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Lopez, Ann C. (2004). Child-Friendly Learning Happens Here. Makati City: UNICEF and AIJC.
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Lopez, Ann Lourdes C. (ed). (2003). Child Friendly Learning Happens Here. Manila: DepEd/AIJC/UNICEF
Braid, Florangel Rosario and Tuazon, Ramon R. (2003). Media as Battlefield Coverage of the War in Iraq. Manila: PCCF, AIJC, UNACOM.
Braid, Florangel Rosario (2002). Muslim and Christian Cultures: In search of Commonalities. San Juan, Metro Manila: Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication.
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Monday, February 04, 2008
Book em Dano!
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pgs.)
2. Open the book to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the next three sentences
5. Tag five people
This is a book I keep in my desk at work in case I need some reading material. I couldn't leave the poem off. Consider yourself tagged.
Fragrant Palm Leaves, Journals 1962-1966 by Thich Nhat Hanh.
If you are distant and remote, I will be distant and remote. Look into my eyes and you will know if your universe is bright or dark, infinite or finite, mortal or immortal. The poet Tru Vu wrote:
Because eyes see the blue sky,
eyes glisten sky-blue.
Because eyes see the vast ocean,
eyes extend as far as the sea.
Meme taken from So Many Books


von Yasmina Reza
Übersetzung: Christopher Hampton
Yasmina Reza, born 1959 in Paris, is a French dramatist, novelist, and actress best known for her witty, satiric plays about contemporary middle-class anxieties and hypocrisy. She studied at the University of Paris X, Nanterre, and at the drama school of Jacques Lecoq before working as an actress. The first two plays she wrote, both winners of a Molière Award, were Conversations après un enterrement (1986; Conversations After a Burial), and La Traversée de l’hiver (1989; Winter Crossing).
It was Art however, which premiered in 1994, that brought Reza wide notice. The play was in production on major stages worldwide virtually continuously after its opening. It won Molière Awards for best author, play, and production; a British Laurence Olivier Award for best comedy; and a Tony Award for best play. Another hit, L’Homme du hasard (1995; The Unexpected Man), is a two-character play set on a train traveling from Paris to Frankfurt. Reza’s next play, Trois versions de la vie, offering three different versions of the same event, premiered in Vienna in October 2000, and opened in Paris the following month, with the author in the cast, and in December in London under the title Life × 3.
Une Pièce espagnole: théâtre (2004; The Spanish Play) gives insight into the theatrical world. Following several productions onstage, Reza wrote and directed a screen adaptation, Chicas (2010; Girls). In the satiric comedy Le Dieu du carnage (2006; God of Carnage), Reza focused on two couples who meet to discuss a fight between their young sons. The play made its London debut in 2008 and subsequently won a Laurence Olivier Award. The Broadway production of God of Carnage, which opened a year later, earned a Tony Award for best play and the Zürich production received the Viennese Nestroy-Theatreprize for best German-language performance. For the 2011 film version (titled Carnage), Reza co-wrote the screenplay with Roman Polanski, who also directed.
In September 1997, her first novel, Hammerklavier, was published and another work of fiction, Une Désolation, was published in 2001. Her 2007 work L’Aube le Soir ou la Nuit (Dawn Evening or Night), a detailed biography of Nicolas Sarkozy as he ran for president, caused a sensation in France.
Reza’s other works include a French translation of a stage adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis and the screenplay for the film Le Pique-nique de Lulu Kreutz (2000; Lulu Kreutz’s Picnic), which was directed by her partner at the time, Didier Martiny.


ENGAGE - LISTEN - UNDERSTAND - ACT
Timed to coincide with Dr. Jane Goodall’s plenary speech at the 2019 Esri User Conference in San Diego, California, Blue Raster, Esri and the Jane Goodall Institute teamed up on an exciting new Story Map.
ENGAGE – LISTEN – UNDERSTAND – ACT, built with the brand new ArcGIS StoryMaps template, tells the story behind the ‘Tacare’ approach toward conservation. The story map outlines concerns over chimpanzee populations and the environment, the steps in the process of Tacare, and success stories with this conservation approach.
Beginning with an overview of how Jane Goodall first became involved with conservation through her work with chimpanzees, the story unfolds as Jane noticed that much of the forests in Western Tanzania, home to her beloved chimpanzees, had become barren hillsides after years of farming and other human related activities in the area. She realized that the only way to conserve chimpanzees and their habitat was to work directly with local people and communities. The story map we created titled, Engage - Listen - Understand - Act, explains this holistic approach and some of the successes the area has already seen through the work of Tacare.
Blue Raster is honored to have had the opportunity to help create the first dedicated web presence that details the Jane Goodall Institute's Tacare conservation approach and is especially thrilled to have been able to use the latest version of the next-gen StoryMaps builder.
An all-star team, including master storyteller Allen Carroll from Esri and Lilian Pintea, VP of Conservation Science at the Jane Goodall Institute, worked in collaboration with Blue Raster to produce ENGAGE – LISTEN – UNDERSTAND – ACT.
The new Story Map builder helps the reader flow seamlessly through the story of Tacare; the application intersperses captivating photos taken on the ground in Tanzania and interactive mapping elements that display chimpanzee ranges across Western Tanzania and the African continent. Success with Tacare can be seen in "before" and "after" aerial imagery, which helps readers to visualize the reforestation occurring in the area.
Not only does this story map detail the incredible conservation efforts led by the Jane Goodall Institute but it also serves as a call-to-action for other conservation efforts and organizations around the world. Conservation is in the hands of local people - by understanding the needs of local communities, we are then able to help create a sustainable future for our world.
This story map will be displayed at the Esri UC Conference. If you're attending, make sure to check out Blue Raster's booth!


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My dad shared with me these scans of some documents my grandfather saved. My grandfather’s note says:
This petition was written in his own blood by a high school boy to Rev. Joe B. Hopper in 1952. In it he pleads to be allowed to enter the Bible Institute in Chonju. Funds were fund to help him enter the Institute. The young man is now an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of Korea.
My grandparents had left Korea in 1950 as the war was starting. My grandfather returned to Chonju alone in the fall of 1951. This petition was written during the stalemate before the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed.
If anyone would like to translate the Korean and email it to me, I would happily post it.


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Everything had suddenly become very still. Far away to the southeast, marking the quiet, we heard the Martians hooting to one another, and then the air quivered again with the distant thud of their guns.
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness.


Brad’s odyssey into the world of Mexican agates began in the early 70’s when a newly-acquainted friend in Deming, New Mexico sent him a small box of Moctezuma Agates. That gift turned out to be a significant mile marker in his life. By the late 1970’s, Brad was attending the University of Texas in El Paso, working on a degree in geology there, so as to be closer to the source of Mexican agates and minerals being imported on a daily basis into that border city.
As fate would have it, he was fortunate to receive a research grant that sent him into the heart of Mexican agate country where he spent several years mapping the region, collecting specimens and developing life-long relationships. During those years, he lived as a Mexican, sharing food, lodging and rural social events with the true pioneers – the discoverers, explorers, importers and the laborers who dug and distributed the agates and minerals. Their culture seeped into his bones and became a part of him, as did the agates themselves. Brad continues to travel to the backcountry of Mexico, visiting dear friends and collecting from historic locations while taking time to explore and discover new remote locations.
Brad has managed to amass a considerable personal collection, the nucleus of which contains the best of the Colonel E.M. Barron and T.B. Williams collections, two early pioneers who witnessed the peak of the Mexican agate collecting days in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Brad was greatly honored when his collection received international acclaim in 2005 at the Munich Gem & Mineral Show, where the historic Apache “Hooded Owl” agate, was featured. Specimens from his collection have been exhibited in museums around the world. It has been his privilege to preserve the great collections when possible and to add to them, as well as to collect and record the localities and the amazing history of Mexico’s mineralogical discoveries and discoverers.
Brad is author of the “The Agates of Northern Mexico,” “Gem Trails of Texas,” and “Geodes: Nature’s Treasures.” His latest book, “Mexican Agates: Majestic Treasures” is scheduled to be published in the near future. He has also authored a number of articles in Rock and Gem.


