Have you ever read a book that is timeless? I believe Poldark is just that.A book written in the 1940s about life in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Cornwall, England. The struggles faced then are as relevant as the ones we face today. Ross Poldark is a soldier just returning home from a war which was lost. He learns not only has the love of his life, Elizabeth agreed to marry his wealthy cousin Francis but his father is dead and his small estate in ruin.
Heartbroken Ross pours himself into his farm and reopening the mine on his land. Unlike his cousin Francis and his wife Elizabeth, Ross was never separated apart from the people on his father’s land. He grew up with the sons of the miners. They were his friends despite the huge difference in their social status. Ross’s experience in the war has given him a clearer perspective on life and the injustices he sees everyday in Cornwall and England.
Miners are forced to poach game to keep their families from starving while the gentry live a life of luxury which is paid for on the backs of the workers, the miners. Justice is only justice if it serves the gentry well because while they say all are equal before the law, that is not how it is actually carried out.
Ross finds himself torn between what he knows in his heart is right and what the people of his class tell him is right. It is the unexpected love and faith he finds in a young girl, a miner’s daughter, that helps Ross find his way.
He stumbles. He fails. He succeeds. He’s torn between love for two women. He carries on doing his best.
Aren’t these the same challenges we face today? The divide between the rich and poor growing. The idea that some are born to succeed and others to fail. Aren’t we struggling to find true justice in our court systems? Not justice for some but justice for all? Aren’t we fighting for education, jobs and the disenfranchised? Aren’t we working to save the men and women who return from war some broken and scarred changed forever? For soldiers who can’t find employment and face poverty? Aren’t we seeking our voice and our right to be heard even if we are poor or a minority or just the plain forgotten?
When Winston Graham published Poldark, World War II had just ended. His country was facing the very same challenges Ross faced when he returned from fighting the American War of Independence. The only difference is Britain won WWII and lost the AmericanRevolution but the returning soldiers faced the same fights as Ross did 150 years earlier. And now in the 21st century we are facing our biggest battle, the fight of ideology. Will we win this world war of terrorism imposed by the few on the many?
This is absolutely my favorite book series and I hope you find the time to read not just Poldark but all twelve books.


Globethics.net Russia (GE-RU) has been working on a number of projects in partnership with the Institute for Economic Strategies (NP INES) and the National Center for Science and Technology Information (NTNTI Ltd) including the following:
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The collection comprises 12 chapters written by the Founder and President of Globethics.net, Christoph Stückelberger, drawn from the first four volumes of the Globethics.net Readers Series No. 1-4 (2016). Topics addressed in the collection include economic ethics, investment ethics; climate justice, values and global development; dialogue ethics, conflicts of interest, values-based innovation and research ethics. The volume is available online at http://www.globethics.net/readers-series.
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Tools to help you compose and write your own music intuitively, for the solo instrument as well as for the full orchestra. These tools help you to find, structure, develop, organize and harmonize your own musical ideas with an intuitive approach. The music libraries contain thousands of simple melodic, rhythmic, harmonic, blocks that you can assemble, modify or complete, with a method accessible to anybody who is willing to compose music. Everything you need for music notation and page layout, from a soloist to a full orchestra. Harmonic spaces let you intuitively navigate through chords, to search for a chord progression that will fit your music composition; combine it with the real time arranger and the style library. Draw the graphic curves of your melodies and see the notes appear on the staff. Change the rhythm and edit the curves in an intuitive way up to the moment when you like the sound of it. Starting from an existing melody, get a chord analysis to help you select which chords will better accompany it.


