EPRDF, Tesfaye Habisso and the 99.6 percent plagiarism By Abebe Gellaw
It is extremely unlikely for identical twins, let alone an Ethiopian ‘diplomat’ and a British born South African scholar who have never met in their entire lives, to write a 15-page long academic paper in exactly the same way, using the same language, words, sentences, paragraphs, data, titles…commas and full-stops. It may be a miracle but the impossible has happened.
A couple of days ago, someone sent out an email that suggested that Mr. Tesfaye Habisso, former high-ranking official and Ethiopian Ambassador to Uganda and South Africa under the Meles regime, may have committed plagiarism.
As a journalist, I decided to investigate the veracity of the allegation and get to the bottom of this bizarre incidence. Despite the fact that Mr. Habisso is widely known as one of the most dubious apologists of the tyrannical regime in Ethiopia, he always tried to hide behind intellectual sophistry. In the past few years, he has graced pro-tyranny websites such as Aigaforum, Tigray Online and Ethiopia First. Whatever the case may be, before claiming that anyone has committed such a despicable act of intellectual piracy, facts must be established. The first task is to compare the two papers word by word, sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph. They are almost identical! There isn’t a shadow of doubt that Dr. Colin Darcch is the author of the scholarly paper entitled, “The Ethiopian Student Movement in the Struggle against Imperialism, 1960-1974.”
After thoroughly investigating the case, I contacted both authors who incidentally happened to write an identical academic paper on the Ethiopian student movement.
The first author, Dr. Colin Darch, was born and educated in England. According to his Linkedin profile, he got a Bachelor of Arts degree in English studies at Oxford University in 1965. In 1994 he went to the United States where he obtained the Associate of the Library Association (ALA) from Northwestern Polytechnic School of Librarianship. He received his Ph.D. from University of Bradford, England, in Social and Economic Analysis. Currently a senior information specialist at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where he is a naturalized citizen; he describes himself as: “South African academic librarian, lecturer and researcher with extensive experience in African countries and in Brazil.” In addition to his mother tongue, English, he speaks Portuguese and Russian. He is interested in copyright, intellectual property and the sociology of information access rights in the South. He has written extensively on a variety of issues and authored a few books including A Soviet View of Africa.
I emailed Dr. Darch a brief note and the online links of both academic papers. I wanted to know whether the paper in question was authored by him or Ambassador Habisso. He replied quickly, in less than two hours. He wrote:
Dear Ato Abebe,
How fascinating. I am the only author of the paper. I worked in Ethiopia, at the then Haile Sellassie I University, as Associate University Librarian, from 1970 to 1974, and experienced the events on campus during that period. I then moved to the University of Dar es Salaam and wrote the paper in question for the East African Social Sciences conference, which in those years rotated around Nairobi, Kampala and Dar es Salaam. Somewhere I still have the original mimeo copy of the paper, which was hard to scan and full of typographical mistakes. Ato Tesfaye – who is completely unknown to me – is therefore guilty of plagiarism [emphasis mine]. Incidentally, I wonder if Ato Tesfaye knows Russian – I mention several Russian sources specifically, and am the author of the book A Soviet View of Africa, which is a study of Tsarist and Soviet writings on the Horn of Africa. I should be interested to hear what Ato Tesfaye has to say for himself.
Please keep in touch, and thanks for the heads-up.
Written in 1976, Dr. Colin Darch’s paper, “The Ethiopian Student Movement in the Struggle against Imperialism, 1960-1974” was based on his personal observation and the research he conducted. Dr. Darch presented his paper at the 12th Annual Social Science Conference of the East African Universities held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in December 1976. A book lover and writer, Dr. Darch re-edited and republished his paper in 2002 on his website, www.colindarch.info, which he uses as a repository for his writings. The paper is still accessible online at this url: http://www.colindarch.info/docs/19761222_Ethiopian_student_movement.pdf .