Love is the Color of a Rainbow by Kathy Parra - Giveaway!
Love is the Color of a Rainbow is a children's nature book written by author Kathy Parra...and we're teaming up with Kathy to give one copy away to a lucky Keen For Green reader!
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The giveaway ends on July 29 at midnight and a winner will be alerted on July 30.
"Love is the Color of a Rainbow" features Willow and Mama on as they share a nature walk.
The book is printed on 100% eco friendly paper and a portion of the proceeds from your purchase of this book will support nature and environmental organizations.
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init/function.lean in the core library has basic defintions and facts about functions between general types.
comp (function composition),
id (the identity function),
const (a constant function),
bijective. Note that many of these things live in the
function namespace, which has to be opened first.
variables (X Y Z : Type u)
variables (f : X → Y) (g : Y → Z) (h : Y → X)
example : bijective g → bijective f → bijective (g ∘ f) := bijective_comp
example : has_left_inverse f → injective f := injective_of_has_left_inverse
example : left_inverse h f → h ∘ f = id := id_of_left_inverse


It’s very original, a great idea and it works beautifully to tie the two worlds together! I think this book is like a beautiful fairytale, in the true sense of the word. It’s certainly very brothers Grimm or Hans Christen Hanserson meets Lewis Caroll or Ksenia Anske. Perfect perfect perfect for fans of any of those!!
TOSOE is definately worked its way into my top ten favourite books. It’s just such a gorgeous story. I think anyone with a love of Fairytales, fantasy, surrealism and good writing will love this book! I would give it six stars if I could. I would certainly recommend this golden number to literally everyone.
Excellent, extraordinary and very creative story. Once I started it was difficult to put down.
Paul Ikin writes beautifully and his characters are so real you can almost touch them. Eve was enjoyable character to read about. And her dialogues with Weatherman were amazing!
The only problem was lack of a map, but I found it here –http://theothersideofeve.com
I would recommend this book for anyone who is a fan of other worlds, magic, adventure, danger or just if you want to read a good story to escape life for a while.
This story is thoughtful and engaging; meaningful and daring. I highly recommend this book for all, especially the YA market.
A fantastic debut fantasy novel. Bringing two worlds together this story is both enchanting & intriguing, with a wondrous cast of characters that’ll keep you turning the pages. A sort of Lewis Carroll meets Narnia this story is one you’ll be glad you picked up.
The Other Side of Eve is a beautifully illustrated book inside and out, but most importantly a beautiful read.
A delightful debut and a beautiful addition to any bookshelf.
I highly recommend it.
There’s so much that could be said about this book but i think it’s best to read it and experience story with the characters. All I will say is that I fell in love with the characters in this book. It’s an adventure fantasy with fantastic characters. Looking forward to reading more from this author.
This is a fine story of fantasy, adventure and a good amount of danger. It’s beautifully crafted and the illustrations are just, WOW! The author took his time building worlds and characters. If you like magic, fantasy and adventure, this read is for you!


This is a short listening comprehension on the origin story of the famous character Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer. NPR interviews Robert L. May's daughter, who talks about her father's story and how Rudolph came into being. Two short vocabulary activities, listening comprehension questions, and a short gap-filling activity on a summary of the story. You can access both the audiofile and transcript for the listening on the following link: https://www.npr.org/2015/12/25/461005670/the-history-of-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer
The above lesson is a great teaching resource for:Pre-intermediate (A2), Intermediate (B1)
This resource is intended for:Adults, High schoolers
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Chinese English: English for Chinese Speakers gives specific instruction to Chinese English speakers on how to improve English learning.
- Differences between Chinese and English;
- and Rhythm and Intonation.
English conversational training helps with your English pronunciation in this English course. Learn English with games that make learning fun! English for Chinese Speakers has tips for English tests like TOEIC, GEPT, TOEFL, IELTS, GRE, CET, BEC, SAT, and General English training. This book is written in English and Chinese, so Chinese speakers can read along in their native language. Many people ask, “How to be a native speaker?” The best and fastest way to learn English correctly is to learn the common English errors of Chinese speakers. When you correct these common English mistakes, you will speaking English for success.
Learning English and speaking English are now easier with EasyAmericanAccent.com and English for Chinese Speakers. English Teacher, David Alber, MA, presents an easy roadmap for your English learning.
This book is written by Dave Alber, English teacher, English pronunciation trainer, Principle at EasyAmericanAccent.com, and creator of The Sound of English: English Pronunciation Practice; “50 Idioms That You Absolutely Must Know”; English Idioms: An Idiomatic Journey to the West; The Taotie Image in Chinese Art, Culture, and Cosmology; and English For Chinese Speakers: Secret Message From Planet Meiguo.


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As far as prices are concerned, study papers for sale come in different rates, but generally speaking, the rates are on a par with one another. Some are more expensive than others, but this is no big deal for those who know what you’re looking for. A general guide to the costs are available on websites which focus on selling them. Although the prices might differ from site to site, you still need to get an overall idea about what it will cost you to buy research papers available.
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Sometimes, comics are important.
Sometimes comics are important because they feature the first appearance of an important character or a monumental event. The first appearance of Spider-man or Kraven’s Last Hunt hold special places in the hearts of many fans. Sometimes comics are important for the sake of other comics, like the stuff Frank Miller and Alan Moore put out in the mid 80’s. Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns changed the course of the industry for decades. All too often, comics are deemed important, but that’s only inside the bubble of other comics or comic characters. Rarely, however, are comics important enough to transcend the comic book form.
Maus by Art Spiegelman the first case I think of where the comic book form offered a way to tell an important story in a way that only comic books could.
Maus tells the story of Spiegelman’s father’s experience surviving the holocaust. The Jews are mice, the Germans are cats, the Polish are pigs, and the French are frogs, but you don’t need to care about comics to care about Maus. You care about Maus because the imagery and sorrow and determination and heart that permeates those books. The comic form gives you enough of a visual metaphor to keep the darkest of stories accessible.
Today’s book, March, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell, is one of those books that carries similar importance.
March: Book One is the first of three parts to tell the biography of John Lewis, a U.S. Congressman, a Medal of Freedom-winning key player from America’s Civil Rights Movement.
The story is apparently rooted in the discussion of another comic book from 1958 called Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story. (Digital scans are available at http://www.ep.tc/mlk/) That 16 page comic book explained passive resistance and was a teaching tool for nonviolent interventions during the period of desegregation.
While discussing that book with his telecommunication and technology policy aide, Andrew Aydin, Congressman Lewis realized his memoirs might make a comic that similarly inspires young people to take action. Lewis agreed only on the condition that Aydin would work with him on the project, and so it began.
Book One begins, initially, with the March from Selma to Montgomery reaching the moment that would later earn it the name “Bloody Sunday.” State troopers unleashed tear gas and night sticks on Lewis, Hosea Williams, and over 600 other marchers that day. Then, the scene cuts to the framing device of a mother and her two sons visiting John Lewis on Barack Obama’s election day. Lewis begins telling the boys his story, as his symbolic purpose is to cue the coming generation to the events he lived through. Lewis starts with his childhood, growing up on rural Alabama farm. He loved the chickens his family would raise, and he would preach to them while they incubated their eggs. He gives the kids a couple of examples of when he tried to do too much and stretched the hens too thin, or when he tried to hard to indoctrinate the chicks with a baptism and almost killed one of them.
Lewis then contrasts his family life with what he learned on a trip up North to Buffalo with his uncle. The contrast between the more integrated north (with white neighbors on both sides of his aunt and uncle) and the segregated south showed John how different the world could be.
From there, Brown v. The Board of Education outlawed segregation and the world started to change. Kind of. Lewis noticed many people didn’t want to rock the boat, people like his parents who feared trouble, or the community minister who never mentioned the atrocities faced in the community but would ride home in a very nice car. Fear of the system or comfort within the system often held people back from stirring the pot. Lewis heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his message of the Social Gospel and immediately connected. Outright defiance of anti-segregation also permeated the culture, including the murder of Emmett Till. Dr. King inspired John Lewis that he could do more.
And so he does. He goes to school and ends up briefly meeting Dr. King before joining up with Jim Lawson and his movement for non-violent and passive resistance. There he encounters that comic book we discussed at the beginning that was so important. That’s followed by four pages of the training regimen that he and his fellow protesters train against the perils they anticipated. Imagine the scene from Rocky where he’s training in the butcher shop, only now the slabs of beef have eyes and are human and are trying to make the world a better place. It’s pretty intense.
It’s almost as intense as when John Lewis and company start their nonviolent sit-in protests at the lunch counters in Alabama. This is where the comic form comes into play again. The hate speech they encounter and the way it’s presented–the lettering–it all goes so far in establishing the tone. The comic book form does a great job in simultaneously depicting the events in a way that’s abstract enough to be accessible but concrete enough to see how dehumanizing the events truly were. Once the sit-ins begin, Nate Powell’s art conveys the isolation and the aggression and the determination to keep marching beautifully. At the end of the first book, you get to taste a victory, but a victory that’s easily fallible by resistance. I’ve got a feeling most of the victories in this story are going to be continual steps forward in spite of the societal pressures pushing back.
At the outset, I mentioned that this comic feels important. Our culture is one where the continued march towards acceptance still encounters hurdles, even today–especially today. When I was in my younger days, race riots, marches for civil rights, they all seemed like relics from the past and history books. Thank goodness that’s over. Except it isn’t in any way. My own blinders of privilege shielded me from seeing how much further we need to go. Police brutality, corruption, and politicians more intent on driving people apart than bringing them together all add up to a lethal mix right now. Books like March can go a long way in not only helping people to empathize and reach a state of understanding, but they can also educate and shine a light on a way to help the situation improve. It may be slow; it may be fraught with peril and resistance at every turn, but at least it’s working towards a possible solution. It’s also nice to see our elected officials trying to inspire others to bring us together instead of drive us apart, especially through comics which has had a long history of promoting social justice. I’m hoping that plenty of folks of all ages see John Lewis’s message and take heed. It’s more important now than it’s ever been.
Final grade: A+. This is one of the books that defines comics as an art form. I don’t think this story works nearly as well as a regular novel or movie. The story is intense, historically accurate, and the art masterfully conveys a variety of emotions and ideas in a way no other form could. I can’t wait to pick up the next two editions and share this story with others.
Until next time, I’ll be the guy getting yelled at for reading comics in class–I’m learning, I swear!


