There is tons of information online related to webdesign & development, including E-books but not all of the information is useful or of good quality. Blogs and tutorials are great resources but sometimes a well structured book focused on the subject is just too good to pass up.
Here are five great books on web design you’ll want to add to your virtual (or actual) bookshelf. Click the Covers to enter the author’s website!
1. Rockstar WordPress Designer
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Tired of making web sites that work absolutely perfectly but just don’t, well, look very nice? Using The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, you’ll see just how easy it can be to create aesthetically pleasing and usable web site designs.
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5. Designing for the Web
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A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design. Featuring five sections, each covering a core aspect of graphic design: Getting Started, Research, Typography, Colour, and Layout. Learn solid graphic design theory that you can simply apply to your designs, making the difference from a good design to a great one.


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C. S. Lewis, Sixty Years On
May 26 @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Harry Lee Poe, Charles Colson Professor of Faith and Culture at Union University
In celebration of the 50th reunion of the Class of 1973 and commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the death of C. S. Lewis, Princetonians and C. S. LEWIS with the CS LEWIS SOCIETY (founded at Princeton in the 1970s) welcome Harry Lee Poe, the Charles Colson Professor of Faith and Culture at Union University, who has written the definitive, three-volume biography of Lewis. Poe will discuss the ways that Lewis continues to impact so many lives 60 years after his death.
Sponsored by the Class of 1973
Princetonians and CS Lewis/CS Lewis Society


Cookbooks, Diet and Nutrition
Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon. The foundational cookbook and textbook to get you started on a traditional foods diet, including understanding the benefits of animal fats, broth making, soaking, and fermenting.
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Kitchen: Recipes from the East for Health, Healing and Long Life by Warren Shier, Yuan Wang, and Mika Ono. I love this cookbook. It contains simple and delicious recipes to support your health based on your symptoms or Chinese medicine diagnosis.
Practical Paleo by Diane Sanfilippo. As the title suggests, this is a very practical “beginner” Paleo book. Half the book is a Paleo nutrition primer and half is recipes, including Paleo meal plans specifically targeting autoimmune conditions, thyroid health, athletic performance, weight loss, and more.
The Paleo Approach by Sarah Ballantyne. This is not a cookbook, but a detailed, reader-friendly biochemistry-based “why” of the Paleo diet. The corresponding cookbook (The Paleo Approach Cookbook) is great if you are serious about the Paleo diet and ready to incorporate more exotic ingredients like organ meats, cricket flour, etc.
Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life by Thict Nhat Hanh & Dr. Lilian Cheung. This is primarily a weight-loss book which incorporates some meditation principles, but the basic premise of focusing on how we eat, and not just what we eat is important for all of us.
The Fast Diet: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting by Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer. I love this book because it is almost an “anti-nutrition” book. While I feel strongly that the quality of calories consumed generally matters much more than number of calories, this book presents compelling research on the multitude of benefits that come from intentionally occasionally restricting caloric intake.
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. What Liz Gilbert calls “Creative Living” is really at the heart of living a full and fulfilling life: recognizing, celebrating, and authentically practicing the things that bring us joy.
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron. I recommend anything by Pema Chodron: her clear, bold, and compassionate insight into the depths of the human condition is incomparable. I first read this book when a close family member passed away at a young age and have returned to it many times since.
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead by Brene Brown. If the idea of talking about topics like vulnerability, courage, worthiness and shame stir something in you and you aren’t familiar with Brene Brown’s work, now is the time to check her out. Start with her 20-minute TEDx talk on vulnerability if you need convincing.
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael Singer. A book about transcending your limitations at the most basic and profound level.
Making Babies: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility by Jill Blakeway and Sami David. Natural fertility support, based on Chinese medicine, including diet and lifestyle recommendations.
The Infertility Cure: The Ancient Chinese Wellness Program for Getting Pregnant and Having Healthy Babies by Randine Lewis. Another great resource, based on Chinese medicine principles, for anyone trying to conceive, especially those who have diagnosed with “unexplained infertility” or women over the age of 35.
Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement and Reproductive Health by Toni Weschler. This clear and comprehensive book outlines the Fertility Awareness Method (or “natural family planning”), and has helped countless women understand their bodies to both prevent unwanted pregnancy and maximize chances of conception when desired without the use of hormones or surgery.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, Infant Care, Breastfeeding
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin. Ina May Gaskin is possibly the world’s best known advocate for woman-centered, low-intervention, natural childbirth. While some might be turned off (and others, inspired) by the “hippie” tone of the birth stories in the book, the second half is an expert, practical reference containing invaluable information on the nitty-gritty of childbirth and possible interventions. Regardless of your birth plan, knowledge is power, and I consider this a must-read for every expecting family.
Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn by Penny Simkin and others. Another highly recommended, comprehensive guide to – well – pregnancy, childbirth and newborns.
Bestfeeding: How to Breastfeed Your Baby by Suzanne Arms and Chloe Fisher. While I highly recommend that first time moms who intend to breastfeed take a class before the birth of their child, this book is a wonderfully comprehensive guide, addressing almost every possible question and troubleshooting many scenarios that new moms face when breastfeeding.
The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child by Robert Sears. A well-balanced, fact-based book providing information on vaccine-preventable diseases, vaccine ingredients, potential side effects, and alternative vaccine schedules for those who want them.
Grief and Loss
Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby by Deborah Davis. Miscarriage and infant loss are more common than most people realize. This book sensitively helps comfort and guide grieving parents and also is an excellent resource for bereaved parents’ friends and family members.


The Campus of ACDS has been interconnected through both Wired as well as Wireless (Wi-Fi) Network to access internet and mail access.
The coverage of Wi-Fi is not restricted to classrooms but also extends to common areas like lawns, Auditorium, Library, Cafeteria and other areas of entire complex.
With this infrastructure, ACDS students have access to all e-learning material related to academics & online access to various reference books, journals. International papers have also been made available for the benefit of students. This has enabled ACDS with innovative teaching & learning methodologies.
ACDS has become a role model to other institutions who visit the campus to observe & understand the Wi-Fi setup and its implementations.


The following sources have been used to create the TitanicMap:
Alan Scarth, Titanic and Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2009
Alasdair Crosby, Titanic, the Channel Island Connections, Channel Island Publishing, St. John, 2011
Brian Ticehurst, Titanic Memorials, world-wide, where they are located, B&J Printers, Southampton, 2011
Cris Kohl, Titanic, The Great Lakes Connections, Seawolf Communications, West Chicago, 2000
Daniel Klistorner, Steve Hall, Titanic in Photographs, The History Press, Stroud, 2011
Dirk Muschoot, 100 Jaar Titanic, het verhaal von de Belgen en de Nederlanders, Lannoo, Tielt, 2011
Franҫois Codet, Olivier Mendez, Alan Dufief, Franck Gavard-Perret, Les Franҫais du Titanic, Infomer, Rennes, 2010
Hermann Söldner, RMS Titanic, Passenger and Crew List, ä wie Ärger Verlag, Rüti, 2000
Javier Reyero, Cristina Mosquera, Nacho Montero, Los Diez del Titanic, Editaro por LID Editorial Empresarial, Madrid, 2012
John Balls, Titanic – The Norfolk Survivors, Nostalgia Publications, Toftwood, 1999
Maureen Zottoli, The R.M.S. Titanic and Washington, D. C.: One Hundred Years: 1912 to 2012 – People, Government Process and Precedent, Investigations, and Locations, AuthorHouse, Bloomington, 2016
Michael Martin, Titanic Trail Cobh (Queenstown), Titanic Trail, Cobh, 2003
Ned W. Schillow, The Titanic and Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2, Create Space, North Charleston, 2015
Per Kristian Sebak, Titanic, 31 Norwegian Destinies, Genesis Forlag, Oslo, 1998
Samuel Halpern, Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic, A Centennial Reappraisal, The History Press, Stroud, 2011
Simon Mills, The Titanic in Pictures, Wordsmith Publications, Chesham, 1995
Slobodan Novković, Titanic, Hrvatiu katastrofi stoljeća, Naklada Jesneski I Turk, Zagreb, 2005
Janet A. White, Mary Ann Whitley, Ohio Tales of the Titanic, no publisher, 2013
Senan Molony, The Irish aboard Titanic, Mercier Press, Cork, 2012
Titanic International, Voyage, several issues
…as well as some websites of cemeteries in the USA.
Thank you very much to the following people who generously offered their help and support:
A very special thank-you to Trevor Baxter who has also researched the location of Titanic-related graves for years and agreed to share his knowledge with us and the users of this webpage.
María Neira Domínguez
Randy Bryan Bigham
…and a warm thank-you to all of you who added content to websites such as “Encyclopedia Titanica” and “Find-a-grave”!
And of course THANKS to Google. Without their fantastic web tools TitanicMap simply wouldn’t exist!


