My second child is the one who I sympathize with most. She's also my greatest challenge. She's a deep thinker; quick - witted, and exceedingly sensitive. She's a fiercely loyal friend yet a strong introvert.
There are days when she is such a joy with her funny remarks and her thought-provoking questions. But, this afternoon was not one of those. She seemed content enough when I picked her up from school. And after we left the library, she eagerly requested to carry out her book from the stack. But, when we arrived at home, I had a different daughter.
She yelled at her little sister for coming into the room. She called names. She refused to listen to calm reason. I had to leave the room in frustration so that I could cool off. Goodness. What to do? - The only thing a desperate mother can do. I asked my husband for back-up and I prayed for wisdom. After a dinner strewn with unkind words and plenty of food left on the plate, she left in a huff - back to her room. And then, it dawned on me.
I recalled the words I had read this morning and thought about how I could bring her comfort. I peeked my head into her room and asked, "would you like to take a bath in my tub with the good-smelling bath salts?" INSTANTLY, she became a different child. Back to her sweet, kind self - she climbed into the tub. I set out her pajamas, robe and slippers; brought her book into the bathroom and told her that she could stay there and read as long as she liked. As I took her precious face into my hands I remarked, "Dear one, did you need a night alone?" "Yes." "I understand, I need nights alone, too. Do you think that next time you feel like this, you could calmly let me know that you need some time alone?"
And that was that. Good-golly, I hope that I can remember the next time this girl is acting like a crazy person, that she's a young lady who needs her space now and then - just like me. A dear friend of mine once said, "It doesn't take much to bring us back around, a little chocolate, a glass of wine, a warm bath and we feel like a new woman."


Carla Fracci dedicated her life to art!
Great artists find forms of expression for their individuality, striving to reach a state of transcendence in their artistic works while always exhibiting that desire to improve so true to human experience.
”My life is a dance,” Carla Fracci states exuberantly, yet serenely. The eloquence of the Italian ballet dance icon and primadonna conveys her bigger-than-life energy brilliantly with this vivid and inspirational metonymy. It’s an example of her lucidity and the generous-spirited personality which marks both her rich life and her extraordinary artistic work.
In her autobiography, entitled ”Step by Step” (originally ”Passo Dopo Passo, La Mia Storia”), curated sublimely by the renowned Italian biographer and journalist Enrico Rotelli, and released at the end of 2013, Carla Fracci recollects her rich life experiences and magnificent performances throughout her amazing career, while immersing the readers in the magnificent world of ballet with all its intricacies.
The book proudly avers that she has been “fortunate to know the world of dance and be a part of it”. She also considers that ”art should be for everyone,” not only for select audiences. True to her generous nature, she is especially proud of bringing ballet to people in less fortunate social classes, for whom she performed with the same passion as she did on the world’s famous stages, in various locations such as circus tents, cut-off areas of the Italian peninsula and remote town squares, despite the fact that touring this way was anything but easy.
Sprinkled with amusing episodes and exclusive details on her face-to-face meetings with some of the world’s biggest artists, the books includes portraits of the likes of the legendary Maria Callas (”la Maria” in her own words) and describes collaborations with some of the most famous ballet dancers of the 20th Century, including the brilliant yet difficult and very competitive Russian ballet icon Rudolf ”Rudy” Nureyev, who “loved putting his partners to the test” and, above all, her lifelong partner Eric Bruhn.
The Italian legend also dedicates multiple pages to her friend, the world-famous Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, and to one of her biggest influences, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Prima Ballerina Assoluta and her ”spiritual mother.” She writes as well of her family, son Francesco and husband Beppe Menegatti, director of production, who has directed many of the ballet masterpieces starring Clara Fracci. The title of the book has a double significance, alluding both to her famous ballet dance steps and the steps of a full, splendid life, yet one that was tiresome at times.
“I like living,” l’étoile of ballet continues in her autobiography, testifying to a rewarding and rich life both onstage and in real life. In her own words: ”My life has been surrounded by poetry, wonderful music and many maestri both on- and off-stage”. The chapters in ”Step by Step” unfold in chronological order, starting with her simple yet happy life in Lombardy and culminating with her success stories that have made history.
Born on August 20th, 1936 in Milan, Italy, actress and ballet legend Carla Fracci (”la mitica signora della danza” as she is known in her native country) looks and feels as young as ever. She continues to enchant and touch the hearts of ballet lovers with her signature and unparalleled grace, impeccable and awe-inspiring technique, intense interpretations of dramatic and complex characters and, most of all, her emotion-laden bravura steps.
At 77 years old, the internationally-acclaimed star of the romantic ballet masterpiece ”Giselle” is a paragon of artistic longevity, with six decades in the spotlight. She is an inspirational model of excellence in the world of performing arts. Carla Fracci’s lifelong passion for ballet has fueled a life dedicated, body and soul, to the stage. It has been a surreal tour de force brimming with timeless, emphatic and effervescent performances that have given a new meaning to the illusion of weightlessness in Romantic ballets and have transfigured the supernatural into a larger-than-life exercise in verismo.
The daughter of a worker mother and a tram driver father who worked for ATM (the Milanese Transport Company), Carla Fracci was a precocious and gifted child with an innate talent for dance. In 1946, at the age of 10, she began studying classic ballet at the La Scala Ballet School in Milan, a constituent of the La Scala Theatre Academy and one of the premier classical ballet schools in the world. There she learned the Cecchetti method and was trained by Russian professional ballet dancer Vera Volkova (1905-1975) among other reputable choreographers.
After earning her diploma in classical ballet in 1954, she began her professional career as a member of the corps de ballet of the prestigious La Scala Theatre Ballet, founded in 1778 and one of the oldest and most famous ballet companies in the world. At the same time, Miss Fracci continued her artistic formation and polished her technique by participating in advanced internships in Paris, London and New York.
In 1956, after only 2 years of performing with the resident classical ballet company at La Scala, Carla Fracci was promoted to the rank of soloist and only 2 years later, in 1958, she was honored with the highest rank: principal dancer. As first ballerina, the most prominent and coveted position for any ballet dancer, Carla Fracci was the star of the renowned professional ballet company and the protagonist of numerous classical ballet dance works that reflected her boundary-pushing originality, innate theatrical sense, effervescent pathos and multi-dimensional generosity of spirit, the latter overlapping from her artistic work into everyday life.
At La Scala Theatre Ballet she achieved international fame as she interpreted renowned yet challenging characters such as Juliet in choreographer John Cranko’s ”Romeo and Juliet” (1958), Elvira in Leonide Massine’s ”Don Giovanni” (1959) and Aurora in ”Sleeping Beauty”, alongside Margot Fonteyn. From the late 1950s until the late 1960s she performed with world-famous ballet companies such as London Festival Ballet, in both 1959 and 1962, Royal Ballet in 1963, Stuttgart Ballet in 1965 and Royal Swedish Ballet in 1969. From 1967, Carla Fracci was a principal guest star with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), based in New York.
Throughout her exceptional career spanning six decades, her magic-filled, emphatic and memorable artistic performances have made headlines across the globe and have been characterized by enviable physicality, exquisite ballet technique, surreal lightness, leonine strength and majestic grace. She gave life to romantic, dramatic and even tragic characters such as ”La Sylphide” (The Sylph), Juliet, Swanilda (in ”Coppelia”), Francesca de Rimini and above all, Giselle: the apotheosis of her career. In ”Giselle,” Carla Fracci portrayed the innocent peasant girl of the title who dies of a broken heart, but whose death-transcending love for young Duke Albrecht saves his life.
Throughout the years, she has interpreted the role of Giselle alongside famous dance partners such as Rudolf Nureyev, Henning Kronstam, Vladimir Vasiliev, Mikhail Baryshnikov and, of course, the Danish ballet dancer and choreographer Erik Bruhn (1928-1986). Her fabulous and larger-than-life interpretation of Giselle with Eric Bruhn, filmed in 1968, has stood the test of time and to this day it remains her most viewed performance on YouTube. As emphasized in her autobiography ”Step by Step,” the most famous and respected Italian primadonna considers that a refined dance technique is not sufficient: emotional interpretation is utterly essential for the success of a ballet performance. This is why all her artistic works are nothing short of spectacular.
Carla Fracci lives and breathes ballet dance and at 77 years old, she is still active and continues to be in the limelight and make history with her vibrant, intense and emotion-rich artistic performances. Since the publication of her autobiography, she has performed in two productions, at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples and the Politeama Greco Theatre in Lecce, Puglia.
At the latter, the divine ballet icon continues to mesmerize ballet aficionados as the protagonist of Gluck’s opera-ballet ”Orpheus and Eurydice,” choreographed by Fredy Franzutti and directed by Francesco Ledda. Her generosity of spirit and humanity in relation to her audience extends to real life: Carla Fracci is a Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a United Nations agency whose efforts are focused on eliminating hunger in both developed and developing countries across the globe.
On behalf of ballet and art lovers worldwide, ATIM’s team wishes to conclude with a gigantic ”Grazie mille, Signora” addressed to the one and only ballet living legend Carla Fracci!