At the other end of the authorship scale perches Ambassador Habisso, who published his academic paper, “The Ethiopian Student Movement and the Struggle Against [sic] Feudal Monarchy and Imperialism, 1960-1974’” in 2009 on one of TPLF-sponsored websites, EPRDF-Supporters Forum, www.eprdf-sf.org. The forum is led by one of the loudest cheerleaders and apologists of the TPLF regime, a certain Mekonnen Kassa.
The note from the publisher reads: “This is a document that is written with a lot of love, care and it is based on references and facts. I suggest everyone to read it and remember how Ethiopia is freed from a feudal monarchy and imperialism. Read more and pass it over to friends.”
Mr. Habisso came to public prominence in 1991. He was one of the ethnic party leaders that joined the fanfare of the TPLF-led transitional government. A founder of the Kenbata People’s Congress, he was appointed Secretary General of the Council of Representatives of the Transitional Government of Ethiopia (1991-1994).
In an interview with a blog, Hambaricho, Mr. Tesfaye Habisso said that he was born and raised in Begedamo, Kembata, which is located in Southern Ethiopia. According to his own account, he was a student at the then Haile Selassie I University from 1965 to 1969.
By the time Dr. Darch got employed at the same university in 1971, Mr. Habisso had already left college and joined civil service. One of the most important sentences Mr. Habisso redacted from Dr. Darch’s paper says: “The present writer was employed at the university between February 1971 and March 1975, and was an eyewitness to many of the events described between these dates.”
I contacted both writers separately. The only thing I wanted from Mr. Habisso was a confirmation from him that he was indeed the author of the scholarly paper in question. I emailed him the following:
Dear Mr. Habisso, I read your fascinating paper, “The Ethiopian Student Movement and the Struggle against Feudal Monarchy and Imperialism.” It is wonderfully written and very engaging. I should thank you for preserving and capturing this momentous piece of our history. Thank you so much again.
I was certain that Mr. Habisso would not reply at all. But he proved me wrong with a quick reply.
Great thanks for your kind remarks. We cannot, and should not, forget the immense sacrifices of the Ethiopian students of the yesteryears who selflessly and relentlessly struggled to realize a better livable Ethiopia for succeeding generations. Thanks again. Stay well.
I wanted to stretch the conversation further before I posed the most difficult question. And yet, my second email was enough to indicate the pun in the content. I suggested to him that he should expand on his paper and make it a book.
Dear Mr. Tesfaye, Thank you so much for your reply. Your scholarly paper, Ethiopian Student Movement and the Struggle against Feudal Monarchy and Imperialism covers the time between 1960 to 1974. I wish you would also write the second sequel, from1974 to 1991. In fact, if you also write the third part from 1991 to date, it can definitely make a great book. What do you think?
Thank you so much again for this enlightening work.
To my surprise, Mr. Habisso tried not to sound suspicious given the fact that he only changed the name of the real author and took ownership of Dr. Darch’s work. He replied:
That is a great idea that requires a great research endeavour but worth taking the initiative. Let me reflect upon it for a while. Thanks for the novel idea and interest. Bye
What I was certain was the fact that Mr. Habisso has indeed contributed three words, “feudal monarchy and”, to the original title. That is the most noticeable contribution he has made to the entire academic paper, not to mention his name in the byline.
As a matter of fact, Mr. Habisso has also redacted three significant sentences that could have given clues to readers as to the identity of the real author. Another conspicuous feature of Mr. Habisso’s paper is that EPRDF-Supporters Forum has delightfully embraced and endorsed the stolen intellectual property. At the bottom of every page, it reads, “Copyright 2008-2009. All rights reserved.” By doing so, EPRDF has given copyright protection to Mr. Habisso’s “work”. Moreover, the flags of the nine ethnic “federal states” have been watermarked on the pages. As weird as the whole travesty, the nine federal states seem to have put their seal of approval by waving their flags on Mr. Habisso’s “intellectual property”.
Unlike the original copy, Mr. Habisso’s paper is not 15-page long but contains 21 pages. This is not because Mr. Habisso contributed a few more sentences, paragraphs or ideas. He added almost nothing, not a single sentence. He just took ownership of the whole thing without compromising its originality. To their credit, the publishers and the new author, His Excellency Mr. Ambassador Tesfaye Habisso, reformatted the paper and changed the font size, maybe to make it appear more visible and appealing to the eye.
