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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
A tale of dreams & visions, forged in steel
Once upon a time in a kingdom far, far away, a fortunate young couple laid plans for a lifetime of love and happiness. The groom-to-be puzzled and puzzled over the appropriate gift for his betrothed, but she insisted that no gift could match the enormity of their love, and so their promise alone would be enough. “I will fly like Icarus into the night sky and capture the moon so that it can be set in a beautiful ring and it will shine like our love.” “No”, she replied, “The moon is wild and free and must remain so, and it will light our nights through all of our years.” “Well then”, he said, “I will negotiate with a prince of the East for a hoard of rubies to make into magnificent jewels, and you will be warmed by their glow through all of our winters.” Again she replied, “We must not seek to gain the jewels of other kingdoms, the only jewel we need is the love we already have.” The wedding grew close and still, every gift he suggested was deemed unnecessary. Soon the wedding day was imminent and guests began to arrive from many lands to begin the celebration. On the wedding morn, the vexed groom woke with the breaking day, still determined to solve this riddle. The sun’s rays reached across the room, and in the first light of dawn he saw below his very own window the most magnificent beast ever beheld by human eyes. Instantly, he knew this was his perfect gift, but how to capture the wild thing without raising the protests of his sensitive mate? Carefully he opened the court yard door, and with armloads of leaves, twigs, shoots, & vines (along with a few apples for good measure), the animal was quickly bewitched by his kindness and they made fast friends. Slowly he led his exotic companion to the village forge, enticing him with treats all the way. Here he begged the local artisan to make a portrait of this never-before creature to be hung on the castle wall as a memory forever of the dawning of this day. The artisan cautiously agreed and set to work immediately, with a big stack of apples on hand for the unusual model. The day proceeded, perfect in every way. The sun made it’s journey across the sky as the guests were bathed in it’s enchanted light and continued the celebration deep into the night. Exhausted, the guests began to depart, and the couple slowly made their way home. Upon arriving, the groom threw open the castle door, and glowing in the candlelight over the stone mantle was the artisan’s portrayal of a creature unlike anything the bride had ever beheld. Catching a glint of something in the corner of his eye, he ushered his beloved out onto the balcony. Below them, in the moonlight at the back of the yard where the wood meets the grassy lawn, stood the enormous stag a with rack of antlers alive in themselves, growing and reaching for the moon before their very eyes. The creature looked up and shook his mighty head as if to display it’s magnificence. He took a slow turn across the grassy clearing, and then, in an instant, turned tail and vanished deep into the dark wood, never to be seen again by the eyes of humankind. Ever since that day, the benevolent glance of the buck’s portrait reminds them of that most special guest, on their most special day... and some visitors claim to have seen a gleam in his steely eye as the moon rises on a starlit night.
This tale is a work of fiction by yours truly, inspired by the work of a very talented artist. The artist, however, is quite real. Shae Freeman of CitizenObjects is making magic out of the everyday, and the work she has shared with us is evidence of a narrative all her own. From a small token to this magnificent creature, we are enthralled. So when the extraordinary is required, may we suggest you visit Shae.