Feed the Monster!
Stop by the HRNS office and feed the Monster
All donations will be used to purchase books for HRNS at the Monster Book Fair. November 16th - November 20th
- HRNS staff will use all donations to build classroom libraries and purchase books for upcoming classroom themes.
- All donations will be added to the Monster Book Fair total sales, increasing the amount of Scholastic Dollars (rewards) our school receives.
- Scholastic will match our donations to give books to children in need. Our donations will go beyond helping our children and school, they will also reach children who are unable to buy books.
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A distinguishing phenomenon of the twentieth century is the growth of the Pentecostal movement which started at the turn of the century. It became one of the most exciting global movements in the history of the world. Over three decades ago, Pentecostal scholars Douglas Petersen, Byron Klaus, and Murray Dempster, decided to write a book that gave Pentecostal theologians the opportunity to speak for themselves, instead of allowing social scientists to define them. Called and Empowered: Global Mission in Pentecostal Perspective was a huge success when published in 1991, becoming a standard textbook in colleges and seminaries around the world.
(L-R) Murray Dempster, Byron Klaus, & Doug Petersen were each honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 from the Society for Pentecostal Studies.
Funded by Vanguard University of Southern California, the event focused on Global Pentecostalism. It was held during a period when social scientists, noticing the massive growth of Pentecostals worldwide, were offering fascinating analyses on why Pentecostalism was having an impact on societies in previously unconceived ways.
This event became a microcosm of Pentecostalism’s explosive growth in Latin America. It signalled the beginning of Pentecostals speaking for themselves about issues that impact all of Christianity. Special guests, such as Harvey Cox (Harvard University), Vinay Samuel (Oxford Centre of Mission Studies), and Jose Miguez Bonino (foremost Latin American Protestant theologian) interacted with presenters who came from around the world. The result of this event was a book entitled The Globalisation of Pentecostalism: A Religion Made to Travel that was published in 1999.
Twenty seven years have passed since the last summit. This year’s “Voices Loud and Clear” Global Pentecostal Summit 2023 unites Western and Majority World Pentecostal scholars to engage in transformative dialogue surrounding key issues faced by global Christianity today, as well as the future role of Pentecostal scholarship in discerning the implications of the Spirit’s movement globally.
has shifted from Western Christianity to the Majority World, and Pentecostals are central to that present reality. The Global Pentecostal Summit 2023 will seek to bring scholarly focus on issues that are critical to sustaining the Pentecostal vibrancy of Majority World Christianity, bridging the divide between academia and ministry, and creating a symphony of wisdom, knowledge, and action.
This pivotal event, resourced by a Majority World ministry, is intentionally held in a local church in the Majority World. A compilation of the proceedings of this event will be published by Regnum Publishers (UK), in hardcopy, as well as in an open access format, so that the world will have access to these Pentecostal resources. In addition, video recordings of the sessions will be made accessible, further broadening the reach and influence of the summit.


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Located in the St. Robert Municipal Center, the museum features displays which highlight the history of the City of St. Robert from old photos, law enforcement and fire department memorabilia, and old race track.


Renovating The Ground Floor of a Children's House
The Foundation has fully funded the renovation of the ground floor of a Children’s House in Nicosia which hosts young children under the care of the Social Services. The renovation of the ground floor and the dining area, included the creation of two study rooms, a library / IT room and a TV room. The Foundation has also full equipped the Children’s House with new furniture (dining table, desks, chairs etc.), laptops, printer and a TV. The aim of the project was to improve the living conditions for the children and to create a modern, friendly and warm family-atmosphere for all. The opening of the Children’s House was performed by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Labour and Social Insurance Mr Andreas Assiotis and the Founder Mr John Christodoulou on the 21st of November 2017.


Protein-peptide molecular docking is a difficult modeling problem. It is even more challenging when significant conformational changes that may occur during the binding process need to be predicted. In this chapter, we demonstrate the capabilities and features of the CABS-dock server for flexible protein-peptide docking. CABS-dock allows highly efficient modeling of full peptide flexibility and significant flexibility of a protein receptor. During CABS-dock docking, the peptide folding and binding process is explicitly simulated and no information about the peptide binding site or its structure is used. This chapter presents a successful CABS-dock use for docking a potentially therapeutic peptide to a protein target. Moreover, simulation contact maps, a new CABS-dock feature, are described and applied to the docking test case. Finally, a tutorial for running CABS-dock from the command line or command line scripts is provided. The CABS-dock web server is available from http://biocomp.chem.uw.edu.pl/CABSdock/.


Subject: Jhumpa Lahiri tonight at the Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland), 7:30pm
Date Mon, November 20, 2006 2:31 pm
Just so you know, Jhumpa Lahiri is giving a talk at tonight. She wrote Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake. She's also the hottest author to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in the past ten years.
You can get student tickets for $8 at the Carnegie Library or buy 'em at the door. If they sell out you can usually buy the tickets of people who don't show up if you're willing to wait.
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… is featured in the new book entitled, “Where the Revolution Began, published by Spacemaker Press. It features the work of landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, who had been at the leading edge of urban design (sadly, he passed away in October). Together with his wife Anna Halprin, they transformed notions of public space and community. The book contains three essays by John Beardsley, Janice Ross and Randy Gragg. I made the modern photographs of the Halprin Promenade in Portland over the last couple of years. If you would like to buy the book, you can do so here. We hope you do, as all the proceeds go to the Halprin Landscape Conservancy, “a nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public and preserving the Portland Open Space Sequence.”
The process of documenting these parks was a very interesting exercise in trying to “see” back in time and envision what these plazas might have looked like before they were overwhelmed by high rise buildings, neglect, (don’t mean to be down on Portland here, I would wager this was due to city budget restraints), and the addition of unintended architectural features (such as sculpture, planters, etc…).
This book is a magnificent testament to these public spaces and we hope will not only bring attention to these important Portland landmarks but lead to the preservation of them for future generations. In addition to my work, the book also includes reproductions of Halprin’s drawings and some historical images for context.
Here are a few of my favorite images from the shoot which features the Lovejoy Fountain, Pettygrove Park and the Forecourt Fountain. Most of the images were made with a Hasselblad using 80mm, 50mm or 40mm lenses. The film was either Kodak 160VC or Kodak 400VC. Some of the detail images and wide angle horizontal images were made with a Canon 5D.
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Really nice job Susan. A great challenge that you executed beautifully. Congratulations!


A 75 year-old bottle of Generations Mortlach by Gordon & MacPhail has sold at auction for £17,800. The whisky is thought to be the oldest ever bottled and was distilled on 17 November 1939, before being bottled at cask strength in 2015.
The bottle was sold in an online auction run by Perth-based Whisky Auctioneer, and the auction also involved what is thought to be the earliest known book on distillation. “The Practical Distiller” was first published in 1718, and is one of only 8 copies, one of which is held in Oxford University’s Bodleian Library and another at Harvard University. Bound with a subsequent work, “A Complete Body of Distilling” published in 1725, the pair sold for £5610.


