Internet References. 1. Direct Quotation from the Internet (in English) When copying and pasting from a website, format it clearly as NOT YOUR OWN WORDS, using the. 2. Paraphrase from the same source. 3. Direct Quotation from a non-English Website. 4. Paraphrase from a non-English Website. 5.
Authors using and citing sources on the World Wide Web (i.e. Internet) should observe the following two guidelines: Direct readers as closely as possible to the specific information being cited. So, whenever possible, reference the. Provide addresses (i.e. hyperlinks) that work.
Books with one author. Include (if available): Author’s last name and first name. Title. Edition (if not 1st). Place of publication: Publisher. Books with two or more authors. Books which are edited (anthologies) E-books. Book chapters.A reference list of all sources cited in the text should be included in the end of the document, in alphabetical order by authorship with date. The reference list includes the full details of the documents. Reference list for different types of sources Books with one author.Internet References. Summary: This page contains links and short descriptions of writing resources including dictionaries, style manuals, grammar handbooks, and editing resources. It also contains a list of online reference sites, indexes for writers, online libraries, books and e-texts, as well as links to newspapers, news services, journals.
Reference List The general format for a website in a Harvard reference list is: Author Surname, Initial (s). (Year) Title of web page (Online).Read More
Start writing your bibliography. The format for each entry on the bibliography for Internet sources starts with the name of the author of the article. This name of the author is written with the last name first, a comma followed by the first name. After this information, place a period.Read More
No distinction is made between electronic and print sources, except in the citation reference details. Each reference number should be enclosed in square brackets on the same line as the text, before any punctuation, with a space before the bracket.Read More
How to reference using the 'author, date' system In the 'author, date' system (often referred to as the 'Harvard' system) very brief details of the source from which a discussion point or piece of factual information is drawn are included in the text.Read More
How to cite references. Read our guide on avoiding plagiarism. When writing a piece of work, you need to refer in your text to any material you have used that has been written or produced by others. This procedure is called citing or quoting references.Read More
A full template and example to help you write a citation for a Website in the APA style. Create your citations, reference lists and bibliographies automatically using the APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard referencing styles.Read More
Cite as you would a journal article: (Nicholls 2006, p. 171) (Holmes 2004) Articles retrieved from databases are usually in pdf form and have page numbers. References. Cite the article as you would the same article in a print publication, listing: author(s) name and initials; title of the article (between single quotation marks) title of.Read More
Internet resources are suitable sources of information for university studies and must be critically assessed for usefulness and reliability. When you reference Internet material, you must ensure that your reader has a clear path to find the resource to which you are referring. 1. Using information from the Internet? 2. In-text references 3.Read More
The Guide to Citing Internet Resources; Procedures. Introduce the concept of citing Internet sources by drawing upon the example of writing bibliographies and citing sources for reports. Tell students that they will be completing a short research project in which they will cite all their sources.Read More
Click here to automatically cite a Website. EasyBib Guide to Citing Websites in APA. It’s probably no surprise that websites are the most cited source type on EasyBib.com. If you’re writing a research paper, you probably have information from sites included in your project.Read More


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Deb Goldberg has had some very special spiritual experiences of her own and written a series of books, the first of which is called: Are You Ready to Listen? ~ God.
In this special book Deb Goldberg taps into divine guidance, learns to heal, leans to trust and to find self-love. It is an awakening of the richest kind and one of the most endearing qualities of this book is the humility with which Deb approached writing it. In her own words and with the guidance of Jesus and God, she has taken a leap of faith, much like Edward did with Uriel’s Gift and written her story. She has stepped off the precipice of safety and into the arms of the Divine to share her world with those who are open to the messages and spiritual guidance.
Sometimes the most difficult thing about connecting with our spiritual guidance is the ability to stop and listen. We need to listen with an open heart, ever alert and aware that the ego will seek to enter into the conversation and direct the messages. Deb addressed this in her book, Are You Ready to Listen? ~ God. It is so special to read about Deb’s experiences where she is asked by God, “Are you ready to listen?” at a time when she was suffering from laryngitis. We found this to be particularly symbolic of the way Spirit works. Our guides are always communicating with us but sometimes it takes a physical illness to quiet down the chatter and allow us to open up and listen with our mind, with our heart, with our soul.
Deb took the time to rest her voice and in that time of stillness she heard the words that would create a pivotal and profound shift in her spiritual life. What a blessing.
Are You Ready to Listen? ~ God guides the reader to explore self-understanding and encourages readers to begin an internal journey to discover our soul’s purpose. It is a special book filled with honesty, love and profound learnings.
We highly recommend reading Are You Ready to Listen? ~ God as you will be touched by the Divine.
Deb’s books are available on Amazon.com in ebook and print on demand.
And if you’re interested in listening to Deb Goldberg you can tune in to Angel Heart Radio this week as Edward Spellman will be appearing on the show and they will be discussing their spiritual experiences, Uriel’s Gift and Deb’s own books. too.


with support of SMBK, RCE and the University of Amsterdam,2013
160 p., 27,5 x 21 cm
One of the ways to obtain authentic, content-related and technical information on modern and contemporary artworks is to interview the artists who created them. To that end, the Foundation for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (SBMK)), the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE)) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have formulated guidelines for a structured approach of the artist interview and compiled a number of interview scenarios as practical interview tools.
The aim of this handbook is to equip conservators, curators, art historians and students with tools to retrieve a wealth of accurate information from the artist and to allow the interested public a view behind the scenes of the conservation, preservation and presentation of modern and contemporary art.
The Artist Interview. For Conservation and Presentation of Contemporary Art. Guidelines and Practice provides a variety of scenarios enriched with useful pointers, example questions and checklists to ensure a smooth progress of the artist interviews. The interview scenarios are supplemented with ten relevant articles on studio and museum interviews providing insight into the potentials and pitfalls of the artist interview as a conservation tool.
The Artist Interview. Conservation and Presentation of Contemporary Art. Guidelines and Practice is an extensive manual with numerous interesting examples.
With contributions by Liesbeth Abraham (Frans Hals Museum), Lydia Beerkens (SBMK/SRAL), Frederika Huys (The House of Conservation/S.M.A.K), Jaap Guldemond (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen/EYE Film Institute Netherlands), Paulien ‘t Hoen (SBMK), IJsbrand Hummelen (RCE), Mark Paul Meyer (EYE Film Institute Netherlands), Tatja Scholte (RCE), Ingeborg Smit (Rijksmuseum Twenthe), Sanneke Stigter (Kröller-Müller Museum /UvA), Sandra Weerdenburg (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam)
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This is a little story for ages 5-8. Lizzy is an eight-year-old girl who is going on a first-time fishing trip with her dad. They take food and cold drinks since they will be gone for most of the day. Lizzy learns a few lessons about fishing, but she begins to get tired after lunch, so she gets out a little notepad she carries with her and writes about her class and her teacher. She puts the note in her clean, dry bottle from her soft drink hoping it will sail out into the ocean like a pirate’s treasure map. When her dad catches a really big fish, Lizzy gets excited and drops the bottle into the bay and then forgets about it. Nearly a year later, Lizzy is called into the principal’s office. Her former teacher is there, too. Can you guess what happened to her note?


