She fought for her dream with needles and pins!
Leo Felton, son of the Earl of Nightburn and a capable lawyer, has seen his sister finding true love in the face of the Duke and managing to become a published author, as well. Leo couldn't be more proud as a brother and as an uncle - than he is now. This happiness is what he also wants for himself. But his dream Lady will probably remain nothing but a dream...
So capable! So witty! So beautiful! Chloe Green, his sister's best friend is the most astonishing woman he has ever met!
However, he will always be the clumsy, fanny brother of her friend...
Chloe Green has her own dream... to become a Modiste, holding her own business, creating fashionable gowns -not only for the ton- but for all of the girls and ladies! Chloe believes that every woman deserves a fine dress that will make her feel special!
Her friends will be there for her and she will be grateful for their support. Especially for Leo's, whose charming smile secretly lights up her days!
But what will happen when scandal sheets will attempt to harm the reputation of Chloe's business? And, worse... what about her own reputation as a Lady?
Will her friends still support her? Will Leo still admire her? Will she manage to maintain her business and keep creating her beautiful gowns? Or is everything lost?
A standalone novel that embraces Chloe's romantic adventure, a character that was loved by the readers in "The Duke's Writer"!
If you like engaging characters, heart-wrenching twists and turns, and lots of romance, then you’ll love “The Duchess' Modiste”!
Buy “The Duchess' Modiste” and unlock the exciting story of Leo and Cloe today!
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Kekla Magoon is the author of ten young adult novels, and one of them was selected as the Michigan Humanities Council's Great Michigan Read (a book club for the entire state with a focus on a single book). The book is "X: A Novel," by author Kekla Magoon, and along with Ilyasah Shabazz (one of Malcolm X's daughters), they tell a fictionalized account of Malcolm X as a young man. The book also explores the Michigan roots of Malcolm X.
Kurt Hauswirth spoke with the author by phone regarding the novel, its Michigan background and the honor of being selected for the Great Michigan Read (and numerous other accolades).
Kekla will have events across the Upper Peninsula and Upper Lower Michigan:
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Evening event with the Peter White Public Library
Event begins at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Daytime event with the Munising School Public Library
Venue: 810 State Hwy. M-28 W., Ste. A, Munising, MI 49862
Event begins at 10 a.m.
Evening event with the Escanaba Public Library
Event begins at 6 p.m.
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Daytime event with the Bayliss Public Library
Event begins at 1 p.m.
Evening event with the Petoskey District Library
Event begins at 7 p.m. in the Crooked Tree Arts Center auditorium, located directly across the street from the library.
Find out more about the Michigan Humanities Council's Great Michigan Read here.


Anna Sergeeva is a San Francisco-based artist who works with language as a medium, concentrating on the intersection between word and image.
Art+Action commissioned artist Anna Sergeeva’s YOU MATTER series to reflect and empower the myriad communities in San Francisco—particularly those that are experiencing homelessness. During Sergeeva’s time as an Artist in Residence at Art+Action Coalition Partner Lava Mae, many of the unhoused people with whom she connected emphasized their appreciation for the San Francisco Public Library as a safe, productive space. As such, Sergeeva created puzzles and bookmarks—to be made available at Art+Action Coalition Partners San Francisco Public Library’s 28 branches and at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts—featuring the statement “YOU MATTER” in Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, and English, overlaid on images from the community-generated San Francisco Public Library Shades of San Francisco photography archive. The YOU MATTER series is available in Art+Action’s Census Toolkit.


This document presents the analysis of primary and secondary information of the photovoltaic energy projects for rural areas electrification in Colombia.
On October 29, we hosted a webinar to present the study “Climate change. Scientific bases and questions for debate”, coordinated by Julio Lumbreras.
What are the scientific bases of Climate Change? What are the key issues to consider? In collaboration with Harvard University, the Naturgy Foundation and the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) have published the study “Climate change. Scientific bases and questions for debate”
Collaboration, cooperation and partnerships are terms that have generated growing expectations as strategies to accelerate the necessary changes, that will in turn lead to attaining the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Moreover, SDG 17 specifically states that “The SDGs can only be realized with strong global partnerships and cooperation”.
Partnerships are essential to delivering the transformational change demanded by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). However, partnership working can be costly in terms of time and other resources and is complex. Given the urgency and importance of sustainable development, illustrated by the recent pandemic and social unrest around inequity, we focused on the creation of a partnership that became effective quickly and was able to deliver societal impact at scale
This guide is an effort to help universities and other educational institutions to implement “Education for the SDGs” and transform their structures in order to achieve the 2030 Agenda.
Recientemente se ha publicado el libro “Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios”, el cual incluye varios capítulos que nos ilustran sobre cómo el Big Data y, en concreto, los datos de móviles, pueden ser utilizados para entender mejor las situaciones humanitarias de la población refugiada y diseñar soluciones.


"While the subtitle of Lessons With Matt claims it is focused towards teachers and parents, it is, in my opinion, for anyone who wants to understand people better; this book is must reading for anyone over the age of 12. Lessons With Matt doesn’t just inspire me to be the best teacher I can be, it also provides me with the specific strategies to nurture the best in my students!"
-Karen Gibson, Founder/Editor The Piano Bench Mag
Lessons With Matt: An Inspiring Story of Success Strategies For Teachers and Parents of Tweens and Teens
Lessons With Matt has received a 4.6 average star reviews from its Amazon reviewers!
Fans of Nick Ambrosino’s first book, Coffee with Ray: A Simple Story with a Life Changing Message for Teachers and Parents, will be delighted to discover that Ray and Matt’s story continues in this engaging and thought-provoking new book.
Matt’s life was going well, but there was some unfinished business. His teaching business was thriving and tremendously satisfying; partly because of the new skills he had learned from Ray, the mentor who had guided him on his new path in life. Yet there were loose ends that yet needed to be resolved.
Just as, one day at Jo’s cafe, Ray had surprisingly appeared, he had also, just as quickly, vanished. The only proof that Ray was not a figment of Matt's imagination was a letter Ray had left for him, which Matt had read every day for the past six months. After Ray’s prolonged absence, he returns. The interaction between teacher and student will leave each of their lives changed forever.
In Lessons With Matt, you will learn:


Say “NO’ to Bottom Games is a guide for parents, educators and caregivers about how to talk about and protect children from sexual abuse.
Adults who are willing to tackle the topic of sexual abuse and want to learn how to discuss this with their children will find this book invaluable.
Using simple, fun children’s stories the book helps children understand their bodies and distinguish between appropriate and non-appropriate behaviour.
The children’s book is supported with a parent’s guide containing simple ideas about how to teach children about abuse through education and story telling.
This resource is available to download for FREE.
Explores simple ways that parents, educators and caregivers can speak with their children about keeping safe from sexual abuse and gives ideas and strategies for how to do this.
Is a collection of children’s stories put together as a resource for children as well as parents, educators and caregivers. It offers age-appropriate stories, which are created to support the ideas suggested in section one. The stories have simple drawings that can be easily downloaded and made up into colouring books for children.
A hardcopy set can be purchased from our office for $45.00. Call us on on 09 630 8961 to find out more.


