About the Book
More than the place, war devastates people and lives. War does not discriminate. It ravages all lives—military, civilian, the rich, the poor, the old, and the young.
Carl Busby Sr. experienced firsthand the suffering brought about by the war. He reflects upon his experiences during his service in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Poems from the Sand II captures through verses the anxiety, the fear, the sorrow, the relief, and the joy felt by the survivors of the Iraq War.
About the Author
Carl Busby Sr. earned his degree in mathematics at the Texas Southern University. For fifteen years, he worked in management for several companies. He started a new career in the government, and in 1995, he was recognized for being an outstanding achiever.
When opportunity came knocking, Carl took it and traveled to Kuwait. He stayed there with his group before moving to the holy city of Babylon. He and his group soon moved to Diwaniyah, south of Baghdad. There, Carl began writing poems about his experiences.
“Poems from the Sand is a wonderful combination poems written from one man’s journey as a civilian contractor in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The poems bring about various emotions . . . one page you may cry while another page will have you laughing out loud!”
—Barnes and Noble customer
“The book looks great. I would recommend the book to my friends.”
—Barnes and Noble customer
“Evocative and heart-rending. Poems from the Sand inspires a variety of emotions within the reader. The author’s experiences in the Iraq war gripped my heart. I felt a mix of fear, sorrow, compassion, and awe for all those who have suffered and continue to suffer the horrors of war.”
—Louise Currier West Palm Beach, Florida
“Poems from the Sand” poems are portraits of something that’s related to everyday lives. The book was compiled from 2004-2007 during the military days in Iraq, but reading this book narrated today’s issues of our lives. Like one of its pages, “I knew this day would come”,
Carl, you expressed the poems well from the bottom of your heart. It wasn’t just shown in your book but you proved and reflect your love to people.
I met Carl in Dhahran, in the summer of year 2015. Bowling was my past time during my day off. I met different people, children, youth and families. One day I just realized I was playing not only to the great players but I also played and being coached by Carl Busby Sr., the President of Dhahran Bowlers Association. So humble, I have known it lately. Library is the alternate of my bowling. He later on knew I love reading and he said “I love poems, too”. I met a lot of people and I thought he was then selling me a book. I got interested when he said a book of poems he would give to me for free. Maybe he gets used to reading the book, that’s why he’s giving it to me. I thank him in advance, being curious what’s inside this book. What the…, the author was him! We became friends for more than a year now. Humble, pure, amicable and respectful. Soon, more books to be published. I’m hoping that the latest poems you made these days are to be included.
—Daisielou Gabriel 17 September 2016
- I Am a Soldier
- I’ve lost a few friends in this treacherous fight,
- Unaware of the obstacles that they faced during the night.
- We share a common bond and back each other,
- Regardless of the creed or color, we are all blood brothers.
- Sometimes I wonder if what we are doing is right,
- Then I remember the bodies from the insurgent plight.
- They don’t want any peace in this land you see,
- They have no guilt about killing themselves or me.
- So we adorn the uniform, the helmet and vest,
- Then we proceed out the gate to our next great test.
- We go down on our knees with our heads bowed and say,
- Lord help us make it through just one more day.