The definitive biography of the fearsome and controversial German SS tank commander of “Hitler’s Own” Panzer Division.
by Danny S. Parker
Joachim Peiper, generally referred to at the time and after the war as Jochen Peiper, was a key figure in the German SS and police organization from 1935 to the end of Nazi rule in Germany as well as in postwar trials and connections between former higher SS officers. He had both a professional and a personally close tie to Heinrich Himmler, the head of the German police apparatus. The professional tie was that Himmler’s attention had been drawn to Peiper who was assigned to Himmler’s headquarters as a result. The personal tie was that of the two key secretaries of Himmler, one became Himmler’s mistress and the other Peiper’s wife. The two women were close friends and remained so, and thus Peiper learned about events in headquarters after he left it. In this book, therefore, the reader can obtain a realistic sense of how the top of the German police apparatus operated before and during World War II and also the extent to which Himmler seriously believed some of the weirder notions he acted on like the connection of so-called Aryans to Tibet.
What distinguishes this book is that the author combines an extraordinarily careful search for new sources as well as the existing literature with a general fairness in his judgments about the individuals and events in Peiper’s life. After leaving Himmler’s headquarters, Peiper participates in the fighting on the Eastern Front, in Italy, and in the West. It is in connection with the Battle of the Bulge and the murder of a substantial number of surrendered American soldiers near Malmédy in Belgium that Peiper has come to appear in American literature on the war. He was captured and tried by the Americans in the famous or notorious Dachau trial. Anyone accused of killing lots of Jews and surrendered American soldiers was of great interest to Senator Joseph McCarthy who saw to it that the Dachau cases were redone, and all defendants, including Peiper, got off easy.
The author explains in this very well-written book how Peiper was involved in several later trials and interacted with other former SS officers from his new home. That was a house he purchased in the village of Traves in eastern France. His death there in 1976 remains an open case, but this reviewer finds the author’s explanation that he died while fighting a fire in that house set by local youngsters a most likely one. From the special ceremony when Peiper is sworn into the SS to the arguments over the burial of his charred remains, the book offers a full and thoughtful account of an important figure in the Nazi political and military system.
Charts the most dramatic campaigns of the Luftwaffe and the amazing feats of some of its highest-scoring aces.
by Peter Jacobs
The fighter pilots of Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe regularly outscored their Allied counterparts and were some of the highest scoring fighter pilots of all time. In the end, the vast effort required by the Luftwaffe to maintain the air war on so many fronts proved too much, and few of the pilots survived—but their courage and ability was beyond question, and the names of many will live on in the annals of air warfare.
Luftwaffe Fighter Aces charts the campaigns fought by this remarkable force—and the exploits of such aces as Erich Hartmann, the highest scoring fighter pilot of all time, Hans-Joachim Marseille, the Star of Africa, Werner Mölders, the first recipient of the Diamonds, and Adolf Galland, perhaps the most famous of all.
In December 1944, just as World War II appeared to be winding down, Hitler launched a powerful German counteroffensive through the Ardennes forest and forged a 50-mile “bulge” into the Allied front. In one small town, Bastogne, the Americans offered dogged resistance. Yet it would take an epic, six-week-long winter battle, the bloodiest in the history of the U.S. Army, before the Germans were finally pushed back.
In The Ardennes, Christer Bergström draws on interviews, archives, and on-the-ground research to offer a powerful reevaluation of the battle—one that devotes equal attention to the perspectives of both sides. Replete with new findings, it is the most accurate picture yet of what really transpired during that fateful clash.
Even before World War II, the U.S. Army Air Force was concerned about the technological lead that German aviation seemed to hold. Once America entered the war, they were desperate to learn the secrets and capabilities of the Luftwaffe. In Captured Eagles, Frederick A. Johnsen lays bare this once secret history.
The wartime race to understand the Luftwaffe took on heroic proportions. And after the war, American intelligence teams scoured Europe to bring home the jewels of German aviation, from the Me 262 jet to the V2 ballistic missile—technologies that would become the foundation of U.S. air power during the Cold War and beyond.
Captured Eagles recounts one of the most thrilling periods in American and German aviation history.
After being seriously wounded in the 1939 Polish campaign, Rochus Misch was invited to join Hitler’s SS-bodyguard. There he served until the war’s end as Hitler’s bodyguard, courier, orderly and finally as Chief of Communications.
On the Berghof terrace he watched Eva Braun organize parties; observed Heinrich Himmler and Albert Speer; and monitored telephone conversations from Berlin to the East Prussian FHQ on 20 July 1944 after the attempt on Hitler’s life. Towards the end Misch was drawn into the Führerbunker with the last of the ‘faithful.’ As defeat approached, he remained in charge of the bunker switchboard as his duty required, even after Hitler committed suicide.
Misch knew Hitler as the private man and his position was one of unconditional loyalty. His memoirs offer an intimate view of life in close attendance to Hitler and of the endless hours deep inside the bunker; and provide new insights into military events such as Hitler’s initial feelings that the 6th Army should pull out of Stalingrad. Shortly before he died Misch wrote a new introduction for this first-ever English-language edition. The book also contains a foreword by the Jewish author Ralph Giordano and a new introduction by Roger Moorhouse.
We associate “Stormtroopers” with the Nazi era, but these types of troops date back to World War I. In Sturmtruppen, Ricardo Recio Cardona charts the history and combat methods of these shock and assault forces.
During the winter of 1914-1915, Shock troops (Stosstruppen) greatly improved the offensive capabilities of the German infantry. Building on this concept in the spring and summer of 1916, the first assault units were formed, with the mission of spreading the Stosstrupptaktik, a new tactic that decisively transformed the fighting methods of the German Army.
Complemented by detailed descriptions of uniforms, equipment, and weaponry, Cardona’s comprehensive history looks at Germany’s World War I forces from a new angle.
Days after Hitler’s suicide a group of American soldiers, French prisoners, and, yes, German soldiers defended an Austrian castle against an SS division—the only time Germans and Allies fought together in World War II. Andrew Roberts on a story so wild that it has to be made into a movie.
The most extraordinary things about Stephen Harding’s The Last Battle, a truly incredible tale of World War II, are that it hasn’t been told before in English, and that it hasn’t already been made into a blockbuster Hollywood movie. Here are the basic facts: on 5 May 1945—five days after Hitler’s suicide—three Sherman tanks from the 23rd Tank Battalion of the U.S. 12th Armored Division under the command of Capt. John C. ‘Jack’ Lee Jr., liberated an Austrian castle called Schloss Itter in the Tyrol, a special prison that housed various French VIPs, including the ex-prime ministers Paul Reynaud and Eduard Daladier and former commanders-in-chief Generals Maxime Weygand and Paul Gamelin, amongst several others. Yet when the units of the veteran 17th Waffen-SS Panzer Grenadier Division arrived to recapture the castle and execute the prisoners, Lee’s beleaguered and outnumbered men were joined by anti-Nazi German soldiers of the Wehrmacht, as well as some of the extremely feisty wives and girlfriends of the (needless-to-say hitherto bickering) French VIPs, and together they fought off some of the best crack troops of the Third Reich. Steven Spielberg, how did you miss this story?
The battle for the fairytale, 13th century Castle Itter was the only time in WWII that American and German troops joined forces in combat, and it was also the only time in American history that U.S. troops defended a medieval castle against sustained attack by enemy forces. To make it even more film worthy, two of the women imprisoned at Schloss Itter—Augusta Bruchlen, who was the mistress of the labour leader Leon Jouhaux, and Madame Weygand, the wife General Maxime Weygand—were there because they chose to stand by their men. They, along with Paul Reynaud’s mistress Christiane Mabire, were incredibly strong, capable, and determined women made for portrayal on the silver screen.
There are two primary heroes of this—as I must reiterate, entirely factual—story, both of them straight out of central casting. Jack Lee was the quintessential warrior: smart, aggressive, innovative—and, of course, a cigar-chewing, hard-drinking man who watched out for his troops and was willing to think way, way outside the box when the tactical situation demanded it, as it certainly did once the Waffen-SS started to assault the castle. The other was the much-decorated Wehrmacht officer Major Josef ‘Sepp’ Gangl, who died helping the Americans protect the VIPs. This is the first time that Gangl’s story has been told in English, though he is rightly honored in present-day Austria and Germany as a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance.
Harding, is a respected military affairs expert who has written seven books and long specialized in World War II, and his writing style carries immediacy as well as authority. “Just after 4am Jack Lee was jolted awake by the sudden banging of M1 Garands,” he writes of the SS’s initial assault on the castle, “the sharper crack of Kar-98s, and the mechanical chatter of a .30-caliber spitting out rounds in short, controlled bursts. Knowing instinctively that the rising crescendo of outgoing fire was coming from the gatehouse, Lee rolled off the bed, grabbed his helmet and M3, and ran from the room. As he reached the arched schlosshof gate leading from the terrace to the first courtyard, an MG-42 machine gun opened up from somewhere along the parallel ridgeway east of the castle, the weapon’s characteristic ripping sound clearly audible above the outgoing fire and its tracers looking like an unbroken red stream as they arced across the ravine and ricocheted off the castle’s lower walls.” Everything that Harding reports in this exciting but also historically accurate narrative is backed up with meticulous scholarship. This book proves that history can be new and nail-bitingly exciting all at once.
Despite their personal enmities and long-held political grudges, when it came to a fight the French VIPs finally put aside their political differences and picked up weapons to join in the fight against the attacking SS troops. We get to know Reynaud, Daladier, and the rest as real people, not merely the political legends that they’ve morphed into over the intervening decades. Furthermore, Jean Borotra (a former tennis pro) and Francois de La Rocque, who were both members of Marshal Philippe Petain’s Vichy government and long regarded by many historians as simply pro-fascist German puppets, are presented in the book as they really were: complex men who supported the Allied cause in their own ways. In de La Rocque’s case, by running an effective pro-Allied resistance movement at the same time that he worked for Vichy. If they were merely pro-Fascist puppets, after all, they would not have wound up as Ehrenhäflinge—honor prisoners—of the Fuhrer.
While the book concentrates on the fight for Castle Itter, it also sets that battle in the wider strategic contexts of the Allied push into Germany and Austria in the final months of the war, and the Third Reich’s increasingly desperate preparations to respond to that advance. This book is thus a fascinating microcosm of a nation and society in collapse, with some Germans making their peace with the future, while others—such as the Waffen-SS unit attacking the castle—fighting to the bitter end. (Some of the fighting actually took place after the Doenitz government’s formal surrender.)
The book also takes pain to honor the lives of the “number prisoners” who worked at Castle Itter—faceless inmates from Dachau and other concentration camps whose stories have never before been told in this much detail. Whatever their political leanings or personal animosities toward each other, the French VIPs did what they could to help the so-called “number prisoners”—i.e. the ones stripped of their names—in any way they could.
One of the honored prisoners was Michel Clemenceau, the son of the Great War statesman Georges Clemenceau, who had become an outspoken critic of Marshal Petain and who was arrested by the Gestapo in May 1943. At Castle Itter he showed “unshakeable confidence” in rescue, and had clearly inherited the courage of his father, who’d been nicknamed “The Tiger.” During the attack, with ammunition running dangerously low—they got down to the last magazines of their MP-40s—their tanks destroyed, and the enemy advancing from the north, west and east, this septuagenarian kept blasting away. His father would have been proud of him.
The story has an ending that Hollywood would love too: just as the SS had settled into position to fire a panzerfaust at the front gate, “the sound of automatic weapons and tank guns behind them in the village signaled a radical change in the tactical situation.” Advancing American units and Austrian resistance fighters had arrived to relieve the castle. In keeping with the immense cool that he had shown throughout the siege, Lee feigned irritation as he went up to one of the rescuing tank commanders, looked him in the eye and said simply: “What kept you?” Part Where Eagles Dare, part Guns of Navarone, this story is as exciting as it is far-fetched, but unlike in those iconic war movies, every word of The Last Battle is true.
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By: Maggie West, (UNC Class of 2010) for Office of Undergraduate Research, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. This report documents CEF’s initial pilot launch as a microfinance program in 2009, exploring case studies of our first members and lessons learned which informed CEF’s future programmatic shifts and development. View Here
By: Maggie West (UNC Class of 2010), Public Policy Independent Study, May 2010. This research paper documents CEF during our transition away from micro-lending as we were learning why and how to focus on micro-savings as a tool for assisting families in overcoming homelessness.


Heads of Cerberus
Print – ebook (coming soon!)
Francis Stevens was the pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennet (1883 – 1948) and was one of the first writers of dark fantasy. Her works influenced Science Fiction and Horror.
The Heads of Cerberus was originally serialized in The Thrill Book, and is one of the first dystopian novels. A grey dust, inhaled, sends the protagonists to Philadelphia, 2118, and into an alternate timeline where the autocrats control all aspects of life.