- A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
Metadata Principle 4
Terms and conditions of use include the copyright status of the object—whether it is in the public domain or is copyright protected—and any restrictions on use. The user should be informed how to obtain permission for restricted uses and how to cite the material for allowed uses. The institution should also document whether the resource is published or unpublished, and whether the creator or rights holder is known. Contact information for rights holders should be maintained.
If this information is the same for all the materials in a collection, documenting it in collection- level metadata is adequate (see COLLECTIONS). Otherwise, it should be recorded at the object level.
Many metadata schemes have designated places to put this information; if they do not, an external scheme or locally defined element set should be used.
Rights metadata is a rapidly evolving area. Rights metadata is generally expressed in XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and may serve three complementary but distinct purposes:
Rights description, which may include the description of the copyright status of works, rights holder requirements for use of the resource, and user attributes required for authorized use of a resource and agreements between both parties for resource use. PREMIS rights metadata, <indecs>rdd (rights data dictionary) and Creative Commons licenses are examples of rights description. The California Digital Library's copyrightMD Schema is a rights description schema for recording detailed copyright information that may evolve into a standard (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/rights/schema/).
Rights licensing is an emerging area of rights management within the library environment focused on the development and exchange of license information for resources. ONIX-PL (ONIX for Publications Licenses) and the PLUS License Data Format are metadata schema for communicating license terms for library subscriptions and picture images respectively.
Rights workflow – rights expression languages support rights transactions between the rights holder and the user. They are designed to be actionable within a suite of standards and protocols to manage the digital workflow of rights management, whether it is the authorization of users, enforcement of rights agreements, control of resource access, tracking of resource use, or all of the above. Rights workflow generally incorporates licenses but goes beyond simple license messaging to providing an end-to- end actionable platform for managing agreements between parties. R XrML, the core technology within the MPEG-21 rights expression language, ORDL (Open Rights Description Language) and XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language) are examples of rights expression languages for workflow.
Rights metadata has the distinction of being the only legally enforceable type of metadata. The WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) are international copyright treaties that have been ratified and incorporated into the national law of most signatory countries, including the United States and members of the European Union. The WCT and WPPT treaties require that signatory countries provide legal remedies against any party that knowingly removes or alters rights management information, where this information is defined as “information which identifies the work, the author of the work, the owner of any right in the work, or information about the terms and conditions of use of the work, and any numbers or codes that represent such information, when any of these items of information is attached to a copy of a work or appears in connection with the communication of a work to the public” (WIPO Copyright Treaty, art. 12, Geneva, SZ: World Intellectual Property Organization, http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wct/trtdocs_wo033.html - P66_786\5).
Institutions are likely to encounter this metadata in file headers, particularly file headers for images and documents that utilize XMP, the extensible metadata platform, that utilizes RDF (Resource Description Framework) to provide data and storage models for incorporating and handling metadata within file headers. Adobe introduced XMP in 2001, and its adoption along the digital object creation and management chain has been steadily increasing. XMP is predominantly used for documents and images but is extensible to most digital file formats.
Other avenues for incorporating metadata within digital objects include the metadata track in the MPEG-4 multimedia file format, and metadata support within MP-3 and ogg container format for digital multimedia. Institutions can expect to encounter rights metadata, which cannot be removed or altered by law, in many commercially distributed digital objects, such as resources that are licensed from publishers or distributors. The metadata that is integrated into digital objects may contain useful information about the creation and provenance of the object as well as permissions and restrictions on use that can be useful to populate metadata databases through automatic data capture, as long as the data capture does not modify, delete or interfere with the actionability of the metadata.
Last updated: 04/17/2008


A moral dilemma is a problem where you have to choose between doing one thing and another, mostly right or wrong.
The moral dilemma in my book, Under the Same Sky, by Cynthia DeFelice, was that the main character, Joe, could turn in three illegal migrant workers at his dad's farm, or does he want to keep it a secret to keep his friends? Joe solved it by deciding to keep his friends a secret and doing the right thing.
My other book, Nothing But the Truth by Avi, is about a boy named Philip who sang during the national anthem at school. He got suspended for two days. He claimed that it was out of patriotism, though. His moral dilemma was, is this breaking the rules? Or did he do the right thing? I did not finish this book, so I don't know how he solved it.
I had a lot of fun doing lit. circles in GOAL this year. I got to read books I've never heard of before!


Graduate Student Resources
Our goal is to update this page with information that graduate students, as well as potential graduate students, will find useful to participate in the the life of the department and the university.
- KU’s Current Students Resources
- The University maintains a webpage for all students that includes links to many items English graduate students will find useful such as the academic calendar, registration, and the campus bookstore.
- Rohrbach Library
- Rohrbach Library has many useful resources for graduate students. In addition to substantial English-related book and journal resources in the main collection, the Audiovisual Center loans out films and a broad range of equipment. The library also maintains electronic databases and online resources related to English Studies.
- Calls for Papers
- One of the best ways to participate with what’s going on in the field is to receive current CFPs from the English Calls for Papers listserv administered by the University of Pennsylvania. This list shows you not only publications looking for contributors but also opportunities to participate in conferences. To subscribe to the list, visit their webpage. You will find instructions for how subscribe or can view current and past CFPs on their website.


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In addition to the books and manuals listed below, CentACS is a publisher of assessment products.
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The Owner’s Manual Happiness: Essential Elements for a Meaningful Life
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Director of Research and Development at the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies, Dr. Pierce J. Howard, digests the most up-to-date brain research to help readers understand why—and how—our brains work the way they do. Providing brain “hacks” and wading through the tedium of academic detail to discover ways to boost mental prowess, Dr. Howard speaks to lifelong learners, thinkers, educators, new parents, managers, and more in this revised and updated guidebook that is humorous, relatable, and written for maximum usability.
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||This book covers the WorkPlace Big Five Profile supertraits, subtraits, and competencies that describe how people respond to stress, adjust to their environment, determine interests, work with others, and establish their roles and goals. It includes workplace case studies and useful applications in areas such as: leadership, job profiling and selection, education and training, coaching, career planning, teamwork, and after-hours applications.
The Owner’s Manual for Personality from 12 to 22
||What The Owner’s Manual for Personality did for human resource professionals in the workplace, The Owner’s Manual for Personality from 12 to 22 does for those who work with adolescents in the schoolplace. What prompted this new book is the recent launch of the SchoolPlace Big Five Profile, which is normed on 1,600 twelve- to twenty-two-year-olds from both private and public, secondary and higher education, across the United States. This book both updates and expands the material and scope from the earlier book, while applying what we know about the Big Five to working with teenagers. Topics covered include learning styles, classroom behaviors, student leadership, relationships, dealing with conflict, career planning, plus detailed discussions of the SchoolPlace Big Five Profile 4.0 supertraits and subtraits.
The Owner’s Manual for Happiness
||“…and the pursuit of Happiness” is a line we hear all the time. It is ingrained in us as children that life is about pursuing happiness. But how many of us can say we ever really achieve it? If you stop and think about it, do you really know what it would feel like to be truly happy? And if you achieved it, how long would it last? Dr. Pierce Howard’s new book The Owners Manual for Happiness: Essential Elements for a Meaningful Life explores these questions.
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Click here to view Cambridge Boat Club—A Centennial History 1909-2009, published in the summer of the centennial year and presented as a gift to the membership.
New to this online version is Peter Tyson’s introductory piece, “A Tale of Two Sites – A Deep Prehistory,” that you’ll find on pages i-xx. Enjoy this and the more than forty other interesting and entertaining articles and shorter pieces by your fellow members that comprise the complete work.
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The Voice on the Radio (Janie Johnson, #3) (Rating: 3.64 - 3277 votes)PDF online books The Voice on the Radio (Janie Johnson, #3) by Lori Ratti with other formats. Download and Read Online books The Voice on the Radio (Janie Johnson, #3) Online Lori Ratti, its easy way to download The Voice on the Radio (Janie Johnson, #3) books for multiple devices. Caroline B. Cooney full text books
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PDF, EPUB, MOBI, TXT, DOC The Voice on the Radio (Janie Johnson, #3) The kidnapping is long past Janie Johnson can never change what happened toher or to the families that love her But finally life seems to be settlingdown for the Springs and the Johnsons The worst part of this new life for Janie is that Reeve Shields is away atcollege Janie misses him terribly no matter how many e mails they send eachother As for Reeve he s finding life at college overwhelming He goes to workat the school radio station hoping a late night gig will give him what hecraves popularity and fame Reeve gets his chance to be the voice on theradio and when he tells the most fascinating story he knows his show becomesa sensation Reeve is so sure that Janie will never discover what s making hisbroadcast such a hit that he doesn t stop himself But what will be the pricefor Janie .
As Janie knew the facts about the little girl on the milk carton had to beuncovered no matter how much pain they caused Now the truth about what Reeveis doing must come out Whose voice will help Janie when she must face not onlyher incredible past but also her unknown future .
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www.alatechsource.org this website is offered by the publishing department of the American Library Association. It’s a subscription based newsletter that offers reports on current and up and coming technology in libraries.
http://www.ala.org/lita this website is also a division of ALA and offers a variety of programs regarding library technology aimed at different types of libraries. It also offers peer reviewed articles, scholarships and advocacy for library issues.
http://www.librarytechnology.org this website offers guidance regarding automation in libraries of all types of materials including print, electronic, multimedia, and interactive. It includes news reports, blogs, and webcasts.
http://www.libtech.com/ is the website for Library Technologies, Inc. (LTI) which offers information on the technological tools and services used and needed in libraries.
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/category/technology/ This is a Library of Congress blog about technology. A good reference to check periodically to see what LOC is doing in the technology field.
www.techsoup.org This website provides information that is pertinent to libraries and non-profits. In addition to a blog and networking, they offer training, equipment and donation information.
http://www.iii.com this company, Innovative Interfaces, provides automation support and information to libraries in the US and around the world.
www.techradar.com This website is not geared specifically to libraries but will keep one up-to-date on new technology, its uses, advantages and disadvantages.
http://www.ala.org/offices/oitp This is a department of ALA that guides libraries on use, policies and laws concerning technology.
www.google.com This web address is a good place to start a search on any type of technology for a myriad of purposes.


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We are often asked where siddurs, Tanakhs, or other book resources can be purchased. The following links are excellent resources.
They describe themselves as "The last word and first address for quality Jewish Literature". Search for and locate a Chumash, Tanakh, Siddur, and many other fine Jewish literary resources.
Part of their About Us page states, "The publications of Lederer/Messianic Jewish Communications have been widely used to impact thousands of Jewish people with the Good News of Messiah. These books and tracts have been distributed in the Orthodox Jewish community, have been given out to Jews in the former Soviet Union, and have been used by Messianic congregations and Jewish outreaches all over the world. These and other Messianic materials are available through our Messianic Jewish Resources Catalog".


