Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and the Academy, 2007, Fine HC
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Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and the Academy
Amalia K. Amaki, Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Richard Long, M. Akua McDaniel, Anne Collins Smith, Mary Parks Washington, Floyd Coleman, Beverly Daniel Tatum (Preface), and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art; University of Washington Press
AFRICAN AMERICAN ART
Notes: A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, 4to, 11 3/4" x 8 1/2." Brown cloth-covered boards in a multicolored, pictorial dust jacket. Illustrations of Woodruff's and Prophet's work on front and back panels, respectively. White lettering on brown and blue dust jacket spine. Covers pristine and intact, binding tight, sharp tips. Dust jacket pristine and intact except for a few light surface scratches and a few bumps to the edges. Dust jacket protected by a paper-backed mylar sleeve. Pages likewise pristine and intact. Replete with illustrations, most of which are in color. Most of the illustrations are of the artists' work. 216 pp., including illustrations, Critical Chronology, Exhibition Catalogue, Exhibition Checklist, and Index. A catalog published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name. The show featured the work of two African-American artists, Hale Woodruff (1900-1980) and Nancy Elizabeth Prophet (1890-1960). Woodruff specialized in painting while Prophet was a sculptor. Both taught at Spelman College, a historically black, women's liberal arts college. Spelman College was founded in 1881 in Atlanta and is still open to this day. It is the oldest private, historically black (HBCU), liberal arts college for women. Excerpt from front flap: "_Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and the Academy_ brings Woodruff's and Prophet's lives and work into a critical dialog for the first time. This volume highlights recently conserved works in Spelman College's collection, features more than fifty paintings and works on paper by Woodruff and, for the first time, presents all extant sculptures by Prophet. Highlighting what these artists were able to accomplish in Atlanta, _Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and the Academy_ positions Woodruff and Prophet as institution builders who challenged and transformed the academy for African Americans."


I’d like to share this great story I’ve read a few years ago from a Chicago newspaper columnist.
House on the Lake
By: Mike Royko
When the two of them starting spending weekends at the quiet Wisconsin Lake, they were young and had little money. Her relatives let them use a tiny cottage in a wooded hollow a mile or so from the water.
He worked odd hours, so often they wouldn’t get there until after midnight on a Friday. But if the mosquitoes weren’t out, they’d go for a moonlight swim, then rest with their backs against a tree and drink wine and talk about their future.
One summer, the young man bought an old motorboat. They’d ride along the shoreline, looking at the houses and wondering what it would be like to have a place in the water. He’d just shake his head; these houses cost more than he could ever afford.
Years passed. They had kids. After a while, they didn’t go to the little cottage as often. Finally her relatives sold the place.
Then he got lucky in his work, making more money than he ever dreamed they’d have. Remembering those weekends, they went back and bought a cedar house on the water. The place was surrounded by big old trees, and the land sloped gently, down the shore. It was perfect.
They hadn’t known summers could be that good. In the mornings he’d go fishing before it was light. She’d sleep until the birds woke her. Then he’d make breakfast, and they’d eat omelets on the deck.
They got to know the chipmunks, the squirrels and the woodpecker who took over the biggest tree. They got to know the grocer, the butcher who smoked his own bacon, the farmer who sold them vine-ripened tomatoes.
The best part of their day was dusk. She loved sunsets. They’d always stop to watch the sun go down, changing the color of the lake from blue to purple, to silver and black. One evening he made up a small poem:
The sun rolls down
Like a golden tear
She told him it was sad, but that she liked it. What she didn’t like was October, even with the beautiful colors and evenings in front of the fireplace. She was a summer person. The cold wind wasn’t her friend.
In November they would store the boat, take down the hammock, lock everything tight and drive back to the city. She’d always sigh as they left.
Finally, spring would come, and when they knew the ice on the lake was gone, they’d be back. She’d throw open the doors to let in the fresh air. Then she’d go out and greet the chipmunks and the woodpeckers.
Every summer seems better than the last. The sunsets seemed more spectacular and more precious.
Then one weekend he went alone to close the place down for winter.
He worked quickly, trying not to let himself think that this particular chair had been her favourite, that the hammock had been her Christmas gift to him, that the house on the lake had been his gift to her.
He didn’t work quickly enough. He was still there at sunset. It was a great burst of orange, the kind she had loved best.
He tried, but he couldn’t watch it alone. Not through tears. So he turned his back on it, went inside, drew the draperies, locked the door and drove away.
Later there would be a “for sale” sign out front. Maybe a couple who loved to quietly watch sunsets together would like it. He hoped so.
Mike Royko wrote this memorial to his first wife, Carol, after she died in 1979. The long-time Chicago newspaper columnist died 1997.
I then went on to research about this writer and found out that this is just an excerpt from the original story November Farewell. A story he wrote months after the untimely death of his wife Carol. The writer died at the age of 64 due to brain aneurysm


THE VINEGAR BIBLE
King James Bible : Printed by John Baskett, Oxford 1717
Presented to St.Mary’s Church, Alderley by: Thomas Croft, Rector of Alderley, 1741 – 1753
John Baskett, an Oxford printer, published an edition of the King James Bible of his own, which came to be named after him, The Baskett Bible. It was one of the most magnificent English Bibles ever printed, though marred by quite a few errors. It was dubbed The “Vinegar Bible” because, in Luke 20, the word “vineyard” was misprinted “vinegar”.


The Copper Project has compiled a scholarly bibliography of hundreds of titles relating to various aspects of the historic world copper industry. Books, journal articles, theses and antiquarian titles cover subjects ranging from mining, industrial processes, topography and business practice to landscape, heritage and social and economic change.
Using Zotero, a powerful web-based research tool, we are able to provide easy access to this important bibliography and hope that it will be of benefit to scholars and other researchers interested in learning more about copper, particularly Wales's role in making it a global commodity.
New titles are regulalry added to the bibliography so if you don't see something you think would be of interest, please contact us.
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Arrogant, self-centered, stubborn, and insecure – words that most people associate with ego. But, authors David Marcum and Steven Smith argue that the upside of ego is as powerful as the downside and answer questions that have been a mystery to most people. They provide compelling evidence and matter-of-fact answers on striking the balance between ego and humility to reach the next level of leadership. Case studies are used to illustrate how ego subtly interferes with success but also how ego sparks the drive to achieve, the nerve to try something new, and the tenacity to conquer adversity.
Egonomics: what makes ego our greatest asset (or most expensive liability) makes a great “book club” selection for your firm. With the strong focus on recruiting and retention in the accounting profession today it’s important that you learn not only about your behavior but the behavior of your colleagues. “Often the hardest side of business to master is the human side, and nothing is more human than ego. How we manage ego on the human side affects everything we do on the business side, one way or the other.”
Visit http://www.readegonomics.com/ to download a free book discussion guide and find links to buy the book.


Our guild (Tennessee Volunteer Quilt Guild, Martin, TN) met in the Martin library for years and one of the librarians has cancer. We decided to make a throw quilt for her. Members contributed 12-1/2" blocks and I put them together and quilted it for her. I sewed the binding on with the longarm and now it is ready for one of the members to do the handstitching of the binding.
This is on my machine now:
The BOM will have one simple applique block -- very, very simple -- that can be appliqued by any technique you prefer. All the other blocks will be pieced. Join us for some fun!


