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I’ll be adding a thick cream cheese glaze to this and delivering it to a friend as a belated birthday gift later today. I started with a recipe I found through The Food Librarian but made some changes to the ingredients and process. Assuming this cake tastes as delicious as I think it will, I’ll share my version of the recipe later in the week. Meanwhile, if you have access to Fuyu persimmons and have never used them in a cake, check out the original recipe and give it a try. Happy baking!


The Legend of the love story between Marc Antony and Cleopatra was immortalized by William Shakespeare. It has endured and fascinates to this day.
When Marc Antony’s duties took him to Egypt, me met Queen Cleopatra and was immediately beguiled. The spell she weaved over him was intense, and Marc Antony soon began to neglect his duties in order to be with her. While he dallied with the Egyptian queen, Rome was in turmoil and his wife in Rome died.
He is called back to rome from Alexandria to battle Sextus Pompey, Menecrates, and Menas, three notorious pirates of the Mediterranean. But Cleopatra is heartbroken and she repeatedly begs him not to go. All Marc Antony can do is reaffirm his love for her, but he is firm – he must go.
In Rome, Agrippa pushes for Antony to marry Octavius Caesar’s sister, Octavia, in order to cement the bond between the two men. Reluctantly Atony weds Octavia but Antony’s lieutenant knows that Octavia can never satisfy him after Cleopatra. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies.
A soothsayer warns Antony that he is sure to lose if he fights Octavius.
In Egypt, when Cleopatra learns of Antony’s marriage to Octavia, she takes furious revenge upon the messenger that brings her the news. But her courtiers assure her that Octavia us ugly, short, low-browed, round-faced and has bad hair. This soothes Cleopatra’s temper.
Antony clashes with Octavius and Antony returns to Alexandria, he crowns Cleopatra and himself as rulers of Egypt and the eastern third of the Roman Empire. He accuses Octavius of not giving him his fair share of Pompeii’s lands.
Antony prepares to battle Octavius, and although warned not to battle at sea, Antony refuses. Cleopatra pledges her fleet to aid Antony, however, during the battle, Cleopatra flees with her sixty ships, and Antony follows her, leaving his army to ruin. Ashamed of what he has done for the love of Cleopatra, Antony reproaches her for making him a coward, but also sets this love above all else, saying “Give me a kiss; even this repays me.”
Octavius sends a messenger to ask Cleopatra asking her to give up Antony and come over to his side. While Cleopatra flirts with the messenger, Antony discovers them. He orders the messenger to be seized and whippped. The lover’s spat cools and later, he forgives Cleopatra and pledges to fight another battle for her, this time on land.
Antony is winning the battle until Octavius shifts it to a sea-fight. Once again, Cleopatra’s ships desert him. He is forced to surrender and publically denounces Cleopatra who has betrayed him once again. He is determined to kill her.
But Cleopatra wants to win back Antony’s love, so she sends him word that she has killed herself, dying with his name on her lips. She locks herself in her monument, and waits for Antony to come to her.
Unfortunately for Cleopatra, her plan backfires. Saddened by the news of her death, Antony decides that his own life is no longer worth living. He succeeds only in seriously wounding himself, prolonging his death. When he learns that Cleopatra is alive, he goes to her monument, but dies in her arms.
Octavius attempts to convince Cleopatra to surrender. She refuses. But Cleopatra is betrayed and the Romans seize her. Cleopatra resolves to kill herself, using the poison of an asp.
She dies thinking of Antony who she hopes to meet in the afterlife. Her serving maids also kill themselves. When Octavius discovers the dead women, he experiences great emotion. Antony’s and Cleopatra’s deaths cleared the path for him to become the first Roman Emperor. He ordered a public military funeral for them both and buried them together.
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As I understand from the reading by Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal, kaupapa maori is the actions created by maori that reflect maori values. These are done “anticipating tikanga maori” (Royal, 30). These actions also express a much wider world view.
Matauranga maori is the body of knowledge that allows for the creation of said actions. Matauranga both makes space for, and informs the actions.
I believe this artwork by Gottfried Lindauer displays both kaupapa maori and matauranga maori. Kaupapa maori is shown through the maori women weaving together to make baskets out of flax. There was a specific process that had to be followed to make these and then they would be used to hold various items. Tikanga had to be anticipated in the creation otherwise they would not be fit to be used by the people.
Matauranga maori is displayed as it seems to be an activity shared by generations. This means that the body of knowledge required to create kete had to passed down from one to another in order for them to be done correctly.
Royal, Te Ahukaramu Charles. “Politics and knowledge: Kaupapa Maori and matauranga maori.” New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies. Vol 47, No. 2, 2012. pp 30-37.


I thought I’d upload the papers/essays I wrote while at law school at The University of Birmingham. The quality varies, the first year papers are awful (apart from the Mental Health Bill). The final year ones are of the highest quality. Hopefully it’ll help out current students and aid research, especially the final year papers. I’ve put the marks I attained next to each title in [square] brackets.
All papers are 10 credits, apart from the Dissertation which was 30 credits.
If you would like to cite any essays just use Patel, D. Essay Title, Available Online http://law.newoffspringalbum.com .
1st Year (2003/04)
Public Law - Discuss the proposition that the
Contract law - Doctrine of Unconscionablity
Criminal Law and Justice - Evaluate Present Mental Health Legislation and Assess the Likely Impact to Offenders or Those Likely (as defined by the draft bill) to Offend Due to Any Proposals to Reform.
2nd Year (2004/05)
Legal Foundations of the European Union - “Some commentators have argued that the commitment of the European Court of Justice to fundamental rights has provided the EU with the much needed ethical foundation which it lacked on account of its origins as a Common Market and the constant emphasis on economic goals.” Discuss this statement in the light of recent developments.  [doc] [html] [pdf]
Jurisprudence 1 - The Outcome of a case is determined neither by the facts nor by the law. Findings of fact and statements of law are used only to justify the decision of the judge. Do you agree?  [doc] [html] [pdf]
Final Year (2005/06)
Environmental Law 1 - What are the main obstacles for effective environmental law?  [doc] [html] [pdf] *the title was long and fancy, but unfortunately I did not make a note of it anywhere. This is the essence of the paper.
Environmental Law 2 - To what extent has the EC evolved from a pure trade entity into an organisation which effectively protects the environment. What difficulties has it faced and will it face in the future?  [doc] [html] [pdf]Dissertation - An Enquiry into Anarchist Jurisprudence  [doc] [html] [pdf]


Swedish Drill™ Revisited Expanded Edition Bundle includes volumes II, III, IV. Each volume includes a linked table of contents, many helpful and detailed teaching tips, as well as images of what the movements should (and should not!) look like paired with the instructions to give your child for each particular exercise, QR codes, mp3 audio downloads, cheat sheets, sample lesson plans, and flash cards.
This product is available for previous purchasers of volume I of Swedish Drill™ Revisited Expanded Edition.
Swedish Drill™ Revisited II Expanded Edition, and
Swedish Drill™ Revisited III Expanded Edition, and
Swedish Drill™ Revisited IV Expanded Edition.
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LogTools contain a library (liblogtools) that can used to access a log store programmatically. Is the library API already stable?
Right now, this is not the case because of heavy development of LogTools. To keep things simple, we do not try hard to keep the API stable before reaching a decent maturity for the tools themselves (at least full cryptographic signatures should be available). However, if you are an application developer interested in using liblogtools, please drop us a line. Once we know of other users, we will probably try harder to keep the existing API.


