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22 October 2019, Podgorica
Dear friends, ladies and gentlemen!
I am honored to be with you and sincerely welcome you all.
One of the greatest powers of light is to unify. Today, the light of word and the light of a great personality come together again.
Azerbaijan consists of two parts: North Azerbaijan - the modern Republic of Azerbaijan, where over 10 million people live, and South Azerbaijan, where more than 30 million people reside.
Both North and South Azerbaijan have a region called Garadagh. In the literal translation "Garadagh" means "Montenegro."(Chrna Gora)
Today, the light of the words of the great Azerbaijani thinker, poet and playwright Hussein Javid once again demonstrates great power, combining 3 Montenegro - 3 Chrna Gora and 3 Garadagh.
I start my speech with the feeling of satisfaction generated by this combination.
The boundary of time is not so great when it seems to separate us from Hussein Javid. He was born in the late 19th century and lived in the first half of the 20th century.
During the 1980s and 1990s, even at the beginning of our new century, many of the people who saw and communicated with Javid, were still alive and sharing their memories. The newsreel that visually show us Javid have also been preserved as a keepsake. The bridge of those memories brings Javid closer to us today as our contemporary. However, while reading his works, Javid also seems to us as a very old classical philosopher who lived hundreds of years ago. It is not without reason that he has been compared with the most famous figures of world literature and called Shakespeare of Azerbaijan and the East. The reason for this is the depth, wisdom, and philosophy in Javid's poetry.
Javid was an intelligent educator who had received an education from well-educated teachers. He traveled to Iran from Nakhchivan where he was born and lived in adolescence. There he learned Persian and Oriental literature and gained life experiences.
He then went to Turkey in 1905, studied at the Literary Department of Istanbul University for five years, and took lessons from such outstanding philosophers and writers as Reza Tofik, Tofik Fikrat who had founded their school. At a time when Azerbaijan was a part of the Soviet Union, that is to say, behind the iron curtain, access to foreign countries was very limited. However, Hussein Javid was fortunate. Javid had such a great literary reputation that he was sent by the government's decision to Germany in 1926 for a long time to cure his eyes. He was fortunate enough to have a close look at Europe and European life that was unavailable for many of his compatriots. Thus, his deep knowledge, extensive research, and the geography that he went through made Hussein Javid in his life a thinker who combined mode of thinking of both the East and the West that enabled him to view many realities through broad scale in panorama.
Therefore, from the very beginning of his literary career, the themes and motives he spoke of went beyond the national framework and gained universal significance.
The themes, plots and heroes of his rich palette came not only from Azerbaijan, but from the Caucasus, the Middle East, Asia and Europe.
Her heroes were not only his compatriots - Azerbaijani Turks, but the mankind on the whole and the embodiment of human internal liberty.
Javid was born in 1882, and during World War I, he took the lead among literary figures of Azerbaijan's well-known generation. Such a traumatic event in the life of the world, of course, could not have passed by his thinking and creativity. Even more! The war and its horrors have also changed the poet's worldview. The young poet, who has focused more on lyrical-philosophical themes at the beginning of the literary path of historical movement, has reluctantly sought to think and write about life, human, world, events that change the speed and content of time.
When Javid was 38, Azerbaijan lost its independence. The Soviet regime seized Azerbaijan, the first republic established in the East. He also experienced the sorrows of his country and nation through his fate, and ultimately became one of the victims of this regime and politics.
Javid wrote in one of his famous verses:
I am a burning and extinct luster of
This was not merely nice poet's word. It was the truth that conveyed the essence of Javid's personality and literary activity. Javid's poetry was based on the desire not to fit into molds and frames, but to expose the constraints of a compelling and volatile environment, to reveal the shortcomings of society and humanity, to see the human being in the comforts and pleasures he deserved. Nonetheless, how could one record it all down at the time when cruel Soviet censorship existed along with hundreds of suspicious controls of every printed and published word?
Javid therefore sought to exploit the methods which permitted to tell things that were not allowed to be told. In the meantime, he took refuge in history in order to present modern truths and took advantage of the language of Ezop. He wrote "Sayavush," a story about 1,000 years ago, "Khayyam," a story telling the realities of the 8th century, "Topal Teymur", a story reflecting confrontations and human relations of 6th century. People were reading these works, watching them in the theater, and seeing not what was happening in the distant past, but themselves, the realities of their lives and their modernity.
It is no coincidence that when the "Topal Teymur" was first shown on the scene in 1926, two high-ranking Soviet officials who ruled Azerbaijan saw themselves in the work and immediately banned the play. The drama returned to the scene only after almost 60 years.
Because of his freethinking, not repeating what everyone says, protesting position, and different mode of thinking, the regime arrested Javid in 1937 sending to Siberia as one of the hundreds of thousands of victims of the bloody Soviet repression, and the life of a genius poet ended in the land of glaciers.
However, fragments of Javid's latest work reached people from those death camps. And the last drama of Javid, the author of the tragedies whose life was also a series of tragedies, was called "God”. With this work, he wanted to complete a triad that could be considered the peak of his literary activity. World War I caused him to write “Devil” in 1918. Observations of the following years made him write the play “Prophet”. The Second World War, which he had already encountered in Soviet prison, inspired him to write the drama "God."
Thus, there emerged "Devil", "Prophet" and "God" - a philosophical and poetic epopee about the triangle that spiritually and physically influenced and affected a human throughout his life.
All of Javid's literary activity is the manifestation of struggle taking place between good and evil, darkness and light, liberty and despotism.
This eternal confrontation is most clearly reflected in these three works. In fact, all of Javid's works is a whole, the parts which observe, continue, and complement each other.
Hussein Javid's daughter Turan khanum was a valuable cultural figure, thetaer theorist who died in 2004 at the age of 80. She was 14 when his father was arrested. She said that her father had a lot of copies of his "Devil" published in 1927. In one of the days when my father was intensely attacked by the press which increased our troubles, I told him that there would be a lot of trouble in the house containing so many “devils”, on pointing to those bookshelves. My father immediately pointed to another book published in 1923 on the back of the bookshelf and said, "Here is the “Prophet” as well."
Javid always believed in the existence of this order, and therefore never gave up. He believed in the future even in the darkest times and hoped that everything would be fine.
Since there is always devilishness in the world and within human being, there is always a light of prophecy that goes against him.
It is precisely the presence of good in front of evil that does not allow the scales of the world to bend and the propotion to breake.
Sometimes the "Devil" is called Javid's masterpiece.
I was fortunate enough to be able to talk with my older contemporaries, who were Javid's junior contemporaries, about the poet, spectacles watched by him, and the impressions of the theatrical audience of that time.
They said that in the 1920s in Azerbaijan, in Baku, the days when Javid's works were staged in the theater, turned into a holiday. The lovers of literature and art passed through the streets after spectacles, along with quoting the passages from “Devil”.
The wisdom in these works has educated generations of people and continues to fullfil this good mission today.
There were also figures in world literature who had addressed the theme of devil prior to Javid.
Mefistofel in Goethe's Faust, or Lucifer of Byron, or Lermontov's Demon are works that arise from the need to find answers to the question "What the devil is?"
Javid has been also looking for answers to this question, and I think that his play is one of the most powerful works that exposes the essence of the devil in world literature and philosophy, reveals all the shades of this desease, and the ways to get rid of devil itself.
Several years ago, a book called “Javid aphorisms” was published in Baku. Maybe in the future, someone might attempt to publish similiar collections. But since I have read and studied the works of this powerful master of word and intelligence for many years, one of the conclusions that I have come to appreciate is that the attempt to find selective aphorisms in his works is futile. Because all his heritage from the beginning to the end, consists of such wise thoughts and statements that can be regarded as aphorism.
Before mentioning Javid's hemistiches, which is among the best answers to one of the world's most perplexing questions in the aforementioned "Devil" drama, let me tell you some interesting details about the poet's cuisine of literary activity.
Each writer has a unique style of writing and working. When I was looking at Javid's pocketbooks, manuscripts, and the drafts of some of his published works that became consequently common belonging, I came across a strange situation. He firstly wrote every line of his poem as a line-line prose. In other words, he found an idea above all. He polished the idea through the prose, and then started to turn them into poetry. That is to say, in the poem for Javid, the idea precedes the proportionality and harmony of the words. However, Javid succeeded in expressing these thoughts in Azerbaijani Turkic with exceptional beauty. I regret that no one, not even the most talented translator of the world can express this unique beauty with its juice, sweetness and color until the end. However, due to the mental gravity of these verses, even in translation Javid's greatness is always noticed.
Javid poses a question in “Devil". More precisely, the Devil himself poses this question in the play, and he does not make wait long for an answer. He explains that you should not look around for the Devil as an extraordinary creature, a demonic force. Like all nobleness, goodness, love, it is inside each of you. He is a good and honest man, strong and pure, who is able to silence, kill, extinguish the devil within him, and be able to revive the light of the Prophet in his heart and mind:
What is the Devil? The cause of all treachery!
Who is a person treacherous to everyone? The Devil!
The name of the great Azerbaijani poet who brought us together again today, around the hearth of the word he created is Hussein and his surname is Rasizadeh. Nevertheless, more than his name and surname, the poet is well-known in history and in memories with his literary pseudonym: Javid!
The word "Javid" means eternal.
Javid has created immortal pearls that acquired the right to live forever from the feelings and thoughts that are eternal.
One of the brightest of these pearls is “Devil”.
It is an eternal work that today comes to Montenegro which Javid hasn’t seen, and begins to speak in Montenegrin language which Javid didn’t know, and will step into other countries and speak their languages tomorrow.
There is a simple reason for this unfinished journey and the native welcoming everywhere. Whatever Javid wrote or left as a heritage, all of them targetted humankind.
These masterpieces which do not know the border are intended not only for Javid's own compatriots, but for the human being, the adornment of the great world and the supreme masterpiece of God!
Therefore, no matter what language they speak and whatever door they open, these works will always be welcomed as old friends whose arrival were looked forward long ago.
As it is today in Montenegro!
And today has another instructive meaning that provokes an extremely great conmpassion.
Javid's son Artogrol, according to his contemporaries was a creator who wasn’t behind his father regarding his talent.
Fikrat Amirov, who studied with him at the conservatory and later became one of the most famous composers in Azerbaijan and the world, told me that Artogrol Javid was the most talented among them.
Artogrol was an artist, poet, playwright, literary critic, composer, folklorologist and translator.
He has left the heritage fitting into 10 large volumes.
However what a pity that an owner of such a universal and brilliant talent has had a lifetime consisting of merely 24 years.
The family of Javid who was blamed, arrested and destroyed by the Soviet regime as the "People's Enemy", was also persecuted. Although Artogrol was a conservatory student, he was taken to the military service. However, he was not sent to the front due to his belonging to politically insecure family, and was involved in the construction of heavy tunnels and to work underground. Here Artogrol was contaminated with a deadly tuberculosis disease, closed his eyes forever, without ever being able to say great words in art and literature.
The romances, symphonic pieces, poems, researches and paintings left by him today generate astonishment thus manifesting the rare talent of Artogrol. It is heartbreaking that we have lost so many valuable people through the wave of insidious policies that destroy the fate.
October was very remarkable for the Javid's family.
Hussein Javid was born on October 24th.
His daughter Turan was born on October 2nd.
Artogrol was born and died in October.
Today is October 22nd and is the birthday of the most beautiful work of the great Azerbaijani poet and playwright Hussein Javid, his son Artogrol Javid.
It's not an ordinary birthday either. Today is his 100th anniversary!
I do not know whether the election of today's October 22 for the presentation of Cavid's book which is to speak for the first time in Montenegrin language, is a coincidence, or it is a charm of destiny that is impossible to explain.
The feast of Artogrol Javid - a talented man whose way of life and creative activity has been brutally broken early, today joins with the celebration of his beloved father's new book.
This means that today the devil is defeated again, which means that goodness is triumphant today.
And such triumphs of light over the darkness will never end.
Today is 100th anniversary of Artogrol Javid.
He was allowed to live solely 24 years of his centennial endless life. And I want this gifted person to come back here alive today. Let him come back with his unforgettable masterpiece.
The work that Artogrol Javid composed at the beginning of World War II at the age of 21, was dedicated to his teacher, the great Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibayli.
Although this work was created 77 years ago, it is still fresh today pleasing the spirit.
Human beings are alive with what they have created!
Today you are in a celebration of the triumph of goodness, light and talent.
I wish that the light always be with you!
The most eternal holiday in the world is the holiday of the book, and today we celebrate the birth of a new valuable book.
Finally, I would like to thank those who granted us this holiday.
Azerbaijan had a great scientist and cultural researcher - Ghulam Mammadli.
He lived almost the entire 20th century. He was born in 1897 and died in 1994. At the time of publication of my book “More supreme than time”, which first highlighted the fate of Hussein Javid and his descendants as well as conveyed many truths to the public, Ghulam Mammadli delivered very touching words on television. He said that there were four Javids in Hussein Javid's family. The poet himself, his son Artogrol Javid, his wife Mishkinaz Javid and their daughter Turan Javid. Now, after reading this book, we can say that the author is the fifth member of the Javid family.
So today I express my gratitude not only on my own behalf but also on behalf of the Javid family.
I deliver my my deepest gratitude to Ms. Dragana Pantovich, translator who for the first time sounded "Devil" in Montenegrin language as well as to academician Zuvdija Hodzich, editor of the book.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Mr. Eldar Hasanov, the author and co-founder of the project, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Republic of Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, an enterprising and active person, who has a valuable contribution to the promotion of Azerbaijani literature and culture, and who has consistently contributed to the development of relations between our countries.
Considering that I am also a member of the Azerbaijani Parliament, chairing the Culture Committee, I convey my deepest feelings of satisfcation and gratitude to you on behalf of my nation and my country.
The life of the book goes far beyond human life.
And gratitude to those who donated this book to Montenegro and to Azerbaijan, will last as long as the life of this book.


