The KLC Scripture Collective operates under the leadership of Rev Dr Craig Bartholomew, the Director of the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge, and consists of four Seminars: the Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar (SAHS), the Scripture and Doctrine Seminar (SADS), the Scripture and Church Seminar (SACS), and the Scripture and the University Seminar (SAUS).
For any Scripture Collective queries please contact Dr Michael Wagenman, the Scripture Collective Director.
The KLCSC has its origins in the Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar (SAHS), established by Dr Bartholomew in 1998. It was conceived as an ambitious eight-year project to address key issues at the heart of a renewal of biblical interpretation that was rigorous and in the service of the Church. Since then SAHS has continued to meet each year at the Society of Biblical Literature in partnership with the Institute for Biblical Research. It has also given birth to three further seminars: the Scripture and Doctrine Seminar, the Scripture and Church Seminar (practical theology), and the Scripture and the University Seminar.
Each year in November KLC Scripture Collective organises a series of seminars and an Annual Meal held in North America in partnership with the Institute for Biblical Research at Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion.
The Bible is made up of a library of books that came into existence over hundreds of years. Biblical hermeneutics asks how we can approach and interpret this inspired corpus to hear God’s address today.
A Brief History
The first of The Scripture and Hermeneutics consultations took place in Cheltenham in April 1998. The theme for this meeting was the crisis in biblical interpretation and the sort of answers to it being proposed by advocates of speech act theory such as Anthony Thiselton, Nicholas Wolterstorff and Kevin Vanhoozer, all of whom were present. We were not agreed at this consultation whether speech act theory has the resources to take biblical interpretation forward, but it became clear that any attempt to renew biblical interpretation in the academy would require a process with multiple consultations to address the key areas we thought required attention.
Thus was born The Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar, a project based in Theology and Religious Studies at The University of Gloucestershire, where it was headed up by Craig Bartholomew. Our second consultation was held in September 1999 at Selwyn College, Cambridge, at which Prof Brevard Childs and Prof Walter Brueggemann were present. The theme of that consultation was the crisis in biblical interpretation. Not all of us were agreed that there was a crisis but we all agreed that a renewal of biblical interpretation was urgent, hence the title of the first volume, Renewing Biblical Interpretation.
From 1998 – 2008 the Seminar was a partnership project between British and Foreign Bible Society and The University of Gloucestershire. Later in the process Baylor University and Redeemer University College joined in the venture as partners. In its first phase the Seminar identified eight topics that required attention and each year for eight years it organised an international, interdisciplinary seminar somewhere in the world to address one of these key issues. A volume in the Scripture and Hermeneutics Series (Paternoster and Zondervan) emerging from each consultation was published each year (volumes). The final volume in the Series, The Bible and the University, was published in 2007.
Since the completion of its initial eight volume series SAHS has continued to publish, producing Hearing the Old Testament: Listening for God’s Address (Eerdmans), edited by Craig G Bartholomew and David Beldman, and in 2016 A Manifesto for Theological Interpretation (Baker Academic) appeared, edited by Craig Bartholomew and Heath Thomas.
In 2016 and 2017 SAHS focused on the theme of the kingdom of God. In 2018 it engaged in a dialogue with Jeremiah Unterman’s Justice For All: How the Jewish Bible Revolutionized Ethics (Philadelphia: JPS, 2017), an important new work on the ethics of the Hebrew Bible.
In 2019 the topic of SAHS was “A Critical Engagement with Oliver O’Donovan’s ‘Ethics As Theology’ Trilogy”, building out from the 2002 SAHS volume: A Royal Priesthood? The Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically. A Dialogue with Oliver O’Donovan (Scripture and Hermeneutics Series, Volume 3). A stellar group of scholars from multiple disciplines revisited and engaged O’Donovan’s ongoing work in a review panel, especially his recent “Ethics as Theology” Trilogy (Self, World and Time; Finding and Seeking; Entering into Rest), with the aim of exploring some new trajectories in contemporary Christian Ethics.
Dr. David Beldman (Redeemer University College); Dr. A.J. Culp (Malyon College, Australia); Dr. Matthew Emmerson (Oklahoma Baptist University); Revd. Dr. William Olhausen (Church of Ireland Theological Institute, Dublin); Amber Bowen (PhD candidate, University of Aberdeen).
SADS focuses on the intersection of Scripture and Doctrine. Historically doctrine has developed as the church needed to give an account of what it believed and to protect itself from heresy. SADS explores the move from Scripture to the formulation of doctrine, and how doctrine and tradition illuminate our reading of the Bible. Insofar as doctrine captures the message of the Bible it also provides an indispensable lens through which to read Scripture and informs our faithful witness to Christ in His world.
In 2016 and 2017 SADS focused on Divine action in Hebrews, particularly in relation to the ongoing priesthood of Jesus. In 2018 the seminar launched a two-year theme addressing the relationship between Scripture and Doctrine via reflections on theological anthropology. In an effort to avoid discussing the Scripture-Doctrine relationship in the abstract, this two-year focus on theological anthropology served both to illustrate the relationship between Scripture and Doctrine, and offer constructive and contemporary proposals for theological anthropology. The format included invited paper presentations followed by respondents and Q & A. For more information, contact Benjamin T. Quinn (firstname.lastname@example.org) or Luke Stamps (email@example.com).
Kevin Vanhoozer (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), Scott Hahn (Franciscan University, Steubenville), Craig Bartholomew (KLC), Luke Stamps (Anderson University; chair), Steve Harris (Redeemer University College), Geoffrey Fulkerson (Henry Center), and Benjamin Quinn (SEBTS).
The 2019 Programme was as follows:
Benjamin Quinn (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary), Presiding
Marc Cortez (Wheaton College)
Should We Ground the Image in the Incarnation? The Old Testament and Christological Anthropology (20 mins)
Ellen Charry (Princeton Theological Seminary)
Augustine’s Hermeneutic of Love and its Relation to Image (20 mins)
Steve Harris (Redeemer University College)
Image and Resurrection (20 mins)
Break (15 mins)
Fred Sanders (Torrey Honors Institute of Biola University), Respondent (10 mins)
Hans Madueme (Covenant College), Respondent (10 mins)
Discussion (55 mins)
For any enquiries regarding the Scripture and Doctrine Seminar, contact Dr. Luke Stamps.
The Scripture and Church Seminar explores the interface between Scripture and church, covering the terrain that is normally referred to as Practical Theology.
In 2016 SACS had a great inaugural session in San Antonio. With approximately 70 in attendance, Dr Bill DeJong (McMaster Divinity College) presented on “Which Way Now? Pearls and Perils Along the Uncertain Path of Practical Theology.” Ken Herfst (Redeemer University College) presented on “Broad Brushstrokes for a Potential ‘Scripture and Church’ Agenda,” and Dr Michael Wagenman (Western University and Redeemer University College) presented on “Pondering Practical Theology: Proclamation and the Problem of Propaganda.”
In 2017 SACS met for the second time around the theme of The Kingdom of God and Everyday Liturgies. The following papers were presented.
The 2018 theme for the Scripture and Church Seminar brought into focus the complex relationship between the church and the Kingdom of God. Questions which were considered with an interdisciplinary panel of presenters included:
The theme for 2019 was “Communicating the Kingdom”. Under this banner we heard papers and moderated a panel discussion on the following sub-topics, with their associated questions:
i. ‘Hearing the Gospel of the Kingdom’ – Jeannine Brown (Bethel University, St. Paul, MN): What does the gospel of the Kingdom have to say to the twenty-first century church? At what points do Jesus’s kingdom parables, discourses and signs offer encouragement and sustenance to a struggling post-Christendom church? At what points do they disrupt and destabilise the order that we have constructed or inherited?
ii. ‘Proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom’ – Koert Van Bekkum (Theological University, Kampen, NL): How are we to convey the meaning of Jesus’s Kingdom proclamation and its present implications, within a contemporary context in which notions of kingdom and kingship are alien to the experience of many, and there is deep and widespread suspicion of authority claims and totalizing narratives?
iii. ‘Dramatizing the Gospel of the Kingdom’ – David Starling (Morling College, Sydney, Au): How should the liberating incursion of the Kingdom of God be demonstrated and dramatized in the conduct of contemporary Christians and in the shape of our churches and the various other institutions that we create and maintain?
Committee: Dr. Bill DeJong, chair (Blessings Christian Church; Redeemer University College); Dr Susan Bubbers (The Center for Anglican Theology, Liturgy, And Spiritual formation, Inc.); Dr. Dru Johnson (The Kings College, New York City); Dr. Ken Herfst (Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario); Dr. Michael R. Wagenman, chair (Western University, London, Ontario), Genevieve Wedgebury (The Kirby Laing Institute for Theological Ethics, Cambridge, UK).
For any enquiries regarding the Scripture and Church Seminar, contact Dr. Bill DeJong.
In 2019 the Scripture and the University Seminar initiated a multi-year project to explore the issue of the relationship between Scripture and the University.
While theology used to be considered the ‘queen of the sciences’, and theology was inextricably tied to the explication of Scripture, the role of the study of Scripture and theology in the university is in a very different place today. Given that the university has been traditionally committed to the reality and acquisition and passing on of knowledge and wisdom, and given that Scripture is likewise committed to the twin realities of knowledge and wisdom, the study of the relationship of Scripture and the university is fitting and holds great promise.
This study group will consider both ‘meta’ or foundational issues concerning the relationship of Scripture and the university, as well as more specialized and particular studies which focus on particular academic disciplines and their relationship to the reality and truth of Scripture. The goal of these sessions is to produce thoughtful and insightful essays which meaningfully explore and explicate the relationship between Scripture and the university.
The 2019 programme was as follows:
Brad Green (Union University), Welcome (10 mins)
Eric Johnson (Houston Baptist University)
Scripture and the University: Vision for the Seminar (20 mins)
Daniel Strange (Oak Hill College)
Scripture and the University: Meta-Madness and the Academic Endeavour (20 mins)
Break (10 mins)
Mary Poplin (Claremont Graduate University)
Scripture and the University: Man is a Tower: Biblical Insights into Justice, Ethnicity, Immigrants, Gender, Left / Right, Equality / Equity (20 mins)
Grant Macaskill (University of Aberdeen)
Scripture and the University: On Identifying the Object of Study (20 mins)
Break (5 mins)
Discussion (45 mins)
The Seminars recognise the fundamental importance of opening the Book of Scripture at all levels in our cultures, but the Seminars themselves are an academic initiative, embodying rigorous scholarship in the service of the church.
Meir Sternberg rightly notes that biblical studies is at the intersection of the humanities, and the Seminars are based on the understanding that at this intersection interdisciplinary insight is required if biblical studies is to be saved from some of its isolation and fragmentation, and for new ways forward to be forged. It has been a delight at our consultations to find philosophers rubbing shoulders with educationalists and theologians, and missiologists working with literary scholars to renew biblical interpretation.
Modernity has marginalised faith in the great public areas of culture, but this is a travesty of a Christian perspective in which faith relates to the whole of life. The one rule of the Seminar is that we are not free to keep our faith out of our reflections; on the contrary we want our faith to be at the heart of our work as Christian scholars.
Based out of the Kirby Laing Centre in Cambridge, the Scripture Collective is rooted deeply in the Evangelical faith. However, a range of Christian perspectives are represented within the Seminars. As the Seminar has developed the growing Catholic participation, for example, has been deeply enriching.
The modern academy is deeply individualistic. However, we recognise that a renewal of biblical and theological interpretation will require communal work. And a great aspect of the Seminar is the emerging sense of community amongst participants.