Great Tarotists of Yesteryear:
By James W. Revak
The Equinox and a Demon in the Desert
During 1909-1913, Crowley published at significant personal expense a journal devoted to magic, yoga, mysticism, and, to a lesser extent, literature, titled The Equinox. Comprising mostly writings by him, it served as the official organ of the magus new magical order, the A:.A:. (purportedly an abbreviation of Argenteum Astrum [the Silver Star]). Many of Crowleys most profound writings were published in its pages. Likewise, many of his books which are in print today, originally appeared in its pages.
After publication of the second number of the journal, Crowley and his new student, Victor Neuberg, travelled to Algeria in 1910, where Crowley undertook an arduous exploration of Enochian magic, first developed by John Dee and Edward Kelly in sixteenth-century England. Crowley viewed this undertaking as an important test. Specifically, he entered into the Enochian spirit world with magical formulas originally used by Dee and Kelly, wherein he had visions of the Enochian Aethyrs (i.e., levels of spiritual existence).
As he described what he observed and learned Neuberg recorded his teachers experiences and insights. Additionally, sometimes he and Neuberg practiced sexual magic, which included homosexual intercourse. On one such occasion on a desert mountain, according to the magus own report which was substantially confirmed by Neuberg, Crowley tested himself by invoking and confronting the demon of chaos, Chroronzon, a dangerous inhabitant of an Enochian Aethyr. The demon appeared and attacked Neuberg in the form of naked a savage, throwing him to the ground and attempting to kill him. Neuberg responded by invoking God and counter-attacking with a magical dagger. Thanks to his brave actions the demon was contained. No independent parties witnessed the event. However, regardless what exactly happened, such was the extremity to which Crowley pushed himself and his students in the risky quest for mystical knowledge and experience. In fact, Crowleys harsh domination of Neuberg eventually compelled the student to break with the teacher.
Following his work with Enochian magic, the magus again turned his attention to the Equinox. Despite having sworn an oath of secrecy when he was initiated into the Golden Dawn, he had published in its pages several long verbatim selections from heretofore confidential Golden Dawn documents and was preparing to publish more. Mathers, author of much of this literature, responded by obtaining an injunction forbidding Crowley from further publication. However, he lost on appeal and his erstwhile student resumed dissemination of the once secret doctrine and rituals.
Still, Mathers apparently had his revenge. He almost certainly supplied information damaging to Crowley to a British tabloid called The Looking Glass. In 1910 it published a sensational expose of the magus, which detailed his purported immorality and wickedness and strongly implied that he was a homosexual. The resultant publicity, complicated by a related legal battle the following year, threw Crowleys magical order, the A:.A:., into disarray and serious decline with many members resigning.
Luckily for Crowley he soon had entré to another magical order, the Ordo Templis Orientis [Order of the Eastern Temple], commonly referred to as the OTO. The German magus Theodore Reuss, who headed this order, appointed him head of the OTO in Great Britain. Crowley used his new position to promote Thelema among the British members. Further, at Reuss invitation he re-wrote the rituals to be used by all members to reflect Thelema. However, when Reuss was incapacitated by a stroke in 1920, he failed to succeed him as the head of the entire OTO organization.
The Middle-Aged Magus
After 1913, as Crowley approached middle age, his ground-breaking work and creative output diminished but by no means ended. Of course, neither did his love affairs whether with women or men. However, he increasingly experienced financial problems. He had spent his fortune and possessed no significant source of income least of all from his books which were typically self-published and never commercially successful. Rather, he existed, in part, on gifts from friends and students.
Beginning in 1920 Crowley leased a villa in Cefalù, a small town located on Sicily. During his brief stay, it was commonly called Abbey Thelema, and served as a retreat house for individuals who wished to study under him. However, the arrangement lasted only three years; when the new Fascist government expelled him and his followers from Italy. The reason for the expulsion remains unclear, but may have been related to his notoriety before and during his stay at the abbey.
In 1929 the magus published his major statement on magic, Magick in Theory and Practice. He often used the spelling magick, in part, to differentiate it from stage magic. In this complex book for the advanced practitioner he sought to recast magic as a common phenomenon, broadly defining it as the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will. Crowley covered a wide range of topics, e.g., basic theories, Cabala, yoga, meditation, clairvoyance, and divination (including briefly Tarot). He explored many facets of ritual, including the use of magical formulas as structural patterns, equipment, gesture, sacrifice, banishing, and invoking. He provided detailed instructions for selected rituals and argued that the main goal of magic was Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel (i.e., mystical union with the Divine). However, his ideas were sometimes difficult to follow, vague, and allusive. His style ranged from lucid to opaque, from elegant to overwrought.
In 1932 forty-eight creditors forced the magus into involuntary bankruptcy at which point his assets were virtually nil. He was also addicted to morphine. Following the advice of physicians he regularly used the drug to alleviate serious asthmatic attacks. He also sometimes used drugs for both spiritual development and, frankly, recreation. Nevertheless, he persisted in his work, subsisting, in part, on continued gifts from friends and students.
A New Tarot for the New Aeon
Late in life, at age 63, Crowley began his major statement on Tarot, the Thoth Tarot and the related The Book of Thoth. The deck, named after the Egyptian god of wisdom and magic, was the product of intense collaboration over five years (1938-1943) between the magus and British artist Lady Frieda Harris (1877-1962) (see illustration, left). Although Crowley apparently had final say concerning the deck, it would have never taken form without Harris evocative paintings, which reflected a wide variety of important artistic movements of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, including Art Nouveau, Cubism, and Futurism.
Illustration (above): Pictured (c. 1941) are Crowley (center) and Harris (right) with a friend of Harris identified only as Catherine. From Sword of Wisdom: MacGregor Mathers and “The Golden Dawn” by Ithell Colquhoun (copyright © 1975 Colquhoun).
Crowley felt that the early history of Tarot, including its purported beginnings in ancient Egypt, was ultimately unimportant. The origin of Tarot is quite irrelevant, even if it were certain. It must stand or fall as a system on its own merits, he explained in The Book of Thoth, which he wrote as a companion to the deck. However, he noted that the Tarot is an admirable symbolic picture of the Universe, based on the data of the Holy Qabalah [a kind of Jewish mysticism].
Furthermore, the Thoth Tarot was a symbolic picture of the universe according to Thelema and, of course, its greatest prophet, Crowley. This new Tarot may therefore be regarded as a series of illustrations to the Book of the Law; the doctrine of that Book is everywhere implicit, Crowley noted. For example, the Trump traditionally titled Judgment was replaced by The Aeon (see illustration, above), in celebration of the New Aeon and the coming of Thelema .
Illustration (above) The Aeon from the Thoth Tarot designed by Aleister Crowley and painted by Lady Frieda Harris (copyright © 1944 Ordo Templi Orientis). Click the image for a larger one. For a brief explanation of this card, click here.
In keeping with Thelema, Crowley often advocated the free integration of spirituality and sexuality. In his commentary on The Book of the Law he wrote:
We [Thelemites] refuse to regard love as shameful and degrading, as a peril to body and soul. We refuse to accept it as the surrender of the divine to the animal; to us it is the means by which the animal may be made the Winged Sphinx which shall bear man aloft to the House of the Gods.
Therefore he made certain that the Thoth deck integrated Tarot and sexuality. For example, he replaced the Trump traditionally called Strength with Lust, which included an unabashedly erotic image of a nude woman astride an extraordinary beast.
The Book of Thoth and the related Thoth Tarot was Crowleys final major achievement. Three years after publication of the book in 1944, which included illustrations of all seventy-eight cards, he was dead at age 72. Neither he nor Harris lived to see the publication of the Thoth Tarot as a working deck; it was first published in this format in 1969. In a sense, The Book of Thoth and the Thoth Tarot were Crowleys spiritual last will and testament.
A N A S S E S M E N T
Commentators and biographers have assessed Crowley in extraordinarily divergent ways. On the one hand, some have depicted him as a career criminal, Satanist, and the blackest of black magicians. On the other hand, some have depicted him as an inspired prophet, a saint who yearned solely for the Divine, and one of the spiritual titans of all time. This assessment will steer a middle course between these extremes.
Certainly, Crowley was a person of extraordinary contradictions. Although he was never a career criminal or Satanist, and had little use for black magic, he did indeed flaunt beliefs and a lifestyle which shocked and enraged many of his contemporaries and still shocks and enrages some people today.
Crowley was no saint and his status as a spiritual titan is highly debatable. Still, despite his significant character flaws and occasionally deceptive or unethical behavior he accomplished much. He contributed profoundly to the rehabilitation of magic as a serious spiritual discipline, introduced many Westerners to yoga and other Eastern disciplines, acquired significant mystical knowledge thanks to rigorous work and significant risk-taking, shared his knowledge in his prolific writings, and founded the philosophy-religion Thelema.
He could have accomplished even more but serious character flaws sometimes prevented him. For example, his extreme penchant for public controversy and apparent inability to manage others over time without resorting to brutal domination helped to ensure the fast decline of his magical order, the A:.A:., the rapid closure of his magical retreat, Abbey Thelema; and frequent lack of committed long-term students.
However, he was a prolific writer and his ideas, many seminal and/or provocative, have endured in his many books and journal articles which have been frequently republished. Although his style was sometimes overwrought and obtuse, it was frequently elegant, persuasive, and even witty. Although he wrote poetry and fiction he is best remembered for such titles as Magick in Theory and Practice, The Book of Thoth, and the related Thoth Tarot. Any of one of them would have ensured him a place in the history of magic and esotericism. However, to date, Crowley has failed to a significant degree as the prophet of Thelema; nearly a hundred years after he announced the New Aeon, this philosophy-religion attracts few genuine adherents. Still, Crowleys vision of that Aeon replete with its provocative philosophy, mystery, magic, and passion lives. It lives in the hands of Tarotists. It is called the Thoth Tarot.
R E S O U R C E S Books
Crowley, Aleister. (1944). The Book of Thoth: A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians.
Crowley, Aleister. (1929). Magick in Theory and Practice.
Regardie, Israel. (1970). The Eye in the Triangle: An Interpretation of Aleister Crowley.
Sutin, Lawrence. (2000). Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley.
Crowley, Aleister; Harris, Frieda, Lady. (1944). The Thoth Tarot. First published as illustrations in The Book of Thoth (q.v.). First published as a working deck in 1969. Currently available editions include the Aleister Crowley Thoth Tarot Deck (Stamford, CT: U.S. Games Systems; Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland: AGMüller), ISBN 0880793082.
Crowley, Aleister. Magick in Theory and Practice. An on-line version of this book.
Crowley, Aleister. The Book of Thoth: A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians. An illustrated on-line version of this book.
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How to Endure: A Lesson from a Good Book
Reading is a luxury, and one I no longer take for granted. Not only does it require time, but it also requires a certain amount of pure mental energy and concentration. I found that painfully difficult to find when I was living with an overload of anxiety. Like a puppy that doesn’t want to sit still, my mind ran towards distractions—TV shows, social media updates and news headlines. But instead of soothing my anxiety, I was chasing another thought, and another worry. As I’ve changed my relationship with anxiety, I’ve rekindled one with reading.
And I’m careful now about what I read before bed. And here’s what I’ve noticed, especially since I’ve replaced reading the news at night with nonfiction books: I have more concentration, a lot less stress, and I’m still learning valuable lessons about life, character, and how to cope in difficult times.
The fist two observations reveal something about how our thoughts and emotions are linked. It’s easy to forget that simple actions can lead to huge shifts in mental and emotional states.
But my last point about finding relevant lessons for the modern world in stories from the past has something to do with the kind of books I’ve chosen: all of them have been about real-life adventures, putting human endeavor against the formidable forces of nature. They reduce the struggle of being human to the most fundamental challenge of all—simple survival.
Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer, took me into the world of mountain climbing and the circumstances that led to the May 1996 disaster on Mt. Everest. Eight climbers died, and with the exception of the Sherpas for whom the trip was a source of livelihood, the dangers they faced were chosen. They knew of the cold, the ice, the risk of high altitude cerebral edema and pulmonary edema, the race against the setting sun, and made a gamble that the weather would hold and their energy would sustain even as sunlight faded and their descent to basecamp became further from reach.
Krakauer describes the mountain climber’s attraction to danger with this quote from A. Alvarez:
The more improbable the situation and the greater the demands made on (the climber) the more sweetly the blood flows later in release from all that tension. The possibility of danger serves merely to sharpen his awareness and control. And perhaps this is the rationale of all risky sports: you deliberately raise the ante of effort and concentration in order, as it were, to clear your mind of trivialities.
But the book is as much about the decisions that led to the crisis on the mountain and the culture of mountain climbing as it is about the motivation behind the climb, and in that, it reveals a great deal about the struggle to find fulfillment in life.
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing exquisitely detailed the 1914 exploration of Antarctica that hit trouble in the most remote part of the world. The boat became locked in ice for ten months, including the season of 24-hour darkness, then it got crushed to bits, and the men faced the challenge of surviving on ice floes and making a journey across 850 miles of rough sea in tiny boats. The struggle didn’t end there. In fact, in this story, Shackleton gets defeated time after time, his crew physically exhausted, cold, sleeping on wet and degrading bags filled with reindeer hair, and yet they keep going. They go, they go, they go. And they endure.
I didn’t set out to compare these two books, but by the end of reading Endurance, I had to consider what each revealed about struggle in the particular eras and societies they represent.
Mountain climbing in the modern era is a brotherhood and sisterhood, but fundamentally it is about the individual. When to help a fellow climber in danger seems arbitrary—sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t—and who survives and who gets ensnared sacrificing his own safety in the effort to help seems to be as much a flip of the coin as it is a revelation of character and skill.
Then there’s Endurance. The book title takes its name from the name of the ship but the author could not have picked a word that more aptly describes the nature of the 27 men who lived through this saga.
Here, we see leadership and collaboration. Is that the nature of being on the sea when each man has his role and rank knows what it is? Was it the ethos of 1915, ensnared in Word War I but not yet disillusioned by it? Or was it the unique nature of the man leading this exploration, Earnest Shackleton, of whom it was said: “For scientific leadership give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen, but when you are in a hopeless situation, when there seems no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.”
Shackleton was keenly aware of the greatest danger.
Of all their enemies—the cold, the ice, the sea—he feared none more than demoralization.
There’s a section near the end of the book when Shackleton and a tiny team have finally reached an island of South Georgia and had to figure out how to navigate the island to the side inhabited by whalers. Civilization was at last within reach. Consider how you feel at the end of a grueling experience—more than a year on the ice, living on blubber, uncertain of your future and sure that you’ve been presumed dead.
And then you fail.
The path mountain you climbed to reach your goal was the wrong one—and you have 4,500 feet to descend to make your way to right course. The wind is blowing and the fog coming in, without shelter and with night approaching, you would surely die. The end was so close, and not within reach.
Shackleton suggested he and his tiny crew slide down the mountain—like three tobogganers without a toboggan.
When they picked themselves up from the base, “They were breathless and their hearts were beating widely. But they found themselves laughing uncontrollably. What had been a terrifying prospect possibly a hundred seconds before had turned into a breathtaking triumph.”
By daybreak they had made their way closer to the whalers, enough to hear the sound of the factory whistle.
…for them, it was the first sound from the outside world that they had heard since December 1914—seventeen unbelievable months before. In that instant, they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition’s original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do.
The lasting image I have, however, of the way these men endured hardship and persevered—again and again against each setback—moving through setbacks and tolerating pain—was one from early in their ordeal.
Trapped on the boat, while it was moored by ice in the dangerous 24 hours of darkness, the men might go mad. It was a condition described in the parlance of the day as “strange melancholy,” depression, despair, anxiety and paranoia.
The crew of the Endurance, however, made the most of their captivity. Each Saturday night, they were issued a mug of spirits. Each Sunday, they listened to music from a hand-crank phonograph. They had a monthly “lantern chat” delivered by the expedition photographer who showed slides of places he’d visited. To celebrate Midwinter’s day, they staged a variety show. When the sun appeared for a few hours each day, they ran a dog derby.
They turned to one another. A group as varied as they one could be, from “Cambridge University dons to Yorkshire fishermen.”
In the introduction of the book, Nathaniel Philbrick mentions that Lansing published his masterful book just as space exploration was making the heroics of the early twentieth century seem passé. No one cared about exploring Antarctica when the moon was calling.
But this is a story and a book for the ages—especially one that is filled with obstacles, detours, darkness, and doubt.
If you, like me, can slip into anxiety and a sense of helplessness by reading the headlines at night, I encourage you to change the message by reading a good book. Keep morale up. Try and try again. Turn to each other—not against.
Sarah Vander Schaaff is a writer, blogger and a mother of two from New Jersey, who has struggled with Obsessive-compulsive disorder for as long as she can remember. Her courageous column in the Washington Post (“Obsessive –compulsive disorder nearly ruined her life”, January 4th) received international attention for its honesty and openness. In this regular series, Sarah will write about the mental health challenges we all face in day to day life.


