Dramatic photos show the measure of a man in contrast to the enormity of nature.
A series of photos from the Humboldt State University Library capture lumberjacks working among the redwoods in Humboldt County, California.
The photos are part of the Ericson Collection, a series of pictures from northwest California from the 1880s through the 1920s by Swedish photographer A.W. Ericson.
Pictures from the 1915-era display the work of loggers in the densely forested northern California area, that accounts for twenty per cent of the state's total forest production.
Humboldt County has nearly 1,500,000 acres in public and private forests, including the Redwood National and State Parks.
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One of the best ways to reach the top is to start by standing on the shoulders of those who’ve already succeeded. If you’re looking to maximize your career in sports management, it may be time to hit the books—great sports management books, that is.
Read on to find out which sports management books you can check out and a little about their highly accomplished authors so you can start ascending to the top of the sports management industry.
“When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi” by David Maraniss
Vince Lombardi, the namesake of the famous NFL trophy, has inspired hundreds of players and millions of people, and this book breaks down the man behind the legend. It focuses on a combination of successes and setbacks, including when he struggled as a high school football coach before his days creating champions in the NFL.1
One of the book’s primary messages is to never give up and David Maraniss hammers home how tenacity—combined with teamwork, leadership, and discipline—can help you succeed both on and off the field.
“The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse” by Tom Verducci
The Cubs were not only baseball’s world champions in 2016, but they also overcame a 108-year-old “curse,” 22 years longer than the specter the Red Sox overcame in 2004, and this sports management book explains how. It hones in on the clubhouse culture that made it possible for an underdog team to meet the standards of both management and loyal Cubs fans.2
A combination of statistical analysis and an examination of more subtle intangibles power this compelling book which explores what it takes to succeed at the highest level.
“The Game” by Ken Dryden
Ken Dryden, one of the most dominant hockey goalies in the 1970s, breaks down his path to becoming president of his team, the Montreal Canadiens, and the people who helped along the way. In his sports management book, Dryden also goes into detail about some of the more influential games that helped shape his destiny as a leader, with and without skates on.3
Dryden’s perspective in the book is unique in that he doesn’t hold back from criticizing systems that negatively impact players, as well as how health and team dynamics play a significant role in the success of a team. Dryden also demonstrates how some of his specific experiences impacted the game, starting ripple effects we still feel today.
“Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” by Michael Lewis
Even though “Moneyball” was enshrined as a classic when it inspired the film by the same name, the book made its mark long before the cameras started rolling. Michael Lewis breaks down how statistics overpowered skill and team politics to foster the success of the Oakland Athletics.4
The book explains how Billy Beane’s unorthodox approach lead to success and how he leveraged the analysis of a range of stats to drive—and inspire—those around him.
“Wooden: A Coach’s Life” by Seth Davis
Jim Wooden, a college basketball coach who had an 88-game winning streak and 10 championships is revealed through the lens of the players who went to battle for him day in and day out. Seth Davis brings together the stories and experiences of the young people Wooden motivated to provide a rich portrait of one of the greatest coaches ever to hold a clipboard.5
This sports management book also analyzes how Wooden navigated the challenging economics and politics a UCLA NCAA team faces daily. Ultimately, this book provides readers with a deep, detailed depiction of the ins and outs of succeeding at the highest level.
“Imperfect: An Improbable Life” by Jim Abbot
Jim Abbot, a pitcher born without a right hand, describes the challenges, successes, and setbacks he faced on his way to becoming a celebrated major league hurler. It illustrates Mr. Abbot’s path through the amateur level, including college and the Olympics, as well as the insecurities and discrimination he fought through to reach his goals.6
This book shows how anyone, regardless of background or difficulties, can succeed by developing the right mindset and skill set. It also drives home the importance of surrounding yourself with the right kind of people at the right time so you have a support system ready to lift you to the next level.
“Attitude: Develop a Winning Mindset On and Off the Court” by Jay Wright
“Attitude” provides readers with a roadmap to how to become a winner and inspire others to do the same. Jay Wright, the Villanova University men’s basketball coach, outlines the dynamics of how he approaches competition and the values that serve as the framework for his success.7
Mr. Wright gives readers a combination of personal stories and the advice he got from others to draw a personalized picture of how he succeeds both on the court and off. Not only is “Attitude” one of the best sports management books, it’s also packed with insights that can apply to succeeding at work, school, or other endeavors.
“Call an Audible: Let My Pivot From Harvard Law to NFL Coach Inspire Your Transition” by Daron K. Roberts
It’s not every day you hear about someone going from the hallowed halls of Harvard to the NFL, but exactly what Daron Roberts did, and his sports management book explains the how and why of his journey. Readers get a glimpse of the blood, sweat, tears, and sacrifices Mr. Roberts was forced to make to realize his dreams.8
Along the way, you’re treated to a detailed description of how to beat the odds, not just in education and football, but life in general. Anyone who wants to make a switch, whether a student or already in a career, can benefit from reading Roberts’ story. He not only talks about the challenges, but he also describes the mindset needed to overcome them.
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Professor, Ethnomusicology, and Director, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Timothy Rice specializes in the traditional music of the Balkans, especially from the Slavic-speaking nations of Bulgaria and Macedonia. In terms of research themes, he has written, among other things, on musical cognition, politics and music, meaning and music, mass media, and music teaching and learning in the Bulgarian case and contributed more general articles on theory and method in ethnomusicology. He is the author of May it Fill Your Soul: Experiencing Bulgarian Music (University of Chicago Press, 1994) and Music in Bulgaria: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Oxford University Press, 2004) as well as numerous articles in major journals such asEthnomusicology, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology Forum, and Journal of American Folklore. He was founding co-editor of the ten-volume Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and co-edited Volume 8, Europe . He has served the field of ethnomusicology in a variety of ways, including editing a collection of scholarly essays called Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Music (University of Toronto Press, 1982), editing the journal Ethnomusicology(1981-1984), and acting as President of the Society for Ethnomusicology (2003-2005). He served as Associate Dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture from 2005 to 2008. He is currently the director of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.


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A Story with Pictures Readers will laugh and learn all about character setting plot and other important elements of a good picture book
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|Posing with the husband-wife writing team, Ilona Andrews|
I don't talk a lot about my reading habits on this blog, but it's one of my favorite hobbies in the world and I will always have books to fall back on. It's my fantasy to live in a huge house with its own dedicated library room (kind of like the Beast's library in the Disney Beauty and the Beast). If only, right? Reading was my first love growing up and I even wanted to make a career out of it once; after all, I was a graduate student in English for a long time.
