Last week during our wonderful visit in Nantucket, my cousin lent me her copy of a book given to her as a present from a longtime friend. The story is well-known among the Irish of Naugatuck, Connecticut. Such Is The Kingdom, by Thomas Sugrue, published in 1940, is a revery about growing up in the Irish neighborhoods of that town in the early twentieth century. I’ve been told that when it came out the townsfolk eagerly bought copies to see if they appeared overtly or in lightly disguised versions amid the story’s characters. Similarly, I inhaled this book while trying to compare Sugrue’s descriptions with my understanding of the Cherry and Carroll Street enclaves and the community about whom I wrote in my own book, From the Old Sod to the Naugatuck Valley: Early Irish Catholics in New Haven County, Connecticut.
Who were the O’Mahaney’s based upon, I still wonder? Might they have been the Learys, the Martins, or even the Mahers? Dead by the turn of the century, the original Auntie Kelly would likely have been Julia Butler Kelly Robinson, wife of John Kelly, after whom Kelly Hill was nicknamed. Apparently loved by the community, she couldn’t have been the model for the one that “Meadowlegs Fahy” thumbed his nose at while walking home one night! Might the Katy St. Martin character have been a tip of the hat to the memory of Katy Maher Martin, the “St.” underscoring the devoutness of her family and herself, the first Catholic child born in Naugatuck? Meadowlegs, who had such a beautiful tenor voice, was, unfortunately, one among the community afflicted with “the Irish curse.” Might he have been partly based upon an ancestor of mine who had been an under-age drinker?
The map in the front and back flyleaves of this book was altered by the author such that it did not exactly reflect the layout of the neighborhoods, yet the Maher’s homes on Cherry Street (labeled “Hill Street”) by the brook, could be easily spotted as “O’Boyle” and “stable.” The curve of Arch Street was also recognizable, labeled “Dublin Road,” intersecting with Scott Street, which was labled “Oak”—actually another Maher-related street in an area on the opposite side of town. These liberties likewise merged and altered aspects of the place into a fiction, but it is a rich fiction for those intrigued with this actual place and its early Irish identity.
In Ireland, the only country whose national symbol is a musical instrument, history is still contained in its music, and the Irish love of music and of the spoken, sung and written word remains. Aunts of mine played the organ in the first incarnation of Naugatuck’s Saint Francis Church, and one of them, principal Josephine A. Maher, established the first music program at her beloved Salem School. Uncles of mine were known to have been great singers and my grandparents, James and Alice, participated in amateur theatre productions (most likely with music) in Naugatuck. These thoughts inspired me to put together a collection of Irish music here, selected in part by the images that accompanied them on You Tube. Enjoy!
- O’Sullivan’s March, by The Chieftains
- The Chieftains, The Corrs, and dancers
- The Streets of New York, by the Wolf Tones
- Kevin Barry, Irish Brigade; this begins with a notice of the reburial of ten members of the Irish Brigade with full military honors on 14 Oct. 2001, in Glasnevin Cemetery. “The Forgotten Ten” were: Kevin Barry, Patrick Moran, Frank Flood, Thomas Whelan, Thomas Traynor, Patrick Doyle, Thomas Bryan, Bernard Ryan, Edmond Foley and Patrick Maher. [Patrick Maher was honored here, but buried in his homeland at Ballylanders, County Limerick.]
- The Foggy Dew, by the Irish Brigade
- The Ballad of Michael Collins, by Padraig Mor
- Song For Ireland, by Luke Kelly (The Dubliners)
- James Connolly, The Irish Rebel, Margo O’Donnell
- Grace, by Jim McCann (The Dubliners)
- The Famine Song, by Johnny McEvoy
- Enya, Irish Famine Film (ad can be clicked off)
- Boolavouge, The High Kings; Wexford’s anthem in honor of Father Murphy in the 1798 Rebellion.
- The Rising of the Moon, 1798 song, The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem (1962)
- The Town I Loved So Well, Luke Kelly
- Danny Boy, Sinead O’Connor
- She Moved Through the Fair, Cailtin Grey
©2012 Janet Maher/Sinéad Ní Mheachair
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Bonnie M. Smolskis said:
You mention Carroll Street in Naugatuck. My Grandparents lived on Carroll St ( Louis John Ruth and Catherine Louise (Shannon) Ruth and it is where their first two children were born. Louis John Ruth, Jr. and Mary Catherine (Mae) Ruth-Spiwak. Bonnie
Hi Bonnie! That was near Oak and Coen Streets, where Naugatuck’s Thomas Maher (Civil War vet) lived for a time too (pp. 205,206). We’ll figure this Ruth connection out yet!
John Wiehn said:
Your favorite Naugatuck librarian checking in….
The Sugrue book you mention is very rare, so guard it with your life;)
The Whittemore library has all of sugrue’s books and the majority are
kept out of circulation due to their rarity. Several years back Sugrue’s daughter
donated her father’s Bound copies of all the articles he wrote in the 1930’s.
Quite a writer…. He loved the library and spent alot of time of his youth
there. A great irish-american writer who was born in Naugatuck!
Janet, a wonderful post… I’m enjoying the music and will save this post so I can return to it. You certainly have an interesting history.
John, yes, I’ll take good care of it and get it back to my cousin. Have been looking online to buy one. Thank you for introducing it to me! Cris, glad you’re enjoying the music. It was interesting to put together—like old times making cassette mixes (albeit entirely other types of music!)
Marie Taylor said:
I am trying to trace my great great grandmother and father Timothy Maher and Margaret Reilly also not sure the writing could also be Kelly hard to make out.
Timothy was a farmer they had a daughter Margaret born in 1844 County Clare according to her marriage certificate. The daughter Margaret my great grandmother came out to Australia and married in 1861 in Victoria a John Poyner who was killed in a dray accident leaving Margaret with five children. I do not know if Timothy and Margaret came with her.
On her second marriage certificate in 1879 it states her parents as Edward Marr and Margaret Reilly (farmer). She married a Charles Beach and had two more children.
On both her certificates Margaret’s surname was spelt as Meagher I have tried all the different spellings and keep coming up with blanks, I am in great need of help if any one is able to give me any information on Timothy/Edward and Margaret Reilly/Kelly
The different spellings is very confusing but I do know it was spelt how it was pronounced a lot of the time hence the confusion.
I am presuming that Timothy/Edward came from County Clare and was born around 1815 to 1820.
That’s great that you have this much information documented. The information I will be posting in the near future, having just come back from Ireland, will include more general information about the surname and its ancient roots. I haven’t, however, focused on the Clare area in my own research, so am afraid I cannot be of much help. I recommend that you join the Clare groups:
and go through the information on this page:
Wishing you well,
Marie Taylor said:
Sorry I haven’t replied before now thank you so much for getting back to me I will follow up on your links thank you once again.


Big screens, Xboxes and teens whooping it up: it’s not your traditional library vignette but the scene you’ll find every second Sunday afternoon at Manukau Library.
|The Youth Gaming Club was immediately |
“I began the event in September last year with the intention to make a time just for teens, where they can relax, enjoy the library and play some games with their friends. The event is informal and held in the Youth section itself. It helps our young people claim the section as their own and it’s awesome to see our youth enjoying themselves in a safe environment,” Joseph said.
The club has proven to be instantly popular, with around 10-15 young people taking part each session. Joseph said he constantly sees new faces each month, including the first girl gamers recently joining the fold. While the number of attendees means there is some wait time for everyone to have a turn, this hasn’t been an issue so far.
“I’ve seen with the youth that have been coming to play that they really enjoy playing in a group, because if they aren’t playing themselves, they can still cheer their mates on,” he said.
One hurdle the club has faced has been choosing the games to play. Because of the age restrictions on shooter-style games and with most attendees being 14 and under, the focus has been on racing and sport games. The recent addition of the Xbox Kinnect has allowed the group to play newer games like Sonic Racing Transformed and Kinnect Sports, which Joseph said were hugely enjoyed.
|Big screen action at Manukau Library's Youth Gaming Club.|
The popularity of the club and the connections Joseph has forged with young users of Manukau Library recently saw him approached by the Media Design School to hold a special session to introduce the club to the virtual reality headset, Oculus Rift. More than 50 people attended the event in January, including both children and adults, who got a chance to try out this new and exciting technology, including games developed by the school’s own students.
Joseph says he's thrilled with the success of the Manukau Library Youth Gaming Club and is keen to see more libraries to get on board.
“I’ve learned from this event that something as simple as putting out an Xbox with some games to play is all that is needed to bring youth together, to bring out smiles and laughter, and honestly it’s the best thing to be part of,” he said.


Youth/Teen Summer Catalog - Reading & Literacy Program (Grades K-2) Summer 2022
The Brainiac Reading and Literacy Program is designed to meet emerging and beginning readers at their developmental level to build and support language and literacy. This program incorporates reading, writing, oral language, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension all within the context of stories and books. The program is flexible and highly individualized, using whole group, small group, and individual instruction to meet the needs of varying ages and developmental levels in one classroom. Instruction provided by Brainiac, LLC.


The Island by Mary Grand
The Island is the new murder mystery from Isle of Wight writer Mary Grand, which follows her popular thriller The House Party, one of the biggest sellers in Medina Bookshop in 2020. Both books are set on the Isle of Wight.
Juliet returns to visit her sick father and to be reunited with her 3 sisters. As her father lies dying he warns her there’s a killer on the loose. He tells Juliet that he confided in son-in-law Rhys. When a man leaving Rhys’s church is run down by a car and the finger of suspicion is pointed at Juliet she realises she need to uncover the secret.