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New York[etc] : Doubleday, 2016
Abstract: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. Like the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey—hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016
Abstract: In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, "Abraham!" before ordering him to sacrifice his son, Isaac, Abraham responds, "Here I am." Later, when Isaac calls out, "My father!" before asking him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, "Here I am." How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel in eleven years - a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy. Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia Bloch and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the meaning of home - and the fundamental question of how much aliveness one can bear. Showcasing the same high-energy inventiveness, hilarious irreverence, and emotional urgency that readers loved in his earlier work, Here I Am is Foer's most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet. It not only confirms Foer's stature as a dazzling literary talent but reveals a novelist who has fully come into his own as one of our most important writers.
New York : Penguin books, 2016
Abstract: A ventisei anni, Louisa Clark sa tante cose. Sa esattamente quanti passi ci sono tra la fermata dell'autobus e casa sua. Sa che le piace fare la cameriera in un locale senza troppe pretese nella piccola località turistica dove è nata e da cui non si è mai mossa, e probabilmente, nel profondo del suo cuore, sa anche di non essere davvero innamorata di Patrick, il ragazzo con cui è fidanzata da quasi sette anni. Quello che invece ignora è che sta per perdere il lavoro e che, per la prima volta, tutte le sue certezze saranno messe in discussione. A trentacinque anni, Will Traynor sa che il terribile incidente di cui è rimasto vittima gli ha tolto la voglia di vivere. Sa che niente può più essere come prima, e sa esattamente come porre fine a questa sofferenza. Quello che invece ignora è che Lou sta per irrompere prepotentemente nella sua vita portando con sé un'esplosione di giovinezza, stravaganza e abiti variopinti. E nessuno dei due sa che sta per cambiare l'altro per sempre. Io prima di te è la storia di un incontro. L'incontro fra una ragazza che ha scelto di vivere in un mondo piccolo, sicuro, senza sorprese e senza rischi, e un uomo che ha conosciuto il successo, la ricchezza e la felicità, e all'improvviso li ha visti dissolversi, ritrovandosi inchiodato su una sedia a rotelle. Due persone profondamente diverse, che imparano a conoscersi senza però rinunciare a se stesse, insegnando l'una all'altra a mettersi in gioco.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016
Abstract: A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Better Half tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among young Washington's aspiring elite. When Beth arrives in Washington, D.C., she hates everything about it: the confusing traffic circles, the ubiquitous Ann Taylor suits, the humidity that descends each summer. At dinner parties, guests compare their security clearance levels. They leave their BlackBerrys on the table. They speak in acronyms. And once they realize Beth doesn't work in politics, they smile blandly and turn away. Soon Beth and her husband, Matt, meet a charismatic White House staffer named Jimmy and his wife, Ashleigh, and the four become inseparable, coordinating brunch, birthdays, and long weekends away. But as Jimmy's star rises higher and higher, their friendship--and Beth's relationship with Matt--is threatened by jealousy, competition and rumors.
New York : Scholastic, 2016
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Abstract: Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.
New York : Doubleday, 2016
Abstract: Natalie is a Bloomingdale's salesgirl mooning over her lawyer ex-boyfriend who's engaged to someone else after just two months. Felicia has been quietly in love with her boss for seventeen years and has one night to finally make the feeling mutual. Andie is a private detective who specializes in gathering evidence on cheating husbands—a skill she unfortunately learned from her own life - and lands a case that may restore her faith in true love. For these three women, as well as half a dozen others in sparkling supporting roles - a young model fresh from rural Alabama, a diva Hollywood star making her Broadway debut, an overachieving, unemployed Brown grad who starts faking a fabulous life on social media, to name just a few - everything is about to change, thanks to the dress of the season, the perfect little black number everyone wants to get their hands on . . .
New York : Ballantine books, 2015
New York : Ballantine books, c2015
Abstract: It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . . This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture. Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. From Red s father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red s grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their anchor. Brimming with all the insight, humor, and generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of Anne Tyler s work, A Spool of Blue Thread tells a poignant yet unsentimental story in praise of family in all its emotional complexity. It is a novel to cherish.
New York : Harper Collins,
Abstract: A heart-racing tale in which a former soldier turned rancher and a beautiful designer race to stop a vicious killer--a battle for survival that threatens to explode in an intense and irresistible passion.
New York : Scholastic Press, 2015
Abstract: Matt and Mike are best friends, just two working-class guys trying to earn some money in Montauk for the summer. When they meet Driana, JoJo, and Stef, three friends who live a much different life of privilege, Matt and Mike find themselves in a sticky situation where temptation rivals sensibility. Worlds collide when the group ventures out to sea aboard a small boat that Stef sneaks out from her dad's dock. As the waves rise and the fragile vessel weakens, things go horribly wrong. Adrift at sea for days, who will have what it takes to survive?
New York ; Boston : Grand central publishing, 2014
Abstract: In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths. Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back to Oriental for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives. As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew -- about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they held dear -- was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead: Can love truly rewrite the past?
Abstract: Learn opposites with this book that has a smaller book cut into it. Turn each page of the big book to discover a new word - then turn the page of the little book to discover its opposite!
Special ed. junior novelization
Random House, 2014
New York : Katherine Tegen Books, 2014
Abstract: This first book in Veronica Roth's #1New York Timesbestselling Divergent trilogy is the novel that inspired the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet. This dystopian series set in a futuristic Chicago has captured the hearts of millions of teen and adult readers.Perfect for fans of the Hunger Games and Maze Runner series, Divergentand its sequels, InsurgentandAllegiant plus Four: A Divergent Collection, four stories told from the perspective of the character Tobias are the gripping story of a dystopian world transformed by courage, self-sacrifice, and love. Fans of the Divergent movie will find the book packed with just as much emotional depth and exhilarating action as the film, all told in beautiful, rich language.The paperback edition includes bonus materials created by Veronica Roth, including her essays on Utopian worlds and how she named the factions, writing tips, a Q&A, a Divergent playlist, faction manifestos, and an excerpt from Insurgent.One choice can transform you.Beatrice Prior's society is divided into five factions Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). Beatrice must choose between staying with her Abnegation family and transferring factions. Her choice will shock her community and herself. But the newly christened Tris also has a secret, one she's determined to keep hidden, because in this world, what makes you different makes you dangerous.Supports the Common Core State Standards"