But I definitely don't read high-falutin' books all that much anymore. These days, my reading diet consists mostly of genre fiction. Confession: I ended up as a graduate student in literature partly because I was a romance-novel junkie in my formative years. I moved to the United States from the Philippines when I was about seven years old, and in the ensuing years, I became adept at reading, writing, spelling, and speaking English mostly because I read romance novels all the time. You know, the racy but quick-reading Harlequin Presents stuff. Then I moved on to longer stand-alone historicals, contemporary romances, and then paranormal romances (a subgenre which exploded into the publishing scene back when I was a late teenager). In the middle of all that, I also read the more age-appropriate The Baby-sitters Club series and the occasional sci-fi/fantasy and young adult book (think Norma Klein and Lois Lowry), but it's really the romances that got me started. Once I read Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre in 8th grade, I was hooked into a literate and literary life for good.
In the mid-1990s, while in my tender high school years, I found Laurell K. Hamilton and became a fan of dark urban fantasy. When I got tired of the constant sexxx0ring in the later books of her Anita Blake series, I looked around and found Kim Harrison, who introduced me to a funner and funnier version of the subgenre (I highly recommend her Hollows/Rachel Morgan series -- start with Dead Witch Walking). That led me to several other authors later on, particularly Ilona Andrews, whose Kate Daniels series also had a lot of biting humor and excellent romantic tension that never took over the plotting or world-building.
Reading these novels was my little secret for a long time. You may not know how many people scoff when they hear me talk about romance novels. And this is from people who've never read any (sorry, Jane Austen doesn't count). Only my older sister and one of her friends ever read genre fiction the way I did, and my sister now reads mostly contemporary literary fiction. So you can imagine my surprise and delight when my son and I visited his classmate's house for a playdate last year and I found that his mother's bookcases carried TONS of genre fiction, with lots of crossovers with my own collection. Michelle, the classmate's mom, used to be a young adult services librarian, and she even has a book review blog documenting her prolific reading. We've been exchanging books since then, and I have been happy to get lots of recommendations from her. I slowed down my personal reading quite a bit while working on grad school projects, and it didn't pick up again until this summer, when I managed to knock off at least 6 novels plus several novellas from my mountainous TBR (to-be-read) pile since July. (That's a lot for me, by the way. I'm not a fast reader by any means.) I even re-read a couple of books to remember context. I just wish I didn't need sleep! Anyway, Michelle is a huge fan of Ilona Andrews books, and when she told me about their upcoming visit to San Diego and invited me to go down with her, I said yes.
It turned out to be a grand experience. Her friend Becca kindly drove us down to the awesome independent bookstore, Mysterious Galaxy, and then we met up with Maggie, one of Michelle's blogger friends, after the talk and signing. The talk was really an hour-long Q&A with the husband and wife team that is Ilona Andrews. Ilona is a Russian immigrant with a charming accent and really fun sense of humor, and Andrew is an ex-military guy with a quieter but complementary kind of humor. They were so wry and funny together, and you could see how it's possible that they haven't killed each other working so closely together everyday. It was also fun to see how each of their personalities is built into their characters, especially Kate and Curran (if you're familiar with the series). What was truly wonderful, though, was how nice they were in person. They were so generous with their time, signing ALL the books that people brought/bought, and then taking a little extra time to take photos with their readers. Even though they must be exhausted from traveling (Ilona said she has a lot of anxiety flying on airplanes), they are so good with their fans. If you'd like to get a taste of their writing, you can check out their blog where they have hilarious posts as well as free stuff you can read.
We ended the outing with sushi and a visit to a huge used-book/CD/DVD emporium called Book-Off, which was conveniently across the street from the yummy sushi place we found via Google Local. We stuffed ourselves ridiculously full (I didn't take photos of the spicy seaweed poke salad I polished off) then treated ourselves to even more books. Gah!!
Aside from requiring such long drives (special thanks to Becca for getting us there and back safely as well as going to the nearby Japanese grocery and providing us with fun candy snacks to keep us awake on the drive home), it was a perfect day with new friends that nourished mind and body both. Bonding over good books and good food is no small thing. What a great way to cap off my summer vacation.


According to a report by Rob Reynolds and Yevgeny Ioffe, digital textbooks might account for over 18% of the U.S. textbook market by 2014.
The report cites a number of factors that will influence this growth, including digital textbook and e-content pricing and availability, as well as success of the iPad, netbooks, e-readers, and growth of the smartphone.
Yet they overlook one of the most important qualities for digital content – accessibility across multiple platforms. This is where Amazon’s Kindle gets it right.
While Amazon’s eBook content is still limited, there is the nagging issue of DRM, and authors on average get less in royalties vs. their print offerings, I am quite pleased with Kindle’s ease across platforms. Besides the Kindle reading device, I can access my Kindle content with a Kindle reading app that can be downloaded on my PC and Mac, iPad and my Android smartphone . And Amazon’s Whispersync technology syncs my bookmarks, notes and highlights across all of my devices. This is a part of Amazon’s “Kindle Everywhere” strategy, as describe by Jeff Bezos in an interview with Fortune Magazine:
Our strategy with the ebookstore is ‘buy once, read everywhere.’ If you want to read on your iPhone, if you want to read on your BlackBerry. We want people to be able to read their books anywhere they want to read them. That’s the PC, that’s the Macintosh. It’s the iPad, it’s the iPhone. It’s the Kindle.
Amazon could really get a leg-up on the digital textbook market by applying this strategy working with textbook publishers. Who cares if students access digital texbooks on a Kindle, iPad or smartphone? In fact, Amazon could develop a model where students can checkout school-leased copies of their textbooks at the beginning of the year. At the end of the year, the lease ends and the content disappears (perhaps a decent reason to retain DRM) – ready for another student the following year.
This digital textbook content could be updated on-the-fly, so there wouldn’t be any more 20 year old history textbooks. And there could be text-only versions for the Kindle or a smartphone, and a more interactive version for the iPad and PC (to include photos, graphs and charts). But most importantly, students can access the textbook content anywhere they want to, and at any time.Dale Basler has a digital textbook wish list, including the possibility for student collaboration and availability. Amazon’s Kindle apps actually accomplish this already.


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A visit by a Postdoctoral Researcher from the University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI) GloCal Health Fellowship programme, Dr Amber Roegner, on a postdoctoral fellowship tenable at the Technical University of Kenya under the mentorship of Dr Lewis Sitoki, Chairman, Department of Geosciences and the Environment (DGSE). The researcher will be studying the ‘Role of Cyanobacterial Blooms and Snail Vectors in Schistosomiasis Epidemiology of Fishing Communities at Lake Victoria, Kenya between 2015 and 2016.’ This project is funded to the tune of USD $20,000.Read More ...


The Carmi Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors met on September 14, 2017 for their regular meeting. The Board welcomed Campbell Energy LLC as a new member. In addition to welcoming a new member, the Board accepted the appointment of CWCHS Senior and White County CEO Student Faye Yang as the High School […]
The Carmi Chamber of Commerce has awarded $200 grants to each of the following teachers in the Carmi White County School District: Tina Mosier, Washington Attendance Center- Chromebook for her classroom. Jeannie McGarvey, Lincoln Attendance Center- Vestibular swing and Caterpillar Climber for her Early Childhood classsroom. Beth Hart, Brownsville School- New table […]
Wabash Christian Retirement Center is changing its name to Wabash Christian Village (WBCV). The change better describes the unique position WBCV enjoys in the community. WCV offers the widest range of senior living options in the area, is the only certified memory care community and operates highly acclaimed therapy services. The WBCV family includes Wabash […]
The Carmi Chamber of Commerce held a Ribbon Cutting today for Ginny’s Place. Ginny’s Place offers breakfast all day, as well as lunch and dinner. “We wish Ginny’s Place much success,” noted Chamber Director Holly Healy.
