A collaborative workshop and public installation. 23rd to 26th February 2018 Bristol (UK).
This book emerged from a three-day workshop with Spanish artist Julian Baron, IC-Visual Lab, and workshop participants. The workshop was held in the graphic design studios at UWE Bristol, and was a collaboration with: People's Republic of Stokes Croft; Accion CulturaI Espanola (AC/E); Arnolfini; The University of West of England, and Arts Council England. The brief was to respond visually to the UK housing crisis. The workshop was experimental and this book is experimental, formed from a collection of imagery contained in an envelope.
DANCING WITH THE ARCHIVE AND LAYING FOUNDATIONS
On the first day of the workshop, the housing crisis was explored through an archive of historic images picturing such topics as: the slum conditions of 1930s Wigan; the destruction of houses in World War Two; the construction (and destruction) of tower blocks; the sell-off of social housing; the cycle of housing bubbles; buy-to-let; the rise of 'Generation Rent'; and the culpable homicide of Grenfell Tower. A talk by Acorn, the tenant's union and anti-poverty organising group, laid out a set of concerns that they see on a daily basis. Some of these concerns were also experienced by workshop participants. They consisted of: substandard housing; crowded conditions; failing to return deposits; the overlap of speculation and eviction; the human costs of lack of security, comfort, and sleep; and the physical and mental health problems that this creates for adults and children alike. Four initial areas were collectively decided on to inform the production stage the following day. These were: Living Costs and Standards of Housing, Privatisation and Home Ownership, Tenant Identity, and Homelessness.
BREAKING THE GROUND AND CONSTRUCTION
The second day was about making visual work for the publication and enough to fill a 60x10-foot wall on Bristol's Stokes Croft, using photocopied imagery, computer generated text and created pictograms, collage and past-up, and screen print. Design concepts were produced and tested for the wall installation too. The content of the work was about: overpriced rents, multi-occupancy housing, buy-to-let, sofa surfing, trust funds, hedge funds, second homes, holiday homes, empty homes, crowded homes, the homeless, the speculator, the carpet-bagger, the property developer, the estate agent, the London downsizer, the student flat and the overseas hedge-better. It was about the end of social housing and the boom in the bedsit economy; it was about family albums, real estate photography, planning images, facadism, housing advocacy, Grand Designs, Shelter, and a Place in the Sun. It was Costa del Sol ghost towns and English gentrification. It was also about numbers: 47 and 43 - the life expectancy of a homeless British man and woman; 234,000 - the average price of a home in Southwest England; 42 and 8 - the percentage of people who lived in social housing in 1979, compared to the percentage in 2016; 2 million and 5 million - the number of private landlords in the UK and the number of houses they privately let.
HARD REALITIES AND CUTTING THE RIBBON
The final day moved from content production to editing; making sense of the mass of visual ideas, images, statements and statistics; planning how to fill the wall with content that tied together, that posed questions, suggested answers and invited the viewer in; and producing the final publication. The result is Public Art meets Democracy Wall, a collaborative and chaotic experiment in vocalising the housing crisis that affects everyone. It is no longer about whether you have a house - it's whether you have a roof, a room, or a bed. If you do, it's about the people that do not, the people you see rough-sleeping in every town in Britain on a scale not seen since the 1930s. It is also about the lack of security for people who cannot afford to buy. It is about the constant moving and the disruption to work, to education, to growing up, growing old, or growing sick, that people now experience in a way that is the deliberate product of successive government's policy. This housing crisis is a politically made problem, one that we should take responsibility for. The solutions to this problem are ready and available for us, and that is what this publication is about.


The Bible is an amazing piece of literature, but it is also much more. It is the living, breathing, word of God. It is also the great story of Who God is, who we are, where we’ve come from, what we were made for, what went wrong in our world, and what God is doing about it, through the mission and work of Jesus Christ. As J.R.R. Tolkien famously said:
The Scriptures contain a story of a larger kind, which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. But this story has entered history and the primary world...This story begins and ends in joy. It has pre-eminently the "inner consistency of reality." There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many skeptical men have accepted as true on its own merits. For the Art of it has the supremely convincing tone of Primary Art, that is, of Creation. To reject it leads either to sadness or wrath. This story is supreme; and it is true. God is Lord, of angels, and of men--and of elves. For in it, Legend and History have met and fused.
At City Church, we believe the Bible is one great unified story that has been revealed to mankind, by God Himself, in order to lead us to truth, reality, and life. That said, we know that people can get lost and overwhelmed with the sheer depth and magnitude of the Bible. To read it all the way through in one piece can seem like a daunting task in our busy world. We also know how hard it can be to read through the Bible on our own without anyone to help guide or answer our questions.
For these reasons, and so many more, we encourage everyone in our community to engage in the wonderful adventure of reading the Bible, as a community. To help in this process, we work hard to make Bible reading a central part of life together. Moreover, we also encourage everyone take advantage of The Bible Project's
many helpful reading plans, learning tools, videos especially designed to help anyone enter in and understand the Great Story of the Bible. Click the button below to get The Bible Project's Read Scripture App.


Copyright is a very complicated area of the law because, especially with the growth of online learning and increasingly digital instructional materials, the policies are constantly being (re)interpreted. As increasing amount of intellectual property becomes available via the web and any of it can be copied in a screencast or screenshot, it is difficult to protect one’s intellectual property.
Screenshots are commonly used to create images for instructional materials. It is always good manners and smart to cite sources for images, even a screenshot. One thing to be aware of is that non-commercial educational “fair use” allows for some leeway in education designs that are not possible in commercial designs. Depending on where you design instruction, the rules are different. For profit universities currently have different expectations (i.e., restrictions and regulations on re-use of content) than public universities, for example.
As mentioned by Culatta (2013), adherence to copyright is essential as a skill for any instructional designer and anyone else designing information or instruction for public consumption. Culatta’s webpage on Copyright includes an extensive list of links for many other resources to explore about copyright and instructional design.
Tobin’s (2104) infographic on copyright effectively simplifies the copyright process as it applies to most education organizations. If you need a visual representation of all the information from the Culatta (2013) source and the extensive ideas presented in the Wright (2014) presentation on copyright basics, the resource from Tobin will be useful.
Note that the Wright (2104) presentation is not the ‘last word’ on the topic of instructional design must-know knowledge; every corporation/organization will have a legal department that dictates use of materials and such, yet this presentation offers a good overview of some basic considerations all instructional designers should be aware of for copyright.
~ Lisa Johnson, Ph.D.
Culatta, R. (2013). Copyright information. Retrieved from http://www.instructionaldesign.org/copyright.html
Tobin, T. J. (2014). The one-page copyright flow chart [Image file]. Retrieved from https://www.dropbox.com/s/9i5kavtshstosfs/Copyright_the_Easy_Way_Handout_Tobin_20141106.pdf?dl=0
Wright, B. (2014, April 22). Copyright basics for corporate instructional designers [Presentation/Video file]. Retrieved from https://prezi.com/23_ugvmgm97w/copyright-basics-for-corporate-instructional-designers/


This book is a basic pocket Guide to learn to differentiate Minerals, Rocks and Precious Stones.
As a beginner's guide, it exposes the basic characteristics to carry out the identification of Minerals, Rocks and Gems. It describes the most common types of these specimens, as well as a selection of unusual varieties.
In its 144 pages, it includes more than 350 color photographs and simple identification tables. Its content is studied in primary and secondary education
Complete your mineral collection with this guide that you can take everywhere thanks to its small size!
Size: 19.5 x 9.0cm


By DeLanna Studi
A frank, heartwarming and inspiring story about a contemporary Cherokee woman and her father who embark on an incredible 900-mile journey along the “Trail of Tears” to truly understand her own identity and the conflicts of her nation. The six-week journey retraces the path her great-great grandparents took in the 1830s during the forced relocation of more than 17,000 Cherokee from their homelands. And So We Walked is a powerful, multi-faceted dramatic memoir that draws on extraordinary interviews, historical research, and the artist’s personal experience to convey the complexities and conflicts with which the Cherokee wrestle. Written and performed by DeLanna Studi, Cherokee artist and winner of the 2016 Butcher Scholar Award from The Autry Museum of the American West. Developed in close collaboration with individuals and institutions within the Eastern Band of Cherokee and Cherokee Nation, with supplemental support from Native Voices Theatre, American Indian Center and Process Series at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Produced in collaboration with the Arts and Society Initiative of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts.
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Erich Segal, the man who wrote Love Story died this week from Parkinson’s Disease. Segal was a classics professor at Yale University when he wrote the book, which became an Oscar-winning 1970 film starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw. I never read the book or saw the film – but that’s not the point.
His daughter yesterday said at her fathers funeral “That he fought to breathe, fought to live, every second of the last 30 years of illness with such mind-blowing obduracy, is a testament to the core of who he was, a blind obsessionality that saw him pursue his teaching, his writing, his running and my mother, with just the same tenacity. He was the most dogged man any of us will ever know.”
Speaking about this famous book he created, Love Story, she commented that among all the other things he did this was for him, the greatest peak in his life. What a lovely testament to a father from a daughter.
And a timely challenge to find our own greatest peak while we can…


