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Along the way we discovered that we were being guided through life by the same loving intelligence energy that burns the sun, spins the earth, cycles the weather, moves the oceans, migrates the birds, and grows the vegetation. It sees the eyes, hears the ears, smells the nose, sensates the skin, beats the heart…
We all feel blocked in certain aspects of life. A session is a tool to help us transform these blocks into allies. In a session setting, transformational work is practiced privately one-to-one. We can dramatically improve our relationship to our families and friends, our career, health, spirituality, and most importantly ourselves….
A workshop is a tool designed to help us discover the limiting beliefs and strong emotions that lie deep within us. Belief structures that we have allowed to hold us hostage can be transformed into their highest potentials thus giving us the strength and capability to achieve goals in life that have otherwise eluded us….
Introduction To IPS
As a supplement to your own spiritual growth, you can use this book in the same way that I do. You can use the questions that Angie and I put forth to help you spring past energies that may be creating similarly in your experience. By exposing yourself to this energy, you can also awaken and energize the channels by which you can receive your own inner intelligence, or perhaps develop it to a higher level…


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Don’t you just love kids Books they make for the perfect gift for a child. So that’s why I would like to look at the Best selling Kids Books that are perfect as Gifts. This is great as it promotes kids get into reading which will develop their literary skills which mean a brighter future for them. It also provides a great pass time as they can get lost in the pages of a good book and find a more productive means of spending their time.
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There are many stories out there and they come in all shapes and sizes. Kids that are into mystery,science, adventure, sports and more can really enjoy these books. All you have to do is know your child and from there simply choose one of these best sellers to start off with as a gift. Heck you can even get more than one, either option works.
Best selling Kids Books
Here is my selection of the most sought after books for kids. If your child has not yet gotten hold of one of these books just yet my advise is that you give each of them a second look as they are all well written masterpieces for all ages.
1.Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
Fantastic beasts and where to find them is another great book from J.K. Rowling the creator or the Harry Potter series. In this new story set before the events of Harry Potter where you are introduced to the wizarding world which you have come to know but in a new way. There a several mystical creatures which have been set loose in the human world and it up to the main hero of the story to find and contain each magical creature. The book is a real page turner. If your kids loved the harry potter series they are going to really love this series as well.
2.Diary of a Wimpy Kid # 11: Double Down
Diary of a wimpy kid is a very interesting series for kids that has several book that I suggest you check out. This one is called Double down and revolves around an old video camera Greg finds and decides to make a scary movie. Without giving too much away you know some funny things are going to happen as things progress between Greg and Rowley. This book series is great for kids to get into and you can also get the previous ten books to make this a really awesome gift bundle.
3.First 100 Words
This book is perfect for very small kids they can be introduced to their first 100 words which also includes vivid pictures so that they can associate the pictures to the words. This is perfect as the first book for a baby. Who doesn’t want their baby to start off well and be given the best start in life.You can also gift this as a kids gift at a baby shower or to a friend or family that recently had kids.
4.Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids
The title of this book says it all and kids can have fun reading and learning the jokes. They are all written with kids in mind and is a fun way for kids to learn jokes to impress friends and family members. Who knows you might help to shape the next great comedian we all will like to listen to in the near future who can tell.
5.Giraffes Can’t Dance
Giraffes can’t dance is the inspiring tale of Gerald the Giraffe who wants to dance. Find out what happens to this curious creature. This is a great book for smaller kids and teaches important life lessons they will need to learn.
6.The Everything Kids’ Science Experiments Book
This is the perfect book for the budding scientist and curious mind. With this book kids will be able to do their own safe experiments within the home easily. All experiments uses everyday household stuff that you have lying around the home for fun and creative experiments that teaches Kids science in a fun and practical way.
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The LETRINT corpora are four sets of trilingual textual datasets, including one comparable (LINST) and three parallel corpora (LETRINT 0, LETRINT 1 and LETRINT 1+). Their scope and features are determined by the goals of the LETRINT project. They comprise documents published in English, French and Spanish by the four main European Union institutions, the United Nations and its International Court of Justice, and the World Trade Organization in 2005, 2010 and 2015. The following infographic explains the composition and the methodological details of each corpus. For further details, you can click on the “+” sign that will appear at the top of each page. This resource provides a comprehensive overview of the corpora, but does not give access to the corpora themselves. A freely accessible corpus query interface, LETRINT-Q, has been developed for this purpose. You can also access an information sheet about the LETRINT corpora by clicking on “Overview” during the interactive exploration of the infographic.


The world is passing through very turbulent times. The global economic crisis continues to manifest newer and graver dangers almost every week. The similarities to the period just before the Second World War continue to be cited and it seems clear that events are moving the world at an unprecedented pace towards a horrific Third World War.
In this book, His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community warns the world of the fast approaching dangers and how it can avert disaster and chart a course to peace.
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We do not fight for ourselves only; Our wives and children are as precious as those of other men.
ABOUT THE MOVIE
The Unconquered is the historically factual based epic saga of the Gullah/Geechee people of the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia who fled their enslavers and established numerous prosperous autonomous settlements in Florida that existed for almost two hundred years, and the first of three successful wars they fought and won against the United States of America during the early 19th century. The Unconquered will depict the stories of the numerous generations of these self-liberated Africans who fled to or were born in these settlements and became men and women there. Many of the inhabitants of those communities raised children, spoiled their grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and died at ripe old ages in those settlements and had never been enslaved.
The movie deals with the first of three wars these people fought and won against the United States government and shows how the Gullah-Geechee people dealt with and reigned supreme during the unrelenting pursuits of various European aggressors and interlopers who were hellbent on destroying their settlements and enslaving these people.
The first of the three Gullah/Geechee Wars is recorded as occurring from 1817 to 1818. The second war followed from 1835 to 1842, and the third from 1855-1858. The Gullah or Geechee people who fought in these wars were an amalgamation of the autochthonous or indigenous black people of the southeastern portion of the United States and Africans forcibly brought to America during the European trade in enslaved Africans.
Embarrassed by their defeats and fears that those still enslaved would ultimately join the ranks of these self-liberated Africans, the United States government downplayed the gravity of these military engagements and disguised the wars they fought against these black people by calling these conflicts the “Seminole Wars” or “Indian Wars”. But the Americans knew who they were actually fighting against. It was the self-emancipated Africans who fled their enslavers and lived in autonomous communities in Florida who were the first to be called Seminoles by whites. These whites defined Seminole to mean a domesticated “animal” who escapes to a wild existence. Albeit, reconstructionist historians contend that the name Seminole is actually etymologically related to the name Moor and the melanated people responsible for bringing into existence the European renaissance. Moreover, during the second so-called Seminole War, the American general, Thomas Sidney Jesup, wrote a letter to the maniacal self-appointed “Indian” killer, Andrew Jackson, warning him and his colleagues that, "This, you may be assured, is a negro, not an Indian war; and if it not be speedily put down, the south will feel the effects of it on their slave population before the end of the next season." (letter, December 8, 1837)
During each conflict, the Americans were utterly defeated and forced to treaty with these stalwart military geniuses. The Articles of Capitulation is one of the treaties that the Gullah-Geechee Nation signed with the United States government. However, mysteriously, of all the treaties the United States signed with Native American groups, that can be found in libraries and archival collections, this treaty is hardly ever mentioned by historians and is unavailable for examination.
During the first Gullah/Geechee War, these melanated soldiers, along with the British, even burnt the White House and other governmental buildings in Washington, DC to the ground. In total, from the first Gullah/Geechee War to the last, thousands of American troops perished in military theaters throughout Florida, not to mention the support staff who also lost their lives. Moreover, even though the American military was supposedly superior in terms of military prowess and weaponry and millions of dollars was expended, the United States government still lost each successive war. The Gullah/Geechee Wars were the longest lasting and most-costly wars fought in terms of the loss of military personnel and the money spent than any war the United States engaged in until the Vietnam War. Today’s equivalent to the money spent by the United States government to wage war against this Melanoid nation is two billion, eight hundred seventy-four million, nine hundred one thousand, two hundred six dollars and eighty-three cents ($2,874,901,206.83).
The Unconquered is my first screenplay and my first attempt to produce a movie. Albeit, I have been doing research and writing articles on the Gullah-Geechee people for over twenty years. I wrote my screenplay and used what little money I had to produce my trailers and to begin the process of making my movie because I am tired of all the negative portrayals of melanated people on television and in the movies. I want to bring the grandeur of the Gullah-Geechee and Yamassee people and the wars they fought and won to the movies. I need your support to make my film.
This story is worthy of being viewed on the big screen.