The Peace and Anabaptist Library is a 1,000-volume collection focusing on the subjects of Anabaptism, Mennonite history and theology, pacifism, nonviolent resistance and community. You are welcome to browse the online catalog.
Emerging out of a long-standing Mennonite ministry in New York City, the library seeks to support peacemaking on a personal, local, and global level as well as to stimulate a radical interpretation of the gospel. The goals of this Biblically grounded peace institution are to:
- Build up a basic library of writings in English and Spanish on Anabaptist and Mennonite theology, community, and the teaching and practice of Christian pacificism
- Develop both a popular, practical collection intended for people involved with the churches in the greater New York City area, Menno House residents and guests, and the inquiring public as well as a scholarly collection intended for seminarians, peace activists, and university students.
The library is housed on the first floor of Menno House, a residence and guest house owned by Manhattan Mennonite Fellowship. People interested in using the Peace and Anabaptist Library should call the Fellowship office at 212-673-7970 to make an appointment. Books in the collection that are designated as circulating may be checked out for a period of one month.
In the early 1980s, a number of factors increased New York City Mennonites’ commitment to the peacemaking nature of the gospel. A small peace library was begun in the Bronx office of the Mennonite Church and a peace education fund was implemented by the New York Mennonite Council. Added to this was the hope of beginning a Mennonite elementary school and an urban learning and mission center. Individuals and groups in the larger church showed an interest in Biblically grounded peacemaking. All of these factors contributed towards the desire for a local resource library.
In 1994, the Council approved a proposal that it begins a popular and scholarly library focused on Anabaptism and peace to be housed in Menno House. The wider Mennonite church responded with moral support and funding for the Peace and Anabaptist Library to begin. Donations of books began to arrive and renovations to the living room of Menno House provided the necessary shelving for the first phase of the library. By far the most significant contribution came from Gerald Studer. It consisted of a comprehensive collection of basic Anabaptist writings and subsequent Mennonite theology and history in the United States from the Colonial era to the present.
By this time, a library committee of interested local Mennonites was formed to guide the project. The Mennonite Council donated its entire Peace Education Fund to make book purchases and staffing possible.


The proof copy of my new book arrived by courier today. I have approved it and it is now listed on Amazon for pre-order, with a publication date of 30 April. It is a rather large book at 680 pages in an 8.5 by 11 inch format with 315,000 words illustrated by over 2400 colour photos, charts and maps. The Amazon.com link is: SEQUITUR - to Cape Horn in Comfort and Style and the book is now also available on Amazon.ca here.
The book details the 2009 to 2012 voyage Edi and I took from Vancouver down the west coasts of the Americas, around Cape Horn and up the east coasts.


The Complete Book of Motor Control Application and Maintenance
By Richard L. Nailen, P.E
Explains the basics of control technology and components, such as relays, contacts, switches, and resistors.
From the author of Managing Motors comes this useful guide to electromechanical and electronic motor controls. Beginning with the principles of circuit diagrams, the author explains the basics of control technology and the fundamentals of control components like relays, contacts, switches, and resistors. He then shows how these components and principles come into play in the operation of automatic transfer switches, mechanical and electronic motor starters, motor control centers, and motor circuit protection.
130 pages; 157 illustrations; hardbound.
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Just finished Scott Berkun’s new book How Design Makes the World, and I can definitively conclude that it is a worthy read. Not just for designers, but for anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of what work goes into the products they experience every day. More succinctly, the book excels at being accessible, modern, and applicable.
First, the book is delightfully accessible yet surprisingly thorough. It is a light read that can easily be completed in a day or two, but is worth having on your bookshelf for years due to its broad coverage of design philosophies, principles, and methodologies. Berkun peppers the text with many relatable examples (from Norman doors to airport wayfinding to toasters) to make the concepts easy to grasp for literally anyone, not just existing students of design. While there’s no room to go exceedingly deep into any one concept, that also seems to be by design – this book best serves as a quick guide to all the facets of modern design thinking in one place.
The contemporary nature of the book is also quite refreshing. While one could read the classics like The Design of Everyday Things or Don’t Make Me Think (and Berkun does recommend these for additional context), the value of this book lies heavily in its synthesis of decades of evolution in the design space. Berkun walks the reader through developments in systems thinking, designing for inclusion, and even design ethics – calling out some of the recent unintended consequences from tech industry actions, which I appreciate. The result is that the book becomes a highly relevant read for anyone wanting to evaluate design work in the modern era, as well as an invaluable handbook to avoid pitfalls of design from the past.
The book is also resolutely and immediately applicable by designers and non-designers alike. (Though Berkun does fairly argue that everyone is a designer in some sense.) For those who call design their craft: Berkun challenges you to up your game by asking the right questions, considering your designs in the context of your organization, and expanding your view of who you design for and who you bring along your journey. For everyone else, you’re invited to demand more from your products and experiences. You’re given the tools and the language to critically evaluate everything around you and understand how they might have come to be. Hence, this book strives to make progress towards a better designed world for all.
There are some minor flaws worth mentioning. The book does not present a natural flow from topic to topic that I could tell, leading me to get lost in some chapters and forgetting what concept was being discussed. Perhaps this is appropriate as there is no narrative arc here, just a handy collection of design wisdom that you will need to use the table of contents to look up. I also found the language to be a bit too casual in the early chapters, with a few irrelevant (parenthesized) pieces of side commentary that distracted from the main points – but nothing too egregious.
Overall, the book was a wonderful refresher of concepts from my own background in software and human-computer interaction as well as an inspiring reminder to always seek continuous improvement (and understanding!) in the experiences of daily life. I highly recommend it for anyone working in any creative industry but also for anyone interested in deepening their understanding of design in general.
You can pick up the book for yourself (or your design team) here: http://bit.ly/hdmw-a


The Truth about Adam and Eve (Part 1)
Written by Bodybyloud! Vint on June 2, 2021
Part 1: The Truth about Adam and Eve begins with the truth about god
The Bible shares metaphysical truth about the relationship between spirit and matter/expression. This is what metaphysics relates to, how spirit affects matter. Spirit and matter are one however of a cause and effect relationship. Matter, is the physical expression of conscious spirit.
The unseen force that energizes and expresses all subatomic particles is Spirit. Metaphysics is about understanding the cause and effect relationship of consciousness and expression and how it relates to man and life. Man, like everything else, is a conscious expression of the unseen force, the universal supreme creative force, or God.
Before you can understand the allegory of Adam And Eve you must understand the true nature of the universal supreme creative force. There’s no need to try and break down this metaphysical teaching before people have an understanding of the force behind it. Everything works through, by, and as the universal supreme creative force/mind. This is the most important thing to understand. Once we understand this, the allegory of Adam and Eve can be better understood.
Here, Emmet Fox breaks down the aspects of God that are essential to understanding mental science. When we talk about the universal supreme creative force we are referring to the mover of all the atoms and subatomic particles. The force behind all creation and expression is this source/force/consciousness. Once we understand the truth about the universal supreme conscious creative force/spirit we can understand life from a basis of truth. Then we can go on to examine how the Bible is consistent or inconsistent with this truth. If the Bible, or any other form of communication, is consistent with the truth about the universal supreme creative force, it will be easy to discern through examination. The only thing to examine is what is expressed.
Genesis, the first book of the Bible, tells us quite a few things relating to the beginning of time. I say the beginning of time because there was no time before Spirit, the universal supreme creative force, differentiated itself into expressed matter giving us the time-space dimensions. Before the current epoch of expression, there was no time or space. God as all the potential of the universe was the unconditioned conscious spirit. For an understanding of Spirit, I suggest The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by Thomas Troward.


