposes multinational corporations culpability in the land grab of Africa but also makes us reconsider where we get our fruit from.
FILMMAKER: Peter Bate
LANGUAGE: English/French/Dutch with English Subtitles
This true, astonishing story of what King Leopold II did in the Congo was forgotten for over 50 years. “ Congo:White King, Red Rubber, Black Death” describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908.
Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber. Families were held as hostages, starving to death if the men failed to produce enough wild rubber. Children’s hands were chopped off as punishment for late deliveries.
The Belgian government has denounced this documentary as a “tendentious diatribe” for depicting King Leopold II as the moral forebear of Adolf Hitler, responsible for the death of 10 million people in his rapacious exploitation of the Congo. Yet, it is agreed today that the first Human Rights movement was spurred by what happened in the Congo.
FILMMAKER: John Kani
ORIGIN: South Africa
Nothing But The Truth is a gripping investigation into the complex dynamic between those blacks who remained in South Africa and risked their lives to lead the struggle against apartheid and those who returned victoriously after living in exile.
In New Brighton, South Africa, 63-year-old librarian Sipho Makhaya prepares for the return of the ashes of his brother Themba, recently deceased while in exile in London after gaining a reputation as a hero of the anti-apartheid movement.
Internationally recognized, multiple award-winning actor John Kani is the lead actor in this film version of the internationally acclaimed award-winning play Nothing But The Truth which he also authored.
FILMMAKER: Dana Rotberg
ORIGIN: New Zealand
GENRE: Historical Drama
Based on a novel by Whale Rider writer Witi Ihimaera, White Lies – New Zealand’s entry in the 2014 Oscar competition for best foreign-language film – is an intense drama that explores with great humanity and sensitivity such difficult topics as race relations, skin bleaching and abortion.
Paraiti is the healer and midwife of her rural, tribal people – she believes in life. But new laws in force are prohibiting unlicensed healers, making the practice of much Maori medicine illegal. She gets approached by Maraea, the servant of a wealthy woman, Rebecca, who seeks her knowledge and assistance in order to hide a secret which could destroy Rebecca’s position in European settler society.
This compelling story tackles moral dilemmas, exploring the nature of identity, societal attitudes to the roles of women and the tension between Western and traditional Maori medicine.


Our international colleagues from Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland), Oslo Met University (Norway), Georgetown University, (United States), and Malmö University (Sweden), have recently published their new edited volume “Europe and the Refugee Response: A Crisis of Values?”.
This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious, and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or refugee crisis, prompted fierce debate about European norms and values, with some commentators questioning whether mostly Muslim refugees would be able to adhere to these values, and be able to integrate into a predominantly Christian European society. In this volume, philosophers, legal scholars, anthropologists and sociologists, analyze some of these debates and discuss practical strategies to reconcile the values that underpin the European project with multiculturalism and religious pluralism, whilst at the same time safeguarding the rights of refugees to seek asylum.
Country case studies in the book are drawn from France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom; representing states with long histories of immigration, countries with a more recent refugee arrivals, and countries that want to keep refugees at bay and refuse to admit even the smallest number of asylum seekers. Contributors in the book explore the roles which national and local governments, civil society, and community leaders play in these debates and practices, and ask what strategies are being used to educate refugees about European values, and to facilitate their integration.
At a time when debates on refugees and European norms continue to rage, this book provides an important interdisciplinary analysis which will be of interest to European policy makers, and researchers across the fields of migration, law, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and political science.
About the authors
Elżbieta M. Goździak is a Visiting Professor at the Center for Migration Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, a Research Professor at Oslo Met University, Oslo, Norway, and a Fellow for Refugee Engaged Scholarship at the Center for Social Justice, Georgetown University, USA.
Izabella Main is an Associate Professor of Ethnology and Anthropology of Culture, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
Brigitte Suter is a Senior researcher at Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) at Malmö University, Sweden.
The Open Access-version of “Europe and the Refugee Response A Crisis of Values?” can be found here.


A SELECTION OF TRAINING TEXTBOOKS PUBLISHED BY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS, INC. PARTNERS AND ASSOCIATES.
Above Ground Bulk Storage Tank Emergencies, 2nd ed (2018) by Michael S. Hildebrand, Gregory G. Noll and William T. Hand, Jones and Bartlett Learning.
This training book is designed for firefighters and Hazardous Materials Response Teams to meet the general requirements for handling above ground storage tank emergencies as described in the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standard 472 - Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents (2018). In addition, the textbook provides the knowledge competencies in Chapter 16 – Competencies for Hazardous Materials Technicians with a Flammable Liquids Bulk Storage Specialty. Key topics include storage tank construction features, firefighting foams, water supply and fire suppression tactics.
Propane Emergencies by Michael Hildebrand and Gregory Noll, 3rd edition (2017) Propane Education and Research Foundation, Washington, D.C. (2007). (302 pages).
This training textbook describes how to manage an emergency in transportation emergencies and at fixed facilities. It is supported by a 48-minute training video. Key topics include physical properties and characteristics of propane, non-bulk container features, bulk transportation design and construction, scenario-based tactical response guidelines, and product removal, transfer and up-righting.
Gasoline Tank Truck Emergencies, 4th edition (2016) by Michael S. Hildebrand, Gregory G. Noll and William T. Hand. Jones and Bartlett Learning, (62 pages).
This training textbook provides an overview of the MC/306 and DOT 406 cargo tank truck transporting gasoline/ethanol blends and fuel oils. The text covers tank truck construction and safety features and procedures and guidelines for safely responding to tank truck emergencies.
Intermodal Container Emergencies 2nd Edition (2017) by Michael S. Hildebrand, Gregory G. Noll and William T. Hand, Jones and Bartlett Learning (104 pages).
This training textbook is designed to provide public safety and industry emergency response personnel with the background information, general procedures and response guidelines to be followed when operating at incidents involving intermodal containers. Textbook information will assist the user in meeting the knowledge requirements outlined in NFPA 472, Chapter 14 - Competencies for Hazardous Materials Technicians with an Intermodal Tank Specialty. Key topics include intermodal container marking systems, intermodal freight containers, nonpressure intermodal containers, intermodal tank containers for gases, intermodal container operations, firefighting and leak control tactics, and product removal, transfer and up-righting operations.
Pipeline Emergencies, 3rd edition (2017), by Michael S. Hildebrand and Gregory G. Noll, National Association of State Fire Marshals (229 pages).
Pipeline Emergencies is designed to help fire service and industry emergency responders develop the knowledge and skills necessary to safely and effectively manage a pipeline incident. It is based upon nationally recognized engineering practices, recommended operating practices, and training programs. Key topics include how pipelines operate, design and construction features, and scenario-based strategy and tactics.
Hazardous Materials: Managing the Incident, 4th edition (Revised 2018), by Gregory G. Noll and Michael S. Hildebrand, Jones and Bartlett, (622 pages).
This textbook has been updated and in print for over 30 years. It is the industry standard for firefighters, Hazardous Materials Response Teams, and law enforcement officers. The book is designed to train emergency responders how to safely respond and manage emergencies involving hazardous materials. The textbook meets the requirements of the National Fire Protection Association "NFPA 1072 - Standard for Competence of Emergency Response Personnel Professional Qualifications  as well as "NFPA 472 - Standard for Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents.


