Jimmy took some pictures of my costume while we were in the woods this weekend. I was an entwife for Halloween. I am especially proud of how my headpiece came out. Favorite costume I’ve ever worked on! Since the entwives of Fangorn forest were never found, I took some artistic license. Hope you enjoy!
“There have been no Entings – no children, you would say, not for a terrible long count of years. You see, we lost the Entwives.”
“How very sad!” said Pippin. “How was it that they all died?”
“They did not die!” said Treebeard, “I never said died. We lost them, I said. We lost them and we cannot find them.”
“It is rather a strange and sad story,” he went on after a pause. “When the world was young, and the woods were wide and wild, the Ents and the Entwives — and there were Entmaidens then: ah! the loveliness of Fimbrethil, of Wandlimb the light-footed, in the days of our youth! — they walked together and they housed together.
But our hearts did not go on growing in the same way; the Ents gave their love to things that they met in the world, and the Entwives gave their thought to other things, for the Ents loved the great trees, and the wild woods, and the slopes of the high hills; and they drank of the mountain streams, and ate only such fruit as the trees let fall in their path; and they learned of the Elves and spoke with the Trees. But the Entwives gave their minds to lesser trees, and to the meads in the sunshine beyond the feet of the forests; and they saw the sloe in the thicket, and the wild apple and the cherry blossoming in spring, and the green herbs in the water lands in the summer, and the seeding grasses in the autumn fields.
They did not desire to speak with these things; but they wished them to hear and obey what was said to them. The Entwives ordered them to grow according to their wishes, and bear leaf and fruit to their liking; for the Entwives desired order, and plenty, and peace (by which they meant that things should remain where they had set them). So the Entwives made gardens to live in. But we Ents went on wandering, and we only came to the gardens now and again.
Then when the Darkness came in the North, the Entwives crossed the Great River, and made new gardens, and tilled new fields, and we saw them more seldom. After the Darkness was overthrown the land of the Entwives blossomed richly, and their fields were full of corn. Many men learned the crafts of the Entwives and honored them greatly; but we were only a legend to them, a secret in the heart of the forest. Yet here we still are, while al the gardens of the Entwives are wasted. Mencall them the Brown Lands now.
“I remember it was long ago – in the time of the war between Sauron and the Men of the Sea – desire came over me to see Fimbrethil again. Very fair she was still in my eyes, when I had last seen her, though little like the Entmaiden of old. For the Entwives were bent and browned by their labour; their hair parched by the sun to the hue of ripe corn and their cheeks like red apples. Yet their eyes were still the eyes of our own people. We crossed over Anduin and came to their land; but we found a desert; it was all burned and uprooted, for war had passed over it. But the Entwives were not there.
Long we called, and long we searched; and we asked all folk that we met which way the Entwives had gone. Some said they had never seen them; and some said they had seen them walking away west, and some said east, and others south. But nowhere that we went could we find them. Our sorrow was very great. Yet the wild wood called, and we returned to it. For many many years we used to go out every now and again and look for the Entwives, walking far and wide and calling them by their beautiful names. But as time passed we went more seldom and wandered less far.
And now the Entwives are only a memory for us, and our beards are long and grey. The Elves made many songs concerning the Search of the Ents. But we made no songs about it, being content to chant their beautiful names when we thought of the Entwives. We believe that we may meet again in a time to come, and perhaps we shall find somewhere a land where we can live together and both be content.


…experience has taught me two things: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.
Author: Ben Butina
Soulea’s father had two daughters, one of whom was beautiful and the other of whom was Soulea. Unpestered by suitors and unburdened of the drudgery of self-adornment, Soulea spent her girlhood in her father’s library, flirting shamelessly with new ideas. And then, one day, she fell deeply in love with […]
I recently interviewed Forneus, the Great Marquis of Hell, who originally developed the handshake as a way of “spreading pestilence and suffering o’r the land. An excerpt follows. Me: So, I understand the handshake wasn’t your first attempt at spreading germs throughout the human race, right? Forneus: That’s right, Ben. […]


Children gathered at Kempsey Shire Library this afternoon for the Little Bang Discovery Club.
The school holiday activity was organised by Kempsey Shire Library and is the first time the Club science experiments have been at the library.
Organiser Mary Williams said putting on events for children over the school holidays is always something Kempsey Library wants to do.
“It can be hard to get numbers when it’s such a nice day outside, but it’s good to see them enjoying the experiments,” she said.
“Today is all about using everyday items in science experiments that will open their minds to science in everyday life.”
Kempsey Shire Library also held another school holiday activity last week that saw local kids get hands-on experience with small invertebrate animals such as spiders and beetles.


Mirella was born and raised in Perú where she worked with "Nube luz," an educational television children’s show. She earned a certificate in marketing from a technical school in Venezuela and worked there promoting children's books. She moved to the United States in 2010 to be with her husband. Here, she leads Spanish story times for the King County Library System and is also part of the Early Literacy Parties in Spanish program. "It amazing to see children learn a new language while having fun. I enjoy sharing my language and culture with people. I believe that children are able to learn a new language easily when they start thinking in spanish at an early age."


Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The Adventure of Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake was a strong, brave, yet not very nice man. However, he was a fantastic sailor. He was born in England and was encouraged by the Queen to circumnavigate the globe in his ship the Golden Hinde. During his voyage he stopped for spices, treasures, slaves and he also stopped for battles. It was a long adventure - nearly three years before he got back to England and gave to the Queen the goods that he had found.


In addition to the items on display the aviation museum has a vast collection of books, documents, uniforms and other historical items all stored in large hangers. The archivist will be part of a small team who are working on logging all the items which the museum own. If you have a love of history or enjoy cataloging and administration this could be role for you.
Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum
Background in cataloging items would be advantageous, however, an enjoyment of admin tasks and interest in history is just as important and guidance can be given. Good attention to detail and some computer skills.


Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it.
I am not like Harper Lee. Instant information is for me. I learn from it and remember what I learn. Another way I’m not like Harper Lee is that I’ve never published a novel. I’ve never even written one. If I do write one and manage to get it published, I bet I’ll publish more than one, again unlike Harper Lee.
Don’t get me wrong, I remember loving To Kill a Mockingbird. But why has Harper Lee not published another novel? Maybe her debut and only novel was a fluke. Maybe it was a novel written and exposed at a perfect time. Maybe it was a piece of shit. I’ll have to reread it some time. And maybe research why Harper Lee never published another novel. Guess how I will do that research? Search library stacks? Nope. Search Google. Instant information.
I feel, though, that there is something nice about searching library stacks. The smell. The feel of the texture of the paper and the bindings and the covers. The thought that before those books made it into those stacks, they had to pass a test. No, they had to pass many tests. A writer who knew she may only have one shot at this spent years crafting and re-crafting and self doubting and sacrificing to get those words onto some paper. An editor, an agent, a publisher all had to decide those words on that paper were worth sacrificing their time and doubting and sacrificing. Then many readers chose to read those words. Enough so that librarians chose those books to put in their stacks. So every word you find when you search those stacks has value. Not just anyone can put those words there. Unlike my Google search, Harper Lee’s library stack search finds pre-vetted information.
It would be interesting to explore the relative merits and drawbacks to both ways of searching. But not tonight. I am on deadline to publish these un-vetted words…


When J.K. Rowling announced Pottermore–an interactive annotated guide to the Harry Potter series–last fall, I was skeptical. What could be the draw for anyone but the most dedicated fan? It’s fan service from the biggest fan of the series herself.
No one is as consumed with the Harry Potter series as the author herself. Rowling spent seventeen years working on the seven mega hit novels. As she reveals in Pottermore, she even created what she calls “ghost trails”–side plots for major characters that didn’t even come close to making the final edits of the books. Her universe is so well-planned and researched that she sometimes forgets these side stories are not common knowledge.Pottermore is where the world of Harry Potter will really come to life. The films added a visual, the games interaction, and the theme park physical presence, but Pottermore is opening up the universe beyond Harry’s experience. Ever wonder how Harry’s Aunt and Uncle grew to hate him so much? What about the real origin of Professor McGonagall’s distaste for Slytherin? Or a history of how Olivader’s Wand Shop knows exactly which wand a wizard needs?
These are not random little tidbits being thrown out to earn money. For one thing, Pottermore is a free website that anyone can join. No, these are fully developed ideas that Rowling very easily could have turned into additional books. She already did that with The Tales of Beedle the Bard and Quidditch Through the Ages. Pottermore is fan service of a unprecedented scope.
Pottermore is an interactive online community with gaming elements. It’s not quite an MMORPG as I predicted when it was first teased, but it’s close. You explore all the various settings of the novels chapter by chapter. You interact with objects to find additional information and stories from J.K. Rowling.However, once you get past Harry’s humble beginnings, you become a part of the story. You are the newest student at Hogwarts and you have to get ready for your first year. You buy your books and supplies, receive your wand, and get sorted into your house. You can earn points for your house through various tasks. Maybe you’ll excel at wizard dueling or potion making. Perhaps your eye will complete collections of items for bonuses. It’s up to you.
The only rule in Pottermore is that you have to follow the story in order. You can’t jump to the final chapter until you’ve explored the entire first novel. The locked features open in a specific order. Once content is unlocked, you can always go back and explore further.
I would not consider myself a big Harry Potter fan by any means. I read the books (to a point) and saw the films (all but the last three on TV or DVD). I am, however, having a good bit of fun exploring Pottermore. It’s a clever supplement and one that will only keep growing as they add on the rest of the series book by book.
So are you joining Pottermore? Sound off below.


