Document Type : Original Article
Department of Educational Innovation and Training, Institute of Research and Planning of Higher Education, Tehran, Iran.
The academic general curriculum is of great importance alongside the specialized curriculum; this field is not only limited to the subject of human knowledge and scientific disciplines, but is also related to the development of personal capabilities, such as the creativity and intellectual abilities, transfer of cultural heritage and values, and the evaluation of committed and accountable citizens. The present study aims to investigate the various areas of the Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in the academic general curriculum in Iran. This is an applied research wherein, a qualitative content analysis method, the thematic analysis (themes), has been applied to the two levels of the selected documents (the law on the goals, duties and organizations of the Ministry of Science, the comprehensive scientific map of Iran, and Iran's sixth development plan) and syllabuses of the general courses approved by the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution. The data collection tools included content analysis, note-taking, and a checklist. A descriptive-analytic method was applied to interpret and analyze the data. Based on the research findings, the level of contents associated with globalization has a significant degree of severity and weakness from one course to another in terms of the qualitative aspect. It is certain that most of the contents related to the components of globalization often have indirect links and regarding the positive, negative, and neutral aspects, it can be claimed that the neutral aspect is of considerable significance compared to the other aspects. The qualitative content analysis of the documents and syllabuses of the general courses was done and subsequently, the obtained scheme indicates that the existing approach to the GCE in Iran is a combination of political and civic education approaches, cultural transfer, and the neo-liberal approach, and hence, the educational system should try to train global citizens with an Iranian–Islamic identity. Among the important points in the analysis of the documents is a lack of distinction between globalization and internationalization.


Release date for chapter 398 of “The Tale of Demons and Gods”
You can read Chapter 398 of Tales of Demons and Gods on September 23, 2022. Assuming that the main hall is finally opened in the next chapter. For this reason the next chapter is one that the reader may not want to miss. Users can find it on Naver, Kakaopage, and Webtoon official sites to read online.
The topic of Daozang’s reincarnation will be addressed in chapter 398. As discussed in the previous chapter, the heavenly star field is the key to destroying the crystal jade barrier. What’s more, there was a gardening game in front of the Jade Wall. The Jade Wall was built for this purpose, to cultivate spirits in its vicinity. The truth of reincarnation will be revealed in a future chapter. Everyone believed that the sage emperor had a fight especially with Daozang.
However, five additional entities were fighting the sage emperor. What’s more, Ni Li learned how to face the Sage Emperor and eventually conquer him. However, it will not be easy, as the sage emperor still commands both space and time. If you want to know what happens in the next chapter, check out this article!
Summary of the previous chapter!
Xiao Yu’s soul development journey began in the preceding Tales of Demons and Gods chapter. His development has progressed beyond the 9th fortune to the heavenly star level. He finally managed to break through the impenetrable Crystal Jade barrier. Wu Yazi saw this and asked the group to reveal the psychic inscription. The panels then switch to show Ni Li and the Demon Lord in front of Daozang’s statue. Daozang invites the two humans to join his group and obtain his command authority.
Despite repeated requests from the Demon Lord, Ni Lai did not give up his control. Daozangsid contended that he could not judge a person on the basis of their external merits. Ni Li thus declined the offer. Daozang was able to read Ni Li’s mind and determine that he wanted to assassinate the Sage Emperor. But he told Ni about the topic of reincarnation and gave advice on how to eliminate the sage emperor.
Tales of Demons and Gods Chapter 398: Spoilers and Expectations
Stories about demons and gods It is possible that chapter 398 is another round table conversation, similar to chapter 397. At the end of the previous chapter, Ni Lee was talking about reincarnation. However, Ni Li is unaware of the existence of five other powerful entities. Furthermore, Daozhang has no idea where his new body is in the New World. However, in the next chapter, he could reveal his plan. On the other hand, the Demon Lord would soon become the head of the Daozang family.
Despite this, Daozang indicated the existence of an ultimate treasure in the previous chapter. In the end, it may be the means by which the sage emperor is defeated. Ni Lai, on the other hand, will have to put in a lot more effort to defeat this monster and claim the prize of all the rewards. The next chapter will provide all this information.


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Captives of a Concept helps us to understand the illusionary concept that holds millions of Jehovah’s Witnesses captive by controlling how they think and act without them realizing it.
The Orwellian world of Jehovah’s Witnesses compares the Watchtower Society to the nefarious world of George Orwell’s book ‘1984’ in which is described a future theocracy that demanded unity at all costs, and in which all independent thought would be eradicated. According to the authors of this book, such a theocracy now exists. Convinced that the world is due to end, Jehovah’s Witnesses have given up their independence to the central theocracy.
In his book, Cowboys, Armageddon, And The Truth – How a Gay Child was Saved from Religion, Terry has produced a gritty and poignant autobiography of an innocent boy escaping an abusive and fanatical childhood. Scott Terry was raised as a devout Jehovah’s Witness, and spent his childhood praying for Armageddon to come and asking God to heal him of his homosexual thoughts. By adulthood, he had escaped the Witness religion and no longer believed in an upcoming apocalypse. Indeed, as a gay man and a real cowboy, he was riding bulls in the rodeo, abandoning all faith in religion.
Out of the Cocoon: A Young Woman’s Courageous Flight from the Grip of a Religious Cult is a heart-wrenching yet inspirational tale about a pre-teen’s battle to free herself from dysfunction. Take the journey with her as she survives stifling oppression, physical and emotional abuse and the ultimate—shunning by her family. See how, like a butterfly, she changes the world within her as her external world becomes increasingly unyielding.
Why Would Anyone Believe in God? Justin Barrett’s simple answer to the question is because of the design of our minds. With rich evidence from cognitive science but without technical language, psychologist Barrett shows that belief in God is an almost inevitable consequence of the kind of minds we have. Most of what we believe comes from mental tools working below our conscious awareness.
Books about High Control Groups
Combatting Cult Mind Control is a non-fiction work by Steven Hassan described as a “Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults.” The author discusses theories of mind control and cults based on the research of Margaret Singer and Robert Lifton as well as the cognitive dissonance theory of Leon Festinger.
Books about Critical Thinking and the Scientific Method
The Demon-haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark. Carl Sagan demonstrates how scientific thinking is necessary to safeguard our democratic institutions and our technical civilization. The book debunks the ideas of alien abduction, mediums and faith healers,and refutes the arguement that science destroys spirituality.
Critical Thinking: A Beginner’s Guide teaches you how to analyse people’s arguments and explains the main “fallacies” that are used to deceive and confuse. We are bombarded daily with vast amounts of information, much of it using faulty logic. From adverts to blogs, television to newspapers, knowing what to believe is a daunting task. With a wealth of real life examples, a glossary, and plenty of diagrams, this is an invaluable tool for both students wanting to improve their grades and general readers in search of clarity.
Books about Biblical History
Introduction to the Bible examines the small library of 24 books common to all Jewish and Christian Bibles—books that preserve the efforts of diverse writers over a span of many centuries to make sense of their personal experiences and those of their people, the ancient Israelites. Professor Christine Hayes guides her readers through the complexities of this polyphonous literature that has served as a foundational pillar of Western civilization.
New Testament and Literature is the perfect accompaniment to the above work. In this engaging introduction to the New Testament, Professor Dale B. Martin presents a historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements. Focusing mainly on the New Testament, he also considers non-canonical Christian writings of the era.
Who Wrote the Bible? delves deeply into the history of the Bible in a scholarly work that is as exciting and surprising as a good detective novel. Who Wrote the Bible? is enlightening, riveting, an important contribution to religious literature. It is a fascinating, intellectual, yet highly readable analysis and investigation into the authorship of the Old Testament.
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, a book published in 2001, discusses the archaeology of Israel and its relationship to the origins and content of the Hebrew Bible.
David and Solomon – The exciting field of biblical archaeology has revolutionized our understanding of the Bible — and no one has done more to popularise this vast store of knowledge than Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, who revealed what we now know about when and why the Bible was first written in The Bible Unearthed. Now, with David and Solomon, they do nothing less than help us to understand the sacred kings and founding fathers of western civilization.
Books about Religion by Christians
A History of God is a book by Karen Armstrong which details the history of the three major monotheistic traditions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, along with Buddhism and Hinduism.
The Case for God is a 2009 book by Karen Armstrong. It is an answer to the recent claims that God does not exist from Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett and focuses on the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam from the paleolithic age to the present day. Also included are Buddhism and Hinduism.
The Great Transformation discusses the centuries between 800 and 300 BC which saw an explosion of new religious concepts. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and all others emerge in this 500 year span? Armstrong examines this period and the connections between this disparate group of philosophers, mystics, and theologians.
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years is a 2009 book by the British ecclesiastical historian Diarmaid MacCulloch. It is a survey of Christianity from its earliest lineages. It includes the ancient world of Greece, Rome, and Judaism (c. 1000 BC – AD 100) that so influenced Christianity.
Because of the design of our minds. That is Justin Barrett’s simple answer to the question of his title. With rich evidence from cognitive science but without technical language, psychologist Barrett shows that belief in God is an almost inevitable consequence of the kind of minds we have. Most of what we believe comes from mental tools working below our conscious awareness. And what we believe consciously is in large part driven by these unconscious beliefs. Barrett demonstrates that beliefs in gods match up well with these automatic assumptions; beliefs in an all-knowing, all-powerful God match up even better. Barrett goes on to explain why beliefs like religious beliefs are so widespread and why it is very difficult for our minds to think without them. Anyone who wants a concise, clear, and scientific explanation of why anyone would believe in God should pick up Barrett’s book.
Books about Religion by Atheists
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon is a 2006 book in which the American philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett argues that religion is in need of scientific analysis so that its nature and future may be better understood. The “spell” that requires “breaking” is not religious belief itself but the belief that it is off-limits to or beyond scientific inquiry. It is considered one of the least stringent and most philosophical of the four books in this category.
The God Delusion is a 2006 best-selling book by English biologist Richard Dawkins, a professorial fellow at New College, Oxford and former holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that belief in a personal god qualifies as a delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence.
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason is a 2004 book by Sam Harris, concerning organized religion, the clash between religious faith and rational thought, and the problems of tolerance towards religious fundamentalism. Harris began writing the book in what he described as a period of “collective grief and stupefaction” following the September 11, 2001 attacks. The book comprises a wide-ranging criticism of all styles of religious belief.
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything is a 2007 book by Anglo-American author and journalist Christopher Hitchens, in which he makes a case against organized religion. It was published by Atlantic Books in the United Kingdom as God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion. Hitchens posited that organised religion is “violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children” and sectarian, and that accordingly it “ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”
Books about Biology and Evolution
The Blind Watchmaker: is a 1986 book by Richard Dawkins, in which the author presents an explanation of, and argument for, the theory of evolution by means of natural selection.
Climbing Mount Improbable is a sequel of sorts to The Blind Watchmaker and it is about probability and how it applies to the theory of evolution. Dawkins gives ideas about a seemingly-complex mechanism coming about from many gradual steps that were previously unseen. The main metaphorical treatment is of a geographical landscape upon which evolution can ascend only gradually and cannot climb cliffs (that is known as an adaptive landscape).
Unweaving the Rainbow is a 1998 book by Richard Dawkins, discussing the relationship between science and beauty from the perspective of a scientist. His starting point is John Keats’ well-known, light-hearted accusation that Isaac Newton destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by ‘reducing it to the prismatic colours.’
The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life is a 2004 popular science book by Richard Dawkins, with contributions from Dawkins’ research assistant Yan Wong. It follows the path of humans backwards through evolutionary history, meeting humanity’s cousins as they converge on common ancestors. It uses the metaphor of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to recount the journey of life.
Your Inner Fish discusses a major new discovery by scientists that sheds light on why we look the way we do. For decades, we have wondered why human foetuses have gill-like structures, and why certain nerves and tubes in the human body take tortuous routes. Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you’ve never heard it before. By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us how our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and why major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria.
Life Ascending is an homage to life itself. Comparing gene sequences, examining the atomic structure of proteins and looking into the geochemistry of rocks have all helped to explain creation and evolution in more detail than ever before. Nick Lane uses the full extent of this new knowledge to describe the ten greatest inventions of life, based on their historical impact, role in living organisms today and relevance to current controversies. DNA, sex, sight and consciousnesses are just four examples.Lane also explains how these findings have come about, and the extent to which they can be relied upon. The result is a gripping and lucid account of the ingenuity of nature, and a book which is essential reading for anyone who has ever questioned the science behind the glories of everyday life
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life is a 1995 book by Daniel Dennett, in which Dennett looks at some of the repercussions of Darwinian theory. The crux of the argument is that, whether or not Darwin’s theories are overturned, there is no going back from the dangerous idea that design (purpose or what something is for) might not need a designer.