If she wants to invest, she can look into informal in trust accounts. Basically, your parents will open the account in trust for your sister. Your parents will face taxation on the dividends/interest gained on the account, but your sister will pay the capital gains. Once she turns the age of majority in your province, the account will be transferred to her name.
At 15, I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad. It inspired my interest in finance, but there is many errors in the book and I would not recommend it. It also gave me a very wrong idea that investing is a sure thing.
Here are the books I would recommend in respective order:
1) Four Pillars of Investing
2) Ivy Portfolio
3) Random Walk Down Wall Street
I think Stocks for the Long Run is a good reference book, but not the first book I will read.
While waiting for Four Pillars of Investing to arrive from amazon.ca or chapters.ca, I recommend reading this important study: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=962461 It's free of charge and about 50 pages to print.
Why wait? It's not a high-demand book, and your local library probably has a copy waiting for you on the shelf.
Seriously, the library should be the FIRST choice for anybody wanting to read a book. If you like the book you can always buy it later, but you can't (generally) return a book you've bought if you don't like it.
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Welcome to the Twin Rivers Reading Council homepage; a council of the North Carolina Reading Association.
July 23, 1987
Celebrating 30 years in 2017
The Twin Rivers Reading Council is an award-winning member of the North Carolina Reading Association.
Vision: The Twin Rivers Reading Council advocates the advancement of literacy in the 21st century throughout our global community.
Mission: Through community outreach and the collaboration of educators, businesses and families, the Twin Rivers Reading Council will promote literacy and a lifelong love of reading.
Who We Are: The Twin Reading Rivers Council is made up of people in Craven and Pamlico counties that interested in promoting literacy and encouraging a love of reading.
What We Do: The Twin Rivers Reading Council meets periodically throughout the school year to share literacy and reading ideas. We organize "Reading Fun Day," facilitate the "Young Authors" and "Forever Young" writing program, as well as donate books to local families and children.


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If you are visiting the city of Dublin and are thinking about which attractions you should visit as part of your trip, one place you should definitely have on your itinerary is Trinity College, which has been voted the number two attraction in the city. This is a great place that offers plenty to see and do, which includes the Old Library/Long Room.
You can hire a bus in Dublin and head over to Trinity College in order to take in the fascinating experience at this attraction. The Old Library should definitely feature on your Dublin itinerary, as this will enable you to enjoy fascinating history and sights. You can step back in time to the 18th Century, which was the century during which the library was constructed.
Hiring a bus to take you to Trinity College means that you not only get to enjoy the magnificent and historic library but also the Book of Kells Exhibition. The Book of Kells dates back to the 9th Century and is now housed in the Trinity College library. You can view this and other famous manuscripts when you pay a visit to this library as well as enjoying the fascinating exhibition. You can then head upstairs where you can enjoy immersing yourself in the beautiful Long Room, which is where you will find hundreds of thousands of the oldest books in the library. This is an attraction that will appeal to a diverse array of people and is well worth visiting during your time in Dublin.


Now it seems to me that there are people who sustain you and people who sleep with you and often those are one and the same, but just as often, maybe even more often, they are not, and even while entertaining the former these latter love stories are the ones that become more interesting to me with each passing day.
“In 1966 Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page by painting, collage and cut-up techniques to create an entirely new version. He found his threepenny novel in a junkshop on Peckham Rye, South London. This was an 1892 Victorian obscurity titled A Human Document by W.H Mallock and he titled his altered book A Humument.
The first version of all 367 treated pages was published in 1973 since when there have been four revised editions. A Humument is now one of the best known and loved of all 20th Century artist’s books and is regarded as a seminal classic of postmodern art.”


A series of books following the lives and adventures of Tom and others in the land of Trymyll. Book 1 to be published in Paperback, E-Pub sometime in 2020
Book titles may change as the series progresses. But the themes will remain the same.
Tom, a gifted boy wizard is the central character. The series plots his adventures in Trymyll with his older brother Jon from his first arrival at the age of thirteen through to him becoming a young adult by the end of the series.
The first book takes us from when Tom, who is from small Welsh village, deserted by his father and brother when he was a baby, enters a cave and is taken through the to the Land of Trymyll. He doesn’t believe in magic or dragons or that wizards exist. He soon learns a different reality. He is taken through the cave by a magical sixty-foot Purple Dragon who used to be his pet dog Howl, a Jack Russel dog. I know, that doesn’t make any sense at all, but it will. In Trymyll, he finds his father and brother. Should he love them, or should he never forgive his Dad for deserting him? The adventures start, magic is disappearing from the Land of Trymyll. Can Tom stop it becoming like our world, a world without magic? An unknown and all-powerful threat called The Master appears. Can they fight this supposedly omnipotent wizard, or will The Master defeat them all?
Welcome to the Land of Trymyll


War Stories: Poems for the Age of Fallibility
In these poems the violence of war is not confined to battle fields. There are cities where dead children lie in residential streets covered in the dust of bombed buildings, and closer to our home, conflict that is fostered by hateful words spoken at surburban barbeques. in War Stories, Antonia Hildebrand will not let us ignore the burning cities on another continent or accept the hateful words that would justify conflict. In these poems she sees our world as one community that is being destroyed by the violence that affects us all. She writes about the historical brutality of South African apartheid and our own colonial past, , the present day atrocities in Syria, and the terror of abuse in a surburban home. These are the real war stories and Hildebrand will not accept monuments that glorify conflict without showing the ugly reality of humans caught in the violence. By forcing us to accept the reality of war, these poems make a powerful plea for peace.
Robin Hillard (c) 2018
THE BLIND COLOSSUS
How Corporatism is destroying the World
BY Antonia Hildebrand
Published by Ginninderra Press, 2015
P.O. Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015
ISBN 978 1 74027 912 3
Reviewed by Ian Keast
There is a traffic bridge in Parramatta, N.S.W., named in honour of Bernie Banton. His fight against corporatism, seen in his long struggle with the James Hardie Company and the asbestosis issue, is detailed in this book’s chapter, Corporate Psychosis vs Human Values: A Tale of Two Bernies. With her poet’s eye and empathy, the author uses him to show the inexorable human cost of corporatism.
What the author means by corporatism is (according to the cover blurb), an agenda devoted to the creation of an elite which is now so insulated by its power that it is largely unaccountable and owns a large slab of the world’s wealth. In the United States at least, it controls the law, the military, the media, and the banking system…there are catch cries such as, ‘the level playing field’, workplace flexibility’ and ‘deregulation’…the ubiquitous intrusion of free market economics into every aspect of 21st century life. Stated baldly, anything that does not increase wealth (profit) and power is to be swept away. It is a foreboding, disturbing thesis, forcefully and cogently argued. In this world of 1984 echoes, woebegone any individual who stands up to a ‘corporate giant’, which makes the stance of Bernie Banton very heroic indeed.
Antonia Hildebrand lives in Toowoomba, Queensland. She is a poet, short story writer and essayist, widely published in these fields. (See, for example, Studio 136). The Blind Colossus is a timely, awareness raising polemic, taking the reader on an ex-ray journey of our contemporary society. True, a lot of the book relates to the United States, but her analysis also has application to Australia. There are fascinating chapters on nuclear war, the arms dealers, Murdoch and his media empire: by contrast, Wikileaks and Julian Assange. Underlining all, the grim mantra and warning about ‘the consequences of continuing down the path of a society that has making a profit as its only moral value…’ Where are those, the book asks- in politics, economics and the media-prepared to hold the corporate world to account?
There are further questions that the book raises in the reader’s mind: what role does social media play, either as friend or foe, in this brave new world? How far is corporatism controlling sport? No doubt there are many others…but here is the value of The Blind Colossus. It raises questions about ‘mammon’ and the unsavoury exercise of power. And we are exhorted not to serve ‘mammon’ (Matthew 6:24). This book is a good place to start our thinking and our questions. March 2017
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This week was great. Classes were challenging but overall everything is going fairly well. I was waiting all week for our seminar with Dr. Wilbert Smith, and I have to say the wait was well worth it. Our question and answer session was wonderful. I had all of my questions answered regarding our book Hole In The Head: A Life Revealed. Dr. Smith, the author of Hole In The Head provided was very informational regarding Mr. Hardiman’s story, and told us about the upcoming events regarding the story of Mr.Hardiman. I found Dr. Smith to be very friendly and open to his audience. The movie created was a definite plus to Mr.Hardiman’s story. It was one thing to read about Mr.Hardiman’s life, but it was totally different seeing and hearing Mr. Hardiman talk, and share his thoughts and feeling. I am very much looking forward to seeing the upcoming events regarding Mr. Hardiman’s story. I appreciate Mr.Hardiman‘s story it reinforced and taught me many life lessons, and I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a remarkable, life-changing story. The lessons and morals that Mr. Hardiman lived by are qualities that all health professional should possess; which is very important to instill in future health professional before they enter the work force. I definitely see why this book was chosen for the scholars this summer.