Veliko Trgovisce, a charming place tailored to the family, was first mentioned at the beginning of the 16th century. Located at the entrance to Krapina-Zagorje County from the direction of Zagreb, along the banks of the river Krapina, it is well connected with the capital of Croatia and other centers of Europe. Throughout history, the place expanded and developed with the construction of the road and later with the construction of the railway. It is certainly worth pointing out that the oldest school in the then Balkans was founded in that area near the church in Velika Erpenja! Veliko Trgovisce is the birthplace of the first Croatian president, Dr. Franjo Tudjman, and in his memory his birth house and Memorial School with a memorial part and a gallery of paintings, as well as a library and reading room were renovated. This beautiful Zagorje place was chosen by many young families for life and a promising future.
№561 in Cities of Croatia


I wanted to thank the reader that sent in a suggestion for me to read “The Five People You Meet In Heaven” and add it to the TCJ Library; it’s running low on books, I know. I’m going to go buy it tomorrow or Monday and start reading and write a review when I finish. From what I’ve read on the internet, it’s supposed to be really good. Can’t wait to share with everyone my opinion of it!
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The first book that I’m adding into the TCJ Library Collection is Vilified! Red Meat for Conservatives from a Guy Who’s Got a lot of Beefs. I’m still in the process of reading this one, but it’s great so far! Conservative Author Corey Deitz covers it all somewhere in the book, from his opinion on Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, to PETA and Illegal Immigration. Deitz does a great job conveying his opinions in a way that’s funny and entertaining, so you don’t have to worry about becoming uninterested. It’s a hilarious yet insightful take on politics that’s definitely a must read!
When I finish reading the book, I plan to write a full review, but I just wanted to write a little blurb (is that a word) about it while I’m reading.
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Ingrid's new book Flowers by Design is now available worldwide. Order from your preferred retailer below.
Amazon- Barnes & Noble - Book Depository (Free International Shipping) - IndieBound - Bookshop - BAM - Indigo (Canada) - Booktopia (Australia) - Waterstones (UK)
Praise“To call Ingrid a florist is reductive. She is truly an artist whose medium is flowers. This beautiful book shows her work in all its glory— creations that remind us of the ways flowers can amaze us, transport us and enrich our lives.”
- Katie Couric, Journalist, Producer, Author, and Founder of Katie Couric Media“ Floral design is such a wonderful, timeless, and subjective art form, and I love how Ingrid’s Flowers by Design weaves together floral stories and instructive approaches in one beautiful volume.“ - Kiana Underwood, Founder and CEO, Tulipina"I'm delighted and moved by Ingrid's work toward greater sustainability with flowers. Her voice is crucial and resonant for floristry the world over. Her approachable, practical step by step techniques are a great contribution to education on these issues and I am so grateful for her devotion to this vital cause.” - Emily Thompson, Owner of Emily Thompson Flowers and Obama White House favorite"In Flowers by Design, Ingrid Carozzi discusses fresh ideas in floral design through the prism of her creative friends. Using their different work and living environments as starting points, Ingrid demonstrates inventive and beautiful approaches so that the reader can take away useful information for their own arrangements. It is a graceful book with gorgeous photography that should be on any flower enthusiast’s shelf.” - Frances Palmer, Master Ceramicist, Photographer, and Gardener"Ingrid Carozzi’s new book reads like an instructive, inspirational conversation with a great mentor, a chat packed with practical tips, business advice, and clear guidance for making a wide variety of arrangements.” - Lisa Whitmer, Senior Director of Adult Education, The New York Botanical Garden"Far more than a floral guide, Flowers by Design is an enchanting journey into a world of unique and vibrant compositions that inspire and instruct the reader in creating their own floral works of art, suited perfectly to their own home and style. Highly recommended for every flower enthusiast's library.” - Georgianna Lane, Author of New York in Bloom, London in Bloom, Paris in Bloom and more"Meeting someone like Ingrid that is as passionate about flowers as I am, was an incredible experience, and that passion is truly showcased in her new book Flowers by Design. Ingrid is such an important figure in the flower world and this beautiful book does justice to her creativity and style.” - Myra Perez, Creative Director of My Violet and one of Australia's most in-demand florists
Flowers are classic, timeless design elements that enliven your home and your life. Flower arrangements can act as an extension of your style and your tastes, complementing and accenting the aesthetic in your home. Ingrid Carozzi brought us beautiful arrangements in her first book, Handpicked, and is now offering even more tips and techniques to bring the joy of flowers into your space in new and fresh ways.
From florist and founder of Tin Can Studios Ingrid Carozzi, a guide to creating floral arrangements that will complement your unique style and taste Flowers by Design focuses on creating beautiful floral arrangements that fit into and complement the overall look and feel of your home.
Through her experience, Carozzi has developed an exceptional list of designers, influencers, and artists that she works with. Using their backgrounds and homes as inspiration, she provides a number of floral recipes that you can create at home.
The contributors utilize their own spaces as the setting for seeing these arrangements in place, offering plenty of ideas for what you can do on your own. Ikebana inspired, lush arrangements in footed bowls, garden style, dried and foraged, floral installations are just a few areas that are covered with tips and advice all while using sustainable methods.
Ingrid's floral designs, recipes and installations have also been featured in:
Blooms: Contemporary Floral Design
, Phaidon Editors "This stunning book is the most ambitious survey of contemporary floral design ever published and demonstrates just how far these innovative designers have pushed the boundaries of contemporary floral design. Blooms showcases the work of more than 80 designers across the globe - featuring established florists alongside rising new talent - each nominated by industry experts, from perfumer Lyn Harris of Miller Harris to floral-design icon Eric Buterbaugh." - PHAIDON
Flowers: Art & Bouquets from Assouline. "This book showcases a glorious profusion of floral images and interpretations across a spectrum of artistic media and time periods. Design writer Sixtine Dubly chronicles the evolution of floral design in this remarkable compendium, which also features stunning work by more than forty contemporary floral artists in London, Paris, and New York, from minimalist to elaborate. This treasury of gorgeous imagery blooms in resplendent color before the reader’s eyes." - ASSOULINE
New York in Bloom by Georgianna Lane. "With sumptuous photography, the unexpected, softer side of New York is revealed by juxtaposing floral beauty with exquisite botanical details found in the city’s iconic architecture. Also included are field guides to locating and identifying common spring blooms, a list of recommended locations and vendors, and a tutorial on how to create your own New York–style floral bouquet. For anyone who loves New York City, flowers, and photography, New York in Bloom is a gorgeous gift and an essential addition to one’s library of fine books." - ABRAMS
In addition, Ingrid has been featured in the following books: Brooklyn Street Style (Abrams)I Actually Wore This (Rizzoli)Dark Horse (Harper One)
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At a recent Fall conference titled "Concepts and Aesthetics: New Tendencies in Glass Art (20th-21st centuries)" held at the Romont Glass Centre, Switzerland, questions about the future of glass art were never far from the minds of those in attendance: curators, staff, and professors from glass museums and academic programs around Europe. While in Switzerland itself, where the small Alpine town of Romont is nestled in the foothills of the mountains, the strong Swiss economy and a national dedication to arts funding have largely insulated them from the funding struggles of their peers, the mood was colored by concern about budget cuts. At the September 22nd event, however, anxiety seemed far from the conference venue, itself, ensconced behind the sturdy walls of a castle dating back to the thirteenth century.
Here, the Romont Glass Centre consists of a major exhibition space, the Vitromusée, as well as a library and research facility named the Vitrocentre. The center's director, Francine Giese said the Romont has three primary areas of focus on historic and contemporary glassmaking:
- reverse glass painting, of which it has possibly the largest collections in Europe
- stained glass, both Swiss and international
- blown glass, the newest section.
The study center's work often corresponds to the ongoing exhibitions. ‘It’s this exchange between research and the museum that is really unique,’ says Rosemont's director Giese.
Until January 21, 2024, its main exhibition is "In the Labyrinth: A Liminal Voyage," by Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg, who also gave the keynote speech at the conference. Also running into January is a smaller exhibition of two postwar Venetian pieces in the museum’s collection, a sommerso vessel designed by Flavio Poli and made at the Seguso Vetri d’Arte glassworks, and a fazzoletto designed by Fulvio Bianconi and made at Venini. These are accompanied by illustrative watercolours and factory archives from Murano, provided by the Centre for the Study of Glass in Venice.
Editor's Note: A longer article on the conference will be published in the Spring 2024 print edition of Glass.