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JUNIORS & JUNIOR FAMILIES - There will be an overview of the post-secondary and college process on , , at , in the high school library. The New Hampshire Higher Education Assistance Foundation (NHHEAF) will walk students and their parents/guardians through the post-secondary and college process and answer any questions. Topics discussed include: tips for searching and finding the ‘right’ school, special programs and options to consider when choosing a school, advice for college touring and ways to stand out to a college. Parents and students are encouraged to attend.
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Title: Once and for All
Author: Sarah Dessen
Age Group: Teen/Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Romance
Star Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
I borrowed this book through my local library and reviewed it.
Sarah Dessen is the author that made me believe in the merits of contemporary fiction. Add to that, that she is one of the bestselling young adult authors of recent times, and I'm sold. Anything that she writes, I want to read it. So when I heard that she would be publishing a new book in June, I just knew that I had to order it through my local library. (I really love my library!) This book was classic Dessen: lovable, sweet characters that were making me laugh aloud, situations straight out of a rom-com, a good, healthy dose of angst, both of teen and regular kinds, and a true-to-life ending that was both bittersweet and satisfying! This book was described as 'sweet as wedding cake and bubbly as champagne', and those two words definitely fit, but there were sad parts to it as well.
Louna Barrett is a girl who doesn't like to make attachments, despite her loneliness and longing for more from life. She also happens to be the only, beloved daughter of a world-famous--literally--wedding planner. Having been helping her mother with her business her whole life, she doesn't believe in happy endings or fairy tales. Especially when she experienced a loss so deep it changed her entire sense of life, and the world around her. But when she crosses path with a boy named Ambrose, she discovers that there might be hope for her yet.
I loved this book. I loved every messy, hilarious, painful moment of it. It was a beautiful coming of age, second chance tale that was lushly written a tender reminder to enjoy all facets of life, even when times are dark. It really gave me hope for my present and future. But more than that, I loved Louna and her quirky, adorable family. I loved the character development of them all, but especially that of Louna. It was such a slow, sweet joy to watch her open up to the world again. Ambrose and his family were equally funny and exciting. God, this book. It broke my heart and tore my soul, then sewed it all back together again. I'm not going to lie, this book straight up made me bawl. But I'd expect nothing less from one of the queens of young adult fiction! Hands down, one of my favorite books of 2017! The bottom line: A beautiful, funny book about the small miracles of life and second chances, Once and for All stole my heart completely. One of the best books of 2017! Next on deck: Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab!


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Happy Birthday Dr Seuss
There is no question that kids love Dr. Seuss’ clever and creative stories that combine rhymes with silly characters. March 2nd is the perfect time to get your favorite Dr. Seuss books out and read them to a child in honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday.
Another great way to let a child’s imagination run wild is with a car donation to Wheels For Wishes, benefiting Make-A-Wish. If you have a vehicle to donate, you can get rid of it by donating it through our Make-A-Wish Car Donation program, which could give a local child an opportunity to visit Seuss Landing at Islands of Adventure in Orlando, or do anything else a child might wish to do!
In honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, our biggest wish is that kids will receive the opportunities to simply be kids, and sitting down to read a Dr. Seuss book is the perfect way to bring out the inner-kid in all of us.
“The More That You Read, The More Things You Will Know. The More That You Learn, The More Places You'll Go”
Perhaps reading a Dr. Seuss book is the perfect way to dig deep into a child’s imagination and figure out what their true wishes are and where they may wish to go. If a child hasn’t made a wish before the time they are selected to receive a wish granted, Wish Kids generally receive help in choosing their wish. Perhaps a Wish Kid would wish to travel to one of the many lands of Sr. Seuss, and they can start just by opening up a book.
With so many amazing stories to choose from, it will be tough for a Wish Kid to know where to start:
- The Lorax
- The Cat In The Hat
- Green Eggs And Ham
- How The Grinch Stole Christmas
- Oh, The Places You’ll Go
- One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
- The Sneetches
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- The Butter Battle Book
- And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street
- Horton Hatches The Egg
- The Foot Book
- If I Ran The Zoo
- Bartholomew And The Oobleck
- The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
- There’s A Wocket In My Pocket
- Dr. Seuss’ Sleep Book
- Daisy-Head Mayzie
- Thidwick The Big-Hearted Moose
- I Had Trouble In Getting To Solla Sollew
- Hooray For Diffendoofer Day
- Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!
- The Seven Lady Godivas
- If I Ran The Circus
- I Wish That I Had Duck Feet
- On Beyond Zebra!
- The Bippolo Seed And Other Lost Stories
- Happy Birthday To You!
- Your Favorite Seuss
- Scrambled Eggs Super!
- Come Over To My House
- You’re Only Old Once!
- I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today!
- McElligot’s Pool
- The King’s Stilts
- Because A Little Big Went Ka-Choo!
“I Like Nonsense, It Wakes Up The Brain Cells. Fantasy Is A Necessary Ingredient In Living”
Kids love the simple things in life, whether it’s being read to or enjoying the opportunity to read a story on their own. They also love when their favorite characters come to life, like when the 1957 story How the Grinch Stole Christmas came to life in the animated holiday special in 1966, then again with a full film in 2000. Year after year, both stories are a must-watch in many homes.
If it’s not the ideal time of the year to watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas, perhaps a few of Dr. Seuss’s other stories that have come to life will be of interest.
In 2003, The Cat In The Hat came to life on the big screen, followed by the animated Horton Hears a Who! in 2008 and The Lorax in 2012.
“From There To Here, From Here To There, Funny Things Are Everywhere!”
Perhaps we should all live with this famous quote from Dr. Seuss in mind. If we stop to look around, we will see that things are much more entertaining than they seem. We often find that kids help us realize that life should be filled with fun and laughter, so it only makes sense that we would help bring hope, strength, and joy back into the lives of local children. They do so much for us, and with a simple car donation, we can return the favor to them.
“Fantasy Is A Necessary Ingredient In Living, It's A Way Of Looking At Life Through The Wrong End Of A Telescope”
We couldn’t agree more. Kids, as well as adults, need a little fantasy and fiction in their lives now and then! We hope you’ll dig out a Dr. Seuss book and look at life through the wrong end of the telescope. As an adult, Dr. Seuss’ books will only seem more interesting!
If you have an old vehicle to get rid of, consider donating it to Wheels For Wishes so you can give local kids a chance to look at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Kids deserve a chance to do what they best, which is to just be kids.


From the Feb 2011 Gramophone Magazine review: “Henry saves his most rapturous and texturally refined playing for his own transcription of Chet Atkins’ Waltz for the Lonely. If you ever wanted to know what “Nashville Meets Godowsky” sounds like, savour this absolutely enchanting track, as I did about a dozen times before writing this review!”
Many people have been asking when my transcription of Waltz for the Lonely, by Chet Atkins, will be published. The answer is: very soon!
To whet your appetite, here is a page from the transcription, along with some revisions I’ve sent to Philip.
This transcription, along with the world premiere recording of Alexei Stanchinsky’s forgotten Nocturne from 1907, can be found on my debut recording, “Twelve Nocturnes and a Waltz.”