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Jimi Hendrix and Psychedelic Rock. : ThyBlackMan, · Psychedelic rock started off as heavily folk rock-inspired with an emphasis on politics and mind ... These bands mainly released their first and often sole album in the late 60s and early 70s ...Interview: David Mitchell, Author Of Utopia Avenue : NPR, · David Mitchell's new novel chronicles the rise and fall of fictional 1960s psychedelic rock band. He says he was drawn to both the music and the "dark magic that was in the air" in that era.The Best Blues, · By 1969, blues-rock music was already giving up ground to the popularity of psychedelic and hard rock in England, setting the stage for the proto-metal of bands like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. In the states, however, interest in the blues was rekindled by the fiery fretwork found on Texas guitarist Johnny Winter's self-titled debut album.


Looking for fun things to do around the city? We chat with a local author who just released his second book in a series that serves as a bucket list of must-sees throughout Greater Cincinnati.
Rick Pender wants everyone to explore and experience what Cincinnati has to offer. That’s why he wrote the book “100 Things To Do In Cincinnati Before You Die” and the series that followed.
“My book is a bucket list of suggestions for things to do throughout Greater Cincinnati,” he explains.
The first book is broken down into five sections: Food and Drink; Music and Entertainment; Sports and Recreation; History and Culture; and Shopping and Fashion.
And although the books have Cincinnati in the title, activities aren’t specifically located in the Queen City. “There are recommendations of ‘things’ in Northern Kentucky as well as areas beyond the I-275 beltway,” Pender adds.
The history of Pender’s book series goes back to 2015, when publisher Reedy Press in St. Louis approached him about creating a work that was all about what Cincinnati has to offer. And the choice for them to go to Pender was easy; he has a history as an arts and entertainment editor and has worked for WVXU’s “Around Cincinnati.”
The first book, released back in September 2016, quickly became a popular choice at local bookstores.
However, times change and so do cities. A few years after the first book was published, there were new things popping up in Cincinnati and around the city.
“The Cincinnati Zoo’s Fiona hadn’t arrived on the scene in time for the first edition, Newport still had Duck Tours, and Cincinnati Music Hall was closed for renovation,” says Pender. “It was time for a second edition, released in September 2019.”
Pender says he replaced approximately 12 items with new recommendations and provided refreshed, up-to-date information.
Although some native Cincinnatians may feel like they’ve seen it all, there’s always something new to see that you’ve never seen before.
The book series works for many different kinds of people with different kinds of interest. “It’s a natural for people who are new residents, but it also works for people who have lived here all their lives but haven’t gotten around to visiting some of our iconic attractions or experienced some of our great restaurants,” says Pender.
Currently Pender is researching a new book that will be published later this year called “Oldest Cincinnati.” “It’s a compendium of historic sites, locales, and attractions worth visiting,” adds Pender.
The second edition of “100 Things To Do In Cincinnati Before You Die” can be ordered from Amazon. It’s also available at most area bookstores including Joseph-Beth Booksellers at Rookwood Commons, Barnes & Noble West Chester, and Roebling Point Books & Coffee in Covington.
You can stay up-to-date with new information from Pender on his Facebook page, where he also offers information on book signing dates. Over the holidays, Pender even offered followers ideas on holiday-oriented activities based on recommendations from the books. “I’m always glad to hear from people with further suggestions and ideas,” he adds. “And I’m available for signings and appearances.”
To learn more, or get a copy for yourself, click here.


Dr. Krishan Arora, a 54-year-old kidney specialist, is the only unsolved murder in Oldham County. Dr. Arora was gunned down in the library of his residence on June 22, 1998. Arora was found lying on the tile floor in front of his desk in the library, which was adjacent to his garage. He had been shot at close range in the head twice with a .40-calber handgun.
Suicide has been ruled out, as was robbery. Nothing was ever reported missing from the residence, including $179 in Arora's wallet.
Police have no witnesses and only a vague description of a dark sort-utility vehicle that his wife , Ann Marks Arora said she saw leaving the scene.
Arora was a senior partner in Nephrology Associates of Kentuckiana. His colleagues have put up a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction.
Should you have any information regarding the crime you are requested to contact the Oldham County Police Department.