Dr. Darch clearly stated right below the title when and where the academic paper was presented. Mr. Habisso thought that this sentence was totally unnecessary as he did not make an effort to travel all the way to Tanzania in 1979 to present and discuss his paper with other intellectuals from East Africa Universities. The smart diplomat got a tech-savvy shortcut, finished the hack job in a few minutes and sent his paper electronically to his masters at Aigaforum and EPRDF. Mr. Habisso performed his magic from the comfort of his armchair.
In the first paragraph, Dr. Darch wrote:
“Until 1974 radical commentators did not generally regard Ethiopia as an important arena in the struggle against repression, backwardness and neo-colonialism. For one thing, the old regime was very successful at projecting a progressive image abroad. The Emperor’s self-assumed role as heroic resister against Fascism, supporter of liberation movements, patron of the OAU and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, and benevolent ruler of his people was shown to have been an anomaly only by the popular revolt of 1974. The attempted cover-up of the famine in Wollo Province at a time when the old regime was prepared to spend millions of Ethiopian dollars on the showcase celebrations of the OAU’s tenth anniversary revealed the bankruptcy of the Ethiopian political system to the world, and contributed to the overthrow of the imperial Ethiopian government in a step-by-step army coup that lasted from February to September. The degeneracy of the Ethiopian land-owning and capitalist class was so advanced that the Provisional Military Administrative Council (the Dergue) was able to edge Haile Sellassie from his throne with startling ease, and with virtually no organized opposition. Much of the credit for the anti-monarchic and anti-feudal popular mood that made this coup possible must go to the Ethiopian student movement, which had been in the vanguard of the struggle for a progressive Ethiopia for fifteen years.”
There is no need of repeating what the second scholar, H.E Mr. Tesfaye Habisso, has written in his academic paper simply because it is the same thing from start to finish. Let us, however, examine a very interesting bibliographic note Mr. Habisso wrote:
“Most of the economic data in this study have been drwan [sic] from Assefa Bequele and Eshetu Chole (A profile of the Ethiopian economy [Addis Ababa: Oxford University Press, 1969]), which paints a bleak picture of the situation in the early 1960s. Data on education have also been taken from the Ministry of Information pamphlet Ethiopia today: education (Addis Ababa, 1973). It is fair to assume that the Ministry’s enrolment figures were exaggerated for propaganda purposes, but they were still so low that comment is superfluous.
“I have in addition used several documents issued by the former Haile Sellassie I University, including A forward look: a special report from the president (Addis Ababa, 1969); Office of the Registrar, Student data 1963/4-1973/4 (Addis Ababa, s.d.); The President’s Report (Addis Ababa, annual); and a series of circulars, memoranda and resolutions issued by the university authorities, by various faculty bodies, and by USUAA from 1969 to 1974. My descriptions of events from 1971 to 1974 are also based on personal observation and on conversations with eye-witnesses.”
That is exactly what Dr. Darch also penned in his paper. That means the two authors were doing the same thing at Haile Sellassie I University in the 1970s despite the fact that Mr. Habisso left the university in 1969. Here is what Dr. Darch’s paper says: “Most of the economic data in this study have been drwan from Assefa Bequele and Eshetu Chole (A profile of the Ethiopian economy [Addis Ababa: Oxford University Press, 1969]), which paints a bleak picture of the situation in the early 1960s….” Everything is the same including the spelling mistake. Both of them have spelt drawn as “drwan.” Bekele is not also spelt in the usual Ethiopian way. It is a truly amazing coincidence!
After examining the two papers, I have concluded that H.E. Mr. Tesfaye Habisso did not properly read Dr. Darch’s paper, let alone taking part in the researching and writing process, which is obviously a daunting task. What Mr. Habisso did was recklessly and willfully copied the whole write-up, just like a photocopy machine, and then changed the byline from “Colin Darch” to “Tesfaye Habisso”. He should have done a much smarter job than stealing an honest account of the Ethiopian student movement by a foreign scholar.