The Carmi Chamber of Commerce is once again hosting a Lunch and Learn program the Chamber hopes will be of benefit to the business community. The September Lunch and Learn will be held at the Carmi Public Library on September 27, 2017 at noon. According to Ferrell Hospital, “Dr. Joey Jackson will be speaking on […]
Wabash Christian Therapy presented the program for the Carmi Chamber of Commerce’s first Lunch and Learn program, held on August 30, 2017. Janelle Waters, OTR, L and Lauren Keehn, OTR, L talked about ergonomics and the negative effects of prolonged sitting on your body. According to Waters, “Ergonomic is the study of […]
The Carmi Chamber of Commerce will hold a Ribbon Cutting for Ginny’s Place, located 216 E Main Street in Carmi, at 2pm on September 8, 2017. Ginny’s Place offers breakfast all day, as well as lunch and dinner. “Please join us in celebrating this business,” noted Chamber Director Holly Healy. The public is invited to […]
The Carmi Chamber of Commerce will host its 73rd Annual Dinner Monday evening, October 2 at the First Christian Church. The event will begin with a social hour at 6 p.m. with dinner to be served at 6:30 p.m. This year’s event will once again include the State of the City address which will be […]


Burmese Princess in exile Inge Sargent shares her riveting story of extraordinary courage and love. She is the author of Twilight Over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess, and is the recipient of a United Nations International Human Rights Award. You’ll hear her thoughts on following the heart, on courage, and how to work with the mind in a time of crisis. Originally from Austria, she became a “Mahadevi”, or Ruling Princess, when she married her first husband, Sao Kya Seng, who was the “Saophalong”, or Ruling Prince, of Hsipaw State. Located in Northern Burma, Hsipaw is one of the largest of the ethnic Shan states, about the size of Connecticut, and the closest border is China. Hear her reminisce about the feeling she had when she first met Sao, how he “spoke to [her] heart directly.” Sao was a kind and thoughtful man who deeply believed in the power of democracy. But in the end, the instability in the region was too great, and the military too strong, and in 1962, everything changed… Find out more of the hardships Inge endured after the military coup d’etat, and learn what beautiful gifts Sao gave to her life, including, “…a perspective that is kind of boundless…”
I always think there is the brain, and there’s the heart. And, sometimes the brain warns you and says “don’t do that” and the heart says “go ahead… go ahead…” and that’s what I always did. And I have never regretted it for one moment.
Inge’s book: Twilight Over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess
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In A Life on Record Marianne Faithfull takes us along for the ride that is her life in pictorial form. The oversized book published by Rizzoli on the occasion of the artist’s fiftieth stage anniversary last year is the celebration of the life of a woman who has seen and done it all. After two comprehensive autobiographies the photo book eagerly awaited by fans is finally here.
Beginning with vintage shots of the singer’s mother Eva—who in her youth was a dancer in Berlin and Vienna—the reader is led more or less chronologically through each decade, with the overall narritive feeling a bit unstructured. Portraits by renowned photographers like Helmut Newton, Ellen von Unwerth or David Bailey are featured alongside personal, never-before-seen snapshots, artwork and newspaper cut-outs which give the book a very personal feel, like looking at a photo album with an old friend. There are a few rarities and surprises even for die-hard fans who will be familiar with most of the portraits shot by the renowned photographers.
The subject herself comments sparsely, but often humourously, on the content in the form of handwritten captions. A special treat are the photos taken of Faithfull’s Paris apartment, featuring her own collection of artwork by artists such as Francis Bacon or Richard Hamilton. An introduction by Salman Rushdie and two essays by Will Self and Terry Southern respectively provide context for the melangerie of visuals that might otherwise be confusing for readers not as familiar with Faithfull’s career.
One of the shortcomings of this publication might be that, compared to the others, there aren’t quite enough photos and documents from the past decade of the artist’s career. Furthermore it would have been interesting to have some anecdotes from the creative processes behind Faithfull’s albums as the title of the book seems to suggest. However this doesn’t diminish the overall enjoyability of the book. Whether one is already a fan or is looking for an introduction to one of the most mesmerising working artists today A Life on Record should be part of any music aficionado’s book collection. Maggie Bee, January 2015
Top image: Courtesy of Marianne Faithfull/Rizzoli Publishing. Special thanks to Sarah Bogart.
A very well written review, thank you! Marianne is a great role model. The song she sings by Jarvis Cocker is not quite accurate. We don’t want to live a life like hers because she got by on charm. We want to live a life like hers because she got by on her wits, on her talent, on her honesty, and in her courage. Also on her persistence and her drive. Who wouldn’t want to be the coolest rockstar on the planet at 69 years old, her star is still rising! How does she do it? Why should any of us strive for anything less?
I’m glad you enjoyed the review! I think that her song “Sliding Through Life On Charm” is meant to be very sarcastic. They lyrics are what she has to say to people who think she didn’t work hard to get where she is now. Jarvis wrote it brilliantly.
It’s unique when an artists sings a song written by someone else from the singer’s perspective. I think she said once it took her a while to understand it. I think she sings it with irony, which is slightly different than sarcasm I guess. She sure is a charming and beautiful lady. I love how she also has the record for being the first woman to say the F word in a mainstream film. I would have to fact check that though, lol.
Ah, you’re right, I switched up the words in my head! Actually I’m not sure about the F word thing either, but I’ll look into it for one of my “Faithfull Facts” on Tumblr.


Stacey P. Eilbaum
Stacey Eilbaum is an associate in the Litigation Department. Her practice involves a variety of complex commercial litigation matters, including securities litigation, cross-border commercial disputes, and insurance recovery.
Prior to joining Proskauer, Stacey served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ronnie Abrams of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. At Cornell Law School, she was an Articles Editor for the Cornell Law Review, where she received the Herbert R. Reif Prize for skillful and lucid use of the English language in writing about the law for her Note,The Dual Face of the American Jury: The AntiAuthoritarian and AntiMajoritarian Hero and Villain in American Law and Legal Scholarship, 98 CORNELL L. REV. 711 (2013).


Thursday 8 December, 18:00 to 20:00
Join us for back-to-back talks by renowned architects and designers Massimiliano Locatelli and Robert Greenwood (Snøhetta). Part of House of Today’s third biennial exhibition, Jungle Protocol, Tradition, and Etiquette.