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Fakir Mohan Senapati’s alternative discourse
IN a series of orders ranging from 26 December 2019 to as recently as 7 May 2021, the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of West Bengal directed the selective hiring of ‘Doms’ – an ‘untouchable’ caste – for disposing COVID-19 positive dead bodies from the mortuary of various hospitals as well as the construction of separate ‘Dom rooms’ adjoining the mortuary.1
If the ongoing pandemic has been used to justify the continuing violation of constitutional protection of ‘untouchable’ castes in ‘independent’ India, the order exposes and reinforces a long history of discriminatory caste practices in India’s social geography. One of the earliest representations of such practices can be found in the 19th century novel, Chha Maana Atha Guntha, or Six Acres and a Third (1896): Fakir Mohan Senapati describes the site of the novel, Gobindapuras ‘divided into three quarters: the Saanta or master’s quarter, the weavers’ quarter, and the Brahmin quarter.’2 Further, ‘the Dom quarter, some four or five hundred steps from where the weavers lived, was surrounded by rice fields. It was not a separate village; it formed part of Gobindapur. There lived ten Dom families and Gobara Jena, the village chowkidar. For his services, he received an acre and a half of land.’3
That it is possible to refer back to a 19th century novel to find historical continuities for contemporary practices of segregation is telling of the stubborn persistence of specific forms of oppression, despite political freedom. And yet, the very ability of the novel to withstand continual reevaluation of its relevance to address new problems in changing times makes the novel a classic.4 Often recognized as the ‘culmination of the tradition of realism’5 in modern Indian literature, Senapati’s novel provides an illuminating description about changing social relations and the law in colonial rural India through the story of an evil landlord and moneylender Ramachandra Mangaraj who exploits poor peasants and appropriates the property of others, including that of the weaver couple Bhagia and Saria.
And yet, the novel is not merely an instrument of representation. Its robustness as a classic lies more in his analysis of the ‘ideological underpinnings of the literary representation’6 of the object of representation, in this case, of colonial Indian village society. If colonial social relations persist today, it is because they produced and are reproduced by the very ideological frameworks that Senapati critiques. It is for this reason that I find Senapati’s novel written in Oriya – itself a site of resistance against Bengali cultural hegemony in the colonial context – instructive to understand our cont-emporary social world.
A response to Reverend Lal Behari Day’s Govind Samanta, or Bengal Peasant Life (1878), Senapati exposes Day’s Orientalist representation of Indian village life by mediating between the object of representation, i.e. Oriya villagers, and the colonialist assumptions of the novel’s English-speaking Oriya readers through the literary innovation of the sardonic touter-narrator who inhabits the lower rungs of society and alone can survive Mangaraj’s oppression.7
Thus, while rewriting Day’s representation of women bathing at the village pond, Senapati gives ‘a brief history of Asura Pond, as told to us by Ekadusia, the ninety-five-year-old weaver’8 and makes a direct address to ‘English-educated babus’9 to ‘not be too critical of our local historian, Ekadusia Chandra. If you are, half of what Marshman and Tod have written will not survive the light of scrutiny.’10 As Satya Mohanty notes, by rehabilitating the village historian and questioning the authority of English historians of Indian village life, Senapati makes as his primary object of satire, ‘the English-educated babu, who imitates colonial values mindlessly and accepts uncritically its condescending attitudes toward indigenous Indian culture.’11 Rather than in the 1960s then, as Syed Farid Alatas states in the introduction of this issue, the problem of intellectual imperialism and the resultant phenomenon of the captive mind was already recognized by colonial writers such as Senapati in the late 19th century.
In fact, the first few pages of the chapter Bhagia, the Weaver, and Saria, His Wife help demonstrate a few of the traits of the captive mind as elaborated by Syed Hussein Alatas12 almost a century later. First, the narrator appraises the domination of western thought13 by remarking that the English-educated babu can understand the role and function of the village temple only if ‘we use English instead of native terms: the temple in the village functioned as a church, a public library, a restaurant, and a town hall.’14
Second, the uncritical imitation of western thought15 is critiqued in the import of ‘ruchi’ – taste, without which, one is considered a fool, uncouth, uncivilized; it is thus that the literary reputation of the great 18th century Oriya poet Upendra Bhanja who wrote in the tradition of classical Sanskrit poetry had been attacked by contemporaries in the modernist literary journal Bijuli (literally lightning).16
Third, the narrator points to a separation from one’s own intellectual pursuit:17 ‘Ask a new babu his grandfather’s father’s name and he will hem and haw, but the names of the ancestors of England’s Charles the Third will readily roll off his tongue. To be considered a scholar, it is necessary to have read about the English or the French; there is no point in learning about oneself or one’s neighbour.’18
Senapati’s narrator uses irony to highlight the dependence of the method of
thinking on current stereotypes.19 Thus, ‘if you are a civilized babu, you
will surely believe that this saying (as stupid as a weaver) is absolutely true…But, “weaver intelligence” is a complicated expression… the word weaver denotes a stupid person, but not every stupid person is a weaver. Think of the Manchester weavers, who made the British Parliament tremble. It is thanks to them that you can present yourself as a babu.’20
Fifth, unlike Day’s novel, where the absence of colonial rule indicates a captive mind that is alienated from the major issues of one’s own society,21 Senapati never ceases to critique the changes wrought by colonial rule. For instance, under the new system of English law, ‘the clever and the rich get off, even though in truth, they are guilty of hundreds of crimes; while the simple and poor get into trouble and are harassed for their innocence in the law courts.’22
Six Acres is exceptional then because it is an ‘epistemic’23 intervention that critiques ‘ideology that inheres in our representational habits.’24 However, it is not only an early identifier of the problem of intellectual imperialism, but also a critique of the problems that inhere in Indian society itself, and a powerful early reminder that political freedom is meaningless without economic and social freedom.
Written from the ‘perspective of the horse, the ordinary villager, the foot soldier’,25 while Senapati draws attention to the exercise of power enabled by the dominant colonial legal system, he alludes to an even more revered authority, the classical Indian discourse of the Nyaya Shastra (The Treatise on Logic). Through the novel, he mimics its syllogistic reasoning to provide a critique of the prevailing caste-based hierarchy, thus trans-forming the Shastras into an instrument of subversion.
Thus, Senapati first establishes the manner in which knowledge of the Shastras is used to legitimate Brahmin dominance. Pandit Sibu was, like his grandfather, ‘a great scholar…could recite all five chapters of the Amarkosh dictionary, without even looking at the text…His ‘stepfather’s uncle’s son’s brother’s brother-in-law’s cousin had studied the Nyaya Shastra at Nabadwip’ and it was owing to Pandit Sibu’s family that ‘scholarship had not altogether disappeared from the Brahmin quarter.’26
Senapati then challenges Brahmins’ ethical claims of being natural superiors; if according to the Shastras, the hallmarks of Brahminhood are ‘self-control, meditation, performance of duties, purity, contentment, forgiveness, honesty, simplicity,’27 a description of the modern Brahmin reveals discrepancies:
‘Listen to me, O king Pariksha.
These are the qualities of Sundar Tripathy,
A Brahmin of our time:
He takes rice gruel with salted fish,
Of learning he knows nothing;
Adorned with the sacred thread and sandal paste,
He pulls weeds from the rice fields;
A meal of curd and rice flakes, he always craves,
Prayers and the gayatri Mantra, he never chants;
He catches small fish in the rice fields,
And never opens his sacred books;
He steals rice from clients who are his hosts,
At learned gatherings, he never says a word.’28
Tripathy had inherited the position of family priest because he was lawfully begotten a Brahmin; citing the Shastras that a guru applies the balm of knowledge and opens the eyes of his pupils blinded by the disease of ignorance, Senapati delegitimizes the hereditary privileges of Brahmins by asking defiantly, ‘Now tell us, is a person your guru because he is learned or because he is the son of a guru?’29
But the Shastras are also used to describe the everyday life of the labouring classes. Thus, the narrator uses the Shastra: ‘All rivers run to the sea, where they lose their sweetness and become salty’ to describe the exploitation of the twelve farmhands, all untouchables, and young daughters-in-law in the Mangaraj household who are ‘infused with a spirit of hard work and a sense of dedication’ and ‘lose themselves in their master.’30 A little later, the narrator once again uses the Shastras advice that ‘only the small-minded make a distinction between mine and thine,’31 to ironically justify Mangaraj’s capture of half the seedlings from the plot of land of Shyam Gochhaita, a Bauri, an untouchable, who was left to howl and grovel at Mangaraj’s feet for mercy, in vain.
And yet, this is not a dichotomous tale between Brahmin and dalit, for corruption and exploitation is so endemic that traditional kin relationships disappear even as changing social relations wrought by colonial rule enable new alliances for the exploitation of one’s own community. Thus, Jena, although himself a Pana – an untouchable caste – was a ‘bribe taker’32 and had become rich through scheming with Mangaraj in the exploitation of his kinsmen. Thus, ‘it was suspected that they (Panas) were involved in thefts, dacoities, and waylaying travellers. This suspicion was based on knowledge of the number of times the police visited the Panas, and the Panas visited the prison. Our Gobardhan had one great quality: if a Pana was jailed, he looked after his helpless family members. He arranged for them to have supplies of grain from Mangaraj’s store.’33
If on the one hand, the narrator directs us to the disruption of caste solidarity, it also exposes the social nexus between the moneylender – who emerges as the most important figure of colonial village life – and the law. And yet, in an anticipatory response to Subaltern Studies’ recognition of the challenges of writing a people’s history in the absence of written records, Senapati writes from the perspective of the labouring poor, providing us an insight into their social worlds and documenting resistance. It is thus that he says in his ironic manner of the oppressed Panas, ‘detractors, however, always remain detractors; these people never stopped bad-mouthing Jena. They attached a very different meaning to this good trait of Gobardhan’s and cast aspersions on Mangaraj’s charity toward the Panas’ families.’34
What is crucial here is Senapati’s deployment of speech as a method of resistance of the oppressed: if postcolonial studies have emphasized the reading of silence as a mode of resistance, especially for women, Senapati’s attribution of speech as a form of resistance to the Pana men poses a necessary question: what of the women in Senapati’s novel? Do they speak?
Such a question is important given that the three primary female characters in the novel: Saantani, Mangaraj’s wife; Champa, Mangaraj’s mistress; and Saria, Bhagia’s wife; all eventually succumb, through death, to the subjugating power of a patriarchal system. And yet, their death is not an absolute death, they haunt the present either as ghosts or as god, they live on in the novel as after-lives, not living, nor dead, but half-dead.
Even though Champa is ‘Harakala – the mistress of all wicked arts’35 – she is more intelligent than Mangaraj as he himself admits; she conspires with Mangaraj to capture Bhagia’s six acres and a third, and then steals Mangaraj’s wealth after he is imprisoned and runs off with the barber Gobinda, but is then killed by Gobinda in a competition of greed. However, she does not die; instead, she becomes a ‘huge ghost… sitting on the banyan tree and shaking its branches; sometimes the ghost would go to the riverbed at mid-day and scatter sand to the winds. The ghat was no longer called Gopalpur Ghat; it was known as the Abode of the Ghost.’36
Saria on the other hand, is an honest weaver, ‘a simple, innocent ewe’37 whose idyllic marital life with Bhagia was filled with ‘such heavenly qualities as devoted love between husband and wife, holiness of affection, absolute bliss, unfailing physical well -being, and simple piety.’38 However, she nurtures ‘a strange longing for children;’39 not only does this result in the fetish of her cow, Neta, but she is driven to mortgage the six acres and a third to Mangaraj to secure a loan to build a temple for Goddess Buddhi Mangala who will grant her a child. However, Bhagia and Saria are unable to repay the loan on time, and Mangaraj brings down their house and takes away Neta.
Saria sits on the same spot in the Mangaraj household for eight days, wailing ‘my six acres and a third, my six acres and a third, my Neta, my Neta’40 without eating anything. She would cling to Saantani’s feet and weep bitterly. A few days later, at midnight, Mangaraj gave her twenty blows on her back with a bamboo lathi. Saria died but in Mangaraj’s sleep while in prison, he would see ‘a terrifying figure in the sky with long hair hanging loose from its monstrous head.’ It seemed to be ‘the same woman working the spindles on the verandah of the weaver’s house… who had now assumed this monstrous form and looked so grotesque and fearsome. And this terrifying figure thundered at him, “Give me my six and a third acres”.’41
Saantani too had not eaten for seven days and would weep along with Saria. She flung herself at Mangaraj’s feet, entreating him to return Saria’s land, but he did not pay heed to her, and kept quiet when Champa abused her. She refused medicine and soon passed away. Perhaps the only unnamed female character in the novel, Saantani found great happiness in serving mankind, had no desire to dominate, treated everyone equally, and always took the side of the weak. She was the ‘living embodiment of such heavenly qualities such as kindness, love, and devotion.’42 She believed her sacred duty was to serve her husband, and although fate denied her a husband’s affection, she suffered this neglect without complaint. And in fact, when Mangaraj was being haunted by Saria, Saantani, full of light, seated on a jeweled throne far above the circle of the sun in the endless sky was beckoning him, still forgiving. It is in the godly vision of this protector of the unprotected and redeemer of the fallen that he found refuge and toward whom his soul fled.
Ulka Anjaria reads the narrative silence around Saria and Saantani as more than a mere reflection of the morally compromised social worlds of late nineteenth century feudal Orissa and colonial India; rather, it is also a device to generate an ‘ethics of description’43 of such marginalization. Moreover, if the idealized figures are a response to the silencing of women, silence is also used by women as a weapon of empowerment. Thus, Saantani’s silence is resistance to the injustice of her husband keeping a mistress, an active rejection of the frantic and self-serving garrulity of the world of Mangaraj and the lawyers,44 and as Rabi Shankar Mishra suggests, by not speaking back to her husband but conducting herself as per her own values rather than his, she maintains her dignity and power.45
Claire Horan disagrees that Saantani is a mode of empowerment because she represents an oppressive Indian ideal that casts women solely as wives and mothers who should emulate the honour and purity of goddesses. Women, she argues, should not have to lead lives of suffering and self-denial in order to be mourned at their death. Moreover, by turning Saantani into a god, perhaps Senapati was already questioning the ideal of a perfect woman:46
‘A man is fully a man only when all these elements (such as kindness, attachment, love, affection, jealousy, hostility, and cruelty) are in proper harmony, but he loses his humanity when one element comes to dominate. When that happens, man turns into either a god or a demon.’47
On the other side of the spectrum is Champa, to whom he is unsympathetic, and yet, describes as powerful, intelligent, and strong, possessing strength equal to Gobind. As Horan notes, ‘for a male author in the late 19th century to suggest that men and women have equal strength and force of character was unusual in any culture.’48 And in fact, Senapati’s ideal relationship is based on equality. Thus, not only do Saria and Bhagia suffer equally, but they have an egalitarian relationship with Bhagia being a vessel, and Saria its well-fitting lid. They form a whole, neither functioning without the other. It is thus, Horan suggests, that Senapati saw the human soul – human nature – as ungendered.
I want to take seriously Horan’s claim of an ungendered human soul: Senapati’s intervention is not limited to arguing for an equality between male and female bodies or noting the possibility of masculinity in female characters; rather, he articulates an emphatically feminist position that is not tied to a gendered body but to a mode of being. Thus, even though Champa, Saria and Saantani demonstrate agency, none represents the vision of an alternative world; if Champa and Saria are caught in the fangle of fetish, one of wealth, the other of child, Saantani is rendered not human but god. It is in fact Bhagia who, in his madness, provides a critique of the capitalist-patriarchal society and thus occupies the feminist position of an ethical universe.
And yet, this does not mean that for Senapati, only a male character could embody his ethical vision; rather, not only do the characteristics of greed for wealth, unbridled desire for a child, and unconditional kindness in Champa, Saria and Saantani respectively serve as critical comments on the normative values of patriarchal discourse, but also depict the challenges faced by those born female in a patriarchal society. Thus, for instance, Saria, perhaps closest to Bhagia in Senapati’s ethical vision, is accused of bringing disgrace to the village by being barren, driving her to take the mortgage to please the Goddess.
Bhagia was simple-minded, hardworking, generous, and had no enemies. When Saria was troubled about the lack of a child, he consoled her, ‘God has not given us what we want. Why pine for it?’49 After Saria dies, he becomes the figure of madness and hysteria; at the Cuttack Sessions Court where Mangaraj is being tried for Saria’s death, ‘a madman appeared, a rag tied around his waist, his hair disheveled, and dust covering his body… He broke into a wild sort of dance, shouting, “Saria, Saria!”…When he caught sight of Mangaraj, he lunged at him to bite him.’50 Arrested, in prison too, he danced wildly and shouted, ‘Oh my Saria, oh my six and a third acres,’51 trying to bite Mangaraj whenever he saw him.
Saria’s desire for a child is framed by a capitalist patriarchal discourse that convert desire into meaningless drive, feeding on individual creations of fetish to replace the alienation wrought by capitalism. It is thus that Saria’s last words remained Neta – her fetish to replace the incomplete desire for a child – and six acres and a third. Bhagia on the other hand, in his madness, exposes the madness of the prevailing system; his madness, like hysteria, serves the function of a symptom that exposes the garb behind a seemingly well-functioning system. It points to the fact that something is wrong, despite claims to the contrary.
And yet, this does not mean that Bhagia had a natural right to the property: rather, by suggesting that Bhagia’s father acquired the contentious six acres and third of land because of his power, Senapati questions the moral justification of land ownership, suggesting that all property is theft and the real owners are only those who create social value, the labouring masses. It is precisely this suggestion that Bhagia embodies in his madness, rendering unstable and tenuous easy binaries between colonizer-colonized, male-female, landlord-peasant.
While concerned with the identification and disruption of power then, the novel acts not merely as an ‘unrelenting critique, satire, and skeptical analysis’52 and neither does it limit itself to documenting resistance; rather, it embodies the madness of capital’s encounter with ‘culture’ and locates in precisely the figure gone mad by this encounter, the potentiality for an alternative ethical vision. For the figure gone mad poses an irruption, forcing an interregnum, compelling a questioning of what is otherwise taken for granted, in an attempt to make moral meaning in both discourse and action. As such, it anticipatorily answers S.F. Alatas’ call ‘to go beyond merely talking about the problem to actually practice alternative discourse.’
1. Anurag Bhaskar, Subhajit Naskar, Priyanka Preet, Ramachandran, ‘Selective Hiring of “Dom” Caste Amid Pandemic in West Bengal: The Casteist Attack on The Constitution’, livelaw.in, 05 June 2021.
2. Fakir Mohan Senapati, translated from Oriya by Rabi Shankar Mishra, Satya P. Mohanty, Jatindra K. Nayak, Paul St-Pierre, Six Acres and a Third: The Classic Nineteenth Century Novel about Colonial India. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2005, p. 78.
3. Ibid., p. 97.
4. Melvin Richter,‘Introduction’, in Martine J. Burke and Melvin Richter (eds.), Why Concepts Matter: Translating Social and Political Thought. Brill, Leiden & Boston, pp. 1-40, p. 9.
5. Sisir Kumar Das, A History of Indian Literature, 1800-1910. Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 1991, p. 296.
6. Satya P. Mohanty, ‘The Epistemic Work of Literary Realism: Two Novels from Colonial India’, in Ulka Anjaria (ed.), History of the Indian Novel in English. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015, p. 49.
7. Satya P. Mohanty, ‘Introduction’, in Six Acres, p. 6.
8. Fakir Mohan Senapati, transl. by Rabi Shankar Mishra et al., Six Acres, p. 19.
9. Ibid., p. 20.
12. Syed Hussein Alatas, ‘Intellectual Imperialism: Definition, Traits, and Problems’, Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science 28(1), 2000, pp. 23-45.
14. Fakir Mohan Senapati, transl. by Rabi Shankar Mishra et al., Six Acres, p. 87.
15. Syed Hussein Alatas, ‘Intellectual Imperialism’.
16. Fakir Mohan Senapati, transl. by Rabi Shankar Mishra et al., Six Acres, p. 58.
17. Syed Hussein Alatas, ‘Intellectual Imperialism’.
18. Fakir Mohan Senapati, transl. by Rabi Shankar Mishra et al., Six Acres, p. 84.
19. Syed Hussein Alatas, ‘Intellectual Imperialism’.
20. Fakir Mohan Senapati, transl. by Rabi Shankar Mishra et al., Six Acres, p. 85.
21. Syed Hussein Alatas, ‘Intellectual Imperialism’.
22. Fakir Mohan Senapati, transl. by Rabi Shankar Mishra et al., Six Acres, p. 85.
23. Satya P. Mohanty, ‘The Epistemic Work of Literary Realism’.
24. Satya P. Mohanty, ‘Introduction’, in Six Acres, p. 23.
25. Ibid., p. 2.
26. Fakir Mohan Senapati, transl. by Rabi Shankar Mishra et al., Six Acres, p. 80.
27. Ibid., p. 88.
28. Ibid., p. 89.
29. Ibid., p. 90.
30. Ibid., p. 46.
31. Ibid., p. 48.
32. Ibid., p. 97.
33. Ibid., p. 99.
35. Ibid., p. 55.
36. Ibid., p. 202.
37. Ibid., p. 111.
38. Ibid., p. 95.
39. Ibid., p. 92.
40. Ibid., p. 160.
41. Ibid., p. 216.
42. Ibid., p. 145.
43. Ulka Anjaria,‘“Why Don’t You Speak?”: The Narrative Politics of Silence in Senapati, Premchand and Monica Ali’, in Satya P. Mohanty (ed.), Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature: A View from India. Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2011, pp. 153-172, p. 158.
45. Rabi Shankar Mishra, ‘Chha Mana Atha Guntha: The Language of Power and the Silences of a Woman’, in Meenakshi Mukherjee (ed.), Early Novels in India. Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2002, pp. 240-60.
46. Claire Horan, ‘The Representation of Women and Gender Relations in Six Acres and a Third, in Satya P. Mohanty (ed.), Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature: A View from India. Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2011, pp. 173-186.
47. Fakir Mohan Senapati, transl. by Rabi Shankar Mishra et al., Six Acres, p. 149.
48. Claire Horan,‘The Representation of Women’, p. 178.
49. Fakir Mohan Senapati, transl. by Rabi Shankar Mishra et al., Six Acres, p. 96.
50. Ibid., p. 167.
51. Ibid., p. 211.
52. Satya P. Mohanty, ‘Introduction, in Six Acres, p. 14.