- Over 20 programs to choose from (bachelor’s, master’s, certificates and more)
- Light snacks and drinks available
- Student service representatives on-site
- Program specific break-out session available
- 5:45 p.m.: Doors open/Games & Prizes/Network and connect with program representatives, alumni, and student support services (Financial Aid, Library Services, and others)
- 6:30 p.m. - 6:50 p.m.: Welcome and Financial Aid overview
- 6:50 p.m. - 7:35 p.m.: Open House - attend an information session with faculty and staff in your program of interest.
- 7:35 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.: More fun, food, and networking!
Merlin G. Smith Hall
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Source and binary rpms of Accerciser 0.1.0 are now available from the SpeakupModified.Org repository via all the usual methods: yum, rsync, http, and ftp.To add the SpeakupModified repository to your yum: rpm -iv http://SpeakupModified.Org/speakupmodified-release.rpm If you need to add our GPG key by hand: rpm -iv http://RPM-GPG-KEY-speakupmodified The above steps need be performed only once. Thereafter you can install Accerciser via yum: yum install accerciser Janina Peter Parente writes: > Accerciser is an interactive Python accessibility explorer for the > GNOME desktop. It uses AT-SPI to inspect and control widgets, allowing > you to check if an application is providing correct information to > assistive technologies and automated test frameworks. Accerciser has a > simple plugin framework which you can use to create custom views of > accessibility information. > > In essence, Accerciser is a next generation at-poke tool. > > == Features > > * ORBit, not cspi, based > > Like the modern LSR and Orca screen readers, Accerciser uses pyORBit to talk > AT-SPI with other applications. The legacy cspi module is avoided. > > * Plugin architecture > > Create a Python module, drop it in a folder, and have it load as a plugin pane > with full access to AT-SPI and the selected element in the accessibility tree > view. > > * Interface browser and event monitor plugins > > All the features you've come to expect from a poke tool, and then some. > > * IPython console plugin > > A full, interactive Python shell with access to the accessible object selected > in the tree view; all AT-SPI interfaces, methods and attributes; and any other > Python modules. Supports autocompletion and a million other niceties thanks to > IPython. > > * API browser plugin > > Shows the interfaces, methods, and attributes available on the selected > accessible object. > > * Global hotkeys > > Move the tree view quickly to the last focused accessible or the one under the > mouse pointer. Insert a marker into the event monitor log for easy > identification at a later time. > > * Customizable UI layout > > Move plugin tabs to different panels or even separate windows to view them > concurrently. > > * Accessibility! > > Accerciser does not disable its own accessibility. > > * Yelp documentation > > Included in the package. > > * Python powered > > Brits, not serpents. > > == Authors > > Eitan Isaascon (firstname.lastname@example.org) is responsible for taking a mock-up from > Peter Parente (email@example.com) and turning it into the wonderful, useful > tool that it is today. > > == For more information > > Visit the Accerciser web site at http://live.gnome.org/Accerciser. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > firstname.lastname@example.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:email@example.com Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility firstname.lastname@example.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your address on the emacspeak list send mail to "email@example.com" with a subject of "unsubscribe" or "help"
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Powerpoint remains a critical way to impart important information to students because of its visual and interactive nature. The slides provide more information than the teacher can give by lecturing: showing pictures of Anne Frank’s hiding place and her family, for example, is more powerful than just discussing them. In addition, it is possible to print out a set of lecture guides with each presentation for students to take notes on, so this provides a kind of scaffolding that traditional lectures do not.
Besides just learning the technology, students and teachers should learn some of the basics in responsible handling of computer information, such as storing materials to a thumbdrive, a small electronic storage device that can be kept on a keychain. Asking students to purchase a thumbdrive should be part of every class in which technology is used.
8 a DVD and CD player
DVD and CD players remain staples of technology for teaching. Many ESL books
4 Great Textbooks for General English Students come equipped with CDs for listening practice and DVDs for presenting concepts, so access to both a CD and DVD player is desirable.
9 an overhead projector
Understanding how an overhead projector works remains important even today because many texts—including the one I am using this term—comes with pages to be used on overheads. In addition, many schools have not made the conversion yet to “smart” classrooms, and overhead projects are the extent of their technology. However, overheads are especially useful for demonstrating to students how to fill out a form, for example, or a page on a notebook. Instead of attempting to copy from the book the sentences with blanks on the board, the teacher can simply make an overhead and fill it out on the projector. This saves time, improves accuracy, and reduces confusion for students with learning difficulties, in particular, whose confusion connecting with what is on the board with what is in their book is reduced if what is on the overhead is the same as their books.
E-readers, electronic devices for downloading and reading electronic books, are the coming technology in purchasing and reading books. Their advantages are their portability: an e-reader can store thousands of texts and save space and back pain caused by traditional books filling shelves and backpacks. E-books are also often cheaper: a friend of mine, for example, just downloaded the complete works of Shakespeare—free, because it’s out of copyright. Many e-readers today also come with devices to mark and highlight electronic text, which is not as damaging as marking a print copy. All teachers and students should consider getting one of these devices.
Technology will never take the place of a teacher nor will it cover for poor teaching.
However, technology, used in the correct place and at the correct time, can enhance the educational process greatly.


Exhibition catalogue for Gregory Euclide at the David B. Smith Gallery
September 15 – October 13, 2012
Gregory Euclide: Observing only the ease of my own slipping toward your unknown
Softcover, 10 x 7 1/4 inches, 94 pages, 63 color images
Printed and bound in the United States
Published by David B. Smith Gallery, 2012
To order, please visit our online store.


I always have been and always will be a total book nerd. There’s nothing I love more than burying myself in a good book and getting lost with the characters and the world they inhabit. It’s a time to be still, to be calm and to enjoy some serious me time.
Summer reading is always that little bit more special. The feel of the sun on your skin as you turn page after page, soaking in the story, adding to the freckles collection. Sunglasses firmly on, maybe a cheeky glass of ice cold vino in your hand. It’s just blooming brilliant!
This summer has definitely been a big one for books. Suddenly they are everywhere you look and it’s like my much-loved reading bug has been caught by every man and his dog. I’m so inspired by it and am saving every single new author and title that I like the sound of in notes in my phone, scribbled bits of paper, Instagram folders…it’s almost like people have become so sick of being switched permanently to “on” that they are frantically seeking escape in the most off-way you can truly be – between the pages of a good old fashioned book!
Honestly, it is bringing me absolute joy.
In case you’re looking for something new to pick up, I’ve got a couple of really good ones for you. Check out my mini reviews below and if you’ve got any titles that you think I absolutely *need* to read, hit me up in the comments!
Okay so this one is very big in the ‘influencer’ world. I saw it on at least 3 people’s Stories that I follow and they all absolutely raved about it so I immediately added it to my list because it sounded so good. It was impossible to find in my local library so it’s worth noting that you’ll probably need to buy rather than borrow but oh my god, it honestly is brilliant! Once I started it I could. not. put. it. down! The characters, the story, the twist at the end…just brilliant! I am definitely going to read more of her books as I really enjoyed her style of writing.
I’d seen this one in the new in section a few times in the library and it totally sounded up my street. I really liked the short chapters style of writing and also the single name for each chapter too. It was darkly funny and again had a massive surprise at the end! It was very easy to read and I finished it up in about three days because once again I loved it. It’s happy book times when you get on a roll with good book after good book. Hoping it doesn’t end anytime soon.
I’ve got a pile of newly bought books to read now and I also really want to re-read The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt before the film comes out. So many books, so little time. And with that being said, I’m off to pick up my latest, My Beautiful Friend by Elena Ferrante – feet up and R E L A X.


This summer I was pumped at the idea of digging deep into my own professional development. I started the summer by increasing my following of my PLNs and increasing my reading. I also spent several days of learning at the ISTE conference. You’ll hear more about my ideas from the ISTE later as I flesh them out.
I picked three books to read this summer. Many people in my PLNs were excited about these books. I also knew the reputation of the authors and the subject area intrigued me.
All three books had a little different perspective.
Shift This is a look into how to make your classroom more student led. This book gives really practical tips on how to help our students think. It is so practical and uplifting. If you are ready to make that shift into student-led instruction this is a great book to start with. Check out #ShiftThis if you want to read more about this book on Twitter.
Lead Like A Pirate is look at leading with passion. One thing that really stuck with me from this book is that “You never really achieve greatness, it’s a moving target.” Improving my skills as a leader means I have to keep moving towards greatness. I’m not there, I’m constantly learning, and I keep rowing the boat forwards. As soon as the boat stops, I sink as a leader. This book really resonated with me. Check out #LeadLAP if you want to learn more about this book on Twitter.
Empower – What Happens When Students Own Their Learning – Is the book I’m reading right now. I know this book will take me a while to read because I keep going back to my personal journal and reflecting on it. This book is a game changer for educators. You can’t read this book and not get super-charged to make changes. I think back to my education – I went to class, got A’s, rarely failed and went on to do exactly what I thought I would do. Teach. Today, we have no idea what jobs will be there for our students. This book is about empowering our students to own the learning process. This allows them to be prepared for their future. #EmpowerBook is where you’ll find the buzz about this book on Twitter!
Again – This book is a game changer. I wish all educators were reading this book at once! Imagine what our schools would look like this fall!
More about my summer reading at a later time. If you are interested in what I’ve been reading, check out my Goodreads Profile.
One new thing I’ve learned this week – #BookSnaps. Why wasn’t this a thing while I was in the classroom?


Chinese pictorial art
For the Chinese, classical painting is a symbol of the highest spirituality. In his work, Souffle-Esprit, Francois Cheng brings together a collection of texts considered essential to Chinese aesthetic thinking and pictorial art. Extending over more than one thousand years since the T’sang (618-907) to the Ts’ing (1644-1911), the texts show to what extent this pictorial language is marked with codes and senses, aesthetically and philosophically.
Many rules and concepts frame Chinese pictorial art, notably those of fullness and emptiness, the visible and the invisible, breath and spirit, the achieved and unachieved and finally, Yi. I chose three very interesting passages from the book, which deserve our attention, in my opinion, because they can be applied not only to pictorial Chinese language but also to all forms of expression and, in a certain way are also related to a way of designing our choices and actions.
“During implementation, Yi must guide the paintbrush’s movement. This is to say that all lines traced must be carried and extended by Yi; it would be upsetting, on the contrary, that a line give the impression of having gone too far, in relation to Yi. For the true achievement of a line lies in the very fact of letting itself be perfected by Yi, and not at all in the over achieved.” Pu Yen-t’u (Ts’ing Dynasty). Yi is most simply translated by: idea, intention, meaning and correct vision.
VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE
“All things under the sky, and not only the landscape, have their double visible and invisible aspect (…) Take a dragon who leaves his aquatic frame of reference and flies up into the sky. If he shows himself completely naked, with what mystery can he shroud himself? (…) It is indeed by his visible-invisible that the dragon practices his infinite power to fascinate.”
Pu Yen-t’u (Ts’ing dynasty).
THE ACHIEVED and UNACHIEVED
“In painting, one must avoid worrying about accomplishing an over-applied and over-finished work in the drawing of shapes and in the notation of colours, such as spreading one’s technique too wide, depriving it, in this way, of secretiveness and aura. This is why one must not fear the unachieved, but rather deplore the over-achieved. The moment one knows that a thing is achieved, where is the need to achieve it? For the unachieved does not necessarily mean the unaccomplished; the failing of the unaccomplished lies rightfully in the fact of not recognizing that a thing is sufficiently achieved.”
Chang Yen-yuan (T’sang dynasty)
Here is a brief introduction to Chinese pictorial art and its main rules. I find it particularly interesting to reflect on the philosophical depth of these concepts and how they can resonate in multiple aspects of our lives.
“Souffle-Esprit,”theoretical texts on pictorial art
François Cheng, The French Academy. Author of several works on Chinese pictorial language.


