|Lauda Cavataio’s Profile|
Castello di Caos (Dathomir)
|Family and Other|
Force altered Near Human
1.75 meters (5 feet and 9 inches)
52 kilograms (115 lbs)
70-60-75 cm (32-24-34 in)
Lauda Cavataio, the High Priestess of Cult of Petra, is a Force altered Near Human. Born on Dathomir to Dathomiri Sorceress Petra Cavataio and Sith Master Xander Starkiller, she is a result of a short relationship between the two individuals with her Force alterations while she was still in her mother's womb. Fifty years into her life, she defines herself as an eternal student of the Force and Witch studies.
Mother to Gemma, Mirus, Mira and Celeste, adoptive mother to La'Ca and mate to Blade Peacecraft. Today, her primary occupation is that of the Superior Mother's High Priestess and continues her training with the exact same desire she had at her Trial by Fire.
A firm defender of Dathomirian animals and its nature, she is always a hungry for knowledge young woman that trains every day with her Spells and Powers. While combat has never been her strong side, Lauda trains with that as well. However, as the years progress, she has always taken up training of other Witches, within her clan and out of it.
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Lauda is a strong confidant woman fiercely devoted to her family first and foremost. From the very beginning of her life, she was raised for a specific powerful future, through her training and other teachings which has in result molded much of her own beliefs. She is extremely eager to learn, to know and to achieve, ambitious. Despite her darkside affiliation to which she is devoted to, when it comes to loved ones, she is probably the kindest Sith you will ever meet. There isn't anything she wouldn't do for her children, parents, siblings and mate.
For the most part of her early life, she had not care for either gender, seeming at times a bit asexual. Too focused on her books, she never really rose her glance to even notice on any of them. It was after passing her twentieth birthday that a feeling of curiosity began to grow within her, making her simply want to know why people were so appealed to physical contact with one another. Through but a couple of male slaves, Lauda learned originally that wasn't anything all that interesting about it and returned to her studies. First time it was ever something that happened naturally was with Sanies with whom she had two children.
Being a mother didn't change her all that much, her love merely expending to the two new additions to her already large family. While never needing reason with how well Mirus and Mira, and later her adopted daughter La'Ca were well protected, Lauda is the lioness mother deep within, ready to hunt down and destroy whoever tried to hurt her little ones, even when they've all grown up.
Even after fifty years of her life, one can (and Mira has often) call Lauda a boring person. Her head is still in her books and scrolls, her training is the first time she will do in the morning. Besides her own family, one more creature takes a special place in her heart and as such takes up a valued amount of time in each day - her companion Pervicax.
- Bigot, Egotistical, Fierce,
Megalomaniac, Murderer, Naive, Nosey, Obsessive, Overambitious, Overprotective, Over confidant, Overzealous, Perfectionist, Practical, Proud, Smart Ass, Soft-Hearted, Solemn, Stubborn
- Bigot, Egotistical, Fierce,
- Atelophobia (fear of not being good enough or imperfection)
Athazagoraphobia (fear of being forgotten or ignored) Atychiphobia (abnormal fear of failure)
Lauda's mother is a great woman in the Witch's eyes. She's the woman that gave birth to her, the woman her trained her and raised her and the woman whose strength and power Lauda always looks for when she requires guidence. Basically, all that Petra has achieved through her years, Lauda wants that as well. And it's not just limited to her accomplishments with the Witches either. Her Sith background, her children, her knowledge of the galaxy. It's where her ambitious nature first manifested, it was to make Ma'dri proud, to live up to what was expected of her but in time it turned out to be so much more, it became a personal guidence and she has her mother to thank for that.
While Pa'tre had never played an active role in Lauda's life as Ma'dri has, he still holds a special place in the Witch's heart. He is her father after all. He's also someone Ma'dri chose for her father and Lauda doesn't believe that was an accident either. He was there when she was little, when she passed her Trial by Fire, he was at her side when she learned darkside powers and first hurt someone to train. Despite her always leaning more towards Cavataio, this man is her father and Lauda will forever love him as such.
Her son, her child, Mirus is unique among his sisters for being the only boy. He is also one of her first, along with his twin sister. Lauda was so young when she had him that despite being a big sister to some of her siblings, none of prepared her for what motherhood was. It was a time of trial and error. And while she always tried hard to make his childhood happy but also train him and raise him well, eventually he had gone his separate way. This hurt Lauda. To her, a Cavataio belongs on Dathomir. Still, in honor of how she raised him, Lauda let him go, to live out his life.
Her first daughter. Lauda saw a lot of herself when she looked on the small girl but she didn't see the woman she grew into coming. Not by a mile. While physically, Mira reminds of her a lot, in spirit they are two very different people. So different that she sees more of Ma'dri in the girl than in herself and has seen it since Mira became a teenager. She loves her but like with Mirus, she was a young parent then and much of what she did with Mira, she wouldn't repeat with her children to come. While she could, to a degree, forgive the relationship between her and her brother is different because she understands there is a bond between the two that is unique, she was hurt when Mira left Dathomir with Mirus and joined Nessarose. A part of her still hopes her little girl will come home but with time progressing, that hope dies bit by bit.
Lauda's adopted daughter. The girl had wandered into their territory while she was so little and Lauda's heart eached out to her quickly. She couldn't help but love the girl and welcome her to her with open arms. And from the moment Dharma was accepted in the family and clan, nicknamed Lauda'Caelum Cavataio, Lauda saw her nothing but one of her daughters. And when La'Ca was little, she was so happy both Mirus and Mira had accepted her as one of their own.
Lauda's baby girl, Celeste is quite different from her older children. Quiet and focused, Celeste is a gift from her bond with Blade. She's theirs, not just hers. Having learned from before, Lauda has taken a different approach with Celeste, raising her in a somewhat stricter method but always looking for the unique traits in the girl and not wanting to destroy that.
Lauda's step-son. When she claimed Blade as her mate, he already had two sons. While Lauda doesn't get plenty of time with Rufio, she made it clear that she was fine with the two boys and she considered them to be her sons, if they were alright with that.
Lauda's step-son. Along with Rufio, there was also Xaviero. Another child she was open to accepting with open arms because he was Blade's.
Nox Deus Cavataio
Lauda's friend and apprentice.
The father of Lauda's twins.
Lauda's former mentor.
Lauda's mentor and one time fling
Sith Amulet - At the complition of the first day of her training, Lauda was given her very own Talisman of concentration, which would, based on what Pa'tre taught her that day, help her gather vast amounts of Dark Side energy, for rituals and spells when she was old enough to learn them.
Years later, while visiting her father, Lauda learned force powers from him and while learning a Knight darkside spell, she required more energy to do it. The Amulet, always hanging around her neck was used that day.
Once she had it in her hand, Lauda learned that that very spell would one day be infused with her blood and her first lightsaber will be made with it, at her Trial by Ansestors. Until that day finally arrived, she kept it safe and hidden.
Scroll with the Weather Sense spell - The first Spell Lauda ever learned was the Weather Sense spell, with which she passed her Witch Trials. After the complition of her test and telling Ma'dri was she had seen, her mother gave her the scroll and told her to keep it safe and pass it down to her children when she had them as it was a family tradition.
Training journal - On the second day of her training, Lauda was told that she would be sleeping in the meditation room and was gived her mother's training journal which showed Petra Cavataio's years of training.
On the same day, she was given her very own training journal which Lauda would use to write out about her training, not just what she learned by how it made her feel.
She filled out the first page right there, putting in details about the day before when she passed her Trial by Fire in front of Ma'dri, Pa'tre and doing a test with Serva at the end of it.
Years have passed and that training journal is still being filled out by Lauda, each day that she trains, another page is written out.
Spellbook - Over time, the more Lauda learned, the more she felt she had to write down her spells and she created her very own spellbook covered with spells, things about magic, what each thing does, even her powers and their effects are listed in it.
While her people have a Book of Dathomir with such things, this is Lauda's very own Book of Dathomir in a way.
Book of Dathomir - As the High Priestess of the Cult of Petra, Lauda is the carer and protector of the Book of Dathomir. An ambitious student of the Witch's legacy, history and spells, Lauda has studied the book from covers the covers for years and when appointed to taking care of it with her new position, she took the task wholeheartedly.
