Adopted Draft Integrated Development Plan 2022/2023 And Adopted Draft Medium-Term Revenue And Expenditure Framework 2022/2023 To 2024/2025
Public Notice Number 001/03/2022
Notice is hereby given in terms of the Local Government: Municipal Systems Ac, No 32 of 2000, as amended, and the Local Government: Municipal Finance Management Act, No 56 of 2003, as amended, that the adopted Draft Integrated Development Plan 2022/2023 and draft Medium-Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework 2022/2023 to 2024/2025 of the Setsoto Local Municipality are now due for community engagements.
The draft documents, their summaries and annexures were adopted at the council meeting held on the 30 March 2022 and copies are available for the period of 21 days for public comments from 04 April 2022 until 03 May 2022 on the Setsoto Local Municipality’s website, www.setsoto.gov.za as well as the municipal offices and libraries in all towns of the municipality. Communities are hereby requested to submit written submission on the adopted draft Integrated Development Plan 2022/2023 and adopted draft Medium-Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework 2022/2023 to 2024/2025 by no later than the 29 April 2022.
Furthermore, the Executive Mayor, Mayoral Committee Members, Councillors and Senior Managers will be engaging communities on the draft Integrated Development Plan 2022/2023 and the draft Medium-Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework 2022/2023 to 2024/2025 on the following dates:
|25 April 2022||17h00||8, 9 and 11||Clocolan/Hlohlolwane||Ikgatholleng Community Hall and Clocolan Town Hall|
|26 April 2022||17h00||1, 2 and 3||Marquard/Moemaneng||Moemaneng Community Hall and Marquard Town Hall|
|27 April 2022||17h00||4, 5, 6 and 7||Senekal/Matwabeng||E E Monese Hall and Senekal Town Hall|
|28 April 2022||17h00||10, 12, 13, 14, 15 ,16 and 17||Ficksburg/Meqheleng/Caledon Park||Ficksburg Town Hall and Meqheleng Sport Hall|
Enquiries on the above notice may be directed to:
Mr. Molahlehi Makhele on Tel: 051 933 9368, Cell no: 065 649 4625 or email: firstname.lastname@example.org
Mr. Niel van Tonder on Tel: 051 933 9314, Cell no: 082 774 4832 or email: email@example.com
CLLR SEIPATI MBIWE (MRS)


8 Best Tech Books Every Tech Lover Should Read
The book is our oldest friend. Although today’s internet has diminished the importance of reading books, there are still many bookworms who would rather have a book in their hand than hold their phone screen to read ebooks.
While reading fiction can give you immense pleasure, a book on a particular subject can also give you immense knowledge.
With the rapid evolution of science and technology, you need to keep yourself updated and the only way to do that is by reading a lot.
New books are released every day and if you are a professional related to a particular field, it is your responsibility to read new books and keep yourself updated with any new invention or theory that is coming.
Among other things, technology for one is always in such a transitional phase that if you don’t keep an eye on it, you will certainly quickly lose your way.
So here in this article I will be recommending some of the best books related to new technologies and innovations, which will help you get a fresh perspective on the subject.
List of Best Technology Books of 2022 Everyone Should Read
The future is faster than you think
By Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler
This book is by two New York Times bestselling authors.
Peter H. Diamandis is the founder of more than 20 high-tech companies and has attended MIT and Harvard Medical School.
On the other hand, Steve Kotler is also an award-winning journalist and author of many other books.
With the way technology is accelerating, in their book the authors have provided a blueprint for how our lives will change in every aspect as a result of the rapid technological disruption over the next decade.
With the eruption of AI, robotics, virtual reality, digital biology and sensors, along with 3D printing, blockchain and global gigabit networks, everything around us will change.
Not just how the corporations or the governments, but every part of our lives – transportation, education, health, food, entertainment and finance, will go through a massive change.
In short, the authors showed us in their book that the future will change much faster in the coming decades than we can imagine today.
By Kevin Kelly
This is another book that tells how our lives will be completely influenced by technology in the near future. And it is inevitable and there is no other way to accept it than to accept it.
The book is divided into 12 different chapters and each chapter is about how a technological force will shape our future.
From virtual reality to artificial intelligence, everything is embedded in our lives.
The book has provided an optimistic view of how adopting these revolutionary technologies will benefit our lives and help us go with the flow and move forward with the wave of change.
This book is a guide for those who want to know where their business or industry is headed, how to operate, where to invest, and how to reach their customers more efficiently in the new emerging world.
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Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Rule the World
By Marco Iansiti & Karim R. Lakhani
For those of us who have even the slightest idea of the technology, we know for sure that artificial intelligence is the future.
Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani have tried in their book to help people understand how artificial intelligence works in very simple terms so that even non-technical professionals can understand it.
It mainly focuses on the impact of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
The book provides guidelines on how an organization must operate to survive in the age of artificial intelligence.
The book gives knowledge about –
the framework by which a traditional company can reshape its business, how AI-driven companies challenge traditional companies and reshape competition and change the entire economy, the risks, opportunities and challenges of an AI-driven company, and
Another great advantage of the book is that it contains some studies about companies using artificial intelligence so that the readers can understand the concepts and also find them interesting.
The Tech Whisperer: on digital transformation and the technologies that make it possible
By Jaspreet Bindra
Here’s one from an Indian author.
This book has talked in simple terms about future technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), virtual reality, etc. and has also provided guidance on how companies can adopt and implement these emerging technologies.
If you want to keep up with the rapid change in customer behavior and business environment, adapting to these technologies is inevitable.
This book is primarily intended for business leaders. It has shown how adopting these new world technologies will help business leaders on a path of digital transformation and lead to the future success of their organizations.
Even non-technical persons can understand the book because of its simplicity.
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Soonish: ten emerging technologies that will improve and/or ruin everything
by dr. Kelly Weinersmith & Zach Weinersmith
This is a nice book provided by the famous artist Zach Weinersmith and his wife Dr. Kelly Weinersmith.
Through their own thorough research and various interviews with the scientists working on the new age technologies.
The authors looked at the factors that led to the need for these technologies, how they will work, and what the challenges are to becoming successful.
The book has talked about 10 such emerging technologies in various fields, on the one hand from programmable business to augmented reality, and on the other hand from space elevators to robotic construction, it covered everything.
It has not only talked about the benefits, but also the dangers of these technologies.
Offering a glimpse into the future, along with a slightly wry sense of humor, this book makes a perfect gift for any science enthusiast.
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You look like one thing and I love you: how artificial intelligence works and why it makes the world a weirder place
By Janelle Shane
The first thing that readers have to say about this book is that it is both hilarious and an informative book about science and technology.
Janelle Shane is a scientist and an engineer, so with her first-hand knowledge of the field, she has tried to explain how artificial intelligence already exists around us.
From the autocorrect feature on our phones to the posts we see on our social media feeds, artificial intelligence works everywhere. And in the near future we will see its further impact on our daily lives.
The USP of this book, however, is that the author has explained how artificial intelligence works and how things sometimes go wrong using hilarious experiments, real-world examples, and cartoon illustrations.
Thus, the exploration of future science and technology and their impact on society in a funny way has made the book a delight for the readers.
Designed for digital: how to build your business for continued success
By Jeanne W. Ross, Cynthia M. Beath & Martin Mocker
This book aims to provide practical advice on how traditional businesses can restructure themselves as digital businesses.
The authors have used real examples of companies that are successful as digital companies at this stage, such as Amazon, Phillips, USAA, LEGO and many other global companies.
The global economy is in a transition phase where it is gradually digitizing and the one constant in this digital economy is the rapid pace of change.
If business leaders can’t keep up with the wave of change, their companies won’t survive.
Thus, this book provides an in-depth understanding of digital transformation, and especially how to redesign businesses so that people, processes, data and technology are fully in sync to deliver efficient and innovative customer solutions.
Because it is the digital design that determines which company remains effective in the long run and which company loses its place.
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google
By Scott Galloway
This book is about those four companies that are known to everyone, we all use them and we also depend on them.
They are the biggest players in the business world. And they are not limited to one place or a single country, they are present in every corner of the world.
These four companies are: Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.
We are all curious how they got to where they are today. And Scott Galloway gave this insightful book on all the questions we have about these four companies.
The author has provided answers to some of the fundamental questions such as:
How have they become so embedded in our lives that they have become impossible to avoid? Why is the stock market so lenient towards them if they are not so courteous to other companies? Now that they’ve joined the race for the world’s first trillion-dollar companies, are there any other companies that can challenge them?
Not only does the book provide answers to such questions, but it also gives us insight into how we can apply the lessons learned from these companies to our own businesses and careers.
The books mentioned on this list mainly focus on emerging technologies that will evolve more in our future days and how they will affect our entire lives and change our lifestyle.
Many of these books provide in-depth knowledge of machine learning, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, etc.
So if you’re interested in science and technology, these books are definitely for you. If you are a businessman, reading these books will also help you reshape and secure your business in the future while keeping abreast of the new technologies.
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June 12, 2017 by jackblease
Location: Somewhere On the Trail
According to the calendar, today is a Holiday called Memorial Day. A day to remember those brave men and woman who gave their lives in the service of their country. So many of them were not written up in books and newspapers or had movies made about them. Yet they were truly hero’s.
I am reminded of a story about one such hero. The story takes place back in 1876.
Yesterday they buried Marvin Standish. But on his grave marker they just carved “Fightin’ Joe.” That was all we ever called him and he never seemed to really mind. We put him in that old union army jacket he had worn for years. Somebody who had an old bugle struggled through “Taps” as we stood around the grave.
There was a lot of friendly talk and laughter as we lowered the pine box in the ground. There was no family around and “Fightin’ Joe” had been in this area longer than most. He had been working fence line for the C5 for the last few years and the boys mostly left Joe alone. He was a likeable enough sort but the stories he told about his war days got old after a time. We really all thought Joe was a little strange.
His first soldiering days began at Goliad and he claimed to have been with Sam Houston at San Jacinto. He talked his time as an aid to Major General Joseph Hooker during the war with Mexico in 1847 and ’48. That was his first encounter with the man who would become a hero to young Standish. He was a young man then and earned the rank of corporal by the end of the war. He told us stories of the battle in Vera Cruz and the hand fighting beside Major Hooker.
Then came the Civil War and Marvin Standish made a fateful decision. His opinion of the war was greatly impacted by Sam Houston’s stand against Texas’s secession from the Union. When Houston was removed from office he faced a major crisis of faith
When his hero, now Brigadier General Hooker was given a command in the Union Army, Standish traveled north and sought on with the General. According to his stories, Hooker remembered the faithful young corporal and put him in charge of one of his Calvary units and installed him at his old rank of corporal. He claimed to have been in the battle of the Potomac, Seven Pines, and his face almost glowed when he talked about Hooker’s reputation for fighting beside his men instead of being mounted on horseback like other commanders. He was wounded at Fredericksburg. He said he was still in a union hospital when Hooker gave up his front-line command. He came back to Texas in 1865 with sergeant stripes on his uniform. His welcome back to Texas was less than kind.
When he first rode back down the streets of Doaksville, he was greeted with cat calls and epitaphs. He was confused. Woman and children made fun of him and the wife of the local parson even turned her head and crossed the street when he walked down the streets. Thirty years of soldiering, first for Texas and now for the Union seemed to mean nothing to these folks. What had he done wrong? And so it was for several years. As the healing began and the time of the great cattle drives and empires came into being, the old soldier sort of faded into the landscape.
Now well into his late fifties, he still cowboyed with men younger than him. Over his buck in the line shack hung two batted photographs. One was of Sam Houston and the other of General Joseph Hooker. Attached to each picture were the stripes that had been on his uniform. But the old coat he wore gave witness to where the stripes had been.
How and when he picked up the nickname of “Fighting Joe,” I never have learned. For all his years in the military he was a gentle man. As younger hands came to work at C5, old “Fighting Joe” would be rolled out to tell his tales. With an old cob pipe in his teeth Joe would reach back into time and tell again of the days of soldering and the birth of Texas and the glory of the Republic.
Last week, Joe was sent out with the wire wagon and team. When the week-end came, Joe didn’t come in. Nobody thought too much of it, except when he didn’t show at church service on Sunday. By now, memories of the struggle and Joe’s service to the Union were a thing of the past. Like so many old soldiers all he had was his memories.
Early in the week, several of the boys went out to look for Joe. When they got to the spot where the fence work stopped, there was no sign of Joe at the wagon. Their attention was called to a ridge near the edge of the canyon. As they walked to the edge, one of the cowboys saw something on the ground. As bent over to look, he saw it was an old corn cob pipe. As he reached to pick it up, he saw a body lying at the bottom of the canyon.
As we walked away from the grave yard the postmaster came running towards the preacher. “Look at this,” he said.
The preacher took hold of a yellow envelope. The address read, Sergeant Marvin Standish, General Delivery, and Doaksville, TX. The return address said Office of The President, Pennsylvanian Ave. Washington DC.
We all turned and look at each other. The preacher opened the envelope. As he withdrew the letter, a ribboned medal consisting of a five-point star hanging below an eagle fell to the ground.
The letter said, For conspicuous gallantry and intreidity at the risk of his life and beyond the call of duty…
Sargent Marvin “Fightin’ Joe” Standish, Hero
Happy Memorial Day