JIWH Zahratun Nahw
This book is designed for students who are beginning the study of Arabic Syntax. It covers the basic rules of Arabic Syntax with examples, analysis and questions allowing the students to consolidate their learning, which will prepare them for further study in this subject.
By the grace of Almighty Allah, Jamiatul Ilm Wal Huda opened its doors to students in September 1997; fulfilling a pressing need and quenching the thirst of the people of Lancashire allowing them to have their children educated with sound Islamic knowledge accompanied with excellent secular education.
Jamiah believes that the educational material from which students study should be engaging, digestible and well-organised. To overcome some of the difficulties and obstacles students were experiencing in subjects that are integral to the Alimiyyah Course, Jamiah has published books on these topics. They provide students with a holistic view of the subject taking their essence from reliable works.


COLLECTED POEMS, Ern Malley, Imprint 1993 from ETT Imprint:
THE ANGRY PENGUIN - Selected poems of Max Harris
National Library of Australia, 1996:
OUT OF PRINT:
Ern Malley Books
Ern Malley's Poems, Lansdowne, 1961
The poems of Ern Malley, Allen & Unwin, 1971
Ern Malley's Poems, 1974 Adelaide Festival Special Edition
The Darkening Ecliptic. Poems by Ern Malley. Paintings by Sidney Nolan ...
London, McAlpine, 1974
The Ern Malley Affair - 'The literary hoax of the twentieth century'
Michel Heyward, Queensland, University of Queensland Press 1993
Lost Angry Penguins: D.B. Kerr & P.G. Pfeiffer
John Miles, 2000. Crawford House Publishing
By Max Harris
The Gift of Blood
Adelaide, Jindyworobak Club, 1940
The Vegetative Eye
Reed & Harris, 1943
Dramas From The Sky
The Adelaide University Arts Association, 1942
The Coorong and Other Poems
Mary Martin Bookshop Adelaide 1955
Melbourne. Lansdowne Press. 1963
A Window At Night.. Selected Poems
With An Introduction by Robert Clark. ABR Publications. South Aust. 1967.
Australian Poetry 1967
edited by Max Harris Angus & Robertson Sydney 1967.
The Circus and Other Poems
Illustrated by Arthur Boyd, Adelaide, 1960s
The Land That Waited
Max Harris & Alison Forbes Lansdowne Press. Melb.1971.
The Angry Eye
Introduction by Rupert Murdoch.
OCKERS - Essays on the Bad Old New Australia
Essays on the bad old new Australia
Adelaide. Maximus Books. 1974.
1979, Adelaide, Mary Martin Bookshop
The Unknown Great Australian - and other psychobiographical portraits
Sun Books, 1983
The Best of Max Harris
21 Years of Browsing
Sydney. Allen & Unwin. 1986
The Australian way with Words
Melbourne. Heinemann. 1989.
The Vital Decade - Ten Years of Australian Art and Letters
Selected by Max Harris & Geoffrey Dutton, Sun Books Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, 1968.
Australia's Censorship Crisis
by Max Harris & Geoffrey Dutton
Sun Books Melbourne, 1970
Sir Henry, Bjelke Don Baby and Friends
Max Harris & Geoffrey Dutton
Sun Books, Melbourne, 1971
Out of Print book specialists:


What do you do if you’re in trouble?
When Michelle runs away from her drug-addicted mother, she has just enough money to make it to New York City, where she hopes to move in with a friend. But once she arrives at the bustling Port Authority, she is confronted with the terrifying truth: she is alone and out of options.
Then she meets Devon, a good-looking, well-dressed guy who emerges from the crowd armed with a kind smile, a place for her to stay, and eyes that seem to understand exactly how she feels.
But Devon is not what he seems to be, and soon Michelle finds herself engulfed in the world of child prostitution where he becomes her “Daddy” and she his “Little Peach.” It is a world of impossible choices, where the line between love and abuse, captor and savior, is blurred beyond recognition.
This hauntingly vivid story illustrates the human spirit’s indomitable search for home, and one girl’s struggle to survive.
“You only missin’ if somebody looking for you. Understand? We ain’t missin’, Peach. We just gone.”
I read a lot of books and many have left their mark on me, but very rarely am I left speechless like I am with this book. Yes, this 200-page book has a heartbreaking magnitude that many other emotional full length novels can’t achieve. It’s not a book designed for enjoyment, but to raise awareness of every day tragedies that occur around us while we ourselves are fortunate to never experience them.
“Unlike a bag of heroin, a girl can be sold again and again…”
This story focuses on a 14-year old girl Michelle, and how she’s lured deep into a prostitution ring by a good-looking, sweet-talking pimp who becomes her ‘Daddy.’ Before that part of her life began though, she grew up in an unstable home environment with only her elderly grandfather who truly cared for her. After his death, her mother’s drug addiction and the revolving door of lecherous guys in her home motivate her to run away and begin anew.
“Ain’t you even gonna ask me where I’m going?”
“Can’t nothin’ be worse than here. You smart Michelle. Not like me.”
When she arrives in New York though, she truly realizes how alone she is. Her vulnerability and helplessness attracts Devon’s attention, and with an easy smile, traps her into a life of prostitution she never expected.
“I got you, all right? I’m gonna take care of you, ‘Chelle. I swear.”
This book was not easy to read. I felt sick and wanted to throw up in some of the scenes that were beyond heartbreaking. Besides Michelle, two other girls are introduced – Kat and Baby, and their respective roles only add an even more somber, sad layer to the story. But to me, the saddest thing about this all is that these girls are so immersed in their cruel environment that they can’t distinguish between what’s right and wrong, what they should want and what they should do, and who’s enemy, who’s foe. They’re just so lost.
“I don’t know if I should be scared.
I don’t know if I should be thankful.
I have nowhere else to go.”
While I didn’t cry at all when I read this book, I pretty much felt like arrows were piercing right through my chest. Quite frankly, this is an ugly book. It’s an awful book! There are times I wish I could unread it. And the only reason why I can feel this way about a book and still 5 star it is because of how REAL this story felt. This is realistic fiction at its finest, so strong and compelling that there was no way I could separate fiction from reality. And honestly, anyone with a heart and even an ounce of compassion wouldn’t be able to.
The story ends in both a bleak and hopeful manner, and the author’s note that quickly follows is equally as gripping and powerful as the story she delivered. I think the best way to end my review is with this quote from Michelle as her story is told to readers:
“I think you’ll understand, even if you can’t do much. That counts for something, I guess – the way you look at me, like I’m not bad. Like deep inside, I’m just a kid who didn’t mean to.
I didn’t mean to. I swear.
I thought he was my friend.”
Despite the truckload of triggers this book has, it’s still a book I highly recommend to everyone. Michelle’s voice – along with the many other girls who are going through the same ordeal – needs to be heard.
Rating: 5 stars!!


The Future of Nursing 2020-2030:
Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity
A Consensus Study from the National Academy of Medicine,
sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The Delaware Nurses Association, through its Board of Directors and Committees, and partnership with the Delaware Action Coalition, works to continuously integrate the findings of the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 consensus study into Delaware nursing and healthcare to improve the lives of all Delawareans.


Spatial Design for Coliving
Coliving Corner author Connor Moore interviewed several coliving spatial design experts to understand some of the most innovative spatial design concepts being created and implemented in modern shared living spaces.
International WELL Building Institute
The world’s leading building certification for health and wellbeing, the WELL Certification has helped to positively influence over 4,000 buildings across 62 countries. WELL’s second version of their global building standard focuses on using architecture as a means to drive equality around the world.
Together!: The New Architecture of the Collective
This 2017 book covers the modern shared living trend from a design/architecture perspective. Covering twenty different collective building projects across the US, Europe, and Japan, the book is a must read for those interested in how to use architectural design to create effective shared living solutions.
Co-Living: a strategy for the future city housing
This master’s thesis is an extremely in depth look at coliving from an Italian architecture and urban practices student. The paper covers the origins of shared living, coliving case studies, and design strategies for future living solutions.
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life
The ‘Soft City’ concept from David Sim is all about how to create urban buildings and cities that work seamlessly and can adapt to our rapidly changing needs. Using examples from around the world, the book provides a plethora of ideas and innovative models for our cities of the future.
Happy by Design: A Guide to Architecture and Mental Wellbeing
The title of the book says it all as author Ben Channon makes the argument that good design can make us measurably happier. By exploring examples of how spatial design and city planning can affect our moods, the book offers a complete analysis on how architecture makes us feel.
Coliving Design & Architecture for Social Interaction
Another helpful resource from Conscious Coliving, this article contains some basic tips of how to intentionally create spaces that are designed for social interactions. Conscious Coliving incorporates many examples from current coliving operators across Europe on how they have created spaces to increase face-to-face interactions.
Happy by Design: How to create a home that boosts your health and happiness
A book full of strategies and tips on how you should design our living spaces to “invite health and happiness into the heart of your home.” Complete with happy design examples on every page, the book gives numerous tips and strategies to make our spaces fun and happy.
All Together Now
Naomi Cleaver and Amy Frearson
An interior design themed book released in June 2021, All Together Now examines the design trends in the coliving and coworking movements with a particular focus on how the Covid-19 pandemic shifted how people around the world live and work.
Spatial Design & Architecture for Coliving
The seventh edition of Coliving Insights focuses on Spatial Design and Architecture for coliving, recapping the most innovative shared living designs of today and how they will continue to shape the way we live for decades to come.
Best Practices for Urban Coliving Communities
This master’s thesis from Rachel Osborne is one of the first comprehensive coliving spatial design studies that includes the results of a coliving resident questionnaire as well as four case studies of coliving environments in New York and London.
The Community Effects of Co-Living
Dutch Master’s student Bas Hoppenbrouwer presents his case on how coliving can help create robust communities in 21st century cities. The 91 page paper examines how the built environment of higher density living models can influence the social and physical factors that contribute to community creation.
The Logistics of Harmonious Co-living
This 2017 academic paper sheds a light on how people inhabit and utilize shared spaces such as coliving buildings. For those looking to understand how spatial design can help coliving companies achieve their goals and create positive outcomes for residents, this paper is a great place to start.
The Rise of Co-Living: Designing for Communal Life
Design expert Eric Baldwin examines the spatial design of eight different coliving buildings from across the world, complete with stunning pictures and a description of the unique elements of each community.