Many of the spells written in there have already become part of her spellbook as part of her training, which is an artifect she often takes with her while the Book of Dathomir has always been in a protective case and when used, rest on a pillow. Lauda has always been careful with it, even as a child.
Lightsaber - A weapon build with the gemstone she took out of the stone as a child. During the Trial by Ansestors, once the ritual was complete, the lightsaber was made with a custom hilt and given to her. While not perfect with weapons, Lauda prepared for that moment, allowing her to have basic knowledge of using it once she had it.
Force Forged Sword - On the same day that she received her lightsaber, Lauda also received her Force Forged Sword. This weapon, like the lightsaber, is a symbol of her ascension to knighthood but also one of her two main weapons from now on. Much like other Force created weapons, this one has ritually been bonded to her and thus she is the only one who can wield it. Because of this spell, it's also protected from all others and cannot be wielded by another.
Training & EducationEdit
- Spellweaver (Witches Knight level)
- Knight (Sith Knight)
- Sith Knight (Advancement of Sith Sorcery)
- Business studies
- Communication studies
- Dathomirian laws
- Feminist studies
- Galaxy literature
- Peace and conflict studies
- Weapons training (basics)
Family and CompanionsEdit
- Grandparents: Paige Hi'jia, Zi'lico the Fourth
- Mother: Petra Cavataio
- Aunts: Viviana Hi'jia
- Uncles: Nico Hja, Santo Hja, Zi'lico
- Siblings: Deus Nox Cavataio, Precious Cavataio, Evilina Cavataio, Loki Cavataio, Leto Cavataio, Lugh Cavataio, Siena Cavataio, Envy Cavataio, Antonio Cavataio, Petra'Dri "Squeak" Cavataio, Serva Cavataio, Michelangelo Cavataio, Ancilla Cavataio, Fabula Cavataio, Kristin Cavataio, Veritas Cavataio
- Nieces: Natalie deWinter, Summer Widd-Cavataio, Meteora Cavataio, Effera deWinter
- Nephews: Morgan Cavataio, S'it Cavataio, Roman Cavataio (d.), Kallig Cavataio (d.), Nico Cavataio (d.), Nicholas Cavataio (d.)
- Stepmother: Anna Sachae
- Grandparents: Sophie Halcyon-Starkiller, Jax Starkiller
- Father: Xander Starkiller
- Aunts: Amberlyn Starkiller, Jocasta Starkiller (d.), Kailey Starkiller, Savannah Starkiller, Leilah Starkiller
- Uncles: Mark Starkiller, Mercutio Starkiller
- Siblings: Jason Starkiller, Coren Starkiller, Alexiares Decuir, Raven Decuir and Trinity Decuir
- Nieces: Raven Starkiller, Eri'Anya Starkiller
- Nephews: Dante deWinter, Connor Starkiller
- Cousins: Sara Arkelion, Calen Starkiller, Xiamara Arkelion, Valerie Denethorn (d.), Tanisis Arkelion, Caiera Arkelion
- Stepmother: Santeria Decuir
- Name: Pervicax
- Meaning of name: Obstinate, wilful, stubborn
- Nickname: Pax
- Specie: Rancor
- Subspecie: Bull Rancor
- Gender: Male
- Age: Unknown
- Height: 13 meters
- Skin Tone: Paler than regular Rancors
- Intelligence: Semi-sentient
Lauda's rancor Pervicax is the first Rancor that is truly just hers. She befriended him after killing his companion at his own request to which Pax witnessed and sought her out, becoming her friend quickly after. Due to Destra being the mother of her own herd, Lauda introduces them formally and Pervicax is allowed to live with that same herd though it takes them time to accept him.
Powerful Bloodlines Edit
The Starkiller and Cavataio families from which Lauda origins from are two lineages of power. After her conception, her Mother began experiment with Midi-chlorian Manipulation which would bring forth an even more powerful child that was orignally expected.
Though the combination of her species as well as the fact that Lauda is a Dathomirian native that spends almost all her time there, Lauda's aging process is decreased extremely, allowing her to obtain her youngful appearance for many years to come. Her tanned skin, dark hair and dark eyes always are a result of the combination while the Sith attitributes inherited from her mother's side had little to no effect on her physical apperance.
While a True Neutral in essence, her Sith ancestory and pre-birth Force manipulation, allows her strong connection to the Force as well as the dark side of it.
Story of my LifeEditLauda was born and raised on Dathomir, where she was given five slaves to tend to her needs while growing up, with the number slowly decreasing as the years went back. She was somewhat shielded from the outside world, most of her interaction with her family, servents as well as natives of her planet. The outsider she saw most of all was her Father who'd visit the planet. Ever since she began to understand things around her, Lauda was a curious child, wanting to know about things around her and all that was to come for her. She began to read at an early age after which she was given books of her own and her very own bookshelf in her quaters after which her desire for knowledge only continued to grow.
From the very start, her favorite story was the one of how the Witches came to what they are today, that of Allya and what she had taught the natives upon her arrival to Dathomir. It made her curious about powers as well, so much that it was one of the most often questions to her mother. She wanted to learn to use powers and spells, be like her family and achieve all that she could. Perhaps even more.
The Call of Ancient WaysEditAt age age of five, Lauda was introduced to training. The first day of it, she was taught several spells and told from her Ma'dri about the future of her training, that that unlike other Witches and Jai of their world, she would also learn to use powers, not only chant. Presence of both of her parents only resolved the small child to keep going, learn all that was given to her and begin growing in all that she would become some day.
Her sister Serva tested her skills before the day was over and as a special memory, her Pa'tre tucked her in and gave her a Sith Amulet that would someday streghten her connection to the Dark Side when the time had come for it. It was also on that very day that Lauda's future devotions towards the things around her began to show as she felt her sister changing the weather to test her, the girl's concern for what it was doing to nature making her plead with her mother to make Serva stop.
The very next day, Lauda's training continued with Ma'dri alone and she continued learning, adding force powers into her education. During the training lesson, Lauda learns Basic Telekinesis, Telekinesis I, Force Crush I, Mountain Sense, Spell of Element Protection, Tempest I, Night Sight and Probe Spell I.
With the day ending, the girl is tasked with using Night Sight through the rest of the day.
Scroll after ScrollEditAs with the beginning of her training, Lauda is given full access to the scroll chambers within the Morte stronghold which she begins using very soon after. A year after her training begins, she learns five spells: Spell of Water, Spell of Healing I, Call Mist, Force Crush II and Spell of Fire Creation I. Folowing the chants learned, Lauda focuses herself on practicing what Ma'dri had taught her and what she learned on her own before learning new spells.
A whole year passes before the new spells are learned. Once Lauda set out to learn new spells, she quickly picked up Animal Healing, Song of Power, Call Rain I, Shield Spell and Spell of Healing II. Much like her normal days, Lauda spent those two playing with rancors (where she also had to heal one of them after an injury), studying from the Book of Law and Book of Shadows where she found two different spells fot her spellbook and meet a Nightsister that at first which to attack her, allowing her to try out her Shield Spell for the first time to defend herself and at last, when a Purbole tried attacking Rosa, the Nightsister, Lauda applied Force Comprehension to learn the advanced form of Spell of Healing and healed the woman's leg.
With a new friend made, Lauda was offered to become a Nightsister and when she refused, the invitation was extended for the future.
Growing Up and Continued TrainingEdit
While her Trial by fire may have been her first day of training, it was far from being her last. The following day, Lauda's training with Ma'dri continued, which now included a rigorous concept which included writing into her own diary, studying, sleeping in the meditation and so much more. She would not only learn Spells but also force powers which to make a Witch and a Sith out of her and that was what Lauda would become.
The girl didn't mind it of course. In fact, Lauda loved it. Living in the stronghold, with her mother who never punished her unlike her siblings, she just aboved lived to make her parents proud, to leanr, to advance. In her own mind, she grew with the knowledge she took in. It was a part of her just as breathing.
Ties that BindEdit
The years progressed and she learned so much. And while she was aware of what was going on with her father, her bond with her maternal family grew far stronger. These were the people she saw each day, these were the people she learned from that each and every day.
The older Lauda grew, it wasn't just Serva, Antonio and her, Ma'dri had more. Just like she looked up to her two older siblings, as Lauda gained younger ones, she saw herself in the role Serva and Antonio had. She loved them, wanted to protect them. Nox came first. He was was fragile in her eyes, and just as stubborn. He was punished daily. As much as Lauda knew this, she also felt the strong urge to protect him. Not from her mother of course, because Lauda never stood up for to her Ma'dri. That was forbidden in Lauda's eyes.