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You’ve fired up Steam on your Mac and you get a pop up message telling you that, “Steam Needs to be Online to Update”. You click ok, the message goes away but Steam closes. Annoying isn’t it? Thankfully there’s a simple fix:
- Browse to <user>/Library/Application Support/Steam
- Delete the file registry.vdf
- Open Steam – it should now work.
Enjoy your gaming once more.
For those unable to see the path, here’s a screenshot from my Mac of my path:
Click the image it to see it bigger!
If you’ve installed Mac OS X Lion then Apple have kindly hidden your Library folder.
Open terminal (under Utilities) and run the following command:
chflags nohiddenÂ ~/Library
If you now browse to your user folder you’ll find the library folder is visible again.Mac, online, steam, update


Below is a list of publications that relate to sustainability:
- Uncommon Carriers – John McPHee Discusses transportation from the perspective of folks who work in the system not folks who plan the system. For our folks the Chapters on trucking, the FedEx Louisville Sort Center, and Railroads are fascinating
- The Control of Nature – John McPHee This book discusses the effects of nature on Cities. Of interest is the chapter on New Orleans
- The Art of the Long View – Peter Schwartz This if a very good primer on scenario analysis. The book is a bit dated, but because of the subject matter it works well. Folks may also want to go to the GBN Global Business Network website http://gbn.com/ for more information on the topic.
- Who Moved My Cheese – Dr. Spencer Johnson. A fable or parable about change and our responses to it.
- “Moving Beyond the Official Future” by Chris Ertel and Doug Randall. Unlike traditional risk management tools, which are usually based around tangible and quantifiable issues, scenario thinking encourages executives to step into the unknown and imagine a range of possible futures. In this September 2005 Financial Times article, GBN’s Doug Randall and Chris Ertel describe why scenario thinking is an effective approach for managing risk.
- “Mapping Public and Private Scenario Planning: Lessons from Regional Projects.”- Jay Ogilvy and Erik Smith How different is scenario planning done for public versus private purposes? In asking this question, GBN cofounder Jay Ogilvy and practitioner Erik Smith distill a set of lessons based on regional scenario planning projects run by GBN throughout the 1990s. They then apply these lessons to a 2001-2002 project on the future of California’s Central Valley. They argue that scenario planning in the public domain demands greater clarity of client attention to different constituencies—particularly in regions—even though the art and craft of the actual practice is very similar across public and private projects. This article was published in the “Surviving Uncertainty” issue of Development (December 2004: 47.4.)
- “The Destiny of Cities” – Victor Davis Hanson. Hanson Asks some provocative question about what makes cities successful in the long term. Many will not agree with his thoughts, I’m not certain that I do, but they are provocative.
List courtesy of David Hyder, Transportation Planning Administrator at City of High Point


Sending Season’s Greetings
Written by Corinne Ball | December 17th, 2015
Curator Nikki tells us about a seasonal phenomenon – the Christmas card!
It’s that time of year again when people in many countries send season’s greeting to their friends and family members in the form of Christmas cards. While it is often said that the giving of Christmas cards is a tradition that was introduced by Queen Victoria, the first commercial card was commissioned in 1843 by Sir Henry Cole, an English businessman (and founder of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London) who was looking for a quick and easy way to send Christmas greetings to professional colleagues and acquaintances.
Cole’s friend, artist John Calcott Horsley, designed a triptych depicting three generations of a family raising a toast to the card’s recipient. The family is flanked on each side with scenes of charity in which food and clothing are given to the poor. The image was printed on a piece of stiff cardboard, at the top of which was the salutation, “TO:_____” allowing Cole to personalise the greeting. In 1846 the postcards sold for one shilling each. In 2001 one of these early postcards, sent by Cole to his grandmother, sold at auction for £22,500.
Since their inception Christmas cards have come in a range of designs. Early cards rarely contained the sorts of images that we now associate with Christmas, instead they depicted birds, flowers, animals, children, clowns, fairies, musical instruments, and even military figures. Pull tab cards and ‘pop-up’ cards were popular in the Victorian era, and seem to be enjoying a revival today.
Another interesting innovation is the phono card or ‘sound postcard’, early versions of which appeared in Germany and France in the first decade of the twentieth century. In 1954 Colorvox, a Hungarian company, began producing playable postcards for all occasions, including Christmas, and we are lucky enough to have two of these in our collection. Both depict typical European images of a wintry Christmas – fir trees, baubles, and winter sports (lake sledding is a popular activity on Hungary’s Lake Balaton).
The first card is pressed with a recording of Mozart’s The Magic Bell performed by the MRT Children’s Choir, while the other sound card has the track “Winter Sunshine” performed by Nikolics Fivérek and Club Együttes. Both cards have a hole at the centre which allows them to be placed on a record player and played at 45 RPM. The backs of the cards resemble a standard postcard with a space for a message, and another for the recipient’s address.
These beautiful cards were sent to a Hungarian migrant in Adelaide, by friends from home, and were treasured for decades before recently being donated to the Migration Museum by his daughter.
Migration Museum collection HT2014.70 and HT2014.71, donated by Mrs D Bloor


Comme ils respirent, documentaire de Claire Orantin
Claire Orantin Comme ils respirent – A dancer’s life
A documentary by Claire Orantin
This is not exactly a film about dance or a ballet school, nor is it the portrait of a star…
It is about dance as a passion and how it informs daily life; a film about a dream, the demands it makes, and sometimes a difficult return to reality, when a majority of dancers cannot expect to make a living from their art.
A gallery of portraits, full of life, resolutely modern and touching.
Genre : Documentaire
Length : 00:52:56
Director : Claire Orantin