The dataset concists of registrations of diferent representatives of zooplankton in the different types of water bodies at the Rzhyshchiv city amalgamated territorial community (CATC).
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 61 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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Samchyshyna L (2022): Zooplankton studies in the different types of water bodies at the Rzhyshchiv city amalgamated territorial community (CATC). v1.1. Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). Dataset/Occurrence. https://gbif.univer.kharkov.ua/resource?r=zooplanktonrzhyshchiv1&v=1.1
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Occurrence; Rzhyshchiv CATC; Rzhyshchiv; zooplankton; Rotifera; Arthropoda; water bodies; Occurrence
Zooplankton for the studies was sampled on the territory of Rzhyshchiv city amalgamated territorial community.
|South West [49.16, 29.246], North East [51.509, 32.124]
Dataset consists of Rotifera and Arthropoda representatives.
|Start Date / End Date
|2021-06-12 / 2021-06-13
With the help of Apstein's plankton nets, 50-100 liters of water were filtered. The material was supplemented with 4% formalin. Processing of hydrobiological material was carried out in the Laboratory of Hydrobiology and Technology of Cultivation of Valuable Invertebrates IWG NAAS with the help of the most commonly used methods.
|The dataset was created of registrations of species found in water samples taken from water bodies of Rzhyshchiv CATC.
|The author is fully responsible for the quality of data provided within the dataset.
Method step description:
- Filtering of 50-100 l of water from the water body with the help of Apstein's nets.
- Fixation of samples with 4% formalin.
- Species identification.


Experiencing the Power of the Gospel
Part 3―Biblical Doctrines in the Light of the Gospel
Part 4―Last Day Events (Eschatology)
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Julius Wellhausen in 1895 added the finishing touches to a hypothesis which is prevalent in modern biblical circles. The hypothesis is known as the Documentary Hypothesis. Using literary criticism as its basis for argument, this hypothesis sets forth the idea that the Pentateuch (Genesis to Deuteronomy) was not written by Moses, as the Bible claims, but was completed years after Moses died.
Those adhering to the Documentary Hypothesis teach that the first five books of the Bible were written close to one thousand years after Moses' death and were the result of a process of writing, rewriting, editing and compiling by various anonymous editors or redactors.
Writing was virtually unknown in Israel during Moses' time and consequently Moses could not have written the Pentateuch. Wellhausen himself said: "Ancient Israel was certainly not without God-given bases for the ordering of human life; only they were not fixed in writing."
Answers to this argument:
The British Assyriologist A.H. Sayce evaluates this late date of writing theory. He claims that "this supposed late use of writing for literary purposes was merely an assumption, with nothing more solid to rest upon than the critic's own theories and presuppositions. And as soon as it could be tested by solid fact it crumbled into dust.
First Egyptology, then Assyriology, showed that the art of writing in the ancient East, so far from being of modern growth, was of vast antiquity, and that the two great powers which divided the civilized world between them were each emphatically a nation of scribes and readers.
Centuries before Abraham was born, Egypt and Babylonia were alike full of schools and libraries, of teachers and pupils, of poets and prose-writers, and of the literary works which they had composed.
A.J. Evans found evidence of pre-Mosaic writing on Crete. Not only were Egypt and Babylon writing in hieroglyphic and cuneiform respectively, but Crete had three, perhaps four systems, i.e. pictographs, linear symbols, etc.
Albright, speaking of the various writing systems that existed in the ancient Orient even during pre-Mosaic patriarchal times, says: “In this connection it may be said that writing was well known in Palestine and Syria throughout the Patriarchal Age (Middle Bronze, 2100-1500 B.C.). No fewer than five scripts are known to have been in use:
1) Egyptian Hieroglyphs
used for personal and place names by the Canaanites;
2) Accadian Cueniform
3) the Hieroglyphiform Syllabary of Phoenicia
used from the 23rd century or earlier;
4) the Linear Alphabet of Sinai
three inscriptions in which are now known from Palestine (this script seems to be the direct progenitor of our own);
5) the Cuneiform Alphabet of Ugarit
used also a little later in Palestine, which was discovered in 1929.
This means that Hebrew historical traditions need not have been handed down through oral transmission alone.”
Cyrus Gordon, formerly professor of Near Eastern Studies and chairman of the Department of Mediterranean Studies at Brandeis University and an authority on the tablets discovered at Ugarit, concludes similarly:
The excavations at Ugarit have revealed a high material and literary culture in Canaan prior to the emergence of the Hebrews. Prose and poetry were already fully developed. The educational system was so advanced that dictionaries in four languages were compiled for the use of scribes, and the individual words were listed in their Ugaritic, Babylonian, Sumerian, and Hurrian equivalents.
The beginnings of Israel are rooted in a highly cultural Canaan where the contributions of several talented peoples (including the Mesopotamians, Egyptians, and branches of the Indo-Europeans) had converged and blended. The notion that early Israelite religion and society were primitive is completely false. Canaan in the days of the Patriarchs was the hub of a great international culture. The Bible, hailing from such a time and place, cannot be devoid of sources. But let us study them by taking the Bible on its own terms and against its own authentic background.
The archaeological evidence serves not only to refute the older critics’ antequated theory but also serves as positive evidence to support the probability that Moses kept written records. ***See more archaeological findings***
In summary conclusion comments:
This issue constitutes a major upset for skeptics of Bible history. Sayce said it well when he asserted: “Moses not only could have written the Pentateuch, but it would have been little short of a miracle had he not been a scribe.”
Finally.…the documentarians’ presuppositions that we have examined must be regarded as invalid.…Another of these presuppositions (an a priori distrust of the Old Testament record) must be rejected since it flies in the face of an accepted cannon of criticism that has stood the test of time.…and the assumption that there was no writing in Israel during the Mosaic age, have been soundly refuted by archaeology.
The reason for the widespread acceptance of the theory:
Why it may be asked, if the Documentary Hypothesis is as invalid as this investigation has attempted to show, was it so eagerly received and defended in most scholarly circles throughout continental Europe, Great Britain, and the United States?
W.H. Green answers this way: "A large number of eminent scholars accept the critical partition of the Pentateuch in general....It has its fascinations, which sufficiently account for its popularity. The learning, ability, and patient toil which have been expended upon its elaboration, the specious arguments arrayed in its support, and the skill with which it has been adapted to the phenomena of the Pentateuch and of the Old Testament generally, have given to it the appearance of great plausibility."
"The novel lines of inquiry which it opens, make it attractive to those of a speculative turn of mind, who see in it the opportunity for original and fruitful research in the reproduction of ancient documents, long buried unsuspected in the existing text, which they antedate by centuries. The boldness and seeming success with which it undertakes to revolutionize traditional opinion and give a new respect to the origin and history of the religion of the Old Testament, and its alliance with the doctrine of development, which has found such wide application in other fields of investigation, have largely contributed to its popularity."
Green continues: "Its failure is not from the lack of ingenuity or learning, or persevering effort on the part of its advocates, not from the want of using the utmost latitude of conjecture, but simply from the impossibility of accomplishing the end proposed."
Form Criticism assumes that before the Gospels were written there was a period of oral tradition.
Martin Dibelius, author of "From Tradition to Gospel"....was one of the first renowned form critics [and] comments: "The literary understanding of the synoptic [gospels] begins with the recognition that they are collections of material. The composers are only to the smallest extent authors. They are principally collectors, vehicles of tradition, editors. Before all else their labour consists in handing down, grouping, and working over the material which has come to them."
Floyd Filson notes that the form critics were the first to make an intensive study of oral tradition. Filson notes the effect of this study on the Gospel tradition (note the discounting of eyewitnesses):
“Moreover, not only is the function of the final editor of the material minimized, but the former tendency, still widely dominate, to bridge the decades between Jesus and the actual writing of the Gospels by some one eyewitness for each Gospel, is seriously discounted. Instead for example, of seeing Peter as the sufficient guarantor of what Mark contains, there is a tendency to see in Mark the deposit of a collection of units of continually repeated oral tradition.”
Answers to this argument:
E.L. Abel comments on this: The late T.W. Manson held firmly to the view that “a great deal of information in the Gospel of Mark comes directly from Peter the apostle....Mark made no mistake when he wrote down some things as he remembered them. He intended only one thing, to omit or falsify nothing which he had heard.”
The Oral Tradition was made public through the knowledge of the christians in the Church, and because it was made public, the accuracy of it is sound….“He continues that, it is reliable to believe that the church services and their construction of transmission was very trustworthy. In the services the stories of Jesus were repeated so often that these stories had to be well known. In light of this the Church would be unlikely to permit any kind of change in form or content.”
E.L. Abel comments on this by referring to Taylor: Those Christians who had lived to see both Jesus and the Gospels written would have been able to prevent imagination from spreading into the Gospels. Taylor proclaims that “....the presence of eyewitnesses, for at least a generation, would serve as a check on corruptions innocently due to imagination....”
Taking into account the chronological considerations, McGinley comments:
"First of all, eyewitnesses of the events in question were still alive when the tradition had been completely formed; and among those eyewitnesses were bitter enemies of the new religious movement. Yet the tradition claimed to narrate a series of well-known deeds and publicly taught doctrines at a time when false statements could, and would, be challenged."
"Secondly, even though christianity had widespread growth, the traditions of the gospels were so well formed that 30 years after Jesus' death, the Gospel of Mark, influenced by Peter, was instantly accepted in Rome."
Failure to acknowledge the Holy Spirit's involvement:
Another area of conflict in the treatment of Form Criticism and oral tradition has been its failure to acknowledge the role of the Holy Spirit. Robert Mounce has commented that "Form Criticism has little or no place for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit and His role in the origin and transmission of the teachings of Jesus."
G.E. Ladd has offered his support to the concept of an oral tradition: "We may conclude therefore, that the contention of form criticism that the Gospel tradition was preserved in oral form for a generation by the church is not only a fact which is attested strongly by the New Testament, but is also a fact of great theological importance. Not only was the Holy Spirit active in the writing of the books of the New Testament; he was also active in the history of the Gospel tradition before it assumed written form. This theological fact is seldom recognized by form critics, for they usually work as historians, not as theologians."
In summary conclusion comments:
The form critics hold that the Gospel traditions were passed on in oral form for at least one generation after the death of Christ. Other scholars contend that there was not enough time between the death of Christ and the writing of the Gospels for the traditions to develop in the way the form critics propose.
James Martin in The Reliability of the Gospels has remarked that: "as a matter of fact, there was no time for the Gospel story of Jesus to have been produced by legendary accretion. The growth of legend is always a slow and gradual thing. But in this instance, the story of Jesus was being proclaimed, substantially as the Gospels now record it, simultaneously with the beginning of the Church."
Paul L. Maier writes that "arguments that christianity hatched its Easter myth over a lengthy period of time or that the sources were written many years after the event are simply not factual."
The assumption that there was an oral period before any of the gospel material came to be written down has been questioned by H. Schurmann. He suggests that during Jesus' ministry his disciples may have written notes on main aspects of his teaching.
1. Josh McDowell, (1993). Evidence that demands a verdict (vol.2), p.29. Thomas Nelson, Inc.
2. Josh McDowell, (1993). Evidence that demands a verdict (vol.2), p.68. Thomas Nelson, Inc.
3. Julius Wellhausen, (1885). Prolegomena to the History of Israel, p.393. Translated by Black and Menzies.
4. A.H. Sayce, (1904). Monument Facts and Higher Critical Fancies, p.28-29
5. A.H. Sayce, (1904). Monument Facts and Higher Critical Fancies, p.41
6. W.F. Albright, (Apr 1938). "Archaeology Confronts Biblical Criticism." The American Scholar (vol.7), p.186
7. Cyrus Gordon, (23 Nov 1959). “Higher Critics and Forbidden Fruit.” Christianity Today (vol.4), p.133-134
8. Josh McDowell, (1993). Evidence that demands a verdict (vol.2), p.70. Thomas Nelson, Inc.
9. A.H. Sayce, (1904). Monument Facts and Higher Critical Fancies, p.42-43
10. Josh McDowell, (1993). Evidence that demands a verdict (vol.2), p.86. Thomas Nelson, Inc.
11. Josh McDowell, (1993). Evidence that demands a verdict (vol.2), p.169-170. Thomas Nelson, Inc.
12. William Green, (1895). The Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch, p.131-132
13. Josh McDowell, (1993). Evidence that demands a verdict (vol.2), p.205. Thomas Nelson, Inc.
14. Martin Dibelius, (1935). From Tradition to Gospel. Translated by Bertram Lee Woolf, p.3
15. Floyd Filson, (1938). Origins of the Gospels, p.93, Abingdon Press.
16. E.L. Abel, (Oct 1971). “Psychology of Memory and Rumor Transmission and their bearing on theories of Oral transmission in Early Christianity.” Journal of Religion (vol.51), p.273
17. James Martin, (1959). The Reliability of the Gospels, p.65&61, London: Hodder and Stoughton.
18. Laurence McGinley, (1944). Form Criticism of the Synoptic Healing Narratives, p.25
19. Robert Mounce. Interview (2 July 1974).
20. G.E. Ladd, (1967). The New Testament and Criticism, p.153, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
21. Josh McDowell, (1993). Evidence that demands a verdict (vol.2), p.213. Thomas Nelson, Inc.
22. James Martin, (1959). The Reliability of the Gospels, p.103-104
23. Paul Maier, (1973). First Easter: The True and Unfamiliar Story, p.122
24. W.E. Barnes, (1936). Gospel Criticism and Form Criticism, p.159