Since receiving two e-readers* over the winter holiday season, I’ve been reading a lot more lately. This is good, since one of my yearly goals is to read more books. So far, I’ve consumed 11 books in two months. I get a lot of the reading done on my commute, which consists of an hour-long trip on a crowded subway twice a day. I used to try to knit on the train but that became cumbersome, what with the suicidal double-pointed needles and all. Some projects are also less than portable, given their size. If I have small project that allows me to use circular needles, though, I bring it with me and load an audiobook onto my iPod. So I’m still “reading” while not technically reading.
I’ve only ever purchased one audiobook — and that was before I remembered that libraries lend digital audiobooks. (Bad librarian!) I hold 3 library cards, one for each public library system in New York City: New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, and Queens Library. All three have e-books and e-audiobooks. However, because this past Christmas season was so successful for e-readers, all the good e-books are always checked out! So I’ve been buying books from the Google eBookstore.
However, not everyone can afford the luxury of buying e-books whenever their local library has no interesting e-books to be borrowed. For this reason, e-books — just like print books — have waiting lists, sometimes in the hundreds. So imagine everyone’s outrage at HarperCollins’s recent decision (and OverDrive’s compliance with the publisher) to limit their e-books to 26 uses per copy. That is, after an e-book has been checked out 26 times from a library, it self-destructs. Understandably, everyone is pissed. What’s really upsetting — especially from my librarian POV — is the fact that publishers are starting to sell licenses rather than goods. So when a library pays for an e-book collection, it doesn’t necessarily own it. So if the publisher decides to pull the content (1984, anyone?), the library is left several thousand dollars poorer with nothing to show for it.
Everyone should be outraged by this, not just librarians. Public & school libraries are funded by taxpayers. Academic libraries are funded by student tuition (and sometimes by taxpayers, too, if it’s a public institution). This affects everyone. For this reason, an e-book user’s bill of rights now exists. Read it and spread the word.
The eBook User’s Bill of Rights
Every eBook user should have the following rights:
- the right to use eBooks under guidelines that favor access over proprietary limitations
- the right to access eBooks on any technological platform, including the hardware and software the user chooses
- the right to annotate, quote passages, print, and share eBook content within the spirit of fair use and copyright
- the right of the first-sale doctrine extended to digital content, allowing the eBook owner the right to retain, archive, share, and re-sell purchased eBooks
I believe in the free market of information and ideas.
I believe that authors, writers, and publishers can flourish when their works are readily available on the widest range of media. I believe that authors, writers, and publishers can thrive when readers are given the maximum amount of freedom to access, annotate, and share with other readers, helping this content find new audiences and markets. I believe that eBook purchasers should enjoy the rights of the first-sale doctrine because eBooks are part of the greater cultural cornerstone of literacy, education, and information access.
Digital Rights Management (DRM), like a tariff, acts as a mechanism to inhibit this free exchange of ideas, literature, and information. Likewise, the current licensing arrangements mean that readers never possess ultimate control over their own personal reading material. These are not acceptable conditions for eBooks.
I am a reader. As a customer, I am entitled to be treated with respect and not as a potential criminal. As a consumer, I am entitled to make my own decisions about the eBooks that I buy or borrow.
I am concerned about the future of access to literature and information in eBooks. I ask readers, authors, publishers, retailers, librarians, software developers, and device manufacturers to support these eBook users’ rights.
These rights are yours. Now it is your turn to take a stand. To help spread the word, copy this entire post, add your own comments, remix it, and distribute it to others. Blog it, Tweet it (#ebookrights), Facebook it, email it, and post it on a telephone pole.
This bill of rights is similar to the one drawn up by librarian (and my colleague) Alycia Sellie and technologist Matthew Goins: Readers’ Bill of Rights for Digital Books. It actually predates the one quoted above so it is definitely worth a read.
* Yes, I have two e-readers. It’s not that I’m greedy (although that’s partially true), it’s just that I got one as a gift (B&N Nook) right around the same time I purchased one for myself (BeBook Neo). I like them both and I can’t choose the one I want to keep! I did just lend the Neo to a colleague of mine who’s doing research on e-books, e-readers, and readers’ rights, though. I guess I’ll see how the Nook fares while the other one is in her possession.