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Covers 1957-63 chassis and body parts.
These are reprints of the original parts books that every Ford truck dealer had in its parts department. If a parts man didn't know what a particular part was, he looked it up in the illustrations book. This book has exploded views of virtually all the parts on the truck. These are broken down into sections covering different areas like steering, brakes, rear axle, transmission, etc. The text lists which part numbers belong on which truck. Both the 1948-56 and the 1957-63 text and illustrations are bound catalogs.
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The Liturgical Year
The Liturgical Year by Joan Chittister
The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life
Another book from the Ancient Practices Series; this was a little more difficult to read for me but probably provided the best template for sustained spiritual growth. Perhaps because I've been reading the Mosaic Liturgy Bible for my devotionals. I wish, as protestants, we would use these resources from the Roman and Orthodox churches more...if so, maybe we could attain more unity and continuity of our traditions; just a thought...
Here are some dog-ears and quotes from the book:
- pg. 4 - life to fullness, heart to alert, soul to focus
- pg. 6 - tuning the Christian life to the life of Jesus
- pg. 21 - spiritual program that anesthetizes the soul to everything but the self
- pg. 23 - a beacon to others of the presence of God
- pg. 41 - "over the years we melt into what we seek"
- pg. 71 - about joy
- pg. 76 - a brief history of the Christmas holiday
- pg. 100 - God not a magic act or vending machine
- pg. 133 - about change
- pg. 165 - religion celebrates what the rest of the world forgets
- pg. 179 - why engage in the rhythm of the liturgy?
- pg. 194 - what kind of model or hero are you?