16aug7:00 am9:00 amParents and Friends MeetingThe Parents and Friends of JSRACS invite all interested families to attend the P and F meetings. This meeting will take place in the Beechboro Campus Library. We look forward to seeing you there.
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Adelanto Elementary holds first AR Pod party this year
Each month in the AES library Ms. Angela, the AES library clerk, organizes an ARPod party to celebrate reading with students. An ARPod is like a punch card for students who score 100% on an AR test. It looks like an iPod. There are 5 bubbles on the ARPod for teachers to sign when a student has scored 100% on a book he/she has read in his/her ZPD during independent reading time. Once students have had all 5 bubbles signed they can return the ARPod to the library. Each student receives 10 Cougar Cash, an invitation to the ARPod party, and a Reading Award at the Awards Assemblies throughout the school year. Once they have completed one ARPod, they get a new one. If a student turns in two ARPods while there are still seats available to the ARPod party, they can invite a friend.
Each ARPod party has a different book related theme such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Goosebumps, Dr. Seuss, and Harry Potter. There are 30 seats available for each party. Once a guest list has been filled, a new list is started. During the party students play games, share ideas, have snacks, and each student receives at least one book to keep.
AR Pod party is just one of the various strategies AES utilizes to motivate students and celebrate their success.


On May 4th 2018, Chengdu International School celebrated its new Heart of the City campus after twenty years of serving expatriate students in Chengdu. The new campus is located in Shuinianhe, very close to the Niuwangmiao metro station, which is really exciting for families living downtown.
Festivities kicked off with a formal ceremony for around one hundred VIP guests, including local government officials, consular officials, and other leaders in the international business community. Head Principal, Josh Keegan, said a few words, followed by a speech from the Chairman of the European Chamber Southwest Chapter, Paul Sives.
Comprised of a collection of delicate gingko shapes suspended from the ceiling of the lobby in the new library building, Affinity both represents Chengdu and the coming together of varied parts to make a unique whole. This theme is symbolic of the CDIS community; both made up of different cultures, and integral to Chengdu’s city landscape.
After the ceremony, parents, students, and staff arrived for the annual Spring Concert, held outside on the soccer field. Students from 3-years-old up to high school performed choral and instrumental pieces for an audience of over six hundred guests.
After the concert, guests were invited to tour the campus to see both the new facilities and students’ art work in the galleries.
There was also time to enjoy some great food and drink from around the world, play games, or enjoy the blues rock band, The Old Drivers.
A bouncing castle was kindly provided by Santa Fe Relocations for the youngest guests, and supervision of the outside climbing wall by High Road Adventure Company for everyone else.
All four CDIS principals barbecued hot dogs; serving with a smile. Free ice cream was provided by Glacio, creating a line that seemed to go on forever, but nobody seemed to mind too much as it was worth the wait!
By 8:30pm, everyone made their way home, tired but happy, and excited about CDIS’s new home. It was a great night for families in the ‘Du!
Congratulations to CDIS on their beautiful new campus in the heart of the city.
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This is the first novella from Skeeterville, a small town in Maryland with an apartment building of active ornery seniors. The seniors first scheme to save John from directing traffic at the four way stop when he’s drunk. When he sees a dead man in a truck, they work together to solve the murder. Gracie takes a deep breath and steps in to save the day. Gracie and John belong together. You’re never to old for love, even when there’s an interesting death to investigate.
I have fallen in love with the feisty crew from the Friendly Arms Apartments. I hope you do too. Amazing Gracie is now available at Amazon. http://tiny.cc/uts8sx
More stories from Skeeterville are in the works. Join my newsletter so I can keep you posted!
Irene is at it Again! In this short story, Gretta learns that the two doxies she greeted daily on her walks are being abused by Joe Crawley. Seniors to the rescue! In the dark of night, they dognap the two dachshunds only to find that one can’t walk and the other is pregnant. Their apartments only allow one pet per apartment. Mean Eugene is on a mission to get rid of all of them. But why is Eugene so mean? And what about all those puppies?
There’s no murder in this short story, but if I expand it someday, old man Crawley will get his comeuppance. A Tail of Two Doxies is a sweet rescue story with a good ending. If you love dachshunds, or any dog, I think you’ll love Gretta. This is a special story. My doxie angels are on the cover. I wrote about them at the end of the story.
A Tail of Two Doxies, A Skeeterville Cozy Short Story is now available on Amazon http://tinyurl.com/qd4tq39