Directory of Mental Health Clinicians with Virginia Training in Forensic Evaluation
The Directory is a database that contains names and contact information for mental health clinicians who have completed either the Adult Basic or Juvenile Basic forensic training sequence at the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. The Directory also lists by clinician additional training taken in sex offender evaluation and capital sentencing evaluation.
These training sequences meet the requirement for the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services-Approved training referenced in the Virginia Code in the statutes that govern the evaluation of: Competence to Stand Trial (CST) [§19.2-169.1], Competence to Stand Trial (CST) in Juvenile Court [§16.1-356 A], Sanity at the Time of the Offense (MSO) [§19.2-169.5], Mental State Relevant to Capital Murder [§19.2-264.3:1], and Adults Convicted of an Offense Indicating Sexual Abnormality [§19.2-301].
The Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy does not “certify” forensic evaluators. However, to complete the Adult and Juvenile Forensic Training sequences and be listed in the Directory, an evaluator must pass an examination and submit satisfactory work samples.
Please click below for a summary of the education, training, and experience required or recommended to be appointed as a forensic evaluator under Virginia law:
- Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial (CST) in Circuit Court, [§19.2-169.1]
- Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial (CST) in Juvenile Court, [§16.1-356 A]
- Evaluation of Adult Sanity at the Time of the Offense (MSO), [§19.2-169.5]
- Evaluation of Adult When Mental State is Relevant to Capital Murder, [§19.2-264.3:1]
- Evaluation of Adult Convicted of Offense Indicating Sexual Abnormality, [§19.2-301]
For further information regarding the Directory, please contact Edward Strickler, MA, at (434) 924-5126 or via email at: firstname.lastname@example.org
Access the Directory of Mental Health Clinicians with Virginia Training in Forensic Evaluation:


I wondered whether there is an easy way to get information about the noise and gain levels of the channels, other than loading the header-textfile manually? It it does not seem to be loaded automatically into the raw-object or did I overlook something?
In MNE-Python we try not to make too many attributes public because it increases the number of things we need to support. For your use case is there a library like PyEDFLib that would do the job?
If not, reading the header text file might actually be the best way to go


Happy Birthday, Dr. Darts!
Darts most eminent historian Dr. Patrick Chaplin meets a huge milestone today celebrating his 70th Birthday, and most notably marking over 5 decades of playing darts and 35 years researching its rich history.
Patrick started his first ever Dr. Darts Newsletter (DDN) back in 2010 namely to answer the question as to why and how he ever became involved in researching darts from close friend Eddie Norman that spurred this burning desire.
Dr. Edward Norman wrote whilst speaking at a lecture on darts: "I told the audience about your PhD in Darts. They were fascinated and loved it but, Patrick, I was stuck when I was asked, why you chose darts? leaving me stuck for the first time ever at a lecture".
Patrick's love of creative writing was a gift to all of us seriously interested in the sport's origins and its founding fathers of whose shoulders we stand upon, when he came up with the idea of producing a (more or less) monthly newsletter to amuse and inform fellow team members and others about what the Club was all about or had been up to. Amazingly the first issue appeared in September 1980, which would have made Patrick a pioneer blogger decades before the digital bubble exploded.
Patrick said: "I served as editor, main contributor, cartoonist and publisher of Out of the Blue - The Official Bullsheet of the Blue Boar (Maldon) Men's Darts Club - as at the time there was a dearth of books on darts history so anything I published in that respect was usually 'borrowed' from Derek Brown's The Guinness Book of Darts (Enfield: Guinness Superlatives, 1980). Derek's book was probably the only darts book I had in my possession at that time. The Bullsheet lasted for thirty-two issues, the final one being published in May 1988".
It was as a result of including historical notes in the Bullsheet (as the newsletter was more popularly known) that Patrick started to research the sport. It happened like that. and more than 35 years on, a PhD and eight dart books later here he is still researching darts!
Patrick's DDN circulates across the globe reaching over 120 countries; and remains free with a global readership measured in thousands. Patrick attributes much of this success to Dr. Eddie Norman and his travels across the world on the lecture circuit and his mentions of his work, his books and DDN.
Ian Flack, Sales and Marketing Director for Winmau, said: "We've had a very special working relationship with Patrick and I have personally known him for 20 years. His quest to uncover the fascinating history of the sport in so many different areas is admirable and I am proud to call him and his wife Maureen friends. Happy birthday Mate."
Vincent Bluck, Managing Director of Winmau, added: "Patrick and the DDN are unique and his features about darts history remind us how lucky we all are to have Patrick safeguarding the history of our amazing sport. Patrick's work will be his legacy as the only man in the world (so far) to research and discover the true history of one of the most popular pastimes. On behalf of Winmau and the wider darting world we'd love to wish him the best 70th birthday marked by this truly special limited-edition one-off dartboard in honour of his services to us all - Happy Birthday Dr. Darts".
To sign up for the DDN, please email Patrick on email@example.com and you can find a wealth of useful information via his website: Patrick Chaplin
. You can ask him questions as well via his website,


The Epidemiology and Health Outcomes section considers manuscripts describing epidemiological studies relating to the field of nephrology. The section also considers systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Both qualitative and quantitative studies discussing health outcomes research and outcome measures are also considered by this section. Research related to clinical practice guidelines should be directed to the dedicated Guidelines and Policy section.
Health related quality of life among haemodialysis and kidney transplant recipients from Nepal: a cross sectional study using WHOQOL-BREF
Very less is known about health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among patients with kidney diseases in Nepal. This study examined HRQOL among haemodialysis and kidney transplant recipients in Nepal.
Citation: BMC Nephrology 2020 21:433


The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown
One of my favorite books to pick up for a quick short reads. A nice way break from scrolling on your phone. Carefully selected by the creative minds at The Moth, and adapted to the page to preserve the raw energy of live storytelling, All These Wondersfeatures voices both familiar and new. Alongside Meg Wolitzer, John Turturro, Tig Notaro, and Hasan Minhaj, readers will encounter: an astronomer gazing at the surface of Pluto for the first time, an Afghan refugee learning how much her father sacrificed to save their family, a hip-hop star coming to terms with being a “one-hit wonder,” a young female spy risking everything as part of Churchill’s “secret army” during World War II, and more.