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best selling authors 2013
1. Stephen Fry “The Book of the general ignorence”
The author is of the opinion that if you compare all of the accumulated knowledge of the man with the sand, even the most brilliant person will have only two grains of sand. Stephen Fry is not just a writer, is an English actor, one of the most brilliant and witty people of our time, who has written an outstanding work of human errors.
With this volume, the author managed to not just get rid of some ignorance, superstition and pseudo-win. Stephen Fry’s book is based on a “question and answer”, with the help of which we can read it, learn a lot of new and interesting. The content of the book is quite versatile – you can find out what a huge home to most of the Tigers, in fact the planet Mars, which is the color, where in the world the least rain falls or who is the inventor of penicillin.
2. EL James “Fifty shades of gray” – a work made its author famous and famous. “Fifty shades of gray” – this is an incredible novel that awakens the reader a lot of feelings, as well as a genuine interest. The product on the popularity broke all records, surpassing the “Twilight” novels and the Harry Potter series. EL James novel “Fifty shades of gray” – is recognized as one of the best love stories of 2012.
EL James “Fifty shades of gray”
3. Charlotte Rogan wrote her debut novel “The Lifeboat.” This is an amazing product that has received rave reviews. Also drew on this writing and Nobel Prize winner for literature, John Maxwell Coetzee.
Charlotte Rogan novel “The Lifeboat”
4. Christopher Paolini’s “Eragon. The Inheritance”- this is the fourth book, published in March 2012. The author writes his works of fantasy. “Eragon. Heritage “was sold record circulation – over 25 million.
Christopher Paolini’s “Eragon. Inheritance ”
5. Dmitrii Suslin “Knight Caterino” The first translated into English Russian book author won the largest bookstores in the world. Story of a little girl who was in the country, stopped time, killed the dragon and became a knight, has won the hearts of children and adults. It is read with their families, and the famous Hollywood filmmakers are fighting for the right for its adaptation.
Dmitrii Suslin “Knight Caterino” Get it!!!
6. Masaru Ibuka, “KINDERGARTEN IS TOO LATE!” The book is designed for parents who wish to open the front of his children a world of new possibilities. The book is perfect for new mothers. In this work perfectly spelled psychology of identity formation. This book will help in the proper education and help make a child not only successful in the future, but also happy.
Masaru Ibuka, “KINDERGARTEN IS TOO LATE!”
7. Ken Wilber’s “A Brief History of Everything.” The piece is written by American philosopher and built by philosophical dialogues. It perfectly combines the basics of eastern wisdom and principles of European philosophy.
Books for centuries considered to be the great human domain. After all, at the time of reading, a person enjoys, expanding their horizons and comprehensively developing personality. Also, through print, you can get away from all sorts of difficulties in life, plunging into the world of perception and imagination.
Note that today the fashion of popular books not infrequently creates movies. The new film, won considerable popularity at the same time creates fashion book, on which was written the story. For example, after the screens out all the famous movie “Twilight”, the huge popularity began to use books written by Stephenie Meyer.
Consider the most popular books in 2012-2013. This could include new items such as “From Life to Life,” “Fight Tigers in the valley. Volume 1 “,” Under the Dome “, etc.
The most popular books of the world
In first place is a popularity book Suzanne Collins’ stand-peresmeshnitsa. ” This novel action-nature can rightly be attributed to the cult works. This work is in high demand among our countrymen, and in various countries around the world. The novel is the last part of the trilogy “The Hunger Games.” Many readers believe that there dispel a foretaste of a happy ending. It is understood that necessarily all will end well, but …
All about best selling authors 2013
The author certainly managed to capture the mood, the devastating effects on humans, endless manipulation and intrigue, jealousy and cruelty. And in order to remain human beings, develop a truly human qualities – joy, compassion, love – the heroes of the novel will make a great effort.
Walter Isaacson has written an outstanding work of a man who is one of the greatest men of our time, “Steve Jobs.” It is possible that some will wonder, who is it? Today, technology has achieved some popularity, which has an apple logo, which is called the «Apple». That Steve Jobs is the co-founder of her. Immensely talented entrepreneur and inventor, and subsequently became general manager and chairman of the board of directors of the corporation. Steve Jobs was among the designers of computers Apple.
This work is a biography of this remarkable man. The publication is based primarily on numerous conversations with Steve Jobs, with his close relatives. Such literature is perfect to readers who are in search of the secrets of success of such talented people.
Stieg Larsson “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” The author who wrote this work, is rightly considered a new star ascended in European literature. The book “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is now one of the most sought-after in the book market worldwide. The trilogy could cause a huge storm of applause of enthusiastic readers.
A literal translation sounds like “Men hate women.” The book is a detective novel, the first in a trilogy of “Millennium.” Throughout history, the content, the impression voltage, which can not please every reader in some moments of the story may seem a bit lengthy. But nevertheless, the book is extraordinary interest. The product is quite popular and in great demand, so definitely worth reading. The author explained that the main characters were the prototypes of the characters of some books by Astrid Lindgren.
I told you about best selling authors 2013
About Knight Caterino. Of course this is a joke. But wh0 knows…


Last Update ( January 2021):
In recent years, the journal has published about 150 Clinical Trials and other types of experimental studies (including health education experiments and in-vitro studies), 49 Systematic Resews and Meta Analyses., and 17 Cohort studies (both prospective and historical cohort studies). We have also published hundreds of other original articles (such as case-control and cross sectional studies), tens case reports, editorials, letters to editors, hypotheses and ideas, documentaries, and a number of interviews with key policy makers and well-known scholars.
Regarding the geographical distribution of authors, 7 new countries are added in our authors list from 2016 to 2021: Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, France, Brazil, Morocco, and Cameroon.
In January 2021, our authors are from 30 countries:
Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, China, Cyprus, Egypt, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iran, India, Italy, Malaysia, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and United States of America.
Next update of the geographical distribution of contributors is scheduled to be published on this page in December 2024.
Geographical distribution of contributors and types of articles published in Electronic Physician in 2009-2015
This report describes the international nature of the journal Electronic Physician (ISSN: 2008-5842). The journal established in 2008 and began to publish medical and health science research in 2009. The authors who submitted articles that were published in the first year (2009, Volume 1) were Indian scholars and two authors from Iran.
Consistent with the goal of publishing more international articles, the journal was introduced to academia in a step-by-step process that involved slow, but steady, progress. The number of articles published in the journal increased, and the geographical distribution of the authors, reviewers, editors, and other contributors expanded. In 2009, we published mostly editorials and original articles, but, in recent years, we have published the most common types of contributions, including original articles, systematic reviews, meta analyses, case reports, editorials, research letters and letters to the editor (LTE), traditional reviews, mini-review articles, conference abstracts, hypotheses and ideas, news reports, interviews, short communications, and brief reports.
The list below shows each country's share of authors, reviewers, and editors from October 2009 to August 2015. Also, the map (Figure 1) shows that we did attract contributions from all of the inhabited continents of the world. Data were derived from our archives of full-text papers and conference abstracts published in the journal, as well as from the lists of all reviewers, technical editors, language editors, and conference editorial teams who contributed to the work we published from October 2009 to August 2015.
The largest numbers of contributors were from Iran, Malaysia, and India, but the geographical origins of the contributors are shown on the map below, and the home countries are listed in alphabetical order, as follows:
Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, China, Egypt, England, Georgia, Germany, Iran, India, Italy, Malaysia, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, and United States of America
Figure 1. Map showing the geographical distribution of the contributors to the Electronic Physician journal


