After the era in which the Lord Buddha was alive, it is during the reign of Ashoka the Great in India that the first reports of the mission to spread Buddhism were recorded. History stipulates that King Ashoka after embracing Buddhism sent missionaries to neighbouring states such as Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Pakistan to introduce and spread Buddhism.
Even at a time when Buddhism was fading away from the land of the Buddha, it was thanks to this dharma mission of Emperor Ashoka that it did not disappear from the world. As such, it is indisputable that Emperor Ashoka’s work for the perpetuation of Buddhism is a priceless service.
It is noteworthy that during the 19th century, there was a revival of Buddhism throughout the world without the involvement of India or Indians. Among the non-Indian nationals who immensely contributed to the revival of Buddhism around the world, British national Edwin Arnold holds a prominent place. Sir Edwin Arnold, who was not even a Buddhist until his death, historically showcased the value of Buddhism to the world with his poem called LIGHT OF ASIA. Despite being a teacher, journalist and poet, it is owing to this poetic work that the name of Edwin Arnold has remained unforgettable and eminent.
The first edition of LIGHT OF ASIA was published in London in July 1879. It is a narrative of the life and message of the Buddha. It quickly became a huge sensation and has continued to resonate powerfully across the world over the last century and a half. The poem captivated an Indian monk who remains an iconic personality-Swami Vivekananda. At about the same time, it deeply moved a young man in Colombo who has become famous in history as Anagarika Dharmapala. It caught the attention of an aspiring Indian lawyer in London in 1889. This man later became immortal as Mahatma Gandhi. A few years hence it impacted a teenager in Allahabad who would, in 1947, become the first Prime Minister of India-Jawaharlal Nehru. Two copies of the book adorned the bookshelves of B.R. Ambedkar, the prime architect of the Indian constitution.
At the same time, India’s former Union Minister Jayram Ramesh has written a “biography” of this poem. His “The Light of Asia: The Poem That Defined the Buddha” investigates the times in which it was written and tracks every translation, adaptation, and dissertation dealing with the author and the poem.
“The Light of Asia; the epic poem that defined the Buddha” is a work of deep scholarship based on extensive research and serves as a biography of both the epic poem and its author Sir Edwin Arnold. Jayaram Jayram Ramesh is a member of the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of the Indian Parliament representing the State of Karnataka.
The poem has been translated into over 30 languages, including Sinhala, and inspired movements for social equality, incarnating itself in music, dance, drama, art and cinema.
The Sinhala Translation was done by Niluka Kadurugamuwa, an officer of the Sri Lanka Foreign Service, who presently serves as Sri Lanka’s Deputy High Commissioner in New Delhi. He won the State Literary Award for the best translation of a novel into Sinhala in 2018, 2019, and 2022. Budusiritha Lowata Genagiya Maha Kavyaya; Asiyawe Alokaya is Kadurugamuwa’s eighth translation.
The importance of Niluka’s translation is not only because it offers the reader the opportunity to read Jayaram Ramesh’s precious work in Sinhala, but also because it has helped expand the Sri Lankan literary field by introducing a new literary genre. Biographies of exceptional people in any field in the past or living in the present are not new to the Sinhala reader, but it cannot be said that a biography of a book has been found in Sinhala literature before. There are commentaries on ancient Sri Lankan literary works such as commentary, commentary, tippani, etc., as well as reviews on ancient and modern books, but there is no doubt that a biography of a particular book is a new experience for the Sinhala reader. In this context, Niluka Kadurugamuwa and the publishers, Pathfinder Institute deserve kudos for translating this work of Jayaram Ramesh into Sinhala.
Nevertheless, Jayaram Ramesh’s book is not a commentary or review of Sir Edwin Arnold’s LIGHT OF ASIA, but the background associated with that book. Jayaram Ramesh tells us the story of LIGHT OF ASIA, explaining his other creative works with reference to the author’s personal information. Further, Jayaram Ramesh has articulated how Sir Edwin Arnold got access to write LIGHT OF ASIA, what kind of factors motivate him to write such a work, and what his sources are, apart from the challenges he had to face in writing this book. On top of that, what is fascinating is how Jayaram Ramesh narrates the situation of the post-publication of LIGHT OF ASIA.
At the same time, it is fitting to note that Arnold’s work had an impact on the world, as it outlines how Arnold personally dedicated himself to giving Buddhism its rightful place in the world.
“From then on, this is a biography of a book. Published in the guise of a magnificent epic, the book played a major role in shaping people’s views of the Buddha’s life around the world. It was a craze for years after its publication…”
“The publication of this book was a crucial milestone in the work of rediscovering Lord Buddha at the age of nineteen. It occupies an important place in writing the history of modern Buddhism.”
Jayaram Ramesh points out that the world situation in relation to the hegemonic religion at that time caused the Light of Asia to gain wide popularity all over the world and the interest of the people of the world in Buddhism increased. And at a time when it was also under attack from the other side of the Atlantic.
To use the title of Thomas Hardy’s extraordinary poem, Arnold buried the Buddha in Jana Santhan in an era when the ‘death of God’ was taking place. In Asia, where the Buddha said that he was not a god, and that he looked for a ‘theology of humanity’ based on logic and self-discovery, free from greed and selfishness. The message of the light went forth with a great shout.”
LIGHT OF ASIA, irrespective of being a Dharma book, did not expand the monastic order as it did in the Ashoka period, nor has it been recorded anywhere in history that everyone who read the book embraced Buddhism. This happened to people who did not know anything about Buddhism, especially in their societies and fields. Influential people learn about Buddhism. The purpose behind Light of Asia is either to correct the misconceptions that were prevalent at that time about Buddhism and its contents and correct the misconceptions and opinions that were widespread at that time regarding Buddhism and its contents or to inspire many more people to investigate and study more about Buddhism. Jayaram Ramesh tells us in his book that by reading LIGHT OF ASIA, even if he is not a Buddhist, all those people were nourished to make their life religion more humanistic and meaningful.
According to the facts that the author has found by associating with sources from all over the world, the light of Asia has fallen even to the British royal family. British Prime Minister Vincent Churchill clearly not only read LIGHT OF ASIA but incorporated it into his life as he advised Shri Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, to read it.
In addition to politicians like Churchill, Jayaram Ramesh has revealed many unique names of people who have come out of the light of Asia in his book. Nobel prize-winning writers such as Rudyard Kipling, W. B. Yeats, Ivan Bunin, T. S. Eliot, Rabindranath Tagore, as well as writers such as Leo Tolstoy, D. H. Lawrence, Russian Dmitri Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table, He says that the light of Asia had fallen on many notables of that era like who established the Nobel Prize Alfred Nobel.
Moreover, it is clear from Jayaram Ramesh’s work that India rediscovered Buddhism in the 19th century through the light of Arnold’s Light of Asia. In fact, Ramesh is anxious to write such a book for that purpose. He says in his introduction: “I began the journey to understand how and why this book of poetry was written, and how and why its influence grew from country to country, especially on the subcontinent where Lord Buddha descended more than two and a half millennia year ago.”
Furthermore, several other salient issues revealed by Ramesh’s efforts can be identified when reading his work. Accordingly, the prominent one is the richness of Indian culture, which has been prioritized by Indian classical literature including oriental languages, and the interest shown by world-class scholars in it, as well as how the contemporary Indian society has been nourished by various cultures.
According to Jayaram, it was an easy task for Arnold because he had become an expert in Sanskrit and Marathi for two years as a headmaster of Poona College in India. Also, Arnold’s always using a new technique was a reason for his success in writing. Jayaram notes, quoting Arnold about the success of his writing. “In order to evaluate the essence of Asian thoughts, we must look at them from an Eastern point of view; otherwise, the miracles that made these stories sacred, and the philosophy embodied in them, could not have been created with such naturalness.”
Although Arnold is talking about the light of Asia, it shows how he looked at Asian civilization, especially Indian civilization. Isn’t he saying that he looked at it with an Indian eye and not with a British eye? There is no doubt that the oriental languages he learned may have helped him.
Before and after writing The Light of Asia, Arnold translated several ancient classical literary works of India into English and wrote several other works related to India. One of the most important books is the Bhagavad Gita, which is considered as a sacred book in India. Jayaram Ramesh shows very clearly in his book how to know and how it was evaluated by them. Thus, Jayaram’s work is like a reminder to the modern world about the rich Indian culture. If we think about it, Jayaram’s work is as important as Arnold’s Light of Asia.
Even Mahatma Gandhi, who was named as the father of the nation of India, read the Bhagavad Gita for the first time as a translation of Arnold. After reading his LIGHT OF ASIA, Gandhi said: “I read it more eagerly than the Bhagavad Gita. When I started reading it, I could not put the book down.”
As a 19-year-old young man who read the light of Asia from England, Jayaram says that his future vision of life was illuminated by the light of Asia, quoting Mr. Gandhi. Gandhi wrote that “this time has been a time when my young mind has tried to integrate the teachings of the Gita, the light of Asia and the Sermon on the Mount” and “the idea of abandoning the highest form of religion in the wild” is hard on my heart.
Like Mahatma Gandhi, the number of eminent Indians who have seen the light of Asia is very large. Among them, Swami Vivekananda is as prominent a figure as Gandhi. As mentioned above, the great poet Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, CV Raman, the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, and Dr. Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian Constitution, are names that should be specially mentioned. Among these few people, Dr. Ambedkar is a name that should be emphasized. He embraced Buddhism along with hundreds of thousands of people against the caste oppression, but there is no doubt that the light of Asia guided him for that.
Meanwhile, Jayaram Ramesh has reserved a significant space in his work regarding the efforts made to reclaim the birthplace of Buddha by Edwin Arnold. Although the most famous fighter in the battle to save Bodhgaya is Sri Lankan Anagarika Dharmapala, he takes inspiration from Arnold. Although there is no doubt about Dharmapala’s role in the battle to save Bodhgaya, Ramesh reveals that Arnold engaged in this battle in a different way from Dharmapala’s. Ramesh has noted that when there was any victory in this battle in May 1896, Dharmapala thanked Arnold for it. “The work you started in 1886 has been completed in 1896 and the glory belongs to you. My work was that of a trumpeter…” Dharmapala does not hesitate to give Arnold the credit of the battle to save Bodhgaya, but as Jayaram Ramesh reveals in his book, the true story of this battle. The founder, Arnold, was inspired by Sri Sumangala Thero of Weligama, Sri Lanka. Jayaram has stated that Arnold has written that when he went to Sri Lanka, “the place where Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment and the place where he passed away should not be in the hands of anyone but Buddhists”.
Also, it is a question whether the Buddhists in Sri Lanka today, let alone the monks, know that the founder of the battle to save Bodh Gaya was Weligama Sumangala Thero.
According to his idea and request, Arnold started the fight to save Buddha Gaya and presented petitions to the British Empire for it. But the battle was finally won in 1953 after more than six decades. Both Arnold and Dharmapala, who fought on two fronts at that time, were not alive. Arnold’s effort in this regard is not second to the service he did for Buddhism by writing Light of Asia. It is thanks to their efforts that it has become the heritage of everyone in the world and has become a symbol of a noble human being.
Jayaram’s description of the battle to save Bodhgaya is not only to understand the intensity of that battle but also provides evidence to get a good assessment of the acceptance of Buddhism in India and the world at that time. That is better explained by the fact that it took more than six decades until 1953 to fully win the battle started by Arnold in 1886.
Jayaram Ramesh writes the story of the light of Asia not just with a passionate devotion to it but on a logical basis. He presents the facts that the light of Asia has been criticized as much as it has been celebrated. As it should be in that era, the light of Asia was attacked by missionaries. Some thought that Arnold had an evil plan to make Christ look inferior in comparison to Christianity. Another was of the opinion that The Light of Asia should be declared inappropriate as a work of literature or as a commentary on the Buddha’s doctrine and life. Some took the assessment of the Light of Asia as an opportunity to further confirm their biased opinion of Buddhism and the Buddha. One such critic opined that the Buddha was a purely negative preacher who looked weak when judged alongside Hindu thought and philosophy.
Arnold answers these criticisms not with words but with actions. After 12 years, the poet who ascended to Buddhist tradition wrote a work called THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD based on the life of Christ. Jayaram Ramesh suggests that Arnold may have composed The Light of the World in response to his critics’ accusations that he had become a Buddhist. Jayaram also suggests that he might have thought for a while that his love of India might have made him unfit to become the Royal Poet Laureate of Britain after Lord Tennyson’s death. It cannot be a coincidence that the book about Christ is called “Light of the World” when the book about Lord Buddha is “Light of Asia”. Arnold may have tried to say that no matter how popular Buddhism is, Christ is the light for the world, not him.
In any case, Jayaram shows with illustrations that Arnold has damaged the reputation and trust earned by composing the light of Asia.
Arnold’s most severe criticism for composing the Light of the World came from the absolute idealists who, when the Enlightenment appeared in Asia, welcomed it with great enthusiasm and did much to propagate it. The criticism of Helena Blavetsky, the co-founder of the company, was very harsh.
Sir Edwin Arnold, author of the unique Light of Asia, has endeavoured to conciliate Christendom by a scheme which surpasses even the great power of the priests of the Muses. We can only sincerely regret that Sir Edwin Arnold has gone so far out of his way to destroy his own honorable history, and to have made both East and West red with shame by such a pitiful trial…”
Ramesh points out that although Arnold did not stop writing the light of Asia and took steps to introduce Indian culture to the world, doubts about his love for India also exist in the 21st century.
As we all know, the Bhagavad Gita is considered the defining text of Hinduism. We have mentioned that even Mahatma Gandhi read it for the first time as a translation of Arnold. Also, that translation was praised by Mr. Gandhi. However, Gandhi’s grandson Ramachanchandra Gandhi is of the opinion that Arnold did not give proper value to that translation.
“Obviously, the divine song (The Song Celestial) for India’s ‘Father of the Nation’ was a special one. But the philosophical grandson of Gandhi, Ramachandra Gandhi, had a different idea about the name that Arnold had given to his translation. According to him, when naming it, Arnold thought of the Bhagavad Gita as ‘Devamaya’. From the (divine) state ‘dropped down to the (celestial) state.’ If ‘divine’ was used, it would be higher than ‘holiness’ (as in the Holy Bible) and ‘celestial’ would be one of the lower constellations. This is somewhat similar to the difference between sainthood (saint…) and sanctification (blessed…). “Jayaram further says that Arnold was under attack from Christian circles at the time of the publication of the Bhagavad Gita. Six years later he wrote the Light of the World in praise of Christ.
In this way, several other controversial points that show the contradictions between Arnold’s creations and use were brought to our attention in Jayaram’s work. Jayaram’s observation is that no matter how much Arnold was fascinated by Indian culture, he never spoke or wrote anything about winning India’s independence.
He was an undisputed supporter of the Empire and contributed to its further maintenance. He dedicates his book The Light of Asia to Queen Victoria and the leader of “ The most exalted star of India organization and its members. According to Jayaram Ramesh, The most exalted star of India organization is an organization that was established after the Great Revolt of 1861 primarily to grant honour title to the Indian subjects for their loyalty to the empire. It was headed by the Viceroy of India, of which Arnold was also a member.
His views were in line with the view held by British imperialism that it was their responsibility to civilize other nations of the world such as Indians. Jayaram refers to Arnold’s 1892 article titled “Britain’s Duty and Responsibility in India” for the North American Review as a long eulogy of Britain’s achievements in India. Ramesh says that it was also a story about what they are doing to bring an ancient and ancient civilization to the modern age. The most important thing is that Arnold said that British occupation of India was an accident and not any evil plan of the British.
In addition, Jayaram has pointed out how the British rulers who were working to introduce reforms for self-rule were also criticized by Arnold, who did not say anything about the attempt of self-rule for India. Moreover, Arnold sees the emergence of Indian freedom fighters as a fault of English education and blames himself for contributing to it.
After serving as Vice-Principal of Poona College in India and returning to Britain in 1860, Arnold wrote to his successor: “We shall have done our duty if the day comes when India can stand alone without being nursed any longer; and if she again succumbs to Hindu supremacy and tradition, or merges helplessly with the infamous mass of Russian rule, then, whatever our efforts, we shall do our duty. Unfulfilled; but responsible for extinguishing the light of civilization.”
British Prime Minister Churchill, who sent a letter to Prime Minister Nehru on February 12, 1955, told him to learn from Asia in order to defeat communism. “I hope you will think of the phrase “The Light of Asia.” You will be able to do something that no other human being can do in leading the whole of Asia, at least in the realm of thought, with the freedom and dignity of the individual as the ideal rather than the drill book of the Communist Party. I see that.”
British Prime Minister Churchill can understand the use of Light in Asia as a tool against the spread of communism, but how do we understand how the author of Light in Asia thinks about communism? On the one hand, how can one expect more from someone who thinks that he has the responsibility of civilizing the people of countries like India, which are strongly pro-imperial? But because of this, even though he taught the world about Buddhism and made great efforts to give the Buddhists the right to the place where Buddha was born, it is inevitable that he did not understand the essence of Buddhism well.
Despite all these doubts and controversial facts, none of them can suppress the historical role played by the light of Asia. Regardless of Arnold’s personal socio-political views and practices, the impact of Light on Asia cannot be denied. According to Jayaram Ramesh, “Though its author was not a great scholar, he managed to do a task in poetry that could not be accomplished by any academic work. At least until the first quarter of the twentieth century its influence on the Western world was acknowledged and written about.”
However, even PhD theses have been written based on the Light of Asia, but we believe that nothing has been written about the Light of Asia like Jayaram Ramesh’s work. First, this is not a commentary or evaluation of Light of Asia. It will not be so. He conveys to us the story of the light of Asia. The author’s life character is also embedded in it. Jayaram says that he was interested in the man behind it as much as the poem, and the book and the author cannot be seen in isolation from each other. As we think, the success of Jayaram Ramesh’s work is that he does not abstract the work from the author.
Jayaram Ramesh constructs the story of the Light of Asia by constructing the two stories about the work and the author separately but parallel to each other. Sometimes there are contradictions between what the author says and what he does. Arguments arise. It directs the reader to different dimensions built through arguments or to a dimension that has not yet emerged from the light of Asia. Jayaram is careful to make sure that this dichotomy will increase the historical value of Asia’s light and not decrease its value. This technique that he has chosen to tell the story of light in Asia is a very reasonable method that can be used to record history.
A reader who is interested in reading Jayaram Ramesh’s story about the light of Asia may inevitably feel the desire to find out more about Indian society in general, including its education, ancient Indian literature, and religious background. Through this, the reader is encouraged to think about the light of Asia in other dimensions. In fact, there is no end to Jayaram’s work, it is only a beginning. He concludes his essay thus: “The life of the Buddha has become a permanent part of the mind of every Indian. We do not realize how much the popular imagination of those lives has been shaped by the light of Asia.” Isn’t the author saying that there is more to explore about the light in Asia?
This book by Jayaram is important to be read by every Sri Lankan, not only by every Sri Lankan Buddhist, whether they have not read the light of Asia, heard about it or not. Jayaram does not say that the light of Asia had a great impact on the Western world and India, but it had that much impact on Sri Lankan society. It may be because the majority of Sri Lanka were Buddhists, although the number of Buddhists in India was less than ten thousand when the light was shining in Asia. Also, despite the influence of the emperors and the expansion of the missionaries, the Buddhist order remained intact and a fight against the missionaries had started due to the order. The Light of Asia was translated into Sinhala in 1955 by Vinnie Vitharana as “Asiyany eliya “ ( Asia light ) and in 1959 by DJ Doluweera as “peradigu eliya(Eastern Light). This may be the reason why it has taken so long for the light of Asia, which has spread like madness all over the world, to be translated into Sinhala.
Jayaram mentions that since 1925, the Colombo Young Buddhist Association has been conducting an English speaking competition called Light of Asia and there is a non-profit foundation established in that name. Even so, none of these things seem to have inspired any interest in the Sri Lankan society or to think further about Buddhism or its essence. Because of this, it is doubtful how many Buddhists in this country know about Arnold or his Light of Asia. It is in that situation that Jayaram’s work is published in Sinhala.
On the other hand, Sri Lanka is considered to be the foremost of the few countries with ‘pure’ Buddhism or Theravada. More than seventy-five percent of the country’s people are Buddhists. But it is a difficult question to answer how many of these people have properly understood the teachings of the Buddha. Contradictions abound in Buddhists as well as in the Buddha Sasana. In fact, there is no mistake in saying that Sri Lankan society is currently in a position where a book like Light of Asia should be read from the beginning.
To find the correct Buddhism. Jayaram’s book is a good start for that. Even in the Victorian era, if we understand how popular Buddhism was in the world, why famous people who guided the world were so fascinated by Buddhism, we can understand where we are and what we are doing today.
Even if the essence of Buddhism is not found through the light of Asia, the Buddhists of this country who read Jayaram’s work will be able to understand how much hard work they have done to make Bodhgaya a treasure that they worship or see with great devotion. The most important thing that Buddhists in this country should get from reading is that Buddhism and the Buddha are heritage objects not only for Sri Lanka or Sinhala Buddhists but also for the entire world and the global human community.
Nonetheless, it is somewhat problematic whether the average reader in this country or the average devout Buddhist will be able to absorb the essence of Jayaram Ramesh’s work in the same way. Although Jayaram Ramesh’s work is a biography about a book, it is not just a story but a narrative with the characteristics of academic research. Therefore, learning its language is inevitable. We know that translating such a work into another language is a very challenging task. The translator can never go beyond and avoid the original work because his use of language is simultaneously limited.
In this context, the reader who is used to reading academic writings will not find it difficult to read such a book, but it is unlikely that the average reader will take so much effort to read this book. Thus, it is a question how much they will understand its content even if they read it with difficulty.