Sylvia Moody was a Classicist, pyschologist, psychotherapist, translator and writer. Her non-fiction books range from a lay person’s guide to Ancient Greek philosophy to a series of books on dyslexia in adulthood. She also wrote short stories and poetry for both adults and young children. Sylvia spent many years in Greece; her translations from Modern Greek include history, biography, museum guides, exhibition catalogues, short stories and poetry. Sadly Sylvia passed away in 2017. Her website expired and there was no backup. This project rebuilt the website to as it was in 2016 with a few modifications to distinguish it from the original site.


Congratulations to Suki and Willa who participated in a the 'Law Foundation Cup', a Provincial debate tournament held in Burnaby last weekend. As a team, they placed 2nd in the province in the Novice age category. Outstanding! Two former WFMS students, Riley and Harlan, also participated in the tournament. Way to go, everyone!
Creative Writing Group is this Thursday, October 27th at the Nelson Library! Taught by writer Rayya Liebich. All teens and all levels welcome. Since it is Halloween week, we are going to do Blackout Poetry! It involves taking a page of written word and blacking out most of it except a few select works to create a poem – many turn them into works of art too. We also have a spooky/yummy Halloween snacks!
This week at the Nelson Library we have our first Fibre Arts Club! Thursday, October 13th, 3:30-4:30. This gathering is for knitters or stitch-ers or for those who want to be! If you have a project you are working on, please bring it along! This will be an informal gathering time to work on our own projects. If you have ever wanted to learn how to knit or stitch, we will have supplies and experts on hand to teach you how! And hot chocolate and cookies of course :) Contact Melodie Rae at email@example.com if you have questions.
As part of Culture Days, the Nelson Library is putting on a creative writing session for teens. Come learn from writer Rayya Liebich how to write nature poetry! This will be the first session of the newly formed Creative Writing Group. All teens, all writing levels welcome! Snacks provided! Friday, September 30th, 3:30-5 pm. Contact Teen Librarian Melodie Rae firstname.lastname@example.org.


Secret of the Warlock’s Crypt
I started writing this book, or a version of it, when I was an undergraduate in college and it was fully underway by 1995. The book has been professionally edited on two occasions, substantially re-written at least three times, professionally reviewed by Kirkus_online_020115, and the cover art done by the talented Amanda Almon. My photo for the book jacket was done by Steve Mastroianni, another talented friend, and my good friend Jared Bendis has assisted in too many ways to enumerate. I’d also like to thank Atbosh Media for publishing the work and taking the leg work out of all the formats, isbns, lc numbers, etc. And last but certainly not least, my wife Kirsten, who read the book more times than she probably liked and who contributed significantly to my consideration of layout and design elements.
The print version of the book will be available from both Ingram and Amazon in the next several weeks, and then I will begin attempts at consignment distribution to local stores and I’ll start pushing for it in local libraries.


What Light Novels Are Best? 2 Must Read Choices
What are the best light novels to read and what is the difference between light novels and normal written literature? Well to answer the first question, we’ll go into depth with the light novels of Durarara!! and No game No Life a bit later. But as for the other question, strictly speaking there is no difference between light novels and normal written literature: light novels are indeed books with a few illustrations here and there throughout the reading. But the difference lies, once again, on the target audience.
Since before twilight there has been a steady increase of Young Adult Novel productions circulating in western book stores – Japan has been way ahead of us in that respect.
What Is a Light Novel?
Yes, light novels are the same as shoujo, shounen, and BL. It is a name designed to specify a target audience (much like YA Novels). The best light novels are pieces of literature dedicated to the young adult demographic. In fact, Japanese pop culture has developed their own market bubble regarding literature for young adults, and the literature media is very diverse: cellphone novels, light novels and visual novels are all created with the young adult audience in mind and contain novel stories.
Of course, people have a lot to say about light novels (sometimes not good things) But the truth is, light novels are one of the main sources of creativity and profit for the whole Japanese pop culture business. In fact, many light novels were adapted later to anime, manga and even audiobooks, some of them reaching worldwide stardom after those adaptations – in-fact, some of the best animes of all time have their roots in light novels. Some of them will surprise you!
Whether it is because of the incredible plot or the well constructed characters, there are always some light novels’s that manages to catch your heart and soul and never be forgotten. Here are two personal picks that are among the best light novels to read in my opinion:
It is not a hard to conclude that the character is the element of utmost importance in Japanese pop culture. Everything revolves around the growth of specific characters and what happens to them defines the storyline. However, what we see in DRRR!! is slightly different. In this light novel, The City is the most important “character” of the plot.
“In my hometown, the sky seemed endless…but there was nothing to see.”
This is not really a new thing. The archetype of The City is a plot device that is fairly used by western comic books. The City is omnipresent and involves all the characters in its net. It is a living and breathing collective entity that defines how the characters turn out.
In the DRRR!! setup, Ikebukuro (a commercial district in Tokyo, Japan) takes the role as The City, and all the characters live in or around this area. Each character has its own plot and they are all connected through the City. Generally speaking, the story revolves around Ikebukuro and the young lad Ryuugamine Mikado, who just moved to Tokyo to study with his best friend Kida Masaomi. Along the way, more characters turn up creating a long net of plots, stories and situations. It is hard to even fully determine the main character (although the author makes an effort to keep the story around Mikado), DRRR!! proves to be one of the most interesting readings when it comes to Light Novels (The anime is not bad either).
2. No Game No Life
Although I am strongly against the meaningless and blatant sexualization of female characters (a common trait in most of ecchi manga), the No Game No Life light novel manages to built a strong storyline around all the unnecessary flying skirts. The siblings Sora and Shiro are known as Kuuhaku, the mysterious player that own most of the world records in a varied range of online games. However, in real life, both of them are hikikomori or NEET (A Japanese word used for people who are recluse and are not engaged in studies, work or general social life – stands for “Not in Employment, Education, or Training”) who are strongly dissatisfied with the current world.
“This world is just… a crappy game.”
– Shiro and Sora
After winning a chess game against a mysterious player, they are transported to another world called Disboard, rules by the God Tet, the Game Master. In this world, every conflict has to be settled by games.
Is is interesting to observe that Sora and Shiro never planned to get back home. They decide to stay in the world of games and eventually defeat the god of the games, Tet.
“In stories about people stuck in other worlds, the protagonists do their best to get back to their original worlds, don’t they? Why would they ever want to do that?”
The Brazilian writer, Kamiya Yuu, has lived in Japan for a long time and managed to deliver a very strong piece of literature. I’ve had the opportunity to read both the Portuguese and Japanese light novel versions and I dare say the Portuguese version reveals even stronger text lines and catchphrases. No Game No Life is definitely an excellent light novel read (I could go without all the ecchi references though.)
So What’s The Best Light Novel?
Sorry to say, but I really can’t pick one and say it’s “the best”. I found light novels when I was dead tired of reading Japanese mangas. They are definitely a good alternative for all the visual information that the manga provides. Even if you are not really into books, light novels are not overly complex when it comes to the flow of the text (in fact, most light novels’s are really easy readings).
If you have found a favorite anime on this light novel list that you think is the best anime ever, why not download the original titles and see what have you missed while watching only the anime/manga adaptations?


A few days ago I wrote about my favourite golf books. They were, Mind Swings, The Inner Game of Golf and Extraordinary Golf. I forgot to mention another great book. I found it the other day and reread it in a few hours.
The book is called Quantum Golf and the author is Kjell Enhager. It is not your typical golf book. It takes you on a journey of discovery with a frustrated (normal?) golfer named John Smith. Smith learns a different attitude and mindset with an eccentric teacher named Linc St. Clair. The story is a good one and I’m sure you’ll like it. It’s only a short book but I bet you’ll get something positive out of it.