MALS 7000: The Politics of Excess, Ambiguity and Laughter
“Freaks” continued. Elizabeth Grosz “Intolerable Ambiguity: Freaks as/at the Limit” in Freakery: Cultural Images of the Extraordinary Body (1996), ed. Rosemarie Garland Thomson; Robert Bogdan, Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (1998): Introduction, Chapter 2, Chapter 8, Chapter 9. The Man Who Laughs(1928) and Coney Island Freak Shows.
UPCOMING (So that I can keep myself more actively blogging — so reminiscent of the old science fair journals).
Nov. 19 Artaud and Derrida
Antonin Artaud: Manifesto in Clear Language; Situation of the Flesh” (1925); excerpts from “Mise-en-Scene and Metaphysics (1932); Voyage to the Land of the Tarahumaras Uccello et les oiseaux (“The Mountain of Signs,” “Peyote Dance”, 1936-7); (JoJo and Sarah) (Jacques Derrida on Antonin Artaud 1986 (tr. 1998) The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud; Artaud spells and portraits
Nov 26 Lawrence Mansfield, Pinter
D.H. Lawrence: “The Man Who Loved Islands “(1928) and The Plumed Serpent and some of the odd poems (Wei)
Katherine Mansfield: “Bliss” (1918) and “The Garden Party”
Harold Pinter: Betrayal (1978) and his Proust scenario if we can find it (Aaron)
Dec 3 Wittgenstein and Thomas Bernhard
Ludwig Wittgenstein,: Zettel 1929-1949
Thomas Bernhard: Wittgenstein’s Nephew
Dec 10 papers due
Paul Celan, and also Marjorie Perloff on The Vienna Paradox
Dec 17 instead of exam, everyone speaks about papers


From the official press release:
Through telling the story of the White House kitchen garden, Mrs. Obama will explore in American Grown how increased access to healthy, affordable food can promote better eating habits and improve health of families and communities across America. Mrs. Obama will describe how her daughters Sasha and Malia were catalysts for change in her own family's eating behavior, which inspired Mrs. Obama to plant an edible garden on the South Lawn - the first since Eleanor Roosevelt's "Victory Garden" planted during World War II. The book will be inspirational and instructive and will provide ideas and resources for readers to get involved in the movement and create community, school, and urban gardens, support local farmers' markets, and make small lifestyle changes to achieve big health results.
Pre-order your copy here.


intellectual: late Middle English: from Latin intellectualis, from intellectus ‘understanding,’ from intellegere ‘understand’
Like many bibliophiles, various works within the literature hemisphere have ultimately sparked my intellectual plug. Works like Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Big Sur by Jack Kerouac and Ask the Dust by John Fante are just a few examples. I recently came across a poem by Phillis Wheatley aptly named, “On being brought from Africa to America”. I thought that this poem would be a part of this wonderful list, so I was profoundly surprised with myself when I thought the piece to be overall confusing and, quite frankly, slightly repulsive at some points. Supposedly, some academics have created the argument that this poem was at the core of African American literature. I sat there, in my American Literature discussion class, bewildered with the line “T’was mercy brought me from my Pagan land”. What mercy was brought upon one of the worst, if not the worst, injustice that ever happened on American soil?
I asked myself the question: Is this really how a slave felt after all the injustices done to them? Is this the “justice” that he or she would want? Is this really at the core of “slave” literature? Understandably, Phillis Wheatley was an educated slave, with a family who was much kinder to her in comparison to other slave-holding families at the time — so her perspective on slavery may have been much more lenient than others. After a long discussion with myself, I concluded and funneled my frustration into several painstakingly difficult questions to answer: Is it possible to bring back the forgotten language and intellect of Black slaves and bring to light these thoughts in our supposedly progressive 21st century society? And if so, how? And who would be willing to carry on this massive responsibility of bringing justice and redemption to a historical conversation the world has tired to eschew?
Enter Ta-Nehisi Coates — a contemporary public intellectual, writer, journalist and educator whose distinctive way of tackling racism is to look to the past in order to confront and hopefully solve the racism of the present.
Coates was born in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up in the Mondawmin neighborhood during the crack epidemic.
His father was the founder of Black Classic Press, a publisher specializing in African-American works of literature. He was a Vietnam War Veteran and a former Black Panther. Coates grew up with his father, and his political and socioeconomic views shaped his perspectives to this day. He attended Howard University, but left after five years to start his journalism career. In 2014, Coates attended a French intensive program at Middlebury College to prepare for a writing fellowship in Paris. He is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, an American magazine based upon cultural and literary commentary. Founded in 1857, it has a national reputation as a high-quality review with a moderate perspective on current issues.
Aside from being a journalist for The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates portrays the role of a modern public intellectual through the use of social media. Through his Twitter page, Coates expounds upon his ideas about the issues a Black man is forced to face in the 21st century. He also tweets opinions about current issues, articles to his liking and self-promotion. He is constantly following trends and giving his opinion, often bluntly, to his 716,000 Twitter followers about socioeconomic issues spanning from the Black Lives Movement to American politics.
Furthermore, his intellectual work is especially distinctive because he creates a conversation by recollecting past injustices in order to solve the issues of racism today.
With full ignorance, the majority of the world naturally ties the term “African American literature” to only the Harlem Renaissance, a warm and artistic time for African American artists, poets, etc.
However, Ta-Nehisi Coates is the complete opposite of Langston Hughes. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ views both reflect ideals from Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. If W.E. Dubois, Toni Morrison and James Baldwin had a lovechild, it would be Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Perhaps he is best known for his best-selling memoir, Between the World and Me. In a series of profound and sincere essays, he writes a letter to his son concerning the concept of race in America and how it has shaped American history over time. The Atlantic writer bravely tackles the cost of black lives and more specifically, the cost of the body of an African American — stating that the black body is a “stolen body”, a term he is widely known for penning.
He expounds upon the breakdown of race and the systematic construct of assaulting black people, stemming all the way back to Jeffersonian ideals and the Civil War and coming full circle back to the Black Lives Movement. For the sake of my critical analysis regarding Coates’ intellect, I have chosen this novel as my primary source of textual evidence to expand upon and thoroughly delve into the intellect of this specific American thinker.
In order to thoroughly dig into Coates’ way of thinking, one must go back to the source of his redemptive thoughts against slavery and the life of the African American in America. On July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson, among other supposed intellects, signed the Declaration of Independence, a doctrine which states that every American has the right to have a life built upon the promises of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Liberty is the key word here.
Thomas Jefferson was a man full of paradoxical ideals — he stood for both liberty and slavery. He disliked slavery, yet found Africans to be inferior to white people. And the most disgusting fact of all (the one American high school history books tend to leave out), one of our Founding Fathers had a sexual relationship with his own slave, Sally Hemings.
We must delve into Thomas Jefferson’s dark history as one of the sources for this great injustice because his ideals were the foundation for these American streets to be made and for certain American ideals (i.e. life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness) we still believe to this day. Specifically, his racist ideals furthered the fervor against African Americans, which then set forth the engines for the machinery of racism. Through mentioning Jefferson as well as other past historical figures, Coates harkens back to the past in order to make sense of how racism is still happening to this day.
Coates states in Between the World and Me that black bodies were “stolen”, that they were “held in bondage by the earliest presidents.” One of our Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, owned 100 slaves on his very own plantation. The black bodies, among the millions which came later, served as the foundation and base as to what would inevitably become American capitalism.
I would like to expound upon Coates’ word choice, specifically the term “stolen body”. To “steal” something usually translates to gaining something for free, but at the cost of the law. Slavery is probably one of the very few events in history in which stealing a person was legal — that stealing a person’s name, personality, family and life was ordinary and part of conventional standards. Coates specifically uses the word “stolen” because he feels as if his own body is something that can still be taken from him, most especially from police brutality today.
From an article he recently wrote for The Atlantic, Coates states that he believes in a world with “equal access to safe, quality, and affordable education; with the right to health care; with strong restrictions on massive wealth accumulation; with guaranteed childcare; and with access to the full gamut of birth-control, including abortion”. These ideas reflect Malcolm X’s human activism, ideas which perhaps may have been passed down from his father, a former Black Panther.
However, Coates does not believe that “if this world were realized, the problem of white supremacy would dissipate, anymore than I (he) believe(s) that if reparations were realized, the problems of economic inequality would dissipate.” Their backs, organs, muscles, fingers, veins — were all “transfigured” into “sugar, tobacco and gold.” Coates approaches the fact that slaves were collateral, that they
were strictly business, that through the machinery of racism, innocent people’s eyes and hands and backs and feet became the source of America’s wealth — of America’s monetary dynasty. Again, Coates creates a visceral image from the past in order to comment upon the consequences of the systemic roots of racism.
Coates’ representation of racial injustice is something I agree with, though I have to point out that not all slaveowners at the time came to be as malevolent and villainous as others turned out to become. However, this does not erase the malpractices which occurred due to racial prejudice and systematic racism.
In the memoir Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates argues that “racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth”. He distinctively creates the argument that the black body is a breakable and destructible thing which can be dislodged simply through repulsive practices such as lynching.
The legal institution of lynching was a tool in propelling white masculinity and white power by racially and sexually degrading black men. These acts established fear within the black population and completely dehumanized black people by showcasing their murders through repulsive propaganda like lynching postcards. Moreover, these acts disgraced blacks through sexual torture (i.e. cutting off genitals) as a means of stripping black males of their manhood within a public setting.
Ta-Nehisi Coates states in his memoir that “at the the onset of the Civil War, our (their) stolen bodies were worth four billion dollars, more than all of American industry, all of American railroads, workshops, and factories combined, and the prime product ended by our (their) stolen bodies — cotton — was America’s primary export.” He further claims that “the richest men in America .. made their riches off our (their) stolen bodies.”
His work is distinctive due to his thematic construct of the stolen body, of the stolen mind. Coates firmly believes that slavery was a robbery, and “that is what it is, and what it always was.” The author refuses to ignore the cyclical outbreaks of violence against racism by nudging through this particularly sensitive conversation. He demands an answer for the reasons for racism by bringing up the harsh past and through this, he requires the present to converse and utilize historical facts in order to answer the question that is racism.
Furthemore, Coates believes that in America, it is tradition to destroy the black body – it is heritage. His intellect is characteristic due to this statement; he sticks to the concept that the black body in America is a business engagement and if need be, will be destroyed.
I do not particularly agree with this statement, most especially the words “tradition” and “heritage”. Perhaps, it has been a historic aspect that certain people in The United States have beaten and battered the black body due to slavery, but I absolutely refuse to say that it is part of our heritage. Beating and killing bodies in general are not part of the Hallmark list of American holidays. We may be a nation of imperfect ideals, and perhaps I may be overstepping with this comment, but we are not all purely evil that destroying human bodies out of racist spite is part of our American heritage to this day.
Coates rejects the idea of there being a God; he believes that “our bodies are our selves, that my (his) soul is the voltage conducted through neurons and nerves and that his spirit is my (his) flesh.” From a historic vantage point, slaves and African Americans in general have always had a deep relationship with a Christian God. There is a large population of African Americans whose culture is founded upon Christianity, and that the Lord will save them from the strife and injustices that have happened to them.
In comparison to this African American tradition, Coates rejects the concept through his atheist intellect. He asserts the idea that God will not be the one to save his body, but he will be the one to save himself. This is controversial and definitely groundbreaking when considering the fact that most African Americans are generalized to being deeply rooted to Christianity.
Perhaps the root of his atheism lies upon the murder of his friend, Prince Jones. He stated that “for the crime of destroying the body of Prince Jones, I (he) did not believe in forgiveness.” Coates’ strong and redemptive prose captures his vitriolic anger against slavery, the machinery of racism, the racial injustices within America, and the memory he has from this particular event. His intellect is comparable to a broken record describing these mistakes and injustices — he will always remember the tyrannical oppression from the past and as long as he is living, he will exhaust his mind, his body, his heart towards the subject.
“The soul was the body that fed the tobacco, and the spirit was the blood that watered the cotton, and these created the first fruits of the American garden. And the fruits were secured through the bashing of children with stonewood, through hot iron peeling skin away like husk from corn.” – Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates firmly believes that tackling the issues of the past is the answer to racism that still exists today. His focus is not on the generalized misconceptions of racial degradation, but within the less visible, less pronounced roots which have been systematically ingrained within our society. Coates refuses to ignore the cyclical outbreaks of violence against racism; instead, he takes it upon himself to start a conversation, whether with the use of his Twitter account or simply writing an article in The Atlantic.
He allows the audience to see an ancient problem in 1,000 different ways. Coates is known for his incredibly refreshing sense of the truth. He refuses to preach upon people his ideas, and is honest about his lapse of knowledge with certain subjects.
Coates, in every shape and form, is a public intellectual living in the age of new media.
Currently, Ta-Nehisi Coates is busy writing for the Marvel realm through the revival of the first black superhero series —The Black Panther. His artistry and script was inspired by, yet again, the lack of conversation and representation for minorities and race. Coates, a public intellectual and Renaissance man, continues and will continue to bridge the societal gap of injustice and look to the past in order to tackle and hopefully solve contemporary racism.