Saturday 10 December, 11:00 to 13:00
Saturday 21 January, 11:00 to 13:00
Learn to screen print original posters! In this artist-led hands-on workshop, children will learn the basics of silkscreen printing, including stenciling and image transfer techniques. Historical postcards from the Fouad Debbas Collection will be used as inspiration.
Thursday 15 December, 19:00 to 20:30
Thursday 12 January, 19:00 to 20:30
Thursday 19 January, 19:00 to 20:30
Thursday 2 February, 19:00 to 20:30
Join us in the Salon d’Automne exhibition space to hear exhibiting artists speak about their work. Five different artists will speak on three separate dates.
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Conscience: A Novel
"Alice Mattison's new novel wrestles with the irreducibly complex demands of having a conscience in an age of political depravity."
Decades ago in Brooklyn, three girls demonstrated against the Vietnam War. Helen became a violent revolutionary. Val wrote a controversial book, Bright Morning of Pain, about Helen. And Olive became an editor and writer, and is now settled with her husband, Griff, in New Haven. When Olive is asked to write an essay about Val’s book, doing so brings back to the forefront Olive and Griff’s tangled histories and their complicated reflections on that tumultuous time. Things only become more fraught when Griff borrows Olive’s treasured first edition of the novel―and loses it. Then Griff’s quirky and audacious new colleague, Jean Argos, finds the book and begins reading it, setting off a series of events that will introduce new conflicts, tragedies, and friendships into the precarious balance of Olive and Griff’s lives.
Conscience, the dazzling new novel from award-winning author Alice Mattison, has her signature wit and precision. And as Mattison explores the ways in which women make a difference―for good or ill―in the world, she elegantly weaves together the past and the present, and the political and the personal.
Available at bookstores nationwide.
The Kite and the String
How to Write with Spontaneity and Control—and Live to Tell the Tale
“A book-length master class.”
The Kite and the String urges writers to let playfulness and spontaneity breathe life into the work—letting the kite move with the winds of feeling—while still holding on to the string that will keep it from flying away. Alice Mattison attends also to the difficulties of protecting writing time, preserving solitude, finding trusted readers, and setting the right goals for publication. The only writing guide that takes up both the stages of creative work and developing effective attitudes while progressing through them, plus strategies for learning more about the craft, The Kite and the String responds to a pressing need for writing guidance at all levels.
“The Kite and the String does not purport to be either a DIY manual or memoiristic musing. Rather, it is a guide to the stages of writing, exploring an approach which is essentially practical, human, and hopeful. . . . Mattison’s close reading of various works of fiction is well worth every writer’s while. . . . She is a wonderfully wise and nurturing teacher.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
“Full of warm but pragmatic wisdom . . . Mattison cuts through a lot of the mystique around the writing process.”


Photographer to Discuss Unconventionally Produced Exhibit
Blue Mitchell, an independent publisher, curator, and photographer, will discuss the photographic imagery he creates through unconventional means during a public appearance at Amarillo College.
Mitchell, who incorporates inkjet transfers and burned negatives into the photographic process, will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 19 in the Oak Room of the College Union Building on the Washington Street Campus.
His appearance is free and open to the public.
Meanwhile, Mitchell’s work will be on display at AC from April 9 to May 5 in the Southern Light Gallery on the first floor of Lynn Library, directly south of the College Union Building. He has dubbed his exhibit “Evanescent Energy.”
Mitchell is a graduate of Oregon College of Art and Craft and has curated and juried several photography exhibitions, created an online photography gallery (platestopixels.com), and launched a fine art photography annual called “Diffusion: Unconventional Photography.”
About his latest exhibition, “Evanescent Energy,” Mitchell says: “The energy that emanates from our natural surroundings pierces through my exterior senses and into my core being. This intense fervor cannot be cast on film alone, but with the use of fire I’ve found a way to recreate the almost metaphysical underpinning of nature, myself and the invisible effervescence around us.”
For more information about Mitchell’s exhibition or appearance at AC, contact Rene West, AC instructor of photography, at 806-345-5654.


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And a happy post-Memorial Day weekend to you. For non-US readers, Memorial Day is a holiday in which we celebrate the sacrifices our armed forces paid by looking for bargains at malls.
While spending the long weekend with my folks, I was pleased to discover that there is a River Styx in New Jersey. This explains much, even if it doesn't have a Water World
(4th image down on the page).
Speaking of librarians, there's a nice article (no longer available for free) in the Daily Herald
about librarianship as a career. Thanks to librarian.net
for pointing it out. I also recommend Become a Librarian!
, which is cited in the Daily Herald


Though the book, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, is over a decade old it is back on the front table and topshelves again because of the movie version.
In short: this is a fantastic book. You should READ it before seeing the movie.
Writing a review of the book poses a challenge because of how the story develops and the content of the story. To write to0 much about the story itself would destroy some of the experience of reading it.
It’s a mere 200ish pages, reads in probably a long night of reading or over a period of 3 or 4 nights before you go to sleep.
Yes, it is a love story and crime story and a slice of history piece. It has all the trimmings of lost love, failed dreams, shame, moral dilemmas and truth seeking. It is not remarkable in style or story arc or character development. The Reader startles you in the conclusions it doesn’t draw.
What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.
– page 217, The Reader
I brought to it my world view and in that context I found a sympathetic story to my belief that we are not objective, autonomous humans capable of rising above the environments and realities of our own situations. Truth is contingent on context. Our justice systems, historical accounts, and romantic relationships can’t escape this fact.


Mother Nature’s (or God’s) World, Man’s World,
and the World withing Your Skin
Dissecting each world, it explores our identities as souls within physical bodies that originated in Mother Nature’s World (made up of ninety-two natural elements) to eventually migrate to Man’s World (made up of eleven synthetic elements produced in his atomic laboratories).
An investigation into Mother Nature’s World looks at the origination of life and the Universal Laws that governed our lives and still govern life in that world. It is by observing the divinity and intelligence that exists in this world that I realised that we as a species were never meant to be diseased in the first place: It is our birthright to live disease-, misery- and medicine-free.
The following is a review of Being Human
by Dr John F. Demartini.
“A riveting, thought provoking and truly compelling personal story concerning the human experience. An extraordinary inner mystical journey encompassing body, mind and soul. A true inner healing experience that awakens and enlightens. An engaging human drama leading to the realisation of the infinite. Anyone ready to heal will be touched. An amazing read…”
Dr John F. Demartini
Best selling author of: Count Your Blessings -The Healing Power of Gratitude and Love and The Breakthrough Experience
– A Revolutionary New Approach to Personal Transformation
Brief synopsis of the “Being Human”:
Almost every one of us has a fear, be it consciously or subconsciously, of being diagnosed with a disease such as diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, or cancer, and the list grows continually. According to studies by Dr Bernard Jensen more than 95 per cent of the world’s population, including a growing percentage of our children, lives in a sub-acute to chronic state of disease, misery and medication dependency. If we are not already part of this statistic, we fear that at some point in our lives we inevitably will be.