THE FIFTIES IN FOCUS (Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office for FBDMA, 2016; ISBN 978 0 9526738 3 5 pbk.) is a book of photographs of Berwick and the district during the 1950s. It features 58 pictures from the Photo Centre Collection, which was purchased by the Record Office with assistance from The Friends after the Photo Centre in Bridge Street closed in 2012. The photographs in the book include some now vanished buildings and businesses, public occasions and ceremonies, trades and employment, sports and pastimes, and some unusual events and curiosities.
This title is now out of print.
We welcome comments, memories, and any additional information which anyone can provide about the content of the photographs in the book.
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LIVE AND LET DIE / Ian Fleming. 1954 (159 pgs)
First Sentence: “There are moments of great luxury in the life of a secret agent.”
Prevailing Narrative Voice: Third person. Very close and observant of the chronological telling of events as if they have just recently happened. The story is told in past tense and often utilizes a passive verb choice, such as “the man had stepped forward” or “what was happening to”. It is very different in tone from the James Bond film franchise where the language is strong and direct. The sensibility in the book is considerably softer and more effete.
What the reader learns in the first paragraphs: James Bond is a secret agent. James Bond is landing at Idlewild airport (Long Island. The reader is told that luxury and privilege await agent Bond, yet Bond anticipates bureaucratically drudging through customs like a regular visitor with its “drab-green rooms smelling like last year’s air and stale sweat and guilt and fear….”. The list goes on. What I learned in reading the opening of LIVE AND LET DIE that this book, and probably most of the others, are not very well written.
What the reader learns in the first ten pages: In the first few paragraphs and throughout the first two chapters that comprise the first ten pages, the narrator utilizes several topical references contemporary to the early 1950’s, which are intended to fill in the blanks where the narrator has elected not to give the character’s impression of his situation and location. The narrator name-drops that Bond is arriving on a Stratocruiser (a luxurious flight), FBI, CIA, Secret Service, and over the Triborough Bridge into a teeming concrete jungle smelling of petrol. There are several references to Civil Defense, the cold war and the Atomic Bomb. Upon arrival at the St. Regis Hotel, Bond is whisked to his room, all the mundane details he has anticipated, evaporated. What is odd about these introductory pages is, while the reader is given a great deal of detail of the world surrounding James Bond, there is very little physical description of Bond or what he looks like. Perhaps as LIVE AND LET DIE was the second Bond book (CASINO ROYALE was the first), the author relies on the reader’s memory, and that they have read book #1.
The second chapter is a flashback to James Bond’s meeting with his boss “M”, for whom he has great respect. Bond is deferential and follows orders. The reader is given back-story on Bond’s previous case where he sustained an injury from a Russian spy from SMERSH and his upcoming assignment to the US and Caribbean Islands where he will meet his nemesis Mr. Big, head of the Black Widow voodoo cult and a known member of that evil Russian spy organization!
Character: In this installment of the James Bond adventure, the reader doesn’t learn so much about the character of James Bond, but instead about the character of the world in which Bond is a secret agent. There is a naïve quality to Mr. Bond, particularly in his meeting with his superior, “M”, which is not present in the film adaptations. The reader, as mentioned before, is given several references to cars, bridges, the cityscape, and the deferential attitudes of those who are greeting Bond. These attitudes reflect back onto Bond and give the reader clues to the identity of this world-class secret agent. Of course it is difficult not to see Sean Connery, or in this case Roger Moore in his debut at Agent 007.
Setting: Like said above, the world Bond operates within – upstanding and nefarious – is the setting for this story. In a strict sense the reader is placed in the locations of New York, London and will eventually travel to the Caribbean and other places with James Bond, but the underlying setting is that of Cold War Europe and the US. In the first ten pages there are at least two dozen references to Atomic War, bombs, spies, agents, secrets and the need to defend “ourselves”.
Plot & Expectations beyond the tenth page: Between the first two chapters, the forward motion of this story has been put into place. We have seen Bond land in NYC and welcomed by his FBI / CIA counterparts. We have gotten the background on his assignment to track the golden treasure flowing from the Caribbean to the US via Harlem to finance the Russian underworld dealings of SMERSH. In keeping with the formulaic style of the genre, the third chapter opens with, “And now it was ten days later,” which insures that the reader returns to New York and where James Bond was operating prior to the flashback.
Random Comments: It is interesting to note that Ian Fleming’s bio on the book jacket says that he is (in 1962) a member of the editorial board of The London Sunday Times, which makes sense given the journalistic style his book has taken; chronology, single sentence paragraphs, references to current events, and a sense of narrative reportage.
There are several uncomfortable and insulting racial references toward members of several ethnic groups, particularly black characters, which Fleming refers to as Negros and Negresses. While he is being briefed about Mr. Big and the assignment, Bond makes the alarming statement, “I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a great Negro criminal before…Chinamen, of course, the men behind the opium trade. There’ve been some big-time Japs, mostly in pearls and drugs. Plenty of Negroes mixed up in diamonds and gold in Africa, but always in a small way. They don’t seem to take to big business. Pretty law-abiding chaps, on the whole. I should have thought.” His superior, “M” responds that Mr. Big was born in Haiti with “a big dose of French blood.” It is awkward to read, even fifty years later.
Interestingly, Ian Fleming intended for his second book to be less of an action-thriller and be a more serious meditation on the nature of evil. The novel’s original title was The Undertaker’s Wind, however, his publisher offered him a three book deal and required Bond to continue in the style of the popular CASINO ROYALE.


Voices of Hope has provided a variety of resources to help your research or better understand the issues of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, harassment, and related forms of abuse. The following provides links to documents, publications, and other websites that may be useful to you as your learn more about these issues.
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A listing of links to other websites that address issues such as domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault. You will also find recommended links for teens.
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Why Does He Do That? - By Lundy Bancroft
A look inside the minds of angry and controlling men.
The Courage To Heal - By Ellen Bass & Laura Davis
The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and a map of the healing journey to every woman who was sexually abused as a child—and to those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible.
The Verbally Abusive Relationship - by Patricia Evans
You will learn why verbal abuse is more widespread than ever, and how you can deal with it. You'll get more of the answers you need to recognize abuse when it happens, respond to abusers safely and appropriately, and most important, lead a happier, healthier life.
Life, Reinvented: A Guide to Healing from Sexual Trauma for Survivors and Loved Ones
Life, Reinvented brings both inspiration and practical tools to survivors of sexual assault or childhood sexual abuse and their friends, family members, and spouses.
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Friday Jul 09, 2021
Experience Darden #115:Daniel Dickey (MBA ’21) - Promoting Reading One Word at a Time
How do you get kids to read more? In this episode of the podcast, we chat with Daniel Dickey (MBA ’21) about his start-up venture, the Million Word Challenge, an app that was born from Dickey’s days in the classroom as a Teach for America volunteer and helps readers track how many words they read. Dickey also reflects upon his MBA journey, what led him to Darden, why he’s so passionate about education and the important role that books played in his own growth and development.


Ten Books I Can Recommend
1. The Apple: Crimson Petal Stories, Michael Faber
Like little side and back stories to go with The Crimson Petal and the White. Satisfied my urge to find out what happened next, and like its predecessor, meticulously researched. Like peeping through a window into Victorian Britain.
2. Fine Just The Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3, Annie Proulx
More short stories. I read the third volume first because it was the only one available on Kindle. Now reading the second volume. Immensely enjoyable, I think more so because I've spent time in Wyoming and know the history a bit, so it's easy to visualise. She writes beautifully, too.
3. The Big Short, Michael Lewis
All about the sub-prime mortgage crash in the US. This took some concentration and it wasn't a very comforting book, but I feel much better educated about these things now.
4. Girls Like Us, Rachel Lloyd
Interesting look at the trafficking of girls for prostitution in the States. Part memoir, part stats. This woman is really inspiring and founded a charity aimed at helping other women trapped in the life. I feel a bit star struck that I sort of know her. Very tenuously.
5. Dancing to the Precipice, Caroline Moorehead
I haven't finished this yet but I'm really enjoying it. It's about one of Marie Antoinette's Ladies in Waiting and it's a cracking tale.
6. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
I cried and cried and cried. It was NOT a good idea to finish it on the train. Really beautifully written, a great story about Nazi Germany from the German side, and likely to be compulsory reading for my sixth formers this year (I can almost hear the whinging already....)
7. Freakonomics, Levitt & Dubner
I love the whole "joined up thinking" of this book: how the smallest things can have an impact you can't even imagine. The theory about Roe vs Wade reducing the crime rate in the US was actually cited on a recent documentary I watched. I made the mistake of lending this book to somebody, years ago. I may have to buy it again. Though I should probably read that copy of Superfreakonomics I bought, first.
8. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
I'm embarrassed to be all fangirl about this book, but it literally changed my life, because it had a big impact on how I teach. It seemed to be full of obvious truths I'd never even considered. "Hard work without a goal is prison": I made this into a poster for a sixth form assembly I did, and I still have it on my noticeboard. I think it's the best advice you can give a teacher. If that kid doesn't know why they're working, it might as well be prison.
9. Birds Without Wings, Louis de Bernieres
I love how there are dozens of different voices in this book. Some bits are written like a historical account and others are like having a gossip with your mate. It flows really nicely, regardless. It also taught me a lot about the demise of the Ottoman Empire and bits of WW1 that aren't really talked about. The descriptions of trench warfare in that part of the world will be a permanent fixture in my WW1 lessons from now on.
10. The Dark Is Rising sequence, Susan Cooper
Amazing books for teenagers which I can read over and over again without getting bored. DO NOT watch the film, it is utter garbage and bears not the slightest resemblance to the original.
Oh um, I like historical fiction. Did you guess?


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- DVDs are limited to two per household on Mondays through Wednesdays, three per household on Thursdays and Fridays, and may not be renewed.
- Fines are as listed: DVDs and CDs are $1.50 per day, per video. Books are $0.10 per day, per book.