Thursday, October 4, 2018
I slept with my book in my bed last night.
I just couldn't put it down. I held it firmly
in my hand and flip page after page, until I knew
nothing at all.
Yes, I fell fast asleep while reading. I slept
with my book in my bed last night. I wonder
what my mom would say? She was a book lover too.
I apologized to the bookshelf, and said I'd
try not to do it again. I can't help it! I love
the relationship that we've developed. I don't
know what's wrong with me.
Normally, I'd fold my reading blanket, and return
my book to the bookshelf, but last night was different.
It was a very special night. Last night was the dawn of a
new era. No, last night was a fun reading adventure at its best.
Last night, was the start of something everlasting.
I felt possessed by reading, but in a good way.
Possessed by every shimmering word found
between the pages of my new love of sleep reading.
My dreams were sweet! Who knows, I might do it again tonight.
Copyright 2018 Beverly F. Jones, Author / Intergenerational Storyteller
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Humans are the dominant race of Panor since the end of the Twilight War. They have expanded their kingdom greatly since the end of the war and are now expanding across the Eastern Ocean. Native Humans have not been encountered on Deonna.
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|The Twilight War:||When the races of Panor went to war, Humans were deeply involved and allied with the Dwarves against the Elven Nations. When the Elves were finally pushed back by a combined effort over generations, Mankind spread their communities into what was once Elven territory.|