II. OER Policy Components
The following components should be considered when writing an OER Policy, or incorporating OER into existing college or university policy. For each component, we provide an explanation of why the component is needed, sample policy statements, sample resources, and a recommended action checklist.
Use this tool to generate your own OER policy. To use the OER Policy Tool, simply select the components you find relevant by clicking the box next to each component, and checking the corresponding sample statements under each component. When all items have been selected, at the end of the page choose to load the selected items in either an HTML or an MS Word document. Save the document to make it your own.
Why Needed: The college or university community needs to know why OER is important and how it aligns with the college or university vision and mission. An OER Policy begins with a clearly stated and shared purpose.
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The purpose of this OER Policy is to: guide the development and review of OER materials prior to sharing them on a worldwide scale, clarify publication rights and licensing issues, outline policies regarding the use of required infrastructure and other support services, identify human and other resources to support faculty in developing OER for teaching and learning, and define collaborations within and without the university and the intent to allow access.
The African Virtual University's (AVU) Open Education Resources repository, OER@AVU, is an opportunity for African educators to share open educational resources with each other, and the world. High quality resources can serve to inspire teachers, be directly used by students, and be improved upon, or localized by others. The AVU has seeded the repository with 219 high-quality modules, written by educators from many countries in Africa, but the repository depends on your contributions and participation.
This policy provides guidance to faculty in achieving the following outcomes through the utilization of Open Educational Resources (OER) at Tidewater Community College: improve student success through increased access and affordability, and improve teaching efficiency and effectiveness through the ability to focus, analyze, augment, and evolve course materials directly aligned to course learning outcomes. Faculty will be supported in their use of OER to achieve one or both of the stated outcomes.
This policy outlines the University's position on Open Educational Resources (OER) and provides guidelines for practice in learning and teaching. The University encourages staff and students to use, create, and publish OER to enhance the quality of the student experience, enhance the provision of learning opportunities for all, and improve teaching practices. It also recognises that use, creation, and publication of OER are consistent with the University's reputation, values, and mission to "make a significant, sustainable and socially responsible contribution to Scotland, the UK and the world, promoting health and economic and cultural well-being."
Other purposes may include, for example: improving student access, success, and completion; addressing college or university affordability; promoting innovation in teaching and learning; transforming the academic culture to a culture of 'openness'; improving quality assurance of or claiming control over instructional resources; providing students more cost effective options; stewardship.
- Review your college/university vision and mission and how OER aligns with it.
- Evaluate the extent of faculty use of and interest in OER. (Babson Survey Research Group, Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2014)
- Identify with the stakeholders the purpose and objectives to be achieved in your OER initiative.
- Develop a plan to raise OER awareness with the college or university community.
OER Policy Statement
Why Needed: An OER policy stipulates compliance with local, national, and international laws, regulations, and standards. To improve the chances for a successful college or university OER program initiative, it is essential that teaching faculty especially be engaged in writing the policy beginning with the purpose.


Designers everywhere are suddenly drooling over this 70-year-old book. Including me.
Someone needs to get me a paper copy of Willard Cope Brinton's Graphic Presentation (1939), because it is awesome.
Brinton discusses various forms of graphic presentation in the 524-page book and what works and what doesn't. There's also some good stuff in there about how to make your graphs, charts, maps, etc (by hand).
The most interesting part is that many of the graphics -- despite having no computers in 1939 -- look a lot like what we have today. Albeit, they're a little rougher because they're made by hand, but that's just added flavor.


Comberton Library is situated in the Village College campus..
with car parking available and is wheelchair-friendly and fully accessible for all.
Opening time notes
- Monday:10am – 1pm
- Wednesday:10am – 1pm, 2.30pm – 5.30pm
- Friday:2.30pm – 5.30pm
- Saturday:10am – 1pm
Please check with the Comberton Library web page for any changes to the above if you are unsure .
It has free WiFi and computers are available to library members and free of charge for internet, email and MS Office use. They can be booked online here
Are you aware that the library lends magazines? Magazines are loaned for a week and are free to borrow.
Charges apply for printing, photocopying and fax services:
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Normally on alternate Mondays during Term Time, from 10.30am-11.00am, bring your babies along for songs, rhymes and fun! It’s free to drop-in, no booking required!
Please note that although these sessions are aimed at very young children the Library welcomse older siblings and pre-schoolers who enjoy singing too…
There is a wide range of library services you can access from home.
updated Feb 2022