Mezziah was a wizard and adventurer from three thousand years ago. He travelled much of the land and learned the arcane arts from the ancient ruins of The Island of The Towers.
Mezziah wrote three highly coveted books in his time, The Book of Hidden Things, Mezziah’s Chronicle and Mezziah’s Truth and Lies. Most scholars and Librarians have and will pay high amounts for copies or fragments of these books. They are said t contain great power but that the reader must beware.
Not much is known about what Mezziah looked like. The only conclusive thing is that he was a human male and a skilled swordsman before becoming a wizard. Stories sometimes depict him as a aged man, others a towering soldier clad in armor. It is likely though, that both were true at some point in his life.
No one knows how Mezziah died. Though most believe he met his end against a vampire or a great flame breathing dragon.


Redwood Shores Library Community
Room and Teen Room
AV-integrators was chosen to design and build 2 AV systems for the new Redwood Shores state-of-the-art library facility primarily intended to attract and serve the youth of the surrounding vicinity.
The library’s new community room features a large flat screen display plus a large-venue projection system with a 5.1 surround sound audio system. This community room system is capable of HD projection of computer images as well as HD video playback via blu-ray disc. This community room is the largest of all such community rooms in the Redwood City Public Library System.
The other system was for the library’s new teen room complete with a large screen TV for use with computers, game consoles, and a blu-ray disc player. Since its grand opening, the Redwood Shores Public Library has witnessed phenomenal growth in the demand for its services and facilities contributing to Redwood City Library’s “five star rating” from The Library Journal Index of Public Library Service.


Saturday, July 21, 2012
Carroll/East Carroll Newspaper Excerpt Books
BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS !BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS!
I have compiled several books that are typed out excerpts, or the originals, from the columns of several Northeastern Louisiana's newspapers as well as some other U. S. newspapers. These books start from scarce mentions of the area in 1818. As you will see, there where many hardships our ancestors went through, along with many joyous occasions they had, that I've placed within these pages. There are what I've always refered to as "the gossip columns" here, but also there is so much more; there were town meetings, church goings, hunting trips, yellow fever epidemics, floods, fires, slave trades, plantation BarBQues, births, deaths, marriages, entertainments, etc., etc., etc. I could go on and on the different subjects which is contained here. It shows the way of life during those years.
Basic history of East Carroll Parish:
Prior to 1814, all of the territory covered by the current East Carroll Parish was part of the now the defunct Warren Parish. On March 14, 1832 the Parish of Carroll was created from the northern part of the original Concordia Parish and the eastern part of Ouachita Parish. In 1877, with the line being the Bayou Macon, the parish of Carroll was divided into what is now East Carroll Parish and West Carroll Parish.
Below is a list of the books I have. They are all works in progress.... Not to long ago I started finding more pictures of people, steamboats, etc., and started adding them into the books, as well as some of the original stories and ads that I clipped and pasted from the newspapers themselves. I have also began placing some pictures for illustrations, such as some of the hotels people would visit in N.O. and St. Louis, etc. A few of the books I have not been able to get to yet, they are still the originals.
If you would like for me to check out any names to see if they contain any person you are seeking information about.... I would be glad to look to see for you if they are in any of these books... please send me at least first and last name to me at firstname.lastname@example.org
"Early Days in the Vacinity of Carroll Parish" 1818 - 1860. This book also includes "Carroll Watchman" of 1845.
"Carroll Parish in the Civil War", 1861 - 1865.
Book I. "Murder, Mayhem, & Misc. of Carroll Parish, Louisiana" covers the years 1866 thru 1876, right after the Civil War. The parish seat was in Floyd. [Carroll Parish]
Book II. "Murder, Mayhem, & Misc. of East Carroll Parish, La. II". These excerpts are from the years 1877 - 1888.
Book III. "Murder, Mayhem, & Misc. of East Carroll Parish, La. III", excerpts from 1889 - 1891.
Book IV. It covers 1892 - 1895, and contains 1892 map sections of the town of Lake Providence.
Book V. This book will cover years 1896 thru 1899. Still working on it..... [I have thru 1897 done].
Book VI. "Murder, Mayhem, & Misc. of E. Carroll Parish, La." It covers 1904 - 1906 and 1918 - 1928, issues during this time period where somewhat scarce.
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Read the biographies of the not-so-famous people who lived life to the fullest or survived despite what life threw at them. All available through bookstores and Amazon. Emergence: The John Bax Story
John Bax emerged from a childhood of poverty and repression under Nazi occupation during WWII to recognition as an international wildlife cinematographer. His films on birds have appeared on television specials throughout the US, Canada and Europe. Two documentaries have told his story and showcased his work: The Man Who Loved Birds by KEG Productions in Toronto, Ontario and A Passion for Birds by the Gorgas Science Foundation in Brownsville, Texas. This biography includes extensive interviews with John, his wife Alice, friends, family and colleagues, and traces John's years from Belgium to Canada and the United States. Follow John's filming expeditions throughout North America. The Sharon Rogers Band
In the 1940s, an all-girl band from Chicago toured the US with the USO. In 1945, they toured the Pacific as Camp Show 687. Through their letters home, we see the world, war and our troops at the end of World War II and the beginning of the Allied Occupation of Japan. They survived plane crashes, sat in on war criminal trials and were among the first civilians to visit Hiroshima after August 1945.
Role Call: Women's Voices
Read the stories of 53 American women who will inspire you with their dreams, their passions and their determination to make the world a better place.
My co-author Joyce Faulkner and I meet many women who inspire us with their intelligence, dedication and passion for following their dreams.
Narrowing the book down to 53 women proved to be the most difficult task. We believe that our world is filled with people who measure success in terms of fulfillment, service and dedication to a goal. We're proud to present this collage of happy, productive and creative women.
Sunchon Tunnel Massacre Survivors
In 1950, in the early days of the Korean War, the North Koreans captured many American soldiers. Through personal and recorded interviews, we learn about a little-known death march and massacre. More than 400 prisoners began the march from Taejon but by the time they reached Pyongyang, North Korea, nearly half had died. Twenty-two survived the massacre in October of 1950. Fifty-six years later, seven of the survivors met in Branson, Missouri, and shared their stories.
They Came Home: Korean War POWs The stories of three men who spent time as prisoners during the Korean War: Billy Jo Harris, Carey Weinel and Ed Slater.


St. Augustine of Hippo was born in around 354 AD and though he led an adulterous and vice-filled life in his youth, he eventually became a model for conversion and a Doctor of the Church.
Augustine was sent away to school by his mother in hopes that he might turn toward the Church and away from his life of debauchery, but instead he ended up developing belief systems that led him to Manichaeism, a major Persian religion. While at school, his life of sin began when he and a group of friends stole fruit from a neighborhood garden. In his later writing The Confessions, he tells the story and explains that he did not steal the fruit because he was hungry, but because “it was not permitted,” and he goes on to say that his nature “was foul, and I loved it. I loved my own error--not that for which I erred, but the error itself.”
Augustine eventually made friends with a group of men who enjoyed bragging about their sexual exploits, which encouraged him to experience some sexual exploits of his own. When he was 17, he began a relationship with a woman in Carthage, and though he never married her, he continued his relationship with her for fifteen years and even fathered a child with her. Eventually, at his mother’s insistence, he ended his relationship with his lover in order to prepare to enter into a “proper” marriage with a ten-year-old heiress.
Because the legal age requirement for married women at the time was twelve years old, Augustine had to wait two years before he could marry his bride. Augustine confessed that he did not particularly care for marriage, and was actually only interested in lust, and so during these two years between relationships, Augustine took a concubine and is reported to have said the following prayer: “Grant me chastity and continence--but not yet!” Augustine never actually married the twelve-year-old heiress because he decided to convert and become a Christian priest instead.
Throughout his extensive education, Augustine became incredibly intelligent and learned about two men who had been converted after reading about the life of St. Antony, and said to his friend, “Unlearned people are taking Heaven by force, while we, with all our knowledge, are so cowardly that we keep rolling around in the mud of our sins!”
Augustine became very devout and even wrote the following phrase on the wall of his room: “Here we do not speak evil of anyone.” Of his late conversion to God he said, “Too late have I loved You!”
St. Augustine of Hippo is often depicted in the dress of a bishop with an elaborately decorated or embroidered cope in order to portray the rich history of the Church. St. Augustine is also pictured holding a human heart, sometimes aflame, and sometimes pierced by an arrow--as a reference to two of Augustine’s writings.
St. Augustine of Hippo is the patron saint of brewers, printers, and theologians. He is also invoked in prayer against sore eyes.