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Lots Road Group: The Art of Reading exhibition
Waterstones Gower Street (New in-store gallery):
82 Gower St, London WC1E 6EQ (Closest tube: Goodge Street)
Thursday 3 to Sunday 30 November 2016
Exhibition catalogue: The Art of Reading Price £17.59
The Lots Road Group, in association with BookTrust – Britain’s largest reading charity - is celebrating Children’s Book Week with a portrait exhibition The Art of Reading at Waterstones’ first dedicated gallery space in its flagship academic bookstore in Bloomsbury.
- The portraits are of people spanning different categories of the written word. They include children’s authors such as Michael Bond, creator of Paddington Bear, and Julian Warrender, teen authors Natasha Farrant and Philip Womack, and novelist and poet Julia Bell. It also portrays academics in the field of literature, such as literary critic Professor Dame Gillian Beer as well as literary agent of the Year 2014 Caroline Dawnay, as well as relatives and friends of the artists. There’s even a portrait of an unknown sitter on instagram!
Accompanying words, taken from the catalogue, provide a fascinating insight into the reading habits of those portrayed – from those who prefer the “tactile” rather than the electronic experience of reading physical books – including braille. Many reveal their ‘Desert Island’ reads, from the practical (a book on boat building: Michael Bond) and the all encompassing (Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: Dame Gllian Beer; Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’: Natasha Farrant) to the hopeful (Julie Donaldson, author of ‘The Gruffalo’, who chose, ‘Poem for the day one’, “This book contains 365 poems. I’d try to learn one a day until I was rescued.”
In addition, Michael Bond, portrayed with the artist Hero Johnson’s childhood copy of his book ‘The tales of Olga da Polga’, revealed that he still has the eponymous guinea pig’s successors! And, referencing A A Milne’s most famous creation, ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’, Artist Sarah Reynolds posed her granddaughter lying down under a tree with one leg in the air, just like a famous illustration of Christopher Robin by E.H. Shepard, who, like the Lots Road Group, studied at The Heatherley School of Fine Art in Lots Road, Chelsea.
Hilary Puxley, leading this year’s exhibition for the Lots Road Group, said, “This is the third Lots Road Group annual exhibition and this year we’ve taken the idea of the sitter reading - a perennial theme throughout the history of portraiture – as our subject . Our exhibition brings the theme up-to-date, giving an insight into the ways in which people of all ages derive pleasure from reading now.
Heatherley’s is one of the oldest independent art colleges in London and one of the few in Britain that focuses purely on portraiture, figurative painting and sculpture. The 15 portraits, executed in oils, featured in the exhibition, show the acute powers of observation and attention to detail the institution, now in its 176th year, instilled into the Lots Road Group.
Children’s Book Week runs from 31 October to 6 November 2016 and aims to celebrate reading for pleasure. By designating a special day or week for book-related activities, schools and libraries can help children to see reading as pleasurable and fun, stimulating them to discover new books, extend their reading choices, discuss and share books, explore libraries and bookshops, and do their own creative writing. BookTrust works to inspire a love of reading in children because reading can transform lives. They give out over 2 million carefully chosen books to children throughout the UK. Every parent receives a BookTrust book in the baby’s first six months. Their books, guidance and resources are delivered via health, library, schools and early years practitioners, and are supported with advice and resources to encourage the reading habit. Reading for pleasure has a dramatic impact on educational outcomes, well-being and social mobility, and is also a huge pleasure in itself. BookTrust are committed to starting children on their reading journey and supporting them throughout.