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THE ADOPTION MOVEMENT BOOK REVIEWS
"This welcome book is a goldmine of the Catholic spirituality taught in the parish schools of the United States before the Second Vatican Council. It offers many helpful quotations from spiritual writers and saints. The focus is not on heroic holiness, however; but on ordinary acts of generosity and patience that win many souls for God. Its originality lies in the concept of spiritual adoption which helps us to see ourselves and our brothers and sisters as loving and beloved children of the Lord."
-Rev. Msgr. James M. Cafone
"Open the doors to Heaven as you adopt someone who has touched you. Open the doors to Heaven as you adopt someone who has touched your heart, and commit to praying for their soul for a lifetime ... I write as one who was recently adopted, quite unknown to me, and who experienced freedom form a sin I've struggled with all my life ... redemption and salvation are not a myth ... even those who've struggled for years with the same torment, confessing the same sins, CAN be forgiven, and live in the confidence of a sanctifying state of grace ... if you have not been adopted, I hope you will be ... if you are ready to give someone the gift of grace through your adoptive prayers, I hope you will. This wonderful book will show you how!"
"This book is an incarnation of love; urging us to act in the manner of Christ who condescended to us, not to condemn us but to save us. Rather than wish to see us suffer for our prodigality, He offered Himself so that we may turn to His Father and have life more abundantly. Inspired by the Spirit of God, Esmeralda has outlined simple ways in which we can change the world by changing our habits of condemning our weak brothers and sisters to adopting them and offering up sincere prayers on their behalf. In this way, God may grant them conversion and merit in the Most Precious Blood of Christ shed for all.”
- Rev. Fr. Ignatius Mary Okoroji, SDV


Minneota Rotary Club Roses Sale
Roses are on sale from now until pickup days October 25-26 at the Minneota Community Center. You will either be contacted by email, telephone or in person.
Report your email or cellphone number to Monica DeSmet at the Bank of the West in Minneota and a Rotarian will call you. For more details contact 507-530-3041.
All proceeds from the sale of roses go toward Coats for Kids, Imagination Library, and Dollars for Scholars, among other projects.
A dozen roses cost $18.


I’ve been following 5th grade teacher Will Piper’s blog, “Life with the Pipers.” Co-written with his wife, Jeni, they describe it as “the journey of parents of monoamniotic twins and our quest to bring our family home.”
I selectively show it to my son, Will and Jeni’s former student, John. Last week’s bedtime reading was Will’s post, “Delusions of Grandeur.” In it, Will compares his visions of bringing daughter Hope home by Father’s Day to the anxious fans waiting for the Brewers’ decision last year to bring up Ryan Braun at the right time.
Bedtime reading and Will and Jeni’s reflections on their experiences as new parents got me thinking about one of my favorite books, “On the Day You Were Born,” by Debra Frasier.
In poetic language, illustrated with colorful paper collages, Frasier describes an entire planet completely present to the arrival of the newborn.
While you waited in darkness,/tiny knees curled to chin,/ the Earth and her creatures/ with the Sun and the Moon/ all moved in their places,/ each ready to greet you/ the very first moment/ of the very first day you arrived.
The book describes the gifts of migrating animals, spinning earth, pulling gravity, flaming sun, glowing moon, glittering star, rising tide, falling rain, growing trees, rushing air, and singing people for the arriving child. Here’s my favorite:
On the day you were born/ gravity’s strong pull/held you to the Earth/with a promise that you/would never float away . . .
I loved reading that line to each of my children, hoping they’d feel that even the earth loved them so much that gravity held them with a promise that they’d never float away.
The story wraps up with images of people, turning cartwheels, singing:
“Welcome to the spinning world,” the people sang, as they washed your new, tiny hands.
“Welcome to the green Earth,” the people sang, as they wrapped your wet slippery body.
The welcome continues for Will and Jeni’s girls. And now we can all join the “singing people” in Frasier’s book, as Hope is ready to come home tonight. And we can consider the closing line of the story, and all tell Hope:
. . . as they held you close they whispered into your open, curving ear, “We are so glad you’ve come!”


The Friends of the Library is a nonprofit organization. We work to create public awareness of the Library and its services, promote literacy, and provide volunteer and financial support beyond the Library’s budget through fundraising activities, grants, endowments, and through donations of books and magazines.
We would love to have you join us. If you are interested, there are membership forms available at the front desk of the Library or download the form online (PDF).
Forms can be returned to the Library with your membership dues. If you have any questions please call the Friends of the Library president, Belinda Ledbetter at 435-719-5086.


I'm happy to announce release 3.0 of Camlhighlight, a library offering syntax highlighting and pretty-printing facilities for displaying code samples in Ocsigen applications. The library works by interfacing with the library portion of GNU Source-highlight, a popular application supporting the most common programming and markup languages.
This version features a smaller dependency set, now requiring Tyxml instead of forcing a dependency on Eliom. However, full compatibility with Eliom applications is maintained. The functorial interface used seems hairy at first glance, but it's actually not that complicated in practice. As an example, if your application uses only Tyxml and you wish to write a syntax-highlighted sample as a Html5.elt, you will first need to apply the Camlhighlight_write_html5.Make functor using Tyxml's Html5 and Svg modules as parameter:
module Html5_writer = Camlhighlight_write_html5.Make (struct include Html5.M module Svg = Svg.M end)
Similarly, if you intend the Html5_writer module to be Eliom compatible, then use Eliom's Html5.F.Raw and Svg.F.Raw modules as parameter:
module Html5_writer = Camlhighlight_write_html5.Make (struct include Eliom_content.Html5.F.Raw module Svg = Eliom_content.Svg.F.Raw end)
The package should be hitting the OPAM repository soon. Eliom users should beware that Camlhighlight requires Tyxml >= 3.2, whereas Eliom 4.0.0 requires Tyxml < 3.2. Therefore, should you want to use Camlhighlight in an Eliom application, you are advised to install the development version of Eliom (please see the Ocsigen site for instructions regarding Ocsigen's development repo for OPAM).


Yesterday I&F organized the Adile Multiplier Event in Wexford at the Talbot Hotel.
There were participants and representatives of their organizations such as Day service organizations for people with intellectual disabilities. Support groups. An Arts center. A Communication hub and a college. A Library, a craft and makers center, a school for students with intellectual disabilities, a mental health association, a family and local resource center, and the National Learning Network (Ireland’s leading provider of specialist individualized education, training, and development opportunities). The event was a huge success. All attendees expressed a great interest and were very enthusiastic about the project and its results. Using a projector we showed everybody all about the project and how to navigate the website and the platform. We had both versions of the leaflets printed and everybody liked them and found all of the information provided very informative. There were great conversations about how much a platform like this is needed and how beneficial it will be. Everybody likes the idea of being able to create their courses using the platform, and some people have some great ideas and plans of how to use it for their organization. Everyone enjoyed having the event at the Talbot Hotel and throughout the session we had some really interesting conversations and we answered any question they had in regards to the project and the results. Overall there was great feedback.
We found the Multiplier Events worked really well and was highly effective.


Recently I had the opportunity to view some of the best instructional fishing videos I’ve run across in my entire angling career, and I’d like to tell you about them. The man behind these videos is my good friend Jim Duckworth, a nationally-renowned multi-species guide and former contract diver for the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Jim literally grew up on the water and as a professional diver, spent three decades observing gamefish in their natural habitat ? now that’s the kind of hands-on experience very few fishing guides in the world can brag about! Jim’s intimate knowledge of freshwater gamefish has made him the subject of countless articles in publication like Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Bassmaster and In-Fisherman, where readers look to him for in-depth information on the haunts and habits of their favorite fish species, as well as for the latest tips on how to catch more fish. Jim’s success as a fishing guide, diver and seminar speaker led him to branch out into producing instructional fishing videos, and he has put together a truly awesome library of programs on DVD geared to beginner to mid-level fishermen. These fascinating programs cover a wide range of fishing topics, everything from largemouth and smallmouth bass to crappie to catfish, sauger and white bass. Jim’s friendly, down-home manner makes learning fun as he shows you how to locate and catch the fish you’re after. On-the-water sequences are shot entirely on public lakes, and include maps that pinpoint the exact areas he’s fishing. Studio sequences feature close-up information on lures and rigging tricks, so you’ll know exactly how to prepare for your fishing trips before you hit the water. I guarantee that each 90-minute instructional video will provide you with a strong foundation of knowledge that you and your family can use to locate and catch the fish you’re after. At $12.95 each, Jim Duckworth’s video library is the biggest bargain in fishing today. Pick up several of Jim’s DVDs and start catching more fish right now!
America’s Favorite Fisherman


Spark is the only education platform that is endorsed by ClickBank. It is a good option for people who are seeking to grow their digital marketing career and enhance their ability to make money online.
Spark is for users at all skill levels and offers comprehensive tutorials, expert advice, and cutting edge tools.
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Step 1: Access the Spark website.
Step 2: Click the Learn More button located in the bottom left corner of the screen.
This will direct you to some additional information about Spark.
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This will direct you to the Spark order form.
Step 4: Enter your payment information into the secure checkout form.
Access to Spark is a recurring subscription. Your monthly fee ensures you access to all Spark resources including the growing video library and community.
Step 5: Start learning.
Once you submit your payment, you can start going through the Spark lessons.