Just before Lauda would enter her teenage years, Serva was selected by Ma'dri to test Lauda once more, to see what she had learned in the years before. She chose to do this by taking her out in the desert for which the girl took a single bottle of water and a small blade with her. The test began almost immediately as they exited the stronghold.
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After her thirteenth birthday, while the brunette girl began to change, she also was never going to be a typical teenage girl. Her curiosity was focused on her books, the rancors and family. She didn't feel the need or wanted to look at the Jai around her. Something about them simply didn't interest her at the time that Lauda simply burried her head in her books, progressing in her skills just as she felt her parents wanted to.
It had been years now since her training began, both as a Witch and Sith. Ma'dri kept up with her progress and taught her new things constantly. Along with the regular Master-Apprentice sessions, Lauda was given access to the scroll chamber where all the spells were avaliable to her and began memorizing them early on, even before she actually began learning them.
Trial by AncestorsEdit
Just before her fifteenth birthday, Lauda has her Trial by Ancestors.
At the age of eighteen, Lauda made her first trip away from Dathomir after being invited by her father to visit him in a location far in the Outer Rim as he was learning a new ability. She is offered to learn a few things from him and due to her nature of being always hungry for more, the teenager easily accepted the proposal. During the training, Lauda was taught how to use Telekinesis, Force Rage, Force Deflect, Force Spark and Force Drain.
Into the WoodsEdit
The Sith that Came to Me EditAt twenty one, Lauda has an understanding on a great many things except one. That was when the Sith Master Cameron Centurion arrived into her life. He was older, powerful, versatile in a great many things and caught her eye all to easily. Lauda though would have never made that first move.
Cameron chose to do it, chose to seduce her. It wasn't long before their relationship began. His work kept taking him away from Dathomir but he kept coming back to her.
Then Lauda learned she was pregnant. The discovery shocked her, she was young, especially in the eyes of her world. Still, she'd considered it a blessing, the growth of the line. And there was a power she felt within her, like she hadn't felt it before.
Nine months later, through a lot of pain and risk, Gemma came into the world. Though their relationship ended months ago, Lauda learned with the birth of their daughter that Cameron had much more to him than he originally let on. First of all was the way he was as a father. It fascinated her just as much as it scared her of what kind of mother she would be.
A Visit by Pa'tre and AlistairEdit
Years passed since that event. Lauda grew plenty in that time and on what would probably be a completely ordinary day, her father came to Dathomir to see her, bringing her little brother Alistair with him. Until it was time for the boy to rest, the two bonded, shared a meal and Lauda taught her brother a few things, such as what a word in Dathomirian meant and why she didn't live with him and Pa'tre.
Sanies Robur. Lauda was twenty five when she actually had a chance to talk to Ma'dri's slave. He was skilled in weapons combat. As always, the young woman was hungry for knowledge, hungry to learn more. But something in the man's provocing made Lauda learn something about herself. She hated someone angering her, in the oddest way. It appealed to her. Nobody ever did such things except Ma'dri to which she was used to. But a man to do it, it stirred feelings the brunette didn't even know she had.
A two months pregnant Lauda invites Shery deWinter to Dathomir. The two engange in small talk, Lauda meets baby Asteria, gets a couple of valuable tips about her pregnancy and finally reveals the reason why she invited her future stepmother to Dathomir. The two have a meal together after which Shery teaches her Telepathy, Enhanced Telekinesis, Combustion, Force Deflect, Force Bubble, Basic Sith Sorcery (Illusion Casting)... [to be finished].
Mirus and MiraEdit
In the months to come, Lauda's family increased by two. While her parents had more children but not with each other, Lauda herself had two children - twins with Sanies Robur. Being a mother was a new experience for the young Witch. She could now see how two lives truly depended on her.
Of course, just as she had been raised, for the first years of their lives, her children Mira and Mirus were given five slaves each to tend to their needs. The number of slaves tending to them slowly lowered as the years progressed but Lauda couldn't exactly not be part of their lives through this.
Despite them having a slave for a father, Lauda refused to not let Sanies know of what had happened. With the culture they were raised into, it wasn't really necessary for the man to truly participate if his duties didn't allow him to but Lauda left him that choice.
Time to Run AwayEdit
Lauda spents time with her little sister Ancilla.
The Power of TwoEdit
Lauda gives Mirus and Mira their trial by Fire as they turn six and during the first day, they learn Weather Sense, Telekinesis I, Spell of Focus and Call Mist. As they learn their first four spells, Lauda summons Serva with whom she previously agreed with, to text her children in their new knowledge just as her big sister had done with her when she was a child.
The Bull Cries to the MoonEditAs the wild bull rancors of Dathomir went mad on Dathomir, Petra sent Lauda and Serva to solve the problem. Separating and enlisting their other siblings, the two sisters set out to deal with the situation. WIth two bull rancors on her path and a group of Witches behind her, along with her mother's rancor Destra, Lauda was forced to kill one of the wild creatures but while showing mercy to the animal, the other one witnessed the event.
Approached by the other bull rancor, Lauda communicated with male animal by using the Spell of Communication. That very same night, a bond was formed between the young Witch at the animal. Pervicax, as he introduced himself to her, became her friend soon after and with Destra's acceptance became part of their herd.
The bond between the Witch and the Rancor would only continue to grow from that moment on, to the points where he truly did become Lauda's best friend and will forever remain.
Bonding, not BondageEdit
Anna Sachae, originally one of Ma'dri's slave becomes more important in the family as young girl is to be claimed by the Superior Mother, is introduced to Lauda who wishes to meet the stranger and welcome her into the family. The two spend an interesting afternoon together in which Lauda has Anna meet Pervicax.
While originally terrified by the large animals, Anna ends up meeting her own future Companion.
A young girl wanders into the Morte Clan land, aged seven. Lauda couldn't help herself, instantly loving the girl who introduced herself as Dharma Decuir. Both she and Serva instantly took the girl under their wing and began to train her and due to how much affection Lauda showed the child, she adopted her as her own and Dharma wa given a second name Lauda'Caelum Cavataio. She was called La'Ca from then on.
It was obvious from the very beginning that the child was quite unique and gifted in the Force as Lauda put it simply. There were those that feared her in clan due to her talents but Lauda would have none of it herself and her views were mimiced by both Mira and Mirus who accepted La'Ca as their sister.
Early on, the girl began to explore relationship similar to the way Petra did and in the family like the Cavataio, such things were easily accepted.
Foreigners not AllowedEdit
A man crashes on Dathomir and ends up being hunted by Witches due to his surprise visit. A long for the hunt, Lauda and Serva help other Witches out while trying to keep little La'Ca in check during her play time with the large rancor Frags.
The foreigner, Loque ended up in the Morte clan stronghold where Lauda acted as his hostess and the two engaged in a brief conversation that ranged from pleasant to unplesant and back and forth again.
Murder for the right reasonsEditDuring a trip on Corellia, the brunette met a Jedi Master with whom she exchanged words as well as a meal, only to find more about him, as well as where he comes from. The Jedi Master's brother attacked the two and after a struggle, Lauda took the man's life with a spell.
She easily justified what she had done by the fact that the murdered man had hurt her and the Jedi she was with. Through that entire time, she had taken a liking to the Jedi though on the trip back to Dathomir with him, the two ended up in a fight, allowing her to see she had been mistaken in him and her views on outsiders somewhat changed that day, without her realizing it.
Once Lauda introduced Kamon to her mother and they learned that he has history with Squeak, the young Witch left the two talking and went to locate her sister, not returning to the two once she found her.
With the years progressing, Lauda's role of simply being a student began to change. Her role in the family began to further. She was no longer just a member of the family and her mother's third child, but also, along side Serva, helped her mother when it came to the family and clan.
Due to the Unification of the clans, Lauda found herself doing more work on behalf of the clan and family, taking on the role of the second in command along with her sister much more as time progressed.
A Little TripEditUpon the arrival of the short time Sith Emperor, Lauda recognized an old fling Cameron Centurion, as her mother sent her out to greet the man and give him a tour of the planet. Though Cameron never faulted from his fatherly duties, it had been a while since the two had seen each other then.