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Now, you can export more complex groups from your design tool, and ungroup them in Animator to individually animate the different slices that compose the group, while maintaining their original position.
To do this, you need to drag and drop your group from the library to the stage, right-click on the group, and select the option "Ungroup" from the contextual menu (or Cmd+Shift+G).
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All abstracts of oral and poster presentations submitted and accepted for publication will be collected in a PDF booklet which will be distributed to participants at the beginning of the conference. Presentation slides and posters will be made available to participants via the webs
- Conference name and title of Proceedings: ASME-ORC2015 -
- Proceedings of the 3rd International Seminar on ORC Power Systems
- Date of the conference: 12 - 14 October 2015
- Location of the conference: Brussels, Belgium
- Organisors: University of Liège and Ghent University
- Publishers: University of Liège and Ghent University
- Year of publication: 2015
- Editors: V. Lemort, S. Quoilin, M. De Paepe and M. van den Broek
- ISBN: 978-2-9600059-2-9
- The online conference proceedings can be at: http://www.asme-orc2015.be/online/proceedings.htm
- All conference papers in one file
ASME ORC 2015 Publication Release Form
Authors of papers accepted by the Conference Committee of the International Seminar on ORC Power Systems 2015 agree that their manuscript is included in the proceedings of the Conference which will be made publicly available.
The authors retain all copyrights to the manuscript, including the right to republish the manuscript in other proceedings or journals. The authors also confirm that in case a third party’s copyrighted material is included in the manuscript, they possess the permission from the entitled party to republish such copyrighted material.
The authors agree that the manuscript will be made available at no cost and with no limit in time to anyone who requests a copy. This right extends to any means by which the proceedings may appear, including but not limited to print and digital formats, including USB flash drives, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and online publication through the conference website.
The Conference Organizers have made arrangements with the ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power and Energies Journal that selected high-quality papers presented at this conference will be invited for submission to the journals. Pending the evaluation of the Editor, they will be published in their present form, or will undergo further review in order to achieve journal-quality.


Historic Seneca Falls!
NEWS AND EVENTS
New York State has started a New York State Haunted History Trail. The Seneca Falls Historical Society is the only official site on the trail in Seneca County.
Glimpse of Christmas
Tour of Homes
December 11, 2016, 12:00PM-4:00PM, sponsored by the
Seneca Falls Historical Society.
For more Information Call 315-568-8412
Tickets, pre-sale $15.00, day of tour $20.00, are available at the Society, 55 Cayuga Street and The Copy Shop, Fall Street.
Monday-Friday 9 am-4:00 pm & Sat, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Last tour at 1:00 pm / Library closes 30 mins before house closes
Please make an appointment for research on Saturday
$10.00 for students, AAA, AARP,
$15.00 for adults
$25.00 for families
For large groups or special needs please contact the Society.
Are you looking for a nice way to remember a loved on who has passed on? Why not make a memorial contribution in their name to the Seneca Falls Historical Society? The contributions to our memorial fund are designated to help maintain our educational and community outreach programs and events unless otherwise designated by the donor. You may also want to remember the Historical Society in your will. It is a meaningful way to help insure that the Society and our Museum will be able to continue to serve Seneca Falls and the surrounding community for generations to come.


Researchers use of academic libraries and their services
This study provides a forward-looking view of how researchers interact with academic libraries in the UK and informs the debate on the development of academic libraries and the services provided to researchers.
The foundations of the relationship between researchers and research libraries in the UK are beginning to be tested by shifts in the way that researchers work. The rise of e-research, interdisciplinary work, cross-institution collaborations, and the expectation of massive increases in the quantity of research output in digital form all pose new challenges. These challenges are about how libraries should serve the needs of researchers as users of information sources of many different kinds, but also about how to deal with the information outputs that researchers are creating.
Key Perspectives Ltd undertook this study on behalf of the RIN and CURL. The work surveyed 2250 researchers and 3000 librarians, and included an intensive series of focus group discussions and interviews, we have sought to establish a solid base of evidence on how libraries have been developing their services and strategies, and how researchers have been making use of those services. But we have also sought to look forward, to gain a perspective from both researchers and librarians as to how they envisage library services developing in the future.
The report is available below.
We held a workshop in April 2007 to discuss the ﬁndings and implications of the report and to consider the implications, particularly from the point of view of libraries and host institutions.
Following this event, we set up a working group of researchers, librarians and senior institutional managers to set out strategic courses of action to be taken in particular by higher education institutions to address the issues outlined in the report.
The group completed its work in June 2008, and produced a new guidance document, Ensuring a bright future for research libraries: a guide for vice-chancellors and senior institutional managers, to give practical advice to ensure library and information services keep pace with the evolving needs of researchers.


Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Competing Against Luck is a book written by Clayton M. Christensen, Karen Dillon, Taddy Hall, and David S. Duncan that explores the concept of "jobs to be done" as a framework for understanding and predicting customer behavior. The book argues that customers "hire" products or services to do a specific job in their lives, and that companies can create more successful products and services by understanding the underlying jobs that customers are trying to accomplish. The authors draw on a range of case studies and research to provide practical advice for applying the "jobs to be done" framework to product development and innovation.
Great product management books
This list features the best books for product managers to help guide them through the process of launching successful products and building effective teams. From practical advice on time management and innovation to strategies for creating products that customers love, these books cover a wide range of topics essential for any product manager. Whether you're just starting out in the field or are an experienced professional looking to improve your skills, these books are sure to provide valuable insights and ideas.


LeBlond Ltd. is tucked in a tidy but largely undistinguishable industrial park in Amelia, Ohio, a Cincinnati suburb.
It is a library without dusty bookshelves or librarians who shush you into embarrassed silence. It is more of a resource library in the sense that it has documentation of detailed and assembly drawings, microfilm and aperture cards containing technical information on thousands of transactions and machine blueprints going as far back as prior to the 1940’s.
Need to know the model and year of your LeBlond lathe? Get the serial number of your machine (to learn how, watch this video here) and fill out the information on the Contact Form of the website to submit your inquiry. LeBlond will research your machine’s history and respond to your request.
The thousands of detail part drawings and unit assembly drawings occupy rows upon rows of neatly organized engineering files in the north end of the LeBlond Ltd. warehouse in Amelia. The drawings cover decades of machine tools for the following product lines: LeBlond, K.O. Lee, Standard Modern, Johnson Press, Deka Drill and W.F. & John Barnes equipment.
The LeBlond documentation area also contains microfilm with machine history and bills of material. The machine history files are catalogued by serial number and contain information such as a copy of the original sales order, the machine model, how the machine was originally configured and the date of shipment.
So LeBlond is a manufacturer, parts supplier and world-class information source for your numerous machine tool requirements. If you need more information, again, contact the LeBlond Ltd. library by filling out this online Contact Form.
If you’re interested in new LeBlond or K.O. Lee machines or interested in original OEM parts for LeBlond, K.O. Lee, Standard Modern, Johnson Press, Deka Drill and W.F. & John Barnes equipment, call LeBlond Ltd. at (888) 532-5663.