Did you know that I recently completed a science-fiction novel for the young adult market? It is the first book of an intended series (but stands as a complete novel by itself), and I am outlining the second installment now. A quick summary of the book is below:
SECRETS OF HOPELIGHT, takes place in a future where daytime temperatures can boil your blood and enormous human-devouring insects dominate the night. What is left of the human race survives in technology-driven cave communities known as enclaves. Dozens of enclaves are networked and managed by The Company, an organization that came to power long ago by developing a revolutionary microchip that eliminated disease. Now the chip exists inside the body of every man, woman and child and for the good of mankind, all life sustaining resources are carefully monitored and distributed by The Company.
This is the extraordinary world of self-proclaimed “ordinary” girl, 13-year old Nubbin Beck, who spends her nights in school training to be a productive member of society. Her deadline for choosing a livelihood is fast approaching but nothing interests her, certainly not bug farming. After her family risks their lives to rescue a stranger from the desert: an ex-Company employee thought to be dead, Nubbin struggles to keep the fugitive hiding in her home a secret.
When he regains consciousness he has plenty to say about The Company and their insidious plans for the microchip. If what he says is true, how can she stay silent and not warn her friends and their families? Determined to uncover the truth, thwarted at every turn, Nubbin evolves from reluctant teen into strong-willed heroine, but she finds her particular questions are not only prohibited, they can be deadly and the biggest secret of allis about her.


...when they gazed at the sea, people held their heads up, and their faces became curious and open, as if they were searching for something that linked them to the sun and the stars...
"The Space Between Us": A powerful novel by the Indian author, Thrity Umrigar
Here is a beautiful rumination about what the sea means to the human soul, from the Indian author, Thrity Umrigar, in her debut novel, "The Space Between Us":
"And now she finally understands what she has always observed on people’s faces when they are at the seaside. Years ago, when she and Gopal used to come to here, she would notice how people’s faces turned slightly upward when they stared at the sea, as if they were straining to see a trace of God or were hearing the silent humming of the universe; she would notice how, at the beach, people’s faces became soft and wistful, reminding her of the expressions on the faces of the sweet old dogs that roamed the streets of Bombay. As if they were all sniffing the salty air for transcendence, for something that would allow them to escape the familiar prisons of their own skin.
In the temples and the shrines, their heads were bowed and their faces small, fearful, and respectful, shrunk into insignificance by the ritualized chanting of the priests.
But when they gazed at the sea, people held their heads up, and their faces became curious and open, as if they were searching for something that linked them to the sun and the stars, looking for that something they knew would linger long after the wind had erased their footprints in the dust.
Land could be bought, sold, owned, divided, claimed, trampled, and fought over. The land was stained permanently with pools of blood; it bulged and swelled under the outlines of the countless millions buried under it. But the sea was unspoiled and eternal and seemingly beyond human claim. Its waters rose and swallowed up the scarlet shame of spilled blood."


Double Boundary and Cosmopolitan Experience in Europe aims to open up the debate about national, European and cosmopolitan identity through an interpretation of Simmel’s double boundary dialectic: human beings are boundaries and only those who stand outside their boundaries can see them as such. One difficulty with defining oneself as European stems from what could be called the “double Other” (intra- and extra-European) diachronic recognition process. Exploring the possible/impossible cosmopolitan meta-synthesis can identify certain traits of the cosmopolitan experience in Europe. (Keywords: Boundary, Simmel, Europe, Cosmopolitan, Culture, Trans-cultural, Trans-social).
The chapter is part of the book Globalization, Supranational Dynamics and Local Experiences, edited by Marco Caselli and Guia Gilardoni – book series “Europe in a Global Context” (Palgrave Macmillan). This edited collection focuses on concepts of globalization, glocalization, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. The contributions provide evidence of how in practice, global dynamics and individual lives are interrelated. It presents theoretical reflections on how the local, the transnational and global dimensions of social life are entwined and construct the meaning of one another, and offers everyday examples of how individuals and organizations try to answer global challenges in local contexts. The book closely focuses on migration processes, as one of the main phenomena allowing a high number of people from contemporary society to directly experience supranational dynamics, either as migrants or inhabitants of the places where migrants pass through or settle down. Globalization, Supranational Dynamics and Local Experiences will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, migration studies and global studies. You can check a preview of the book here.
Birindelli P. (2017) Double Boundary and Cosmopolitan Experience in Europe. In Caselli M., Gilardoni G. (eds.) Globalization, Supranational Dynamics and Local Experiences. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 127-148.


Labor of Love
“Labor of Love” is an inspirational autobiography self-published at the age of 34, copyright 2000. There are 34 inspirational topics followed by space to journal one’s own thoughts on each topic. RaeDeen was inspired to write this book when she was diagnosed with a chronic illness and could not locate any books written by any other individuals with the same diagnosis. She encourages others to pursue their dreams, despite any adversity they may be faced with.
For your signed copy, submit $10 (including postage and handling) and write RaeDeen at email@example.com.
Jaffy Gaffy is copyright 2009. It is a short novel for 5th and 6th grade readers. Jaffy is an avid basketball player but breaks his arm and cannot play during one season. He continues to help his family and attend school and is rewarded for his work. Jaffy Gaffy is available from www.authorhouse.com or by contacting RaeDeen at firstname.lastname@example.org. It is $10 for a signed copy, including postage and handling.
THE MIRACLE IS YOU!!!
This book is copyright 2016. It is a book of meditations to enhance your life. There are blank pages for the reader to record their own thoughts. Images by Holly Fain appear with each meditation. It is available through the publisher, Authorhouse.com or by contacting RaeDeen. email@example.com. Please send $13 which includes postage and handling.