African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) Harriet Anena is shs72million richer after emerging joint winner in the Wole Soyinka prize for literature in Africa for her book ‘A Nation In Labour’.
Anena shared the top prize with Nigeria’s Professor Tanure Ojaide who wrote “Songs of Myself” and the award is based on Pan-African writing prize for books of any type or genre.
Harriet Anena is a Ugandan author, poet, and journalist. She is the author of a collection of poems, A Nation In Labour published in 2015. She worked with the Daily Monitor newspaper as a reporter, sub-editor, and deputy chief sub-editor from 2009 to September 2014.
Her winning poetry book (A Nation in labour) is a collection of social conscience poetry that paints a picture of the giant politician, the restless citizen, the clueless youth, those struggling to heal from life’s scratches and the ones hunting for words to describe fiery flames of affection.
The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa is awarded biennially to the best literary work produced by an African and was established by the Lumina Foundation in 2005 in honour of Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in literature, Wole Soyinka who presented the prize, which is chosen by an international jury of literary figures.
The prize has been described as “the African equivalent of the Nobel Prize” with the winner receiving $20,000 at the awards ceremony. So, this year’s prize will be split among the two with each getting 10,000 (about 37,303,500).
Entries must be written in English or French but although originally all genres were considered for every award, since 2014 only one genre has been eligible for each edition of the award, with drama being considered for 2014, poetry in 2016, and prose in 2018


The application form for JEE Main exam 2022 will release soon and it is the high time that you prepare wholeheartedly for the exam. The right books are the most important element for exam preparation and therefore the most important task is to choose the best JEE Main Preparation Books 2022. First of all, you must know that the standard textbooks of NCERT are the best books, whether you are preparing for Physics, Chemistry or Mathematics. After you completely finish the syllabus from the NCERT books, then you can take help from the other reference books.
JEE Main Preparation Books 2022
The aspirants who wish to take admissions into IITs must prepare well for JEE Main as it is the first step towards IIT. Those who clear the Main exam will be eligible for The JEE Advanced exam and clearing both will grant them enrolment in IITs. Therefore, it becomes utmost important that you devote yourself completely for exam preparation. A list of some of the best books that can be referred for preparation of JEE Main exam is given below.
JEE Main Preparation Books 2022 for Paper 1
The candidates appearing for Paper 1 (for B.E./ B.Tech) will have to prepare the subjects of Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry. The subject-wise best books for Paper 1 preparation are given as:
Best Books for Mathematics Preparation
- Mathematics by Tata McGraw Hill (TMH) Publication
- Coordinate Geometry by S. L. Loney
- Calculus by J. Edward
- Higher Algebra by Hall Knight
- Introduction to Probability Theory & Its Applications by W. Feller
Important Topics Mathematics
|Permutation & Combination
|Statistics & Probability
|Matrices & Determinants
|Differentiation & Integration
Best Books for Physics Preparation
- Concepts of Physics by H. C. Verma
- Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday, Resnick and Walker
- Problems in General Physics by I. E. Irodov
- Understanding JEE Physics Series by D. C. Pandey
Important Topics for Physics
|Heat & Thermodynamics
|Simple Harmonic Motion
|Waves and Optics
Best Books for Chemistry Preparation
- Organic Chemistry by Morrison and Boyd
- Concise Inorganic Chemistry by J. D. Lee
- Physical Chemistry Textbook by Peter Atkins
- Modern Approach to Chemical Calculations by R. C. Mukherjee
Important Topics for Chemistry
|Biomolecules & Polymers
|Alcohol & Ether
|Amino Acids and Carbonyl Compounds
|Atomic Structure & Nuclear Chemistry
|Solution & Colligative Properties
|Thermodynamics & Thermochemistry
|Periodic Table & Periodicity in Properties
JEE Main Preparation Books 2022 for Paper 2
The candidates appearing for Paper 2 (for B.Arch/ B.Plan) will have to prepare for mathematics test, aptitude test and drawing test. The following reference books are considered best for architecture exam preparation:
- A complete Self Study Guide for B.Arch Entrance Exam By P K Mishra
- Steps to Architecture (NATA) B.Arch Entrance Exam Guide by Nimish Madan
- NATA and B.Arch Complete Self Study Material by Ar. Shadan Usmani
How to prepare for the JEE Main exam 2022?
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My husband is 100% disabled Viet Nam Vet… So reading is my enjoyment. I don’t need to run out to the library. I use my Kindle and read as often as I can. Everything is at my finger tips. I have been doing this for years. Thank you so much, reading helps me relax.
Thank you so much for sharing, Bonnie. And thank your husband for his service for us, please!
I read everyday of my life. E-books are the greatest invention since the lightbulb! Overdrive saves a lot of gasoline.# readane-bookday!
Loved this book! Just finished it!
Just finished reading ARROWOOD! Loved it!
I have a ton of ebooks on my Kobo, including half a dozen library books at the moment. Currently reading some Sherlock Holmes.
Love my e-reader “Nook”! I can download from my Library or buy from other sites. So easy! I am never without several books to read. It is amazing technology!
Recently read – Night Road by Kristin Hannah, Me Before You by Jojo Moyes, A Life Interrupted by Tom Brokaw and Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer.
I am loving listening to the Ann B Ross Miss Julia series and reading Damage by Lisa Scottoline – I am loving life!!
I use overdrive every day to read my ebooks which I download from the library. I belong to the Goodreads site and have set a challenge of 75 books read during 2016. To date, I have completed and charted 88 books read. It is so easy to have overdrive on each of my electronics and that way I also have my current book with me.
I have just completed ” The Book Thief ” by ” Markus Zusak “.
I am starting ” The Piano Maker ” by ” Kurt Palka “.
I like the eBook because is convenience for me. My eye sight is not so good, so I can choose the best size of font to suit me. Large print book is heavy. I can adjust the brightness to fit in the environment for reading. I use the “Dictionary” to get the meaning of those words. I can choose another language books , if they are avaiable. It save me a trip to library and it save me from those ‘Fine’ that I forget to return the book. I am reading Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, it’s a different style from the previous Harry Potter. I read all those 7 books in paper, now it’s the eBook.
Our bookshelves are loaded and I love my Kindle because I can load hundreds
Of books on it and carry it anywhere. I read a lot more because it’s so easy to get books either to purchase or from our local library. Everyone should have some kind of E-reader! Currently reading The Sister by Louise Jenson.
I am reading a Stuart woods book now. Love reading on my nook.
I just finished Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children on my tablet. Just downloaded Hollow City and can’t wait to start!
I love my ebooks. I used to carry at least 4 different book when I went to work only because when I was on my lunch I never knew what mood I’d be in and what I was in the mood to read. I usually had at least one Louis L’lamour a science-fiction and 2 different fantasy. People at work would make fun saying, “why did you bring your library with you?”
But know with e readers I can take as many as I want. And as I upgrade my readers I can lend out my old ones to friends that don’t have ereader of there own.
Duane E. II
There wasn’t any room left on my book shelves. I donated 11 boxes of books and still there was not room. Trying to simplify and being able to carry all your books with you hit a core with me. Although, much can be said about a hardcover…my E-reader is my carry it with me.
I just finished The Midwife of Hope River on my Kindle. I love that Overdrive allows me to check out books from my local library to read. This is my absolute favorite use of technology. I have been a bookworm all my life. One of my earliest memories is reading with my grandfather at age 3. I can’t read with him anymore but he certainly spurred a love of reading that I have to this day. E-books and e-readers are the greatest invention ever. We can bring books to everyone, even people far from a library. The universe is our library. How amazingly awesome.
Faith Hunter is one of my favorite authors and I keep a library of her books on my ereader. Love Jane Yellowrock and the new Soulwood series! Oh – and the entire Pendergast collection by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It’s so nice to carry a library with me wherever I go 🙂
Wen Spencer’s Project Elfhome. I love the Pittsburgh Backyard & Garden short story.
I’m reading The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. This book has been getting a lot of attention recently since Oprah made it a book club pick and I am not disappointed thus far! Looking forward to finishing it up on my Kindle Fire this Friday!
I’m currently reading “The Paris Wife” but I recently finished “Behind Closed Doors” which was an intense read. I highly recommend it as it kept me guessing to the end.
Love reading Ebooks. I had my E reader for years before I started downloading books but now I can’t imagine going without it. I like to alternate the books I read so I’m often reading 3 at a time and ebooks are the perfect way to do that. I like mystery/crime novels and just started getting into Elizabeth George so I’m working through her collection.
I’m a voracious reader and was reluctant to venture into e-reading because I love the feel of a book, the ability to flip back and forth, but this little thing stole my heart. #ebooklove And while I’ll probably never give up on books, I do love the idea that a good read is always within reach.
Just read Rook and am waiting for Stiletto, the next one in the series. I really enjoyed Rook and can’t wait to find out what happens in the next part of the storyline!
I love being able to read on my iPad. The Ontario Librbary Service Consortium allows me to do just that without having to spend money on purchasing books.
I would be lost without digital reading. I mostly use audio books and sometimes I read along with the narrative. I just finished reading “Excursion” a terrific action packed novel by L.A. Zett. I’m now into “Burned” by the same author. I love just about anything by Preston & Child. The list of great writers is endless.
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The Girl's Room
A room of one's own is needed by a young introverted girl, a budding writer. She craves the sanctity of a safe physical space in which to let her mind wander, and her creative spirit come out to play. But in a strict Baptist household in the mid-1960s to 1970s, far from this need being honored, it is considered subversive. In fact, all diaries and letters from this period were confiscated and destroyed.
Now, as an adult, she is offering her inner world as an open book. Her uncensored thoughts, fresh and unconscious, are scribbled in 45 journals spanning 20 years. These diaries will be juxtaposed with her mother's lovingly-created baby scrapbooks and letters, which share her hopes for her baby girl's future.
Enter the mood of the young girl's room, a period piece created with authentic objects and soundscape from her childhood. At first glimpse, it is a typical room with dolls, flowered flounces, and shag carpeting. Then notice some disturbing elements--the "throw-up bowl" on the bed stand, the transistor radio under the pillow.
Compare early writings and expectations with the writings from the woman she has become. How has her upbringing influenced her creative process, her current philosophies? You may feel inclined to sit on the bed, get cozy, read, enter her world...but minutes later you will be interrupted! Whatever could you be doing in there???
Circa mid-1960s to 1970s. Yellow/gold/orange color scheme. Single bed in yellow flowered bedcover, tightly made. Orange shag rug. Dresser with objects. Beanbag chair. Wall hangings. Authentic objects from childhood: guitar, dolls, books, Bibles, baby toys and stuffed animals. A typical dress hanging, a shorts set laid out.
- Reading Materials
Roughly 45 adult journals, scattered about the room. Intermingled will be detailed baby scrapbooks made by mother, a book of schoolyear memories, some family letters, early drawings.
A 15-minute or so loop. Live recordings of church congregations singing hymns. Interspersed with samples of my favorite girlhood songs, including "There's Got to Be a Morning After"; "Delta Dawn"; "I Think I Love You"; "Mandy"; "Morning Has Broken"; etc. Those songs will be interrupted by a mother's voice saying, alternately: "Wendi! Open your door!"; "Wendi, come out and be social!"; "Wendi, what are you doing in there?"; "Turn off that filth!"; and "If you write it down it's meant to be read." Upon the mother's voice, the music will abruptly switch back to church music. Practice sessions on piano and flute, then changes to Stairway to Heaven, then mother's voice, and switch. The mother's voice will get closer and closer, with footsteps up the stairs and a knock at the door, whereupon the soundtrack abruptly ends.
- Object List
Quill pen, clown paint-by-numbers, childhood Bibles, Barbie, Kitty, guitar, flute, praying hands hanging, childhood quilt & bedcover, macrame?, snail candle, baby toys, Beverly Cleary books, Victoria Holt books, dresses I made, photos of me, flowered bathing cap, typewriter, throwup bowl.
A room inside a space -- exterior, sheetrock and studs, interior, fully finished and furnished. One doorway. Two windows, covered with gauzy curtains, with yellow gel and halogen lamps bathing room in yellow sunlight.