The Kau Tragedy is a story written by Abbas Mustafa Sadiq. The story - in addition to A Village on the Nile, also written by the same author - was said to have earned him a precious prize from the German Broadcasting Voice. Reflecting the cultural ceremonies in the area, illiteracy, impoverishment and drought, The Kau Tragedy is centred on a young man, called Hirbu, from the Nuba Mountains. Hirbu, so the story runs, prepared himself bodily and psychologically to announce his betrothal to a local girl named Sara. In the day of his engagement, Hirbu decorated his face with coloured material, put a copper bracelet on his wrist, took his ax-like stick, put on a leopard skin around his waist and hang a necklace - full of glittering beads - around his neck.
When the Kujour emerged from his hut, Hirbu sat in front of him amid the trilling of village women surrounding Sara whose body was transferred into an artwork of beautiful colours, and anointed with nice-smelling oil. The Kujour performed the rituals in an unintelligible language. There was a moment of silence. He drew some milk into his mouth, and sprayed on the faces of the bride and bridegroom. He used a small knife to cut a gash on Hirbu’s wrist and did the same on Sara’s. He then put one wound on another until both bloods were mixed together. There was more trilling from the women, and shouting from the crowd after which the Kujour declared the betrothal of the couple.
Before the conditions became conducive to the wedding of the couple, Musa the Kujour suddenly died. No sooner had the Kujour died than Hirbu realized that he was haunted by a strange feeling. He felt that his body was lighter than it used to be. He also felt - as if in a dream - that he became a different person, and he did not sleep the night before. He kept trembling. He remained in this situation for seven days. In the last night, Hirbu saw, while sleeping, a mysterious thing - his mother giving birth to himself as normal as the women did. He came pushing from his mother’s womb after she rubbed her stomach with scented oil as she was told while he was still a foetus. Hirbu woke up and told his mother about the dream. The villagers also heard about the episode, and believed him because they held an idea that as soon as the Kujour died, the new Kujour would be born. A day after day, Hirbu was filled with the feelings that he was transformed into a different person. He became quiet, silent and sticking to himself. He chose to lead the life of a recluse even from Sara, his sweetheart.
The people of Kau began descending upon his house, blessing and welcoming him as their new spiritual Kujour. But the poor man, according to the writer, did not know that he became a Kujour in a difficult time because he had to prepare himself for a long, tumultuous journey. He had to - since that moment on, and according to his people’s traditions - think how to bring rain to them. Then came the day the people of Kau, including Hirbu, had long waited for. Hirbu had to ascertain his capability, and achieve his people’s dream and bring them rain, but he did not live up to their dream. As the days passed on sadly, the drought consumed all that left of streams. The people of Kau could not think of anything else rather than departure. Hirbu’s life was shattered by displacement from his village to a city where he got lost in the wilderness of urban community.
* Summarized from the Khartoum-based daily al-Wifaq, February 20, 1999.


- Mine Subsidence in Illinois: Facts for Homeowners – Circular 569, 2013, 9 MB PDF file
- Planned Coal Mine Subsidence in Illinois: A Public Information Booklet – Circular 573, 2008, 3 MB PDF file
- The Proximity of Underground Mines – This study provides maps and statistics per county on the proximity of both coal and non-coal underground-mined areas to urban development:Circular 575 - Report 1 MB PDF file,Circular 575 - Appendix 2 (Page-size county maps) 85 MB PDF file
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- C/G 1983-7 Identification of Mine Subsidence on Aerial Photographs in Central Illinois. 1983. 31p.
Environmental Geology Notes
- EG 144 Mine Subsidence in Illinois: Facts for Homeowners. 1992.
Open File Series Reports
- OFS 1989-2 Evaluation of the Potential for Damage from Subsidence of Underground Mines in Illinois. 1989. 246 p.
- OFS 1997-7 (IMSRP X) Final Report of Subsidence Investigations at the Rend Lake Site, Jefferson County, Illinois 1997. 38p.
- OFS 1997-9 (IMSRP XI) Final Report of Subsidence Investigations at the Galatia Site, Saline County, Illinois 1997. 59p.


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The NLS Annotated Bibliography is an on-going effort to provide the public with an up-to-date searchable record of research based on data from all cohorts of the National Longitudinal Surveys. It contains citations and abstracts of NLS based journal articles, working papers, conference presentations, and dissertations.
The NLS Bibliography online contains NLS research citations that are retrievable through a variety of searches. Search results are arranged by principal author's last name and include the title of the research, the source and date of publication, the NLS cohort(s) used in the research, and an abstract, in most cases.
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and Moon Signs: An Ilustrated Guide To Astrological Characteristics",
by Julia and Derek Parker.
explores all of the Sun signs and their physical, rational,
and emotional characteristics. The authors also examine the
conflicting and complementary effect of the Moon on each of
the twelve signs.
is categorized by its myths and legends, symbolism, profile,
personality, aspirations, health, leisure pursuits, love,
and home. Not only is this book very thorough with its subject,
it is a visual treat to be enjoyed with its full color photography
of the objects which help to illustrate the nature of each