Official Scripps Spelling Bee (Homeschool)
Nebraska Homeschool is proud to sponsor an official Scripps Spelling Bee for homeschool students. This is a route to higher level competition in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
We invite you to join in the fun and showcase homeschool students.
2017 Homeschool Spelling Bee
Homeschool parents, as you are launching the 2016-17 school year, don’t forget to include spelling in your plans! Now is the time to mark your calendars for this year’s bee—Thursday, January 19, 2017—and gather your resources for studying spelling and vocabulary.
NH-HEN’s annual bee will be held at the A.V. Sorensen Library and Community Center on 48th and Cass Streets. Junior division check-in/registration begins at 9:30 a.m., with the bee to follow at 10. After a short break for lunch, senior division check-in/registration will start at 1 p.m. for the senior division bee at 1:30.
Resources for study: All Scripps resources are available to parents at their web site and we encourage parents to explore their site. One valuable resource is the Word Club. Go to www.spellingbee.com, select Parents & Students tab, then choose the Word Club from the top navigation bar and sign-up for a free Word Club account (not just a free preview, but the full account). The Scripps word list, rules and other resources are included in the free account. Use the ZIP code 68132 to find the Home Educators Network as your “school.” You must select a grade, and that is the word list that will open for your account. If you need more grades than the one selected, save or print that list and update your account to another grade; repeat until you have all the pages you need. The list does not include word definitions, so to prepare for vocabulary rounds, try the web site www.wordcentral.com or the dictionaries mentioned in the rules. If you prefer, you can also choose to upgrade your Word Club account to the paid version, but that is completely optional.
A thorough reading of the rules in Word Club will help both junior and senior division spellers and parents to know what to expect, and will give ideas on how to prepare for both spelling and vocabulary rounds. (Bee officials do modify the rules as needed.) Another great parent resource is the “Teacher’s BEEhive” e-newsletter. You can subscribe at www.spellingbee.com, click on the Teacher tab and scroll down until you find "Join the BeeHive" and where you can sign-up.
The NH-HEN back-up lists for junior division are also still physically available at the A.V. Sorensen branch of the Omaha Public Library.
About the competitions: Junior division is divided by grade level (grades 1 – 4) and is just for fun. Junior division spellers can use both the Scripps list (for both spelling and vocab rounds) and the back-up list (spelling rounds only) for the appropriate grade. The words used for the bee are chosen by the pronouncer and could come from either list or from any source of the pronouncer’s choosing.
Senior division is for any speller through 8th grade, with no division of grade levels. The top two spellers at this level advance to the Douglas County Spelling Bee. Senior division spellers should study the Scripps list for grades 1 – 8 as well as any other spelling resources they choose. While the words in the bee usually come from the Scripps list, ultimately, the words are chosen by the pronouncer and are not limited to any source. (Another good resource for senior division spellers is www.myspellit.com.)
Parents of senior division spellers, please take note:
The Douglas County Spelling Bee passes to the winner’s school each year. This means that if your child advances to and wins the Douglas County bee in 2017, not only does he/she advance to the Midwest Regional Spelling Bee, but your family also becomes the host of the 2018 Douglas County Spelling Bee.
This is a fairly small bee which has been hosted by homeschoolers several times. NH-HEN has provided some financial assistance for this, and NH-HEN volunteers have assisted at the bee, but the ultimate responsibility of organizing this event would be yours. It has been a great opportunity to showcase homeschooling in the community and to involve the winner’s family and other homeschool volunteers in serving to host the event. If your child wins at Douglas County, please contact the NH-HEN Board (email@example.com) for more information.
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Born and raised on an isolated ranch just north of the Mexican Border, Linnaeus Hart has mixed feelings about his pending sixteenth birthday. “Don’t put your hand where your eye can’t see!” has been his mother’s daily advice for as along as he can remember. She reminds him yet again as he and his classmate and neighbor, Anita Lopez, set out into the mountains above their ranch on what seems to be a routine errand. The two teenagers soon find that their rugged mountains conceal far more than rattlesnakes and scorpions. An unexpected discovery takes them back to the era of slavery in West Africa and the American South, war with Mexico and treaties made and broken with the Indians that once called the Sonoran Desert home. As sinister forces drive them even deeper into the wilderness, the two friends must rely on their skill with horses and their intimate knowledge of the high desert to survive as they learn hard lessons about love, loyalty, family and faith.
About the Author
Steve Brown was born and grew up on a cattle ranch in the Santa Rita Mountains northeast of Nogales, Sonora/Arizona. He has worked as a meat cutter, a high school teacher, a grant writer and a community organizer.
His childhood memories and camping trips to the Sonoran Desert, combined with the circumstances he encounters in his work, provide inspiration for the landscapes and characters that appear in his fiction. His first published book, Sol Y Sombra, introduced the two ranch families that Concealed follows.
As a Declared Elder in the “ManKind Project” (http://mankindproject.org/), his mission is “to create a safe world by practicing compassion in all his daily encounters.”
Steve’s passion for justice is rivaled only by his love for horses, the ever-changing landscape of the Sonoran Desert, and old Willys Jeeps.
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Post by Gerald Lenoir, BAJI Executive Director
Isabelle Wilkerson’s best-selling book, “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” is a remarkable chronicle of the historical and inspirational movement of millions of African Americans over many decades. Reading it reconnected me to my own family’s migration story and reminded me of the parallels between The Great African American Migration from the U.S. South and the current immigration of peoples from the Global South.
The migration story of my grandmother, Augustine (Tina) Green, began when she boarded a train in New Orleans in 1945. She got off the train in East L.A. and sent for here nine children, a few at a time as she could afford to. Six days a week, she took the long cross-town bus ride from East L.A. to West L.A. to work in a white family’s home to cook, clean and raise their children.
Mama Tina left the South for the same reasons that Ida Mae Gladney, George Starling and Robert Pershing, the migrants in Wilkerson’s saga, left—to escape the legal and extralegal oppression and terror and in search of a better economic future. While she and her children found a better life in L.A., there were still subjected to racism and de facto forms of racial segregation prevalent in their new home. My mother, the oldest of the nine kids, and her siblings grew up in South Central L.A. and faced white vigilante youth gangs and racist police officers as well as discrimination in housing, employment, education and in every sphere of their lives. Wilkerson describes how the individual decisions made by black families like mine created a mass human flow that produced a sea change in the culture, sociology and politics of the nation.
Throughout the book, Wilkerson consistently draws out the parallels between the migration experience of African Americans and the immigration of migrants from Mexico, Haiti, the Philippines, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and many other countries of the Global South with histories of European colonialism and neocolonialism. Many of them have left their home countries to escape grinding poverty and/or civil strife. And in many cases, the U.S. government and U.S. corporations are implicated in their forced migration.
In the case of Mexico, the U.S. Congress ratified the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994. U.S. agribusiness corporations then began to flood the Mexican market with cheap agricultural products, undercutting Mexican farmers and forcing over 6 million people to abandon the land and make the dangerous trek across the desert to the U.S.
In the case of Haiti, the U.S. government supported dictator after dictator who made it safe for U.S. corporate investments and twice collaborated to overthrow Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean Bertrand Aristide. Desperate Haitians have time and time again risked their lives in rickety, overcrowded boats on the high seas to get to the U.S. to escape political repression and economic deprivation.
So U.S. firms legally cross borders, exploit workers and markets, and bring profits and products back across the border to the U.S. But when people cross borders without papers because of economic hardships and for their own safety, they are labeled as “illegals” and “criminals.” In many ways, they are being treated the same way that African Americans who came from the South were treated when white workers complained that “they’re taking our jobs.”
Like The Great African American Migration, immigration is altering our nation—our culture, our neighborhoods, our political landscape. As a result, we are witnessing a resurgence in white supremacist ideology and organizing that threatens the lives and livelihood immigrants of color. What gets very little discussion is how the rise of racism against immigrants also threatens African Americans.
We need only to look at what is happening in Arizona. The infamous SB1070 law, ostensibly directed toward Latino immigrants, legitimizes and legalizes racial profiling, a practice that has historically been directed towards African Americans. In addition, anti-immigrant activists and lawmakers have been successful in enacting Arizona laws that make it illegal to teach ethnic studies in the public schools and ban affirmative action. Now anti-immigrant racial profiling laws have been passed in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina—deep in the heart of Dixie.
And states across the country are passing laws mandating that voters have government-issued identification in order to vote because of the unsubstantiated “threat” of non-citizens voting in U.S. elections. Researchers tell us that these laws can potentially disenfranchise over a million African Americans who do not have ID and cannot prove where they were born. All of these Jim Crow/Juan Crow laws impact all people of color, including African Americans, and threaten to severely erode the gains of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements.
“The Warmth of Other Suns” serves to enlighten and remind African Americans of our migration history and our escape from the maliciousness of Southern-style racial oppression and economic exploitation. It also makes it clear to both African Americans and immigrants that our migration stories are two sides of the same coin. And our struggles against racism and economic inequality are inextricably linked.