This is probably the first week I’ve really felt the weight of college classes. It seems like everyone is having a hard week, full of tests, quizzes, papers, and outside stresses. The library seems more than crowded these days (I should know I’ve been there almost everyday!) My week has been pretty stressful—here’s just an insight of a typical college week.
My week has consisted of freaking out about my major, which I think for now I am sticking with History. I went to see my advisor, and she told me that I was “just a baby” and shouldn’t be thinking so far in the future. This just made me realize that I have the freedom to choose my classes for next semester! I went through the UD Catalog and chose breadth requirements that I want to take in Spring, there are so many amazing classes here.
But the main part of my week has been my research paper! I’ve been sifting through these five books for the past week and a half to write my 10 page argumentative paper on why standardized testing is detrimental to education. I went to the library again today with my friend Caroline for 3 hours and took a picture (seen below) from the third floor, East Campus is so pretty! (looks even more beautiful when you’re walking around)
I’ve just been trying to not freak out about all my upcoming projects, quizzes, and books I have to read, which is usually achieved by me giving myself “me” time at night—I only do homework during the day, which makes for a long day, but that’s alright because time in college flies by!!!
I’m so excited for Thanksgiving to go home to Chicago and see my friends and family! But until then I’m going to enjoy UD’s campus during the fall!


As part of a pioneering digital initiative, the National Gallery of Australia is transforming how it presents exhibitions to the world. Printed publications have long been a mainstay of the Gallery’s offering and a critical instrument in delivering on its mission to be at the forefront of a national cultural agenda.
For its Ceremony exhibition, the NGA commissioned us to reframe the publication as a living and breathing reflection of art, presented through the story of the artist. A digital publication, if you will, but something more than a reinterpretation of a venerated media format. It wanted to give the artist another platform to show their intent, to unravel how they see ceremonies in their own lives and communities. A space to speak in their own voice, on their own terms and in their own language.
Curated by Arrernte/Kalkadoon woman Hetti Perkins, she describes her approach as:
Her interviews with each of the artists along with beautifully composed portraiture allow us to reveal their thoughts and contemplations throughout the publication.
Both detailed, and multi-purpose
Our goal was to design an interface and develop a publishing platform that would elevate the artist’s voice, be welcoming, and feel like a new and enriching experience. Using intimate films, arresting location footage, detailed process-making sequences, and studio photography as the visual centrepiece, the digital publication immerses the viewer into the world of the artist. The outcome is a renewable publishing format that evolves the much-celebrated traditions of print publishing.
Ceremony’s visual abundance is its strength. We utilised a bold and intimate approach to the design that interwove these stunning portraits with evocative process videos, revealing their inspirations and showcasing their work in a way that is authentic, raw, and potent.
Our scalable design language accommodates a wide range of user types — from the academic to the curious. Our publishing technology provides seamless integration with the Gallery’s existing backend services and content management processes, to provide them with utility that extends beyond this single exhibition.
This award-winning collaboration, which deeply examined the intersection of established publishing traditions and new, innovative media, resulted in this first-of-its-kind renewable digital resource.
- National Gallery of Australia
- Keir Winesmith – Head of Digital
- Brittany Burgess – Digital Coordinator
- Winner, Program Website
- Webby Awards
- Finalist, Best Website, Cultural Institutions
- User Experience
- Graphic Design
- Frontend Development
- The Interaction Consortium
- Backend Development
- Studio Ontorago
- Identity Design


Looking for some sweet books to teach your little one about Easter? This post contains the best easter books for babies, from newborn to 12 months.
I love using books to celebrate the holidays with my girls. Not only is reading a perfect brain-booster, but as an author and avid reader myself, I feel like it’s passing along a little piece of myself to them.
For my oldest daughter’s first Easter, I bought her quite a few books. Now, taking into account that she was only seven months at the time, some of these books were hits, and some of them were far above her age range.
Which brings us to this post. Are you looking for age-appropriate Easter books for your baby? I’ve curated this list for you! All of these books are perfect for your little one’s first year, and I’ll mention if they are better for smaller babies as well.
I’ve listed quite a few Christian easter books for babies, but you’ll also find a few that focus on secular elements of Easter, like chocolate, spring, and–of course–bunnies.
Just a heads up…there’s a lot of books in this post. I fully admit to going a little crazy. I suggest adding your top 5 to your shopping list in Amazon and going from there!
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Baby’s First Easter (Baby’s First Holidays)
If you’re looking for baby’s first easter book, this one is a must-have. It’s incredibly simple (great if you have a wiggle-worm) and tells your child the basic elements of the Easter story. The illustrations are adorable, but I also love that it includes real-life photography as well, which younger babies seem to prefer.
Final advantage: it’s a board book!
My First How to Catch the Easter Bunny
Join the hunt to capture the legendary Easter bunny! It’s a very fun book with easy-to-follow rhymes and clever traps concocted for some bunny snatching.
Because there are a few more words, I would rate How to Catch the Easter Bunny a good Easter book for a 1-year-old.
A Very Happy Easter
Check out this delightful retelling of the Easter story. The book is advertised for kids 5-6, but honestly, I don’t see why it couldn’t be read to babies as well. It teaches about the resurrection with kid-appropriate language and stays true to the gospel message.
I also love how expressive the illustrations are. They cry, they laugh–All emotions that are easy for babies and toddlers to identify with.
This Is Easter (Our Daily Bread for Little Hearts)
If you’re looking for fun ways to introduce your babies to Jesus, Our Daily Bread for Little Hearts is a great series you’ll want to check out.
This is Easter, of course, focuses on retelling the Easter story. In this book, we learn about why Jesus came to the Earth (to take away our sins), the events leading up to the resurrection, and paraphrases of the Bible verses.
There are certainly more words in this book, but I would feel comfortable reading it to babies 6 months and older because of the length.
Good News! It’s Easter!
If you’re looking for a Christian easter book for babies that’s a little more on the lighter side, Good News! It’s Easter! will be a good one to have on your shelf. Also from the Our Daily Bread for Little Hearts series, this book follows forest critters as we celebrate the good news of Easter.
The language in this book is much more lyrical and engaging to little ones than This is Easter.
God Gave Us Easter (God Gave Us Series)
This Easter book is a little older (both in publication and age-appropriateness). I would say it’s a good Easter book for 1-year-olds and up.
This story follows a cub and his daddy bear as they talk about why God gave us Easter. It’s a fun way to explain God’s never-ending, sacrificial love for his children.
I love the frozen, wild north illustrated in this book. It’s so unique among other spring-themed easter stories!
Happy Easter, Baby Shark!
Baby Shark do-do-do-do-do-do!
If your baby loooooooves Baby Shark like my girls did, this is the perfect Easter book! This isn’t a story, so much as it helps your little one get up, practice a new version of the baby shark song, and follow an adorable underwater easter egg hunt.
The Story of Easter
If you’re searching for a Christian Easter book for toddlers that your baby can grow into, this is my favorite. I bought this book for my firstborn when she was a baby, and we’ve read it ever since. As a baby, we had to more summarize the pages rather than read the actual words because it’s a little detailed.
However, once she hit the toddler phase, she really enjoyed the story! Now, at 5, she still loves it.
The illustrations are beautiful, the theology is sound, and it follows the entire story of the biblical first Easter.
Peek-a-Flap Hop – Children’s Lift-a-Flap Board Book
My oldest daughter’s favorite type of book as a baby was the peek-a-flaps! She found the flaps as endlessly entertaining as a game of peek-a-boo!
This non-religious Easter book for baby celebrates all things of the holiday! Painted eggs, parades, bunnies, baby chicks, and more! The illustrations are bright and beautiful while the language is easy to read and embellish with silly voices.
The book is advertised for ages 2+, but I think it’s a perfect fit for babies 6 months and older.
My Snuggle Bunny – Personalized Children’s Story
Are you looking for personalized easter books for babies? This one is adorable!
My Snuggle Bunny allows you to place your child’s name on the front cover, create a personalized message on the beginning page, and include their name throughout the book. The message is so sweet: it shares the many ways you will love your child.
I love the illustrations as well; they are gentle and beautiful.
Jesus Loves Me Praying Hands Board Book
Cottage Door Press is quickly becoming a favorite children’s book publisher of mine. The Jesus Loves Me Praying Hands Board Book is nothing short of ingenious. As the name suggests, the book is cut in the shape of hands. It’s filled with prayers for every part of your baby’s day.
Prayers for dinner time, bedtime, and simply going outside and praising God for his natural beauty.
This isn’t an Easter book per se, but the overall theme is spring, making it a great fit an Easter basket.
The Jesus Loves Me Praying Hands Board Book is perfect for newborns, all the way to 12 months!
Where Are Baby’s Easter Eggs?: A Lift-the-Flap Book
Are ready for another Lift-the-Flap book? This one is so much fun! Like the little girl featured in the story, your little one is lifting the flaps to find Easter eggs.
The language is super simple and appropriate for small babies. It also helps build vocabulary and identify everyday objects.
My favorite part is the illustrations. The illustrations are pretty simple, but the artist managed to incorporate tons of vibrant patterns that will enchant small babies.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Easter Colors
My oldest daughter loves The Very Hungry Caterpillar. If your little one does too, check out this Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Easter Colors book. Every page identifies a color and includes cute illustrations of an insect or animal that represents the color.
The book is pretty simple; I would say it’s a good Easter book for newborns to 12 months.
Happy Easter, Bunny! 3-Button Sound Board Book for Babies
Once your baby hits about 6 months, they will love sound books!
This short baby sound book explores the different noises of Easter. There are only three buttons, but the story itself makes it fun and interactive (check out the book preview…you’ll see what I mean).
Construction Site: Spring Delight: An Easter Lift-the-Flap Book
Okay, we’ve looked at tons of cute books featuring fluffy chicks and cute bunnies. But what about your tractor lovin’ baby?
Well, this one’s for you.
In this story, some friendly construction vehicles discover a surprising Easter object resting in the middle of their worksite!
Never Touch a Grumpy Bunny!
The cover of this book is hilarious. If there was ever a perfect book for my youngest daughter, this would be it. I’m pretty sure the grumpy bunny is her spirit animal. Haha, I’m joking. Kind of.
Never Touch a Grumpy Bunny is a hilarious touch-and-feel Easter book for 2-month-old babies all the way up to 3 years. Unlike many touch-and-feel books, this one contains mostly silicone with bumps, swirls, and other fun patterns. No stickiness or matted fur! Needless to say, it’s very engaging.
Never Touch a Grumpy Bunny is also part of a series of similar books that are baby-favorites!
My Little Library: Bible Stories
So, this is actually a collection of books. This set includes 3×3 books of your favorite bible stories. Jesus Loves Me and Thank You, God might be good choices to read around Easter. Both of my daughters loved these types of books because they could pull them out of the box and “read” them independently.
The illustrations are cute as well!
The Quiet/Crazy Easter Day (padded)
Telling the resurrection story is great, but, let’s be honest, sometimes it’s hard for babies and toddlers to track. If you have an energetic little one that needs a little more enthusiasm built into a book, The Quiet/Crazy Easter Day is for you.
This book is just fun! It takes the typical Easter story and infuses it with new life! You’ll find dancing rabbits, chirping birds, and upbeat rhymes.
My favorite part? It’s padded. Padded books hold up really well against any baby’s abuse, and they look really special.
What Are Your Favorite Baby Easter Books?
Alright, that’s my (very long) list of best Easter books for babies. After this, I hope you have lots of fun ideas for your upcoming holiday. If you’re looking for things to do on your baby’s first Easter check out this post. If your baby is a little bit older and you’re a Christian mama, you can also check out these fun ways to celebrate Jesus on Easter.
Do you have any good baby Easter book ideas? Let me know in the comments below!
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Why in the world is somebody stuck in the sticks of southwestern New Jersey so interested in the middle of Asia? I don't know exactly, but in the last half-dozen years, I've been fascinated by this remote, mysterious, and until recently, unapproachable part of the world. Ranging from the Caspian Sea to Lake Baikal, from southern Siberia to the foothills south of the Himalaya, the area formerly known as Soviet Turkestan and Chinese Singkiang is, with the possible exception of the headwaters of the Amazon River, the last great unexplored, untravelled part of the world. Magical places like Samarkand, Bokhara, the Karakoram Highway, the Khyber Pass, Yarkand, Urumqui (Mr.Ron Dollin's Favorite Vacation Spot!!!), and many others beckon. I hope you'll be as fascinated as I.
I've also come across a marvelous source of (mostly reprints) books on India and Central Asia - the Vedams Book site. Check them out if your searches on Barnes & Noble and Amazon don't turn up the book you are looking for.