Their unrivalled library now extends from
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Latest News & Events
New Library and Media Centre Opens
Monday November 10 saw the new Library and Media Centre open its doors. It has been a wonderful addition to our school and we thought we would show a timeline of its journey to fruition.
Historic Remembrance Day Ceremony
November 11 students and staff travelled to Wahala to attend the 100th Anniversary of the first battle in World War 1. This year, 2014, marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1.
A celebration of our Diversity
In a riot of colour the annual Parade of Nations was celebrated, Friday November 5. This year Primary classes again took us around the world with junior primary showcasing Singapore, Jamaica, Mexico and India.
From the Headmaster
School year gets underway with flying colours
As with every new school year, there was a flurry of intense activity on campus as all the preparations took place for the arrival of faculty and students. Likewise, the finishing touches were put on minor changes to buildings and classrooms. The major change to the school is still in progress as the new Library will take many weeks to be fully operational. Ms. McCreedy, the librarian, will get the collection properly organized before putting it up on shelves. The new spaces prepared for the two new libraries will add a major improvement to both Primary and Secondary programs. A net gain of one new classroom has been added to the number of rooms available to the Secondary school. The old library space is now 3 classrooms and one office making the laboratory quad now 3 labs, 3 classrooms, 8 offices, one meeting room, plus reception.
The British School of Lomé is now in its 31st year providing an outstanding educational program for the international community in Lomé as well as providing boarding services to students across West Africa. BSL has earned the reputation of being among the most outstanding international schools in West Africa by combining the best of British education with the International Baccalaureate program. This prepares its graduates for universities around the world while the friendly and family-like atmosphere helps instill traditional values such as discipline, respect and integrity.
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And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. Other than that, Emerson's writings were either unbearably dry or, to me, nearly incomprehensible.
Emerson was one of the most influential American writers of the nineteenth century.
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Robert Lowell  and William Stillman would lead the effort to organize a trip to the Adirondacks. The country of unity, of immovable institutions, the seat of a philosophy delighting in abstractions, of men faithful in doctrine and in practice to the idea of a deaf, unimplorable, immense fate, is Asia; and it realizes this fate in the social institution of caste.
Yet whirl the glowing wheels once more, And mix the bowl again; Seethe, fate! In the early s, however, he read two works that changed the way he viewed ancient Eastern philosophy and religion. On November 5,he made the first of what would eventually be some 1, lectures, "The Uses of Natural History", in Boston.
His poetry, on the other hand, is often called harsh and didactic.
Though they had likely met as early asin the fall ofEmerson asked Thoreau, "Do you keep a journal? Emerson considered Murat an important figure in his intellectual education.
By the latter half of the nineteenth century, Emerson's essays had established his reputation as an outstanding American philosopher, and during the remainder of his life, reviewers were generally reluctant to be overly critical of his poems.
Edward Waldo Emerson was the father of Raymond Emerson. Returning to America inEmerson settled in Concord, Massachusetts and began a career of lecturing on the popular lyceum lecture circuit. Edward's physical health began to deteriorate, and he soon suffered a mental collapse as well; he was taken to McLean Asylum in June at age This was an expanded account of his experience in Paris.
With the publication of his Essays in and Essays: The author, plainly a man of a pure and kindly temper, casts himself into the state of the high and transcendental obedience to the inward Spirit. The movement grew out of Unitarianism in the greater Boston area; was deeply influenced by British and German Romanticism, especially as interpreted by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; and revolved around a form of philosophical and spiritual idealism that valued intuition over the senses.
If the East loved infinity, the West delighted in boundaries. The same year he also helped establish what became known as the Transcendental Club, a group whose noteworthy members included Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller.
Ten years later, on 27 AprilEmerson died in Concord, leaving an enduring legacy as the seminal figure of modern American Orientalism. He died in Concord in He had begun lecturing in ; by the s he was giving as many as 80 lectures per year. His church activities kept him busy, though during this period, facing the imminent death of his wife, he began to doubt his own beliefs.
If you only read one essay though, make it Self-Reliance. In this way they have come into the world, and as yet have hardly begun to be known. Stillman was born and grew up in Schenectady which was just south of the Adirondack mountains. First, by treating non-Western texts with the same respect afforded cultural authorities in the Western traditions, he could disrupt the parochial expectations of his American and European audiences.
As Holmes wrote, "Emerson is afraid to trust himself in society much, on account of the failure of his memory and the great difficulty he finds in getting the words he wants. Emerson served as a pallbearer when Hawthorne was buried in Concord, as Emerson wrote, "in a pomp of sunshine and verdure".
Emerson's friendship with Carlyle was both lasting and significant; the insights of the British thinker helped Emerson formulate his own philosophy.Ralph Waldo Emerson( - ) Emerson's father was a Unitarian minister who died leaving his son to be brought up by his mother and aunt.
Educated at Harvard, Emerson began writing journals. Essays and Poems. By JONES VERY. Boston: C. C. Little and James Brown. This little volume would have received an earlier notice, if we had been at all careful to proclaim our favorite books.
The genius of this book is religious, and reaches an extraordinary depth of sentiment. Essays and Poems has 12, ratings and 67 reviews. James said: Book Review I had read Emerson’s works once before and I hated it at first reacti 4/5.
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This sermon, read by elder Lyndon Dohms, was originally preached to the House of Lords in the abbey church at Westminster during the days of the Westminster Assembly (on August 27, 1645). It deals with Malachi 3:2 and can also be found in volume one of Gillespie's Works. The reading is approximately 80 minutes in length and for content this is likely the best sermon that we have ever carried. The glory of Christ is magnified in a soul stirring manner and at a level which is seldom (if ever) reached in our day. Though preaching before some of the most powerful men of his day, Gillespie does nothing to shave off the sharp edges of the whole counsel of God. He makes it abundantly clear that spiritual Reformation (individual, ecclesiastical and civil) is like a flaming fire which burns the dross of the flesh and is often hated and opposed by those that cry loudest for "Reform." On the other hand, the refining fire of Reformation which pleases God (and comes from His fatherly hands, filled with mercy, love and grace), not only turns his wrath from the nations (by granting the grace to remove the causes of His wrath), but invigorates the spirit with that iconoclastic zeal against sin (whether personal or corporate) that can only be produced by His sovereign power. Whole-hearted (covenanted) reformation is contrasted, throughout this sermon, with the half-hearted comfortable Christianity that has been common in most ages. Gillespie wields the sword of Scripture as few can in driving home a multitude of vitally important points. This sermon can be listened to over and over with increasing profit, as it contains a fullness which is almost impossible to absorb in just one sitting. Don't miss this one; it is a real gem!
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The Ultimate Guide to Storage Unit Auctions was designed to assist anyone who wishes to become a professional auction hunter – that is, someone who makes money by reselling stuff that has been won in a storage unit auction. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with the preliminaries of the subject. To learn more about the nature of storage unit auctions, head over to the section What Are Storage Unit Auctions? To uncover the reason why such auctions take place, you can read How Storage Auctions Take Place. There are three main varieities of storage unit auctions – find out more about these in the section Types of Auctions. To find out more about what to expect in a live auction, you can read What’s It Like to Join Auctions?
Part 2 deals with the strategies, and techniques, needed by a beginner in order to succeed in this type of business. To find out about the common errors, and well-kept strategies, of the best pros in auction hunting, read the section Expert Guidelines for Storage Unit Auctions. For a hard look at the realities of auctions, head over to The Pitfalls of Storage Unit Auctions. If you are interested in reselling most of the stuff that you win a storage unit auction, you might be interested in the section Potential Profits in Reselling. Don’t know how to find the auctions by yourself? Never fear – I’ll share with you how in Finding Storage Auctions. Congratulations on your interest in storage unit auctions… And good luck!


Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: Life on the Home Frontier
“Th[is] study demonstrates both the assumption that wives were essential partners in sustaining the family and that they could survive without the presence of their husbands...without the [women on] the homefront, the adventurer not only would have failed, but he would have lacked the inspiration for the enterprise.”
--Western Historical Quarterly
“Without detracting from the very real hardships and dangers endured by westering men, independent scholars Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith relate the experiences of more than 50 women...The loneliness and fears of these all-but-abandoned women speak eloquently over the years.”
“Wives left behind by westward-traveling husbands in search of gold, land, or merely adventure were often left in socially and economically precarious positions. Peavy and Smith have pored over family documents to 'analyze the immediate and long-term effects...of the separated family in the westward movement...Because of the nature of the sources, the stories are very personal ones that draw the reader into an intimate awareness of life on the homeward side of the frontier movement.”
“Peavy and Smith, two independent scholars, have followed the fortunes of more than 50...women [in waiting], sometimes focusing on the excruciatingly slow correspondence between the wives and their husbands. Their research reaises questions about the heroic image of these westering men and admits the women and children, themselves living on the 'home frontier,' into the pantheon.”
During the last half of the nineteenth century, thousands of men went west in search of gold, land, or adventure, leaving their wives to handle family, farm, and business affairs on their own. The experiences of these westering men have long been a part of the lore of the American frontier, but the stories of the wives they left behind have rarely been told. Ten years of research into public and private documents has enabled Peavy and Smith to tell their forgotten stories. Based on the experiences of more than fifty women, Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement offers a rare glimpse into life on the home frontier.


Pinochio Used as a Symbol against Liars
Pinocchio literature originated in Italy in 1880 and was completed as a cartoon in 1883. The setting of this story was taken from the fable in its native region, namely the village of San Miniato Basso. Pinocchio is a literary work for children and culture. UNESCO has considered heritage as a literary work. The story of Pinocchio has been translated into more than 240 languages.
What moral message does the work seek to convey?


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Our Blessed Mother Mary did not ascend into heaven on her own power, as Christ did, but was raised into heaven by God’s grace. The Feast of the Assumption is marked as a major feast day and a public holiday in many countries. In most countries, including the United States, it is a Holy Day of Obligation, and Catholics are required to attend Mass.
The belief in the Assumption of Mary was a widely-held tradition, and a frequent meditation in the writings of saints throughout the centuries. However it was not defined officially until the past century. In 1950, Pope Pius XII made an infallible, ex-cathedra statement in the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus officially defining the dogma of the Assumption.
“By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory,” the pope wrote.
Within the decree, which was passed beforehand to dioceses around the world, Pope Pius XII surveys centuries of Christian thought and the writings of a number of saints on the Assumption of Mary.
For a better understanding of the history of the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, please read: The History of the Assumption, and-Why It’s A Holy Day of Obligation, by By Adelaide Mena


"A powerful book on embracing your core values, being more decisive, and committing to meaningful change." -Forbes.com
Why read it? To understand you can make change and have the emotional agility to make it stick. This is a great book to help you feel confident in the difficult decisions you need to make as a business owner.
"In this brilliant book, Gino Wickman and Mark C. Winters explain the vital importance of having both a visionary and an integrator--and show how that relationship can provide the 'rocket fuel' your company needs to achieve its full potential." --Bo Burlingham, Editor-at-Large of Inc. magazine
Why read it? To better understand your superpowers at work, and focus on finding those that can bring skills into your business so you can spend more time doing what you do best. This book will change the way you see your strengths and weaknesses and empower you to double down on what you are great at.
"Quit being a slave to your own business and start making some serious money. Follow Mike's counterintuitive advice and put profits first."--VERNE HARNISH, author of Scaling Up
Why read it? To get a better handle of your business finances and position yourself to grow sustainably and profitably. This book has changed the lives of many business owners with some simple techniques that anyone can implement.
'A book for the bedside of every future - and current - leader in the world.' - Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power
Why read it? Because we all come up against obstacles, and seeing them as opportunities and catalysts to move you is a great strategy in business and life. Especially in times like this, being able to see opportunity in adversity is a super power all business owners need.
We hope you enjoy the list! Let us know what yo uare loving to read at the moment as we are always up for a recommendation!