Books are a wonderland to me! Storybooks, in particular. I love embarking on a little adventure every time I sit down with one. An old favorite classic, or a brand new and unknown tale, the joy I find in read is one of the most important things I want to be able to give my children.
We already have a few voracious little bookworms in the house, and it’s one of the ways we connect most as a family. Here a some of the main things I do to help inspire my kids to read on!
I read out loud to them!
Parents are encouraged to “read to the kids” so often that it can become like white noise. But don’t ignore this advice, it pays off big time!
But it’s not just about the words they hear, I believe it makes an enormous difference who is reading to my children. While a story can be wonderful from anyone, when I myself am reading to me children, it becomes more than just a story. It’s a connection with me. It’s way to show them I love them, and it means more when we share a story together!
We also listen to lots of audio books together. This is special in another way, and can show them different styles of storytelling. I LOVE Audible.com and we try to listen to at least one book every month on Audible. We just finished “Babe” and before that “Mary Poppins”, “Little Women” and “Anne of Green Gables”.
Quality always matters
Not all books are worth reading. There, I said it! As someone who loves good literature, I’m quite picky about the books that we read and let our kids read. There are seemingly endless resources for wonderful books, so don’t settle for dumbed down ones.
Super simple books are sometimes my favorites. But sadly many books are only produced to make money, and are not well written, don’t have engaging characters or story lines, and have pages filled with words yet no real substance.
I’m particularly thinking of stories that are re-tellings of movies or about TV characters. Many of these books count on the cover to sell the book, and are not really worth reading.
Sometimes my kids will pick up one of these stories, read a bit and say “This is dull.” I agree. And then they go back to reading Frog and Toad books, which may be to easy for their reading level but are ever so clever, and certainly worth another read.
Read new things and re-read old things
We have a wonderful collections of favorite books, and we are always re-reading them. We also are always looking for new adventures on pages. We love both, we need both.
Re-reading old favorites is a wonderful way for my children to develop their story telling skills, because they are not at all concerned about following the storyline or stumbling through new vocabulary. Many of our best books they have nearly have memorized, and they can just focus on enjoying the story!
Engage with the story together!
We love to talk about the story after it’s done and often even when there has been a significant plot change or a character has done something notable.
I ask questions like “Why did he say that mean thing to his friend?” or “Do you think he is going to make it on time if he does that?” or “Is this a good plan?”
My kids LOVE engaging with the story like this. It keeps them hungry for more and eagerly reading on to see what happens!
If the story is one they already know, they love pointing out when the characters make a vital mistake or noticing details that are going to be a major plot point later in the story.
Re-tell the story!
This doesn’t come naturally to all children, but it’s such an important part of learning to enjoy reading! Stories and interesting things we read aren’t just a momentary pleasure, they are a memory that can be recalled over and over again, and enjoyed some more.
My kids can hardly wait to re-tell the stories they heard or read to their Dad, or anyone who will listen. In fact, my seven year old will often disappear with a book for an hour then come back and give the FULL very detail account of everything that just happened to his characters (he is currently reading one of the best series, The Boxcar Children.)
Even the books that I am reading, though they are out of my children’s interest level right now, are very interesting to me and they often ask me what it is that I’m reading about. I LOVE giving them a synopsis and my thoughts on characters or subject matter.
Teach them to read as soon as they are ready
My kids have all been ready to learn to read at about age 4-5. This was the age that they had developed the skill to concentrate and apply themselves to learning phonics.
It takes work and I wanted to be careful that I did not press them into learning before they were ready. There is no hurry, if they love books and stories, they will be ready to read soon enough.
My kids have learned to read from my favorite phonics book, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. I cannot recommend this book highly enough! I will definitely do a full review soon, but let me just say, it works! In 100 lessons, my kids were reading at a solid 2nd grade level, and enjoying it! And it has a follow-along script for parents as they teach, so it can truly work for anyone, even if you do not think you are a gifted teacher.
In the mean time, toddlerhood is really where the love of reading starts. Both my husband and I read out loud to all our kids, everyday. We read fiction, history, Bible, poetry, or books that helps us learn about other things we are interested in, like cooking, gardening, farming and all of it!
Get them books about things they are interested in!
My kids are much more likely to want to read books that are about the things they love. My oldest is a horse lover like myself, so all books about horses are welcome! She is currently reading my childhood favorite, “King of the Wind.” Some of my other favorite horse books are “Misty of Chincoteague” and “Black Beauty”, and of course “The Horse and His Boy”.
My littler kids do love all books, but my girl is particularly interested in ballerinas or thing of a fancy nature! She loves the classic editions of “Angelina Ballerina” (and the illustrations are some of my all time favorites). And my little boys cannot get enough of the critters in Mercer Meyers books. (“Just Go To Bed!” is my favorite!) The drawings are hilarious beyond description, I can’t get enough of them either! And we all love the poor old Henry the Duck in “Henry’s Awful Mistake”.
Keep required reading short and sweet!
Since my children are homeschooled, I do require them to read every day. My favorite school readers are the “Pathway Readers”. I highly recommend these wonderful books! They start at the basic phonics level and go all the way up through 8th grade level. They follow many of the same characters, and they have excellent companion workbooks.
However, weather my kids are reading Pathway or something thing else for their assigned reading, it’s always just about one chapter, or about 10-15 minutes of reading per day, and I won’t push it past that for the time being. They almost always end up reading more one their own, but I am quite careful to make sure that reading stays primarily about pleasure, and not about work.
If my kids are struggling with reading level of a book, I will often read a paragraph, then have them read the following one, and we switch on and off. This helps the story keep moving along quickly, and helps them not to get frustrated.
If we are doing a phonics lesson, I help them sound out words and practice them. BUT, if we are reading strictly for fun, I don’t make them stop if they pronounce a word wrong, or if they ask what a difficult word is, I just say it and we move ahead with the story. I never pause int he middle of a sentence to practice phonics. Cause that is a killjoy. Yes it is.
Have them read out loud every day
While my kids do enjoy just reading to themselves, it’s also really important for them to practice reading out loud. One of the ways we practice this is to have the bigger kids read story books to the younger kids. Of course, the little kids love this so much, and it helps them bond as siblings too!
Because both my husband and I read out loud to our kids everyday, they are willing and eager to read out loud themselves. In fact, if they read something particularly interesting (or about a character that is particularly shocking) they can hardly wait to read it out to us!
Reading out loud is about sharing a pleasure, so if my children do read something out loud, I’m careful to truly engage with it and let them know that I enjoyed what they shared with me!
Always acknowledge their efforts!
I love to praise my children, but I’m careful to do so in an honest way. Rather than telling them that they are the best readers in the whole wide world (flattery) I let them know that I noticed how much faster they are reading these days (genuine observation).
I also let them know that I am proud of their progress, however small that may be. I have guided their progress, but it’s really they who put in the hours of work. That is no small feat, and it deserves praise!
Build up skills, slowly and steadily
This is about laying a foundation, not about cramming as many books into their heads as possible, or checking off achievement boxes.
If this all seems overwhelming, do not fear. It takes time to build a genuine love of books and a culture of delight around the written word. Start small, a book or two a day, a poem here and there, and Bible story before bed are a wonderful place to begin.
Some children may never turn into books worms, but that doesn’t mean they can develop a genuine joy in reading and telling stories, and connecting with their family in this wonderful way!
Never stop reading to them…ever!
Even when the going gets tough, through good times and bad, I have never stopped reading out loud to my children. True, sometimes I would read out loud because I was to sick or tired to do anything else. But I’ll always be reading out loud to my kids, in every season, about all subject matter. Some serious, some humorous, some packed with helpful information, and some pure frivolity.
I truly believe that the number one reason my children love to read is because both myself and my husband love to read. They see how much we enjoy reading, and they are eager to have that joy for themselves, and share it with their family.
Did you grow up in a reading family, and do you want the same for yours? My parents read out loud to me and my siblings very frequently, and our whole family still shares a love of literature. I’d love to hear how you and your family enjoy books, and if you feel it brings you closer together (I know it does for this family!)


since 09/1997: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
Heading the library’s Special Collections, I am responsible for all research and access services in this part of the library and its archives, and oversee all activities as they relate to collection development, preservation and conservation, technical services, digital projects, loan and exhibition programming
I represent the School’s library in a variety of professional associations and public programming activities through on-going curatorial, speaking, and publishing engagements on a local, national, and international level
I supervise two FT staff (Special Collections Manager, Media Collections Manager), up to 8 graduate student assistants per semester, interns and volunteers.
I contribute to grant applications, in collaboration with the School’s Office of Development and Alumni Affairs, as they relate to any of the library archival collections
I participate in a variety of campus-wide committees, serve as library liaison to the departments of Performance and Time Arts; Visual Communication; Photography; Print Media and have served as a Staff Senate member
I have taught seminars in the Departments of Arts Administration as well as Continuing Studies at SAIC, and am part-time faculty at Columbia College Chicago (Interdisciplinary Arts Department) and have served as a thesis reader and advisor in both institutions
Before immigrating to the US after a 12-months artist-in-residency, I’ve worked part-time as a Lighting Technician at the Baden-Württemberg State Opera and Ballet Stuttgart, Germany, as an art teacher K-8 (Künstlerhaus Stuttgart), and as a weaving and art therapist (Psychosomatische Klinik Groenenbach) while pursuing MFA.