Kitab Bimbingan Mukmin: A Guide for Muslims by Imam Al-Ghazali
Kitab Bimbingan Mukmin is a book written by the famous Muslim scholar and mystic Imam Al-Ghazali. It contains advice and guidance on various aspects of Islamic faith and practice, such as morality, brotherhood, friendship, worship, and spirituality. The book is based on the teachings of the Quran and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
The book is divided into nine chapters, each covering a different topic. The chapters are:
Kitab Adab Pergaulan, Persaudaraan Dan Persahabatan (The Book of Etiquette of Social Interaction, Brotherhood and Friendship)
Kitab Adab Dalam Beribadah (The Book of Etiquette in Worship)
Kitab Adab Dalam Berzikir (The Book of Etiquette in Remembrance of Allah)
Kitab Adab Dalam Berdoa (The Book of Etiquette in Supplication)
Kitab Adab Dalam Bersedekah (The Book of Etiquette in Charity)
Kitab Adab Dalam Puasa (The Book of Etiquette in Fasting)
Kitab Adab Dalam Haji (The Book of Etiquette in Pilgrimage)
Kitab Adab Dalam Jihad (The Book of Etiquette in Striving for Allah's Cause)
Kitab Adab Dalam Menuntut Ilmu (The Book of Etiquette in Seeking Knowledge)
The book is written in a simple and clear language, with examples and stories from the Quran, the Sunnah, and the lives of the righteous predecessors. It aims to inspire and motivate Muslims to follow the path of Allah and His Messenger, and to attain the highest levels of faith and piety.
The book is available in PDF format for download from various online sources[^1^] [^2^] [^3^]. It is also translated into several languages, such as English, Malay, Urdu, and Indonesian. It is a valuable resource for Muslims who want to learn more about their religion and improve their character and conduct.
One of the main themes of Kitab Bimbingan Mukmin is the importance of tazkiyatun nafs, or the purification of the soul. Imam Al-Ghazali explains that the soul has three levels: the animal soul, the rational soul, and the spiritual soul. The animal soul is driven by desires and passions, and it leads to sin and disobedience. The rational soul is guided by reason and intellect, and it seeks knowledge and justice. The spiritual soul is illuminated by faith and wisdom, and it strives for closeness and love of Allah.
Imam Al-Ghazali teaches that the goal of every Muslim is to purify their soul from the impurities of the animal soul, and to elevate it to the level of the spiritual soul. This can be achieved by following the commands and prohibitions of Allah, by performing good deeds and avoiding evil deeds, by repenting from sins and seeking forgiveness from Allah, by remembering Allah and invoking Him in every situation, by being grateful for His blessings and patient with His trials, by trusting in His decree and relying on His help, by loving Him and His Messenger more than anything else, and by being sincere and humble in all actions.
Another theme of Kitab Bimbingan Mukmin is the importance of ukhuwah Islamiyyah, or the brotherhood of Islam. Imam Al-Ghazali emphasizes that Muslims are brothers and sisters in faith, and they should treat each other with kindness, respect, mercy, compassion, generosity, loyalty, honesty, and justice. He warns against the evils of hatred, envy, malice, backbiting, slander, lying, cheating, oppression, and injustice. He advises Muslims to uphold the ties of kinship and friendship, to cooperate in good and forbid evil, to support each other in times of need and hardship, to forgive each other's mistakes and faults, to advise each other sincerely and gently, to greet each other warmly and peacefully, and to pray for each other's welfare and success. 0efd9a6b88


"The Alfred Schutz Archive Established in the Memory of Alfred and Ilse Schutz" is founded at Department of Sociology, Waseda University in 1997, with the complete approval of Schutz's daughter, Evelyn S. Lang, and with the great support of Prof. George Psathas (Boston University), Prof. Lester Embree (Florida Atlantic University), Prof. Ilja Srubar (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), and Prof. Martin Endress (Universität Tübingen).
Our archive holds:
2. Some other manuscripts by Alfred Schutz
9. Typescripts for the enlarged and revised version of Alfred Schutz: An Intellectual Biography, prepared by H. Wagner
Director: NASU, Hisashi
Manager: KIMURA, Masato
Please send us bibliographical information to: Schutz[a]list.waseda.jp


Introduction to Nest.js — A Progressive node.js framework for backend.
As I mentioned before Node.js (for the server-side) has plenty of great libraries, But none of them solves the main problem of architecture. Nest provides an out-of-the-box application architecture that allows developers and teams to create highly testable, scalable, loosely coupled, and easily maintainable applications. The architecture is heavily inspired by Angular.
What so special about this framework?
01. Nest JS is an open-source framework for building efficient, scalable Node.js server-side applications.
03. Combines elements of Object-Oriented Programming, Functional Programming, and Reactive Programming.
04. Nest.js provides a similar kind of architecture to other server-side applications like .NET Core, Java Spring Boot, etc.
05. Under the hood, Nest makes use of robust HTTP Server frameworks like Express (the default) and optionally can be configured to use Fastify as well.
Let’s create a “Hello World” app with Nest JS.
01. First of all you need to install Node.js. Click here to download Node.js for your operating system.
02. Then You need Nest-CLI. This helps you to initialize and develop your applications. Open the command line and execute this command.
npm install -g @nestjs/cli
03. Now you can generate a new project using this command. Replace “my-nest-project” with your project name.
nest new my-nest-project
04. Go to the project directory and execute below command to start the application.
npm run start:dev
That's it, Now In your browser, open http://localhost:3000 to see a new application running. The app will automatically recompile and reload when you change any of the source files.
You can easily learn lots of things by referring to Nest JS documentation. The Nest JS documentation is well-maintained and contains a lot of information with real examples. https://docs.nestjs.com/
Happy Coding :)


Last week Science retracted a 2011 paper written by a prominent social psychologist who has been accused of fabricating massive amount of data. Dr. Stapel is a prolific author and according to Retraction Watch, many more of his papers may be retracted as the case develops.
It seems that Dr Stapel is the protagonist of the biggest case of scientific misconduct in recent years, no wonder this is getting a lot of attention from the media. I am sure his tainted reputation is well-known by everybody working on the field of social psychology and researchers will think twice before citing any of Dr. Stapel’s paper on their own papers. But how about papers that were retracted but didn’t draw much attention? Retracting papers nowadays when most of the journals are available on line is not so difficult, but in 1999, Budd et al. analyzed retracted articles and found they received more than 2,000 post-retraction citations. Less than 8% of the citations acknowledged the retraction in any way. I believe this number would look much better. However, as Dr Sheldon Tobe, from the University of Toronto said, a study can be retracted, but “it can be hard to make its effects go away,”
More and more papers have been retracted in the recent years, some for honest mistakes and others for scientific misconduct. But the time between publication and retraction has also increased. The Wall Street Journal used the PubMed database and analyzed 742 articles in medicine and biology. Take the year of 2000, for example. Only 4 papers were retracted and it took in average 5.25 months between publication and retraction. In 2009, 179 papers were retracted and it took in average 32.62 month between publication and retraction.
If this exponential increase in paper retractions is a tendency, maybe in the future we will have a library of disgraced papers to consult before citing a paper.
Budd, John M., MaryEllen Sievert, Tom R. Schultz, and Caryn Scoville. 1999. “Effects of Article Retraction on Citation and Practice in Medicine.” Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 87(4):437–43.


A catalogue of nearly five hundred celestial objects, published by Per Collinder as an appendix to his 1931 paper On structural properties of open galactic clusters and their spatial distribution. The catalogue is primarily dedicated to listing open clusters, groups of stars within the galactic disc that share a common origin and remain bound together by gravitational forces.
Objects within the catalogue are given numbers in the form 'Collinder 42' (an example that refers to the Pleiades in Taurus). Though the full name 'Collinder' is preferred in references, the abbreviation 'Cr' remains relatively common, and the rarer short form 'Col' is also occasionally seen.
The full Collinder Catalogue lists a total of 471 objects. Of these, 452 are recognised as belonging to actual open clusters, while the remaining nineteen are now considered to fall outside that classification. Of these other nineteen listed objects, eleven are globular clusters rather than open clusters, while several others are now seen as asterisms rather than true clusters (that is, groups of stars that merely appear to be clustered due to their line of sight from Earth). In a handful of cases (such as that of Collinder 269 in Musca), the status of the object still remains uncertain.
The selective list below summarises some of the better-known or most prominent clusters to be included within the Collinder Catalogue. For a fuller list, see the 'Collinder Catalogue' section of the Star Clusters index page.
Comparable in many ways to the Collinder Catalogue is the earlier index of star clusters known as the Melotte Catalogue. The Melotte list is more inclusive than the Collinder Catalogue, incorporating many globular clusters as well as open clusters, but it also rather less extensive, containing just 245 objects as compared with the Collinder Catalogue's 471. Both these catalogues include many of the brighterclusters in the sky, and so there is a considerable degree of overlap between the two systems. It is not uncommon, especially for more prominent clusters, to see both a Collinder number and a Melotte number referring to the same object. So, for example, as well as being listed as 'Collinder 42', the Pleiades are also designated 'Melotte 22'.