People in the office brought in their kids--there were three under 6 and one teenager. There was coloring books, dot to dots and a treasure hunt. Everybody found all the treaure items stashed all around the office. The kids had a great time.
I had planned to read "Rikki Tikki Tavi", by Rudyard Kipling, but it was 36 pages, so I decided it might take too long and not hold their interest for very long. I offered "The Green Gorilla", but no one seemed intrigued with it...I didn't get out that it was a story that I'd written myself...but that was when the kids were really excited to go outside--even if the wind was blowing at 35 mph and cold.
Naturally, we weren't outside all that long. But you know kids--they have no nerve endings. The ones that ran around and around and around---circles around me, stayed warm, but it wasn't long before everyone headed for the door. Now there's only a half hour left to the day, and people are all starting to wind down, I think. Whew! It was quite a day.
I thought up the treasure hunt, and I walked around to everyone's offices and took pictures of everybody's stuff. Then I made them smaller. Then I emailed them to my office email. Then I made the treasure maps. Then I printed the treasure hunt papers, and passed them to the kids, so that they could run around and look for the treasures.
I think it was the most fun thing they did the whole day!
I did tell the story of the Green Gorilla--although I cleaned it up a little, and one of my listeners laughed at the end, but I had them both on the edge of their seats. Both asked for the real story of Rikki Tikki, but because it was so long, I gave them the shortened version. "Head above the hood," says Rikki, and that he was a mongoose that killed snakes. Most I left to the imagination. It was a very short story, being more like a book report, than a real story, and I told them to have their mom and dad to get the book and read it to them. It's a good story. I remember my dad reading it to me, and reading it myself when I got older, and now it's on my Nook.
Now, about the Ipad. Yes, I ordered it. No, I don't have it yet. And in a little bit, I'll be going to JoAnn's to teach the potholder. I'm not sure if the student will show, but if not, I'll just head on home. It won't be too bad, I don't think. I have lots of projects to work on in the car, plus a book to read. So I'm all set there.
I think I was a good mother. I had lots of ideas, and I was lots of fun. I had difficulties along the way, of course, and I tried hard not to let failures get me down. If only I'd met my current husband sooner, but of course, he was married with his own family back then, and not ready to meet me. I tell good stories, though. Really good stories. If you don't believe me, search my blog for "gorilla" and read it. I think you'll like it.


I am a convert to Catholicism; born and baptized in the Methodist Church but lived a life as a suburban secularist – God just wasn’t important. But, as I was trying to understand better why the Catholic church was an anathema to the human race I began to realize the great lie of secularists. The only way that God wasn’t important is if you ignored Him. He was and is there, He was and is in love with me. He was and is who always makes me more human. This process of coming to terms with, and growing in the real truth was my road home to Catholicism.
That road was paved with great people and great words. I owe my understanding of the faith to, primarily, the writings of Pope St. John Paul the great, Dr. Peter Kreeft, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger among others. The authors of my conversion were the great points of clarity. But as great as they were (and are) they are points in time. I step back from life to read and understand. But as Peter, James and John had to come down from Mt. Tabor I needed to put the books and papers down and go back into my life. This connection, this taking the truths and using them in my life was helped by another – a little nun in Northern Alabama. Mother Angelica’s EWTN was the connection between these great writers and leaders and living a life in society. Her enthusiasm for our God radiated through her television station and deep into my soul. Through her and the programming of EWTN, I found that life could be lived within the faith joyfully. I came to know that my life lived in Christ didn’t mean a life of repression and boredom but a life of true freedom and vigor. The great truths of our faith didn’t hinder me but gave me fullness. And of course, her ministry showed me that entertainment could be more than mind numbing titillation that left you empty and hungry, it could be life altering and empowering.
Thank you Lord for the gift of Mother Angelica from the very first years of my conversion and for her EWTN legacy. May I, in some small way, pass forward what she and her community gave to this former ‘suburban secularist’ – a life in Christ.
Requiescat in pace Mother Angelica


Welcome to the Contemporary English Version
Languages are spoken before they are written. And far more communication is
done through the spoken word than through the written word. In fact, more people
hear the Bible read than read it for themselves. Traditional translations
of the Bible count on the reader’s ability to understand a written text.
But the Contemporary English Version differs from all other English
Bibles –past and present—that it takes into consideration the needs of the hearer,
as well as those of the reader, who may not be familiar with traditional
The Contemporary English Version has been described as a
"user-friendly" and a "mission-driven" translation that can
be read aloud without stumbling, heard without misunderstanding,
and listened to with enjoyment and appreciation, because the language is
contemporary and the style is lucid and lyrical.
The Contemporary English Version invites you to read, to hear,
to understand and to share
The Word of God now
as never before!


This issue of the magazine includes:
• Names: Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890–1969)
Russian poet, translator, and children’s writer Elizaveta Polonskaya (née Movshenson) was born 120 years ago in Warsaw to the family of a railway engineer. She spent most of her childhood in Łódź’s “Polish-Jewish environment,” according to her own recollection. After the pogroms of 1905, her family moved to St. Petersburg, where young Liza Movshenson began to participate in revolutionary workmen's circles. In 1908, in order to avoid arrest, she escaped to France where, in 1914, she graduated from the medical school of the Sorbonne University. During the First World War, she returned to Russia and served as an epidemiologist at the front. From November 1917 through the middle of the 1930s, she worked in different Soviet medical settings, combining medicine with literature. In the 1920s, she was the only woman in the famous literary circle known as the Serapion Brothers, which included such prominent Russian writers as Mikhail Zoshchenko, Veniamin Kaverin and others. Later, she worked as a journalist for Soviet newspapers. Polonskaya’s early poetry is full of Jewish themes and sentiments. Many of her poems of this period are written on Biblical subjects. In the 1930s, Jewish themes reappeared in her poems, but strictly in an anti-Fascist context. After 1940, Jewish themes completely disappeared from her poetry, but forever remained the subject of her thoughts and regrets. Here, this magazine publishes a comprehensive article about the Jewish motifs in Elizaveta Polonskaya’s poetry, as well as a large selection of her Jewish poems from the period of 1909 through 1940.
• Response: How the Jews Found Themselves in Russia and in History
This brief review criticizes a new ambitious publishing project, the multi-volume History of the Jews in Russia, the first volume of which was recently issued by Russian-Israeli publishing house Gesharim.
• Jewish Calendar of Significant Dates: July–August 2010
• Bibliography: 60 New Books


Quizzy was born in March, her mother having been born at Glyn View Farm the previous year.
Quizzy lived in a number of fields on the side of the valley, with a wooded copse at the bottom, bordered by a stream and a lake. A little further up the valley there was the farm’s access road.
The farmhouse and the farm buildings were situated away from the woods and stream further up the valley.
Quizzy was a cross-bred lamb who was hyperactive and spent very little time resting in comparison to the other lambs. She was also very inquisitive, which led to many adventures, as the events in Claude Bennetts' new book recall.
To find out more and to purchase a copy go to:
A short taster of this fascinating book...
A taster of this entertaining story, in Quizzy manages to fall in the lake and causes a right commotion...
She came out covered in mud and learned her lesson for good!


March 29, 2011
Book of the Month: Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?
Right now we are using Mr. Brown to encourage C to make more sounds. He is learning to sign, slowly but surely, however he still frequently gets frustrated and throws tantrums. Mr. Brown is helping because we can all read it together and C gets the chance to try all the sounds Mr. Brown makes. B loves to help read this book and make the sounds too. It is amazing how much B's sounds improve each time we read and how many more sounds C can make every time he tires. Sometimes it is hard because it seems like he is not making any progress but if you watch closely you can see his little lips move as he tries to do what we're doing.
Thank you Dr. Seuss for writing such a wonderful book for us to enjoy!


Beyond Free College: A Book Review
Dr. Mary Bruck
Former Registry Interim Vice President for Enrollment Management
State University of New York at Oneonta (Oneonta, New York)
Beyond Free College: Making Higher Education Work for 21st Century Students, 2021, by Dr. Eileen Strempel and Dr. Stephen Handel
Beyond Free College is a detailed look at the aspects of higher education that impact enrollment and admission for the 21st century.
This work is rich with history and research to provide food for thought and rationale to select processes that can work for students and for institutions of higher education. The role of K-12 is also highlighted as to the pros and cons of preparing students for higher education as well as the impact of free education and the commitment of the student to a degree. Accepted practices in higher education admissions and transfers are delineated and extensively explored. An analysis into transfer students, admission policies, competency-based education, and online learning in the twenty-first century, among other subjects are discussed in this book.
Operationalizing the book’s concepts leads the reader to re-think and re-define processes. For example, as referenced in this book, have we created a situation where no admissions requirements will allow students to think that they do not have to work hard in high school to earn a degree? Is hard work equal to degree achievement or will these students feel over placed in the college classroom?
Prior Learning Credit (PLC) is an additional concept under review in this text. This chapter is particularly interesting as the basis for PLC is discussed in detail. The role that The American Council on Education (ACE) and The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) play in adult learning experiences are vital to understanding the foundations for credit from the workplace. Institutions now have an understanding of how awarding this prior learning credit can benefit the student as well as the institution.
Establishing a standard of evaluation for such credit has been demonstrated by the state of Tennessee. PLC standards such as those developed in Tennessee will likely inform how private colleges and universities establish standards for admissions/acceptance as well.
One should not ignore the chapter “Online Learning in the Twenty First Century”. Institutions of higher education must be willing to understand the importance of online learning and its growth in the future. After reading this book, this reviewer is left to ponder the survival rate of the traditional brick and mortar institute in a post-pandemic world. Re-thinking, re-framing, and understanding how online learning is evolving is of utmost importance for university leaders at all levels. As online learning becomes more sophisticated, the incorporation of artificial intelligence will continue to evolve creating greater opportunities as well as challenges.
Beyond Free College is a must read for leaders within higher education.