This book was suggested to me by a senior priest who loved to learn, and by all standards was a “citizen of the world.” As I began to read this book, I noticed it was not a book for “bedtime reading.” This said, the research and statistical data in each chapter is outstanding and a tremendous resource for us who are concerned about the Church’s future.
In this book, Allen describes 10 different trends that are moving within the world and especially in the Catholic Church. Some of the trends/chapters described are: the growth of Islam, the rise of evangelical Catholicism, the biotech revolution, the growing focus on ecology, and the movement of the church to the southern hemisphere.
While heavy at times, this book is VERY interesting for those who want to learn more about how deeply connected the Church is to every aspect of the global society. Mr. Allen is a journalist who regularly writes for the Boston Globe, he has several books, and spent 16 years writing about the Vatican for independent media sources. He is often asked to be the analyst of Vatican affairs for CNN and the New York Times. I found Mr. Allen’s perspective and insights enjoyable and true to form so far in the 7 years since he first wrote this book. Give it a try – you will definitely learn a lot either way.


I am deeply indebted to my good friend John Weager who was kind enough to send me a copy of an excellent book which he has recently written and published. It is I have to say a labour of love, written about an iconic building that played a pivotal role in the life and times of the good folk of Bournemouth. Indeed while the book focuses on the life and times of the iconic building that was Bouremouth Bus Station, it is also a testimony to the very many major bus stations and interchanges that affected so many peoples lives over the course of the years.
I have always felt that the bus industry is indeed a microcosm of social history, it is after all about people. Indeed John manages very well I feel to get the human message out there, as well as all the information that you would expect about the myriad of different buses and coaches that served the bus station and its passengers over the decades. The history of the bus station since its formal inception in 1931, through to its extensive rebuild and reconstruction in 1957 until 1959 is well recorded, and John manages to give the reader a great flavour of what life was like back in the good old days.
In addition homage is rightly paid to the history of Hants and Dorset’s Bus Company after it became part of the mighty National Bus Company back in 1969. For me like John, growing up in that era it brought back many happy memories, from the super collections of staff photos, to the MAP project (or Market Analysis Project as it was fondly known), that would re-shape all the NBC subsideries. It is funny how sometimes photos can evocatively remind you of past experiences, indeed seeing the fashion styles of the seventies and before took me right back to my own formative years.
I have always felt that the bus industry has always down played its role in terms of keeping society moving and allowing lives to be lived. John has got the balance right between inspiring what this building meant not only to the armies of passengers on both buses and coaches, but also to the many people who worked there not only as drivers and conductors. But also to the many staff who kept the wheels working, day in and day out. Including John himself who started life as a Traffic Trainee back in 1974, I was lucky enough to work with John when I joined Midland Red West Bus Company based in Worcester in 1986, when I became the depot Manager for Hereford. John back then was part of the marketing team before becoming a very capable and well respected payroll Manager until he retired in 2011.They were indeed happy days, recalled fondly.
So, if you have any interest in the Bus Industry or indeed social history, I would thoroughly recommend John Weager’s book, he has done credit to the station itself and the many lives that passed through it. It is a well researched read that also brings the people and the characters to life, reflecting a different age when the bus and coach were absolutely vital to keeping the communities that they served moving. And I for one am delighted that this excellent book respects that unique heritage.


Tullahoma Tennessee History
Hundreds of comments sparked David Clark in Tullahoma, Tennessee, for drawing attention to the school's long-running racist drawings. A man whose job title lists "Tullahumas Tennessee" as his home state drew comments mocking him as the janitor of a nearby school for misrepresenting Southern pride.
In several profane comments discussing whether the US Civil War was fought because of slavery, Clark was mocked for not respecting the "Southern heritage." My answer was that the Civil War is a defining event in our country's history, and that to fully understand the United States today, we must understand the events of 1861-65.
Of course, Stones River and Murfreesboro were particularly bloody battles, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,000 Confederate soldiers and the loss of many more civilians. Militarily, the battle was a draw, but it led to Confederate General Braxton Bragg retreating to move his army south. When the Rosecrans finally moved in on June 23, 1863, he retired to the Nashville-Chattanooga Railroad, which had retreated from its original position on the Tennessee River. When he finally moved south to pursue Bragan's army, they followed him and forced the Confederates to turn back and fight back.
The battle was significant because Bragg eventually captured Tullahoma and, by disrupting supplies to Chattanooga, shifted the balance of power on the Tennessee front, forcing Confederate troops further south into Georgia. The strategic outcome of the campaign was enormous, however: the Union Army of Cumberland took a big step forward in its campaign to split the Confederacy. Chattanooga came under fire, but the Confederate Army in Tennessee was completely maneuvered from Middle Tennessee into the heart of its own territory by the Tennessee Army. Gen. William S. Rosecrans tried to cut off supplies to the Confederates in Chattanooga and marched toward Tullaoma. In the end, the Confederacy lost its first major battle in the South and its second major victory in Georgia, with the loss of more than 1,000 lives.
The letter, written in Brooksville, Florida, does not mention the Union invasion of Bayport, Florida, which took place in the second week of July 1864, but it was probably written in the first week. The division fought at Tullaoma and surrendered at Appomattox to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, and other Tennessee troops participated in the same war from 1861 to 1865. The division that fought in Tullahoma and surrendered to the American Grant at Appomattsox and fought for the Confederate Army of Cumberland at the Battle of Tulloma on July 1, 1866.
The second book tells the story of Confederate General Braxton Bragg, who led his army back to Tennessee and reinforced along the Duck River between Shelbyville and Wartrace to prevent Union troops from getting through the gap. In June 1863, a Union force of about 1,000 Confederate Army of Cumberland troops advanced from Murfreesboro to Coffee County, where they clashed with Confederate troops guarding a pass.
That campaign secured the Union a productive agricultural region, set the stage for a major battle at Chattanooga in the fall, and led to the decisive battle for Atlanta the following year. This year's campaign, which ultimately ceded control of Middle Tennessee to Union and eventually led to the capture of Chattanooga, is known as the Tullahoma campaign. In the summer of 1863, a Union army undertook the "Tullahomas Campaign" to defeat Confederate troops and take control of MiddleTennessee. This campaign was the beginning of the construction of a railroad that would run from Nashville to Chattanooga and from Atlanta.
Tullahoma was Bebe Decherd's favorite horse, named after a Choctaw chief captured by his grandfather during the Battle of Tullahoma's first battle in the 1864 Civil War.
In January 1863, Tullahoma became the headquarters of the Tennessee Army and was to remain so until July 1863. One general who had a troop shortfall was Gen. John C. Breckinridge, the commander of the U.S. Army Tennessee, whose own base here in Bedford County was at Beechwood Plantation. The American Indians in the northwestern and southeastern territories were confined to the Indian territory of what is now Oklahoma, while the Kiowa and Comanche tribes divided the land in the southern plains.
As Tennessee gained statehood, new technology like railroads spread into the area, and Tullahoma became a major stopover on the Nashville-Chattanooga rail line. Until the 1950s, the Tullaoma Depot was a busy passenger station for the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroads. Once Tennessee has gained state status, the new technology of such a railroad extends to this area. With the expansion of the Chattanooga - Nashville - Chattanooga rail line in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Tullahoma became an important stop on the Nashville - Chattanooga rail line, as well as many other stations.
General George S. Patton was involved in the Tennessee maneuvers in 1941, and Tullahoma was at the heart of one of the largest military training grounds of the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division, the Tennessee Infantry Regiment. Gen. George S. Patton was also present on his first visit to the Tullaoma Depot in the 1940s and early 1950s. In addition to its role as an important stopover on the Chattanooga - Nashville - Chattanooga rail line, it was also an important stopover for many other railroad lines.