I love books. I love music. And I love movies. Let me tell you about three fantastic specimens of the arts I’ve discovered recently.
Dark Waltz by Hayley Westenra. This song is so beautiful, I just kind of melt. The first time I heard it was at a dance, which was really quite perfect. The lyrics simply speak of the beauty of waltzing in the moonlight (which, by the way, if you’ve never done that, it’s awesome). The music is really pretty and it’s serene and lovely. Give it a listen.
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan. This is the first installment of the second Camp Half-Blood series. It’s a young adult fiction book, and it’s awesome. It weaves Greek and Roman mythology into a modern narrative featuring prophecy, heroes, and giants. I loved it. The first Camp Half-Blood series was the Percy Jackson series (you may have seen the abysmal failure of a movie by the same name, unfortunately). That was amazing too, and it’s just exciting to see the action continue into another series
Primer. This is a small indie flick about a couple of engineers that create a time machine. It’s a nice twist on the traditional time machine genre, and encourages a little more speculation as to what’s going on. There was a nice twist that was a little hard to follow but it ultimately made sense. Maybe worth your time if you’re a hardcore sci-fi geek like myself.


Perfect bound; paperback.
Learn how to build, modify, detail, paint and weather amazing
warbird models of WWII.
More than 300 color photos and illustrations document the
construction and detailing of 18 famous WWII combat aircraft. Each
were accurately modeled based on research into the prototype.
The projects in this book will show you how to:
* Alter parts for better fit
* Modify an aircraft to create another version
* Detail cockpits
* Paint invasion stripes
* Weather and detail
* Add accurate markings
* Use WWII references
Size: 8.25" x 10.75"


Join “Seekers of the Supernatural” as famed demonologists, Ed and Lorraine Warren, complete their two-part account of the “Amityville Horror”. In the first of this two-part series, Ed and Lorraine Warren told of the background and history of this case; specifically of what happened in the house it took place in, helping the viewer to understand why Ed rates this experience as a twelve on a one to ten scale with ten being the most horrifying story possible. In this second installment, the Warrens tell of the actual events that took place, providing insight and first-hand experience that only they and a few others actually experienced.
Join the Warrens as they share their account of visiting the house, interviewing the Lutz family and others involved in the case, the phenomena inside the home, and the demon that followed them from their first visit to their home. With the pictures and other testimony as evidence, the Warrens stress that anyone who says it was a hoax never did any real investigation of the dwelling.
Learn the details of what the Lutz family experienced and of the many other pieces of evidence the Warrens present in this horrifying case. Why would the then-noted psychic, Mary Pascorella, leave the home during their visit vowing never to return? Why did a deceased, very pious, holy man’s spirit present itself in a picture of Lorraine in the house as she clung to and prayed on the relic of this spirit, Padre Pio? What do possessive demons do to distract investigative efforts? Hear what would cause noted psychic, Dr. Alex Tannis, to declare the Amityville case, “the most hideous and monstrous entity I’d ever encountered in any haunted house.”
Answer these and many other questions you have about the “Amityville Horror” as Ed and Lorraine Warren tell the stories, share the images, and recount the evidence of what would become the most horrifying experience they and few others ever had.


Nevada's Teamsters Truckers and Truck Stops A Chronicle
This chronicle of trucking in the Silver State begins with the Teamsters of the late 1800s and follows the transportation trail as it progressed from bullwhacker to throttle jockey. For truckers and nontruckers alike it provides an insight into the building of Nevada-based trucking companies along with those folks that provided food and fuel. It is a narrative of early trucking and some strong willed people that worked hard to make their living over and along the roads and highways that traverse Nevada’s high desert. Some business owners would expand and continue as part of today’s Nevada trucking industry, while others remained small or disappeared into antiquity.
In the minds of old-school truckers, it will evoke memories of their time behind the wheel and the camaraderie between the drivers of their day. The modern-day trucker will come away with an understanding of how the trucking industry evolved, not only in Nevada, but across the country. It tells of the times when truckers were respected and their trucks received the full service treatment at the fuel islands. It recalls a time when drivers ate in little greasy spoon cafés and filled their bellies full of cholesterol before it was taboo and when black coffee was their energy drink.
The book will place the reader in the cab of a trucking time machine that covers over a hundred and fifty years of Nevada’s transportation industry. Come and ride along the roads of the past with hardworking teamsters and truckers. Sit on a stool at a truck stop run by those special and sometimes eccentric people who chose to cater to the travelers of an earlier time in remote areas of Nevada. As you open the pages of this book, over 200 hundred photographs will bring to life the stories as your adventure unfolds.


Monica Link Ebook Collection
Dating at the Party
A quick and easy guide to meet and find a date at any Party. It’s time for singles to get some in-your-face advice about what it takes to find a date and live happily ever after. Keep this guide in your cell and break it out the next time you’re stuck at a party and don’t know what to do.
Live Your Dreams Now! Change Your Un-Healthy Life
“Live Your Dreams Now!: Change Your Un-Healthy Life” is a mini-ebook filled with advice for those looking to get off the couch, transform their lifestyle and boost their health. Monica Link gives straight advice and a starter resource guide suitable for anyone hungry for change in their diet.
Download here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/24829
Get Your Job Now! A Guide to Job, Career and Business Resources
Break the glass ceiling and climb the corporate ladder with this new motivational career guide that will get you off the couch and into your dream job. This guide includes websites and helpful advice for any career junkie looking to get to the next level or make a fresh start after a layoff or career change.
Download Here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/27614


Metagenome Binning Service¶
Paired read library¶
Read File 1 & 2¶
Many paired read libraries are given as file pairs, with each file containing half of each read pair. Paired read files are expected to be sorted such that each read in a pair occurs in the same Nth position as its mate in their respective files. These files are specified as READ FILE 1 and READ FILE 2. For a given file pair, the selection of which file is READ 1 and which is READ 2 does not matter.
File 1 Interleaved¶
Some paired libraries are available in a single file where each read in a pair occurs in succession. To specify such a file set this parameter to 'True'.
Mean Insert Size¶
This refers to the mean insert size between paired reads. If you have this information you may provide it. If not the assembly algorithm will make an attempt to determine this value.
Std. Insert Size¶
This refers to the standard deviation of the insert size between paired reads. If you have this information you may provide it. If not the assembly algorithm will make an attempt to determine this value.
Defines the orientation of read pairs. Setting Mate Paired to true indicates that the sequencing direction of the two reads in each pair is outward facing.
The sequencing platform used for each library.
- infer: Infer sequencing platform from read files
- illumina: Illumina short reads
- pacbio: PacBio long reads
- nanopore: MinION long reads


“Dorothea Lange ~ “Grab A Hunk Of Lightning” (2014)
Saturday, March 12, 2016, 7PM
$10 Donation. 110 mins.
“Grab A Hunk of Lightning” is narrated and directed by Dorothea Lange’s granddaughter, award-winning filmmaker Dyanna Taylor. Taylor tells the compelling story of the passion, vision, and drive that made Lange one of the most important documentary photographers of the 20th century. While Lange’s haunting image The Migrant Mother is one of the most recognized photographs in the world, few know the full range and depth of Lange’s work or the suffering and sensitivity that drew her to empathize with the people she photographed. “Grab A Hunk of Lightning” brings the wide scope of Lange’s work and sensibility to the screen.