"When I learned the meaning of 'I' and 'me' and found that I was something, I began to think. Then consciousness first existed for me".
Helen Keller was born in 1880 in Alabama, the daughter of a newspaper editor. At the age of 1 1/2 she fell ill and became deaf, blind and functionally dumb, existence reduced to black silence. All that was left was touch, feeling faces or clothes to recognise people, touching lips. As she grew older she became wild and violent.
In March 1887, when she was nearly seven, her parents, on the advice of Alexander Graham Bell, engaged a teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Anne Sullivan came from a background of extreme misery and poverty, blind from the age of five; the family broke up and she was sent to a poorhouse; she went to the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston where she was rude and badly behaved, but improved following operations which partially restored her sight. With this background she was well placed to understand Helen Keller's problems. After first struggling to control Helen's screaming, kicking and biting, Anne taught her the manual alphabet. On April 5, 1887, Anne took Helen to the water-pump and pumped water onto her hand, repeatedly spelling out the letters W A T E R on her hand; suddenly Helen realised the connection between the letters making up the word WATER and the water she felt on her hand; she touched everything,asking what it was called. Anne continued to teach Helen, using the manual alphabet to spell out in complete sentences a description of what was happening around them. Within two years Helen learnt to read and write in Braille; she also learnt to speak, imperfectly, by placing her fingers on Anne Sullivan's lips and larynx to feel the movements and vibrations.
In 1888 Helen and Anne went to the Perkins Institute for the Blind and in 1894 to the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York. When Helen went on to Radcliffe College, Anne acted as interpreter, spelling out the lectures into her hand and transcribing books into Braille. While Helen was still at Radcliffe she wrote in her first book, The Story of My Life: "When I learned the meaning of 'I' and 'me' and found that I was something, I began to think. Then consciousness first existed for me". She gained her degree from Radcliffe in 1904.
Mark Twain wrote to her:
"I must steal half a moment from my work to say how glad I am to have your book, and how highly I value it, both for its own sake and as a remembrancer of an affectionate friendship which has subsisted between us for nine years without a break, and without a single act of violence that I can call to mind.
I am charmed with your book -- enchanted. You are a wonderful creature, the most wonderful in the world -- you and your other half together -- Miss Sullivan, I mean, for it took the pair of you to make a complete and perfect whole. How she stands out in her letters! her brilliancy, penetration, originality, wisdom, character, and the fine literary competencies of her pen -- they are all there."
In her later life Helen Keller devoted herself to helping the deaf and blind. With the aid of a translator (her voice was not generally intelligible), she toured the world giving lectures both on the education of the deaf and blind and also on other topics; she became a suffragette and a socialist and spoke against involvement in World War I. During World War II she visited servicemen who had lost their sight or hearing. After the war she spent much of her time fund-raising for organizations working with the blind and deaf; she helped set up the American Foundation for the Blind; in 1932 she became a vice-president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind. She worked to make Braille the standard for printed communication with the blind. She wrote a number of books including The Story of My Life (1903) and Helen Keller's Journal (1938).
Throughout her life she relied greatly on Anne Sullivan, 'Teacher', who accompanied her everywhere. After Anne Sullivan went blind and died of cancer in 1936, Helen Keller wrote in her journal:
"I ache all over as I remember how she grew thinner and thinner. The torturing sense that a world had been burnt out with Teacher's passing. I still perceived a lameness in my spirit, an essential part of me torn away. Deaf-blind a second time. Teacher and the 49 years I had begun and ended under her inspiring leadership. Teacher mended the broken lyre of my life and gave me mental concepts to replace sight and hearing. The joy of knowing irradiated my darkness. My deep-rooted feeling that I am not deaf and blind - the few dark, silent years I shall be here do not matter. I realise that mortals are only tiny drops lost in an ocean of time."
NOTES AND EXTRACTS:
1. The "black silence" of the deaf, blind and mute is similar in many respects to the situation of acutely autistic children where there are associated difficulties with language and the children seem to lack what has been called "a theory of mind". For them every moment becomes like wandering through a Chamber of Horrors, unknown and unexpected horrors. Is that soft and furry thing a rat - or a bedroom slipper? Is that unfamiliar noise an attacker - or someone coughing? Is that cold breeze a ghost - or a window left open? Is that bright light an explosion or a fire - or a fluorescent tube lighting up? It can be unpleasant when we hear too sharply, birds, the wind, a creaking door etc. [Extracted from Autism and the Motor Theory of Language
2. "The most remarkable single feature in that progress has been the evolution of self-consciousness in the development of man... it has substituted the possibility of conscious control of evolution for the previous mechanism of the blind chances, of variation aided by the equally blind sifting process of natural selection." (Blakemore and Greenfield 1987: x)
2. Consciousness makes possible long-range anticipation of events; consciousness has added a new awareness of time; humanity has acquired the ability to categorize experience in terms of past and future. Conscious awareness has been an enormous asset; its raison d'être is perfection of control over the environment. In adaptability conscious man exceeds all other species.(Granit 1977: 74) The direction has been towards greater complexity as a means of increasing adaptability to environmental change and towards increased ability to manipulate and modify the environment in the interests of survival.[Extracted from The Evolutionary Significance of Human Life]
3. "If it be maintained that .. self-consciousness, abstraction etc. are peculiar to man, it may well be that these are incidental results of other highly-advanced intellectual faculties; and these again are mainly the result of the continued use of a highly-developed language." [Darwin The Descent of Man I:2]. Self awareness is closely associated with the language capacity. It is doubtful whether one can construct an adequate account of human consciousness without including in it the language capacity.
4. At the foundation of being human is the evolution and development of language; language made possible both the development of the individual consciousness - we use words to become aware of ourselves - and also of the social consciousness. With the birth of self-awareness came perception of the self of others, of their self-awareness. The ever growing extent and complexity of human culture - manifested necessarily in the group, the human society, and not possible for the individual in total isolation - was founded on the development of language. It is language which made the existence of moral codes possible, allowed the perception of kinship systems, laid the basis for continuing social structures, allowed religions to be founded and science to progress. With group feeling probably an elaboration of the mother-infant relation, language made possible the growth of the group solidarity, the social consciousness characteristic of humanity. [Extracted from The Great Mosaic Eye: The Role of Language]. Before science, there must be consciousness and we perceive the natural world only through consciousness;
5. The essential problem of philosophy is the problem of the whole of which we are part, our bodies and brains as part of nature. Philosophy can advance as science increasingly tackles the physiological and neurological foundations of human behaviour. Ultimately 'understanding the mind may not be as intricate as our vanity hoped or our intellect feared' (Llinas) Without a new input from the brain sciences, philosophy, a discipline founded on language and on the manipulation of the meaning of words and sentences,is in practice in no better position to explain its primitive concepts,e.g. 'meaning', than it is to explain the nature of the colour 'red'. Philosophy cannot by verbal manipulation arrive at any deeper understanding of 'mind', 'thought', 'belief', 'knowledge', The power of words in this context will come from their reality as neural patterning, with a real relation to the processes or states to which the words refer. On this approach, the word 'consciousness' is a real neural organisation which has a real relation to the neural organisation (activity?) which is seen as constituting consciousness. [Extracted from The Power of Words]
6. There is intensive but inconclusive discussion in progress (for example at the massively attended Tucson conferences but also in many other fora and journals) on the nature and origin of consciousness. The absence of consensus is demonstrated by the proliferation of competing books, papers and theories. Some think that brains cause consciousness in exactly the same sense that stomachs cause digestion (Searle) others that in essence the brain is a parallel computer, functioning in terms of competing multiple drafts with no single centre in charge but many working in parallel to make sense of events and prepare decisions (Dennett). Even the identification of the problem is sharply debated, from Chalmers' description of the Hard Problem of Consciousness to Patricia Churchland's view that there are other equally hard problems in understanding human functioning and that the time has not yet arrived for treating the question of consciousness separately before much more progress has been made, for example, in understanding the neurological basis of motor control.
7. Velmans argues that since perceptions of the physical world are constructs of perceptual processing, they are therefore part of the contents of consciousness, which means that both dualist and reductionist models of consciousness have to be rejected. Instead he proposes a "reflexive" model of the way consciousness relates to the brain and the physical world. This suggests that if ideas about consciousness are to be translated at some stage into neural terms, the most promising approach would be to attempt to suggest what researchers might look for using PET, fMRI and MEG scanning techniques, for example using these techniques to get a clearer idea of absolute and relative timing in activation of different brain areas. It seems plausible that, as the human brain became relatively larger than that of other primates, time delays within the brain would increase and leave open the possibility of mirroring within the brain, reflection (note also the work of Galese and his colleagues on mirror neurons). Human consciousness then might be seen as the physical possibility of the perception of perception within a large enough brain, a reverberation of perceptual processes.
8. William James wrote about the significance of introspection; introspection was out of fashion but recently has had a revival. It is perhaps the best (? and only) approach for arriving at a better understanding of consciousness. Many who are writing and have written on consciousness give the impression that they are word-constipated or consciousness-blind, or at best partially sighted. There is no reason to believe that a purely verbal approach to the study of consciousness can produce useful results or that typical psychological research paradigms can demonstrate anything of importance. Perhaps we should pay more attention to traditional Yoga and Sufi practical experience of the types and hierarchies of consciousness.
9. The investigation of consciousness should be set in the context of evolutionary theory. Both consciousness and language are ultimately part of physical and physiological reality. If, as seems probable, consciousness emerged in tandem with the human acquisition of the capacity for language, as it appears to have done in Helen Keller's case, then studies of the physiological/neurological origin and functioning of language are directly relevant. The Motor Theory of Language Origin and Function(Cortona 1988) proposes that language originated as an exaptation of previously existing systems which had evolved for motor control, interlinking motor, perceptual and articulatory processes and programs.