The temptation of Christ
- oil on canvas
- 75.5 × 55.0 cm
- inscribed in brown paint l.c.l.: Ary Scheffer / 1854
- Accession Number
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
- Gallery location
- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
Collection of John Farnworth (d. c. 1869), Woolton, near Liverpool, by c. 1869; Estate of John Farnworth, until 1874; included in Farnworth sale, Christie's, London, 19 May 1874, no. 69; from where purchased by Agnew's (dealer), London, 1874, stock no. 8742; sold to E. M. Buxton, 6 June 1874; collection of E. M. Buxton, 1874–79; re-purchased by Agnew's, London, 7 June 1879, stock no 1176; sold to J. D. Perrins, 7 June 1879; his collection, until 1883; by whom sold to Agnew’s, London, 20 April 1883, stock no. 2734; sold to William Graham (1817–85), Glasgow, 4 May 1883; his collection, until 1885; included in William Graham sale, Christie's, London, 2–10 April 1886 (sold 2 April), no. 83; from where purchased, by Alfred Taddy Thompson, for the NGV, 1886.
 See n1 above, p. 294-95
 See Agnew’s Picture Stockbook 1879–85, NGA27/1/1/6, pp. 218-19, Thomas Agnew & Sons archive, National Gallery Research Centre, London, accessed https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/research/research-centre/agnews-stock-books/reference-nga27116-1879-85. Annotation reads 1882, however this appears to be a mistake.


Tom Cruise has nothing on Matt Steele, the sexy action-movie star at the center of The Girl on the Balcony. Matt has it all: a self-assured swagger, piercing blue eyes, and a dazzling smile that weakens the knees of female fans all over the globe. One thing he doesn’t have, though, is the girl who mesmerized him from the balcony at his London film premiere. In her easy, entertaining debut novel, British writer Frances Hart sets Matt on the trail of this elusive beauty.
The girl in question is Laura Marshall, a high-school English teacher with more love for Pride and Prejudice than for The Avengers. Laura is not a regular on the red carpet, so Matt temporarily removes himself from the limelight and assumes the identity of one of his upcoming movie characters. Posing as out-of-work actor Jonathan Mann, superstar Matt can approach Laura on her own turf.
The attraction between the two is immediately palpable in their playful banter and longing gazes. Romance fans will swoon when the characters finally touch, but they will always be anticipating the looming moment when Matt will have to reveal his true identity. This tension adds steam to the sexy scenes, although Hart keeps things R-rated and under, with more walks on the beach than explicit bedroom romps.
Matt’s eventual revelation brings the simmering situation to a boil but also lets some of the steam out of the romance. Although Hart tries to resurrect the passion she created in the early pages—through a series of misunderstandings that would make Shakespeare proud—the romance ultimately loses momentum. Family emergencies, lost cell phones, and sudden illnesses all conspire to keep the lovers apart, and as the misfires and miscommunications pile up, readers may find it hard to recall the spark that brought these two together in the first place.
The story remains enjoyable, however, thanks to Hart’s ease with witty dialogue and the introduction of some fascinating secondary characters. Laura and Matt’s love story could easily become generic, much like the standard beauty posing on the book’s cover, but Hart mixes things up by showing the other people in Laura’s life. Scenes with her brother’s fiancée, Annabel (as the bride from hell), and Laura’s flamboyant and loyal friend, Philip, show her life to be full, not focused only on romance.
Hart’s occasional nods to Shakespeare and Austen keep things interesting as well, as Laura leads her students in discussions about things like mistaken identities and social status standing in the way of true love. The literary references are never heavy-handed, and they add thought-provoking layers to a basically simple love story. The Girl on the Balcony is most of all an entertaining diversion, a summertime beach book for romance fans.
Sheila M. Trask for ForeWord Reviews
June 25, 2013


When the 'fairies' come on the 1st of December I decorate Oscar's room and always get out the Christmas/Winter themed books out and leave them on his toy box for him to choose from to read with us at bedtime. I have collected a few over the last few years and have kept the touch and feel books for next year for the new baby to have. Here are the ones we have out for Oscar for this year's Christmas book selection.
The Jolly Christmas Postman RRP £12.99
It's Christmas Eve and the JOLLY POSTMAN is delivering greetings to various fairy-tale characters - there's a card for Baby Bear, a game appropriately called 'Beware' for Red Riding Hood from Mr Wolf, a get-well jigsaw for hospitalised Humpty Dumpty and three more surprise envelopes containing letters, cards, etc. Everyone's favourite postman keeps on peddling his bicycle up hill and down dale . . . and into everybody's hearts.
My Special Christmas Adventure, personalised book £9.99
On Christmas Eve, the Christmas Angel takes your child to Santa’s workshop where he meets Santa Claus and his helpers. Your child travels the world with Santa on his reindeer-drawn sleigh and helps deliver presents to the children as well as learning about the different Christmas traditions in each country.
Santa's Noisy House RRP £12.99
Press the buttons and bring Santa's noisy house to life! Santa's snoring away, getting some rest before his big trip and it's your job to ring his alarm clock and wake him up. After all, there's so much still to do before Christmas Day! This is a fabulously noisy, and sparkly, behind-the-scenes look at Santa's world as he prepares for the big day. With absolutely masses of detail to spot on every spread this is one Christmas book that will be enjoyed over and over.
Guess How Much I Love You In The Winter RRP £6.99
Big and Little Nutbrown Hare, from the multi-million-selling picture book Guess How Much I Love You, return for Winter. The captivating story is seasonally themed and beautifully illustrated.
Happy Christmas Boris RRP £8.99
Happy Christmas Boris is a fun book with a Boris puppet where Boris helps Father Christmas deliver all the presents.
We Wish You A Merry Christmas Musical Book RRP £5
A fun Christmas sing along book!
Merry Christmas Busy Book RRP £7.99
My Busy Book is an amusing storybook and inventive toy in one activity kit. Full page illustrations and a rhyming tale bring these holiday characters to life, as you child's imagination expands with 12 toy figurines and a giant play mat. Oscar absolutely loves it!
The Busy Christmas Stable RRP £5.99
Where are Mary and Joseph going? Where will they sleep? With four lever tabs to move at the bottom of the pages, can you find the right answer? All children love to play peek a boo and this is an ideal introduction to the wonderful story of the very first Christmas, with friendly characters that appear and disappear when you move the lever at the bottom of each page.