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One of the most famous poems by great 18th-century Vietnamese poet Nguyen Du (1766-1820) has been released by the Kim Dong Publishing House in the form of an art book.
The cover of the art book 'Ky Mong' (The Diary of a Dream). Photo courtesy of Kim Dong Publishing House
A new publication to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the publishing house, the poem Ky Mong (The Diary of a Dream) has been illustrated with poetic lacquer-like paintings by Gen Z painter Niayu.
The verses were composed after the poet, in his dream, reunited with his wife, who passed away three years earlier. His sorrow of being apart from his beloved wife and other inner emotions are eloquently presented throughout the poem.
However, according to literary critics, the verses not only reflect his own emotion and sorrow but the problems and anxieties of society at the time.
Painter Niayu, born in 1997, does not claim she fully understands the great poet.
"In the persistent flow of the Vietnamese literature, his poetry has overcome the barriers of time to conquer all generations. His verses always touch my heart. And when I draw, I let myself be driven by that deep emotion. I feel I haven't painted the characters in his poetry but his soul. With whatever I have created, that is my feeling for the nation's cultural figure and his poetry," she said.
The 25-year-old painter, whose real name is Tran My Ngoc, was born in the southern province of An Giang and graduated from the Ho Chi Minh city University of Architecture, majoring in graphic design.
Despite her claim that she does not completely understand the poet and his poetry, the Kim Dong Publishing House disagrees.
"Niayu definitely has a certain understanding and feeling of what she has been reading, thus can produce such very poetic yet romantic paintings which completely match with the verses," Vo Thien Huong, who is in charge of the publisher's communication, said at the book launch on June 12 in Ho Chi Minh city.
Niayu said she felt great pressure when she needed to present the work in a fresh and creative way while preserving the original spirit of the poem.
"The paintings need to reflect Oriental culture but also have their own distinctive features so as not to be confused with other painters' works," she said.
She says that her drawings have been influenced by the paintings of the famous Vietnamese painter Le Pho, as well as Vietnamese traditional lacquer paintings.
Le Minh Quoc, Chairman of the Vietnam Writers' Association, said that he appreciated Niayu as she chose traditional lacquer as a material for her paintings in the book.
"The medium totally suits the verse of great poet Nguyen Du," he said.
Poet Nguyen Du was recognised as a world-famous personality by UNESCO at its 37th General Assembly in Paris in 2013.
His literary masterpiece Truyen Kieu (The Tale of Kieu) is regarded as the most significant literary classic of Vietnam. The masterpiece has been translated into more than 20 languages and is cherished for its creativity, independent thinking and distillation of Vietnamese culture.
On June 17 night, a special concert inspired by his literary masterpiece will be held at Manzi Art Space in Ha Noi.
Titled Moments in The Tale of Kieu, the concert is part of conductor Do Kien Cuong's composition-performance project inspired by Truyen Kieu.
Featuring outstanding musicians and artists in Vietnam, the concert offers an exciting venture blending modern and traditional perspectives into a fresh adaption of the epic tragedy.
Artists participating in the concert include cellists Nguyen Chanh and Mai Pham, violinist Thuy Tran, pianist Lavender, guitarist Coco, drummer Zin Nguyen, percussionist Bill Mukang, and vocalist Dattie. Xam (blind busker's singing) singer Thu Phuong will also perform.
The concert will start at 8pm at Manzi Art Space, 14 Phan Huy Ich street, Ba Dinh district.


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A common thesis, which appears in many handbooks of the history of philosophy, monographs and encyclopedias says that only Plotinus (3rd century A.D.) was the creator of the positively understood notion of infinity. Christian theology is thought to have accepted this idea only in the 4th century A.D. It was precisely Gregory of Nyssa, inspired by the thought of Plotinus, who implanted the doctrine of infinity of God in the Christian field. Before the emergence of Neoplatonism the notion of infinity usually had negative connotations. Something infinite is indefinite, incomplete and therefore imperfect.
However, as I have demonstrated in my preliminary research, this thesis is incorrect. In fact, a positive understanding of infinity appeared in both Philo of Alexandria (1st century A.D.), Clement of Alexandria (2nd / 3rd century A.D.), and Origen (3rd century A.D.) and was used not only in metaphysics (theology) but also in anthropology and ethics. In the same period, that is from the 1st to the 3rd century A.D., a negative understanding of the concept of infinity still prevailed in the writings of pagan Middle Platonists. According to Plutarch, Alcinous, or Numenius, it is matter that is infinite, not God. Thus, the question arises as to whether Plotinus could have known and been inspired by the doctrines of Jewish and Christian thinkers operating between the 1st and 3rd centuries A.D. Regardless of the answer to this question, the aim of the intervention is to establish the correct genetic trajectory of the development of the concept of infinity in the history of philosophy and theology. It may also shed a new light on the process of mutual interaction between Greek philosophy and Christian thought in the first centuries A.D.
Perhaps it was the allegorical interpretation of Scripture that led to a new philosophical concept, which was later adopted and developed by pagan philosophers, starting with Plotinus. But is it possible to prove the influence of Christian theology on the system of the founder of Neoplatonism?


Like many people in the violin making world, I was shocked and saddened to learn of the untimely death of varnish maker Koen Padding in 2012. During my apprenticeship at Alf Studios and after opening my own workshop, I used products and varnishes from Padding's Magister varnish system for my instruments. His sudden death, and the subsequent revelation that he had not memorialized the recipes and methods for his varnishes, left a void in the market for the many violin makers who relied on the products that he made.
After Padding's death, Helen Michetschläger set out to compile Padding's notes and articles in a book. Michetschläger has been a professional violin maker for over thirty years, was a student with Padding at the Newark School of Violin Making in the 1970s, and was a regular user of Magister products.
The resulting book, Violin Varnish - Notes and Articles from the Workshop of Koen Padding, was published in 2015. I am proud to be one of the pre-publication subscribers who sponsored the publication of this important book.
Although the book does not provide a recipe or instructions to recreate the Magister varnishes and products, it does provide a compilation of Padding's research and writing on classical Italian varnishes, a compilation of written material relating to the Magister varnish system, a full list of the contents of the Magister varnish workshop at the time of Padding's death, recently ordered items from materials supply companies to Magister, a scientific analysis of a number of Magister products, and a list of varnish-related books that were owned by Padding.
"When you first pick up this book there is a sense of substance: it has heavy covers, beautiful photographs and good paper. This is a book intended to survive through many readings. The impression carries over into the research and re-assembly of the work of Koen Padding... Helen Michetschläger's book will be an essential text on the subject of violin varnish."
This book is available for purchase at http://www.violinvarnishbook.net and is very reasonably priced (especially in the expensive world of violin-related books) at £40 plus £8.50 shipping.