February is Black History Month, and 3rd grader Cayson Blanchard has a direct link to an individual who played a key role in desegregating education. His grandfather James Hood was one of the first black students to attend the University of Alabama. Click the headline to read more about Cayson and his grandfather, and drop by the library to see a display about them.
Beginning in August, all schools at DMPS will have new hours. The new hours at our school will be 7:30 AM to 2:25 PM. The change is being made to better serve the educational needs of students, based on research into the sleep patterns of children and teenagers. Click the headline for more information.


The Spartan Warriors: Origins and Purpose.
The Spartan warriors hailed from the city-state of Sparta, renowned for its militaristic society. Born from the need to protect their land from invaders, these warriors evolved into formidable defenders of their city and way of life. We uncover the origins of these elite soldiers and shed light on their purpose within the context of ancient Greece.
The Spartan Agoge: Unveiling their Training System.
The Spartan agoge, an intensive training program, molded Spartan warriors into indomitable fighters. We delve into the intricacies of this rigorous regime, exploring the physical and mental conditioning, combat techniques, and weapons training that honed these warriors into an unmatched force on the battlefield.
Battle Strategies of Spartan Warriors: A Testament to Adaptability and Tenacity.
The Spartan warriors were not only skilled in combat but also renowned for their ingenious battle strategies. We analyze their legendary phalanx formation, a formidable shield wall that provided both offense and defense. Additionally, we examine their tactics employed against rival city-states, showcasing their adaptability and the unwavering tenacity that marked their campaigns.
The Spartan Warrior Code: Discipline and Sacrifice.
Central to the Spartan warriors' ethos was their strict code of honor. We unravel the principles that governed their lives, emphasizing the importance of discipline, self-sacrifice, and loyalty. By understanding their code, we gain insights into the mindset and values that shaped these fearless warriors.
Cultural Impact of Spartan Warriors: Separating Myth from Reality.
From popular culture to historical accounts, the influence of Spartan warriors is far-reaching. We debunk common misconceptions and separate the truth from the myths that have perpetuated over time. Moreover, we explore the lasting impact of Spartan military tactics and training, which continue to inspire and shape modern warfare.
The Enduring Legacy of Spartan Warriors: Lessons for Today.
Even centuries later, the legacy of Spartan warriors holds invaluable lessons. We draw parallels between their principles and contemporary contexts, demonstrating how concepts such as discipline, perseverance, and teamwork are as relevant today as they were on the ancient battlefield. Discover how the Spartan legacy can empower personal growth and leadership.
The story of the Spartan warriors is one of unparalleled valor and unwavering dedication. Through examining their origins, training, battle strategies, and cultural impact, we gain a profound understanding of their extraordinary contributions to history. Their legacy, marked by discipline, sacrifice, and indomitable spirit, continues to inspire generations. As we delve into the realm of the Spartan warriors, we unlock timeless lessons that resonate even in the modern world, fueling our pursuit of greatness.