History 015A: Literary and Historical Study of the Old Testament
Profs. Buck and Luotto
Copyright © 1993, 2000 B. Collie Collier
This was written for an examination hacksheet, which accounts for its choppiness. However, since I got a pleased commendation on the examination as to the lucidity of my commentary, I decided to include this. I highly recommend reading all three of these books -- they're all lovely poetry, and the Book of Ecclesiastes in particular ismesmerising when read aloud. Enjoy! ;-)
Three examples of the wisdom literature of the Jews can be seen in the Books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes. These books range widely, both in literary skill, human insight, and theological sophistication. All three of these books develop very different themes, yet they are all concerned with one common, over-arching problem. This problem faces anyone who is trying to decide how to live their life: how does one live morally?
This common theme is why they are all classified as wisdom literature. In Job, the question of why bad things happen to good people is explored. In Proverbs, there is simply straightforward advice on how to live. And in Ecclesiastes, the question of why one should bother to strive is addressed. Yet in all three of these books, the overriding question remains: how does one keep faith with god amidst the trials of life? How does one live a good life?
Proverbs is the distillation of centuries of accumulated "wisdom", and includes non-Judaic traditions, such as Egyptian. It is believed most likely to be pre-exilic, and often is surprisingly secular. It simply ignores major religious themes, such as the covenant, or Exodus. In spite of that very secularity, however, there is a strong Deuteronomic theme: good will be rewarded (according to Proverbs) and evil will be punished. Proverbs represents the results of a search for a divinely sustained cosmic order in the lessons derived from human experience. It was included in the bible for one simple reason. Since insight is deemed a gift of god, Proverbs was thought of as revealed wisdom, and thus became Scriptures. Its writing style, while polished, is a simple collection of straightforward literary parallelism. There are examples of all three kinds, but the two most common are "synonymous" and "antithetical." The comparisons of "Wisdom" and "Folly", for example, are antithetical. However, when they are being individually described, the parallelism is synonymous.
Job, on the other hand, is no-where as optimistic as Proverbs. True, it does end with a very Deuteronomic, happy-ever-after feel, but there is strong evidence that the ending was tacked on later to make the Book more acceptable. It seems almost blasphemous in places: ascribing a sort of forgetfulness of consequence to god; having the speakers who put forth the Deuteronomic viewpoint (all three of whom are considered 'good' men) be both wrong and berated by god; and having Job wish that he could get god in court are some good examples. This questioning of god and his ineffable plans was very radical for the times. To believe that god just might not care if you were suffering, regardless of your virtue, leads one to the brink of theological confusion and secular misery. Why bother, if it all doesn't matter? True, there is lip service paid to the fact that none can understand god, but the fact remains that Job is not happy about the situation in which he finds himself -- and so he questions god. It is noteworthy that god never answers his questions, but rather cows him into silence. It is this very reaction which probably saves Job -- he decides god is greater than he can possibly understand. It is this conclusion which is the only answer he gets to all his (admittedly rather justifiable) questions. The book is, on the whole, a beautiful piece of poetry. The beginning and ending, ascribed to both a later date and a more religiously conservative person, are simple prose. However, the poetry of the inner story, at least to me, has a beauty of expression which transcends both the sadness and fruitlessness of questioning an apparently uninterested deity.
Ecclesiastes must be the most radical and unorthodox book of wisdom literature in the bible. No where else can one find such a philosophy of depression and despair. The author describes receiving all the rewards one should get for an upright life, and comes to the conclusion that it just doesn't matter -- like the evil and the foolish, he will still die, and all that he has accomplished will be forgotten. This is taking the Book of Job one step further. Job, at least, had a reason within his life to despair -- he was blameless and still being harmed. The author of Ecclesiastes has received all the Deuteronomically promised rewards of virtue. However, he has gone one theological step further. He knows he cannot take his rewards with him, that he will go into oblivion. He realizes that it will all come to nothing in the end, for him as for everyone. It is interesting to note that, while the author feels that it is ultimately all futile, he still feels the need to try to live an upright life. He may not believe wisdom is worth anything, but he still puts it forth as a goal. It is also worth noting that Ecclesiastes too has received editing to make it more palatable, religiously speaking. There is the odd touch of Deuteronomic attitude. These additions are referred to as the 'glosses'. The overall literary style of the book is prose. It is not as beautiful as the poetry of Job, but it certainly makes more awe-inspiring reading aloud. Since the Torah was supposed to be read aloud to the people, this is a factor which should be duly noted. Read aloud, Job questions; Ecclesiastes exhorts.
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I am aware of all the work I did to be here today, but I also know that if it wasn’t for the encouragement from Ms. Beth and Ms. Gail, I would not have seen this through. Support means everything to a person who is struggling! Thank you to the Boyle County Adult Education teachers and thank you...Read More
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“Considering that we ran Revved about Reading™ so late in the school year, I was very happy with the results. Students received over 500 books for their efforts and our library received over $1,400.00 worth of high quality, hardcover books for our library.”
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Saint Gabriel the Archangel School
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One of the best ways to get to know an area is to walk around it and our book, Blackwater Valley Circular Walks, containing 12 circular walks, is an excellent guide to the many natures reserves, country parks, woodlands and meadows found in and around the Blackwater Valley.
The walks vary in distance and accessibility and encompass all aspects of the Valley, from its built-up urban fringes to the open countryside in the north. A detailed description of each walk accompanied by a route map and heritage information will help guide you through the local history and wildlife along the way.
The full colour, 56-page guide offers:
- full details of 12 circular walks
- route guides and clear maps
- fascinating facts about the local wildlife and history
Part of each one of the walks is along the Blackwater Valley Path, details of which are contained in our booklet the Explore the Blackwater Valley.
Blackwater Valley Circular Walks costs Ł3.50 excluding posting and packing (UK only).
For a copy order it online or send a cheque for this amount, payable to “Blackwater Valley”, to the address below. Please include your full postal address.
Other current publications are:
Production of Blackwater Valley Circular Walks has been made possible by The Path Project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, which ran between March 2004-6.


Hacking Capitalism is an independently published book about modeling the tech industry as a system.
Particularly this book will model computers, humans, and money and their subsequent relationships in tech.
Understand the nature of the tech industry through the same Modeling that investors and entrepreneurs use to rationalize it.
The tech industry is ruthless. However, the tech industry is predictable. This book will teach you to predict the behavior of the industry, and predict its outcomes. Learn to use these tactics to support yourself.
Written For Marginalized Technologists
This book is designed so that anyone will find value, however it specifically designed to give marginalized technologists a set of tools in aiding their ability to exploit a fundamentally unbalanced system.
Think Like A Hacker
This book draws inspiration from my professional history in Linux and Kubernetes security, distributed threat modeling, kernel security, and cloud infrastructure for techniques on modeling and exploiting the system that is the Silicon Valley tech industry.
If you enjoy linear thinking, modeling complex relationships as systems, and learning about the strategy I developed to become a Senior Principal Engineer in Silicon Valley, this book is for you.
Working in tech involves more than just coding. This book is the manual that I wish I had in my career that will lay out the culture, economics, expectations, and business philosophies such that anyone can understand.
Learn to exploit the system, before the system exploits you.
Lurking at the top of the industry is a group of privileged elite. Learn how to outperform them, and communicate with them. Learn how to break into their inner circles of trust.
Kris Nóva is a computer scientist, alpinist, public speaker and transgender advocate best known for her work on Linux and Kubernetes.
She specializes in Linux kernel security, distributed systems, infrastructure management, and open source software engineering.


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Podcast. Listen to a podcast of me being interviewed about cognitive-behavioral therapy. This hour-long program originally aired on KOPN 89.5 fm in May 2009. Topics discussed include how CBT works, automatic thoughts, mindfulness, medication vs. talk therapy, and similarities and differences between various types of mental health professionals (licensed clinical social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists).
Education and Advocacy Organizations
Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think by Dennis Greenberger and Christine A. Padesky
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook by Edmund J. Bourne
Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic by David H. Barlow and Michelle G. Craske
Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior by Jeffrey M. Schwartz
The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression by William J. Knaus
The Anger Management Sourcebook by Glenn R. Schiraldi and Melissa Hallmark Kerr
The Feeling Good Handbook by David D. Burns
The Self-Esteem Workbook by Glenn R. Schiraldi.
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Hidden Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
The Anger Control Workbook by Matthew McKay and Peter Rogers
Free from OCD: A Workbook for Teens with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Timothy A. Sisemore
Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Powerful, Practical Program for Parents of Children and Adolescents by Tamar E. Chansky
Calming Your Anxious Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Anxiety, Fear and Panic by Jeffrey Brantley


Genealogy at the Library
Would you like to research your family history? We can help! Join us for this FREE class on Monday, May 12th at 6:00 pm at the Fillmore Library. Come armed with some names and dates for those illusive ancestors and we'll see what we can find. We'll have informative handouts, help with online resources, and a local volunteer happy to share their experiences and knowledge. Call the library at 567-8301, or stop in for more details.