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What is the power of technology compared to that? Beyond their psychic duties, the Librarians of the Astartes are also expected to record the great deeds of their Chapter and maintain the Chapter’s storehouse of ancient lore, the functions for which they are named. A Librarian is often estranged from the other members of his Chapter. This is usually because the psychic abilities he possesses are what his brother Space Marines are often expected to abhor and purge in most other beings.
State Recognizes Librarian of the Year from High Plains (Greeley– September ) – The Colorado Association of Libraries (CAL) awarded one of its most prestigious honors, Librarian of the Year, to Micaela Sanchez of the High Plains Library District.
So You Want My Job: Nate Pedersen teaching a computer class. Cheryl Parton In the golden age of the library, these book depositories served as true community hubs for cities and towns all over the country. Is there still a place for the librarian — the person who recommends books, fulfills research requests, organizes the annals of the entirety of human knowledge? Not to mention the question that is perhaps most salient to the readers of this particular website: Tell us a little about yourself Where are you from?
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Originally, my book club was comprised of about eight students, and we met once a month to discuss a book we all read. However, over the years the club has evolved as membership has grown we have 23 members this year , and we have added activities. We still meet monthly to discuss books. Sponsoring book club is one of my most rewarding job responsibilities, which is why I would encourage any school librarian who does not sponsor a book club to start one.
Benefits for Students Obviously, starting a book club is something you do for the students. A book club benefits students by allowing them to turn their hobby of reading into a social event.
However, while technically you could implement a “no dating” policy and tell people that they need to pick their job or their significant other, that would be a pretty crappy thing to do to couples who have been together for 10 years when you didn’t say anything at the outset.
A part-time job could give you the best of both worlds: Walbert arranged to clock in two days a week through a job-sharing arrangement with a colleague who also wanted to cut back on hours. And it was fun learning how to do different things in the library that I didn’t handle before, like online cataloging. Now she works part time as a bookkeeper, helping out with monthly billing for a horse boarding and training business, where she stables her own horse.
As it turned out, that was very profitable,” she says. And in her spare time, Walbert is also slowly working on an associate degree in business at a community college. Whatever your motivation for working after retirement, here are five great part-time jobs to consider. Pay ranges, which vary based on experience and where you live, are derived from the U. Duties might include fielding questions, shelving books, helping patrons check out, tracking overdue material and sending notices, as well as cataloging and keeping an eye out for lost and damaged items.
Big libraries or ones on university campuses may keep the doors open 24 hours a day, while small local libraries might offer limited day and evening hours.
They were accepted in and I am very grateful to Kristen Nyitray, the university archivist, for her enthusiasm and personal interest in developing these archives. Fink is a world leading expert and defender of electroconvulsive therapy ECT. In , he authored Convulsive Therapy: The first release of the Max Fink Digital Collection, a subset of the papers, includes nearly 7, items 20, pages of original notes on experimental psychiatry, outgoing letters to colleagues, professional writings, and an autobiographical memoir completed in
Shh! Just because you shouldn’t ask loudly doesn’t mean you shouldn’t invite that cute librarian out for a drink. Here are 15 reasons to date a librarian: 1. Librarians are literate. This is likely not the case for everyone you’ve dated. (If you have a fear of books, don’t even bother.) 2.
However, now that you have your maps, what are you going to do with them? How can a map be beneficial in a research project? What kinds of evidence can be found in maps, and how do you find this evidence? In the following section, we will break down an railroad land grant map from the David Rumsey collection. We will show you how to find evidence in the map and how you might use that evidence in your research. When you first lay your eyes on a map, be sure to thoroughly look it over and try to learn as much about the map as possible.
When was the map made? What does it have to say? Who was the cartographer? Government land grants, in aid of railroads, canals, and wagon roads. Drawn from the maps of the Department of the Interior. David Rumsey Collection, Image Number
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Last Friday, I wrote about a Japanese Christian, Toyohiko Kagawa, who engaged with some of the social issues facing his country back in the 1920s and 1930s. Today I wish to share some reflections on one of Kagawa’s better-known contemporaries, a fellow Christian who shared some of Kagawa’s concerns.
His name was William Temple. Temple was born in 1881, and so was a few years older than Kagawa, who was born in 1888. Like Kagawa, Temple came from a socially privileged background – although unlike Kagawa, his upbringing was most definitely Christian : his father, Frederick Temple, was Bishop of Exeter! (His father later became Archbishop of Canterbury; a position later held by his son William, too.) Temple attended Oxford, and served for a few years as headmaster of Repton School. In 1921, he was appointed Bishop of Manchester, and in 1929 Archbishop of York. He became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1942, but died in 1944. So unlike his contemporary Kagawa, who died in 1960, Temple was not given the opportunity to be part of post-war reconstruction. Having said this , Temple’s 1942 book Christianity and Social Order was widely read and its ideas contributed to the debtes which led to the formation of the Welfare State.
Temple started off as a specialist in philosophical theology, but in the 1920s and 1930s he increasingly turned his attention to social issues. In 1924, he was the main inspiration behind an important discussion of contemporary social issues, entitled the Conference on Politics, Economics and Citizenship , and throughout the 1930s Temple spoke and wrote extensively on social, economic and international issues. Although Temple engaged with political issues from a Christian standpoint, he did not take a party political position.
It is tempting to pigeon hole Temple as a Christian philosopher and social commentator, but there was more to him than this. It is hard for a bishop, and doubly hard for an archbishop, to find time for prayer and a deep spiritual life. And yet Tem[ple found the time to write one of the most widely-read spiritual commentaries on John’s Gospel : Readings on St.John’s Gospel (1939,1940). Temple was someone who focussed his very considerable academic gifts on serving society as a whole, rather than just on the needs of the Church. He was a political Christian, without being party-political – a Christian who made the Christian faith relevant to anyone interested in the pressing issues of his day.


Date: 16th, December, 2016
PROSE 2 by Ifeoluwa Aiki
Of Gin And Herbs
You were seated, staring dejectedly at a glass cup beside the pile of books that needed cramming in front of you.
It was the eve of the first paper of your finals. How the semester flew past you was a mystery you couldn’t explain. It was lost in a blur of parties, girls and more parties. One day you stepped into school a finalist, the next exams were knocking.
Your head was as empty as the list of Buhari’s fulfilled electoral promises. You had spent the day running after your coursemates, collating the course materials used for the semester.
You recalled the words of your final year best friend, Austin, as he handed a cellophane of herbs to you, when you complained about having problems assimilating what you read.
“Guy, you no get problems at all. Soak this herb for dry gin for one hour, drink am. Aswear your brain go open pass ashawo laps.”
You stared at the glass of soaked herbs, stared at the books.
“Desperate times called for desperate measures, and if this doesn’t count as desperate times, then nothing else does.” You thought to yourself as you swirled the glass and downed the contents.
You shook a bit as the gin raced down your throat. You sat back, expecting the herb to kick in. A slight buzz from the gin apart, you felt nothing.
Disappointed, you tried to reach for the books, you saw them jump back. Alarmed, you jumped out of your seat.
Or tried to, but your butts were glued to the chair. You burst into mirthless laughter when the table started growing in size.
“Idiot table, stay one place”
You slipped off the chair into the embrace of the floor and promptly fell asleep.
There your concerned course-mates found you when they came looking for you after the paper.
PROSE 1 by Caleb Asset
A World In Black And White
The room was dark and cozy except for the ray of sunshine that peeked through a window. There, he sat all by himself, smiling at his nude shadow. He was happy under bar and lock, with his hair roughly shaved at the rear.
He stood up and lurched towards the window, with his scrotum dangling between his thigh. He was happy to get a clear view of the street and passersby. With the help of his best friend, he has viewed the world in black and white, and could see that everyone around him has put on the mantle of madness.
He gave a fierce scream that cuts through the heart of neigbors and passersby walking the street, then he mumbled to himself and laugh hysterically.
Across the street, a voice was heard.
“the mad man has started again”.
Minutes later, he made for something under the carpet. He knew the exact spot to find it, and he did as he held her between his fingers. He was happy to have found her. He smiled as he held her to his lip. Friendship with her has cost him his sanity, but he knew she is the only one he could count on, even when the world seem to desert him.
He turned once again, facing the window as the sun pricked his flesh while his head reeled, but he seems not to care. All he ever wanted was something he could use to flame the passion between them. He peeped through the window, but all he could see were handful of madmen roving the street. He felt disappointed, as he quietly sat down, unveiled her clothing and slowly chew the sweetness in her flesh.
With her, sanity is a love tale of eternity in a world full of mad men.
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Mid-Michigan History 2 by Jack Westbrook: For eight years, retired Michigan Oil & Gas News Managing Editor Jack R. Westbrook has been furnishing local Mt. Pleasant publications with local historical photo articles ranging frrom the significant to the whimsical. Westbrook was a regular monthly contributor to the Mt. Pleasant Monthly Magazine with a full page feature called "The Way We Were." When the Mt. Pleasant Monthly ceased publication, Westbrook began his "Mid-Michigan History" ongoing series of regular features in the Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun daily newspaper. Westbrook has assembled those articles, with relevant pages borrowed from his eight local photo history books and some never before published pages in his first photo review of the Mt. Pleasant area's past last year entitled "Mid-Michigan History." Now he is back with a second volume of entertaining and educational snapshots of the rich heritage of mid-Michigan history and lore, guaranteed to furnish hours of nostalgic pleasure.