Modern allopathic medicine has undoubtedly made tremendous scientific and technological advancement over the last fifty years or so. It is mind boggling to witness some of the transplants and intricate surgical procedures performed on reality television to improve the quality of life for patients with degenerate body parts or victims of accidents. As reassuring as it is to know that these talented medical personnel have an almost miraculous capacity to rescue people from mangled wrecks and other forms of catastrophes and disasters, the question that began to concern me was why nearly everyone I knew, including myself, still remained sick, miserable and diseased at an everyday level?
When mainstream medicine became widely available, it was magical to be able to pop a pill and stop a raging headache in its tracks. Many came to rely on this miracle cure and there was soon a pill for every ill. Over time, however, many among the global Masses became disillusioned with the medical industry, concluding that there are, in fact, no actual cures for any diseases. If there was a cure for even a headache, why is there a planet full of people suffering with headaches? They realised that handing over responsibility of the self to someone else and saying, ‘You fix me up,’ wasn’t working and that we should perhaps be taking responsibility for our own healing.
This train of thought opened up a new jungle to get lost in: the alternate healing field with ‘no side effects natural products’, holistic treatments, therapies, looking into past and future lives, lighting incense sticks, and swinging pendulums amongst other activities. As doctors continue to discover new ‘cures’ for modern diseases, so too are there a growing number of new treatments based on ‘ancient secrets’ being developed in the alternate field. And yet, more than 95 per cent of the world’s population remain sick, miserable and in pain.
Some time back, I began to question who, or what, it was that heals a sick body. Since the mists of time humans have been asking the question, ‘Who am I?’ but the mists have long since dissipated and perpetually busy and stressed humans are still asking the same question today. How can any of us take responsibility for something like our own healing when we don’t even know who we are? Thus began my quest.
Being Human is the story of a journey to understand three worlds: Mother Nature’s (or God’s) World, Man’s World, and the World within Your Skin. Dissecting each world, it explores our identities as souls within physical bodies that originated in Mother Nature’s World (made up of ninety-two natural elements) to eventually migrate to Man’s World (made up of eleven synthetic elements produced in his atomic laboratories).
An investigation into Mother Nature’s World looks at the origination of life and the Universal Laws that governed our lives and still govern life in that world. It is by observing the divinity and intelligence that exists in this world that I realised that we as a species were never meant to be diseased in the first place:
It is our birthright to live disease-, misery- and medicine-free.
An investigation of Man’s World examines the fact that the planet is controlled by only a handful of people, who together with their Henchmen and Agents hold dominion over the souls, minds and bodies of the Masses. We live within a system where we have forgotten our origins and suffer from amnesia in regards to the Universal Laws of Life. In fact, the Masses are encouraged by leadership of low consciousness to violate the Universal Laws.
How has this impacted on the World within your Skin? An investigation of the World within your Skin reveals that there are over a quadrillion activities going on simultaneously within the body, each orchestrated by the inherent wisdom and intelligence of Mother Nature (or God). If you eat a potato, it’s not you who releases the right amount of alkaline at the right time to digest this potato. When you eat a piece of meat, it’s not you who releases the right amount of acid at the right time to break it down. If it was up to you with your busy mind, last week’s potato could still be lying fermenting and forgotten in your stomach! For that matter, if you cut your leg, who or what heals it? When we take a closer look into the World within your Skin, you cannot help but see the hand of God in its creation. It’s as if there is a Universal God of all life that said a long time ago, ‘Go my children, and experience your life on the gross, sensual realm of the earth plane. For this, I give you the gifts of physical bodies, and I will be responsible for everything that takes place within them. All I want you to do is only four simple things: eat, drink, breathe and think.’ And like every living creature in God’s World does, this book explains how these four things you do produces the blood that bathes over every cell in the World within your Skin.
You may be wondering what the nature of your blood has to do with how you feel. How does it affect your cellular well-being and the proliferation of diseases? How does this affect your mind and emotions? This book investigates how you, like every human on the planet, produce your own blood anew in every moment of your existence – and how this influences your entire life. It demystifies and takes away the apprehension and fear surrounding personal physical, mental and emotional diseases by revealing to you how you are responsible for manifesting them, and how they grow into other diseases like poverty, crime, rape, pollution, violence and war.
By mismanaging the four things we are instructed to do, we have accumulated toxic debris in our physical, mental and emotional bodies. Our souls weep for the experience of love as children of the Universal God of all life as much as from the experience of pain and trauma we are currently subjected to.
There is no medical cure and self-healing is ineffective. It is in fact the inherent intelligence of Mother Nature that heals and repairs the body.
This book shows you how to eat, drink, breathe and think according to the Universal Laws of Life. It also shows you how to first remove the already accumulated debris from your physical body that is further poisoning your blood, and how to cleanse your mental and emotional bodies. ‘Cleanse and purify thyself and I shalt exalt thee to the throne of power,’ says one good book. Cleansing is vital to bring the body back to a point where the inherent wisdom of Mother Nature can heal the physical body naturally. ‘Cleanliness is next to Godliness’ and Godliness cannot function in a toxic, polluted environment.
I have worked with hundreds of people in guiding the cleansing of their bodies. With the simple technique that I explain in this book, your body can also have the opportunity to utilize Mother Nature’s wisdom to heal itself of all forms of disease. When your body is not being gnawed by pain, your mind will not be so agitated. When your mind is calm, your emotional self will be equanimous, and then you will experience the divinity of ‘Being Human’. Dis-ease is a dis-grace, a ‘falling from grace’ and living less than the divine we ought to be. Is this the legacy human beings should be leaving the future of humanity?
The term ‘human being’ is simply the description of a form and there seems to be no longer any responsibility attached to that. Being Human on the other hand, is a tall order. This book provides you with the tools to realise the divinity of ‘Being Human’ and the opportunity to live what is every human’s birthright, to live disease, misery and medicine free.


Tyburn Film Documentary - Gloria Deo
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Have you ever wondered what life in a cloistered Benedictine community is really like ? Let the Tyburn Nuns transport you to their nine monasteries.From the London Streets along which martyrs were once drawn, to Alantic harbours, Pacific fishing villages and Andean peaks, witness the nuns' holy life of prayer and work, centred on devotion of the Eucharist, in this remarkable and beautiful film.
Programme running time approximately 90 minutes
The cost of the DVD is £15.00.
What people are saying about our DVD...
Those Nuns are incredible! I was greatly moved – even to tears. The film gives a burst of enthusiasm for God’s work.
Private letter from JOHN
A unique inside portrait of the world of the TYBURN NUNS. This film takes you into another realm …
Catholic Weekly Australia
The most beautiful and visually compelling film I have ever seen. I didn’t want it to end.
Kim Brisbane, Australia
It is difficult to think of a more counter-cultural production team than the duo behind the documentary TYBURN CONVENT GLORIA DEO – a former London Fashion photographer and the Superior General of the contemplative Order of the Tyburn Nuns … The result of this cooperation is a documentary full of luscious visuals but also of profound insights into the history, culture, theology and spirituality of the Tyburn Benedictine life, which is growing worldwide.