Along other duties, Lauda traveled around her birth planet due to the new role. She had reached out to a group of nightsisters at one point, offering her help in the re-building of their home.
There, she encounted Ovelia Black who returned to Dathomir after many years of being away. The young woman belonged with the Singing Mountain Clan and given a chance to speak privately with Lauda, shared this information. With the help of Pervicax, the two traveled to the girl's clan.
Waking the Wild Witch of DxunEdit
Once in a LifetimeEdit
Skipped beat for a JaiEdit
During an ordinary day, Lauda's routine as any day, the Witch met a Jai, Blade Peacecraft, that had dueled with one of the younglings, her natural instinct to protect the animals rising. However, the more she spoke to the man, the more she found herself attracted to him, to the point of going further with the man, which was uncharacteristic for her in so many ways.
Spending the day with the Jai, Lauda got to know that he trained other Jai and Blade cooked for her. The conversation taking a certain path, they ended up talking about the subject of claiming where Lauda confessed her desire to claim him as her own.Hesitant at first, Blade finally returned to the important subject himself and accepted her offer after testing to see how serious it was.
It was only after meeting Blade and realizing her feelings with him did Lauda learn from Serva about whom he was already claimed by. Her mother ended up being the woman after which the young woman knew exactly what she needed to do because her feelings were extremely clear to her.
Before the day ended though, Serva revealed to her the history of their mother, one of which Lauda knew nothing of. It was the story of Winter Midori who was the last woman to have such an impact on Petra, before Anna. Her big sister feared of history repeating itself and enlisted Lauda to make sure they were ready in case her mother fell down that same dark path again.
Conversations with Ma'driEdit
Having learned all that she did from Serva, Lauda spent time with Blade only to be surprised by a visit by Ma'dri who was invited by him.
Claiming of Blade PeacecraftEdit
Lauda the StepmotherEdit
Lauda gives birth to hers and Blade's first daughter, Celeste.
Priestess to the Superior MotherEditWith all the changes taking place, her mother sought up a union with the Sith Imperium. The same day this was announced, Ma'dri made Serva Morte clan mother and Lauda priestess to the Superior Mother. The new role would have been far more joyus for the young Witch if Serva's first decree wasn't to make their brother Nox a target and cast him out of the clan.
Departure with a Mother's BlessingEdit
Seven years young La'Ca was a member of the Cavataio family and always treated as such, nothing less, especially by Lauda, Mira and Mirus. In all those years, La'Ca was actively trained by both her adopted mother and aunt Serva.
But when La'Ca finally shared her desire to go back to her own family, the Decuirs, Lauda gave her her blessings. The child was set off back to her own clan, forever to be considered part of the Cavataio family, a member of the Morte clan and very dear in Lauda's heart.
Lauda spends time with one of her mother's slaves, Kari.
Rock, Paper, Rancor?Edit
As her mother called upon young Witches to train them all together among Rancors, Lauda came out to the Herd as well which she would have done anyway as part of her ritual of spending time with Pervicax. Her plans changed, she was to help out other Witches find their own companions and assistant the Superior Mother.
Harping about the Small StuffEdit
As the Superior mother calls a meeting with the Sith Imperium, Lauda and her little sister Ancilla accompany Petra. For Sorceress, the meeting was about taking control of the Hapen theritory which promising TSI certain planets. For Lauda, it was a chance to learn more about her mother.
In the brief meeting, the Priestess said nothing, merely taking in her lesson about negotiating.
An Apple Red as BloodEdit
A Witch's TaleEdit
During Nessa's visit to Dathomir when she's thirteen, Lauda continues the girl's Witch training after it's began by their aunt Isobel. Unable to show her the Book of Dathomir as per culture rules, Lauda instead shows Nessa her own little spellbook as well as training journal before teaching her Force "Blanket" I, Force Crush I and Spell of Communication.Teamed up with Pervicax, the two went on a bit of adventure before being attacked by one of the wild animals of Dathomir which served as Nessarose's test when she killed the beast using one of her learned spells.
The Heart of DathomirEdit
As Garith Darkhold arrives to Dathomir, Il'Sirus Fiore sends word to Lauda of this after which the Priestess travels to the spaceport to gree the newcomer.
Death of Xander StarkillerEdit
While the Sith Imperium crumbled on the other side of the galaxy, explosions echoing through important structures, Lauda trained her daughter Mira on Dathomir, unaffected by these effects. However, when her father died in the mist of it all, the young Witch felt it, extremely painfully.
Scared for her mother's reaction, Mira called on Nona Petra who was aware of the changes going on in the Force.
Liberation? Sort of... EditCameron Centurion visits Dathomir once more after so long ago. Due to her position as the Priestess, Lauda welcomes him back to her planet. Their brief conversation is cut short when the Sith Master speaks privately to the young Spellhunter Il'Sirus of topics unknown to Lauda.
Once the two finished though, Cameron caught up with the Priestess again and the two make a deal in which she will teach the man of their culture and he will teach her more Force Powers.
Careful What You Witch ForEdit
Lauda takes Il'Sirus Fiore as her student, educating the girls in their ways. To pass her Trial by Fire, Il'Sirus is given the Arrows of Fire I spell after which she has her learn Weather Sense, Spell of Focus and Spell of Fire Creation I.
Nessarose returns to Dathomir and the two sisters spend the day together as always. While her sister is there, she meets Blade and the two sisters begin another training session where Lauda learns Force Empathy, Farsight, Enhanced Force Sense, Force Scream,.... and teaches Nessa Call Mist,...
The Day the Magic DiedEdit
As Nessa loses the ability to read spells and cast them, the two set out to meet a Nightsister who could provide them with answers.
We Rule the NightEdit
Blood Pacts and MagicEdit
Oh, my GoddessEdit
Pardon our PastEdit
The Lady of LakeEdit
The Quietness of YouthEdit
A day off from Celeste's training, the small family spents it outdoors.
Beautiful Darkness (The Future)Edit
Lauda's future is to a degree alredy predeterminted. As a Dathomirian on half of her genetic make up, her life expectantly is currently three hundred years, however, that's only the eldest Witch on record, giving her chances as many others, to live much longer that that predicted age.
What she herself as sat as a goal for her, she will one day be a Witch Sorceress, Sith Mistress with nearly all powers possible learned that she can be taught from her parents and many tutors she plans to enlist and she expects to have a large list of students behind her when that future arrives, starting from her own bloodline before expending to others in time as well.
Personal goals in list
- Learn more powers and spells
- Take more Masters to be trained by them
- Have more children (ultimate goal not yet set)
- Train more students
- Pass Trial by the Force
- Become a Dathomiri Sorceress
- Learn anything and everything from Ma'dri to one day take her place
- [Open for expansion]
As a SpellhunterEdit
- The Call of Ancient Ways: Part One
- The Call of Ancient Ways: Part Two
- Scroll after Scroll: Part One
- Scroll after Scroll: Part Two
- The Call of Ancient Ways: Part 2.5
- The Meaning of Life
- Hunter's Chance
- House Call
- Witchie Demeanors
Sorry, I was Busy
Social Threads / Character Development
- The Best Parts of Me Belong to You
Time to Run Away
- Bonding, not Bondage
The Claim Soft Side
- Catching my Breath
- How the Other Half Lives
A Little Trip
- Homeward Bound
Waking the Wild Witch of Dxun
- A Dathomirian Morning
- Sister, Sister
- Pride and Glory
- Oh, my Goddess: Part I
- The Bull Cries to the Moon
Change in the Wind Rock, Paper, Rancor?
- Harping About the Small Stuff
- The Heart of Dathomir
- The Breakdown: A Day of Reckoning
- Liberation: Sort of...
- Blood Pacts and Magic
Oh, my Goddess: Part II
- Pardon our Past
As a SpellweaverEdit
Social threads / Character Development
- A Dathomirian Surprise
- Familia Tempa
- The Day the Magic died
- The Quietness of Youth
- Let's Make Babies
As a SorceressEdit
Social threads / Character Development
Completed threads - 32 (Spellhunter - 28; Spellweaver - 4; Sorceress - 0)


Baker principally collected diaries and other materials pertaining to the Reynolds and Matthews families of Shackelford County, Texas. But the choicest cuts come from the journals, letters, and scrapbooks of Samuel and Susan Newcomb, dating from the mid- to late th century. It was later published, and we have that printed version in our collection as well. Here is another letter dating from around the beginning of the Civil War, which was not at all affecting the life of Mr. He was more into having dinner, then heading on out to hunt for more game, perhaps for a second dinner. The man was hungry, no question. The peculiarities of paper and ink could, and often do, make up entire college courses. Susan E.