The first thing that I always do when we land in our new "from here now" is obtain a library card. Most libraries provide a short-term card for non-residents, and so, until we have our permanent address here, I signed up for a non-resident card that I will renew as a resident card once we sign our lease!
Here in Honolulu, the library system charges $25 for a five-year non-resident card and $10 for a three-month non-resident card. For residents, like in all places, the library is free to use for residents.
Upon obtaining my three-month non-resident card, I checked out five books for myself, and I let the bodybuddy/lifemate check out two books on my account :)


I have often heard people say, sometimes in frustration, how can we understand the Bible? Smart people throughout time all seem to study it and all seem to get different answers. How am I supposed to get the “right answer” when I read it?
This may seem like a fair question on the surface, but if you think about it a bit you will see it is not as big a barrier as it seems. I don’t think it is much better than saying that there is a whole lot of awful tasting food cooked on this planet every day. Therefore, why should I think I can do any better, so what’s the point of cooking at all? The reason we cook in spite of the risk of failure is this, we all need food to live. “Man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD”1Deut 8:3; Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4 Therefore, in spite of the risk of failure, we must press on to understand what God has revealed to us through his word.
The good news is that, though there are many challenges to understanding the word of God, it is not impossible. The even better news is that, though there are many knotty problems in fully understanding the biblical literature, the message is generally quite easy to see. By this, I mean that while making definitive, unassailable, declarations regarding the absolute meaning of every detail of a passage may be anywhere from difficult to impossible. Understanding what God wants us to do in a passage in generally easier than we might think.
What are we looking at?
The first challenge is to identify the various books of the Bible and the types of literature used in them. Then we need to organize them in some coherent way so that as we read one of the books we know where it fits in the grand scheme of things.
History and Law
The Bible is a library which contains books on many subjects. Books that cover everything from the creation of the universe, to the end of this age and the beginning of the age to come. But the way these books are arranged can be a bit confusing if you are trying to read the story in its proper order and context. I would suggest a historical reading of the text if you are not very very familiar with the bible and the history it describes and critiques. So I will give the order of the historical books first these books contain the main historical narratives and the laws that were given to govern the ancient people of Israel.
- Chronicles (written later but covers the
timeof the kings)
- Exile to Babylon
- Daniel (He is a writing prophet but gives a record of the time spent in Babylon)
- Return from Babylon
If you read the Bible in this order it will be much easier to follow the historical narratives. Since events will be placed in their proper historical order for the most part. The rest of the Old Testament books fall into two major categories. Poetic wisdom literature and prophecy. If you read two chapters a day this can easily be done in about 9 months. Do not be intimidated pick a pace you can maintain and find a regular time each day for reading. Or if you wish,
Whatever you do try to get the whole story before you try to study all the details in depth. This will require discipline and commitment but it is time well spent. If this seems like an unusually large time commitment be honest with yourself. Do a time survey and see how much time is wasted in a day or a week. Ask yourself what is more important than understanding a collection of the most important books ever written, or whatever else you may be spending your time on.
Poetic wisdom literature
- Song of Songs
These books, while firmly anchored in history, are easily read and understood in their own right for the most part. Many of these writings are rich sources of encouragement. They are character building, encouraging, inspiring, and even cathartic. And since they are understood to be wisdom literature, they, of course, teach us. These writings cover everything from day to day life to the deep inner struggles of the soul. From business to philosophy. So work poetic wisdom literature into your daily regimen as well.
Prophetic Writings (in historical order)
- Ezekiel (Before and during exile)
- Exile to Babylon
- Return from Exile
The so-called “writing prophets” began during the time of the kings and continued until well after the return from Babylon. The prophets were teachers and messengers sent by God to correct and warn His people. Their focus is generally faithfulness to God and the covenant that the people of Israel made with God. The warnings were often simply reminding them of the consequences of breaking the covenant they made with God.
As time goes on, they were in fact exiled for their unfaithfulness and returned after a time in Babylon. After Babylon we see the message of the prophets begin to shift their focus from covenant faithfulness to hope in God and His coming salvation. The message of a coming Messiah/Savior became an increasingly prominent feature of the later prophets. It is from this gathering hope in God that the New Testament begins with the coming of that Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth.
The New Testament
The New Testament also has more than one kind of literature in it. Again it is important to read and understand the historical material first. Since the letters and sermons should all be understood in the context of this history.
Biography and History
The Letters (epistles)
- Corinthians (I & II)
- Thessalonians (I & II)
- Timothy (I & II)
- Peter (I & II)
- John (I & II & III)
Remember as you read, that God is the hero of every story. You will see as you go along that even the best people in these stories are very flawed. The stories are there to help us understand who God is, and who we are. With that knowledge, the wonder of what God has done to save us begins to jump off the page at us. The Bible is unique to me in that the more I read it the deeper it goes. After a lifetime of studying it, I still feel like I am just getting started.
May God bless you on your journey through His living word.


Theoretically, Kabbalah teachings are believed to have sprouted from the Jewish religion and only became popular with the setting up of the first Kabbalah Center in Los Angeles, California by Phillip Berg. The teachings, most of which are passed on online or through regional centers, have nevertheless taken global root with subscriptions and setting up of centers all across the world. But what do you stand to learn by enrolling to the Kabbalah teachings?
- How to unravel life’s mystery
Traditionally, the Kabbalah teachings were regarded with utmost secrecy and only taught to devout Jews past the age of 40. Kabbalah teachings are complex and involve decoding life’s true meaning as well as the human being’s relationship and interaction with other forces within the universe. The study lays particular emphasis on astrology holding onto the concept that there exist cosmic powers that control life. The Kabbalah scholars thereby teach individuals how to understand these powers and use them in an attempt to unravel life’s hidden meaning and Kabbalah’s lacrosse camp.
- How to stay in touch with God
Most people consider Kabbalism as a form of religion, but its scholars have consistently published statements to the contrary and only term the study as a complement to the learner’s specific religion. In this regard, unlike most religions that teach the establishment of a direct connection among their believers with God, Kabbalah scholars emphasize that God is beyond human comprehension and only explain the importance of establishing a connection with the essence of God that Kabbalah refers to as light and resume its.
- The teachings about the Klippot
The Kabbalah teachings argue that every individual has a clear and direct connection to a metaphysical-spiritual being whose connections promotes fulfillment in life. They then introduce the concept of the Klippot referring to an imaginative blockade that hinders this connection thereby limiting fulfillment in life. According to the Kabbalah scholars, the study and practice of the Kabbalah teachings and Jewish laws weaken the klippot and in effect promote fulfillment in life. On the other hand, negative thoughts, behaviors, and violence add onto the Klippot thereby leading to confusion in life.


Jane Austen is really sharp:
Within a short walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets were particularly intimate. Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the King, during his mayoralty. The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly.
It had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and, quitting them both, he had removed with his family to an house about a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world. For, though elated by his rank, it did not render him supercilious; on the contrary, he was all attention to everybody. By nature inoffensive, friendly, and obliging, his presentation at St. James’s had made him courteous.
“The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly” is such a fun sentence, and the profile of Sir Lucas turns so well on it. Austen has no hesitation cutting into her characters and serving them to the reader, and she does it with such great understatement. And then she can go and write Mr. Darcy in love:
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
Austen’s style takes a little bit of getting used to, but it is so fun to read. I’ve only actually read Pride and Prejudice, and I really need to read more Austen. But, I’m starting on a different track for now.
So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration. In scarlet and blue and green and purple, three by three the sovereigns rode through the palace gates, with plumed helmets, gold braid, crimson sashes, and jeweled orders flashing in the sun. After them came five heirs apparent, forty more imperial or royal highnesses, seven queens – four dowager and three regnant – and a scattering of special ambassadors from uncrowned countries. Together they represented seventy nations in the greatest assemblage of royalty and rank ever gather in one place and, of its kind, the last. The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history’s clock it was a sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.
The first paragraph of The Guns of August. I’m spoiled with good books right now.