Modern Erasures: Revolution, the Civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of China’s Past, Cambridge University Press (2022).
(sommaire en français ici)
Modern Erasures builds on my first book (described below) in various ways. If Famine Relief in Warlord China is a microhistory focusing on famine responses in China a century ago, then Modern Erasures is a social history of ideas, of how dominant perceptions were formed about the nature of Chinese—and particularly rural—communities in times of crisis. It is, most fundamentally, a history of modernist discourse and ideological practice, focusing on Maoism. The book revolves around drought and earthquake in remote parts of China, such as Haiyuan in eastern Gansu (today’s Ningxia), a year into the tumultuous May Fourth movement of 1919 and a year before the first meetings of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921. In doing so, the book charts the pedigree of Maoist thought and practice over the half century between May Fourth and the CCP’s founding and the peak of the Cultural Revolution in 1969. It does this to shed light on the relationship between knowledge destruction and physical violence, book-burning and bloodletting, during China’s revolutions.
The book compares local cultural records on earthquake and famine-struck communities (what it calls communal memory recorded in gazetteers and, later, in Wenshi ziliao or Cultural and Historical Miscellany) with what it calls revolutionary memory of the recent Chinese past: the erasure of mutual aid and civic action in these same events in May Fourth and New Culture-era social surveys, the writings of missionaries and Western residents, including Nobel Prize laureates, liberal pedagogical texts, and Nationalist and Communist party doctrine. Through woodcuts, opera, and youth publications, the book then follows artistic, journalistic, and sociological work on rural life through the republican period into the campaigns of social reprogramming under Mao. Ultimately, Modern Erasures shows how the Maoist evocation of the “old society” earmarked for destruction was only the most extreme phase of a transnational, colonial-era conversation on the “backwardness” of rural communities.
Famine Relief in Warlord China, Harvard East Asian Monograph Series, Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press (2019).
Little is still known about how China’s many thousands of rural communities conducted themselves during moments of crisis before the People’s Republic. My first book Famine Relief in Warlord China captures everyday life in Chinese villages, towns and cities a century ago by examining the varied responses to drought famine on the North China plain. One of the book’s main aims is to shed light on what Chinese communities actually did and did not do when millions of destitute neighbors or compatriots faced starvation due to spiraling grain prices over the winter of 1920-21. In doing so, the book seeks to shift academic attention away from international and institutional relief interventions in modern Chinese disasters towards activity along indigenous social networks. It does this for what it reveals about everyday values and social relations in an under-studied period between the fall of the Qing in 1911 and the rise of the Communist and Nationalist parties over the course of the 1920s.
(2022) “Migration and State-Making: A Beiyang Settlement Scheme Along the Amur in 1921,” Twentieth-Century China Vol. 47 no. 1, pp. 30-39.
(2016) “Beyond International and Institutional Relief in Late 19th Century China: in Search of the Local”, European Review of History/Revue Européenne d’histoire, Vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 873-89.
(2015) “Writing Disaster: A Chinese Earthquake and the Pitfalls of Historical Investigation”, History Workshop Journal, Vol. 80, pp. 201-17.
(2015) “Changing disaster relief regimes in China: an analysis using four famines between 1876 and 1962”, Disasters, Vol. 39, Special issue 2, pp. 146-65.
(2013) “North China Famine Revisited: Unsung Native Relief in the Warlord Era, 1920-21”, Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 820-50.
(2011) “‘Barren Soil, Fertile Minds’: Drought Famine & Visions of the ‘Callous Chinese’ circa 1920”, The International History Review, Vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 453-72.


2012 Half of the darkness, Prefix, Toronto
HALF OF THE DARKNESS
Prefix Photo, Toronto
PASCAL GRANDMAISON: HALF OF THE DARKNESS By Anja Bock
HALF OF THE DARKNESS
Nowhere are the biases, limits and strangeness of photography – “the ultimate art form of modernity”10 – better exposed than in Pascal Grandmaison’s monumental Half of the Darkness (2010). Over 250 photographs, printed in negative, are laid out across four large plinths: craters and canyons, technological breakthroughs and arctic expeditions, fungal spores, prisms and dinosaurs, enormous robotic hands, rockets and chimpanzees, to name just a few, are featured in this sampling of imagery. The photographs are either candid or posed, aerial or macro, but in every case “man” is depicted at his best, conquering the world with his footprints, flags and various optic instruments. Astronauts and spaceships, as well as an old steam engine, rest alongside a bearded woman and a man covered in butterflies. And a defunct Ferris wheel speaks of an age passed by. Taken in sum, this display of disparate photographs functions like an ashen memorial for the discredited dream of modernity.
In an essay titled “Photography Is Over, If You Want It,” Eric Rosenberg states, “Our mistake, as well as our necessity, has been to account for photography as part of modernism’s taxonomy, its evidence.”11 It was put to two impossible tasks, which continue through to today: on the one hand, photography is the “primary instrument of self-knowledge and representation.”12 Take for example the photograph of the fisherman in Half of the Darkness, who is proudly holding his catch of the day, or the young family looking at a giant waterfall, or the photographs of various
10 Eric Rosenberg, “Photography is Over, If You Want It.” In Kelsey, Robin, and Stimson, Blake, eds. The Meaning of Photography. Clark Studies in the Visual Arts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 191.
11 Rosenberg, 190.
12 Marianne Hirsch, Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 6.
athletes at the height of their jump or the summit of a mountain. In each case what is depicted is a wished-for identification. On the other hand, photography also promises a “mechanical form of objectivity”13 and advances a positivist approach to the world.14 The numerous close-up photographs of various scientific specimens illustrate this well – their mysteries are exposed, turned into objects of knowledge.
Due to this “double indexicality,”15 photography was heralded as a means of knowing the world and as a means of understanding the “self.” But more than drawing a parallel between them, the modernist investment in photography renewed the eighteenth-century promise to unite inner and outer realities in a process of self-realization.16 This alleged congruence is connoted by many of the images in Half of the Darkness. Consider for example the photographs of men (and they are men) wielding various optical devices to extend the parameters of their vision. In one image we see a man in the lab coat peering through a microscope: he is positioned as a unitary “I,” the sovereign subject of sight (as opposed to an object of the “gaze”), and under his lens he discovers a reflection of his powers of cognition. This congruence is thoroughly Kantian and the cornerstone of Western thought.
Julia Kristeva argued that “the rationalist attempt to transform the world into its own image is only one more interpretation which cannot see that it embraces a void.”17 As Grandmaison exposed in Void View, photography, as well, embraces a void – it assumes that the presence of the world is transparent to its aperture when in fact its perception is partial and finite. Photography materializes a painful disjunction with the world which Rosenberg calls “violent.” He writes, “By violence, I mean that photography itself ... is a phenomenon always at a disjunctive, perpendicular counterpoint to our actual experience, to our being.”18 Precisely because it can only record half of the darkness, photography cannot go to the heart of darkness. As Rosenberg states, “Photography allows us to enter a realm of pure fantasy based solely on connection with utter reality and yet a reality of ease, of dormancy, of sleep”19 – a reality that to Barthes (and Joseph Conrad) is a “kind of education” in “civility.”20
13 Robin Kelsey and Blake Stimson, “Photography’s Double Index.” In Kelsey, Robin, and Stimson, Blake, eds. The Meaning of Photography. Clark Studies in the Visual Arts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xii.
14 Urs Stahel, Well, What is Photography? Zurich: Scalo, 2003. 8.
15 Robin Kelsey and Blake Stimson, xi.
16 Robin Kelsey and Blake Stimson, xvi.
17 Julia Kristeva as cited in Appignanesi, Richard, and Garrett, Chris. Introducing Postmodernism. Thriplow, UK: Icon Books, 2004. 104.
18 Rosenberg, 191.
19 Rosenberg, 192.
20 Barthes, 28.
In Half of the Darkness, photography’s promises and corollaries are depicted as absences rather than presences. What takes on a presence instead are the non-illuminated parts of the image that the camera could not capture. By exposing the “negatives” Grandmaison interrupts habitual ways of viewing images and slows down their consumption. Snow turns black and pupils turn white and the whole world looks inside out. In a conversation about this work, Grandmaison states,
I like your idea that truth can reveal itself more fully in darkness. The title Half of the Darkness seems to direct us to only half of the truth. But, in revealing that which is hidden, dark, real, aren’t we bringing a certain subjectivity, or classification, to bear after all? Doesn’t claiming to reveal the truth in fact upend it, subjecting it to opinion? One half of the truth – the other half lost in illustrating it – a little like infinity.21
Half of the Darkness puts into question the authority of visual information by calling attention to the “visualization ‘error’”22 of the photographic (and modernist) viewpoint.
Through Grandmaison’s selection of images, which parade human achievements, the dream of human liberty through technological progress takes on the nostalgic tone of the “it-has-been.” These spectres of ideology find an appropriate burial ground in the modern institution of the museum. The staging that Grandmaison designed for Half of the Darkness is oddly reminiscent of Edward Steichen’s infamous Family of Man exhibition in 1955, which followed a universal humanist agenda. In a scathing review, Barthes described The Family of Man as follows:
Everything here, the content and appeal of the pictures, the discourse which justifies them, aims to suppress the determining weight of History: we are held back at the surface of an identity, prevented precisely by sentimentality from penetrating into this ulterior zone of human behavior where historical alienation introduces some ‘differences’ which we shall here quite simply call ‘injustices.’23
The exclusion of differences, of the other, is taken to its “logical conclusion” in the practice of genocide, a link which Grandmaison makes blatant: the museological stagecraft of Half of the Darkness is similar to what one finds in Holocaust museums – row after row of black and white photographs, documents of the lives destroyed by the Nazi regime.
Barthes described his experience of photography as “a fascinating and funereal enigma.”24 Through its uncanny white shadows and prone display, Half of the Darkness reveals the inverse of the studium, the other side of the civilization’s “polite interest.”25 What are “enlightened”
21 Grandmaison, 295.
22 Grandmaison, 295.
23 Roland Barthes as cited in Geoffrey Batchen, “Palinode: An Introduction.” In Geoffrey Batchen, ed. Photography Degree Zero. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. 5.
24 Barthes as cited in Batchen, 9.
25 Barthes, 27.
are the camera’s blind-spots: blacks too deep to penetrate by the mind and eye alike. Visual constructions of historical “truth” come to look like so many fluctuating memories. “Memory is photography’s ultimate archive,” writes Rosenberg, “[b]ut it is a chimerical one, for memory in the end will always go its own way, refusing to contain an object outside of itself, a technology other to its own formation.”26 Rather than being lined-up in a transmittable historical narrative, Half of the Darkness is an abundant archive, a non-hierarchical database of ghostly impressions, non-linear and nearly nonsensical. It is as if Grandmaison opened the shadows to allow the viewers’ subjectivity to flow in, thereby reclaiming what was lost in the process of objectification and supplementing the photographs’ partiality – its mask of meaning – with the spectre of otherness.
Let us return to the Ouverture series with which this essay opened. Pascal Grandmaison’s practice is accumulative, and so now, after considering many subsequent works as well as the stunning Half of the Darkness, its impact is easier to articulate: in the contours of these portrait heads, we fail to recognize their “identity.” Grandmaison points to our inability to know ourselves in the face of the photograph. These “portraits” are like facing the obstinacy of a mute, enigmatic child or the impossible question “what are you thinking?”27 The studium cannot encode the “other” at the heart of the “self” – the half that is lost in illustrating it.
The more we look at Grandmaison’s work, the more it becomes clear that the challenge he poses is deeply philosophical: reclaiming what is lost, what falls by the wayside of signification, and uncovering the positive values of all sorts of “voids.” His photographs and videos are not elaborate conceptual puzzles or demonstrations of discursive virtuosity. They are not made to be decoded, leaving the satisfaction of a completed cross-word puzzle that one soon forgets. Rather, Grandmaison counters hyper-rationalism and positivism with a certain romanticism that searches for pre-binary plenitude. We could call this an updated realism. That is, the reality which Grandmaison faces has nothing to do with empiricism: it has to do with the Lacanian real without which we would be perpetually limited to the “civilized code of perfect illusions.”28
26 Rosenberg, 191. 27 See Stahel, 7.
28 Barthes, 119.