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Welcome to Week 1 of Chestnut's Home Learning.
The documents below are some activities that your child could do with you across the week.
There are 4 different writing tasks for your child to have a go at and a reading comprehension. If you cannot print these out then talk about them with your child and use the blue ideas books to write down any ideas your child may have.
You will find a document for the Maths which has all of the instructions on it.
There is also a copy of the Chilli Challenge, which will be the same for your children for the next two weeks.
Please keep reading and enjoying a good book with your child. They may read to themselves, to you or share the reading with you. Currently Audible have lots of free books for all ages to listen to, without the need to sign up.
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The documentary movie "Un Año Mas" (One More Year) directed by Julio Suárez about the life of the painter Paco Bernal, shown at the theater auditorium in Dénia.
Comedy Night at the library of Duanes in Jávea/Xàbia where Javier Botia will perform his show.
The Film Festival of Alfaz del Pi organizes the weekly Solidarity Cinema at the local cultural centre in town.
The opening night of the painting exposition of "Los Colores del Mediterráneo" (Mediterranean Colors) by Carmen Ramón Mesado at the cultural center in Calpe.
The departments of Tourism, Environment, and Beaches of the municipality of LÁlfas del Pi present the project "Año 2020, Año Parque Natural Serra Gelada".
Lucho Aguilar is one of the most requested double bass players in the Spanish jazz scene and his trio performs a concert at the local cultural center in Jávea/Xàbia.
Pablo Márquez and José Angel Isla perform a concert on organ and trombone at the San Jaime church in Benidorm.
The theater company Anita Maravillas performs their puppet show "Jon Braun" in the Assembly Hall in the town hall in Benidorm.
The theater show "La Pasión de Yerma", an adaptation of the book "Yerma" written by Frederico Garcia Lorca at the Palau theater in Altea.
Rafael Álvarez brings his latest show "Cómico" to the stage of the theatre auditorium in Villajoyosa.
The marvelous comedy and emotional melodrama starred by Lolita Flores, Luis Mottola, Antonio Hortelano and Marta Guerras is presented at the Auditorium in La Nucia. It is a story about a widowed mother, who has an unhappy daughter while she discovers new emotions with a retired astronaut.
This concert offers the public a cloned reproduction of the popular music of the Spanish Pop music group "Mecano" that exceeds the tribute, becoming a musical show at the auditorium in Teulada-Moraira.


Anne Steelyard: The Garden of Emptiness, Act 3
February 7th, 2014 by Temp User
Anne Steelyard: The Garden of Emptiness, Act 3$14.95
A Thousand Waters
In the third and final installment of the Anne Steelyard series, A Thousand Waters, we find Anne still traveling across the desert with the help of Lady Hester’s caravan and her friends. As Anne continues her search for the elusive City of Miyah, she discovers something utterly sinister and evil that makes her question everything and question who is worthy of her trust. With danger and duplicity surrounding her, Anne does whatever it takes to protect her country and to stop the Germans from establishing their secret base. Anne also believes this perilous path will secure the key to her freedom.
Get ready for the most action-packed, surprise-filled book of the Anne Steelyard series! Anne pulls out all the stops as she fights to save her countrymen and the ancient city she believes is the ticket to her independence. Anne soon learns that freedom always comes at a price, but it is a price that she is more than willing to pay. (June 2011) Softcover. 79 Pages. Full Color.
2012 USA Book News Best Book Awards Winner, Fiction: Graphic Novel
2011 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award Winner, Bronze Medal, Graphic Novels & Comics


This new edition includes up-to-date and in-depth explorations of recent major contributions to cinema around the world, such as the multi-award winning Parasite, as well as updates to the directory. Whether you’re a film and media student or simply just wish to expand your knowledge about the greatest films ever made, this comprehensive movie guide is sure to delight. This is the decade where we start to see the movie poster in a form similar to what we’re used to seeing today. Large photographic backgrounds are more common than ever, but type and imagery are more balanced than we’ve seen in previous decades with one element being favoured over the other.
Although now being superseded by recent research, this detailed account of the birth and evelopment of the industry through its first thirty years retain an authority from having been written when many of the pioneers were still alive. Technical … Read More


HERBIN. A. (AUGUSTE)
1882 Quievy (Fr) – 1960 Paris (Fr)
Auguste Herbin, the son of a workman, was born in 1882 in Quievy in the north of France . He studied drawing at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lille between 1898 and 1901, before moving to Paris, where he joined the impressionists and later the Fauves.
Herbin’s early work, such as Le Pont,1903, and especially those he sent to the Salon des Indépendants in 1906, illustrate the influence of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Later, after he encoutered the works of the Cubists in Bateau-Lavoir ( Picasso, George Braque and Juan Gris) his style changes to a pure geometrical and abstract form. Herbin’s architectural approach and his use of colour has made his work widely know in the international art world. After a lateral paralysis in 1953 Herbin taught himself to paint with his left hand.
His work was exhibited at the “Documenta”in the years 1955 to 1972. A major retrospective was held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1979. Herbin died in Paris in 1960.


Ryszard Kisiel: Cruising
Place: Gdańsk City Gallery 1, Piwna Street 27/29
Opening: 15th of June 2018, Friday at 8.00 P.M.
Exhibition: 15th of June – 15th of July 2018
Artist: Ryszard Kisiel
Curators: Karol Radziszewski, Wojciech Szymański
Coordination: Gabriela Warzycka-Turak
Graphic desgn: Agata Biskup
At the beginning of the 1980s, Ryszard Kisiel, the future initiator and editor of Filo, one of the first magazines in Poland for non-heterosexual people, embarked on a range of journeys around Poland and abroad. Travelling by trains, Kisiel visited major Polish cities, such as Warsaw, Cracow, Łódź, Katowice and Wrocław, while also reaching smaller and provincial towns: Płock, Radom, Słupsk. He also got to the brotherly countries of the Eastern Bloc: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, GDR, Romania.
His journeys were both real and phantasmal at the same time, and Kisiel profited from them to create series of analogue photographs documenting the places he visited. The images, however, feature none of the typical conventional vistas that characterise tourist photography. While in Prague, he did not take pictures of Hradčany or Mala Strana. His interests focussed rather on bars, bathhouses, parks – cruising grounds where homosexuals met in the 1970s and 1980s.
Kisiel’s photographs were often accompanied by texts with information notes. That was because the thus described images were supposed to form his never-completed grand editorial project planned at the time under the working title Polish Gay Guide on the Europeans Socialists Countries. The atlas is a unique, precious and extremely interesting project. Not only does it provide a map of Kisiel’s itineraries – a record of his Central European cruising, but also documents the already non-existent 1970s and 1980s life and culture of a community from the margins of the society, overlooked by sociological and historical studies. Kisiel’s photographs and notes are the more so valuable that they seem to be the only such comprehensive, complete and preserved record and trace of the hidden practices of the non-heteronormative underground, undocumented anywhere else, perhaps apart from police files.
The contents of the atlas and its title also bear testimony to a more profound project: relating to identity, political and emancipatory, and since it also marks an attempt at self-identification, it precedes its time by a decade and appears as somewhat of a harbinger of the future. The mundane reality of late real socialism witnessed the appearance of a title written in awkward English in which the pioneering use of the word “gay” initiates a new Western paradigm and identity politics characteristic of the era after 1989. We may say that by calling himself “gay”, Kisiel moves forward to the 1990s, a decade marked by an attempt at an affirmative and positive revaluation of sexual minorities. Yet, on the other hand, he does not photograph pre-gay cruising grounds as sites of the past, quite the opposite – he documents them as places that are still alive with a view to creating a practical guide and a manual.
There is yet another aspect of Kisiel’s extensive undertaking – its artistic dimension. Ryszard Kisiel is not a professional artist and, importantly, he was not an artist in the 1980s. That does not change the fact, however, that his project may be interpreted today in the context of conceptual photography and visual-textual works that both document and perform the reality that they represent.
Exhibition organised within the Polish-German-British-Spanish project “Cruising the 1970s: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures” (CRUSEV), financially supported by the HERA Joint Research Programme (www.heranet.info), which is co-funded by NCN, BMBF via DLR-PT, MINECO, AHRC and the European Commission through Horizon 2020.


Hurricane Katrina ravaged the studio of Donn Young Photography. For nearly four weeks the library of art created in 35 years of work, well over 1,500,000 images, was under 10 feet of water. The Association of Records Managers and Administrators and Louisiana State University Hill Memorial Library Special Collections have deemed the work "historically significant." There is a mandate from both organizations for the salvaging and restoration of the files that document of our generation’s life. The Louisiana State Archives has created the Donn Young Archive a reference of images for future generations to study. Donn Young is the first living photographer of his generation to be so honored.
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A demonstration of igloo-building in Canada's Far North, showing how the site is selected and how blocks of snow are used to make a snug shelter in only an hour and a half. As the camera follows each stage, the commentary explains the process.
Douglas Earl Wilkinson was born on October 26, 1919 in Toronto. From 1959 until his retirement in 1987 he worked as a freelance writer, filmmaker and photographer. He wrote a number of books that were based upon his experiences in the north including The Land of the Long Day, Sons of the Arctic, The Arctic Coast and Arctic Fever.