Author: Jim Ambrose
This second edition of 5 Fundamentals for the Wholesale Distribution Branch Manager is the classic step-by-step guide to helping branch managers improve their business and leadership skills. The branch manager is the key to success for every wholesaler-distributor according to author Jim Ambrose: “If winning means profitable market share and profitable market share growth, then developing the branch manager is essential to a company’s success.”
Ten years after the successful first edition was published, so much had changed in distribution branch management. This second edition is completely revised with vital new information that today’s branch manager needs to read to succeed in today’s very challenging economy!
One of the biggest trends related to branch business is the even higher expectation for branch manager performance today. The traditional advancement of a person going from inside sales to outside sales to branch manager is no longer the assumed track. The branch manager who comes up that track with no business and leadership skills has really struggled as companies push even harder for improved performance at the branch level. Regardless of organizational structure, the branch manager—the CEO at the market level—must possess the 5 Fundamentals in this book if the company is to remain profitable and provide the best value for customers in today’s new market landscape.


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Other Contracts made by Jacques and Geneviéve
“Our French Canadian Ancestors”, Book 13, by Thomas J. Laforest
Between 1666 and 1708, the name of Jacques Billaudeau was mentioned several times in the records of a few notaries of his time: Romain Becquet, Gilles Rageot, Paul Vachon and Louis Chambalon were those who recorded for him. The nine or ten years when the children were being born and raised were completely silent in the notaries’ records.
On 23 July 1666, Jacques Billaudeau was at Quebec. He had been summoned to the bishop’s residence to conclude an agreement on passage rights of the animals and the maintenance of his part of the lane leading to the mill on the island. It was Messire Jean Dudouyt (18) who welcomed him in the name of ; Msgr de Laval, who was the Seigneur of Beaupre and the Ile d’Orleans. Besides the Abbot Dudouyt, Salomon Allais and Pierre Fauve signed the act as witnesses, with the notary Becquet. As usual, Billaudeau stated that he could not write nor sign his name.
On 5 November 1686, in the absence of her husband, Genevieve Longschamps appeared at the home of the notary Gilles Rageot in order to rent a small house, ten feet by twenty, on the Rue du Sault au Matelot in the lower town of Quebec. This was a transaction between women since the owner, Andre Parant, was a minor and was represented by his mother, Jeanne Badault, wife of Pierre Parant. The house was comprised of two rooms, a small cellar and a small attic, adjoining on one side a man named Lefebvre dit Grand Ville, and on the other, Andre Parant himself. The rent was 75 livres which Genevieve promised to pay in two payments: half in March, the other half at the end of the lease. Louis Bidet, Nicolas Metru and Guillaume Roger signed as witnesses.
Another document drawn up by Louis Chambalon and dated 15 February 1696 reveals that Jacques Billaudeau and his neighbor Jacques Asselin had been the farmers for Francois Berthelot. This was indicated in a farm lease signed between Louis Rouer de Villeray (acting for Berthelot) and Claude Charlan dit Francoeur and his wife. Francois Berthdot had been the first and only legitimate Count de Saint-Laurant (hence the name of the county which is often applied to the island at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth). He was commissioner-general of the artillery of France. His domain on the island had four arpents in frontage, and a depth three Steps above the crest of the hill, which forms a type of crescent beneath the place where a water mill has begun to be built.(25)
(18) Jean Dudouyt (1628-1688), administrator of the Séminary of Québec and secretary to the Bishop. He was also Vicar General and Ecclesiastical Superior of the Hôtel Dieu
(25) OpCit (14), 1949-1951, pages 217 and 415.


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I recently had to come up with a way to rename simple file names to more complicated file names from a spreadsheet on a Mac. It occurred to me that for those of you without Soundminer this technique might be useful for renaming SFX. Sometimes when you purchase a library, the file names are simply unique identifiers (like SD12321.wav), and the descriptive comments are included in an accompanying spreadsheet. By fiddling with the method below, you should be able to replace the original file names with the descriptions, allowing you to use the Finder to search them.
Create a safety copy of your files
Make sure that the filenames are in column A and the descriptions are in column B
delete the other columns and save the spreadsheet as a .CSV
Create a new file in TextEdit and change your format to plain text (Format -> Make Plain Text) and enter the following script:
for details in `cat SPREADSHEET.csv`
OLD_NAME=`echo $details | cut -f1 -d,`
NEW_NAME=`echo $details | cut -f2 -d,`
echo "Renaming $OLD_NAME to $NEW_NAME"
mv $OLD_NAME $NEW_NAME
change SPREADSHEET in line 1 to be the filename of the spreadsheet with your names in it
save this text file as rename.sh inside the folder with the files you wish to rename
open Terminal and navigate to the folder with the files in it (type cd then drag the folder into the terminal, hit backspace once, then return)
type sh rename.sh
NB: don’t forget to delete your safety backup of the exported files
NB: if you comment out the second last line with a hash #mv $OLD_NAME $NEW_NAME terminal will echo all the file changes for you without actually renaming the files.


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Last Saturday I attended a writer’s workshop, “Teachers as Authors.” It was offered by Region 10 Education Service Center, and was taught by Michelle Stimpson. Michelle is a successful author, with 5 books on the Amazon best seller lists. Here is a link to her website MichelleStimpson.com ~ Where Writing and Faith Got Married.
This workshop was all about how to self-publish a book, and was very informative and hands-on.
We walked through how to publish a book through Kindle Direct Publishing, which publishes ebooks and paperbacks through Amazon, and Draft2Digital, which publishes ebooks to many different digital outlets. (Links to both of these publishers will be at the end of this article.)
Both of these self-publishing websites are user friendly, offering tutorials, help groups, and templates.
You do everything yourself.
1. Write a book.
2. Hire editors and critiques.
3. Hire cover art (Michelle suggested using fiverr). Or design a cover yourself.
4. Upload the book and artwork onto the website.
5. They sell it for you, and you collect a paycheck.
If you are writing a novel, this seems like a really quick, easy, and effective way to get your book into the hands of readers. However, I am writing a children’s picture book, which requires a few extra steps. I started typing into a template that Michelle offered. But I don’t have any design skills, so I am having a hard time figuring out the best placement for the text, and the best font that is interesting looking but doesn’t look homemade. I think I need to check out a bunch of books from the library or go sit in the bookstore and pay attention to the layout of picture book pages.
I also am not an illustrator. I have some ideas for how the pictures could look, but I can’t draw or paint and I can barely color, so I will have to hire out someone for the pictures. And the pictures in a picture book are just as important as the story, so I will need to hire someone good! That is going to be a big cost upfront. My bank account is not really ready for that. $$$
Sooooo, I don’t think I am ready for self-publishing yet.
But remember in my previous post (part3) I told you that Arbordale Publishing suggested I get my manuscript critiqued? Well my mom helped me join the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and I am currently trying to navigate this new community to figure out how to get a critique. One more baby step taken.
Subscribe to my blog to keep up with my progress. Comment below if you are working on a book, as well! Let me know where you are in the process, and Happy Writing to you!
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Vince Wetzel, a field government affairs coordinator for State Farm, has released his debut novel titled “Friends in Low Places.” It’s available online at all the usual places – Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. – and can be found on the shelf at Capitol Books, 1011 K St., in Sacramento. At the center of the plot are five friends who’ve gone on an annual camping trip for nearly 20 years, but for this year’s trip they’re a man short. Jim, the trip’s organizer, has died. The other four continue the tradition, bringing along with them Jim’s notebook in which he’s chronicled their previous adventures. Through his words left behind, the distraught friends relive “their shared laughter, life moments, revelations and regret while coming to accept their grief.”
“Friends in Low Places is an homage to the personal experiences I had camping with my friends over the course of 20 years,” Wetzel says. “When I look back at those trips, it marks life stages. When you’re 18, you have your life in front of you and all that matters is the search for good times. But as we returned year after year, the trip became more about communing over marriage, career, fatherhood and life.”
Wetzel started writing the book in October 2018 and it took him about nine months to finish the first draft. Getting the book into finished form took longer. “The work is in the rewrites and the molding of characters,” the author says. Besides writing at home, the West Sacramento resident, husband and father of two, says he wrote during lunch hours at Chicory, Upper Crust Pizza, Ambrosia and at other restaurants and coffee shops. The book’s plot unfolds in Sacramento and Fresno County. The main characters first meet in elementary school, but the bonds of friendship grow while attending McClatchy High School. The camping trip they take is to Huntington Lake.
“Wetzel touches on the universal themes of human failures, regrets, individual struggles, friendships and family ties,” writes the Prairies Book Review. “Wetzel’s portraits of the lasting male bonding are authentic, and his crisp prose effortlessly navigates the stirring thoughts of his characters.”
“I’ve enjoyed books by Nick Hornby, Garth Stein, J. Ryan Stradal and Rex Pickett,” Wetzel says. “I attempt to create a similar setting of humor mixed with thoughtful and poignant messages.” Contact: Wetzel, firstname.lastname@example.org.