When Hambaricho blog pressed Mr. Habisso to give an honest answer on the dubious death of his Kembata People’s Congress, he was very incensed. “What I mentioned to you regarding the KPC is what I know and only what I know, no politicking, no diplomatic niceties. If you have any other more reliable source of information, then, you stick to it but never question my integrity and honesty, please. OK?”
Ok! But H.E Mr. Ambassador Tesfaye Habisso should now stand up to defend his scholarly thesis, which he boldly and shamelessly posted on the World Wide Web as his own. What is at stake is his integrity and honesty.
When the TPLF declared 99.6 percent election victory last year, Mr. Habisso came out to endorse the election result in its entirety despite the fact that honest foreign observers rejected it as a tyrannical farce. Despite all that, Mr. Habisso wrote: “The victory was comprehensive and decisive resulting in the largest electoral margin in Ethiopia’s election history since its transition to a democratic political system in 1991.”
Mr. Habisso’s 99.6 percent plagiarism is certainly as fraudulent as EPRDF’s 99.6 election victory. As the old African adage goes – the witness of a rat is another rat.
Tesfaye Habisso, The Ethiopian Student Movement and the Struggle Against the Feudal Monarchy and Imperialism, 1960-1974.
or a republished copy on Addis Voice
Dr. Colin Darch, The Ethiopian Student Movement in the Struggle against Imperialism, 1960-1974
Hambaricho, Interview with Ambassador Tesfaye Habisso
Colin Darch, Linkedin profile


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The Arduino Cookbook, by Michael Margolis
When you first begin hacking with Arduino, as I recently have, you will most likely spend the first few weeks scouring the Internet for information. The Arduino system is so cheap, powerful, and flexible that you will immediately think of a million things to do with it. This can be a problem. Not only do many of us lack the time to build every project we've dreamt up, but using just the web for information is problematic. The docs on Arduino.cc are great for introductory topics but I quickly found my self at its limits. As a software guy I need to know not only about Arduino itself, but sensors, components, 3rd party libraries, and power systems. In short, I need a complete electronics background to fully use my Arduino board. That's where the Arduino Cookbook comes in.
The second edition of Arduino Cookbook, by Michael Margolis, was recently published by O'Reilly. In my opinion this is the best one stop shopping source for Arduino information. It is not a pure introductory tome, though the first chapters do give you a quick review of Arduino to keep you up to date. The bulk of the book is organized around functional topics; things you would actually want to *do* with your Arduino.
The first few chapters cover the Arduino language, math, serial IO, and basic switches. Though it was not hard for me to pick up the Arduino language (essentially a simplified C++), these chapters covered a lot of finer details I had missed when reading the online docs. Each chapter is structured as a series of how-tos such as "Shifting Bits" and "Using a Switch Without External Resistors".
Later chapters cover specific topics like Getting Input from Sensors, Physical Output, Audio Output, and Wireless Communication. I really like that each how-to section not only shows you how to complete the task at hand but also gives you background into what is really going on. This is especially useful when you reach advanced topics like driving motors. The book gives a background of different kinds of motors, how they work, and how they are controlled before diving into specific tasks. This structure gives you a great electronics primer as you learn the ins and outs of Arduino.
If you buy only one book on Arduino, make it this one. It gives you everything you need to get the most out of your hacking endeavors.
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Chapter 4 – Choosing a power technique
Only the second floor and above held literature pertaining to martial study. The library pavilion was altogether divided into five floors: inside the first floor were some books for people to read in their free time, inside the second floor were some basic, elementary martial techniques, inside the third floor were intermediate martial techniques, inside the fourth floor, were advanced martial techniques; and finally the top floor, the fifth floor held the Yi Yuan school’s few number of Xiantian level martial techniques.
After all these years, Ye Xiwen did not even know the name of this old man, everyone simply called him Elder Mo. Although his identity was unknown, he was still a senior inside the Yi Yuan school, thus every time Ye Xiwen saw him, he was very respectful towards Elder Mo.
