Fay Keegan has been a Social Worker for over thirty years. ‘All Stations to Waterfall’ tells a part of her story, drawing on her experiences as a child in the 1960s and 1970s. It is only now, at this stage in her life, that she has felt ready to write about this tumultuous time. She brings to the story the detachment, the narrative skill and the adult-life experience of working with other victims to trauma, that the story needs in order to be a compelling and moving read for a wide audience of readers.
Victims of trauma, and those around them whose lives have been touched by trauma, are not always the best equipped to tell their own stories. Through her training as a social worker, and her experience as a professional counsellor, she has been able to separate her insights from her emotions, in order to let the words on the page and the events they describe speak directly and compellingly to the reader.
At the time she took time from work to write ‘All Stations to Waterfall’, Fay was a Mental Health Accredited Social Worker in Private Clinical Practice. She has a Master’s Degree in Cultural Psychology and post-graduate qualifications in Couples and Family Therapy and Mediation. Fay’s writing is informed by her personal and professional experiences and she shares insights, stories and vignettes from a unique perspective.
Fay has acquired a sufficient ‘stock’ of diverse life experiences to write and speak on issues which touch upon the lives of many other people.


“Come to me, all who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest…for I am meek and humble of heart.” Matthew 11:25-30.
Days following the presidential election, which had surprising outcomes for the political parties and the media, on November 9th, the New York Times published an article with the title: “Six Books to Help Understand the 2016 Election.”
I found it ironic that so many astute observers had missed the swift political currents that many needed to go back and revisit what had just happened — right before their eyes.
Maybe a good book would help?
One of these books on the list, J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy propelled immediately onto the bestseller list. It’s a memoir of a young man’s rural family and the culture in an Ohio steel town and how they had become estranged and mostly looked down upon by the rest of the country and mostly overlooked, especially by politicians.
These literary efforts don’t differ much from the sentiments of writers like our own John Steinbeck. He spoke for our farming and ranching people during the Great Depression in “The Grapes of Wrath, and “East of Eden.
Fair enough, in every time there are people whose voices are hardly heard, and only from the periphery. One of the great American poets and essayists, Wendell Barry, has a most compelling line that relates directly to our gospel.
Berry writes: “If change is to come, it will come from the margins. It was in the desert, not the temple that gave us the prophets.”
As we read today’s Gospel of Saint Matthew, this passage comes from Chapter 11 and provides the first glimpse into the transition from the ministry of John the Baptist to the efforts of a successor in Jesus and his disciples.
Here we read of the great challenge deep within the Jewish establishment indifferent to him at the beginning, and towards the end, they turned violent at the cross and Calvary.
Nonetheless, Matthew marks the transition to a new generation of believers — those who were previously overlooked and, in most cases, looked down on.
Jesus spoke to and spoke for the needs and hurts of children, women, the poor, the blind and lame, the unnoticed. We learn from his simplicity, humility as the best expression of a humble heart, the very Sacred Heart.
“Come to me, all who labor and are burdened” is an invitation to this new generation of believers, that you have the opportunity to celebrate God’s “invisible kingdom of the heart.”
It’s in this unique relationship with Christ with his arms open to all, and his great heart, a reminder that his love is universal.
Does Christ’s love embrace everyone?
The Sacred Heart tells us that no one is unworthy of Christ’s love — there are no exceptions.
With this symbol, we, too, become “other Christs” as we struggle to bring his healing and his saving power to all people in need.
Alice Camille, a spiritual writer, has this to say about the Sacred Heart of Jesus:
“There is nothing sadder than life without love. But even in those seasons when we feel most alone and uncherished, how dearly beloved we are!
When in doubt, look to that blazing Sacred Heart on fire with a yearning for your joy and fulfillment.
Every good thing under heaven is offered to you in the benevolent gaze of Jesus Christ.
San Carlos Cathedral, Monterey, CA.
Like today’s Gospel passage, Pope Francis is inviting us back to the person and the heart of Jesus Christ. The Holy Father’s prayer intention for July is focused on those “distant from the Christian faith.”


The "Feel Better" Book
A "Feel Better" Book or Recovery Journal is one of the most thoughtful gifts to give someone who is facing a surgery or about to embark on the journey of chemotherapy or a prolonged illness. The book will help the patient keep track of the myriad of information that comes flying at them during this difficult time. The pages are designed to organize doctors names and contact numbers as well as emergency numbers. Other pages can be used to write down gifts that were received and from whom. Include some "Thank You " notes and stamps so they can thank the gift givers. You can truly personalize this book with pictures, inspiring messages from loved ones, stickers, scrapbooking or anything your own personality can invent. Below are links to the pages of books I have given but open your mind to the possibilities and CREATE! Look at my pages and make them your own.
Don't miss my ideas for a Caretaker's Book and Special Cancer Cannot page, Wedding Engagement Book, Mommy's Baby Recovery Book, etc.
The title page introduces the idea of the book and personalizes it.
Look at this page to get your ideas or copy and change it for your page.
The introduction page will tell the receiver how to best use the book and how much you care. This can also be personalized to fit the individuals situation that will be receiving the book.
The Doctors Pages will help the patient and their caretakers find the doctor and their number when needed quickly. Very helpful when you have multiple doctors for various purposes.
The Wonderful and Thoughtful Gifts Page is a place to keep track of meals that were brought in, gifts received, who sent them and how you thanked them. As a cancer survivor I know this page is important so you don' loose track of the kindness people have shown.
Keeping track of who came to visit is important as the patient can look back on this to remember when the medication has worn off etc. This is important and I have experienced loss of memory due to medication. The caretaker can fill this in for them.
This gives the patient a place to keep personal notes, memories and notes on treatment.
This Cancer Cannot Poem is perfect to include in a cancer patients book or a book given to a caretaker of a cancer patient.
Wedding Engagement Book
The wedding engagement book could contain pages about wedding colors and themes, decorations, caterers, locations, the reception including cakes, layout and music, and an area to keep notes and pictures of wedding showers, parties and engagement gifts received. A page could be included for participants and helpers in the wedding as well as the wedding party. Several pages that can hold pictures should be included in this book and pockets to hold swatches, dress photos and notes.
The Caretakers Book
The Caretakers Book is a wonderful gift for anyone who has to take care or help another person through an illness or recover from a surgery. They can fill the pages of this book with the visitors the patient has received, who sent flowers, who sent food, who sent other gifts, as well as names of doctors, contacts, medications, and notes. They can also use this book to keep track of appointments and reactions to medications.
The Medications pages are very important as there may soon be an
onset of many medications and varying pill schedules. It is very
to write these down to keep track of them for the patient as well
as anyone else that might step in to help out for a moment.
Mommy's Baby Recovery Book
The birth of a baby is an exciting time but at a time when Mommy is getting no sleep it can also be a hard time to keep track of Doctors appts, emergency phone numbers, who brought in food, who dropped off gifts, all the details of the baby's first days that you don't want to include in your "Baby Book" like how much and when the baby is eating and any questions you want to remember to ask the doctor or lactation specialist. Use your imagination and knowledge of the recipient to personalize the book even more and as always, include quotes.
The Caring Book
A Caring Book can be a wonderful gift for anyone facing a serious illness or life changing experience such as a divorce, a move to a different city, or a death in the family. Create pages that will help that person with their unique situation. For example a "Moving Caring Book" could include names and locations of new groceries, doctors and pharmacies. It could contain personal messages sprinkled throughout the pages from friends that will be left behind, new school info pages and anything else that will help them keep track of their new life.
The Personal Messages and Coupon Pages are wonderful inclusions in any book as it will include quotes and personal messages from the friends and family of the person receiving the book. At low times during an illness or a recovery it can be very uplifting to read personal messages of love and support from the people that love and care about you.
A variety of small Thank You cards with envelopes and a book of stamps.
Divider pages with tabs and pockets for each catagory.
Your individual pages per category printed out on colored paper with each color to represent a different category and holes punched to fit in booklet.
Optional stickers, quotes and personal messages of encouragement from loved ones.
- One ring binder notebook with clear cover that you can slip a page into.
Other very valuable pages are the Calendar Pages.
Calendar Pages allow keeping notes about specific dates, appointments, achievements etc. Please include Calendar Pages in your book but I have not included them in this site as I was not sure what months you would need. Follow this link to find useable Calendar Pages or locate your own on the web.


