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Storytime is a sacred time. It’s a time to bond with your kids whether they climb into your bed or you wrangle your way into theirs. Nothing beats that feeling of being close to them and enjoying an intimate moment that they will remember for years. But as all parents know, one story is never enough. Your voice and reading style will always be their favorite but sometimes it can be fun to mix it up and maybe even get some pointers from librarians who are trained in teaching early literacy skills or your favorite celebrity.
With the recent Coronavirus pandemic, many celebrities and public figures have stepped up to bring free entertainment to you and your little ones. Below is a roundup of some that I found particularly entertaining and useful. They vary in terms of professional presentation and while there is no substitute for being in the room, they are all great ways for children to experience a new book or even a familiar book in a new voice and style.
If you want to experience a live storytime, check your local library website. More and more libraries are now conducting age-appropriate storytimes online via their Facebook pages.
My Top Celebrity Bedtime Stories
Michelle Obama has recently partnered with PBS Kids to read some of the more popular children’s books like the Hungry Caterpillar and the Gruffalo. The easiest way to access these is through the PBS Kids Read-Along channel.
There are Read-Alongs with the author/illustrators themselves which is fun for adults to as it gives you some insights into their creative process. Check out author-illustrator, Victoria Kann read Silverlicious.
A Youtube search of, “Celebrity Storytimes” will yield all sorts of results. These go back years and some are professionally filmed. Here’s one from Kristen Bell reading Quackenstein Hatches a Family.
If mom does most of the reading, it may be fun to have a book read with a male voice. Here’s Clark the Shark read by Chris Pine
Jon Scieszka is a great choice for kids that love cars trucks and all things messy. Here he is reading Truckery Rhymes
Sometimes knowing that someone is sharing the moment with you, even remote, feels more genuine and intimate than a pre-recorded storytime. That’s where your local library comes into play. While the quality isn’t as professional, the staff are. This is their full-time job and their enthusiasm and passion won’t be lost on your kids. Here are a few examples I found but chances are your local library has one too.
Here’s one from L.A. County Public Library. Library storytimes are much more interactive and solicit feedback and thinking from your kids.
I follow the Dakota County Public Libray page and get access to their storytimes. It is nice that even in quarantine your kids can still watch their favorite librarian read to them.
Nothing will replace reading a book to your children and in-person interactions are always best, but sometimes this isn’t always possible and having a growing number of choices from celebrities, to authors to your local librarian will expose you to a wider variety of styles and voices. Happy reading and good night!
Have a favorite virtual storytime that can be found online? Post it in the comments below!


About Napoleon Hill
"If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it. . . You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities unless you work yourself into a white heat of desire for money, and actually believe you will possess it." (a part from the book "Think and grow rich")
Napoleon Hill – The author of one of the most influential and inspired book in the world "Think and grow rich" sold over 30 million copies.
Hill started to work on his book after meeting with Andrew Carnegie. Mr. Carnegie introduced Hill to many successful people. Being a writer, Hill interview them and started to find a pattern that nearly all successful people had, from thus interviews Hill build his philosophy of success.
But Hill understand that there's more to that, he came up with the idea that our thought and our feelings must be controlled in order to achieve success. In he's book Hill Talk about having good feelings and controlling our thoughts and emotions in order to achieve success.
Without knowing the term that we know today, Hill find the principles to the Law of Attraction.


Pittsboro, NC – Friends of the Chatham Community Library will host Blue Ridge Parkway historian and author Anne Whisnant on Friday, February 11 at the library.
The Friends will welcome Anne Mitchell Whisnant, scholar, historian and author of the first in-depth history of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Dr. Whisnant will present “Super-Scenic Motorway: The Blue Ridge Parkway Nobody Knows,” a special program which moves well beyond the scenic beauty of the parkway to reveal a fascinating hidden history of the complicated and frequently contentious decisions which were made between the 1930s and 1980s that eventually brought the famous roadway into being.
This project is made possible by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a stateside nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Friends programs are held from 7:30-9:00pm in the Holmes Family Meeting Room of the Chatham Community Library, 197 Hwy. 87N, on the CCCC-Pittsboro campus.
Free to the public.


Sea of Poppies, by Amitav Ghosh
By John Day Barnett
Most historic stories focus on kings, queens, and other nobles – shying away from the everyday lives of typical citizens, serfs, servants, farmers, and commoners. It makes sense, often the drama and beauty of royal life seems stranger and more seductive than fiction.
In Sea of Poppies, the first book in The Ibis Trilogy – Amitav Ghosh ties together a story of characters from varying social, professional, and geographic backgrounds. There are surprising intimate moments, violent parts that are hard to read, and a large amount of language that seems to be from the mouth of pirates in a Disney movie.
Opium flows throughout the novel, as the title suggests. It touches almost everyone, from the highest reaches of society to those with nothing to their name. It drives much of the narrative, connecting the characters on land and at sea. It makes appearances in seemingly every fourth scene and pumps through seemingly every other character’s veins.
I found the dialogue best approached in the audiobook version, with an energetic reader voicing the characters in a way that breathed life into the work. It would have been hard to move through without skipping every other word since even in the spoken version I understood every couple of words.
If you’re a fan of history, the story is set in an interesting time in the history of India, especially considering the record of the British in the region. Globalization is in its infancy, and mainly focused on taking advantage of local farmers and merchants. Merchants rule – sometimes propping up local traditions and often creating industries and enforcing dominance with an iron fist.
Ghosh brings a humanity to the era from various perspectives and ethnicities in his first of three parts. It’s a book with love, loss, pain, reconnection, and adventure – and while it doesn’t come to a natural conclusion, it encourages you to reach for River of Smoke to see what happens next to the characters you will come to cheer for and others you will hate.
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What is a Static Library?
We all have a vague idea of what a dynamic library is: It is a file containing compiled code, and a list of functions and globals that are “exported” from it and can be called by us from the outside.
.dylibs are specially packaged code containers not unlike an application’s code. Their source files get translated into machine code, each stored in an object file (
LibActualFunctions.o etc.), those then get handed to the linker
ld, which somehow glues them together into an executable Mach-O file.
So I was a bit surprised to find that this is not usually what happens to static libraries. Static libraries are usually not linked, instead of handing them to
ld, they get handed to
ar, the archiver.
ar is basically something like
tar. A tool that simply takes a bunch of files and glues them together into a single file.
If you use the
nm command line tool to look at the
.a file output by your compiler by default, even a release build without debug symbols, it will contain a lot of readable text: The names of all your functions, the names of your .o files, the names of C++ classes … not just runtime type information like the names of Objective-C classes and methods, no, also names of your internal functions.
Many unnecessary strings that both expose implementation details you might not want others to see if you’re distributing closed-source static libraries, and which also use a whole bunch of disk space.
Is this Apple’s fault?
What I’ve described so far holds true for all Unixes. But despite these similarities, each Unix (or Linux) seems to have its own way of dealing with this. On some, it is a matter of renaming the
.o files before archiving them, to names like
1001.o, to hide your file paths, and then you just call
strip on them to remove most of the symbols.
On others, there are special tools.
How do I solve this for iOS/macOS?
Apple has chosen an interesting approach: They extended their linker,
ld, to also work on static libraries.
Now, linking a static library is not quite as easy as linking an executable. With an app, you have a main entry point, you can see which code calls which, you can do many kinds of clever optimizations. Moreover, You generally don’t want to link against an app and need a table of contents.
But dylibs have kind of solved most of those problems already. So what Apple do is they perform a “single-object pre-link” on your static library.
Usually, object files aren’t checked against each other. They contain information about their internal symbols (functions, globals), and empty entries for any symbols referenced from another
.o file. By using the linker to merge all
.o files in the archive into a single
.o, Apple can match up cross-references between the object files in the archive immediately, turn it into one larger self-consistent object file. As a side effect, the constituting file names also get discarded.
The linker also knows how to look up libraries, so it can also check that any external symbols that are still unresolved are defined somewhere in the system libraries.
Xcode has a simple checkbox for that. The “Single-Object Pre-Link” under “Build Settings”.
So how does Xcode know which symbols to throw away and which to keep? I mean, I want users of my library to be able to link to the functions my static library exports, to its public API.
You have to tell it.
By default, Xcode just leaves every symbol in a library visible, unless it is obviously private (like static functions or inlined ones, or in Swift ones declared internal or private). But there is a setting to reverse that: “Symbols Hidden by Default” (Clang flag
So how do I now tell it which ones to leave visible? Two approaches.
You decorate either the definition or declaration of a function with an attribute:
__attribute__(( visibility("default") )) void foo( void );
If you wanted every symbol visible, and just wanted to hide a few selectively, you could also do that and use an atribute to selectively hide them:
__attribute__(( visibility("hidden") )) void bar( int x );
An exports file contains raw symbol names, one per line. Xcode has “Exported Symbols File” and “Unexported Symbols File” options to which you pass the file name, and it will either hide or show all the symbols on the list.
The problem with CMake is that it calls
ar on static libraries, not
ld. We need it to call
ld -r so it will pre-link. How do we achieve that?
A hackish way I found is to simply tell CMake to build a dynamic library, then modify the settings a bit. So instead of
add_library(mylibrary STATIC mylibrary.c mylibraryutils.c)
your CMake file says
add_library(mylibrary SHARED mylibrary.c mylibraryutils.c)
Of course, that just gets us a dylib. But it makes CMake call
ld. Now that
ld has a shot at our object files, we use
which will sneakily insert the
-r parameter that indicates we want to pre-link, not generate a dylib. So instead of a file of type
MH_DYLIB we now get an
MH_OBJECT file, a static lib just like we wanted. However, since CMake thinks we’re making a dylib, the generated file will still be named
mylibrary.dylib even though it is static. So we need to override that suffix:
set_target_properties(foo PROPERTIES SUFFIX ".a")
Note that a library built like this can’t be used by CMake in further build steps. All the variables CMake has set for this library think that a dylib was just built, so will use the wrong syntax to link to this static library. Since I had to keep the
STATIC built version for other platforms anyway, I just gave this library a different name and kept using the old one for when I want to link to the library myself using CMake. This build is now simply for distribution to others who want to link against the binary library.
If I have time, I may go back and investigate whether I can tell CMake using some setting to call the linker instead of the archiver. The problem with that is just that the linker needs a lot of information that is provided by the other targets, like the SDK to use, and I’d have to figure out how to correctly forward all of them.
If you still see symbols that shouldn’t be in there in the file when checking your build product using
nm, you may have to call
strip -r -S -x on your library, which will remove debug symbols and “local” symbols.