In this article, the idea and practice of prayer is emphasized, both to enhance the spiritual life, and to show that without prayer, a relationship with Christ is impossible.
The second poem to be released by Even Unto The End Of The World, this work accompanies the second episode of "In The Apostles' Doctrine," which bears the same name. It is a poetic work dedicated to asking in faith of those things that God would graciously give us as His children, specifically in Jesus' Name.
To give readers and listeners a visual aid for their faithful hearing, Even Unto The End Of The World presents the very first poetic post for this blog ministry: Gethsemane. From the inspiration for the first episode, read the lines that motivated a now blossoming and ever-expanding evangelistic blog.
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Detroit Modern: 1935-1985. Peter Forguson, Peter Forguson
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Visitors to Detroit may not realize what residents of the Motor City have known for decades: metropolitan Detroit is a stunning showcase of mid-century modern houses. Endowed with old growth trees, rolling topography and miles of lakefront, the Detroit area inspired talented architects and their progressive clients to create uniquely beautiful residences that were seamlessly integrated with lush natural surroundings. Detroit landscape designer and contractor Peter Forguson has shaped and maintained the grounds of many of these structures, and the comprehensive list he has compiled of the best examples is now a breathtaking book, Detroit Modern:1935-1985. With nearly 500 superb photographs on sparkling pages designed by Marla Meltzer, Forguson leads readers on a memorable tour of 70 masterpieces of mid-century residential architecture that brings to life the shared visions of architects and clients. Exterior and interior views show the long, clean lines and simple, unadorned beauty of perfect proportions and top-quality materials that characterize the finest work of the period. Through these images readers can sense not only the artistic achievement these homes represent, but also the experiences of the families who occupy them.
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The world before this world ended four times.
First came the Apocalypse of Water. The oceans rose to swallow the land and the people drowned.
Second came the Apocalypse of Fire. The people made war on each other and burned themselves with terrible weapons.
Third came the Apocalypse of Earth. The ground vomited poison and the people sickened and died.
Last came the Apocalypse of Air. Winds of change blew through the world and when they were gone the people were no longer people, but something different and strange.
Finally, at the end of everything, the last man and the last woman opened a hole in the sky and walked through, and when they came through they found this world, untouched and new.
This world has ended more than four times, but that is a different story.
-The Four Apocalypses, oral tradition of the Trenith
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Get ready for a scavenger hunt – Disney’s Imagineers packed the Tower of Terror with loads of Twilight Zone TV show references!
The Tower practically doubles as a museum dedicated to classic sci-fi show – replicas of show props, references to characters, and reminders of twist endings are found throughout the haunted hotel attractions.
Some Twilight Zone references in the Tower of Terror only found in the Hollywood Studios (HS) tower; others are unique to the tower in Disney California Adventure (DCA). The later towers, namely the Disney California Adventure version and the Paris version, have more props and references than the original in Orlando – the Imagineers doubled down on the Twilight Zone goodies the second and third time around!
Specific episodes are referenced, but I’ve done my best to omit spoilers in this article wherever possible. Be warned that links to Wikipedia and external sites may contain Twilight Zone episode spoilers. 🙂
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* Hotel Lobby *
It’s dim in here, but look closely and you’ll see a few Twilight Zone references in the hotel’s entrance.
Tip-Top Club poster (HS & DCA)
Episode: “It’s a Good Life” (Season 3, Episode 8)
Original air date: November 3, 1961
Six year old Anthony Fremont has an incredible superpower: using only his mind, he can make anything – or anyone – who annoys him disappear forever. Time magazine and TV guide both regard”It’s a Good Life” as one of the best Twilight Zone episodes!
The Tip-Top club poster in the lobby features Anthony Fremont and his orchestra playing at the top of the Tower. The irony, of course, is that little Anthony hates it when people sing.
Gold Thimble (DCA)
Episode: “The After Hours” (Season 1, Episode 34)
Original air date: June 10, 1960
Marsha is shopping for a gold thimble – and she finds it on the mysterious nonexistent ninth floor of a downtown department store.
Located in the “waiting area” just before the libraries in the DCA version of the Tower are a couple of glass cases containing Twilight Zone prop replicas. One of them is a golden thimble accompanied by a small sign containing the phrase, “Looking for a gift for mother? It’s the very thing you need. Available in our gift shop.”
“After Hours” shares two more features with the Tower:
- A nonexistent floor, much like the Tower’s mythical 13th floor
- The elevator needle going past the top floor (in the episode, it’s past the 8th. In the Tower, it’s past the 12th.)
Broken Stopwatch (DCA)
Episode: “A Kind of a Stopwatch” (Season 5, Episode 4)
Original air date: 10/18/1963
Patrick McNulty receives a stopwatch from a drunken man at a bar and thinks it a rather odd gift until he realizes the watch stops time for everyone but him. This is another very highly rated Twilight Zone episode.
In the DCA Tower, look in the glass case before the library for this stopwatch.
Door “22” (DCA)
Episode: “Twenty Two” (Season 2, Episode 17)
Original air date: February 10, 1961
Hospital patient Miss Liz Powell has a recurring nightmare about taking an elevator down to the hospital’s morgue – room 22 – as the line between nightmare and reality begins to blur.
A door in front of the out-of-order elevators in the lobby is numbered “22”.
* Hotel Library *
The library is jam-packed with Twilight Zone references. Spotting all of them is a challenge because the library is usually very dark – good luck!
The footage of Rod Serling in the Tower of Terror’s introduction video is from “It’s a Good Life”. His original line was, “This as you may recognize is a map of the United States.”
Row of Books
Near the door to the boiler room is a shelf with a row of tightly packed books (look low, maybe 3 feet above the ground near the door to the boiler room). Each of these slender volumes contains a Twilight Zone episode script.
Pair of Glasses (HS, DCA)
Episode: “Time Enough at Last” (Season 1, Episode 8)
Original air date: November 20, 1959
Henry Bemis never had time to read – until an apocalyptic event wipes out all life on Earth.
Look for a pair of round-rim glasses on a stack of books.
Envelopes labeled “Victoria West” and “Rod Serling” (HS & DCA)
Episode: “A World of His Own” (Season 1, Episode 36)
Original air date: July 1, 1960
Gregory West writes reality by dictating his wish into his dictation machine – and un-writes it by burning up the tapes, which happen to be stuffed into labeled envelopes.
These envelopes takes a bit of effort to find. In Hollywood Studios, the right library room contains an envelope labeled “Rod Serling” tucked away behind a cage to the left of the television. The left library room contains an envelope labeled “Victoria West”. To fully understand these references, you’ll have to watch the episode ’til the end!
They made these envelopes a bit easier to find in DCA – they’re laying face up on the bookshelves.
Episode: “A Passage for Trumpet” (Season 1, Episode 32)
Original air date: May 20, 1960
Joey Crown is a down-on-his-luck trumpet player who, after a suicide attempt, finds himself in a state of “limbo” where he cannot be seen or heard by others.
The trumpet is located just below waist-height. It’s not a real trumpet, just a sturdy replica that’s been attached to the shelf it sits on. (Look at the title of the sheet music underneath the trumpet for one of the Tower’s “Hidden Mickeys”).
Miniature Space Man
Episode: “The Invaders” (Season 2, Episode 15)
Original air date: January 27, 1961
An old woman uses a hatchet to battle two tiny space aliens!
Look to the top of the bookshelves – this little guy is pretty easy to spot.
The Mystic Seer
Episode: “Nick of Time” (Season 2, Episode 7)
Original air date: November 18, 1960
Young couple Don and Pat Carter encounter a irresistible fortune-telling machine in a diner.
The “Mystic Seer” is easy to spot in the Tower library – look on top of the bookshelves, near the ceiling. It’s a little red box with a devil’s head on top.
“To Serve Man” Book
Episode: “To Serve Man” (Season 3, Episode 24)
Original air date: March 2, 1962
Friendly aliens from a paradise planet give Earth a few upgrades…
Look for a black book laying face up behind a table with a lamp and an upholstered chair. The book title’s translation, “To Serve Man”, is written on a card atop the book.
* Boiler Room *
Chalk “Circle” on Wall & Radio Voice (DCA)
Episode: “Little Girl Lost” (Season 3, Episode 26)
Original air date: March 16, 1962
Six year old Tina disappears from her bed – but her parents can still hear her cries for help. Her parents and neighbor investigate, discovering an invisible portal to the fourth dimension next to her bed.
The DCA and Paris towers contain two references to “Little Girl Lost”. The first is a chalk line drawing on the wall in the upper floor of the boiler room near the attraction’s warning signs. The second is the little girl’s voice calling out for help from the workbench’s radio.
Popular Mechanics magazines (DCA)
Episode: “I Sing the Body Electric” (Season 3, Episode 35)
Original air date: May 18, 1962
Ray Bradbury wrote this episode in which a recent widower orders a mechanical grandmother for his three children.
Look on the workbench in the boiler room to catch this obscure reference.
* In the Elevator *
Elevator Inspection Certificate (HS & DCA)
While in the elevator, look on the wall to your left for the elevator’s inspection certificate. The number on it is 10259, or October 2, 1959 – the date that Twilight Zone first aired. It is signed by Cadwallader – a reference to the deal-making devil from “Escape Clause” (Season 1, Episode 6; air date November 6, 1959).
Slot Machine (HS)
Episode: “The Fever” (Season 1, Episode 17)
Original air date: January 29, 1960
Franklin despises gambling, but a drunken man gives him a coin to gamble with while vacationing in Las Vegas. As he tries to walk away with his winnings, the slot machine taunts him back.
The slot machine is in the “landing room” at the bottom of the elevator shaft in Hollywood Studios. Your only chance to catch this reference is when the elevator backs up and rotates into the unload position.
Ventriloquist Dummy (HS)
Episode: “Caesar and Me” (Season 5, Episode 28)
Original air date: April 10, 1964
Jonathan West has a ventriloquist dummy with a mind of its own and a knack for dispensing poor advice.
Look quickly, this is another reference that can only be seen in the collection of memorabilia waiting at the bottom of the elevator shaft in Hollywood Studios.
* On the Way Out *
Hanging in both Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure Towers is a dusty old sign with the words, “Picture if You Will”, near the photo purchase desks.
Red Toy Telephone (DCA)
Episode: “Long Distance Call” (Season 2, Episode 22)
Original air date: March 31, 1961
Five-year-old Billy talks to his deceased grandmother via a plastic toy phone she gave him just before her death.
The toy telephone shares a display case with several other Twilight Zone references.
Box Camera (DCA)
Episode: “A Most Unusual Camera” (Season 2, Episode 10)
Original air date: December 16, 1960
A camera that photographs the future falls into the hands of a trio of nitwits.
Look for a burgundy-colored camera in a display case accompanied by a few more antique cameras.
Electric Razor & Typewriter (DCA)
Episode: “A Thing About Machines” (Season 2, Episode 4)
Original air date: October 28, 1960
Bartlett Finchley hates the machines around his house – and for good reason. They all seem to be out to get him…
There are actually two items referencing “A Thing About Machines” in the DCA tower:
- An electric razor accompanied by a sign, “Has A Long Cord – Can Follow You Everywhere”
- A typewriter with the repeating phrase “GET OUT OF HERE FINCHLEY”
Willoughby Travel (DCA)
Episode: “A Stop At Willoughby” (Season 1, Episode 30)
Original air date: May 6, 1960
Stressed-out New York ad man Gart Williams finds comfort when his train stops at the small town of Willoughby.
This “Willoughby Travel” sign adorns a window near the Tower’s exit in Disney California Adventure.
Whew! Got all that? This concludes our tour of the Tower of Terror’s Twilight Zone references – unless, of course, we missed any. Let us know in the comments!
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The Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, handwritten well over 1600 years ago, contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. It is the oldest substantial book to survive Antiquity.
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Frankie Meyer: Vintage city and county directories can be a godsend for finding treats | Lifestyles
Have you used city and county directories in your genealogy research? The booklets were published annually in the late 1800s and early 1900s. They were often divided into two parts.
In the first section of the booklet, the adults’ names were listed in alphabetical order. Each entry included the person’s occupation, address and place of work. The names and addresses of businesses, cemeteries, hospitals, newspapers, charities, post offices, schools and churches were also listed.
If a person was married, the name of the spouse was entered. If a woman was widowed, the inscription sometimes included the name of the deceased spouse. The names and ages of the children were often listed, in addition to the names and ages of the tenants. Some directories place the letter “r” in front of the tenants’ address and the letter “h” in front of the owners’ address.
The second section of the booklet listed the streets, along with the house addresses on each street and the names of the adults in each residence. By checking this section, researchers can learn the names of relatives who lived nearby. Most brochures also included a map.
By comparing details in directories from adjacent years, researchers can often identify important dates in an ancestor’s life. Examples are a person’s year of birth, marriage, divorce or death. A researcher can also find out the year a person changed jobs, graduated, left school, immigrated, moved to an area, left the area, or moved from one place in town to another.
The Library of Congress has the largest collection of directories. Old booklets are also found in libraries, museums, genealogical societies, historical societies, and county records centers. Many directories have been digitized and are accessible to subscribers of FamilySearch.org and similar subscription sites. When looking for families in Carthage, Carterville, or Joplin, check the directories at the Jasper County Records Center, located at 125 Lincoln St. in Carthage.
Sometimes residents of African American ancestry were listed in a separate section or booklet. Directories for black residents of southwestern Missouri have been compiled in Volumes I and II of “Black Families of the Ozarks.” These volumes are available at libraries in southwestern Missouri.