Ennis, Pat, & Kelley Patterson, Dorothy. TheChristian Homemaker’s Handbook. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013. Print.
The Christian Homemaker’s Handbook is a collection of essays exploring homemaking from a Christian perspective. The book is broken up into sections: design for the home, the value of children, foundations for parenting, the practical aspects of establishing a home, meal prep, and clothing. Each section is framed from a Christian perspective using Biblical references. The writers take a holistic approach to homemaking seeing the home as more than just a physical space but as a place to nurture ourselves spiritually. While men can also be homemakers, this book seems to target just women.
I found most of this book really interesting. I identify as a Christian, but did not always agree with some of the perspectives in the chapters. I liked exploring the home as a foundation for one’s mental and spiritual health. I also found the practical advice in the book helpful because they’re things that I was never taught and I’m having to learn on my own as I grow in my own housekeeping and homemaking skills. Some chapters were just not relevant to me being one who doesn’t have children, but I can see how those parts could be useful for new or expecting mothers.
This book will stay on my bookshelf and I will refer to it frequently. Not only does it have good information, but it gives me such food for thought that I enjoy revisiting the essays as I continue to build my little homestead.
Would I read it again?
Christians looking to learn how to maintain a home physically, socially, and spiritually.
Not Recommended for
Non-Christian readers may find this irrelevant to their lives.
3 stars out of 5
To purchase this book from my bookstore: https://bookshop.org/a/11656/9781433528385
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Fire In The Library
Despite the best efforts of you and your fellow Librarians, a fire threatens the sum of all human knowledge. You must save as many precious tomes from the flames as you can before the consuming inferno collapses the Library forever!
Fire in the Library is a press-your-luck game in which players must try their best to rescue books and accumulate knowledge. The game is played in rounds with a variable turn order in which earlier players have more risk but a higher possible reward. Everyone starts with tools to help mitigate their luck or change the probabilities for their opponents!
Gain more tools when your luck runs out or if you take the safe route and exit the library before things get too risky. Hurry, as the game ends immediately when any one wing of the library completely burns.
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Excerpted from: Rediscovering the American Republic, vol. 2: 1877–Present
Volume 1 of Rediscovering the American Republic includes classic biographies of five of the most influential people in American history through the era of the Civil War: William Penn, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln. Each of these men sought to establish both order and liberty in America, though they differed with their contemporaries as to the proper mix that would foster a lasting ordered liberty. Although none of them fully represented the era in which they lived, all of them interacted sufficiently with people of alternative persuasions to ensure that a focused study of their lives reveals a broad diversity of American experience. Primary source documents included in Volume 1 shed additional light on the challenges, triumphs, and tragedies experienced by the American people, particularly as to issues involving religious liberty, racial equality, and property rights. The proper relationship among the three branches of the federal government, and the dividing line between federal jurisdiction and states’ rights, also received significant attention.
Volume 2 continues the same tradition of historical inquiry through a combination of biographies—this time including every U.S. president from 1877 to present—and primary source documents. Once again, the analysis focuses on the proper relationship among the three branches of the federal government, and the dividing line between federal jurisdiction and states’ rights. Once again, religious liberty, racial equality, and property rights present perennial questions to which Americans give varied responses. And, once again, the overarching concern is to strike the proper balance between order and liberty—to discover that precious combination known as ordered liberty that uniquely can sustain the American Republic for generations yet to come. Through it all, a recognition of human nature, and the rights inherent in each person to life, liberty, and property, must never be forgotten.
In volume 1, primary source texts, time lines, and explanatory tables have been interspersed among the chapters of the biographies and organized into five distinct periods of American history. Similarly, in volume 2, inaugural addresses, public policy documents, and other primary source texts, plus time lines and explanatory tables, have been interspersed among the presidential biographies and organized into five distinct periods of American history. The result is full coverage of the most fundamental content essential to any advanced placement (AP) high school or introductory college survey course. Six “Deep Analysis Questions for Historians” guide the reader in probing the texts for historical significance (see p. 20). Hundreds of specific study questions bring distinct historical episodes into sharper focus. For example:
- Who won the Battle of Bunker Hill, and in what sense of “victory”? (vol. 1, p. 199)
- What were the three main policies advocated by Henry Clay, which are known collectively as the “American System”? (vol. 1, p. 472) 3. What motivated John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln? (vol. 1, p. 670)
- What was [Calvin] Coolidge’s conception of human nature, and how did this shape his political philosophy? (vol. 2, p. 337)
- What role did [Franklin D.] Roosevelt envision for the government amid the economic struggles of the Great Depression? (vol. 2, p. 383)
- What motivated the United States and the Soviet Union as each nation took part in events that resulted in the division of Germany? (vol. 2, p. 426)
- How did the political philosophies of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X differ, and which of these two men proved more successful in accomplishing his goals? (vol. 2, p. 576)
- Define “civic virtue” and explain its role in the preservation of a republic. (vol. 2, p. 740)
Volume 1 concludes with a period known as Reconstruction (1865–1877). The Civil War (1861–1865) had ended. The republic was rebuilt—partly upon the old foundations of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, but also with a new twist. Three Reconstruction Amendments solved on paper problems with which Americans long had struggled: henceforth, all slaves would be free, all persons of African descent would have equal rights with whites, and all men—regardless of race—would would be permitted to vote on equal terms. In practice, however, it remained to be seen whether Americans would honor their new creed. Moreover, the old debate between federal jurisdiction and states’ rights was not resolved by the Civil War; it only was channeled away from bloody conflict back to the pens which are mightier than swords.
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What I've liked recently...
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah: A fascinating description of growing up poor and biracial in South Africa. My only hope is that Noah will follow up with a sequel; the book ends before his career takes off.
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight: An honest and revealing look at what it took to build Nike from the ground up. Even though everyone knows how it ends, I found Knight's story compelling and suspenseful as he narrowly escaped financial ruin again and again.
In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement by John Heminway: A great character study of a heroic female doctor in Africa with a dark past. Heminway writes beautifully about Africa and thoughtfully about his complex subject.
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride: Published in 2006, a heart-felt and captivating story about a Jewish girl who grew up in 1930s Virginia and married a black man (and then another). Told alternately from the point of view of the author and his mother, it opens a new window on humanity.
My all-time favorite memoirs
At Home in the World by Joyce Maynard
My Life in France by Julia Child
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Open by Andre Agassi
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali


The Moon Maid
Edgar Rice Burroughs
September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American fiction writer best known for his celebrated and prolific output in the adventure and science-fiction genres. Among the most notable of his creations are the jungle hero Tarzan, the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter and the fictional landmass within Earth known as Pellucidar. Burroughs’ California ranch is now
the center of the Tarzana neighbourhood in Los Angeles.
The Moon Maid is a fantasy novel belonging to the Lost World sub-genre. It was written in three parts, Part 1 was begun in June 1922 under the title The Moon Maid, Part 2 was begun in 1919 under the title Under the Red Flag, later retitled The Moon Men, Part 3 was titled The Red Hawk. As evident from its name, Under the Red Flag was originally set in contemporary Soviet Russia, with the Bolsheviks as villains; as this was not popular with the publishers, Burroughs transferred it to a science-fictional setting, with the evil Communist-like “Kalkars” taking over the Moon (in the first part) and then the Earth (in the second part, with the help of a renegade Earthman) and being finally overthrown in the third part. (Also the Thorists, villains of Pirates of Venus, are clearly modelled on the Russian Communists.)
The book version was first published by A. C. McClurg on February 6, 1926, under the title The Moon Maid, though it was shortened from the serial. The Three Parts have been published in varying combinations and under varying titles since 1926.