- Screenwest and State Library partner to support WA filmmakers
- Six short films based on WA stories from the State Library will be produced
- Films to include a dramatisation of a Government House Ballroom murder mystery, a creative expose of our city streets, and a First Nations perspective on an iconic scientific event among others
Culture and the Arts Minister David Templeman today announced that Screenwest, in collaboration with the State Library of Western Australia, would uncover and explore stories from WA's history as part of the WA Reflections - Our History Rediscovered project.
Stories from the State Library's heritage collection will come to life through a series of six projects, which will share in $90,000 worth of funding.
Stories from WA's history, currently held within letters, diaries, journals, oral recordings and even blueprints, will be uncovered and explored through this exciting new initiative.
The projects range from a dramatisation of a Government House Ballroom murder mystery, a First Nations perspective on an iconic scientific event, a celebration of WA's musical history in the 1960s, a creative exposé of our city streets, a journey of prospecting in the Goldfields from the 1980s to the present, to an immersive virtual reality look at famous Perth architect Iwan Iwanoff's designs.
The State Library contributed $60,000 to the initiative, with Screenwest contributing $30,000 to enable this diverse group of emerging and mid-career WA factual filmmakers the opportunity to tell these stories from their creative perspective.
More information about the WA Reflections filmmakers can be found on the Screenwest website at http://screenwest.com.au
Comments attributed to Culture and the Arts Minister David Templeman:
"I am excited about this unique partnership between the State Library and Screenwest that will bring new audiences to the stories of this State.
"This is another example of the McGowan Government supporting our creative industries and communities as we recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic."
Minister's office - 6552 5400


Book's Day Out (23-24 April 2011) in c2o Library07:15:00
It's quite late for telling stories about Book's Day Out, but after read the reportage here (with my photo & Kanti as the first photo. bwahahaha), I want to tell it based on my view. =D
The Book's Day Out (BDO) in c2o Library were actually a peak event of c2o's agenda in April. At the day, every postcard from the "Postcards from Bookworms" were exhibited.
|Postcards from Bookworms publication|
But not only postcards, BDO brought us into Book Swap, t-shirt sablonage, and delicious cookies!
|My favorite one, peanut butter cookies!|
I came with my books to be swapped, but actually I didn't really wanna swap it, just give it to c2o library. Why? Because it was my college books. =P Kat, the c2o owner, said that they also need a basic social studies book. So I think my books will fit in the criteria. =)
I & Kanti, went there and forced to make a postcard. I didn't have any idea at first, but after look Kanti grab some asturo bright color origami paper, I suddenly remember about my favorite book: L.S.D.L.F. by Syahmedi Dean. L.S.D.L.F. is Lontong Sayur dalam Lembaran Fashion, the first of tetralogy Dean's novel. It is the first book which made my eyes wide opened into fashion things. It is lovely, for sure. The cover of L.S.D.L.F. dominate by black, and accentuated by green, mustard and white. That's why I made my postcard like this:
|Me & My Postcard. =)|
|In the process of making postcard|
|Me & Kanti seeing the postcards|
At the afternoon, there was a presentation of postcard maker. I didn't attend, because I've already had another meeting. =( But overall, the event was great. I think it's a new way to support and enhance passion in reading a book. All those beautiful photo above were taken by Erlin Goentoro. (Thank you, Erlin!)You could see another picture taken by her in her flickr account. Anyway, don't forget to visit http://c2o-library.net for knowing much more about the event and everything about c2o library. Keep reading books, fellas!


Trinity Postgraduate Review is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed research journal, written and edited entirely by postgraduate students. As we prepare to begin the publication cycle for our seventeenth volume, we are now seeking interested people for positions on the editorial board. As editors, you will be responsible for selecting and editing papers written by your fellow postgraduates for inclusion in the journal, as well as managing a small team of peer reviewers assigned to those papers. As an international academic review that is catalogued in libraries across the world, Trinity Postgraduate Review is an important part of Trinity College Dublin’s research output, and you will have the opportunity to influence its direction and play a vital role in its success for the year.
This is a perfect opportunity for anybody who wants to get involved in academic publishing, from taught Masters students to doctoral researchers. No previous experience is necessary to apply, but applicants who do have some are encouraged to highlight it in their application.
If you want to get involved in this year’s editorial board, send your CV to email@example.com by 5pm on Friday 6th October.


In a continuing effort to enhance our children’s learning experience, the PTA is looking for volunteers who are willing to share their time and experience.
If interested in serving on a committee, please contact the chair listed. "Open" indicates a committee in need of a chair.
Committees require at least one chairperson and many volunteers. Some span the entire school year while others are for the event and you're done. If we've passed the event this year, consider chairing the event next year.
Chairpersons will send out requests for volunteers prior to the event. Watch the front page for signup genius links! Current volunteer needs will be listed below.
LTES PTA ROOM PARENT
- What is a London Towne ES PTA Room Parent?
- A PTA Room Parent serves an important link between the PTA and parents in their child’s classroom. It is our goal to have Room Parent teams that will be comprised of two parents from each classroom and one Room Parent coordinator per grade.
- What are PTA Room Parent Responsibilities/Duties?
- The Room Parent will primarily help families learn about PTA events and if requested, assist the teacher in getting families involved in the class. You may be called upon from time to time, to enlist the assistance of other parents in your class for help in PTA or school activities. The teacher assigned duties encompassed in this role vary from teacher to teacher and grade to grade. The classroom teacher will contact you if he/she wishes to incorporate additional responsibilities.
VOLUNTEER & SHOP: Fall Book Fair Oct. 15-19
Fall Book Fair 2018>
October 15-19, 2018
From Oct. 15-19, the library will be transformed into a magical book store filled with books and other items. Students will be able to visit the fair during school hours to browse and purchase items. Parents can also come in during posted hours.
Many use this as an opportunity to purchase gifts, special occasions or the chance to add a book to their child’s classroom library. 100% of the profits from the book fair are used to help support new books for our school library.
Volunteers are needed every day at the Book Fair, as well as for set up on Friday, Oct. 12 and clean up on Monday, Oct. 22.
Sign up here: signupgenius.com/go/10c0949adaf29a57-fall4
School Book Fair Hours
Monday, Oct. 15: 8:30am-2:30pm
Tuesday, Oct. 16: 8:30am-4:30pm — OPEN LATE FOR STUDENTS & TEACHERS!
Wednesday, Oct. 17: 8:30am-2:30pm
Thursday, Oct. 18: 8:30am-2:30pm
Friday, Oct. 19: 8:30am-2:30pm & 6:00pm-8:00pm — OPEN DURING HISPANIC HERITAGE NIGHT!
Shop Online NOW through Oct. 26
Visit bookwormcentral.com & enter code "ltes" to shop & support our school library!