Clipping Scrapbook #3
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a scrapbook as “A blank book in which pictures, newspaper cuttings, and the like are pasted for preservation. With improved printing technologies in the second half of the 19th century, increasing quantities and varieties of printed paper items became available to ordinary people. By the late 19th century, color lithography added beauty and novelty to printed items. Printers and advertisers greatly expanded the range of printed items they disseminated: newspapers, calendars, leaflets, advertising trade cards, etc.
The James Garnett scrapbook (dated , bulk ; cubic feet; 1 item) comprises a scrapbook of newspaper clippings kept by James Garnett.
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Skip to main content. Citation Staff Only Request. The scrapbooks in this series, compiled by different groups associated with the Northwestern University Settlement, typically contain newspaper clippings, programs, photographs, and other printed materials.
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This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Groupon Gift Shop. It took 6 years, but this year my husband and I finally spent a kid-free night away from home. It took an out-of-state, no-kids wedding to make it happen. Which helped us realize — we need to spend more time together. Just the two of us. While we love being parents, and hanging out with our two awesome boys, it is important for us to spend time with just the two of us. So, this Christmas, I thought a year of date nights would make an awesome Christmas gift.
To make it even more special, I created a little book to help us plan our dates — and at the end of the year, the book will be a scrapbook we can look back on — a year of special memories and new adventures. Start by using the Craft Knife to cut the Chipboard. Assemble the book. Stack the back cover, the envelopes, and the front cover. Secure them together with the rings.
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The purpose of the organization was “to aid the Sheriff’s Department in any, or all emergencies” and “to further the interest of good horsemanship, to teach and practice good sportsmanship, to promote and further the livestock industry The scrapbook, dating from to , contains 50 pages that were removed from a 3 ring binder and numbered to maintain the original order. The bulk of the scrapbook contains news clippings from The Austin Statesman.
There are also seven black-and-white photographs and several brochures for the rodeo. The Austin History Center AHC is the owner of the physical materials in the AHC collections and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses.
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After 7 years together it was becoming hard to find fun and new date night ideas. Until we found The Adventure Challenge! They offer a mystery scratch-off book.
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The rush of wedding planning and the week of the celebration can fly by in a flash. After the celebration winds down, compiling a wedding scrapbook is one of the best ways to relive all the heartfelt moments and decisions made along the way. This is also an excellent time to reactivate that passion for creative design as you remember how you figured out how to choose your wedding invitations , picked your wedding color combinations and even found your dress.
Guide to the Hilda Batchelder Scrapbook, , bulk dates Collection number: UA 7/3/8. Size: 1 OVERSIZE box ( ).
Tre biglietti per S. Valentino in stile scrap-vintage realizzati con carta,spago e decorazioni a crochet. Find images and videos about love, couple and kiss on We Heart It – the app to get lost in what you love. You make me melt card. LOVE this! I save all of stubs – this would be a great way to scrapbook them. A couples journal for time apart, sending it back and forth until we are together again. For our one year anniversary, I made this Adventure Book like the one from the movie Up.
I made the inside a scrapbook of all the places we have traveled to together – and left plenty of pages for more adventures! This is a great 1-year anniversary gift because it qualifies as a “paper gift”, which is the tradition for the 1-year. It was actually a lot easier to make then expected. The cover is made of foam board with a faux leather fabric covering it. Letters I cut out of colored felt!
Things my boyfriend and I love.
Guide to the Hilda Batchelder Scrapbook, 1912-1939, bulk dates 1935-1939
Quarter-leather and printed paper over boards. Small losses to crown and foot of spine, and small edge-tears to some pages, otherwise very good. A scrapbook containing eighty-three individual magic trick instruction sheets and assorted additional ephemera, pasted into the pages of a ledger, over what writing was already present.
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These pics are of my husband. I took them on a hike last summer in Rocky Mountain National Park, it was a perfect day. The branches, nameplate and title were cut out with my Silhouette. Barbie Schwartz. Read through articles, tutorials, and dozens of craft related topics. Learn how to scrapbook, stamp, die cut, make cards, use planners, journal and more from in-depth articles and posts in our blog.
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Hilda Batchelder graduated from the University of New Hampshire in with a pre medical degree. She was the daughter of Roy E. Batchelder, class of While at school Hilda was a member of the Phi Mu sorority.
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From the Collection: 4 Linear Feet 4 linear feet. Staff Interface Visit ArchivesSpace. Skip to main content. Special Collections Finding Aids. Citation Staff Only. Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Fargo-Moorhead Area Music Club records consist of its constitutions and by-laws, Executive Board and general meeting minutes, minutes of the Research Group and Voice Group, annual program booklets, annual reports, roll calls, correspondence, scholarship programs, state convention correspondence, club evaluation reports, music sheets, and newspaper clippings.
Also included are newsletters, lists of elected officers, and scrapbooks detailing the complete history of the club’s events. All material is arranged in chronological order. There are nine versions of the constitution dating from to Meeting minutes range from to , with the emphasis on the Executive Board and General Meetings. The research Group minutes are from to and the Voice Group minutes from to The annual program booklets are from to , there are however the years to in a scrapbook.
The annual reports are mostly by the officers and date from to
Date Planning Book Becomes an Annual Scrapbook
As of Monday, August 3, The New York Public Library has expanded grab-and-go service to 30 branch locations as part of our gradual reopening. We hope to reopen even more locations soon. Find details about locations, services, and requirements , and learn more about accessing our remote resources.
To make it even more special, I created a little book to help us plan our dates – and at the end of the year, the book will be a scrapbook we can.
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“A Change is Gonna Come”: Spiritual Leadership for Social Change in the United States.” In Allison, Kocher, Goethals, eds. Frontiers in Spiritual Leadership, Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
On lessons learned from Richmond’s Street Soccer Team: https://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/ultimate-goals/Content?oid=1934911
On UNC academic scandal: https://247sports.com/Article/Thad-Honest-Shame-105146658/
Life lessons from UNC Coach Dean Smith: https://247sports.com/Article/Thad-Learning-from-UNC-Basketball-Legendary-Coach-Dean-Smith-105181988/
Life lessons from UNC basketball Coach Bill Guthridge: https://247sports.com/Article/Thad-Cherished-Chats-105212720/
America Beyond Consumerism: Williamson, Thad. Dollars & Sense; Somerville Iss. 276, (May/Jun 2008): 10-15 NP, ETH
Strategies for meaning in the economy: Williamson, Thad. Tikkun; San Francisco Vol. 12, Iss. 2, (Mar/Apr 1997): 26-31+ NP, ETH
Doing Justice in an Unjust World: Williamson, Thad. Tikkun; San Francisco Vol. 29, Iss. 1, (Winter 2014): 45-47.
Monica, Bill, and Ethics. : Thad Williamson. CrossCurrents. Vol. 49, No. 2,(SUMMER 1999), pp. 153-163. Published by: Wiley
"Repairing to the Roots" (Review of Bob Dylan's World Gone Wrong, Sojourners, April 1994), https://sojo.net/magazine/april-1994/repairing-roots


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Date read : 24.10.2022 – 01.11.2022
This is the first book by the Author Robert Ludlum that I’ve read. I’ve earlier seen the Movies based on his Jason Bourne series. I’ve three more books by the author that I’ll read in due course of time.
I picked up the four book compendium of Robert Ludlum mainly to complete my reading challenge for the year 2021. It’s light reading and fast paced and can be finished quiet easily. I took over 30 days since I first turned it pages because i was distracted by other things.
the intrigued created by how a rich family boy with delusion of grandeur stole his own inheritance in a bid to help the Nazi ,created a cabal of rich and how it was foiled keeps the reader interested through out the book.
I would recommend it as a light reading any time


Welcome to another week of preschool!