I haven’t actually finished that many books since the last update, though I am currently reading five. Of the books I did finish, I liked a few. Hero by Perry Moore is a novel about a gay teenager dealing with homophobia and questions in his family’s past while auditioning to be part of a superhero league in his city. I thought it was fun and at times insightful. I’ve wanted to read Alan Hollinghurst’s most popular novel, The Swimming-Pool Library, for a while now. I thought that it was good, yes, but not as intriguing as Line of Beauty. This one takes place in a pre-AIDS world and it seems a little jumbled, meandering at times. I listened to Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love on audiobook, and I really like her reading style, as well as the book itself. Maybe it’s just that I’m a fan of travel memoirs, but I found it a really nice relaxing read.
So right now, as I said, I’m on five different books. I’m about halfway through A.J. Jacobs’ The Know-It-All, a book about reading the encyclopedia that is rather boring and self-involved. I don’t recommend it. On audiobook, I’m listening to Kate Mosse’s Sepulchre. I loved her first novel but I’m not quite into this one. Then on e-book, I’m reading Ursula K. LeGuin’s Left Hand of Darkness, which is really intriguing so far. I like it a little bit better than the Earthsea cycle. To continue my feminist education, I’m about fifty pages into Manifesta by Jennifer Baumgardener and Amy Richards. It’s one of the better Third Wave books I’ve read, maybe a bit of a repeat on things I already knew at times but well-written. And finally, I’m maybe 75 pages into Marlee Matlin’s autobiography, I’ll Scream Later. I like how she breaks the chapters into short chunks, and I was surprised to find that it is a proper autobiography, not just a tell-all book, after all the press about her molestation and drug abuse. She’s my favourite actress, so I’m glad to find that I like the book.


A former co-worker of mine on the Golden Gate Bridge started a blog after he retired and named it, “A Mouth Full of Bridgework”. He died a few years ago and I always think about him when I see ads and articles about Dentistry.
RIP, Dave. You were always a class act.
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Source: San Francisco Call Newspaper, September 17, 1898 via California Digital Newspaper Collection, Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside


Nalanda University was one of the first universities in the world, founded in the 5th Century BC, and reported to have been visited by the Buddha during his lifetime. At its peak, in the 7th century AD, Nalanda held some 10,000 students and 2000 teachers
The library of Nalanda, known as Dharma Gunj (Mountain of Truth) or Dharmagañja (Treasury of Truth), was the most renowned repository of Buddhist knowledge in the world at the time. Its collection was said to comprise hundreds of thousands of volumes, so extensive that it burned for months when set aflame by Muslim invaders. The library had three main buildings as high as nine stories tall, Ratnasagara (Sea of Jewels), Ratnodadhi (Ocean of Jewel)
Students studied science, astronomy, medicine, and logic as diligently as they applied themselves to metaphysics, philosophy, Samkhya, Yoga-shastra, the Veda, and the scriptures of Buddhism. They studied foreign philosophy likewise. Nalanda university’s library was one of the biggest library of the world at that time. It had large collections of books, manuscripts. It was called as Dharma Gunj (Mountain of Truth) or Dharmagañja (Treasury of Truth). Library was divided into three buildings- Ratnasagara, Ratnadadhi and Ratnaranjaka. Among these buildings, Ratnasagara was nine storied building. The library did not only have religious manuscripts but it also contained large collection of books on literature, astrology, astronomy, and medicine. Vastness of the library can be understood from the fact that it took three months to burn down when invaders set fire to it.
The Nalanda University had a great influence of Buddhism. Many Buddhist used to teach here. It is believed that Buddha also visited the university.