Book Review: ‘Cruel Beauty’ by Rosamund Hodge
January 28th, 2014
Rosamund Hodge’s debut novel is the re-imagining of the classic fairytale Beauty and the Beast. It follows Nyx who has been betrothed to a demon king of the land. This was the result of a bargain her father had made with this King. She has been training since birth to end his rule.
After her marriage to him, she moves into his castle she tries to search for ways to bring him down and in the process meets Shade. She also finds herself in love with the man she had sworn to kill. This reimagining of Beauty and the Beast is quite good. Cruel Beauty combines Greek mythology and a beloved fairy tale and makes for a pretty good novel.
Cruel Beauty is not without its faults. This is supposed to be a re-telling of Beauty and the Beast, but I don’t see much of the fairytale in the novel. Also, it was too romancey. Yes, I’m well aware that it is a romance novel, but there was a lot of kissing and she spent a lot of time hating herself for loving the Beast. On the bright side, Nyx was a very good and strong character.
What I didn’t like was the setting. The world under a dome of parchment sky didn’t really appeal to me that much. Nevertheless, Cruel Beauty was an enjoyable read. If you’re into fantasy romance and fairytales and don’t mind much of the romancey stuff, this is the one for you.


The Constitution of the United States divides the federal government into three branches to ensure a central government in which no individual or group gains too much control:
• Legislative - Makes laws (Congress)
• Executive - Carries out laws (President, Vice President, Cabinet)
• Judicial - Evaluates laws (Supreme Court and other courts)
The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol Building, is the home of the United States Congress, and the seat of the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. It sits atop Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
The original building was completed in 1800 and was subsequently expanded, particularly with the addition of the massive dome, and expanded chambers for the bicameral legislature, the House of Representatives in the south wing and the Senate in the north wing.
The Supreme Court Building, located at One First Street, NE, in Washington, DC, is the permanent home of the Court. Completed in 1935.
The Library preserves and provides access to a rich, diverse, and enduring source of knowledge to inform, inspire and engage you in your intellectual and creative endeavors. Whether you are new to the Library of Congress or an experienced researcher, we have a world-class staff ready to assist you online and in person.
Founded in 1800, the library is oldest federal cultural institution in the nation. On August 24, 1814, British troops burned the Capitol building destroying the Library's core collection of 3,000 volumes. On January 30, 1815, Congress approved the purchase of Thomas Jefferson’s personal library of 6,487 books for $23,950.
The oldest of the three United States Library of Congress buildings, the Thomas Jefferson Building, originally known as the Library of Congress Building. The Beaux-Arts style building is known for its classicizing facade and elaborately decorated interior from the 1800s.
We did not get a chance to visit the other two Library of Congress buildings; James Madison Memorial Building or John Adams Building.
the mail’s getting to the right place?
The term White House refers to the president and his advisers, as in "The White House announced that...".
Designed by Irish-born architect James Hoban in the neoclassical style, construction took place between 1792 and 1800 using Aquia Creek sandstone painted white. In 1814, during the War of 1812, the British Army set the mansion ablaze. Reconstruction began almost immediately with the administration’s support for the building to become a national landmark.


Horticulture as Therapy: Principles and Practice by Sharon Simson, Martha Straus
Horticulture as Therapy: Principles and Practice Sharon Simson, Martha Straus ebook
Publisher: CRC Press
Similar to her section in chapter 2 in the book Horticulture As Therapy Principles and Practice. Connecting Seniors to gardening and using Horticulture therapy as a tool for recovery . This interactive and hands-on workshop will introduce you to the practice and profession of horticultural therapy. Here is a list of books available which relate to horticultural therapy. Horticulture therapy is the purposeful use of plants in treatment plans to improve mental health (American . Horticulture as therapy; principles and practice. Record 1995 - 97125 Title: Horticultural therapy: The 'healing garden' and gardening in rehabilitation . HORTICULTURAL THERAPY RESOURCES AND LINKS Christine L. During the past century, the profession of horticultural therapy was In S. Horticulture as Therapy: Principles and Practice: Sharon Simson, Martha Straus: 9781560222798: Books - Amazon.ca. Straus, (Eds.), Horticulture as therapy: Principles and practice (pp
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Who is behind Li'l Chef?
- Killian Crowley, the author -
Having started culinary school in Belgium at the age of 15, Killian very quickly had the opportunity to work in a first michelin star kitchen at the Clairefontaine restaurant, in the city of Luxembourg. Following this experience, he decided to continue in this direction and to focus on gastronomy, passing through several michelin star restaurant.
In 2018, Killian Crowley was crowned best young chef in the UK and Ireland in the San Pellegrino competition, for which he represented the region at the world final held in Milan in May of the same year.
At the start of 2020, the young chef founded SONAS, with the ambition of passing on his knowledge of gastronomy and sharing his passion for cooking.
From there was born the desire to educate everyone on the products, their seasonality, their origin and the associations of flavors. In this vein, he wants to educate children from an early age by offering a book made up of illustrated recipes that are easy to make. This is how the “Li'l Chef” project was born.
More information about Killian Crowley and SONAS are available at the following site:
- Clémentine Latron, the illustrator -
Clémentine is born in France, and it was at the age of two that she began to draw - on the walls of her bedroom. From there, she never stopped again.
In 2014, freshly arrived in Amsterdam with a translation diploma in hand, she began to illustrate her expat daily life in the Netherlands for the weekly Courrier International: the blog " Dessine-moi un expat" was born. One thing led to another, collaborations began to emerge with a wide variety of clients: Clémentine designed for Babbel magazine (a language learning application), the Petit Mariage entre Amis site, the Alliance Française network in the Netherlands, or again the children's magazine La Petite Fabrique.
In 2019, now a freelance illustrator and translator, Clémentine published The Tour de France of regional expressions at Editions First, followed in 2020 by Expats , a collection of the chronicles of Dessine-moi un expat . You can find her work on her website: https://www.clementinelatron.com/


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My program consisted of several shared libraries. An exception class ExceptionA was defined in the shared library libBasic.so. It was thrown from the shared library libA.so in some conditions. I intended to catch it in another shared library libB.so but failed.
The source code looked flawless. I struggled for quite a while and decided to link everything as static libraries. It worked.
The compiler was gcc. I did a lot of Google search on gcc/exception/c++/shared library. There were not too many results but gcc did have issues in exceptions across shared libraries. I tried the different solutions mentioned in those articles -- link options, attributes, dlopen() flags. No luck.
It finally turned out that inline implementation of the exception class is the root cause. As all the functions of ExceptionA was declared inline, it had separate type info objects in all the three shared libraries. You could use command nm -C -D ***.so to verify that. Because gcc uses address comparisons, rather than string compares, to determine type equality, the ExceptionA thrown from libA.so was regarded as a different type from ExceptionA in libB.so. Moving all the methods of ExceptionA into the cpp file solved the problem. Now the nm command showed that ExceptionA had the only type info object in libBasic.so.
There are some other reasons that inter shared library exceptions can not be caught --
* Visibility: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility
* dynamic_cast, throw, typeid don't work with shared libraries: http://gcc.gnu.org/faq.html#dso
* dlopen() RTLD_GLOBAL flag: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXISCPP-533


Dancing with Fate (book two)
Mithra was born when her mother was asking help from her Assyrian gods, she had a strange birthmark on her face, and she inherited her mother’s face, a wild Assyrian beauty, no wonder her father’s tribe hated her. They made her believe that she was an ominous creature, doomed for being alone in her own land. Even Astyages’ love, a burning love that took shape in the adventures could not help her. Mithra had love in her hands, and she believed that she had overcome her fate, but the fate rose up against the love.
Her fiancé and Mithra were captured in the Assyrians’ attack. Her aunt found her in the slave market. Mithra could be invaluable to her Assyrian family because she looked like Semiramis, the Assyrian’s great queen. Her marriage with her cousin could bring back the past glory to this family, and her cousin could take the kingship. All the ominous signs in Mithra, her Assyrian face and the birthmark on her face, now were omen but she wished to return to her own land. She was born and raised in Mannae, had learned to love that land. Astyages and Mithra tried to escape and failed. Astyages ran away alone, and Mithra had to marry her cousin to be Assyria’s queen.
This is a story of love, sacrifice, fear, ambition, courage,… and miracles; like all of us!


DIAMOND STARS A Novel of the 1934 All-Star Baseball Game !!
So - for all of you who won't be able to come and pick up your copy in person on May 11 or 12 or 18 or 19... Let the 1934 All-Star Game begin!
We have been told that there will be a Kindle / Nook (etc) edition available in the not too distant future - but Dog Ear Publications (our publishing house) puts the printed book out first.
Thanks again to all of you who read these posts and are cheering us on!