Equine Nude 56, by Benedicte Gele. 2013.
As I walked by, he motioned for me to come and share his lunch. And all he had was a single plate of rice.
Shirin Neshat with Sussan Deyhim. Logic of the Birds, 2001
An informal portrait of photographer and explorer Luis Marden in Chichen Itza, Mexico, 1936.
Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic


11:00pm. Some sort of documentary.
It is excellent - saw it at the cinema last year . Lots of good archive stuff from early days
Recorder set. Thanks for the heads up.
Tripod mounted Super 8 in front of tv. : )
Coincidentally, I've just finished
Originally published in 1964, Bruce McLaren's autobiography From the Cockpit is classic motor racing memoir. So scarce and expensive are original copies that Evro Publishing, in collaboration with McLaren, is reissuing a facsimile version for all fans to enjoy. In his own words, Bruce describes his inspiring climb up the ladder of motor racing success, culminating in the inception of Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd in 1963. Engaging to read, his book provides fascinating insight into not only his accomplishments but also his unique character, charm and tenacity. In his own words, 'Life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.'
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Mental Health Resource Sheet
Our Mental Health Resource Sheet (PDF) includes information on campus partners, learning tools, urgent support lines and more.
Resources & Referrals Directory
Student Counselling, Health & Well-being has compiled a list of service providers in the community to assist you in finding appropriate care. This is not a complete list and we have not vetted or approved any of the providers on the list, nor can we guarantee that the information is accurate or up to date.
Student Counselling, Health & Well-being/York University do not benefit from any referrals made and is not responsible for the content of or service provided by any of these service providers. Should you be interested in obtaining more information or a specific referral, please meet with a counsellor for a walk-in session.
In addition to looking for services according to the Table of Contents, try searching (Ctrl+F) for keywords such as “AIDS”, “Chinese”, “sliding scale”, or “women”.
The directory is available in .pdf format.


Give To Live" by Karnamrita Das is quite a unique gem! The body of the book contains blogs which were written at various times in a casual, friendly tone. It is a "spoken" tone in which the author is welcoming and appears to be speaking with the reader one-on-one. It takes a potentially complex subject and makes it accessible to all, those completely unfamiliar with the topic and those well-versed in it as well. This book is a wealth of information, and it's format is such that one can either skip around to different blogs or read it cover to cover. It is also easy to put down, in today's busy world, and pick up again due its content of stories. Some blogs are informative; some are touching---so much so that I actually cried; and some are highly personal. It is the author's journey in Krishna Consciousness, his successes and his failures, and he bares his soul with grace and with humor. His humility and loving-kindness shine through the pages, and any reader will be touched by the forthrightness of these tales.
I enjoyed "Give to Live" immensely. It has helped me in my spiritual journey and in daily life in the material world. I have no doubt that others will take great pleasure in, and learn much from, reading this book. There is so much substantial 'food for thought' within its covers. (Posted on 10/20/12)
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Welcome to Filing a Vision Claim, the VSP edition. This program is designed to help you understand how to file different types of VSP claims. It includes multiple courses that will help guide you through the different types of vision claims you may need to file through Eyefinity. Before we get started, we want to do a quick review of the basics; how do we pull benefits and authorizations or how do we retrieve an authorization that may already be on file?
First, we need to go to www.eyefinity.com, and then we need to log in. Of course, you’ll need to enter your login and password and click “Submit.” Once you’ve made it to the landing page, you will select “Get authorizations and check eligibility.” If we are needing to check eligibility or search for a previous authorization, you would select “Member search.” If you have an authorization number available you can simply enter it here and select go.
For the purposes of this training, let’s review how to search for a member. You’ll need to enter your member’s first name, last name, date of birth, or the member’s full ID number and select search. Given that we entered all of the correct information into Eyefinity and that your search is successful, you will see your member’s name and select it here. Next, you will see a list of the member and dependents who are covered under this member’s VSP plan. If you had previously requested authorization, you have the ability to retrieve or delete it. If you need to obtain a new authorization because one was not already retrieved, you will select the patient you are needing to obtain the authorization for.
Next, you will see the coverage summary page. Once again, if you’re needing to obtain authorization for a previous date of service, you’ll want to enter that date and select “Update.” Then you’ll select the services you need to obtain the authorization for and click “Authorized benefits.” That brings you to your VSP patient record report and lens enhancement charges page to review, print or save to the patient’s account within your practice management software.
If you haven’t already, make sure you take the Unveiling the Mystery: Insurance & Billing Best Practices, available in the learning library, that reviews insurance and billing basics, including how to read an authorization.


2019 Summer Assignments and Resources
Grade level assignments plus additional resourcesVIEW COMPLETE POST HERE
all-day Disabling of Gradebook and PIV f...
Disabling of Gradebook and PIV f...
Jun 14 – Jul 1 all-day
To prepare the Gradebook files for the archive process, the Electronic Gradebook will be disabled at the close of business on Friday, June 14, 2019. Gradebook and Pinnacle Internet Viewer (PIV) will be reactivated for summer school on Monday, July 1, 2019.


Shiny comes with a large library of input widgets for collecting input from the user and conveying input data to R.
reactR provides additional tools to ease the creation of new Shiny inputs implemented using React. In the following tutorial, we will demonstrate these tools by implementing a new Shiny color picker input that wraps the react-color library.
In order to develop a reactR Shiny input, you’ll need to install R and optionally RStudio. If you’re on Windows, you should also install Rtools.
For an excellent general introduction to R package concepts, check out the R packages online book.
To follow along in this vignette, you’ll also need the following R packages:
To create a new widget you can call
scaffoldReactShinyInput to generate the basic structure and
build configuration. This function will:
version elements. For example, the npm package
foo at version
^1.2.0 would be expressed as
list(name = "foo", version = "^1.2.0"). The package, if
provided, will be added to the new widget’s
a build dependency.
The following R code will create an R package named
colorpicker, then provide the templating for creating
an input powered by the
react-color library on npm:
# Create the R package (rstudio=TRUE is recommended if you're not already comfortable with your terminal)
usethis::create_package("~/colorpicker", rstudio = TRUE)
# Scaffold initial input implementation files
reactR::scaffoldReactShinyInput("colorpicker", list("react-color" = "^2.17.0"), edit = FALSE)
The next step is to navigate to the newly-created
colorpicker project and run the following commands in the
terminal. If you’re new the terminal, we recommend opening your newly
file, then running the following in the RStudio terminal tab:
yarn run webpack
yarn install downloads all of the dependencies
package.json and creates a new file,
yarn.lock. You should add this file to revision control. It
will be updated whenever you change dependencies and run
yarn install. Note: you only need to run it after
modifying package.json. For further documentation on
yarn install, see the yarn
source file at
www/colorpicker/colorpicker/colorpicker.js. The latter file
is the one actually used by the R package and includes all the relevant
yarn run webpack is not strictly a
command. In fact,
yarn run simply delegates to the webpack program. Webpack’s
configuration is generated by
webpack.config.js, but you can always change this
configuration and/or modify the
yarn run webpack command to
suit your needs.
In RStudio, you can use the keyboard shortcuts
Ctrl-Shift-B to document and
build the package. (On macOS, the shortcuts are
app.R to see a demo in action:
In RStudio, you can open
app.R and press
Cmd-Shift-Enter on macOS).
You should see something like the following appear in the Viewer
This tutorial walked you through the steps taken to wrap the
react-color library in a Shiny input. The full example
package is accessible at https://github.com/react-R/colorpicker-example. Our
intention is keep creating example packages under the https://github.com/react-R organization, so head there
if you’d like to see other examples of interfacing with React.


UAJY has one building for the library center. The building with four floors, completed with conference and seminar room. The library is open from 08.00 am to 07.00 pm, from Monday to Friday and start at 08.00 until 12.00 am on Saturday.
UAJY Library have collections of books, online databases, printed journal, magazines in many different subject. The collection jurmal owned, such as Proquest, EBSCO, Emerald, Springer, ASCE, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Journal of Sustainable Cities And Society, John Wiley Ebooks, Printed Journal such as Nature, ACI Material Journal, ACI Structural Journal, Journal Of Engineering and Technological Sciences, Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, ITB Journal Of Information and Comm Technology, Auditing; A Journal Of Practices and theory, Journal Of Information Systems, Journal Of Management Accounting Research, Journal Of Indonesian Economics, Journal Of Southeast Asean Economies, Communication Research, The Journal Of Development Communication, Singapore Journal Of Legal Studies, Standford Law Reviews, Justice Sytems Journal, etc. well accessible; as well as the magazines such as Food Review, Architectural Record, Indonesia Design, Architecture Digest, MIT Sloan Management Review, Infobank, Times, Harvard Business Review, National Geographic etc.
UAJY Library also maintains library networks with libraries of other universities in APTIK (Association for Catholic Higher Education in Indonesia), Jogja Library For All (JOGJALIB), Forum Perpustakaan Perguruan Tinggi Indonesia, Ikatan Pustakawan Indonesia (IPI). And for developing the services, UAJY Library also collaborate with Embassy of India to maintain India Corner, as well as Oxford Business Group, Anti Corruption Clearing House (KPK Library) Bernas Daily News Paper to carry out some activities and publications.
UAJY provides laboratories and facilities that support learning processes in every study program within each faculty, namely: Bio-Management Laboratory, Bio-food and Bio-Industrial Laboratory, green houses, experimental garden and vegetation collection garden, computer cluster Indonesian Stock Exchange Corner, Law Laboratory, Legal Documentation Center, an Audio-visual Laboratory and Social Data and Information Laboratory, Analysis and Work Design Laboratory, Production System Laboratory, Computation Laboratory, Data Structure Laboratory, and many more.
For sport and leisure, UAJY currently build a sports hall and for other activities that larger and adequate than has been available. Other facilities and services for community are internet access for the students, teleconference facility, e-Iearning, e-mail account, both on-campus access and remote access elsewhere, including hotspot, bookstore, medical service room. Other services provided for students are financial aids, campus ministry, and language and culture learning.