Smoky is taking a break while she prepares for, then has, knee replacement surgery. She will be back late January, 2011. Until then, happy reading!
A Breathtaking Journey to Post-Colonial India
Think of Pearl S. Buck, and most readers will automatically think The Good Earth. But the prolific Buck wrote of exotic places other than China. In Mandala, she takes us on a breathtaking journey to India as the country is transitioning to independence with a story of love, the clashing of cultures, and mysticism.
This is the story of Prince Jagat, stripped of his title and most of his wealth, who embraces the new independence of his beloved country, and Moti, his wife, who is terrified of the changes that have come to her homeland and her home. When their only son, Jai, is killed in a Chinese Border skirmish, Moti, convinced their son’s spirit still lives, sends Jagat on a quest to find Jai. Along the way, he meets a beautiful, exotic American, Brooke Westley, and the pair strike up a love affair that seems destined by the fates. With Brooke, Jagat learns the difference between sex and romantic love. In doing so, he also learns cultural traditions are embedded deeply in his soul, and wages a personal war as his love for this Western woman clashes with Eastern traditions.
Moti, always timid and shy, is bewildered by the changes she sees in her husband, and seeks solace in her friendship with Father Francis Paul. With the priest, Moti becomes alive as she struggles to understand and accept love can be platonic, not sexual.
The East-West culture clash also affects Veera, Jagat and Moti’s daughter, who flirts with the idea of refusing the marriage her parents arranged for her in favor of emancipation; Bert Osgood, the American businessman employed by Jagat, whose attraction to Veera is irresistible; and Rodriguez, the servant whose loyalty to Jagat and his family affects them all in a profound manner.
Along the way we are treated to the splendor and mysticism that are India: visits to the Taj Mahal, the opulence of Jagat’s palace, and the underlying certainty that what is, was, and will be again. The intimation that Brooke and Jagat may have been lovers in a previous life is subtle yet unmistakable, as seen in the conversation the pair have shortly after meeting:
“The night (my grandmother) died she told me to follow the man I love.”
“But if you do not know who he is?”
“I think she will let me know somehow, when she thinks I need him…”
“How do you propose to find this man you love when, or if, you need him?”
“I’ll happen on him by chance—as I did upon you.”
Brooke’s touching encounter with a young child toward the end of the novel is nothing short of magical. Is reincarnation real? Readers are left to decide this for themselves.
Buck’s sympathy for and understanding of Eastern traditions are evident in this gentle book. Her handling of the border skirmish with the Chinese rebukes without criticizing, a difficult task. Sex is part of this story, but is handled delicately, not graphically. We know the act is taking place, yet we are not bombarded with graphic details of who did what to whom—a trend in modern storytelling that I often find cliché and borderline pornographic.
And if the end of the story was not what I hoped for as I was reading, what I would have written had I been Mandala’s author, it is a fit ending, and the only one Buck could have written. I loved Mandala, and from now on, when I hear someone mention the name Pearl S. Buck, I have no doubt it is the book that will come to mind before all others.
To read an excerpt from Mandala, visit Amazon at: http://amzn.to/bMz5Mq
The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 is like no biography you’ve ever read before. There is nothing chronological about it. Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, dictated memoirs of his life’s major and minor events to his assistant as the mood struck him. One moment he’s chatting amiably about a humorous event in his life, the next he’s ranting about some injustice in the world. Along the way, the reader is treated to gut-busting humor as only Twain can write it; and we’re also treated to the more serious side of the man, a side rarely portrayed in his writings. It is the more serious side and the frank manner in which he speaks of people and events that made Twain dictate the autobiography not be published until 100 years after his death.
The gut-busting side: Twain relates the story of a turkey hunt he went on as a boy, where he “followed an ostensibly lame turkey over a considerable part of of the United States one morning.” What follows is an hilarious accounting of a young boy being outwitted by a bird, told in that remarkable tall-tale manner for which Twain is famous. (He never got the turkey, by the way.)
The more somber side: Twain tells the tale of the time he and his invalid wife stayed at a villa in Italy, and the nightmare he had dealing with the Countess who owned the estate. The Countess was cold, calculating, and cruel, and made life miserable for the Clemens family while they lived there. “I was losing my belief in hell until I got acquainted with the Countess Massiglia, Twain writes.
Yet, even when Twain was speaking about political injustices, he managed to do so with humor. “…(M)y own seventieth birthday arrived … on the 30th of November, but Colonel Harvey was not able to celebrate it on that date because that date had been preempted by the President to be used as Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for—annually, not oftener—if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man’s side, consequently on the Lord’s side, consequently it was proper to thank for Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments.”
This is a scholarly book, no doubt. It contains original notes he took over the years, photographs, and an extensive reference section. This additional material actually makes up the largest part of the book, and is why it is a whopping 735 pages. It weighs four pounds, which makes it difficult to read simply because you practically need heavy construction equipment to lift the thing. I never thought I would hear myself say this, but if I had a Kindle, I think I would have preferred this book in electronic format simply for ease of reading.
Yet, scholarly as it is, it is also very readable, because it is written in Twain’s wonderful conversational style. I laughed, I cried. But most of all, I fell in love all over again with the man who has delighted readers for well over a century with his Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and plethora of other books. How fortunate for Twain fans that 100 years have passed, and his wonderful autobiography is now available for all to read.
I used to live in Central Illinois, and one of my favorite places near my home was Allerton Park in Monticello. I loved Allerton for many reasons, but one of the main attractions was the amazing statuary in the park. Among my favorite pieces was an enormous statue called The Sun Singer. It is, of course, a statue of Apollo, his arms stretched wide, welcoming the sun.
So when I learned author Malcolm R. Campbell had written a book called The Sun Singer, I knew I had to read it. I had high expectations; the statue is pretty spectacular, and any book inspired by it would have to be pretty spectacular, too, to get my seal of approval.
I was not disappointed. Campbell has written a novel that is both wildly exciting and quietly thought provoking, not an easy feat.
The story is that of young Robert Adams, the Soothsayer of West Wood Street, who receives the gift of prophecy when he first sees The Sun Singer in Allerton. But his gift does not allow him to save Julianne, his best friend’s sister, from dying a tragic death. Distraught, Robert shoves his gift into the recesses of his mind, where it remains … until his dying grandfather extracts from him a promise to finish a quest he himself had been unable to fulfill. Robert steps through a doorway to the alternate universe of Pyrrha, where he must re-awaken his gift in order to fulfill his promise to his grandfather, uncover the tragic mistake that resulted in Julianne’s death, and undo the deeds of the man who betrayed his grandfather. In doing so, he must learn to trust strangers who, at first, threaten to kill him; battle enemy soldiers, and learn to capture and harness the magical power of The Sun Singer in order to help save Pyrrha and return home alive.
I recently had the honor of chatting with author Malcolm R. Campbell about his inspiring coming of age tale:
Smoky On Books: Young Robert Adams has some pretty amazing and prophetic dreams, and his grandfather tries to teach him how to control and guide his dreams. What do you dream about? Do you have prophetic dreams? Can you control your dreams?
Malcolm R. Campbell: I have no conscious control of my dreams and have always found them difficult to interpret. Like most people’s dreams, they are an ever-changing mix of people I know and don’t know involved in adventurous to mundane situations that make sense within the dream and are baffling when I wake up. In a sense, they’re coded messages from my deeper self and, over the years, have only made more sense to me as I’ve gotten to know myself better—that is, to make the unconscious conscious.
Smoky: There are three magical staffs that play important roles in the book, and they are each made of different wood. Is there significance to your choice of wood for each staff?
While I do not mention this in The Sun Singer, the three staffs equate to the three pillars of the Tree of Life. The middle pillar, which equates to Robert Adams’ Staff of Equilibrium, is thought to be the most balanced approach to enlightenment, bringing to mind peace, joy, love and harmony. So this works well for a young man who is learning about magic. While tree and flower symbolism is a tangle of beliefs depending on the cultures and traditions involved, apple has been said to have or bring about qualities similar to that middle pillar. The Staff of Wisdom, carried by Robert’s grandfather prior to the beginning of the novel, is made of oak, a wood often seen as substantial, royal, powerful and solar. The Staff of Intelligence, carried by David Ward is made of Rowan—also called Mountain Ash, and available within Glacier Park. It was a favorite of the Druids and can be used for many purposes, including repelling lightning and predicting the future. This staff plays into the plot and theme of my novel about David Ward, Garden of Heaven: an Odyssey.
Smoky: Ah, Garden of Heaven is in my stack of books to read and discuss in the upcoming months! ‘m eager to read more about David Ward, the man who was so instrumental in assisting Robert Adams in making his journey to Pyrrha. But back to The Sun Singer. The story is set in Glacier National Park, mostly in the alternate universe of Pyrrha, which occupies the same space. Why Glacier? Why not Yellowstone, or Yosemite?