Is the next Spelling Bee champion at our school?! We are gearing up for the Spelling Bee this Winter and wanted to give students and parents plenty of time to practice. If you are interested in signing up, please do so by clicking the Register button. You can also download the Word Club app for your kiddos to practice on a phone or tablet.
The books are in and pulled! Have your kiddos head down to the library to check one out to help them practice their words! The full book list by grade is below!


Unstoppable - True Stories of Amazing Bionic Animals
Nancy Furstinger profiles many animals in Unstoppable (including our very own rescued residents Albie, Felix and Fawn!) —all of whom are making their way around with the help of prosthetics, braces, orthotics and wheelchairs. Readers will meet the caregivers, prosthetists, vets, and loving families that help to make recovery possible. Furstinger offers a glimpse into the cutting-edge technologies, such as 3D printing and brain-controlled prosthetics, that are helping to improve the lives of animals and humans alike.


March 31, 2021
Caplan Cobb attorneys Brandon Waddell and Cameron Roberts recently authored articles in the Spring Journal for the American Bar Association’s Business Torts and Unfair Competition Committee.
Brandon’s article, “Mission Creep: The Evolving Impact of the Supreme Court’s Heightened Materiality Standard for False Claims Act Cases on Common-Law Fraud Claims,” examines how elements of the “heightened” materiality standard set out by the Supreme Court in United States ex rel. Escobar have begun showing up in garden-variety, common-law fraud cases and offers practical observations about this development for lawyers who litigate such cases. The full article can be read here.
Cameron’s article, “Supreme Court to Interpret the Scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,” discusses how appellate courts are split over whether a person violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by accessing information for an unauthorized purpose or in violation of a use restriction and how Van Buren v. United States promises to resolve the current split of authority. The full article can be read here.