Mary, the Rose of Tralee... was one of the 'rest'. She lived in Brogue Lane, in the rock, which took its name from the busy hive of brogue-makers who lived and worked there. There, in a thatched cabin, Mary lived with her parents, two sisters Brigid and Ellen, and a young brother Willie. Her father in common with most of the lane was a brogue-maker. Her mother, an O'Sullivan from Green Lane, still worked as a dairymaid in the farm yard at Cloghers House. Mary was a great beauty. She was dark with large lustrous eyes. But good looks or no, only one kind of life awaited girls of her type, that of maid or helper of some kind in the local big house. When she was about seventeen she was employed as a kitchen-maid to the Mulchinock.
Here Michael Mulchinock lived with his wife and family. The Mulchinock family were wealthy merchants having a woollen and linen draper's shop where the Munster Warehouse now stands. Michael married a Margaret McCann of Tralee and continued to live at West Villa. However this Michael died of a violent high fever on the Sunday preceding the 2nd of November 1828' and so when Mary O'Connor was accepted in its kitchen Margaret Mulchinock ruled over West Villa. Here Margaret lived with her sons William Pembroke, Edward and Henry and her married daughter, Maria.
Margaret Mulchinock presided over West Villa with no little ceremony. The family owned a considerable amount of land adjoining the house and in the neighborhood generally as well as considerable house property in the town itself. They kept the usual retinue of servants, coachmen, gardeners and farm hands.
Mary O'Connor was naturally pleased with her employment in the household kitchen. She was not long thus, however, when Margaret's daughter, Maria, seeing she was intelligent and kind to her children chose her as children's maid for little Anne and Margaret.
By this time Michael's sons William Pembroke and Edward had grown to be young men. William, however, was becoming a dreamer, a good-for-nothing and what was worse in the eyes of the family, a poet.
In November 1840 sorrow came to William's life: Henry, his younger brother, died. William was inconsolable. He lost his companion to whom he told many a secret, things he would never breathe to the more practical brother Edward.
His Mother and Uncle John became worried at the way he had taken Henry's death, but, after a time, William gradually returned to his old self and was soon partaking in the usual pastimes that occupied wealthy young gentlemen of the time. One such pastime was the October fair of Ballinasloe. It was there at a Ball that he met Alice Keogh.
Despite his protestations of love to Alice, however, William soon returned back home again. His native town with its Lee called him. He had travelled far and seen much, from Shannon to Slaney and Barrow to Bann but:
Fairer than all and dearer
Was the sweet and gentle Lee
And far fairer too perhaps
Were the colleens of sweet Tralee.
Back then he came to West Villa. Maria, his sister, received him. They talked for a while. Then she suggested that perhaps he would like to see the children. Yes, they were with their nursemaid. She had got rather a good little girl from the town to mind dear Anne and Margaret. So William was ushered into the nursery. There they were, little Anne and Margaret. And how they ran to him and tugged at his coattails and wanted to be lifted up. But somehow William was not heeding them. He was gazing instead at a wonderful pair of eyes that had utterly transfixed him. There was some power in them which held him there looking at her. Such lovely dark hair too and skin so delicately white. She was so calm and self-possessed, so graceful, that all he could do was to draw his breath in uneven gasps and stare and wonder. He saw Mary again next day, sitting by the well with the children. This well was in a field a little distance to the west of the house in a great open space with a splendid view of the mountains and the sea. Day after day he met her there. Sometimes he waited for her outside West Villa and they would walk down lover's lane and cross the fields . It was children's recreation time they loved to play about the well. And as the weeks went on they would wander to the dance platform in Clahane at the top of the glen. Mary, though modest and retiring, had innumerable friends who smiled on the happy couple and wished them well. Then amid many a cheer and many a deferential nod they would take the floor and go up the middle and down again. Then the winter came and with it the snow. The whole mountain would be white or nearly so. Often in those winter evenings she brought him back with her to her own little cabin in Brogue Lane. There he met her hardworking father; her mother, bustling and efficient as usual; little Willie who was ailing; and her two sisters both of whom were almost as beautiful as Mary herself. The only cloud on the horizon of their love was that his family disapproved of the relationship after all Mary was a papist peasant, and the Mulchinock's were staunch members of the Established church. One night beneath a palish silvery moon in a dark-gray bluish sky the lovers paused for a few moments to gaze at each other, and then suddenly taking her in his arms he asked her to marry him. She told him however that though she loved him very much and would dare all to stand by his side before Dean McEnnery down in the Chapel, yet she knew such a marriage could never be: it would estrange him from all the things of his past and eventually make him rue the day he had ever met her. Thus the months passed. His thoughts were a jumbled mass about nothing in particular, except well - Mary; wondering if he could make her see sense and marry him. Then on a particular evening they went forward to the stile by the well. The sun was setting in a blaze of glory beneath the sea; the young moon had just come above the mountain and all the valley was hushed. And then for the first time he sang for her those lovely words.
The pale moon was rising above the green mountains,
The sun was declining beneath the blue sea;
When I strayed with my love by the pure crystal fountain,
That stands in the beautiful Vale of Tralee.
She was lovely and fair as the rose of the summer,
Yet 'twas not her beauty alone that won me;
Oh no, 'twas the truth in her eyes ever dawning,
That made me love Mary, the Rose of Tralee.
'Oh William it's the most beautiful song I've ever heard in my life,' she said at length, 'It's so beautiful that somehow - somehow-,' 'Somehow what my dearest?' he asked. 'It somehow makes me afraid,' she replied. 'Afraid?' he inquired. 'Yes; have you forgotten that music for us, the O'Connor's, is an ill omen? it haunts us like a ghost. That night my grandfather lay dying ghostly music filled the air. 'Twas the same when his father died!' 'Of all the nonsense I've ever listened to that beats it,' blurted out an exasperated William. 'Listen, will you marry me?' he continued. 'I'll give you my answer tomorrow evening after the counselors's meeting,' she replied.
Next evening Dan O'Connell held a tremendous meeting in Denny street on the very doorstep of the County Club. The long monopoly by the Denny's of the parliamentary Borough of Tralee was at last being challenged by O'Connell for the forthcoming election. Maurice O'Connell, Dan's son, was to contest the seat. Tens of thousands came from all parts of Kerry and beyond, some in marching order with many here and there brandishing a pike or rusty sword, Mulchinock was leader of one of the repealer contingents.
On this evening as Mulchinock passed, one of the repealers shouted at a little man called Leggett, 'Leggett, will you be Pope's Legate?' Pope was a leading Repealer of the time who came from Causeway, and was popularly known as Pope o' the Causeway.' Leggett, whose patience was well-nigh exhausted, made a run at his tormentor with a pike. His tormentor to defend himself made a thrust at Leggett with a rusty sword, wounding him seriously.
Mulchinock saw what happened but did not realize its gravity. He was more than astonished however when Captain Fairfield with some of the dragoons approached him later and warned him if Leggett died he, Mulchinock, would be held responsible.
When The meeting was over William made his way to West Villa to see Mary. As soon as Anne and Margaret saw him they rushed to him exclaiming 'Uncle William, Uncle William, tell us a story.' He quietened them with promises of a story a little later. Then, turning to Mary, He took a small red case from his pocket and opened it. Taking out the ring it held he held it up to the light to examine it. 'Do you like it?' he asked Mary. 'It is very beautiful.' she answered. 'Would you like to wear it?'
There was a long pause . Mary looked at the ring and then to William. He held out his arms and almost before she had realized it he had caught her in an embrace. And then putting the ring on her finger he sealed their betrothal with a kiss. They stood thus for a long time looking at the moon come slowly above the mountain........ Suddenly the door burst open and his good friend Bob Blennerhassett rushed in. The lovers moved apart. William threw Bob an anxious look. 'Anything wrong, Bob?' he asked. 'It's Leggett.' said Bob. 'Leggett! Is he bad?' 'Bad,' answered Bob, 'He's dead. You're wanted for murder: there's a warrant out for your arrest,' William turned to Mary. 'I'm sorry to have brought this on you,' he said. 'Don't mind me , William,' she replied, 'Take care of yourself - you'd better go,' 'Yes go,' continued Bob. 'Here's a hundred gold sovereigns for you, they'll bring you a good way. Make for Barrow Harbour if you can. There's a wine ship leaving tonight.'
Mulchinock took Mary in his arms once more to kiss her good bye. 'Good bye my own,' he said, 'and don't grieve. I'll be back soon.' Tears welled up in her eyes but she kept brave to the last. Not a flickering of an eyelid did she betray her breaking heart. With that Bob rushed in to hasten William's departure with news that two policemen where approaching up the lane. William fled taking Bob's horse as transport.
Mulchinock at length made his way to India where he worked as a war correspondent mainly on the northwest frontier region. The British were then - 1843 - having a difficult time in the northwest frontier. But amidst all the shot and shell and blinding heat Mulchinock would imagine a soft June day in Ireland, lush June of the roses. The Fuchsia too. It came always about St. John's day, the buds bobbing up and down against their background of dark green - fairy bells with their exquisite purple chiming for far, faraway things like bonfires of St. John's eve:
After one particular battle, upon nightfall, during an attempt to bring in the wounded and collect and bury the dead, William recognized a fellow Tralee man among the fallen,a Lt. Collis. He requested an interview with the Commander-in-Chief, known as 'Old Gough', to request that William be allowed to take possession of the young Lt. Collis's personal belongings to return them home , if William ever returned there. 'Of course you may,' the old man replied to the request. He then went on to enquire what a Mulchinock was doing so far from home. To which William told Old Gough the story of Leggett and how William was held responsible for the assault. Old Gough saw the injustice of it all and since the Gough's hailed from Limerick He had some influence and would see what he could do. So this was how William Pembroke Mulchinock returned to His native Tralee.
So one afternoon in early spring in the year 1849 a distinguished-looking stranger descended from the mail coach that had arrived in Tralee. The coach had deposited him outside The Kings Arms in the Rock and just a little further up was Brogue Lane. But first William needed to shake off the dust from that interminable journey, and entered the hostelry. 'Landlord,' he called going to the door way. George Cameron, presently appeared to do services. Of course, George Cameron did not recognize a returned native having not been the landlord for very long and only taking over the Kings Arms on marrying into the family. 'How may I serve you Sir?' 'A cognac my good man,' replied William, 'The old place has not changed much,' he added. 'You know of it of old then Sir?' Cameron asked. 'I was born here and I've come back for a very special purpose. To marry a girl whose lovely eyes held my soul captive during six long years in India. We pledged that we would be true, and I know she has been as true to me as I have been to her.' 'Indeed, it must be true love for it to span the years till now good Sir, But now if you'll excuse me I'll have to pull across the curtains for a few moments as there is a funeral coming down the street.' the landlord said. 'A funeral , Landlord?' asked Mulchinock. 'Yes, but don't let it disturb you: I'll bring you your drink and you can sit here.' 'By all means, Landlord, said William, but it seems a bad omen , a funeral on the day of my return.' The landlord returned quickly with the cognac and William gulped deeply at the brandy and went over to where George Cameron stood. 'May she rest in peace' murmured the Landlord. William felt a chill run up his back and turned to the Landlord 'Who is the funeral being held for? Landlord.' 'Why a local girl from Brogue Lane.' replied George. William's heart sank but he held himself up and finally asked the landlord 'What was the girls name?' 'Mary, Sir, Mary O'Connor, The Rose of Tralee.
There was nothing left for him now but Mary's grave at Clogherbrien. The neighbours wondered if he would ever come back to himself: was this to be the end of it all? At this time the famine was raging. Up to then most of the eight million inhabitants lived on potato and on little else. The corn of course went to pay the rent. Now the potato crop failed. In his despair his friends saw to it that he was re-aquainted with a girl he met in Ballinasloe Alicia Keogh. In time while she cared for him he grew to think that he loved Alicia and eventually married her. But it was not long before he discovered his mistake. To escape the place of so many painful memories he and Alicia took the boat to the land of the free - America. In 1849 they reached New York.
America suited him and soon he was well again and even took up writing again. He stayed with Alicia and had two little girls Alice and Bernadette. But in the end the inevitable happened and William and Alicia separated, and William returned to Ireland in 1855. This was not quite the end of William Pembroke Mulchinock, But he did begin to find solace in alcohol and the habit did not decrease. He did however never forget his one true love and in his misery one of the last things he penned was another verse to a song he had sung many years before.
William spent the rest of his life in a lodging house in Ashe street run by old Biddy from the County Club. Alas there was not much time left to William and on October 13 1864, He breathed his last at the age of forty four. His last wish