It turns out that everyone I asked said yes, with many poets writing brand new poems for the occasion. Thousands upon thousands of people visited the blog during April or subscribed to the poetry email list, and notes came from teachers around the world who shared these new poems every day with their students. There was coverage in School Library Journal and elsewhere. It was such a success that I turned it from a one-off idea into a series, continuing with new poems until 2013 and new poets every year but one.
From Jack Prelutsky, whose poem opened the whole thing, to Naomi Shihab Nye, whose poem closed out 2013's event, to everyone in between, the work that was sent in was incredible and a huge privilege to be able to share with you all. If you visit the blog, you can find all the poets for each year's 30 Poets/30 Days listed along the left hand side... with a click of a poet's name leading to their contribution.
You can also click on the logos below and arrive at a recap post for each year with links to all the poems. I truly can't say enough good things about the work you'll read, or about how amazing the people who write poetry for kids are. I do hope you'll check all the links out.
|Logo by Carter Higgins|
|Logo by Debbie Ridpath Ohi|
|Logo by Mary Peterson|
|Logo by Bonnie Adamson|
And if all the above isn't enough, I have good news: it's Poetry Friday, and you can find the roundup of this weeks' links at Buffy's Blog. I hope your Poetry Month finishes strong. Around these parts, every month is Poetry Month... so I look forward to seeing you back here in May, too.


Resource Works has produced the “Citizen’s Guide to Tanker Safety & Spill Response on the British Columbia South Coast“ is a work for the serious, engaged individual. It will also appeal to those in the role of explainer of complex public policy, and who are in need of authoritative, accessible, reference materials. However, they have also endeavoured to make it as accessible as possible by using jargon-free language and infographics. The document provide extensive citations and links to other, validated information sources.
Resource Work’s intention was to collect together, into one place, this authenticated and definitive inventory of the information relevant to maritime safety in connection with the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project (TMEP), along with some other contextual information that we concluded would be helpful for understanding the project.
As a public issue, TMEP has demanded the utmost dedication to ensuring ongoing transparency and accessibility for the public. This guide is organized to facilitate understanding of what can be a thicket of operational, technical and legal frameworks, sometimes appearing to overlap. The authors have identified an inclusive framework divided into four topic areas:
● Social and Economic Returns
Recently our Pacific Chapter was invited to review and comment on the document. Marian Robson, Chair, Pacific Chapter nominated four members of our Executive, with particular expertise in marine matters, to undertake this task. Just a word about each member…
● George Adams is a retired senior shipping executive and former member of the Board of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, who closely follows marine issues;
● Darryl Anderson, Wave Point Consulting, Victoria has done a great deal of policy work and writing on marine issues and in particular, tanker traffic;
● Bonnie Gee, Vice President, Chamber of Shipping of BC and directly involved day to day in tanker movements on the BC coastline; and
● Paul Levelton, who heads up the Infrastructure Practice at KPMG and has had international experience in port/marine projects.
This group has reviewed the draft document and has found it to be both factual and credible.
Marian Robson, FCILT
Chair, Pacific Chapter
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport


Freedom Fighters is a historical fiction thriller, spy versus counter-spy, set during the 1956 Hungarian Rebellion. With Stalin dead and reform on the minds of many people in Soviet satellite nations, the CIA wishes to provoke a crisis. They send agent "Zelly" Zellner as a replacement professor of engineering at Budapest's Technical University. As part of his cover, he takes along his 12-year-old son, Gunny.
KGB counter-spy Andrei Novitsky aches for a promotion as the last of his class to remain a lieutenant. Needing more field work, he speculates Budapest is a likely flashpoint. Pretending to take a vacation, he takes his 12-year-old son, Yuri, to Hungary to prevent an uprising.
With Zelly and Andrei pitted against each other, the boys prove valuable to their fathers' missions. They meet and become friends. In the whirlwind days of war, the boys discover things that change their perspectives. Fathers and sons do not always see eye-to-eye. Events compel actions that test the bonds of family and friendship. As the Hungarians and Soviets array on the battlefield, what the four characters learn about themselves, each other, and their world changes everything.
Read the sample chapters.


ChristianAudio.com is giving away free downloads of Roger Resler’s Compelling Interest through the entire month of January.
Roger Resler is an author, media producer and researcher. Roger’s background is in radio and audio production. He has been an announcer, DJ, news, producer, production director, account executive and station manager for several radio stations in three states. He was also an audio editor for Focus On the Family.
From ChristainAudio’s site,
In Compelling Interest, author Roger Resler draws on original sources, including the actual transcripts for oral arguments, the majority and minority opinions, and comments by the lawyers and others involved to take a careful look at the real story behind the historic Roe v. Wade decision.
Resler includes conversations with experts, including sociology professor Dr. William Brennan, the late Dr. Mildred Jefferson and Dr. Carolyn Gerster who co-founded the National Right to Life Committee, prolific author and speaker Randy Alcorn, bioethics professor Dr. Gerard Magill, perinatologist Dr. James Thorp, and photojournalist Michael Clancy.
Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary has now made the audio of this year’s Mid-America Conference on Preaching available for free download.
The conference theme for this year was “The Mystery of Christ: God’s Glory among the Gentiles.” The online resources include MP3 audio files of all general sessions and workshops, along with PDF files of all workshop notes. Presentations cover two primary areas: (1) Dispensational-Theological Issues; and (2) Preaching-Church Ministry Issues. Digital resources from previous conferences are also available online.
Amazon is giving away free downloads of Jerry Bridges’ new book, True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia (NavPress 2012). The free download is a kindle edition, but you can read it on your PC or tablet with amazon’s free software. Here’s what the back cover has to say:
Fellowship among believers is more than just talking over coffee after church service. Biblical fellowship in New Testament times—or koinonia—had rich and varied meanings, including covenant relationship, partnership in the gospel, communion with God and others, and the sharing of earthly possessions.
In True Community, best-selling author Jerry Bridges (The Pursuit of Holiness, Respectable Sins, Trusting God) explores koinonia and the practical implications it has for today’s church. With discussion questions at the end of each chapter, this book will help you dig deeper into what Christian community in the twenty-first century should look like. You will come away with a new appreciation for fellowship, the church, and what God intended the body of Christ to be.
I haven’t read my copy yet, but I expect it to be an interesting and edifying read. Get yours while it’s free.
In honor of Reformation Day, Christian Audio is giving away free downloads of Martin Luther: In His Own Words. This free offer will be available until October 31st.
The audio book is a short (2.75 hrs) collection of Martin Luther’s writings. Included are some of his most significant works such as the Small Catechism, 95 Theses, On Faith and Coming to Christ, On Confession and the Lord’s Supper, Of the Office of Preaching, Excerpt from Luther’s Tower Experience, and the Last Written Words of Luther.
If you have never read these works, it would be well worth your time to pick up this free download and listen to it in your car this week. Perhaps it will give you an occasion to start an evangelistic conversation on this year’s Reformation Day, October 31st.
One of the best ways I’ve found to stay up-to-date on China is to subscribe to the ZGBriefs Newsletter. The service is free (though they do periodically request donations), and you will receive a weekly email with condensed news stories and articles on China along with links to the stories/article themselves. You can sign up at www.zgbriefs.com.
In case you were wondering, the “ZG” in ZGBriefs is short for “Zhongguo” (中国）, which is Chinese for “China.”
Amazon is giving away a Free ESV New Testament Audio Bible. The Bible is in MP3 format which will allow you to listen to it on most personal media players.
I’m a big fan of audio books and especially audio Bibles. While an audio Bible will not allow you to easily read a passage over and over to meditate on it, the audio format will allow you to hear the book as a whole and grasp the big picture.
There are two downsides to Amazon’s free version. First, it is dramatized with somewhat annoying electronically generated music in the background. Second, the reading talent isn’t quite on par with what you would expect from professional audiobooks. However, since it’s free, you really can’t beat the price, and if the shortcomings of this version get on your nerves, you can always go out and buy something better.
Also, if you prefer the King James Version, Amazon has both the Old and New Testaments for free download as well as a number of other translations and versions.
The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) publishes a free monthly magazine called Acts and Facts. Each issue is full-color and contains scholarly yet accessible articles about science and the Bible.
ICR has been a long-time advocate for taking the Genesis 1-2 creation account to mean that God created the world in six literal twenty-four hour days and the Genesis 6-8 narrative as referring to a worldwide flood.