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“A Night In the Desert of the Holy Mountain” by Archimandrite Hierotheos Vlachos. There are monks who practice the Jesus Prayer and struggle to live the ascetic life, life according to the Gospel. It is with such a monk-ascetic that the author discusses the Prayer.
“His Life Is Mine” is his spiritual testimony – a distillation of the knowledge of God granted him through 22 years on Mount Athos. “On Prayer” When I picked up this book I didn’t just read it, I wept through it. Such depth, such splendor, it will do much to ground you in the Prayer. “Saint Silouan the Athonite” St. Silouan embodied the Prayer to which we are called to do the same. This is a book not merely to be read, but to be lived with.
“Living the Jesus Prayer” by Irma Zaleski. Zaleski tells the story of how she came to the Prayer, its history, its method and how it works. A refreshing common sense book.
“On The Prayer of Jesus” by Ignatius Brianchaninov. This is the “companion” of “The Way of the Pilgrim”. A concrete guide to the practice of the Prayer.
“Praying the Jesus Prayer Together” by Brother Ramon and The Rt. Rev. Simon Barrington-Ward. Here is one of the sweetest, most gentle works on the Prayer that I have. Bishop Simon is a dear friend, how well I remember the times he and I have prayed the Jesus Prayer together.
“The Art of Prayer”: an Orthodox Anthology Edited with an introduction by Igumen Chariton/Timothy War. A delightful-insightful collection of texts, each pregnant with the Prayer’s spirituality and reality. “Writings from the Philokalia on Prayer of the Heart” Kadloubovsky, & G.E. H. Palmer, The Russian version, free in its translation. NOTE: Many of these books are out of print and are best found in used bookstores or through online book searches such as Bookfinder.com.
“The Jesus Prayer” by A Monk of the Eastern Church (Archimandrite Lev Gillet). Simple yet profound, this book reveals to us the secret of the continuing attraction exercised by the Jesus Prayer. This book after having been published forty plus years ago still remains one of the best introductions to the Payer.
“The Jesus Prayer” by Mother Maria (Lydia Gysi) My copy of this book is well worn as I’ve read it many times. Mother Maria is very creative and insightful.
“The Jesus Prayer” by Per-Olof Sjogren. This little book is one of those gems where no space is wasted. Truly a wonderful and challenging book.
“The Name of Jesus” by Irenee Hausherr. A basic work, a scholarly study showing the history of its spirituality and method.
“The Philokalia” translated from the original Greek by G.E. H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard & kallistos Ware. The Philokalia: The Complete Text with four volumes so far issued out of a total of five. Challenging in its depth and completeness.
“The Power of the Name” by Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia (Timothy Ware). A very concise and important work, well layed out.
“The Way of the Pilgrim” Translated by R.M. French. The classic work of inspiration relative to the Jesus Prayer. My copy is filled with notes becoming a textbook of the Prayer.


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Title: The Prelude
Author: KaSonndra Leigh
Release Day: April 1st, 2013
Genre: New Adult
A New Adult Contemporary Romance
After finishing design school six months ago, Erin Angelo left her tragic past behind in the States and started a new life in
Burying the grief, silencing her demons, and living a life without any real
attachments has worked well for her so far. But when Milan, Italy Erin
secures her first real job as a budding clothing designer, her controlled world
is shaken to its core by the mysteriously sexy director of the local symphony.
Alek Dostov is a man who knows what he wants and how to get it. He’s successful, hot, the son of a millionaire, and women all over the world flock to see one of his performances. For Alek,
represents the ultimate challenge: sexy, smart, and unaffected by his charms…or
so she thinks. Just like Erin, Alek avoids
attachments that leave him emotionally vulnerable. But unlike Erin,
his pursuit of all things pleasurable is ruthless.
Knowing how wary they both are concerning any kind of committed relationship, Alek finds a way to pursue
the intense attraction between them without sacrificing the freedom they both
enjoy. Sometimes the deepest passion brings out the darkest emotions. And Erin finds herself completely unprepared for the
forbidden world of the young maestro and his truths and even his secrets, as
she struggles to deal with her own.
Music, passion, betrayal and forbidden love spun together in one of the most romantic cities in the world.
This novel contains sexual situations and mature language. It is intended for an audience at 17+ years of age.
I live in the City of
Alchemy and Medicine, North Carolina. I write
about people doing fantastical things in magical worlds. Sometimes they fall
for each other and make sacrifices for their friends. Oh, and sometimes they
love music and nature too. I live with my two sons,a guinea pig, a cat, and two
dogs. Now that I have completed my MFA in creative writing, I find that I have
a little extra time to play CLUE more often. I live in an L-shaped house
dedicated to my grandmother. It has a secret library complete with fairies,
venetian plastered walls, and a desk made out of clear blue glass.
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University Campus Maps Collection
The book University City of the University written by Paraskevas Savvaidis and Anthimos Badelas, professors at the School of Civil Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, was published in 2000 (by University Studio Press). The book focuses on the way historical events influenced the university campus and vice versa, as well as on the urban planning of the university.
In the past the area where the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is now located was part of the east area of the city, where the streams of Agios Pavlos and Chortatzidon crossed. Construction works at the university campus were undertaken in 1927, when the building where the Turkish Preparatory Faculty (Idadiye) was previously housed was granted by the Greek State to the university, along with its surrounding garden. More areas were allotted or bought until 1955, when the site of the university campus was fully landscaped.
In the past, and for many centuries, the largest part of the area where the university campus is now located was taken up by Greek and, mainly, Jewish cemeteries – these cemeteries covered the area even before the city was occupied by the Turks. The refugee settlement of Agia Fotini, which after the Asia Minor disaster housed thousands of refugees for decades, was also built in a specific part of the area now owned by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The research which revealed material of considerable interest
The writers of the above book tried to approach their subject with maps and topographic diagrams of the area, as well as maps which were drawn up in different time periods and for different purposes. The history of building the university campus was studied in connection with the maps and topographic diagrams which were later included in the book, as well as after taking into consideration basic historical literature. The outcome of this combined research was the fact that a significant amount of information about various events was published for the first time.
In order to collect such maps, topographic diagrams, and also era-specific documents, the two writers conducted their research in the archive of the university (and especially in that of the Technical Service), the archive of public services [Urban Planning Department of Thessaloniki, Topographical Service of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food (former Ministry of Agriculture), Social Welfare Directorate, etc.], the archive of the Municipality of Thessaloniki (Directorate of Architectural Studies, Directorate of Surveying and Mapping, Thessaloniki History Centre), as well as in the archives of other agencies, bodies and private entities (the archive of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, the Archive of V. Chatzivasileiou, etc.).
The number of maps and topographic diagrams used when the book was being written, as well as extra cartographic material is now housed in the archive of the Laboratory of Geodesy and Geomatics. It consists of dozens of maps and topographic diagrams at various scales and on different subjects, which are related to the history of the university campus and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in general.


Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle is an ebook written by bodybuilder, personal trainer, and nutritionist Tom Venuto. He claims that the proper way to lose weight is to burn the fat with exercise and feed the muscle with proper food choices.
Most other weight loss books consist of half scientific jargon and half recipes that are compliant with the particular diet. Most people find it a bit confusing to understand the science behind the diet they’re following. And if the recipes included in the book don’t suit your taste, half the book is useless.
Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle is different. It has over 300 pages of useful, easy to understand information, in downloadable ebook format.
Throughout the book, Venuto explains:
- The importance of setting goals.
- Why other diets really fail.
- How to determine how much you should be eating.
- Why you should exercise.
- What to do if your diet or exercise program is not working.
- How to find what your goal weight should be.
All of this is written in simple, layman’s terms so that it is very easy to understand. There are a lot of great little gems in there that’ll have you thinking “That’s so simple. Why didn’t I think of that?”
Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle is the perfect book for those that want to follow a healthy eating plan and who really want to understand the science of weight loss and muscle building. It combines a specific exercise plan to compliment the healthy eating and to help you lose more weight.
Of course, everyone knows that you should eat healthy food, but this book makes you actually want to.
What’s most interesting about this book, I believe, is that it also offers suggestions of what you can do if the plan isn’t working for you. Other diets assume that if you are not losing weight on their plan, you are doing something wrong. Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle actually helps you to figure out what needs to be better and how to tweak it.
The goal setting section of the book also makes it particularly motivating. Venuto offers specific suggestions as to how to incorporate goal planning into your life…and not just goal planning for weight loss.
While some people may be initially put off by the cost of the ebook, it’s important to point out that this book is much more comprehensive than most other diet books. And many other diet and fitness programs actually come with a higher price tag, though it’s split up into lower monthly payments.
If you’re serious about not just losing weight, but about eating healthy and maintaining an active lifestyle, then Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle is the right plan for you.


To service the requests of its patrons, the Herbert Wescoat Memorial Library (HWML) will attempt (or the patron can go directly to the library's website) to borrow materials from other libraries within Ohio if HWML is unable to fill a request in-house. HWML has joined MORE (Moving Ohio's Resources Everywhere) through the State Library of Ohio to have access to millions of materials across the State of Ohio. If you have a library card in good standing with HWML and are not able to find an item you want in the local catalog, be sure to ask one of the library assistants to learn if it is available through interlibrary loan. You may also feel free to complete the attached request form below and bring it into the library during your next visit. However, the Ohio Valley Library Consortium (OVLC), in which HWML is a member, also provides additional materials which may be borrowed by HWML patrons through searching the online public access catalog (OPAC), wherever the patron may have Internet access.


Book and Film Reviews
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason K. Stearns
Jason K Stearns worked and lived in the Congo for a decade. His book portrays vivid accounts of victims, perpetrators and eyewitnesses of events preceding of events which preceded the Rwandan genocide of 1994, an indirect cause of both Congolese wars. Stearns describes in detail not only the political causes of these conflicts but the economic factors to make sense of the “madness” which still lingers in the RDC to this day. Dancing in the Glory of Monsters is well documented by interviews with heroes, villains and victims of these atrocities. The book recounts stories within stories, how war made more sense than peace.
Stearns traces quickly the history of the African slave trade and the tribalism it created, the managerial style (or lack of) during the European colonial era and the African quest for independence of the late 1950’s early 1960’s as factors contributing to the African mind set. The two wars fought primarily fought for control, and/or influence in the eastern Congo involved forty-one players and nine different nations which at any given moment were sometimes allies, sometimes enemies and sometimes both. For Stearns there isn’t a single cause of the Congolese conflict. Sexual violence and economic interests proclaimed in thirty second sound bit in the American media were results of the conflict, and in no way caused the conflicts. It is impossible to simplify the complexity produced by the deep history of Africa, unknown to American audiences. Little was said about the anti-Tutsi frenzy pervading many events and atrocities occurring or as an indirect cause of some of the worst atrocities. The Western world didn’t care or couldn’t explain the complexities in a 30 second report on the nightly news.
The first war had been about getting rid of the refugee camps and over-throwing Mobutu. Congo was a state weakened by the fear of subversion and reliance on the matabiche or envelope. Governing to stay in power. The second war was about business – dominance by third party nations, or individuals vying for Congolese minerals. Coupled with the lack of a civil-minded government contributed a climate where marauding bands of insurgents seeking power and personal wealth through exploitation flourished.
The world looks for a short-term solution to a very complex African problems. The story of the Congo is dense, complicated and involves many layers. From Mobutu to Kabila, Congolese leaders governed to stay in power, not governing for the common good.
I found Dancing in the Glory of Monsters an interesting and worthwhile read simply because it was above and beyond what I read in the newspapers or on TV about Congo since my Peace Corps COS. I could relate to the tribal mistrust, to the political corruption and graft in every day life and how important the matabiche was make things happen. Dancing in the Glory of Monsters is a must read for anyone who served in the Congo regardless of your Peace Corps posting site. Towards the end of the book Stearns quotes Philip Gourevitch “Oh Congo, what a wreck. It hurts to look and listen. It hurts to turn away.”
The Keys to the Congo and Further Travels:
Memoir of a 2x Peace Corps Volunteer
by Irene Brammertz
(Zaire 1988-90; Malawi 2011-12)
October 2015, 207 pages
Amazon hard copy $30.00, e-book $8.99
Reviewed by Leita Kaldi Davis
Leita Kaldi Davis worked for the United Nations and UNESCO, for Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Harvard University. She worked with Roma (Gypsies) for fifteen years, became a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal at the age of 55, then went to work for the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Haiti for five years. She retired in Florida in 2002, and wrote a memoir of Senegal, Roller Skating in the Desert, and of Haiti, In the Valley of Atibon (amazon.com or firstname.lastname@example.org).
Irene Brammertz has written a diary type memoir, drawing on journals and letters she wrote and subsequently edited intermittently for ten years after her first service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Zaire. When Irene was 70 years old she returned to Africa as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer for nine months in Malawi. Then she participated in a mission trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) in 2013, when she revisited the people and places she had left behind in 1990.
In her memoir, Irene recalls all the tribulations of culture shock that every PCV experiences: "It's a wonder that anybody gets anything done to earn a living since it takes so long to just basically exist (water, firewood, food preparation, transportation – your own two feet.)" She struggled with the local language, dealt with volatile African weather, collaborated with international NGOs to make her health zone a success. She lived on $100 a month, had her computer and office supplies stolen, got dirtier than she'd ever been in her life, felt lonely at Christmas, came down with malaria and various infections, traveled like a native and managed to keep up with younger trainees and volunteers. Irene records so many stories, details of her experiences, in a cheerful voice. She's not a whiner. Many wonderful photographs illustrate the book, from "Gorillas in the Mist" to the solar lanterns she distributed to health centers.
What compels a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer to spend ten years off and on working on a book? Does one relive powerful experiences in writing about them? Is the desire so strong to share with family friends and the world at large a major part of one's life? Maybe it's just a love story that must be written.
Irene is an extraordinary person, who today continues her service with the RPCV group of South West Florida. Irene's fellow PCV in Zaire, John D. Yanulis, also Project Director USAID Miko Project in Madagascar, wrote a touching comment in his foreword: "Irene is one of a kind. I was so very privileged to have had her as my post-mate for nine months in Zaire. She helped me transition into Zaire with the same grace, perseverance, tolerance and patience that she lives every day." Irene surely has left many people who share the same sentiments in her wake.
Reviewed by Jessica Vapnek
The African Doctor (original title: Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont) is a charming film, based on a true story, of a Zairian doctor (Seyolo) who takes a position in a small French town in the 1970s after completing medical school in France. The comedy starts early, when Seyolo’s wife, Anne, and children are dancing around with glee at the thought of being based “in Paris” – he nods and smiles and lets them think that is the case, when in fact they are in a remote rural area with taciturn and suspicious French villagers.
The arc of this feel-good story may be predictable but provides two hours of good fun: Seyolo’s medical clinic is shunned and bleakly empty until he saves the day by delivering the baby of one of the most suspicious villagers; his kids are bullied at school until one of them becomes the star of the soccer team; a xenophobic mayoral candidate tries to stir up animus against Seyolo and the family but in the end, the villager-voters turn out to re-elect the nicer mayor – and Seyolo and the family remain in France.
There’s very little action that takes place in Zaire, but for any of us who know the country from Mobutu’s days, it’s easy to imagine and appreciate what Seyolo and his family were going through when they were suddenly dropped into rural France. In a way, the film is the perfect mirror image of our Peace Corps experience, although we Americans generally experienced nothing but warmth and welcome from our Zairian friends, colleagues, and neighbors. In the film the French villagers eventually come around to seeing Seyolo, his wife Anne, and the children as full and valued members of the community, but it takes time and there are tribulations along the way. I highly recommend the film, which is so enjoyable to watch. At the time of this writing, the film was available on Netflix.