In recognition of the upcoming anniversary of the JFK assassination, the following is the first of what will be several blog posts containing excerpts from my book, Tina Towner, My story as the youngest photographer at the Kennedy assassination, which I began writing on December 26, 2009, and self-published in November 2012.
Excerpt from the Introduction:
On November 22, 1963, I was an eyewitness to the John F. Kennedy assassination. I stood with my parents James M. and Patricia D. Towner in Dealey Plaza on the southwest corner of Elm and Houston streets, directly across Elm Street from the Texas School Book Depository building. My parents were fifty years old. I was thirteen and, as far as I know, the youngest photographer at that tragic event.
At the site that day, my father took a total of four color transparencies using a Yashica 44 twin lens camera. At the same time he was photographing the presidential limousine, I was taking 8 mm color home movies with a Sears Tower Varizoom movie camera. Daddy taught me how to use the movie camera as soon as we got it, so I was experienced with handling it….The first of Daddy’s four photos is of the presidential limousine as it turned the corner around us. This remarkable historic photograph, originally a color image, is…prominently displayed in black and white in The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza….
In my presence, someone asked Gary Mack [deceased July 15, 2015], curator of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, what my story was, and he replied, “Tina’s story is that she doesn’t have one.” He put into words exactly how I felt….
In February 2015 I donated the Towner photographs, film, and both cameras to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. Doing this was basically my hope since the museum opened its doors on Presidents Day in 1989. The late Gary Mack was the museum’s curator at the time of my donation; and he and the museum had been hoping quietly and patiently for years for me to make this decision, which I did only months before Gary died in 2015. The donation was finalized in February, and Gary was able to review, catalog, and make his Curator Notes on the Towner Collection before he passed away. The timing of how the donation process unfolded says to me that the donation was meant to be, and the materials are now where they were destined to be.
My book is available at Amazon.com, and the Towner Collection of film, photos, and cameras can be viewed on-line at Towner Collection at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.


A special FREE film event presented by The International Dyslexia Association – Northern New England Alliance
The film will be followed by a ZOOM discussion panel
John Corcoran of the John Corcoran Foundation and Nick Nanton, ESQ. of DNAFilms have partnered together to tell the story of illiteracy and sub-literacy in America, in the new documentary film, The Truth About Reading: The Invisible Crisis Hiding In Plain Sight.
The mission of The Truth About Reading documentary is to ignite a movement promoting high-level literacy for all. This film illuminates the crisis-level prevalence of illiteracy and sub-literacy that, unbeknownst to many, permeate every aspect of society. Through extensive research and inspirational storytelling about people who have overcome reading difficulties, The Truth About Reading documentary engages and captivates while educating and motivating viewers.
IDA-NNEA (formerly known IDA New Hampshire) Branch is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit scientific and educational organization, promoting awareness about dyslexia and serving Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire.


I get asked all the time, which books are my fave to learn about tonic herbs and adaptogens. My list is endless (I may have a bit of a book obsession...) but these are my top 3 books.
The world of tonic herbs stole my heart many years ago. After growing up in a culture that mostly waited until one was sick and experiencing symptoms of illness until treatment (and realising that most Traditional Chinese Medicine and western herbalism is practiced in a similar allopathic way, for that matter), I was enchanted by the path of tonic herbalism that the Daoists paved millennia ago.
I found this tonic herbalism magic; the herbs are adaptogenic and contained a sophistication that led them to build, cultivate and further develop the various systems and organs of the body in a way that was both preventative and simultaneously fuelled our love for life, and therefore the desire and capacity to experience a nice long one.
Along the way there were several books that inspired me to go deeper into this topic and helped me develop the mindset so that I could begin to understand how deep the benefits of the tonic herbalism path can go. Here are my three favourites:
Medicinal Mushrooms by Christopher Hobbs
Before medicinal mushrooms like reishi and chaga became uber trendy, Christopher Hobbs was nerding out on this incredible class of tonic herbs and paving the way for us to learn about this magical realm of mushies that seem to be here to dramatically change the way humans heal and potentiate their health. I recently met Christopher and he is a testament to the long-term benefits of both ingesting and hunting for wild medicinal mushrooms. His book is the main reason I dove so deep into the mushies. I highly suggest getting a copy of Medicinal Mushrooms if you’d like to enter into this realm further (there is a reprint on the cards for the next few months, so perhaps wait until this is out as it will have some exciting new scientific revelations as to how mushrooms like reishi work wonders on the immune system).
Ancient Wisdom of the Chinese Tonic Herbs by Ron Teeguarden
Just an outright wonderful book that can provide you with the understanding of Daoist tonic herbalism and the concepts that have an ability to expand the way we look at the body and its organs. From the Three Treasures, the role of the organs and Yin/Yang, you’ll enter into the language and concepts that allow us to communicate effectively about how tonic herbs act in the body. The listing of the most revered tonic herbs in China along with their benefits, uses and lore is such a potent foundation for aspiring tonic herb nerds. You’ll also experience the intention and “science” behind tonic herbal formulations. It is just so nice diving into a herbal book that isn’t focused on what the herbs can heal (even though tonics can also help heal and relieve symptoms), but also covers how they help us to generate potent levels of health and bring on some sweet anti-ageing vibes.
Power of the Five Elements by Charles A. Moss
When you dive deeper into the ways in which long-term usage of tonic herbs helps to harmonise and enhance the body it is SUPER useful to get the concept of the Five Elements as laid down by the Daoists and Chinese medicine. Along with the elements comes an encouragement to get to know your inner organs. You see, it makes it hard for us in the West to be interested in something unless we can see it (which is why we focus so much on building muscles, despite the fact that people who focus on this don’t seem to really extend their lives in any impressive amount). Reading this book helped me to get in touch with the organs via the explanation of the adaptive expressions that emerge through the elements that are associated with them. The reason I like this so much especially is because he doesn’t just say “the Kidneys are Water element, their emotion is fear and courage…. duhhhhhhh,” but rather gives us an insight into the way that the elements and organs adapt and express within their environment and the process required to bring our organs in harmony so they may explore their purest expression. It’s bloody cool and game-changing, especially for the tonic herbalist.
Whether you’re a practitioner wanting to expand into the realms of tonic herbalism or someone, like me, who is incredibly interested in researching ways to enhance your health, then I recommend diving deep into these epic books so that you can further hone and enhance your tonic herb practice.
And if you are keen to take you exploration of tonic herbs further, then look no further that our FREE online tonich herbal course. It covers all the basics and includes how you can easily integrate the herbs into your daily life. Go at your own pace learning and you'll have access to the course forever. Check Tonic Herbalism 101 out HERE.