At the eastern end of leafy Reid Street, children and young adults have been enjoying a range of literary pursuits recently, and Youth Services Librarian Marla Smith shared some of the details.
The library collaborated once again with Greenrock and Belco on the highly successful student essay competition intended to raise awareness about environmental issues, as well as to encourage research and writing. Writing essays on the theme "Five Ways that I Keep My Bermuda Green", 261 students entered the 2012 contest, as compared to 119 in 2011.
First place winners received a Kindle Fire loaded with the selected books on environmental topics and $50 and their school received $250 to use for an environmental project.
Second place winners received books and $50, third place winners received books and $25. Those who earned an Honourable Mention received a $25 gift card to Brown & Co. (hopefully to buy books!)
The results were as follows:
15 to 18 years:
First — Raymond Bean, Jr, The Berkeley Institute
Second — Justin Ferreira, Warwick Academy
Third — Kahlid Y. Muhammad, CedarBridge Academy
12 to 14 years:
First — Amelia Oatley, Warwick Academy
Second — Blair Smyth, Mount Saint Agnes Academy
Third — Aldon Campbell, Somersfield Academy
Honourable Mention: William Porter, Whitney Institute Middle School, and Cassy McPhee, Mount Saint Agnes Academy
9 to 11 years
First — Nicholas Siese, Warwick Academy
Second — Caroline Amaral, Mount Saint Agnes Academy
Third Place — Abigail Jones, Warwick Academy, and Eanajah Armstrong, Somerset Primary
Honourable Mention: Zane Curtis-Thomas, Somerset Primary School and Jahmiko Marshall, Harrington Sound Primary School
Youth Library Outreach Program
The Youth Outreach Program started on March 10th and has been running on Saturdays, alternating between the West End and East End of the island.
At the West End, the Youth Services Department deliver library services at Sandys 360 from 10am to 12 noon and then at The Rubber Tree Market in Warwick from 2pm to 4pm. In the East End, they are at White's Southside from 10am to 12 noon and at the Olde Towne Market on Water Street in St. George's from 2pm to 4pm.
It will run until the end of May in the first instance, after which there will be an assessment of the program during the summer and it will resume again in the fall.
The public can go the Bermuda National Library website for details of the Outreach Program schedule.
The vehicle will also be used to visit nurseries and the schools to offer class and assembly visits.
The Youth Services Department of the Bermuda National Library is thankful to the End to End Walk Committee, The Friends of the Bermuda National Library, The Stempel Foundation, CellOne and the International Women's Club of Bermuda for sponsoring the vehicle, laptop, internet service and outreach equipment.
Teen Advisory Board (TAB) Poetry Competition
The Youth Library Teen Advisory Board (TAB), comprising teens aged 13 to 18 years of age, holds a poetry writing competition each year. The competition themes this year were: Bad Romance, The feel of music, A Hero Day and Monday.
The winners are:
11 — 13 years
First — Skye Robinson-Bean — Bermuda High School
Second — Alicea Davis — Bermuda High School
Third — Olivia Adderley — Bermuda High School
14 — 18 years
First — Shantia Seymour — Berkeley Institute
Second — Marcus Smith — Saltus Grammar School
Third — Rokeisha Eve — Berkeley Institute
Children's Reading Festival
Over 600 children attended the Children's Reading Festival this year. The day was filled with activities for children ranging from the very young to older youth. The Library mascot, Libro Lion, was accompanied by the community mascots Belco Bird, A.J. the Little Gombey, the Litter Critter, Keisha the Mermaid and the Cat in the Hat.
There were stories told, dancing, music, singing and a magic show to entertain the children. The children were able to try their hand at games and crafts. At the end of the day children walked out happy with library cards and books in hand.
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The Library was established in 1928 as part of the Department for Economic Studies of the National Bank of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians. Its book fund was later supplemented by collections provided by the Ministry of Finance and the State Investment Bank, which comprised financial and statistical reports of the Funds Administration, annual reports, codes and laws of the Privileged National Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, the National Bank of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians and the National Bank of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In addition, the Library has also kept original issues of the first Serbian journal, Serbian Newspaper (Srpske novine, from 1871 until 1918), National Newspaper (Narodne novine, from 1919 until 1941), as well as all official gazettes of the FPRY, SFRY, FRY, SCG and RS.
The Library contains a vast range of domestic and foreign technical literature, classified in several funds: monographic publications, reference books, serial publications, annual reports of central banks and other international financial organizations, central banks’ bulletins, official gazettes and international agreements, daily and weekly newspapers and non-book materials.
In line with the scope of activity of the institution to which it belongs, the Library acquires publications in the field of macroeconomy and microeconomy, monetary and fiscal policy, banking, finance, accounting and auditing, management, marketing, statistics, law, history and sociology.
In a bulletin of newly acquired books and received magazines, the Library regularly informs its users of current acquisitions, whereas a selective bibliography of articles presents current material from serial publications to users.
Within the program of assistance for the South East European region–The World Bank IFC/SEAD - Depository and Regional Library Program – the World Bank chose the Library of the National Bank of Serbia as the regional library. This status involves the acquisition, special processing and keeping of World Bank publications, as well as the requirement to enable widest possible public access to such publications.
The book fund of the Library is used primarily by the employees of the National Bank of Serbia, and persons employed in other banks and financial institutions, government agencies and nongovernmental organizations, scientific researchers, university professors and students.