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Griot Tradition and Kora
Kora is the ancient string instrument of Mande peoples of Western Africa. It is may be one of the oldest instruments on earth and its history goes back thousands of years. It is built from a large calabash cut in half and covered with cow skin to make a resonator. Instrument has a notched bridge and usually 21 strings tied over this. Strings used to be made of antelope hide, though today they are mostly harp strings or fishing line. It is tuned by moving the leather rings up and down the neck. While playing, it is hold vertically from the handles in both sides of the neck and strings are pulled with the forefingers and the thumbs. In the traditional style, the two thumbs play the lower register path while the forefingers play the upper register melody line.
Kora was the instrument of choice of the griots, the hereditary historians, poets, praise singers and wandering musicians of the west African cultures. A griot might have disciples, but his immediate family, especially sons takes precedence to hand down the tradition and the skills. For this reason, it is possible to find families who have been griots for many generations. Being a repository of the oral tradition, one function of the griots was to recite the legends in the mythologies of their culture. These legends included the stories of the gods and goddesses which people believed in, the explanations regarding the natural world and the supernatural, interpretations about concepts like creation, death and afterlife and being so, they shaped the spiritual life and religious beliefs of the peoples of Western Africa. Griot, as the person who inherited, enacted, preserved and lastly passed on these legends was an important character in the religious practice. In addition, they took part in all important events in the lives of people like the festivals, weddings, holidays and child naming. Even after Islam became the dominant religion in the region, griot preserved his social position, this time choosing the stories and subjects from the Islamic tradition.
Ballaké Sissoko is the son of Djelimady Sissoko, a great master of the Manding Kora, twenty-one-stringed harp whose crystalline sound has conquered the international public. Ballaké is one of the best Kora players of the new generation. He started learning the instrument at a very young age with his father. Having played with the prestigious "Ensemble Instrumental du Mali" and accompanied many female Malian singers, he earned his reputation by performing solo, and also in a duo with Toumani Diabate, with Taj Mahal, and with a number of other musicians.
Ballaké is an over-talented instrumentalist who, drawing on tradition for inspiration, has forged his own personal style. An inspired improviser and a subtle melodist, he is a marvellous accompanist and an excellent composer who enlaces the listeners in suave and crystalline sonority of his kora, magnified by his talent as a melodist and an improviser. In his hands, emotion, elegance, freshness and inventiveness make up some of the world’s best music.


Ocean of Diversity, book from Khentrul Rinpoche
A joyful Ocean of Precisou Diversity is a book where is explained the different point of view of many spiritual paths. The visionary Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö is a Tibetan Refugee based in Australia, from there he propagates the nonsectarian message of the Jonang Kalachakra tradition by giving teaching all over the world. In this book, he provides us with a view of different traditions and believe system in order to apply the same principle to survive as human beings in a diverse overpopulated world.
Divided in three parts, Rinpoche starts by giving us tools to understand what should be understood to have a non sectarian view towards others’ believes, which once applyed, help us to develop tolerance in the daily life and build a harmonial relationships between people. In the second part of the Book, always give us some reflective questions to be observed regard our view towards other, in that chapter he spoke about Ancient Wisdom Traditions, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Jainism, Buddhism, Taoism and as well Scientism.
The third part of the book, Khentrul Rinpoche, dedicate to explain us in details about the Tibeta context os Traditions and believe system, like the Bön, Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu, Jonang, Geluk and the non-sectarian moviment that toke part that traditions called Rimé.
I got that book during the 34° Kalachakra Initiation, right after the 15 days of teachings, Rinpoche offer a retreat to those interested into make the Kalachakra Tantra the own Buddhist practice. As well I joined that retreat and am very satisfied by being able to understand a bit more and practice to the benefits of all beings. That book is for me a kind of Bedside book, where I always look to the reflections the Master of the Jonang tradition invite and recommend us to do.
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Work In and Out of Context
Work In and Out of Context is an extensive retrospective book, containing 350 pages of illustrations, design fragments, posters and essays, created over a ten-year period, beginning around 2003. The bulk of the work contained in the book comes from projects I developed while recording music and running Square Root Records, then working towards my MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and finally while running the 22 gallery in Berwyn for a year and a half.
The book isolates elements of this work from their initial contexts and places them into a new one, that of the book itself. Everything within the book is represented in black and white, flattening it into a cohesive body of work. In doing so, it tries to locate over-arching themes and motifs from a disparate variety of projects, both through visual representation and through extensive essays.
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Once you stick to it, you will benefit a lot.
My favorite hobby is reading, because books are the source of knowledge, I am most interested in literature books, because they can not only improve my writing skills, broaden my vision, but also enrich my life, bring me great learning fun.
With the development of science and technology, more and more e-books are used by people. At the same time, many people still read traditional books. I think both have their own advantages and disadvantages.
E-books and traditional books can be very different. E-books are portable, and they are so diversified that you can read them on mobile phones. By contrast, the quality of traditional books can be well guaranteed.
Moreover, most e-books are online novels, while most traditional books are professional books. Many people eventually like to read traditional books if yoead them Too long an e-book, you will feel dizzy because of excent, so reading traditional books can make you healthy.


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LeClaire Library will be host throughout the ages of March to “The Traveling History of the Book Exhibit,” which comes to us from the University of Iowa Center for the Book.
Included in the hands-on affectation are abstracts advised to accompany to activity the apparatus of writing, paper, and books, cogent the book’s adventure to both accouchement and adults.
The affectation consists of historically authentic replicas apery centuries of accounting records, alpha with adobe counting tokens which were acclimated over 4,000 years ago. Symbols apery numbers were apprenticed into the bendable clay, and back broiled became a almanac of affairs such as the affairs and affairs of acreage animals.
There is a archetype of a annal which demonstrates how books at one time had to be formed and unrolled to read. Recreations of an Egyptian card book, an Ethiopian block book, a medieval lath board book, and a 16th aeon German accountant’s book annular out the adventure of the book’s change through history. Sacred texts such as the Torah, the Bible, the Diamond Sutra and the Qur’an are apparent in admirable photographs.
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In affiliation with this hands-on book exhibit, LeClaire Library is alms a appropriate adaptation of our account “Hands-on Art History” affairs on March 14th, this time exploring the bright aflame books of medieval times by authoritative art with the aboriginal letter of our names.
One of the best admirable examples of illustrated books anytime created was the Book of Kells, from Ireland. LeClaire Library will bless St. Patrick’s Day on March 17th with a achievement of admirable Irish tunes by the Grace Notes Flute Quartet. We will accept appearance pages of the Book of Kells you can blush while aggressive by the music.
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I quite enjoyed reading Enid Blyton in the 1960s, although my children weren't keen on them in the late 1980s. Perhaps they had already become dated by then. The publisher Hodder is reissuing the Famous Five series with changes made to the language, as their market research showed that the old-fashioned expressions in the books put children off. Expressions such as 'lashings of ginger beer', 'I say', 'jolly nice' and 'mercy me' will disappear.
This story has been in the news recently (eg here) but Blyton's books have been edited periodically over the decades. Racist storylines and language have been removed, names have been changed (eg Bessie became Beth and Fanny became Frannie), and words that have changed in meaning since Blyton wrote them, such as 'gay' and 'queer', have been replaced. That reminds me; Hodder intends to replace the word 'peculiar' with 'strange', which presumably means that the word 'peculiar' must be becoming old-fashioned.
Hodder says that there will be no changes to the storylines, but the life and the adventures of the Famous Five bear as little relation to children's lives today as their language does. Blyton's Five had plenty of jolly japes -- exploring caves, chasing thieves, catching smugglers, camping, cycling -- and all without any adults being around.