Chairman: Caroline Meller firstname.lastname@example.org
Secretary: Jill Collins email@example.com
Treasurer: Ken Ascroft firstname.lastname@example.org
Field Trips: Howard Samuels email@example.com
David Aldred firstname.lastname@example.org
Pat Sory email@example.com
Jacquie Waine firstname.lastname@example.org
In existence since 1982, the Society promotes interest in local history (Gotherington, Bishop’s Cleeve, Oxenton, Woolstone, Dixton and Prescott) by arranging speakers at monthly meetings, maintaining a lending library of books and pamphlets of local interest, sponsoring classes, and researching and publishing articles and booklets on local history.
Meetings are from September to May on the fourth Tuesday of the month (except December) at 8pm in Gotherington Village Hall. Dues are £8 per year. Non-members are welcome for a visitor’s fee of £2. All meetings are followed by coffee, biscuits and the opportunity to browse through the Society’s wealth of local history books.
If you would like to become a member please contact Ken, our treasurer.
Like us on Facebook, Gotherington & Area Local History and follow us on Twitter, @GotheringtonLHS
PROGRAMME DETAILS 2016 -2017
Tuesday 27th September The History of Cleeve Hill – The Cotswold Health Resort – David Aldred
Tuesday 25th October Surviving or Thriving – The World of the Gloucestershire Peasants – Prof. Christopher Dyer
Tuesday 22nd November Inside the Wire – The Prisoner of War Camps & Hostels in Glos. 1939-48 – Ian Hollingsbee
Tuesday 13th December Katherine Parr – The Life, Love & Times of the Last Wife of Henry VIII – Mike Bottomley
Tuesday 24th January The Life and Times of Gloucester’s Chimes – Jonathan MacKechnie-Jarvis
Tuesday 28th February The Origins of the Three Choirs Festival – Tim Porter
Tuesday 28th March Mills on the River Chelt – Ray Wilson
Tuesday 25th April A Scene of Gorgeous Magnificence – Dr. Steve Blake
Tuesday 30th May Along the Banks of the River Severn – Alan Pilbeam
SUMMER OUTINGS 2017
If you have a suggestion for an outing in 2017 then please contact Howard Samuels, email@example.com. Prices to be confirmed for each individual outing but we aim to charge less than £10. Transport by private car. If you can offer lifts or indeed need one for your chosen outing let Howard know.
JUST MONTHLY COFFEE MORNING – Saturday 6th May
This year we would again like to provide cakes from different periods of history. What about Savoy Cake (19th cen.), Victoria Sandwich (19th cen.), Lemon Cake (19th cen.), Rich Seed Cake (18th cen.), Beetroot Pancakes (18th cen.), Gingerbread (17th cen.), Spice Cake (17th cen.), Shropshire Cake (17th cen.), Marzipan Bacon (17th cen.) …..?
(But maybe give King Alfred’s offering a miss!)
Please contact Caroline if you can offer any other recipes or would like information about those mentioned on the list above.
30th Anniversary 2012
To celebrate this anniversary we compiled a collection of old photographs taken around the villages of Gotherington, Woolstone and Oxenton. Take a look at our Picture Past page and discover more about how our area used to be.
RE-VISIT PAST OUTINGS:
2012 – 13: Our 30th anniversary celebrations, Romanesque architecture in Herefordshire: (Shobdon, Eardisley, Castle Frome), Exploring Cirencester, the Battle of Tewkesbury field walk, Marcher castles and churches (Grosmont and Skenfrith).
2016: Selsley Church
Why not follow us? We will be sending ‘On this day in local history’ tweets throughout the year.
Research in progress (offers of photographs, newspaper cuttings, or memories gratefully received):
Gotherington’s sporting history by John Stroud. Email: firstname.lastname@example.org
Memories of village cricket by Rob Sharp. Email: email@example.com
Transcription of deeds by Caroline Meller. Email: firstname.lastname@example.org
World War One: Jacquie Waine. Email: email@example.com
Why not undertake an investigation of your own?
Currently, members of the Society are researching the history of water in the area. There are always many different aspects of local history which could be researched, for example:
– the history of your house (we have notes on all the houses in Gotherington)
– a particular club/society eg. the Tritons?
– Gotherington Cross Garage?
– Longfurlong Mobile Home Park?


The history of Hull’s magical Whitefriargate and Old Town area is being celebrated with a new trail inspired by the White Rabbit from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Carroll’s family had a strong connection with Hull, with his mother being raised in the city. The trail will visit locations in the Old Town that are linked to the Carroll family and the work of Lewis Carroll.
The White Rabbit Trail, which will run from Saturday 22 May until Tuesday 8 June, will also highlight other stories from the historic Old Town. The White Rabbit Trail is a fantastic way for families to explore the area and find out how one of the world’s most famous children’s authors, and his most famous book, are connected to Hull.
Lewis Carroll’s grandfather worked in the Old Town in various positions and his grandmother was buried at Hull Minster (formerly Holy Trinity Church). The illustrator of Carroll’s first stories, John Tennial, a Victorian Artist, also worked on Whitefriargate as an illustrator for Hull News.
To celebrate the city’s connection with Carroll, local Primary Schools were asked to design a Hull-based interpretation of the White Rabbit character from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
The winning entries will be displayed on the trail along with some quirky facts about Carroll and his family.
The project has been funded by Historic England as part of Hull’s High Street Heritage Action Zone and delivered in partnership with Hull Schools’ Library Service.
The Whitefriargate regeneration project includes a number of grant schemes and funding projects.
Whitefriargate has benefitted from £1m from the Humber LEP’s Humber High Street Challenge Fund and secured £1.75m from Historic England’s High Streets Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ) programme.
Ferens Art Gallery
Queen Victoria Square


By Greg Cohen
What makes the quintessential rock & roll photograph? Vintage 1960s/70s. Black and white. Grainy. Iconic performer. As a site dedicated to music photography, this article will begin a new semi-regular feature in which we look back at classic rock & roll photography and the photographers that created it.
Often times those photos are grainy black and white images of iconic performers from the 1960s/70s because that is what many of us envision when we think of rock and roll photographers. Classic images of the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix and the Beatles often are the first images to come to mind. Jim Marshall produced many of the images we now think of us the classic, quintessential rock & roll photograph.
October 21, 1976 was the last live concert that Keith Moon played as a member of The Who before he passed away on September 7, 1978 (he played a couple more shows for filming the documentary The Kids Are Alright, but those were not in front of a paying audience as part of a concert tour). Marshall was there to document that last show so one of his images from Keith Moon’s last concert in Toronto, Canada is the first photographer and image to be featured:
You probably know Jim Marshall’s work without realizing it. From his famous Johnny Cash photo taken outside Folsom Prison to his icon image of Jimmy Hendrix lighting his guitar on fire at the Monterey Jazz Festival to the Beatles taking the stage at their final concert, Marshall captured the rock stars of the 1960s/70s in a deeply personal and intimate way.
Some of his iconic images include:
All photographs © Jim Marshall Photography, LLC
Marshall has more than 500 album covers to his credit, such as:
Marshall also has 6 books to his credit published during his lifetime:
- Monterey Pop
- Not Fade Away: The Rock & Roll Photography of Jim Marshall
- Jim Marshall: Jazz
- Pocket Cash. Pocket Cash: Photographs of Johnny Cash
Two more books of Jim Marshall’s photographs were published posthumously:
- The Rolling Stones 1972
- The Haight: Love, Rock and Revolution
Jim Marshall passed away March 24, 2010, leaving behind an archive of more than a million negatives. Marshall’s llimited edition prints and books are available at www.jimmarshallphotographyllc.com.


People who love theater may not be aware that there is a genre of theater plays that encompasses the literary science fiction genre. I know that if I start recounting all of the theater plays that I am aware of (those that I have seen and those that I haven’t) I am not going to come across a single science fiction play. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any. On the contrary, there are about twenty well-known plays from that genre and it is a little known fact that the word robot was introduced to popular culture through a science fiction theater play Rossum’s Universal Robots by Czech writer Karel Capek.
The First Plays
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
One of the most famous works of literature that has permeated the general awareness of mainstream culture is The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The novella, written in 1886, was adapted into a four-act theater play by Thomas Russell Sullivan in the following year.
It is this play that portrays perhaps the first uncanny transformation of a human into a murderous, top-hat wearing hominid who represents the degeneration of Dr. Jekyll into a lesser being. Shocked theater-goers were taken aback by the idea. Coincidentally, the play opened in London in 1888, just before the occurrence of the first murders of Jack the Ripper.
The first science fiction play, however, predates Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by many years. It was Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein adapted from the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley This is the first adaptation for theater of this novel which lasted from 1823 until the 1850’s. The innovative approach taken by the play’s producer came as byproduct of the strict rules and expectations about what a play constitutes, as set by Charles II.
The Fate of Frankenstein included pantomime, music and spectacle that wooed theatre-goers and appeased the authorities. Frankenstein was so successful that it had its production in Paris, New York City and subsequently, other places around the world.
Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti
Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Capek was written in 1920 and first performed in 2021. The play features the production of artificial people which are made of synthetic and organic parts and components. Thusly, these people aren’t robots in the contemporary understanding of the term for robot. Capen developed these humanoids to be able to think for themselves which leads them to rise up in a rebellion, after having realized that they have been working for humans. Humankind has been wiped by a robot rebellion. Both for R.U.R. and for War with the Newts, Capek was inspired by the political changes which occurred in his time, mainly the rise of Nazism and Communism, both of which he despised and wrote against.
Universal Robot Slots Machines
As it can be seen, science fiction theatre has very early beginnings, but also not too before the appearance of what may be considered the first sci-fi film – Le Voyage dans la Lune by Georges Méliès in 1902. Today there are too many sci-fi movies to count, both short and feature, but there aren’t too many sci-fi plays.


Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator who served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She is the author of five poetry collections: Such Color (2021), Wade in the Water (2018), Life on Mars (2011) (which won a Pulitzer Prize), Duende (2007), and The Body’s Question (2003). She also wrote a memoir, Ordinary Light (2015).
Tracy K. Smith’s latest book, To Free the Captives (2023), is a work of personal and historical nonfiction that illuminates the American past and present. It is a plea for the American soul that traces Smith’s paternal lineage - Black, southern, ordinary and extraordinary - to reveal the losses and lessons that course through her writing.
Smith discovered her passion for writing and poetry at an early age, inspired by Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and other literary giants. She lives in Princeton, NJ with her husband and three children.
To Free the Captives is a collection of interlinked essays by Tracy K. Smith that explores her family’s history and legacy in Sunflower, Alabama, the red-dirt town where her father’s family comes from. Smith considers her father’s life and the life of her grandfather through the lens of history. The book is a work of personal and historical nonfiction that illuminates the American past and present. It is a plea for the American soul that traces Smith’s paternal lineage - Black, southern, ordinary and extraordinary - to reveal the losses and lessons that course through her writing.
Such Color is a stunning showcase of Tracy K. Smith’s poetic brilliance. Spanning her four award-winning collections and featuring eighteen new poems, this volume traces Smith’s journey from a curious child to a celebrated poet, from a witness of history to a visionary of the cosmos. With extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, Smith explores the vast questions of existence, the mysteries of love and loss, the injustices of racism and violence, and the hope of resistance and redemption. Her voice is clear-eyed, compassionate, and daring, inviting us to share her awe of the world and its possibilities. Such Color is a magnificent retrospective that affirms Smith’s place as one of the most treasured poets of our time.
Tracy K. Smith explores America’s present and past with a keen eye and a lyrical voice in Wade in the Water, a collection of poems that connects our contemporary moment to our nation’s complex history and to a sense of the eternal. These are poems of varying scale: some capture a glimpse of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some transcend the known world into the mystical, the sacred. Smith’s distinctive voice―curious, lyrical, and wry―examines what it means to be a citizen, a mother, and an artist in a culture mediated by wealth, men, and violence. Here, personal utterance becomes part of a larger collective voice as the collection includes erasures of The Declaration of Independence and letters from African American soldiers in the Civil War, a found poem composed of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near-death experiences, and a sequence based on testimonies of recent immigrants and refugees. Wade in the Water is a powerful and luminous book by one of America’s essential poets.
Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story in Ordinary Light, a memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. Tracy K. Smith grew up as the youngest of five children in suburban California, loved by her parents who taught her to believe in God. But after a summer in Alabama at her grandmother’s house, she returns to California with a new sense of what it means to be black: from her mother’s memories of picking cotton as a girl in her father’s field for pennies a bushel, to her parents’ involvement in the Civil Rights movement. These startling contrasts–between her family’s past, her own comfortable present, and the promise of her future–will eventually compel her to act on her passions for love and "ecstatic possibility," and her desire to become a writer. But when her mother is diagnosed with cancer, which she says is part of God’s plan, Tracy must learn a new way to love and care for someone whose beliefs she has outgrown. Written with poetic precision and economy, this beautiful and moving kaleidoscope of self and family offers us a universal story of finding and losing ourselves amid the places we call home.
In Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith imagines a soundtrack for the universe with poems that evoke David Bowie and interplanetary travel. She explores the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence in a sci-fi future devoid of real dangers. She also contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like “love” and “illness” now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. This collection won Smith the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Duende is a poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith that draws inspiration from Federico García Lorca’s concept of duende, the dark and elusive force that an artist seeks to channel from within. It can lead to revelation, but it also embraces and serenades death. Smith’s poems explore history and the intersections of folk traditions, political resistance, and personal survival. Duende gives passionate testament to suppressed cultures, and allows them to sing.
This collection won Smith the James Laughlin Award.
The Body’s Question by Tracy K. Smith is a debut poetry collection that won the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet, selected by Kevin Young. In these poems, Smith confronts loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold between childhood and adulthood. She gathers courage and direction from the many disparate selves encountered in these poems, until she can say, “I was anyone I wanted to be.”


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Vengeance from a Saint Full of Wounds is a captivating and heart-wrenching novel by Mexican author Américo González-Bitó. This book tells the story of Father Antonio, a Catholic priest who seeks revenge for the brutal murder of his brother, who was killed by a drug cartel. In this blog post, we will review vengeance from a saint full of wounds spoiler, discussing the plot, characters, and themes.
The novel is set in Mexico and follows the story of Father Antonio, a man of the cloth who is torn between his faith and his desire for revenge. His brother was brutally murdered by a drug cartel, and Father Antonio sets out on a mission to avenge his brother’s death. Along the way, he meets several other characters who become integral to the plot, including a young boy named José and a journalist named Pablo.
The plot is full of twists and turns, as Father Antonio faces many obstacles and setbacks in his quest for vengeance. He is also forced to confront his own beliefs and values, as he grapples with the morality of revenge and the teachings of his religion.
The characters in Vengeance from a Saint Full of Wounds are complex and well-developed, each with their own motivations and desires. Here are some of the key characters:
- Father Antonio
The protagonist of the novel, Father Antonio is a Catholic priest who seeks revenge for the murder of his brother. He is torn between his desire for vengeance and his religious beliefs, and he struggles to reconcile the two.
José is a young boy who becomes Father Antonio’s companion on his journey. He is wise beyond his years and provides a source of comfort and support for Father Antonio.
Pablo is a journalist who is investigating the drug cartel responsible for Father Antonio’s brother’s murder. He becomes an ally to Father Antonio, helping him in his quest for revenge.
vengeance from a saint full of wounds spoiler Full of Wounds explores several themes, including:
The novel delves deeply into the theme of revenge, as Father Antonio seeks to avenge his brother’s death. The book raises questions about the morality of revenge and the consequences of seeking it.
The novel also explores the theme of faith, as Father Antonio grapples with his religious beliefs and the teachings of the Catholic Church. He is forced to confront the question of whether seeking revenge is consistent with his faith.
Violence is a pervasive theme in the novel, as the drug cartel is responsible for numerous brutal murders. The book raises questions about the nature of violence and its effects on individuals and society.
Finally, the novel explores the theme of redemption, as Father Antonio seeks to redeem himself and his brother’s memory through his quest for revenge. The book raises questions about the possibility of redemption and the role of forgiveness in the face of violence.
If you haven’t read Vengeance from a Saint Full of Wounds and plan to, please note that the following paragraphs contain spoilers.
One of the most striking aspects of the novel is its ambiguous ending. After a long and difficult journey, Father Antonio finally comes face to face with the man responsible for his brother’s death. However, instead of seeking revenge, he chooses to forgive the man and offer him redemption. The novel ends with Father Antonio walking away, leaving the fate of the man in question uncertain.
This ending raises important questions about the nature of forgiveness and the possibility of redemption. It also underscores the complexity of the themes explored in the novel, as Father Antonio’s journey towards forgiveness is not a straightforward one.


The 3rd Annual Mardi Gras Dog Parade will be held on Saturday, February 3, in Austin. The event begins at 3PM at the ABGB (Austin Beer Garden Brewing Company).
All dogs dressed in costume can bark for beads and be registered for a chance to win a special raffle contest. The Prize Wheel, live music, and cajun food favorites like gumbo and andouille sausage will also be available. Pug Rescue of Austin will have adoptable dogs on hand.
Superior Health Foundation will celebrate its five year anniversary on Friday, September 1, with cake, lemonade and the Prize Wheel. The Marquette, Michigan organization will honor its accomplishments during an open house from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
“We have an opportunity to help celebrate with the people who were part of our early beginnings,” said Executive Director Jim LaJoie. “Our board of directors have just been extremely outstanding, their vision, their leadership has just been incredible. We have had a number or loyal donors who have stood by our side, who have supported us in a number of different ways.”
Swarthmore Public Library rewards young readers with weekly spins on the Prize Wheel.
As part of the library’s reading club, kids log their total minutes reading. Then once each week the young readers can take a spin on the Wheel for a special prize.
The library, located about 15 miles from Philadelphia, will also host several performers and storytellers in the amphitheater located just outside of the library. These free events are for all ages and will be help each Wednesday.


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Diabetes Personal Action Toward Health (PATH)
Patients and their caregivers will gain hands-on experience learning to manage all aspects of their diabetes including communicating better with family and friends, relaxation, understanding nutrition labels, handling difficult emotions, and increasing strength and endurance through physical activity.
Tue Nov. 13
Knitters and crocheters gather every Tuesday at 6 p.m. to work on their latest projects. Bring your projects, enjoy company while you work, and get help from experienced knitters.
Wed Nov. 14
Computer Basics: Internet Searches
This class will introduce you to the Internet and explain the basic elements of a Web page. Learn about Web browsers and how to use links, the forward and back buttons, and how to find Web pages. Registration required.
To use resources found in Quick Links, you need a library card and PIN. Library cards and PINs are issued free-of-charge to Taylor residents, but must be obtained in person, with current Michigan ID card, at Taylor Community Library.
The Heritage Park Petting Farm will feature Lunch with the Clauses and Reindeer Days in December. Tickets for Lunch with the Clauses ($15) went on sale yesterday. The event is December 1. Reindeer Days (December 8-9) costs $5 at the door. Read on...