The World Famous Miles City Bucking Horse Sale is proud to help John Moore market this new book. John has been instrumental in keeping the history and heritage of the World Famous Miles City Bucking Horse Sale alive! This newest book is a must read!
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In 1982, Miles City area rancher John L. Moore self-published a 76-page booklet entitled “The World Famous Miles City Jaycee Bucking Horse Sale Collector’s Edition.”
A former reporter and photographer for both the Miles City Star and the Great Falls Tribune, Moore had attended the Sale since he was a child and had first covered it in 1971.
“I threw the ‘Collector’s Edition’ together hastily back then,” he admits. “I saw the Sale losing its sense of culture. Someone needed to preserve its origins and honor its history of cowboys, broncs, consignors, and buyers.”
The booklet included articles and photographs by Moore and contributions by other notable writers, photographers, and cowboys.
Now, 42 years later, Moore has issued a revised Bucking Horse Sale book and added his popular series on the FUF Ranch, a horse operation south of Forsyth, Montana, that ran 15,000 horses on 1.1 million acres of open range between 1890 and 1910. This booklet is 80 pages in length.
“The Bucking Horse Sale and the FUF Ranch have no direct connection,” Moore explains. But both are important figures in the history of horses on the Northern Great Plains. The FUF Ranch had a cast of crew members that included Teddy Blue Abbott, the poet D.J. O’Malley, the famed western artist William Gollings, freed slave Joe Proctor, and other top horse hands and cooks. And to top it off, its headquarters was on an island in the Yellowstone River known as Cannibal Island.”


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By Bill Alves
In honor of the centennial of composer Lou Harrison, composer and author Bill Alves is blogging about the Harrison works on the concerts of MicroFest 2017. Alves and Brett Campbell are authors of the new and definitive book on Harrison: Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick, and much of this information comes from that volume.
Now that we are in the midst of Lou Harrison centennial celebrations, his music is everywhere. Yet many significant and high quality pieces of Harrison’s are rarely performed. They often demand unusual or homemade instruments frequently tuned to the non-standard scales of just intonation. The fearless musicians of Los Angeles’ MicroFest specialize in exploring these regions that lie between the keys of the piano, so it will be a unique treat to hear Los Angeles ensembles Varied Trio and Just Strings resurrect some of Harrison’s most lovely chamber music May 12 at the Boston Court in Pasadena California.
Harrison always loved the tintinnabulous timbres of metal bells, which led to his romance with the Javanese gamelan. One of the types of instruments Harrison constructed with his partner, Bill Colvig, was a xylophone-like set of aluminum conduit pipes tuned to the crystalline sonorities of just intonation. Two of these instruments (named “soprano bells” and “tenor bells”) formed part of a larger ensemble that became what Harrison referred to as his American Gamelan, but he also sometimes used them individually and with other instruments.
Harrison’s first composition with these bell instruments was his puppet opera Young Caesar, where they rang out together with a panoply of unusual Western and Asian instruments. This version of the opera has remained unperformed since its 1971 premiere (also in Pasadena), but on May 12 we will hear a suite of the work’s most entrancing instrumental interludes performed on reconstructions of the original instruments. Harrison considered Young Caesar one of his greatest works, and it was one of his life’s regrets that it was never again produced in his lifetime. Our book tells the whole turbulent story of this opera’s various incarnations—including the tale of the flying phalli.
The radiant sounds of the bell tube instruments also show up in a 1972 Solo and in the quirky score Harrison wrote for James Broughton’s 1987 film Scattered Remains. (MicroFest screened the original Scattered Remains at UCLA last month.) Although the ever-practical Harrison later adapted this score for conventional chamber orchestra, the more intimate original version includes unusual percussion, retuned harpsichord, and the sonorities of the justly tuned bells. It’s possibly the closest Harrison ever got to the then-popular minimalist style.
But the real gem of this extraordinary concert is the original version of Harrison’s 1987 Varied Trio (the namesake of one of the performing ensembles). Harrison’s good friends David Abel and Julie Steinberg suggested the piece, and Harrison decided he wanted to write something that would be fun to play with his friends. So he added percussionist William Winant, his partner Bill Colvig, and himself to create an exotic ensemble of violin, retuned harpsichord, retuned harp, bell instruments, and percussion. This Varied Quintet, its original title, premiered at Harrison’s 70th birthday concert in Berkeley, California.
Even so, Harrison recognized the difficulty it would present Abel and Steinberg when they wanted to tour with the piece, so he arranged it for their trio in the standard tuning of equal temperament. As far as I know, the original version has never been performed since its 1987 premiere. The difference in instruments makes the Trio and Quintet almost completely different compositions. For example, the first movement pairs one of Harrison’s alluring violin melodies with an ensemble based on the forms and patterns of Javanese gamelan (its title, “Gendhing,” is the Javanese word for gamelan composition). In the Quintet version to be revived this month, the interweaving just intonation bell instruments sparkle within an entirely different texture than what can be coaxed from the conventional piano.
Harrison was a prolific composer (the works list in our book contains over 400 entries), and he often did not shy away from exotic demands even in some of his most enchanting works. I hope you can join us at this unusual opportunity in Pasadena May 12.