SQL Server 2016 has (finally) a built-in string split function:
STRING_SPLIT ( string , separator )
That is great, however, if you are using an earlier version, many people end up writing something that loops through the string and wherever the separator shows up, the substring is copied to a table, which is returned later.
Here's an alternative... replace the separator with XML element tags and then use the built-in XML functionality to return the delimited elements. In theory, this may be slower than a tight string loop, but in practice, the XML libraries are extremely efficient, and the REPLACE function is also highly optimized. It certainly takes less code than the other approach.


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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
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13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery
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My critical review of Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power is now out in the latest NLR.
Most fundamentally, this is a book torn between a Polanyian critique of the marketisation of the new realm of surveillance data and a business school celebration of the market as the basis of democracy and freedom.
Zuboff in some ways comes close to a full-blooded leftist—even Marxisant—attack on Facebook, Google et al. Yet her attempts to reconcile this with her prior pontifications on business history have led to awkward, unresolved tensions in the project.
There are also reasons to doubt her central concept of the “behavioural surplus”.
More in the review...


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ALL ABOUT THE AWARD
The Little Rebels Children’s Book Award is a new award for radical fiction for children aged 0-12. The award is given by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers and administered by Letterbox Library. You can find out all the latest Little Rebels News by clicking here.
The Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB)
The ARB is a supportive community for the UK’s radical booksellers. The ARB runs the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing, administered by Housmans Bookshop. This independent prize for adult non-fiction literature is now in its 4th year. For more information, go to http://www.breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/
In 2012, the ARB launched a new, paralell, radical fiction children’s book prize: The Little Rebels Children’s Book Award. The prize was first awarded in May 2013 by guest judges, Wendy Cooling and Elizabeth Laird. The award is administered by Letterbox Library on behalf of the ARB.
Letterbox Library is a member of the ARB. They are a 32-year-old, not-for-profit, children’s booksellers and social enterprise. They specialise in children’s books which celebrate diversity, equality and inclusion and were singled out for praise for their work by Malorie Blackman on her appointment as Children’s Laureate for 2013-2015. They were also one of the 19 UK Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award nominees for 2015. For more information about Letterbox Library, go to www.letterboxlibrary.com.
The Little Rebels Award
The Little Rebels Award is designed to recognise a rich tradition of radical publishing for children in the UK. Currently the award is restricted to fiction targeted at children aged 0-12. The award administration is entirely unfunded which means we are taking things 1 step at a time! Longer term, we would hope to extend the award to non-fiction and a broader age range.
‘Radical’ is defined widely to include books informed by inclusive/anti-discriminatory concerns or those which promote social equality or social justice- for a full definition, see guidelines under Submitting a Book.
Guest judges for the 2014 Little Rebels Award will be Professor of Children’s Literature (Newcastle University), Kim Reynolds, children’s author, Elizabeth Laird and Bookstart co-founder and editor, Wendy Cooling (see Guest Judges).
Prizes for both the Little Rebels and the Bread and Roses Awards will be presented at the ARB London Radical Bookfair at 47/49 Tanner Street, London on Saturday, May 9th 2015. See Award-giving ceremony.


The good news of the person and work of Jesus Christ Who He is and what He did in His work. How sins are atoned for and forgiven and how we are made right with God. The coming of the kingdom of God. Matthew 4:17 “From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand”
Matthew 11:15 “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” This is a call to listen. This is a call to be alert.
Here is a link to how to get into heaven that can also be downloaded and printed– https://www.onlyhopeyouhave.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Gospel-1.pdf


Most students are introduced to Jane Eyre in high school, and it is usually termed a Gothic novel because of the century in which it was written (19th) and.
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His protagonists are black intellectuals, a rarity in their society, who can find symbolism and inspiration in the most complex works of classical writers or the simplest Negro spiritual, yet struggle to find their place in society. In Banana Bottom the protagonist Bita Plant is adopted and sent to England from Jamaica by white missionary benefactors…. It is to impose numerous conflicts on Jane and to see how she reacts.
When Rochester originally plans to marry Jane, he is selfish…. In both 19th century novels, women's wants and needs are rather simplified. However, this could also be said for the roles and ideals of the male characters. While it was obvious that this era was responsible for a large amount of anti-female sexism in society and the economy, can it also be said that male-female partnerships were simplified from the male perspective….
Gleaden Word Count: Compare and contrast the ways in which Bronte and Rhys construct the adult selves of Jane and Antoinette and consider how this shapes their relationship with Rochester. Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea present the childhoods and later lives of two women, who similarly marry the complex character, Mr.
Both begin their lives as outsiders, Jane because of economic differences to the rest of her family and Antoinette because of racial distinctions to the rest…. Mojica 14 October Jane Eyre: The Most Controversial Novel of the Victorian Era Even at its publication in , critics of the novel and the public could both agree that Jane Eyre was not only an immediate literary sensation, but it also emerged as the most controversial novel of Gothic literature to be published during the Victorian period. In many different…. Like the many of us today that are obsessed with reputation and appearance, the Victorians were just as bad, most of their life was centred around what other people think of them.
What is the right way to dress and talk? Victorians showed how important reputation and appearance is to them in their everyday life from….
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Actually, at the very moment of Bobo's fatal whistle, there is a blues singer on the porch of the store that accompanies the events with his music: "The blues singer on…… [Read More]. All without distinction were branded as fanatics and phantasts; not only those, whose wild and exorbitant imaginations had actually engendered only extravagant and grotesque phantasms, and whose productions were, for the most part, poor copies and gross caricatures of genuine inspiration; but the truly inspired likewise, the originals themselves.
And this for no other reason, but because they were the unlearned, men of humble and obscure occupations.
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Coleridge iographia IX To a certain extent, Coleridge's polemical point here is consistent with his early radical politics, and his emergence from the lively intellectual community of London's "dissenting academies" at a time when religious non-conformists like the Unitarian Coleridge were not permitted to attend Oxford or Cambridge: he is correct that science and philosophy were more active among "humble and obscure" persons, like Joseph Priestley or Anna Letitia arbauld, who had emerged from the dissenting academies because barred by religion or gender …… [Read More].
Unreasonable Social Expectations. Rose, Agnes and Nancy. However, the exploration of women's nature and how it was defined in the Victorian age need not be limited to those three. It is illuminating and revealing how Dickens poses and presents the women of Oliver Twist and the reactions that tend to be elicited by those that read and review this work.
On the whole, it is obvious and clear that Dickens levied a full-frontal assault against the system and regimentation that were held against women, the poor and the ruffians of society. As it pertains to women, this obviously included the concept and idea that woman that keep themselves virginal, prim…… [Read More]. Maggie and Tom Tulliver. The romantic narrative of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss is dependent upon a series of contrasts. The heroine, Maggie Tulliver, is forced to choose between two men, Phillip akem, a poetic dreamer who is deformed, and Stephen Guest, who is dashing but somewhat shallow.
The two men represent the different sides of Maggie's character. On one hand, Maggie is extremely intelligent and forthright, more so than anyone else in the novel. She is an unsparing critic of the society around her and seems marked from birth as dark and different like Phillip. On the other hand, Stephen's exciting nature attracts her. However, Maggie, unlike a man, is unable to leave the area of her birth and strike out on her own. Ultimately she…… [Read More].
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Victorian culture and classical antiquity: Art, opera, fiction, and the proclamation of modernity. New Jersy: Princeton University Press. Newton, J. New York; Routledge. Tuchman, G. Edging women out: Victorian novelists, publishers and social change. New York: Routledge. Bibliography Bloom, H. Hinkley, Laura L. Lawrence, M.
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World War I
Hancock Co., Indiana
The following list and photos were taken from a book called Hancock County Indiana in the World War 1914-1918 compiled by a committee appointed by the County Council of Defense. The committee included: Frank Johnson, Chr., Mrs. John F. Mitchell, Sr., Miss Daisy Harlan, Rober F. Reeves, George J. Richman
This webpage is broken into three parts.
1) In Memoriam - Those who lost their lives in WWI
2) List of WWII Soldiers - Army & Navy
3) PDF File of the Soldiers' information
If you notice any mistakes or omissions, please, contact Rebecca @ the Fortville-Vernon Twp. Library.