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10 Ultimate Truths Girls Should Know by Kari Kampakis is a book written for the teens and tweens as well as their mothers. The book claims to be a Christian way of bringing up daughters but is for anyone who is interested in bringing up her daughter the correct way.
The seeds of the book were sown when Kari wrote a speech when she was invited by a counselor friend of hers to speak to a group of girls. The talk struck a chord with the girls and she was invited again the next year. Sometime later, she wrote a blog 10 Truths Young Girls Should Know that has been shared on Facebook over 75,000 times and pinned on Pinterest over 28,000 times. The popularity led Thomas Nelson to come out with the book titled 10 Ultimate Truths Girls Should Know.
The book expands her basic 10 guidelines for young girls from the blog post in form of 10 commandments like
- Kindness is more important than popularity
- You were born to fly
- Trust God’s plan for you
I especially liked the chapters on confidence and perseverance because I could instantly connect with the ideas. The chapters tend to get preachy and longish at times but after finishing a chapter it’s just the messages that remain with you. I also liked the discussion questions at the end of each chapter and the small quizzes interspersing the content. These can be good starting points for initiating discussions with your own daughters.
If you are a teenaged girl getting confused by your own as well as your peers’ behavior, this book is for you. If you are a young girl who wants to chart out the correct future path for yourself, this book is for you.
If you are a mother who wants to bring up good, caring and loving daughters, this book is for you. If you are a mother who feels your daughter has a problem but you don’t know how to broach the subject with her, this book is for you.
I call this book a great resource and handbook for every mother who has to raise daughters.


Digitization, Utilization, Projection of the Cultural Societies in the Greek Literary and Historical Archives :
E.L.I.A. has undertaken to realize the programme “Digitization, Utilization, Projection of E.L.I.A.’s Cultural Societies” under the Operational Programme (EFP) “Information Society”, Call 65, Measure 1.3: “Documentation, utilization and promotion of the Greek Culture”. The work comprises:
a) The scientific documentation and digitization of 84,500 records in E.L.I.A.’s archives:
- Photographs and postcards (Photographic Archive Collection)
- Ephemera Archive
- Newspapers, periodicals and calendars (The Press Archive)
- Theatre, Cinema and Music (Artistic Life Archive)
b) A multilingual, digitized publication entitled “DICTIONARY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS (1839-1960) Greek photographers and foreign photographers in Greece". (Please contribute to the enrichment and continuous improvement of this project by notifying us with your remarks, comments and/or additional information on photographers that are not included in the application or the Photo Archive of E.L.I.A-M.I.E.T (email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.org) or to Mr. Alkis X. Xanthakis (email@example.com).
c) The development of a website on the subject: “Everyday life in Greece viewed through E.L.I.A.’s archives”.
The objective of the programme is the preservation, protection and utilization of the Greek cultural heritage, as well as the promotion of cultural education. At the same time, its multilingual content will make a decisive contribution to the projection and dissemination of the Greek culture across the European and international community. The realization of the programme will bring about the systematic recording of E.L.I.A.’s various archives and the provision of cross-referencing links. Additionally, part of the archives will be safeguarded from the effects of tear and wear that would otherwise inevitably result from the continual use of the records. Lastly, the wealth of information embodied in the archives in their entirety will be readily accessible and can be advantageously combined to serve the needs of a broad spectrum of interested individuals and parties.
The project was jointly financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Greek public funds by 80% and 20% respectively.
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‘Carl’s Fish Farm: An Introduction to Aquaculture’ is the title of the latest book by children’s author K. Michelle Edge. The story, an educational picture book, is designed to introduce young readers to aquaculture and its possibilities as a source of sustainable food and future jobs and talent.[tds_partial_locker tds_locker_id=”24891″]
A family business
Passionate about the environment, the book’s author, K. Michelle Edge, grew up on a fish farm in Soperton, GA USA, earned a degree in Natural Resources, and has worked in wildlife education centers, taught fish and wildlife management classes at a tech college, etc. As she says, “I’ve always been a wildlife educator in shape, form, or fashion”.
Like her, Carl, a catfish and the main character in the story, has also grown up on a fish farm. From his hand – or should we say his fin? – the children will spend a day taking a tour of daily life on a South Georgia fish farm. Through his eyes they will see an overview of aquaculture in the United States with a look at the different species, but also how they are raised, how the ponds are organized, how the fish are handled and transported from one place to another, and so on. And, all this is always from a didactic point of view.
“I think it is necessary to teach children about aquaculture because it not only connects them with nature and its processes, but also connects them with their food, including vegetables grown through hydroponics and aquaponics”, the author says.
An industry with a future
But, beyond species and farm operations, the book ‘Carl’s Fish Farm: An Introduction to Aquaculture’ also reviews the different job positions found in the industry. Using different examples of aquaculture talent, such as those of her own family – Kim and Keith Edge are Michelle’s parents, and Ethan Edge is her brother -; the consultant & entertainer Bob Lusk; the founder & CEO of Minorities In Aquaculture, Imani Black; or Dr. Gary Burtle, among others, the story shows them as well future job possibilities for the children who read the book. “Aquaculture is also a booming industry according to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and my guess is that jobs are available and will be readily available in this field”, she states.
Moreover the biographies of these successful career-oriented individuals in the aquaculture community, and the illustrations of Carl, the catfish, the book contains real-life environmental photos (many of them are of K. Michelle Edge’s family farm), a glossary of common aquaculture words, and a list of job descriptions, so young readers can learn and imagine careers in the field.
A family business for people like Michelle, the author, an industry with a future for all of us, and, of course, a sustainable source of food, jobs and talent. Aquaculture is all of this and now is also a children’s book you can find on Amazon (a free eBook will be available from May 6 to 8, 2022) or on the author’s website. And, like Carl, the catfish, says at the end of his story: “Now, go spread the word: Aquaculture is fun! Farming fish is important. Show folks how it’s done!”.


How You Can Understand the End Times with a Chronological Scripture Organization
If you are like many Christians, understanding and interpreting the book of Revelation can be a daunting task. The book of Revelation largely centers on the End Times, and so much has been written and spoken about in regards to the End Times. Most scholars and interpreters of the End Times have based their interpretation on the book of Revelation. It, however, takes divine intervention for one to get to read, relate, understand, and interpret that book of Revelation to find the true meaning of the End times. One thing that is agreeable amongst all Christians is the fact that the world will come to the end one day, and all that was prophesied since time immemorial will come to pass.
When you are confused about where to begin understanding the book of Revelation so you can have a clearer picture of the end times. You might want to find a reliable website that unveils all there is to for you to get clarity on everything. You want a website that applies all Christian values and measures to ensure the scripture is interpreted as it should with opinions and expressions centered on the Bible. As is with most other devotional materials and Christian literature available online. A true Christian will seek divine guidance through prayers. Ask the Lord to reveal to you the right devotional materials to follow when you want to understand the End Times.
A true Christian should have a discerning spirit and should always pray about every content and material they come across. One of the best blogs written about the End Times that you can find online is one whose events and happenings have been arranged chronologically. You want everything unveiled for you in a sequence of events that help you follow through from the tribulations to the Dragon, the Lamb of Christ, the Fall of Babylon, and all else in between that leads to the coming of the Messiah. No one knows the day, time, or hour of the coming of the Messiah; even the Bible clearly states that. However, when you have events of the End Times clearly described in a manner, you are likely to understand. Don’t you think you will be better placed as a Christian to prepare yourself for the End Times?
This should also help you in your evangelizing as you prepare other new believers with relevant scripture to make them ready for the End Times. The book of Revelation is one written with so many parables. It takes a discerning spirit and a lot of cross scripture reference to come up with a sequential write-up of the events that people can read and follow through. While at it, it is also important that as a Christian, you prepare yourself for the End Times by ensuring you live right by the scripture. There is no greater gain in the world for a Christian than inheriting the kingdom of God, and getting the final crown of Glory for a life lived pleasing the Lord.