I chose last Wednesday, August 8 for a cyber book launch. It was the first full day that Mercury, the planet of communication, was out of retrograde. It was also a few days after the book was officially listed on Amazon, Kindle and Smashwords, creating time to check out the listings and make sure everything was as close to perfection as could be. Debora was the go-to-gal. She knew the bottom line and what to look for. She had formatted the manuscript in three different ways for each market. Miracle woman. (DeboraKLewis@yahoo.com)
I created an event on Facebook for the cyber launch. I snapped a picture of me with the book and invited 500-plus Facebook friends. I also emailed my entire address book announcing the event. I was shameless. "If you're thinking of buying the book," I suggested, "please do so on Wednesday morning. I'm working towards a surge to affect Amazon's statistics and draw attention to the book." Then I held my breath as the responses came in. Mercury was also in the house of friendship on the 8th, creating strong energy for friends to rally behind me. "You've always been shameless, Christina!" was a common response. And rally they did. I was overwhelmed with good wishes and book orders.
It's been pretty lonely up here in Montana. My best women friends are scattered all over the Southwest, Mexico and British Columbia. While writing is always a solitary endeavor, this recent level of isolation has taken me to a new level. Traveling, I'd been accustomed to regular injections of girlfriend time. As a result, Facebook and email had become lifelines.When amigos y amigas began to order the book and make contact it was a gush of fresh oxygen, breathing new life into this one exhausted woman. My book was born six weeks from the day I'd decided to go indie. It had been one of the most intense, exhilarating, daunting rides of my life.
The past two days I have received emails from friends that the book has arrived in their mail. They're excited to read it. Not half as I excited as I am. I await their responses and hope they'll review it on the Amazon site. Next Saturday is my first official reading and signing in Libby, MT at the library (2-4:00 p.m.). Every day I make plans for another marketing angle. I'm learning the value of hyperlinks and see no end to the challenge before me.
Hobo the sly cat woke me at 1:00 a.m. this morning. I stepped outside into ebony as shooting stars trailed dazzle across the sky. As I returned to my bed a wolf howled in the far distance. I tucked myself in and smiled at the reminder. Drive Me Wild had birthed in the perfect spot.
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Julia Roberts travels to India and basically does nothing. Boring.
When I arrived in the crazy country that is India in early March 2014, I quickly realised that I had really no idea what this country was about – at all. The only book I had read about India was Eat Pray Love – and seriously Eat Pray Love sucks.
I hated it so much I can’t believe I actually managed to finish it without flying all the way to New York to throw it at the author’s self involved head. Hollywood even turned this piece of indulgent crap into a film – WTF.
Anyways, as I now had no clue what to read to give me a greater insight into the vast and ancient land of India, I decided to ask my fellow travel bloggers for their recommendations. I wanted to hear what books about India inspired them, taught them, and moved them. Books that had changed their perceptions of India, and maybe in some way, their own lives. And let me tell you, the response was overwhelming!
So I’d like to send out a massive thank you to all of the bloggers who contributed, for taking the time to pass on a little bit of knowledge so we too can experience these amazing books. Some books have touched more than one person so you may find a few repeats – but that’s all the more reason to check it out right? If so many professional travellers love it, its gotta be good.
So here I have for you: Books about India – A Travel Bloggers Collaboration.
A Passage to India – E. M. Forster
One of the first books that I read about India was E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India. Published in the early 1920s, this book is set during the British Raj and the Indian independence movement, where it explores the question of whether an Indian man can be friends with an Englishman. What I liked about this book is that it pulled you back in time and tackled difficult subjects that dealt with prejudice and political tension.
While this book may not help prepare you for your big trip to India, it’s a good read and it’ll help you see that while some things have changed in India since Forster penned the novel, other things have not.
(To check out this book for yourself click on the book cover)
Submitted by Audrey – That Backpacker
Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
I’m sure we won’t be the only people to say this, but Shantaram is by far the best book we’ve ever read about India. Written by Gregory David Roberts, the story follows his true life journey as an Australian fugitive who finds refuge in the slums of Mumbai. Gregory opens a clinic in the slums before slowly spiralling deep into the drug trade and behind bars in some of the world’s most inhumane prisons.
The book is inspirational, exciting and very well-written. At nearly 1,000 pages, you feel like your along for the entire journey with Gregory as he maneuvers through Mumbai’s dark and dangerous underworld. He describes the beauty and chaos that is India, and manages to accurately paint a vivid picture of both modern and traditional customs that still permeate through Indian culture today. Shantaram is a definite “must-read” for anyone heading to the sub-continent!
(To check out this book for yourself click on the book cover)
A second review for Shantaram:
“So it begins, this story, like everything else- with a woman, and a city, and a little bit of luck”
This is one of the first sentences of Shantaram, a book highly recommended for India-visitors and all other adventurers! It was written by the Australian Gregory David Roberts. Although the novel is not autobiographical, it was much influenced by the life-events of Roberts.
In 1980 Roberts escaped from an Australian prison, where he served a 19-year sentence. He fled to Mumbai in India and here the adventure began. He joined the Bombay Mafia, worked as a gunrunner, a smuggler and a counterfeiter, he landed in the notorious Arthur Road prison, he went to war, lived in the slums, started his own clinic and met the love of his life.
Shantaram is a sensational roller coaster ride passing through all aspects of life, love and India. It was truly special to read about the hectic, the beauty and the dark sides of India, while actually being there. In India, I also visited the Leopold cafe, a cafe that is extensively mentioned in the book and was bombed in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Shantaram is a true page-turner. It’s colorful, confronting and philosophical, with a hint of humor. It is beautifully written, teaches us some important lessons of life and even if you haven’t been to India, Robert’s novel will make you feel like you were there.
Submitted by Manouk – Bunch Of Backpackers
White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
When I met the love of my life while travelling in India and he starting calling me “white tiger” I thought it was cute. Then I realized he’d recently read the book “White Tiger” by youngster Aravind Adiga about a fairly psychotic Indian man… He assures me it’s because I have blonde hair & a feisty attitude, not that I’m willing to murder to get where I want in life.
This book is an inside look to the “real” India: the castes, the way the poor are treated, the way the poor look at the rich- and what people are willing to do to break the cycle of the “darkness” of forgotten rural India.
A tale of poverty and massive corruption around a young driver in India; this story will make you shudder and take a real look at the people who are waiting on you in India. I’m not going to lie, I had to look deep into my driver’s eyes and make sure he didn’t have any evil plans up his sleeve! Through it evil, the author makes you root for our victor even when he’s lost his morals. (To check out this book for yourself click on the book cover)
Submitted by Rachel – Hippie In Heels
Second Review for White Tiger:
This is a book that both Dave and I loved and we feel that everyone should read it before going to India. It tells unforgiving side of India. The dirty secrets that nobody wants to talk about. It doesn’t paint the pretty picture of the place but tells the truth of the struggle people face each day.
For the people who go to an Ashram with blinders on while being chauffeured around in air conditioned cars or the sanitized tour groups that are isolated from the real India, this is a book that should be read.
Everyone has this dream about India being utopia and often people don’t allow themselves to see the real India. Don’t get me wrong, India is an extraordinary country, but it has its problems and too many people go with the Eat Pray Love mentality that it will magically fix them and that everyone is going around the country in a state of eternal bliss. When the reality is that it is a growing country where the divide between the rich and poor is unforgivable.
Submitted by Deb & Dave – The Planet D
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Follows the story of Saleem Sinai who is born at the stroke of midnight, the exact moment of India’s independence and has telepathic powers that connect him with 1,000 other ‘midnight’s children’ His story is inextricably linked to the nation of India – a whirlwind of triumphs and disasters as modern India grows. This book can be a little hard to get into but if you persevere it is both a history lesson about India and a beautiful, engaging, magical tale
Tell a Thousand Lies – Rasana Atreya
This is a beautifully told, but tragic story about love and life in a small Indian village that highlights the role of women, marriage, caste, colour, religion and superstition in this often patriarchal society. I learnt a lot about Indian culture and, at the same time, it opened my eyes to we take for granted how “free” Western culture is.
This is the greatest Indian epic of the Hindu religion telling the story of Lord Rama and his quest to rescue his wife Sita who is taken by the demon Ravana to Sri Lanka. The Ramayana is an idealized heroic tale that ends with the triumph of good over evil, and also covers themes of love and loss, family relationships, honour and duty all played out by gods, celestial beings, mythical creatures and demons.
The mythical language and names make it a little hard to read at first but it’s worthwhile trying to take in because it will increase your understanding of the Indian beliefs, behaviors and values of their culture a lot more. To them it means a lot more than a mere story but is a foundation of cultural influence. Even as far as Thailand and Cambodia, the creation myths and gods are still major part of the popular psyche today. (To check out this book for yourself click on the book cover)
Submitted by Anna – Global Gallivanting
Two States: The Story of My Marriage – Chetan Bhagat
Many people and publications will mention that a trip to India is likely to involve some degree of culture shock. Of course, it depends on where in the world you come from. But chances are that, even when you travel from and to a different region of India, you’ll encounter many unfamiliar things, different cultural and social norms.
That’s India in a nutshell: one of the biggest melting pots of cultures one may encounter on this planet!
No trip to India, no matter what length, will ever make you understand all the complex layers of Indian society, their rich traditions and beliefs. But for us foreigners, there is one topic that tends to awaken our curiosity and that is “marriage” in India.
I am married to an Indian, so yeah, tell me about it! In a land best known for arranged marriages, what happens when two people fall in love naturally? Bollywood often presents a romantic take on this type of relationship, but the book “Two States: the Story of my Marriage” by Chetan Bhagat does a better job at giving a realistic insight on love, tradition and family ties in India.
Based on the author’s real life (and love story) this novel follows a couple from two different states in India. They meet in college, fall in love, decide to spend the rest of their lives together… but have a tremendously hard time convincing their parents to allow them to do so.
One might think “why don’t they just get together no matter what everybody else is saying?” – and that is why you need to read this book! To exactly understand the complexity of family relations in India, particularly when people from different backgrounds are involved.
The book is a great eye opener, while a fun and easy read too. And because it became so popular in India, they have just released the movie version of it to. But skip Bollywood for now: read the book first, as it will take you on one of those voyages around India that are difficult to experience first hand even when you are physically there. (To check out this book for yourself click on the book cover)
Submitted by Zara – Backpack ME
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity – Katherine Boo
A great look at life in the slums of Mumbai in this time of incredible change and growth. Not always an easy read, but the author spent a lot of time researching and developing relationships to make it very realistic.
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
(To check out this book for yourself click on the book cover)
Submitted by Audrey – Uncornered Market (Audrey emailed back even though she was in the middle of Uganda with limited internet access)
For all the non-lovers of Shantaram (discussed above) here’s a few suggestions:
Empire of the Soul – Paul William Roberts.
This is the book I hope Shantaram readers graduate to read. It is about two lengthy trips journalist Roberts took to India, separated by many years; and about how he reconciles some of the extraordinary experiences he had there. Roberts is known for hard-boiled books about war-torn countries like Iraq, so when he writes about his spiritual awakening, it rings true.
Kim – Rudyard Kipling.
This is my favourite book of all time. If you’ve never read it, throw out everything you think you know about Kipling, who was the most famous writer of his time. The book follows the story of teenage Kim, son of an Irish immigrant and ‘friend of all the world’, who travels the roads of India with his guru, an elderly Tibetan lama on a spiritual quest for a river of enlightenment. It is unique and uncanny in its ability to absolutely immerse you into the scene and the story. You can feel the oppressive heat of the plains and the crisp air of the mountains. You can imagine Kim’s excitement about rejoining his friend on the road after a stint locked-up at school. You can feel the old man’s pain as his quest seems to elude him, and the love he engenders in Kim, his disciple. And you will be carried away by the transcendent ending.
Freedom at Midnight – Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.
On the stroke of midnight, August 15, 1947, India became free. This is the classic book about the biggest event in modern Indian history: the freedom struggle, partition and birth of a nation. You cannot begin to know or understand modern India if you don’t have a grip on its struggle for independence and the larger-than-life players who made it happen, especially Gandhi, Nehru, Mountbatten and Jinnah. The film Gandhi, directed by Richard Attenborough, gives you a lot of the same information, but this book fills in all the holes. (To check out this book for yourself click on the book cover)
Submitted by Mariellen – Breathe Dream Go
Unlike some, Mariellen is not a lover of “Shantaram” – in fact far from it. In her article 10 books that are better than Shantaram she referred to it as “a spew of virulent air, driven by the criminal mind and maniacal ego of its Australian pseudo-writer.”
Well there you have it folks – a list of some of the best books to read either before or while you are travelling through India. I personally can’t wait to download every single one onto my tablet and emerge myself in the amazing world of India’s past and present.
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Best Mental Health Books to Read This Year
A mental health condition and problems are becoming more common these days, and many people are struggling to cope with various emotional, cognitive, and behavioral issues. Reading is an excellent way to improve mental health by exploring different perspectives, boosting self esteem, finding inspiration, and learning new coping skills. If you’re looking for the best mental health books to read this year, check out this list of recommendations that can help you overcome everyday challenges and manage your mental health better.
“The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living” by Russ Harris
Based on the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), “The Happiness Trap” offers practical tools and techniques to cope with anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. The book explains how to reduce the impact of negative thoughts and emotions by developing mindfulness and self-compassion skills, and how to pursue meaningful goals that align with your values and priorities.
“Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead” by Brené Brown
In “Daring Greatly,” Brené Brown explores the power of vulnerability in building resilience, empathy, and connection with others. By sharing personal stories and research-based insights, Brown encourages readers to embrace their imperfections, overcome shame and fear, and develop authentic relationships that enhance their well-being and sense of purpose.
“Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed” by Lori Gottlieb
In this captivating memoir, Lori Gottlieb shares her experiences as a clinical psychologist helping clients with different psychological issues, while also going through her own therapy. “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone” offers an insightful, humorous, and relatable account of the challenges and rewards of therapy, and how it can help us understand ourselves and others better.
“Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions” by Johann Hari
Drawing on extensive research and personal interviews, Johann Hari challenges the conventional view of depression as a chemical imbalance in the brain and offers a more holistic perspective that considers social, economic, and cultural factors. “Lost Connections” provides a compelling case for how reconnecting with meaningful work, social support, nature, and other sources of joy and fulfillment can alleviate depression and anxiety.
“The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma” by Bessel van der Kolk
For those dealing with the aftermath of trauma, “The Body Keeps the Score” can offer valuable insights and strategies for healing. The book explains how trauma affects the brain and body, leading to symptoms such as dissociation, hypervigilance, and chronic pain, and how therapeutic approaches such as yoga, mindfulness, and experiential therapies can help address these issues and promote recovery.
Reading mental health books is an effective way to improve your mental health, whether you’re dealing with a specific condition or simply want to enhance your well-being. With these recommendations, you can find valuable guidance, inspiration, and support from some of the best mental health experts and authors in the field. Remember, reading may not replace therapy or medication, but it can complement and strengthen your mental health journey by providing new perspectives, knowledge, and comfort. Take the first step and start reading today!
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World
Do you often feel overwhelmed with your day-to-day life? Do you struggle with mental health issues and finding ways to improve your state of mind? Well, you’re not alone in this journey. Many of us go through the same challenges, and it’s essential to acknowledge the little things that can have a positive impact on our lives. We’ll discuss how making your bed can transform your mental state and potentially change the world.
Boosts Your Productivity
Have you heard the phrase that small things lead to bigger ones? Making your bed in the morning may seem insignificant, but it sets the tone for the rest of your day. It can give you a sense of accomplishment and provide you with a head start to complete other tasks. Accomplishing these small tasks can increase your productivity and motivation to tackle more challenging tasks.
Making your bed is an excellent way to develop discipline. It requires consistency to maintain this habit regularly. Moreover, making your bed despite not feeling motivated can train your brain to push ahead and overcome mental challenges. This practice builds mental strength and resilience, which is essential in managing mental health issues.
Promotes Better Sleep
Creating a habit of making your bed can help you sleep better at night. A clean and organised bed has a therapeutic effect and can produce a calming sensation after a long day. Moreover, using high-quality beddings, such as pillows and sheets, can make your bed extra comfortable and conducive for sleep.
Making your bed allows you to start your day organized and clean. Keeping a tidy bed can encourage you to clean the rest of the room, and eventually, your home. A clean environment has a positive impact on your mental health, reducing feelings of anxiety and stress.
Spreads Good Vibes
Lastly, making your bed could promote positivity and good vibes. Imagine returning home from a stressful day to a clean, made bed. The sense of order and organization can have a calming effect on your mood and emotional well being. Furthermore, your small act of kindness and consideration towards yourself can spread positivity to those around you.
Making your bed may not be the ultimate solution to all our problems, but it is an excellent starting point in improving our lives and promoting positive changes. This simple act can boost productivity, discipline, promote better sleep, cultivate cleanliness, and spread good vibes. Moreover, it is an excellent technique to manage mental health issues and promote mental well-being. So, get your pillows fluffed and your blankets tucked in because today, we’re making our bed. It’s time to see the changes that this small act can bring.
Why A Mental Health Book Should Be on Your Reading List
Mental health is something that affects every single one of us. However, due to the stigma that surrounds it, many people are hesitant to talk about their struggles or seek help. In recent years, authors have started to write more openly about mental health, creating a space where people can read and connect with others facing similar challenges. So, if you’re looking for a way to improve your mental health and spark some new insights, here are some reasons why mental health books should be on your reading list.
Helps You Gain a New Perspective
Reading about someone else’s experiences can give you a new perspective on your own challenges. When you read mental health books, you come across different perspectives on how to handle different mental health issues. This helps you broaden your view about mental health and gives you ideas on how to cope with your challenges. It also helps you become more understanding of those around you who may be facing similar challenges.
Mental health books play an important role in reducing stigma by giving a voice to those who may feel like they don’t have one. By sharing their stories and experiences, authors help people feel more comfortable speaking openly about their own struggles. This leads to more acceptance and understanding, which can lower the overall stigma towards people who struggle with their mental health.
Helps You Feel Less Alone
Mental health is often a lonely experience. However, reading books on mental health can help you feel less alone. You’ll be able to read about others who have gone through similar challenges, and understand that you are not alone in facing them. This can bring a sense of comfort and hope, which is essential in getting through tough times.
Provides Tools for Coping
Mental health books aren’t just about sharing experiences and insights. They often provide tools and strategies for coping with different mental health issues, grief and emotional pain. If you’ve heard your whole life that you’re “too sensitive” or “too shy,” then those are signs you might be a highly sensitive person. These can include things like mindfulness techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy exercises, and self-care practices. Reading about these tools can give you new ideas on how to cope with your own struggles and can help you build a more helpful toolkit for when tough times come up.
Learn More About Mental Health
Reading mental health books can help you learn more about different mental health issues, their symptoms, and how to help others who may be struggling. This information not only helps you understand your own mental health better but can also help you support those around you with mental health care. The more knowledge you have, the more equipped you are to handle different mental health situations.
Joshua York Legacy Foundation
We should all strive to promote mental health awareness in our communities. Everyone can make a difference, start by educating yourself and your loved ones on the signs of mental illness and take action when you recognize them. Mental health is something that affects individuals from all walks of life and it’s essential that we support each other in the fight. The Joshua York Legacy Foundation has taken great strides in bringing this conversation to the forefront, but our work isn’t done yet. Join us today by visiting joshuayorklegacyfoundation.org and by sharing your story, making a donation or volunteering your time. Together let’s break down the stigma surrounding mental health disorders and create an atmosphere of acceptance and understanding across our nation.
Mental health books are an incredible resource for anyone looking to understand, cope, or support others who are going through mental health challenges. They provide new perspectives, reduce stigma, help you feel less alone, and provide valuable tools for coping. Whether you’re struggling with your own mental health or just want to learn more about it, mental health books should definitely be on your reading list. So go ahead and pick up a book, you never know where it might take you on your own journey to better mental health.