Every veteran has sacrificed to protect the values the flag represents ... and millions have died.
What can you do on this Flag Day to say 'thank you' to an aging veteran parent, relative, friend or neighbor who survived but sacrificed his* time, his families and his livelihood?
One idea is to encourage him to record his personal war experiences so his grandchildren, great-grandchildren and future generations can learn how their family contributed to the history of the nation.
The Library of Congress Veterans History Project is collecting first-hand accounts of U.S. veterans and civilians who supported them.
The veterans' account can be submitted on CD, cassette, DVD, VHS or as an original memoir, wartime diary or journal or as a collection of letters or photographs.
There are millions of World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War and Persian Gulf War stories not documented in books or official records. Don't let the story of a veteran you know be one of those untold.
You can assist a veteran by logging on to the Library of Congress Veterans History Project website, downloading a VHP Field Kit, and assembling the information.
If the veteran is reluctant to undertake this task, you can suggest that he search The Library of Congress Veterans History Project database to find old army, air force, coast guard, marine, or navy buddies with whom he may have lost contact.
There are many other ways to say 'thank you' in action rather than words:
- Prepare a special home-cooked meal or take a veteran out to dinner (or breakfast or lunch).
- Mow the lawn, clean the house, fix the shutters, take a veteran to a medical appointment or help with grocery shopping.
- Take a veteran to a ball game, to an amusement park, to the theater or to a movie. If a veteran is unable to get out, spend a few hours visiting with him in his home.
- Give a veteran a book about something that particularly interests him.
When you can't be there in person, you can say 'thank you' by phoning today and everyday (rain or shine) to chat, check on his health, remind him to take his medications and ask if there is anything he needs.
If you have other responsibilities that require your attention, arrange to have a professional service call your loved one for you ... to provide a welcome contact with the outside world and to let him know you are thinking of him.
More than 50 percent of U.S. veterans are now age 65 and older. Loss of spouses and friends as well as health and mental problems, incurred in battle or simply age-related, are depriving many veterans of the quality of life they fought to enjoy.
On this Flag Day, grateful citizens of the United States can say 'thank you' in so many ways (listed or not listed here). Saying 'thank you'' may not be enough ...show you appreciation by actually doing something to help.
* Since the majority of elderly veterans are male, the masculine pronouns are used here. However, every statement applies equally to the many women veterans.


Expected Graduation: 2020
Specialization(s):Early Childhood Education
Research Interest(s)Children's literature, Fathers' participation in early literacy activities, Gender identity development in early childhood
- Rena Hallam, Rob Palkovitz, Advisors
Laura has been in the field of early childhood for over ten years. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Delaware and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Maryland. Laura taught kindergarten and first grade in the Florida public school system for 6 years before returning to her alma mater to accept a position with Delaware’s Quality Rating and Improvement System, Delaware Stars. Laura is currently a full-time Ph.D. student in the Department and is responsible for instructing two undergraduate courses: Life Span Development and Families & Developmental Disabilities. She also serves as Vice President of the Education Graduate Association and is a children’s and young adult book reviewer for the International Literacy Association’s blog. Laura’s research interests focus jointly on children’s literature and gender identity development in early childhood. She explores how children’s literature shapes identity development, particularly in regard to gender identity development, and investigates various aspects of the home literacy environment, including fathers’ participation in early literacy activities. Laura hopes to continue on an academic trajectory and plans to conduct research and deliver instruction at a post-secondary institution.
- Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books: A Contemporary Content Analysis of Popular and Award-Winning Picture Books
- Using Data to Refine Technical Assistance in QRIS: Lessons Learned From a Statewide Initiative Promoting Curriculum-Based Assessment
- Cutler, L. (2018). Challenging the familiar: Using fractured fairy tales to introduce critical literacy. Literacy Today, 35(6), 36-37.
- Cutler, L., & Angus, C. (2018) International Literacy Association Book Reviews: International Children’s Books, April 2018
- Cutler, L. (2015). Delaware Stars Curriculum and Assessment Pilot: Final Report June 2015. Delaware Stars for Early Success, University of Delaware;
- Cutler, L. & Graham, S. (2008). Primary grade writing instruction: A national survey. Journal of Educational Psychology, 100(4), 907-919.
- Cutler, L. & Buell, M. (2017). Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books: A Contemporary Content Analysis. International Literacy Association Annual Conference, Orlando, FL. Poster Presentation.
- Ye. A., Cutler, L., Gilden, C., Xie, Y., Yun, Y, & Gaviria, Y. (2017). Investigating the Bidirectional Relationship Between Home Environment and Student Achievement: A Cross-Lagged Longitudinal Analysis. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
- Cutler, L. & Buell, M. (2017). Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books: A Contemporary Content Analysis. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Austin, TX. Poster Presentation.
- Cutler, L. (2017). The Power of Yet: Fostering a Growth Mindset in Children Through Picture Books. Read Aloud Delaware Conference, Middletown, DE.
- Panel participant during the University of Patras’ 2nd Forum on Intercultural Dialogue & Learning: Educating the “Other”: Intercultural Education at a Crossroads. Patras, Greece. October 2016.
- Hallam, R., & Cutler, L. (2016). Using Data to Refine Technical Assistance in QRIS: Lessons Learned From a Statewide Initiative Promoting Curriculum-Based Assessment. National Institute for Early Childhood Professional Development, Baltimore, MD.
- Cutler, L. (2016). Home Literacy Environments and Their Effects on Young Children’s Literacy Development: A Review of the Literature. Marion Steele Research Symposium, Newark, DE.
- Cutler, L. (2016). Fractured Fairy Tales: A Vehicle for Introducing Critical Literacy in Early Childhood. Read Aloud Delaware Conference, Middletown, DE.
- Curriculum and Assessment Program Coordinator and Professional Development Instructor , Delaware Institute for Excellence in Early Childhood, Delaware Stars for Early Success, University of Delaware, 2014-2017;
- Program Coordinator, Children’s Book Week, 2017
- First Grade Teacher, Pershing Elementary School, Orange County Public School District, Orlando, FL, 2011-2013
Honors & Awards
- Amy Rextrew Graduate Student Award, University of Delaware, 2018
- Inaugural Recipient, Lynn R. Okagaki Graduate Tuition Scholarship in Human Development, University of Delaware, 2017
- Professional Development Award, Office of Graduate and Professional Education, University of Delaware, 2016
- Teacher of the Year Nominee, Pershing Elementary School, 2012
- Cum Laude, University of Delaware, 2003
- Degree with Distinction, University of Delaware, 2003
- American Association of University Women (AAUW)
- Newark, Delaware Chapter and the University of Delaware’s Registered Student Organization
- International Literacy Association (ILA)
- Children’s Literature and Reading SIG
- National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD)
- National Council on Family Relations (NCFR)
- Ethnic Minorities SIG
- M.A. Special Education, University of Maryland, 2005
- B.S. Early Childhood Development and Education, Early Childhood Special Education, University of Delaware, 2003