Cinder by Marissa Meyer
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I have wanted to read this series for a long time but had to wait for the book to come off hold from my library. I took this on vacation with me and read the book in one sitting, that is how much it held my attention. It is a retelling of Cinderella but so much more...........cyborgs, a future Earth, a girl discovering her true identity, a new species living on the moon that might be harboring a secret army of were creatures. Can't wait to read the rest of the series.
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THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Roxcy O’Neal Bolton
June 3, 1926 – May 17, 2017
“No matter what anyone tells you, one person can make a difference.”
Lifelong civil rights activist. NOW, national vice president, 1968. Founder and first president of Miami-Dade Chapter of NOW, 1968. Campaigned for the Equal Rights Amendment and convinced then U.S. Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) to hold hearings on the ERA before Congress, 1970. Pressured the National Weather Service in the early ’70s to stop naming all hurricanes female names. Worked to establish Commissions on the Status of Women in state government and in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. Founded Women in Distress, a shelter for homeless women. Encouraged President Richard Nixon to issue a proclamation honoring Women’s Equality Day, 1972. Founded the nation’s first Rape Treatment Center in Miami in 1974 renamed the Roxcy Bolton Rape Treatment Center in 1993.
Photo 1. Roxcy Bolton at the Miami Rape Treatment Center (1974). Photo 2. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Paula Hawkins and Roxcy Bolton (1980’s).
More About Roxcy:
- Obituary, New York Times
- Roxcy Bolton led crusade for women’s rights in South Florida
- Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen honors Roxcy Bolton, The National Women’s History Project
- Essay on Roxcy Bolton, by Molly Turner (archive.org)
- Roxcy Bolton Receives Rotary Club Citizen of the Year
- Roxcy Bolton and the Naming of Hurricanes: We’re History (werehistory.org)
- State Library and Archives of Florida
- Roxcy Bolton Rape Treatment Center (RTC) website
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, pages 48, 49


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Sunday, March 26, 2017
Of the many, many parodies/tributes of horror and sci-fi I've seen over the years, DreamWorks Animation's Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) remains one of my all-time favorites. It's got everything for which a fan of Atomic Age creature features could ask: smart humor, a talented cast, great 3D animation, and enough references to horror/sci-fi history (some more overt than others) to put a goofy grin on any geek's face. It may not be as popular as other DreamWorks titles such as Shrek and Kung-Fu Panda, but MvA knows its target audience of monster kids well and delivers accordingly.
Being the fan that I am, I picked up a copy of The Art of Monsters vs. Alien by Linda Sunshine a while back to learn more about the creative process behind the film. Like other "Art of" movie books, Art of MvA is filled with glossy, full-color pictures of concept art and it arranges them in an order that readers can follow from the early stages of the film's development up to the finished product. Read on for my complete review.
Saturday, March 18, 2017
With Alien: Covenant inching closer to its May release date, I thought I would take a gander at one of the Alien franchise's more ambitious publications: Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report by S.D. Perry, with illustrations provided by Markus Pansegrau and John R. Mullaney.
The WY Report recounts the events of the Alien movies (including 2012's prequel Prometheus) from the perspective of Weyland-Yutani itself, the seemingly omnipresent megacorporation that has been hell-bent on learning the secrets of the parasitic, biomechanical Alien (which is referred to as "Xenomorph XX121" throughout the book).
A book has already been published that included all four Alien movies in a single volume: Alien: The Archive, which was published in 2014 by Titan Books. However, that book detailed the real-life production of each of the movies; in contrast, The WY Report provides a fictitious, in-universe examination of the many details both within and between the movies, thus creating an overarching meta-narrative that pulls the movies' characters, settings and technology together into a coherent and engrossing whole. Read on for my complete review.
Friday, March 10, 2017
In case you haven't noticed from any of my other blog posts, the life of geekhood involves countless obsessions with various pop culture artifacts. One of my recurring fixations is with 3D entertainment, a fixation that has been greatly satiated by the release of 3D films on high definition digital media. These releases initially consisted of only new movie titles but as time went on, releases of vintage titles from Hollywood's "golden age" of 3D films in the 1950s have been appearing as well. This post is devoted to one of the vintage titles, It Came from Outer Space, a sci-fi thriller from 1953 which Universal released on Blu-ray last October. While this film may look very low-tech in comparison to the sci-fi films of today, its reappearance in 3D marks a special milestone for geeky 3D aficionados like me. Read on ....