A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
(#47 on The Big Read. My Combined score: 28)
Maybe the first book I’ve read from this list that I knew the whole story going in having seen a lot of the movie adaptions.
Total: 28 out of 30
Overall: I have to admit I was surprised how well the book met my expectations. About half way through I started kind of dreading turning each page because it was taking me closer to the end.
Recommendations: Any who likes to read and anyone who likes Christmas.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
(#6 on The Big Read. My combined score: 27)
First published in 1960.
Another classic that I have somehow never read or seen on screen. I’ve avoided it because I thought of it as one of those books they make you read in high school English. I’m vaguely familiar with the story, I think it’s set in the American south somewhere between 1920 and 1950 and it’s about a white lawyer defending a black man, innocent I think, for murder or something.
Total: 27 out of 30
Overall: I loved this book. Atticus Finch may be the best dad in American literature. At least he’s the best I’ve ever come across. Then of course there is Scout. If you don’t like Scout then I am sorry but we cannot be friends. The only down side to the book is in the final third it tends to get a bit preachy at times. I suspect that was the result of pressure from the editor since there is none of it in the first half.
Recommendations: Anyone who likes to read.
The Twits by Roald Dahl
(#81 on The Big Read. My combined score: 9)
The book was written in 1979 and first published in 1980.
Going in I’ve absolutely never heard of this book. I’m familiar with a few of Dahl’s stories but only through the movies and of those the only ones I’ve seen are Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Fantastic Mr Fox. I decided to read this one first because it’s short and will give me some quick material to throw onto the blog.
Total: 9 out of 30
Overall: Crap. Crap. Crap. What the hell England? Really? This is one of your most beloved novels? It’s crap. This is worse than crap. It’s the crap that crap craps out. It’s obviously intended to be funny but it’s not. Not by a long shot. And who is this book for? It’s too vile and ugly for kids and too stupid for adults. I’m wondering did they save the bathroom stall door Roald doodled this on while taking a dump and stick it in a museum? I am not looking forward to reading any of his other books now. None of them. England, you people are weird. Too much inbreeding on that little island or something. And how on earth is this a novel? It’s like 20 pages long and is nothing but a series of very unpleasant episodes.
Recommendations: No one. Time spent reading the title is wasted. I can’t even recommend this as a means to torture black hearted criminals because it’s too short. Maybe it would make a good gag gift for someone in the office at Christmas if you are their Secret Santa. But only if it’s someone you really hate.
Available on Amazon.com but I can’t imagine why.
Kindle Edition: The Twits
Paperback Edition: The Twits
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
(#7 on The Big Read. My combined score: 27)
First published in 1926.
First I have to admit I had no idea Winnie-the-Pooh was a novel. I always thought it was a kids picture book along the lines of Where the Wild Things Are or The Giving Tree. Of course I’ve seen more than one of the movies but that was ages ago. I remember stuff about a honey jar, a blustery day and I think maybe a garden but don’t know if any of that is in this book. I remember all of the characters of course. I’m hoping Tigger and Eeyore show up. Like most civilized people they were my favorites. Actually speaking of Eeyore, I know him. He’s been one of my best friends for about 15 years and is my next door neighbor. He looks a little different than in the the book but it’s him.
Total: 27 out of 30
Overall: Well that was a fun little read. Kind of pushes the bounds on the definition of a “novel” though. I wish I had known about this ages ago so I could have read it to my kids when they were young. It is an almost perfect children’s book. For reading to kids at bedtime I rank it easily up there with all of Dr. Seuss and The Children’s Illustrated Bible.
Recommendations: Obviously I can’t recommend this highly enough to anyone with preschool age kids. But I’d also recommend it to everyone else. Read it at least once just to share a piece of heritage with the rest of humanity.
Available on Amazon.com
Kindle Edition: Winnie the Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh Book 1)
Paperback Edition: Winnie-the-Pooh (Puffin Modern Classics)
DVD: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
(#36 on The Big Read. My combined score: 24)
First published as a novel on 23 May 1883. It was originally serialized in a children’s magazine named Young Folks between 1881 and 1882.
Overall: 24 out of 30
Overall: A great book. I’m very glad I finally read it and now looking forward to tracking down one of the screen adaptions. (Edited to add: Now having watched the 1990 version and the Muppet version never mind about that last bit.)
Recommendations: I’d have no problem recommending this book to anyone and it would be one of the very first books I would give to a 12 to 14 year old boy.
Available on Amazon.com
Free Kindle Edition: Treasure Island
Paperback Edition: Treasure Island (Dover Thrift Editions)
DVD: Treasure Island (1950 starring Bobby Driscoll and Robert Newton)
DVD: Treasure Island (1990 starring Charlton Heston and Christian Bale)
6/10 Treasure Island (1990) with Charlton Heston and Christian Bale. Man this movie is boring and Bale is just way to intense. Maybe I misread the book but I thought there was more of a touch of fun and adventure. There is none of that in this movie. The problem I think was pretty obvious, Fraser Clarke Heston is a not a good director. Nepotism is bad, okay.
DVD: Muppet Treasure Island (1996 Starring Tim Curry and Kevin Bishop)
4/10 Muppets Treasure Island (1996) with Tim Curry and Kevin Bishop. I was curious how Disney would handle all the death, murder and rum guzzling and turns out they were just straight up okay with it. Sadly that did not do anything to improve the movie. While this had all of the sense of fun missing from the 1990 version, that’s about all it had. Oh my god this movie is terrible. And full of so many needless changes. Why have Cpt Flint kill 15 men instead of 6? Why make Jim Hawkins an orphan? Why all the singing? Okay, I know why all the singing, it’s a muppet movie. But couldn’t they have done some good singing? And really, except for the character names and the fact that pirates and treasure are involved this movie barely follows the story. Man it’s terrible. Even Tim Curry who I normally love is wasted.
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
(#59 on The Big Read. My combined score: 20)
This is the first book in a young-adult series featuring the character Artemis Fowl II, a teenage genius criminal. The novel was first published in 2001.
Total: 20 out of 30
Overall: I enjoyed the book. The narration was annoying and the characters are a bit stale but neither of those are likely to bother anyone in the target audience. And while there doesn’t seem to be any lesson learned or moral to the story it also isn’t offensive in any way.
Recommendations: I would readily recommend to any young reader, especially boys. It wouldn’t be in the top 10 books I would recommend but if they had already read the good stuff I would have no problem pointing them here.
Available on Amazon.com:
Book 1: Artemis Fowl (Kindle Edition)
Book 2: Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident (Kindle Edition)
Book 3: Artemis Fowl The Eternity Code (Kindle Edition)
Book 4: Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (Kindle Edition)
Book 5: Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony (Kindle Edition)
Book 6: Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox (Kindle Edition)
Book 7: Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex (Kindle Edition)
Book 8: Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian (Kindle Edition)
Emma by Jane Austen
(#40 on The Big Read. My combined score: 10)
I think this was Austen’s fourth published novel, maybe fifth. I’m not sure how to count Susan. A quick reading of her bio is kind of confusing. She apparently started and abandoned a lot of books and frequently changed the titles. Anyway, Emma was first published in 1815 and was the last one of her books published while she lived.
Total: 10 out of 30
Overall: Hated this book. Hated the main character, hated having spent time with her, hated that she got off with a happy ending. The one positive to come out of reading this is my respect for Amy Heckerling has gone way up. That she was able to take this story and turn it into a movie as enjoyable as Clueless is amazing.
Recommendations: Who would I recommend this book to? Masochists. People locked in prison for committing heinous crimes. Anyone with a very short time to live who wants to make the time pass very, very slowly.
I see there is one more Jane Austen book on the list, Persuasion. I am definitely not leaping into it next. I think instead of reading that or jumping back to the top of the list I will knock a few of the short young reader/children’s books out of the way. Both to add some quick content to this blog and to get the taste of Emma out of my mind.
Available on Amazon.com
Free Kindle Edition: Emma
Paperback Edition: Emma (Paperback)
DVD: Emma (Starring Gwyneth Paltrow)
5/10 I don’t like Gwyneth Paltrow much but she makes a passable Emma. Which isn’t really saying much since I don’t like Emma either. The movie stays fairly close to the book which is normally something very important to me.
DVD: Clueless (Starring Alicia Silverstone)
8/10 This is a great movie and as far adaptions go it is stunning. To take a book I hated and turn it into a movie I really enjoyed is amazing. Since the story is retold in a modern setting it strays very far from the book but that was not an issue for me at all.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
(#2 on The Big Read. My combined score: 23)
Written between October 1796 and August 1797, revised between 1811 and 1812 and finally first published in 1813. It’s amazing to me that Austen was only 21 when she started this book.
Austen saw little of the profit from this book as she sold all rights for £110.
Surprised to find that I loved the book almost from the first page. The mom especially. I won’t say she reminded me at all of my mom, but she did.
Total: 23 out of 30
Overall: Loved the book. I ranked the story element relatively low just because there didn’t really seem to be one.
Recommendations: Highly recommend to any adult or smart teen.
Available on Amazon.com
Free Kindle Edition: Pride and Prejudice
DVD: Pride & Prejudice: Keepsake Edition (1995 BBC 6 part miniseries starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle)
10/10 An almost flawless adaption. If you liked the book at all watch it.
DVD: Pride & Prejudice (2005 movie starring Keira Knightley and Talulah Riley)
8/10 A very good adaption. I wasn’t 100% happy with the casting (Elizabeth being prettier than Jane for example) but really the only problem was that the movie skips over so much material. But that’s always going to be a problem when they adapt a book into a movie.
Like a lot of people I’m always looking for something good to read. I often ask friends and associates for recommendations but that hasn’t been very successful. Possibly because I have a policy of killing anyone who suggests a book that I end up hating. Lately I’ve been downloading a lot of books off of the Amazon Top 100 ebooks and Top 100 Free eBooks lists but that has been very hit or miss. I’ve read some that I like but quite often I get a quarter to half way through a book and quit in disgust. But one thing I noticed on the free list is there are usually a lot of classics available. A part of my brain kept nagging me that people must still be reading them for a reason and that if I want something good to read there they are right in front of me. But to be honest I found the idea of reading a lot of them intimidating. And then one day while surfing the web I came across a list of the United Kingdom’s 200 “best-loved” novels. It was call The Big Read. Continue reading