Let's face it, we are all likely going to resort to more screen time than usual over the next weeks. I will share useful websites and other online materials on our blog throughout this time, but let's start with activities that don't need screens. As an idea to help this, maybe try these first few days to limit screen time (beyond what you will end up allowing soon) and build a "library" of ideas that don't involve screens, so that we can maybe create some fun, new habits before we bore of everything in the house and just want to watch Daniel Tiger for the rest of the time!
Here are a few ideas for both preschoolers and school-agers:
And for the older children:


The App Library is a great way to organize apps on your iPhone. It automatically sort them into categories and provides a searchable alphabetical list.
However, navigating the App Library can be a little confusing at first. You can get a handle on it by understanding how each category box works.
1. Swipe to the right on your Home Screen
Apple introduced the App Library to iOS 14 as an alternative to constantly scrolling through pages of apps on your iPhone’s Home Screen. It organizes your iPhone’s apps intelligently so they appear in categories that match how you use them.
It also includes a search bar that lets you find any app on your iPhone without ever opening the App Library. This makes it much easier to locate the app you’re looking for, especially if you can’t remember its name or don’t know where it is on your iPhone’s Home Screen.
The App Library is a great way to keep track of your iPhone’s apps. It’s organized in categories that are automatically generated based on how you use them. It also features a searchable alphabetical list view of all your apps.
2. Tap the App Library icon
The App Library is a handy tool for browsing all the apps on your iPhone. It’s especially useful when you’re trying to find an app that you’ve misplaced on your Home Screen or is missing from a folder.
As you add apps to your device, they gradually fill up pages on your Home Screen and it can be difficult to locate them. Apple’s App Library aims to solve this problem by automatically sorting your apps by category.
The App Library includes all the apps on your Home Screen in two columns that are automatically grouped by category. You can tap an individual app to open it, or you can also tap a group of four smaller app icons to view all apps in that category.
3. Tap a category
The App Library is a new space on your iPhone that holds all of your apps in one easy-to-manage view. It’s a bit like Android’s app drawer, but instead of just collecting apps in a bunch of folders, iOS organizes them into categories.
As soon as you swipe to the right on your Home Screen, the App Library pops up. It has two smart folders called Recently Added and Suggestions, which are apps that Siri thinks you’ll probably use next based on your recent activity, time of day, and location.
Each folder shows a selection of the apps inside it. There are three large app icons and four smaller ones in a quadrant at the bottom of the screen.
4. Tap an app
The App Library is a great way to sift through your apps, but it can be a bit of a pain. If you have a lot of Home Screen pages to swipe through, it can take quite a while to navigate through this feature.
To make it easier, the App Library organizes your apps into folders with three larger icons and four smaller ones in a square grid. Each category displays a preview of some of your apps that can be accessed by tapping the smaller icons.
These folders are based on what kind of apps you have on your phone, such as social, utilities and recently added. You can’t rename these folders, but they are helpful for quickly sifting through your app collection.
5. Tap the search bar
The App Library is one of Apple’s new Home screen features in iOS 14. It’s a drawer for all of your apps, and it’s great for removing excess apps from your Home Screen to keep things tidy.
In the App Library, Apple organizes all of your apps into folders based on their categories in the App Store. These are usually called Social, Utilities, and Entertainment, for example.
When you tap an app icon in the App Library, a full-size version of it appears. You can also tap the little four-icon grouping, which opens a view of all apps in that category.


It’s always wonderful to read a nice romance novel. This time I got the chance to review Susan Mallery’s Three Little Words and it was such a delight. I loved the characters and the story line was oh so sweet. It’s actually 2 love stories in one, because you follow along with 2 couples falling in love. It’s just a nice little perk to the book.
When she was fourteen, Isabel vowed she would love military-bound Ford Hendrix forever. But after endless unanswered letters to her former crush, and one disastrous marriage to a man who turned out to be gay, Isabel is finished with romance for good—at least until she fulfills her dream of moving to New York and taking the fashion world by storm. But when former navy Seal Ford returns to town, more charming and sexy than ever, Isabel can’t help feeling like a crazy love-struck teenager all over again.
Ford joined the navy fourteen years ago suffering from a broken heart and determined to avoid all future emotional attachments. Unfortunately, now that bodyguard trainer Ford is home for good, he has to deal with his persevering mother, who is just as determined to marry her bachelor son off as he is to stay single.
To keep his mother off his back, Ford convinces Isabel to pretend to be his girlfriend until she leaves for New York. Even though it’s hard for him to keep his hands off the formerly scrawny kid who’s grown up in all the right ways, Ford is determined to protect the emotionally fragile girl whose treasured letters kept him sane during his service.
Every kiss and touch, however, has both Ford and Isabel wondering how pretend this fake relationship actually is. She’s stirring up emotions in Ford that no one ever has before, while Ford is making Isabel think twice about her plans to leave town. Despite their doubts, however, both Ford and Isabel believe nothing can sway them—not even three little words….
Susan Mallery is just a wonderful writer. There seems to be 2 books before this book that go together in a series. But you don’t have to read them to follow along with the novel. But I am going to check it out. I have reviewed another Susan Mallery novel, Three Sisters, that was just as great if you are looking for something else from her.
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I read a lot, predominantly books on health, fitness, and business. One of the most enjoyable and educational books I have read in some time is, Accidentally Overweight: Solve Your Weight Loss Puzzle.
Accidentally Overweight is written by Dr. Libby Weaver, one of the southern hemisphere’s leading experts on holistic health and weight loss. Her extensive educational background in health and years of hands-on experience working in health clinics give her unique insight as to how the human body and mind work.
Dr. Libby is an excellent speaker with a passion for educating her audience. I have had the pleasure of listening to her on several occasions, each time walking away with tremendous take-home value.
As implied in the title, the book explores why people are overweight and offers solutions to achieve positive results. The chapters progress from the physical causes of the accumulation of body fat through to the mind-body connection as it relates to being overweight.
The sub-title of the book offers a clue as to the core offering of the book. There are nine pieces of the weight loss puzzle. Like a jigsaw puzzle, any piece missing leaves the overall picture incomplete.
These puzzle pieces include: calories, hormones, gut bacteria, and emotions. Each piece is thoroughly explained in its own chapter in easy-to-understand language. At the end of each chapter is a list of solutions and practical advice for success in that area.
Dr. Libby is big on habits, something I believe in so strongly:
“Remember, it is what you do every day that impacts your health, not what you do sometimes.”
Accidentally Overweight gets a high recommendation from me as a person NOT having a weight problem. I have gleaned many new habits out of this book I have incorporated into my life. One, based on her vivid portrayal of digestion and chewing, has been a hard one to break… but so true for me and so many others.
This is a required read for all and must-have reference for your library.


Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, a publication of Egyptian Society for Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, is a peer-reviewed online journal with Quarterly print on demand compilation of issues published. The journal’s full text is available online at http://www.err.eg.net. . The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository.
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July-September 2016| Vol 43| Issue 3
Foot neuropathy in rheumatoid arthritis patients: clinical, electrophysiological, and ultrasound studies
Aim This study aimed to evaluate neuropathic foot pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using electrophysiological studies and musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) to address the associa...
Musculoskeletal ultrasound on the hand and wrist in systemic sclerosis
Background Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a chronic autoimmune connective tissue disorder. Musculoskeletal involvement represents a major cause of disability in SSc, which is localized especiall...
Correlations between Serum prohepcidin level disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematous
Introduction The aim of this study was to determine whether there is a relation between serum prohepcidin level and disease activity of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythemato...
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It's time for a little down-time and for a little year-end review. I'll be spending a few days with my family and friends and I hope you can all get to do the same. I've been looking back at my year and have summarised things below in a little list:
* 182 blog posts published
* 23 podcast episodes and December has been my best-ever month with over 100 listens!
* Lots of books read and inspiration gathered - I have a partial reading list https://richardwbown.com/resources/ and this will be updated early in the new year
* One talk given at the CTO Craft conference - a lot more planned for next year including my first online training and workshops
I hope that 2022 has been good to you and that we'll be able to talk a lot more about software delivery, architecture and legacy in 2023. Until then - I wish you a very peaceful and restful end of 2022.
The Social Legacy of Code
Published on December 23, 2022
When does legacy code first appear? How does working at the limits of our abilities (or when we are constrained) affect the quality and supportability of the code we write? I was struck by these thoughts while browsing the subreddit for the Advent of Code. There was one thread called “AOC 2022 is destroying my …
Advent of Code 2022: Into The Valley of Self-Doubt
Published on December 21, 2022
Personally, one of the most fascinating things I find about the Advent of Code is when you hit your particular “wall”. When you think you can’t possibly go any further and you get frustrated and start to doubt yourself… if you’re participating, did that happen to you yet? So, the puzzles start off reasonably straightforward. …
Do You Still Need ITIL and ITSM?
Published on December 18, 2022
Information Technology Information Library (ITIL) and its subset Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) are best practices that have grown to become essential foundations of corporate IT. In banks, insurers, energy companies, infrastructure companies and even retailers, IT change control processes are implemented in ITIL and ITSM. Often however these best practices are elements of overlapping …


Watch Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Final Symphony (2012) : Movie Part road trip, part adventure story, FOLLOWING THE NINTH is an inspirational film about Beethoven's Choral Symphony, its majestic power to liberate us, to shield us against suffering, to provide hope and resilience during dark times. Filmed on five continents and in 12 countries, FOLLOWING THE NINTH is the story of four lives that have been transformed and repaired by the music, expressed most vividly in the prophecy of the Ode to Joy: “Alle Menschen werden Brüder”(All Men Will Be Brothers).
|Release Date||:||Feb 10, 2012|
|Genres||:||Documentary, History, Drama|
|Production Countries||:||Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America, Austria, China, Chile, Japan, South Africa|


For today’s Eyes on Authors segment, I’d like to introduce Pupola, the author of Never One, a Young Adult Sci-Fi drama that gives its main character the illusion of choice when it comes to life and death.
Pupola was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her mother is Shayla S. Ali and father is Dr. Ashraf Ali. Her first year was spent in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) campus in teachers’ quarters. She immigrated to USA with her parents when she was two years old. Her parents moved around quite a bit within continental USA. Pupola completed her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from University of Washington in Seattle. She and her husband lived in Norman, Oklahoma from 2010 to 2014. They now live in Seattle area with their baby boy Ethan. She recently published her YA sci-fi novel, “Never One” and two prior collections of poetry books: “Random Chemicals and Snotty Love Poems” and “A Mindful Wilderness”.
So glad to have you here today, Pupola! Let’s get on to the details: tell us more about Never One.
The story is a sci-fi, fantasy-drama. It is about a teenage girl, Burgundy Hues, who is dying from a virus infection called, ‘Felern.’ She has the option to live her last moments in an artificial, alternate life.
Here’s the official blurb for the book:
In the near future, Burgundy Hues, a teenage girl will die from the Felern virus with no cure yet. Death is imminent, and the end is a painful one. Burgundy Hues sadly has found herself in such ‘shoes’. One comforting technological solution emerged. A virtual reality machine called the V.R. Switcher is available for Felern victims. Burgundy was selected as a lucky candidate for the V.R. Switcher. Hope is contained in a dream come true. What will Burgundy choose?
As you readers can see, the stakes are high from jump street. Given the nature of the story, you guys should know there is some violence.
It is also a story about a teenage girl in the process of dying that might not be everyone’s cup of tea for reading.
As terrible as this sounds, death– or the spiraling descent to it– usually makes for some of the best stories. So, what genre do you write? Do you stick to just one?
Several, probably the most frequent are: contemporary, YA, and fantasy.
Then you’ve certainly got a home here! Those are my usual hangouts, too. What inspired you to start writing, and what keeps you going?
Class assignments about writing a story in elementary school. The creative muse keeps me going. The muse gets upset if I don’t write.
I can absolutely relate there! I recently found a meme that said, “Write until it becomes as natural as breathing. Write until not writing makes you anxious.”
That’s the state I find myself in when I don’t write– we must keep the muses happy! Would you like to share any of your publication stories? Self-published, Indie, Traditional– anything you’d like.
A family member in Bangladesh said if I had any writings to send them to Rubi Enterprise. Rubi Enterprise liked some and not others. I ended up publishing a collection of poetry with them. Afterwards, a second poetry collection and now, my debut novel, Never One.
Most excellent! Any advice for your fellow writers?
Keep writing, revise, edit, write again, revise, and edit again. Keep going in that cycle. Tedious as it is that’s how it works. Connect with other writers and learn about the book markets and publishing industry.
Do you have any favorite authors or titles that you’d like to share? What are your inspirations in the author world?
Brave New World, Time Machine, and of course Mark Twain and Shakespeare.
Anything else you’d like to add?
I did not expect to write a YA sci-fi for my debut novel, but it just turned out that way. I was sure it was going to be YA fantasy like with my second novel I’m working on. Writing can be funny like that!
You are absolutely right there. The stories take us where they need to go, not the other way around! Where can we find you on the web?
Here’s Pupola’s official site
Goodreads Author Page
You guys can also buy your copy of Never One and Pupola’s poetry collections at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and more! Thanks so much to Pupola for coming and sharing her story today! Until next time, guys and dolls, you keep writing.


Monday, April 16, 2007
Maus by Art Spiegelman
When thinking of a Holocaust depiction, comic books may be the furthest thing from our minds. The idea of a comic book about the Holocaust may seem irreverent or abhorrent. However, author Art Spiegelman disregarded stereotypes made about comic books and wrote Maus, a comic book about his father's experiences in the Holocaust. This book is unique to any depiction of the Holocaust that I have ever read, and not just because of the comic book format. Spiegelman draws himself into the book, and a main part of the book is him dealing with his father's history and experiences, and dealing with the relationship he has with his father. This book is the best book I have ever read about the Holocaust. It not only deals with the Holocaust directly, but the longer lasting traumatic effects it had on its victims. Not only that, Spiegelman makes racial stereotypes a main theme of this book, not only between the Nazis and the Jews but other races depicted in the book. It is fabulous, fantastic, and I highly recommend it to anyone. It's two volumes, but a really quick read, and it will make you look at the Holocaust in a different light.


Biography of Injamamul Sarwer
Dr. Md. Momin Uddin
Dr. Md. Momin Uddin is a teacher, writer and columnist. He writes both Bengali and English with equal ease and efficiency. Born on 9 May 1977 in a small village named Chandpur of Meherpur in Bangladesh, Dr. Uddin completed his Honours and Master’s in English Literature from Kushtia Islamic University with first position in both the examinations. He also completed his PhD from the same university.
Dr. Uddin began his career as a lecturer in the department of English at Northern University, Bangladesh. Then he taught in the department of English at Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Trishal, Mymensingh, and is, currently, teaching as Associate Professor in the department of English at Jagannath University, Dhaka. His areas of interest are postcolonial literature, feminist literature and South Asian literature. His writings can be viewed by browsing the webpage:http://momin.itrrc.com/.


Dame Juliana Berners, a fifteenth-century nun, was England’s first bestselling author. For two hundred years, her works remained atop England’s best sellers list. She wrote books on fishing, hunting, and hawking, and her most memorable book is The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle. It was not only the first book ever written in any language about sport fishing, but also the first book ever written about fly-fishing. Dame Juliana was England’s first published woman author, and entered legend as the nun who taught field sports to generations of English sportsmen.
“In time, her name fell into oblivion,” says John Gubbins. “The Profound River is the first book ever to tell the story of her life.”