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- Extending the Border Zone to the Entire State of Arizona: Estimated Expenditures and Economic Impact Simulations, 2013-2016 Charney, Alberta H. Ph.D. and Hoogasian, Alan (pp22). March 12, 2015
- Fresh Produce and Production Sharing: Foundations and Opportunities for Nogales and Santa Cruz County Vera Pavlakovich-Kochi, Ph.D. and Gary D. Thompson, Ph.D. (pp55). September 25, 2013.
- 96th Arizona Town Hall, April 25-28, 2010, Tucson, Arizona. Building Arizona’s Future: Jobs, Innovation & Competitiveness . Background report coordinated by The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. Vera K. Pavlakovich-Kochi, Ph.D., and Jen E. McCormack, Editors. Alberta H. Charney, Thomas Combrink, Stephen Cornell, Erik Glenn, Ronald J. Gunderson, Jim Holway, Jen E. McCormack, Lora Mwaniki‐Lyman, Ben Lyon, William P. Patton, Vera Pavlakovich‐Kochi, Jeffrey Peterson, Tom R. Rex, Jim Rounds, James Tamerius, Marshall J. Vest, Andrea Whitsett (190pp). April 2010.
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Shavuot is a Jewish holiday celebrating receiving the Torah and first fruits of the harvest, known as Bikkurim. We are inviting all of our families with young children to help us welcome & celebrate our most important Bikkurim of all: our children!
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11:30-12:00: A joyful ceremony to celebrate families & welcome new babies to the community, followed by refreshments (including ice cream)! The ceremony will include a blessing for children of all ages and their grownups.
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The Religious and Social Reform Leaders in India
Raja Rammohan Roy
Raja Rammohan Roy Known as the “father of the Indian Renaissance”, Rammohan Roy was a great patriot, scholar and humanist. He was moved by deep love for the country and worked throughout his life for the social, religious, intellectual and political regeneration of the Indians.Rammohan Roy was born in 1772 in Radhanagar, a small village in Bengal. As a young man he had studied Sanskrit literature and Hindu philosophy in Varanasi and Persian, Arabic and Koran in Patna. He was a great scholar Roy who mastered several languages including English, Latin, Greek and Hebrew.In 1814, Rammohan Roy settled in Calcutta and dedicated his life to the cause of social and religious reform. As a social reformer, Rammohan Roy fought relentlessly against social evils like sati, polygamy, child marriage, female infanticide and caste discrimination. He organised a movement against the inhuman custom of sati and helped William Bentinck to pass a law banning the practice (1829). It was the first successful social
Rammohan Roy was associated with the foundation the Hindu College in Calcutta (which later came to be known as the Presidency College). He also maintained at his own cost an English school in Calcutta. In addition, he established a Vedanta College where both Indian learning and Western social and physical science courses were offered.He sent petitions to the government to adopt a wider system of public education in English. He also recognised the importance of vernaculars for spreading new ideas. He compiled a Bengali grammar and developed an easy and modern style of Bengali prose.Rammohan Roy was a pioneer of Indian journalism. He himself published journals in Bengali, Persian, Hindi and English to educate the public on various current issues. Samvad Kaumudi was the most important journal brought out by him.
Rammohan Roy and Internationalism:
Rammohan Roy was a firm believer in internationalism. He held that the suffering and happiness of one nation should affect the rest of the world. He took a keen interest in international events and always supported the cause of liberty and nationalism. He celebrated the success of the revolution in Spain in 1823 by hosting a public dinner.
Rammohan Roy struggled persistently against social evils. He argued that ancient Hindu texts the Vedas and the Upanishads upheld the doctrine of monotheism. To prove his point, he translated the Vedas and five Upanishads into Bengali.
In 1849 he wrote Gift to Monotheism in Persian. Rammohan Roy was a staunch believer in the philosophy of Vedanta (Upanishads) and vigorously defended the Hindu religion and Hindu philosophy from the attack of the missionaries. He only wanted to mould Hinduism into a new cast to suit the requirements of the age.
In 1829 Rammohan Roy founded a new religious society known as the Atmiya Sabha which later on came to be known as the Brahmo Samaj. This religious society was based on the twin pillars of rationalism and the philosophy of the Vedas. The Brahmo Samaj emphasised human dignity, criticised idolatry and denounced social evils like sati.
Rammohan Roy represented the first glimmerings of the rise of national consciousness in India. He opposed the rigidity of the caste system because it destroyed the unity of the country. The poet Rabindranath Tagore has rightly remarked: “Rammohan was the only person in his time, in the whole world of men, to realise completely the significance of the Modern Age.”
The young Bengal movement And Henry Vivian Derozio
The establishment of the Hindu College in 1817 was a major event in the history of Bengal. It played an important role in carrying forward the reformist movement that had already emerged in the province. A radical movement for the reform of Hindu Society, known as the Young Bengal Movement, started in the college.Its leader was Henry Vivian Derozio, a teacher of the Hindu College. Derozio was born in 1809. He was of mixed parentage his father was Portuguese and his mother was Indian. In 1826, at the age of 17, he joined the Hindu College as a teacher and taught there till 1831.
Henry Vivian Derozio
Derozio was deeply influenced by the revolutionery ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity. He was a brilliant teacher and within a short period of time, he drew around him a group of intelligent boys in the college.He inspired his students to think rationally and freely, to question authority, to love liberty, equality and freedom and to worship truth. By organising an association for debates and discussions on literature, philosophy, history and science, he spread radical ideas.
The movement started by Derozio was called the Young Bengal Movement and his followers were known as the Derozians. They condemned religious rites and the rituals, and pleaded for eradication of social evils, female education and improvement in the condition of wome.Derozio was a poet, teacher, reformer and a fiery journalist. He was perhaps the first nationalist poet of modern India. He was removed from the Hindu College because of his radicalism and died soon after at the age of 22.The Derozians could not lead a very successful movement because social conditions were not yet ripe for their ideas to flourish. Yet they carried forward Rammohan’s tradition of educating the people on social, economic and political questions.
Debendranath Tagore, the father of Rabindranath Tagore, was responsible for revitalising the Brahmo Samaj. Under him the first step was taken to convert the Brahmo Samaj into a separate religious and social community. He represented the best in traditional Indian learning and the new thought of the West.In 1839, he founded the Tatvabodhini Sabha to propagate Rammohan Roy’s ideas. He promoted a magazine to do a systematic study of India’s past in Bengali language. The Samaj actively Debendranath Tagore supported the movements for widow remarriage, the abolition of polygamy, women’s education and the improvement in the condition of the peasantry.
Keshab Chandra Sen Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar:
Keshab Chandra Sen carried on an intensive programme of social reform. He set up schools, organised famine relief and propagated widow remarriage. In 1872 the Government passed the Native (Civil) Marriages Act legalising marriages performed according to Brahmo Samaj rites.Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar, a towering personality of the mid- nineteenth century, was born in a poor Brahmin family of Bengal in 1820. He was a renowned Sanskrit scholar and became the Principal of the Sanskrit College in 1851. The Sanskrit College conferred on him the title of ‘Vidyasagar’ because of his profound knowledge of Sanskrit.
Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar was both a scholar and a reformer. He was a great humanist and had deep sympathy for the poor and the oppressed. He dedicated his entire life to the cause of social reform which he thought was necessary for modernising India. By admitting non-Brahmin students to the Sanskrit College, he dealt a severe blow to the prevalent caste systemVidyasagar was a staunch supporter of women’s education and helped Drinkwater Bethune to establish the Bethune School, the first Indian school for girls, in 1849. As Inspector of Schools, Vidyasagar opened a number of schools for girls in the districts under his charge.
Vidyasagar’s greatest contribution lies in the improvement of the condition of widows. Despite opposition, Vidyasagar openly advocated widow remarriage. Soon a powerful movement in favour of widow remarriage was started. At last, after prolonged struggle the Widow Remarriage Act was passed in 1856. Through his efforts, twenty-five widow remarriages took place. He also spoke vehemently against child marriage and polygamy.Vidyasagar contributed enormously to the growth of the Bengali language and contributed to the evolution of the modern prose style in Bengali. He wrote a Bengali primer, ‘Varna Parichay’, which is used even today. Through his writings, Vidyasagar made the people aware of the social problems and thus helped the growth of nationalism in India.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa:
Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa was one of the greatest saints of modern India. Ramakrishna was born in a poor Brahmin family of Bengal. He showed a religious bent of mind from his childhood. He had no formal education but his discourses were full of wisdom. He was the chief priest of the Kali temple at Dakshineswar near Calcutta. People from all walks of life visited Dakshineswar to listen to his discourses. Ramakrishna Paramhamsa was a great teacher who could express complicated philosophical ideas in a simple language for everyone to understand. He believed that religious salvation could be attained through renunciation, meditation and devotion.