“Oh, youngster Ye is here? What book did you come to read? A piece of classical history, or perhaps geography?” Elder Mo, putting down his book, remarked with a friendly and amiable smile. His impression of Ye Xiwen was not bad at all. Not only modest and polite, but more importantly, people who were willing to spend time and calm their minds by reading nowadays were very few. The younger generation all seemed to be extremely rash and impatient.
“Elder Mo, I am here today to borrow a book pertaining to martial arts,” Ye Xiwen declared.
“Martial arts?” Elder Mo’s eyes flashed an indescribable radiance, “You crossed to the fourth stage?”
“Not bad, not bad, hahaha!” Elder Mo laughed heartily without restraint, truly treating Ye Xiwen as a nephew.
“Since you came here to choose a martial technique, never forget that on the path of studying martial arts you must by all means avoid being greedy, thus you must make sure that the technique you choose is compatible with you, for your own good.” Elder Mo replied. Although, he would say that to every disciple who came here to choose secret books. With Ye Xiwen, he was actually exceptionally serious.
Many young people, when they first start out always want to learn this and that, were unable to pay attention to a single topic. Some people were even led to believe themselves of exceptionally high natural talent, and would be able to learn everything. The outcome of these attempts could only be said to be akin to trying to paint a tiger but ending up with a dog, barely learning anything with that kind of superficial mindset. In their case, they were much worse than the disciples who wisely chose to specialize in one specific martial art in their sect.
“Many thanks for Elder Mo’s reminder, this youngster will definitely keep it in mind!” Ye Xiwen believed Elder Mo’s words to be very deep and correct, and furthermore bowed deeply to express thanks.
Practicing martial arts was like reading a book. It was impossible to reach the heavens in a single bound. You could not master an art simply by practicing it once, nor could you gain everything a book had to offer by simply reading through it once. Before, when reading, Ye Xiwen’s policy was to absorb everything he possibly could from the book before starting to read a new one. Like this, it may be possible for others to finish several books in the time that it takes Ye Xiwen to finish one. However, at the same time Ye Xiwen’s understanding and comprehension would be much greater and more meaningful than those who chose to rush through their books.
“Well, this old man won’t say anymore, go in and take a look.” Elder Mo waved his hand, laid on his rocking chair, picked up his book and started to read once more.
Ye Xiwen entered into the library pavilion. He had long before already concluded that this Elder Mo’s identity was deep and immeasurable. What kind of place was the Yi Yuan school’s library pavilion? How could they casually send out any old man to protect it without any other guards at all? it However, since Ye Xiwen was anxious to find out about this world’s state of affairs, every time he came and went, he would not pay much attention to the old man. As a result, he never did inspect Elder Mo’s cultivation very closely. However, looking now, he still appeared to be the same ordinary old man, but how could an ordinary old man possibly be sent to over to protect the library pavilion all by himself? This indicated only one possibility, that the high ranking elders in the Yi Yuan sect placed a great deal of trust in Elder Mo, and that Elder Mo’s strength was so high to the degree that Ye Xiwen was simply unable to discern it right now.
In addition, it was easy to presume that he was a considerably important elder, but then why would he, an important elder with a high status, be willing to guard over the library pavilion? Even though the library pavilion in the Yi Yuan school was a very important place, in the end it didn’t have much real power.
But Ye Xiwen did not think too much about it. In any case, he was not an enemy. On the contrary, Elder Mo had an unusually good opinion of him.
The Yi Yuan school’s library pavilion’s collection of books were many, but neatly organized and categorically put away. Among the many categories, foundation and Xiantian level martial arts had the least amount of books, the reason being that Xiantian level martial techniques were hard to obtain, and not many foundation level techniques were needed. Fist techniques, palm techniques, leg techniques, having a few of these techniques would be just fine. After all, they were merely used for building your foundation. Genuinely confronting an enemy in the future, the probability of using foundation martial arts was very low. Even when strengthening your body you would not use them a lot.
For foundation martial arts, grasping just a few would be just fine, nothing more than just a few sword foundation techniques or fist foundation techniques or the like.