Goodnight Worcester is a children’s picture book of my watercolors and poem about Worcester, Massachusetts. Illustrations include Shrewsbury and Water Street views, the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester Sharks and Tornadoes, Union Station, the Public Library, City Hall, Hanover Theater, Mechanics Hall, colleges and universities, Green Hill Park, Elm Park, Ecotarium, Worcester Art Museum, Higgins Armory, Tuckerman Hall and other landmarks.
Shortly after my twins were born, I decided to write and illustrate them a book about their city. So when they were infants, we spent countless afternoons observing, drawing, and documenting parts of Worcester. The book was completed, printed (locally at American Printing in Auburn) and given to Henry and Sophia when they turned one. It was their first birthday present.
Copies may be borrowed from Worcester Public Library or purchased at the following Worcester locations:
DCU CenterDoor 22 - Commercial St.
Worcester, MA 01608
The Prints and the Potter Gallery
142 Highland Street
Worcester, MA 01609


A wonderful way to celebrate adoption this National Adoption Awareness Month is to show adoption books in your library!
Make a suggestion to your library to feature books about adoption in a display or table for easy access during Adoption Awareness Month. The books could be for adults or children and offer information about all types of adoption. Below is a photo of an example adoption book display. It’s showing currently at a library near Lifetime’s main office in Northern California.
Here are some ideas of adoption books that you could ask your library to display:
- Adoption: Your Step-by-Step Guide:
- Called to Adoption: for Christians feeling the Lord leading them to learn more about adoption. The book allows Christians to learn more about the miracle of families created through adoption.
- So I Was Thinking About Adoption: for women who are considering adoption of an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy. It provides a handy guide to the ins and outs of making an adoption for your baby or child.


The turnpike road ran from 1762 between Sparrows Hearne, near Bushey, on the Hertfordshire/Middlesex border, and Aylesbury, in Buckinghamshire. I came across an interesting letter to The Sparrows Herne Turnpike Trust in a school history book. In it, Thomas Saunders of Berkhamsted is applying for the job of gatekeeper. It is difficult not to wonder about a connection with William Saunders – especially as William’s father’s name was Thomas and his brother’s name is Thomas. They are not uncommon names, however. The signatories are a snapshot of Berkhamsted’s ‘great and good’ at the end of the eighteenth century.
To the worthy Gentlemen, the Commissioners of the Turnpike Road leading from Sparrows Herne to Aylesbury
Thomas Saunders, a poor parishioner of Berkhamsted, having a sickly wife and five children for whom he is scarce able to procure Bread by his utmost Endeavours, humbly prays to be appointed a Gate Keeper to the Turnpike. If he is so happy to succeed, he will discharge the trust reposed in him with the utmost Diligence and Integrity.
We, whose names are here unto subscribe, do believe Thomas Saunders of Berkhamsted to be a poor, industrious, honest Man with a large family. He has always tried to look after them. We do also believe him to be a proper person to keep the Turnpike Gate for which he now applys to the Commissioners.
Thos Herbert Noyes
Heinemann History Scheme Book 2: The Early Modern World, 2000, Judith Kidd, Rosemary Rees, Ruth Tudor, p37.The original document is at HALS https://archives.hertfordshire.gov.uk/.
Tring Local History has a chapter about the turnpike at https://tringlocalhistory.org.uk/Tring/c_chapter%2004.htm


Thursday, February 28, 2013
Ficktion Book Klub: The Alchemist
We are back in ACTION!
This time around we are reading the classicThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Beginning Thursday March 14th, we will be meeting every Thursday in the basement of
If you are interested in joining us, please do! We ask that you get a copy of the book and read to page 35 before the first meeting so we can discuss up to that point. It's always a pleasure to meld minds with other Free Skoolers and great literature - come see what we mean.
From Good Reads: "Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasure found within. Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is an eternal testament to the transformation power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts."
Posted by Ann Arbor Free Skool


How To Become a Better Reader
Everyone wants to become a good reader, in this guide you’ll learn exactly how to become a better reader. The path towards improving ones reading skills isn’t always easy. However once you’ve managed to improve your reading you’ll be much more effective. In this article I will touch on some of the core elements of becoming an avid reader. Let your old reading habits be a part of history! Starting today, it’s the beginning of a new reading era.
1. What is ‘better’
To begin with you need to define what you mean by becoming a better reader. Being a better reader could mean a lot of things so it’s good if we try to define it more explicitly. By becoming a better a reader is your primary goal to: a) Read faster b) Understand more or c) Both
By defining your goals in the beginning you’ll know what you’re aiming for.
1. Read frequently
The most obvious way of improve ones reading capabilities is to read a lot more. The more you read, the better reader you become. In this regard I’d recommend you to not only read a lot but also to read frequently. If you haven’t done so already, make a schedule for reading where you mention the amount of time you’ve set aside for reading every day. Be sure to keep yourself accountable. You don’t want to lag behind and start missing your reading sessions. If you want to become a better reader you need to have discipline.
Always look up new words
If you’re reading a book and you stumble upon a new word you haven’t seen before it’s a great opportunity to learn that word. You can make your own glossary where you write in the new words along with their definition. This is a great way to get the most out of each reading session. If the author uses a lot of complicated words you may consider collecting them at the end of the reading session so you don’t interrupt the reading flow.