Some of the areas we access through my course are confidential and I can’t share them. These however I am fairly sure are fine to write about and put pictures up, as they are from the University of Melbourne archives and pretty much anyone can access them if they request to. It’s just a short post really, to share my delight at a few of the volumes that I saw on Monday.
A volume of William Morris’ Kelmscott Chaucer! This I could have drooled over all day… from the link you probably won’t click: The Kelmscott Chaucer was the most ambitious book Morris ever printed; it took four years, and was only finished just before his death. But it was a labour of love, the culmination of Morris and Burne-Jones’s long friendship. Morris designed the typeface, decorative initials and page layout; Burne-Jones designed the illustrations. SO. SEXY. I wanted to touch it so badly but “on touche avec les yeux”… the printing was magnificent, and the binding in white leather was so fabulous, oh my… you can’t tell from the picture but the book is 11×16 inches and 600 pages long — massive and completely impractical and utterly desirable nonetheless!
Also fabulous — a gigantic volume of Owen Jones’ Grammar of Ornament.
It inspired me to purchase this beautiful book of wrapping papers ($7 only!) a few days later. Sorry for the horrid quality picture but my room’s lighting is not ideal.
In the background of the Grammar, you can see this treasure: …I have forgotten the details already unfortunately. It’s a herbalist’s manual, full of hand-coloured prints showing not just all the herbs and plants but also all the animals — including unicorns and mermaids.
This — also glimpsed in the background above — is a single page from an original Gutenberg Bible. Not the best picture but this is kind of like being a paparazzi really — I’m just excited to catch a shot of a celebrity. Even though I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about Gutenberg, as he gets all the credit for inventing moveable type hundreds of years after the Chinese did (and after the Koreans perfected it). Still. Pretty cool! Of course, if I’d studied in Europe instead of Australia I would probably have access to more than a single page… but I’m the only person allowed to point that out.
A week or so ago you may have seen me get excited on Facebook about the etymology of the word miniature: The name “minium” was used for both orange lead and cinnabar [from which were extracted red and orange pigments]. An artist working with minium was known as a “miniator”, who made “miniature”, so the term miniatures was originally used for the red capitals used in illuminated manuscripts. The term was eventually applied to any small feature and came to mean anything reduced in size.* Here is some original miniature for you! The vellum of this manuscript made it a perfectly acceptable candidate for binding another book, completely unrelated, and it has held up just fine over the centuries.
Last but not least in this episode of book geekery… You may note in this action shot of the Chaucer, a small, unprepossessing volume, bound in a dubious floral print, hovering in the background.
It has been in the collections for years, more or less ignored. Upon fortuitously opening it one day, however, the archivist was amazed to discover…
*I have written up some information about pigments and their history but I’m not sure if it’s really fair as it’s more or less a rip-off of the article I read, and I don’t have time to re-write it completely in my own words… maybe later?