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The reviewing time is normally 10 to 12 weeks. Authors should send an electronic version of their article in Microsoft Word format by e-mail to the address given above. This electronic version will be used for the reviewing process. Authors, Reviewers, and Editors send and receive all correspondence by e-mail and no paper correspondence is necessary.
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Mango and Sprint are preparing for ‘big school’.
Grandma comes to visit and gives them a lunchbox… but it’s no ordinary lunchbox!
The Magic Lunchbox is a captivating, fun story about packing a healthy lunchbox, especially for children in their transition to ‘big’ school.
Central Coast author Angela Barrett and illustrator David Walsh have created a delightful storybook to inspire and delight children in the 4 to 6-year age group. In the story, Grandma enlists the help of a magic lunchbox to show Mango and Sprint which foods to pack for school. It supports children of this age group to understand everyday healthy food choices and “the magic made, when you put good food inside.”
You can read the storybook at home or in the classroom. You can now also watch the new video above that brings this book to life through a magical, animated storytelling!
Download the storybook and lunchbox poster by clicking the pictures below.
Additionally, resources have been developed to support primary school teachers and early childhood educators as part of the Live Life Well @ School and Munch & Move programs respectively. These free resources were developed with the support of Central Coast primary schools and early childhood education and care services, as well as the Families NSW Transition to School Projects Coordinator, Central Coast.
You can access these resources below:


Ensure that all students are effective users of ideas and information.
Each Library Media Center in the Hudson School District welcomes all members of the school community. The Library Media Center is a safe place of learning, exploring, reading, and accessing media materials.
Library Media Specialist
Mrs. Beth Sloat
When is the library open?
The Library Media Center is open to all students and staff Monday - Friday from 7:45am to 2:30pm
Library Club: Weekly (day is set in the fall) 2:30-3:30pm.
How do students visit the library during school?
Students are allowed to visit the Library Media Center during their enrichment class or from their subject class. All students must have a pass from their teacher. Most students will be allowed to stay for 10 minutes in order to find, return, or exchange books. If students are performing research or typing, they are allowed to stay longer, provided they have a pass from their teacher assigning the work. These students may stay for the full class period. Students may charge their laptops if doing independent work.
How do I know what books are in our library?
Students can use the following link to explore our online catalog of books.
How many books can a student check out and for how long?
Students may check out 2 books at a time for a period of two weeks. Books may be renewed. Books checked out for book reports can be renewed until the book report is complete. In order to renew an overdue book, students should email or speak to Mrs. Sloat. Students will not be fined for overdue books. The cost of lost or damaged items must be reimbursed to the media center. If there are any concerns about lost or damaged items please see Mrs. Sloat.
Can students use their computers in the media center to research or to type a paper?
Yes, as long as the student and at least one of his/her parent/guardian has signed and returned the school district computer use policy form


Brian W. Morris represents individuals and small or medium sized businesses in Family Law.
Morris passed the Michigan Bar after graduating law school as a Lincoln Scholar at the University of Illinois College of Law, where he served as both a member and as an administrative editor on the Law Review and graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Brian earning his undergraduate degree at Alma College, where he double-majored in Philosophy and Sociology.
Brian was recruited to begin his law career at a Firm in Chicago for litigation, where he was trained in the firm’s extensive litigation program designed to preserve its reputation and to ensure that clients received the “Rolls Royce” services they expected. Brian represented Fortune 500 executives, companies, and committees with familiar household names such as Consumers Power, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, The John Buck Company, Conde Naste, Commonwealth Edison, and others in commercial litigation matters.
Morris returned to his home. He had a goal of offering the same aggressive representation and allowance for dispute de-escalation and peaceful resolution as he provided as a litigator in Chicago.
Morris is a regular attorney volunteer at Friday “Ask a Lawyer” programs offered at the Kalamazoo Public Library.


The Bewitching History of Black Cats and Halloween
How witches, the original cat ladies, and their feline familiars became culturally bound to All Hallows’ Eve
“Thackery Binx, thou mangy feline!” Give the cat a break. By the time Bette Midler hexed a human boy to live forever as a black cat in Hocus Pocus, the breed had already survived heap of curses. Inheriting a history of superstition and abjection leading back to history’s first cat ladies, it’s no wonder that Binx, like his other pop-culture black cat contemporaries, met life with a smarmy disdain. Whether they’re duelling to the death as in Hocus Pocus, or bound at each other’s side, like Sabrina and Salem, what makes black cats and witches so intimately connected – and mutually scorned? And how did the two become so intrinsic to the tradition of Halloween?
Witches and cats in the shadows
Though black cats were worshipped in Ancient Egypt, with mythological footholds all over the world, their direct connection to Halloween began around 2,000 years ago, among the Celtic Tribes based around Ireland. Druidic culture was pagan and often matrilineal, involving a pantheon of gods and animalistic spirits, witches, or ‘wise’, who acted as healers, tribal leaders and sages. Many festivals and ceremonies took place at night, giving a certain allure to those nocturnal animals who thrived in the dark, especially the black cat, ever elusive in the shadows.
Some Celtic traditions believed that those who played with dark magic would be turned into cats, pitting cats and witches on two sides of a moral divide. On Samhain, the autumnal celebration in which the veils between this realm and the next are opened, revellers would wear costumes made of animal skins and heads, invoking their gods and banishing away dark forces. This tradition would continue into contemporary usage. But soon women would be considered as dangerous as the feline shadow totems, and both would be lumped into the same pyre of superstition.
The all-new, all-male Holy Trinity didn’t have space for a woman, let alone a powerful, capable, and, incidentally, often singular tribal leader. The Church easily made medicine women into hags and harpies, and linked any traditions outside of papal canon to devil worship. The witches found themselves inheriting black cats; now it was believed that the witches could shift into feline form, or that the cats were their familiars – demon guides given to them by the devil.
By the Middle Ages, the Church had assimilated Samhain, transferring its key practices to All Saints’ Day on November 1. As the bubonic plague ravaged Europe, spread by infected rats, those women who were once revered as healers and the cats who hunted such vermin, were castigated as the causeopens in a new tabSuch devastating death could only be traced to the devil, his harlot priestesses, and their pitch-black, shadowy feline companions. Even with Samhain cut out officially, its practices never died, and the night before All Saints’ Day, with its enduring bonfires, costumes and parties, became All Hallow’s Eve – Halloween.
The New World and spooky season
The Puritans didn’t believe in saints, so All Saints’ Day stayed in the old country when they arrived in the New World. And so the tradition continued: who better to blame for a poor harvest or bad luck in the colonies than a certain kind of woman? Witches were easy targets: women had no legal rights and couldn’t own property, putting those without a husband or father to ‘claim‘ them at the top of the heap. The stigma now extended to Black women, thought to practice an exotic form of fortune-telling. As ever, the vexing, intractable, unknowable black cat symbolised all that could not be controlled or contained in these noncompliant women.
Black cats would hold their dark majesty in folktales and spooky stories often shared at autumn festivals. But the arrival of Irish immigrants in the 19th century brought a resurgence of All Saints’ traditions, including ‘soulingopens in a new tab‘ – in which poor townspeople would knock on the doors of the wealthy and take money to pray for their beloved – which would later feed into the trick-or-treat tradition. Unbound from puritanical constriction, more post-pagan traditions could flourish, and by the turn of the century, Halloween had been secularised into a community-oriented celebration. By the ’60s, the old traditions had become kitsch, camp and publicly accessible, so the revenant spirits, scary witches and devil-delivered black cats were renewed and repopularised.
Black cats in culture
Beyond the Halloween, black cats have made it into union halls and even spacecraft. At the turn of the 20th century, labour organisers used the image of a screeching black cat, known as ‘sabo-tabbyopens in a new tab’ as a symbol for strikes and sabotage. Black has long been associated with anarchy, and the vigilant cat perfectly symbolised the outsider ideals of many revolutionary labourers. In the ’80s, NASA’s 11th space shuttle mission was to be titled STS-13. Fearing the number’s bad luck, especially after the difficulties faced by the Apollo 13 in the ’70s, NASA changed the mission’s sequence number, but the crew, daring superstition, made patchesopens in a new tab, featuring a black cat and the number 13, and eventually brought the craft to successful landing on Friday the 13th.
In terms of popular lore, folktales involving black cats crept up from the American South from the 19th century on, including the popular Wait Until Emmett Comesopens in a new tab But the course of black cat cultural awareness was changed forever in 1843, with the publication of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Black Cat. Though Poe was particularly fond of cats, like his beloved companion Catterina, he centred Pluto, the protagonist of this grisly short story, as a figure of menace. The madman at the heart of The Black Cat takes a love for animals to violent levels of sadism. While Poe employed the figure of a black cat to symbolise issues of guilt, isolation, insanity and alcoholism, the horrific visuals did the trick, sealing the breed’s place in the shadows for over a century to come.
Poe’s story would spawn dozens of screen adaptations, including a 1962 edition of Tales of Terror, 1965’s The Tomb of Ligeia and a very loose 1981 film adaptation involving a professor with psychic powers. But beyond Poe, the black cat’s genre popularity was unstoppable, with 1934’s hit The Black Cat – no relation to Poe – which involves Béla Lugosi, Boris Karloff, and satanic cults. Perhaps the contrast of black-and-white film served the cat’s dark mystique best of all. The breed would generally serve as an omen of bad tidings for the better part of the 20th century, like in 1973’s The Legend of Hell House.
But leave it to Hayao Miyazaki to change the game, with 1989’s Kiki’s Delivery Service. This time, the witch, Kiki, was a charming 13-year-old, and her cat, Jiji, couldn’t scare a fly. Voiced by the comedian Phil Hartman in the American adaptation, Jiji spoke with a bitter, know-it-all attitude that would serve his future animated counterparts. With the VHS boom of the ’90s, in which stars like the Olsen twins could make Halloween content for kids, the black cat found new life.
They returned to their role as guides, bringing their history of rough life experiences to aid otherwise naive protagonists. Why be typecast as a portent of doom when you can claim the role of salty sidekick? Suddenly, they were everywhere: Melissa Joan Hart bandied with Salem (Nicholas Bakay) on Sabrina the Teenage Witch; Coraline received reluctant aid from the can’t-be-bothered Cat, voiced by Keith David in the 2009 film; and Thackery Binx would come to love Thora Birch in Hocus Pocus.
With parallel resurgences in witch and cat lady cultures in the ’90s and 2010s, powerful, single witch women would count on their black cats for companionship and protection, rather than dry asides: the libidinous Gillian (Nicole Kidman) clings to her companion, who hisses at her undead ex, in Practical Magic; Sabrina’s Salem would be re-envisioned as a demonic powerhouse in 2018’s reboot Chilling Adventures of Sabrina; and the witch police officer Rowan Black would stay close to her pet Hawthorne in the mature comic book series Black Magick.
Black cats switch from abject omens to truth-telling feminist avatars, depending on the dominating forces at work in popular storytelling. But perhaps the breed’s most complete depiction is in The Matrix, when one slinks just past Neo’s sight, indicating a déjà vu, a glitch in the false reality. Since the Druid rites, the black cat has symbolised the indelible, the unknown, the unconquerable. They’re a portal to a new reality, a silent crawl into the unknown night. Good luck trying to pin them down.
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Can Dogs Eat Pumpkin?
Yep! The superfood is a delicious natural remedy for diarrhoea and constipation
What Your Cat’s Sexy ‘Slow Blink’ Actually Means
Cat behaviourist Cristin Tamburo on how to read cat eyes
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Can Cats See Colour?
Short answer: yes – but not the way we do
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Why Are Dogs Scared of Fireworks?
How to keep your dog mentally and physically safe this Bonfire Night