Some histoirians have called the 20th century the American Century. It was in the 20th century that America finally implememented the promise of its ideals to all its citizens and in the process saved Western civilization. America in the early 20th century was an exceptional country in that it was the only important Industrial power that had no military conscription and large army. Europe on the otherhabnd devoted vast spending to armaments. England since the 16th century had played a role in maintaining the European ballance of power. Britain no longer had this capability by the 20th century because of the rising power of Russia and Germany. The balance of power took on increasing importance in the 20th century because of the increasing spread of democractic ideals and a desire for national self determinsation. This resulted in the appearance of many small European states and restive ethnic groups without the ability to maintain or achieve their independence in the face of the massive resources which could be mobilized by Russia and Germany. The United States which had persued an isolationist policy during the 19th century finally entered world politics. The United States prevented authoritarian Imperial Germany from dominating the Contindent in World War I. Next America pervented totalitarian and genocidal NAZI Germany from dominating the Continent in World war II. And then after the War first prevented the totalitarian Soviet Union from dominating Western Europe and eventually helped to liberate Eastern Europe fro Soviet tutelage. It was under the umbrella of American power that today even the smallest European state can enjoy its national identity and independence in unprecsented security. Domestically America in the 20th century gradually implemented a series of progressiveand lineral reforms designed to widen the opportunity of all americans. The Civil Rights movement finally opened up opportunities for all AMericans, especially black Americans. Readers here can view American history chronologically by decade. This provides more chronologicaly contunuity than the more thematic approach. Some of the decaded like the 20s and 60s are legendary. The 20s even has a memorable name--the Roaring 20s. The 40s of course included the titantic struggle of World War II. And the 60s began an era of change that is still being worked out.
President McClinnley was assasinated in 1900 and was suceeded by Vice President Roosevelt. The Gulf coast city of Galeston was destoyed by a killer hurricane (1900). San Franciso ws devestated byab earhquake (1905). The Wright brothers flew the first heavier than air plane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (1903). Roosevelt and his energetic family became enomrously popular. He helped enact many importannt progressive reforms. He also was largely responsible for the construction of the Panama Canal. He also strongly promoted the U.S. Navy despite resistance from Congress. Roosevelt was reelected in 1904, but decided not to run in 1908. He help cles associate Willian Howard Taft win the nomination which at the time was tantamount to winning the election. America had emerged as an industrial giant. Autmobiles began to be built, but were still a relatively small industry until Henry Ford introduced the Model-T. There were virtually no paved roads in the country. Many authors allow ideology to direct their writing. One left-wing idealogue writes, "Life in the 1900s was depressing and was an era filled with extremely hard and strenous work that didn't offer any future for the
average American in doing better." This is nonsence this sentence actually might apply to much of human hstory, but not to America in the 1900s. The first decade of the 20th century has been called variously the Age of Innocence, the Age of Optimism, and the Age of Confidence. In fact America's booming industrial economy created great wealth and prosperity for millions. It is true there were great social inequities. Many workers, especially immigrants, unprotected by social legislation and labor unions, often existed on a subsistence level. Huge numbers of European immigrants flloded into the United States. Despite the conditions in croded slums, most immigrants were better off in America than their hme countries and through hard work gradually carved out their place in American life. Baseball was the national game. The World Series began (1903).
The 1920s is one of the most famous decades in American history. It is one of the few decades with a iniversally knowm name--the Roaring Twenties. It was a decade of peace, one of two separaring the Great War--orld War I ((1914-18) and the even more terrible World War II (1939-45). President Harding who won the 1920 presidential election offered to return America to normalcy. The 20s were, however, anything but normal. The 20s were a reaction to the auterity and sacrifice of the War. The decade is, as a result, sometimes called the Jazz Age as music and dance bcame more licentious. Hem lines rose. Limiting the fun was the 18th amendment which brought in prohibition--which was widely ignored giving a huge boost to organized crime. The 19th amendmendment allowed women to vote for the first time. The economy boomed after making the tranision to peace. Wages rose and Americans experienced the greatest prosprrity in history. People brought big cars, appliances, and homes. Trading stocks became widely popular and not just an activity to the rich. Calvin Cooldige won the 1924 presidential election serving as president for most of the decade. The icons of the decade were a diverse group: Al Capone, Charles Lindberg, and Babe Ruth. There were important scientific achievements. Penicillin was discovered. President Hoover won the 1928 presidential election and promised conginued prosperity. The Wall Street crash (1929), howver, led to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The United States was during the 1930s was dominated by the Great Depression. There had been depressions earlier, but none as severe as the Depression of the 1930s. And because of the Progresive Movement, this time the American people turned to the Government to resolve the economic probems. The impact upon individuals that many began to question the free market capitalist system. The Hoover Administration began a massive Governmrent intervention in the economy and President Roosevelt's New Deal intervened even more massively. Both historians and economists debate the impact of the Government intervention. President Roosevelt in his First Hundred Days acted to save the babking system and stabilize attitudes toward the Goivernment. There were also important social reforms such as Social Security and shining economic successes like Rural Electrification. Some economists, however, are increasingly coming to the view that the pverall impact of Government intervention and misplaced policies like raising tariffs and taxes was toboth prolong and lenghen the Depression
One indudtry which did not suffer during the Depression was Hollywood and the film industry. As bad a conditions were. most were able to come up with the 25c needed to see a movie. And people gcould enjoy the radio at home. Freeident Roosevelt's calming voice helped ecplsin what the Government was doing. Sports were popular and baseball was dominated by the Yankees. Young people enjoyed big band music and jazz began to enter the mainstream.
Americans emerged from the Depression to find the terrible reality of totalitarian power in Europe and Asia. Americans were split on how to confront it. Some wanted to ignore it and withdeaw from participation in orld waffairs. Other including President Roosevelt saw that America had to confront totalitariaism and began the epic Ma href="/essay/war/ww2/cou/us/usiso-pr.html">struggle with isolationism, the result of which in mny ways fetermied the outcome of World war II.
The 1940s were dominated by World War II and the start of the Cold War
The 1960s for middle class Americans were those now so innocent seeming, yet turbulent years. All elements of American life began "heating up" in the 1960s. And the 60s along with the 20s are the two most remembered decades of the 20th century. Actually much of what is associated with the 60s occurred in the 70s. The decade began so optimistically with the election of President Kennedy. Yet in 1963 we were shocked by his assasination and soon found ourselves faced with the challenge of Civil Rightsand mired in the Viet Nam. We began the decade with our 1950s certainties and soon found events rapidly changing our values and long held assumtions. President Kennedy's assasination is most strongly etched into memory, but other snapshots include the Vietnam War; the Civil Rights movement; Dr. Martin Luther King; hippies, flower power, and the 1967 Summer of Love in 1967; as well as Woodstock and Motown. There is no doubt that America was fundamentally changed by the 60s. It was the decade in which the minorities (racial, women, and gays) began to enter the American mainstream. More difficult to say is just what caused that change. Some give great importance to the Urban riots. [Brokaw] Surely the Viet Nam was important. We might say it was the combined impact of liberal appoints to the judiciary and the passage of the Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965). These laws changed the face of America. They also gave the South to the Republican Party for a generation, resulting in the election of a series of Republican presidents.
The 1970s were surely the most tumultuous decade of the 20th century. The issues which surfaced in the 1960s contunued into the 70s, many unresolved. The decade was dominated by the continuing Vientnam War. Protests against the War expanded. The American people had tired of the War and wanted an end to it. Former Voce President Richard Nixon had been elected with apomose to end the War (1968). He wanted to do so, but preserving the indpendence of a non-Communist South Vietnam. The plan was to Vietnamese the War, withdrawing American troops but continue to provide material support for the South. This failed. The North Vietnamese launched a major offensive and President Nixon resigned as a result of the Watergate Scandal. The Democratic Congress ended all material support for South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese Army entered Saigon and South Vietnam collapsed (1975). Liberals who expressed so much concern for the Vietnamese people during he war, suddely lost interest with the Communist victory. Democratic success in elections brought a liberal accenendancy that began fundamental changes. The United States passed land-mark civil rights legislation (1964-65). These laws and earlier Court rulings would take some time to percolate through the legal system and the national conciousness. Major changes were made in immigration law. Dr. Martin Luther King played a major role in these achievements, largely through a policy of non-violence. Disturbed by what they saw as the slow pace of change, some blacks turned to violence. American cites in the late-1960s exploded into violent urban riots which continued into the 1970s. Vilolent groups motivated by racial and left-wing ideologies included the Black Panthers, Symbionese Liberation Army, Weather Underground, and others. The Civil Rights Movement expanded to Native Americans, gays, women, and others. The Equal Rights amendment for women was passed, but never ratified. Liberal policies had some unforseen impacts. The welfare systen had negative impacts on the families invoilved, especially African-Americans. Along with family disintegration came rising crime levels, drug usage, and increased numbers of unwed births. And increasing liberal and minority control of big city schgools has resulted in increasing numbers of failed schools and disappointing academic achievemnent. This juust as job opportunities began to open up we see the development of a black inder-class unable to take advantage of the opportunities. Important advances were made in environmental quality with the pasage of the Clean Waters Act (1970) and the Endangered Species Act (1973). The Cold War reached a climax in the 1970s. President Nixon to ballance Soviet power reached an understanding with Communist China which had split with the Soviets. The American economy began to feel presure from foreign competitoirs and not only the Europeans. Japan also revovered from the War. A few leaders in the developing countries began to notice the failure of socialism as an economic system. The first were the Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, Sinapore, South Korea, and Taiwam). The United States freely opened its market to these countries, in pat because of the Cold War, to bolter contries fighting Communism. The result was the beginning of the Rust Belt and the undermining of important segments of American industry. This was done under the mantra of free trade, but lkittle effort was made to enbsure that the resulting trade was fair.
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On December 26, 2023, surrounded by her family, God called Nancy home to reunite with two of her best friends, Becky and Dinita.
Nancy was born in Deep River, CT, on March 14th, 1952, to Gene Hawkins and Catherine Zuccardy Hawkins. She was a devoted wife, loving mother, and excited and enthusiastic Nana to her grandchildren.
Nancy graduated from Valley Regional High School in Deep River, CT in 1970. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Education at Central Connecticut State University in 1974. Nancy spent 27 years at Upstate University Health Sciences Library as a Managing Librarian before retiring in 2020. Prior to that, she served as a librarian at Dartmouth College. When she moved to Syracuse in 1986, she took a job at CIS as a corporate librarian.
Nancy was an active member at Cicero United Methodist Church, where she served as a trustee and contributed her time and expertise to various committees. Nancy and her husband, Dick, ran a cancer support group at the church for many years and they played an integral role in bringing the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University program to the church and the area.
Nancy was the heart of many circles of friends and generations of her family, bringing everyone together for unforgettable gatherings and meals. It's easy to say that someone loved food, friends, and being a Grandma, but Nancy loved all of those things with an incredible passion and all of her heart. She also loved being by the water, enjoying frequent visits to the Connecticut River Valley, Rockport, MA, and the Finger Lakes. Nancy also had an incredible sense of humor, often keeping her family laughing for hours before making them an incredible Italian dinner and finishing with a "divine" dessert.
Surviving Nancy is her beloved and devoted husband of 27 years, Dick Burtis. He supported her, unwavering, through every endeavor. Between them, they shared five children; Nancy's daughters Katy (Greg) Voigt of Brooklyn and Max (Conor Muldoon) Weselcouch of Syracuse; Dick's children, Scott (Angela) Burtis of Candor, Tim (Chris) Burtis of Brewerton, and Johanna (Todd) Fogle of Burke, VA. Nancy is also survived by a total of twelve grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and her sister Susan Dubilo of Westfield, MA, a sister-in-law, Sylvia Buller of Warner Robins, GA, as well as a special nephew and niece, Jesse and Jill Schwartzman, of Norwalk and Essex, CT.
Nancy's family so appreciates the doctors and nurses who treated her, and especially the home health aides and Hospice of Central New York for their loving care. Contributions in loving memory can be made to Cicero United Methodist Church or Hospice of Central New York.