This week was all about the letter H. We learned about houses all around the world. We learned that every house has a roof. We also learned about the number eight and the color green. Our Bible verse this week was, " Hear O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one." Deuteronomy 6:4
The books we brought home from the library this week were, If You Lived Here: Houses Around the World by Giles Laroche, Not Inside This House! by Kevin Lewis, and Building a House by JoAnn Early Maken. We also brought home books on horses including, The Author Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle and Horses! by Gail Gibbons.
This week we did not do a theme craft, the week just sort of got away from me. If you are really looking for one though, the one I was planning on doing can be found here.
We did, however, do the rest of our usual activities. The Little Princess made her capitol H House.
She also had fun gluing the mane and tail onto her lower case horse.
This week's letter are much more colorful than last week's!
The Little Princess painted her letters. She favored purple this week.
For her H craft, I had her make a house out of simple shapes. I have to admit, she wasn't too happy about this one. She told me she already made a house with her capitol letter, and shouldn't be making another one.
In the end, I think she was happy with her pages.
She painted her number eight and added it to her Learning Book.
This week for the number eight she made an octopus with eight legs. We used crepe paper streamers cut in half long ways for the legs which she then colored with markers.
She got a little carried away with the markers, but she had fun. (Note to self: before suggesting a color to paint with, check the color of the page so she's not putting a green eight on a green page. *sigh* Oh well.)
We added to the color section in the Learning Book this week with green. The Little Princess found a lot of green things to glue to her page.
She always has fun finger painting!
As always, here are the finished pages. Her favorite green thing was the Geiko Gecko. Both my Daleks have a fascination with him. I just don't know where it comes from.
For those of you who are wondering about the band aid on The Little Princess's forehead, it was nothing. She decided one day that she needed one. The glue on this particular band aid was really strong and it stayed on her head all week.
Until next time!


Dale Carnegie, Hal Elrod, Stephen R. Covey… Each big name of these figures of personal development has impacted millions of minds thanks to his vision of life. However, the one who revolutionized self-realization is none other than Napoleon Hill, the founding father of personal development and the author of several bestselling books, including the famous book Think and Get Rich.
Who is Napoleon Hill?
Napoleon Hill is a famous American author born on 26/10/1883 in Virginia and died on 08/11/1970 at the age of 87, in South Carolina.
Coming from a relatively modest family, he was encouraged by his parents, and especially his mother-in-law, to get into journalism in order to be more open to the world around him and seize the opportunities available to him. At the age of 13, Napoleon Hill began his career as a writer for small local newspapers and at 25, with 10 years of experience in journalism, he was recruited by Bob Taylor's Magazine who entrusted him with the charge of the section dedicated to the careers and success of influential men. This is how he met the man who would later become his mentor: Andrew Carnegie.
Throughout his life, Napoleon Hill is presented as a pioneer in the psychology of success. He has taught and lectured on the fundamentals of personal development which he has implemented and summarized in numerous works, read and translated around the world.
Andrew Carnegie, Napoleon Hill's mentor
Andrew Carnegie is one of the world's first multimillionaires. He left his mark on the American steel industry, although he was of Scottish origin.
Having himself been in need as a child, Carnegie never forgot where he came from and he always saw money as a way to help improve the world. In his will, he had stipulated that all his money should be donated to several foundations and noble causes. According to him, there is no point in dying while being rich. We particularly appreciate his words:
"Every man who dies rich dies dishonored. "
When Andrew Carnegie met Napoleon Hill, he immediately saw in him an ambitious and determined young man. He took him under his wing and encouraged him to create what became known as the philosophy of success.
For years, Hill observed and interviewed the wealthiest and most influential men of the time to determine the common elements and denominators that could lead to success. It even seems that Carnegie himself spent years contacting and writing to revolutionary men such as Thomas Edison in order to help his protégé. Thus, years later, the work The Laws of Success finally saw the light of day.
The classics of Napoleon Hill, a must read!
Even though he inspired millions of people with his books The Laws of Success and Think and Get Rich, Napoleon Hill found himself facing his failures and could not get back on track despite all his good will. Then followed a period of questioning and doubts quite trying for the author, because he realized that he could not apply the laws of success that he himself had put in place. It was as a result of this bad patch that the book Smarter Than the Devil was written.
However, it was not until years after his death that the latter was finally published, as it was considered too controversial for its time. The author had his own view on religions and education, he even considered it to be one of the first reasons why people moved away from their "other self".
Despite this, Napoleon Hill's ideas have never been more relevant than they are today.
The laws of success
Afteryears of meeting the richest and brightest men, thanks to the support of Andrew Carnegie, Napoleon Hill wrote his very first book containing the 17 principles of personal development and the steps to follow to succeed. The whole is divided into 4 volumes, each containing 3 or 4 principles.
Although published almost a century ago, each of the ideas expressed in it remains relevant. It is a true bible for those who are not afraid to exploit all their skills and become fully aware of the strength of their mind.
Think and get rich
This book is one of the best-selling books in the world. It was published in 1937 during the period of the Great Depression that the United States experienced after capitalism.
This book by Napoleon Hill is not a magic recipe for becoming rich, it is a philosophy resulting from several years of observation and encounters, resulting in the establishment of moral principles leading to success.
What's interesting about the book Think and Get Rich is that it teaches you how to transform your mind and approach to yourself by applying principles based on self-confidence and autosuggestion.
"More gold has been extracted from the minds of men than from the earth itself."
Reading this book won't make you rich, that's for sure, but if you take ownership of each lesson and create something positive from it, your life will no longer be the same and you will find a way to achieve your ambitions.
Smarter than the devil
In this book, Napoleon Hill questions himself and asks himself questions. Why, after telling the secrets of the success of so many influential men, did he still find himself ruined?
Smarter Than the Devil is above all a book in which Napoleon Hill explores fear, mental strength and self-fulfillment.
Although this book was written in 1938, it was not published until 70 years later, years after the author's death in order to avoid controversy related to the controversial thoughts on churches and the educational system mentioned in it.
Success through constructive thinking
In this book, Napoleon explores the impact that positivity can have on our lives, both personal and professional. It guides us in our personal development and pushes us to no longer doubt ourselves. Creative thinking is about attracting the positive by adopting an optimistic attitude.
"To be enthusiastic, act enthusiastically."
Success through constructive thinking walks a bit in the footsteps of Think and Get Rich and illustrates each principle with examples.
The Power of Persuasion – Design, Believe, Realize
Napoleon Hill is a strong supporter of the principle "Wanting is power" According to him, if we really want something, it is up to us to create our opportunities and believe in ourselves in order to achieve our dreams.
In this book, he accompanies us once again in a quest for personal discovery and lays down for us the basic principles to follow in order to transform our desires into reality through the power of persuasion. The first step to success is first and foremost to convince yourself that you can do it.
Your successful plan: 52 steps to make it happen
This book is the compilation of all the principles and tips that the famous American author has published to teach you how to get to know yourself better and quickly achieve your goals.
With 52 steps to success, Hill teaches you how to recognize and seize the right opportunities when they come and see the world from a different perspective.
Your master key to riches
Always from the perspective of autosuggestion and self-realization, this book will teach you how to harness your inner power. More than a professional success, it is your whole life that will be questioned.
At work, with family, in love… Learn to always draw the positive and create your own fulfillment.
What if we were the miracle? In this book, our author of the day tells us about the 12 riches of life to know so that everything succeeds us. He explains to us through this work that half of the answers to our doubts are already in us and that it is enough to better understand the world around us.
Unlock your inner power and perform miracles with this work by Napoleon Hill.
Napoleon Hill is the first author we recommend you read if you want to invest in yourself. And for even more reading ideas on personal development, feel free to check out our Top Best Personal Development Books.
Have you ever read Napoleon Hill books? If so, tell us in comment which was your favorite!