A.A. Catholic Journal
Gloria Deo captures comprehensively and tenderly the authentic elements of Benedictine life:
- the sacredness of ‘specific’ place,
- the purity silence,
- the peaceful sanity of Benedictine ora (prayer)
- and the joyful transformation by the community’s labora (work) of the Tyburn gardens, brimming with bees, water, vegetables, flowers and trees.
The particular spiritual genius of nature and place so distinctive of Benedictine monastic life is brought to life as Davies camera lingers over the distinctive and often glorious flora and landscape of honey eaters in grevillea bushes at Riverstone, Australia, the crashing grey waves of western Scotland, and rampant greenery of the Andes.
With remarkable genius, Davies captures the moving beauty and grace of the women of different ages and ethnic groups who bring to this Benedictine life the additional charism of the Tyburn communities – that of perpetual Eucharistic Adoration and devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The documentary conveys with unembarrassed clarity how the words of Tyburn Foundress Marie Adele Garnier (Mother Mary of St Peter) are made real in each monastery: “We are born as one family of the Heart of Jesus.”
Viewing this film, the priest Fr Peter J. enthusiastically commented that it reflected authentically the way in which the Tyburn Communities bring the idea of the Eucharist as the ‘Sun of Creation’ to the society around it and added that “while they are strictly enclosed they also provide a (spiritual) home to many friends and visitors. So, many people are drawn into the orbit of their monasteries, and their communities are gently but definitely growing around the world … the other thing which is so noticeable about the women of Tyburn is that, through their life of continuous Adoration, they leave an impression of their utter joy and radiance.”
There is nothing sickly or simply glossy about the Tyburn Vocation nor of its depiction in this DVD. Rather, we encounter in it that “their perpetual dedication to the Heart of Jesus as a way of bringing the brokenness of humanity to their memories and prayers so that their convents become a still point of love and forgiveness …
As the pictures and narration of Gloria Deo shows, the nuns far from hiding themselves from the sorrows, confusion or hunger of the world, the ardent Eucharistic devotion of the monasteries brings the practical and healing love of Christ into the world. The nuns are a real solace and loving presence to the social and economic poverty of Peru, and to those whose babies have been miscarried or lost to illness or abortion in Cork, Ireland.
The film shows how the Tyburn monasteries have brought powerful oases of prayer as well as life-changing initiatives to their adopted lands:
- ordered green to the rubbish-filled sand dunes of Ecuador;
- meditative Stations of the Cross and stunning natural beauty in New Zealand;
- an ethnological museum to the alienated Indian people of Peru;
- and stunning spiritual peace to the fraught materialism of central London, England.
The Tyburn Nuns credit Luke Davies with the original vision and driving desire to open such an intimate and moving window on the usually silent and hidden world of these Benedictine women. His persistence paid off, and the nuns are delighted with the captivating film: “Luke Davies has captured and conveyed for the wider public, without any fuss or artificiality, the essence and praxis of what it is to be a TYBURN NUN.”
(Largely from KAIROS Magazine, Australia)
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Books for Physicians and Medical Students – Overview
Medical doctors often time do not have enough time for any other business venture other than medicine.
Physicians should be great business people but they are not as medical school is not exactly business school.
Medical school won’t teach you the knitty-gritty of investment, finance and entrepreneurship. Nevertheless, there are great business books recommended for physicians, medical students and residents to make up for what medical schools do not teach about the real world and make smart business decisions.
The top 10 recommended business books for physicians and medical students are as follows:
This book is a recommended read for physicians, medical students and medical residents.
It is a comprehensive and easy-to-read primer on business skills including how to set up a practice, hiring another doctor, contracts with insurance companies.
Part One of the book provides a great overview of how to start your medical practice based on Hacker’s experience as an entrepreneur while Part Two discusses how to start and run your own business outside of medical practice.
A Florida dermatologist and Internet startup veteran, Hacker provides medical students and established physicians all the information they could need to find a private practice and branch out into business ventures.
You’re a doctor and you know a lot about medicine. But do you know anything about the real world? Doctors learn a lot in medical school, but not enough.
Only rarely will a course teach practical, useful, or pragmatic information to help with the myriad decisions that arise in day-to-day life.
Dr. Harbin wrote this book to fill the gap: to help doctors deal with the business aspects of medicine, help doctors in training learn how to evaluate opportunities for the future, and assist practicing doctors in dealing with the questions arising every day and when planning for the future.
This is not a detailed book for every financial legal issue you might face but it does provide you an idea of what to seek from your partners, lawyers, and accountant.
It is a great starter for physicians looking to venture into entrepreneurship.
This new book helps you identify the right fit to satisfy your dreams of practicing medicine and having a personal life, too.
All young physicians (and practice administrators) dream of landing in a practice where they can use one hundred percent of their workday and skills to make a difference, and then go home on time.
The reality, however, is a heavy workload, stressed staff, and frustrating requirements. It’s easy to end up feeling stuck and dissatisfied.
But by understanding the business of medicine upfront, physicians and administrators can make the right job choices to find a practice that fits them and then enjoys rewarding careers and satisfying personal lives.
While your knowledge and technical skills got you to where you are presently in your career, it won’t take you to that peak of your career.
Behavior is equally important when climbing the career ladder. Great results can come from practicing basic behaviors like listening well, thinking before answering, saying thank you and apologizing for your mistakes.
Physicians can be over-confident about their careers but Marshall explains how delusional self-confidence causes you to resist change and progress.
Marshall Goldsmith outlines twenty habits commonly found in the corporate environment and provides a systematic approach to helping you achieve a positive behavior change.
Use agile, quick experiments to test assumptions and improve business.
Eric Ries iterates the need to cut cost and waste by building a minimal but functional product to get customer feedback and for future development
A great look at how innovative technology startups are using the lean process to build, adapt and pivot to create great products. The book provides an excellent model for entrepreneurial healthcare organizations.
This is a must-read book for medical students and physicians who wants to know as much as possible about personal finance, investing, insurance, taxes, and estate planning.
This book fills in the gaps and will teach you to use your high income to escape from your student loans, provide for your family, build wealth, and stop getting ripped off by unscrupulous financial professionals and salesmen, whom physicians mistakenly assume to be seriously credentialed professionals like themselves.
This book covers economics, technology in practice and practice management for medical professionals. Judy, a renowned practice management expert shares tips on how management practice, improves revenue, patient satisfaction and workflow.
This book outlines expert tips on running your practice better but keeps the true end goal in mind.
You want to learn how to run your practice more efficiently, not just to have more fun and make more money, though obviously, those things are great. The ultimate goal, the reason you went into medicine, is to make your patients healthier.
Rebekah Bernard’s Rock Star rules are all about making sure that helping patients never come at the expense of your own financial and emotional well-being.
It’s all about exceptional performance without burning out, which means working smarter, not harder.