Therefore, Ye Xiwen’s sights were set mainly towards the elementary martial techniques. Among the elementary martial techniques, the one that he remembered the most vividly was without a doubt the Rushing Thunder Hand, due to his elder brother, Ye Feng, cultivating the Rushing Thunder Hand before. The Rushing Thunder Hand had left a deep, profound impression on Ye Xiwen. The technique’s maximum speed was quick, extraordinarily quick, and the power was also extraordinarily great. Though it may be only an elementary martial technique, by practicing it to an extremely fine level, the power that this technique could exhibit was nothing like the power of an elementary martial technique. Those who practiced the Rushing Thunder Hand to the pinnacle would have every punch trigger nine rumbling thunder sounds, this was the Nine Rushed Thundering Echoes.
Ye Xiwen did not linger on the first floor, and directly went up to the second floor, only seeing a thin visible membrane on the staircase between the second and first floor. Ye Xiwen penetrated through, only feeling a slight resistance obstructing him, but overall he still went up very smoothly.
Ye Xiwen knew that this membrane was specifically placed here to prevent those disciples who had not yet reached the Houtian fourth stage but insisted on learning techniques. Although he came up with no difficulty, Ye Xiwen knew that this membrane was ingeniously designed. Those having the Houtian fourth stage or higher would not be impeded. Those without the strength of the Houtian fourth stage could not go up no matter what.
Ye Xiwen was very interested in the Rushing Thunder Hand technique and quickly found it. Looking at it’s description, the technique’s greatest characteristic was without a doubt its unbreakable speed.
Ye Xiwen set his heart on learning this technique. Opening the Rushing Thunder Hand secret manuscript and memorising the contents. The secret books and manuscripts inside the library pavilion were not allowed to be taken out, but you could copy it. Ye Xiwen did not bring over a pen and paper, but memorising was also permitted. Even if you did copy everything from the manuscript, you would still have to memorize all the content later on while practicing the technique. Therefore many people simply chose to memorize the contents of the manuals while they were there.
In less than half an hour Ye Xiwen memorised the book so thoroughly that he could recite every word from it. Afterwards, he put down the Rushing Thunder Hand secret manual. He didn’t continue to read, instead went down the stairs and exited out of the library pavilion.
Elder Mo was still leisurely looking at the ancient book. Seeing Ye Xiwen come out, he smiled and said: “Did you choose well?”
Ye Xiwen nodded and spoke: “En, this youngster chose the “Rushing Thunder Hand”!”
“Rushing Thunder Hand?” That secret manuscript is pretty good.” Elder Mo said, “The power of that technique is also not bad at all. Only, it is a palm technique manuscript. You must find an opportunity to choose a weaponry secret manuscript, otherwise when you are fighting with people you will more or less suffer!”
“En!” Ye Xiwen nodded.
“If you want to specialise cultivating other palm or fist techniques and the like, at the very least cultivate the ‘Rushing Thunder Hand’ to produce six echoes or more. A variety of martial arts are not equal to a specialised one. The truth of biting off more than you can chew, I think you know.”
“Many thanks for Elder Mo’s pointers!” Ye Xiwen said, “If there’s nothing else this youngster will be off first!”
“You may go!” Elder Mo looked at Ye Xiwen and declared, immediately proceeding to read his ancient yellowing book again, laying on his rocking chair with a relaxed appearance just like before, paying no more attention to Ye Xiwen.
Ye Xiwen knew the old elder was always like this. Not taking offense, he turned around and returned to his courtyard.


Various careers can be considered when you are in love with the world of literature. You can be an author and writes various books, for example. Or, if you prefer to be able to read extensively, becoming a librarian is a sound choice. Unfortunately, being a good reader does not automatically mean that you can do your job as librarian successfully. There are a lot of things that you need to learn if you want to become a good librarian beyond being an avid reader.
To understand the nature of this job better, it is better to know two categories of skills expected in a librarian: personality and technical skills. Mastering both skill categories will help you immensely in the long run. Personality skills encompass your personal interest in developing your ability as librarian and how to interact well with others. Meanwhile, technical skills are more related to day to day operations in a library.