I read a remarkable book last night called My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira, about a young midwife in the 1860s who wants to become a surgeon years before women were accepted into medical schools. It is not until she serves as a nurse in the American Civil War and learns the trade through overwhelming, ghastly necessity that she is eventually accepted.
It was a fascinating but increasingly difficult book to read, as page after page had descriptions of the horror and suffering of the war wounded on a scale unimaginable. Her mental images of squalid, disease ridden hospitals, where doctors had no idea that filth and squalor caused disease and infection, and where most patients died long, lingering and painful deaths are graphic and detailed, but her hero, the strong and determined Mary is a gallant, gutsy role model for everyone. Robin Oliveira’s research has obviously been meticulous, but she has not let that overwhelm decent, page-turning storytelling. I couldn’t put it down.
I had read somewhere that Louis M Alcott, the author of Little Women, had also worked as a Civil War nurse in Georgetown, D.C, where she, not surprisingly, contracted typhoid fever. It wasn’t until last night that I had some understanding of how traumatic that experience of being a nurse back then must have been, and how her whole life must have been distorted by those times.
Here are some reviews I took from Robin Olivera’s website.
MY NAME IS MARY SUTTER is a remarkable book, one of the most assured first novels I’ve read in a long, long time. Robin Oliveira brings the Civil War era vividly alive, and her heroine is a character who, once encountered, few readers will forget. Bravo!
— Ron Rash author of Serena, Saints at the River
In MY NAME IS MARY SUTTER it seems as though Robin Oliveria brought Mary Sutter back to life rather than imagined her. With her description of the Sutter home, the reader becomes a guest at the dinner table. This is a finely written novel of the medical failings and opportunities presented by the war. But it is really the story of a woman who lives her life with the passion and stubbornness needed to take her through the strains of battlefield hospital work, through her grief for family loses and the war wounded; it is the story of the extraordinary need that propels her to become a surgeon. Even in the darkest days, Mary’s enormous compassion and healing touch shine forth. Thank you so much for sharing it with me.
— Mary Gay Shipley, owner of That Bookstore in Blytheville
Oliveira’s voice is urgently compelling in its detail and so authentically pitched, she might have been transported directly from the tumult of Civil War Washington to report this story.
— Debra Dean, author of The Madonnas of Leningrad
“MY NAME IS MARY SUTTER is a magnificent Civil War epic, a saga of female liberation and a gorgeous love story. Mary Sutter’s quest to become a surgeon when women were barely allowed to be nurses is one of the great untold stories of American history. She is indomitable, fearless and captivating. From Ireland’s Corners, New York, to the over-crowded hospitals of Washington to battlefield surgeries to a meeting with Abraham Lincoln himself, Mary Sutter’s progress is gritty and passionate–a riveting read.”
— Douglas Glover, author of Elle
“There’s more than a whiff of the classic in Robin Oliveira’s charming, compulsively readable historical tale about Mary Sutter, a young midwife and aspiring physician making her way through Lincoln’s war–a new iconic American heroine.”
— Janice Lee, author of The Piano Teacher
“MY NAME IS MARY SUTTER is a powerful debut – equally compelling for its portrayal of the horrors of surgery during the Civil War as it is for its human drama. Mary Sutter is unforgettable, not just because she’s quirky, odd and persistent in her quest to be a surgeon, but also because she is alive inside anyone who knows what it is to dream.”
— Xu Xi, author of The Unwalled City
I am deeply impressed by MY NAME IS MARY SUTTER. Oliveira weaves the strands of civil war history, history of medicine into a novel with dynamic and believable characters. Mary is a wonderful heroine, with extraordinary gifts and weaknesses too. That every man is in love with her is no wonder. A thrilling debut.
— Carla Cohen, Politics and Prose Bookstore
“A vivid, dramatic novel about love, medicine, and the Civil War, MY NAME IS MARY SUTTER features an indomitable, memorable heroine whom the reader will root for until the very end.”
— David Ebershoff, author of The 19th Wife and The Danish Girl
“Historical tale among best… enthralling and well-researched debut novel…”
— Atlanta Journal Constitution
“…This impressive historical epic deserves a large readership.”
“… This unforgettable novel of the American Civil War should become a classic. I highly recommend My Name Is Mary Sutter to readers who wish to gain a better understanding of the war and its effects on those who lived through it.
— Historical Novels Review – Editors’ Choice
“…Oliveira’s scrupulously factually researched canvass allows its readers to witness through human experience the agonizingly complex relationship of disease, mutilation, death, and healing in war.”
— Journal of American Medical Association