Learning with Miriam
work by Miriam Elia
June 26, 2011 at 10:05 pm
Turks seminal work ‘the egg’ is a complex deconstruction of the struggle between meta modernism and pre-industrial enlightenment. often seen as a critique of the individualist paradigm in post industrial society or the conflict between the ego and naturalist form. ultimately ‘the egg’, in its anarchic and depthless expression, is a pastiche of post-modern existence.
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We are excited to announce our upcoming Children’s Story Hour in the gardens! This is a great opportunity to relax amongst the blooms with your budding garden enthusiasts and listen to some wonderful children’s literature. The next gathering is on Thursday, June 29th at 10:30 am with guest storytellers from Rye Public Library. After the story time, tour the gardens with your tykes free of charge!
Other upcoming Story Hours: July 13, July 20, July 31, Aug. 10, Aug. 15, Aug. 17.


Book Review – Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
Everybody knows that exercise is good for you…. duh. But we tend to think that it is good for you for the wrong reasons. Well maybe not the “wrong” reasons but the average person’s knowledge of just what exercise does for your body barely scratches the surface of the fantastic and seemingly miraculous reality. This reality is the focus of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey, MD. This book has opened my mind to the novel idea that exercise may be even better for our brain than for our body. Rather, the main idea is that the brain and the body aren’t separate and they benefit together from exercise.
Dr. Ratey is a clinical associate professor of psychiartry at Harvard Medical School. He is acknowledged as one of the world’s foremost experts on Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD). He is also the author of another very popular book titled: Driven to Distraction which is about these disorders. He has studied the effects of exercise on the brain for decades and often prescribes it to patients in his clinical practice.
Dr. Ratey explores several different aspects of how the brain benefits from exercise such as learning, dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, attention deficit, addiction, hormonal changes and aging. The information in the book goes above and beyond the common thought that its just endorphins that make you feel good when you exercise. The magnitude of some of these effects were surprising. A highschool in Naperville, IL uniquely implemented exercise into their curriculum and became the #1 rated school in the world on an international standardized science test. Exercise at the right time of day can reduce the amount of medication needed by those suffering ADHD. The book also includes stories of people who have overcome serious conditions like cancer using primarily exercise.
The book reads pretty easily for the amount of technical information it contains. If you’re like most people I know when you come across a term like “Brain Derived Neurotropic Factor” in a book you want to put it down… and then throw up on it. However, Dr. Ratey does a great job of weaving in interesting antecodtes to keep the story moving and the reader reading.
In our society we have a very monolithic view about the value of exercise. We have become so obsessed with obesity that we only focus on its value for weight loss. The truth is that you can lose weight without exercising and so some consider exercise to optional if you can find another way to keep your weight down. BUT IT’S NOT! Not if you want to be healthy at least. We have forgotten a lot of what we have intuitively known about the effects of exercise on our minds and souls for centuries.
I have started using some of the recommendations from this book in working with my patients and people have been getting some great results. It is so refreshing to find such a thorough and well written book to support this idea that exercise is good for more than a beach body. I have a couple of copies of the book available for lending at the clinic if you are interested. Otherwise follow the link to the book above and order yourself a copy from Amazon.com.
- Benefits of Exercise to Help With Depression (webmd.com)
- How exercise jogs the brain (parentcentral.ca)


—Originally published May 18, 2015—
Meet the Hanslick Girls: Gwen, Eleanor and Dania. Imagined up by writer Zach Barr, they are a trio of Northwestern students who always go to see plays together. They may not have the same opinions, but their conversations tend to make for an entertaining read. Recently, the Girls saw two productions on the same day: WAVE Productions’ “The Language Archive,” directed by Anna Basile, and Arts Alliance’s “The Who’s Tommy,” directed by Hannah Fisher. Let’s hear what they had to say the following day…
In her small apartment, Dania lazily turned through the pages of the program for “The Who’s Tommy.” She began to count names as Eleanor entered the room.
“Is that the program for ‘Tommy?’” asked Eleanor.
“Yeah,” Dania responded.
Eleanor murmured something quiet and walked out of the room. Dania continued to count names.