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Angie Deacon thought her vacation in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire would be relaxing. But the dog next door would not stop barking. After two sleepless nights, she confronts the owner at the local diner. Their 'discussion' ends in a near knockdown drag-out. The following morning Simon York is found dead. And Angie's the main suspect.
Now Angie must seek out the real killer before they stuff her behind bars till her skin wrinkles and arthritis knobs her joints. Her search for the real killer leads to a cosmetics factory that's putting out some very questionable products. And now the owner of the factory–Simon's wife–is dead.
HAIR OF THE DOGThis follow-up to A Little Murder finds former ER nurse Angie Deacon co-owner of a theater and in a relationship with Detective Colby Jarvis. Angie and Jarvis hope to spend a few days relaxing in nearby Weirs, but the constant barking of a dog in the cottage next to theirs proves a deterrent. The dog finally stops barking, to Angie's relief, but soon after, she finds the body of the dog's owner, Simon York, on his living room floor. Due to an altercation Angie had with York over the dog, she's targeted by the investigating detective as a suspect. Angie subsequently has the bad luck to discover the body of York's ex-wife, Darlene Lonergan, dog breeder and owner of Lonergan Cosmetics. The common denominator between the two murders: Angie. Angie and Jarvis suspect the deaths are related to suspicious goings-on at the local bar, Hair of the Dog. In an effort to clear Angie of the murders, they begin their own investigation while caring for York's dog, only to find their lives in mortal danger.
Review by Christy Tillery French
This well-written mystery offers plenty of suspects as Davis takes the reader into two diverse worlds: the dog show venue and the cosmetics industry. Angie and Jarvis are unique in that they are portrayed so realistically, each with their own strengths and weaknesses; a couple trying to work out the kinks of their relationship. The mystery will challenge readers as they follow the clues and filter through suspicious characters and circumstances. Dog lovers will appreciate the presence of Guinness, an Irish Setter, along with a nice dose of information concerning dog shows and breeding.
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The third edition of Editing Canadian English by Catherine Craig et al. is now available as e-book. According to the website of the Editors Association of Canada, this book is a “fully searchable version that you can read on your computer (with a reading app installed), tablet, smartphone or reading device.” While I prefer using the old-fashioned hardcover with an index, I still think that re-releasing it in a new format is wonderful news.
Editing Canadian English is a language manual that covers a wide range of topics pertaining to the English language and editing in the Canadian context. Such include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Canadianization, including tailoring edited content to Canadian market
- differences between British and American spellings, including treatment of the variant words by the major dictionaries, such as Webster’s, Canadian Oxford, and Nelson
- capitalization of titles, professional entities, and geographical terms
- treatment of compounds, including hyphenation in variant words such as “homemade” and “longtime” according to the major dictionaries
- measurements, including lists of the major scientific units and their abbreviations
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The book also touches upon more practical aspects of the editing business, such as differences between different job roles (i.e., substantive editor, copy editor, and proofreader), successful communication with authors, and editor’s legal responsibilities. Inclusivity is a big part of communication both in Canada and aboard. One of the chapters provides practical advice on avoiding stereotypes, gender bias, and over generalizations in writing.
Many years ago, I was lucky enough to get a free copy of the second edition from an English instructor, who was gracious enough to give away her old books on the last days of our course. Ever since, I’ve been actively using it as a reference source for numerous editing projects. The content is broken down into several chapters organized thematically into various topics and sub-topics. Each sub-topic corresponds to a particular number point (1.1 through 12.157) and is searchable both through the index and table of context. Such mode of organization makes the text very user-friendly and easy to navigate. No matter which format you prefer, Editing Canadian English is a must-have for anyone who is serious about editing career.


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Two Mebourne judges are being sued by the International Association of Scientologists over the 1964-65 inquiry into Scientology in Victoria.
The scientologists claim that the board was biased against them and went beyond its proper terms of reference.
A Supreme Court writ was lodged yesterday by the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International, c/o Manchester St. Hawthorn, against Kevin Victor Anderson, of Dorrington Ave., Glen Iris, and Gordon Just, of Corby St., North Balwyn.
Mr. Justice Anderson is on the Bench of the Supreme Court in Melbourne, and Judge Just is on the Bench of the County Court.
Between December, 1963 and April 1965, Mr. Anderson, QC, was appointed by the Victorian Government as a Board of Inquiry into Scientology in Victoria and Mr. Just was counsel assisting the board.
The writ lists six pages of claims against the board, including allegations that Anderson and Just abused their office by inquiring and reporting on matters beyond the terms of reference of the inquiry.
It further claims they failed to deal impartially with the servants, agents, adherents and disciples of scientology, and used the procedures and report of the board to destroy the scientologists and their business operations, religious beliefs etc.
The writ, lodged by Ian Kenneth Tampion, of Manchester St. Hawthorn, claims damages and seeks trial by a judge alone.