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In our class tonight on Environmental History: “Nature, Space, and Place,” we’ll be discussing David Blackbourn’s, The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany.
Our class posts discussion points and reviews on our student-powered blog. My review of The Conquest of Nature is below, and also at this link on the class blog: Nature | Space | Place: “A Patina of Naturalness”.
Book Review: The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany, by David Blackbourn.
The Conquest of Nature, written by David Blackbourn, is a masterful work of environmental history. Published in 2006, The Conquest of Nature details the transition of Germany from a conglomeration of kingdoms in the mid 1700s into a modern nation-state. Blackbourn’s ability to marshal a wide variety of sources, from census records to works of literature, gives The Conquest of Nature a robust and weighty feel. The sheer depth of Blackbourn’s research is impressive enough, but the scope of such a national history, especially one with such dark interludes during the twentieth century, lends a sense of awe. The history of modern Germany and the country’s national identity are entangled in the landscape of the region. By examining the relationship of technology and the environment, the negotiation between people and nature, and the contemporary perceptions of geographic position in an increasingly globalized worldview, the history of Germany is shown as a story of both hope and despair, promise and sacrifice.
Rather than deriding the decisions of the past, Blackbourn is careful to understand the historical viewpoints of the German people regarding the environment. Too often the modern perspective of environmentalism has chastised historical actors for their short-sightedness and the unintended consequences which beset the present. The modern divisions of environmental space, such as urban, suburban, and rural, were not so neatly compartmentalized in the German past. The memory of the land was one of suffering, hardship, and turmoil, and only very recently, since the 1970s, has the environment been seen as an integral part of human existence rather than an enemy to be conquered.
As in David Biggs’ work on the Mekong Delta titled, Quagmire, the inhabitants of the countryside were well aware of the precariousness of their existence. Memories of wilderness were fraught with hunger, through poor agricultural yields, and deathly disease from pestilent swamps and marshes. Rivers and streams were arteries of trade and human travel, but connectivity also allowed a commingling of ecosystems. Quagmire illustrated how the Vietnamese dealt with an invasive water hyacinth, a Western byproduct of human migration, while in comparison Germans fought the Canadian water weed after it escaped the botanical gardens. Nature could be packaged and displayed in small, controlled settings, but wider environmental protection was far from the minds of Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There was no fondness or nostalgia for the natural past. Nature was forbidding and fickle, and with the positing of human control through the ideas of the Enlightenment, mastering the Rhine and taming the Oderbruch were seen as true possibilities.
However, in a time when the basic natural laws and principles were discovered in seemingly quick succession one of the most elemental, that every action has an equal and opposite reaction (Newton’s third law of motion), seemed to be forgotten. Much as in Emerald City (2007), an environmental history of Seattle by Matthew Klingle, straightened rivers focused their velocity on under-constructed dikes and banks. These rivers were fed by the mountainsides which, shorn of their trees and vegetation, channeled rain and melting ice into torrents. Germans viewed the resulting floods as a “moral judgement,” their mystical qualities expressed through the phantom ringing of church bells, often the only harbinger of impending destruction (Blackbourn, 127). The inability to see cause and effect through environmental activities focused theories on the supernatural, instead of the interconnectedness of ecosystems. Environmental change was beyond the normal scope of human activity, centering instead on a generational, centennial, or even greater timescale.
The religious aspects of the environment were apparent in the biblical qualities of natural disasters, and also in the perception of human intervention. Through literary works, Blackbourn discussed the historical viewpoints of untainted nature, that areas without a human presence were seen as a “garden of Eden” (Blackbourn, 73). This, however, proposed a defeatist position regarding the negotiation between humankind and nature, for as Blackbourn states: “When we write about human impact on the natural world, we should recognize that we are dealing with the interaction of two dynamic systems” (Blackbourn, 74). This is not a point at which to completely release history from the faults of greed and ill-conceived plans, it is instead a reconciliation of humankind’s limitations and potential. The nostalgia for an arbitrary point in a more perfect past, or a cultural amnesia which ignores the long history of people and the natural world only leads away from a more productive and healthier future.
Blackbourn’s environmental history shows that Germans have been divided from Europe, divided between themselves, and divided from nature, but none of these relationships were entirely separated. With the advent of the telegraph and the steamship, technology compressed both time and space highlighting and strengthening these divisions, but never severing them from one another. The period of National Socialism and the horrors of the Nazi regime were built on the collective memories of a “green” and verdant Germany. Conquering nature also meant conquering the people that made the land their home, but such an intense desire for control also coincided with an even greater fear of uncertainty. The Conquest of Nature illustrates how the road to “German racial superiority” was also littered with “German anxiety” (Blackbourn, 322).
The Conquest of Nature is an environmental history, but it is also the story of the German people. Geography was no longer “destiny,” but in breaking free of the restrictions of place and space through technology, the certainty of geography was eroded as well (Blackbourn, 176). Blackbourn has not only used the environment as a lens with which to understand modern Germany, but he has shown how the development of a modern nation-state shaped, and was itself shaped by, the very land on which it stands.