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Our parish has subscribed to FORMED.org so that all parishioners will be able to access FORMED and all it has to offer! Our parish code is XAP8NB.
FORMED offers resources for parish programs, study groups, and personal growth. FORMED includes programs such as Symbolon: The Journey to the Heart of the Faith, Catholicism, Beloved: Finding Happiness in Marriage, YDisciple (for youth, teens, and families), as well as full length movies, audio presentations, and e-books on a number of topics, from the inspirational to the academic. You’ll find presenters like Scott Hahn, Edward Sri, Bishop Robert Barron, Tim Gray, Leah Darrow, Teresa Tomeo, Chris Stefanick, and many more!
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“Were not our hearts burning [within us] while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?” (Lk 24:32)
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As the General Directory for Catechesis states: “The maturation of the Christian life requires that it be cultivated in all its dimensions: knowledge of the faith, liturgical life, moral formation, prayer, belonging to community, missionary spirit. When catechesis omits one of these elements, the Christian faith does not attain full development.”
The ongoing development of a living, explicit, and fruitful Christian faith in adulthood requires growth in six dimensions: Knowledge of the Faith, Liturgical Life, Moral Formation, Prayer, Communal Life, and Missionary Spirit. Each of them is a fundamental aspect of Christian life and a foundational content area for adult faith formation.
The Adult Faith Formation Team here at Our Lady of Guadalupe strives to provide care and development for families through various programs, education, and formation opportunities. The goal of these efforts is that the laity may bring the Gospel to all structures of society: family life, political life, workplace, science and the arts, and mass media.
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In part 2, we saw William and Sarah purchasing land in order to plant crops and make their living as farmers.
- 60 acres purchased from Joseph P. Smith on 6 Dec 1866 (Land in SC)
- 60 acres purchased from James L. Edwards on 21 December 1871
- 30 acres purchased from William P. Brantley on 21 December 1872
- 25 acres purchased from Mary, Sarah and Martha Gardner on 23 July 1979
Sometime after Sarah’s death in December 1893 and September 1899, Great Great Grandpa William A. Purvis re-married. Remember the lady – Elizabeth Purvis with daughter, Mary J. Purvis living in the Purvis household1 in 1880; since 1880 she has had another child, Ella Frances and now she and William A. Purvis are living as husband and wife.
The primary document attesting to this scenario is a September 1899 land deed2 - W. A. Purvis and wife Elizabeth Purvis to J. D. Rhyne, Anson Co., NC, Book 33, Page 370. In this land Deed, William is splitting up his last 30 acres of land and selling off 12 acres for a mere fifty-four dollars ($54.00). This piece of land is part of a tract of land purchased by William A. Purvis back in the 1870’s.
No husband or prior record has been found for Elizabeth Purvis before her appearance in the William A. Purvis household in 1880. This Land Deed (DB 33:370) is now the second document found that mention Elizabeth or Betsy Purvis. William A. Purvis is still living when he executed this Land Deed on 23 September 1899.
The 1900 census3 for Anson County has Elizabeth and Ella Frances living on the land purchased by William A. Purvis.
Page: 145, Line 20, Dwelling 337, Family 338; Elizabeth PURVIS, age 40, Wd., born Oct 1869 in NC; Ella PURVIS, daughter, age 13, born Dec 1886 in NC.
Elizabeth’s daughter Mary Jane married Charles Franklin Lang back in 1888 and died during childbirth in March 1895. Her baby daughter, Frances Elizabeth “Effie” Lang survived.
This is consistent with Betsy reporting that she is a widow with 2 children and one (1) living. The census was enumerated on June 28, 1900; thus, her husband William A. Purvis died between September 23, 1899 and June 28, 1900. No tombstone has been found for William A. Purvis. He died before the initiation of state-wide vital statistics documentation.
On September 30, 1900, Elizabeth “Betsy” Purvis sold the last remaining 18 acres to Jefferson D. Rhine binding 6 acres into a lifetime estate.4
“Betsy reserve form this land Six acres being the lot upon which is situated her house. She to retain said Six acres for & during the time of her natural life and at her death the said lot of six acres to go with this other land as herein described,"
By 1910, Betsy has abandoned the land is living with her daughter Ella Frances and new son-in-law, Thomas T. Tarlton. Two children are enumerated in the home, their son, Roy and daughter Carrie.5
The Social Security Form for Ella France Tarlton shows her parents as Billie Purvis and Elizabeth Previtte.
Betsy Purvis died 18 October 1926 in Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina and was buried 19 Oct, 1926 in an unmarked grave in the Mizpah Cemetery.6
Mrs. Betsy Purvis
Mrs. Betsy Purvis, aged 90, died Oct. 18th in Great Falls village. The interment was at Mizpah the same day.7 [The Rockingham Post-Dispatch, Richmond County, NC, Thursday, October 21, 1926, Page 6, Column 2 - Deaths]
Elizabeth “Betsy” Previtte Purvis birth date is unknown. In 1880, she was 30 years old, born in NC. In 1900 she gave her birth as Oct 1869, age 40, born in NC.
In 1910, her age is listed as 62 and she was born in NC. Then we have her death certificate where her birth is listed as abt 1836, age 90. This date was carried over to the Obituary.
No female by the name of Elizabeth Previtte has been found in local county records. She states in 1900 that she had two children – Mary Jane & Ella Frances and one was deceased. Her first child, Mary J. was not born until abt 1873, age 7 in 1880 census. If she was born in 1836 then she was 37 years of age when her first child was born.
The books have been temporarily closed on William A. Purvis. He was twice married; his first wife Sarah Jane Graves and his second, Elizabeth “Betsy” Previtte Purvis. William and Sarah had one child, my great grandfather William James Purvis.
Elizabeth “Betsy” Purvis had two children. It is not known for certain if these two daughters are the children of William A. Purvis or a close relative. No close relative has been found for William A. Purvis. His parentage has been a “brick wall” to this researcher for the past 37 years.
The parentage of Elizabeth “Betsy” Privette is also unknown. No record of her has been found prior to 1880.
This “brick wall'” has been very frustrating. If any of you, my followers and readers, would care to take on a challenge I would welcome your time in taking a look at this lineage and see if I have missed anything.
 1880 U. S. Census, Anson County, North Carolina, population schedule, Anson County, North Carolina, enumeration district (ED) # 2, Page 350B, Line 36, Dwelling 233, Family 251, Household of William A. Purvis; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 1976); citing National Archives Microfilm T9, Roll 951.
 Anson County, North Carolina, Deed Book 33: page 370, W. A. Purvis and wife Elizabeth Purvis to J. D. Rhyne; 23 September 1899, Register of Deeds, Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina.
 1900 U. S. Census, Anson County, North Carolina, population schedule, Morven, Anson County, North Carolina, enumeration district (ED) #7, page 145, line 20, dwelling 337, family 338, Household of Elizabeth Purvis; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 1976); citing National Archives Microfilm T623, Roll 1181.
 Anson County, North Carolina, Deed Book 34: pages 491-492, Betsy Purvis to J. D. Rhyne; 30 September 1900, Register of Deeds, Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina.
 1910 U. S. Census, Anson County, North Carolina, population schedule, Gulledge, Anson County, North Carolina, enumeration district (ED) #6, Page 81A, Line 21, dwelling 170, family 172, Household of Tom TARLTON; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 July 2011); citing National Archives Microfilm T624, Roll 1096.
 State of North Carolina, death certificate no. 351, (18 October 1926), Mrs. Betsy Purvis; https://www.ancestry.com, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina.
 Mrs. Betsy Purvis obituary, The Rockingham Post-Dispatch, Rockingham, Richmond County, NC, 21 October 1926, Page 6, Column 2. Deaths.