What does «nota marginal» mean in spanish?
- In general, any annotation or observation related to the main content of a text and which, usually and historically, was placed in the margins of the text (hence its name). In many cases there is an alphanumeric reference in the text that suggests the reading of the marginal note. Marginalia" is the more general term for notes, glosses and editorial comments made in the margin of a book.
Examples of use in spanish: "las notas marginales pueden ser útiles en los diálogos en el aula al refrescar la memoria sobre puntos importantes del texto que merecen ser explorados más a fondo".
- Annotation that, in public records, accredits circumstances that concern the main inscription or the parent instrument. For example, in the documents of the Civil Registry that involve an individual, there are usually notes that allow the coordination of different inscriptions related to the individual. Such is the case of a certificate of remarriage, which requires a marginal note containing the note of divorce from the previous marriage. The cancellation of the marginal notes is done by means of another marginal note.
- A short notation that appears above or beside each section of a law or regulation. This note is intended to help readers identify the relevant provisions of the legislation. The name derives from the fact that they originally appeared in the margins of the legislation next to the relevant provisions.


Readers ask: Where Was The Good Neighbor Filmed?
- 1 Is the Good Neighbor based on a true story?
- 2 What was in the basement in the good neighbor?
- 3 What did Sean find on Ethan’s computer?
- 4 Why was the good neighbor policy important for the United States?
- 5 What was Franklin Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy?
- 6 What happened at the end of the neighbor?
- 7 What is a good neighbor?
- 8 Who wrote The Good Neighbor?
- 9 Is the Good Neighbor on Netflix?
- 10 How did the Good Neighbor Policy change the relationship between the US and Latin America?
- 11 What was the idea of the Good Neighbor Policy quizlet?
- 12 Which president of the USA pursued the good Neighbour policy towards Latin America?
Is the Good Neighbor based on a true story?
The Good Neighbour is inspired by the tragic true story of the murder of Nia Glassie. Everyone agrees that the man you saw on TV was the real person. Unfolding over the course of two hours, Good Neighbors is the story of the woman’s last night. He just always seemed to know that his purpose was to work with kids.
What was in the basement in the good neighbor?
He goes down to find that Grainey had made a shrine to his late wife in the basement. Ethan lifts a bell which Grainey gifted his wife, causing the bell to make a sound which awakes Grainey. Fearing for his safety, Ethan hides in the living room, placing the bell on a table.
What did Sean find on Ethan’s computer?
Sean tells Ethan he found an incriminating email on the computer revealing a strained history between Ethan’s father and Grainey. When Ethan’s father beat Ethan’s mother, she went to Grainey for help and the old man became the chief witness against Ethan’s father.
Why was the good neighbor policy important for the United States?
Its primary goal was to ensure mutual friendly relations between the U.S. and the nations of Latin America. In order to maintain peace and stability in the Western Hemisphere, the Good Neighbor Policy stressed non-intervention rather than military force.
What was Franklin Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy?
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office determined to improve relations with the nations of Central and South America. Under his leadership the United States emphasized cooperation and trade rather than military force to maintain stability in the hemisphere.
What happened at the end of the neighbor?
At the end hubby comes back to his house trying to get wife back but she says no & leaves the house to go to work. His Young wife asks old guy to leave so he goes home and they show him just sitting there and then movie ends.
What is a good neighbor?
Good neighbors are friendly. They introduce themselves, maintain relationships, and are approachable. They also enjoy being social in their community and encourage others to do so as well.
Who wrote The Good Neighbor?
A pair of mischievous high school kids create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting elderly neighbor while keeping his every reaction under surveillance. A series of coincidences leads to tragedy.
Is the Good Neighbor on Netflix?
Sorry, The Good Neighbor is not available on American Netflix, but you can unlock it right now in the USA and start watching! With a few simple steps you can change your Netflix region to a country like Canada and start watching Canadian Netflix, which includes The Good Neighbor.
How did the Good Neighbor Policy change the relationship between the US and Latin America?
The Good Neighbor Policy lowered tariff walls between the U.S. and Latin America and resulted in freer trade. U.S. exports to Latin America increased, and U.S. investment in the region rose. Militarily, the Good Neighbor Policy eventually brought all of Latin America over to the side of the Allies during World War II.
What was the idea of the Good Neighbor Policy quizlet?
What was the Good Neighbor Policy? A policy of the United States Administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt during 1933-45, with the goal of strengthening relations with Latin America and hemispheric solidarity against external threats.
Which president of the USA pursued the good Neighbour policy towards Latin America?
Franklin Roosevelt’s good neighbour policy, coming in the wake of decades of U.S. intervention in Central America, and following a lengthy U.S. military occupation of Nicaragua, marked a significant shift in U.S. policy towards Latin America.


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This contribution argues that Reddit, as a massive, categorized, open-access dataset, is a useful data source, on "almost any topic", which can be used for data science and knowledge exploration. This statement is backed-up with presented analysis, based on 180 manually annotated papers, related to Reddit itself, and data acquired from top databases of scientific papers. Finally, an open source tool is introduced, which provides easy access to Reddit resources, and exploratory data analysis of how Reddit covers selected topics. This is a prelude analysis to a broader exploration of Reddit's applicability.


SAFESENSE+ Curriculum and Open Resource Toolbox
SAFESENSE+ Curriculum and Open Resource Toolbox encompasses the overall training materials, activities and tools designs and contents. It will be developed in a thematic modular format, based on the ECVET framework with specific units, descriptions of learning outcomes, and information about the level of qualifications and ECVET points. The principles of adult learning will be followed:
- Usage of inquiry-based and problem-based learning approaches
- Multiple learning styles
- Contextualization learning
- Provision of stories and case studies
- Peer to Peer support and communication, and others.


(Un)explicit Social Criticism – Otto Dix and Political Iconography
University of Hamburg · Art History Seminar · Winter Semester 2018/19
Starting from Otto Dix’s (1891-1969) neo-objective and veristic works of the 1920s, which are still received as popular today, an ostensibly apolitical oeuvre emerged from 1933 onwards, which was far less offensively sociocritical in its pictorial language: instead of numerous war scenarios and sociocritical milieu depictions, landscape depictions, commissioned portraits and, from 1937 onwards, Christian allegorical depictions primarily took their place. In this way, a radical upheaval in artistic development was announced, which began when the Nazi dictatorship came into power and thus points to the reciprocal relationship between socio-political and art-political influences with Dix’s œuvre.
In the seminar, central examples of works from the 1920s to the 1940s are examined to examine motivic, stylistic and iconographic developments. The focus was on both clearly identifiable and ambiguous motifs, which is why political iconography, and thus a leading discipline of the art history department at the University of Hamburg, served as the basis for the study of images.
In addition to developing the content of the seminar topic, the participants were introduced to research possibilities and how to deal with primary documents. As part of the iconographic analysis, there were therefore visits to the Warburg House with research exercises on the Index Political Iconography. In addition, the reading of primary sources was part of the seminar. Due to the important holdings of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, seminar sessions were also held on the original in order to practise a differentiated view of work development processes, technical characteristics and refinements in Dix’s works.
Dr. Benjamin Fellmann – Index Political Iconography – Warburg House
Dr. Andreas Stolzenburg – Kupferstichkabinett – Hamburger Kunsthalle
Otto Dix, Bildnis Frau Rosa Eberl, 1940, Öl auf Holz, 103 x 80 cm, Städtische Kunstsammlung Freital, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020


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Alchemy Learning Project creates teacher tools for the digital age. We’re proud to have worked with Alchemy on branding, design and development for their website as well as the SmartBinder application, which allows teachers to create engaging lesson plans and share them with students. http://www.alchemylearning.com
A team of social science researchers at the University of Chicago were starting an ambitious project - the Chicago Archive of Indigenous Languages and Literatures - to preserve and catalog hundreds of pieces of fiction written in endangered indigenous languages. But without a technological framework, their information was disorganized, and they had no way to share the fruits of their research with others. We built a comprehensive, web-based locus for collecting catalog data and scanned copies of the works. Different access levels for researchers, academic users, and the general public ensure that copyrighted or sensitive works can be kept private, and the entire effort is coordinated in tandem with an academic library which holds physical copies of many of the works. Members of the research team can access and update the data from anywhere, whether they are acquiring new material in Latin America or in their office in the States. Digital scans of the works ensure broad access to users in any country, while helping safeguard the paper originals. CAILLA both preserves these ephemeral works for the future and allows more people to find and use these books and magazines in the here and now.
Emily Carr University's The Show 2013 app and site needed to streamline the submission process, make curation easy, and deliver content in beautiful layouts accessible through desktops, tablets, and phones. Steamclock designed and developed the native iPad app, the responsive web apps for browsing and curating content, and the APIs that tie it all together. Using Node.js, HTML5, and Objective-C, we created a great experience across various devices.
Alchemy Learning Project creates teacher tools for the digital age. We’re proud to have worked with Alchemy on branding, design and development for their SmartBinder application, which allows teachers to create engaging lesson plans and share them with students on the web. http://www.alchemylearning.com