The MakerBot Thingiverse app options just got a whole lot more mobile.
Thingiverse is MakerBot's global design community that features more than 200,000 downloadable digital files.
The new Android app will have the same features as the iOS app. That includes the ability to easily search Thingiverse, browse featured 3D designs, and view the community's most popular items. Users can scroll through slideshows as well as collect and quickly share directly from the app to social networks or email accounts.
"Bringing Thingiverse functionality to the fingertips of our community has always been a goal of ours and now, with the Android version of the app added to the already popular iOS version, Thingiverse users can access their favorites 3D models, collect and share them and view them on an Android or iOS device, whether at work or play," MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis said.
Some of the features of the new Android app include:
- The ability to upload and share photos can be used to update profile and cover images from a phone.
- A dashboard that offers a carousel of featured things and updates.
- The explore function allows users to scroll through the latest and greatest things and see new and noteworthy items, featured items, popular items, made items.
- The ability to like and add items to collections, and then share on social networks.
- Thing detail screens have photos of items, full screen slideshows of the designs, descriptions, instructions and license information.
- User profiles offer cover images, custom avatars and descriptions of the Thingiverse member. Users can also follow other users, and see designs and made things based on profiles.
- Search is also included to find designs and search on topics or browse through the expansive Thingiverse library.
- When printing something, the app also provides an opportunity to take a photo, upload it and associate the image with a Thingiverse thing.
- Thingiverse settings are also accessible via the app.
Apple recently selected the iOS Thingiverse app as "One of the Best New Social Networking Apps." The 1.1 update has been submitted to the Apple App Store for approval.
Updated features update includes the ability to:
- Add photos to thing designs. The MakerBot Digitizer desktop 3D scanner scans can be posted to Thingiverse.
- Browse your own collections and favorites in your user profile or browse collections in all user profiles.
- View and respond to comments on thing detail pages.
- Receive push notifications when new designs are published to Thingiverse or a MakerBot Digitizer scan is published, as well as the ability to easily add your own photos or respond when a user follows you.
MakerBot's Thingiverse is a 3D design community for discovering, printing and sharing 3D models. It has more than 160,000 members and over 200,000 downloadable free digital designs. The site and apps are great places to learn about 3D printing, share ideas, customize 3D prints, remix and collaborate. There are even "superstar designers" that share their design files, which you can download, print, share and use to get inspired.


A few years ago, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints introduced and rolled out an improved and updated family history program. The Bishopric did a presentation on it, and said that our Stake would be having classes on how to use the program, and that those who took the classes would then teach the members of our ward how to use it to do their family history.After the meeting I volunteered to take the classes and get to work finding my own ancestors. Since that time, over 200 of my ancestors have had their names taken to the temple, and saving ordinances were done for them.
I started working in the stake Family History Center every Thursday, and I really enjoy it. Last night was an amazing night, and so rewarding! I was on a high for several hours afterwards. When I got to the FHC, an elderly couple who used to live here were in town
visiting, and decided to spend some time looking for some ancestors. We found lots of information for them, pushing one of their lines back to 1752!! It was such a wonderful experience to see how much it meant to the couple to find information that they had been seeking for many years, and the gratitude they showed touched my heart.
While we were working with the couple, a new member of the Church who happens to be in my ward came to the library. She is of hispanic origin, and because she is a first generation member she has lots of family history to do. I sat with her for several hours, and it was really exciting to help her enter the information she had so carefully gathered. She has been interviewing her family members for hours every Sunday, writing down stories, dates, places, names, and events. Then last night we found a little girl that she didn't know about, and added her to the family. By the end of the night she had added many names to her file on the new family search, and was excited and a little overwhelmed at the responsibility she faces to get all the temple work done for her family members. She was able to locate the region of Mexico that she came from, and as she looked at the trek her ancestors had undertaken when in their early sixties, I could see the appreciation on her face for their sacrifice.
One of the benefits of doing family history research is that you find yourself becoming familiar with these people, their stories, and their experiences. By this you develop your own relationship with them. It sounds kind of weird, but it is almost like they know you are thinking about them, and so they come a little closer to you in spirit. I can't explain it very well, but it is like a increasing bilateral awareness of each other, and then I get and increased desire to keep searching, and sometimes a prompting of where to look for a family. It is an incredibly spiritual but exhilarating feeling, and I wouldn't trade it for all the $$$ in the world. Last November we took >90 names to the temple and had them sealed to their families. We ran out of time and have another 90+ to do. Since that time, I have been researching more, and am preparing more names for a baptismal trip with the extended family. Some of my favorite memories are those family temple trips, watching nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters being baptized in behalf of our deceased relatives. WOW!!
On another note, the new goat shed is well on its way to being completed, then the pigpen needs some repair work, and then the siding on the house gets replaced. Then the pasture gets fenced,and the water is on its way to our ground!! Some exciting changes comin' our way!!


This is the Global Criminology papers repository. We have a collection of free Criminology papers/articles from authors all over the world on a variety of subjects. All the resources here have been hosted with the expressed permission of the author, please give credit and cite appropriately. If you would like to submit your own article please go to the 'Submitting Articles' page for more information.
"A branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders" - Merriam-Webster
Articles and papers dealing with Cybercrime. Cybercrime is defined as "criminal activities carried out by means of computers or the Internet." - Oxford Dictionary
"the study of the victims of crime and the psychological effects of their experience" - Oxford Dictionary
Articles and papers concerned with transnational or international crimes such as Drug/Human/Arms trafficking, Terrorism and international organised crime.
Articles relating to research on Police and Policing
Criminology articles and papers dealing with Drugs, Addictions and the surrounding issues.
Articles, papers and research dealing with Organised Crime. This section includes gang crime, sub-cultural criminal groups and other specific criminal structures.


Where can I find the PhD in Data Science curriculum?
Where can I find the academic integrity policy?
NYU’s academic integrity policy can be found at https://www.nyu.edu/about/policies-guidelines-compliance/policies-and-guidelines/academic-integrity-for-students-at-nyu.html. NYU’s Statement on Academic Integrity is also posted at http://guides.nyu.edu/c.php?g=276562&p=1844738.
GSAS’ academic integrity policy can be found at http://gsas.nyu.edu/page/academic.integrity.
What should I do if I have questions about the academic integrity policy?
If you have questions about the academic integrity policy, please reach out to faculty and/or the CDS Manager of Academic Affairs (Kathryn Angeles, email@example.com).
What citation and data management resources are available to me as a Data Science student?
There are several resources that you can reach out to if you have questions about citation and data management.
- Our library liaison for the Center for Data Science is Vicky Steeves. You can reach out to her with questions at firstname.lastname@example.org. A link to her Data Citation workshop presentation can be found at https://vickysteeves.github.io/DataScience-Citation-Workshop.
- A data management guide can be found at http://guides.nyu.edu/data_management.
- A citation guide can be found at http://guides.nyu.edu/c.php?g=276562&p=1844731.
What can I expect regarding work load?
Students should plan on spending 10 – 15 hours per week per data science course, assuming they have all the prerequisites. The data science courses are graduate level courses which go extremely quickly and it is difficult to catch up if you fall behind. Use your resources and ask questions!
Is there a minimum GPA for the program?
Yes, each semester, students must have a minimum GPA of 3.0 and must successfully complete 66% of credits attempted.
What is the process for waiving required PhD in Data Science courses?
To request a waiver for a required course, please email the information below to Kathryn Angeles at email@example.com:
- Course you would like to waive
- Undergraduate or Graduate Transcripts (Must be translated)
- The course(s) that you will be using to waive the required course should be highlighted. The grade(s) you received in the course(s) should be highlighted as well.
- Syllabi of the course(s) that you will be using to waive the required course (Must be translated)
- If available, course website
Can I transfer credits?
Please email Kathryn Angeles at firstname.lastname@example.org for more information on transferring credits.
Where can I find important registration dates (add/drop deadline, late registration start, etc.)?
The academic calendar will have this information, which you can find at this link.
I’m having trouble with Albert and registration. What should I do?
Registration help guides can be found at this link. There are guides on add/drop, the swap function, and other important registration steps.
I want to register for a non-Data Science course? What should I do?
Email Kathryn Angeles (email@example.com) the course information. She will let you know what the registration process is for that particular department or school.
Where can I find a list of approved electives for the PhD program?
See PhD Curriculum for information on electives for the PhD program.
I will be ready to graduate at the end of this semester. What should I do?
You will need to apply for graduation during the graduation application period. For information on how to apply and the deadlines, visit this page.
If you have other questions for this page, please email Kathryn Angeles at firstname.lastname@example.org.


The Kisii National Polytechnic seeks to promote the vision and mission of the institution by providing access to quality and relevant information resources for various disciplines in order to meet the user needs.
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ABOUT SPACE NICK’S AUTHOR
Richard Chase Mears was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1935. Following a lineage of sea captains and plantation owners, he was well schooled in Southern tradition. Tragedy in his early life sent him into seclusion where he sought refuge on the Chesapeake estuaries and particularly on the Patuxent River. Here he acquired a deep knowledge and love for the river, its wildlife and the woodlands. Sensing his pending academic doom, his father sent him to a private boys’ school taught by Jesuits in the classic tradition.
Richard’s restlessness and love of knowledge and adventure tore him from a traditional life in Baltimore. He joined the United States Air Force in Air Force Intelligence which took him around the world. When he settled after three years of experience and adventure he continued his education in writing and journalism at Pennsylvania State University after which he ventured into New York City and explored the fields of film production and agency advertising (J. Walter Thompson, 1961-1963 – a Mad Men experience where he met his wife) and went into investment management. In 1974, he became president of his own investment company in San Francisco and has since formed the company Tuxedo Blue Ltd. for film and novel production.
Richard’s adventures have evolved into exploring Africa and writing fiction: Ebb Of The River, Anubis Rex, St. Nick And The Space Nicks (his first children’s book), The Bard Club, Naga Basa, The Four Seasons Of Spring and a seventh coming novel series Chardonnay Red/Carlyle Blues.