If you grew up in the West, odds are you have at least a passing familiarity with Grimm’s Fairy Tales (or at least the sanitized and castrated versions presented by Disney). One of the most enduring of these folktales is Little Red Riding Hood — the story of a little girl in a cap or cape that delivers treats to her grandmother in the deep, dark forest, is tricked by a wolf, and ultimately saved by a lumberjack.
The story has been told and retold: as a tale of stranger danger, ritual rebirth (and more recently), sexual awakening. But despite its ubiquity and familiarity, the roots of Red Riding Hood have sometimes been obscure. The earliest known written version dates to 17th century France were it was included in the Histories et contes du temps passé, avece des moralitiés. Contes de ma mère l’Oye, a collection of French folktales, by Charles Perrault. In Perrault’s version, the wolf eats Red Riding Hood, and no lumberjack appears to save her — and the moral of the story is that children shouldn’t listen to strangers.
But the story existed in Europe as an oral tradition long before Perrault’s written version, and an 11th century Latin poem from Liège in Belgium hints at an earlier version of it. The story also exists in similar form in parts of Asia and Africa, but the relationship between those versions and the European tale has been uncertain, until a paper published recently tried to shine some light on the situation.
Using phylogenetic analysis, Jamshid Tehrani at Durham University in the UK tried to understand the relationship between different strains of Red Riding Hood tales, and how they related to a similar story, “The Wolf and the Kids” (one of Aesop’s fables).
Phylogenetic analysis is a tool use by evolutionary biologists to determine the relationship between animal species. Using shared characteristics, and a few simple rules; it calculates the most likely evolutionary path a group of species may have taken to reach its current arrangement. It’s a useful tool for evolutionary biologists, but also for anthropologists and linguists interested in understanding the cultural evolution of folktales and languages.
In his study, Tehrani took 58 variants on the Red Riding Hood and “Wolf and the Kid” folktales from around the world, and analyzed them using 72 plot variables (for example: did the victim escape? gender of the protagonist? type of villain?).
His results suggest that these folktales can be split into international “types”. Red Riding Hood-type tales are common in Europe, but virtually non-existent in Africa, where “Wolf and the Kid” are more frequently told (although the ‘wolf’ in question tends to be an ogre — the names of the archetypes are based on European traditions, as most scholarly analysis of folktales has been centered in-and-around Europe).
The Asian “type” though, is different altogether. It doesn’t show a distinct difference between the two story types — Red Riding Hood stories and “Wolf and the Kid” stories co-exist, and overlap with one another significantly. One interpretation of this is that this combined story is the original, ancestral folktale that gave rise to both Red Riding Hood and “Wolf and the Kid” stories — that is, that European folktales were actually born in Asia, and then transmitted across the continent by trade, before they arrived in Europe and diverged into the two types of story we know today.
That would be a fun re-telling of Western folkloric history, but unfortunately, we know that “Wolf and the Kid” stories date back to at least 400 AD, and the “Out of Asia” hypothesis wouldn’t have taken place until at least the 12th century.
Two other, more reasonable hypotheses are that an ancient version of the Red Riding Hood story, perhaps earlier even than the Latin poem at Liège, travelled from Europe to Asia. Or — more exciting, to my mind — the stories had an independent origin in both Europe and Asia. Rather than descending from a shared ancestor, these international “types” may have evolved independently — by convergent evolution, rather than shared homologies.
Story telling is a quintessentially human activity. If ever you were looking for a trait that separated humans from other animals, you’d be hard-pressed to find something more distinctly Homo sapiens then sitting around a campfire, radio, or television, enjoying the shared experience of an utterly fabricated tale. Tehrani’s research on the roots of Red Riding Hood highlight that story-telling nature: whether evolved independently, or transmitted across the globe by caravan and merchant-ship, diverse populations of humans have been telling and re-telling the same tales for centuries.
So next time you tell your children, or nieces and nephews, the story of Red Riding Hood, stop and consider for a second that you’re continuing on a global tradition that has been shared, day-in and day-out, for hundreds of years. That’s pretty cool.
Tehrani, Jamshid J. 2013. “The Phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood.” Edited by R. Alexander Bentley. PLoS ONE 8 (11) (November 13): e78871. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078871.
 One of my favourite retellings, sympathetic to the wolf, is found in Sara Maitland’s book-length meditation on forests and folktales, Gossip from the Forest.
 Book titles used to be a little longer.
 One exception, visible on the map, is the Igbo in Nigeria, who tell a version of the Red Riding Hood tale. Tehrani speculates that this is an Igbo re-telling of a European folktale, transmitted to the area via sea-trading.


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Faroes: Repositories for Sharing Learning Resources in Distributed Social Spaces
The Faroes project will establish a lightweight repository for learners and teachers to share their resources, based on the CLARE repository (a version of ePrints), the experiences of the L2O, MURLLO and CLAReT projects, and the active community of language teachers and learning technologists that these projects have been engaged with. Through a number of workshops with the language teachers community of practice we have noted two important lessons:
- That the community is eager to share their resources and wants a lightweight repository that they can incorporate into their everyday practice. They are keen that the repository should have a user interface that follows the best-practice principles of Web 2.0 sites (social, interlinked, evolving and flexible).
- Practitioners are enthusiastic about sharing learning assets: simple resources such as videos, audio files and presentations. This is because of the simplicity of producing and reusing them (for example, there is no overhead of content packaging, or complex metadata authoring).
- It is clear that in our engagement with the community we have reached a tipping point; we need to deliver a real usable repository that fulfils these requirements in order to begin to explore the difficult issues concerning authorship, provenance, authority and copyright in the context of a real system with real users.
The project will therefore engage with the established community of language teachers in order to deploy a lightweight repository that will support the sharing of multimedia resources between individual practitioners. We will work closely with the community, taking an agile software engineering approach focused around the notion of the perpetual beta. In this way we hope to both foster cultural changes in resource sharing in the community, and also to create innovations in repository design based on Web 2.0 best practice.
The project outputs will include a number of Web 2.0 plug-ins to the ePrints system (the basis of the CLARE learning repository), but the project will also explore the way in which multiple repository installations can become part of the same social space – this is necessary for searching, recommendations and common tags to be available across several connected repositories (as might be expected in different educational institutions). The approach to distributed social spaces, and the interfaces that will enable this, will be important innovations in repository design.
Type: Normal Research Project
Research Groups: Learning Societies Lab, Web and Internet Science, Electronic and Software Systems
Theme: ELearning, Platforms and Tools
Dates: 1st November 2007 to 30th April 2009
- University of Portsmouth
You can edit the record for this project by visiting http://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/db/projects/editproj.php?project=454


Donated Beekeeping Books
One of the most frequently-asked questions I get, both locally and through Missouri State Beekeepers Association, where I serve as the answer lady, is how to get started in beekeeping.
The answer is, start attending local beekeeping club meetings and reading. Like any specialty, beekeeping has a language all of its own and to understand what experienced beekeepers are saying, it is helpful to know what the different parts of a hive, and bee, are called.
When I started beekeeping, I read everything I could get my hands on. I still read, and I have a pile of books ready for winter reading. The days of raising bees in a skep - a romantic idea that was deadly for bees - or placing a hive on the back forty and not worrying about it are gone, today bees have a lot of challenges. To be a good beekeeper, one must become an amateur biologist and stay on top of current research.
To that end, my bee buddy David Draker and I did an inventory of what beekeeping books were available at our local library. We then compared notes on what books we had each read, and liked, and sampled books recommended to us.
After getting the suggestion that people wanted to have access to borrow beekeeping books, we worked with our local public library to donate a selection of our favorite beekeeping books, from a book for children about bees and how to build your own beekeeping equipment to our very own "go-to" book, the Beekeeper's Handbook:
The idea is for beekeepers to be able to sample a variety of beekeeping books and then decide which ones they need for their home library. If someone is keeping bees for honey, for example, they are going to have a different focus than someone keeping bees for pollination.
Having a variety of beekeeping books also introduces potential beekeepers to a range of advice and information, something they will find very prevalent when talking to beekeepers. The joke is ask three beekeepers a question and you will get five different answers. There's a good reason for that, it depends on why one is keeping bees but it can be confusing to beginning beekeepers.
Proceeds from our local club's book sales, and donations, paid for the books. The library will be adding a book plate on the front of each book marking our donation.
We hope these books will help beekeepers on their fascinating, and challenging, journey of keeping bees.
Do you have a favorite beekeeping book?