A young botanist finds more than than he bargained for when he enters an ancient forest in search of a new species of tree. A horror awaits him in the heart of the old growth.
“Old Growth” is now available as a .99 cent Kindle eBook. First published in AlienSkin in 2009, this story links the Pacific Northwest with many of my other horror stories set in Auxerre, Wisconsin.
As I said in an earlier post, this story was inspired by a conversation I overheard. Two girls were talking about how they were afraid to go into the woods behind their house. They were really scared and it stuck with me. A couple of months later this story was born. There’s a lot of woods in Oregon, and some say deep in the old growth, are strange things still unknown to man.
Happy reading! Please share, post, and review if you get a chance.
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Fantasy, with all its weirdness and wonders, is the deep root of all fiction. Long before people began to write books, for 50,000 years they huddled around the light of fires, under starry skies, in deep forests, and in the shelter of caves to tell their stories. The impulse of fiction was already there, in the myths and legends that were born among them.
Imagine the kinds of stories they were telling. People knew little or nothing of what lay beyond the horizon. And at night, in the darkness, that circle of knowledge shrank to the dim glow of a campfire, if they were lucky enough to have one. The stars were a mystery, animals were otherworldly, and death was a great enigma. A man or a woman who ventured beyond the horizon, or out in the night, might never return. Those tales must have been dark and strange, filled with adventure, monsters, and magic.
There is an element of fantasy in all fiction, an attempt to imagine and understand something beyond ourselves: another person, another life, another world. Modern stories are born from that same original impulse, to weave tales, to entertain, to educate, to warn, and to find meaning in the world and in the often extraordinary experiences of our lives. I like to think my stories can be traced back to the mythic structures and weird tales that started it all, stories woven from the threads of an ancient dream.
Although our horizon has grown wider in a way, there is always an edge, without and within, beyond which dwell things unknown. The unknown is far greater than the known, and that is where horror lives. It lurks in the darkness beyond our meager campfires.
*First published on ShadowSpinners.
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“Old Growth” will soon be released as a short story ebook!
This story got its start when I overheard some girls talking once about how they were afraid to go into the woods out back behind their house. There’s a lot of woods in Oregon, and it struck me as odd that they would be so afraid of something in their own back yard. But the woods are deep and old, and weird tales are told about the old growth.
This horror story links the Pacific Northwest with my other stories centered around the strange town of Auxerre, Wisconsin. It was first published in Alien Skin. Looking forward to sharing it with more readers.
Stay tuned for more release information.
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“By the Sword” will be published in Hyperpulp, the Brazilian bilingual magazine of fantastic literature and arts. I like the magazine’s literary take on genre fiction and am excited to reach new readers through a Portuguese translation. The story will appear in issue #5, due out at the end of December.
“By the Sword” is the first of several stories I wrote set the islands of Nara, a fantasy setting inspired by medieval Japan.
Isei must discover the true meaning of the sword when Hideo Yamashita returns to the Mizuhashi sword school. It’s a classic battle between good and evil, between the truth, and the tyranny of lies.
I’ll post more information when the issue become available.
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My Lovecraft inspired tale of weird horror in the town of Auxerre, Wisconsin has hit the bookstore at Amazon in the form of a .99 cent Kindle ebook! “The Music of Timothy Shean” is the first released short story ebook in a series of stories with some connection to Auxerre.
Enjoy a copy your Kindle reader or Kindle apps. Please share, post, and review if you get a chance. It will eventually be released on other platforms as well, but I have no release date yet for Smashwords, Apple, and Nook.
“Some music brings happiness and joy, contentment and hope, but some music has dire consequences. And you must know that these consequences are madness and death.”
When Dylan McAllister finds a notebook hidden in a secret compartment of an old piano, he soon discovers a music that should never be heard by human ears.
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"The Strange and New," just for the record, comes from a Robert Service poem called The Men That Don't Fit In. It's a poem dedicated to the gypsies, the wanderers, the nomads that find themselves circling our little blue dot. That poem and this website are meant for those who have their traveling paint set in hand, who globe-trot to become, and who yearn for experiences that are really just a series of interesting guesses. Or, you know, if you're looking for a laugh or an embarrassing personal travel story. Emphasis on the "strange."
Here's the poem that gives this website its namesake:
“There’s a race of men that don’t fit in,
A race that can’t stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain’s crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don’t know how to rest.
If they just went straight they might go far,
They are strong and brave and true;
But they’re always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.”
— Robert Service, The Men That Don't Fit In
So, here, hopefully you'll find something else. On occasion you'll find the text of one of our published works; if that is the case, it will be denoted clearly at the beginning with a link to the original source.
Thank you for stopping by!
Jacqueline & Shannon


“This journal is not only beautiful but so helpful! It is packed
with bite-sized nuggets of scientific insight and inspirational
quotes. I try to use it everyday and am feeling so inspired. I am
planning to gift one to each of my girlfriends!”
– Sarah M. (Reader)
SheWorth Journal: An inspirational vision for feminism and women’s empowerment
Reviewed by John Batchelor, Ph.D.
It is with great pleasure that I offer my review of the SheWorth Journal. For many years, I have been concerned with issues related to gender equity and mental health. I took some social justice courses as a graduate student, which helped awaken me to the seriousness and pervasiveness of sexism, gender inequity, and male privilege in our culture. As a male, I cannot pretend to have a complete understanding of the social forces and experiences that cause many women to struggle with feelings of low self-worth. Nonetheless, the topics discussed in the SheWorth Journal are of significant importance to me. I have often expressed that I feel ashamed to say that I identify as male, considering how some men choose to (mis)treat, harass, and abuse women in our culture. I like to think of myself as a “male feminist.” I try my best to be a strong advocate for the prevention of bullying, harassment, and abuse.
The front matter of the SheWorth Journal (pages 1-13) contains several brief components, beginning with a “Welcome” message (page 1) and a table of contents (page 3). “About SheWorth” (page 5) provides helpful contextual information about the SheWorth movement and the magnitude of its aspirations. “What to Expect” (page 7) characterizes the SheWorth endeavor as a “women’s empowerment movement” and provides examples of the “Brave Moments” construct. The Introduction (page 9) establishes specific connections among the research on behavioral change, goal setting, and journal writing. “How to Use” (pages 11-13) provides guidelines for using the SheWorth Journal and briefly summarizes the four primary sections.
Section 1, Education, summarizes the research on several psychological concepts relevant to the SheWorth movement. These concepts include neuroplasticity, mirror neurons, the “Internal Audience” concept, positive psychology, “negativity bias,” and the distinction between fixed mindset and growth mindset. The author carefully explains the relationship of each of the aforementioned concepts to the SheWorth movement. The section concludes with a collection of “Inspired Words” (pages 30-31) and an “Affirmation Bank” (pages 32-33), which provide examples of inspirational quotes and positive affirmations or “I” statements.
Section 2, Your Path to Worthiness, provides guided journal prompts intended to cover a 30 day timeframe. Section 3, Creativity and Inspiration, provides a space to reflect on an individual’s dreams and aspirations and to identify people or situations that are either helpful or harmful (depleting). This section encourages participants to record and reflect on “Brave Moments” and to create a personal collection of positive affirmations. Section 4, Random Musings, provides additional space for journal entries that may not fit neatly into the categories specified in earlier sections. The SheWorth Journal concludes with a “Thank You” message (page 197) encouraging participants to keep their Journal and reflect on it in the future.
I find the SheWorth endeavor to be amazing and nothing short of groundbreaking. The Journal is beautifully written and meticulously organized. The motivational quotations throughout the Journal are well chosen and provide helpful reminders to participants to reflect on their positive characteristics and self-worth. Based on the content of the SheWorth Journal and the website, www.sheworth.org, I am convinced that the movement has the potential to bring about meaningful, positive social change on a global scale. The invitation for women to share their own “Brave Moments” via the website is a delightful component; I am fully confident that this element will help propel the movement forward in the future.
In conclusion, I recommend the SheWorth Journal to any and all women, especially those who struggle with self-esteem issues. The Journal is also a “must read” for all individuals, regardless of gender identity, who are concerned with gender equity or mental health issues. Thank you for your consideration.
“The SheWorth Journal is unquestionably one of the best I’ve come across for helping women discover their “intrinsic self-worth”, as the description promises, and doing it in a way that doesn’t require hours of wading through heavy psychology explaining why and how we may have lost our self-worth in the first place. From the first few pages in, we are treated to meaningful and beautifully illustrated word graphics sprinkled here and there throughout the “education” section to remind us that we don’t need to keep proving ourselves, to trust our own instincts and to choose ourselves first. This Education section is short but jam-packed with evidence-based information written in a simple, conversational tone with a vocabulary easily understood by anyone.
Quickly learn about “neuroplasticity”….a big word, yes… but just a term to explain how pliant our brains are as they change according to what we see, hear, and experience daily. Ever notice how quickly young teens adopt the behaviors, language, likes and dislikes of their peers? That’s their “mirror neurons” at work, Mueller tells us, and it’s not just limited to teens. The thing is, at some point, even adults need to ask themselves if this copy-cat behavior is serving or depleting them? And while we know we should trust our inner voices, we need to monitor that “internal audience” barometer at all times. These are just a few of the concepts the author quickly shares with us before letting us loose to fill the remaining pages with our own thoughts on each day.
The daily, but undated journal sections will be familiar to many of us who like to journal. But following this section, Mueller invites us to fill up the blank pages with our own creative musings. Before writing this review, I decided to get some feedback on the SheWorth Journal from my daughter. She felt the section allotted to creative musings set this journal apart from others she’s used. As a songwriter, this was her favorite section. And we both loved the last section where we could enter “random musings” at any time. Let’s face it: our minds are in constant motion with thoughts tumbling over each other. So often, a great idea or thought is forgotten because it wasn’t written down. As Mueller states, “the act of putting pen to paper can help you clarify your thoughts and emotions.” So true! Try it. You’ll like it!”
-Vida Bogland for Readers Favorite