This book tells of the daily life of a country doctor, documented by the photographs of Jean Mohr and the personal text of John Berger.
The Making of a Surgeon is the memoir of an apprentice. It is William Nolen’s story of his transformation from student to practitioner, from a brash medical school graduate to a surgeon possessing skill and judgment.
And, as happens in the best memoirs, with his brilliant flash of self-discovery William Nolen illuminates the world outside himself.
For anyone who has ever wondered what it would be like to be trained as a surgeon – this timeless book will enlighten.
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About the Book
Cultivating the Spirit is based on a national study of undergraduates. Findings show that religious engagement among students declines somewhat during college, but their spirituality shows substantial growth. Students become more caring, more tolerant, more connected with others, and more actively engaged in a spiritual quest. The study identified a number of college activities that contribute to students’ spiritual growth. The authors also found that spiritual growth enhances other outcomes, such as academic performance, psychological well-being, leadership development, and satisfaction with college. Cultivating the Spirit also incorporates findings from a national survey of faculty along with insights gleaned through interviews with students and professors.
Table of Contents
- Why Spirituality Matters
- Assessing Spiritual and Religious Qualities
- Spiritual Quest: The Search for Meaning and Purpose
- Spirituality in Practice: Caring For and About Others
- The Religious Life of College Students
- Religious Struggle and Skepticism
- How Spiritual Growth Affects Educational and Personal Development
- Higher Education and the Life of the Spirit
To learn more about the Spirituality in Higher Education project, please visit: www.spirituality.ucla.edu.


Sally Beauman - The Visitors 11.00am - 12.00pm, Fowey
Hall Hotel, Billiard Room £12.00
From the author of Rebecca's Tale , The Visitors a sweeping epic set in 1920's Egypt against the backdrop of the hunt for Tutankhamun's tomb.
Sally Beauman began her career as a critic and writer for New York magazine and continued to write for leading periodicals in America and the UK after returning to England. In 1970 she was the first recipient of the Catherine Pakenham Award for her journalism and at the age of 24, edited Queen magazine. She has also written for The New Yorker , Sunday Times and the Telegraph Magazine, where she was Arts Editor. Her novels have been translated into over twenty languages and are bestsellers worldwide.
This morning Sally is in conversation with Professor Helen Taylor of Exeter University, discussing her writing career and her latest novel, The Visitors.
Sally's new book, The Visitors, is due to be published in February 2014. It is set in Egypt. Publishers, Little, Brown.
Baby God: Emily Brontë and Wuthering
Heights: To coincide with the museum's 2008 special exhibition No
Coward Soul, focusing on Emily Brontë, a panel of prominent writers
will discuss the significance of Wuthering Heights and their
personal responses to the novel. The discussion will include Sally
Beauman, Stevie Davies, Helen Dunmore and Toby Litt.
The event takes place across the road from the museum at the West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth, BD22 8EN on Saturday 7th June at 8.00 pm. Doors open at 7.30pm. Tickets £12.
Contact Jenna Holmes:
Tel: 01535 640188
Daphne du Maurier Festival and Centenary Conference.
The University of Exeter Special Collections Library holds a large archive of du Maurier family papers, and its School of English has been closely involved with this archive and the Festival. It is therefore hosting an International Centenary Conference, 10-11 May, 2007, to dovetail with the Festival so that delegates can participate in both.
The conference is based in Fowey Town Hall, at the heart of Cornwall, the county du Maurier loved and made famous through her evocative writing. Du Maurier's work will be discussed in terms of new critical and biographical approaches, and through the new insights made possible by access to archival materials.
Events include keynote lectures, thematic workshops and panels, a buffet lunch overlooking the Estuary and Harbour, and a reception hosted by du Maurier's three children at Ferryside, the house where she wrote her first novel, The Loving Spirit, now home of her son, Christian Browning. Keynote speakers include Nina Auerbach, author of Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress, Sally Beauman, novelist and author of Rebecca's Tale, and Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik, co-authors of Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination. Some speakers and delegates will be invited to contribute to a Book Group Day, Saturday 12 May, and to other Festival events.
This conference is expected to attract considerable interest, but because Fowey venues are small, places will be strictly limited.
The Landscape of Love published in paperback.
The Landscape of Love is published in America as The Sisters Mortland.
Event No.109: SALLY BEAUMAN LANDSCAPE OF LOVE
11:45am-1:00pm, Du Maurier Theatre, Festival Village, £6.00
Sally Beauman is the best selling author of Rebeccas Tale and five other novels, including Destiny, another international best seller. Her latest novel The Landscape of Love explores the nature of perception, the complexity of love, the dangers of art and the devilry of language. The novel depicts a powerful image of the English countryside and its decline, and tells a haunting story that grips from the first page. Today, Sally discusses her novel with Professor Helen Taylor, of Exeter University.
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Event 114: Sally Beauman on 'The Landscape of Love'
Conversations with a Writer
10.30 am£8.50 Oxford Union: the Gladstone Room
Conversations with a Writer brings a small group of people together with a leading writer to discuss a recent book. The Landscape of Love is the story of the three Mortland sisters, sharing the summer of 1967 with their friends. Sexual longing hangs in the air of Wyken Abbey, their dilapidated family home. It is a summer in which the three sisters lives will irrevocably change. Sally Beaumans beguiling and multi-layered story also explores the loss of Englands rural landscape, the complexity of love and the deception of memory.
Limited to 20 peopleso please book early!
If you wish to pre-order The Landscape of Love to be delivered before 8 April, please contact Blackwell's Customer Services on 01865 333623 or e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.org. A 20% discount is available to attendees for orders placed in this way. UK postage for these orders is free.
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Prior to the Festival,
up to 6.30 pm on Friday, 8 April
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April and throughout the Festival
Also Event 119: Sally Beauman, Fiona Shaw and D.J. Taylor with David Grylls.
The Writer's Talent: A Blessing or a Curse?
Sunday 17th April: 2 pm: £7.00: Oxford Union.
"Sally's new book is now called The Landscape of Love and, according to her editor, it is absolutely fantastic. I'm afraid that I'm unable to give you any specific details about the book yet, but I can tell you that it will be published as a £14.99 hardback in January 2005." Alison Lindsay, Marketing Dept. Time Warner Publishing.
The Fourth Aldeburgh Literary Weekend Friday March
4th - Sunday March 6th 2005
Presented by : THE ALDEBURGH BOOKSHOP and THORPENESS & ALDEBURGH HOTELS
A preliminary list of next year's speakers at the Aldeburgh Literary Weekend follows:
Jon Canter interviews Clive Anderson; Sally Beauman on The Landscape of Love; Beryl Bainbridge on novels.
The Booking Brochure will be issued in January 2005.
To check if you are on our mailing list or to add your name to our mailing list please write to The Aldeburgh Bookshop at 42 High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5AB; telephone us on 01728 452389 or 453581 or 454086.