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Put your hand on your heart and answer honestly, how many classic stories have you ever read just because you wanted to? … If you’re anything like me the answer will be under five.
Almost every classic novel or story I’ve read has been at the hand of a reading list, I’ve rarely ever picked one up to read for the sake of reading. Now don’t get me wrong, there are some excellent classics out there and some that are even easy to read (‘Sherlock Holmes’, ‘Persuasion’, ‘Jane Eyre’, ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ …) but in my experience, whether I’ve found them worthwhile or not, reading classic novels can be a slog.
Let’s look at the facts:
– Generally they are very long
– Generally they are very wordy using archaic language of their time
– Generally the plot moves very slowly (have you ever tried to read ‘Robinson Crusoe’?)
And by the time you come to modernism in the early 20th Century, the plots are so damn incomprehensible that you’re no closer to understanding them at the end than you were at the beginning- (I mean ‘Ulysses’ was written to be difficult to read).
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m a big bibliophile and I think teaching literature to the next generation (and a lot of the current one) is vital. But more than that, I enjoy reading and therefore I want to read books I enjoy and that can exclude a lot of classics. So what qualifies as a classic? Why do we read them if they’re difficult?
According to Wikipedia, a classic book is “a book accepted as being exemplary or noteworthy, either through an imprimatur such as being listed in any of the Western canons or through a reader’s own personal opinion.” Pretty vague, right? By definition, the very basis of a classic novel is completely subjective. (And any lit student knows what a pain in the bum subjectivity is).
For me classic literature falls into three columns: easy books I enjoyed, difficult books I could appreciate and difficult books that I didn’t appreciate. In column one, let’s take Austen, I enjoyed ‘Persuasion’ because it was easy and I can appreciate it’s importance lies in the way it documents social norms of Austen’s time… but let’s call a spade a spade, if Austen were writing now she’d be a successful chick lit author. Then in column two there’s Dickens, I can appreciate ‘Great Expectations’ and I’m glad I read it, but I enjoyed it more after I’d read the final page. Finally in column three, there’s ‘Caleb Williams’ by Godwin, the most boring book I’ve ever read and even after a lecture I fail to see why it’s important.
So here’s my question, do you enjoy classics or do you read them because they’re worthwhile? Which ones did you enjoy? Which did you think were worthwhile? And which would you banish to room 101 for being schoolroom torture?


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Why I'm grateful for the books in my life
They're my teachers, they're my friends. They transport me back in time. And they make great gifts.
Many people and things come to mind when I reflect on what I’m thankful for. Thankful for my family, who make me feel whole and give me a reason to look forward to tomorrow. Thankful for a job that lets me put my skills as a writer and content creator to good use. Thankful that Taiwan finally dropped its inbound quarantine from 14 days to zero, enabling us to travel abroad again after nearly three years on the ground.
I’m also thankful for something that has been utterly central to my life and career. I’m thankful for a silent, solitary, inanimate object that, ironically, has the power to communicate directly and telepathically with my mind, sway my emotions, and inspire my soul. I’m thankful for books.
Here are a few reasons why:
They let me travel through time.
I’ve always wanted to travel back in time to see and maybe even meet the thinkers who changed the world through their ideas. Physically impossible, yes, but possible in another way.
The astronomer and author Carl Sagan perfectly summed up the power of books to transport us across time and communicate with the great thinkers of the millennia in Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, the legendary television series he co-wrote with his wife Ann Druyan, and presented more than 40 years ago:
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person — perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
Books work their magic on me in a number of other ways:
They’re my best teachers.
I had many teachers during my days in school, a handful of whom I recall were especially good at their craft, and an even smaller number of whom were inspiring.
But it was the books I bought or borrowed which taught me what I needed to learn. For nearly my entire academic career I had only hard and softcover books to turn to, as the Internet and the first browser had not been developed yet.
And even after I had graduated and entered the working world, I continued to rely on books to educate myself. During the dotcom boom-bust of the late 90s and early 2000s that saw the first wave of internet-powered startups rise and fall, I taught myself web design and coding.
In the first decade of the 2000s, I devoured books on the craft of writing, and in the process, honed my writing and editing skills, skills that I applied directly to my day job, and which to this day help me earn a living. These same skills enabled me to write articles on LinkedIn, starting back in early 2014, about topics I was passionate about, building a substantial following and a few friendships along the way.
And while most of the books I’ve read over the past several years have been non-fiction, I have enjoyed my share of novels which spoke intimately to me, which made me see and understand things about the world and myself I had never been conscious of before. Novels which inspired me to change. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantkakis, The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse, and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, are just a handful of titles that come to mind.
They make meaningful gifts.
I missed watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos when it first aired on public TV in 1980, but my mother bought me the book, which was based on the series, as a holiday gift. I remember poring over it on the school bus, and cracking it open while sitting on the bleachers of our basketball court at school during PE class. It was a large and weighty hardback tome packed with beautiful color photos and illustrations which I somehow managed to lug around until I finished it.
Iceland is well ahead of other civilizations in the way it has elevated the gifting of books into a Christmas tradition. Between September and November, publishers launch a book publishing tsunami known as the Jolabokaflod, which in English translates roughly into the “Christmas Book Flood.” On Christmas eve, Icelanders exchange books as gifts and then spend the night reading them, often while drinking hot chocolate or alcohol-free Christmas ale called jólabland.
It’s a beautiful custom that also sends a clear anti-consumerist message to the rest of the world (if anyone cares to listen).
Gifting books at work, whether for colleagues or clients, is a powerful way to share ideas and cement relationships. A dozen years ago, at a farewell dinner hosted by our former regional head before he moved from Shanghai back to his home country, he gave everyone a unique gift that reflected something about their interests, background, or personality. For me, he gifted a biography of Shakespeare, in recognition of my passion for writing and editing, and my contributions to our firm through that skill. It was by far one of the most thoughtful and meaningful gifts I’ve ever received (and it was a very good read as well).
They’re my friends.
Books speak the truth to me like no person can. Books read my mind and reflect my thoughts back to me in an ordered and articulate way. Books listen quietly to me, like my therapist who patiently hears me spill my guts for an hour and is sworn to protecting my privacy.
Books are there for me, and have always been there for me, through the years. Books silently and non-judgmentally bear witness to my joys and my tribulations.
I’m loathe to throw away books. Even if I’ve never read it, and don’t even plan to read it, I feel like I would be destroying a living creature if I were to get rid of one. There are voices inside the cover — I’m pretty sure I can hear them — voices that represent what was once a living human being.
Contrary to that popular admonition, I like to judge books by their covers. I just enjoy looking at the artfully designed covers as they rest on one of my bookshelves or sit stacked (or strewn) on the floor of my room. While it may be the only illustration in the entire book, the cover art encapsulates the contents inside. For someone like myself who doesn’t collect art, book covers are my art collection.
Those are some of the reasons I love books, both the print and digital kind, and why I’m thankful for them.
How do you feel about books? And what are you grateful for? Please share your thoughts in the comments.
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Source 2: A Suffragette on the
The argument of
the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, speaking on 16 February 1911.
Emmeline Pankhurst was the leader of the WSPU.
Source 3: A Government Minister
on the Suffragettes
Suffragettes the sense to see that the very worst way of campaigning for
the vote is to try and intimidate a man into giving them what he would
gladly give otherwise?
Lloyd George, speaking in 1913.
George was the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Although he was not opposed
to votes for women, he believed that the government could not be seen to
give way to force.
Source 4: The Effects of the
War according to Constance Rover
It is frequently said that women were given
the vote ‘because of the war’… The war changed the situation in more
ways than are obvious at first sight. The obvious effect was that
women’s contribution to the war effort was seen and appreciated and that
women, instead of being subjected to frequent criticism in the press and
by public figures, were very generally praised. Public opinion became
overwhelmingly favourable towards women.
Women’s Suffrage and Party Politics in
Constance Rover was one of the first feminist historians, and is very
highly regarded historian.
Source 5: The Effects of the
War according to Paula Bartley
It would be naïve to believe that women
received the vote solely for services rendered in the First World War.
It must be remembered that only women over 30 were given the vote and the
very women who had helped in the war effort – the young women of the
munitions factories – were actually denied the vote. The significance of
women’s war work in the achievement of the vote is therefore perhaps not
as great as first assumed. In reality, women were greatly resented in
both agriculture and industry… Men ‘froze out’ women workers, gave them
no help and even sabotaged their work… The reasons for the shift which
took place in Government thinking therefore need consideration.
Paula Bartley, Votes for Women 1860–1928 (1998)
Paul Bartley is
Lecturer in History at the University of Wolverhampton and an acknowledged
expert on women’s history.
Source 6: Different Claims
To this day, many
people equate the British women’s suffrage struggle and the final victory
with the famous Pankhurst family and their militant supporters in the WSPU.
In its early years the WSPU was a bold, innovative, imaginative
organisation, among the first to appreciate the value of publicity. Not
without justification, its members regarded themselves as the elite
soldiers of the ‘Votes for Women’ campaign. But for every suffragette
there were always dozens of non-militant suffragists. Some would argue –
including me – that it was the moderates of the NUWSS, led by Millicent
Fawcett, who actually won the vote. In 1912, while the militants
embarked on arson and bombing, the NUWSS made a successful working
alliance with the growing Labour Party. It was this group which
successfully lobbied for the 1918 Franchise Act.
Joyce Marlow, Votes for Women (2000)
Marlow was an actress before she became a full-time writer. She writes
novels and books about women’s history