‘Mosman Faces’ is a project to build a visual history of Mosman through filmed interviews and items from our Local History collection. The first series of ‘Mosman Faces’ features ten people who have shaped the Mosman community.
‘Mosman Voices’ makes recorded interviews from the Library’s oral history archives available to listen online. Excerpts are grouped by subject – such as the Second World War, Shops & Shopping, Mosman Musical Society – and can be heard online with an accompanying transcript.
Images of Mosman
The Carroll Collection consists of images of Mosman including photographs, drawings and maps covering the period 1789 to 1966. It was collected over many years by former Mayor, and amateur local historian, Dalton Jack Carroll and donated to Mosman Council in the 1950s.
Local history collections & organisations
The Local Studies Collection is located in the Mosman Room and is open during Library hours. The collection holds current and retrospective material on Mosman, people, places and events. Resources include books, serials, maps and plans, pictorial works, audiovisual, ephemera and CD-ROM resources.
A community-based Society that aims to promote the history and heritage of Mosman as well as Australian history in general.
Mosman Council presents this award-winning four-part look at the built heritage of Mosman written and presented by the well known architect, architectural historian, author and academic, Robert Irving OAM.
How many people live here? Who are we? What do we do? How do we live? Based on census data, the Community Profile and Atlas presents the key socio-demographic characteristics of Mosman through interactive maps and tables.


"Why Erik Axel Karlfeldt's poetry into Urdu? Sweden and Pakistan have enjoyed close relationship over the last many decades. This mutual love is time tested and has strengthened gradually. The translation of this iconic poet Karlfeldt into Urdu is an attempt to promote and consolidate literary and cultural ties between the two countries. This book will be a source of inspiration for the poets of Pakistan because it is predominantly the poetry of peace, love and humanism. Karlfeldt has a masterly command on diction, metaphors and similes. Karlfeldt is a poet of nature, whose words profuse fragrance of flowers and mirror idyllic lakes, bewitching snow clad mountains and fascinating birds. We are sure that the sublime aroma of the poetry of this great Swedish poet will spread into the nook and corner of Pakistan. Undoubtedly, the credit of introducing this book in Pakistan goes to Mr. Fakhar Zaman, who himself is a great friend of Sweden."
Fakhar Zaman säger i sitt förord till boken bl.a: "Karlfeldt was a poet par excellence and his poetry exudes the freshness of imagery reflected in its fullest profundity in the fragrance of flowers, beauty of lush green meadows, pristine waterfalls, idyllic vistas, glistening snow, rustle of the yellow autumn leaves and the swaying pine trees. It is nature through and through embedded in his each word."
Boken har tryckts genom Pakistan National Book Foundation. Karlfeldtsamfundet och alla Karlfeldtläsare i Sverige kan bara uttrycka sin tacksamhet och sin glädje över att "vår" skald kan vara "mångas" diktare och uppskattas av poesiälskare i andra kulturer. Vi noterar att det inte minst är Karlfeldts bilder av och inlevelse i den svenska naturen som fascinerar utländska läsare.
Se även: www.thenews.com.pk/print/70123-swedish-nobel-laureates-poetry-translated-into-urdu
Foto: Lars Östlund


Brandon Library will be changing its opening hours from Monday 13th November so that local people can access library services on Mondays.
The changes will mean the library will open on Mondays from 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm, with the extra hours created by closing earlier on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. A new family games session and an extra wordplay session will also be launched on Mondays.
The changes are being introduced following a customer consultation on the changes and they have been approved by Suffolk County Council and the Suffolk Libraries Board.
Mathew Sheldrick, Brandon Library Manager, said: “The Brandon Centre where the library is based offers other services on Mondays so we wanted find a way to open the library to best suit the needs of local people as we know there is a demand.
“We’re delighted to be offering a new activity for families too which we hope will be popular!”
The changes to other days take into account times when the library is a little quieter and the library will be open for the same number of hours overall. Several other libraries across Suffolk have also changed their opening hours in recent years as Suffolk Libraries always looks to meet local demand and open libraries when people need them.
The new hours are as follows:
- Mondays – 10am to 1pm and 2pm-5pm (previously closed)
- Tuesday: 10am to 5pm (previously closed at 5.30pm)
- Wednesday: 10am to 3.00pm (no change)
- Thursday: 10am to 5.30pm (no change)
- Friday: 10am to 3.30pm (previously closed at 6pm)
- Saturday: 10am to 3pm (previously open 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm)
- Sunday: 10am to 3pm (no change).


You can update or remove any of your library items. There is also a button to view items on jwpepper.com.
- Click the Inventory drop-down arrow to activate the menu.
- Click Music Library in the drop-down list.
- Scroll down and click the Update button next to the item you want to change..
- You will be in edit mode – make any necessary changes. All fields are editable.
- Click the Save button to keep all changes.
- Record updated appears at the top.
- Scroll down to the list of items in your library.
- Click on the Delete button next to the item you want to remove.
- You will be prompted to confirm the deletion or cancel the action.


A short book written by John Gates, one of our longest-standing members. Outlining wonderful acts of the Holy Spirit personally experienced and witnessed. Download here.
e-sword is a Bible study computer software package developed for Microsoft Windows, Pocket PC, the Apple iPad & iPhone. Resources are available in over 80 languages. e-sword site here.
View our selection of video testimonies and teachings
Get up to date with our latest news and upcoming events
Archive of audio testimonies from our guest speakers
Various other materials and tools for you to enjoy and use
Becoming a member is easy and details are here
Our monthly VOICE magazine is a wonderful read for all


Computers for Seniors
Advancing your Email Skills
Now that you have an email account and an understanding of how to send, reply to and forward email, it’s time to start organising your email.
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FREE* for people 60+ The NSW ‘Tech Savvy Seniors’ program is an initiative of the NSW Ageing Strategy and is funded through a partnership between the NSW Government and Telstra.
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Books deal with bullying at work. Written in non-academic plain English and based on hard-won practical experience, Tim Field wrote and published Bully in sight in 1996 since when tens of thousands of people worldwide have benefited from its validation, insight and reassurance. Regularly described as a "Godsend", a "bible" and "the best book on workplace bullying", readers are amazed at the uncanny accuracy which enables you to predict what the bully will do next. Its content-rich pages library partners furnish you with knowledge of bullying profiles and behaviours and the book is packed with practical information, guidance and anti-bullying strategies empowering you to take positive, purposeful action.
Chapter by chapter you make sense of the nightmare of trying to deal with an aggressive dysfunctional manager or co-worker or colleague. Bully in sight re-establishes your sanity, stability and objectivity, enabling you to overcome the falsely-instilled belief that "It must be me" and "It must be my fault". Whilst the focus of Bully in sight is workplace bullying, many people have found it invaluable for financing library identifying and dealing with bullies wherever they occur - at work, at home, in the family, in a relationship, in the neighbourhood or in the community.
Bully books are in libraries in sight is regarded as the world's leading book on bullying at work - but don't just take our word for it, see for yourself what readers say and how it validated their experience, empowered them with insight, and enabled them to regain control of their lives.
Readers are comforted by discovering they are not alone in their experience and are relieved to realise that the stress they are suffering is a psychiatric injury and nothing to do with mental illness.
Bully in sight also explains to partners, family members, friends, union officials, professionals and others the hell you are experiencing as the target of a serial bully.
Bully books are in libraries and they enable you to overcome the feelings of fear, shame, embarrassment and guilt that bullies and abusive people use to control you, and many satisfied readers come back for more copies, or to purchase the two complementary books Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Bullycide: death at playtime.
Summary of Objectives
- A pilot web-enabled database as a model for a system providing information about and access to library, archive and museum collections in London
- A web site displaying the pilot database and content
- Data from partners to populate and test the database


SIXTY-SIX MILLION YEARS AGO, an asteroid slammed into the Earth, killing three quarters of all living things. But our tiny, primate ancestors survived. With clutched hands and shining eyes, they witnessed the end of the world ... and the dawn of a new one.
IN THIS ISSUE: Mamma loves telling her babies about the "dragons" that used to roam the Earth. But with Pappa gone for days, she is starting to tire of being stuck in the nest. Does she dare leave the infants alone? It is a dangerous world ... and "dragons" may still lurk in the hills.
22 comic pages plus covers and front matter. Age recommendation: 9+.
1 Digital Comic Book (PDF format)
- 1 Digital Comic Book (PDF format)
- Length25 pages
- Size54.7 MB


Friday, June 13, 2014
Music & More is Back
Pet parade, Teddy Bear Picnic and of course music!
Released by Melissa Oren, Chilliwack Community Arts Council/Voice file photo
Steve Hills performs at Salish Park last June as part of the Music & More series.
ring your chair, blanket, and picnic! Join in the community fun at this year’s Music and More, happening Wednesday evenings throughout July and August. New this year is an alternating schedule between both the Chilliwack and Sardis Libraries, as each site takes a turn hosting the free activities and concerts.
Kicking off the event at the Chilliwack Library (Salish Park) will be the much loved Pet Parade on July 2nd from 10 – 11am. That same evening beginning at 5pm will feature the Teddy Bear Picnic hosted by the Chilliwack Family YMCA, followed by a presentation from the Drum Circle at 6pm, and a performance from Secondary Characters at 7pm. The Sardis Library will then be hosting the following week’s activities and concerts on July 9th from 4 – 6pm.
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Remember reading the book FERDINAND when you were a child? The 1938 classic is almost 80 years old and now it’s coming to the big screen in a new animated full-length feature film.
And the voice of the big-hearted bull that gets stung by a bumblebee? WWE Champion and actor John Cena.
It’s the perfect fit. The forty-year-old grew up as one of five boys in his family and he talked about how they settled disputes, matured and each come into their own.
Ferdinand opens Wednesday December 20.