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We create custom video family documentaries using home movies, photographs, mementos, and video interviews. Call today to create your living legacy video.
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THE VIDEO INTERVIEW
The Video Interview is the most popular package of our family video documentaries. These sessions capture a family member's history, stories, and memories.
A FAMILY HISTORY
The Family History option captures wonderful stories and memories that creates and preserves your family's legacy.
YOUR FAMILY LIBRARY
Families often wish to share different types of stories. The Family Library package enables you to create chapters that can be viewed individually or together.
Many families have us produce a Memorial Video that can be shown at a Wake, a memorial service, a Shiva, or during a funeral service as a way to celebrate the life of a loved one.
The team at BiographyStories takes special pride when we produce a video to be shown at an event when a member or members of the community are being honored.
Humor can be a very powerful addition to any occasion. We have numerous requests for light and humorous videos to be created for special events such as: Weddings, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, Birthdays, Anniversaries and other special family occasions.


The Guardian on Takeovers and Mergers
The Guardian website is a great source of information for students. In light of the AQA BUSS4 pre-release study theme of Mergers and Takeovers, I have started doing some research in the Guardian for my students to help with some case study material as a stimulus to get them started on this research theme. Below are some links to useful recent news articles.
This should hopefully provide a useful starting point for students to get to grips with the research theme.
WOW! Business 2015 is tutor2u's resource packed CPD for ALL business teachers. It follows in the huge footsteps of TBBLE (The Best Business Lesson Ever) and provides all Business teachers with a brand new set of resources that can be used immediately within the classroom. Not to be missed!


Posts Tagged ‘Play Therapy’
As a child therapist, I often use books to teach concepts and promote change. This is a list of my top twenty books.
- How Are You Peeling? Saxton Freymann & Joost Elffers
- I’m Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem by Jamie Lee Curtis (Author), Laura Cornell (Illustrator)
- My Many colored Days by Dr. Suess
- All Feelings Are Ok: It’s What You Do With Them That Counts. Lawence E. Shapiro (Author), Jillie Mandel (illustrator).
- How to Be a Friend: A Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them by Laurene Krasny Brown and Marc Brown (Illustrator)
- No Hitting!: A Lift-the-Flap Book Karen Katz
- When Sophie Gets Angry–Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang
- Tiger, Tiger Is It True by Byron Katie and Hans Wilhelm
- Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
- Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus and Jose Aruego (Illustrator)
- The Feelings Book Todd Parr
- Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell
- The Cow That Went OINK byBernard Mos
- The Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric Carle
- The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch (Author), Michael Mart
- If You Give A Pig A Pancake by Laura Joffe Numeroff and Felicia Bond
- How Do Dinosaurs Go To School by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague
- Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Jane Dyer
- Snuggle Puppy by Sandra Boynton
- If Everybody Did by Jo Ann Stover
Wasatch Family Therapy’s Kate Hofer with Collette Dawson-Loveless will present a CPRT for Teens and Art Therapy training on April 27th, 2012 for the Association of Play Therapy Utah Chapter. The training focuses on strengthening the bonds of attachment between parent and child. The training will be held at the Foster Care Foundation located at 5296 S Commerce Drive #400, Murray, UT 84107.
Q: My daughter’s children are close friends with their cousins. The parents of these cousins took in foster children who sexually molested the cousins. My daughter wants to know how best she can protect her children from being molested by the cousins. All the children involved are younger than 10 years old. My son was similarly molested by neighbor children and has been struggling with pornography and masturbation for twenty years. She doesn’t want that to happen to her children. Where can she go for advice?
A: The first step your daughter can take is to begin to have first of several conversations with her young children about good and bad touch- explaining “good” touch is a hug, a tickle under the armpit, a high five. A “bad” touch is when someone touches your private parts or asks you to touch theirs. Talking about what to do if this ever happens is also a topic for conversations throughout their lives- always tell a grownup! She also needs to ask if they have ever experienced “bad touch” to find out if they have also been abused.
Just because the cousins were sexually abused, it does not necessarily mean that they will in turn, molest others or engage in sexually inappropriate behaviors. If they have not acted out sexually, you do not need to limit their exposure and time together, unless the foster children are still in their home. To be on the safe side, an adult should be supervising their play for the next few months. They can still have play dates and engage in normal interactions, but I would suggest that the play just takes place out in the open- no closed doors allowed. I would also say “no” to sleepovers for the time being. If the cousins have been acting out sexually because of their abuse, it is okay to limit the play dates and offer support as adult friends/family.
A good resource for your family members is The Association For Play Therapy where you can find play therapists who specialize in treating sexually reactive and abused children in your area. There are chapters located throughout the United States.
Get to know our Wasatch Family Therapy therapists and their specialty areas, learn more about why we do what we do, and hear about my vision for Wasatch Family Therapy 9 years ago when it was a solo practice.


MHS Specific Resources: This list of resources is created by the College & Career Center and is intended to help you through the various aspects of the college application process.
Common App Essay Formatting and Style Guide: This guide is dedicated to helping take some of the guesswork out of punctuation, style, grammar, and even the Common App essay formatting. Also shares some common college essay grammar mistakes students make and how to fix them.
AXS Companion to Common App: A free, open online platform to provide access and clarity for students as they apply to college using the Common App. The AXS Companion is used side-by-side with Common App and includes video modules that can be viewed sequentially or just as needed.


Apple released Final Cut Pro X version 10.3 this month, and with it they introduced a nice bit of new functionality. Our favorite new feature in this release is definitely the announcement that Final Cut Pro now — finally! — allows its libraries to work on shared storage that uses the SMB file sharing network protocol.
In the release notes for this version Apple says “SMB 3 network support enables library access on network-attached storage devices.” This is great, because in previous versions of Final Cut Pro the library location options were effectively limited to Xsan or NFS. So yeah, now you can use FCPX libraries with SMB, which is really cool! In the past it was only possible to store your media for FCPX on SMB shares — not your libraries.
To be clear, this new feature does not mean that multiple editors can now work within the same FCPX library at the same time!
Rather, Apple now allows an FCPX library to be created on an SMB share, and exactly one user can have that library open on that SMB share at any given time. If a 2nd user attempts to open that same library, then FCPX will notify the 2nd user that permission is denied because the library is already opened “by Steve on Suite-C-iMac.” This is basically Final Cut Pro’s enforcement of write/read exclusivity for the user who first opens the library. Once that first user closes the library or quits FCPX then that library can be opened and edited by some other user.
FCPX using EVO Shared Storage
Our EVO shared storage servers have offered users several innovative and convenient FCPX library locking methods for years, by using the NFS protocol as well as other SAN-based solutions.
In combination with our included ShareBrowser management software, EVO allows multiple users to connect to an NFS share to store and access their FCP libraries. This workflow is enabled by using ShareBrowser Client, which “locks” an FCP library during network editing, so that a user can have a library open on an NFS share without the concern of it being accidentally overwritten by another editor. This method also allows ShareBrowser users a way to see if another user already has an FCP library locked without launching FCPX and trying to open the library.
With Apple’s introduction of SMB support for Final Cut libraries, [highlight color=”#c5d7f0″ rounded=”” class=”” id=””]FCP users with EVO now have another workflow option available.[/highlight] Our EVO shared storage system is capable of serving SMB shares as well as NFS shares, opening up this new SMB-based workflow to EVO users.
SMB or NFS?
One big advantage to using SMB instead of NFS is that SMB generally provides better write throughput performance — especially with 10GbE — when compared to NFS on a Mac OS. (SMB is natively supported in Windows operating systems. This may not seem like it would matter since we’re talking about FCP here which, of course, only runs on a Mac. But there are many cases when having to support just one protocol in a mixed Mac/Windows environment can make things much easier for everyone, and SMB is becoming pretty ubiquitous in the Mac world. For example: 5 FCPX workstations and a Windows-based After Effects, C4D, or Resolve workstation could all use a single network protocol, eliminating some complexity.) Additionally, mounting SMB shares is a much more common practice for users of both Mac and Windows platforms, meaning SMB is generally an easier protocol to support and work with on a daily basis.
With SMB support from Apple there’s now one more way to use your EVO with Final Cut Pro X.
Final Cut Pro X Libraries with EVO Shared Storage
Watch a 3m video of FCPX workflows — we demonstrate libraries on SMB and NFS, hosted on an EVO.
EVO increases efficiency in your workflow by storing all of your media files and libraries in a centrally accessible storage system. By enabling real-time editing directly over the network EVO can eliminate the need for standalone RAIDs or individual drives for multiple workstations. Editors no longer have to move external drives around, nor do they need to worry about locating their media or managing duplicate files: With the proper setup they can just focus on editing.
Teams of editors can use EVO to handle multiple streams of ProRes-based media, 4K, and other codecs via standard 1GbE and/or 10GbE network connections, and in most cases editors can connect their workstations directly to EVO, with no additional switch requirements.
EVO is available in 16 bay, 8 bay, and 4 bay configurations, and includes unlimited licenses of ShareBrowser — an easy-to-use asset management app designed by SNS that ties all of your storage and project/media management into a single comprehensive window. The ShareBrowser desktop client enables your users to tag files and search across all EVO storage as well as local, offline, and other network disks. EVO servers can also generate proxy files for offline viewing via the ShareBrowser client.
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If you’d like to use your EVO’s SMB shares for FCPX please contact our support team and mention this article — we’ll help get you setup (you’ll need to be running at least EVO OS v.5.8).
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Sunday, February 05, 2006
So, I am sitting here dying, I mean literally DYING to work on my knitting Olympics sweater, but I can't. I have been working on the world's ugliest shawl for a couple of days (I'll post more on that latter), and it is so bad that I just had to do something else. So, I cast on this "Great Tunic" from 25 Gorgeous Sweaters for the Brand-New Knitter. I am doing it out of Lion Brand Wool-ease in Pine (black and green variegated). I really love it, and since I cast on yesterday morning, it is going pretty fast.
I just finished reading Knit One Kill Two by Maggie Sefton. Ann loaned me the book to read. It was the perfect thing to take to work to read during the down times (Subs get a lot of those)
The book is part of the knitting fad that has spilled over into woman's fiction. The plot is pretty predictable, but it is a good fun read for knitters. Kelly Flynn is a Washington D.C. accountant whose life is a dull routine. When her beloved aunt is killed, Kelly returns to her Colorado home to settle affairs. Of course, there are questions about the murder that need answers. As Kelly struggles to find her Aunt Helen's killer, she struggles to learn to knit. In the process, she makes friends and discovers what has been missing from her life. Coffee, rolls, and yarns run through out the story. At the end of the book there are two beginner patterns (for a scarf and a vest), and a recipe for cinnamon rolls. In general, a fun enjoyable read.
Sly is yelling at the TV. Superbowl Sunday is his Christmas. He is having a ball, but it is rather loud. Think I'll go and watch the commercials and work on my new sweater.