Edinburgh Branch Seminar
This paper examines the claim that gossip is damaging to individuals and disruptive to the ethical life of educational institutions.
A rough delineation of gossip and small talk is offered and the suggestion is advanced that gossip, in its disrespect for the lives and experiences of other people, strikes at the heart of moral life: for this reason it should be avoided by individuals and proscribed by professional codes of conduct.
In the rest of the paper a discussion of five examples suggests that rather than a blanket prohibition a more nuanced approach to gossip is more beneficial for the ethical life of an educational institution. The five examples move the discussion away from black and white certainties to highlight the ethical grey areas in which teachers have to operate daily. In this way the immediate topic of this paper, gossip, works as a lens to focus on its underlying concern, the ethical complexities of a teacher’s professional life.
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Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Dalmatia Fotije
THE WORD OF GOD IN THE LIFE
AND MISSION OF THE CHURCH
Allow me to begin my short exposition on the Holy Scripture with the words of great Church father – St. John Chrysostom, great and spirit-bearing interpreter of the Holy Scripture, who commented and interpreted almost all Books of the Old, as well as of the New Testament. He says: “Holy Scripture is a way and who gets off it, he goes astray.” Furthermore, trying to reach its deeper meaning and to extend the previous statement, he says: “The Prophets and Divine Law were nothing but fairy tales and dummy stories for the rich man (Lk. 16, 19), but when he moved down to hell, he realized everything.” Through these statements, St. John emphasises that the way to salvation is being revealed in the Holy Scripture, because the Law and Old Testament Prophets, as well as New Testament Gospels, bring us to the Incarnated Word and Logos Jesus Christ (Jn. 1, 1). On the other hand, the story about unreasonable rich man (Lk. 16, 19) clearly shows that academic understanding of the Holy Scripture does not bring salvation. The Holy Scripture saves only “those who hear the word of God and keep it” (Lk. 11, 28).
According to the doctrine of the Holy Scripture, written word of Truth has eternal and unchangeable meaning, since our God Jesus Christ said that “heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away” (Mt. 24, 35). Generally speaking, the Holy Scripture characterizes this world as reality which is “in the power of the evil one” (1. Jn. 5, 19). Thus, this can especially be applied to the modern world, founded on innumerable innocent victims, numerous and diverse anarchy, where the ground, sodden with blood of the righteous, yearns for the righteousness of God (Rom. 1, 17). Therefore, being the one and only word that can give truthful hope, honest consolation and divine peace, salvific Word is something that modern man and mankind mostly need.
Interpreting the Books of the Old and New Testament, many Church Fathers underlined the baleful phenomenon of academic understanding of divine Law, faith and the Holy Scripture. Such knowledge neither brings man to God in ancient times, nor does it today. Academic understanding of words and spirit of the Holy Scripture keeps the faith of people on “their lips” (Mk. 7, 6), while in their hearts there is no place for God “to lay His head” (Lk. 9, 58). What this modern world indispensably need are truthful witnesses (martyrs) of the Holy Scripture - as live and authentic doctrine of Resurrection – whose lives witness the reality of the Holy Scripture. Their lives are inspired by the Holy Spirit, so their ministry is not “the code that kills” (2. Cor. 3, 6), but word that resurrects, transforms and creates a new man in Christ.
In The Second Epistle of Saint Apostle Peter (2. Pet. 3, 16) is said that the divine wisdom written in the Holy Scripture is hard to understand and that many people twist it to their own destruction. In that way St. Apostle Peter clearly draws our attention to the appearance of heretics in the period of early Church. On the other hand, he points out the inevitable need that Word of God in the Holy Scripture has to be interpreted by the Holy Spirit and through the Holy Spirit (1. Pet. 1, 12). Therefore, following the Orthodox Tradition, interpretation of the Holy Scripture has always been based on inspired patristic teachings. God raised Church fathers in this world to be “the light of the world” and “a city set on a hill” (Mt. 5, 14); their god-inspired explanations of the Holy Scripture reveal the most profound mystery of Faith “into which even angles long to look” (1. Pet. 1, 12).
Today we speak about the general problem of the world’s secularization and obvious domination of materialism upon spiritual values. Our Saint Apostles and god-bearing Church fathers guard the biblical interpretation of the salvific Word of God, thus preventing it to be defiled by this temptation of secularization. Therefore, Apostles and Church Fathers wrote and preached the Word of the Holy Scripture, that we can live and walk on this narrow path of salvation through that knowledge. St. Athanasius the Great - the teacher of the Church - says that the Holy Scripture is given to us through Church only because of our salvation, and not because of human knowledge, nor philosophy.
According to the gospel parable of the sower (Mt. 13, 18), all those who sometimes in their lives hear the word of God, can be divided into four groups. Firstly, there are those who have heart of stone. In their hearts the gospel seed can not grow, since the Satan, and not God, is the one who rules over them. The second type are those people who are unstable in virtue; and when they hear the Word of God, they receive it with joy, but they accept neither the cross, nor tribulation or persecution on account of the Word. The third group are those people who worship everything that is of this world; they are imprisoned in greed and ostentation, so the Word, being choked, proves unfruitful. Only the fourth group of people is compared with fertile gospel ground; when they hear the Word of God, they understand it “and yield, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty” (Mt. 13, 8). This parable of the sower illustrates “the tragedy of human freedom”. Freedom is an immense Divine gift, that every man can abuse, and instead of life in that God-given freedom (like, for example, Adam’s life), he voluntary becomes “a slave to sin” (Jn. 8, 34). Regardless of the importance and clarity of this story, Church must always remember the words of St. Apostle Paul (1. Cor. 9, 16): “Woe to me”, and to all of us, “if I do not preach” the Word of God, i.e. the Holy Scripture, irrespective of one will accept it or not.
Mission of the Church and expansion of the Word of God, i.e. the Holy Scripture, is a commandment that Apostles received from our Lord Jesus Christ: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit” (Mt. 28, 19). This commandment lasts even today and will last until the end of the world and its history. Preaching the Word of God is even connected with apocalyptic prophecy about the Second Coming, that is to happen after the preach of the Word of God in the cities of Israel (Mt. 11, 1).
According to St. Symeon the New Theologian, the Holy Scripture is a written Living word of the Living God, which is “salt and light of the world” (Mt. 5, 14). The most profound internal and spiritual meaning of the Holy Scripture is being revealed in its fullness through the life and Holy Liturgy. Being the Kingdom of God that is to come, the Holy Liturgy, according to the words of our Lord, is something that we have “to seek first”, and all other “things shall be our as well” (Mt. 6, 33). The Holy Scripture reveals that salvific dialogue between God and man and man and God, as the Blessed Augustine says: “Through prayer we talk with God, but in the Holy Scripture God talks with us.”
I would like to end this short exposition about salvific Word of God, written in the Holy Scripture and proclaimed to all nations of all times, with the words of Saint Abba Justin of Chelije: “Are you sad – the Holy Scripture will give you consolation; if you are sorrowful – joy; if you are angry - peace; if you are lascivous - chastity; if you are unwise – wisdom; if you are evil – goodness; if you are villain – grace and justice; if you do not have love – charity. In it (the Holy Scripture), you will find cure for all your vices and flaws, as well as for all strength for enduring in all your virtues and efforts.”


There is a new project that will map and archive both historical and contemporary arts and culture across the African continent – the Cultural Encyclopedia. Created by Nana Oforiatta-Ayim, the Encyclopedia will be the first of its kind, unravelling the beauties of the diverse African cultures and their histories.
Nana Oforiatta-Ayim is a Ghanaian writer, filmmaker and art historian, who has been working on this venture for three years ever since she first conceptualised it in 2009. The idea came about during her Ph.D. studies when she did research on African languages and cultures at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She explains that she would go to the underground library vaults and find intriguing theses which were so valuable yet stored and forgotten. A recollection she had was the theses based on the technology of kente cloth. Ms. Oforiatta-Ayim realised that these stories of innovation that took place in Africa were never told. This is when she saw the need to become the story teller of both historical and contemporary arts and culture across Africa through the Cultural Encyclopedia.
The Cultural Encyclopedia will be online, including an open-source platform for documenting past, present and future African arts and culture and will eventually be published in 54 volumes, for each country. Starting in Ghana, various art will be captured. The aim of the Cultural encyclopedia is to change perceptions of the continent and help alleviate the frustration of African cultural producers concerned that their rich histories have been lost or forgotten over the decades because they lack good archives.
A writer and poet who is editing the literature section of the Ghana volume, Nana Boateng, struggled to find Ghanian poetry on the internet which emphasised the lack of exposure the poets and artists received despite the superior quality of their work. Nana Boateng stated, “To have an encyclopedia that will be a reference point for generations is exciting. We are giving ourselves the opportunity to learn from what has already happened and build on it.”
The Cultural Encyclopedia project also has physical exhibitions like the one that took place I central Accra, which coincided with the 60th anniversary of Ghana’s independence. The exhibition included historical photographs of the country’s formation and videos and objects that were previously collected in Accra. Nana Oforiatta-Ayim refers to the Cultural Encyclopedia as the moving museum due to these physical exhibitions.
David Adjaye, a British-Ghanaian architect who designed the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washignton, and a wrote a book about his experiences travelling throughout Africa raised a valid point, saying, “because actually East Africans don’t know about West Africans’ culture, and West Africans don’t know about North Africans’ culture, and North Africans don’t know about Southern Africans’ culture.”
Through the Cultural Encyclopedia, Africans will be able to learn about the diverse cultures from their neighbouring African countries, uniting artists and traditionalists across Africa.


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Converting legacy jails to ezjail
I've been following the steps on the main page to migrate some old legacy
jails into the ezjail framework.
So far so good..however :
'There is a chance that your binaries require some of the libraries in its
old base system. If they don't, you can remove OLDBASE, if they do, use
the following snippet to create the old libs.
... Code to come ;) ... '
Local package initialization:/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object
"libc.so.6" not found, required by "basename"
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libcrypt.so.3" not found, required by
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libcrypto.so.4" not found, required
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.5" not found, required by
oops - looks like I'm bumping in that problem.
Any hints on the 'code to come' part? I'd really like to fully migrate
them into ezjail.