Date: Thursday April 5th, 2018.
Venue: Wexford Town Library
Guest Speaker: Tom Mooney
The relationship between Irish writers, specifically poets, and the landscape, has been the source of a pervasive tradition, where mystery, belonging and alienation are omnipresent. As part of the ongoing Terra Nostra exhibition and series of lectures, writer and book reviewer for The Sunday Times, Tom Mooney, will examine the work of contemporary Irish poets to explore the layers of story and meaning, and show how the landscape is freshly minted by their verse.
Advance booking not necessary. All are welcome to attend.


July 29, 2011
The Call for Papers for the upcoming international MediaAcT conference at the University of Lugano has been published. The call, edited by the Swiss team members Colin Porlezza and Stephan Russ-Mohl, is entitled "Media Accountability - Possibilities and Pitfalls in the Era of Web 2.0". It encourages submissions, both theoretical and empirical, focusing on media accountability, in particular with regard to new online technologies such as social media and innovative web-based accountability processes.
July 11, 2011
Almost six months have passed since the former Tunisian president Ben Ali left his position and country after one month of street demonstrations with 300 dead and 700 injured people. Since then, much has been said and written about the role of the Internet, particularly the web 2.0, in initializing and supporting the uprising against one of the toughest dictatorships in the Arab World. But only little do we know about how the revolution has affected the media landscape in Tunisia.
June 14, 2011
The Internet offers new opportunities for the transparency of journalistic work and the responsiveness to audience criticism. A series of country reports, now available on the MediaAcT website, analyse how newsrooms and citizens use the Internet for media accountability in a dozen countries. The working papers are the product of over 80 interviews with experts, professionals and activists, and will be the empirical material for an international comparison of the role of digital technologies in media accountability.
June 09, 2011
The MediaAcT project's state-of-the-art reports on media accountability and transparency in Europe are now available in book form. The volume carries the title "Mapping Media Accountability - in Europe and Beyond". Edited by the consortium members Tobias Eberwein, Susanne Fengler, Epp Lauk and Tanja Leppik-Bork, it provides pioneer work in analyzing the development of established and emerging media accountability instruments in 14 countries in Eastern and Western Europe as well as the Arab world.


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Show and Tell
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WAYS TO SHARE BOOKS
1. Make a book jacket.
2. Prepare a one-page newspaper based on the book.
3. Make a diorama.
4. Do a pantomime or modern dance that tells part of the story.
5. Write a letter to the author, telling him how enjoyable his book was.
6. Dress up as a character from the book and dramatize a scene from it.
7. Create a “to tell the truth” panel.
8. Give an oral reading, with expression, of selections from the book.
9. Make a poster.
10. Pretend to b a salesman and “sell” the book.
11. Draw a picture illustrating part of the book.
12. Read a series of descriptive passages from the book.
13. Write a letter to a friend recommending the book.
14. Prepare a TV or radio broadcast of the story.
15. Write a business letter to a librarian stating why the book should be
16. Keep a diary for a character from the book.
17. Make a comic strip telling the story.
18. Write a ballad or folk song telling the story.
19. Make a puppet of the main character in the story.
20. Make a mobile showing scenes about the story.
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The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society was constituted for the purposes of procuring, collecting, and preserving books, pamphlets, letters, manuscripts, prints, photographs, paintings, and historical materials relating to the history of African Americans in Rhode Island. It also encourages and promotes the study of African-American history through lectures and making information available to the general public.
A Message From the President
Joyce Stevos, PhD, on behalf of The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society
In 1975, the founding members of The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society sought to preserve three centuries of African-American experience in our state by identifying local “"Keepers of the Story.” With their all-important support, the Society assembled a collection that documents local African Americans’ accomplishments in the fields of military service, business, politics, the arts and education.
The first public sharing of that collection took form in a Rhode Island Black Heritage Society exhibit entitled “A Heritage Discovered: Black in Rhode Island.” A decade later in 1985 came the award-winning exhibit and publication, “Creative Survival.”
Over the intervening years, your friends and neighbors, along with thousands of other Rhode Islanders, have earned “"Keeper of the Story” status by helping to preserve the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society and its collection, through support of the annual Black Heritage Ball.
Today, the need for a fresh infusion of support cannot be overstated. As you may know, The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society recently was forced to move out of the now-vacant Arcade in downtown Providence. Its collection of our stories has been sent into exile, locked away in a storage facility that affords neither access nor a sophisticated preservation environment.
Among the at-risk, irreplaceable treasures in The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society's collection are slave documents; a pew from the historic Pond Street Church; memorabilia from famed opera singer Sissieretta Jones; and original canvasses by Edward Bannister, co-founder and creative force behind the Providence Art Club.
The bottom line: three centuries of Black history in Rhode Island are in danger of becoming faded historical abstractions. No more exhibits. No more access. Gone... Unless we become 21st century “Keepers of the Story."
Today, founders and past chairs of The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society acknowledge their leadership and cultural responsibilities to the Society they once directed, by coming together to plan its rebirth.
At the heart of The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society's mission is the ancient tradition of preservation of family and faith. We are driven by the pride and confidence instilled by cultural memory and manifested in initiative, risk-taking, and civic leadership.
We are committing time, energy, and personal financial resources to the task at hand. But we cannot hope to succeed without you by our sides.
Your generous financial contribution will allow the rich and detailed history of African-American heritage in Rhode Island once again to see the light of day, and will ensure that the lessons we all stand to learn from these documents and cultural artifacts will not be forgotten.
Please donate today and support us in the fulfillment of our important duty. Please help us to preserve our history.
We look forward to thanking you for joining the ranks of “Keepers of the Story" - a Story which you will be remembered as a guardian.