Published: 30th August, 2019
Letter sent from Leicester UCU to Acting Vice-Chancellor and the Chief Librarian re proposed cuts to library budget, 30 August 2019.
We write to express our alarm at the cuts to library information resources due to be introduced from the academic year. At more than half a million pounds (£547,624 is the figure we have received) these cuts are swingeing. We have no doubt that, if not reversed, they will do serious damage to the University of Leicester. During your tenure as acting vice-chancellor, you have insisted that ‘we’ must improve ‘our performance’ across every aspect of our activities, including research and teaching.
Yet, these cuts – if implemented – will undermine our ability to ‘perform’ in both these areas. It shouldn’t be necessary to spell this out, but access to the latest research – which may be published in journals or monographs – is absolutely essential if scholars at the University of Leicester are to make our own contributions to this research – if, indeed, we are to live up to our claim to be a ‘research-intensive university’.
Spending on books and journals – and again we shouldn’t need to have to say this – is also essential to support high-quality and innovative teaching and to allow our students to follow their own interests and fulfill their potential.
We also note two other point. First, these planned cuts fall disproportionately on the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, in which library resources form the essential basis for most of our intellectual endeavours. Second, cuts to the library budget risk wrecking attempts colleagues are making to tackle major challenges. Examples that spring to mind include in our teaching and research on the Anthropocene/mass extinction, and efforts to decolonise the curriculum – areas in which the library’s collection is currently inadequate.
We are aware that the institution’s financial position is not considered ‘healthy’. But we also know that you and the senior management team retain choices: for instance, you recently decided to recruit an additional member to this team to manage the REF process and expensive infrastructure projects continue. Deciding to attack one of the very pillars of scholarly activity – access to information – is a choice that threatens damage no amount of REF-management or new building can repair. We call on you to reconsider.


Luckily, Microsoft has put together extensive documentation for VS Code — which Next Code is based on — already! Here is some you may want to check out.
The official documentation contains a getting started guide, overview of the interface, details about support for various programming languages, and much more. It also includes links out to all the other documentation resources.
There are introductory videos for:
- Getting Started
- Code Editing
- Source Control
Who doesn't love tips and tricks! Check them out in this section of the documentation.


These fact sheets cover the following topics: Educational Rights and School Stability, Educational Decision-Making for Foster Youth, Early Care and Education, Special Education, School Discipline, Foster Youth Graduation Exemption Requirements and Transition Services to Support College and Career.
Author(s): California Foster Youth Education Task Force
Topic(s): Academic Skills, California, Career Success, College Access, Foster Youth, School Discipline, Special Education
Resource Type: Fact Sheets
Recommended Audience(s): Agency Leaders and Professionals, Caregivers and Education Champions
Click to download: CFYETF Education Law Fact Sheets June 2017


Looking for a calming, tranquil, spiritually uplifting story?
STOP! Galway Gone isn’t it.
Illuminating - Absolutely.
Sensual - Undeniably.
Romantic - Irrefutably.
This is more than a love story-it’s a life story.
This is a mature read, rating 3.5/5 cigarettes on the cold shower scale.
Juliet Anna Kladansky’s future was all planned out, the daughter of a rancher from the Sandhills of Nebraska. A student of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, she led a quiet, insulated life on a cattle ranch with her father and three older brothers.
It was a simpler time where established norms were passed from generation to generation. It was a life that Juliet loved and accepted for her future.
The unexpected enters her life when four Irish musicians are stranded outside the border of her ranch home. An immediate attraction forms between Juliet and the extraordinary Kieran O’Rourke, the lead singer and front man for his band Galway. Their backgrounds are diametrically opposite but the attraction between the two is strong.
Before Juliet can realize her dreams she must confront her sexuality, betrayal and devastating sorrow.
Read an excerpt: https://www.amazon.com/Galway-Gone-Ive-been-waiting/dp/1098307879/ref=sr_1_1?crid=B3VO0UZ17XHO&dchild=1&keywords=gabrielle+neord&qid=1606797797&sprefix=gabrielle+Neord%2Caps%2C174&sr=8-1#
Reviewed by K.C. Finn for Readers' Favorite
Galway Gone is a work of fiction in the romance and chick lit subgenres
and was penned by author Gabrielle S. Neord.
Recommended for mature readers, the work contains some graphic
sexual content and the use of explicit language throughout. Our
story centers on protagonist Julie, whose sheltered upbringing in
Nebraska hasn’t really prepared her for the ways of the world, let
alone the ways of romance. When she meets Irish musician Kieran,
a yearning for more out of life awakens in her, and so begins a
journey toward coming of age, sexual awakening, and finding the
person she was always meant to be, as well as the one she’s meant
to be with.
Author Gabrielle S. Neord spins a beautifully woven tale of emotive
and entertaining fiction to deliver chick lit which has real issues and
realistic characters at its heart. New adult audiences and chick lit
fans alike will enjoy the development of Julie, who is highly relatable
in her dreams, ideals, and naivety as the novel begins. Her journey
with Kieran opens her eyes to what the world truly has to offer, and
the atmospheric settings of different cities around the globe are
well-drawn to highlight and enhance this wonderful and romantic
experience for her. The drama of the plot has plenty of ups and
downs, and the issue of true sexual awakening is dealt with in a
realistic and sensitive manner. Overall, Galway Gone is an uplifting
and highly enjoyable read from an emotionally intelligent author.
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What is Elements?
Elements is a cross-platform library for creating building elements. It's meant to be used by architects, engineers, and other building professionals who want to write code that generates buildings.
When we started Hypar we needed a library that would generate building elements and run at the core of each function on the platform. Because we don't like rebuilding the wheel, we looked around for existing libraries that fulfilled the following requirements:
- The library must be small and fast. Elements is currently ~300kb and we're working every day to make it smaller.
- The library must be cross-platform.
- The library must have great visual documentation. If we're going to pass this library on as a recommendation to developers on Hypar, we want great docs.
- The library must be free of dependencies on host applications like Rhino or Revit or geometry kernels like Open Cascade which, while really cool, become a black box in your system.
- The library must be able to serialize data to formats like JSON, IFC,and glTF, that are useful to architects, engineers, contractors, and people building real-time visualization applications for AEC.
- The library must be written in a language that supports developer productivity through things like type safety, and which supports code re-use in other popular AEC applications like Dynamo, Grasshopper, Revit, and Unity.
- Serialization and deserialization of types that extend
Elementshould be possible provided that those types are made up of primitives defined in this library.
We couldn't find anything quite right. So we started building this.


The list happens to be shorter this year, but my reading time was reduced with good reason – finishing a basement remodel and a 33 percent family population increase. Another reason for the decrease in the number of books was the length of Heaven and complexity of The Mortification of Sin. So, here are the books that I read in 2012.
- All of Grace by CH Spurgeon
- Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
- The Mortification of Sin by John Owen
- Adaptive Web Design by Aaron Gustafson
- Bringing the Gospel Home by Randy Newman
- Design is a Job by Mike Monteiro
- Take Care How You Listen by John Piper
- Heaven by Randy Alcorn (spent most of January 2013 finishing this one up.)
New this time around here are the audiobooks that I listened to throughout the year. While I listen to a lot of podcasts, I might try switching it up in 2013 and listening to more books.
Am I going to list every article that I read in 2012? No, but early in the year, I did get into the routine of saving miscellaneous articles that I read and thought were interesting into Evernote. So, I’ve thrown all of these into a shared Reading 2012 notebook. You’ll find a similar topical mix represented in the books above and the articles here. And for the articles, I need to get better clipping random things that I read as opposed to only the stuff coming through my feed reader.
If you have questions, comments, or recommended reading for 2013, please let me know in the comments. Thanks!


Saturday, August 14, 2010
Design Resource: Bonus! Library Sale
Not only can you bag a good read or five, library book sales are a great resource for the DIYer on a budget. You can...
Fill sparse book shelves with quality, hard-back books.
Find DIY and design books for inspiration and information. (I look for vintage design books as a reference for historic interiors.)
Use illustrated pages as inexpensive artwork.
Get in touch with your local library's "Friends of the Library" organization for more information on scheduled events in your area.
PS Happy 50th birthday to Green Eggs and Ham!


The Young Authors program is designed to give children pride in their writing. To encourage them to use their imagination and experiences to come up with stories to tell others. Today was Ethan's day to celebrate being a Young Author.
I am so proud of the stories that he writes in school and how he can remember and describe things that we have done as a family. He is so proud of himself and I love to watch his self esteem shine so bright.
Each child reads their story out loud and we talk about the story. What was going on? What happened next? What did they think? It is fun to spark their imaginations and see where they will take you. Ethan's story was about making snow cream while he was out of school last week for snow days.
They were so proud of themselves. As well they should be. They are learning by leaps and bounds in kindergarten.
After they read their stories and talked about them, they were presented a certificate and a pencil.
I am so thankful I am available to show up for these types of things. They are so important to Ethan and he just beams when he sees me walk through the door.