The young adult genre is hard to gauge.
The pendulum swings wildly – with some entries hitting the
nail on the head and others missing wildly.
It’s doubly hard when you’re an adult reading a young adult
novel. You have to make certain allowances and realize that this is written for
a younger audience.
Since paranormal stories are also popular, the young adult
genre is littered with titles.
One title that caught my eye – and held my attention – was ‘Cries
in the Mist’ by Stacey Coverstone.
This is the first in a series of books based on Briony
Martin, a naïve girl in her late teens that is having trouble finding her place in society.
In this book, set in 1955, Briony finds herself traveling to Cape
Marble in an attempt to see the father who abandoned her and hasn’t seen her
(or her brother) for years. Once she arrives on the island, Briony finds that
her father has been killed.
The local law enforcement official initially tells Briony
that her father was murdered and then retracts that statement. Even though she
is somewhat sheltered, Briony realizes that there’s more to the story and she
refuses to leave until she finds out exactly what happened to her father.
Briony’s story is a quick read – and it’s an interesting read.
By setting it in 1955, there’s a certain haunted ambiance that wafts throughout
There’s a romance with a local islander that is hinted at –
but that’s not the focus of this story. The focus of this story is Briony
herself and the journey she must embark on. It’s actually an emotional journey –
and the answers she gets about her father’s disappearance and death actually
leave her with more questions than anything else.
I did think the social issues at the heart of the story -- which I won't ruin for you -- feel a little heavy handed in this day and age, but they're not so obvious that the reader feels like they're being preached to.
There are a few typos in this, but they aren’t so bad that
they yank you out of the narrative. The narrative is tight – almost too tight.
I would have liked a little more exposition – just so you can get a better feel
for Cape Marble and Briony’s new surroundings.
In the grand scheme of things, this is a young adult book
that can appeal to a wide audience – and that’s hard to find sometimes.
'Cries in the Mist' is available for $1.99
on Kindle and $5.39


When I began to write Believe Me I was amazed at how little I knew about the physical world around me. My main character, Lucy Delano, is an astrophysicist at the University of Maryland so I had to know something about stars and the universe, right? I started, as I often do when I begin research on a subject I know very little about, in the children’s library. I like books with big writing and lots of pictures.
I would bring these books back home and delve in. A great by product of this ritual was that my children would delve in too. We would sit down and wonder at the pictures and marvel at the facts.
Why the sky is blue.
How far away we are from the closest star outside our solar system.
How old the universe is.
The location of Mommy’s car keys.
One of our favorite books was Merlin’s Tour of the Universe by the director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil de Grasse Tyson. Only when I had tackled the basics was I allowed to move onto some great books like:
A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking
Big Bang by Simon Singh
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
The Canon by Natalie Angier
All of which reminded me how little I knew and, even more, how little I know. Sometimes I don’t even know what questions to ask. But as that great brainy dude, Einstein, once said, The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Even if the answers sometimes make your head ache!
It’s Believe Me’s publication day today. Wish me luck….
photo by rAmmoRRison (flickr)


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Well look at that! I'm reading again! I've been reading all along, but nothing that I really wanted to share. This gem is worth sharing. If you've always had a soft spot for fairy tales, treat yourself, you won't regret it!
Nothing is sad about lemon cake... unless you can taste the sadness of the baker. This quirky little book is about a girl who can taste the feelings of the people who make her food and how she comes to deal with this blessing/curse. It's a fun, quick read that will make you think twice about the people who surround you.
You're on an island and all the men are off at the front... except for the enemy soldiers who are occupying your island. They're there for years and it's not like you and your husband had the ideal relationship before he left, so... what do you do when you fall in love with the soldier next door?
This is an awesome war story, you know, if you're into that sort of stuff, which I totally am!
This week we're having a bit of a need for some centering, grounding books.
We started with this as a way to gently ramp up the kids' exposure to judaism. We read it most nights.
To counter all the stress surrounding a big school event and to start introducing meditation in the half pint crowd at home... we went with this. It's a FANTASTIC book. One even grown-ups interested in learning about the whys and hows of meditation should read.


Imagine my surprise last week when I walked into a bookshop on Sauchiehall Street and saw a librarian from the British Library counting the books on the shelves.
I watched him for a moment as he walked alongside the books on medieval history. He had a clipboard heavy with printed paper. For each book he came across he cross-referenced it with a list on his clipboard. After a while I realised that when he discovered a book that wasn’t on his list he would take a copy off the shelf and put it in his basket.
Curious, I went over to speak to him. His name badge had ‘British Library’ proudly splashed across the top and ‘Gordon, librarian’ underneath, in much smaller letters. I asked him what he was doing.
He told me the British Library was legally obliged to store at least one copy of every book published in the United Kingdom. I asked what that had to do with cross-referencing books in a branch of Waterstone’s in Glasgow.
‘Isn’t it obvious?’ he spluttered. ‘I’m looking for books we don’t have. If there’s a book on these shelves I haven’t seen before, I take a copy for the British Library.’
He explained how the system works: the British Library sends its staff out into the world to find the country’s bookshops. How they find them is a bit haphazard, but they’ve found it works to ask in one bookshop how to get to the next. In each bookshop they find they look at the books it stocks. For those they do have, they make sure they have the latest edition; for those they don’t, they take a copy.
Reductio ad absurdum
If this seems an absurd way of looking after our cultural heritage you’d be right. I’ve just made it all up. It would, of course, be ridiculous for the British Library to go into each and every bookshop looking for unknown books. In fact there’s a legal obligation for publishers to send a copy of each newly published book to the Legal Deposit Office within the library.
I’m glad the British Library is sensible about this. It makes me happy to know the written works of our nation, and all the knowledge they contain, are taken so very seriously and have a strong legal backing.
But it doesn’t happen on the web. It can’t happen on the web. Could you imagine parliament drafting a bill stating every author must send a copy of their web site to the British Library? It would become the very embodiment of an unenforceable law.
In fact, the opposite has happened. The state no longer has anything like the control, benevolent or otherwise, it used to have over the printed word. The relationship has flipped. Whereas once the British Library could demand a publisher send it a copy of every edition of a book the library now has to go looking for its copies. The Internet Archive has been doing this for 14 years, and national libraries are slowly — too slowly — coming to realise they need to start archiving the web as carefully as they do newspapers, books, magazines, and film. (Something I’ve written about before.)
This loss of control is fascinating. It’s taken thousands of years but publishing has finally made its way into the hands of us all. The pharaohs of Egypt and kings of Mesopotamia kept control thanks to the prohibitive expense of carving in stone, producing papyrus, and the rarity of education. The same thing happened in medieval Europe when monks and religious houses jealously guarded the control publishing gave them.
Now publishing is going through a revolution so profound nothing matches it since the printing press. And we’re seeing companies and people trying to control the change, just as we saw those medieval religious houses try to stop Gutenberg.
You can control physical media; you can’t control ones and zeros. When I see Warner Brothers sulkily take its music from Spotify I don’t see a company honestly preparing for the future, I see a company that’s stuck in the world before the revolution. The medieval Christian Church tried to stay in the world they knew before the printing press. That didn’t work out well and they ended up losing control of so much by staying there.
Wired have it right: they have a successful, admired magazine. But they are honest about the future, they know it won’t be there in a decade. Everything’s changing, and they need to change with it. The exploratory work they’re doing with the iPad is to be applauded. Not because of the platform, but because they’re embracing the future of publishing.
Meanwhile, we can watch Warner Brothers flail about and see how much of their precious control they have in 2020.


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The Millbrook and Cavan Historical Society is committed to preserving the stories and the artifacts, manuscripts and photographs that serve to illustrate the history of Millbrook, Cavan and the surrounding district in south central Ontario (Canada) for the present and future generations. It also seeks to inspire interest in the value of local history by keeping the stories alive.
The Historical Society brings community members and visitors together on a regular basis to broaden and deepen our knowledge and understanding of the history of this area. We bring a variety of speakers to our gatherings over the course of each year.
We are looking forward to the first of our gatherings for the 2014-15 season. On Thursday, September 25, 7 pm, we will welcome members and friends to the Fireside Lounge at Centennial Place in Millbrook for a presentation by Barbara Pratt, Vice President of the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario. The subject of Ms. Pratt's talk is "Lucy Maud Montgomery and World War I". All her life, L.M. Montgomery kept a personal journal. Her day-to-day entries during and after World War I, while she was living in Leaskdale, Ontario, give a unique and intimate insight into how the war affected the lives of people on the home front. Ms. Pratt will also tell the story of the Society's acquisition and restoration of the Leaskdale manse and the historic Leaskdale Church.
We also answer all genealogy inquiries and help in directing those tracing family roots to relevant resources. A key local resource is 'This Green & Pleasant Land - Chronicles of Cavan Township' originally printed in 1990 by the Millbrook & Cavan Historical Society. We have reproduced this volume on DVD or a 2 CD set. The entire 465 page volume, including 130 family histories and Tremaine's 1861 map of the township showing landowners, is fully searchable in the DVD/CD format, and is available for $20 (plus postage) from the Historical Society.
Our newspaper indexing project is one of our major projects, as we work in partnership with the Ontario Genealogy Society. We are also embarking on an Oral Histories project.