corry, Pennsylvania 16407 - founded in 1861
Corry sits geographically centralized between three major local cities - Erie, Meadville, and warren,
And three major metropolises, cleveland, buffalo, and pittsburgh.
did you know: Corry is the birthplace of the climax locomotive
The invention of the Climax locomotive is attributed to Charles D. Scott, who ran a forest railway near Spartansburg, PA between 1875 and 1878. A lumberjack of considerable mechanical ingenuity, Scott sought to bring an improved logging locomotive of his own design to market and brought the drawings to the nearby Climax Manufacturing Company in Corry. The first Climax locomotives were built and delivered in 1888. The design patent was filed in February in the same year and granted in December. The invention was not patented in the name of Scott, as he had only a limited education, so he left the drawings to his brother-in-law, George D. Gilbert, who was a civil engineer by profession and worked for Climax. Gilbert had the invention patented in his name without mentioning Scott.
A huddle of shanties sprung up in 1861 near the crossing of the Pennsylvania and Erie (P&E) and the Atlantic & Great Western (A & GW) railroads. The settlement was first known as the “Atlantic & Erie Junction,” or simply as “Junction.”
Much of the land for the settlement was purchased from early settler Hiram Cory, resulting in the name change to a misspelled “Corry.” The land was swampy and densely covered with pine and hemlock trees, which were cut for housing, hotels, and other businesses as Corry became a boom-town with the discovery of oil near Titusville, PA.
Early Corry became known as the “City of Stumps” as a result of this rapid development. At left, a photo of a men and horses working with a stump puller, used to clear the land in the newly founded, Corry.
As the railroad and nearby oil industries grew, so did Corry.
Eventually this growth led Corry to become famous in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for being the manufacturer of Climax locomotives.
Did you know: Inez Mecusker (1855-1941) was a Corry native
One of the foremost singers and entertainers of her time, soprano Mecusker was known as the “American Cantatrice.” She was featured in roles in opera and musical theater, appeared in vaudeville and on Broadway, and was a soloist for the John Philip Sousa Band. She performed for more than 25 years in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was acclaimed nationally. The Corry resident is buried nearby in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Currently, Corry is the second largest city in Erie County. According to 2010 United States Census, there were 6,605 people within 2,522 households.
The racial makeup of the city was 97.50% White, 0.48% African American, 0.17% Native American, 0.29% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.09% from other races, and 1.42% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.85% of the population. In the city, the population has 26.3% under the age of 18, 57.2% from 18 to 64, and 16.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a household in the city was $41,744. The per capita income for the city was $19,751. About 22.2% of the population were below the poverty line.
Knowing who we are is the first step in being able to create necessary, practical change for our area. Impact Corry is here to serve the entire community by seeking out, facilitating and/or participating in the positive changes of our area brought forth by local community groups and involved individuals.
Did you Know: creation of the PA game commission started in corry
Concerned about the declining wildlife populations caused by logging, development, and excessive hunting and trapping, Corry businessman H.A. Penrose assembled several influential men in Corry on August 22, 1890, to form the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association (PSSA). This organization promoted wildlife conservation and enforcement of game laws. Efforts of the PSSA led to the creation of the Board of Game Commissioners by Act 1878 of 1895.
The heart of Impact Corry is rooted in the future of our community. Our kids. Our growing families and businesses. We all have the power to create change and help Corry thrive and hope in some way you are able to join us in revitalizing our town.
Our initiatives and goals are focused on creating a culture of community in Corry that will sustain us for many years to come. As we begin to band together with other local groups and tackle problems that face our community, we think of future generations and their likelihood to chose Corry as their home as they grow into adulthood.
Our purpose is to be a catalyst for change; creating and maintaining Corry as an attractive place to live, work, play, and grow.


The Lord of the Bands is an epic high-fantasy novel created by English writer and also scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a follow up to Tolkien’s 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, however ultimately developed into a much bigger work. Written in phases between 1937 and 1949, The Lord of the Rings is among the best-selling stories ever before created, with over 150 million duplicates offered.
The title of the novel refers to the story’s main antagonist, the Dark Lord Sauron, that had in an earlier age developed the One Ring to rule the various other Rings of Power as the supreme tool in his project to conquer and rule all of Middle-earth. From quiet beginnings in the Shire, a hobbit land like the English countryside, the story varies across Middle-earth, complying with the training course of the Battle of the Ring through the eyes of its characters, most especially the hobbits Frodo Baggins, Sam, Merry and also Pippin.
Although usually recognized to viewers as a trilogy, the work was originally planned by Tolkien to be one volume of a two-volume set, the other to be The Silmarillion, but this suggestion was disregarded by his author. For financial factors, The Lord of the Rings was published in 3 quantities throughout a year from 29 July 1954 to 20 October 1955. The three quantities were labelled The Fellowship of the Ring, Both Towers and also The Return of the King. Structurally, the story is divided internally into six books, 2 per quantity, with several appendices of background material included at the end. Some editions incorporate the entire infiltrate a single quantity. The Lord of the Rings has given that been reprinted countless times as well as translated right into 38 languages.
Tolkien’s job has been the subject of extensive analysis of its styles and beginnings. Although a major work in itself, the story was only the last motion of a bigger impressive Tolkien had serviced given that 1917, in a process he described as mythopoeia. Impacts on this earlier work, and also on the tale of The Lord of the Rings, include philology, mythology, religious beliefs and the author’s distaste for the impacts of automation, along with earlier dream works as well as Tolkien’s experiences in World war. The Lord of the Rings in its turn is taken into consideration to have had a great effect on modern-day fantasy; the impact of Tolkien’s jobs is such that using words “Tolkienian” and also “Tolkienesque” has actually been videotaped in the Oxford English Dictionary.
The long-lasting appeal of The Lord of the Rings has actually resulted in countless referrals in pop culture, the beginning of several societies by followers of Tolkien’s jobs, as well as the publication of several publications concerning Tolkien and also his works. The Lord of the Bands has motivated, as well as remains to influence, art work, songs, films as well as television, video games, parlor game, and succeeding literature. Prize-winning adjustments of The Lord of the Rings have actually been created radio, theatre, and also film. In 2003, it was called Britain’s best book of all time in the BBC’s The Large Read.


1. C.M. Liu, H.W. Hsu, Y.H. Kao, and W.C. Lee, "Spatial Parameter Decision by Dynamic Programming in Parametric Stereo Coding and MPEG Surround," Audio Engineering Society 126th Convention, May 7–10, Munich, Germany, 2009.
2. H.W. Hsu, D.P. Chen, H.F. Hsiao, and C.M. Liu, “Gram-Schmidt-based Downmixer and Decorrelator in the MPEG Surround Coding,” Audio Engineering Society 128th Convention, London, May 22- 25, 2010.
3. H.W. Hsu and C.M. Liu, "Autoregressive Modeling of Temporal/Spectral Envelopes with Finite-Length Discrete Trigonometric Transforms," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 7, July, 2010, pp. 3692-3705.
4. H.W. Hsu and C.M. Liu, "Decimation-Whitening Filter in Spectral Band Replication," IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 19 , Issue: 8, pp. 2304-2313, Nov., 2011.