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LIFE IS LIKE A GLASS OF TEA
Studies of Classic Jewish Jokes
This is the first book on Jewish humor in which individual jokes are singled out for comprehensive study.
An entire chapter is devoted to each of six major jokes, tracing its history and variants, and looking closely at the ways in which the comic behavior enacted in the punch-line can be interpreted.
Throughout the book, an attempt is made to demonstrate that one of the unique properties of classic Jewish jokes is their openness to radically different interpretive options (having nothing to do with wordplay or double entendre). This openness to alternate interpretations, which has never before been discussed in the literature on Jewish humor, is a property which gives classic Jewish jokes their special flavor, as they leave us wondering which of several possible attitudes we are expected to hold toward the comic figure.
An additional chapter is devoted to the ways in which Jewish jokes tend to evolve. No earlier study has dealt with these jokes in a developmental perspective, showing the pathways through which anti-Semitic anecdotes are sometimes transformed into authentic Jewish jokes, as well as the processes Jewish jokes undergo over the decades as their comic potential is unfolded in successive stages, and when they are transplanted from European to American soil.
The research for this book was carried out over a seven-year period at specialized libraries in New York, San Francisco, Paris, London, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Copenhagen, as well as at the Danish State and University Library in Aarhus, where hundreds of collections of Jewish jokes - published from about 1820 to the present, in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Danish and transliterated Yiddish - were systematically combed for variants of the jokes singled out for study.
This a book that will appeal to the general reader, as well as to readers especially interested in Jewish culture, the psychology of humor, religion, ethnography and folklore.
The History and Variants of the Joke 14
Three Interpretations of the Joke 17
Interpretive Properties of the Classic Jewish Joke 23
Publication History 33
The History and Variants of the Joke 46
Competing Jewish Conceptions of Man's Relationship to God 50
Two Interpretations of the Joke 56
Publication History 61
The History and Variants of the Joke 72
The Issue of Ethnic Self-Disparagement 77
The Parodistic Triad 88
Publication History 95
The History and Variants of the Joke 102
Interpretive Options 108
A Final Note 112
Publication History 114
Annie Hall 123
The Friar's Club Incident 125
Quotation Record 130
The History and Variants of the Joke 132
Interpreting the Dying Rabbi Variant 150
Publication History 155
From Non-Jewish to Jewish Joke 167
Improving the Joke 173
The Development of Parallel Variants 177
1. Another Doctor 186
2. Cardplayer 189
3. Dachshund 190
4. Dead Shames 201
5. Dying Merchant 203
6. Funny, You Don't Look Jewish 213
7. Job Announcement 217
8. Left-Handed Teacup 222
9. Live Under Water 230
10. Mother's Manoeuvre 233
11. Who's Counting? 235
12. Umbrella 238
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The Hall is a registered charity and was built to commemorate the part played in the Great War by the men and women from Great Alne and Kinwarton. It was originally known as the Great Alne and Kinwarton War Memorial Village Club but its name was shortened to Great Alne and Kinwarton Memorial Hall in 2008.
The cost of the Hall was funded from donations made by residents and it was opened on 15th October 1921 by Sir Ernest Pollock, the 1st Viscount Hanworth KBE PC KC, MP for Warwick and Leamington, and Solicitor General in David Lloyd George's Conservative government.
An oak plaque listing the fallen and those who had served was unveiled by Mr A L Chance, the Parish Council Chairman, at 7.30pm on Sunday 3rd August 1924. A second plaque was added after World War II. Photographs of the two plaques are shown below, together with downloadable transcripts of the rolls of honour and citations. Obituaries for the fallen are also downloadable.
Further information about the Hall, including the names of donors, can be found by clicking on the Memorial Hall History link below. More about the village can be found in Great Alne - A History Revisited by the Rev Frank Wain and John Earle. Copies are available at Alcester library. If you wish to buy a copy please place your order by using the Contact Us page. Copies cost £15.


so, just to be up front; i hate non fiction. i love all things fiction, sometimes classics, sometimes chick lit...you name it i've read it. unless, of course, it's you know, about REAL stuff. bo-ring. so when my friend renee recommended animal, vegetable, miracle by barbara kingsolver i was not overly keen. true, i did LOVE the poisonwood bible and prodigal summer. she is a fantastic FICTION writer. and anyways, hadn't i just slogged through the onmivores dilemma and was still feeling guilty every time i thought about pulling into wendy's for a spicy chicken sandwich? yes, fantastic book, yes, i totally get it, cafo's = bad, free range = good. did i really need to read another book?
so the story is this: barbara kingsolver and her family move to a farm in appalachia and eat only food that is in season and grown locally, the majority coming from their own farm. totally preachy, right? but i thought, ok babs, bring it on.
and guess what readers (reader?), i loved it. i am not kidding. the book is full of fascinating facts about heirloom fruits and vegetables, organic vs. local farming, locavores and how to store food for winter months so you don't get botulism. she makes her own cheese for crying out loud and somehow makes it seem cool and not something that just amish people do.
she includes all the recipes she has described in each chapter so you can make them yourself. it's inspired me to actually cook and to eat root vegetables. im telling you this book IS a miracle, because i'll tell you i've never even considered buying a turnip before. which turns out to be a lot like a carrot. and they're yummy. who knew?
pick up her book, or get it a the library. it's worth a read. you may be saying to yourself, what's this kooky book have to do with this eco friendly blog? and i say, what's greener than eating food that wasn't shipped from guatemala?
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Copyright © 2011 Carl Andre and Melissa Kretschmer. All rights reserved. All images and writings are copyrighted and protected material belonging to their original authors and may not be reproduced, adapted or altered without permission of the original authors.
Tate Publishing, London and The Carl Andre and Melissa L. Kretschmer Foundation are working together to create a complete catalogue of the poems of Carl Andre. The publication will record and illustrate some 1,500 poems made by the artist between 1957 and 2000. Each work will be accompanied by detailed information about its origin, provenance, exhibition history, and a bibliography, in addition to extensive supporting material. This will be the first comprehensive catalogue on the artist's poetry. Central to the publication will be the accuracy and merit of its scholarly information. The project team are at this time conducting a search of all poems made by the artist, including carbon, and photostatic versions, as well as any written, audio and/or video recordings, and other documentation relevant to creating the definitive statement on Carl Andre's poetry. Current and past owners of poems by Carl Andre are kindly encouraged to visit the Tate Museum website in order that they may complete their online form to register each Carl Andre work(s): www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/carl-andre-complete-poems
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easyJet launch library service for kids on its flights
By Lydia Bryant on Tuesday, July 18, 2017
British airlines easyJet has launched a new campaign, ‘Flybraries’, which will basically see its airplanes turn into flying libraries to encourage kids to read.
EasyJet was apparently prompted to do this after a survey of 2,000 parents revealed 83 per cent said their kids read less than they did when they were younger. SHOCKING.
7,000 copies of classic children’s books such as The Railway Children, Peter Pan and The Wizard of OZ, chosen by children’s author, Dame Jacqueline Wilson (Jacqueline I love your work!), are going to be put in the seat pockets of 147 aircraft for youngsters to read through their flight and then leave behind for the next child to pick up.
After the landing, the kids can then download free samples of other books to try, plus the first few chapters of Jacqueline Wilson’s latest bestseller (you can see why she’s involved now), Wave Me Goodbye, via the easyjet.com/bookclub.
All in all a very nice PR campaign, not only does it promote a good cause, it also helps market a very talented author’s new book. This probably won’t result in more plane tickets being sold but will probably help with easyJet’s brand awareness, SEO and reputation.
(Source: The Express)
(Agency involved: Taylor Herring)