Narendra Nath Dutta, better known as Swami Vivekananda, was the most illustrious disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. He was born in Calcutta in January, 1863. He graduated from the Scottish Church College and was well-versed in Western philosophy. Vivekananda was a man of great intellect and possessed a critical and analytical mind. At the age of eighteen, Vivekananda met Sri Ramakrishna. This meeting transformed his life completely. After the death of Sri Ramakrishna, he became a ‘sanyasi’ and devoted his life to preaching and spreading Ramakrishna’s message to the people. His religious message was put in a form that would suit the needs of contemporary Indian society.
Vivekananda proclaimed the essential oneness of all religions. He condemned the caste- system, religious rituals, ceremonies and superstitions. He had a deep understanding of Hindu philosophy and travelled far and wide to spread its message. At the Parliament of World Religions in Chicago (1893), Vivekananda spoke about Hindu religion at length.
His brilliant speech on Hindu philosophy was well received. American newspapers described him as an ‘Orator by Divine Right’. He delivered a series of lectures in the U.S.A., England and in several other countries of Europe. Through his speeches, Vivekananda explained Hindu philosophy and clarified the wrong notions that prevailed in Western countries about the Hindu religion and Indian culture.
In India, however, Vivekananda’s main role was that of a social reformer rather than a religious leader. He propagated Ramakrishna’s message of peace and brotherhood and emphasized the need for religious tolerance which would lead to the establishment of peace and harmony in the country.
He believed that it was the social responsibility of the better placed people to take care of the downtrodden, or the ‘daridra narayan’. With his clarity of thought, deep understanding of the social problems of India, Vivekananda undoubtedly left a deep mark on the Indian intelligentsia as well as on the masses. At a time when the nation was in despair, he preached the gospel of strength and self-reliance. Vivekananda died at the age of 39.
The Ramakrishna Mission:
In 1896, Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission to propagate social welfare. It laid emphasis not on personal salvation but on social good and social service. The Ramakrishna Mission stood for religious and social reform based on the ancient culture of India. Emphasis was put on the essential spirit of Hinduism and not on rituals.
Rendering social service was the primary aim of the Ramakrishna Mission. It believed that serving a human being was the same as worshipping God. The Mission opened a chain of schools, hospitals, orphanages and libraries throughout the country. It provided relief during famines, earthquakes and epidemics. A math or monastery was established in Belur near Calcutta. The Belur Math took care of the religious developments of the people.
Dayanand Saraswati and the Arya Samaj:
Another organisation in northern India which aimed to strengthen Hinduism through reform was the Arya Samaj. Dayanand Saraswati, the founder of the Arya Samaj in Rajkot, was born into a Brahmin family in Kathiawar, Gujarat, in 1824. At the early age of 14, he rebelled against the practice of idol worship. He ran away FROM HOME at the age of twenty. For the next fifteen years, he wandered all over India meditating and studying the ancient Hindu scriptures.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
In 1863 Swami Dayanand started preaching his doctrine of one God. He questioned the meaningless rituals, decried polytheism and image worship and denounced the caste system. He wanted to purify Hinduism and attacked the evils that had crept into Hindu society.
Dayanand Saraswati believed that the Vedas contained the knowledge imparted to men by God, and hence its study alone could solve all social problems. So he propagated the motto “Back to the Vedas.” Asserting that the Vedas made no mention of untouchability, child marriage and the subjugation of women, Swami Dayanand attacked these practices vehemently.
Dayanand began the suddhi movement which enabled the Hindus who had accepted Islam or Christianity to return to Hinduism, their original faith. Dayanand published his religious commentaries in Hindi so as to make the common people understand his preachings. The Satyarth Prakash was his most important work.
The Swami worked actively for the regeneration of India. In 1875, Swami Dayanand founded the Arya Samaj in Bombay. The Arya Samaj made significant contributions to the fields of education and social and religious reforms. After his death, his followers had established the Dayanand Anglo Vedic Schools first in Lahore and then in other parts of India. Gurukuls were also established to propagate traditional ideals of education. A network of schools and colleges both for boys and girls were also established by the Arya Samaj.
The Arya Samaj influenced mostly the people of northern India, specially Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Punjab. Although it was not a political organisation, the Arya Samaj played a positive role in creating a nationalist pride in Indian tradition and culture.
Reform movements in Western India:
Mahatama Jyotirao Govindrao Phule
Jyotirao Govindrao Phule prominent role in bringing about, reforms in Maharashtra. He fought for improving the condition of women, the poor and the untouchables. He started a school for the education of girls of the lower castes and founded an association called the Satyasodhak Samaj.
People from all castes and religions were allowed to join the association. He was opposed to the domination of the Brahmins and started the practice of conducting marriages without Brahmin priests.
The Prarthana Samaj:
In 1867, the Prarthana Samaj was started in Maharashtra with the aim of reforming Hinduism and preaching the worship of one God. Mahadev Govind Ranade and R.G. Bhandarkar were the two great leaders of the Samaj. The Prarthana Samaj did in Maharashtra what the Brahmo Samaj did in Bengal.
Mahadev Govind Ranade
It attacked the caste system and the predominance of the Brahmins, campaigned against child marriage and the purdah system, preached widow remarriage and emphasised female education. In order to reform Hinduism, Ranade started the Widow Remarriage Association and the Deccan Education Society. In 1887, Ranade founded the National Social Conference with the aim of introducing social reforms throughout the country. Ranade was also one of the founders of the Indian National Congress.
Reform Movements in South India:
The Theosophical Society and Annie Besant:
Many Europeans were attracted towards Hindu philosophy. In 1875, a Russian spiritualist named Madame Blavatsky and an American called Colonel Olcott founded the Theosophical Society in America. The society was greatly influenced by the Indian doctrine of karma. In 1886 they founded the Theosophical Society at Adyar near Madras.
Annie Besant, an Irish woman who came to India in 1893, helped the Theosophist movement to gain strength. She propagated Vedic philosophy and urged Indians to take pride in their culture. The Theosophists stood for the revival of the ancient Indian religion and universal brotherhood.
The uniqueness of the movement lay in the fact that it was spearheaded by foreigners who glorified Indian religious and philosophical traditions. Annie Besant was the founder of the Central Hindu College in Banaras, which later developed into the Banaras Hindu University. Annie Besant herself made India her permanent home and played a prominent role in Indian politics. In 1917, she was elected President of the Indian National Congress.
Syed Ahmad Khan:
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, one of the architects of modern India was born on October 17, 1817 in Delhi and started his career as a civil servant.
The 1857 revolt was one of the turning points in Syed Ahmed’s life. He clearly foresaw the imperative need for the Muslims to acquire proficiency in the English language and modern sciences, if the community were to maintain its social and political clout, particularly in Northern India.
He was one of those early pioneers who recognized the critical role of education in the empowerment of the poor and backward Muslim community. In more than one ways, Sir Syed was one of the greatest social reformers and a great national builder of modern India. He began to prepare the road map for the formation of a Muslim University by starting various schools. He instituted Scientific Society in 1863 to instill a scientific temperament into the Muslims and to make the Western knowledge available to Indians in their own language.
The Aligarh Institute Gazette, an organ of the Scientific Society, was launched in March 1866 and succeeded in agitating the minds in the traditional Muslim society. Anyone with a poor level of commitment would have backed off in theface of strong opposition but Sir Syed responded by bringing out another journal, Tehzibul Akhlaq which was rightly named in English as ‘Mohammedan Social Reformer’
In 1875, Sir Syed founded the Madarsatul Uloom in Aligarh and patterned the MAO College after Oxford and Cambridge universities that he went on a trip to London. His objective was to build a college in line with the British education system but without compromising its Islamic values.
He wanted this College to act as a bridge between the old andthe new, the East and the West. While he fully appreciated the need and urgency of imparting instruction based on Western learning, he was not oblivious to thevalue of oriental learning and wanted to preserve and transmit to posterity therich legacy of the past. Dr. Sir Mohammad Iqbal observes: “The real greatness of Sir Syed consists in the fact that he was the first Indian Muslim who felt the need of a fresh orientation of Islam and worked for it — his sensitive nature was the first to react to modern age”.
The aim of Sir Syed was not merely restricted to establishing a college at Aligarh but at spreading a network of Muslim Managed educational institutions throughout the length and breadth of the country keeping in view this end, he instituted All India Muslim Educational Conference that revived the spirit of Muslims at national level. The Aligarh Movement motivated the Muslims to help open a number of educational institutions. It was the first of its kind of such Muslim NGO in India, which awakened the Muslims from their deep slumber and infused social and political sensibility into them. He died on March 27, 1898