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LESLIE, Elizabeth 1
- Born: About 1419
- Marriage (1): LEITH, Norman of Barnis
There is a problem with dates for Elizabeth if she is the daughter of Agnes.
Elizabeth married Norman LEITH of Barnis, son of Laurence LEITH of Barnis, Provost of Aberdeen and Unknown. (Norman LEITH of Barnis was born about 1400 and died in reign of James III 2.)
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The Politics of Evangelical Identity:
Local Churches and Partisan Divides in the United States and Canada
Princeton University Press | 2014 | ISBN: 9780691161303 | For Sale on Amazon.com
It is now a common refrain among liberals that Christian Right pastors and television pundits have hijacked evangelical Christianity for partisan gain. The Politics of Evangelical Identity challenges this notion, arguing that the hijacking metaphor paints a fundamentally distorted picture of how evangelical churches have become politicized. The book reveals how the powerful coalition between evangelicals and the Republican Party is not merely a creation of political elites who have framed conservative issues in religious language, but is anchored in the lives of local congregations.
Drawing on her groundbreaking research at evangelical churches near the U.S. border with Canada—two in Buffalo, New York, and two in Hamilton, Ontario—Lydia Bean compares how American and Canadian evangelicals talk about politics in congregational settings. While Canadian evangelicals share the same theology and conservative moral attitudes as their American counterparts, their politics are quite different. On the U.S. side of the border, political conservatism is woven into the very fabric of everyday religious practice. Bean shows how subtle partisan cues emerge in small group interactions as members define how “we Christians” should relate to others in the broader civic arena, while liberals are cast in the role of adversaries. She explains how the most explicit partisan cues come not from clergy but rather from lay opinion leaders who help their less politically engaged peers to link evangelical identity to conservative politics.
The Politics of Evangelical Identity demonstrates how deep the ties remain between political conservatism and evangelical Christianity in America.
Lydia Bean is Senior Consultant to the PICO National Network.
"The Politics of Evangelical Identity is a bracing corrective to the perception of evangelicals as theological stooges mesmerized by the spell of conservative masterminds. Bean persuasively argues that the appeal of conservatives in the evangelical base has far more to do with how they connect the political to everyday spiritual and religious practices. Her path-clearing and transformative book brilliantly engages the political perspectives, moral passions, and religious beliefs of evangelicals from a practical, grounded perspective."--Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University
"The Politics of Evangelical Identity is a very important book, a truly original and deeply insightful exploration of why America's white evangelical Christians allied with the political Right to a degree that evangelicals in other countries have not. Writing with flair, respect, and understanding, Bean shows how American evangelicals have woven political conservatism into the fabric of everyday religious life. This book should permanently alter how both its friends and its critics view the Religious Right."--E. J. Dionne, Jr., author of Souled Out and Our Divided Political Heart
"The question of how evangelicals will vote has become increasingly important in recent elections. In her insightful and well-researched book, The Politics of Evangelical Identity, Lydia Bean explores how political forces have influenced and re-formed an American evangelical identity from the grassroots. Anyone who is serious about understanding evangelicals' political participation should read this book."--Jim Wallis, president and founder of Sojourners.
Available now in Hardcover and Kindle edition from Princeton University Press.


M. BECK-BURRIDGE BSc., MA. Post Grad
Martin has shown a sensitivity to his subject which has taken into the world of expression where few words are needed. His trek to Africa and beyond has born fruit by bringing home a certainty that life is different where ever you turn. The sense of humanity crowns his achievement in depicting humans coping in difficult circumstances. This is Africa, jeep included, which not all of us feel comfortable seeing. Reality bites our consciences here and abroad as we struggle to cope with the things going on around us.
Visiting Academic Fellow, Henley Management College and Visiting Lecturer at Cranfield School of management. Working on projects in the Middle East having attended the 4th International Conference on Democracy and Economic Development in the Gulf in 2004, the 2005 and 2006 Conferences in Qatar at the Governments invitation. Also working in the areas of international terrorism, the illegal drugs industry and organised crime. Working on book/research projects on Qatar and the Gulf States and have published a book on the work of an international charity in Malawi published in February 2008. Further work following from my Final Degree Show at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, in June 2005. Currently working on a photographic book on the work of Sue Ryder Care Ireland, on caring for the elderly.
Publications include "Britain's Winning Formula; Achieving World Leadership in Motorsports" the story of Britain's advanced automotive engineering and motorsport cluster, was published by Macmillan on 26th November 1999. This research was extended by a joint research project with Birmingham University and Cranfield Business School funded by the Motorsport Industry Association, an executive summary of the research results was released in January 2001, and the final report was published in April 2001. The story of how Subaru used sports sponsorship and marketing to develop their brand, the story of Prodrive and Subaru, was published in March 2001. A book on the theme of the economic benefits of sports sponsorship and innovation entitled Building Brand, Business and Profit; Jaguar & Subaru, was published on 16th November 2001 by Macmillan/Palgrave. Liberating Lives, a book on the work of the Sue Ryder Foundation in Malawi published in February 2008.
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Budish and The Literacy Cooperative Join for International Literacy Day
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Over 400,000 adults in Cuyahoga County are at or below a seventh-grade comprehension level
Cleveland, OH – Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish and the Literacy Cooperative joined today in honor of International Literacy Day to discuss challenges and opportunities that exist in Cuyahoga County for over 400,000 adults with low literacy that have difficulty reading a prescription or completing a job application. The featured speaker was Jeff Conyers, Executive Director of The Dollywood Foundation whose featured program is Imagination Library.
Nearly 125 people gathered to hear from literacy advocates concerning the challenges faced by many in our community who are not able to read or write adequately or do simple math problems, as well as some of the programs and resources in the community to address these difficulties.
“Low literacy and a lack of workforce skills are a barrier to progress on social priorities that exist in our region.” said County Executive Budish. “Reducing poverty, promoting public health, and helping people find better jobs remain at the forefront of this administration and we are committed to finding solutions that connect our most vulnerable citizens to the skills they need to succeed.”
International Literacy Day is a world-wide awareness campaign founded fifty years ago by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to highlight the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies. Improving literacy leads directly to advancing economies, health and social equality.
The Dollywood Foundation and Imagination Library have achieved dramatic results. In the twenty years since its founding by Dolly Parton, Imagination Library has mailed sixty million high-quality, age-appropriate books to children in more than 1600 local communities, and 750,000 children are now receiving a new book each and every month. Statistics and independent reports have shown Dolly Parton's Imagination Library drastically improves early childhood literacy for children enrolled in the program. Conyers is hoping to establish a Dolly Parton Imagination Library program in Greater Cleveland.
Robert Paponetti, Executive Director of The Literacy Cooperative, sponsor of the luncheon, said, “International Literacy Day events take place around the world, but we are focused on the needs right here in our community, where 80% of Cleveland children beginning kindergarten are not fully prepared - and adults who have low literacy skills are not able to access job training programs that lead to family sustaining wages. The investments we make in programs for children, as well as work-place education for adults, are critical to improving the quality of life for everyone.
The Literacy Cooperative provides literacy leadership to improve the quality and connectivity of early literacy, parent engagement, and adult literacy and workforce development services that lead to systemic changes. The Literacy Cooperative’s convening, demonstrating, and advocacy supports providers to deliver better coordinated services to children and adults.


Check out these amazing vintage books for sale in my Etsy Shop! Children's, gardening and fiction... something for everyone!
|Vintage Kids Books Bundle! Grimm's Fairy Tales and Let's Read Together Poems. Classic!|
|Ah, The Portrait of a Lady. Sadly, I've never read it, but it looks great in RED!|
|Rare Vick's Flower and Vegetable Garden Book is from the late 1800s |
and was published by the makers of Vick's Monthly Magazine.
It has a beautiful stamped cover and is fully illustrated!
|This garden book is overflowing with character and timeworn charm!|
|Plants are listed alphabetically.|
|The illustrations in Vick's Garden book are STUNNING!|