The Universal Dependencies (UD) and Universal Morphology (UniMorph) projects each present schemata for annotating the morphosyntactic details of language. Each project also provides corpora of annotated text in many languages—UD at the token level and UniMorph at the type level. As each corpus is built by different annotators, language-specific decisions hinder the goal of universal schemata. With compatibility of tags, each project’s annotations could be used to validate the other’s. Additionally, the availability of both type- and token-level resources would be a boon to tasks such as parsing and homograph disambiguation. To ease this interoperability, we present a deterministic mapping from Universal Dependencies v2 features into the UniMorph schema. We validate our approach by lookup in the UniMorph corpora and find a macro-average of 64.13% recall. We also note incompatibilities due to paucity of data on either side. Finally, we present a critical evaluation of the foundations, strengths, and weaknesses of the two annotation projects.


They are each actually two different service manuals that each have unique content.
"Dodge Intrepid service manual 1st Generation.pdf", was created from a higher quality source material, and has some very useful content, and the "1st Generation Dodge Manual Includes wiring diagrams.pdf" has a larger collection of content and also includes wiring diagrams, so both will definitely be useful.
I had considered merging them together, but the resulting PDF file would have been to large and it would take months to go through every page to make sure that there were no redundancies in content.
The "1st Generation Dodge Manual Includes wiring diagrams.pdf" book took a lot more editing to clean up and remove text that was over laying other text which had made the original version nearly eligible, but all of those problems have been fixed now.
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Middleton Pie Walk
|March 16, 2024 - March 16, 2024
|Middleton Public Library Community Room
|7425 Hubbard Avenue, Middleton, WI N43.09496 W089.50806
|This walk will be a guided walk beginning at precisely 2:00 pm. Registration must be complete prior to that time.
|1A The walk will not be suitable for strollers and wheelchairs.
|City Halls, Step to the Beat, and Walk the USA A-Z
|From I-39/90 take US 12/18 (Beltline) west. Take University Ave. (exit 251A) east, turning left on University Ave. Proceed to first stoplight, turn right on Parmenter St. Turn at the second left on Hubbard Ave. The library is on the right, just past the Hubbard Avenue Diner.
|Ample parking is available in the city parking lot. Please use the lot behind the library across the railroad tracks.
|This will be a guided group walk. It will be a modified version of the Middleton year-round walk. Following the walk, participants are invited to enjoy a piece of pie at the library to be provided by the club.
|Awards & Fees:
|There will be no pre-registration or award for this walk, but walkers intending to participate are asked to notify the walk contact no less than four days prior to the walk in order to estimate the number of pies required. The fee for all participants will be $6.00. The Dairyland Walkers Frequent Walker Coupons may not be used for this walk. There will not be a separate sanction number for this walk. The stamp for the Middleton year-round walk will be used.
|Pets will not be permitted.
|Restrooms are available at the start point and along the walk route.
|Linda Abegglen, (608) 238-8891 firstname.lastname@example.org
|Madison Area Volkssport Association, the AVA, and starting point businesses are not liable for accidents, thefts, personal injury and/or material damage. All attempts will be made to create a safe and enjoyable event. Participants accept the guidelines of AVA Volkssport events and agree to observe the principles of good sportsmanship. Each participant is asked to sign a waiver from liability before the walk.


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The Monastery of “San Nicola from Casole” is one of the most important places in Salento, on a historical, artistic and cultural level. It was founded in 1098 by Boemondo I, prince of Antioch and Taranto and son of Roberto il Guiscardo. The Norman noble donated the plot on which the monastery was built to a community of Basilian monks and gave them substantial funds. From the bricks of these walls the culture transpired in its purest form. He wasted the wisdom of the Italian-Greek Basilian monks who, holding cultural and classical linguistic heritage, composed poems in the Greek language, unaware that such works, in the future, would be considered the first examples of “vulgar literature” in Italy, the same one that with Dante Alighieri reached its maximum splendor becoming the “Italian literature” par excellence. The monastery housed a circle of poets in Greek, led by Abbot Nettario, to whom belonged, in addition to the same Neptary, Giorgio di Gallipoli, Giovanni Grasso and Nicola di Otranto. The library was created in the monastery, with numerous Greek and Latin volumes. It was at the time one of the richest libraries in Europe. The library was destroyed in 1480, following the battle of Otranto, in which the city had to succumb to the Turkish invaders. Today only ruins remain today. However, something was saved thanks to the work of Sergio Stiso, a Greek philosopher, and to Cardinal Giovanni Bessarione, former Archbishop of Nicea exiled by the Orthodox, who often “took” (or rather “raided”, as the volumes did not never return to their place of origin) various Greek-Byzantine manuscripts in the monasteries and libraries he visited.