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There are some children’s books that are so dull and obnoxious that every word irritates you as you read it to your wide-eyed kid. These are usually the same books that your kid is madly in LOVE with, and therefore insists you read them over and over and over again until the grumble inside your head starts to show on the outside of your face. But there are good ones, too. Sweet ones with beautiful drawings and lovely stories and poetry, charming and funny and endearing.
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Ruth Clarke died
We are so sorry to share the news of the death of former NC Ruth Clarke. Here Dorothy writes of her.Ruth Clarke, who died suddenly on Jan 11th has been an active member of the Forum since before the 3rd EFECW Assembly in York where every morning she would tell us World News from the BBC!
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We are sorry to announce the death of our friend Dr. Ioanna Sahinidou, who was one of the first women in Greece who have found the local branch of the EFECW. Her deep faith to God, her ecumenical life, her wonderful spirit, her theological knowledge will always be a part of all the members of the Forum in Greece and of all her ecumenical friends in Greece and abroad. She was a member of the Evangelical Church of Greece, an excellent theologian, a woman of faith and also practice. We will remember her with respect and love and we wish her to have her place in Paradise and her Resurrection by the side of our Christ!
Farewell Mrs. Ioanna!


Just a quick list of some amazing books that I have stumbled across.
The Body Book – By Cameron Diaz
Celebrity / Nutrition & Fitness
A celebrity take on fitness and nutrition, however Cameron Diaz is actually a little credible. She shares the knowledge she has learned through the aid of experts and personal experience. She takes the time to break down nutrition well, without feeling too overwhelmed the reader learns a great deal about nutrient dense foods and how to fuel the body. Cameron explains fitness in a wonderfully well rounded way, by reminding the reader that working up a sweat isn’t just about losing weight. I love that she brings up: improving mood, boosting energy levels, and preventing disease. She also drops tips for choosing the right exercise program and shares her own workout strategies for feeling your best and looking great.
Breaking Free From Emotional Eating – By Geneen Roth
This book is about the different forms and levels of emotional and compulsive eating behaviors. It’s an easy read and the best part about it, it gives those that are ready to change a chance to achieve it. Geneen Roth offers multiple tips, guidance and tools to keep on top of your eating habits. She believes it is essential to connect (or re-connect) your physical hunger and also that feeling of having had enough. Its a bestseller and definitely worth a read, even for those that are not struggling with a dramatically unhealthy relationship with food.
Sport Science / Athletes
I loved this book, because it digs deep into improving athletes abilities. Milliseconds are the difference between first and tenth place; its truly remarkable how science has changed the game. This book breaks down nutrition, genetics, beating fatigue, rest at all levels, it helps explain Metabolic Equivalent of Task (METS) in layman terms, and how to fine tune athletic abilities. However it isn’t just for “hardcore athletes” this book teaches the reader how to focus and unite body and mind in order to continue on with day to day life. This is a great book for those that are curious about how things work, and those that want to maximize their skills.
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success – By Deepak Chopra
Success / Fulfillment
This is a refreshing book about achieving your goals, no matter how big or small. It doesn’t reinforce the “nose to the grindstone” technique. This book introduces the reader to a few basic laws of nature, based on spiritual and Hindu concepts. The idea is that once the reader understands these law and learn to hone them, anyone can achieve the success they wish. It is a great reboot book, I always pick it up again when I’m super stressed, overwhelmed or pist off about something. The basic laws include: Meditation, benefits of giving, acceptance of situations, karma, trust that everything happens for a reason, detachment of negativity, discovering yourself and your talents. Although I know I don’t apply these laws to my own day to day routine, it’s still a great book that helps me reconnect with myself. For those that are feeling lost or struggling with transition, I highly recommend this book.
Thug Kitchen – By Matt Holloway & Michelle Davis
For those that know me, they will know that this book is right up my alley. (I swear like a sailor, as does this book) It has a direct, sometimes brash way of describing food. I love it. No Martha Steward stuff here. The photos are beautifully rough and the directions in this cook book take on a casual approach. Don’t have this ingredient? Try this one instead, or fuck-it altogether. Even if you are not vegan or vegetarian, I always recommend having a good meat-free cook book like this around. We all need to eat more veggies and its hard to get out of the potato and broccoli rut. I find when I open something like this, I’am always amazed with how creative, colourful and flavourful dinner can become. Its a beautiful healthy break from same old and its quite fun being a badass in your own kitchen.
Self Help / Eating Disorder
An easy, pick up and put down at anytime read. The author “breaks up” with ed (Eating disorder) for good. No matter what life throws at her. Full recovery is mentioned and hope is offered for it. The author isn’t too serious or dark about her struggle, nor does she go into great personal detail; she simply gives her take on how she got through the tough times and how you can too. This is a best seller and has helped thousands of people actually break free from the chains of disordered eating. If you know anyone or you yourself has any from of disordered eating I highly recommend this book. Even if the reader is not ready to read it, it’s worth it to have around the house, so that when they are ready it’s there. This is a second book, the first one is “life without Ed” However you don’t need to read one before another etc.
This book is a really funny “bathroom book” I have bought it for 3 friends already and I still pick it up for a giggle. It’s a perfect pick up put down book, and it consists of nothing but lists. Lists of random parenting and family hilariousness. My personal favorite lists include “One hour inside my wife’s brain” -my phone just made a noise ill get my husband out of the shower to ask him what it is. & “oh the things you will no longer need” – skis, alarm clocks, floor lamps, your sexy voice… Such a good funny book for any parent. I recommend it be gifted to a new parent; because honestly they don’t need another adorable onesie, and its the gift that keeps on giving.
Forks Over Knives – Directed and written by Lee Fulkerson
Disease and the connection with food
News alert. I haven’t read the book, I watched the documentary. I was so happy with this well put together this documentary, that I just can’t leave it off my list. This doc is a pro vegan doc, that doesn’t use scare tactics, animal cruelty images, or hippy peace and love fluff… It basically just lays out facts and results surrounding numerous scientific studies and experiments throughout the world, all in relation to the consumption of meat products. The lovely part of this doc is that it gives the viewer a wonderful sense of hope in reversing the damage that has already been done. It makes amazing connections between the food we eat and many forms of cancer. This doc actually demonstrates examples of how to grow precancerous cells and diminish them a matter of weeks, just by changing the percentage of meat product consumed. This is the first documentary that changed how we eat at our house. Although we are not vegan or vegetarian, we have consciously decided to drastically reduce our meat and dairy consumption and eat as many fruit and veggies as possible. I feel really good after watching this doc and recommend it to everyone I meet. It’s on Netflix and I very seriously suggest you give it a shot.


PORTFOLIO OF WORK
The following is a collection of my latest and most meaningful research projects. I am always available for collaboration and co-authoring. I hope you enjoy my work and I invite you to contact me with any questions.
NATIONAL IMAGE, MEDIA AND RECONCILIATION
This research would dive in the nexus among international political backdrop, the government-led construction of a former enemy states’ national image in domestic media and the prospect of deep interstate reconciliation in East Asia. This research is conducted within the framework of Baixian Asia Institute AFLSP Scholarship Project.
A GENDER PERSPECTIVE OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION POLICIES IN MOUNTAINOUS AREAS: A SINO - VIETNAM COMPARATIVE STUDY
The findings of this research would enrich the literature on poverty alleviation and gender equality. With increasing calling for inclusion of gender elements in policymaking, the findings from the two cases examined in this research would provide a clear picture of how gender equality could be better appreciated when designing and implementing poverty alleviation policies at local level in Vietnam and China.
TALK WITH YENCHING-ERS
As a Sinologist, not for a single moment have I ever forgotten my mandate: to study China from within and to give the world deep insights into China that might have not been presented elsewhere. This project is a blog series which includes my interviews with my fellow Yenching scholars at Yenching Academy who are more than willing to tell you interesting life stories either as a Chinese or as a foreigner living and studying in China.