Skills that are considered in personality categories include analytical skill, innovative skill, and interpersonal skill. As a librarian, you need to solve problems in your profession with clear mind. You also need to be able to come up with new innovations so that your library will thrive forward, especially in this digital age. The interpersonal skill is also pivotal because you have to interact with many people (visitors and colleagues) on daily basis.
Personality skills are more innate just as the name implies. It is believed that people need to be born with them and up to certain level such statement might be true. However, it does not mean that you cannot cultivate them. There are some exercises that come with experience of working in the field. Because of that, if someone aims to be a librarian, it will be better to start as early as possible. If you are still a student, you can apply for part time job in local library to gain experience in this particular field. Such experience will help you in your future career.
Talking about technical skills is more complicated also less obscure than the personality skills. Book circulation management, browsing tools, bibliographic programs, as well as record system are included in this skill category. Those skills are something that you need to be educated in http://184.108.40.206. They also require continuous practice to make them ingrained in your head. Because current library system incorporates digital technology, you need to focus on that. Digital technology makes your task as librarian simple, but you need to master it properly to gain its full benefits.
Library study is a major that focuses specifically on library system. You will learn about the technical skills required to become a good librarian from that major. Just like any college level study, usually it will take around four years to complete that degree. In addition to studying this subject in college, you can also take certifications in certain library-related skills.


After escaping from Yomi, Izanagi-no-mikoto did a misogi at Awakihara, in Odo in Tachibana in Himuka in Tsukushi, to wash off the kegare of Yomi.
First, when he took of what he was wearing, 12 gods were born from the clothing. Tsukitatsufunato-no-kami was born from his cane, Michinonagachiha-no-kami was born from his belt, Tokihakashi-no-kami was born from his bag, Wazurahinoushi-no-kami was born from his gown, Chimata-no-kami was born from his hakama, Akiguinoushi-no-kami was born from his crown, Okizakaru-no-kami, Okitsunagisabiko-no-kami and Okitsukaibera-no-kami was born from the tamaki of his left hand and Hezakaru-no-kami, Hetsunagisabiko-no-kami and Hetsukaibera-no-kami was born from the tamaki of his right hand.
Then Izanagi-no-mikoto said that the upstream of the river is flowing too fast but the downstream is too slow, and bathed in the midstream of the river. When he bathed in the water, two gods of calamity, Yasomagatsuhi-no-kami and Ōmagatsuhi-no-kami emerged from the kegare, and also, three gods correcting calamity, Kaminaobi-no-kami, Ōnaobi-no-kami and Izunome were born too. Then, when he purified himself at the bottom of the river, Sokotsutsunō-no-kami and Sokotsuwatatsumi-no-kami were born. When he purified himself at the middle of the river, Nakatsutsunō-no-kami and Nakatsuwatatsumi-no-kami were born, and at the surface, Uwatsutsunō-no-kami and Uwatsuwatatsumi-no-kami were born.
The three gods, Watatsumi-no-kami are worshipped as an ancestral god by Azumi-no-muraji, who are the descendants of Utsushihikanasaku-no-mikoto a child of Watatsumi-no-kami. Sokotsutsunō-no-kami, Nakatsutsunō-no-kami and Uwatsutsunō-no-kami are the Suminoe-no-mimae-no-ōkami


Come join in on the fun and join our CAL group. Croch-Eh CAL Group
The winner for June’s Croch-Eh CAL is the Wizard and Dragon! ❤
The pattern comes with instructions to make the Wizard and Dragon so you can choose to make either one or both.
You can pick up the pattern for 40% off with coupon code JUNECAL until midnight June 30/18 https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/wizard-and-dragon
We will officially kick off the Wizard and Dragon CAL on Friday June 1st, but grab the pattern now to make sure you have all the supplies to start crocheting with us on the 1st!
I’m super excited to see everyone’s Wizards and Dragons!!