Tagus Press to launch English-language translation of Portuguese writer Camilo Pessanha’s book
Portuguese writer Camilo Pessanha had a way with his words, skillfully playing with them to provoke powerful images and engage a reader’s mind on multiple levels.
Pessanha’s poems are now being introduced to English-language readers with a translation of ‘Clepsydra,’ a collection of his poems, recently published by Tagus Press, the publishing arm of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at UMass Dartmouth.
“The only collection of poems to be published by the Portuguese writer Camilo Pessanha during his lifetime, Clepsydra is the crowning achievement of the Portuguese symbolist movement,” according to a Tagus Press news release. “Meditating on the inexorable flow of time, Pessanha sets the music of his verses against the murmuring water clock that gives the book its title.”
Translated by Adam Mahler, a writer and translator of Spanish and Portuguese poetry, the bilingual book was launched on Thursday, March 2 at 4 p.m. at UMass Dartmouth.
“This new annotated translation by Adam Mahler recreates in English the haunting melodies and evocative dreamscapes that were widely admired and emulated by Portuguese modernists such as Fernando Pessoa,” reads the press release.
The original version of Clepsydra, published in 1920, contained 30 poems. The new bilingual 144-page volume also features 18 compositions that appeared in subsequent editions, making it the most comprehensive scholarly edition of Clepsydra in English, according to its publishers.
During the event, Mahler took part in a guided conversation with Grace Holleran, Distinguished Doctoral Fellow at Tagus Press and PhD candidate in the Department of Portuguese.
The two reflected on Pessanha’s life and work, as well as the challenges to translating poetry. Their conversation was interspersed with bilingual readings of Pessanha’s poems.
This article was first published at The Herald News, on February 23, 2023.


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Jan 29, 1932
Maurertown. Died. Mr. Samuel J. Bauserman two and one half miles east of Maurertown Jan. 23. He had been a sufferer from high blood pressure and heart trouble. He had just finished gathering the eggs and brought them in the house. After placing them on the table he sat in a chair and spoke a few words to his wife. In looking toward him a few minutes later she noticed his head had fallen. She called their son but before he could reach his father’s side, he had passed away.
Zepp. The stork visited Mr. and Mrs. William Whittington Sunday, leaving them a big baby.
Feb. 5, 1932
Birth Announced. Mr. and Mrs. George Morrison, a son Jan. 31 at Allwood, N. J.
Columbia Furnace. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sine are the proud parents of a baby girl born Jan. 29.
Fort Valley. Mr. Lamon Clanahan of the Western Union Telegraph Company spent a week with his parents Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Clanahan recently…Mr. E. G. Clem, our silversmith is now busy at his trade. He has some fine old time clocks, one which is probably several centuries old, has wooden wheels and during its long use only one cog was broken. Mr. Clem repaired it and it is running fine now…Mr. Walt Chrisman is moving his saw mill on the farm of Mr. J. S. Barr to do sawing for the neighborhood…Mr. Williams Cullers has treated himself to a Chevrolet coupe…Hunters in this region killed 17 bears this hunting season.
Needmore. Mr. Joseph Walker and son Robert, Mr. and Mrs. Braden Walker and baby James Luther visited Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Crabill…Mr. and Mrs. Noah Lutz moved to the Massanutten Military Academy farm on the river southeast of Woodstock on Monday.
Feb. 19, 1932
Died in Edinburg. Mrs. Margaret Grandstaff, wife of Mr. Hugh Grandstaff Feb. 15. She was born March 28, 1898 in Andernach, Germany, a daughter of Mrs. Kronas and the late Joseph Kronas. She came to America eight years ago where she has made her home since. Surviving are her husband of Edinburg, her mother and one niece in Andernach.
Marriage License. Carl H. Keller and Beulah K. Walker married Feb. 13 at Fairview.
Feb. 26, 1932
Marriage Licenses. Robert L. Riffey to Ruby May Shaver married Feb. 18 at Toms Brook; Clyde C. Orndorff to Bertha E. Orndorff of Zepp married Feb. 18 at Toms Brook; Fred Wetzel to Mae Cook married Feb. 20 at Columbia Furnace; John H. Krazer to Gertrude L. Wooden married Feb. 21 at Mt. Jackson; Raymond A. Harpine to Rixie Mumaw married Feb. 21 at Harrisonburg.
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(Adv). Notice Prices Reduced for 1932. We have a beautiful square half-couch Metallic Casket for adults guaranteed for 50 years. We also have cheaper rounded half couch metallic caskets, complete funeral $85.00. Wooden caskets for adults complete funeral $20.00 and up. Regular ambulance service ten cents per mile , which includes accident insurance. Dellinger’s Funeral Parlor, Mt. Jackson. Local and long distance phone 57.
Birthday Party. A delightful birthday party was given Miss Louise Ryman by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Ryman. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Crabill, Mrs. Sallie Tewalt, Rev. W. H. Bowers, Mr. David Tewalt, Misses Clara Lee Miller, Elizabeth and Rebecca Rudy, Anna Smootz, Viola and Hazel Foster, Letha Bott, Catherine Bauserman, Sarah Romick, Louise, Mary Lee, Margaret, Nellie and Lucy Ryman, Messrs. Howard Bauserman, Joseph Crabill, William, John and Charles Foster, Lloyd Hollingsworth, Raymond Smootz, Francis Clinedinst, Roy Henry, Ernest and Bill Ryman.
(Adv). C. H. Shipp, St. Luke, Va. Dealer in best groceries at bargain prices.
Surprise. A pleasant surprise party was given Mr. M. W. Barbe at his home west of Mt. Olive Feb. 22. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Pete Barbe, Mrs. Annie Cullers, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Barbe, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gochenour, Mr. and Mrs. David Keller, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sibert and son Jr, Mr. Jasper Barbe, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Conner and daughters Lucille and Garland, and son Carl Jr., Misses Susie and Ada Barbe, Messrs. Roy L. Barbe, Gilbert and Melvin Barbe, Mrs. Edna Wymer and two children, Miss Stella and Clarence Wymer.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Walker entertained at a turkey dinner in honor of the birthdays of their son, Johnnie, and Mrs. Walker’s father, Mr. I. H. Barb. It was Johnny’s third birthday and Mr. Barb’s sixty fourth. Those present were Mr. J. J. Knoble, Miss Mary Walker and Mr. M. T. Acken of Washington, D. C., Miss Lydia Barb of Orkney, Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Crisman and children, Elizabeth, Geraldine, Garland and Neff of Edinburg, Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Barb and daughter Lorena, Mr. and Mrs. James Miller and daughter Evelyn, Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Barb, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bowman and children, Mildred, Evelyn, Wilda and Doris, Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Furgeson, Mrs. Sarah Strawderman of Jerome.
Mar. 4, 1932
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Chiles of Strasburg have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Ann Margaret, to Dr. C. H. Spiggle.
The Mount Jackson National Bank organized in 1884, the oldest national bank in Shenandoah County was consolidated with the Peoples Bank of Mt. Jackson, to be operated as the Peoples’ Bank.
Resigns. At the regular meeting of the town council of Woodstock, the resignation of B. E. Sager was tendered, the resignation comes because of Mr. Sager’s intention to move back to Ohio in the near future.
Operation. Emmett Clark, an employee at S. G. Clark’s Ford agency in Woodstock, was operated upon at his home near St. Luke on Monday morning by Dr. Roy C. Fravel for appendicitis…several days ago Dr. Fravel operated upon Mrs. Bessie Ward at Red Banks for hernia.
(Adv). State of Virginia…Thelma Jennings Teat, complaint, against George Everett Teat defendant…divorce on grounds of willful desertion and abandonment…privilege of resuming maiden name…defendant last known address No. 516 Eighth Street, S. E., Washington, D. C., non resident of this state…
Patmos. The men of the neighborhood and surrounding country went to the farm of Miss Alice Hottel and gave it a thorough cleaning up, sprouting, pruning trees, cutting down trees, cutting wood, making a full days work. Those who were there were Messrs. Charles, Raymond and Harry Estep of Strasburg, Harry Burner, Frank Didawick, May and Earl Kibler, Guy Swartz, Fred Jackson, Hubert and Merville Fravel, George, John and Wilbur Riffey, Rev. M. G. Backman and Avid Estep…Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Gochenour are the proud parents of a baby boy born Feb. 24.
Lebanon Church. Mr. Harry Conner is moving from the G. H. Snarr farm at Wheatfield to his farm recently purchased at Laurel Hill…Mr. Luther Swartz is working a force of hands on the road near Coal Mine…Mr. Ed Pingley of Strasburg is doing some carpenter work for Mr. W. H. Wisecarver.
Toms Brook. The grim reaper again invaded the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fisher on Saturday Feb. 27 and removed their little son, Robert Jr., who was three years old .The little fellow as a victim of scarlet fever as was his eight year old sister who died about four weeks ago. The other and only surviving child is a daughter age 10, is now suffering with the malady…Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bowman announce the birth of a boy baby born to them on Thursday of last week.