When writing letters and other academic writings that need referencing, you can use citation formats such as American Psychological Association and the Modern Language Association. So, here is how you cite a letter using these formats.
Citing a Letter
Citation styles have a defined order that guides you on how to cite a letter. You should learn the right order in a reference such as author, author affiliation, connective phrase, recipient, recipient affiliation, date, pagination, language. If you choose MLA or APA as your citation style, you should memorize their requirements to avoid any confusion.
How to Cite a Letter in MLA
To reference your paper, use the MLA style template and follow the structure: author’s last name, then first name. The letter’s “title/subject” or a general description. You should mention the receiver’s name, usually their first name and followed by the last name. Include the letter’s date next.
Structure Author’s Last Name, First Name. Title or Subject, Name of Receiver. Date.
- Scott, Ashley. “Annual General Meeting.” Received by Bradley J. Bird, 5 June 2020.
Example #2 (no subject, using generic description)
- Scott, Ashley. Letter to Bradley J. Bird, 5 June 2020.
Example #3 (location information)
- Scott, Ashley. Letter to Bradley J. Bird, 5 June 2020. West Hollywood Library, West Hollywood, CA.
1. Write the Author’s Name
Always type the author’s last name, a comma and specify their first name and middle initial where necessary. You should end this section with a period.
2. Add the Letter’s Title or Subject
The title or subject appears after the author’s name. When it comes to how to cite a letter in MLA, you should include the subject in title-case. Remember to place a period within the quotation marks at the title section’s end.
3. If There Isn’t a Title or Topic, Use a Generic Description
Some letters, especially historical ones, will not have a title or subject. In this case, mention that the source is a letter, and the recipient in this situation. Put a period at the end of your description.
4. If There Isn’t a Title or Topic, Indicate the Recipient, and the Date Received
First, write their first name, middle name, an initial (if any), and finally their last name. Next, provide the date they received the letter, separate that with a comma. Use the date on the letter itself if you do not recall when you received the letter.
5. If Applicable, Include Location Information
When referencing a letter from a library, for example, it may be necessary to cite it in this manner. After the library’s name, add a comma. Then, put the name and location of the institution that houses the collection, and conclude your citation in the letter’s style.
How to Cite a Letter in APA
When writing your paper, this is how you cite a letter in APA. Begin the process with the last name of the author, a comma and the first initial. Next, include the date in a parenthesis. Proceed to put in the title. Finally, close with the URL if accessed online, or location if archived.
Author’s Last Name, (Date), Title or subject, URL/Location
Example #1 (letter is online)
- Kent, C. (2019, May 23). Clerk Kent top Louis Lane, May 23, 2019 [Letter]. Retrieved from http://www.rec.edu/portal/magpipe00420
Example #2 (location information)
- Kent, C. (2019, May 23). Clerk Kent top Louis Lane, May 23, 2019 [Letter]. Arcadia Public Library, Arcadia, CA.
Example #3 (author-year parenthetical citations)
- Was a successful endeavor, (Jones 2012).
1. Provide Author’s Name
First, type their last name, then a comma. After that, put their first name, and if their middle initial is available, use it too. From the information so far, the author’s name is arguably the most important aspect of how to cite a letter.
2. Include the Date
If the letter has a date, include it after the writer’s name in your citation. If the letter contains a month and a day, use a comma after the year, then type the date and the month. After the closing parenthesis, add a period.
3. Provide a Title
Always include the author and receiver of the letter, as well as the date in the letter’s title. If the letter is a stand-alone document, use italics for the title. Next, use the term “[Letter]” to identify the document’s format. You should place a period after closing the bracket in any citation.
4. Close With Location Information or URL
Provide the location in the citation if you studied the print letter rather than a copy online. If it’s an online copy, use the URL and precede the URL link with “Retrieved from.”
5. Add Citations in the Body
Always direct the reader to the complete citation in your reference list if you use parenthetical citations. The list also includes the last name of the author, followed by the letter’s publication year. To identify numerous letters written in the same year, use lowercase letters after the year.
Giving credit where credit is due is what citation is all about. The MLA citation method allows one to quote books, anthologies, and literary works, and it includes the author’s last name and the publication’s location. The APA style includes the author’s last name, and the resource’s publication year. You can use APA for scientific writing. Always consider the above to succeed on how to cite a letter.


Prior to getting to Phillip Pullman‘s wonderful book, allow me to lay some ground rules. As this is the first of many book reviews, I thought it would be a good idea to clarify what I want to do here.
First and foremost, I’d like to present the book in its purest form; story for the story’s sake. I will refrain from interjecting any interpretation.
Second, I plan to explore the author’s background and their motives for writing what they did. Of course, one can never know exactly what an author planned, because many times, they do not know. Unless, of course, they say or write something that says, “I wrote this with an aim to…”.
Writing is an art form. A form that requires participation from both the writer and reader. Therefore, any interpretation of mine on the author’s part is entirely my opinion and pure conjecture.
Third and lastly, I will explore my reaction, as an atheist, to the text.
Book Review: The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
Into this wilde Abyss,
The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,
Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,
But all these in their pregnant causes mixt
Confus’dly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless th’ Almighty Maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more Worlds,
Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend
Stood on the brink of Hell and look’d a while,
Pondering his Voyage; for no narrow frith
He had to cross.
— John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2, lines 910–92
The Golden Compass (or Northern Lights everywhere else in the world) is a story about a girl named Lyra Belacqua that earns the name Silvertongue.
Lyra’s story begins at Oxford’s Jordon College where she inadvertently witnesses what she thinks is a crime against her uncle, but turns out to be so much more. She is soon wading in the depths of a world-spanning mystery to help save kidnapped children, her estranged father, and ultimately the universe (in the next two books, I imagine).
Lyra’s world is familiar to ours, or rather, 19th century England, but fundamentally different. One of the most striking differences are dæmons. Dæmons are soul-like creatures. Every human has one, except those that have had their dæmons wretched from them. And that’s exactly why Lyra must save the kidnapped children. Because someone, someone unimaginably close to Lyra, is cutting children’s souls apart. On her journey to save those children, Lyra encounters natural wonders (the northern lights), witches, bears, and a betrayal so deep, it sends her to another world.
The story is told primarily from Lyra’s point of view. Through talks between herself and her dæmon, we learn to love and respect this spunky, intelligent girl as she discovers a world full of sin and politics. I recommend this book to every child who loves adventure, no matter their age. I wholeheartedly give this book five HUGE stars.
Phillip Pullman is a writer who happens to be a humanist. He has written over 20 books, primarily for children, though his works are enjoyed by all ages. His Dark Material trilogy, including The Golden Compass (or Northern Lights), The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass, were printed in 1995, 1997, and 2000 (respectively).
Born in Norwich, he grew up in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia. He earned his teaching credentials at Exeter College, Oxford. He is an outspoken atheist. One of his latest book, titled The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (Canongate U.S.; 1 edition, May 4, 2010), re-tells the life of Jesus Christ with an interesting twist – they’re twin brothers.
This book is spectacularly written and crafted. Mr. Pullman is a master of imagery, easily evoking life at university, river bogs, London, palaces, sea travel, and a snow bound realm filled with an amazing race of bears and other dark creatures. Through all this, he expertly weaves Lyra’s story as she travels with the gyptians, her friend Iorek Byrnison, and then ultimately with only her dæmon. Mr. Pullman also delves head-first into some major topics: religion influencing politics, religion influencing free thinking, free will, choice, destiny, intentions, original sin, and the existence of a god itself.
But…but it en’t true, is it? Not true like chemistry or engineering, not that kind of true? There wasn’t really an Adam and Eve?”
Though Mr. Pullman takes pains on his own website and in interviews to downplay the power of this words, ultimately his prose and the ideas he explores and the conclusions his characters make, and, most importantly, the way the author chooses good over evil, it’s hard not to conclude that his books have a decidedly anti-religious and even an anti-god sentiment.
How refreshing to find in a children’s book! I can’t tell you how wonderful it was to read young Lyra utter the words quoted above. My. Pullman focuses the story on the human relationships, and how they are wrong or right; whether they are built upon fear and greed, or love and respect, and how those relationships shape the lives of his characters and ultimately the fate of the world. He leaves nothing to an old and dusty god.
I plan to read the entire trilogy, and will post my review of the entire set sometime in the future. Up next: Ken Follet’s Pillars of the Earth.
- Philip Pullman awarded for services to Humanism (humanism.org.uk)