This is a wonderful opportunity to discuss your poetry on a one-to-one basis with poet and tutor Alison Chisholm, a relaxed but in-depth analysis of your poems. Identify strategies for further developing your writing, discuss problems you may be experiencing and look at strategies for taking your work forward. There will be plenty of time to talk about all those things you need to know about writing, revising and submitting your work.
Alison runs 55 minute sessions in Edda Community Arts & Library, Liverpool Road, Southport PR8 3NE edda-arts.co.uk £40 for Poetry Society members, £50 for non-members. Book online or call Paul McGrane on 020 7420 9881. Once your session is booked, you will be asked to send up to 6 poems, or 150 lines maximum, in advance, so that Alison has sufficient time to read your poems beforehand.
What they said
“As ever, everything was excellent. I’m so glad I just happened upon Alison, never having read her poetry before I met her. She is both a great communicator and extremely genuine person. Her advice is well worth taking and one receives honest critiques which help to concentrate on those aspects of one’s work which need scrutiny. I don’t doubt that I will be visiting her again before the year is out.” CF
“My session with Alison was inspirational. Alison’s joy in poetry – and her capacity to communicate its essential worthwhileness in a world that can overwhelm us with ideas and information – I found to be transformational. Her detailed commentary and suggestions about my work were clearly explained, insightful and I found them very helpful. I’d definitely recommend it.” RM
“I was delighted to see how to improve my attempts at poetry. Alison managed me well. The effect of a brain-damaging virus has resulted in memory difficulties for me. I had no memories of writing the poetry I found. It is my handwriting so it must have been me! Given this strange life experience, I find the previous me fascinating. Alison helped me understand how to regain my poetry writing abilities.” AW
Alison Chisholm has written eleven collections, six books on poetry writing including Crafting Poetry, and also the distance learning poetry course for The Writers Bureau. Her poems have won numerous competitions in Britain and America, and been broadcast on TV and radio. She has taught creative writing and poetry writing to adults since 1983, and has given workshops in schools and libraries, and at conferences in Britain and overseas, including The Writers’ Holiday, Fishguard, The Writers’ Summer School, and Relax and Write weekends. She is a regular columnist for Writing Magazine.


The Library Resource Centre is an integral part of the teaching and learning program of the School.
Its purpose is to enhance teaching and student learning by providing opportunities for students to develop information-accessing skills and to use these skills competently and confidently to gain knowledge.
We have an online borrowing system called Accessit that gives students access to over 40000 books. With such a vast selection of several genres, fiction and non-fiction, students will always find something of interest and quench their thirst for knowledge. It’s particularly useful in finding books at the students’ reading level. After reading a book, the teacher can request them to take a quiz about it on the Renaissance website.
The Library is open for all students during recess and lunchtime and after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays for Homework Club. Homework Club is a free service provided to give students the opportunity to have some tutoring after school hours to assist them with their homework. This is not compulsory, nor does it need to be booked. To access or browse the Library Click Here!
Students in years 11 and 12 are able to choose to undergo a specialised subject not offered at Prescott College. This is called an Open Access subject, which is undertaken online at Prescott College, with a teacher from Open Access. The Librarian coordinates this process with the student. There is an additional cost to the regular school fees for the students to take an Open Access subject.


LAWYERS AND NOTARIES:
TWO FORCES UNITED
May 23, 2019
This article, published in the October 2018 (volume 12) edition of the Les Mordus d’immobilier review (FR), explains the union between our firm and the notarial firm Blanchard Lupien notaires L.L.P.
May 6, 2021
This article explains the differences between and key aspects of spousal support and child support, as well as their respective criteria.


Last night, I viewed Part 1 of the new documentary from Niall Ferguson on PBS, titled “Civilization: The West and the Rest“. I have previously enjoyed books by Ferguson, so I was looking forward to this documentary. Before I provide my opinion on the program, I will given you a brief overview of his thesis.
Ferguson is attempting to explain why Western Civilization has dominated the world over the last 500 years, when compared to the other two “competitors”, China and the Muslim world. He posits that there are six concepts that set the West apart from the two “eastern” cultures, including Competition, Science, Property, Modern Medicine, Consumerism and Work Ethic. In Part 1, he covered the first three of these. He compared Europe to China on the subject of political and economic competition. On the subject of science, he compared 17th century Europe to the Ottoman empire of the same period. And for property, he didn’t compare to the east at all, but compared the development of British and Spanish colonies in the New World and how the differences in private property and political freedom led to the supremacy of North America when compared to Latin America.
Now, I don’t disagree with Ferguson’s basic premise and even decision to break down the reasons to cover just six concepts – arguably, Modern Medicine is derivative of the utilization of Science, so I would really call it five items. Also, the Work Ethic could be argued to be derivative of Competition, but as I haven’t seen Part 2 yet, I will give him the benefit of the doubt for now.
However, I think he glosses over a few key points on the development of each culture and civilization that are critical to understand the reasons why the Muslim world was dominant in the 11-12th centuries, China in the 14-15th centuries and the European west from the 16th century onward.
First, the Islamic world was dominant in the years around 1000 primarily because of the solidarity of the Arab conquest of the Middle East, North Africa and Spain. Early Muslim scholars pursued the concept of ijtihad, where the pursuit of scientific knowledge and assessment of the world around them was viewed positively and even as a holy activity. Muslim scholars from Baghdad to Cordoba published many books on mathematics (the words algebra and algorithm come from the works and name of al-Khwārizmī) and transmitted the Indian concept of place value and zero to Europe. They also preserved the classical Greek scientific works that in many cases had been lost in Europe. They had philosophers such as Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd who argued that reason and rational thought (Aristotelian philosophy) had a place in Islamic life and worked to reconcile these ideas with Islamic theology. However, they were resisted by other philosophers such as Al Ghazali who argued that reason had no place in Islam and that ijtihad was not a valid pursuit. Slowly, much of the Islamic world moved away from ijtihad to taqlid, or blind obedience and repetition of what had been decided before.
While these philosophical debates could have gone on for centuries in the Muslim world, as they later did in Europe, I believe they were disrupted by other events. In the 13th century, the Mongols, under Genghis Khan and his followers moved out of Central Asia, and sacked one Muslim city after the other, Bukhara, Samarkand, Qom and finally Baghdad, Aleppo and Damascus before being stopped at Ayn Jalut by the Mamelukes of Egypt. The destruction of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad and the use of psychological warfare by the Mongols marked a key change in the views of the Muslim world. Additionally, the movement of peoples out of Central Asia resulted in the transition of political power in the Middle East from Arab to Turk.
After 1258, the pre-enlightenment ideas of thinkers like Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd vanish from the Muslim world. Thinkers in Europe, such as Aquinas, Spinoza and others were clearly influenced by their works as the Enlightenment took hold. But they disappeared in the Muslim world.
Ferguson touches on these issues when he talks about the banning of printing in the Ottoman empire until the late 18th Century and the lack of scientific thinking. But I feel he could have covered this more concisely.
The excellent work by Timur Kuran, “The Long Divergence“, does an excellent job of explaining how Islamic law held back the Muslim world from a competitive position, due to inheritance laws and no concept of incorporation. This links nicely with Ferguson’s assessment on the lack of competition – but he never really touches on it. Had he touched on this it would have added to the substance of his case.
On the subject of China’s decline, I think it would have been useful to explain more of the history of China. The idea of being a monolithic state was almost 1700 years old by the time of the Ming Dynasty. The Han dynasty had unified much of China and even though there had been unrest and regime change – the unity of China was never really at question. Ferguson leaves the impression than the Ming Dynasty was the pinnacle of Chinese culture, although one could argue the Tang Dynasty was similar in scope and advancement (albeit centuries eariler).
Ferguson also did not spend enough time on the reasons why China turned inwards in the 15th century after the death of the Yongle emperor. He alludes to Confucianism, economics and political intrigue without explaining any of them. Frustrating.
Finally, his selection of comparing the British and Spanish property rights developments in the new World didn’t really explain the difference between the West and the Rest. Reference to Kuran’s thesis would have provided a better example, comparing British / American property concepts to those of the Muslim world might have been a better example.
I await next week’s episode. I sense foreshadowing regarding how some of the failings of the Ottoman and Ming dynasties are repeating themselves in the West today and how the Decline of Western Civilization may be occurring again (where is Gibbon’s sequel???)
- Civilization: The West and the Rest (worldhistoryreview.org)
- Niall Ferguson: These 6 Questions Will Determine The Balance Of Power Between The East And The West (businessinsider.com)