Today’s post is travel writer Nichole L. Reber’s review of the Kira Salak memoir, The Cruelest Journey. Nichole is full-on obsessed with the fraternal twin crafts of writing and reading, so I’m sure you’ll enjoy her insights. Get to know Nichole and her work by visiting her website or her Facebook page.
“No place is safe. Safety, itself, is an illusion.” Kira Salak
The women’s memoirs I’ve read since repatriating to the US have repeatedly disappointed me. Rather than travelogues about other cultures and a writer’s (small) place in it, today’s publishers churn out self-obsessive memoirs aimed at women as if we were interested solely in finding boyfriends and making babies with men of foreign accents. Women writing about living in Japan, Yemen, mainland China, and Hong Kong, for instance, focus on infertility or stealing husbands, treading nowhere near anthropological observations of the other cultures. Then there’s Kira Salak. She raises travel writing to the level of explorer writing.
Her book, The Cruelest Journey, published by Brooklyn-based Restless Books, is a riveting read. It, like her other books and National Geographic stories, reveals a women who eschews the easy route, the clichÃ© destination. Salak has crossed Papua New Guinea and made a 700-mile cycling trip across Alaska to the Arctic Ocean. She has ventured into Iranian vistas where local travel guides don’t take their clients, and explored Madagascar, Mozambique, Bangladesh, Libya, Bhutan, and Borneo. At the age of 20, backpacking through Africa at the height of a brutal civil war in Mozambique, she was kidnapped by marauding soldiers.
“Since then I’ve sought out countries that are dangerous in order to reveal situations no one else is covering, like slavery in Timbuktu and genocide in eastern Congo. These tragedies are very emotionally difficult to witness, but if by shedding light on them I can improve even one person’s life, I feel it’s worth the risk,” she wrote in National Geographic.
The Cruelest Journey tells her journey kayaking solo six hundred miles down West Africa’s Niger River in an inflatable kayak toward the Saharan city of Timbuktu.
She begins her trip with a single backpack in a torrential downpour from the Malian town of Old SÃ©gou. She reveals how Timbuktu fell from its zenith during the Songhai Empire’s reign from 1463-1591, when its academic and artistic riches were tantamount Florence’s during Europe’s age of Enlightenment until it was sacked by the Moors in the late 16th century, and how it’s come to be the rubble heap and tourist trap it is today.
Salak equips herself for the journey with the writings of 18th-century Scottish explorer Mungo Park, who twice labored over this course but perished along the way. Determined to follow in (most of) his footsteps, she shows us a place that time has all but abandoned. She witnesses polio and leprosy, voodoo priests and shamans, and abundant slavery, despite its being outlawed there. She kayaks through a pod of hippos like tiptoeing through a field of landmines.
She learns to discern the differences between tribes such as the Tuareg, the Fulani and the Bambarra, the Bozo and Somono. Most nights she stops at villages, learning to deduce which tribe lives there by characteristics visible from the river, if she can’t already discern that by how the village inhabitants react to her from the shore. Do they wave and exchange greetings, yell and threaten her, or watch her like a zoo animal” All the while she searches for commonalities, for ways of communicating and better understanding by speaking to them in Bambarra.
Thoughts on Male Travelers
One particularly enjoyable part of Salak’s book is her ability to alternately make fun of and admire male travelers. (Though admittedly her adoration of Park sometimes reads like Oriana Fallaci’s hero worship of Alekos Panagulis in A Man.)
“He doesn’t hide his distress, and his trademark equanimity fails him, revealing glimpses of a traumatizing ordeal. Many male adventurers of his time chose to hide such candor, opting instead for bravado or tedious ethnographical digressions,” he says of Park’s narrative of his capture by Moors. When the women among his captors repeatedly inspected his physique, they became particularly hands-on to find out if circumcision also applies to Christians. Park supposedly had some say in the matter, allowing only beautiful women the chance to inspect his white skin and naughty bits.
Gender Differences in Travel
“My gender will always make me appear more vulnerable. But to not travel anywhere out of fear, or to remain immobilized in a state of hypervigilance when I do, feels akin to psychological bondage. I do not want to give away that kind of power.”
She doesn’t decry this reality. She does in a way that can be described as literary anthropology. “The Somono fishermen, casting out their nets, puzzle over me as I float by. ‘a va, madame”‘ they yell.”
Each fisherman carries a young son perched in the back of his pointed canoe to do the paddling. The boys stare at me, transfixed; they have never seen such a thing. A white woman. Alone. In a red, inflatable boat. Using a two-sided paddle.
“I’m an even greater novelty because Malian women don’t paddle here, not ever. It is a man’s job. So there is no good explanation for me, and the people want to understand.”
Considering the death-defying adventure she’s chosen the reader wants to understand too. What would compel a person to take such a trip” She addresses this and the very fundamental things that, as I learned when living abroad, mark the difference between tourism and travel.
Why Embark on These Trips”
Concerning “what we look for when we embark on these kinds of trips,” she writes: “There is the pat answer that you tell the people you don’t know: that you’re interested in seeing a place, learning about its people. But then the trip begins and the hardship comes, and hardship is more honest: It tells us that we don’t have enough patience yet, nor humility, nor gratitude. And we thought that we did. Hardship brings us closer to truth, and thus is more difficult to bear, but from it alone comes compassion.”
Salak’s poetic prose, like the parallel narratives of her journey and Park’s, meanders throughout the book like the bends and curves of the Niger itself. “The late afternoon sun settles complacently over the hills to the west. Paddling becomes a sort of meditation now, a gentle trespassing over a river that slumbers. The Niger gives me its beauty almost in apology for the violence of the earlier storms, treating me to smooth silver waters that ripple in the sunlight. The current – if there is one – barely moves. Park described the same grandeur of the Niger during his second journey, in an uncharacteristically sentimental passage that provided a welcome respite from accounts of dying soldiers and baggage stolen by natives.”
Heading Into Deeper Water
Her deft handling of dynamics, coupled with the occasional sweetener of levity make The Cruelest Journey an energetic read. This Restless Books publication and Salak’s other books such as Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea, traverse the depths of the human condition, weaves between fear and bliss, and blurs borders of time and place.
As Jessa Crispin points out in an essay in the Boston Review: “That the market has not sustained the work of other, more rugged, less self-obsessive women travel writers may have more to do with our expectations as readers than with any faults of their writing. We still look to men to tell us about what they do and to women to tell us how they feel.”
Meanwhile, for readers who like their water deeper, there’s the work of Kira Salak.
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Α. ON DOGMATICS AND DOGMAS
1. Definition – Sources – Content and Method of Dogmatics:
1a. Form and character of Dogmatics
1b. Dogmatics as Hermeneutics (Interpretational)
1c. The Dogmatics method
2. The term: «Dogma» and its significance
3. The affiliation of dogmas to the Holy Scriptures
4. The work of the Holy Spirit in the phrasing of the dogmas
5. The work of the Church in the phrasing of the dogmas
Β. ON COGNIZANCE AND FAITH
I. On cognizance:
1c. Cognizance through the Son and Logos
1d1. Cognizance in person part 1: The element of Freedom
II. On faith
C. ON GOD
2. Basic principles of Patristic teaching:
2a. Up to the Cappadocian Fathers
2b. The contribution of the Cappadocians
2d. Discerning between "Theology" and "Providence"
1. Discernments of the Cappadocians on the “being” of God:
1a. The “whatever”, the “what” and the “how” of God
1b. “Essence”, “energy” and “person”
2. The transferral of the terms “essence”, “Energy” and “Person” into Theology (The problem of freedom)
2a. The prerequisites of the Patristic Synthesis
2b. The contribution of the Cappadocian Fathers – The patristic notion of the person
2c. Augustin’s theology and the problem of the Filioque
2d. The theological problem of the Filioque
2e. The Filioque in Theology and in Providence
2f. The dogma of creation - the problem of Gnosticism
2f2. The correction of Platonic ideas by the Christian faith
Ε. ON CREATION, SALVATION, CHRISTOLOGY AND ECCLESIOLOGY
1. The dogma regarding Creation
3. Existential consequences of the dogma on Creation
4. The consequences of man’s downfall
F. ECCLESIOLOGICAL TOPICS
2. Orthodox Ecclesiology topics:
2a. The eschatological identity of the Church
2b. “Therapeutic” or “Liturgical” Ecclesiology: the synthesis of Saint Maximus the Confessor - Questions
2c. The Trinitarian basis of Ecclesiology
2d. Imagery in ontology - Questions
2e. Formation and structure of the Church
2f. The Local and worldwide Church – The Synodic institution
3. Commentary on Western Ecclesiology
3a. The dialectics of “the one” and “the many”. The priority of a universal Church
3b. The problem of priority between Christology and Pneumatology (of the Spirit)
3c. History and Eschatology – Questions
G. ORTHODOXY AND WESTERN THEOLOGY
Texts by Rev. John Zizioulas (Addendum)
(Dogmatics – Therapy - Theology – Filioque – Ecclesiology – Christology – Pneumatology)
1 Introductory, basic characteristics of Western thought 1b. Western Ethicism and Dostoevsky 2. Theology and Providence (Oekonomia) in Western thought 2b. Sickness and healing in Orthodox Theology 3. The problem of the Filioque 4. The existential repercussions of the Filioque - Questions 5. Ecclesiology, Christology, Pneumatology
Lessons on Christian Dogmatics
These are the notes that were taken from the lectures of Professor I. Zizioulas (current Metropolitan of Pergamus and Chairman of the Athens Academy) at the Poemantic Division of the Thessaloniki University’s School of Theology, during the academic year 1984-1985.
They are published with the blessing and the permission of the reverend Metropolitan.
The notes were published with the caring and the responsibility of the students, for use during their examinations.
Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki
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Once you have got as far back as possible using family tradition and certificates you will need to turn to the parish registers for information. You will usually find parish registers at the local County Record office and may find a transcript or microfilm copy at a major town library. Failing that try looking for parish registers at the nearest Genealogical library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
In general births were not recorded but children were generally baptised within 2-3 months of their birth. These baptism records will usually give the name of the child's parents and their 'abode'. Use this information to find the marriage record of the parents. The marriage record will usually tell you the name of both parties and their parents names. use that to find the baptism records of the parents and so on. Incidentally after 1837 in England and Wales and after 1855 and 1864 in Scotland and Ireland, you will find that marriage records in a parish are the same as the records held by the Registrar and not nearly as expensive to look at.
Before you start looking through parish records you should have a clear idea of what you are looking for and have worked out a way of keeping the information you discover. This is where your pencil and hard backed notebook come in.
Here's a page from my own notebook. I was looking for the birth of Mary Barker, (who married George Chapman at Romaldkirk 1767), in Romaldkirk Parish Register. Now Mary could have been 16 at the time of marriage so it makes sense to start searching from the year 1751 although I would normally expect her age at marriage to have been around 20 and therefore her birth to be around 1747(before 1763 Mary could have been 12 or younger at her marriage). Once you have the parish register (or a transcript) in front of you begin by making a table recording the years searched, the register searched and the location of the register.
When looking at these records later this table tells me what records were searched, where they are, the names searched for and the years searched. In this case baptisms were searched from 1751 to 1704, marriages from 1751 to 1712, and burials from 1751 to 1704 .
|Romaldkirk Parish Register microfilm copy in Leeds Public Library|
|Barker, Brown (1742-1704)|
1751 Aug 11
Joseph son of Tho and Eliz Barker Mickleton (bapt)
1745 Sept 24 Mary dau of Tho and Eliz Barker of Mickleton (bapt) - the record I was looking for
1743/4 Mar 14 Jn son of Tho and Eliz Barker Mickleton (bapt)
1739 June 23 John son of Timothy & Mgt Barker bapt by ye curate
1735 May 29 Timothy son of Timothy & Mgt Barker East Briscoe bapt by ye curate
1731 May 27 Eliz dau of Timothy & Mgt Barker East Briscoe bapt by ye curate
1726 Dec 4 Mary dau of Timothy & Mgt Barker East Briscoe bapt by ye curate
1724/5 Jan 15 Wm son of Mathew & Agnes Harker Romaldkirk yeoman bapt by ye curate
1723 July 21 Mary dau of Mathew & Agnes Harker Romaldkirk yeoman bapt by ye curate
1742 July 18 Thomas Barker this parish and Elizabeth Brown this parish banns (mar) - Mary's parents marriage
1715 May 10 Sarah dau of Wm and Mary Browne Mickleton (bapt)
1719 April 11 Sarah dau of Christopher & Margaret Browne Bousewood (bapt)
1720 June 25 Elizabeth dau of Wm and Mary Brownee Mickleton yeo (bapt) - Mary's mother's baptism record
1737/8 Jan 16 Joseph Browne Mickleton (no name given) married by ye curate
1752 Mar 5 John Brown Cotherston (bur)
1748/9 Feb 15 Mary Brown widdow Mickleton (bur)
1735/6 Mar 15 Timothy Barker son of Timothy Barker East end of Briscoe bur by ye curate
1732 May 28 Christopher Brown a householder of Booswood bur by ye curate
1713 Dec 17 Dorothy Dau of Christopher Browne Boweswood (bapt)
1711/2 Jan 24 Mary dau of Xtopher Browne Bowes Wood (bapt)
1711 Sept 2 Mgt dau of Joseph Browne Mickleton (bapt)
1706 June 16 Isabell & Margt daus William & Mary Harker Romaldkirk (bapt)
1705 Oct 25 Mgt dau of Chris. & Mgtt Brown Bowes Wood in Baldersdale (bapt)
1704 Dec 26 John son of Henry Yarker of Mickleton (bapt)
Notice that whilst looking for 'Mary Barker', all records with similar surnames were copied down. Also care should be taken not to use abbreviations which may later be confusing - does 'b' stand for born, baptised or buried?
It helps to understand the information in parish registers if you know a little of their history.
Parish Registers were first ordered to be kept by Thomas Cromwell, Vicar General of King Henry VIII in 1538. Cromwell ordered that every parish must keep a register and that every Sunday, the Parson, in the presence of the wardens, must enter all the baptisms, marriage and burials of the previous week. The register was to be kept in a coffer with two locks. Failure to comply imposed a fine of 3s 4d (17p) which was to be spent on the upkeep of the church. The order was received with much suspicion - most people believed it was the forerunner for some new tax. Many parishes ignored it.
The order was repeated in 1547 during the reign of Edward VI but this time the fine was to go towards poor relief.
In 1557 the clergy were instructed to record the name of Godfather and Godmother. This was an attempt to stem the soaring divorce rate! At that time it was only necessary to state you had in error married your Godparent's son / daughter. In the eyes of the church this was your spiritual brother / sister and the marriage was spiritual incest and therefore invalid. Godparents were sometimes referred to as 'sureties', 'witnesses' or the old English 'gossib' or 'gossip'
In 1563 parliament passed an act which carried more weight. Records were to be kept in 'great decent books of parchment' and copies or 'Bishop's Transcripts' of new entries were to be sent each month to the diocesan centre. Previous entries in paper registers were to be copied into the new books. Paper was at the time much cheaper than parchment (which is made from animal skins) and in many cases loose sheets of paper had been used (which got lost). Over time some paper registers had deteriorated to the point where the registers were unreadable, a fact not helped by the home made ink of the time. Unfortunately the act stated that the costs involved were to be met by imposing charges for entries. This was strongly opposed by many clergy and the act was not enforced.
was not until the ecclesiastical mandates of 1597 and 1603 that the act was
enforced throughout the country. The parish was now to finance the registers
and the books were to be kept in a chest with three locks. To ensure that
records were kept properly the entries were to be read out each Sunday after
evensong. Few of the early paper registers survive but those that do indicate
the enormous task which faced those transcribing early paper registers. Often
only the bare essentials were copied. E.g. one copied entry of St. Dunstan's
1560. February 17. Mr Rithe buried
the old paper register adds:
A benchar of Lyncolnes Yne, buryed out of the newe brycke byldyngs, beynge in oure parishe, the nether syde of Lyncolnes Yne
were poorly kept during the English Civil war 1643 - 1647 and in the commonwealth
period which followed it. Many were abandoned or hidden by the clergy and
in some cases were lost completely. Durham has one register which was rediscovered
and which sports a set of holes from the garden fork which dug it up. It was during
this period that civil registers were set up and civil marriages allowed.
Fees were charged for entries as follows:
(For those unacquainted with pre-decimal coins 1d = one 'old' penny = 1/240th of a pound = £0.0042)
Registers were returned to churches after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
In 1678 an act was passed making it compulsory for all corpses to be buried in a shroud made of wool only. This was to encourage the wool trade. An affidavit was to be made and recorded that this had been carried out. This was not a popular law since the poor could ill afford the shroud. Coffins incidentally were not used for burials until after 1797 by any other than the rich. It was the practice for the corpse to be taken to the grave in a parish coffin and then be removed for burial. A separate burial register was enforced from this date.
In 1694 the
register entries were finally used as a tax to raise money for a war against
marriage 2s 6d
(1s = one shilling = 1/20th of a pound = £0.05)
Even worse was a tax on all unmarried men of 1s per year! In 1696 an order was passed that a fine of £2 was to be imposed on all who did not report the birth of a child to the vicar within 5 days. Children who were not christened were to pay a tax of 6d to the vicar. Vicars who failed to record a birth were to be fined £2 for neglect. This highly unpopular tax was not abandoned until 1706 when it was realised that enforcing the penalties would ruin many clergy.
In 1711 an order was made that parish registers should be ruled and that pages should be numbered - generally ignored.
1733 a law was passed forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers.
1738 marked the commencement of Methodist registers. At the time the registers had to be hidden since they were illegal.
1751 was the year the calendar was reformed. Prior to this, the year commenced on Lady Day - 25th of March. So, in previous registers, December 31st 1750 would have been followed by January 1st 1750 and not 1751 as it would today.
1754 - Lord Hardwick's Marriage Act. This Act enforced a separate marriage register which was later pre-printed and had spaces for witnesses, the signature of the bride and groom, the condition and parish of the bride and groom and the signature of the minister. It also enforced banns and made clandestine marriages illegal. (No more jumping the broom). You can see an example of an early parish marriage register showing the entries for banns and marriage here. A later printed version from the Bishop Middleham, Durham, marriage register is shown below.
1763 the minimum age of marriage was fixed at 16
Prior to this date, the church accepted the marriage of girls aged 12 or more and boys aged 14 or more. In addition, a dispensation on licence could be obtained from a bishop which allowed marriage at a younger age. From 1763 a person below the age of 21 required the consent of parents to be married in England. An example of an early age marriage is this one from Burnley parish in Lancashire:
1582 Edmunde Tattersall of ye age of xiij yeares and Lettice Hargreves of thage of xvº yeares mard 14 May
1783 stamp duty
A stamp duty of 3d was placed on all entries and registers causing many families not to have children baptised. Paupers were exempt. Many entries of 'pauper' were made by the minister when parents would not pay. The duty was repealed in 1794.
Bishop Shute Barrington was the bishop of Durham and Northumberland and also an amateur genealogist. He asked that all parish registers in Northumberland and Durham be kept in great detail. Here's a typical Bishop Shute Barrington baptism entry from Gainford parish register:
1805 - Margaret Chapman, born November 18, 1804, baptised March 31st 1805. Second daughter of John Chapman of Headlam, schoolmaster, (son of George Chapman) native of Lartington in the parish of Romaldkirk, Yorkshire, by his wife Mary Robinson (daughter of William Robinson) native of West Rounton, Yorkshire.
Bishop Shute Barrington entries affect only Northumberland and Durham for the years 1797 - 1812 but, offer valuable information and are worth looking for. Even if your ancestor was born outside these dates - look for the birth records of a sibling. Similar entries are to be found in many Scottish registers.
New printed baptism, marriage and burial registers were to be used by all parishes with separate volumes for each. Unfortunately, this meant the end of the very useful Bishop Shute Barrington records. The marriage register remained unchanged. Baptism and burial registers are as below:
Baptisms solemnized in the parish of Kirby Stephen
In the county of Westmoreland In the year 1821
Child's Christian Name
Quality, Trade or Profession
By whom the ceremony was performed
November 5 1821
John Robinson and Sarah
Headlam Nr. Gainford
Burials in the parish of Gainford
In the county of Durham In the year 1849
By whom the ceremony was performed
Feb. 26th 1849
Both forms of entry are still in use.
1853 Cemetery Act
By 1853, many churchyards were over crowded and an act of parliament was passed, which allowed towns to open cemeteries.
Points to watch for
- Always look for a printed transcript of the parish register. Printed transcripts are much easier and quicker to read although you do have to rely on the accuracy if the transcriber. If you find the entry you are looking for then it's worth checking it against the original. If you don't find an entry but find the entries of siblings, again it's worth checking the original.
- If you're really lucky, you might find a copy available on the Web. Try looking at http://www.freereg.org.uk.
- Look for parish register transcripts or microfilm copies in the local library first. Failing that, check the County Record Office, failing that, look for a microfilm copy at a local genealogical library of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. As a last resort, check with the vicar of the parish concerned.
- Early registers can be very hard to read. Usually the pages were not ruled. The ink quality was poor and the paper may be stained from mould. Often, separate sections of the register were started for baptisms, marriages and burials and sooner or later, ran into each other. You may find that baptism you're looking for mixed in with the marriages or burials.
- Before 1733, the register may be written in Latin.
- The style of writing has changed over the years and it takes practice to read early script.
- Spelling varies tremendously. I have come across the same family's surname spelt three different ways on the same page by the same vicar. The rule seems to have been, 'spell it the way it sounds - add an 'e' if you feel like it'. To give you an example, I know of 44 different ways that the surname 'Dickson' has been spelt. In my own family, the surname 'Foggan' has been spelt with the last vowel as a, e, i, o, u, or y. It also has one or two g's and the first vowel has sometimes been replaced with an 'a' as in 'Fagin'.
- If you're unable to find a parish register, (some have been lost), try looking for the bishop's transcripts. For Northumberland and Durham, these are held at the Department of Paleography in Durham University.