Benjamin Franklin was a man of action. Over his lifetime, his curiosity and passion fueled a diverse range of interests. He was a writer (often using a pseudonym), publisher, diplomat, inventor and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
His inventions included the lightning rod, bifocals and the Franklin stove. Franklin was responsible for establishing the first public library, organizing fire fighters in Philadelphia, was one of the early supporters of mutual insurance and crossed the Atlantic eight times. Self-development was a constant endeavor throughout his incredible life.
Benjamin Franklin was clearly a man who knew how to get things done.


On my own journey to learn about my roots, I realized that they are broader than my direct lineage. I was born in the United States and my parents were born in India. And I’ve slowly been trying to learn more about my ancestors, in the capacity I can.
But I realized that my lineage is both narrow and broad. There’s my direct bloodline, and then there’s the communities that surrounded, and continue to surround, me. Who we are is influenced by others in society.
Here are a couple resources that preserve and raise South Asian voices and are helping me dive deeper into these broader communities.
The South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) has been documenting, preserving, and sharing South Asian American stories for 13 years. They have various projects such as sharing road trips of South Asians traversing the United States by car, digital and in-person community storytelling, and over 500 stories documenting immigrants’ first days in America.
One of SAADA’s values is: We believe that history is not a spectator sport. I really love how the stories in this digital archive have shared and unique experiences. This collective, first-person perspective, which is preserved, organized, and shared so thoughtfully, warms my heart.
SAADA also has a magazine called Tides which brings its work and current events together, connecting the past to the present. They also have events ranging from how to preserve your own story to better understanding underrepresented South Asians.
This community-driven, grassroots organization is truly a gem, and I’ve enjoyed diving into their collections to learn more about stories I never would have heard in the past. While I identify as South Asian American, that doesn’t mean I’m aware of everyone’s experiences. After all, India alone is the second most populated country in the world. And other, often forgotten, South Asian countries like Nepal Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, were barely represented to me while I was growing up. This resource has helped me make connections and broaden my limited knowledge and experience of the intersections between South Asian and American stories.
2. The Blueprint: Rewriting South Asia
The Blueprint: Rewriting South Asia is a new publication founded by Dalit feminists. If you don’t know, Dalits have also been called the Untouchable caste. Their voices are often misrepresented and underrepresented because of this.
The Blueprint “amplifies the voices of South Asia and its diaspora, giving special attention to stories from caste, tribe, language, gender, sexuality, and religion-oppressed communities.” Growing up as an upper-caste Hindu, I heard so many stories about how “lower-caste” people weren’t worthy or were in a “lower” because of deeds in their prior life. And, of course, because of their status, they are often voiceless. So when I heard these stories as a child and teenager, I didn’t exactly have the will or resources to believe otherwise.
This resource includes new and politics, stories about identities, technology, arts, and history, specifically from a Dalit feminist lens. I particularly loved “Stories in Motion” by Esha Pillay, examining caste in the Indo-Fijian diaspora. Pillay writes, “I can’t count on history books to tell my stories because the layers to each story won’t be there. Storytelling has been important in learning about the histories that I come from and arriving at the truth that I need all of my stories to exist alongside one another.”
This is a story I never would have known about unless it was written in The Blueprint, and I’m so grateful there is a resource to recenter stories have been coopted, retold, decontextualized, and have had nuance completely erased. The Blueprint is also an initiative of Equality Labs, an organization that gives voice to South Asian religious and cultural minorities.
Just because I’m South Asian doesn’t mean I know everything about South Asia or India or all South Asian Americans. Cultures, religions, caste, gender, traditions, and colonial histories aren’t all the same. It is frustrating when a non-South Asian approaches me expecting me to know about histories outside my lineage. The fact is, I’m still learning about my own ancestors.
I’m glad that there are resources that uplift voices in a way to provide shared and non-shared experiences, exploring a massive population with care and curiosity. I invite anyone interested in learning more to explore as well.
Nisha Mody is a writer who also is also a Coach, Podcaster, and Librarian. She has written for The Rumpus, The Times of India, and Ravishly. Find her on Twitter and Instagram. But most importantly, adore her beautiful sister cats. Read more of her work in her healing and justice newsletter and community, The Healing Hype.


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It’s been a pretty big year for me. I started a great new job, moved to a great new city, met some great new people. I’ve also read some really great books, so I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on each of them, and some of my favourite quotes.
2015 is the year that I discovered the writing of Haruki Murakami, and instantly fell in love. I’ve never read something that is so strangely surreal, yet comfortably relatable all at once. He easily makes the mediocre, simple parts of life interesting and beautiful. Somehow I managed to read eight of his books in 2015, with another six stacked up on my desk ready for future consumption. If you’ve never read a Murakami book, you’re seriously missing out.
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” — Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
So here’s a list of the 39 books I read in 2015.
1. The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger
There’s so much nostalgia around this book for me, and it was THE most important book on my teenage years. This was probably my third or fourth read of Rye but it’s still as close and relatable as it was when I was fourteen. I feel you, Holden.
2. A Wild Sheep Chase — Haruki Murakami
“His life was like his recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere”. Picking this book up and reading the first line of the blurb was all it took. Since reading my first Murakami novel my perspective on life has changed intensely, and that’s no exaggeration.
3. Equal Rites — Terry Pratchett
Because women can be wizards, too. Not the best Discworld book ever written, but still important and full of hilarious sass from Granny Weatherwax.
4. Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami
Full of uneasy friendships, awkward sex and The Beatles references. A beautiful, complicated love story that everyone should read. Incredibly depressing, but happy depressing, hard to explain.
5. To Kill A Mockingbird — Harper Lee
Better late than never, right?
6. Lord of the Flies — William Golding
When you’re feeling sad, there’s nothing better than reading your favourite childhood novel.
7. The Establishment: and how they get away with it — Owen Jones
In preparation for the 2015 general election, what better way to get angry at stupid politicians (Tory’s, mostly) than by reading this excellent and awakening summary of British politics.
8. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle — Haruki Murakami
“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o’clock in the morning.”
9. Happiness by Design — Paul Dolan
How deliberate choices can make us happier.
10. Why I Write — George Orwell
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”.
If you loved 1984 and Animal Farm as much as everybody else, you should definitely read this essay.
11. The Steel Flea — Nikolai Leskov
Nineteenth century Russian comedy about the incessant need to be better than everybody else. Still relevant.
12. How Much Land Does A Man Need — Leo Tolstoy
Another piece of Russian literature about a man’s want for more leading him to lose everything. Again, still relevant.
13. The Tell-Tale Heart — Edgar Allan Poe
The first collection of Edgar Allan Poe short stories I ever read. Pretty creepy dude.
14. Sputnik Sweetheart — Haruki Murakami
I’m a terrible flyer, and even though it was only a two-hour flight to Stockholm, I was still pretty nervous. This book was exactly what I needed to calm myself down.
15. The Bell Jar — Sylvia Plath
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell. I’ll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
16. The Search Warrant (Dora Bruder) — Patrick Modiano
A beautifully harrowing French novel about the search for a young Jewish girl from World War II. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014.
“Pour que tu ne te perdes” (Lest you get lost)
17. A Month in the Country — J.L. Carr
What I took from this book is the thought that people never seem to recognise happiness as they’re living it, and that maybe, in retrospect, we only become conscious of the happiness through memories.
18. The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Why is this book a classic? It’s trashy, shallow and completely pretentious. And the film adaption is even worse.
19. The Guest Cat — Takashi Hiraide
A cute short story about a Japanese couples extreme love for the neighbourhood cat.
20. How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie
This book seems to be recommended highly on every reading list going, and it’s easy to see why. It’ll change your perspective on a lot of things.
21. Metamorphosis and other stories — Franz Kafka
Somehow depicts the struggle of ‘modern’ life through the protagonists experience of suddenly becoming a gigantic insect. It’ll give you existential nightmares, read it.
22. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage — Haruki Murakami
“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.”
23. Responsive Web Design — Ethan Marcotte
A pretty cool short book on understanding the principles and concepts of responsive design in the modern web.
24. Sass for Web Designers — Dan Cederholm
The only book you’ll need to be introduced to the CSS preprocessor and gain enough understanding to be able to use it in your web projects.
25. Macbeth — William Shakespeare
After watching a live production in the gardens of a Cambridge University college, I gave Macbeth another read. Still bloody good.
26. H is for Hawk — Helen MacDonald
“There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps…”
Incredible nature writing as well as a pretty honest account of struggling with grief.
27. Thousand Cranes — Yasunari Kawabata
Something I’ve realised this year is that Japanese literature is probably the most beautiful thing there is to read. The poetic style of writing makes a simple tea ceremony of the reasons that Kawabata was awarded a Nobel prize in 1968.
28. Cats Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut
The apocalypse has never had such a twisted sense of humour.
“When a man becomes a writer, he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.”
29. An Essay on Typography — Eric Gill
A very opinionated account of the history and the art of typography.
30. Kafka on the Shore — Haruki Murakami
Easily my favourite book of the year. There’s really no words to explain how great this book is unless you’ve actually read it.
“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
31. Mort — Terry Pratchett
“He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn’t one.”
32. The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
Another highly recommended book in the world of design. Something I bought from my university reading list and never got round to opening. Definitely a must read for understanding the psychology behind the design of everyday objects.
33. The Strange Library — Haruki Murakami
A Beautifully illustrated short story about a guy who gets trapped in a mysterious library.
“Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don’t want to do?”
34. After the Quake — Haruki Murakami
A collection of short stories from a group of characters surreal experiences during the Kobe earthquake disaster.
35. Call for the Dead — John le Carré
The early George Smiley stories are less spy novels than they are murder mysteries. Still better than James Bond.
36. On the Road — Jack Kerouac
I probably quit reading this book four times before I eventually finished it. Seriously, fuck you, Jack Kerouac.
37. Snow Country — Yasunari Kawabata
Another of the three Kawabata stories referenced in his Nobel prize win, and possibly even more beautifully written than Cranes.
38. Someone Like You — Roald Dahl
Because even adults needs Roald Dahl in their life.
39. A Murder of Quality — John le Carré
It’s hard not to feel slightly sophisticated when reading George Smiley novels. In my opinion, le Carré is one of the best British writers of the 20th Century.
I’ve also started writing a tech blog on some cool web development topics that I’ve been learning at work, check it out at danielgynn.com. I’m also hoping to add a ‘book recommendations’ section to my website.
The target for 2016 is to read well over 50 new books, and to focus on reading a lot more non-fiction, as well as finishing everything Murakami has ever written.