Climbing Parnassus by Tracy Lee Simmons – In this apologia of classical education and, more specifically, the role of Latin and Greek in the curriculum over millennia, Tracy Lee Simmons summarizes and argues for the central place the classical languages have had and should have for all classical schools. You will come away wanting to learn the languages and read your Homer and Cicero.
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis – The best concise criticism of “data-based” and deconstructionist modern education, Lewis sets out to show how traditional education trains up real humans, instead of “men without chests”. A must to read and re-read.
“Democratic Education” by C.S. Lewis – In this short article, Lewis looks at the difference between “equality” in education and education that will preserve equality. (Available here.)
Wisdom and Eloquence by Robert Littlejohn and Charles T. Evans – Written by an experienced teacher and administrator, Wisdom and Eloquence is a great entry point for not only the theory behind liberal education, but also some of the practical steps to be taken on the path of Christian learning.
The Idea of a Christian College by Arthur F. Holmes – Though written specifically for the Christian college, the Christ-centered, transformational educational goals outlined by Holmes make this book a great read for parents interested in Christian liberal arts education.
“Of Education” by John Milton – In this short letter, Milton provides the Christian with the single greatest definition of the purpose of education: “The end then of Learning is to repair the ruins of our first Parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.” (Available online here.)
Character Driven College Preparation by John William Turner – The founder of the University Model Schools (UMS) method of schooling, Dr. Turner lays out the vision and major ideas behind UMS schooling, especially the involvement of parents in their children’s education and lives as a whole. (Chapter 1 available online here.)
The Trivium by Sister Miriam Joseph – Simply put, this book is an essential reference for all of us as teachers and parents in classical schools. Sister Joseph lays out not only what the verbal arts are, but also gives a condensed reference of the arts in action, including a helpful primer of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory – For any parent who believes that she “is not a teacher”, Gregory’s classic work on the fundamentals of teaching will assure her that yes, we do and can all teach our children not only academic truths, but principals for living life for the Kingdom’s sake.
Desiring the Kingdom by James K. Smith – In this volume Smith argues that human beings are primarily “loving” creatures rather than cognitive, meaning that any true education has to re-orient and re-order the desires of our hearts if we are to truly be transformed. He follows Augustine and Socrates in this line of thinking that Human education is primarily the task of bringing order to the disordered soul and mind. We must learn to love what is True and desire the Creator whose Beauty and Goodness flows out into His creation.
The Republic of Plato – Besides its own beauty as a treatment of such weighty topics of justice and the right ordering of society, The Republic is the greatest example of what dialogue-based (“Socratic dialogue”) education looks like in practice, not only from the method of instruction but also the topics being undertaken. (Available online here.)
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis – This book covers so much more than a “Christian education”, but Thomas reminds us of two essential elements of true learning early in the work: “What good does it do to speak learnedly about the Trinity if, lacking humility, you displease the Trinity? Indeed it is not learning that makes a man holy and just, but a virtuous life makes him pleasing to God. I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it. For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God?” and “Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars. He who knows himself well becomes mean in his own eyes and is not happy when praised by men.” (Available online here.)


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another day in David’s part of the Massive Voodoo jungle, and another review of a recent book coming in.
This time it’s something a little bit different: a book on scale modeling. For a long time I have been wanting to get into building scale model airplanes, as this is where my interest in the hobby started for me. And as with miniatures, I am particularly drawn to the smaller scales – especially 1/144. And, luckily for me – and for everyone starting out into this world of tiny planes – Ammo by Mig Jimenez, who has been a great fan and supporter of the 1/144 modeling scene, has just published a nice little book dedicated to models in this scale! The book is the first of a two-volume series on modeling planes in this scale, and the name says it all: it focuses on propeller planes, mainly from the 1940s.
|The table of contents|
The book starts out with a two-page introduction, in which the editor, Julio Fuente, talks a bit about the benefits of modeling planes in 1/144 scale. Next to the small size and economical price, he particularly highlights the comparative simplicity in terms of parts numbers and detail, which makes 1/144 planes potentially a bit quicker projects than their larger-scale cousins, with their seeming endless supply of add-on and aftermarket parts. As is all text throughout the book, the introduction is presented in English and Spanish.
|Some advice on how to detail a 1/144 B-29 bomber|
The remainder of the book’s 140+ pages is made up of ten chapters, each written by another author, which present step-by-step descriptions of the building, painting and weathering process of one of a wide range of historic propeller planes. The ten projects include planes in different sizes – including four smaller, single-engine monoplane fighters plus a biplane, as well as four larger multi-engine planes. While the single-engine flyers cover almost all the common World War II favorites (the German Messerschmidt Bf-109, the US P-51 Mustang, a British Spitfire, and a floatplane version of the Japanese A6M “Zero” fighter, plus the British Gloster Gladiator biplane), the multi-engine planes are a bit more exotic. Next to the US-built B-29 bomber, the German He-219 “Uhu” night fighter and Messerschmidt six-engine monster “Gigant”, they also include the only civilian plane in the book, the legendary Lockheed Super Constellation four-engine passenger plane.
|Painting the Super Conny – in process …|
|… and finished.|
This variety of planes of different sizes and nationalities ensure that a wide range of different finishes and liveries are covered, including bare-metal finishes, classic grey-green camouflages, as well as single color paintjobs. Particularly interesting are, in my eyes, the “dotted” black-and-grey night-fighter camouflage of the “Uhu”, the Lufthansa livery of the “Super Conny”, and the heavily weathered green over natural-metal of the Japanese floatplane.
|The book contains a range of different camouflages – here black and grey…|
|… and a bit more colorful.|
Speaking of which, all chapters spend considerable attention on how to weather aircraft in the scale in a convincing way, showing a wide range of techniques, colors and degrees of weathering. Next to the painting and weathering steps, the chapters also include some pointers on building the models and some go into some depth at describing how to upgrade and add detail to the models. Jorge Porto’s Chapter 10 is special, in that it does not deal with building planes per se, but how to build, with not too much work, a very convincing diorama for 1/144 planes, using two of the Japanese floatplanes as an example.
|Effectful weathering is paid great attention…|
|… in all chapters|
This is a really cool book. As with all recent Ammo books that I reviewed over the last months, 1/144 Propeller Planes is a beautifully-made softcover book with very high production value. All throughout the ten chapters, the book is richly illustrated with high-quality photographs that clearly show the individual steps of building, painting and weathering the model. The pictures are crisp and very well lit, so that you can identify all relevant detail. Each pic is accompanied by brief descriptive texts that tell the reader what the author is doing. All descriptions are clear and to-the-point, making it easy to follow along. Sometimes the authors even provide a little explanation and underlying reasons on why they do a particular step, which is helpful in understanding the particularities of the small scale for model-building.
|Detailing the interior of a Japanese floatplane|
|Kitbashing: making a late model Spitfire from two different kits.|
In terms of substance, the book delivers almost everything one could want from such a volume. By covering such a wide range of different paint schemes and liveries it ensures that you will find something useful for (almost) all your 1/144 propeller plane projects – even if you do not want to build one of the model kits featured in the book. I really liked the chapter on the Japanese floatplane, as this discusses in some depth the challenges of detailing “out-of-box” models in the scale. The chapters on the late-version Spitfire and the Gloster biplane also include some cool kit-bashing and scratchbuilding. Finally, Chapter 10 on building the little diorama for the two Japanese floatplanes, is just some really nice icing on an already yummy cake. Overall, I was really pleasantly surprised to see that none of the chapters significantly falls behind the others, which is not guaranteed for edited books with multiple authors. Also, the approach to combine Spanish and English text actually works quite well – due to the English text being printed in bold-face (and the Spanish in regular), the flow of reading is smooth. And: if you are like me and want to brush up on your Spanish, the duolingual approach has the benefit of providing you with the essential vocabulary for your hobby ;-).
|Some super-fine detail work: rigging the Gloster Gladiator biplane!|
Despite all that praise I have a few minor critical points to raise. For one thing, I think the addition of a substantive introductory chapter, in which the particularities of modeling in small scale are highlighted, would have made the book even stronger. In this, the editor/author could have introduced some general suggestions on detailing in the scale and on how to treat the scale-effect of color, that is, the idea that on smaller objects colors tend to look darker, such that you should highlight the color to achieve a “realistic” value. For another thing, the decision to structure the book as step-by-step descriptions of ten individual projects, leads to some redundancies in the descriptions. Finally, in some chapters I would have liked a bit more thorough language editing (for the English parts, at least).
|Icing on the cake: step-by-step on a small diorama!|
That being said, I really like this book. It packs a lot of information on a wide range of topics relevant for building, painting and weathering 1/144 scale propeller planes. Moreover, the suggested retail price of 23,50 Euros is a good additional reason to get the book as you get a lot of excellent quality material for that money! So, I cannot but recommend the book if you’re interested in diving into the world of 1/144 scale model plane – and I am definitely looking forward to reading the forthcoming Volume 2, which will focus on jet planes. In the meantime, I will make use of the knowledge in this book to guide my first own 1/144 propeller plane build. Watch this space for updates!
And that’s it, friends. Thanks for reading, and as always: leave a comment if you have questions.