On Tuesday March 15th 2005 there will be a Lunch to celebrate the publication of Virginia Woolfs Flush; the speaker will be the author of the new Persephone Preface to Flush, Sally Beauman. As usual, the lunches, film and book group cost £25. Please telephone the office to reserve places for these events they do tend to get booked up. Please email us, telephone us on 020 7242 9292, send a fax to 020 7242 9272 or write to the address below to book for these events or to find out more.
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Volume 3 of The Road to Understanding Japanese (RUJ3) has just been released. This completes the series, which is aimed at readers who have worked through volumes 1 and 2 or have otherwise achieved a good level of reading Japanese go problem books.
For more details, see SmartGo Books (https://gobooks.com/books-by-series.html#road-to-understanding-japanese).
This ebook is available not only for Apple iOS and macOS devices, but also as an ePub (see https://gobooks.com/epub.html) for reader apps on other platforms such as Android and Windows. I have no plans to offer a paper version.
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I'm happy to see this book still in development. I've taken a break from studying Japanese but I found the "Just Enough Japanese" introduction series to be very helpful and I also read though a bit of Road to Understanding Japanese 1 but I was getting beyond my skill.
I may not know much Japanese but I feel comfortable "reading" Tsumego answers and diagrams. The hints/prompts are much more difficult for me to read but they are not essential to learning.
Maybe I will get back on the road soon.
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Set in ancient Nigeria, Jide Adelani is the king of the most renowned tribe in the lands that claim to trace their lineage directly from the gods. His reign is threatened by his half-brother, Olise, whose mother is known to belong to a cult of witches.
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Although the characters in my book are generally fictitious, the gods mentioned are widely known in Nigerian mythology. Like the Greek gods of old, these gods are numerous, all with a unique story and some are still revered even today. I can only hope to do them justice by attempting to bring them to life in this retelling of Nigerian culture, not only through words and the imagination but also visually.
This page will be updated, but here are a few of the characters:
SHANGO GOD OF THUNDER – This is one of the gods of the Yoruba tribe. He is often depicted as a bolt of lightning in human form and is considered to be the most feared of all the gods for his fiery temper and known to shoot flaming arrows from his hands when angered.
KING JIDE ADELANI – Ruler of the ancient city of Ile-Ife and all the lands south of the great rivers that divide the country, Jide is a man of great honour and unyielding love for his people and their traditions. His desire to preserve his kingdom leads him down a dark path. Nevertheless, he is protected by the goddess of the rivers.
DIMEJI BLOOD-GUARD – The blood-guards are an elite sub-tribe of warriors charged with protecting male members of the royal family. They have a history of violence but are also companions and loyal to a fault with their charges.
EKAETE - Mother of the banished prince and stepmother to King Jide. She was the regent of the southern kingdom for a time and is rumoured to have ties with the occult. Her name is often whispered in fear across the lands.
ENITAN - Prince of Ile-Ife and third son of Jide. He is a mischievous and carefree child but possesses abilities that not even he is aware of.
YEMOJA - Deity of the Yoruba tribe and goddess of the river. She is known to be a protector of women, and exceptional men, but she is mostly known to be a healer.
OLISE - The banished prince of Ile-Ife, half-brother to King Jide and son of Ekaete. He has returned to claim the throne for himself and will stop at nothing until he gets what he believes he deserves.
QUEEN LARA ADELANI - Wife of King Jide and devoted mother of the three princes, she is the backbone of the royal house of the Adelani and the glue that holds them all together.
PRINCE NIRAN - Second son of King Jide and favoured to take the mantle of kingship amongst the princes. He is intelligent and cunning but his love for the kingdom and its people are what sets him apart.
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This is gonna be good. The true history of the sport we all love. Thank you True Grit Productions for making this.
X-Games Gold medalist and freeskier, Tanner Hall
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The Story Of A Sport Born In America
"Dog Days Of Winter" is the first feature documentary on the start up of organized freestyle skiing during the early 1970's in America. Told from the point of view of some of the most influential pioneers of the sport, 'Dog Days' tells the story of key people and events that set the stage for the birth of the sport, the spirit that freestyle is rooted in, factors that took the 'free' out of freestyle and what has become of the sport today.
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A Good Read
I read The Hunger Games yesterday. It was good with a slight bit of emotion in it. It is about a girl living in District 12 in Panem which is current day North America with thirteen parts, they are: The Capitol and twelve districts and there had been a rebel war with the districts on one side and the Capitol on another and the Capitol had won the war destroying District 13 forever. From then they started the Hunger Games in which each district sends 2 tributes a boy and girl. Whoever lasts till the last being the only survivor wins and they have to kill each other.
The girl's name is Katniss and has a best friend called Gale. She volunteers to become a part of the Hunger Games to save her sister. She has two trainers called Ellie and Haymitch. She in the opening ceremony wears a dress which is on fire but not hurting her and in the training she gets a eleven points and then when the games start she looks for a bow and arrow but is distracted and then has to flee with a bag while her friend defends her and then she runs until she is deep inside the forest when the Capitol shoots fireballs to get all the tributes together and then Katnisss gets burned in her leg and Haymitch sends her the medicine and takes shelter in the trees and there is a custom that whoever is dead his bod is retrieved by a hovercraft and face shown in the night.
She desperately needs water when trouble arrives and the careers as the best are called are trying their best to hunt her down and they have her bow and arrow and first try shooting but very bad at archery and cannot climb the tree as to fat. While they sleep Rue another tribute warns her about tracker jackers a wasp and throws them on the careers and escapes with the bow and arrow and teams up with Rue, destroys their food source while Rue distracts them and then she goes to find Rue to find her trapped in a net and a career kills Rue and she kills the career and sings until Rue dies and buries her in flowers.
Then in the night it is announced that a pair of the districts can only win and Katniss hurries to find Peeta, the boy from her district and the person who saved her life thrice and twice in the games and he had got injured badly while defending her in the starting time. She finds him well camouflaged in a stream and takes him to a cave and sees his wound which is in bad condition and then another announcement that there are bag with your district's number on it which contains a gift for you. Katniss wants to go but Peeta is sure of trouble there as it is in the cornucopia and there are many people ready to kill you and Katniss has to agree but she is sure there is a cure for Peeta over there.
Then suddenly Haymitch had sent a sleep syrup and Katniss goes and almost dies at the hands of a girl called Clove but the district 11 boy saves Katniss and lets her go as he owes Katniss for the fact that he helped Rue and also got a special bread from district 11 while getting the medicine and gives it to Peeta and then after two days when Katniss wakes up five tributes were left and then tomorrow they hunt and Peeta gathers berries and they find some cheese has been stolen and a cannon rings and they find out the berries were poisonous and then only four are left. Cato, a boy, Thresh of district 11 and Peeta and Katniss are left.
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The Peeta rips his tourniquet and Katniss ties it back again telling not to sacrifice himself and then both of them make a choice to eat the poisonous berries together and then another announcement that they both are victors and then both are operated and their wounds are gone but the Capitol thinks it was rebellious and then they escape that charge and go home to live in the victors house.