Going from a totalitarian government to a socialistic government should be a grand revolution should not it? In Animal Farm by George Orwell, the animals rebel and overthrow Mr. Jones, the owner of the farm. Animal Farm symbolizes the Russian Revolution and the reign of Stalin.
The plot is what occurs after the animals have established themselves as the joint owners of the farm. The plot flows very well and is easy to understand and even catch the underlying implications. The power struggle within the plot is also very stimulating.
The story is enhanced every further by the characters. There are the pigs, sheep, dogs, horses, chicken, and one stubborn donkey. The characters' personalities are very well drawn out. Some characters I loved and others I absolutely could not stand, which just adds to the book's greatness.
I would recommend this to anyone interested in reading a good historical fiction book. And, anyone looking for a book linked to the Russian Revolution.


Welcome to my new web site, designed to showcase my books about Fred the snake. There are now six of them, and another in development “When Fred the Snake and Friends go camping”. The books are aimed at young children (ages 3-8), and many have some hidden educational message, like how (not) to cross the road in the first book “When Fred the Snake got Squished and Mended”. In the resources section you will find a movie of me reading it.
Bonnie’s wonderful illustrations bring everything to life. We are proud to have received many positive reviews and awards, most recently the prestigious Mom’s Choice gold award.
We hope to hear from you on social media, or post a comment on the Contact page.
If by chance you want to know more about me and my travels, check out www.drpetercotton.com


This is the community reading list where you can discover books and other resources that might change you, in a good way. #TraumaSucks. #AdversitiesSucks.
THE CHILD CALLED IT
by Dave Pelzer
"A child called 'it' is the unforgettable account of one of the most
severe child abuse cases in California history. Dave Pelzer was brutally
beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, who
played torturous games that left him nearly dead ... In the sequel, The
lost boy, Dave is finally 'rescued' by the social-service system, then
shuffled in and out of five foster homes. Tears and laughter, despair
and hope, all create the journey of this little lost boy desperately
looking for the love of a family, a place to call home"--Jacket.
CODEPENDENT NO MORE WORKBOOK
by Melody Beattie
Is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to a loved one’s self-destructive behavior, you may be codependent--and you may find yourself in this book. With instructive life stories, personal reflections, exercises, and self-tests, Codependent No More helps you to break old patterns, maintain healthy boundaries, and say no to unhealthy relationships. It offers a clear and achievable path to freedom and a lifetime of healing, hope, and happiness.
COMPLEX PTSD: FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING
by Pete Walker
Alice Miller, author of "The Drama of the Gifted Child", wrote: "Pete
Walker wrote a book about his own recovery from emotional numbness. The
author passionately explores as thoroughly as possible the role of
emotions in human life. The result is not only a moving, honest recount
but also an informative guide for people who want to become more aware
of their buried feelings. Walker's well explained concept of
'reparenting' will help them go through this fascinating process in a
safe, protected way."
COMPREHENSIVE STRESS MANAGEMENT
by Jerrold S. Greenberg
Greenberg's Comprehensive Stress Management integrates research and theories found useful when dealing with the inevitable occurrence of stress, with an emphasis on the interrelation of stress and illness. The 14th edition provides up-to-date information on stress associated with college student debts and technology use, as well as a new perspective on religion and spirituality as it relates to stress. The Connect course for this offering includes SmartBook, an adaptive reading and study experience which guides students to master, recall, and applies key concepts while providing automatically-graded assessment. This technology empowers students to learn what stress is, evaluate their level of stress, and apply to their own lives the tools and skills necessary to manage stress.
GOT PARTS? AN INSIDER'S GUIDE TO SUCCESSFULLY MANAGING WITH DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISODER
Once thought of as a rare and mysterious psychiatric curiosity, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is now understood to be a fairly common outcome of severe trauma in young children most typically extreme and repeated physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse, and often lack of attachment. Formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder, DID is a condition in which a person has two or more distinct identities or personality states that recurrently take control of the person's consciousness and behavior. Symptoms can include depression, mood swings, panic or anxiety attacks, substance abuse, memory loss, propensity for trances, sleep and eating disorders, distrust, detachment, lack of self-care, and distress or impairment at work.
Got Parts? was written by a survivor of DID in association with her therapist and therapy group. This book is filled with successful coping techniques and strategies to enhance the day-to-day functioning of adult survivors of DID in relationships, work, parenting, self-confidence, and self-care. Got Parts will help you introduce yourself to your internal family and improve its communication, integration, and well-being. Although written to carefully avoid triggering, it delivers well-grounded guidelines for living that DID people need to do on the way to recovery. Coping strategies included help you with issues related to triggers, flashbacks, and body memories. Got Parts also includes a detailed list of outside resources you can draw on. This book is intended to be used in conjunction with a therapist and is not a substitute for therapy.
REFRAME YOUR THINKING AROUND AUTISM
by Holly Bridges
Outlining a new, optimistic way to understand autism, this concise and accessible book offers practical ideas to help children on the spectrum grow.
The Polyvagal Theory suggests autism is a learnt response by the body - a result of the child being in a prolonged state of 'fight or flight' while their nervous system is still developing. This book explains the theory in simple terms and incorporates recent developments in brain plasticity research (the capacity of the brain to change throughout life) to give parents and professionals the tools to strengthen the child's brain-body connection and lessen the social and emotional impact of autism.
THE BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER WORKBOOK
by Daniel J. Fox, PHD
Despite what you may have read or been told, BPD is not the worst thing that can happen to you. Like many mental health issues, it manifests on a spectrum, and while some people may encounter extreme symptoms and consequences on one end, others may be less affected on the other. What do you all have in common? You likely experience difficulty balancing your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. And you may even have trouble seeing yourself clearly—continuously switching from the hero to the villain of the story you’ve written about your life. So, how can you make sense of it all and start on the road to healing?
Rather than utilizing a one-size-fits-all treatment, this groundbreaking and comprehensive workbook meets you where you are on your therapeutic journey, and provides an integrative approach to treating BPD drawing on evidence-based dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and interpersonal therapy. With this compassionate workbook, you’ll gain a greater understanding of your BPD, uncover your own emotional triggers, and discover your own personal motivators for positive change.
THE COMPLEX PTSD WORKBOOK
by Arielle Schwartz, PHD
A mind-body workbook for healing and overcoming Complex PTSD
Those affected by complex PTSD, or C-PTSD, commonly feel as though there is something fundamentally wrong with them―that somewhere inside there is a part of them that needs to be fixed. Facing one’s PTSD is a brave, courageous act―and with the right guidance, recovery is possible.
In The Complex PTSD Workbook, you’ll learn all about C-PTSD and gain valuable insight into the types of symptoms associated with unresolved childhood trauma. Take healing into your own hands while applying strategies to help integrate positive beliefs and behaviors.
Discover your path to recovery with:
Examples and exercises―Uncover your own instances of trauma with PTSD activities designed to teach you positive strategies.
Expert guidance―Explore common PTSD diagnoses and common methods of PTSD therapy including somatic therapy, CBT, and mind-body perspectives.
Prompts and reflections―Apply the strategies you’ve learned and identify PTSD symptoms with insightful writing prompts.
Find the tools you need to work through C-PTSD and regain emotional control with this mind-body workbook.
THE DISEASE TO PLEASE
by Harriet B. Braiker
Begin with a simple but revealing quiz to discover what type of people-pleaser you are. Then learn how making even small changes to any single portion of the Disease to Please Triangle - involving your thoughts, feelings, and behavior - will cause a dramatic, positive and long-lasting change to the overall syndrome.
People pleasers are not just nice people who go overboard trying to make everyone happy. Those who suffer from the Disease to Please are people who say "Yes" when they really want to say "No." For them, the uncontrollable need for the elusive approval of others is an addiction. Their debilitating fears of anger and confrontation force them to use "niceness" and "people-pleasing" as self-defense camouflage.
As a recovered peoplepleaser, you will finally see that a balanced way of living that takes others into consideration but puts the emphasis first on pleasing yourself and gaining your own approval is the clearest path to health and happiness.
THE TAO TE CHING UNABRIDGED
by Lao Tze
The Tao Te Ching is one of the world's oldest and most treasured
pieces of literature. Written around 2,500 years ago by the enigmatic
Lao Tzu, its timeless wisdom and transformative message remain every bit
as relevant today. The text, presented here in its entirety, Through
his subtle and poetic words, Lao Tzu explores the workings of the cosmos
and the essential nature of mankind, offering a way of living that
brings us back into the harmonious flow of the natural.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOUR DAD?
by Kris Godinez
This is a story of survival and a story of hope. It follows the author from birth to her late 40’s. From small farm town in California to her own private practice in Mesa, AZ. It is an empowering journey of learning how to survive damaging parents and teaching others how to survive damaging parents. Although the subject matter is sometimes hard to read there is a lot of humor, a lot of love and a lot of acceptance and understanding that will bring the reader to a greater understanding of what drives both alcoholism and BPD. The book teaches the reader that just because your childhood was rocky and not much fun it does not mean you cannot have success and fun as an adult.
What’s Wrong With Your Dad is the true story of what it was like growing up and surviving a family with both alcoholism and Borderline Personality Disorder. It is told in the first person in a very conversational way, like the author and the reader are just sitting over coffee talking. It explains in clear layman’s terms the behaviors of both alcoholism and Borderline Personality Disorder and lets the reader know in no uncertain terms that the behavior was not in any way created by any adult child of either an alcoholic or BPD.
WRAP FOR THE EFFECTS OF TRAUMA
by Mary Ellen Copeland, PHD
Trauma occurs when any circumstance or experience overwhelms an individual’s ability to cope. The experience of trauma can have a lasting impact on mental health, physical health, or both, and what many deem “symptoms” are normal reactions to abnormal circumstances we have experienced. Based on the flagship WRAP: Wellness Recovery Action Plan, the adaptation, WRAP for the Effects of Trauma, asks individuals seeking wellness not “What’s wrong with you?” but rather “What happened?” and “What do you need?” WRAP for the Effects of Trauma includes information specific to the experience of being a trauma survivor, examples of signs of distress that may be trauma-related, and lots of ideas for Wellness Tools and action plans that work for people who have experienced trauma.
It can be your personal guide to recovery and wellness, whether you are developing your WRAP in a group, working with a supporter to develop your WRAP, or are developing your WRAP on your own. Like the WRAP Red Book, it contains comprehensive instructions for developing your WRAP and in-depth descriptions of some of the most common Wellness Tools. In addition, it contains lots of information and examples that are specific to addressing trauma-related issues, with information from people like yourself who are working on their wellness and recovery. This book will help you:
Discover your own simple, safe wellness tools Develop a daily plan to help you stay as well as possible Identify upsetting events or circumstances and develop action plans for responding to them Create a strategy to gain support and stay in control of your wellness during and after a crisis
by Mary Ellen Copeland, PHD
In 1994, I wrote the book, Living Without Depression and Manic Depression. It was based on a study I did of the skills and strategies of people who have gotten well and stayed well over time. This was at a time when recovery from mental health issues was not even considered to be possible. The book had a really long run with the publisher, 16 years.
Now recovery is a word that is used in mental health all the time. But I didn’t want this book with all its great information to cease to be. It was too important to too many people. It led many, many people out of the depths of despair into a rich and rewarding life. So I added lots of information on WRAP and called it WRAP Plus.
WRAP Plus is an extensive enhancement of the original book that includes my findings about mental health recovery and WRAP since then. This book includes intensive instructions-not found anywhere else-on how to develop a WRAP that will work for you, and how to LIVE WRAP on a day-to-day basis. Filled with NEW IDEAS for successfully developing, using and updating the popular Wellness Recovery Action Plan for prevention, recovery and wellness, this book includes stories from those who are LIVING WRAP to stay well and are learning to anticipate and address life’s hurdles. This text will be used instead of Living Without Depression and Manic Depression for the Correspondence course. For more information go to www.copelandcenter.com
YOU CAN LEAD A HORSE TO WATER, BUT YOU CAN’T MAKE ‘EM CHA CHA
by Kris Godinez
This new book by Kris Godinez gives a conglomeration of case studies to illustrate what motivates and drives an abusive relationship. Why some people stay and others don’t.
YOU'RE STILL THAT GIRL
by Susana Quintana
For women who are tired of hurting at the hands of their ex and ready to leave the darkness behind, You’re Still That Girl throws a life preserver to help pull them to shore.
Recovering and healing after an abusive relationship is a difficult journey. One may no longer recognize the woman in the mirror staring back at them. Suzanna Quintana understands the darkness that a victim of abuse dwells in and what it takes to recover. A survivor of abuse at the hands of a diagnosed narcissist, Suzanna Quintana offers a life preserver to those still drowning in the pain of their heartbreak.
In You’re Still That Girl, Suzanna shows women the way to:
Liberate themselves from their painful past and become emotionally detached from their exLearn the difference between real love and abuse disguised as love Find their voice and trust their instincts again so that they won’t make the same mistakes Learn valuable tricks and tips for dealing with a narcissistic ex who is still making their life miserable Get back in touch with the girl they used to be and get back to living a life they always dreamed of