Historical fiction is my go-to genre for relaxation these days. I know the story itself is fiction, but most are based on real people or true events. Historical fiction reads often lead me to investigate the real lives and happenings behind the fictional accounts.
"The Widow Nash" is, well, a Slog.
The synopsis for "The Widow Nash" intrigued me. After her father's death, main character Dulcy runs away from her home and violent ex-fiancé to build a new life under a different identity.
Can Dulcy create a believable life as a widow in a small Montana town? Will the ex-fiancé find her? Can she ever be free? Great setup. The execution? Not so much.
It took nearly 100 pages for Dulcy's father to die. That's not a spoiler - it's the beginning of the real story. But, did we have to be treated to every disgusting detail of what dying of syphilis was like when there were no cures?
Once Dulcy lands in a hastily chosen Montana location, we're introduced to a lot of different townspeople. By the time I got to the middle of the book, I lost track of who was who. And, in most cases, I didn't care. Descriptions of parties, dinners out, and tiny details made this book a lot longer than it needed to be.
I slogged through. I did want to know how it ended. But, I am not sure the journey was worth the slog.
Note: I do not believe "The Widow Nash" is based on any real person or event. If it is, the author does not reference it in her notes.
"The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter" is another story. And, what a good one it is.
I've always been intrigued by lighthouses. And, the women, yes women, who took care of them. The "Women Who Kept the Lights," by Mary Louise Clifford and J. Candace Clifford, is a fascinating illustrated history of female lighthouse keepers. It's a wonderful book if you can get your hands on it.
"The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter" is based on the true story of Grace Darling, who, in 1838, risked her life during a storm to help her father rescue shipwreck survivors. She became a Victorian-era heroine.
The book hit all the right notes for me. Based on a true story, well-written, a lighthouse, courageous women, believable characters, full of charm, and written by an author who has the same first name as one of my grandmothers. Doesn't get much better.
* Quote from "The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter," by Hazel Gaynor.