Redemptorist Publication India: The Redemptorist ministers to people through the print media too. A number of books are published on issues relating to Scripture, faith, youth, prayers, sacraments, stories and the like.
Breaking the Word: It is a quarterly magazine of Sunday and Feast Day Homilies. A lot of subscribers are benefiting from it to prepare for their Sunday and Feast day liturgy.
Redemptorist Media Centre (RMC): It is an initiative of the Redemptorists of the Bangalore Province, to “Proclaim the Good News ever anew” (St. Clement Hofbauer, C.Ss.R.). It aims to fulfill the mission of the Congregation of “preaching the Gospel to the poor” (C.Ss.R. Constitution no. 1) in this digital and multi-media world.
www.rmcbangalore.com : This website is an online resource centre presently only for the use of the Redemptorists of the Province of Bangalore. It is a library of multimedia materials like text documents (word, pdf), video clippings, power points, audio talks, music etc. It is a pool of resources useful for various ministries the confreres are engaged in. They are easily downloadable from the website.
www.cssr.in: It is the official website of the Redemptorists, Province of Bangalore. The website is designed, hosted and maintained by the Redemptorist Media Centre.


By (author) Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmes is long retired from his profession of detective but is still alive and well, albeit suffering from a touch of rheumatism.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, an Edinburgh born physician and writer most famous for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction. A prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. After graduating from Edinburgh University he first worked as a surgeon on a wailing boat and later settled in Portsmouth on the English south coast dividing his time between medicine and writing.


“Google Kids Space,” is a trusted kids mode on Android tablets which will power applications, books and videos for kids to enjoy and learn from. It’s making its debut on Lenovo’s new Tab M10 HD Gen 2, but Google aims to bring Kids Space to more devices in the future.
When a child opens Kids Space, they’ll see a library of quality content. Kids can see recommendations for apps, games, books, and videos to find new ways to play and learn. For parents that want more flexibility beyond Kids Space recommended content, they can add more apps, games, and books from the Google Play store through the parents’ menu.
The Google Kids Space interface is beautiful, wonderful and cute, and also looks easy to navigate. Kids can sort content by topic such as animals, princesses, cooking, vehicles, homework help, etc. and can swap between tabs labeled “Make,” “Play,” “Read,” and “Watch” in addition to the home screen. Kids can also create their own character, customizing various characteristics including outfits and backpacks.
Parents will be able to use the Google’s Family app to manage their children’s use of Kids Space. They can use the Family Link App on their Android or iOS devices to create Google accounts for their kids, manage Google Kids Space settings, manage child’s screen time, block and unblock apps, change YouTube Kids settings, and manage other Google services for their child’s Google Account.
Note; According to Google, Books and video content are not available in all regions. Video content is subject to the availability of the YouTube Kids app. Books content requires the Google Play Books app. The Read, Watch, and Make tabs won’t appear in regions where content isn’t available. Availability of apps, books, and video content may change without notice.


Philanthropist and entrepreneur Carol Motolo has published her third book, â€˜Katleho e Leetongâ€™ aimed at enabling and assisting people to discover their true self while also bridging the gap between traditional and western spirituality.
The book was published in August 2021 and was officially launched and hit the shelves on September 1 2021.
The passionate entrepreneur told Newsday Arts that the book is about learning to find Godâ€™s purpose, going through a journey of spiritual awakening and beginning to understand oneâ€™s true self.
â€œBy reading this book you will learn about finding Godâ€™s purpose for your life, you will go through the journey of spiritual awakening. You will see the bigger picture and see how all the pieces fit together but just need spiritual alignment.
â€œHaving this kind of knowledge at your disposal will reduce your stress, simplify your decisions, increase your satisfaction and most importantly prepare you for lifeâ€™s journey,â€ Motolo said.
Motolo mentioned that the book was largely inspired by her spiritual awakening, her calling and clients she meets each and every day through consultations.
â€œKatleho e Leetong is the result of my journey of the soul and will inspire others to embark on their own journey of discovery. In the book I speak of spirit and friendship, urging readers to stay vital and in love with this life, no matter the hardships,â€ she said.
The book offers insight on pain, wonder and love. Each entry is accompanied by tools that will surprise and delight. It also assists with the knowledge of the ancestral background. There is also the exploration of the healing power of regression sessions.
With this being her third offering after Living in Faith of 2017 and the Survivorâ€™s Tales in 2019, she has focused more on relating with the ancestors and connecting with them.
She says she draws her inspiration from all the spiritual readings she gives.
â€œEvery day, we meet different types of people, with different types of problems that need solutions. So I have to learn, teach and unlearn things along the way, which now give one the drive to want to do better and assist those that have not found their home spiritually,â€ she said.
She said throughout the journey of writing the book and the past two, the reception she has been receiving was an impeccable one.
â€œIt was literally out of this world, the support has left me speechless. Our first print sold out on the first day of publication. If that is not God, I donâ€™t know what it is, overall I am grateful that people have been so supportive and welcoming of my books,â€ Motolo said.
Motolo is founder of the Carol Motolo foundation, a non-profit and faith-based community development organization that aims to create a safe environment where rape, injustice and other societal ills against women will be a thing of the past.


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- Monday, May 14, 2018
Managing Director, Mark Dougherty, together with associate Kirsten Middleton are the authors of the IOM Shipping chapter in this internationally renowned publication.
The International Comparative Legal Guide series provides current and practical comparative legal information on a range of practice areas. This guide follows a question and answer format to ensure thorough coverage of each topic from a legal perspective within various different jurisdictions. The ICLG chapter is distributed online and in hard copy to a large and varied range of users and provides practical cross-border insight into shipping law. DQ is delighted to have been invited to contribute to the Isle of Man chapter. The firm regularly contributes to many legal guides including most recently DQ’s employment team being authors of the Isle of Man chapter for ICLG in the Employment Guide and DQ’s regulatory team being authors of the Isle of Man chapter for data protection.