Book Review: Take The Key and Lock Her Up By Ally Carter
WOWZA I can't believe that the Embassy Row series is now coming to an end! I am a long time Ally Carter fan and it feels like just yesterday that the Gallagher Girls series ended. In reality though that was about four years ago! I can't believe how time flies!
Ally Carter is great at writing stories with sisterhoods, amazing friendships, swoon worthy boys and really smart execution. Take The Key and Lock Her Up was no exception to this! We got answers to questions I didn't even know I wanted. As well as the reveal of a not-so-friendly-after-all character, which TOTALLY threw me for a loop!
Lets be real, See How They Run left us off with a pretty big cliffhanger. We had no idea what was going to happen to Grace, Alexei, and most notably, Jamie! I really enjoyed how Ally Carter created a believable situation in one what seems really crazy on the page! There was no instantaneous healing or magical plot solutions and that's something I've really come to appreciate as a reader. Ally never gives her characters an easy out. She always, ALWAYS invents incredibly smart (sometimes insane), but wholly engrossing ways for her characters to find their solutions! There were so many awesome plot twists in this book and I kept thinking "how on EARTH is she going to get Grace out of this one??". Yet Ally masterfully blew my mind every time.
Another thing that I love in not only this book, but the series as a whole is how Ally treats Grace's anxiety and trauma. In so many books that I've read lately we find that the heroine who is magically fixed of her problems by falling in love or instantaneously growing out of said problems as the going gets tough. But Grace never loses her anxiety. She battles with it throughout all three books and even here in the last book there are times when it threatens to overwhelm her, but she deals with it as best she can and has an awesome support group. This, to me, is a real and responsible way to acknowledge and write anxiety and mental health issues and I so appreciate it done in a believable and constructive way.
Another thing that Ally has always been great at is never letting a romance get in the way of the actually story. I also appreciated this in the Gallagher Girls series with Cammie and Zach as well as in Heist Society with Kat and Hale. There is always so much more going on in Ally's books that, though the relationships are there, they never overpower the actual story. They are like little easter eggs for all of us who ship Grace and Alexei, but it never overshadows the fact that, oh yeah, these kids are totally fighting for their lives and country! But don't you worry, this book has more Grace and Alexei than they other two and you will looove it!
My singular criticism of the book was at the end *HUGE SPOILER ALERT* when they had Ann committed. I understand that she did a whole lot of horrible things, but for some reason this still didn't sit very well with me. Maybe it was because Grace, Alexei, and Ms. Chancellor were the ones having her committed and not Ann's actual family. Or maybe it was her begging and not being heard. That part just reminded me a lot of what Grace went through herself and was something that really triggered Grace when they freed Karina. I know Grace said that she'd get her revenge and all, but this felt a bit off to me.
All in all, I really enjoyed this series and can't wait until Ally's next one! She truly never disappoints and has remained one of my favorite YA authors since I was in 7th grade. She is one author that has absolutely withstood the test of time for me and I appreciate the consistency and talent that goes along with crafting her books.


Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices by Mosab Hassan Yousef
Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its most popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for years in his political activities while being groomed to assume his legacy, politics, status . . . and power. But everything changed when Mosab turned away from terror and violence, and embraced instead the teachings of another famous Middle East leader. In Son of Hamas, Mosab Yousef--now called "Joseph"--reveals new information about the world's most dangerous terrorist organization and unveils the truth about his own role, his agonizing separation from family and homeland, the dangerous decision to make his newfound faith public, and his belief that the Christian mandate to "love your enemies" is the only way to peace in the Middle East.
The # 1 New York Times best seller the Israeli foreign intelligence agency The Mossad tried to ban. The making of a Mossad officer is the true story of an officer in Israel's most secret agency. The first time the Mossad came calling, they wanted Victor Ostrovsky for their assassination unit, the kidon. He turned them down. The next time, he agreed to enter the grueling three-year training program to become a katsa, or intelligence case officer, for the legendary Israeli spy organization. By Way of Deception is the explosive chronicle of his experiences in the Mossad, and of two decades of their frightening and often ruthless covert activities around the world. Penetrating far deeper than the bestselling Every Spy a Prince, it is an insider's account of Mossad tactics and exploits. In chilling detail, Ostrovsky asserts that the Mossad refused to share critical knowledge of a planned suicide mission in Beirut, leading to the death of hundreds of U.S. Marines and French troops. He tells how they tracked Yasser Arafat by recruiting his driver and bodyguard; how they withheld information on the whereabouts of American hostages, paving the way for the Iran-Contra scandal; and how their intervention into secret UN negotiations led to the sudden resignation of ambassador Andrew Young and the downfall of his career. By Way of Deception describes the shocking scope and depth of the Mossad's influence, disclosing how Jewish communities in the U.S., Europe, and South America are armed and trained by the organization in secret ?self-defense? units, and how Mossad agents facilitate the drug trade in order to pay the enormous costs of its far-flung, clandestine operation. And it portrays a network that has grown dangerously out of control, as internal squabbles have led to the escape of terrorists and the pursuit of ?policies? completely at odds with the interests of the state of Israel. This document is possibly the most important and controversial book of its kind since Spycatcher.