Campbell: I worked two summers in Glacier as a bellman at one of the rustic resort hotels and, basically, fell in love with the place. Working there put me into a mountain environment from the end of April through the beginning of September. The group I hung out with wanted to hike as many of the trails as possible: we thought nothing of a 25-30 mile hike. Some of us climbed, too. After college, I did some volunteer work for the Glacier Association, wrote articles about the park, was actively involved in environmental issues, and kept accumulating more and more books, memories and trips as possible over the years. I like to balance magic with realism. Knowing Glacier as I do, I can be very precise about the trails, plants, rock formations, and wild life. This provides a stable foundation for the magic and the mystical and, I think, makes the supernatural more believable.
Smoky: Is any part of The Sun Singer autobiographical? Is your personality infused into Robert, or Aton, or any of the characters? Which character do you most identify with?
Campbell: Robert Adams grows up on West Wood Street in Decatur, Illinois. My grandparents lived in that house, though of course I don’t mention the address in the book!. As a child, I saw that neighborhood a lot, mostly on return visits. I have many childhood memories of that street and the style of the houses on it as well as the nearby Fairview Park. Like Robert, my grandfather took me on a day trip from Decatur over to Monticello to see Allerton Park where a statue called the Sun Singer stands. Robert’s reaction to the statue is what mine was. He felt a strong energy flowing through him from the sun and from the statue. Like me, his homeward trip out of the park occurred during a violent thunderstorm in which the lightning flashes seemed to bring the park’s other statues to life. Afterwards, he began to dream about future events involving people he know. The Sun Singer statue was a fixture of my dreams for a long time, while the other statues—including the Fu Dogs, Primitive Man, and the Death of the Last Centaur—appeared in my nightmares. Like Robert, I have been at war within myself trying to balance my logical side with my intuitive side. In the book, Robert is forced by dangerous circumstances to confront the power and magic of his dreams: that’s all fiction since I have never been forced into a fight with bad guys carrying swords and bows and arrows!
Smoky: Is there anything else you’d like to say about the book?
Campbell: Robert Adams’ adventure is a “hero’s journey” adventure, a sequence of steps popularized by mythologist Joseph Campbell. These steps are quite obvious in the Star Wars movies, The Matrix, and Lord of the Rings. Basically, a hero or potential hero leaves his every day world and sails across a unknown sea or travels through a dark forest where he finds demons and tricksters and dangerous circumstances as well as allies. All the while, he is seeking something magical and wonderful while, possibly, rescuing a damsel from a tower or dragon, that he will bring back to his everyday world. While the hero’s journey involves physical dangers, the most important thing is what happens to the hero within himself. He is meeting the terrors of his unconscious mind, seeing his faults mirrored in the world he is traveling through, and if he triumphs, he ends up as a much better person, one who truly knows himself. In mythology, of course, heroes are equated with larger than life men and women or demigods. In the view of Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung, the hero’s journey is rather like a rite of passage, the process of growing up and learning that there is much more to us than our logic, our ego, and our five physical senses.
I ended the interview on that note.
The Sun Singer is indeed a hero’s journey as defined by Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung, yet it is an utterly accessible read. While the protagonist is a teenager, and while teens certainly will enjoy the book, it most certainly isn’t young adult literature. Malcolm R. Campbell has created a fantasy world at its finest, and written a real page-turner that rivals the best in the fantasy genre. I have heard rumors he is writing a new novel centered around one of the characters created in The Sun Singer. I hope it is a rumor that proves true, for I long to return to Pyrrha.
The Sun Singer is from Vanilla Heart Publishing, and is available in multiple e-book formats as well as in print. To read an excerpt from The Sun Singer, visit http://www.freado.com/read/6882/the-sun-singer.
Starting a new blog is always hard. The blogger worries, will anybody read me? Will anybody comment? Will anybody care what I have to say?
And yet, bloggers start, and slowly, they build a readership, a fan base. I have a very successful blog over on Xanga, but it didn’t become successful overnight. Everyone has to start somewhere.
“Smoky on Books” is my forum for talking about one of the great loves, great passions, in my life—my love affair with books. I come to this blog feeling pretty well qualified to comment; after all, I’ve been an avid reader all my life; have written book reviews for newspapers like the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette in Central Illinois, and magazines like SageWoman and Pan Gaia; am the author of two novels, a collection of essays, photos, and poetry on nature, and two books about writing books; and am a former community college writing instructor.
But then again, everyone’s taste in books is different, and in the end, any blog about books is the opinion of the reviewer, and nothing else. I’ve loved books others have trashed, and have hated books others have loved. Take my reviews, then, in the spirit in which they are given. In the end, pick up the books and read them yourself, and form your own opinion about them.
Unlike many book review blogs, I don’t intend “Smoky on Books” to be solely about new releases. I also intend to write about perennial favorites of mine, the classics, and overlooked and/or obscure books written by authors famous for other works. In fact, finding and reading books in this category is one of my favorite pastimes as I scour used bookstore shelves! I also, on occasion will be conducting author interviews.
It is with one such book that I choose to begin:
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
When you think of John Steinbeck characters, who comes to mind? Lenny and George from Of Mice and Men? The Joad family from The Grapes of Wrath? Doc from Cannery Row? Or, perhaps, young Jody Tiflin and Billy Buck from The Red Pony? How about Arthur, Merlyn, Lancelot, and Morgan le Fay of Camelot fame? No?
Me neither. That is, not until I stumbled across a copy of The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights in a used bookstore. Up until then, I had no idea Steinbeck had taken on the beloved characters of Arthurian legend. Yet there it was, sitting on the bookshelf, begging me to take it home.
Books about Camelot don’t have to beg very hard. I became enamored of Arthurian legend and lore as a tiny child, when I first saw the movie Camelot. (Being very young at the time, I even forgave the producers for casting Vanessa Redgrave, who most decidedly cannot sing, in the role of Guinevere.) My love affair grew deeper when I first picked up Marion Zimmer Bradley’s epic, The Mists of Avalon. I’ve read so many Arthurian books I’ve lost count, but I’m always game to read another. Finding one written by one of my all-time favorite authors, though, was a treat I never expected.
As a child, Steinbeck was not a reader. In fact, “words—written or printed—were devils, and books, because they gave me pain were my enemies,” he writes in the book’s introduction. But somewhere along the line, he came across Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory, the first written account of the tale of King Arthur. Steinbeck fell in love with the book, reading it over and over, despite the difficulty of reading archaic English. If not for Malory, if not for Merlyn and Arthur and Lance and Gwen, who knows if he ever would have fallen in love with books? And if that hadn’t happened … I shudder to think what American Literature classes would be like today without Steinbeck.
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights was Steinbeck’s last novel. His original plan was to modernize Malory’s story pretty much word for word. This shows in the books early stories. The flowing prose and exquisite phrasing I associate with the author are nowhere to be found as the book opens: “When Uther Pendragon was King of England his vassal, the Duke of Cornwall, was reported to have committed acts of war against the land.” Compare this to the exquisite sentence with which Steinbeck opened The Grapes of Wrath: “To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.” Even Arthur and Guinevere’s wedding in chapter three is devoid of the heart-rending emotion Steinbeck was so capable of evoking. In fact, the early chapters have so much cleaving of skulls and whacking off of heads I nearly gave up reading it. This was not the Steinbeck I knew and loved, nor was it Arthurian legend as I love it.
But about midway through the book, Steinbeck obviously got tired of the stiff, formal language Malory used in his time. The inner Steinbeck broke free. By the time we get to the tale of Morgan le Fay in Chapter Five, the legends start sounding like Steinbeck. Oh, there’s still cleaving and whacking—this was Medieval England, after all. But there are tender moments, tender words. Beauty. “And only then did the knights look about them. On the smooth dark water they saw a little ship covered with silken cloth that hung over the sides and dipped into the water, and the boat moved silently toward the bank and grounded itself into the sandy shallows nearby.” Now that’s Steinbeck!
Alas, the novel is incomplete. Steinbeck gave up on writing The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights in 1959, long before the story as most of us know it drew to an end. He died in 1968; the book was not published until 1976. I wonder how he would have felt about the book being published. He gave up writing it for a reason. Clearly he was not satisfied with what he had written, how he had translated Morte d’Arthur, the book that had such a profound effect on him as a child.
I have an unfinished manuscript tucked away in my drawer; most novelists I know do. I wonder how I would feel about my unfinished book being published posthumously. I don’t think I’d be very happy. But then, as proud as I am of my novels, I’d never be presumptuous enough to put them in the same class as The Grapes of Wrath or The Red Pony.
But as a Steinbeck fan, I’m very grateful his estate went ahead and had The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights published, if only because its creation was an act of love, his tribute to the book that instilled in him a love of the written word. I cannot imagine a world without Steinbeck’s novels. Can you?