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Vinicus Netto (Twitter) has published a new book called 'The Social Fabric of Cities' (contents and introduction available here. There is also a website of the book). This one is going straight to my reading pile and I'm sure it will be of interest for all the 100 million readers of this blog. Here are the foreword by Mike Batty and a description of the book.
"Linking the physical to the social city is the challenge of our times. This is one of the first attempts to systematically do so, and Netto brilliantly succeeds in showing how encounters, segregation, movement and interaction are reflected in our understanding of the form and function of the city." (Michael Batty, CASA, UCL)
Bringing together ideas from the fields of sociology, economics, human geography, ethics, political and communications theory, this book deals with some key subjects in urban design: the multidimensional effects of the spatial form of cities, ways of appropriating urban space, and the different material factors involved in the emergence of social life. It puts forward an innovative conceptual framework to reconsider some fundamental features of city-making as a social process: the place of cities in encounters and communications, in the randomness of events and in the repetition of activities that characterise societies. In doing so, it provides fresh analytical tools and theoretical insights to help advance our understanding of the networks of causalities, contingencies and contexts involved in practices of city-making.
In a systematic attempt to bring urban analysis and research from the social sciences together, the book is organised around three vital yet relatively neglected dimensions in the social and material shaping of cities: (i) Cities as systems of encounter: an approach to urban segregation as segregated networks; (ii) Cities as systems of communication: a view of shared spaces as a means to association and social experience; (iii) Cities as systems of material interaction: explorations on urban form as an effect of interactivity, and interactivity as an effect of form.


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2) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling.
Read it in a week in July. Normally it takes us forever to read a book, but this one rollocks along with a plot that means you just want to keep going with it. It was a fun reading experience. Definitely one of the two best in the series. And Dobby dies!!!
3) The Jesus Way by Eugene Peterson
The third in the Spiritual Theology series is just as much a masterpiece as the previous two. For those who haven't picked up on this yet, Eugene Peterson is writing a 5 volume, they will be studying this in 50-100 years, theological work of wonder and joy. It is hard to overstate just how good this series is.
4) The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
A quiet little English detective novella with a stunning twist at the end. This is a little gem.
5) Bacon Sandwiches and Salvation by Adrian Plass
We have been reading Adrian Plass for the last 20 years. His latest book is structured as an A-Z of modern Christianity. It's basically a very funny joke book with some thoughtful bits thrown in. This made us laugh lots and lots.
6) Selected Poems by George Herbert (Bloomsbury hardback)
Been looking for one of these in second hand shops for ages, finally got a copy for my birthday. The most beautifully put together book with great poems. George Herbert is by far and away the greatest ever Christian poet, because he takes risks with language in a way that most Christians today would never dream of.
7) Moneyball by Michael Lewis
A fascinating, highly entertaining but flawed business book about baseball. It is dripping with energy, ideas and power, but struggles with it's need to be right all of the time.
Honourable mentions too for Hard Times by Charles Dickens which we haven't finished yet, Q by Luther Blissett, Falling Man by Don DeLillo and Martin Luther and His World by Graham Tomlin


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As a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, I primarily work with child and adolescent clients and their families. I am always on the lookout for new books and resources to help improve coping skills, understand difficult diagnoses, as well as new and different ways to spend time either together as a family, as siblings or individually. In the digital age of video games and smart phone technology, I find it important to offer my clients innovative ways of fostering creativity and imagination. Recently I came across a fascinating book called Make Your Own FUN! By author Stacey Campbell. I believe she has done an excellent job of teaching young children the importance of turning any situation into a fun and creative experience. Stacey’s imagination models a dynamic approach to childhood experiences with her proactive approach. She provides the reader with a narrative and foundation so that they feel confident to take action and create, instead of expecting the world to create for them. Stacey wants her readers to know, “It doesn’t matter Where you are…Who you are with… or What situation is thrown your way; How you use Your Own imagination makes any situation FUN!” I recommend this book for any parent with young children looking for a new and innovative way to teach your child to put down the ipad and take action creating their own fun through imagination! To purchase Make your own FUN! Click on this link
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“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”Martin Luther King, Jr.
A chronicle of the extraordinary lives of eight great grandparents who lived between 1840 and 1945. Among them…
- A Civil War hero and another the son of a Civil War hero
- A hero of the New York City Police Department
- A founding pioneer of the California citrus industry
- A descendant of patriots who fought with, and defended, George Washington at Valley Forge
- A descendant of loyalists expelled from the United States after the American Revolution
- Two who died early, tragically
- A descendent of the man who built the bridge after which Bridgehampton NY is named
- One whose heritage and family was the subject of a prominent American novel and film
- A descendent of the man upon who’s farm Yale University was built
- One with great uncles that included a United States Senator from New York and the owner of an inn famous in the early history of Connecticut
- Abraham Lincoln’s envoy to China, who corresponded routinely with William Seward
- Two clergymen, one of whom committed unspeakable acts
- Descendants of the founders of American cities including Hartford CT, New Haven CT, Lynn MA, Hempstead NY, Danville PA, Le Sueur MN, Portland ME, and Ontario CA
- A fourth cousin of Aaron Burr
Please join my exploration of the many stories of these lives, and maybe help me solve some mysteries.
Having previously traced the ancestry of great grandfather Henry Edson Swan back to Silas Swan and Silas Kenworthy (Vermont, Ohio, Minnesota and California), we now move back to earlier generations. Our Swan ancestry goes back to colonial Massachusetts and Yorkshire England as shown below. (Another link we have to Yorkshire, England is in the ancestryContinue reading “The Swan and Ingalls Families of England and Massachusetts”
We previously discussed 2nd great grandfather Dr. James Gordon (1838-1912) of Newburgh, New York. He was from Northern Ireland and his parents James Gordon and Susan McClughan originated from Edinburgh, Scotland. There is no earlier trace of this branch of the family. But there is quite a bit of information on the other half ofContinue reading “The Johnston and Winter Families of New Jersey and New York”
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- Children Born with Cleft Lip and Palate
- Stop Singing. People Might Hear You: My Cleft Book
- A Parent’s Guide to Cleft Lip and Palate
- The Cleft Palate Story
- Your Cleft-Affected Child: The Complete Book of Information, Resources, and Hope
- Cleft Lip and/or Palate: Report of a CSAG Committee
- Management of Cleft Lip and Palate: a Primer for Parents and Family
- North Bristol NHS Trust Leaflets
[Note: Cleft treatment can differ around the world and consequently the treatments discussed in non-Irish publications will not necessarily mirror Irish practices. The listing is not intended as a substitute for professional medical opinion.]
CLAPAI - Leaflet Series
In November 2004, The Cleft Lip and Palate Association of Ireland launched a series of 10 Information Leaflets covering various aspects of cleft lip and palate. The leaflets can be got directly from the Association or in the various cleft treatment centres.
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The Management of Cleft Lip & Palate
…at The Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street (2002 edition)
This booklet (A4 size, 30 pages) is directed at the parents of cleft lip and palate children, and is prepared by The Cleft Lip and Palate Team in St. Frances’s Clinic, The Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin. The latest edition of the booklet was funded by The Cleft Lip & Palate Association of Ireland and The Friends of Temple Street.
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The Fed and How It Got That Way
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Right now I am…
· Reading: I just finished The House at Tynedford by Natasha Solomons. I’d never heard of this book before and just picked it up on a whim from the library. I ended up loving it. It’s the story of a young Austrian Jewish woman who moves to England just before WWII to work as a maid (and escape the impending war). Really good!
· Watching: I watched What to Expect When You’re Expecting the other day and the Elizabeth Banks character cracked me up. Like me, her character is a complete hot mess during pregnancy and seeing her melt-down made me feel a little less crazed.
· Looking forward to: There are almost no words that can describe how excited I am for Season 4 of Arrested Development. They start airing on Netflix on May 25th and I can barely contain myself!!
· Regretting: I forgot my camera on Mother’s Day, so I don’t have a single picture from our day. My parents hosted a lunch for me and the boys (Shawn was in California). Hope you had a great one Mom!
· Envying: My friend Stephanie and her boyfriend Edwin recently dropped everything to hike the Pacific Coast Trail from Mexico to Canada. You can follow along with their adventure on her blog, And Everywhere in Between.
· Craving: Cantaloupe.