Jul 30 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
This group is a place where we read and discuss books by black authors. The result is a discussion which helps us express both personal and systemic acts of racism, privilege, and economic self-interest in the United States. It is a place to learn and contribute in an emotionally safe environment.
The next Racial Justice Book Group meeting is Monday, July 30th, from 6 – 8 pm on the second floor at BSEC. The group decided to discuss the introduction and the first chapter, Cotton Mather, from the book, “Stamped From the Beginning” for July. All are welcome.
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In 1996, I was a volunteer missionary in Cahors, France. Sometimes, after a long day of proselyting, my companion and I would stop by to visit Anna Livebardon. She was a sweet old lady who lived in a modest upstairs apartment in downtown Cahors. Although we never convinced her to come to church with us, she was always very kind to the missionaries.
What I did not realize at the time was that Anna Livebardon, was, in fact, one of France's literary giants — albeit in her waning years. Earlier in her life, she had authored multiple award-winning volumes of poetry, published songs, and even coached celebrities such as Mike Brant. Over time, however, she had gone from mingling with Europe's cultural elite to living alone and almost forgotten in an obscure village in southwest France.
Since original copies of her poetry and music are now extemely rare, this webpage aims to preserve her memory by creating a public archive of her work. If any of her heirs have concerns about my making these materials available online, please contact me. Likewise, if anyone has any additional resources regarding Anna Livebaron, such as photographs or biographical information, please let me know.
Anna Livebardon authored at least two collections of poetry. Please click/tap the book icons to read the books in your browser.
De Tous Les Jours (1980)
De Toutes Les Nuits (1987)
Physical copies of both of these books are available for viewing at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, and the Médiathèque du Grand Cahors.
I have reason to believe that Anna Livebardon authored at least one additional book, beyond the two mentioned above. In September 1996, she lent me one of her poetry books. One poem from this volume particularly impressed me, so when I returned the book to her, I made an audio recording of her reciting it. I can no longer find the audiotape, but you can read a transcription of the poem that I made in 1998. If anyone has information about the name of the book this poem came from, please let me know.
In 1981, two of Anna Livebardon's poems were set to music and released as singles in vinyl record format. The singer, Jacques Long, is Anna Livebardon's adopted son. I converted these songs to MP3 using a digital phonograph player at the Brigham Young University–Hawaii Library. To my knowledge, these are the only digital copies of these songs in existence.
Listen to La Chanson de Loin
Listen to Au Petit Jour
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Here are pictures of the front and back of the record and its cover. Click the small thumbnails to download a high-resolution image.
In 1982, Anna Livebardon received the prestigious Prix Auguste Capdeville award from the Académie Française in recognition of her book of poetry, De Tous Les Jours.
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November 22, 2014!
FlameSmith Book One:
Rock My Christmas will be available for print sale and on
November 22, 2014.
Preorder and sample now!
Want an advanced copy? Visit me November 1, 2014 at the Virginia Beach Women's Show at the Virginia Beach Convention Center and get an autographed paperback!
Visit me at the Women's Show November 1, 2014 at the Virginia Beach Convention Center and I will have all my 2014 releases available for sale and signing at that event. Get a signed copy of Rock My Christmas before it becomes available to the public!
If you can't make that book signing, come to the Virginia Beach Central Library on November 22, 2014. I'll be there signing from 10:00 until 4:00!
Check out free Fun Short stories on the Stories For You page.
I write romance for you. As a previous president of Chesapeake Romance Writers and a member of Romance Writers of America, I take writing seriously. My readers come first in my writing career, and I always like to hear from you. You may email me at:
If you're interested in making writing a career, and you live in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, think about coming to a meeting of the Chesapeake Romance Writers. Visit the Chesapeake Romance Writers website for our , location, and a listing of free workshops.
See my author pages at:
I will not blog on this website. So what I will do is give you Fun Shorts. See the Stories For You page for fun, short girl-meets-boy stories. I imagine many of them would make great beginnings for fully developed books, and some may go that route. Here on my Laura Kitchell website, however, they will remain short stories just for you to enjoy at no cost.
I began writing creatively in my teens and became fond of the romance genre after receiving a romance novel as a gift for Christmas. I wrote my first full-length novel following a devastating car accident that landed me on my back for the last semester at university. It was a terrible book, but I finished it.
Now, nearly twenty years later, I’m a wife, a mother, and have many published stories to my name. I live in Virginia Beach with my little family and a loveable black lab that curls at my feet every time I sit at the computer.
I’m not using much from my two to work as a senior for a large law firm in Norfolk, VA. Writing, however, has become my dream for a future filled with all my passions – my family, my writing, and chocolate.


Masterson, D. 1 (2016). Published in The Journal of the Town and Country Planning Association, 85,11, p499-501
Daniel Masterson explains how efforts to support professional working to reunite health with planning and address the underlying causes of health and ill-health in Stoke-on-Trent have benefited from using behavioural insights from health psychology.
‘The challenge is not simply ingraining health into planning; it is conveying a modern definition of health, establishing how planning can influence the wider determinants of health and health behaviour, and understanding the issues that planners face in prioritising health’
Read ‘Uniting health psychology and planning’ here,
Access the full publication ‘The Journal of the Town and Country Planning’ here


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Sunday, January 29, 2012
OK, you know I rarely recommend a movie, though I do recommend the occasional book. But I just found out that one of the best books I've read in a long time is going to be a movie. Hunger Games. It's the first in a young adult trilogy, taking place in what's left after the destruction of North America. A teenage girl in a fight for her life, having volunteered in her sister's place for a brutal "game." And I know not everyone is into science fiction, but I'm telling you, this is just a good good story. I watched the movie trailer, and it looks like they did justice to the book. I don't remember when I saw a movie in the theater, but I will see this one! I wanted to give fair chance to any purists out there . . . you know you have to read the book first! So buy the book (or get it out of the library like I did), and start reading! You have two months to get it read. If you take more than two days to read it you have way more self-control than I do.


Hand-picked from my own, personal, library.
1. I’ll Give You the Sun, by Jandy Nelson
This book is a beautiful literary masterpiece. The story follows two characters, twins, Jude and Noah, as they each tell half of they’re important coming of age story. This book is full of art, tragedy and heart-wrenching love. This book is definitely at the top of my must-read list, and I promise you won’t regret reading this book.
2. Eleanor and Park, by Rainbow Rowell
I’m sure that you’ve heard of this beautiful book at some point, it is very popular and well loved by young adults everywhere. The book shows us how a lovely relationship blossoms between characters, Eleanor and Park, in a very unlikely place: the school bus. This is a heartwarming story about two outcasts find love and acceptance within each other, and begin to heal their wounds, despite the horrible world around them.
3. The Boy on Cinnamon Street, by Phoebe Stone
This book is more on the cheesy and childish side, but it never fails to make me cry, and is extremely near and dear to my heart. It’s about a young girl named Louise who is trying to remember/cope with the death of her mother, as well as dealing with a strange secret admirer and her own emotions for her best friend, Henderson. This is a very touching story about loss, healing, and the blossoming of delicate love from friendship.
4. Carry On, by Rainbow Rowell
If you enjoyed the Harry Potter series, and/or Fangirl, you will definitely love this book. This book is about a troubled world of magicians, and follows their possible savior: the young man, Simon Snow, along with his enemy, Baz, and a few of their peers. This book is filled with magic, twists, and action (with a bit of romance to spice things up). This book is definitely near the very top of my favorites list.
5. Where She Went, by Gayle Forman
The sequel to the famous, If I Stay, this book is an intoxicating, lyrical, masterpiece about healing and renewing lost love. Years after Mia’s accident, she an Adam meet again, after years of total silence on her part, and two hit rock albums on his. The only thing they have left to do to heal is let go, but its not that simple, and one night will change everything.


Welcome to the Library page
The Library has a room on each site, L21 on Walthamstow and U34 on Wiseman Site.
Mr R. Rumney, in L21 is present Tuesday to Friday and opens the library to all pupils at Lunchtime, while in U34,
Mr P. Watts is in school Monday to Friday.
U34 is open for pupils at Morning Break, Lunchtime, and after period 5.
Both libraries have a cross section of information books and fiction, (to support the school reading policy) but in general books on the Walthamstow site are aimed at younger readers.
Chess and similar games are encouraged here, while the older pupils on Wiseman site are expected to work towards their GCSE and A levels. Fiction in this room is generally aimed at the young adult and work by classical authors and modern literary prizewinners form part of the collection. The Careers Section in U34 has information about further education courses and the process of finding a job. This section is kept as up-to-date as possible.
Mr Watts has run a Reading Club on this site for three years, looking at how stories are structured and aspects of the life of the authors studied.
Library books are loaned for two weeks at a time and are to be returned promptly. The school will charge if a book is not returned after the borrower has been reminded.
Both rooms have laptops and printers available for schoolwork, but there is a charge for printing.
Both libraries are available for sixth form study and the librarians will give support and advice to any pupil in any year, asking for help. Both libraries are used for some timetabled classes.


The other three are:
Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins - It's the second book in the Hex Hall series, but I sadly don't have the first one yet, so I'm keeping my eyes peeled. Poor lovely book will have to sit on the shelf for a while until I find it.
Torn by Amanda Hocking - This is also the second book in it's series, the Trylle series, a book about Changelings and such. I guess I'll also have to keep my eye out for the first one in this series as well. I've gotta pick them up when I find them, though - otherwise I won't find them when I need them!
Temping Fate by Esther Friesner - This is a stand-alone book so I can dive right in if I want to - and I think I do! It's also hardcover, so I'm stoked about that, too. They just look so awesome on the shelf...when they eventually find their way there.
Off to read!