1943. War Dept. Agent Tom Lupis and his werewolf alter-ego work together for the greater good to end the Axis threat once and for all.
Nazi agents discover a long lost army of the undead that they plan to unleash on an unsuspecting world. Can Lupis and Vampire Lord Vlas put aside their ages old differences and work together to stop the Nazi's Army of the Undead?
Operation: Silver Moon is a graphic novel written by Pulp Ark Award Winning Author Bobby Nash with beautiful artwork by Rick Johnson.
Today's the day! Join me LIVE from 3 - 5 pm EST on The Adam Messer Show! Wruu.org ----- Repost Adam Messer: Author Bobby Nash @bobbynashwrites joins The Adam Messer Show live Sunday Oct 25th 3-5p EST on @wruu_107.5_savannah (Wruu.org). Can’t listen live? Catch the #podcast later on theadammessershow.com #theadammessershow #adammesser #wruu #bobbynash #TheSummerOfSnow #SnowDay
A huge shout out to the Dalton Daily Citizen newspaper in Dalton, GA for doing an author spotlight on me for their Saturday, October 17, 2020 edition. I am honored. Thank you. You can also read the interview at their website, which you can find HERE.
A huge thank you goes to Brandy Wyatt, the administrator for the Dalton-Whitfield County Public Library for putting it all together. I met Brandy at the Next Chapter Con in 2019. When we get out of living in pandemic land, I need to get back to Dalton for a library visit.


The Onion Magazine Iconic Covers
Perhaps even more notable than The Onion newspaper is its Sunday magazine supplement, The Onion Magazine. First published in 1808 as a mouthpiece to relentlessly discredit Enlightenment ideals and as a vehicle for lucrative casket advertisements, The Onion Magazine quickly secured its place as the most popular reading material among the world’s literate and semi-literate. The Onion Magazine has since grown into the largest magazine publisher on earth, expanding to include the famed Weekender magazine in 1837, the first ever hourly magazine in 1891, and the world’s first glossy Braille magazine in 1920.
Now, from America’s Finest News Source, comes a compilation of the most important, most influential, and glossiest magazine covers ever produced by the hand of humankind. Seen by over 11 billion subscribers worldwide, these are the unforgettable Onion Magazine covers that altered the course of human history and radically redefined your trivial life anew every weekend. Profound philosophical questions, the thoughts of leading cultural luminaries, harsh truths of existence, remorseless personal attacks–you will encounter full-color graphical representations of all of these within this handsome volume.
Whether you are a connoisseur of pretty pictures or are new to looking at images, The Onion Magazine: The Iconic Covers That Transformed An Undeserving World is sure to give you, the feeble-minded consumer, far more pleasure than you have any earthly right to experience.


Do you have a friend or a member of a family who gets attached to the books he or she reads so much that he or she considers becoming a librarian? This is an excellent gift for those booklovers who plan to become librarians in the future. Send them one now! A classic tote bag that'll withstand whatever you throw in it, from books to groceries!
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While driving home from Tulsa, my thoughts turned to eight years earlier in 1978, when I had been impressed to write Anissa’s story, or at least compile the facts — suddenly, I heard: “Shelve Anissa’s book for a time and put together a book of victorious survivors you’ve met along the way with situations similar to your own.”
When the Almighty God wants something accomplished, He also provides! One of our neighbors had a daughter-in-law who often visited them and we became close friends. Previously, she was on an editorial staff of Christian Life Magazine and had written three books. Then one day, she felt a “nudge” to write Anissa’s story. In 1985, the words, “Victorious Survivors Along the Way” became indelibly imprinted across her mind. Since a year had elapsed, during which time I met other victors along the way, and by the confirming word that I heard, we had a better understanding of how to pursue the project.
“For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of His mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.” Proverbs 2:6
We were instructed to use Anissa’s story as the lead, followed by 15 families who accepted our invitation to contribute their own stories. It was to be a handbook of hope and encouragement for parents and other concerned individuals. We rejoiced the day when a renowned artist offered to sketch portraits from snapshots the parents had sent of their afflicted children.
Members of Logos Life and Light Foundation prayed with us regarding a publisher and helped with the final editing. The Board of Directors unanimously agreed that LLL Foundation should be the publishers of the book. The first printing of Victorious Survivors took place in August, 1988, and was given as a “first fruits offering” to individuals, medical centers and organizations connected with various handicaps and afflictions. The leader for a Pastor’s Conference that took place in Washington, D. C., requested 800 copies to be given each attendee. Believing every Pastor could benefit from the stories, the leader planned on using the book as a reading assignment during the conference.
One year later on August 3, 1989, I answered the LLL ministry phone and was taken by surprise when I heard the voice on the other end of the line say: “The White House.” It was “First Lady” Barbara Bush’s secretary, Cathy, calling to say that she and Barbara were both “favorably impressed” with the copy of Victorious Survivors sent to them. They recommended for us to contact Dr. June Jordan of the Council for Exceptional Children, who then requested several copies of the book. I could hardly believe that really happened, because the night before, I had a dream in which Barbara Bush was talking to me on the phone, saying, “I just want to let you know that you’ll be receiving a favorable report regarding your book.”
“What is faith? It is the confident assurance that something we want is going to happen. It is the certainty that what we hope for is waiting for us, even though we cannot see it up ahead.” Hebrews 11:1 TLB
Here we are, 30 years later, still sharing Anissa’s journey, as well as stories of others who have experienced His Excellent Grace, in an outreach to the world that at one time seemed impossible.
To contact Anissa’s mother email her at firstname.lastname@example.org
To take a virtual tour of the healing center go to http://www.wellspringhealingretreat.org


Tuesday, October 23, 2012: 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Rates of Suicide Attempts and Belongingness to Youth Cultures in Adolescents: Findings From Germany
Child and Adolescent Suicide Prevention: The Case of Singapore
Distress in "Paradise on Earth" (Hawai'i): What We Can Learn From Suicide and Suicidal Behaviors in an Ethnically Diverse Place At the Crossroads of East and West?
The Pharmacogenetics of Suicidal Adverse Reactions to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Medications in Children and Adolescents: A Study From Israel
Sponsored by the AACAP International Relations Committee and the World Psychiatric Association Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Section
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Friends of Kent Free Library
If you are interested in joining this volunteer group to help support Kent Free Library please complete a Membership Form and return it to the library with payment. Payments may be cash or check made out to Friends of Kent Free Library.
Stay up to date with Friends activities by Liking the Friends of Kent Free Library on Facebook!
Friends of Kent Free Library meet on the third Monday of each month at 7:00 pm in the second floor meeting room at the library. Meeting dates for 2017 are scheduled for: March 20, April 17, May 15, June 19, July 17, August 21, September 18, October 16, and November 20. Meetings are open to the public and subject to change.
You may volunteer at other times, but there must be 2 volunteers present at all times. If you have a buddy or 2, you can come and work at any time–you don’t have to follow the scheduled shifts. Just sign in at the Information Desk.
The next Friends book sale will be April 27 – 29. Set up will be Wednesday, April 26 and take down will be Sunday, April 30. Adult and juvenile books, audiobooks, music CDs, and DVDs will be for sale.
Friends of Kent Free Library Board of Directors
A seven-member Board of Directors governs the Friends of Kent Free Library. Board members are elected annually. The Friends work in collaboration with the library’s Director and Board of Trustees to support programs and services the library offers for the community.
Laura Sorrick, President
Mary Ann Kucera, Secretary
Jan Long, Treasurer
Friends of Kent Free Library Constitution and Bylaws


By Emily Pullman
GymnStars Volume 11
The 11th installment of GymnStars profiles USA’s Final Five, the acclaimed gymnastics squad that earned team gold in record-setting fashion at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The award-winning children’s biography series features chapters on Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian, and Aly Raisman. The Final Five: The Ultimate Unofficial Guide is also packed with thrilling action pictures of America’s golden girls.