Well, this is the news I’ve been waiting for! Smashwords, which I use to distribute all of my ebooks, just announced a partnership with Baker-Taylor. Who are they? After reading the announcement, I discovered that this means two exciting things:
1. My cozy mystery books will soon be available through Blio, an online store and popular e-reading app for computers and other devices.
2. (This is the part that made me squee.) Axis360, which distributes to public libraries, will also carry my ebooks! I love that libraries now lend ebooks so having the chance to be a part of that on some level is pretty exciting.
If you’re curious about the details, you can get the full story on the Smashwords blog.
On a related note, the annual Read an Ebook Week promotion starts tomorrow on Smashwords. To celebrate, I’m giving away ebook copies of my medieval mystery novel, The Jester’s Apprentice, for the entire week! Check back here tomorrow for details!
>Today (March 6) until March 12, lots of ebooks will be on sale for Read an E-Book Week. Smashwords is a partner in this annual initiative. As such, Dead Locked is on sale all this week for 50% off! Just enter code RAE50 at checkout. Dead Locked is available for Kindle and other popular e-reader formats.
While you’re there, be sure to check out other participating Smashwords authors!
>As a part of the “Spread the Word About Smashwords” campaign, I’m posting their little presentation today. And I thought I’d share three reasons to publish your own book through Smashwords.
1. Painless DIY Publishing. Smashwords founder Mark Coker provides lots of specific help so you’re not in the dark about formatting or distributing or even marketing. A step-by-step style guide makes formatting simple, and once a book passes muster it’s available (we’re talking waiting hours at most). I was able to create my own cover, which helped, but Smashwords can offer references for cover artists too. (You can also check back for my “Design for Writers” series debuting this month where I’ll show you how to design a simple book cover.)
2. Awesome Exposure. I was sold the minute I read that you can sell your book through major ebook retailers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple. And I like that it’s an umbrella deal. Instead of dealing with a bunch of places individually, you’re distributing and receiving royalties through one place, which makes tracking it all much simpler. Plus, they always seem to be working to make things better for the author, which I definitely appreciate.
3. Cost-Effective. Self-publishing used to be a lot of money out the door without a guarantee it’s coming back. It doesn’t get much more cost-effective than free. You don’t pay anything upfront to distribute through Smashwords. They take a percentage of the royalties and that’s it. And author royalties are incredibly generous.
So that is my little rant about Smashwords. If you want to get your book out there and read, give them a try!
>As November wraps up, I’m sure many of you are wrapping up your NaNoWriMo masterpieces! I have to say for what is usually my least favorite month in New England, November has been phenomenal this year. I hope December will prove just as exciting. Here’s a look ahead at what’s coming to amy & the pen in December.
Pirate Week! As 18th century pirates play into Dead Locked, I’m devoting an entire week to one of my favorite topics. Stay tuned for lots of swashbuckling fun!
Design for Writers. I’m experimenting with an article series idea, helping writers to tackle graphic/web design projects on their own, including covers, book trailers, and websites. I’ll focus on design principles as well as the technical stuff. The first in the series debuts next month.
New Book Unveiling. The first details about my next novel happens right here.
Tomorrow, December 1, is the final day to download Dead Locked completely free at Smashwords. Enter KR98Q at checkout to get your copy today!
‘Til next month!
>I can’t believe my book is done, but it finally is! After a year and a half, things sped up and came to a head, and as of last Wednesday, Dead Locked was officially finished! And now it is officially available to read as an ebook!
To start things off with a bang, I’m giving Dead Locked away for free from now until December 1, 2010. Here’s how to claim your copy:
1. Go to the official Dead Locked page at Smashwords by December 1, 2010.
2. Checkout and enter promo code KR98Q in the appropriate box.
3. Download in the format of your choice (Kindle format included).
4. Once you’ve read Dead Locked, please leave an honest (yikes!) review.
Feel free to tell others how to get their free copy of Dead Locked on your blog or website. Along with the promo code, you can include an excerpt of up to 3,000 words from the free sample available. (See the FAQ for details.)
To whet your appetite, watch the official book trailer below. Enjoy!


Books on workplace well-being offer valuable insights, strategies, and perspectives for individuals, managers, and organizations seeking to create healthier and more productive work environments. These books address various aspects of well-being, from managing stress and fostering positive mental health to promoting work-life balance and cultivating a culture of wellness.
In a world where employee well-being is increasingly recognized as a critical factor in organizational success, these books provide guidance and actionable steps to improve the overall quality of work life.
“The Happiness Advantage”
One notable book in this realm is “The Happiness Advantage” by Shawn Achor. Achor’s work emphasizes the impact of a positive mindset on workplace productivity and well-being. He presents research-backed strategies for cultivating happiness, resilience, and optimism, illustrating how these traits contribute to enhanced creativity, improved decision-making, and higher levels of engagement among employees.
Another influential book is “Thrive” by Arianna Huffington. Drawing from her experiences and extensive research, Huffington examines the societal pressures that have led to workplace burnout and stress. She advocates for a holistic approach to success, prioritizing well-being, sleep, personal growth, and professional accomplishments. Through real-life anecdotes and actionable advice, “Thrive” offers a compelling case for redefining success and creating environments that support employees’ physical, mental, and emotional health.
“Dare to Lead”
For those in leadership roles, “Dare to Lead” by Brené Brown is a powerful resource. While not solely focused on workplace well-being, Brown’s insights into vulnerability, empathy, and courageous leadership contribute to fostering healthier work cultures. By emphasizing the importance of open communication, trust, and emotional intelligence, Brown’s book equips leaders with the tools to create workplaces where employees feel valued, understood, and supported in their personal and professional growth.
“Your Brain at Work”
David Rock’s “Your Brain at Work” delves into the neuroscience behind workplace performance and well-being. Rock explores how the brain functions under stress and offers strategies for managing cognitive overload and maintaining focus. By understanding the brain’s reactions to various work-related situations, readers can adopt practices that optimize their productivity while mitigating the negative impact of stress on their well-being.
“The Wellbeing Blueprint”
On the organizational level, “The Wellbeing Blueprint” by Annabel Acton provides a comprehensive framework for building a culture of well-being within companies. Acton offers actionable steps and practical advice for implementing wellness programs, fostering a sense of community, and aligning organizational goals with the health and happiness of employees.
In a rapidly changing work landscape, Books on Workplace Well-Being serve as valuable resources for individuals seeking to enhance their well-being, leaders aiming to create healthier work cultures, and organizations striving to achieve sustainable success. These books offer evidence-based strategies, personal anecdotes, and expert insights that collectively contribute to a more holistic and positive approach to work and life. By engaging with the wisdom contained in these pages, readers can navigate the challenges of the modern workplace while fostering their well-being and that of their colleagues.