Every so often I visit a little café, have a nice hot coffee and read a good book or I get some writing done of my own book! So here’s the chat about it!
This is a new meme I’m hoping to do on the blog every once in a while, to tell you about updates in reading goals and share the café feeling atmosphere!!
𝓣𝓻𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓔𝓼𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓸~
What do you like to drink when you go to a cafe? I usually get coffee, but tea is a second choice- and then I’m constantly trying new ones!
This week I cheated and went to a Starbucks near a town I was visiting, surprisingly though, it was a smaller coffee shop so it added a nice little touch to the café atmosphere. 🙂
My favorite drink at Starbucks is one of three options: a Caramel Frappucino, a Caramel Macchiato, or a White Chocolate Mocha! ❤ ❤
Now when reading (or writing) at a café, we all have different preferences.
People watching, for instance, is one either we don’t realize we’re doing or we know we’re doing it and that’s part of why we’re there. Such as when I’m writing, I’ll go to a café and people watch.
Some of us are there to study for school- though I usually go to my Library’s study rooms because I typically need more quiet for school. But some of us need the noise to focus, I have a friend who has to listen to music for college homework.
And then the reading preferences are different for each of us too!
*Some of us will bring a large Harry Potter book and get totally immersed.
*Some of us bring a smaller book or ebook that doesn’t require a lot of your attention and focus.
I’m a moody book reader, so it varies for me. This week I took The Kindred Woods by Erin Forbes for a ride and got a bit farther in it!
”Behind her gentle character, the strength of armor was found.”– Fire and Ice book 3: The Kindred Woods by Erin Forbes
Forbes’ writing has more of mystical and whimsical feel to it, so it’s definitely one that requires more focus as you read it. But I just love the beautiful quotes from it!!
”All proper libraries include a trace of everlasting magic.”– Fire and Ice book 3: The Kindred Woods by Erin Forbes
This is the third book in the series that came out May 1st, and it’s great to jump back into a fantasy series. How long does it usually take for you to finish a series??
I seem to have two moods: Finish the whole series in a few days, or take more than a year to finish the series. There is no in-between.
What do you like to read when you go to a café?? What’s your choice of drink when reading?
Have you heard of Erin Forbes’ debut series, Fire and Ice?
Thanks for reading!!
~Snow White & The Dwarves


Australian Aboriginal culture has existed continuously for more than 40
000 years. They have developed sophisticated social organisations,
complex legal systems and a numerous practices and ceremonies based
around their Dreamtime beliefs. There is no way we could ever hope to
capture all their knowledge of animal behaviour, or of the seasons and
bush tucker that each one brings. For that matter we will never know the
full extent of the geographical, ecological or land management skills
that these communities possess but at least some of them are documenting
different aspects of their culture for future generations. Here are a
number of apps that introduce students to both their oral story telling
tradition and their traditional languages. Enjoy!
Ngurrara - Australian Aboriginal Storybook: FREE
Ngurrara follows the journeys of three young Australian Aboriginal
Ngarluma men as they fish, hunt and carve their own stories. It is set
on Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula) As the landscape, the people and culture
change over millennia, one thing remains the same, the Ngarluma people
'were always here.'
Warlu Song - Australian Aboriginal Storybook: $2.99 AU
A spirit man journeys with a terrifying serpent, ripping up trees with
an angry wind, smashing the land with floods and changing the country
forever. Continuing the Aboriginal oral tradition, this story was dreamt
by a songsmith and is here sung in Yindjibarndi and spoken in English.
Yagambeh - Australian Aboriginal Storybook: FREE
Yugambeh Aboriginal language from the Gold Coast, Logan and Scenic Rim
regions in Queensland, at your fingertips for educators, visitors and
community. Includes audio, dictionary and pictionary files. Developed by
the Yugambeh Museum to re-invigorate use of their traditional language.
One Road: Canning Stock Route: $1.99 AU
One Road: Canning Stock Route Project app takes users on a journey
through the remote deserts of Western Australia. Part rich cultural
resource, part travel guide, One Road is an interactive map spanning the
2000km Canning Stock Route, which was surveyed between 1906 and 1910 to
Healesville High S-Dreamtime: FREE
Under the guidance of Aunty Joy Murphy, a Wurundjeri elder, nineteen
years 7, 8 and 9 students from Healesville High School undertook an
intensive two days of Dreamtime story telling, culminating in four
dreamtime stories told through striking artwork and narrated in the
students' own voices.
Ringbalin - River Stories: $6.49
In 2010 the Ringbalin, a group of Indigenous tribes reignited an ancient
ceremony, a Ringbalin, travelling 2300km, dancing to save Australia’s
Murray Darling Rivers from a crippling drought. By the time they had
finished rain had started falling. What followed were the biggest floods
in Australian records.
Indigenous Australian: Art Gallery of NSW lets you explore a selection
of artists and artworks from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
art collection. Discover stories of the artists and the art, get simple
explanations of art terms, and go behind the scenes with interviews and
NT Languages - Anindilyakwa: FREE
A flash card language app developed by the Northern Territory Library
comprising everyday words and phrases in Anindilyakwa and English. This
app is a bilingual literacy tool for people in Anindilyakwa communities,
as well as English-speaking workers and visitors to the Gulf of
Information on the Australian Aboriginals and the Torres Strait
Islanders. Past and present, the corroborees, Indigenous art, the land
with places like Uluru also known as Ayers Rock, Kings Canyon. The
Torres Strait Islanders history including the cultured pearling industry
and fishing for Dugong.
Yan - Aboriginal Text Editor:
Creation of Australian indigenous language text on iPads. The app
contains the special characters used by most of the common Australian
Aboriginal languages, such as 'Ŋ' for example. Unforunately this app is
not currently available in the Australian iTunes Store.
Sharing the Dreaming: FREE
Sharing the Dreaming is a window into Aboriginal culture: the culture of
the Nyoongar, the traditional custodians of Australia’s South-West.
Listen to Dreamtime stories, illustrated by images of paintings in the
local style. Hear and learn Nyoongar words and their English language
The West Macs: FREE
Welcome to the spectacular West MacDonnell Ranges, a world class
National Park and home to the Western Arrarnta people of Central
Australia. Listen and watch our stories of scenic beauty and history
from this ancient landscape and a culture that has existed for many
thousands of years.
Ma Iwaida: FREE
The Ma! Iwaidja app is an initiative of the Minjilang Endangered
Languages Publication project. Anyone interacting with the language in
any way, including Iwaidja speakers becomes an instant documentary
linguist. Adding a new word with transcription is as simple as adding a
new contact to your Contacts list.


Throughout the story she creates an intimate relationship with all the main characters, whether a nurse, housekeeper or servant, she manages to produce an emotional link of friendship with these characters.
She has lived all her life in the moors, has grown up with Hindley and Catherine, and has helped the Earnshaw family since her childhood. Lockwood is forced because of bad weather to spend a night at Wuthering Heights.
The novel was published in under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. While reporting the past, she is able to foreshadow future events, which builds suspense, thereby engaging readers even more.
Her attitude towards the characters seems to depend on her mood, because she is a little inconstant. Nelly is limited because of her conventional, religious and moral sentiments, which often prevent her from a greater understanding of the emotions or motives of the characters.
The background, the setting, the climate, the houses and the animals all take on a life of their own, images of past and present are flashed together "a glare of white letters startled from the dark as vivid as spectres - the air swarming with Catherines". The book starts with that one of the narrators, Lockwood, come to Wuthering Heights to rent Thrushcross Grange.
The passage even contains Cathy crying over the miseries of someone she has only met twice so far. It could be said that, instead of a multi-perspective story, this is a multi-layered story.
Despite these shortcomings, she is vigorous, lively narrator with a formidable memory whose energy and unflagging interests allow the reader an insight into the lives of characters.
Before he comes in we have a loving family with mother, father, sister, brother. The kind of curiosity aroused by Bronte in Lockwood and therefore in the reader, demands a complete imaginative reliving of the past. Cathy, on the other hand, is portrayed as a very nice, helpful daughter and a devoted friend to Linton.
Ultimately, both Lockwood and Nelly are merely facilitators, enabling readers to enter the world of Wuthering Heights. You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasion for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
This leads the reader to ponder whether one gets a fair idea of the story. If you need a high-quality customized research paper on Wuthering Heights topics written from scratch, you can easily hire professional academic writers online: Dean never mentions anyone else besides the people that the story focuses on.
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Studying these two passages against each other brings. Wuthering Heights is a novel from by Emily Brontë, published under the author name Ellis Bell. The story runs around the tragic love affair between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff and its consequences as retold in a frame story with the two narrators, Nelly Dean and Mr.
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Although Lockwood and Nelly serve as the obvious narrators, others are interspersed throughout the novel — Heathcliff, Isabella, Cathy, even Zillah — who narrate a chapter or two, providing insight into both character and.
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‘And what do you do?’ by David Buck
‘All in the end is harvest’ by Agnes Whitaker, from Dawn Allan
‘Autumn house-cleaning’ by Milton Crum
‘Downsizing’ by Milton Crum
‘Faces’ by David Buck
‘Honest words’ by David Buck
‘Hospice communion’ by David Buck
Hospice poetry selection 2013 Conference poetry workshop
‘Lament’ by David Buck
‘No poetry’ by David Buck
‘Not speaking of God’ by David Buck
‘Some day, life will get better’ by Larry S. Chengges, from Dawn Allan
‘The Mask’ by Dianna Brendle, submitted by David Vonberg
‘The Sunday after Ascension’ by David Lyall, from Andy Edmeads
‘The Way of things’ by Tom Gordon
‘The World will be Different’ by David Buck
‘This time’ by David Buck
‘When things don’t fit’ and other poems by David Buck
Weston Poems submitted by Karen Murphy
For memorial events
Prayers These prayers have been used at memorial events.
Commendatory Prayers by David Buck. NB ready-to-print A5 format
Commendatory Prayers and readings by Mike Rattenbury. NB ready-to-print format
Roman Catholic prayers for the dying submitted by Vanessa Appleton.
Suggested hymns This is a list of hymns known to have been used in memorial events.
The following are hymns that have been composed by AHPCC members
specifically for memorial events, and set to well-known tunes.
‘Lights of Love’ by Judy Davies
‘Names remembered, lives recalling’ by Judy Davies
‘The Day of our Epiphany’ by Tom Gordon
‘The Faces of God’ a Trinity Sunday hymn by Tom Gordon
‘We bring our thanks’ by Judy Davies
‘We come with thanks to celebrate’ by Judy Davies
We’ve also had some new songs recommended to us from Jubilate Hymns
Click on the links for both the lyrics and live recordings. Worth a listen!
‘Oh sisters and brothers’ by Joel Payne, (c) RESOUNDworship.org.
‘There’s a time for tears’ by Sam Hargreaves, (c) RESOUNDworship.org.