We’ve just revealed the cover for Tiger Queen, my new young adult novel about a desert princess who fights in an arena against suitors in order to win her right to rule!
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Now, without further ado, here’s the cover!
About the book:
From Annie Sullivan, author of A Touch of Gold, comes Tiger Queen, a sweeping YA adventure that tells the story of a fierce desert princess as she fights to save her kingdom. Fans of Rebel of the Sands and Meagan Spooner will devour this retelling of Frank Stockton’s famous short story “The Lady, or the Tiger?”.
In the mythical desert kingdom of Achra, an old law forces sixteen-year-old Princess Kateri to fight in the arena against twelve suitors to prove her right to rule. For Kateri, losing is not an option because in order to fulfil her promise to her late mother, she must win to keep her crown and lead her people. The situation outside the palace is uneasy. The harsh desert is unforgiving, water is scarce, and Kateri’s people are thirsty. To make matters worse, the gang of thieving Desert Boys, the same group that killed Kateri’s mother and her new baby, frequently raids the city wells and steals water, forcing the king to ration what little water is left. The punishment for stealing water is the choice between two doors. Behind one door lies freedom and behind the other is a tiger.
The people of Achra are growing restless and distrustful of the monarchy, and when Kateri’s final opponent is announced, she knows she cannot win. In her desperation, Kateri turns to the desert and the one person she never thought she’d side with. Her future now, too, is behind two doors—only she’s not sure which holds the key to keeping her kingdom and which will release the tiger.


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Platform: Windows 98 / Me / XP / 2000
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- Spiral-bound color atlas of the EverQuest gameworld
- Over 170 full-color maps, including the Planes of Power
- Each zone entry includes: regions, dangers, benefits, monsters, and notable non-player characters
- Also contains a wealth of never-released EverQuest lore
- For both the online and tabletop EverQuest games
Product Description: At last, the rich and mysterious world of EverQuest is opened to players in a full-color book that uncovers the wonders of Norrath in fantastic detail. Introducing the EverQuest Atlas: The Maps of Myrist, an invaluable reference for players of one of the most popular online game worlds ever created.
EQ atlas a nice addition for the EQ RPG, September 12, 2002
Reviewer: A gamer from Maartensdijk Netherlands
The maps might not contain any grids, it does have lots of information about all the zones. This added information is more usable if you also play the EQ RPG. So you can show your players all the great locations in the world of norrath and beyond
I like the looks, August 22, 2002
Reviewer: A gamer from Fountain Inn, South Carolina United States
Unlike the maps from [another website], you can tell where you are at it appears. Landmarks are there for you to see. If you look at the map, you can see the camps and anything else you need. In keeping with the spirt of the game exploring is still needed to find some of the things you will need to know of. And unlike maps from Eqatlas you dont have to wait till the owner of the sight has time or the level to go into a zone to "draw" it out.
I spent over [$$$] in ink and paper to print out the maps from EqAtlas, should have waited to spend [$$$] on the offical one. LOL
Almost a complete waste, August 21, 2002
Reviewer: A-Dawg from the United States
Not much for your money here; "Atlas" is just a collection of little facts and tid-bits about the zones of EQ. This collection would actually be quite useful except for the fact that almost all of the information it offers is readily accessible from a number of EQ web sites. The only thing going for "Atlas" is that it offers players with poor connections the opportunity to find the information they seek without waiting forever on their browsers.
Bottom line : You will likely want to save your money.
EQ Atlas is awesome! ;), August 20, 2002
Reviewer: aeslabelle from Bristol, PA United States
Yes it wouldn't normally make sense to purchase maps when you can get them for free online. This makes an awesome collector's item type of thing though. I saw a sample of one of the maps from my e-mail newsletter and they look awesome! 3D Maps and so pretty and detailed, to boot! From what I understand it also includes maps of the new Planes as well. :) I am totally getting this! Plus now I can throw out all the maps that are taking up a large chunk of my EQ notebook (yes, I know I'm a dork). :) So anyway if you like pretty things it's not a bad purchase...


Book Publication 2020
Book Publication 2020: Congratulations. Another great achievement. Though this had a lot of effort involved. Also well appreciated. Best Wishes!!
The Importance of Research Publications in Academic Career
A good academician becomes a powerful scholar with frequent publications. Frequent research publications by an individual. It will result in increasing the researcher’s credit. A number of recruiters, institutions, look for individuals. Also with the profile who has done ample researches and publications. Therefore the significance of research publications is immense.
It is important to keep in mind that the emphasis on the number of publications cannot decrease the quality of the research. There are many times when researchers manage to put something in their research just for the sake of publishing.
The right way to publish is to start properly. One has to conceive an idea, submit a proposal, get clearances from the board, research, finish the paper, and then publish. The method of the research is the heart and soul of a research proposal. Researches should come up with a method to tackle the research problem. It can be experiments. Also, it can be descriptive, activities, analysis, surveys. Along with evaluations, ethnographic study, etc. Research publications done in this manner will have a lot of merits. Problems in a particular field can be identified. Also, the causes can be diagnosed. More importantly, the research comes up with a potential solution. MBA Colleges in Bangalore encourages their students to research and publish it on the leading journals.