My book project, Politics in a House of Mirrors: Art, Nationalism, and Representation in Contemporary Mexico, offers an account of the ways in which Mexico’s transition to formal electoral democracy and its implementation of market-oriented reforms transformed the country’s cultural policies and institutions, as well as the political content of its works of art. These changes, in turn, have profoundly shaped Mexico’s national narratives, forms of civic participation, and the nature of political critique. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research, archival research, and visual art analysis – including participant-observation in a wide range of cultural institutions and state offices and over a hundred in-depth interviews with members of the art world, policymakers, philanthropists, and bureaucrats – I demonstrate how the creative class negotiates a novel political environment marked by tensions between autocratic institutional legacies, emergent market logics, and a newly-liberalized public sphere. This work chronicles a shift from state-sponsored, overtly nationalist art to anti-statist, market-oriented art in the 2000s. I demonstrate how these changes have affected Mexican politics, ranging from how the state commemorates its history and organizes taxation, to how museums and monuments become sites for cultural resistance, through to how feminist activists contest gender-based violence. Art, I argue, is a privileged site from which to examine the consequences of political-economic liberalization, given that it evidences the tensions between political critique, freedom of expression, and collective action.
This work makes three major theoretical contributions. First, it expands the scholarship on democratic transitions and economic liberalization by showing the reasons why and the mechanisms through which these processes shape national imaginaries, cultural policies, and civic participation. Second, building on the literature on political representation, I argue that, despite not being voted into power or participating in traditional political forums, artists and other members of the artistic field should be taken seriously as political representatives. It is through their work that discussions about pressing political matters occur, shaping collective memory and helping to structure people’s political allegiances and identities. This work can include making, displaying, and preserving art, as well as choosing what counts as art and whom it represents. Third, I make a methodological point by stressing the need to go beyond analyzing simply the content of art and other forms of political expression Instead, I demonstrate the need to examine art’s conditions of production, circulation, and reception in order to understand how its political messages achieve (or fail to achieve) political ends.
This research has been supported by grants and fellowships including a Residential Fellowship at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California-San Diego, a Harper/Visiting Committee Write-Up Award from the University of Chicago, a Fulbright-García Robles Scholarship for Doctoral Studies, a Dissertation Research Award from the Division of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, a Field Research Grant from the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago, and scholarships from the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) and Mexico’s Department of Education (SEP).
Articles in peer reviewed journals
Islas Weinstein, Tania. “Expuestas: Laborious Expectations and the Plight of Feminist Art in Contemporary Mexico.” Accepted for publication in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
Islas Weinstein, Tania. “A Eulogy for the Coloso: The politics of commemoration in Calderón’s Mexico.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. 4(2): 479-499.
Islas Weinstein, Tania. “La Censura Figurativa.” Istor. 35: 67-90.
Islas Weinstein, Tania. (with Mariana Castillo Deball and Alberto Ortega). Sun Ra. En algún lado y en ninguno. Poemas. Bom Dia Books/ArtsLibris.
Islas Weinstein, Tania. “Cecilia Vicuña, la palabradora.” Campo de Relámpagos.
Islas Weinstein, Tania and Dutkiewicz, Jan. “Herman Nitsch en México: La polémica que pudo ser.” Horizontal.


Collecting and preserving genealogical records of Kern County since 1964
The Kern County Genealogical Society (KCGS) is located in the southern portion of California's Great Central Valley which serves as a diverse area and is noted for its mountain and desert vistas as well as the abundant agriculture and mineral resources. The society operates in Bakersfield, the county seat, and is housed in the
Beale Memorial Library at 701 Truxtun Avenue.
The purpose of KCGS is to:
1) educate the general public and members of the society in all areas of genealogical research;
2) establish, conduct and manage the genealogical library, and
3) preserve, collect and disseminate genealogical data and family histories worldwide.
Genealogy Room Hours listed below.


New Adult Books
"It is close to midnight on a Saturday night when Jack Reacher gets off a bus at the Greyhound station in Nashville. Reacher is in no hurry. He has no appointments to keep. No people to see. No scores to settle. Not yet anyway. But in the early morning hours, under particular circumstances, a familiar thought will be snaking through his sharp, instinctual lizard brain: A voice in his head telling him to walk away. Of course, this wouldn't be the first time he listened to his gut instead. Meanwhile, seventy-five miles south and west of Music City is a sleepy little town where a recently-fired guy nurses a grudge that will fester into fury--and a desire for payback. But who is watching him, standing guard over a long-buried secret, ready to strike before it can be revealed? If you don't have a sense of the danger you're in, then it's best to have Reacher."--
Olive, again : a novel
Olive returns, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade as she comes to terms with the changes--sometimes welcome, sometimes not--in her own life. Here is Olive, strangely content in her second marriage, still in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, encountering a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of Crosby, Maine. Whether it's a young girl coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth at a baby shower, or a nurse who confesses a secret high school crush, the irascible Olive improbably touches the lives of others. Elizabeth Strout has achieved greatness by brilliantly laying bare the inner lives of ordinary people, by focusing on the small moments of connection which can dislodge lifelong grief and longing, and unite her characters through moments of transcendent grace.
The Armageddon file
After one of the most contentious and divisive elections in American history, the new president is finally settling into the West Wing. But when his chief of staff discovers evidence that voting machines in key counties in swing states were tampered with, the whole administration is in danger of unraveling. Did someone steal the election? Are America's enemies involved? Were the tampered-with machines actually rigged to swing the election the other way--and if so and the plot failed, what is the conspirators' backup plan? Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini race to solve the mystery of a potentially rigged election before Americans' full faith and credit in our democracy, sovereignty, and rule of law become completely undone.
A single thread : a novel
From the bestselling author of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" comes an immersive, moving story of a woman crafting her own life at the dawn of the Second World War. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman." Violet finds support in a society of broderers - women who embroider kneelers for the Cathedral. But when forces threaten her new independence and another war appears on the horizon, Violet must fight to put down roots in a place where women aren't expected to grow.
Death in focus
"On vacation from London on the beautiful Italian coast, twenty-eight-year-old Elena Standish and her older sister Margot have finally been able to forget some of the lasting trauma of the Great War. Touring with her camera in hand, Elena has found new inspiration in the striking Italian landscape, and she's met an equally striking man named Ian. Not ready to part from one another, she and Ian share a train trip home to England. But a shocking murder disrupts their agenda, forcing Elena to personally deliver a message to Berlin that could change the fate of Europe. Back home, Elena's diplomat father and secretive grandfather--the former head of MI6, unbeknownst to his family--are involved in their own international machinations. Working behind the scenes as Elena tries to complete her mission on the ground, they interfere with a crucial political rally for one of Germany's most outspoken fascists. With Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich on the rise, and Elena caught in the middle of an international incident, anyone she encounters might be part of a deadly plot."--Provided by publisher.
The long call
"In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too. Now he's back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region; a complex place not quite as idyllic as tourists suppose. A body has been found on the beach near to Matthew's new home: a man with the tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. Finding the killer is Venn's only focus, and his team's investigation will take him straight back into the community he left behind, and the deadly secrets that lurk there."--Provided by publisher.


I’ve had more time to take a closer look at Office for iPad. I’ve also read several articles and reviews. The response is generally very positive. There are a few shortcomings that have been noted in the press, most notably the absence of a print feature. However, according to this PC World article, printing will be available soon.
What I have yet to read about or see in Office in iPad is support for the the Open In… feature for outgoing documents. The Open In… feature is supported to allow other applications to open an Office document in Word, Excel or PowerPoint but not the other way around. In my opinion, this is an important missing feature. Here’s why…
Office for iPad is essentially a collection of three (more or less) applications. Within each you are able to add a new “place” to retrieve documents from and save documents to places such as SharePoint libraries. The shortcoming of this approach is that it makes the workflow application centric, not task centric. When using SharePoint via the web users typically navigate to a document library where they have stored a number of different documents related to some task or project. These documents most likely include all three types of Office documents; Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The user then works through the things they need to do opening the documents as needed with the corresponding application opening accordingly. This is the approach Microsoft has advocated for years. Without the Open In… feature to move a document out of Office to another application the approach I’ve outlined above isn’t possible.
It is possible to edit a document using Web Office apps when opened from Safari. It is also possible to open an Office document using any number of iOS apps that understand any of the three major types of Office documents. The one I am most familiar with is SharePlus by Infragistics. This app is essentially a SharePoint client and allows an iOS user to work with any number and type of Office documents from a SharePoint library. One of it’s unique feature is it’s Smart Update feature. When a document is opened in an editor such as Word using the SharePlus Open In… feature the document is opened for editing. When the user is finished they use the Open In… feature in the editor to return the document to SharePlus. SharePlus then recognizes that it was the original source and will prompt the user to update the document on the SharePoint site.
Virtually all iOS Office document editors have had shortcomings related to formatting. The addition of Office to the iPad gives the enterprise user an familiar tool for editing document on a familiar tablet platform, iOS. The addition of the Open In… feature and the print feature would make Office for iPad a solid tool for mobile users.