At Greenford, we're passionate about reading for pleasure and know that finding the right book can be a life-changing experience.
We run regular events with year groups called #GreenfordRead. This involves lots of people reading the same book then getting together to discuss it.
We would like to ask all Year 6 students who will be joining us in September to read a book with us. The selected book is Running on the Roof of the World by Jess Butterworth - an amazing adventure story set across the Himalayas in Tibet and India.
We've teamed up with the wonderful Pitshanger Bookshop in Ealing who have generously donated 20 copies and we're asking all of our Year 6 students joining in September to try and get hold of the book and read it over the summer.
Here's our head of reading Ms Williams to explain more and read you the first chapter of Running on the Roof of the World:
...And here's Ms Williams reading Chapter 7 - how far have you got?
Look out for more on #GreenfordRead in the future!


Good Morning, God is a charming little book that is published by Apologia Press. The book is written for children ages 1-8 and is based on Deuteronomy 6:6-7:
These commands that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. ImpressThe Good Morning, God goes through each day of the week talking about how the little boy in the story worships God each day and how his parents teach him about God each day. Each day also ends with a prayer. At the end of the book are questions and activities for each day as well. The author suggests that to get the full impact of the book, you should read the book every day for 8 days (Sunday to Sunday) and then discuss the questions at the back that are specific to that day. But they also acknowledge that the book can just be read as a story for your little ones to enjoy.
them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you
walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
The pros: The illustrations in Good Morning, God are charming. Each two page spread features one black and white line drawing and one full color drawing. The line drawings made us think of coloring pages, and it turns out, a coloring book of Good Morning, God is available for $4 HERE. I like the simple but meaningful text that focusing on worshiping God all day long just in the way you live your life. And I like the focus on how the parents play a part in that training. I found it especially nice that one page of text and the accompanying picture mentioned the "school room", since so few books actually portray homeschooling as a societal norm. The mention is brief, and families that chose more traditional schooling methods certainly wouldn't be excluded from getting the full benefit of the book, but it's nice to see a book supporting homeschooling nonetheless. And I love, love, LOVE the prayers in the book. They are short, sweet, and very meaningful.
The cons: None really, but I should point out that the book specifically mentions Sunday as the day you go to church (twice, since it begins and ends on a Sunday). That's not a problem for me, but it would be for some people out there whose Sabbath is on Saturday. And it clearly portrays a "whole family in church together" situation whereas we go to a church that has separate children's church and adult church. The way it is pictured in the book is more of the norm though, and it certainly didn't bother me to see it that way, nor did my youngest even notice it as being different from our church environment.
The bottom line: Good Morning, God is a very nice hardback book that would make an excellent gift for any family with young children. With so much "twaddle" out there for young children's literature, it is nice to have a book that is so simple, beautiful, and focused on God without being "over the top" as some specifically Christian books can be.
Good Morning, God can be ordered HERE for $14.00. To see what other members of the TOS Crew had to say, go HERE.
Legal Disclaimer: I received a copy of Good Morning, God for the purpose of giving my review. That book was the only compensation I received.


|The leader pigs of the Animal Farm|
The Rebellion was the suggestion of the most intelligent animal in the farm, who was an old pig. The rebellion was made and succeeded and it was followed by a number of events that resemble those that happened at the Russian rebellion.
In fact, not only they resembled the Russian revolution, but also you can find a lot of common parts with the revolutions that happened in the Arab world in the middle of the past century.
Little by little, the leaders of the revolution in the Animal Farm could manage to rule the farm in a dictatorship manner. The case is the same with the Russian and the Arab. You can easily find points of similarities between the actions of the Animal Farm's leaders and the actions of our leaders in the Arab world. You can even laugh when you find out that the Arab people's reaction to leaders' injustice is similar to the reaction of the animals of the farm.
By reading this book, I now understand how we, Arab people, became what we are now; obedient to our leaders and insensitive to our own pride. I understand now how many people around me think that all the positive things that we have are because of the wisdom of our leaders. I also understand why many people insist on comparing our situation with less developed countries and communities and then believing that we are living in the best situation possible.
The book walks through the life cycle of the revolution. Starting from the causes, the spark, the success of the revolution, and then how people get brain-washed by the revolution's leaders and how they start forgetting the first revolution's principles. And it ends at the point when the farm is fully operated in dictatorship.
In the book, this happened over 124 pages which you can read overnight. In real life, it takes years and decades. Unfortunately, our generation is living the final stage. We haven't ever experienced the first stages and we don't even realize they ever existed. We are fooled that it has always been this way. We are fooled that this is the norm.
Eye-opening and interesting book that deserves reading.


Your Bridge to History takes you along with the Black Votes Matter Tour across the American South. The characters tour sites where individuals and organizations focus on Civil Rights, Voting Rights and Black History in the United States.
Beautiful illustrations by Regina Jeanpierre depict what the tour participants experienced along the way. QR codes are included in important locations to take readers to websites that are important to further learning.
The book received the prestigious 2020 Celebrate Nebraska Children’s Picture Book Award.
Jul 17, 2019