Guys, I am reworking this thread to turn it into a nice build series with lot of photos and more text as to what is going on. I will get this ship shape over the next couple of days.
This project started in 1991. I was living in Renton, Washington at the time and working for Boeing Defense & Space as a Senior Design Engineer on the B-2 project. I had never been to a Sub Regatta before, but had been corresponding with Greg Sharpe for quite some time and wanted to meet him. My Wife and I drove up to Vancouver to attend the SubRegatta at the Vancouver Maritime Museum. It is a beautiful place right on the shore. I met for the first time, people that I had been reading about for a few years which was exciting. I met the real pioneers of the R/C Submarine hobby such as Mike Dory, Dan Kachur, & Greg Sharpe.
On the second day of the SubRegatta my Wife and I ventured into the museum to see what they had. It is a small museum, but it does have some fascinating exhibits. Inside the musuem is a very small library/bookstore. I spent a couple of hours pouring over the various submarine related titles. Several of these books I had never seen before, and many were out of print. One book in particular really caught my interest. It was titled "Submarines of the Russian & Soviet Navies, 1718-1990"by Norman Polmar & Jurrien Noot. On the upper right hand corner of pageg 123 was a poor quality photo of a submarine I had never seen before. The caption stated that it an 'SHCH-Class Submarine' of series X. Here is that photo;
After further reading I found another picture, which was a closeup of the conning tower gun deck. It showed more detail which cemented my fascination with this class of boats. Here is that photo:
I purchased the books that really caught my attention and went home to start pouring through them. I searched for the next couple of years, with very little luck, for more pictures, photos, & documentation of any kind that would help me piece together an accurate plan of the Shch Series X boat from which I could build a model. In 1994 I found a plans service in Los Angeles that had a plan for the exact boat that I wanted. I was so excited! I called up the company, Repli-tech int., and spoke to the owner. He sent me out a catalog of his drawings. After receiving the catalog I immediately sent them my check to purchase the Shch Plans. They were drawn by a man from Poland by the name of Andrezji Krasniki. They were very poorly drawn and I was extremely dissapointed. The hull stations did not match the plans, the hull profile was drawn by hand and the lines were not even straight. But, after reconsidering, it was still another piece of the puzzle. If the plans were even close to being right, at least I know knew what was below the waterline. Here is that set of plans:
My search continued until 1994 when Paul Doman, a good friend of mine, called me up and told me he had found a set of prints for my submarine at a plans service out of Germany. I was so excited. Knowing how the Germans typically do things I was certain that these plans would be spot on. The plans arrived after a few weeks of waiting. I tore the tube open and threw the plans down on the kitchen table. It only took me 10 seconds to see that they were based off of the same crappy Krasniki drawings. The drafting quality was excellent, but the errors were the same. I knew now that if I was going to use an accurate set of plans, I was going to have to get the originals from Russia and make them myself. So, my quest to find a contact in Russia began.
I found many sources for the boat in Russia via the internet and was suprised how willing those folks were to help. None of the Russians I dealt with wanted any money. The folks at http://www.armybook.com were outstanding to work with and helped me out a great deal. Sadly Armybook is no longer in business. The Russians wanted trinkets from the US, which really puzzled me. The information that I did get was very contradictory, which I finally made sense out of when I recieved partial shipyard prints for the same class from 2 different yards. It turns out each yard had its own way of doing things and each boat was modified to suit the yard and even the Skipper if he had enough pull. This discovery ended several years of an extremely frustrating research. I finally settled on doing one boat, Shch 324 which I have dozens of photos both in and out of the water, plus I recieved an original WWII Russian Navy Captain's warpatrol badge from 1943 from the skipper of Shch 411. That will be mounted on the diplay case.
The other great source of information was the Imperial War Museum. They were extremely helpful in specific technical information, plus for a $200.00 donation they interpreted all of the shipyard construction notes for me from Russian to English. I found a lot of great information in that text that allowed me to finish the research on the project. I gentleman by the name of Sergey Myagov, who was a Russian Naval historian, helped me a great deal. He went and dug into the Russian archives and sent me hundreds of photos that I did not have. Unfortunatley, not many were below the water line and most photos, typical from this time period in Russian, were of extremely poor quality.
Armed with the information I had in hand I went forth to produce accurate plans & patterns in 1/48th. Little did I know at the time that there was a publication that had just been released (2002) that covered the very class of boats that I sought to build. Sergey found it in a local bookstore in Moscow and FedExed the package to me.
It was full of photos and plans that were much more accurate than anything I had seen to day. I had to scrap the plans that I had drawn and had to start all over again!
The first photo that really jumped out at me in 2002 was this photo. This is Shch-209. This is the very same boat that caught my attention back in 1991, but I can see a LOT more detail. More pieces of the puzzle starting to fall into place.


Welcome to Biology Comics - a free, comics-based textbook for high school and college non-major/Gen Ed Biology students. Follow five students as they learn and teach each other about the scientific method, cellular structures, photosynthesis, and the world around them.
In our first chapter, meet Sy - a philosophy major who walks his study group through the scientific method and its importance in modern research practices, while also confronting some pseudoscience online! Have you seen a ‘Miracle Cure’ shared on facebook or twitter before? Then you should check out this chapter!
Have you ever wondered what you, your friends, and everything in the universe is made of? Then follow Sibyl (currently undeclared for a major), on a journey to learn about life, the universe, and everything - from the tiniest level. In this chapter, our study group reviews atomic structure and chemical bonding.
With plenty of Carbon and Hydrogen atoms, a blueberry muffin is an excellent source of fuel, although that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s ‘healthy’. Want to know why? Sam, an art major, and her active imagination will guide you through carbohydrates, fats, and the other macromolecules.


If you submit your BITSAT application 2019 then do your studies by the help of Arihant publication books because it contains a number of detailed questions and the answers are presented in the solved manner which is highly understandable to all. This type of book is now available online as in the PDF format, it is fully free of cost so download it and study well.
- BITSAT 2019 last minute tips and tricks
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- BITSAT 2019 important dates
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It really helps you to write the examination well. These experts give the sample questions and answers by the separation of topics like Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and some reasoning questions that will cover comprehensively by the form of NCERT syllabus of Classes like XI and the XII standard.
This book Illustrations are given with the easy comprehension with a theoretical description of all topics. This book will be the main part of your BITSAT.


To celebrate the 45th Anniversary of humans walking on the moon, check out The Little Book of Space Law by Matthew J. Kleiman. You can find it in the Law Library Basement KZD1145 .K49 2013. Even a small step for man needs lawyers to clear the way!
The National Center for State Courts recently issued a report on juvenile justice and elder issues. This report contains articles written by judges and experts in these fields and contains some data and insights on various issues in these legal topics.
Hat tip: Be Specific
It’s the birthday of one of the bestselling mystery writers of all time, Erle Stanley Gardner. He also happens to be one of the most prolific mystery writers of all time, but writing wasn’t his first job. It was boxing: illegal matches to earn money in high school. His enrollment at Valparaiso University (to study law) was a short one: he got kicked out for boxing. Undaunted, he studied on his own and passed the California bar exam at 21. While working as a lawyer he started writing pulp fiction to keep busy, churning out 4,000 words a day. Gardner went on to write all kinds of work but he’s most famous for his brilliant defense attorney Perry Mason, a character who appears in over 80 novels and is arguably the most famous television lawyer ever. If you haven’t watched the unflappable Perry Mason yet, you really should. With the lead character played by Raymond Burr, the show set the standard for all the courtroom and investigative dramas that followed it. We have three complete seasons of the television series. Come on by and check one out!
In a notice in yesterday’s Federal Register, the U.S. Copyright Office announced it is seeking public comment on how the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in Aereo will likely affect the scope of “making available” and “communication to the public” rights for copyright holders. Earlier this year, the Office had solicited written public comments and held a public roundtable on copyright law and communication in Washington, D.C. Their current request “provides an opportunity for interested parties to address issues raised” at that time as well as to “express their views on recent legal developments.” Comments will be accepted from the public through 5:00 p.m., August 14, 2014.
The debate on net neutrality has been discussed extensively by legal commentators. The Congressional Research Service has recently issued a report that summarizes the issues related to this topic. If you would like to learn about this topic further check out Virtual freedom: Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age from the Law Library.
Created by Fastcase, the Public Library of Law – PLoL is a resource for searching law freely available on the Internet. It provides a searchable interface to a large collection of primary law at both the state and federal levels. You can search case law, statutes, regulations, court rules, constitutions, and there are even links to some legal forms. Did I mention that it is free?
The UN recently released its Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict. This report highlights global trends regarding the impact of armed conflict on children in 2013 and the main activities and initiatives with regard to the implementation of relevant Security Council resolutions and the conclusions of its Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict.