In the early Church, before there were catechisms or creeds, there were catechists. These early disciples, as their name implies from the ancient Greek, “echoed” what they had heard from Christ to new believers and disciples. From the beginning Christ has been the teacher. From the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the heart of the disciple, the echo of Christ’s voice was given to each successive generation. The essence of the message: that we are created by love and that our destiny is communion with the Blessed Trinity. This wondrous truth became the golden thread that runs through the Catechism of the Catholic Church and is expressed as its driving principle (CCC 25).
The Catechism of the Catholic Church provides the parish catechist with access to the Truth. There are no agendas, advancement of certain methodologies or clever new gimmicks. Within the Catechism the parish catechist, while learning doctrine and dogma, sacramental, moral and spiritual theology, enters into a dialogue with disciples and evangelists, prophets and saints. The echo resounds from the likes of Teresa of Avila and Gregory the Great, Thomas Aquinas and Pope Paul VI. The truth echoes from their hearts to ours and to the hearts of those we are called to catechise. The golden thread of the love that never ends binds doctrine and dogma, saint and sinner, catechist and seeker. Here is the story of Christ and his Church, the Bride prepared and awaiting the Bridegroom.
The parish community is where theory stops and practice begins.
Let us then avail of every opportunity to know more about our faith as we embrace The Year of Faith.
– Patty Norris, The Sower – October – December 2012, pg 29


TIH's new 3D Model library is an assortment of unique Singapore-themed 3D Models. These media assets are designed to aid our Singapore tourism industry create their own Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) projects, enhancing their business and digital products.
On this page
If you are browsing this library, you may be looking for inspirations of how to apply Augmented Reality (AR) to make your experiences more immersive for visitors.
The Augmented Reality (AR) Inspirations Library is contextualised to the Singapore tourism sector, focusing on Tours & Precincts, Attractions, Hotels and Retail.
Use the ideas here to get started on how to build a real use case for your business.


Reading will be a major outlet for many of us minding the stay-at-home guidelines. Recently, I finished three non-fiction books I feel are worth sharing. I found each book easy to read and extremely relevant to what is going on in the world today.
The Body - A Guide for Occupants - by Bill Bryson
The Bodyis a down to earth, Anatomy and Physiology book we all should have read in high school. Bill Bryson transforms a very dense and often dull topic into a "page-turner" of a book. The two biggest takeaways that I had from the book were how truly amazing the human body is and how much we still do not know about the human body. If you are a curious person and want to learn a great deal about yourself in a short period of time, I recommend this book. (I actually finished this book in February 2020 prior to the COVID-19 outbreak)
I picked up this book at the beginning of 2020 since distractions appear to be ever-present in life. News. Technology. Interruptions. It seems to be harder and harder to stay focused with the constant stream of incoming information. Indistractablestarts by discussing the internal and external triggers that distract us as humans in the 21st century. Most importantly, the whole second half of the book discusses distinct ways to combat distractions to live a happier and more productive life.
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams- by Matthew Walker, PhD
I have always found the topic of sleep interesting, especially for health and restorative powers to the body and mind. Being a person that usually requires 7-8 hours of sleep a night to feel 100% the next day, I read Dr. Walker's book to fully understand the science behind sleep. His well organized and comprehensive book depicts many of the recent studies on sleep and packages them in an appealing read. While long, I am grateful for the knowledge I have learned fromWhy We Sleep.
The titles above are links to the books on Amazon if you are interested.


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For more than a century, Western philosophers and psychologists have based their discussions of mental life on a cardinal assumption: that the same basic processes underlie all human thought, whether in the mountains of Tibet or the grasslands of the Serengeti. Cultural differences might dictate what people thought about. Teenage boys in Botswana, for example, might discuss cows with the same passion that New York teenagers reserved for sports cars. But the habits of thought -- the strategies people adopted in processing information and making sense of the world around them -- were, Western scholars assumed, the same for everyone, exemplified by, among other things, a devotion to logical reasoning, a penchant for categorization and an urge to understand situations and events in linear terms of cause and effect. Recent work by a social psychologist at the University of Michigan, however, is turning this long-held view of mental functioning upside down.. Richard Nisbett and his colleagues have found that people who grow up in different cultures do not just think about different things: they think differently.
The 'Michigan fish test' and the Middle East
East Versus West
This is the first textbook written to welcome those who are new to Asian American psychology. Concepts and theories come to life by relating the material to everyday experiences and by including activities, discussion questions, exercises, clinical case studies, and internet resources. Contributions from the leading experts and emerging scholars and practitioners in the field - the majority of whom have also taught Asian American psychology - feature current perspectives and key findings from the psychological literature. The book opens with the cornerstones of Asian American psychology, including Asian American history and research methods. The text concludes with an examination of the physical and psychological well-being of Asian Americans and avenues for coping and healing.
Are You a Holistic or a Specific Thinker?
Had she misunderstood me? I pushed the earpiece closer to my ear to make sure I was hearing the translator correctly. Lilly Li continued to talk for several minutes about trust, hierarchy, and her experiences in Hungary.
Editor's note: TED is a nonprofit dedicated to "Ideas worth spreading," which it makes available through talks posted on its website. Sheena Iyengar is a social psychologist and professor at Columbia Business School. What did you see, and what did you say? Did three large fish, the prominent individuals of the scene, hold your gaze? It turns out that how you go about even this simple and straightforward task of describing what's in this image depends on your worldview, which is greatly shaped by your culture.


Stop the clocks – Dave examines the cultural history of a horrifying true story, while dwelling on the second version made for the goggle-box.
On December 17th 1968, Barbara Jane Mackle, a twenty year-old student of Emory University was spending the night in a motel in Decatur, Georgia. She’d contracted Hong Kong flu from the college, and her concerned mother had travelled from Coral Gables, Florida, to look after her. As they slept, a stranger by the name of Gary Stephen Krist knocked on the door, managed to get inside, kidnapped Mackle at gunpoint and drove her to a remote patch of land near Duluth. It was here that he buried her in a shallow trench inside a fibreglass-reinforced box, and demanded half a million dollars from her wealthy land developer father in order to reveal where she was hidden.
The terrifying events of that evening and the days that followed etched themselves into popular culture, which in turn were absorbed by the impressionable young eyes of Quentin Tarantino. The Reservoir Dogs (1992) director has made no secret of his love for the first small screen adaptation of Mackle’s story, The Longest Night (1972). Under the stewardship of Jack Smight (Harper (1966)), it had debuted on ABC in September ’72 and would see elements lifted by Tarantino for both Kill Bill: Vol.2 (2004) and the season five finale of C.S.I (2005), where he even hired Smight’s son, Alec, as editor.
Alas, The Longest Night hadn’t been seen since its original airdate owing to a successful copyright lawsuit filed by the co-author of Mackle’s book, Gene Miller. So when CBS greenlit 83 HOURS TIL DAWN in 1990, a remake of this chilling true story seemed justified.
In the same year she scored a breakout role in Allan Moyle’s Pump up the Volume (1990), it’s Samantha Mathis who’s trapped underground as ‘Julie Burdock’, dazzling with her emotional fragility and raw fear while isolated beneath the ground. Similarly striking is Peter Strauss, who juggles the emotional complexity of the compelling Krist and layers him with a bubbling aggression in a terrifically nuanced performance. It’s Krist’s conversation with psychologist Dr. Dantley (the excellent Paul Winfield) that provides a framework to the film, weaving through the narrative, and giving an engrossing glimpse inside a crazed mind.
The support is a little bland, with Robert Urich flat as the father and R. Lee Ermey far from his usual boisterous self as the FBI agent in charge of the investigation. But, having said that, there’s little to criticise. Boob tube veteran Donald Wrye ensures the narrative moves at a fair clip, and the sheer horror of what Barbara Jane Mackle had to endure is represented in dramatic yet considerate fashion.
USA ● 1990 ● Thriller, TVM ● 90mins
Peter Strauss, Robert Urich, Samantha Mathis, R. Lee Ermey ● Dir. Donald Wrye ● Wri. Barbara Jane Mackle (novel), Gene Miller (novel), O.R Keyes (teleplay)


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- Bickley Park
South Salt Lake is celebrating a new park; one with a very special purpose - to truly welcome everyone - kids of all ages, all abilities, and all backgrounds. The park is located next to the Columbus Center, which has traditionally represented a space where young people of all abilities could receive an education that served their unique needs.
The new park has a one-of-a-kind playground, a globe spinner, a friendship swing, and many more features worth exploring! Everything was chosen to let kids discover new challenges and make new friends in the process. The playground hits a sweet spot for kids who like to swing, climb, rock, slide, jump, play music, or simply chat. It is also a great place for grandparents and grandkids to play together - ping pong, pickleball, and cornhole, as well as a face-to-face swing. We encourage our friends at the Columbus Senior Center to come play together as well
The name of the park is something special as well! We're proud to dedicate this park to two remarkable city residents: Ida and Laurie Bickley. This dynamic duo volunteered at the Columbus Library three days a week, for over 14 years (until Ida was 94 Years old)! Ida is a real fireball and her daughter Laurie is, too. Laurie has Downs Syndrome and has shared her unforgettable spark and smile with our community and library patrons over the years. We are honored to mark the impact of ordinary citizens on our City's history, fabric and community.
Gratitude is also due to Mabel Todd and her family who sold the one-acre property to the city where the park is now located. She was a beloved fixture of the Columbus Senior Center, her neighborhood and her church. She loved music, particularly the piano, and we hope the musical instruments at Bickley Park inspire budding musicians.
Learn more about Ida and Laurie Bickley (PDF)!