The season of Lent is a poignant and meaningful time in the church year. To help our families participate from their homes, we have created this book of devotions and activities to bring this holy season to life. If you have not received a Lent at Home book, and would like one, please stop by the church to pick up a printed copy. The book is designed for children and youth, but all ages are invited to participate!
Visit our Lent and Easter at FUMC webpage for more details on all the events and opportunities with the church between now and Easter Day.
*Two coloring pages from Illustrated Ministry are included in this book. For copyright purposes we have added a watermark over the pages in the online version.


Lyon Mississippi Culture
In the early 20th century, Clarksdale was known as the "Golden Buckle of the Cotton Belt" and was home to the largest cotton factory in the United States, the Mississippi Cotton Company. Friars Point in Coahoma County was a small town of about 1,000 people, and it was typical that many of them lived in the same house with their families.
After World War I, plantation owners even encouraged blacks to move to the delta region from other parts of the Mississippi to work. A few years later, the developers of the West Feliciana Railroad began building the first railroad line from Clarksdale to New Orleans and then on to Baton Rouge.
I went to Oxford, where James Meredith tried to enroll, but as soon as I could, I left town and went back to Clarksdale, only to hear from the woman who opened the door that everyone was down in Albany.
Speaking to the National Geographic Society in the same lecture, Lyon admitted he had no interest in prison reform. Encouraged by Lewis, he traveled south to document the causes of civil rights and the hostile reception. After completing his work "Documenting the Destruction of Lower Manhattan," Lyon moved to Texas to photograph the life and culture of prisons and convicts.
He had very little contact with the culture of the South before moving to Mississippi, mainly to the northern and western regions of the USA. Forman was responsible for the construction of a new prison, the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Jackson, Mississippi. He said "Mississippi belongs to Bob," which means Moses did what Bob wanted, he said.
You might think it would be difficult to stay in Mississippi without having contact with French culture, but Biyong had little problem with that. He was able to get a job teaching French at the University of Mississippi because he liked the culture of the South as much as the history of French in the United States, and he began to look for another job.
For more information on Dubuque's history, visit the Mississippi History Museum's expanded online page. Protecting the past in the United States in Context, an encyclopedia written by Randolph W. Lyon and edited by William H. Biyong, Ronald J. Lott, and Charles E. Davenport, both of Mississippi State University, Jackson.
Brown, "which describes the life of Brown, who grew up in a troubled family, from his childhood in Dubuque, Mississippi, to his time in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Lewis said Lyon had become one of his closest friends in Cairo, where he was chairman of SNCC headquarters. He turned up at the University of Chicago, where she was studying history, and Lewis said she had become his mentor.
Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe began settling in Mississippi, where they often worked as traders, and moved to crowded East Coast cities. Thousands of blacks left Mississippi to work in the defense industry, but Lyon began to see himself as a photographer whose vision and political philosophy were inextricably linked to the often-disputed notion of what it meant to be American.
The original Clarksdale site was also the site of the Chakchiuma Trade Trial, which ran from the old Pontotoc northeast, and the Lower Creek Trade Path, which stretched from New Mexico westward to Augusta, Georgia. The small complex was at the same time as the occupation of Lyon Bluff, but excavations have shown that one or two corn fields were used among the inhabitants of the house - agricultural use, supplemented by hunting and fishing. Much of the goods that were transported through Louisiana and the entire Mississippi Valley region came via New Orleans.
Clarksdale's growth has been constant since the 1900s, and from the 1930s through the 1970s it has prevented a significant expansion of its agricultural and industrial activities. Clarksdale is now home to the Mississippi Valley Museum of Natural History and the Center for Archaeology at Mississippi State University.
Mississippi University Women is proud to recognize the exceptional work of the University Press of Mississippi and to promote the academic and professional development of women in the arts, sciences and humanities in Mississippi. She was recently named an All-America City and named one of the 100 Best Cities in America for Women's Studies. In the past, New Orleans was the largest city in North America with more than 1.5 million inhabitants. It was also the second most important port in the United States after New York City during the Civil War, largely due to its proximity to the Mississippi.


Why I Wrote This Book - For Greater Success
by John T. Karagounis
Why I Wrote This Book - For Greater Success details how to live a fulfilled life. It goes beyond the basic categories of “professional” and “personal”, recognising the many connections and overlap that exist in our lives between work, community, family and friends.
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The Kuraigana Island is a dark and gloomy place somewhere in the Grand Line. It was once the home of the now fallen Shikkearu Kingdom (シッケアール王国 Shikkeāru Ōkoku?, Muggy Kingdom in the Viz Manga and FUNimation subs). The forest island is relatively deserted except for some ruins. Amongst its landscape, the island possesses unique hills. This island is also the residence of the Warlord of the Sea, Dracule Mihawk. Roronoa Zoro was sent here by Bartholomew Kuma during the events of Sabaody Archipelago, and spent two years on the island honing his skills.
|Dracule Mihawk||Humandrills||Perona ‡||Roronoa Zoro ‡|
Nine years before the current storyline, a terrible war was fought on this island. The Humandrills inhabiting the forest, gifted with the capability of learning from humans, watched the conflict, learned how to fight using weapons, and became fearsome fighters. At some point after the war's end, Mihawk arrived on this island and made the castle his home.
Straw Hat Separation
Roronoa Zoro was later sent to this island by the same Warlord of the Sea. The two met up with Mihawk as he returned from the Summit War of Marineford. Mihawk told Perona about Moria's presumed death, and gave Zoro a little boat to return to his crew mates, later telling him about the island's history and warning him about the Humandrills' threat.
During the Timeskip
This is where Zoro trained under Mihawk for two years.
From the Decks of the World: The 500,000,000 Man Arc
Eventually, Perona and Mihawk began to revitalize Kuraigana Island by tilling the battle-torn land. Seeing this, the violent Humandrills learned how to become peaceful and changed into friendly, helpful farmhands.
Wano Country Arc
Anime and Manga Differences
Originally in the manga, the Humandrills were simply hinted at with a silhouette in Zoro's cover story. In the anime, they were given a slightly more detailed foreshadowing with them attacking Zoro in the ruins as ape-like silhouettes.
- The name "Kuraigana" translates roughly to "Gloomy, isn't it?" in English.
- "Shikkearu", the name of the fallen kingdom; could roughly translate to "Oh, it's damp", in English.
- The curly hills on the island resemble the iconic one from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, one of Eiichiro Oda's favorite movies.
- One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 54 Chapter 524 and Episode 421, Zoro and Perona are revealed to have been sent to Kuraigana.
- One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 60 Chapter 592 and Episode 509, the ruins Zoro and Perona explored are revealed to be inhabited by weapon wielding baboons.
- One Piece Manga — Vol. 82 Chapter 826, the Humandrills have turned peaceful from seeing Perona and Mihawk tilling the land.
- One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 95 Chapter 956 and Episode 957.
- One Piece Anime — Episode 456, the Humandrills are foreshadowed more in the anime version of Zoro's coverstory.


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The question of immortality .... the concept of eternity .... cannot be solved by the human being because on one hand he cannot understand something that reaches beyond earthly concepts, but on the other hand he cannot be given a spiritual explanation which he could adequately understand either. Only on entering the regions of light can the being be given a partial explanation but even then it remains a problem which, like the eternal Deity, can never be completely solved and comprehended. This has to be said first in order to explain the following:
In times of great spiritual adversity people are inclined to believe that they can put an end to their lives at will, and thus an end to their existence, because they believe that they only exist for a limited period of time and hence feel entitled and qualified to shorten it. They simply lack understanding for immortality, for endlessness of time, for eternity .... That they will never cease to exist cannot be proven to them, but the thought of knowing that life will end one day is far more comforting to them .... And although from time to time the human being feels uneasy about the temporal ending he nevertheless rather accepts this thought than the thought of a continuation of life after death because he knows that everything on earth is temporary and therefore he cannot and will not believe in the immortality of his Self. To explain the concept of 'eternal' to such a person would simply be impossible .... The idea that something so intimately related to him should never cease to exist worries him and awakens his sense of responsibility because, understandably, life has to be viewed quite differently as soon as a permanent existence has to be taken into account.
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