Why Read Literature?
Why Read? There are many reasons that are presented to us throughout our lives, from grade school all the way into adulthood—we read to exercise our minds, chase our curiosity, build our vocabulary, study for a test, experience a story, or travel to a different world that exists between the covers. But all of these reasons for reading could easily explain why we read modern books, texts that were written in recent years and reflect our current culture, society, and language in a way that’s comprehensible, digestible, and relatable. Therefore, with so many books being penned and published every year that reside on the cutting edge of time, a question inevitably pops into the head of the reader—why read old books? Why consume classic literature? This is the theme we will discuss…
The Classics: From Boring Headache to Inspiring Awareness
The definition of what constitutes literature is fluid and amorphous—rather or not a book can be considered a legitimate literary classic or a mere popular work is often the subject of debate, but some texts are certainly classics without question. Examples of literature in this vein are the works of Shakespeare, the epic poems of Homer, Milton, and Dante, the sonnets of Petrarch and Keats, the satire of Pope, Voltaire, and Byron, the novels of Dickens, Melville, and Twain. The classics are etched into the fabric of western civilization, and we all encounter them throughout our time in school. But more often than not for students, works of literature are mere tickets to Sparknotes or Shmoop, sources of headaches and confusion, and fountains of boredom, the merit and value of which is lost on the young reader. As a person in their twenties who now possesses a passion for many literary classics, I would not have said the same about myself ten years ago. I often found myself mystified in high school as to how someone could genuinely enjoy reading texts like Hamlet that were simply difficult to understand, or The Iliad that was compelling in theory, but a lot less entertaining than a movie like Troy, which portrays similar subject matter in a much more palatable form. I preferred films to books, songs to poems. I remember my primary motive for reading classic literature in high school was to do well on reading quizzes or tests, not for pleasure or out of interest. However, this all changed in college when I realized the true purpose of literature, and the main reason for its importance—understanding humanity.
A Window to Better Understand Others. And Yourself.
To me, what literature does is open a window to the entire scope of the human experience—from Homer and Shakespeare to Orwell and Steinback, literature casts light on what it means to be a person, demonstrating the timeless that exists through time, showing us that the joys, pains, and emotions that we go through every day have already been felt by countless individuals who came before us. In my opinion, literature is the most elegant, detailed, and enduring depiction of this universality. There are few finer intellectual moments than seeing myself in the characters and thoughts of writers who lived hundreds and even thousands of years ago. The best works of literature retain their importance because the reality portrayed by their fiction belongs to the past, present, and future, not merely to the era in which they were written.
Think your kids have too much screen-time? Check out Nicole’s blog about this here:
Screen Time vs. Reading Time
Gifts from the Past for Perspective Today
Reading social commentaries like those of Voltaire and Orwell is a prime means to make sense of events and trends in modern society—their perspectives are untainted by contemporary prejudice and allegiances, and writers of the past are excellent guides in showing us not necessarily what to think, but rather how to think, or even how not to think in some instances. Poets like Petrarch, Shakespeare, Byron, Keats, Whitman, and Frost employ language of unrivaled beauty to describe feelings that will endure for the rest of the human story. Many philosophers have shown that all we’ll ever truly know is the perception that exists in our own head, a shadowy realm of thoughts and images that our surroundings mold for us, but the power of literature is that it carries us into the worlds of genuinely great minds, assisting us in understanding both our own humanity and that of others. Literature enables us to feel less alone in our human experience and to develop empathy; it nourishes the mind, consoles the soul, and builds the intellect. Like all of the finest things in life, literature is not without its challenges, but the rewards for perseverance through its pages are immense.
A Magical Conversation with a 500-Year Old? Just Turn the Page...
Reading a great book is like having a mental conversation with a person who may have lived centuries ago—literary classics are time machines that bounce the reader across the sweeping expanse of human history, and there is genuine magic within them. To discover this magic for yourself, you need only pick up the book and turn the page…
Written by Charlie Stewart, experienced teacher of History, Writing, English Literature, and Spanish
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History professors Sue Peabody and Donna Sinclair are collaborating with
Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries and the Clark County Historical Museum to offer a series of community conversations and
workshops to document local stories and foster community dialogue and mutual understanding. The changing demographics of Clark County
inspired the project, led by the WSU Vancouver faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Kristen Pratt, a language and literacy instructor in the
College of Education at WSU Vancouver, was recognized with the outstanding dissertation award by the
American Educational Research Association (AERA). Pratt’s research explored language interaction in a
third-grade Spanish-English classroom, as students, teachers, and community members negotiated their bilingual, biliterate, and
Debbie Brinker, assistant dean in the College of Nursing, will be inducted into the Washington State Nurses Association Hall of Fame this spring. She will be one of six
honorees at a ceremony on March 22 in Seattle. Brinker is currently president of the Washington Center for Nursing, a
faculty advisor for the Nursing Students of Washington State, a member of the Leadership Washington Nursing Action Coalition, and a
member of the steering Committee of Action Now! The Initiative to Solve State Nursing Education Challenges.


PMA Book Review: The Director’s Manual
By: Patton McDowell
Insight on Effective Board Development
Local Charlotte authors Peter Browning and Will Sparks bring their considerable corporate and academic experience to The Director’s Manual. While the authors primarily target current and potential board members in the corporate sector, many of the principles they highlight are very relevant to the nonprofit sector as well.
1. Many nonprofit boards can certainly benefit from the authors’ emphasis on board culture and the group dynamics around decision making. Does your board really encourage constructive conflict or are they the victim of group think?
2. Assessing board performance. The book provides great insight on the actual mechanics of board mechanics and structure, and also has great suggestions for an effective board evaluation process, which many nonprofits fail to do.
3. Browning and Sparks certainly reinforce a rally cry I’m apt to lead in a board retreat myself, which is the building of an effective board nominating process, which they term a “Board Succession Plan”. From an assessment of current board demographics to the orientation of a new member, the book provides helpful tactics to build an effective board development practice.
Among the many practical take-aways in this book for the nonprofit professional are the insight into the mind of the corporate board member, which is often the perspective many of your nonprofit board members bring who come from that environment. Understanding this viewpoint will give you not only good ideas but even greater credibility as you interact with your board.
For more information about The Director’s Manual, click here.


Where's the Next Shelter? is the true story of three travelers on the Appalachian Trail, a two thousand mile hike that stretches from Georgia to Maine, told from the perspective of Gary Sizer, a seasoned backpacker and former Marine who quickly finds himself humbled by the endeavor. He teams up with Megan, a sassy college grad whose indomitable spirit eclipses her lack of experience, and Lemmy, a cartoonist from overseas whose off-kilter commentary on the wonders and frustrations of the trail keeps everyone laughing.
Sprawling through the woods and towns of the Appalachian mountains, the trail carries the trio through real and fanciful ups and downs ranging from hilarious to perilous. Much more than an orderly account of mountain tops and meals, it is an adventure about friends figuring things out as they go. It's about screw-ups and solutions, awe and inspiration.
If you long for the horizon, or to sleep under the stars, then come along for the hike of a lifetime. All you have to do is take the first step.
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"Where's the Next Shelter is a tour de force in storytelling. If you don't laugh out loud while reading this book, seek medical attention. Something is broken."
— Zach Davis, AppalachianTrials.com
"If Bill Bryson and Dave Barry ever had a kid, not only would that be oddly improbable, but would also likely result in an offspring who writes a lot like Gary Sizer…funnily, informatively and wonder-inducingly. God, I hate him."
— Scott Herriott, SquatchFilms.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gary Sizer was born in New Castle, Pa. Years of military service and software consulting fed his passion for travel, which he now enjoys full time. He is an adventure writer and hiker currently residing in the hills near Asheville, N.C. After he walked the Appalachian Trail in 2014, his before and after pictures went viral, and since then 3 million people have seen him in his underpants.


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Happy Fall!Join the Cookbook Club for the last gathering of the season. Bring small bites to share with the group and a copy of the recipe.
Chidren/teens in grades 7 and up are invited to join our virtual book discussions for teens this fall at Briarcliff Manor... more ››
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Happy Friday!Fall officially starts next week and we’ve been busy planning fall programs and updating our website.
Good Afternoon,Join us for a free virtual program presented by the Alzheimer's Association.
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Please join us for Dance for Balance on Thursday, September 9, from 6:30 to 7:30 PM, in the Law Park Pavilion...


Major Twist Alert!
The premise of this book is intriguing: a woman is convicted of murdering her husband and following her sentence, she never speaks again. Her silence is so compelling because it allows the reader to constantly infer what she must be feeling. Interspersed throughout the novel are her diary entries, providing glimpses into what could be seen as her declining mental health.
Michaelides plays heavily with the idea of the unreliable narrator, making the reader question the intentions of both the silent patient and the psychotherapist. The story begins with an intriguing premise and continues to deliver. The read is engaging in its reveals and sudden developments, but it also delves into human psychological trauma and the ways it shapes our experiences.
- This book is good for: fans of psychology and thrillers (psychological thrillers, if you will), those who appreciate gasp-worthy twists
- I read it in: 3 days
- Good to knows: This book triggered me more than I expected. Some of the trauma the characters face is heavy. The treatment toward some of the patients in the institution is less than ideal as well.
Compelling Quote Alert!
There’s so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it. The truth is we’re all scared. We’re terrified of each other.
The Silent Patient
Major Twist Alert! The premise of this book is intriguing: a woman is convicted of murdering her husband and following her sentence, she never speaks again. Her silence is so compelling ...