Adam Gidwitz, author extraordinaire, has established quite a fan base here at PS 196Q since his visit with fifth graders on December 5th, 2016. Thus, it isn’t any wonder how quickly word spread of his most recent achievement. On January 23rd, 2017, Adam Gidwitz received one of the highest awards in children’s literature in the U.S — a Newbery Honor! Mr. Gidwitz received this honor for his fifth book, The Inquisitor’s Tale.
Fascination with Mr. Gidwitz and his books all began with Gidwitz’s captivating, and dare I say, gory, presentations of his retellings of the original Grimm Brothers stories. Since his visit, “Gidwitz” and “Grimm” seem to have become household names at PS 196Q as copies of Mr. Gidwitz’s books continue to fly off library and classroom shelves!
Congratulations Adam Gidwitz!
Army Sergeant, Paleoanthropologist, Attorney, Career Advisor, Court Officer, College Professor, Writer, Sales, Cellist, Computer Programmer on and on…. Another successful Career Day! A big thank you to all the parents who participated. The children had an opportunity to hear about different careers and the skills required for each job, and most important for our children, to make connections why the things they are learning in school right now are important to their future and how they use this knowledge in the world to come.


includes() method. The
includes() method determines whether an array includes a certain element, returning as a Boolean.
- The element you are looking for in the array.
- The array index of the current element at which to begin searching for the findElement.
The return value is a Boolean, which returns true if the value of the element was found, and false if it was not found.
Things to consider
- If the
fromIndexvalue is negative, the search starts from the index of
array.length - fromIndexby asc.
fromIndexis greater than or equal to the length of the array,
falseis returned. The array will not be searched.