Summer Visits 2016
Summer Visits 2016
This summer, SRA members and their guests enjoyed guided tours of two repositories in Perth and a further two in Glasgow. On Friday 17 June, 14 members and guests spent the morning exploring the Fergusson Gallery, Perth's former Waterworks building which now houses the artwork and personal archives of the Scottish Colourist, John Duncan Ferguson (1874-1961) and his partner, Margaret Morris (1891-1980). After viewing a display of Fergusson's paintings and sculptures in the lower gallery, the group proceeded to the upper gallery where a new exhibition marks 125 years since the birth of Margaret Morris. Morris not only devised her own, distinctive technique for teaching dance, but was also a composer of dance music; a costume designer; a playwright, and an artist in her own right. The exhibition features a vibrant array of photographs, paintings, costumes and other memorabilia relating to her career. The group concluded their visit with a tour of the artwork storage area and the Gallery's newly opened research room, where they took full opportunity to examine the exhibition catalogues, items of personal correspondence and other archive records in this unique collection.
In the afternoon, the group received a behind-the-scenes tour of the collection stores at the neighbouring Perth Museum and Art Gallery. This began with highlights from the Museum's photographic collection, including daguerrotypes and glass plates from the earliest days of photography; street scenes and picturesque views captured by prominent local photographer, Magnus Jackson (1831-1891), and charming original photographs of Beatrix Potter's pet rabbit, 'Benjamin Bouncer'. The tour then took in several other themed stores, with the group particularly enjoying the stuffed birds and animals in the natural history collection, the household accoutrements in the social history store, and the national treasures in the paintings store. The tour concluded with some examples of the archive records held in the Museum, including ephemera relating to Miss Georgina Ballantine, who, on a fishing trip near Caputh on 7 October 1922, landed the heaviest British rod-caught salmon. The Museum recently acquired a written account of Miss Ballantine’s tussle with the 29-kilogram fish, plus an advertising bill for the Perthshire Advertiser, proclaiming her record-breaking catch. These items are to be placed on display beside a fibreglass model made from an original plaster cast of the salmon.
On 12 September, 8 members and guests visited the Glasgow Women's Library, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. They received an illustrated talk on the history of the Library and its archive collections, followed by an opportunity to see and handle some of the diverse items from the archives. These ranged from Suffragette postcards, to knitting and dressmaking patterns and editions of the 'Jackie' annual, the latter proving a nostalgic highlight for many in the group. The visit concluded with a tour of the building's purpose-built archive stores, and a short talk about the Library's current Heritage Lottery Fund project to record and share the history of Women's Aid in Scotland.
The group then travelled the short distance to the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre in Garnethill Synagogue. Their visit began with a guided tour of the synagogue, which opened in 1879 and is the oldest in Scotland, before taking in the archive stores. Members and their guests received an illustrated talk about the archive collections, and spent time exploring the fascinating displays of photographs, artefacts and other personal records relating to Jewish families in Scotland. They also learned of the SJAC's plans to create a new Scottish Holocaust Era Study Centre.
We would like to thank Amy Waugh of the Fergusson Gallery; Mark Simmons and Paul Adair of Perth Museum and Art Gallery; Nicola Maksymuik and Elizabeth O'Brien of the Glasgow Women’s Library, and Harvey Kaplan of the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre for hosting this year’s visits and for giving so generously of their time and expertise.
Summer Visits 2015
The Association was pleased to offer members the opportunity to visit four outstanding repositories in Edinburgh and Glasgow during the summer. The first visit, to two historic legal libraries in Edinburgh, took place on Monday 8 June. Twelve members and guests enjoyed a comprehensive tour of the Advocates Library in Parliament Square, which was built in 1830 to a design by William Playfair. The tour highlighted the building’s impressive cultural artefacts, including a memorial plaque to members of the Faculty of Advocates killed in the First and Second World Wars, and the traditional, individual wooden boxes that are provided for each advocate in the Laigh Hall. As our hosts explained, these boxes are now ornamental, but in former days the advocates' case papers would have been placed there. The Historiographer Royal in Scotland has described the records of the Advocates Library as one of the richest untapped sources for Scottish history in existence, and the group concluded their tour by browsing a display of some of these, including a beautifully drawn family tree from the Arniston Collection.
The group then proceeded to the adjoining Signet Library, where they were treated to a tour of its splendid architectural features. Foremost among these is the cupola in the Upper Library, decorated with a painting of authors and muses including Robert Burns, William Shakespeare and Adam Smith. A display of manuscripts and rare printed material from the Library’s collections had again been provided, including a fascinating scrapbook of original documents relating to the case of Oscar Slater, who was wrongfully convicted of murdering Marion Gilchrist in Glasgow in 1908. The group also examined what is believed to be the last original manuscript leaf from the journals of circuit judge, Lord Cockburn: his nephew was understood to have burned all the manuscripts after the journals were published, but one page has fortunately survived. This records Cockburn's suggestions for the proposed monument to Walter Scott in Edinburgh, expressing his view that Edinburgh was not a proper place in which to erect an obelisk as the city was more suited to chimneystacks!
The second double visit, to two performing arts archives in Glasgow, took place on Friday 4 September. Eight members and guests spent the morning at Glasgow University Library Special Collections, home of the Scottish Theatre Archive, where they browsed a selection of the many Scottish theatre posters, playbills, programmes and photographs in its collections. The group took delight in spotting a young David Tennant ('Dr Who'), pictured in one of the performance programmes, and in finding the famous figure of Jimmy Logan, photographed sitting in the front row of a 'full house'. They then received a detailed tour of the Special Collections book store and reading room on the top floor of the Library. The group was thrilled to learn how the social and cultural variety of the special collections at Glasgow University is exemplified by two items housed in a safe in the store: the Hunterian Psalter, which is a 12th century illuminated manuscript, and a kettle that belonged to the mother of the renowned Scottish variety artist, Harry Lauder!
In the afternoon, the group visited the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Archives. The Conservatoire was initially founded in 1847 as the Glasgow Athenaeum, and was until recently known as the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Among the fascinating facts revealed by our host was that the Glasgow Athenaeum was formally opened by Charles Dickens, though the first choice to perform this honour had been a Scottish MP, Lord Morpeth. The group was again privileged to examine a selection of materials from the Conservatoire's collections, including a serpent, a historical musical instrument that is the ancestor of the tuba. Jimmy Logan also figured prominently, as the Conservatoire holds his personal archive. This includes the famous 'red book' received by Logan when he was featured on the television programme, 'This Is Your Life'. The group was surprised to learn that when each subject was handed his or her red book at the end of the programme, the covers were actually empty – they were later filled with content from the evening once filming was over.
The Council of the Scottish Records Association would like to thank Andrea Longson and Jane Condie of the Advocates Library, James Hamilton and Robert Bruce of the Signet Library, Niki Marshall and Claire McKendrick of Glasgow University Library Special Collections, and Stuart Harris-Logan of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Archives for hosting this year's Summer Visits and for giving so generously of their time and expertise.
Summer Visits 2014: The Black Watch Museum and Archives, Perth
On Monday 1 September, nine members and guests of the Scottish Records Association enjoyed a memorable visit to the Black Watch Museum and Archives at Balhousie Castle, Perth. The visit began with a tour through the recently refurbished museum galleries, each of which explores a particular theme or chronological period in the regiment's history. With origins dating back to 1725, the Black Watch is Scotland's oldest Highland regiment, and our knowledgeable guide, Willie Cooper, regaled the party with stories of the key events, people, and artefacts highlighted in the displays. The impressive selection of military medals prompted several questions from the group, while many found the memorabilia in the First World War-themed gallery, including chalk carvings made by some of the soldiers and a mud-encrusted kilt worn on the battlefield, especially poignant and moving.
The group was then treated to a tour of the archives facility from the Black Watch Archivist, Richard McKenzie. The archival records of the regiment have been housed in Balhousie Castle since the 1960s, and are now located in a new, purpose-built store on the top floor of the Castle, complete with mobile racking. The earliest records in the collection date back to the 1750s, and a selection of eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth-century materials was laid out for the group to view. Among the most interesting items were hand-drawn maps and plans associated with the Battle of Loos, letters home from soldiers serving in the First World War, and officers' order books. Richard also spoke about some of the First World War commemorative activities that the museum and archives have planned for the coming years, including a Memorial Wall at Balhousie Castle. From 3 September 2014 and throughout the First World War centenary, a cross will be hung on the Wall for each soldier killed on that day. The names will be read out and the crosses hung during a ceremony at 11am every day during the rest of the centenary period.
There was far more to see than could possibly be squeezed into the time allotted for the tours, and the party enjoyed themselves so much that, at the conclusion of the visit, several people went back into the museum for a second look round. The Council of the Scottish Records Association would like to record their thanks to Willie, Richard, and to the Museum Manager, Emma Halford-Forbes, for facilitating the visit and giving so generously of their time and expertise.
Summer Visit to the Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen
On 6 June, seven members and guests of the Scottish Records Association visited the Sir Duncan Rice Library at the University of Aberdeen. Officially opened in September 2012, the Library was designed as a 21st century space for learning and research, and offers a light, modern and comfortable environment in which to study, as well as spectacular views of the city from the top floor.
The Deputy Archivist, Andrew Macgregor, delivered a general introduction to the Library and its various collections, followed by a comprehensive tour of the building, beginning with the modern book collections, group study rooms, silent study spaces and flexible learning areas on the upper floors. The group was then shown round the Special Collections Centre, which is located on the Lower Ground Floor and houses the University’s historic collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives. The facilities include a Reading Room; a Learning Room - a dedicated area for schoolchildren and other groups to learn more about the collections through workshops, seminars and other educational activities - and the adjacent Glucksman Conservation Centre, which is solely dedicated to conserving the in-house collections. Time was then spent exploring the archive storerooms, including the store in which the pre-1878 portion of the Scottish Catholic Archives, recently transferred to Aberdeen from Columba House in Edinburgh, will be housed. The group was extremely impressed with all the facilities, and Council is grateful to Andrew Macgregor and his colleagues for hosting a most entertaining and enjoyable visit.