That brings us to 2016. This year I am sticking to my same goal, 52 books for the year, and I'm also doing PopSugar's challenge again. I have also added a third challenge. One of my favourite book and reading blogs in Book Riot and they do an annual read harder challenge, so in the spirit of broadening my reading horizons I have decided to add that challenge to my plate this year as well. I wanted to share an update on my progress in all three challenges here, so let's start with my 2016 Goodreads shelf; here's a sample of it, the most recent 5 books I've read:
Next up I'll show you my progress on the PopSugar challenge. There are 40 categories of book to be read as part of this challenge. As you can see from my Goodreads challenge widget over on the right I'm already 54% done my challenge, I've read 28 books so far, and out of those 28 books 10 have fulfilled PopSugar's challenge, which means I'm 25% done this one.
|Needs more green Xs though...|
1. A YA bestseller - Black Widow : Forever Red
2. A book from the library - Blood Lite III : Aftertaste
3. A book that is guaranteed to bring you joy - Feel the burn
4. A book set in Europe - The Darkest Night
5. A book with a blue cover - The Darkest Kiss
6. A book you can finish in one day - The Darkest Pleasure
7. A book and its prequel - book: The Darkest Night
prequel: The Darkest Fire
8. A book that is published in 2016 - The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo #1)
9. A classic from the 20th century - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
10. A book that's under 150 pages - Clouded Vision (77 pages) [Hah, I just noticed I forgot to cross this one off on the challenge sheet!]
My last challenge for 2016 as mentioned above is Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge. This one's only got 24 items on it but I feel like it's going to be the harder of the two category challenges for me personally. So far this year only four of the books I've read fulfill challenges in this one, which means I'm 1/6th done it.
|Some of these seem very intimidating to me...|
As you can see, on this one I've already added a couple of books that I plan to read to the categories that they apply to. This past Wednesday I printed off both challenge sheets and sat down in front of my two to-be-read bookcases and tried to match the categories to books that I already own (or have borrowed from the library I work at) and plan on reading; for the most part it's going to work out there aren't many I'm going to have to bring in from either the library I work in or the public library so that's good! Means I'll be clearing off my to-be-read shelves nicely. Which means I'll get to refill them with more books :D.


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Point of Contact, No 1-2 Vol. 10, pages 51-57
Syracuse University Press
A series of pages with photographic traces/marks intervened the bilingual edition of Point of Contact dedicated to the life and verse of the Argentine poet, Alejandra Pizarnik, a leading feminine voice in contemporary Latin American letters. Based on a series of letters from Alejandra, all unpublished until now, the book approaches Pizarnik’s poetry through an intimate dialogue and a series of critical and visual texts.
The intervention consists of a series of black blotches, with the white pages of the book serving as their background. These out-of-focus marks, both systematic and organic, transform and extend suggesting unreadable and uncertain visual information that is nevertheless patently present. Their structure, sequencing, rhythm and visual cadence call attention to the relationship of these non-textual elements to the written word. I wanted to confront the reader with blurry marks that cannot be read and question their presence.
Even though my desire was not to be illustrative, these marks could be read as ink blots or a series of codes. Within the context of Alejandra Pizarnik’s work the marks could be read as shadows, blood drops or stains, holes or hollows, scars or scabs, among others. They could suggest silence and absence, even though they are not silent nor absent. Indeed, the absent voice is very present and echoed in these marks. It is noise, beyond words. Perhaps pointing to the impossibility of expressing oneself fully through words. Or perhaps, because the noise on these pages is able to reach a non-verbal space, that is to be experienced rather than understood.
The five pages are meant to be perceived as an unstable and dislocated space, and produce a sense of impaired vision. I am interested in that moment when the awareness of our own physicality juxtaposes that of the intangible (something that reminds me of Alejandra’s poems). The marks on the page offer us a fleeting moment, one that aims to question the act of looking and that of perceiving, hoping to produce a visceral response. The intimacy of the book format adds to this experience, as we struggle to deal with the shift in scale from the previously read text in the preceding pages, to the large unreadable blotchy marks.


Who we are
The Education Authority (EA) was established under the Education Act Northern Ireland 2014 and became operational on 01 April 2015. It is a non-departmental body sponsored by the Department of Education.
EA is responsible for ensuring that efficient and effective primary and secondary education services are available to meet the needs of children and young people, and support for the provision of efficient and effective youth services. These services were previously delivered by the five Education and Library Boards:
- Belfast Education and Library Board
- North Eastern Education and Library Board
- South Eastern Education and Library Board
- Southern Education and Library Board
- Western Education and Library Board
EA employs over 39,000 people across Northern Ireland in a wide variety of roles. This includes teachers in controlled schools, school-based support staff and staff in administrative headquarters.
A significant change programme to harmonise policies and the delivery of services in the new organisation is under way and will continue for a number of years.
The majority of services are unaffected by the change process at this stage and will continue to be delivered locally by the same people in the same locations.


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Bed brand Sleep.8 and Limited Space has partnered with Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho and the World Literacy Foundation to launch ‘Bedtime Stories’ in shopping malls.
Author, poet and Waterstones Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho will host the inaugural Bedtime Story video series, which involves prominent public figures reading storybooks to children to inspire a love of the written word from an early age.
Broadcast in UK shopping malls and online, and reaching 10 million households in the first week, the series aims to raise awareness around children’s literacy. This comes in the wake of the World Literacy Foundation’s shocking latest impact report, which reveals that up to 20% of children are reading below their expected years for a plethora of reasons including the impact of Covid home learning, first language and socio-economic divides.
The new video series has been created by home lifestyle brand Sleep.8 and retail media owner Limited Space in collaboration with the World Literacy Foundation, ultimately aiming to improve literacy levels in the UK.
Bedtime Stories launched at an inclusive event for the general public held at the Sleep.8 flagship store in Bluewater, where families were invited to take part in a story time event. Children were treated to readings by Joseph Coelho from his own books, and were able to take home complimentary signed copies of the “Luna Loves…” series.
The session was filmed for a nationwide broadcast which features four of Joseph’s stories: One Little World (illus. Allison Allison Colpoys), Poems Aloud (illus. Daniel Gray-Barnett), Luna Loves Gardening and Luna Loves Library Day (illus. Fiona Lumbers). Subtitles are included in order to encourage a ‘read-along’ connection with young viewers, who will encounter the videos across Limited Space’s Digital Billboard Mall Network and will be able to access them at home via the Sleep.8 Bedtime Stories YouTube channel.
The brand decided to host this event alongside Limited Space and the World Literacy Foundation to bring awareness to the low levels of literacy in the East London and Dartford areas.
Andrew Kay, CEO of World Literacy Foundation, states: “A bedtime reading routine with your child for just 20 minutes per day will change the trajectory of their life. They will be reading at grade level by Year 3 and 3 times more likely to attend university.”
Samantha Sida, Co-Founder and Director at Limited Space, said: “This has been a 24 month project since we launched our partnership with the Foundation in 2022, working in connection with the UN General Assembly and Sustainability Goals which aim to give every human across the globe access to a quality education by 2030.
“As a media owner in the public space, we have a moral responsibility to understand the power of our network and the effects of digital platforms. The Bedtime Stories initiative allows us to showcase engaging and fun content that is catered to young families, encouraging them to read and listen together whether in the mall, on their phones or in their homes.”
For Musi Chayla, Sleep.8 Vice President of Retail, the initiative is personally significant: “As someone who was diagnosed with dyslexia in childhood, the World Literacy Foundation’s mission to create a world where every child has the opportunity to acquire literacy skills and books to reach their full potential, regardless of their location or background, is one that is close to my heart.
“Growing up with dyslexia meant that I faced challenges in school which didn’t affect my peers, and it took the care and attention of certain great teachers to give me the space and help I needed to not only overcome these, but to learn to enjoy reading. To have the opportunity to welcome the Children’s Laureate to Sleep.8 with the World Literacy Foundation for the Bedtime Stories initiative, and use our store as a space to inspire a love of the written word in children nationwide is truly special to me, and an initiative which we all hope will really change lives.”


To this question, Anderson lays out a threefold response. The first owed to the establishment of an intermediate or intermediary field of communication:
First and foremost, they created unified fields of exchange and communications below Latin and above the spoken vernaculars. Speakers of the huge variety of Frenches, Englishes, or Spanishes, who might find it difficult or even impossible to understand one another in conversation, became capable of comprehending one another via print and paper. In the process, they gradually became aware of the hundreds of thousands, even millions, of people in their particular language-field, and at the same time that only those hundreds of thousands, or millions, so belonged. These fellow-readers, to whom they were connected through print, formed, in their secular, particular, visible invisibility, the embryo of the nationally-imagined community.
In sum, the knowledge that there existed others with whom people qua readers (as opposed to speakers) shared a language brought on a heightened state of awareness and sensitivity in the reader and created the potential for a relationship in which the reader might address that other as an interlocutor. More simply, the other became imaginable for and available to the reader as a fellow human in a way not previously possible.