Leading with Heartis essential reading for anyone who wants to transform the culture, purpose, and impact of their organization through more powerful and authentic conversations.”
Leading with Heartis unlike any leadership book written – a must read for anyone wanting to take their company or leadership to the next level.”
Leading with Heartputs you in the room for a private conversation with two masterful coaches that helped build MasterClass and dozens more of the best companies of the last 20 years.”
Leading with Heartwill make you a better leader, colleague, and human. Drawing on their years of experience advising leadership teams, Edward and John share surprising insights and practical tools to help you master the skills needed to build a winning team in the post-pandemic world: more empathy, more curiosity, more awareness. Read this book and your heart will grow."
Leading with Hearttakes readers inside many of today's hottest companies to explore what has made them so successful—heart-open leadership. This book is instructive for anyone trying to build a more inclusive company culture and have more impactful conversations in every area of their life.”


Break a promise. Save a life. Jessie Tacket second-guesses her new adoption by Detective Victoria Tacket. Jessie believes the rogue general hunting her plans to recapture his prized teen assassin and force her to work for him again. He’ll kill anyone who gets in his way, including the detective. When Jessie crosses paths with Russian thugs who may have ties to the general, she fears her location in Golden City, New York has leaked. Though she promised Vick she wouldn’t run away, lives could be in danger if she stays. Keep a promise. Lose a life. Detective Vick Tacket is determined to shield her new dependent from Russian criminals and anyone else who threatens the teen. However, protecting Jessie’s murky past and genetic-enhancement secrets may be impossible as tensions rise during the confrontation with the Russians. Vick and Jessie clash over how to keep Jessie’s secrets hidden and avoid the general’s radar. With the fledgling adoption off to a rocky start, Jessie and Vick must work together or be ripped apart.
Details: rank: price: $2.99 bound: 160 pages publisher: Dad and Me Publishing (May 3, 2017) lang: English asin: isbn: 1946617016, 978-1946617019, weight: 8.3 ounces ( filesize:


A brochure may seem like a small, printed pamphlet but custom printed brochures helped cause a religious cataclysm splitting two major religions forever, caused a king to lose his head, and helped 13 colonies galvanize their courage to gain their independence from the most powerful nation on Earth at that time. Read on and find out more!
1532: According to Britannica, the first pamphlets or brochures appeared soon after the invention of the printing press in Germany. While one of the first great accomplishments was the printing of the Holy Bible, printed custom brochures were printed soon after in 1517. In these brochures, the authors debated religious controversies between Roman Catholics and Protestants (those who protested Catholic theology). Martin Luther, the founder of the largest Protestant faith in Germany (the Lutheran Church) was a highly effective writer of brochures which clearly explained his suggested reforms for the Catholic Church.
Brochures were inexpensive to buy and sturdy enough to share with neighbors which spread the new theology quickly through Germany and England. In 1532, King Henry VIII of England left the Catholic Church to form his own Protestant denomination, the Church of England. This religious cataclysm resulted in deep divisions which we see even today in the Catholic-Protestant unrest in Northern Ireland. Brochures sharing new ideas changed this history of Christianity forever.
1649: Because of the political ideas debated in brochures in the years leading up to the English Civil Wars in the 1640’s, the tide of political opinion turned against King Charles I. After all, he married a Catholic princess against the will of his government, dissolved Parliament (like firing all the members of Congress and telling them he would rule by himself), and stated emphatically that he was entitled to the “divine right of kings.” Not the way to win over the people, Chuck! After his defeat, the king was executed for treason—the only English monarch to suffer this fate. Again, brochures changed political history—a king was executed in 1649 and the nation was ruled by an elected parliament because of changes in political thought.
1776: Brochures played a very important role in galvanizing the American colonies to fight for their independence from England. Thomas Paine published Common Sense in January 1776 which promoted independence. After a hard-fought war, American gained its independence in 1783, And the rest, as they say, is history!
As in the Protestant Reformation, the English Civil War, and the American Revolution, brochures were cheap to print and could easily be shared—which helped ideas to
spread like wildfire and change the world three times.


Due to the hurricane and resulting loss of power, my Halloween post
did not make it.
So, without further ado . . .
Several readers have asked me about the weed that killed Lincoln's mother.
So, here is an excerpt from the book, "Wicked Plants," by Amy Stewart.
(a fascinating little volume)
"Milk sickness was a disease that caused weakness, vomiting, tremors and delirium. Cattle contracted the disease by grazing on White Snakeroot, and it was passed on in their milk, butter and meat. Few people realized this at the time, and when Nancy Hanks Lincoln contracted the illness, she died after a week, as did her aunt, uncle and several other people in the town. She died at the age of 34, leaving behind 9 year old Abraham and his sister Sarah.
"During the nineteenth century a few doctors and farmers independently discovered white snakeroot was the cause of milk sickness, but news traveled slowly in those days. An Illinois doctor named Anna Bixby noticed the seasonality of the disease and speculated that it might have to do with the emergence of a particular plant in summer. She fed white snakeroot to a calf to confirm the disease. She led a campaign to eradicate the plant from her community, and almost eliminated milk sickness in the area by 1834.
"White snakeroot grows to four feet tall and produces small white clusters of flowers similar to Queen Anne's lace. The plant is still found in the woods across eastern North America and throughout the south."
Several other interesting tidbits are found in this book, including the fact that the drug company Bayer introduced an extract from the poppy in 1868,
that it named "Heroin." It was sold as a cough syrup for children and adults,
and was on the market for two years.


MY TOP 3 TAX TIPS
by Toni Sears
As a first-time business owner, you are looking for ways to produce the lowest taxable income. In other words, you want the highest tax savings by taking advantage of all applicable tax deductions. How do you figure out what is deductible and what is not? I took the time to research some resources and compiled my top three. Internal Revenue Service
- The IRS is a great ally. They provide written publications that are easily accessible at www.irs.gov
. My favorite is the Guide for Small Business, Publication 334. This document makes it easy for tax preparation of Schedule C or C-EZ users. The discussion of business expenses begins in Chapter 8 (page 31 of the 2016 edition.). This document is the Grand Prix for tax resources. If you opt for an app, check out IRS2Go. This app gives you daily tax tips, lets you know about tax legislation upon release, and connects you with a qualified tax person in your local area. Louisville Free Public Library
- It always amazes me as to the vast resources our local library provides. The Louisville Free Public Library has some great books written by the crew at www.nolo.com. Excellent reference books for any entrepreneur. Check out these two books, Tax Savvy for Small Business and, Deduct it. They use everyday language to help you understand many aspects of the Internal Revenue Code. The most wonderful thing about these books is that you can download them free! Simply go to www.lfpl.org and use the Small Business Reference Center. (Hint: You will need a valid Louisville Free Public Library card and password. Click on research tools then business and money to access the Small Business Reference Center database. Look under Browse Popular Sources.). Expensify
– Claiming to be the #1 expense management app, Expensify allows users to track receipts through patented SmartScan OCR technology to eliminate manual data entry. You literally snap a picture of your receipt and Expensify does the rest. Android and iOS compatible.
Bonus- Want another option for tracking receipts and generating reports on the go? Check out the app Shoeboxed Receipt Tracker. This mobile app links to your personal account on www.shoeboxed.com
. This integration (web and mobile) is a powerful tool for tracking business expenses.
Before gulping down gallons of coffee or squeezing the life out of a stress ball, check out these resources. Hopefully, they will help maximize your tax savings.
Don’t hesitate to reach out to the Louisville SBDC if you would like to share your thoughts regarding this article or simply want to start a meaningful conversation with one of us. We’re here to help. The main office number is (502) 625-0123.


Sun, Feb 25|
Marni's House (can also join via zoom)
Growing Roots Together Book Club
Let' read and learn together! Join the GRT book club and meet like minded gardeners to read and discuss all things gardening, urban farming, food growing/farm to table, sustainable agriculture and more!
Time & Location
Feb 25, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Marni's House (can also join via zoom), Lynnwood, WA, USA
About the event
Want to meet other gardeners and learn and discuss books that make us grow?
What We're Reading:
What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds by Jennifer Jewell
About the Author:
Jewell hosts the award winning podcast Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden. She is also the author of The Earth in Her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants (Timber Press in 2020), winner of The Council on Botanical & Horticultural Libraries 2021 Award of Excellence in Biography, and co-creator with photographer Caitlin Atkinson of Under Western Skies, Visionary Gardens from the Rockies to the Pacific Coast (Timber Press, May 2021).
Sunday, February, 25
Join us in person or online via Zoom
In-Person: Beverages provided, please bring a snack to share if you wish! The meeting will be held in Lynnwood. Marni will send the in-person address to confirmed RSVP's prior to the meet up.
Online: Please make arrangements with Marni to request the zoom link.
Please email Marni if you have any questions or need the zoom link: GrowingRootsTogether@gmail.com. Be sure to sign up for email updates to get notified of future book clubs, classes and garden events at GrowingRootsTogether.com.
Happy reading! I'm looking forward to talking all about the book and sharing our thoughts and learnings together.


The magic of Hypochlorous (HOCI).
CleanRite which is based on the active ingredient Hypochlorous (HOCI). Hypochlorous is an oxidant found in the white blood cells of a humans natural defense system. This advanced solution CleanRite, is a multi-purpose sanitiser and is alcohol free, which means it won’t dry or irritate the skin in the same way other sanitisers can – making it child friendly and suitable for even sensitive skin.
CleanRite is suitable for
Benefits of CleanRite
Kicking the Coronavirus out of school
Cf Pharma in conjunction with Dr. Aimée Kemp, Clinical Psychologist has created a child friendly book that can be shared with children of all ages to ease any fears about the coronavirus. The book is intended to provide practical tips on how to help children understand the steps to take to prevent the spread of the virus and understand their feeling and feelings of other.


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