Ahhhh.. Do you remember the good times, when the cost of high-school textbooks in public schools was covered with the admission fee of $75? Well, snap out of it, those times are now over! An average textbook of any discipline in university starts off at $100, and if you have to buy multiple textbooks for different courses, you can forget about going outside and drinking on weekends! Yes, there are ways, where you can get the textbook from a torrent website; but it is committing copyright infringement. Buying it used is also an option, but you to browse through hundreds of online forums to find a book that is in decent condition. Luckily, starting this year, if you are a post-secondary student in Ontario, you would not have to do that. This is because the government has partnered with eCampus Ontario to bring free or low-cost textbooks.
eCampus Ontario is a not-for-profit organization whose services are available to all students in publicly funded colleges and universities in the province of Ontario. Their mission is to build an open online library, where students can get a digital copy of their textbooks for free or at a low-cost. All the textbooks offered on this website are licensed under an open copyright license. This means that the authors of this book have allowed the book to be in the public domain for educational purposes.
This year, the government of Ontario invested $1 million to Ontario Open Textbooks Initiative, which will allow it to expand its library. With this investment by the Government of Ontario hopes to reduce the cost of books for post-secondary students, along with the reduced cost of tuition starting from September 2017.
The digital library launched on 6th June 2017 and is now available for all post-secondary students to use for the upcoming school year. As of September 1st, 2017, the online library has more than 180 titles from a variety of disciplines (Arts, Business, Sciences, Social Sciences, Trades, and Health Care). More books and disciplines will be added as the number students using the platform increases. If you are a kinesthetic learner; the University of Waterloo is providing a service, where you can print and bound the books for a low-cost.


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Unleashing The True Power Of The CEREC Acquisition Center, An Overview Of The Process
CERECdoctors.com co-founder Dr. Armen Mirzayan shares his view of CEREC Connect and its role in dentistry today.Armen Mirzayan, M.A., D.D.S.
CEREC Connect, The Process
Dr. Armen Mirzayan explains how the latest CEREC Connect software gives the option to produce models with which to fabricate any material.Armen Mirzayan, M.A., D.D.S.
An Interview With Dr. Christensen
World renowned clinician Dr. Gordon J. Christensen reveals his thoughts on the digital trend in dentistry.
Nuts & Bolts Occlusion Solutions
A case presentation by Dr. Michael J. Melkers, to anticipate and overcome challenges posed by second molars.
The Melding Of Technologies
Dr. Mark Colonna discusses minimally invasive CEREC crown preparation using the Er:YAG Laser and the benfits to both dentists and patients.


Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the vacant position of University Librarian in Federal University Lokoja.
The Librarian shall be responsible to the Vice-Chancellor for the overall administration of the University Library and conditions of Library services in the University, its Campuses, Departments, other Teaching and Research Units and the entire University Community.
The University Librarian is a Principal Officer and the head of the University’s Library; candidate for the post shall be visionary and have the ability to provide good leadership; the candidate must possess personal integrity and demonstrate transparency in private and public life; the candidate must be able to command the respect and loyalty of staff of the University.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
Candidate for this post shall:
- Be professionally qualified and be a practising Librarian/Academic;
- Possess a good Honours Degree and a PhD in Library and Information Science from a recognized University, with at least fifteen (15) years cognate experience, preferably in the University system.
- Have attained the rank of Deputy Librarian or equivalent in a University.
- Have contributed to knowledge through research and publications in reputable journals, as well as possess proven record of sound administrative leadership.
- Be a registered member of the Library Registration Council of Nigeria (LRCN);
- Be computer literate and proficient in relevant computer applications.
The successful candidate for the Office of University Librarian shall serve a single term of five (5) years from the effective date of appointment.
SALARY/CONDITIONS OF SERVICE:
The Salary and Conditions of Service of the University Librarian shall be as obtained in Federal Universities in Nigeria.
METHOD OF APPLICATION:
Candidates are required to submit fifteen (15) copies of their applications and Curriculum Vitae and photocopies of their Credentials. The Curriculum Vitae should highlight the following:
- Full name(Surname First in Capital Letters)
- Place and date of Birth
- Marital Status
- Number and Ages of Children
- E-mail Address and Phone Number(s)
- Postal Address
- Permanent Home Address
- State of Origin and LGA
- Schools attended and qualifications obtained with dates
- List of Publications
- Positions held with dates
- Present Employment, Status, Salary and Dates
- Extra Curricular Activities
- Membership of Professional Bodies/Learned Societies
- Names and Addresses of 3 referees
Applications should be submitted under confidential cover in sealed envelopes marked, “Position of University Librarian” to:
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Applicants are expected to request their referees to forward their reports under confidential cover; directly to the Vice-Chancellor.
Applications should reach the Office of the Vice-Chancellor not later than six (6) weeks from the date of this publication.
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D.I.T., book 1
by Victoria Danann
by Victoria Danann
Everyone has somewhere they belong…
Cat Milsom ran from her life in the USA – from a career as a hospital doctor, and from an engagement just to please her family. When she stopped running, she found herself on the other side of the world in a little town called Cable Bay, New Zealand. Now she runs a bar, and tells herself that living up to people’s expectations is overrated.
Archaeologist Ryan Sanders has never settled anywhere. Travelling the world, he thinks that settling down is for little people who can’t see beyond their own front door. When he’s sent to investigate a report of fossils discovered in Nelson, he thinks it’ll be simple; done in a few days, and then on to the next job.
Problem is, the fossils are directly underneath Cat’s bar, and she’s not about to see it demolished without a fight.
Sometimes it takes digging up the past to open your eyes to the future.
Soraya May writes contemporary romance with silly jokes, sweet (but strong) heroines, and likeable (but sometimes infuriating) heroes. She grew up on a remote New Zealand sheep farm with only books and animals for company, and she’s been using her imagination and making her own fun ever since.
For special extended epilogues of Soraya’s books, sign up to her mailing list here: http://subscribe.sorayamay.com/signup
Warning: may also contain free stuff, giveaways, silly jokes, and minor grumbling about beetroot.
Clio would love nothing more than to go home. But as the illegitimate daughter of the nymph king, she’s stuck in the human world, exiled until she can earn a place in the royal family. Then her half-bother offers her a chance to prove herself. All she has to do is acquire some magic … by stealing it from the most dangerous spell weavers in the Underworld.
Lyre prefers to go unnoticed, which is a tricky objective for an incubus. He can’t hide his looks or his coveted spell weaving skills, but he’s learned to mask his true intentions. As an unwilling pawn of the tyrannical Hades family, he stays alive by keeping one step ahead of his masters.
Now he’s been assigned to watch over a visitor from the Overworld—one who’s definitely hiding something. And with her unholy talent for triggering chaos and catastrophe, his job just keeps getting more perilous. Clearly, she’ll never survive this world.
The thing is, he’s no longer sure he can survive it either.
Annette Marie is the author of the Amazon best-selling Steel & Stone series, which includes Goodreads Choice Award nominee Yield the Night, and fantasy trilogy Red Winter. Her first love is fantasy, but fast- paced urban fantasy and tantalizing forbidden romances are her guilty pleasures. She lives in the frozen winter wasteland of Alberta, Canada (okay, it's not quite that bad) with her comparatively sensible husband and their furry minion of darkness—sorry, cat—Caesar. When not writing, she can be found elbow-deep in one art project or another while blissfully ignoring all adult responsibilities.
All he wanted was to break through her tough exterior.
All she wanted was to be left alone.
When they finally got together, it was everything.
Explosive. Epic. Delicious.
And then he found his calling. The military.
And she was proud. And jealous. She wanted him home. With her. Not half-way around the world where their relationship was defined by quick calls, video chats, and letters.
She knew it was wrong. She knew it was crazy. She asked him to choose.
And he did.
Falling head-over-heels in love was the easy part. Sweet. Sexy. Good.
Loving a man who is always gone, deployed, and proud to serve his country takes courage and sacrifice.
All she wanted was for him to stay.
STAY WITH ME is a story told in parts. We’ll hope you’ll stay with us as the story develops, and we encourage you to share STAY WITH ME with your friends.
Hensley Park loves the smell of roses. She's an animal lover and also enjoys listening to music, hanging with friends and going to movies. She is a super nerd who appreciates all things Geek. A perfect day for Hensley would include reading and napping.
Zade Holder has always been a free-spirited young woman, from a long dynasty of tarot-card readers, fortunetellers, and practitioners of magick. Growing up in a small town and never quite fitting in, Zade is determined to forge her own path. She leaves her home in Tennessee to break free from her overprotective mother Dela, the local resident spellcaster and fortuneteller.
Zade travels to Las Vegas and uses supernatural powers to become part of a premiere magic show led by the infamous magician Charles Spellman. Zade fits right in with his troupe of artists and misfits. After all, when everyone is slightly eccentric, appearing ”normal” is much less important.
Behind the scenes of this multimillion-dollar production, Zade finds herself caught in a love triangle with Mac, the show’s good-looking but rough-around-the-edges technical director and Jackson, the tall, dark, handsome and charming bandleader.
Zade’s secrets and the struggle to choose between Mac or Jackson creates reckless tension during the grand finale of the show. Using Chaos magick, which is known for being unpredictable, she tests her abilities as a spellcaster farther than she’s ever tried and finds herself at death’s door. Her fate is left in the hands of a mortal who does not believe in a world of real magick, a fortuneteller who knew one day Zade would put herself in danger and a dagger with mystical powers…
Handbook for Mortals is the first book in the series of this urban fantasy, paranormal romance series by author Lani Sarem.
Following Zade through the trials–and romance–of finding her own place in the world, readers will identify with their own struggles to fit in, reflected in the fantastic, yet mundane world of Zade’s life.
Handbook for Mortals is in development as a motion picture set to debut in 2018
Lani Sarem basically grew up in the entertainment industry. She began acting at age three and continued to act and perform through her early years. Lani began writing scripts when she was eleven. Over the years she has become a jack-of-all-trades in the entertainment business. She became a rock n’ rolly gypsy at fifteen and started touring with bands and working on festivals. She’s toured with everyone from Ryan Adams to Gnarls Barkley. She also became one of the youngest female managers in the business and managed bands like the Plain White T's, 100 Monkeys and Blues Traveler. Lani has appeared in films like Mall Cop 2, Jason Bourne, and Trailer Park Shark. Handbook for Mortals is a debut novel of a series of books, which are also being made into feature films. You can follow Lani on her social networks to keep up with her many adventures and look out for her at a Wizard World Comic Con near you.
The demented thing is that this evolved from the most sickly sweet, heart-wrenching love story you’ve ever heard. I went to Sully because I just couldn’t get over Jack’s murder. I couldn’t deal.
Iona came to me for the same reason most did: because there was no closure. A love cut too short. She begged me to open the gate between the living and the dead.
We should have left it shut.
This. This is not a love story. This is a possession story. A story of lies. A story of two faces. This is a story of death and violent echoes from the other side.
And there will be no happy endings.
Keary Taylor is the USA TODAY bestselling author of over twenty novels. She grew up along the foothills of the Rocky Mountains where she started creating imaginary worlds and daring characters who always fell in love. She now splits her time between a tiny island in the Pacific Northwest and Utah, with her husband and their two children. She continues to have an overactive imagination that frequently keeps her up at night.
Hot coffee is a regular fixture in Hailey Warren’s life. Hot guys? Not so much.
Her grueling shifts at a cafe in the heart of the city’s business sector are rarely punctuated by anything special, so when the gorgeous heir to the security company next door strides into Hailey’s life, it feels like punctuation with a capital P (or D, depending on your preferred terminology).
Jordan Knox is enough to send her heart racing faster than a triple shot of espresso, and when the attraction proves to be mutual, no hidden corners or empty offices are safe from their game of cat and mouse.
But when she’s ready to drop the pretenses, Jordan continues to hold back, and Hailey realizes he’s been hiding secrets that could make whatever’s brewing between them boil over and burn.
‘Latte Girl’ is a full length, standalone novel, and the debut title from author Katia Rose.
Katia Rose is not much of a Pina Colada person, but she does like getting caught in the rain. She prefers her romance served steamy with a side of smart, and is a sucker for quirky characters. A habit of jetting off to distant countries means she’s rarely in one place for very long, but she calls the frigid northland that is Canada home.
They say there is a thin line between love and hate.
This is what happens when that line is crossed.
College freshman Olivia Montgomery is thrilled at the chance to start over, escape the rumors that plagued her in high school. And she can finally put her juvenile crush, Zachary Pearson, where he belongs—in her past. Then her unrequited love strolls into her French class, shattering Olivia’s newfound peace, and the feelings she’d thought buried for good come rushing back. Now she can’t shake her unwanted attraction to the one guy who can twist her stomach into knots with just a smile…but has never given her the time of day.
Zach’s good looks may have always gotten him his pick of girls, but it’s the star quarterback’s skill on the football field that gives him his pick of the Big Ten colleges. To escape the crushing demands of his win-at-all-costs father, Zach opts for a private university in upstate New York where…his present and past collide. And the one girl he’s always wanted but can’t have—and a class trip to Paris—turn out to be the ultimate game changer that has him breaking every one of his rules.
Beverley discovered her love of books while growing up in Ontario, Canada. With her love of books and romance, she always wished that everyone would find their happily ever after. She currently writes sexy historical, new adult and contemporary romances.
As the mother of one too bright and mischievous young boy, she pulls full-time duty on all fronts. When she's not writing full-time or mothering, she's probably reading or knitting and dreaming of a time when she'll have time for her favorite hobbies: crocheting and sewing.
Beverley has lived on two continents, in three countries, two provinces, and four states. She stopped her nomadic existence and settled in the southeast. All things artistic feed her creative passion, but none more than writing. Readers can visit her at: beverleykendall.com.