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The Awakening is a narrative by Kate Chopin, first produced in 1899. Situated in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast in the last years of the 19th century, the theme focuses on Edna Pontellier and her battle over her accelerating nonconformist insights on womanhood and maternity with the predominant communal behaviors of the millennial American South. It is among the first American narratives that concentrates on female concerns without deference. It is also largely observed as a feature opus of early women’s liberation, propagating a combined response from modern bibliophiles and reviewers. The story’s mixture of real historical, trenchant social annotation, and cognitive entanglement creates The Awakening a harbinger of American innovative written matter. It foreshadows the literary opuses of American authors including William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway and reflects the pieces of colleagues like Edith Wharton and Henry James. It can also be treated as the earliest Southern pieces in a praxis that would end up with the new classics of Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, and Tennessee Williams. Kate Chopin, christened as Katherine O’Flaherty, was a United States fictionist of short tales and novels set in Louisiana. She is today contemplated by most academics to have been an exponent of American 20th century novelist of womanism of Southern or Catholic grounding, including Zelda Fitzgerald. Of French and Irish lineage, Katherine O’ Flaherty was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She wedded and transferred with her spouse to New Orleans. They thenceforward settled in the province in Cloutierville, Louisiana. Kate made short tales for both younger and older people that were printed in national publications such as Atlantic Monthly, Vogue’,’ The Century Magazine, and The Youth’s Companion. Her novels heightened discussion due to her topics and her style, they were remarked as indecent by a few reviewers.


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I used to have this kids encyclopedia growing up, it had 7 volumes if I don’t remember wrong , science, Spanish, etc, my two favorite ones where History and Geography. The History one was divided in ancient and modern history, also was the Geography one. I loved to look up ancient places and then compare to the modern map, after I had located the ancient empire in the modern map, had seen how its Geographic form had change throughout the years I would go to the History encyclopedia and read on the events that had forced the changes.
I used to spend hours and hours of my childhood just sitting in my room examining these books, and as time passed, I grew up, I stopped checking the books, I forgot most of what I taught myself and now I am lucky if I make it anywhere without getting lost while using my GPS.
Yes I still know how to read a map, something my dad is really proud about, and I still like history, mostly only the good parts of it, but I have grown apart from that little girl who was so amazed at the world sitting in her room traveling from place to place and in time while still sitting in her room nose deep in a book.


In the introduction to Why China Will Never Rule the World author Troy Parfitt sets out his motivation for writing the book. Neither academic nor journalist, he simply wants to see things for himself. However, Parfitt does not arrive in China as a naive foreigner. Instead he has already spent more than a decade living on the periphery of China in Taiwan and South Korea. This experience, combined with the author’s Mandarin speaking ability, gives the book a refreshing perspective that differentiates it from other travel books about China.
Parfitt’s journey begins in Hong Kong, another place that is on the periphery of China. It is both part of China, yet distinctly different. The opening chapters about Hong Kong and Macau provide a good counterpoint when the author’s exploration of China proper begins.
I am familiar with a few of the places the author visited and I thought that his well constructed prose painted evocative images that brought the places to life. In addition, each chapter is filled out by a substantial amount of historical research. While not academic in nature, it adds depth to the book and also helps inform the author’s thesis about why China will never rule the world. I would have liked to see a little more contemporary political and economical analysis to further support the thesis. This was touched upon in the introduction, but largely absent from the rest of the book.
Each chapter includes details of encounters with people he meets on his travels. Parfitt certainly casts a cynical eye upon all he sees and his frustration with some aspects of Chinese society is quite explicitly detailed. Some readers might find this cynicism too negative, however I found that it reflected a desire to honestly report what he saw and experienced.
After spending a few months travelling around China the author leaves vowing never to return. He then devotes the last third of the book to writing about Taiwan, a place where he lived for a decade.
A trip to Green Island and a visit to the Human Rights Memorial, which served as a prison during the White Terror period, serves as a chance to detail the history of the 228 Massacre and White Terror. From Green Island the author embarks to Orchid Island where he goes to investigate first hand the nuclear waste
dump storage facility.
His visit to Tainan veers off into a discussion of Taiwan’s weird news. The author writes that he amassed a file of clippings from Taiwan’s English-language newspapers on topics such as police corruption and outlandish court rulings. This section included a detailed account of the exploits of notorious criminal Chen Chin-hsing, which drew heavily from Hostage in Taipei by McGill Alexander. Yet there is very little detail about the city of Tainan itself. Similarly writing about Taroko Gorge, the author recounts tales of headhunting and cannibalism. This is compiled from a variety of sources and reads as a collection of gruesome anecdotes while lacking context and explanation.
The chapter about a visit to Kinmen was the most engaging of the Taiwan chapters as the author successfully weaved interesting historical detail into descriptions of his travel around the islands. However, the details and descriptions of personal experiences that made the China chapters interesting are mostly lacking in the Taiwan chapters. I recommend Why China Will Never Rule the World as a well written travelogue of China.
*I took a Chinese language class with Troy way back in 1999. He provided me with a copy of the book for review. More details about the book are available at www.troyparfitt.com. Purchase Why China Will Never Rule the World: Travels in the Two Chinas from Amazon.com (affiliate link).


|Beer was introduced into Exeter in the early C16th, prior to that people had drunk Ale. The art of beer making was brought from the low countries in the early C15th but it took about 100 years to reach Exeter. From then on, Beer Breweries grew rapidly at the expense of Ale Breweries. Brewing flourished during the reign of Elizabeth I, but the stuff was not always wholesome. In 1563, the City council threatened the breweries saying they would set up their own breweries if the current breweries did not brew a more wholesome drink. Aren't you glad they didn't!|
|The long history of Exeter is highlighted by many of it's
buildings, possibly the most well remembered of these were Pubs, Inns or Hotels and these buildings tended
to attract the attention of photographers more than most. For this we must all be grateful. The early map
makers also listed pubs and churches on their maps. An O.S. map of 1876
bears the weight for this particular part of Exeter through the bottom of your beer glass, listing the full
name of the pubs.
Unfortunately after this date, editions of O.S. maps only bore 'PH' to denote a pub or Inn, with hotels also being indicated. Other maps were used including Benjamin Donn's of 1765 and the many tithe maps available at the Library. These also showed established inns.
Of course the Directories were most useful.
The Westcountry Studies Library holds a paper by Robert Dymond written in 1880, entitled 'The Old Inns & Taverns of Exeter'. It was originally published as part of the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. The detail here was tremendous.
The rhyme can be viewed by taking your mouse off the map above and is from this paper and shows clearly how drinkers segregated themselves based on their trade. Dymond states that notices and mentions of Inns existing in Exeter before the dissolution of the monasteries are few and scanty.
Andrew Brice's Mobiad or Battle of the Voice published in 1770 (but finished in 1738) also provided some information, as did Victorian Exeter by Robert Newton (Leicester Univ Press 1968).
Geofrey Pring's Exe Island and the City Brewery, available at the Westcountry Studies Library
(PB/EXE/6663/PRI) also provided alot of information on both St Anne's pubs and City Brewery pubs.
"Paranumismatica". This ia a generic term covering "coin-like" objects which are studied and collected.
They can be made of anything you like and are issued unofficially. These objects may include pub advertising checks, tickets and tokens. Checks were used in Exeter in the latter half of the C19th and early C20th up until the beginning of WW1. Sometimes these were given as change or paid to someone (for instance the winner of a skittles match). They may have also been used as an advertising vehicle to induce inn patronage. They also provide a record of an inn that no longer exists.
Trade tokens were a form of currency issued in the past by local tradesmen (especially during C17th and C18th) to facilitate trade
when there was a shortage of regal currency. There were three main periods when these coins were issued. These coins also provide a
record of an inn.
1. Mid C17th, after the Civil War.
2. End of C18th. The industrial revolution and consequent trade development combined with a regal coin shortage created the need for small change.
3. During the Napoleonic Wars (1811-1815). Silver shillings and sixpences were last issued in 1787 with no copper coins issued since 1807. Tradesmen had to issue their own coinage. However this practice was declared illegal on 1st January 1818 after new coinage was introduced in 1816.
Photographs, with snippets of text were invaluable in constructing this section of the website.
The books of Peter Thomas were particularly useful, especially the photographs! Parts of
these photos have been cloned for use within the pages but are still Peter Thomas © .
My thanks to Peter for allowing me to do this.
The street plans used below are of 1876, as this is where most detail is given, however some of the pubs shown are much earlier than this. Some pubs cannot be placed, so are only named.
Suffice it to say, these pages will be a laborious ongoing project. My apologies for any I've missed, these will appear as I exhaust the directories and see what is left.
|The framed page below will provide you with some information regarding coaching houses, post houses, carriers and such like. This is page 2 of my "History of Beer and Inns" page. Page 1 may be viewed by clicking the link.|
Stuart Callon Copyright ©2001 - 2006