Mrs. Wheeler had come out from Vermont to be Principal of the High School, when Frankfort was a frontier town and Nat Wheeler was a prosperous bachelor. He must have fancied her for the same reason he liked his son Bayliss, because she was so different. that he liked every sort of human creature; he liked good people and honest people, and he liked rascals and hypocrites almost to the point of loving them. If he heard that a neighbour had played a sharp trick or done something particularly mean, he was sure to drive over to see the man at once, as if he hadn’t hitherto appreciated him.
There was a large Dermes , loafing dignity about Claude’s father. He liked to provoke others to uncouth laughter, but he never laughed immoderately himself. In telling stories about him, people often tried to imitate his smooth, senatorial voice, robust but never loud. Even when he was hilariously delighted by anything, — as when poor Mahailey, undressing in the dark on a summer night, sat down on the sticky fly-paper, — he was not boisterous. He was a jolly, easy-going father, indeed, for a boy who was not thin-skinned.
Claude and his mules rattled into Frankfort just as the calliope went screaming down Main street at the head of the circus parade. Getting rid of his disagreeable freight and his uncongenial companions as soon as possible, he elbowed his way along the crowded sidewalk, looking for some of the neighbour boys. Mr. Wheeler was standing on the Farmer’s Bank corner, towering a head above the throng, chaffing with a little hunchback who was setting up a shell-game. To avoid his father, Claude turned and went in to his brother’s store. The two big show windows were full of country children, their mothers standing behind them to watch the parade. Bayliss was seated in the little glass cage where he did his writing and bookkeeping. He nodded at Claude from his desk Dermes.
“Hello,” said Claude, bustling in as if he were in a great hurry. “Have you seen Ernest Havel? I thought I might find him in here.”
Bayliss swung round in his swivel chair to return a plough catalogue to the shelf. “What would he be in here for? Better look for him in the saloon.” Nobody could put meaner insinuations into a slow, dry remark than Bayliss reenex .
Claude’s cheeks flamed with anger. As he turned away, he noticed something unusual about his brother’s face, but he wasn’t going to give him the satisfaction of asking him how he had got a black eye. Ernest Havel was a Bohemian, and he usually drank a glass of beer when he came to town; but he was sober and thoughtful beyond the wont of young men. From Bayliss’ drawl one might have supposed that the boy was a drunken loafer Dermes.


I love autumn and Halloween even though where I live we don’t celebrate it – unfortunatly…But I live it through the internet and other bloggers, so thank you all!!!
So let’s start with the tag…
Apple Picking – A book on your TBR that looks so delicious you can’t wait to take a bite out of it.
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
I can’t wait to get my hands on this one!!! I have read many good reviews and I want to see for myself how good it is!!!!
Corn Maze – A book that’s so much fun to get lost in.
Empire of Storms – Sarah J. Maas
I just LOVED this book!!! I gave me so many feels!!!! Those of you who have read it you know what I’m talking about, those of you who haven’t please read it as soon as possible!!!!
Haunted House – A book that scared you silly
I can’t really think of a scary book I have read but I’m going to say The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern not because I was scary but it had a mysterious atmosphere that I liked!!!
Pumpkin Patch – The latest book you picked up (purchased)
The last book I purchased is Six of Crows. I can’t wait to start reading it!!!
Scenic Drives – A book that is lyrically beautiful.
I think I am going to say The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern!! I loved the way the author created a unique atmosphere!
Pumpkin Carving – A book you didn’t like and wouldn’t mind carving up.
The Soul Seekers Series by Alison Noel. I read the first book which I didn’t found really enjoyable but I thought I should give it another chance I bought the second book and I tried to read it many time but I just couldn’t.
Drinking Apple Cider – A sweet book to curl up under the covers with.
A song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin! I know it’s not what you would call “light reading” but I love it!!!
Jumping in a Leaf Pile – A book that reminds you of your childhood
When I was young I didn’t read book so I’m going to say the first book I read…It was The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.
Scare Movie Night – Your favourite spooky read.
I don’t have spooky or scary books so I will have to go for The Night Circus…again!!
Bonus! Costume Party – A book with an eclectic cast of characters.
The Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas!!! Aelin’s court IS definitely an eclectic cast of characters.
And anyone who wants to do it!! Have Fun!!!
Her Majesty The Queen


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Excalibur scrapbook add-on which will be available at the reveal of the May kits on April 27th. Of course, you can also use what you have in your stash and build your own kit too.
Enrollment in Maggie's class comes with digital freebies as well - including cut files for your Silhouette :
Enrollment in the Mini Book Library has also reopened - which means you can sign up for all four workshops at a discounted price. Instead of $10 each, you can get all 4 classes for $36. If you are a Studio Calico subscriber or rewards member, your classroom discount will also apply! That's an amazing value for you mini book lovers.
Marcy's class will run in August + Céline's class is in November
If you sign up for the Mini Book Library, you will get instant access to my workshop (which ran in February) where I shared a detailed PDF on how to prepare, fold and assemble your own unique 4x4 mini book. I also have 4 videos covering page preparation, album assembly and a super fun (and fast!) video as I create my entire mini book.Maggie's class and the Mini Book Library ends on 5/31 at 11:59pm EST.
Happy mini making and a wonderful weekend!


Though I have a faint recollection of that day, some details are ever so clear. I was in class five. The tuition program we were to attend had backfired so we were told to borrow books for our holiday reading. I picked ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’. Like any 10 year old, I was enchanted by the images on the cover: a man who was blowing a pipe was being followed by a ‘delegation’ of rats. The book was begging to be read, itching to tell its story.
I couldn’t resist the charms regardless of the fact that 1. I had read it before. 2. I was perhaps too old for such books.
So I confidently took the book to the classteacher to have her indicate that I was borrowing the book.
To cut the story short, she never let me take that book, saying that it was too short. She had me borrow a copy of ‘The Boxcar Children’, a novel. For one accustomed to reading storybooks, this was very overwhelming. How was I supposed to read that giant of a book? I took it heavy heartedly and commenced the herculean task of reading it. I was excruciatingly bored within the first few pages, to be honest. My mum encouraged me to read on, saying that a time will come when I would not be able to put the book down.
True to her word, I was hooked once I reached the middle. What I had previously termed as a herculean task turned out to be very easy and aggressively entertaining. You should have seen how dejected I was when I finished reading it.
That is how my love affair with books started. Little did I know that in this part of the world, most people conclude that you are a very boring person when you tell them you are a reader. How can you read during your free time? Don’t you have a life?
That became very apparent in high school. Not wanting to be associated with boredom, I stopped reading. I would be lying through my teeth if I said that I did not regret this. This, in fact, is my biggest regret.
I was determined to get back to reading after high school. It was a struggle at first, but I got back on track. I vowed never to let people’s opinions dissuade me from doing what I really love.
Books have really helped me in a lot. They helped in my grammar, opened my mind, allowed me to have a better understanding of areas that I was not familiar with before. It is always refreshing to read books whose characters you can relate to. The advantages of reading are just so many.
Next time I say I enjoy dancing and you tell me ‘To books?’ ‘To poetry? ‘ I will proudly tell you I wish I could, and that I adore books. 😂Try reading too. You never know, you too might fall in love with books. ☺