The COCOON CONUNDRUM is an epic journey through the time of the pandemic and into the world of liberation.
Now, as we emerge from this cocoon, where do we go from here?
Sherrie Rose represents the latest in solopreneurs: a combination of real-world know-how and applied future thinking. This book encapsulates personal stories and experiences as part of the Odyssey and, in the Liberation, you’ll find proven processes that will help you navigate and simplify the development of your idea from start to finish-the right way.
Contained within the pages of this book is a newly minted word for a remarkable creative process that’s described in detail. You’ll uncover techniques and answers to the deep questions around experiencing a more meaningful life.
This book features a foreword by author Yanik Silver, creator the Cosmic Journal and who understands the Odyssey because he went through his own adventure while developing his Evolved Enterprise.
THE COCOON CONUNDRUM is for the go-givers, the leaders with strong character, the entrepreneurs of high-caliber, the community pillars, and the changemakers who personally and professionally champion a cause, challenge the status quo, solve the conundrums, and inspire others to do the same.
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“Enlightening book which took me on a tour, a journey, and an odyssey (yes, they are different!) through struggles and then liberation. Many touching stories from friends of Kevin Hutto, to whom this book is dedicated. Guidance on the path of growth and awakening from an author who clearly believes you can breakout and begin again and make major changes at any time. If you’re an entrepreneur or looking to make a big leap, this book will serve you well.” -Patricia Krown
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Solo Piano Collection, Volume 5
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This 61 page songbook includes the sheet music for the following 11 songs... Amazing Grace, America the Beautiful, Hope Endures, In Reverence, What a Friend, Away in a Manger, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, In the Eyes of a Child, Windows to the Soul, Celestial Reverie, Journey Home.
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If this is your first time in the class, you should:
1.Read the Help & Course Syllabus
How the course is taught
For Distance students, the class is asynchronous with all readings and
assignments completed by each student. All assignments must be submitted by
their posted due dates.
The class is divided into 11 modules, seven assignments and two tests. Each section
contains one or more chapters. Contained within each chapter is an outline of
relevant material from a book, including web links to related information. The
outlines are intended to guide you through the reading, and they are double
spaced so that you may print them and supplement them with your own notes.
You should read and complete each book and assignment in order by the due dates
listed. Generally, each topic will consist of required reading(s) from a book,
presentation of on-line materials, on-line activities, and an assignment.
How this course is organized
PRM 300 Ecotourism course is divided into six major areas.
Buttons for these areas appear at the top of each page in the course. The six
This page. "Attending" a class over the internet is different from
attending a class on a traditional campus. This page will
help you learn how readings, assignments, communication, and other class
functions are handled in a virtual classroom
The syllabus contains important information about such items as
objectives, expectations and grading. As with any course,
you should read the syllabus carefully before beginning any course work.
This is likely where you will spend most of your time. Required
readings, course notes, assignments, and activities are
presented in this area.
To communicate with any member of the course - student(s) or instructor
- visit the communication page.
NAU Cline Library has collected many resources available to students
enrolled in the course. These resources are
available from the library page. If you find something you think should be
included, please send me e-mail.
The help page is designed to help you deal with technical issues and
problems related to this course.
Required Text: Fennell, D. (2020). ecotourism (5th ed). New York: Routledge.
ISBN: 978-0-367-36460-1 (pbk)
You are required to read all text assignments. It is recommended
that you read the text and on-line lesson before completing any
of the assignments.
You are required to read the on-line lessons. These lessons are
marked throughout the course in this manner:
Each of the topics in this course have at least one assignment. You must
complete each of these assignments.
The method of completing assignments will vary.
See an overview of the modules, topics and assignments for this course.
(You should print this out and check off each item as you complete it).
Assignments are marked with one of the following icons.
| Individual Assignment
Communication is an important part of this course. You will be expected to
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Recently there are many people asked me can I read Kindle books on Mac and how to. It is really a little a waste of time to answer these questions one by one (of course it's also my honor to read them), so today I write this article in details for you about how to read Kindle books on Mac by 3 different ways. For reading Kindle books on PC, there are also three methods to read Kindle books on PC.
Method 1: Read Kindle Books with Kindle for Mac app
But the Kindle does not show up as a device attached to my MacBook. My external HD (Firewire) and iPods (USB) all work perfectly through this USB hub. I did call Apple (using my 30 day warranty for installing Snow Leopard) and the tech support person did not even know what a Kindle was. Amazon says it's an Apple problem. On the contrary, free Kindle apps are available for all of your Apple hardware, including your Mac, with the full functionality as if you were reading on a Kindle itself. After grabbing it from the Mac App Store, Kindle for Mac will sync up your library of content and allow you to start reading straight away. The app's buttoned menu bar.
Kindle App For Macbook Pro
You don't need a Kindle device to read Kindle books. Here is a free app from amazon store that you can use on your Mac. Access to Amazon.com to get free Kindle for Mac app. Then download and install it on the Mac.
The Kindle books you bought from Amazon will appear in Kindle for Mac because of its sync function. Choose one and right click it. Then you can choose the option to read from the appeared menu.
This is the easiest way to read Kindle books on mac. But every coin has two sides. It also makes our eBook reading a little disappointed because we can only read Kindle on Kindle apps but not in iBooks. This is because these books are only bonded with Amazon Kindle store. It's forbidden to transfer downloaded books to Kindle for mac app with iTunes but only Send to Kindle. What's worse, the app can't read ePub books purchased from another eBooks stores.
So Method 2 or Method 3 may become your best choice.
Method 2: Read Kindle Books on Mac with iBooks
EPUB is one of the most common ebook formats (the other one is PDF) and Most e-readers support including Mac computer. Though there are many ePub readers we can use on the mac, but here I strongly recommend you use iBooks app to read ePub books as it is definitely the best reading app on the mac.
1Transfer Kindle Books to Your Mac
With Kindle for Mac, you can see all Kindle books you bought. Right click the book and choose the download option. Then the book will be downloaded to your local folder.
Tips: Click 'Kindle' and Choose 'Preferences'. From the general window, you can see 'Content Folder' and the letters below is the address of your Kindle books stored. Find the books you downloaded in 'My Kindle Content' folder of your mac.
Except for the above way you also can use USB cable to collect your Kindle device with mac and transfer your books.
2Download & Install Epubor Ultimate on Mac
Most Kindle eBooks are protected with Kindle DRM. Kindle books has their own formats such as AZW3, AZW, Mobi, PRC, but not the common ePub format. Epubor Ultimate is the best DRM Removal + eBook Converter. Epubor Ultimate can also help us edit eBook metadata if we want. Just with this one tool you can also read Kindle books on iPad Pro, and read Kindle books on android.
Kindle Reader App For Mac
3Decrypt & Convert Kindle Books
Kindle For Macbook Air
Open Epubor Ultimate, you can drag and drop Kindle books in it. After your Kindle books added, it will automatically remove the DRM from your selected Kindle eBooks. Then just choose the output format as ePub and click 'Convert to ePub' button. Wait for a moment and you can get the fresh ePub books from the pop-up window.
The best point of Epubor Ultimate is it can automatically identify books of devices or apps if you have opened Kindle for Mac app or your Kindle device has collected with your mac. You will see your kindle eBooks are listed in the left area after you get the Epubor Ultimate started. Select the books you want to convert to, then drag them from the left to the right area. You can also click '+Add' to load them.
4Read Converted Books in iBoooks
You can find your converted epub books at the output folder. Then right click, select 'open with iBooks', you will see your eBooks clearly listed in the library.
It also has another way to add books. Open your iBooks app, drag and drop the books you want to add. In the library, you can see them and right click the book to choose read option.
Method 3: Read Kindle Books on Mac with Adobe Digital Editions
Amazon Kindle For Mac Update
1Transfer Kindle Books to Your Mac
This is a necessary step for you to transfer Kindle books to your mac. But how to achieve it. So here is the method.
2Decrypt & Convert Kindle Books to ePub
If we want to read books with Adobe Digital Editions, we must convert their formats to ePub. Learn the details of how to decrypt & convert Kindle books to ePub. After you do that, you can continue the next steps.
3Download & Install Adobe Digital Editions for Mac
You can check official Adobe to download it.
4Add Kindle Books to Adobe Digital Editions
Open Adobe Digital Editions for mac app. Drag and drop the converted books to Adobe Digital Editions. Right click the book and select the read option.
Download Amazon Kindle For Macbook Pro
I hope this article has resolved your problems, and wish you have a nice reading on your mac. Or if you have other methods it will be nice of you to leave a comment.
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Jonny Greenwood joined Epubor since 2011, loves everything about eBooks and eReaders. He seeks the methods to read eBooks more freely and wants to share all he has got with you.


Film Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler (2011) Sous-Titres
Genre : Documentary, History, War
Duration : 108 minn
Directors : N/A
Actors : Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand
Year : 2011
Synopsis : Chronicles Hitler's life as a failed painter and far-right activist up to his election as Chancellor of Germany, leading to his relentless rise to power, culminating in the beginning of World War II.
TÉlÉCHARGER Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler Sous-Titres