This website is visualized as a resource for the wider public interested in recent advances and discoveries in the archaeology of South Asia. The content is curated and reviewed by scholars and students who are actively working and studying in the field of South Asian archaeology.
Uthara Suvrathan works at the intersection of archaeology and history to examine the organization of polities and places on the margins of larger states and empires in pre-modern South Asia. She is also interested in archaeological approaches to landscape studies and in issues of pre-modern trade and contact across the Indian Ocean, with a focus on the ways in which the Indian Ocean system impacts early ports and land-based polities along the west coast of India. In addition, she works on issues of museum education, public outreach and the digital humanities, with a particular interest in the sharing of information among researchers, as well as between academics and the wider public.
NEWS AND EVENTS EDITOR
Shobhna Iyer is a MPhil candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she is studying the establishment of the Kakatiya capital Warangal. She is also a freelance academic copyeditor.
Salila Kulshreshtha secured her PhD in History from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her doctoral research focused on tracing how the spatial relocation of sacred sculptures brings about a change in their identity and ritual purpose. brings about a change in their identity and ritual purpose. She has worked on issues of urban heritage and heritage education with INTACH and with the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai. She has taught Art history, History and Humanities in Mumbai at Rizvi College of Architecture and Indian Education Society’s College of Architecture and in the USA at the Old Dominion University and Virginia Wesleyan College. Her recent publications include From Temple to Museums: Colonial Collection and Uma Mahesvara Icons in Middle Ganga Valley (Routledge: 2018); and research papers ‘Removable Heritage: Nalanda Beyond the Mahavihara’ and ‘Between Shrines and Monuments: Heritage of Sacred Spaces in South Bihar.’ She has also published with the online journal wire.in. She is currently based in Dubai and teaches an online course on Indian art for the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, University of Oxford, UK. Her research interests include religious iconography, afterlives of shrines, colonial archaeology and the making of museums in South Asia.
Deepthi Murali is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. her dissertation focuses on courtly arts and transcultural politics of eighteenth and nineteenth century Kerala, tracing productions, circulations and historical and contemporary relationships between art and its human counterparts. She is interested in issues of transculturality, material culture and the agency of things, decorative arts and aesthetics, links between art and ecology, the preservation of built heritage and the decolonization of museum spaces. For more, visit Deepthi's website.
Himanshu Prabha Ray is recipient of the Anneliese Maier research award of the Humboldt Foundation (2013 – 2018) and is affiliated to the Distant Worlds Programme, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. She is former Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Former Chairperson, National Monuments Authority, Ministry of Culture. She is series editor of Routledge Archaeology of Religion in South Asia. Her recent books include Archaeology and Buddhism in South Asia, Routledge, 2018; The Return of the Buddha: Ancient Symbols for a New Nation, Routledge, New Delhi, 2014; The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, as also edited volumes: Buddhism and Gandhara: An Archaeology of Museum Collections, Routledge, 2018; Satish Chandra and Himanshu Prabha Ray edited, The Sea, Identity and History: From the Bay of Bengal to the South China Sea, Manohar Publishers, 2013.
Arjun Rao obtained his PhD from Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, Pune in 2018. Arjun does research on the Late Prehistoric (Neolithic and Iron Age) archaeology of South India, focusing on landscapes and settlement patterns. He is working on three different ecological regions of Karnataka in the north, central and western Ghats. His project, the Koppa Archaeological Research Project was supported by the National Geographic Society, Washington DC; the Brahmagiri Landscapes and Settlement Survey (BLSS) and 'Referring Raymond Allchin's Thesis' as supported by the Nehru Trust-UK, London. He has published 20 research papers, including two in Current Science (Published by the Indian Academy of Sciences), the Journal of Archaeological Research in Asia (Elsevier Publications) and Springer Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. He has peer-reviewed for four journals of international repute. He is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Business Studies and Social Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bannerghatta Road Campus, Hulimavu, Bangalore, India. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org


The kids and I are almost finished reading a biography of George Mueller's life in preparation for the play we're putting on with our homeschool co-op. Yesterday we read that Charles Dickens once visited the orphanage at Ashley Downs. He'd heard rumors that the orphanage was a terrible place where the children were treated like slaves and decided to investigate. George Mueller gave Mr. Dickens a set of keys and sent him off with an assistant, who was told to open any door that Mr. Dickens requested. Three hours later, the assistant returned with Charles Dickens, who was so satisfied and impressed with what he saw that he promised to write an article for publication to help dispel the false rumors.
At one point, when the orphanage was in need of yet another expansion, Mueller wrote in his journal:
"The greatness of the sum required affords me a kind of secret joy; for the greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith."The kids and I have really enjoyed reading YWAM missionary biographies aloud together. I highly recommend them.


Course No. & Section:
Honors 498 & Econ. 398
Course Title:Utopia and Society
Instructor:Dr. James Devine
Course Description(principal topics covered):
This course examines the conflicts between individual desires and societal necessities under modern Western capitalism and after, using the lens of utopian (eutopian and dystopian) novels and political philosophy. We will analyze how societal institutions have been historically constructed and practiced and how utopian thinking has responded, by reading both the novels and supporting readings. Plato's Republic is discussed as both the first clear example of utopian thinking and as a response to the societal developments of his era.
This is an advanced seminar in the Honors program. Economics students and other majors may take it with permission of the instruction (i.e., me).
Plato's Republic (Cornford Transl.), selections.
Thomas More, Utopia.
Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Pohl and Kornbluth, The Space Merchants.
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward.
William Morris, News From Nowhere.
George Orwell, 1984.
Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time.
and additional readings on reserve in the library
Reading, writing, and discussion.
Active participation is crucial, including a required in-class presentation.
Midterm & Final.
Long Paper (10 15 pages)
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HVAC Improvements at Craig County Middle and High School for Craig County Public Schools
Prebid Date5/17/22 3:00pm
Bid Date5/26/22 3:00pm
Thompson & Litton, Inc.
6 Alleghany Circle, New Castle, Virginia 24127
Separate sealed Bids for the HVAC Improvements at Craig County Middle and High School for Craig County Public Schools, which consists of the replacement of existing mechanical units serving the Auditorium, Gymnasium, Administrative Offices, Kitchen, Cafeteria, Media Center/Library, and Cafeteria Hallway will be received by Jeanette Warwick, Superintendent, at the Craig County School Board Office, 6 Alleghany Circle, New Castle, Virginia 24127 until 3:00 P.M., local prevailing time, on Thursday, May 26, 2022, and then at said office publicly opened and read aloud.
The Contract Documents may be examined at the Craig County School Board Office, 6 Alleghany Circle, New Castle, Virginia 24127 until; at Thompson & Litton, 726 Auburn Avenue, Radford, VA; and online at TRASCO (http://www.trascoplanroom.com).
Copies of the Contract Documents (electronic and/or hard copy) are available for purchase through TRASCO at http://www.trascoplanroom.com.
A non-mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 3:00 P.M. All interested parties are requested to meet the Architect at the Craig County High School cafeteria at that time.
Federal Funding: The improvements are funded by ARPA/ESSER. Davis Bacon and Domestic Preference for Procurement apply to the project.
Withdrawal of bids shall be according to procedure (i) of the Virginia Public Procurement Act and to the Code of Virginia (§ 2.2-4330).
Bids must be accompanied by Bid security as specified in the Instructions to Bidders.
Each Bidder must be licensed as a Class A contractor in the State of Virginia; Bidders are instructed to review the Code of Virginia, Title 54.1, Chapter 11, prior to bidding.
The Owner does not discriminate against faith-based organizations in accordance with the Code of Virginia, § 2.2-4343.1.
MBE/WBE firms are encouraged to submit Bids.
The Contract(s) shall be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible Bidder(s).
The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all Bids if it appears in its best interest to do so.


Huynh Sanh Thong
Huynh Sanh Thong
1926 - 2008
Huynh Sanh Thong was the director of the Southeast Asian Refugee project at Yale University, and founder of the Southeast Asia Council’s Vietnam Forum and Lac Viet publications series.
Huynh Sanh Thong was widely regarded as the preeminent translator of the poetry of Vietnam, and dedicated much of his life to bringing the achievements of Vietnamese literature and culture to western audiences. He was awarded the AAS Benda Prize in 1981, and was a 1987 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
Huynh Sanh Thong published three books with Yale Press, The Heritage of Vietnamese Poetry (1979), The Tale of Kieu (1987), and AnAnthology of Vietnamese Poetry (2001). In 1984, a billingual edition of poems written by Nguyen Chi Thien and translated into English by Huynh Sanh Thong was published by the Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies under the title Flowers from Hell. In 1985, this book won the International Poetry Prize in Rotterdam.
For additional details on Thong’s life and accomplishments, see
“In Memoriam: Huynh Sanh Thong,” Yale University Office of Public Affairs, November 26, 2008. http://communications.yale.edu
“Huynh Sanh Thong,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol 3, Issue 1 pps. 220-239 © 2008 Regents of the University of California
“At Yale, a Scholar Produces Small Magazine Providing Vietnamese Refugees with a Voice,” By Colin Campbell, New York Times, May 19, 1985. http://select.nytimes.com/search/
Yale University Press - Books by Huynh Sanh Thong*
Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies -Viet Nam Publications
*The Heritage of Vietnamese Poetry is out of print, but available from “Books On Demand.”