Exclusive copyrights are limited by legal barriers that strive to take account of the justified interests of the general public in gaining access to protected works. These barriers include § 58 of the German Copyright Act, which allows organisers of art exhibitions and art dealers to use works of art without the approval of or payment to artists for advertisements for exhibitions and sales. Public museums, libraries and educational establishments may also reproduce such works in exhibition catalogues and inventories without obtaining rights. The author examines whether the revised § 58 of the German Copyright Act is compatible with the criteria of international, European and German constitutional law and to what extent the use of art works in catalogues and advertsing is permissible under European and German constitutional law. Apart from German copyright law, the French and US copyrights laws are discussed in detail and with practical relevance. It is shown that under neither the »droit d’auteur« nor the US copyright the use of artworks is exempt to such a wide extent as it is under § 58 of the German Act.
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HOBSON, Nathaniel James Fennell
Nathaniel James Hobson was born in Drogheda on 24 February 1881, the third of four children born to Abraham Hobson and Elizabeth Fennell. Abraham, who was a widower when he married Elizabeth in April 1877, was born in Donard, Co Wicklow in 1836 into a Church of Ireland family that suffered significantly during the Famine. Elizabeth’s father was a Justice of the Peace from the townland of Mayo in Queens’ County (Laois). One of Abraham’s brothers, Richard, was ordained in the Anglican Church and became a much loved minister of a parish in Liverpool, in one of the most deprived areas. He wrote an autobiography which touched on his early life in Wicklow. In 1861 Abraham married Jane Fitzpatrick in Dundalk and there were at least three children born, Mary, Sarah and William before she died in January 1877. Also in 1861 his sister, Marianne, married Robert Cathcart in Drogheda, who had a long-established bakery business on Shop Street in the town.
It was in that business that Abraham was working as a Clerk / Accountant when he re-married in 1877, and he and Elizabeth had their four children in Drogheda. The first born in 1878, Nathaniel Fennell, died in infancy. He was followed by Catherine, later known as Kathleen, in 1879, Nathaniel James in 1881 and Elizabeth Margaret in 1882. The family lived in Rose Hill Cottage on Chord Road, a property that was described as “A charming residence with a valuable garden of over one acre” and “with a splendid view of the River Boyne and the Harbour of Drogheda”.
In late 1896 Abraham sold Rose Hill Cottage and moved to Belfast. The family were living in St Ives Gardens in south Belfast in the 1901 census, with Abraham describing himself as a ‘Commercial Agent’. Nathaniel was a Baker, Kathleen a Shorthand Typist and Elizabeth a Book Keeper. In 1907 Nathaniel married Elizabeth Ham, the daughter of the Secretary of the Ulster Spinning Company, and they had two children, Henry Raymond, later called Richard Henry, in 1908 and Nathaniel Thomas in 1909. In the 1911 census they were living in Oakland Avenue, in east Belfast, while Kathleen was boarding not far away. Abraham and his wife and daughter Elizabeth had moved to Dublin by this time, and were living in Northumberland Avenue in Kingstown.
In 1913 both Nathaniel and his father-in-law, Thomas Ham, were declared Bankrupts in the Belfast Bankruptcy Court. Nathaniel had been trading as N.J. Hobson & Co. Bakery, Confectionery and Catering. He and his family left Belfast for England and settled in Daffodil Avenue in Birkenhead. There two more children were born, Reginald in 1914 who died in 1916, and Cecil in September 1918.
In January 1915 Nathaniel enlisted in the 5th King’s Liverpool Regiment and a year later was promoted from Sergeant to 2nd Lieutenant. He was sent to France, in 1916 being involved in the Ypres battle, and in 1917 he was promoted again to Lieutenant and Quarter Master. He may not have been at home for the birth of his youngest son, but he was on leave visiting his parents in Kingstown with his eldest son Richard in October 1918. On returning to England on the 10th on RMS Leinster, he and Richard were accompanied by his sister Elizabeth. None of the three survived the sinking and no bodies were recovered. His name is inscribed on the Hollybank Memorial in Southampton and on his parents’ grave in Dunleckney graveyard in Bagenalstown, Co Carlow, as well as on the Carlow Great War Memorial in Leighlinbridge. Nathaniel’s widow Elizabeth lived on in Birkenhead with her two surviving sons, dying in 1966.


This Luminous CoastFull Circle Editions, Woodbridge, 2011
After hearing Jules Pretty’s talk at 2013’s Shorelines festival I picked up his book at the bookstall – bookstalls at both this and 2016’s Estuary festival proved a rich source to populate the library’s shelves. I read the book, which is based on a series of walks along the length of the East Anglian Coast made over the course of a year, shortly afterwards, and it being 4 1/2 years since I have to admit I don’t remember it in too much detail – other that I thoroughly enjoyed it. What I do remember quite well though is that I was very moved by ‘The Great Tide’, the second chapter of the book, where Pretty describes the events that unfolded in the night of January 31st in 1953, when a combination of weather phenomena led to exceptionally high tides around the Essex coast, consuming over 300 lives. Pretty recounts the tragic events in detail (drawing from Hilda Grieve’s 800+ page book on the event), and although his focus is on the Essex coast, he also describes the havoc wrought upon many places around the British Isles, including the dramatic sinking of the MS Victoria on its crossing to Ireland.
Pretty, Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex, starts his walks from underneath the Queen Elizabeth bridge, and ends in Walcott on the Norfolk Coast, meeting birdwatchers, wildfowlers, RNLI crew and fenland farmers along the way, is joined on several sections of the walks by friends, and is equally enchanted by wayside graffiti as he is by the emptiness of Dengie Marshes. But the book is far more than a mere account of his walks – it is rich with historical references, and often returns to its core theme: the fragility and temporary nature of this stretch of coast, which has changed its outline dramatically, with entire villages lost to the sea, over the course of time, and will invariably continue to do so in the decades to come. His writing is evocative and – for want of a better word: humane; he avoids - although his subject presents him with many reasons to embrace it – nostalgia, there is none of Sinclair’s rage/despair, nor the underlying sense of forlornness which characterises Sebald’s ‘Rings of Saturn’, which charts part of Pretty’s route along the Suffolk coast (for the avoidance of doubt: I treasure Sebald’s works). The book contains an impressive 6 ½ pages of bibliography, and a section of notes with further details on the text. It is beautifully produced, and each chapter is headed by a map charting the section of coast covered within. It was a pleasure to read and I can do nothing but recommend it.


Horace Herring is a visiting research fellow in the Energy & Environment Research Unit. He has worked in the area of energy efficiency for the last 25 years, and his main research area is on the 'rebound' or 'take back' effect: the macroeconomic impacts and policy implications of promoting energy efficiency. He also investigates the feasibility of sustainable consumption, especially by consuming less through lifestyle changes. He has an interest in environmental history and turned his PhD thesis into the book From Energy Dreams to Nuclear Nightmares.
Phone: +44 (0)1908 654633
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Horace Herring, Editor. Living in a Low-Carbon Society. Palgrave Macmillan , 2012
Horace Herring, Energy Efficiency, the Rebound, and the Steady State Society. Paper to Green Economics Conference, Oxford, 20 July 2012 [pdf]
Horace Herring and Steve Sorrell, editors. Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Consumption: The Rebound Effect. Palgrave Macmillan 2008.
Horace Herring, The Rebound Effect: Efficiency, Sufficiency And The Meaning Of Life, Talk to Sustainable Technology Group, the Open University, January 2008. [pdf]
Horace Herring & Robin Roy. Technological innovation, energy efficient design and the rebound effect. Technovation 27 (2007): 194-203.
Horace Herring, From Energy Dreams to Nuclear Nightmares. Charlbury, Oxon: Jon Carpenter 2005.
Energy Policy. Examining the 'rebound' or 'take back' effect: that is whether improved energy efficiency (at the micro level) leads to reduced energy consumption (at the macro level). Member of the Advisory Group for the Rebound Project--a Technology and Policy Assessment being undertaken by the UKERC.
Currently a member of the People Centred Eco-Design (PCED) research project by the Design Innovation Group which looks at why consumers adopt--and do not adopt--energy efficiency and renewable energy.
Environmental history. Investigating the rise of environmentalism in the 1960s and its development into the anti-nuclear power campaign in the 1970s. In particular I am looking at the role and influence of pre-FoE groups, such as the Conservation Society and the Young Liberals, the alternative press, and the impact of post-war science fiction on anti-nuclear attitudes.
Book Reviews: I review books for the UK journals Environmental Politics and Environment & History, and US journal Organization & Environment.
PhD from the Open University for thesis "Energy utopianism and the rise of the anti-nuclear power in the UK", 2004.
BSc (Hons) from Sussex University in Engineering with Social Studies, an interdisciplinary degree of engineering and economics, 1974.
Referee for Energy - the International Journal and Ecological Economics.
EERU home page: http://eeru.open.ac.uk
People Centred Eco-Design: [pdf]
My B&B website: http://www.northamptonshire.co.uk/hotels/parkholm.htm
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Barbirolli had known Debussy’s Nocturnes for at least three decades. His love of and familiarity with Debussy’s music stemmed from the early 1920s, when – as a cellist – he had programmed the French master’s late Cello Sonata relatively frequently. The score of the three Nocturnes was completed less than two weeks after Barbirolli’s birth, in November 1899. The Nocturnes are generally assumed to be based upon a group of texts emanating from Henri de Régnier’s collection of Poèmes anciens et romanesques, first published in 1890.
Barbirolli’s Proms performance from 1965 is suffused with musical understanding of high quality. Note the almost complete silence of the large audience during the opening movement Nuages – testament to the compelling atmosphere Barbirolli conjures; the succeeding fleetness of touch in Fêtes is, frankly, masterly, and the concluding dynamics of the piano bars are demonstrably superb. The final movement, Sirènes, is a profoundly atmospheric conclusion – a sense of wonder that Barbirolli, his orchestra and choir, finely conjured from the notes on the printed page.
Schubert’s Symphony No.9 is given a performance of considerable insight and distinction, all the more remarkable for being ‘live’. Throughout this exceptional account, Barbirolli’s direction is always noble and grand, drawing poetry and a great beauty of sound from the orchestra. In addition there is plenty of power and punch in hand and the rhythmic drive maintained magnificently throughout.
Recorded: Royal Albert Hall, London (Proms) – 20 July 1965 (Schubert) and 26 July 1965 (Debussy)


Tanja Huston: An Imaginative Children’s Book Author
About the Author
Tanja Huston is a wife, mother, speaker, author and cancer survivor who has a renewed look on life. Tanja makes a difference in the lives of children by sharing hope and faith through storytelling.
Through the eyes of children, life’s challenges are not always easy to understand. But, through Tanja’s books, children find hope for a better tomorrow with a little help from family and friends.
“No Playing Frisbee Today,” centers on Juju’s mommy having cancer. Juju realizes that what happens in life can be scary and not always easy to understand.
In Tanja’s first book, “Juju’s Big Surprise,” Juju’s mommy has a surprise. With this surprise, Juju finds himself sharing the spotlight with others – not always an easy task for children.
Tanja is an author of children’s books and has an MBA from Webster University, St. Louis.
Tanja often says, “I leave a legacy of storytelling and mentoring others. My hope is to make a difference in the lives of our future – our children – by sharing hope and faith through my books.
“Through my stories, all voices are heard, faces are seen, and faith sets the path for the future.”
Through my stories, all voices are heard, faces are seen and faith sets the path for the future.
Life’s family make-up is changing and through Huston’s books, she introduces the nucleus family unit in her books. Huston was inspired to write books because as a child, she did not see herself in dolls or books. It is so important to include groups not widely represented to ensure all children feel like they belong. Juju is the main character and one that children can relate to as her books are written “through the eyes of children.” His family is inter-racial who pull together through difficult times.
"LOOK INSIDE. I SEE ME. OH, HOW GREAT I CAN BE!"