Anderson locates the second of these factors in the stability which print-capitalism lent language. The author elaborates:
Second, print-capitalism gave a new fixity to language, which in the long run helped to build that image of antiquity so central to the subjective idea of the nation. As Febvre and Martin remind us, the printed book kept a permanent form, capable of virtually infinite reproduction, temporally and spatially. It was no longer subject to the individualizing and ‘unconsciously modernizing’ habits of monastic scribes.
Central to the idea of the nation is its longevity, the way in which the nation precedes the individual and will subsist after her passing. In being able to access the thinking of previous periods in unadulterated, non anachronistic form, the reader proves able to project herself back into a past which is neither wholly alien nor recognizably her own. There results instead a continuity in the discourse, and continuity of this kind lends itself well to imaginative projections.
The third of Anderson’s three factors turns on the proximity between certain dialects and the languages which arose from the work done by print-capitalism. Consider that:
Third, print-capitalism created languages-of-power of a kind different from the older administrative vernaculars. Certain dialects inevitably were ‘closer’ to each print-language and dominated their final forms. Their disadvantaged cousins, still assimilable to the emerging print-language, lost caste, above all because they were unsuccessful (or only relatively successful) in insisting on their own print-form.
Again, arbitrariness plays a key role in the elevation of one synthesized language above another. The national identities which emerged from the creation and stabilization of a intermediary field of exchange could have been other than they were. At the same time, these identities could not have encompassed a broader swathe of the European population if for no other reason than the synthetic or intermediary quality of print-capitalism’s efforts. Anderson recalls just such limitations when he affirms:
We can summarize the conclusions to be drawn from the argument [ . . . ] by saying that the convergence of capitalism and print technology on the fatal diversity of human language created the possibility of a new form of imagined community, which in its basic morphology set the stage for the modern nation. The potential stretch of these communities was inherently limited, and, at the same time, bore none but the most fortuitous relationship to existing political boundaries.
Limitations of other kinds impose themselves when it is a question of mapping national identity onto the bedrock of national languages. For certain languages are shared between nations or limited only to a nation’s elite:
Yet it is obvious that while today almost all modern self-conceived nations—and also nation-states—have ‘national print-languages,’ many of them have these languages in common, and in others only a tiny fraction of the population ‘uses’ the national language in conversation or on paper. The nation-states of Spanish America or those of the ‘Anglo-Saxon family’ are conspicuous examples of the first outcome; many ex-colonial states, particularly in Africa, of the second. In other words, the concrete formation of contemporary nation-states is by no means isomorphic with the determinate reach of particular print-languages.
By extension, we can conclude that national identity never proves wholly isomorphic with the extent of national languages or vice versa. Wherefore four important considerations for an approach to identity as a construction through linguistic means.
- Identity becomes shared or, at least, cognitively to a person when her interlocutor loses an abstract quality and takes on a concrete existence, often in the form of a potential interlocutor.
- If identity is a question of continuity between persons, then the continuity stability lent by a shared language lends itself well to the imaginative projections at work in identity construction.
- There are no essential forms of identity, for certain forms prevail due to external considerations of viability, such as here a dialect’s proximity to the emerging written standard. Internal considerations of viability, such as logical consistency, cannot account for all.
- A shared language does not necessitate one-to-one correspondence between one person’s identity and that of another, for other considerations and materials come into play, on which that language will undoubtedly work but for which it will provide no predetermined mold.
In a word, while necessary to the articulation of identity, the specific structures of a language are but one factor among many in the development of an identity.


“Evaluating the Current Union of the States: Character and a Consolidated Union,” By Bruce P. Frohen
It is not very often you come across a piece that is as intellectually exhilarating as this.
Editorial Foreword: This essay by Bruce P. Frohnen is the first installment of a new Nomocracy in Politics symposium, “Evaluating the Current Union of States.” The symposium will examine the various costs and benefits that Americans and others incur as a result of our current Union of States–a.k.a., the United States of America. The symposium will progress gradually over a period of weeks.
Essay: A symposium devoted to “evaluating the current union of the states” may sound designed to institute reconsideration of the issues and grievances precipitating and resulting from the Civil War. Perhaps in part because I was born and raised (mostly) in the West, I have no emotional investment in such a debate. Moreover, it seems to me that there is plenty of fault on both sides in relation to that war, and that the airing of grievances in terms of a conflict 150 years gone, while certainly…
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Open Softwear is a book about fashion and technology. More precisely it is a book about Arduino boards, conductive fabric, resistive thread, soft buttons, LEDs, and some other things. We started researching five years ago thanks to the support of K3, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden.
Authors T. Olsson, D. Gaetano, J. Odhner, and S. Wiklund got the chance to come together to write down their conclusions in the form of an illustrated book aiming at students and professionals trying to enter the field of physical computing from the softwear perspective.
Open Softwear is a book for beginners looking into wearable computing or into fashion and technology. Its 104 pages are an opening for courses and workshops in the field. The original document was downloaded over 14.000 times from this website what brought us to make a revised edition in print.
The paper edition is coming to the Arduino Store, Sparkfun and Adafruit Industries, from May 11th, 2011. To honor the help from everyone involved in making this second edition possible, we will offer the whole book as HTML from our website. We will also make a DRM-free PDF available as a paid download.
You can still download the previous version of the book as a PDF here (the beta version from 2009). The current edition is available as a CC-BY-NC-ND, which means you are welcome to copy and distribute it, but you are not allowed to sell the copies, nor create derivative works out of it.
If you are interested in distributing this book send an email to: info [at] softwear.cc, we are open to suggestions!


This September, we will be launching the ISLA Clause Library & Taxonomy!
Asked for by our members in our survey last year, the ISLA Clause Library & Taxonomy is an industry standard collection of business outcome-driven clause variants for the Global Master Securities Lending Agreements (GMSLA) 2000, GMSLA 2010 and GMSLA 2018, along with draft wording & required variables. These can be used to provide operational and efficiency benefits.
Ahead of the launch, we have prepared a step-by-step guide on how to incorporate the ISLA Clause Library & Taxonomy into day to day working practices, including tooling to assist with the GMSLA contract lifecycle.
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Nature Never Stops Talking - The Wonderful Ingenuity of Nature
Written by Samuel J. Alibrando
Friday, 01 January 2010 18:41
Based on a column written in a small, foothill newspaper in California during a 10-year period, the book compiles 100 of these essays and bonus material.
Though the Intelligent Design side of controversy will obviously use this book as a great resource, it was written long before the debate. “Controversies get old” Alibrando says, “but the inspiration of nature is never-ending”. So what is the purpose of the book? Alibrando says far too many of us have unconsciously stopped noticing the everyday miracles that inspire and uplift.
For curious nature lovers . . .
"Nature Never Stops Talking would make an exceptionally popular addition to any community library collection or curious nature lover's personal reading list."
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Essential read for policy-makers . . .
This is an essential read for the parent and teacher; scientist and diplomat; poet and policy-maker; anyone seeking to make a difference, and looking for inspiration along the way."Joseph Affholter, PhD - Molecular Biologist, Chemist, Biotech Industry executive and consultant - Michigan
Down-to-earth Approach . . . I love the down-to-earth approach, the delightful and fascinating facts explored. Diana Waring - International speaker, author of numerous homeschool and history books and audio recordings - Washington
Change the way you view this world . . . This book will forever change the way you view this world. Amazon Customer Review Aaron T - Florida
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Battle of the Bands for Books
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Saturday, May 24th
The Battle of the Bands for Books is returning to the Theater in the Wood on May 24, 2014!
Presented by the North Conway Music Center, the second annual Battle of the Bands for Books is a fundraiser for the Believe in Books Literacy Foundation and its goal of purchasing a new Storybook Bus for the Outreach Programs.
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Jennifer Steele Mondello
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Drag 'n drop from Playlist Editor 2.10
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This plugin allows for items in the playlist to be dragged and dropped outside the playlist. You can for instance drag an item to a playlist in the Media Library, to a Windows Explorer window (to copy the file) or to your favourite tagging application.
Note This is, despite its publication, a work in progress. It has not undergone extensive testing and could produce unwanted results. Bug reports should be directed to me and preferably not at the developers at Nullsoft or anyone else.