GOING CLEAR: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, by Lawrence Wright. (Knopf, $28.95.) In tone, the author of “The Looming Tower” takes a calm and neutral stance toward Scientology, but he makes clear that it’s like no other church on earth.
MY BELOVED WORLD, by Sonia Sotomayor. (Knopf, $27.95.) Mostly skirting her legal views, the Supreme Court justice’s memoir reveals much about her family, school and her years at Princeton.
THE RIVER SWIMMER: Novellas, by Jim Harrison. (Grove, $25.) The men in these two charming novellas experience the triumph and torment of being alive, at the watershed ages of 17 and 60.
FOUNDATION: The History of England From Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors, by Peter Ackroyd. (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, $29.99.) The prolific Ackroyd begins what is billed as a six-volume history with an affectionate look at England’s remote past.
POEMS 1962-2012, by Louise Glück. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Ecco/HarperCollins, $40.) No poet of Glück’s generation has relied more overtly on our common store of myths, legends and fairy tales.
MISSING OUT: In Praise of the Unlived Life, by Adam Phillips. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) In these essays, Phillips explores the alternative lives “we could be leading but for some reason are not.”
FAREWELL, FRED VOODOO: A Letter From Haiti, by Amy Wilentz. (Simon & Schuster, $27.) Wilentz, an artful guide through the morass of aid efforts in Haiti, is highly skeptical of good intentions.
LENIN’S KISSES, by Yan Lianke. Translated by Carlos Rojas. (Grove, $27.) In Lianke’s epic jest of a novel, a bureaucrat shakes up a Chinese village.
STANDING IN ANOTHER MAN’S GRAVE, by Ian Rankin. (Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown, $25.99.) The ex-cop John Rebus is back, working on old cases.


In 1783 the Treaty of Paris officially ended the American Revolution. Although fighting had ended in 1781, a number of issues needed to be resolved in order for the United States to enjoy its status as a sovereign nation. Both sides agreed to meet in Paris, which was seen as a neutral location and one where all diplomats would be treated with respect.
Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay represented America. All three were experienced diplomats who had spent time Europe. David Hartley led the British delegation. The crown chose Hartley because he and Franklin were friends, and as a member of Parliament he had been an opponent of the war.
Although negotiations began with a spirit of cooperation, both parties were quickly at odds. Britain had never lost a colony, and was not accustomed to negotiating from a position of weakness. The crown feared revolt in other colonies if America received favorable treatment. Thus, Hartley offered The United States only limited autonomy, which the Americans immediately rejected. Franklin demanded that Britain relinquish all of North America, including Canada and the Oregon Territory. Eventually the two sides compromised with the United States having full independence, Canada remaining part of Britain, and Oregon’s status remaining undefined.
Other issues also required compromise and negotiation. At the insistence of the British, the treaty required all debts that Americans owed to British creditors be honored. Also, during the war the property of many loyalists had been confiscated. The treaty required this property, primarily land, to be returned. The treaty also called for slaves taken by British soldiers to be returned to their American owners. Other provisions gave Britain free access to the Mississippi River, and the United States fishing rights off the coast of Canada.
Neither side was happy with the final document. In fact, Hartley was so angered that he refused to pose for a customary portrait of the negotiations. This portrait, by Benjamin West, remains incomplete. Neither side fully enforced the treaty once it was ratified. Many Americans refused to pay British debts. In fact, some states passed laws prohibiting such payments. Britain violated the treaty in a variety of ways, such as by occupying American territory in the Great Lakes region and refusing to return confiscated slaves.
A final problem with the treaty involved Spain’s ownership of Florida and the Gulf Coast. The treaty recognized Spanish control, but it did not specify borders. This oversight would later cause conflict between Spain and the United States.
Future treaties such as the Jay Treaty (1794) and the Adams-Onis Treaty (1819) resolved many of the problems resulting from the Treaty of Paris. The treaty succeeded in its primary purpose, which was to secure the sovereignty of the United States. Perhaps its greatest failure was its inability to foster a spirit of friendship between the two nations. The United States and Britain remained bitter adversaries for many years. This lack of mutual respect played a key role in the War of 1812.


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A not-very-long book stretched into three full-length movies? Part of me was dubious, but I trusted Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and all the others to respect the source material and deliver another great trilogy.
I was right. An Unexpected Journey added a lot of material to the story (from the beginning up until Thorin’s company is saved from the orcs by the Eagles and deposited in Beorn’s land) but it never feels like padding—well, except the present-day scene between Bilbo and Frodo, which I think was necessary to tie in to the earlier movies, but probably should have been moved to the third installment. Then again, maybe not; I don’t know exactly how the story will play out.
So in addition to the book’s basic story, we’re treated to: Azog the Goblin, just a footnote in the books, now an ongoing villain probably for the remainder of the trilogy; Elrond, Galadriel and Saruman returning for an meeting of the White Council, discussing the Necromancer and what to do about him; Sylvester McCoy making a surprisingly awesome appearance as the druid-wizard Radagast the Brown, going around on a sled pulled by giant rabbits and briefly facing off against a Nazgul; a flashback of Smaug attacking the Lonely Mountain, following an absolutely dazzling look at a Dwarf city in its full glory; and various little bits of world-building taken from appendices or later books.
All great stuff, and that’s not even counting familiar elements brought to life: our old friend Gollum, alternating between creepy-sweet and murderous-creepy; the heart-stoppingly poignant rendition of “Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold,” which I saw in the trailers but still got me; edge-of-your-seat action; the lovely shots of Hobbiton.
Yes. A beautiful movie, and a wonderful start to another masterpiece. Can’t wait for next year!


Premier's Reading Challenge
The Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) is an annual state-wide initiative for state and non-state schools. The challenge is not a competition but aims to improve literacy and encourage children to read widely for pleasure and learning.
For a student to successfully complete the challenge they must read or experience the allocated number of books for their year level during the reading period. Students who complete the challenge have their efforts recognised through the receipt of a Certificate of Achievement signed by the Premier of Queensland.
Year level Number of books
Prep – Year 2 Read or experience 20 books
Years 3 – 4 20 books
Years 5 – 9 15 books
Literacy skills are vital to ensuring children have the best chance to succeed in their schooling and life. The PRC is an opportunity for students to be enthusiastic about reading, writing, authors and illustrators. Reading a variety of books builds vocabulary and knowledge, improves spelling and comprehension, can improve confidence and is also a great way to relax.