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Prahlada Maharaja was the best among exalted devotees. Anyone who with great attention hears this narration concerning the activities of Prahlada Maharaja, the killing of Hiranyakasipu, and the activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nrsimhadeva, surely reaches the spiritual world, where there is no anxiety.
Narada Muni, Srimad-
Prahalada pacifies Lord Narasimhadeva with prayers
As related in this chapter, Prahlada Maharaja, following the order of Lord Brahma, pacified the Lord when the Lord was extremely angry after having killed Hiranyakasipu.
After Hiranyakasipu was killed, the Lord continued to be very angry, and the demigods, headed by Lord Brahma, could not pacify Him. Even mother Laksmi, the goddess of fortune, the constant companion of Narayana, could not dare come before Lord Nrsimhadeva. Then Lord Brahma asked Prahlada Maharaja to go forward and pacify the Lord’s anger. Prahlada Maharaja, being confident of the affection of his master, Lord Nrsimhadeva, was not afraid at all. He very gravely appeared before the Lord’s lotus feet and offered Him respectful obeisances. Lord Nrsimhadeva, being very much affectionate toward Prahlada Maharaja, put His hand on Prahlada’s head, and because of being personally touched by the Lord, Prahlada Maharaja immediately achieved brahma-
Prahlada said, “I am not proud of being able to offer prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. I simply take shelter of the mercy of the Lord, for without devotion one cannot appease Him. One cannot please the Supreme Personality of Godhead simply by dint of high parentage or great opulence, learning, austerity, penance or mystic power. Indeed, these are never pleasing to the Supreme Lord, for nothing can please Him but pure devotional service. Even if a nondevotee is a brahmana qualified with the twelve brahminical symptoms, he cannot be very dear to the Lord, whereas if a person born in a family of dog-
Lord Nrsimhadeva appeared for the benefit of all human society, not only for Prahlada’s personal benefit. The fierce form of Lord Nrsimhadeva may appear most awful to a nondevotee, but to the devotee the Lord is always affectionate as He is in other forms. Conditioned life in the material world is actually extremely fearful; indeed, a devotee is not afraid of anything else. Fear of material existence is due to false ego. Therefore the ultimate goal of life for every living entity is to attain the position of being servant of the servant of the Lord [Cc. Madhya 13.80]. The miserable condition of the living entities in the material world can be remedied only by the mercy of the Lord. Although there are so-
Although the entire cosmic manifestation is nondifferent, the material world is nonetheless different from the spiritual world. Only by the mercy of the Supreme Lord can one understand how the wonderful material nature acts. For example, although Lord Brahma appeared from the lotus seat that had grown from the abdomen of Garbhodakasayi Visnu, he could not understand what to do after his appearance. He was attacked by two demons, Madhu and Kaitabha, who took away Vedic knowledge, but the Lord killed them and entrusted to Lord Brahma the Vedic knowledge. Thus the Lord appears in every millennium in the societies of demigods, human beings, animals, saints and aquatics. All such incarnations are meant to protect the devotees and kill the demons, but this killing and protecting does not reflect any sense of partiality on the part of the Supreme Lord. The conditioned soul is always attracted by the external energy. Therefore he is subjected to lust and greed, and he suffers under the conditions of material nature. The Lord’s causeless mercy toward His devotee is the only means by which to get out of material existence. Anyone engaged in glorifying the Lord’s activities is always unafraid of this material world, whereas one who cannot glorify the Lord in that way is subjected to all lamentation.
Those interested in silently worshiping the Lord in solitary places may be eligible for liberation themselves, but a pure devotee is always aggrieved to see others suffering. Therefore, not caring for his own liberation, he always engages in preaching by glorifying the Lord. Prahlada Maharaja, therefore, had tried to deliver his class friends by preaching and had never remained silent. Although being silent, observing austerities and penances, learning the Vedic literature, undergoing ritualistic ceremonies, living in a solitary place and performing japa and transcendental meditation are approved means of liberation, they are meant for nondevotees or for cheaters who want to live at the expense of others. A pure devotee, however, being freed from all such deceptive activities, is able to see the Lord face to face.
The atomic theory of the composition of the cosmic manifestation is not factual. The Lord is the cause of everything, and therefore He is the cause of this creation. One should therefore always engage in devotional service by offering respectful obeisances to the Lord, offering prayers, working for the Lord, worshiping the Lord in the temple, always remembering the Lord and always hearing about His transcendental activities. Without these six kinds of activity, one cannot attain to devotional service.
Prahlada Maharaja thus offered his prayers to the Supreme Lord, begging His mercy at every step. Lord Nrsimhadeva was pacified by Prahlada Maharaja’s prayers and wanted to give him benedictions by which Prahlada could procure all kinds of material facilities. Prahlada Maharaja, however, was not misled by material facilities. Rather, he wanted to remain always a servant of the servant of the Lord [Cc. Madhya 13.80].