Exhibition catalogue for 'On the Surface of Things' curated by Isobel Parker Philip.
Kate Beckingham // Bianca Chang // Deb Mansfield // Sarah Mosca // Tasha Ong // Isobel Parker Philip // Eloise Rapp // Jacob Ring // Justine Varga
Catalogue written by Isobel Parker Philip and includes a short essay by Dr. Laleen Jayamanne.
On the Surface of Things is an attempt to dissect the complex and fluid relationship between the surface and the submerged. Concerned with mutable boundaries and shifting planes, the exhibition draws attention to the interstitial space between over and under, veil and veiled.
The artists featured share a preoccupation with surface, skin, screen and shroud. They erect edifices and penetrate palimpsests. Moving across thresholds, their work animates the logic of the liminal and in-between.
This collective fascination with surface is interrogated in relation to the ontological specificity of the photographic medium. Preserving moments beyond the limits of chronology, the photograph is cloaked in a temporal shroud. The tangible and tactile becomes an imprint of light on a flat plane.
To photograph is to cover and to drape.
Exhibition supported by the Firstdraft Curatorial Grant, 2013
Catalogue designed by Daryl Prondoso
Fully illustrated 80pp, 148 x 210mm, with hand letterpress printed dust jacket.


Agricultural BioSciences 2008
International e-Conference on Agricultural BioSciences 2008 (IeCAB
2008) was held from June 2 - 16, 2008 at URL address http://www.e-conference.elewa.org/agriculture. This was an internet
conference with nearly 100 participants making submissions from all parts of the world. Proceedings from this e-conference can be accessed through the links provided below. These include the Book of Abstracts, Posters and Power point presentations; and the Questions exchanged between the participants and the responses given.
The most innovative entries in (1) Technology Application; (2) Innovation and (3) Excellence in Experimentation categories were identified through an interactive electronic process and the authors recognized and issued with e-Certificates. These can also be viewed through the link below.
All submissions to IeCAB 2008 were published as full papers in the July to October 2008 issues of the online Journal of Applied BioSciences ISSN 1997-5902. Please follow the links below to access the proceedings.


Trustworthy Information Handbook
The South Carolina Electronic Records Guidelines and Trustworthy Information Systems handbook (TIS) is an adaptation of the Minnesota Electronic Records Guidelines and TIS Handbook which was produced by the State Archives Department of the Minnesota Historical Society. This endeavor by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History (SCDAH) stems from consultant Timothy Slavin's 1999 report and his recommendations to address challenges confronting the Department with the escalation of electronic recordkeeping throughout state and local government in South Carolina.
The SCDAH acknowledges the support of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for providing the grant to develop statewide Electronic Records Guidelines including the TIS Handbook.
The SCDAH would also like to acknowledge and thank Robert Horton, Minnesota State Archivist, for his effort and advice to us.
The South Carolina Department of Archives and History in conjunction with the State Government Records Advisory Council has developed a set of criteria to help you create and maintain trustworthy information systems.
Why would you want to use the TIS?
The Trustworthy Information System Handbook can help verify that a system produces information and records which are authentic, reliable, and have integrity.
Reliable and authentic government information and records are extremely important for these reasons:
• They facilitate government business
• They demonstrate government accountability
• They serve as evidence of government activity for current and future users of the information.
The TIS Handbook is in three parts in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. There are links within each file to help you navigate better.
• Table of Contents, Part 1 - Introduction, and Part 2 - TIS Criteria
• Part 3 - TIS Criteria Checklist
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Mukerji, Deepankar. "Column: New Law Provides for Quicker Access to Medicaid Home Care." Westfair Communications (Westfaironline.com), October, 2014.
Gray, Jennifer L. "Keane & Beane - Building Strong Communities." Westchester County Buisness Journal/Fairfield County Business Journal/HV BIZ, August 31, 2015.
Murkerji, Deepankar. "Article 17-A Guardianships - In Need of a Legislative Overhaul." Elder Law Attorney, Winter 2011.
Murkerji, Deepankar. “Post DRA Planning: ‘Viable’ Unpaid Spenddown Amount Reduces NAMI.” Elder Law Attorney, 2009.
O’Rourke, Richard L. and Phillips, Edward J. “Riverkeeper v. Planning Board of the Town of Southeast: The Court of Appeals Reminds Lower Courts Not to Second-Guess SEQRA Determinations.” New York State Bar Association Journal, July/August 2008.
Phillips, Edward J. “Didden v. Village Of Port Chester: For Now, Broad Judicial Deference To Local Governments' Exercise Of Eminent Domain Powers Remains The Rule.” New York State Bar AssociationGovernment, Law and Policy Journal, Spring 2007.
O’Rourke, Richard L. “Variance Applications and the Zoning Board of Appeals.” Westchester Bar Journal, 1985.
Schurkman, Steven A. “Elder Law Q & A: An Introduction to Aging Issues and Planning for the Future." Written under a grant from New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, this guide in its tenth edition and is widely disseminated throughout New York State through the continued support of the Pace University Women's Justice Center in collaboration with the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Center for Elder Abuse Prevention at The Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, NY.
Longo, Ronald A. Contributing Co-author to Public Sector Labor Law and Employment Law. Albany: New York State Bar Association. 1998.


The book is a distillation of what the author has gleaned from the nearly countless books read, seminars and lectures attended and courses taken on the topics of sales, persuasion and psychology. Over fifty years the author has attempted to improve the skills that aided him in selling everything from $10.00 items up to real estate now valued at nearly $10,000,000.00.
Among those that have most influenced the author are: Norman Vicent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking, Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, Napoleon Hills’ Think and Grow Rich, Robert Cialdini’s Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Simon Sinek’s Start With Why, Zig Ziglar’s “See You at the Top”, Earl Nightingale’s Acre’s of Diamonds, Peter Drucker’s People and Performance, Helen Schucman’s A Course in Miracles, Emmet Fox’s Golden Keys to Successful Living, Og Mandino’s The Greatest
Miracle in the World, Jim Rohn’s My Philosophy for Successful Living and Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. This in no way exhaust the list of influences that went into the author’s Careful What You Think.
Finally, it would be a gross injustice not to mention the influence of the teachings of Jesus Christ especially those given in The Sermon on the Mount.


Tools and Resources
The toolkit contains essential tools and support
materials which have been tailored towards public services.
The contents provide users with the resources required to
adapt, develop and implement the risk management approach most
appropriate to their organisation.
Tools and resources include:
- A comprehensive risk management training presentation
- Interactive templates including:
- Assessment criteria
- Risk register
- Risk map
- Risk action plan
- An extensive glossary of terms
- Guidance on developing strategies and policies
- An expansive list of suggested further reading


Launched in 1993, O&S was the first journal in the Management area created by and within a Federal University in Brazil. The journals has always highlighted its open, plural and multidisciplinary position. In addition to the Management area, O&S is recognized in the areas of History, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Interdisciplinary fields, Social Work, Urban and Regional Planning. O&S means and symbolizes a lot for Brazilian researchers in the context of the development of the Management area and, specifically, in the maturation and flourishing of the field of Organizational Studies in Brazil. O&S has offered, over time, a space of expression for the emergence of the different, the new, and the unusual. The journals promotes heterodox positions in Organizational Studies, but above all, a vision of the organization within and for society.
By valuing this comprehensive and inclusive concept of management, RIGS publishes original documents for the Brazilian context. They are texts, photos and videos that demonstrate their contribution to the advancement of research and practice based on interdisciplinarity. RIGS publishes documents inserted in six types of contribution: technological, theoretical, experiential, indicative, photographic and audiovisual. Each document must choose the type that most characterizes it, although it is possible to fit it into multiple contributions. In this way, each number published by RIGS has a combination of varied documents, each with a different type of contribution.
The NAU Social Journal is aimed at expanding the field of studies and practices in social management and public policies. The journal seeks to broaden and promote the debate on social management training as a field of practices and knowledge under construction, particularly with regard to the nature and boundaries of this new field, as well as with regard to training in public policies. The editorial line of NAU Social Journal, inspired by the metaphorical universe of great voyages of discovery, was designed to welcome contributions of different formats related to training in social management and public policies, with their correlated areas, with an emphasis on innovation and learning, seeking to contribute to discussion about the nature and boundaries of both fields.
Political Administration focuses on the organization and management of human work. Through REBAP, there is the dissemination of epistemological studies of Management, opening and renewing concepts and definitions in this field of study.