Sacred Environment (abstract)
Sacred Environment is an oratorio venerating sacred land and the story it tells. This oratorio is the result of artistic research based on the ancestral lands of Yengo National Park in New South Wales, Australia, the traditional territory of The Wonnarua and Darkinjung people.
The commission from The Holland Festival for the Radio Philharmonic orchestra and Groot Omroep choir implied the genre of an oratorio, a non-staged setting of sacred or religious narrative. This genre resonated with me because I wanted to illustrate that nature itself is sacred, as holy as any Gothic cathedral or place of worship. The inclusion of the Didgeridoo in the line-up for the commission was the key to unlocking a path of questions leading back to the bushland of my own early settler family heritage, the aboriginal and colonial history of the area and the landscape and terrain in which they simultaneously existed.
I wanted to make the Concertgebouw into the bush where the iconic European concert-hall and the giant native tree trunks of the Australian bushland emphasise the symbiosis between Nature and Culture. The Concertgebouw represents the pinnacle of Dutch cultural society. It is a historic building where guests travel from afar to watch and listen to the worlds greatest musicians performing music by composers who have contributed to our western canon. This reminded me of the aboriginal concept of “corroboree”, a place where tribal men and women from Australia gather to sing, dance and celebrate their collective memory of Dreamtime stories, Song Lines and The Law. I was curious about the intersection between nature and culture. I imagined an image of bringing the bush into the Concertgebouw where it was no longer possible to tell where architecture ended and giant trees and branches began, blurring the lines between the two.
I recognise the importance of place and ancestral heritage to aboriginal traditions and it is something that resonates with me. The Netherlands is the ancestral home of my mother’s family and Australia is the ancestral home of my Father’s family. My search for a cultural identity is tied to this journey. It is an obsession that has been sparked by my experience as a migrant, having been born in England and moving to Australia, and then moving from Australia to the Netherlands, being the daughter of a migrant Dutch family and an Australian family that reaches back to the very first European settlers. The feeling of being both new and old in a place simultaneously is something that I experience strongly in both Australia and The Netherlands.
The music is drawn from the sound of the bush. The piece is busting with cicada rhythms, frog sounds and bird song. I wanted to recreate the breathless sensation I felt when confronted with the giant rock formations of the cliffs overlooking the river, the pyramid shapes of the mountains and stretches of bushland that reach beyond the horizon. Sensing the spirit of the land, the earth energy, dream-lines, the path of the stars, monolithic structures in the landscape, a feeling of being within the bush and the bush being within oneself is recreated through the power of sound wherein the intensity of the smell, light, heat, colour of the bush can be felt.
The imagery portrayed in the libretto represents the soul of the trees. They are the spiritual dimension of the forest, their ephemeral and fluid presence is internalised in the memory and exists in the imagination, adrift in the forest of the mind. The magnetic, seductive and liberating spirit of the bushland speaks and the sense that all plants, animals, minerals and people possess a universal soul connected to one another is emphasised by the connectivity of rhythms and harmonies within the music itself.
The libretto weaves a story of a woman lost in the bush surrounded and overwhelmed by the elements. Lists of native trees, minerals, animals, stars and water in their Latin scientific nomenclature envelope her story like the great monuments and icons of Deities, Saints and Martyrs. Latin names are employed so as to veil their true identity, keeping them hidden in plain sight and symbolising the inaccessibility of the bush to those who are not yet familiar with what it holds. To emphasise this, fragments of the Latin Mass including Libera Me and Lacrimosa have been included, resonating with the ritualistic revelation concerning the past and future holocaust/ apocalypse of the fragile environment belonging to our ancestors and children.
The story is told on four layers referencing Aboriginal traditional story-telling, where a story speaks on different levels depending on how far one has reached in one’s education and initiation. The meaning of traditional stories are themselves sacred and can only be revealed to those who have been prepared and are ready to receive their real meaning. Although this story is in narrative form, it is told through a language of symbols. On one hand it may tell a simple story of a woman who has lost her way, or it may tell the story of Mother Nature herself. The subject of the narrative outlines European versus Aboriginal spirituality and society and the concept of past, present and future, existing in one physical entity within the environment and the need to sustain the environment because it holds the treasure of our own existence. The environment is to be revered, teaming with beauty and complexity, an ecosystem likened to the most beautiful composition or complicated machine.
Kate Moore (April 2017)
Photos by Nina Frankova (Photos taken during our research expedition into Dharug and Yengo National Park following The Great North Road, May 2016)


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Identity Theft by Debra Meyerson, a Stanford University professor, shares her emotionally powerful journey to rebuild her identity and redefine herself after suffering a debilitating stroke, written for anyone who has experienced the loss of identity following injury. She effectively blends her expertise about personal identity with her own journey and that of other survivors into a story that can help and inspire anyone robbed of capabilities that challenge their sense of self.
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Tables of 7-8 brings together singles and couples to become better acquainted by sharing a relaxing meal in a home or restaurant. Our spring and fall Getting to Know You receptions feature different themes for food and fun.
The Bonhoeffer Fellowship brings together those in their 20s, 30s and 40s after worship on Sundays for discussion, study, fellowship and prayer.
On Wednesday mornings, the Men’s Breakfast offers the chance to discuss current events, issues of relevance to St. Mark, and …whatever! And on Thursday mornings, the Women’s Book Group is a forum for lively discussion for book lovers, who select the books to be read.


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Controlling the quantity of radical oxygen occluded in a new aluminum silicate with nanopores. Fujita, S., Ohkawa, M., Suzuki, K., Nakano, H., Mori T. and Masuda, H. Chemistry of materials, 15 (26), 4879-4881 (2003).
Structural investigation of low-symmetry vesuvianite collected from Tojyo, Hiroshima, Japan: Implications for hydrogarnet-like substitution. Ohkawa, M., Armbruster, T. and Galuskin, E. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 104, 69-76 (2009).


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A brand new documentary has come out on the making of Fontaines D.C. seminal debut album Dogrel.
Entitled Sold For Parts, the twenty five minute short made by Collective Films documents Fontaines D.C. as they write, record and release their critically acclaimed and Mercury Prize nominated first album Dogrel (read The Last Mixed Tape’s full review of the album – here)
An insightful documentary, Sold For Parts peels back the curtain on the origins on of one of the most impactful Irish bands in recent memory and one of the great Irish albums Dogrel, showcasing the poetry, fury and precision that fuels the group’s captivating music via raw live footage and moments of repose and reflection.
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Lecti Book Studio took part in the Fellowship programme of the Swedish Arts Council in Gothenburg (Göteborg) Book Fair end of September 2015 in Sweden. During the book fair we had the possibility to get acquainted with the Swedish book market, Swedish authors and publishers and learn more about the present trends in book publishing.
Before the book fair in Helsinki end of October Lecti Culture Centre organised a unique multilingual writers’ seminar at the Nordic Culture Point with participants from three continents.
At the fair Lecti Book Studio shared an exhibition stand with Villa Schildt from Ekenäs, Finland. On the scenes our authors Dr. Sabira Ståhlberg, Ivo Ivanov and Elisabeth Sandelin presented their books and discussed different topics, and translator Rositsa Tsvetanova talked with Magnus Lindberg from Villa Schildt about translating the sea. Sandelin, Ståhlberg and Tsvetanova were also interviewed by the national radio Yle in Swedish.
At the stand Lecti Book Studio and working group Sivuvalo organised an international, multilingual reading with immigrant authors, and for children we arranged a reading in four languages from Ursula Vuorenlinna’s newest books about ants. The Lecti/Villa Schildt was the most multilingual stand at the book fair and it had a lot of visitors, including the former president of Finland, Tarja Halonen.