(the following review has just been published in Books & Culture and is reproduced here with kind permission from the editor)
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
Simon & Schuster, 2013
352 pp., $16.00
Haiti is the Future: A counter-narrative.
Since the 2010 earthquakes, thousands of well-intentioned Americans have traveled to Haiti as missionaries or aid workers. Some didn’t expect development work to be complicated, or thought they could fix everything on a short trip, and they sometimes experienced bitter disappointments when their efforts failed or spectacularly backfired. Those still contemplating a trip to Haiti will benefit from reading Amy Wilentz’s book, which provides many cautionary tales on the theme “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” But it provides much more than that. Wilentz is an American journalist who has lived in Haiti and returned for visits many times over a span of more than twenty years and has thus a long acquaintance with the country’s history, language, and people. She is best known for her 1989 book The Rainy Season, which contributed in particular to make Jean-Bertrand Aristide—the liberation theology priest who became president of Haiti in 1990—known to the American public. (Wilentz was a strong supporter of Aristide at the time even though she later on distanced herself from him.) She offers in this new book much more than a travel diary: a long “letter from Haiti,” providing a wealth of information about Haiti’s current situation, nicely blended with personal reflections and precious food for thought about Haiti and the country’s relations with the outside world.
The book seeks to counter common misrepresentations of Haiti and to balance the prevailing discourses on Haiti in the United States and the rest of the Western world. Contrary to what the title suggests, there is little in the book about Voodoo (or Vodou). Wilentz explains that the “Fred Voodoo” of the title “is the old foreign correspondents’ tongue-in-cheek name for the Haitian man in the street.” She wants to bid farewell to the Haitian equivalent of Joe Sixpack and debunk deep-rooted clichés; her book attempts to present to the American public the Haitian’s point of view, an explanation or interpretation of facts that foreigners find incomprehensible and therefore judge as (depending on the circumstances) funny, evil, puzzling, or dangerous. Haiti, she observes, is routinely portrayed in the U.S. as “the poorest country in the western hemisphere,” with a severely degraded environment, a failed state, and endemic violence. More often than not Haitians are blamed for the unfortunate state of their country: in the view expressed by Pat Robertson in January 2010, Haitians are poor because they “swore a pact to the devil” when they rebelled against their French masters in 1791. This very conveniently ignores the reasons for the initial revolt: the appalling injustice, inhumanity, and abuse imposed on a society of slaves. It also forgets the better documented causes behind the poverty of Haiti: the isolation and shunning of the country during much of the 19th century by the U.S., France, and other nations; and the constant interference in Haitian affairs from the same powers, sometimes—not always—with good intentions, but often with devastating results.
In one respect, though, it is misleading to suggest that Wilentz wants to “balance” the familiar accounts of Haiti’s plight. Rather, she wants to turn those judgments upside down. Haiti, backwards? Not at all. On the contrary, she writes,
Haiti’s history has been a harbinger of the modern world since the landing there of the white man in the 1400s. First came the initial and signature act of globalization: the genocide of a population, in Haiti’s case, the indigenous Arawak or Taino Indians, who were eradicated … through enslavement, disease, and overwork within two generations of the white man’s appearance on the island’s shores. The colonial economy that followed the destruction of the indigenous islanders was one of the first entirely globalized economies in human history, at every level a model for the modern global economy.
The first and only successful slave revolt in history also took place in Haiti. Now, Haiti has also perhaps become a harbinger of what the whole world might look like fifty years from now if business as usual continues to prevail. Haiti, Wilentz argues, gives us a peek at what “Ronald Reagan’s dream of a privatized state” looks like when it is realized, where schools and hospitals are privately owned, private security forces flourish even as the police are increasingly unreliable, and public works are virtually nonexistent. It is also a country where the absence of any kind of environmental protection agency and a severe scarcity of resources mean most of the trees have been turned into charcoal—and, as a consequence, most of the soil has washed into the sea. Of all the nations in the world, Haiti has recently been ranked as the most vulnerable to climate change.
If Haiti is perhaps a sign of what is to come, a lot of Haiti’s current problems are rooted in history. For example, Wilentz traces the often-prevailing duplicity in politics and in personal dealings in Haiti back to slavery. Bondage contributed to general mistrust within society: “the habits of masquerade acquired during two centuries of intense slave conditions have continued to play out in Haitian governance and society.” As social scientists know well, trust is a crucial component of social capital, bonding people and lowering the cost of transactions, and a widespread lack of trust is detrimental to society in many ways. Wilentz traces legacies of the slave period even in the ambiguities of Kreyòl (Haitian Creole, the national language). A willingness on the part of the slaves to mislead their owners led them to develop a language where, for example, “he, she, it, him, her” is expressed indifferently by just one pronoun, “li,” or “we, us, you (plural)” by “nou”: “This effectively hides identity and agency, and can—sometimes intentionally—mislead those who do not fully understand the whole context of a narrative. Nonnative speakers often confuse the use of these slippery pronouns with simplicity of grammar, but it is not that, or not only.” (For a contrasting view, see “A Farewell to Haiti,” an essay by Mischa Berlinski, an American journalist and novelist who spent five years in Haiti from 2007 to 2012. Berlinski attributes Haiti’s culture of mistrust instead to the widespread belief in sorcery: “[The Haitian] magical world is a world in which things make sense, where cause provokes effect. It is a rational world. It is a world without existential despair. It is a world in which one is never wholly responsible for one’s misfortunes. But it is also a world that supposes that one’s neighbors are vicious and predatory; that suffering is directly the result of somebody else—somebody in your community, somebody close to you—wishing you ill.” This view is shared by many Americans living in Haiti, including the director of a small Christian non-profit who told me recently he only started to understand this culture of mistrust after he married an Haitian woman and saw things “from the inside.”)
Wilentz’s efforts to counter the dominant discourse in the West and to act as a pro-bono international advocate for Haiti, while largely successful, did not always entirely convince me. For example, she mentions a project by architects to promote the planting in Haiti of a species of tree that could provide food, construction, clothing material, medicine, and more to poor Haitians. But she says that this kind of tree will never appeal to Haitians because it is not in their culture to eat leaves of trees. She’s probably right about an initial resistance, but is it wrong to promote such a tree if it indeed has these virtues? The potato was looked down upon by many in Europe until its numerous advantages became evident to everyone. (The potato today has a bad reputation, but it has an exceptionally high yield compared to other crops. Humans can also live healthily on a diet of potatoes supplemented only with milk or butter, which contain the two vitamins, A and D, not provided by the tuber.) Was Antoine Parmentier, the most vocal promoter of the potato in France, wrong in advocating (agri)cultural changes to peasants so as to improve their nutrition and their lives? Does respect for Haitian culture mean that foreigners should not challenge Haitian customs or offer improved crops? Of course, trying to change a culture is fraught with potential problems: as Nicholas Kristof reported a few years ago, in Southern Africa “you see the very sensible efforts of aid groups to get people to grow sorghum rather than corn, because it is hardier and more nutritious. But local people aren’t used to eating sorghum. So aid workers introduce sorghum by giving it out as a relief food to the poor—and then sorghum becomes stigmatized as the poor man’s food, and no one wants to have anything to do with it.”
The broader question of whether one should help Haiti—and how—is in fact central to Wilentz’s book. She offers many illuminating anecdotes and reflections, including the cautionary tale of a missionary couple who, after the earthquake, armed with good intentions, decide to buy land and build houses for poor people but run into innumerable difficulties (land tenure in Haiti is very complicated issue). Haiti, she scornfully remarks, has become a “feel-good tourist destination” where people in search of “redemption” try to help but sometimes (often?) create more problems than they solve.
She is particularly critical of foreign NGOs, for bypassing the Haitian state and further weakening the government in Port-au-Prince. But channeling money directly to Haitians is a very difficult because of the corruption at various levels of government, as Wilentz herself recognizes. (There is an interesting discussion about corruption in Haiti—highly visible to a lot of people—versus corruption and conflicts of interest in the United States—which often do not trigger the same indignation—in Jonathan Katz’s book,The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster, which can be usefully read alongside Wilentz’s book.) Gerald Murray, an anthropologist well acquainted with Haiti, remarked just after the earthquake, illustrating this conundrum, that there are no good solutions as to how to channel aid to Haiti: if you give money to NGOs, “you are not developing the institutions of the country, but if … you give the money to the Haitian government, it will disappear.”
Wilentz also recalls the American government’s sorry history of meddling in Haitian affairs over a long span of time. The U.S. occupation of 1915-1934, for example (which most Americans today don’t even know about), further exacerbated racial tensions in the country because of the racism of most in the American administration at the time. America’s longstanding support for the brutal and corrupt regimes of “presidents for life” François and Jean-Claude Duvalier helped to sustain the culture of unaccountability and impunity that continues to plague Haiti. (One feels the bitter sadness of Wilentz, who witnessed the departure of Duvalier in 1986, when she tells of the recent return to the country of Jean-Claude Duvalier and the warm welcome he received from the current president Michel Martelly.) Problems created by the U.S. in the past make it difficult for Americans, or Haitians, to develop Haiti today.
Another issue Wilentz raises is the recent pressure from the U.S. State Department to lower the minimum wage in Haiti, from 61 cents an hour to—at least for textile workers—31 cents an hour. Most readers will probably be sickened to learn what appears to be a well-documented fact, as I was. However, I found that Jonathan Katz’s book The Big Truck That Went By did a better job on this specific point at providing the larger context: even though Katz is equally critical of the State Department’s policies and dubious deeds in Haiti, he emphasizes how the ruthless pressure to lower wages is part of a larger worldview. In this view, Haiti’s salvation can only be obtained by following Taiwan’s or South Korea’s path to development, to become a hub for exporting cheap, labor-intensive products such as textiles. By pressuring the Haitian government to lower employment costs, the State Department hoped to help Haitians (if the employment costs are too high, companies will not come to Haiti, or so the reasoning goes). Wilentz and Katz are both skeptical that this path of development can work—what will prevent textile companies from relocating to other countries if wages rise in Haiti or trade unions bother them?—and one can also disagree with foreign interference in Haitian affairs, but the story is more complicated than what Wilentz suggests here. Prominent economists such as Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Krugman among others have defended sweatshops as a pragmatic “necessary-evil” approach to development. Perhaps this would be an illustration that, to reverse the proverb, “the road to paradise is paved with evil.” However pragmatic that may be, I still find the pressure to lower wages for poor Haitians disturbing. (After the threat of communism diminished in the 1990s, an imperative for U.S. Haiti policy has been keeping Haitians in Haiti. Many feel that the U.S. will do the minimum required to discourage Haitians from leaving their country, but not enough to really improve things for Haitians, because that would harm U.S. economic interests.)
Despite these quibbles, Farewell Fred Voodoo offers an excellent introduction to Haiti today and a provocative counter-narrative to the simplistic stories told about Haiti in the mainstream media. It is well-written, witty, funny, yet profound; the author never takes herself too seriously, avoids the trap of Manichaeism, and provides a powerful analysis of Haitian society in a manner accessible to the general reader. This is a book that should rank very high on the reading list of people who have an interest in Haiti or in international aid and development issues more generally.
Jean-François Mouhot is a Marie Curie Fellow at Georgetown University.
1. For two contrasting views of Haitian history, see Laurent Dubois’ recentHaiti: The Aftershock of History (2011), which blames Western interference (particularly by France and the U.S.) for most of Haiti’s current problems; and Philippe Girard’s Haiti : The Tumultuous History—from Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation (2010), which argues that Haitians themselves are mostly to blame.
2. “A Farewell to Haiti,” The New York Review of Books, March 22, 2012.
3. “Aid: Can It Work?”, The New York Review of Books, October 5, 2006.
4. Jonathan Katz, The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).