Recently I wrote a review for the Presbyterian Outlook of the book Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities. The authors, Jeanne Hoeft, L. Shannon Jung, and Joretta Marshall, show why the church’s presence is critical in rural communities, and how congregations of God’s people care faithfully for one another and the community around them. While it’s not an easy read, it is an important read for all who want to be faithful witnesses in a country context, and for all who care about small congregations and God’s work there.
The review starts this way:
I grew up in the 1960s in a dairy farm family and in a tiny rural church where everyone had ties to farming. The congregation shared a pastor with three other small congregations. I remember hearing my father, the clerk of session, report that the pastor thought that all the churches should close and become one large church in a central location, about fifteen miles from our farm. I remember thinking, “He doesn’t understand.” I realized then that the pastor didn’t understand the realities of farm life, and I realize now that he didn’t fully understand the sense of place that shaped our lives and our modes of caring for one another in community.
“Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities” is an essential book for all who want to understand and to care faithfully. The authors challenge the whole church to learn from the wisdom that comes out of rural and small-town communities. Moreover, they issue a powerful reminder of why it is crucial for the body of Christ to maintain a presence and witness there.
Read more here.
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Friends, I recently attended the 2014 NEXT Church Conference in Minneapolis, MN, and I was inspired by rich worship, creative ideas, and heartfelt testimonies. Here is a testimony from a college student, Nathan Are, about the power of the church in his life.
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Sarah Hart is another person who loves and serves God through music. She has written and recorded many songs, and some of them have been recorded by other artists, such as Amy Grant. You can sample her music at spiritandsong.com, and learn more about her at her website: www.sarahhart.com. Print editions of many her songs, and arrangements for choirs, with parts for various instruments, are available at OCP.org.
Those who have been making music with me in Morton Church’s Music for Little Friends program may recognize her as one of the singers on some of the CDs that we use for our class.
Here is a youtube video in which Sarah sings “Come, True Light” for Pope Francis at a large gathering at the Vatican. At the end of the video, she meets the pope and gives him copies of her CDs.
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I firmly believe that children best learn to worship by worshiping alongside caring, mentoring adults. Recently I heard Kara Root, pastor of Lake Nokomis Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis, describe the creative ministry her small congregation is doing with children and families. Here is a link to a post that includes excerpts from the church’s pew inserts about this ministry. “Why We Welcome Little Children to Worship.” Included are helpful suggestions to make worship a good experience for everyone. Thanks so much to Kara and the Lake Nokomis congregation!
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Meditative music helps me slow down and get quiet. Click this link to hear a song called “Echo” by English singer and songwriter, Karen Money. You will hear allusions to the anointing of Jesus. You can hear more of her work via streaming here at her My Space page, and you can find it on iTunes and at Amazon.
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Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia has announced a conference for people who have been in small church pastorates for a long time. It’s titled Staying Fresh in a Long Small Church Pastorate, and it will take place March 24-26, 2015. That’s a year away, but I am intrigued. The leader is the Rev. Chris Stewart, and Presbyterian pastor who has served the same two small congregations since 1978.
Here is a link to the conference infomation: http://www.upsem.edu/img/leadership_pdf/Staying_Fresh.pdf
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Here is a link to an article by Christopher Schilling, a young candidate for ministry in the PC(USA). It caught my eye because he encourages young adults to give smaller, older congregations the chance to welcome them and care for them in community. Its title is Creating Communities Between Younger Adults and Older Congregations. The author speaks an encouraging word to those of us whose congregations are made up mostly of older people. He has experienced a warm welcome in a number of these older congregations in Tidewater, Virginia, where he is completing a hospital chaplaincy residency.
Schilling is a single, 29-year-old, temporary transplant from the west coast, with no connections in eastern Virginia. He has been deeply touched by the invitations to community that he has received in these congregations. He urges older congregations not to be ashamed of this fact, and to be themselves as they welcome younger people into community.
He concludes with a word to younger people who are seeking a worshiping community: “don’t be afraid to visit a smaller congregation predominately of older members because you think they will be too different from you. Because you just may be surprised by how those in other generations not only think, but are looking for the same thing our generation is looking for: a sense of belonging.”
Thank you, Christopher Schilling!
You might also like these posts:
Why Older People Are a Blessing to the Church
Give a small church the chance to nurture your children.
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New Biography on The Cars Singer/Bassist Benjamin Orr by Vermont Writer Joe Milliken to be Published November 2018!
Bellows Falls, VT – Veteran music journalist Joe Milliken recently announced a publishing deal with the Lanham, Maryland-based publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers to produce his first book, a biography about the late Benjamin Orr. Orr was the co-founder, co-lead singer, and bassist for the platinum-selling rock band The Cars. Titled Let’s Go! Benjamin Orr and The Cars, a release date is set for November 15, 2018.
Often considered the band’s heartthrob, Orr possessed an incredible voice, diverse musical talent and rare stage presence, all balanced by a magnetic, yet enigmatic personality, striking good looks, and a relentless determination to reach rock stardom. Born Benjamin Orzechowski (aka “Benny Eleven Letters”) and raised in the Cleveland suburb of Parma Heights, Orr was, prior to becoming a world-famous rock star with The Cars, a “teen star” as a house band musician for the nationally syndicated television show Upbeat.
A few years later Ben met his musical partner and future Cars’ bandleader, Ric Ocasek, and by 1976 their quest for the perfect blend of songs, bandmates, and musical landscape finally materialized as The Cars. They would go on to sell over 30 million albums worldwide resulting in 15 “Top 40” hits.
From his early success in Cleveland through his stardom with The Cars, to his solo band efforts and eventual rebirth with the emerging supergroup Big People, this definitive account of Orr’s rock-and-roll life is not a backstage ‘tell all,’ but the story of a charismatic musician with a vision, a sense of adventure, and unwavering perseverance. Orr passed away much too young at 53, but he achieved his dream through hard work and determination, a long road that began in Cleveland and culminated with The Cars coming back to his hometown to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in April of 2018.
This first-ever biography about Orr spans 11 years in the making, as Milliken draws together interviews with over 120 family members, friends, bandmates, and music associates from Orr’s life, as well as many unpublished and never before seen photos from private collections, to reveal an intimate portrait of one of classic rock’s great talents.


Quality management organizations
International Organization for Standards (ISO): The peak body world-wide on quality (www.iso.org). The operational standard is ISO 9001:2008 – Quality Management Systems – Requirements. A new version, ISO 9001:2015 is in draft review; expected to be published by the end of 2015.
Books on Quality Management
Managing Quality in Architecture: A Handbook for Creators of the Built Environment; Charles Nelson, AIA; Architectural Press; 2006. Note: This handbook was written to the 2000 version of ISO 9001, but is still 95% current with respect to the 2008 version of the Quality Standard. ♦♦♦♦
TQM and ISO 9000 for Architects and Designers; Charles Nelson AIA; McGraw-Hill; 1996 ♦♦♦
Total Quality Project Management for the Design Firm; Frank A. Stasiowski and David Burstein; John Wiley & Sons; 1994 ♦♦♦♦
In Search of Design Excellence; The American Institute of Architects ♦♦♦


I love getting do a bit of reading and research when I start a new project. Whether it's for a freelance assignment or a personal project, I like to start off doing some research first, gleaning bits of inspiration here and there. It's no surprise then that when I started working on illustration for a princess-themed book, that I dove into reading a lot of fairytales to get myself in a princess state of mind!
Along the way I came across a fairytale by the Brothers Grimm that I had loved but forgotten: The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces or as it is now more popularly known, Twelve Dancing Princesses. This sometimes charming, sometimes morbid tale of 12 princesses who are mysteriously wearing out dancing shoes each night has been retold and revisited many times.
But one of my new favorites is the version retold and illustrated by Brigette Barrager, published by Chronicle Books last year:
The illustrations are quite charming! And the retelling is just lovely.
You can discover more of Brigitte's charming work on her blog.
Since discovering this new Twelve Dancing Princesses I've been on a bit of fairytale retelling kick, exploring a lot of children's books and young adult fiction that are based on fairytales and folk tales. And I just finished reading Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George which takes the tale of the Twelve Dancing Princesses and expands quite a bit on it. I really enjoyed it!