En savoir plus
Insurgencies are like hydras. Once an insurgency begins, the measures a government takes to eliminate militants can provoke countless others to join the enemy ranks. Tactical victories often breed strategic defeats. Traditional “search, destroy, and withdraw” missions that rely on firepower to wipe out rebels frequently destroy the livelihoods and loved ones of innocent people caught in the cross fire. U.S. troops have seen the pattern repeated as their initially successful offensives toppled enemy regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq but soon transformed into grueling guerrilla wars.
Hearts, Minds, and Hydras outlines the reasons for these worsening situations. The most crucial were self-defeating decisions made by the George W. Bush administration, whose neoconservatism and hubris rather than a careful analysis of genuine threats, American interests, and reasonable options shaped its policies. Although the Americans were eventually able to contain and diminish the insurgency in Iraq, the one in Afghanistan not only steadily intensified but also spread into neighboring Pakistan. The near abandonment of the war in Afghanistan and the neoconservative campaign in Iraq were godsends for al Qaeda and all other enemies of the United States. Then, as America’s position deteriorated in both wars, the neoconservatives became even more determined to stay the course.
William Nester analyses some of the more prominent dilemmas haunting American policymakers now struggling to win in Afghanistan, fight terrorism in the United States, and reshape their relationship with Pakistan. In doing so, he reveals the nature of that all-too-real beast of insurgency and terrorism, the hydra; what feeds it; and how to starve it.


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Date(s) - 14/11/2017
7:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Einstein’s Revolutionary Ideas in 1905′
by Dr Peter Ford MBE (formerly of University of Bath) andDr Vincent Smith MBE (formerly of University of Bristol)
Drs Ford and Smith will talk about Einstein’s life and times, and particularly his three great revolutionary ideas of 1905: the explanation of Brownian Motion, of the Photo-Electric effect, and Special Relativity. The lecture was created for Einstein Year (2005) and they have since given the talk to schools and other audiences more than 100 times, all over England, and even in France and Australia!
The talk is not just about Physics: there is a bit of Chemistry, History, Geography, English Literature, etc! The lecture covers the world in 1879, the year of Einstein’s birth, then a bit about his early life moving on to his three revolutionary ideas from 1905: his explanation of Brownian Motion, which was the first convincing physical evidence for molecules; his explanation of the Photoelectric effect, the first evidence for what we nowadays call photons; and the first description of what became Special Relativity.
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A very weird tale of a lonely girl and the monster she befriends one summer in the Night Gallery segment “Brenda,” reviewed here.
Teleplay by Douglas Heyes (under pseudonym Matthew Howard) • Story by Margaret St. Clair
Directed by Allen Reisner
Glenn Corbett as Richard Alden
Laurie Prange as Brenda Alden
Robert Hogan as Jim Emsden
Barbara Babcock as Flora Alden
Sue Taylor as Elizabeth Emsden
Pamelyn Ferdin as Frances Anne Emsden
Fred Carson as the Thing
Spending her summer vacation on an island where her parents have a cottage, Brenda Alden is a strangely socialized 12 year-old girl. Seeing sometime playmate Frances Anne on the beach, putting the finishing touches on an elaborate sand castle, Brenda doesn’t walk up to the girl to engage her in conversation about her creation; rather, she marches purposefully at it and stomps right through the thing, pulverizing it.
Then, she wants to make friendly conversation, but Frances Anne is understandably upset and is in no mood to share pleasantries through her tears. Brenda has an unusual way of trying to make friends.
With no one left to talk to, Brenda heads off by herself into the woods where, upon hearing a rustling sound, she sees a sort of creature that frankly looks like a guy in a big, heavy suit covered in leaves, moss and long fur. Like Brenda, it may be lonely, too, or at the very least curious.
Scared, but also curious as well, and no doubt desperate for a friend, Brenda calls out to it, “Here I am! Can’t catch me!” and she leads it on a sort of tentative chase through the forest. She gets a ways ahead of it, then settles down near the grassy edge of a pit to watch it approach.
Not knowing the terrain as well as her, the monster falls into the pit. Slightly injured, it gets up but cannot scale the steep rocky inclines of its walls. While it attempts to extricate itself from its prison, Brenda taunts and teases it some but also shows a more thoughtful, sympathetic side as she muses aloud, “I think you’re very, very old. I think you must have been the way you are for a long, long time.”
The creature holds up its arms at Brenda, seeming to request her help. She leans down to extend a helping hand and asks the creature, “What are you waiting for? Do you want to be born?” It’s a very odd segment and it had me believing this was likely all in her imagination.
That night, Brenda leaves the door of her house open, hoping her new “friend” might come calling. And it does, causing a great commotion with her parents and neighbors as they drive the creature out of their home with flashlights, then torches and if the previous scene didn’t make you think of Frankenstein, this one certainly does. Brenda is delighted because “they can’t kill it,” as she says.
The townsfolk drive the creature back into the pit and cover it with stones. Brenda and her family leave the island as summer is ending.
Next summer, she returns to the island and the pit where the rock pile remains unchanged. Brenda has undergone a maturation since last summer. Gone are her braids and her manner is less childish. She speaks emotionally to the creature within the rock pile, with a tear on her cheek, promising it “we’ll be born together; I’ll give you love. We’ll be born, you and I, together.”
What a strange and unique story this is indeed. While all over the map in some ways, too literal perhaps at times, and with a creature who is laughably lame in terms of today’s standards, this is an example of how Night Gallery, even when not entirely successful, was ambitious and could create memorable stories that would not be attempted elsewhere. Special mention must go to Laurie Prange, who was 19 when she played the part of Brenda, for creating a character who seemed alternately insane and just a girl lonely for human understanding.


Hey, friends –
If you’re wondering what comics to read during quarantine, we’re here for you. Until there are new comics, we’re going back through the Comixology library to find comics to read while you’ve got free time.
Listen to the podcast here –
This week, we’re discussing two awesome titles:
Love and Capes – By Thomas Zahler, published by IDW.
The “Heroically Super Situation Comedy” that was nominated for two Harvey awards.
And, Marvel’s Secret Wars – the game-changing 1985 superhero/supervillain crossover that re-invigorated superhero comics in the 80’s. This is the first part of a four-part series where we will be covering the entire Marvel epic that includes Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, Thor, She-Hulk, Captain Marvel (no, not that one), the X-men, the Fantastic 4, and pretty much every Marvel hero or villain worth discussing in the 80s.
(And in Casual Comics Theater, you will hear this panel through the magic of audio engineering from Jeff)
Sit back, relax, and enjoy.
Greetings, people. Happy Independence Day. You’re about to see the best panel in the long, storied comics history of the greatest American super hero (Captain America, obviously).
It’s been a long while since my last post. Life has been hectic, but it’s time to get this party bus back on the road.
If you’ve been listening to the Two Headed Nerd Podcast, you may be clued into the ways I’m thinking about bringing this blog and the related podcast back to life. If you haven’t, I’d highly recommend listening to all their content, because it’s one of the best comic book podcasts around. Stay tuned for further announcements.
In the meantime, in honor of the 4th of July, I’ll leave you with my favorite panel in Captain America’s history. The Two Headed Nerd Podcast has a feature call “The Onomatopoeia of the Week”. In this instance, the combination of the dialog and the onomatopoeia creates a magical blend.
Where did the time go? I thought that I’d take a “short break” to put up a podcast. Little did I know how long it would take to get one up and running. However, thanks to the best co-host (and announcer) in the business, Episode 1 of the Casual Comics Cast is now live.
Check it out… and all comments are welcome in the webzone below!


"Nuggets" for Text Processing in Java
The HultigLib is a library gathering a set of text processing tools, written in Java language. It was designed for efficiency and scalability, in terms of the volume of text handling. Large collections of texts can be easily computed and used in a variety of applications, as for example main statistics calculations in corpora.
The three core classes of this library are:
Text. Their names trivially indicate what they represent. A sentence
is represented through a linked list of
Word elements. And similarly, a
Text is represented by a linked list of
A number of sentence similarity functions can be found in the
class. These functions have been used in several research works, like paraphrase
identification in corpora and plagiarism detection. The
Text class also
provides several handful tools for representing and processing texts. We have also
integrated the "openNLP" library,
as well as implemented an "interface" class for using its main relevant features,
like part-of-speech tagging, shallow and full sentence parsing.
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