Spring Programs and Summer Camps. Pool Passes on sale now!
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The Spring Spectrum is available now
in all Park District facilities.
Read the virtual guide and download your copy.
Download the Summer Camp Guide.
Download just the pages and sections you want.
Registration for spring programs & summer camps is in progress!
The four most asked questions:
Is the Park District still going to PRINT the Spectrum Program and Events Guide?
YES! We will print about 9,000 copies each season. This represents a savings of many thousands of dollars.
Is the Park District still going to MAIL the Spectrum Program and Events Guide?
No. This will help us save many more thousands of dollars.
How will I get a copy of the Spectrum Program and Events Guide?
Copies will be in all Park District facilities, the Des Plaines Public Library, City Hall, the History Center and Frisbie Senior Center.
If you want a copy, you'll have no problem finding one in plenty of time to read it, plan your classes, and register.
How will I know when the Spectrum Program and Events Guide is available each season?
1) Our website, our Facebook page, and our Twitter feeds will announce the publication dates well in advance.
2) Information will be posted in our facilities, the Library, City Hall, History Center and Frisbie Senior Center.
3) All Park District Staff, including our instructors and coaches, will have a schedule of publication dates.
4) Park District newsletters will be sent via e-mail.
5) Information will be on our electronic sign at the entrance to Prairie Lakes.
6) Information will be on the City's electronic sign, on Miner Street at River Road.
7) Information will be on the City's cable TV channels #17 and #24.
8) Notices will be placed in local newspapers, in print and online.
9) Signs will be placed at our major parks and facilities. If you're driving around Des Plaines, you'll see them.
10) Skywriting. (Depending on the weather.)
. . .
Here's the full story of why we're making this change.
In the spring of 2013, we announced a simple change in the way we will distribute our seasonal program and events guide.
That change begins with the next issue of the Spectrum, which will be published in November 2013. Two forces guided this decision: the economy, and our commitment to being as environmentally friendly as possible.
Will you still be able to get a printed Spectrum?
YES! We know how important the Spectrum is to families and individuals in Des Plaines. It is still the best way for us to provide you with information about our many programs and events. It's a quick, easy way for you to find your favorite exercise class, learn about a new sports program for your child, and check when the pools will open. We know that you carry it with you to work and to the doctor's office, and that you sit with your family and look through the pages for things to do together. So do we! We love the Spectrum. What we don't love is that thousands of the brochures are simply thrown away each season because we're sending them to people who don't want one.
What are we doing?
1. We are reducing the number of Spectrum that we print each season from over 27,000 to under 10,000. This first step will save thousands of dollars.
2. We are eliminating the mailing of a brochure to every household address in Des Plaines. This second step will save many more thousands of dollars.
3. We are putting more Spectrum brochures into our facilities, to make it easier for you to get one. More brochures will be available at the Des Plaines Public Library, City Hall, and the History Center. If you want a printed copy of the Spectrum, you will not have any problem getting one.
4. We are using today's technology to communicate with you, so you will know when the Spectrum is available.
Will the Spectrum still be available online?
YES! We have many residents who prefer to read the Spectrum on a screen. The online version of the brochure will continue to be more interactive each season, to make it easier for you to find what you want and register right from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
Will the Spectrum only be available online in the future?
NO! We have no plans to discontinue production of the printed program guide. Technology is wonderful, but it's not right for everyone.
Do we need your help?
YES! Our recent surveys have provided us with a very positive response to this Going Green project, and we welcome your input.
E-mail us at Going Green. Talk to our staff. We also need you to spread the word about this initiative. Let your friends and neighbors know that the Spectrum will still be printed, and that copies of the Spectrum will be available every season in our facilities for everyone who wants one. Try the online registration system. To read more about it, Click Here.
The complete program guide, sections, and individual pages are available online 24/7. Click Here.
Copies of the Spectrum are available at all Park District facilities, as well as the Des Plaines Public Library,
the History Center, and City Hall.
See you around the parks!


Maud Wagner, circa 1907
Maud Wagner began life as a circus performer. Maud was an aerialist and contortionist, and at the 1904 St. Louis World Fair, she made a deal with a tattoo artist named Gus Wagner. She agreed to go out on a date with him, as long as he promised to teach her how to tattoo.
Gus Wagner had been a merchant seaman, and while traveling the world in the late 1800’s he witnessed traditional tattooing techniques across many cultures. Wagner claimed to have learnt how to tattoo from tribes in Java and Borneo. When he returned to America in the 1910’s, he had over 250 tattoos of his own, and claimed for himself the title of ‘the most artistically marked up man in America’.
When Maud met Gus, he was a tattooist in his own right, using machine-free techniques. He was known as ‘the Tattooed Globetrotter’, with designs covering his body depicting the history of the US, Japan and China. Maud was fascinated with the art (and the artist), and married Gus only months after their first date.
Maud and Gus Wagner tattooing clients
Maud was soon covered in tattoos herself, mostly patriotic designs typical of the period, and the couple soon became a popular circus attraction. It was reported they were making up to $200 a week from their tattooed skin, equivalent to around $2000 today.
When they weren’t on display as a tattooed couple, they were giving tattoos to people. Their daughter Lovetta later recalled that most clients wanted designs of birds, animals, or their pets.
Tattooed sailors in the early 1900s
The early 1900s were an interesting time for tattooists; the tattoo craze of the late 1800s was dying down with the aristocracy, and tattoos were seen now as the trade of sailors and delinquents. In 1897 it was estimated that around 75% of American women had a tattoo, by 1936, this number had dropped to around 6% of the entire population. But Gus and Maud still had plenty of trade, not least because there weren’t as many tattooists around for people to go to.
For the rest of their lives, Maud and Gus Wagner worked in circuses, fairs and vaudeville houses across the US, as both performers and tattooists. Gus died in 1941 after being struck by lightning, and Maud sadly passed away of cancer two decades later, in 1961.
Her legacy lived on though; her daughter Lovetta carried on the family trade, despite her mother forbidding her to get any tattoos herself. And Maud no doubt inspired countless other women who met or were tattooed by her, to pursue the career themselves.