So when my friend Andrew Thornton asked me to play along with the Inspired by Reading book club creative team this month - inspired by the book 'My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me' - I took on that challenge. However, due to all the traveling that I did this month, I knew that I wouldn't be able to order the book so I asked him to just select two at random for me to choose from. Andrew tried twice to mail me some stories, but they got lost along the way, with one parcel finally making its way to me last week. He also was kind enough to send me some last week that I think he may have taken pictures of with his phone - clever! And in the meantime, I did buy a copy of the book for my daughter's Kindle. So little by little I have been savoring the stories and will continue. They are marvelous and varied.
The book 'My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me' is a group of 40 or so fairy tales written by contemporary artists., compiled by Kate Bernheimer. Some are retellings in very clever ways of the stories that we know from our childhood; some are completely new. But the model they use and the motifs are instantly familiar even in their strangeness.
I love the rich symbolism, the vivid imagery, the circular telling, the anthropomorphic creatures, the cautionary warnings in fairy tales. I love the timeless quality and the strange cast of characters, that feel like old friends.
Have I told you that I used to be an English teacher? Perhaps I took up English as a major for all those fairy tales I read as a child. To pass along the knowledge and the rich tapestry of those stories to others. Although I only officially taught for five years, I still have a teacher's soul. And my favorite unit to do every year was the Storytelling unit. So I loved reading Kate's foreword about her life enmeshed with tales of all sorts.
In my class, we would deconstruct fairy tales down to their basics and pick out recurring themes. We would talk about how fairy tales were used as tools to teach and even explain natural phenomena. I used to use the story of Cinderella as my example in class. Did you know that there are over 300 documented Cinderella stories from around the world? No matter the language, they all have certain things in common. The students always found that fascinating, especially when we read the real tales, by Grimm and Andersen, not the saccharine Disney-fied brightly colored world they were fed as a child.
So reading this book is like taking a journey back into my past. You don't know where you are going, and you are not sure which path to take, but there is a delight around every corner and lots of sites to see.
The story that I selected is 'First Day of Snow' by Naoko Awa.
Naoko Awa (1943-1993) was an award-winning writer of modern fairy tales from Japan. As a child, Awa read fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Wilhelm Hauff, as well as The Arabian Nights, which later influenced her writings. She earned a bachelor's degree in Japanese literature from Japan Women's University.
This story follows a young girl who happens upon an ordinary chalk hopscotch and can't resist the urge to jump in the circles. What happens next is anything but ordinary.
It was a cold day in late autumn. On a path running straight through the village, a young girl crouched down, looking at the ground. She tilted her head and breathed deeply, "Who has hopscotching here?" she wondered aloud.
Hopscotch rings, drawn in chalk, continued endlessly on the path - across the bridge and toward the mountains. The girl stood up. "What a long hopscotch!" she cried, widening her eyes. When she hopped into a ring, her body became as light as a bouncing ball.
I immediately doodled swirling circles on my copy. I envisioned links, every widening, like ripples on a pond. I could see the path that was leading the girl away from the village.
The hopscotching starts out as a game, but soon the girl realizes that she can't stop. With each hop she is getting further from her home. Then the snow starts to blow. It is then that she is aware of snow-white bunnies in front of and behind her chanting,
"We're snow rabbits white as snow
And snow falls everywhere we go
White as snow, we never stop
One foot, two feet, hop, hop, hop."
Of course, this chant reminds the young girl of what her wise grandmother told her about how the first day of snow is brought by rabbits that hop so fast that all that you can see is a white blur. Little children who get caught up in it will get whisked away to the end of the earth. It is then that she remembers that the way to break the spell is with a mugwort leaf.
Now, I had no idea what a mugwort leaf was, so of course, I did a little research.
According to the Happy Herb Company, mugwort was considered by ancient cultures as 'the universal herb for protection and prophecy.' It was used to ward off evil spirits and promoted lucid dreaming. This weedy plant has spiky leaves with a deep green top, but turning them over reveals a soft cotton underside.
The girl in the story tries to stop the bunny chant from taking over her mind so she can call out the words, "Mugwort, mugwort, mugwort in the spring!" to break the spell of eternal winter. It is only through asking the bunnies a riddle about the mugwort leaf that she breaks their rhythm and stops the snow, landing her in a village many thousands of miles away.
This story deals with themes of disappearance, wisdom and cleverness, and resourcefulness. While fluffy bunnies are hardly the most sinister of characters, the fact that they are something so sweet that can do something as insidious as whisking away a child gives you pause. The girl was resourceful and listened to the words of her elder to find a way out of the trap. And there is even a happy ending to this tale.
For my piece, I envisioned a necklace, with swirling hopscotch circles and soft colors blending from icy winter tones to hopeful spring ones.
- In my stash, I happened to have the cutest little bunny from Rebekah Payne of Tree Wings Studio. I just adore her little sleepy animals. I can imagine the bunnies hopping along in their rhythm could be very sleepy and caught up in their repetitive action. I think that I might make a few more rings around this bunny to give more visual weight to this focal.
- I made the rings from steel wire with seeds in snowy shades and transitioned to greens once the spell was broken.
- Using a technique that I learned from Heather Powers at the Inspired by Nature retreat, I created my own mugwort leaf that shimmers with a luminescent sheen
- And I finished with a mix of silk, wirelace, and fluffy cotton fibers to weave the path of the girl and the unraveling she must have felt when she knew that she couldn't stop.
Ultimately, the mugwort proves to be a powerful herb of protection and sets the girl free.
"We're the color of spring
of the hairs on a mugwort leaf
One foot, two feet, hop, hop, hop."
Thank you, Andrew for inviting me to play along! Please go over to Andrew's blog to see a full list of participants and the stories that inspired them.


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In this section, you will find a number of publications, webinar recordings, conference presentations and interviews, as well as video tips which have been written to help you develop your skills and knowledge as a teacher in the professional practice 'Managing resources'.
28 September, 2019
Watch a recording of this talk by Bella Szyszkowska and Ella Watkins from the World Teachers' Day web conference 2019.
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Written by Penelope Robinson, Sandie Mourão and Nam Joon Kang, this research report presents an innovative approach to...


Catalan Book WeekFairs
09/06/2019 - 09/15/2019
The Catalan Book Week is the most important book fair and one of the first three cultural events that are celebrated in our country. It is now in its 37th edition.This year it will be held in Avinguda de la Catedral, from 6 o 15September, with over 250 activities: tours, book presentations, dialogs with authors, literary dissemination activities, concerts, children's activities, etc. All thanks to the exhibitors and collaborating entities.
There is also an area for translated works: the module 17 (Plaça Nova/carrer del Bisbe) arranged by the Llibreria Francesa Francesca Jaimes, for the sale and exhibition of translation of original works of Catalan literature. These translations are in English, French, Italian and German, plus a range of other languages. There are also translations in Spanish, and a section dedicated to children's and youth literature, with a small library including shows, storytelling and workshops.
For the first time, the Evening of the Week is being organized (14 September), when times will be extended to twelve midnight, to stroll through the fair and enjoy a special program, and to buy books.
You can see the map of Catalan Book Week here.
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Date: November 10, 2020
Host: Jim Schneider
Guest: William J. Federer
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William Federer is a nationally known speaker, historian, author, and president of Amerisearch, Inc, a publishing company dedicated to researching America’s noble heritage. He’s the speaker on The American Minute daily broadcast. He’s authored numerous books including, America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, Who is the King in America? and the 2020 released book, Socialism: The Real History From Plato to the Present in which he analyzes how the deep state capitalizes on crises to consolidate control.
What we’ve been seeing in the aftermath of the election are things that seemingly follow the socialist playbook. To prove his point, William gave listeners a brief history lesson beginning with conditions after WWII. It was a time when the Soviet Union wondered whether to have communism run their nation or should it run the world? The second attitude won out and William described how the KGB moved to project influence and power within the new nations that had formed out of the ashes of war. Those nations included Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Lithuania, nations that had elected new leaders. Jim noted how this modus operandi is playing out in the present within America.
After this, William commented on the following:
–Security questions concerning mail-in ballots.
–The post-election environment in Pennsylvania.
–The specific types of ballot/voter fraud that are alleged to have occurred.
–How the Democrats sabotaged Herbert Hoover as they wanted to install FDR and his big government socialist programs. Sound familiar?
William said the following in regard to news that Attorney General William Barr is authorizing federal prosecutors to pursue alleged voter irregularities: ‘This is the last stand for not just America but the world. If they can get away with massive voter fraud on this scale, there will never be another honest presidential election ever. And Lindsey Graham just said that today.’
These are very sobering words to ponder. Learn more on this issue, and hear what callers had to say, when you review this edition of Crosstalk.
Book Offer: Socialism–The Real History from Plato to the Present is available for a donation of $18 or more to Crosstalk available at vcyamerica.org or by calling 1-800-729-9829.