Here is an extract from the very first Biography published in May 1931 that too by a comrade who was co-accused with Bhagat Singh in Lahore Conspiracy Case . These paragraphs will help us understand Revolutionary Bhagat Singh much better.
"In the memorable statement in the Delhi Assembly Bomb Case, Sardar Bhagat Singh had declared, "We humbly claim to be serious students of history," and in the course of that statement revealed startling proofs of his wide study and culture. It was during the years 1925 and 1926 that Bhagat Singh built up an intellectual reservoir which supplied him material for the rest of his life. He joined the National College founded and run by Lala Lajpat Rai, and devoted himself whole-heartedly to the study of history, politics and economics. Here he had with him two other devoted followers, namely Sukhdeva and Bhagawati Charan, and the three with one or two others created a study-circle on the model of the Russian Revolutionaries like Tchaikovsky and Kropotkin. The Servants of the People Society generously helped them by indenting for the Dwarka Das Library all such books as were asked for by these ardent revolutionary students.
We have the testimony of such eminent men as Professor Chabil Das of the National College and Mr. Raja Ram, the Librarian of the Dwarka Das Library, as to the eagerness with which Bhagat Singh devoured books. At the National College Library also, under the guidance of Sardar Bhagat Singh, a unique collection grew up. As far as we are aware, we have nowhere seen such a collection of suitable literature. Most up-to-date publications on the history of the Revolutionary period in Italy, Russia and Ireland were procured and many rare books on the early history of the revolutionary movement in Russia were collected. Unfortunately, on account of the repeated searches and seizures of books, the library at the National College has now dwindled into a tiny collection ; but still what now remains is a good testimony to the genius and perseverance of Sardar Bhagat Singh who was the real guiding spirit in this collection.
Though an ardent and devoted student of politics, Bhagat Singh was not wholly submerged in the mere study of books. He often ran out to different places, attended secret meetings of the revolutionary parties, came into personal contact with the members of the secret organizations in U. P. and Bengal, and carefully watched the progress of the revolutionary party in India. During the trial in the Kakori Conspiracy Case, he several times came to Lucknow and established secret communications with the under-trials confined in the District Jail. A suggestion was thrown out by them that something should be done to rescue them from Jail, and Bhagat Singh lent himself whole-heartedly to develop a scheme for this purpose. In this work he twice narrowly escaped being arrested. When ultimately the plan failed, he shifted to Cawnpore again, where he resided for sometime.It was during his stay at Cawnpore at this time in the beginning of the year 1926 that Bhagat Singh showed signs of his genius as an organizer."
" Bhagat Singh's idea in organizing the NauJawan Bharat Sabha as a distinct from, and in some cases a rival organization to the Congress should be carefully studied. His study of the poverty question of the world convinced him that the emancipation of India laid not merely in political freedom but in the economic freedom of the masses. Hence the activities of the N. B. Sabha were planned on purely communistic lines. In fact, it was meant to be purely a laborers' and peasants' organization to which the youths of the country were required to render service.
We thus see a great change in the thought and outlook of Sardar Bhagat Singh. In 1926-27, he was of opinion that terrorism should be one of the weapons of the revolutionary party. The hangings in the Kakori Case, in spite of the powerful appeals of the legislators and councilors for a commutation, made him a convinced terrorist. But his deeper study of the problems of India, which were to him identical with those of the world, led him to change his opinion. During his study at the National College, Lahore, he was gradually converted to .socialism, and he began to look up to Russia as the state which came up nearest to his ideal.
" He had a heart, full of emotion and sympathy. Even in the characters of a fiction he used to take extra-ordinary interest, and used to suffer and enjoy -with them. In the Special Magistrate's Court, he began to read aloud to us the beautiful novel, "Seven that were hanged" by Leonoid Andrieve. There is one character in it who shuddered at the idea of execution. He used to utter the words, " I shall not be hanged", and began to believe in it. When Sardar Bhagat Singh was reading out the last scene in the life of this weak condemned man, who was uttering the words, " I shall not be hanged" even while being led to -the scaffold, he smiled and was full of tears. We listeners could not help being affected by the sympathetic tears of one, who had triumphed over the idea of death, for one who was succumbing before it.
Bhagat Singh was an extremely well-read man and his special sphere of study was socialism. The batch of young men that figured in the Lahore Conspiracy Case was essentially an intellectual one. But even in this group Bhagat Singh predominated for his intellectual ascendancy. Though socialism was his special subject, he had deeply studied the history of the Russian revolutionary movement from its beginning in the early 19th century to the October Revolution .of 1917. It is generally believed that very few in India could be compared to him in the knowledge of this special subject. The economic experiment in Russia under the Bolshevik regime also greatly interested him.
He read fiction also with interest. But his favorite works of fiction were of a politico-economic nature. He had no interest in novels of high society life, or those merely confined to love or other human passions. In the jail he had-begun to read the works of Charles Dickens which he liked very much. Some of his favorite works of fiction were : "Boston," "Jungle", "Oil", "Cry for Justice" ( not fiction ) by Upton Sinclair ;"Eternal City" by Hall Caine, of which. many portions of the speeches by Romily he had by heart; Reed's "Ten Day's that shook the world" ; Ropshin's "What never happened" ; "Mother" by Maxim Gorky ; "Career of a nihilist" by Stepniak whose "Birth of Russian Democracy" he regarded as the best of the early Russian revolutionary history , Oscar Wilde's "Vera or the Nihilists", and so forth.
Ever since he began to read communistic literature, Bhagat Singh tried to adapt his life to communistic principles. Kropotkin's "Memoirs" had great influence on him; but it was Michail Bakunin who really transformed his life. As all ideas of God are antagonistic to communistic principles, he tried to banish from his mind any belief in the existence of God. Outwardly he always declared. himself to be an atheist. Whether he was really so from the bottom of his heart is a question that can not be definitely settled now. Perhaps he was successful in gaining victory over the idea of God. When he was arrested in connexion with the Dussehra Bomb Outrage in 1926, and was locked up day and night in a small cell, and subjected to all sorts of refined torture, his faith in athiesm was put to a severe test. Further l studies for the next three years, only confirmed his ideas about the nonexistence of God.
Except for a short period as a reaction against the executions in the Kakori Conspiracy Case, Bhagat Singh was never a terrorist. His whole faith consisted in mass action, action for the masses and by the masses. He believed that the 'Congress, consisted as it was of land lords, capitalists and rich lawyers, could never launch that action which would lead to complete economic freedom for the masses. "Gandhiji is a kind-hearted philanthropist," he used to say, "and it is not philanthropy that is needed, but a dynamic scientific social force." According to him what was needed most was a band of selfless youngmen who would organize and work for that social revolution."


This building first opened to the public as a Public Library in 1884.
It is now an art gallery, museum, local studies centre and the main visitor information centre for Rochdale. It is also the place to see the Dippy exhibition!
In the Dippy exhibition you can find out about dinosaurs, the surprising fossilised creatures that have been found in Rochdale (and that were alive long before the dinosaurs) and how we can work together to protect the future of the planet.
The main museum gallery tells the fascinating story of the changes in landscape and land use from the Ice Age through to man’s industrial influences on the region.


It was the weekend before Christmas and as I woke up on Saturday morning, I was determined to hit the shops before the crowds arrived onto King’s Road.
What I hadn’t bargained for was a snow storm occurring within the heart of Chelsea. So as I struggled against the freezing elements instead of a panicked shopping crowd, my attempt to reach the end of the King’s Road seemed like a Sisyphean endeavour.
Stepping into Peter Jones and looking like a yeti that had to be patted down, it was awe inspiring to see all the shoppers looking thawed and calmly focused on their Christmas business. And it was a great feeling to be in from the cold.
A couple of purchases later, I decided to give up on dealing with the harsh weather outside and headed to Chelsea Library to do some work instead. Walking into the building, I recognised the face of man standing against a radiator to keep warm. I was used to seeing him along King’s Road carrying his home in his bags and for years I had wondered what his story was. Now I was looking him in the eyes and could only see the surprising softness of a cold man.
Inside the library, there were a few more people who looked like they were reading to keep warm. So when the library announced that it was closing at 3pm instead of 5pm because of the extreme weather, I wondered where they would all go. Later, I discovered that the Chelsea Methodist Church on King’s Road was a drop in centre for the homeless but it wasn’t open during the weekends. So I can only hope that there was somewhere else for the man standing by the radiator to go.
As for the rest of my Christmas shopping list, I will deal with that tomorrow. That’s one of the perks of living off the King’s Road.
Merry Christmas everyone!
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When all students in the classroom have a laptop,
tablet, or handheld computer at their fingertips, a whole new world of
instructional possibilities appears. Get ready to tap those possibilities with
Pamela Livingston’s guide to 1-to-1 programs that work. You’ll find practical
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