Organizations and Resources For Visually Impaired Patients
Talking Books programs, large print publications, and magnification devices can be found at nearly all public libraries.
Library of Congress Special Services Division - Elkhart Public Library (downtown) is the Regional Center for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Fill out the application provided by your Doctor to receive free talking book service as well as specially designed playback equipment.
Nearly all banks offer large print checks. Bank One: At no extra charge, Relationship Bankers are available to read and explain appropriate materials to customers or to conduct financial transactions. Alternate formats including large print, audiocassette or computer disc can be provided by calling 877-226-5663. Call 877-241-8665 for information on talking ATM's.
People who are visually impaired and are attempting to find work, this program can help counsel and provide funding to further opportunities in the workplace. (221 W. Wayne, South Bend : 574-232-4861)
SBC : (1-800-742-8771) Provides large print bills by simply calling to request this service. Based on visual disability, SBC will also provide operator service free of charge. Customer must call to request a form which must be signed by the doctor.
Long Distance Carriers:
AT&T Long Distance Customer Service (800-222-0300), Sprint (888-78805001), Verizon Wireless (800-974-6006) Bills can be provided in large print.
Advocacy/Consumer Groups: (800-326-9190)
National Federation of the Blind (NFB) of Indiana. Provides public education about blindness, information, literature, and support.
Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services (IPAS). Protects and promotes the rights of individuals with disabilities.
ACB Radio (e-mail : [email protected] website : http://www.acbradio.org). Webcasting service where you can listen to programs on your computer.
Descriptive Video Service (DVS Home Video)
317-579-0439 : customer service/order videos
800-333-1203 : automated service providing list of videos
888-818-1181 : large print catalog
Variety of services are offered to make TV and movies accessible including videos containing auditory narration of action or visual elements.
National Federation of the Blind Newsline
410-659-9314 : to subscribe, 888-882-1629 for information
E-mail : [email protected]
Website : http://www/nfb.org
Enables those who cannot read convention print to have access to newspapers. By entering and ID number and security code, the user can make selections over the phone, and they are read to the user, who is also able to modify the spped and voice quality. User must fill out a simple application
Public Transit Systems:
Amtrak (800-872-7245) offers rail fare discounts for passengers with disabilities. Recipient must provide written documentation of disability at ticket counter (letter from doctor is sufficient).
Greyhound (800-752-4841) - Call 48 hours in advance of trip to request assistance with boarding/unboarding coaches and purchasing tickets. Sighted guides traveling with legally blind customers can receive a 50% discount on their ticket.
Home Instead Senior Care - 245 W. Edison Rd. Suite 230, Mishawaka | Elkhart/Marshall Co. 1-866-500-1479 | South Bend/Mishawaka 574-256-1479 | Niles/Buchanan 1-866-500-1479
This service enables the elderly to live independently with the help and company of non-medical care givers.
Comfort Keepers: 6910 N. Main St. Suite 15B Unit 47 | Granger (574-277-4121)
This services provides in-home companionship care, errand service, meal preparation, light housekeeping, grocery shopping, incidental transportation, daily TLC phone calls, laundry, recreational activities, grooming, and mail organization.
Meals on Wheels: home delivered meals for those over 60 years old in St Joseph County. Call Real Services for more information : 574-233-8205
Large Print Resources:
American Bible Society (800-322-4253) : bibles and selected portions of scriptures
American Printing House for the Blind (800-223-1839) : large print or cassette textbooks and reading materials for grades 2-12
Associated Services for the Blind (215-627-0600) : Textbooks and other materials
Aurora Ministries Bible Alliance (941-748-3031) : free bibles on cassette tape - available in several languages
Betty Crocker Food and Nutrition Center - General Mills (800-328-6787) : Cookbooks and meal planners
Doubleday Large Print Home Library (800-688-4442) : Current bestsellers, mysteries, and biographies
Reader's Digest Large-Type Publications (800-877-5293) : condensed books and the monthly general interest magazine
The New York Times Large Type Weekly (800-631-2580) weekly newspaper covering national events McMillan Library / Simon & Schuster (800-257-5157) : biographies, mysteries, romances, westerns, adult fiction and nonfiction
Books on Tape, Inc. (800-626-3333) : rental program of full length books
Bible Alliance (941-748-3031) : Recorded scriptures in 40 languages available.
Transaction Large Print (888-999-6778) : Large print catalog offers large print book selection
Choice Magazine Listening, Dept. TM (516-883-8280 : free service provided 6 time per year - free audiotapes of unabridged selection sof articles, short stories and poetry from the New Yorker, Time and Sports Illustrated.