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Temporary Autonomous Research: Shanghai Biennale
This publication is a free gift when you purchase Metropolis M no 5-2012.
This year, the Shanghai Biennale will experiment with a completely novel form of presentation: city pavilions. This new curatorial strategy is part of the Shanghai Biennale's ambition to present itself as the Biennale of the 21st century and to finish with the 20th century paradigm as defined by the Venice Biennale. In the first novel edition of the Shanghai Biennale, thirty cities will participate. Among them are: Berlin, San Francisco, Habana, Istanbul, Taipei, and Amsterdam. The first Amsterdam Pavilion is curated by Henk Slager. As point of departure, he selected a connotation that has always been characteristic for Amsterdam: the city of Amsterdam as refuge for thought and experiment. Three artists participated in the Amsterdam Pavilion: Falke Pisano, Jeremiah Day, and Nicoline van Harskamp.
In the publication Temporary Autonomous Research three artists' texts will particularly stipulate the position of the works presented in the Amsterdam Pavilion. Nicolien van Harskamp introduces the part of the script of Yours in Solidarity where the characters discuss the topicality of Hakim Bey's concept TAZ (Temporary Autonomous Zone). Van Harskamp also connects thinking about TAZ with the topical discussion on artistic research. Falke Pisano, however, approaches her research project from a more methodological perspective. In her text, she explores a possible relation between production, transparency, responsibility, and research. Jeremiah Day, presents his contribution as a subtext: an investigation into fabricated narratives, ‘testi-lies’, that are part of the systematic corruption of the LA justice system.
In addition, two essays will contextualize the themes in a broader perspective. Ilse van Rijn focuses on the paradoxical, ambiguous character typical for the relationship between artist's text and artistic practice, inferring the role such texts seem to play in the current debate on artistic research. Oliver Marchart discusses the interaction between artistic research, autonomy, and heteronomy, and its meaning for how the current art practice points to a society dominated by knowledge production in, for example, the form of ‘action research’.
Temporary Autonomous Research. Amsterdam Pavilion, 9th Shanghai Biennale, 2012. Editor Henk Slager. Texts by Falke Pisano, Henk Slager, Ilse van Rijn, Jeremiah Day, Jeremiah Day, Nicoline van Harskamp, Oliver Marchart. Published by Metropolis M Books, Utrecht, 2012
Metropolis M Books, Utrecht


Puthinilay Prakashani job Circular 2022 has been release. Book and magazine publishers spend a lot of time buying and processing manuscripts; On the other hand, newspaper publishers often produce manuscripts with their hired staff, although they hire freelance journalists, called temporary freelancers. It is possible for a small printing press to survive with certain supplies. Depending on the size of the publishing house, the duration and the number of people involved in the activity, large publishing houses also specify a high volume of unsolicited manuscript submissions and publications. Acceptance rates for unsolicited submissions are very low, with some sources reporting that publishers accept three out of every ten unsolicited manuscripts for publication. See Puthinilay Prakashani job Circular 2022 and apply.
Some authors follow a non-standard path to publication. For example, this includes bloggers who have a large readership of books based on their website; The book is based on internet names. Instant ‘celebrities’ such as Joe the Plumber, retired sports figures and generally publishers think anyone can produce a marketable book. chakrirkbr.com. These books often work under the name of fictional author services. For a presentation to be a publication, the subject must be best considered by an editor or publisher who can influence other colleagues to make publication of a particular title possible. See Puthinilay Prakashani job Circular 2022 and apply.
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Improvements in the printing press The results of recent project research help the learning community as much as a scholar himself can do, but this improvement in communication is a countermeasure for libraries that enable them to add volume and weight to the literature. One of the most important functions is the prestigious survey that publishers arrange to provide. Their role is to facilitate biased judgments of research and this important role is not only useful in the invention of disenfranchised interventions, social networking and online document sharing.
Today, publishing of educational journals and textbooks is part of an international industry. Critics charge that quality accounting and profitable policies are deviating from publishing. There are also non-profit publications that face business publishing, where the publishing company specializes in publishing. jobpaperbd.com For example, a university press, or a free medical organization pays money only to fulfill specific goals in practice.
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Have you ever debated about whether your child’s symptoms warranted a call to the doctor or not? Wondered if your kid was sick enough to go to the emergency room in the middle of the night or if it was okay to wait until the morning to go to the doctor’s office instead? Worried whether you were doing the right things to treat your child’s symptoms at home? Then a new book from Dr. Barton D. Schmitt may be just what the doctor ordered.
My Child is Sick!: Expert Advice for Managing Common Illnesses and Injuries is a new reference guide designed to help parents find answers fast to questions about treating the illnesses and injuries they are most likely to encounter while raising kids. This easy to use guide offers the same expert advice and guidance given by doctors and nurses in 10,000 practices and 400 nurse call centers in the United States and Canada and using the Pediatric Telephone Protocols which have been tested for 15 years on over 150 million phone calls. Now all of that advice is yours in one practical reference guide.
The author, Dr. Barton D. Schmitt is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine medical director of the After-Hours Call Center at The Children’s Hospital in Aurora, Colorado. Dr. Schmitt is also the author of Pediatric Telephone Protocols: Office-Hours version (12th edition, 2009), published by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and Your Child’s Health (Bantam Books). Dr. Schmitt’s purpose in writing the book was to assist parents in determining when it is necessary to call a doctor about their child’s symptoms and how to treat the child at home if a doctor’s care is not required.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, “inside this practical guide, parents will find:
- Straightforward information on the most common illnesses and injuries of childhood
- Decision charts to help care givers determine when to call the doctor and when it’s safe to treat symptoms at home, as well as descriptions of which symptoms are normal during the course of an illness or recovery from an injury and which are cause for concern.
- Specific time-frame guidelines as to when to call the doctor or 911.
- In-depth advice for treating symptoms at home, taking the guesswork out of how to make little ones feel better.
- Drug dosage charts for the most commonly used non-prescription medicines.
With My Child is Sick at their fingertips, parents will never again have to worry about whether they’ve made the right decision about their child’s illness or injury.”
The 50 most common illnesses and injuries children are likely to face are outlined in order of areas of the body, and offer specific instructions on when to call the child’s doctor, when to call 911 or emergency services, and how to treat the illness or injury at home and offers information for children of all ages, from newborns to teenagers.
Parents may be tempted to think a book is unnecessary in this digital age where answers are abundant on the internet but if you’ve ever searched an illness or injury online before, you may already know that there is an overwhelming amount of information and advice to wade through and in some cases, not all of the information or advice is accurate or from an expert source. This book has accurate, expert guidance in a quick, easy to use format that can save parents time, money (if it saves you from making a trip to the doctor that wasn’t necessary), and a lot of worry.
After reviewing Part 1: Head or Brain Symptoms, which covers crying, head injuries, and headaches, I was glad to find that it is not written in “medical jargon” or “doctor speak” but easy to understand with clear instructions on what to do. I highly recommend parents have this book on hand in an handy location where it is easy to find in an emergency. It would even make a great baby shower gift for new parents. The book can be purchased online at the major online book retailer’s websites and may be available in your local bookstore.


Nominee for 2017 British Sociological
Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize
About the book
The book explores how people negotiate and reconcile, construct and reconstruct their distinctive gender and ethnic identities in a cross-cultural context. It reveals how gender and ethnic identities intersect in distinctive ways in shaping the lived experiences of intermarried couples. Through the kaleidoscope of first-generation Chinese-British inter-ethnic families in the UK, this book brings together gender, migration and ethnic studies. It reflects on ongoing social processes such as individualisation and globalisation.
“Sociological writing on the subject of inter-ethnic union formation at its very best. Its contribution to theory, methodological innovation, and the acuity of the analysis, including insights into the life-course dynamics of Chinese-British inter-ethnic families and the relevance of ethnicity and gender, make this book an indispensable work of scholarship for all those interested in the broader topic of the sociology of ethnic relations.” (Peter J Aspinall, University of Kent)
“This is an accessible study that sheds new light on how men and women make sense of their intimate relationships within and across ethnic divides, which should be compulsory reading for those interested in the interconnections of gender, ethnicity and family, as well as those concerned with migration practice and policy.” (Jacqueline Scott, University of Cambridge)
“The book offers remarkably nuanced insights into the intimate backstage of globalisation by exploring the family lives of an emerging ‘transnational middle-class'”. (Daniel Nehring, East China University of Science and Technology. Read the full review published in The Sociological Review)