To compile Auryn you need the boost libraries installed (if you do not want to install the complete library you will at least need the following components boost_program_options, boost_mpi, boost_serialization, boost_filesystem, boost_system), a recent version of an MPI compatible library such as MPICH2 or OpenMPI.
Under most debian deriviatives such as Debian, Ubuntu or MINT it should suffice to install
sudo apt-get install build-essential libboost-all-dev mpi-default-bin mpi-default-dev
It might happen that your distribution's Boost version is too old. To install Boost from scratch, first install any versions of the Boost libraries installed on your computer using your stock package manager. Then download and build boost from source (with MPI support). To that end, follow the instructions found in the MPI section of the boost website http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_61_0/doc/html/mpi/getting_started.html
Before you build Auryn make sure to delete the
CMakeCache.txt file and all other
CMakeFiles in the build directory to ensure that CMake looks for the new library and creates the needed Makefiles.
If you can compile your Auryn programs, but you see an error along these lines
./sim_rc_p10c: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_mpi.so.1.61.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
it's probably because you have installed Boost under the default path
/usr/local/lib, but your environment is only looking in
/usr/lib for dynamically linkable libraries. In this case it is usually enough to update your
LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
You could for instance add the following to your
.bashrc if you are using bash:
See also known issues


View Generic Document: States, Energy, Degeneracy, Entropy, and Free Energy Lessons and Applets
Ashe, Colin, Barnard, Arthur, Bartolo, Laura, Carter, W. Craig, Davenport, Jodi, Karabinos, Michael, Portman, John, Sadoway, Donald and Yaron, David (2007). States, Energy, Degeneracy, Entropy, and Free Energy Lessons and Applets. NSDL Materials Digital Library Pathway.
This set of lessons and applets aims to enable first-year undergraduate students to understand a number of difficult concepts. As each concept is introduced, an applet, accompanied
by a series of exercises involving the applet, will be provided to aid the students' understanding of the concepts. Through the lessons and applets, students will become familiar with the
following concepts: states, energies of states, energy barriers between states, degeneracies of states, entropy, free energy.
These materials were produced for the NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) -funded Phase 1 project, "Interdisciplinary Virtual Labs for Undergraduate
Education in NSDL MatDL" (DUE-0632726). The code was produced for the project by Arthur Barnard and Colin Ashe.


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Vajra first of all offers an architectural feast harmonising beauty and practicality. Doors and windows designed and carved by Utam Raj of Patan, who descends directly from the carvers of the great Durbars of Kathmandu Valley.
Ceiling frescos of the Great Pagoda Room painted by Rinchen Norbu, the great Tibetan Master, wall frescos in the restaurant are painted by Bimal Moktan the outstanding Tamang Painter, are some of the features you will discover here. The site itself, near the powerful Bijeswori temple complex, from which the area derives its name, stands on the age-old pilgrim’s road to Swayambhu.
On any early morning you may join the pilgrims, Nepali, Tibetan, Bhutanese. In fact you may see a Buddhist from any part of the world on their ascent to the great two thousand years old Stupa which offers an extraordinary panorama of the sacred Valley and the high Himalayas.
The Rooftop Gardens of the hotel provides a magnificent morning or sunset panorama of the snowy peaks of the Himalaya, looking directly on the Pagodas of Durbar Square (Center of medieval Kathmandu) and up to the Swayambhu Stupa. A twenty minute’s walk takes you to each.
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Learn about: Bergey's Manual Trust
Bergey's Manual Trust was established in 1936 to sustain the publication of Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology and supplementary reference works. The Trust also recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to bacterial taxonomy by presentation of the Bergey Award and Bergey Medal, jointly supported by funds from the Trust and from Springer, the publishers of the Manual.
In addition, Bergey’s Manual Trust publishes The Microbial Taxonomist and The Bulletin of BISMiS
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Library of Topics
In the library of topics you will find concise summaries of the concepts, strategies and successes of terre des hommes in its main fields of work. The summaries are addressed to all participants of the DC process and have been prepared by the regional coordinators and other stakeholders from the fields of work.
These factsheets are prepared for all areas of work/topics in which terre des hommes itself works thematically and conceptually, but not for all areas of work. Further fields of work and topics will be addressed throughout the DC process, e.g. during the exploration phase in the webinars.


Charles Edward Dilkes was 29 when the United States entered the Great War. Like many men who answered the nation’s call to arms, he never expected to be a soldier. His experiences of combat, suffering, heroism and survival are remarkable enough: he was one of the first American Expeditionary Force soldiers to enter the war and one of the last ones to return home.
Even more remarkable is the detailed diary he kept–at great personal peril–documenting vivid first hand details. Sgt. Dilkes’ daughters have spent fifteen years meticulously transcribing, cross checking and now publishing their father’s odyssey. Historians and aficionados alike will find this book an important resource, as well as a fascinating narrative. It is quite possibly one of the last personal accounts of the Great War that will ever be published.
Remembering World War I is being published in a first edition of limited editions. Designed by award winning book designer David Laufer, it includes more than 30 maps, original photographs, letters, documents and battlefield diagrams. $27.95 retail


Hello again! There are lots of quilty things going on in this area. I'd probably know these things a lot sooner if I made it to the local quilt guild meetings, but something always comes up at the last minute.
First off is the Pensacola Museum of Art, which has a new exhibit, "Quilt Art:International Expressions" that I plan to go to this Saturday. Can you believe I have lived here 6 years, and I haven't made it to any one of the local museums? Not once. And I LOVE art! It is supposed to rain all weekend, so a museum trip will be perfectly in order.
Secondly, there is going to be an exhibit starting the end of October in Tallahassee at the Museum of Florida History. The 29th Annual Capital City Quilt Show: The Garden Party goes through January. There will be over 100 quilts on display. You can see some of the quilts from the book I am reading if you go to that page linked above.
To prepare for that trip (and to keep me busy while my machines are in the shop) I have been re-reading the book Florida Quilts, which covers the history of our state from the 1500s! and the women who lived here as pioneers, through the Civil War hardships, and the quilts they made. Quilts up to the 1980s are included too. The information on the early days of quilt-making here makes me feel like such a slacker. I cannot ever imagine living here in summer without air conditioning, but they did it, and in layers of petticoats and long skirts! They grew gardens year round to feed themselves and made their own quilting supplies. That includes the batting and cloth, people. When you read the stories and see their handiwork, you'll be in awe. This is a 1992 book, so libraries should have it.
I am a pioneer of sorts. The first I know of in my family to make quilts, so I don't know what it is like to learn from a grandmother, be part of a quilting bee, or hand piece or applique like they used to. Those are some of the most fascinating things about books like this. The pictures of women gathered around a quilting frame that is typically stored on the living room ceiling. Quilt that are so detailed - all made completely by hand. The stories of freed slaves who used only what was on hand to make and fill their quilts to keep warm in winter...this was not just a hobby to them. Yes, it was a creative outlet, but it was very necessary and they took the time to make beauty in the necessity.
I count myself very lucky to have not only piles of fabrics to chose from, but all the notions and comforts that make modern quilt-making a breeze.


Eckhart Tollequotes are powerful motivators. For those who seek enlightenment Eckhart Tolle’s practical, yet profound explanations of how to set aside our ego, be aware of the present moment and utilize the ‘power of now’ are helpful guides up the path to mindfulness.
Insomnia isn’t fun. It can have some pretty harsh physical and psychological side effects. Is insomnia actually changing your brain? Anthony breaks down some of the causes of insomnia, and explains what exactly it’s doing to the brain.
Film Still from Baraka, a 1992 non-narrative film directed by Ron Fricke. The title Baraka means blessing in a multitude of languages, deriving from the Arabic بركة, descending from a common Semitic ancestor and cognate to the Hebrew Baruch.
The film is often compared to Koyaanisqatsi, the first of the Qatsi films by Godfrey Reggio for which Fricke was cinematographer. Baraka was the first in over twenty years to be photographed in the 70mm Todd-AO format.


A fantastic book on change management by Chip and Dan Heath
This is a great book on change management. Culture building goes beyond cool t-shirts and mugs – or abstract definitions of corporate values. Culture is about action. The key is to promote behaviors that repeated continuously allow the materialization of the strategy and the higher purpose of the organization. This book offers some very practical advice on how companies (and individuals) can do exactly that – and, as it is everything written by the Heath brothers, this is a fun read.