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SIR WILLIAM MACKINNON,
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"One of the most eminent and remarkable men which this district has produced." Thus "The Argylishire Herald" of June 24, 1895, in its obituary notice of this son of Kintyre.
In Argyll Street, Campbeltown, there is a commemorative stone on the site of the house (now demolished) where William Mackinnon was born in 1825. He was the youngest of thirteen children born to Duncan Mackinnon, captain of a revenue cutter, and to Isabella Currie of Campbeltown. The Mackinnon family came originally from Arran, and Sir William's grandfather had the lease of Glenramskill Farm. After attending the School in Kirk Street, run by Mr. Duncan Morrison, and with some private tuition from the Grammar School Rector, Dr. Brunton, William Mackinnon entered the grocery trade in Campbeltown. There is a local tradition that he failed in this business because he gave too much credit to the Irish labourers engaged in the construction of the "coal canal" between Machrihanish and Campbeltown.
At the age of 25 he left Campbeltown and found employment with a merchant engaged in the Eastern trade, and shortly afterwards, aged 24, he went to India. There he joined his old schoolfellow, Robert MacKenzie, who was engaged in coastal trading in the Bay of Bengal. Together they founded the firm of Mackinnon and MacKenzie, shipping agents. In 1856, Mackinnon was instrumental in establishing what became the British India Steam Navigation Company, one of the greatest shipping companies of the world. It started as a single steamer, plying between Calcutta and Rangoon. Mackinnon then turned his attention to East Africa. He formed a friendship with the Sultan of Zanzibar and was eventually allowed by the London government to found the Imperial British East Africa Company in 1888. The territory administered by the Company was later incorporated into the British Empire as British East Africa for a cash payment to the Company.
In Africa he met Livingstone and Stanley, the explorers, and became a close friend of the latter, who actually attended his funeral in Clachan. It was, indeed, through Mackinnon's generosity that Stanley was enabled to continue his work of exploration. 'His whole life was spent in doing good," said Stanley in an obituary. Mackinnon was created a baronet in 1889, having earlier refused the knighthood offered by Palmerston. At Balnakil, near Clachan, he lived in style, entertaining among others, Leopold II, King of the Belgians, who was also a guest on board his sumptious yacht. Queen Victoria was preparing to visit him in Clachan when he died. Despite massive donations to charitable causes he left over £750,000.
His many business activities included a seat on the board of the City of Glasgow Bank, the failure of which impoverished many Campbeltown families. Indeed it has been said of this failure that "it was one of the most severe economic blows ever sustained by Scotland." But Sir William Mackinnon disagreed with the way the bank was being managed and resigned from the Board, selling out his shareholding interests, eight years before the crash came in 1878.
Of his very large contributions to worthy causes, the one most interesting to the people of Kintyre was the trust which later bought Keil House, Southend, and founded the Kintyre Technical College. It was, therefore, highly appropriate that, when the colossal statue of Wm. Mackinnon in Mombasa was returned to this country, it was re-erected in the grounds of Keil School, Dumbarton, where the School moved after the destruction by fire of Keil House, Southend.
A good deal of money, too, was spent on Clachan. The "model village", as it has been called, was largely the creation of Sir William. In addition to being Laird of Loup, he also acquired the estate of Strathaird in Skye - the ancestral stamping-ground of the Clan MacKinnon. Professor Blackie spoke of "the warm interest he took in the language and literature of the Highlands." For instance, he set aside £5,000 to provide bursaries for boys in Arran and Argyll with a knowledge of Gaelic. He was always very "dileas" to his ain folk. Only Campbeltown Malt Whisky was served on his ships, and many aspiring youngsters from Kintyre were recruited to the B.I. Line. Yet, when he sought to represent his native county in Parliament, he lost to a more radical candidate.
After he had settled in Scotland in 1867, he lived continuously either in Kintyre or Skye. He never had a London house. When called to London, he lived in the Burlington Hotel, and that, indeed, was where he died while on business in the metropolis. The news of his death, we are told, cast a gloom over his native burgh, and on his funeral day, "the bells of Lochend and Lorne Street Free Churches were tolled between three and four o'clock." He left no descendants, so the baronetcy died with him. His great grand-nephew is Mr. Tom Pollock of Ronachan in North Kintyre.
Empire-building is now out of fashion, and money-making on a large scale somewhat suspect, but there is no denying the strength of character of "the little Scotsman" of whom Campbeltown can be proud. He was resolute against the slave trade. "I first became acquainted with him," said Stanley, "through the interest he took in suppressing the slave trade." And there are many instances to show that, even in his business dealings, he did not value the amassing of wealth as the top priority of his life. William Mackinnon was a devout Free Church man. Latterly, he fell out with the church leaders, because he felt they were betraying the principles of 1843; and in a Codicil to his Will, he revoked all bequests made in favour of the Free Church of Scotland. He was a very strict sabbatarian at home and abroad, and observed family prayers regularly, night and morning, in his own home, whoever were his guests.
It is a pity that not more is known of his early life in Campbeltown, and the Editor of this Magazine would be glad to have any information thereanent.
Dictionary of National Biography.
"The Argyllshire Herald."
"Sir William Mackinnon" by J. MacMaster Campbell.
It may be of interest to our readers to know that the siding at which huge quantities of machinery intended for the ill-fated Ground Nuts Scheme in East Africa were off loaded and much of it left to rust, was "Mackinnon Road Siding."
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Is she willing to risk everything for the man she loves?
BLACKBIRD is the first book in the compelling contemporary fantasy trilogy about a tribe of shapeshifters, deep within the inhospitable forest of northern Maine USA, in an alternate dimension known as Blackwater Hills.
Ten years after departing this world, Michael Singleton returns to the valley nestled along the Blackwater River. Michael suffers from a rare disease, the curse of his tribe. Because of this, Michael’s soul will be damned to wander the Shadowlands, the domain of the Witch Goddess, for eternity.
To escape this fate, Michael must unlock the spell that opens the portal to Corvus’s kingdom, the Otherworld. It is a secret known to only one man, the powerful Guardian of the Dead. Michael is convinced that if he can invoke the spell and travel through the portal, he will finally be rid of his painful, debilitating torment. He cannot believe his luck when he stumbles upon the key in the form of Alena Andrick.
Alena is the only child of the Guardian of the Dead. Her safe and predictable life studying to follow in her father’s footsteps, is turned upside-down when she meets Michael at the Solstice celebration. But when Michael is accused of murdering the Captain of the Guard, Alena is forced to choose between obeying her instincts or the laws of her people.


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Today’s Impromptu prompt was from Kristina Marie Darling:
First, choose a text by another writer. This can be anything from a Victorian novel to a field guide, an epic poem, a Shakespeare play, or a computer manual. Read through it carefully and consider the following question: What has been buried in so much other language? Then, by removing portions of the source text, your task will be to excavate what has been obscured by narrative, exposition, rhetoric, etc. There are many possibilities for excavating pieces of language from a text. You may choose to bring to light beauty, violence, a particular image that appears and reappears, or anything else that risks being lost.
My text, published through the Gutenberg Project, is from the Preface to The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid by John Casey and Euclid, 1885.
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at the present day
a necessity to understand
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