I always wanted to read Sword art online. Having seen all the animated adaptations and played the games, I know what’s going on there and more. But I never really found the time to read the original source novels. In the end, all I needed was around eight hours, in my experience with audiobook editing of the first Sword art online volume, Aincrad
Originally written by author Reki Kawahara as a web-only online novel, Sword art online was released as a lightweight novel under ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki Bunko imprint in 2009. The series has since gained the attention of audiences around the world, spawning numerous adaptations in manga, games, and anime. It was even restarted as Sword Art Online: Progressive (and it comes alive too).
By now, his story of a VR death game should be quite familiar to many. Kirito and a legion of gamers log on to the eponymous online role-playing game for its launch and are trapped inside by the game’s creator, Akihiko Kayaba. Kayaba presents the players with an ultimatum. To beat Sword art online by climbing to the top of the game world, or by dying in the real world.
The Sword Art Online: Aincrad The audiobook covers the original story of ‘The Arch of Aincrad’, which roughly matches the first fourteen episodes of the anime adaptation. If your first experience was through this, you will find notable omissions in the chapter’s programming. This is because some of the character-focused stories from Kirito’s time in Aincrad actually came from the second volume and were incorporated into that first season. As is Sword art online The experience of volume 1 passes at a surprising speed. Now familiar secondary characters like Lisbeth and Silica are missing from this main story. With the narrative so squarely centered around Kirito and Asuna, the story almost unfolds like a love story.
It’s also a tale that works particularly well with the audio format. As a light novel originally intended for teenagers, the story’s prose isn’t particularly demanding to read, or in this case, to hear. What looks a bit flat on the page works well as a voice in the ear, making Sword art online a great audiobook to listen to when you’re doing other things, like writing or working.
It gets better when you hear who’s telling this story: Bryce Papenbrook, the voice actor who plays Kirito in the anime. It’s an inspired choice, because Sword art online is written from a first person perspective. As a result, the effect is much like sitting down to hear Kirito tell his story in his own words. If there is one objection to be found, it is that the same effect turns a little bit around when the story tells of exchanges and dialogues with Sword art onlinethe now well-known supporting cast. Since Papenbrook is the only one reading the novel, the fact that he tries to speak with their voices makes Kirito seem like making impressions of his friends (and girlfriend!) For a stranger.
Sword art online volume 1 is a good start to a long and engaging light fiction series, perfectly suited to the advantages of the audiobook format.
The Sword art online The audiobook is available on Google Play Books, Audible, and Soundcloud. The series is available in print from Yen Press.


Back in the before times, like 9 years ago, I was an award-winning book blogger. I could burn through a couple of books a week, and relished adding my reviews to my blog & Goodreads. That blog is one of the reasons I joined Twitter, and Twitter is how I connected with most of the writers and journalists I know now.
Lately my attention span has been reduced to zero. I can hardly finish a book or an essay or a movie without getting distracted, mostly because doomscrolling Twitter and Instagram has rewired my brain like a slot machine. It was super exciting, then, to dig into "The Vanishing Half," a novel by Brit Bennett. It's her sophomore book and is a strong showing after her 2016 debut of "The Mothers". “The Vanishing Half” explores the tradeoffs that come with leaving your identity behind for a new one. This book is the first I've read in a long time where I felt glued to the page for hours on end.
The book centers on two stories of passing, the most prominent one about a pair of Black Creole twins, Stella and Desiree Vignes, who run away to New Orleans from their small town in Louisiana. What happens next is the slow unfurling of their lives when one twin decides to leave her family behind and "pass" as a white woman in 1950s America.
"The Vanishing Half" airs out many of the issues that our country is wrestling with right now -- colorism, racism, gender and sexuality, violence towards Black folks. Perhaps most compelling is the way that it uses a Black woman passing to explore what it actually means to be white. What compels someone to shed who they are to become something else? How do you chose which parts of whiteness to participate in? Most importantly, what is lost when you subsume yourself into whiteness? For Stella Vignes, it is everything.
"At work, Stella became Miss Vignes, or as Desiree called her, White Stella. Desiree always giggled after, as if she found the very idea preposterous, which irritated Stella. She wanted Desiree to see how convincingly she played her role, but she was living a performance where there could be no audience. Only a person who knew her real identity would appreciate her acting, and nobody at work could ever know." - pg. 187
Manufacturing a new self is something people do all the time, but it is increasingly difficult in today's hyperconnected, Google-able world. This story works precisely because it happens at the end of the Jim Crow South, where people who are light enough to pass convincingly have something to gain from doing so. Stella is able to bend and shape a narrative around her life that works for her, even as it starts to constrict her as she gets older. As we sit on the edge of another cultural revolution around race, I wonder what stories people in power and people looking to gain power will use to serve them?
Bennett does a phenomenal job with the pacing of the book and with world building, I literally could not put it down. She manages to tie all the different stories together without it feeling pat, and the ending for Stella and Desiree was crushing but justified. I would highly recommend it. I copped mine from IndieBound (I'm not giving Amazon any more of my money). If you read it let me know what you think!
Memphis-based journalist Elle Perry's weekly newsletter, Things I Saw This Week is a personal fave. TISTW is a curated collection of reads about cities, art, culture, food, and more. It also includes a running playlist (on all streaming services), as well as links to podcasts, films and tv shows. Check out the latest issue here. You can find Elle on Instagram and Twitter.
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Keisha is a king: woman lets her husband believe she doesn't know how to cook. I STAN.
It's almost July, and I have to regroup and plan for more warm weather crops. My brassicas (cauliflower, kale, collards and brussel sprouts) are on their last legs, so I'm setting out my okra, corn and peas.
My cucumber vines and squashes are growing vigorously, so this week is all about building more trellis supports for them or finding more space for them to flourish. The tomatoes have started fruiting, and I'm just waiting on the peppers to do the same. I'm also actively fighting against chipmunks, which have been burrowing into my tomatoes, squash, and near my lettuce. I bought some non-toxic deterrent, hopefully that holds them off long enough for me to get some good harvests.
Recipe: Cucumber Mint Tequila spritzer
I have a lot of cucumbers to use, and I whipped up this refreshing drink using what I had.
Slice ~half of a Boston pickling cucumber or ~quarter of a regular cucumber thinly
Muddle about 5 mint leaves at the bottom of a glass. Add a teaspoon of honey and a teaspoon of sugar.
Add a shot of 1800 tequila to the glass, along with the cucumber slices and some seltzer water. Stir and enjoy!


Wismar – The Hanseatic Town
A history of stories . . . so is Wismar.
Wismar's birth took place at a time when the area was populated by a Slavic tribe, the Wends; a small harbour and farming settlement. With its relative proximity to the legendary Via Regia (Royal Highway), Wismar was an oft and gladly visited centre of trade. In 1229, as a charter first records, Wismar became amongst the first towns founded in Mecklenburg, its name derived from a stream east of the town, the aqua wissemara, although this can no longer be verified.
Klaus Störtebeker, the legendary privateer
Merchants, traders, seafarers, fishermen, coopers, builders from many lands and all points of the compass came to Wismar. Amongst the peaceful bustle the town rapidly flourished economically – but success brought its downside too, in the form of privateers and pirates. One of them was none less than Klaus Störtebeker, the legendary privateer and pirate, whose name is recorded in Wismar's court books for his involvement in a brawl.
The history of Wismar is both varied and never dull. The town's history is what makes it so attractive!
Since its founding Wismar has been committed to seafaring on the one hand and Mecklenburg on the other; a seal dated to 1256 displays both a cog as symbol for maritime trade and the bull's head of Mecklenburg (which nevertheless did not prevent Wismar's burghers constantly seeking as much independence from their overlords as possible).
Wismar as town of significance within the Hanseatic League
A triple alliance signed by the towns of Lübeck, Wismar and Rostock in 1259 served to secure trade routes both at sea and on land, not least from pirate attacks.
The port and the accompanying shipping and commercial trade in important goods and commodities quickly grew: wines from Spain, Italy and France, furs and timber from Russia, hides from Norway as well as fabrics, silk and wool, but primarily fish and spices, wax, malt and salt. Trade across the Baltic Sea and with the hinterland flourished. The heyday of the Hanseatic League had begun, turning Wismar into a centre of wealth. Both beautiful and powerful, it worked its way up to become one of the significant towns in the Hanseatic League.
Testaments to the economic and social upswing of the time can still be found today in the impressive religious structures in the brick Gothic style, the old town walls, the Wassertor (The Water Gatehouse), the medieval townhouses and the Wasserkunst (pumping station) in the market square - an imposing form dating to 1602 that replaced the simple fountain on the site. By the 16th century however the Hanseatic League had lost its former prominence.
Take one of our town tours and get to know Wismar.