“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” Jacqueline Kennedy
We are so keen for our child to have the best in life – whether it be education, extra curricular activities, toys, clothes, food, etc. But one of the best gifts that we as parents can give our children is to make them readers. Books opens out a whole new world for children. It increases their creativity, stimulates their mind, makes them thinkers and sets them up for life! Bill Gates credits his success to the fact that he read as a child, “I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
Being convinced about the importance of reading is the easy part. But the question that most parents ask is, “How do we make our child a reader?”
I have three children, and over the lockdown, this is how I find my children, a lot of the day:
We bought them the entire 21 series of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five, and in a few weeks they finished all the books and are now on the second read of it! To be honest, my kids were never avid readers and since both my husband and I love reading, this used to make me quite sad. But one fine magical day, it happened! And here are some of the reasons why I think it did:
1. Read to them
Literally the day my children came back from the hospital, we started reading to them! Books have always been a part of their lives. But don’t worry if you haven’t been reading to your children. Its never to late to start. Emile Buchwald says, “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” Reading is a wonderful bonding experience for parent and child. Many times my husband would spend hours reading to our preschoolers before they went to bed. And not just picture story books, but adventure stories like Enid Blyton’s and Chronicles of Narnia. It transports children into a world of imagination and sets the stage for them wanting to read when they are developmentally ready to.
2. Buy books that they are interested in
If your child is not interested in reading, maybe you don’t have the right books in your house. In the words of Frank Serafini, “There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.” See what interests them and try and find books that they will enjoy reading. If you’re not sure where to start, here are some great books for preschoolers.
3. Allow them to be bored
In today’s fast paced age of easy entertainment. Children constantly want to be entertained and what they want most is the TV or a video game. But don’t give into that. Sometimes allowing them to be bored, will force them to try something new and maybe even pick up a book. There’s a famous line in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl) “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
4. Model Reading
Children pick up what they see. Many of us have lost our love for books or just don’t have the time. But as a conscious decision, pick up a book and allow your children to see you read. Maybe you can have a reading time in the day and encourage your children to read with you as well.
5. Set the Stage
Never force your child to read, otherwise they may develop a distaste for it. “Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.” -Kate DiCamillo. Although we mustn’t force them to read, we can’t just sit back and expect them to just start reading. We must set the stage. Create an environment in the house where your child desires to read by doing the above. And patiently wait for that one magical day when your child enters the world of books by themselves!


Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Had some fun success working on the cover yesterday for my upcoming children's chapter book, TWIN TAILS of Mason Beach. I can only share the back cover right now so not to give away too much before the children's PREDICT ME contest kicks in (hopefully within a month or so). So here is the back cover idea (Not final art! Still need to purchase the bubble background! Bar code and publisher is still lacking as well.)...can you let me know what you think about it? Stay tuned here for the start of the children's contest and, finally, for the publishing of TWIN TAILS of Mason Beach!
Monday, April 28, 2014
Welcome to a new week, everyone! Back to work on my book cover ideas this week! As our publishing target date draws nearer for TWIN TAILS of Mason Beach, we are working diligently to make it happen! Have a productive, successful week!
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Only an illustration and a half to go for this current children's book project! Then it is down to editing, book layout, final edit...and to enter into the hoped-for-publishing stage! YAY! Stay tuned! :o)
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Thursday, October 18, 2012
I just returned from Utah where I was able to give two author presentations on SOOTYcinders...A Cinderella Tale... while visiting and helping family members who are living there in Utah! The children and their teachers were amazingly attentive and we had fun together. I left them with a SOOTYcinders coloring page, a copy of SOOTYcinders...A Cinderella Tale... for their school libraries and had drawings for a free copy of the SOOTYcinders chapter book and coloring book. I hope this helped to encourage these young students to enjoy reading, creating and writing! :o)


Values, Experience, and Person
The book entitled The Central Themes of Material Ethics: Values, Experience, and Person is an attempt to analyze Max Scheler’s material (non-formal) ethics, which is an anti-thesis to Kant’s ethical formalism. While the author remains focused upon his insightful exposition of the three central themes of Scheler’s material ethics, namely, the status of values, the experience of values, and the moral person, he also perceptively examines the critical relationship of material ethics with that of the formal. This book will be helpful not only for those who are interested in understanding material ethics in relation to the ethical formalism but also for those readers who are eager to be acquainted with the ethical trend in phenomenological philosophy.
Benulal Dhar is a senior faculty and teaches philosophy at Sukanta Mahavidyalaya (University of North Bengal), West Bengal, India. He was a recipient of prestigious DAAD fellowship under Indo-German Cultural Exchange Programme and studied phenomenology sometime at Tuebingen University, Germany. His publications include Phenomenological Ethics: An Introduction (Jaipur, 2008) and a number of papers published in reputed academic journals.


Has Ayn Rand gone mainstream? The radical champion of individualism and capitalism, who died in 1982, is no longer an exotic taste. Her image has adorned a U.S. postage stamp. Her ideas have been detected in a new mass-market animated comedy film, “The Incredibles.”
And today on the 100th anniversary of her birth, there will be a Rand commemoration at the Library of Congress — an odd site for a ceremony honoring a fierce anti-statist.
In her day, Miss Rand was at odds with almost every prevailing American social attitude. She infuriated liberals by preaching economic laissez-faire and lionizing titans of business. She appalled conservatives by rejecting religion in any form while celebrating, she said, “sexual enjoyment as an end in itself.”
But her novels found countless readers. “The Fountainhead,” published in 1943, and “Atlas Shrugged,” which followed in 1957, are still in print. In 1991, when the Book of the Month Club polled Americans asking what book had most influenced their lives, “Atlas Shrugged” finished second only to the Bible. In all, Miss Rand’s books have sold some 22 million copies and continue selling more than half a million a year.
Miss Rand emerged in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the New Deal and World War II — which were taken as proving the obsolescence of the free market, that prosperity required an all-intrusive government, and that national success demanded subordination of the individual to collective purposes. After the traumas of the 1930s and ‘40s, America was intent on building a well-ordered welfare state by compromise and consensus.
In that setting, Ayn Rand resembled the female athlete in Apple Computer’s 1984 Super Bowl commercial, who sprinted into a mass assembly of oppressed drones to hurl a sledgehammer at the Big Brother orating from a giant TV screen — smashing it and bathing the audience in dazzling light.
Miss Rand, a Russian immigrant, saw herself harking back to the Enlightenment values of reason, limited government and personal liberty that fueled the American Revolution. “The United States,” she declared, “was the first moral society in history.”
Her novels were derided by critics, who saw them as interminable philosophical diatribes disguised as melodrama. What she regarded as thoroughgoing consistency struck many readers as overbearing dogmatism. Her political ideas attracted only a fringe following. Outside a tiny band of true believers, few people counted themselves as disciples of Ayn Rand.
But many people absorbed much of her thinking and incorporated it into their worldviews. Public figures as diverse as Hillary Clinton, Clarence Thomas and Cal Ripken have cited her influence, on top of millions of other unfamous people.
In time, her work bore fruit. By the mid-1970s, wage-and-price controls had wrecked the economy, in perfect accord with Miss Rand’s predictions. Her view of capitalism not as a necessary evil but a moral good helped turn public opinion toward free markets, opening the way for the Reagan Revolution.
Her celebration of individual joy also echoed in the leftist counterculture of the 1960s, which rebelled against the sterile conformity of the Eisenhower era. However, Ayn Rand had no use for the irresponsible hedonism that spawned the saying, “If it feels good, do it.” That was a perversion of her insight that pleasure is not cause for guilt. You can hear Miss Rand even in Bruce Springsteen: “It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.”
That’s just one illustration of how her influence went beyond economics and political theory. In her eyes, there was no greater good than each person’s integrity and self-fulfillment. One of her essay collections had the surprising title, “The Virtue of Selfishness.”
Looking back, it’s hard to recapture how jarring that phrase was a generation ago, when altruism and self-sacrifice were seen as the central elements of an exemplary life. Today, Americans take it for granted that they are entitled to live for their own happiness, without apology.
It may seem curious to honor a writer who merely defended free markets, preached the superiority of reason over blind faith and extolled the American ideal of the pursuit of happiness. David Kelley, head of the Rand-oriented Objectivist Center, jokes that he’s reminded of the theatergoer who complained that “Hamlet” was full of cliches. Miss Rand’s beliefs have been so widely disseminated and absorbed that we have forgotten where they originated.
The truth is that for all she did, they are no longer her ideas. To a large extent, they are ours.
Steve Chapman is a nationally syndicated columnist.