A survival checklist is a series of crucial items needed before going on any outdoor activity.…
Fight Or Flight Prepping Book Review
” Fight Or Flight Prepping ” is one of a few good books on preparing for a crisis. It is a little different than most of the others I have reviewed, as it focuses on preparing physically, mentally and spiritually before a crisis. The Fight Or Flight Prepping author does an excellent job of explaining what is meant by these terms and how you can apply them to your own personal situation. The book is not very long, so you can get a quick overview of it without having to read it in its entirety. I believe that the short length is a great advantage since most survival books tend to be much longer.
The author states that people have a natural instinct to live in a crisis, but they can often not prepare themselves for what actually occurs. When you are looking at what people do when an emergency arises, you begin to see the classic signs of being unprepared. Most of these include being too fearful of leaving your home, prepping for a riot or stampede, preparing to fight or flee, and staying too long in a crisis area. Once you understand how unprepared you are, you will avoid these mistakes and ensure your family’s safety.
The Fight Or Flight Prepping eBook is easy to read and provides a lot of good information. The author breaks down the steps involved in preparing for an emergency and provides some tips and techniques that preppers can use to ensure their best chance of staying safe and secure. The information is broken down into chapters that focus on each of these three areas, and the author provides plenty of illustrations to reinforce these points.
After reading this book, I realized that one of the keys to surviving an emergency is always knowing what to do and where to go, regardless of where you are. That is just common sense, but how many people execute that? Without information leading you in the right direction, it is nearly impossible to stay ahead of the game. With Fight Or Flight, the author takes this one step further and teaches you exactly what you need to do and where to go to survive a crisis.
There are chapters devoted to dealing with crises of the natural and manmade variety. Chapters include Preparing For a Crisis With Nature, Dealing With an Emergency With Manmade Sources, and Dealing With an Emergency With Technology. As I read the book, it became obvious that part one of the guide was about preparing for an emergency with nature. This chapter discusses exactly what you should be carrying and using in case of an emergency. You should carry non-lethal items that do not have any sharp objects in them, like scissors or even guns. You should also carry a supply of food and water as well as some anti-poison or medications.
The second part of the book covers emergency preparedness with technology. This chapter focuses on devices that you can use against the most common attacks people experience in their daily lives. These include home alarms, smoke detectors, and other devices. The author also goes over some of the more obscure gadgets available and their capabilities to help you be prepare for any situation.
The third chapter of Fight Or Flight Prepping eBook Review deals with how you should deal with stress. Stress can take its toll on your mind and body and leave you tired, disoriented, and even physically handicapped. This book talks about how you can become more relaxed and focused to battle these effects and become mentally and physically prepared for whatever may come. It also explains how taking some simple steps can help you combat stress. The book also goes over how breathing deeply before you go to sleep can make a huge difference in how you sleep and how being calm and having strong willpower can also help you avoid these things.
Final Thoughts on Fight Or Flight Prepping
The final part of this book discusses physical attacks. This chapter explains what the symptoms are if you or someone you love is ever attacked by a real-life terrorist or even a stranger. The information also discusses what you should do if you ever find yourself or someone you love in a potentially dangerous situation. The book also goes over the basics of CPR and first aid in case of emergencies.


Los Habaneros, A Cuban Streetdog Story, 2010-2015
While living in La Habana in the Spring of 2010, I struggled with a way to communicate to the world about the city I knew and loved. I found my story in the lives of the Street Dogs of the city. Happy, cared for, and treated as members of the community, the street dogs conveyed the same compassion and love of life that I saw all around me. With the recent influx of tourists and normalization of relations with the United States, I feel compelled to share their stories before their way of life disappears.
Keeping the Coast, 2011
Kathy Phillips, the Assateague Coastkeeper, is the Executive Director of the Assateague Coastal Trust in Berlin, Maryland. She works to protect the watershed of Assateague Island and the surrounding eastern shore. Most of her time is spent making phone calls and driving or boating around the area looking for and monitoring activities that may harm the watershed. She is well known int he area and serves as the voice for an ecosystem that cannot fight for itself. Through her efforts, particularly against the poultry industroy, she has brought much needed attention to the harmful effects of organized poultry production. In the meantime, she has made herself a hero to some and an enemy to others.


Rise up, Frida! Your future is limitless Frida Rising is a unique and inspiring story of female empowerment. Follow Frida, an ambitious young woman determined to take control of her life, as she learns how to embrace her inner strength and unleash the power within. From overcoming obstacles in her personal relationships, to tackling issues at work, Frida will show you that anything is possible when you have the determination and courage to follow your dreams. With its powerful message of self-reliance and resilience, Frida Rising is sure to leave readers feeling inspired and motivated to take on their own adventures!
Frida Rising follows the life and work of renowned artist, Frida Kahlo
It explores her contributions in art, Mexican culture, feminism, politics and society
It looks into how she survived both physical and emotional hardships that she faced throughout her lifetime


It was an amusing beginning to a not so amusing story. In the year 610AD Muhammad Ibn Abdullah, a 40 year old merchant from the town of Mecca on the Arabian peninsula, was awakened from his sleep (in a cave no less) by a heavenly(?) voice telling him he was the messenger from God. This man, who would go on to establish one of the largest, most militaristic and intolerant religions ever conceived, reacted the way any cold and calculating conqueror would…..he hid under his wife until it went away!! Thus, Islam was born.


3 Of The Best Ways For A Beginner To Learn How To Play Poker
If you are not used to the game of poker and you want to master how to play poker, then you need to know the very best ways to go about learning the game. There are three main ways you can learn the overall game of poker and none of them are extremely difficult. Below you are going to find a little bit of information about each way to learn the game of poker if you are a beginner.
You will find a tutorial for the overall game of poker online and use it to learn the game. That is a great way to go because you can download a tutorial and use it as you play on a poker site for free. If you are trying to learn the overall game so you can play online for real money or domino 99 (asta.uni-saarland.de) with friends, then learning online is a superb way to go.
Also, getting a concept of how to play poker online is good because you will not have to worry about slowing the game down. You won't be playing with your friends and you can even play against computer players at first. Then, when you think you have the hang of it you can play against real people with fake money free of charge.
2. With a Book
Another way to learn how to play poker is with one of the many books that are out there by the game's best. These books aren't always for beginners, but sometimes they could be geared towards the beginner. The main one difference between these books and learning online is you will get the strategies of the author to help you develop your look of play. You can find these online on the market, at the library, or in one of the numerous book stores.
3. From a Class
Believe it or not there are actually people that teach classes on how best to play poker. They will often do that in a totally free league that one can join to compete for prizes at different bars and restaurants. This is a powerful way to learn the overall game and if you do better having somebody actually coach you on this is a sensible way to go.
Whether you decide to learn online, from a book, or from an actual teacher you should undoubtedly learn the overall game of poker. You can start your own game or join someone else's and it'll give you a chance to meet people or spend some time with your friends. If you want to learn how to play poker you can start right online, get a book, or find a class in your area.


CHILDREN’S MUSICAL BOOK WITH CD
An original children’s book based on the stage musical by Lesley Ross & John-Victor
Including beautiful illustrations by Matt Rowe and narration by Dr Who’s CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON.
Adapted by Rachel Bellman & Lesley Ross.
AUDIO CD CAST (in order of appearance):
Narrator: CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON
Phoebe Foster: KATE HUME
Barry the Penguin: HAYDN OAKLEY
Santa Claus: RICARDO AFONSO
Bed Bug Queen: KERRY ELLIS
Close: MICHAEL XAVIER
Sister Actavia: LOUISE JAMESON
Wordsmith: GABRIEL VICK
Backing Vocalists: Jackie-Ross Lavender & Sophie Adkins
Recorded at Price Studios.
“This book is great fun, a mad and humorous adaptation of an original new musical. It has been an absolute pleasure to be part of this unique project and I look forward to seing it all on the stage one day.”
The book includes many of the songs from the stage musical and a host of West End performers have stepped in to record them for us on the accompanying audio CD also featuring narration by Christopher Eccleston.
Barry is a penguin detective with enough gumption to carry him from one end of the earth to the other and back again. When Father Christmas is kidnapped by the evil Bedbug Queen it looks like Christmas will be destroyed forever. Only the chosen one, a girl called Phoebe, can save him. But she hates Christmas… Will Barry convince her to help him? Will they reach Father Christmas before midnight strikes? Will they have the power to stop the evil Bedbug Queen?


It is undeniable that anarchist ideas had a very important influence in the early stages of the labor movement in Argentina. Many of the first anarchist leaders in Argentina were foreigners, bringing their ideologies with them primarily from Italy and Spain, where anarchist ideas were more developed. Later, these ideas were sustained by local workers and immigrants, who organized themselves into worker’s collectives and fought for anarchist ideals.
One of the strongest features of anarchism in Argentina was its cultural movement: anarchists founded libraries, newspapers, editorials, classes, and night schools. In addition to this, their history and ideals were preserved through music and poetry, which could speak to workers both in the city and in the countryside. In this recording, we can hear their voices singing the revolutionary lyrics that inspired workers decades ago.


We hope it will be easier for you to find us on the web.
So, stop by our site or come by the store on Industrial Circle East in Tontitown. Greg and the staff are there to answer any questions you may have about book fairs and books, in general.
Don't forget the teacher/educator discount!
Summer reading is so important for students. Please let your student's parents know that they can come to the store and purchase great children's books for $1 each! Teachers can stock up on books for libraries and classrooms, too. Hope to see you soon.


Tue, Apr 16|
5x5 Reading Series
The 5x5 reading series brings together voices of a current MFA students from Colorado State University, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Denver, Naropa University, and University of Wyoming. This event is free and open to the public.
Time & Location
Apr 16, 2019, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Norlin Library, 1720 Pleasant St, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
About The Event
ML Thomas will be participating in the 5x5 Reading Series, which is comprised of student readers from CSU, Naropa University, University of Boulder, and University of Denver and University of Wyoming. One reading will be held at each university over the course of the 2018-2019 school year. This event is free and open to the public.