See you on Friday June 1st 😀


Barbara Houwers (1958)
2020. Essay: “Een Gestalte“‘ by Ellen Röling ( we work on the translation).
2018. A biography has been written by Art Historian Diana Kostman.
Early on in Barbara Houwers’ oeuvre, the human figure is the theme that would prove to be a deep source of inspiration over the years. The “Gestalte” is depicted in her paintings in strength and vulnerability. For anyone who recognizes themselves in it. Over the years, sub-themes arise, such as connection, love and baggage as a metaphor for life itself. Houwers developed in the paintings and works on paper a personal and recognizable visual language with a unique layering. Her work finds its way into galleries, institutions and collections around the world.
In recent works we see that the human figure enters into an expressive relationship with the space. Space itself becomes the subject of new series and investigative projects. Houwers takes up her theme in new techniques. In sculpting she finds a logical, spatial addition to painting. By ‘zooming out’ on the theme, Houwers enters a new dimension. The “Stature” continues; in abstracted and repetitive structures. Work in which the power of connection ultimately becomes the power of the image.
Exhibitions and archive
Publications and press
1976-1982. Visual arts teachers Training Academy Utrecht-Amersfoort.
1990-1992. HKU-Utrecht School of the arts.
1992. Start professional practice.
2001-now. Boardmember Dooyewaard Foundation.
2005-2015. President (founding committee) Artist foundation Gooise Kunstkring.
2010-2015. President organisation for Female entrepreneurs: Entre Femmes-Gooi.
1984-2015. Art Advice, selection and exhibition committees.
2015: Appointed as Member in the Order of Orange-Nassau by His Majesty The King of The Netherlands.


MY REVIEW OF THIS READ: I was given the opportunity by Evelyn Mann to review a copy of her memoir. The story of her son, the fatal diagnosis, the choice to choose life and the survival of her son. I can truthfully say that I don't do a lot of book reviews for memoirs, but I chose this book anyway. It is a really powerful story of how today's society wants so readily to end a life and can't see how people choose a life no matter how long or short that might be.
Evelyn tells an excellent story of her and her husband Ralph's choice to choose life for their son when he was given the diagnosed with a fatal form of Dwarfism, Thanatophoric Dwarfism, and the fight to not only give him life, but to survive. When so many wanted to give up on Samuel, Ralph and Evelyn choose not to give up and became their child's advocate even while he was still in the womb, but even after he was born too. It always shows how God was faithful in providing the right doctors that would help them fight for Samuel's life. Samuel just recently celebrated his 12th birthday. I really enjoyed this read and enjoyed the story of Ralph, Evelyn and Samuel.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS ON THIS BLOG ABOUT THIS BOOK: Do I believe that some books are placed in your hands by God? Yes, I do and I don't believe this book was placed in my hands by accident. I truly believe that it was placed in my hands by God. You see when Evelyn contacted me about reviewing her memoir she knew nothing about me. I am very short for my age (I have Short Stature) and am only 4'7". So, when a book is placed in your hands and you can relate so much to it and to the person that wrote it. Think of the book as a Divine Appointment that you needed just then and encourage you in your life and the struggles that you have gone through in life.


I am looking for the Rabbit 6000 instruction set, and can only find documentation that includes up to the Rabbit 5000.
A separate instruction set manual was never written for the Rabbit 6000. You can use the Rabbit 5000 instruction reference manual here
This manual’s instruction set is also relevant to the Rabbit 6000. In addition, see the zip file which contains the additional instructions added for the Rabbit 6000. This file is available here . Click on
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What is the best way to deal with .htaccess files in subdirectories?
From what I understand, OpenLiteSpeed only reads the .htacess files in the main directory of the website.
Using the example of PrestaShop, there are several .htaccess files listed in subdirectories. From a search, these are the files I could find:
I also understand the directory option cannot be read in the main .htaccess file so I can't move everything to a single file.
I thought of the following solutions:
- Move all the file properties to Contextes within the WebAdmin panel.
- Use rewrite rules in the main .htaccess file for the information in the .htaccess subdirectory files


Home > School Events > School Photo Gallery > English Activities in the Environmental Protection Week
English Department organized two fun activities in the Environmental Protection Week in June. All students participated in these two activities. An English Book Exhibition on Environmental Protection collaborated with the School Library was held Students read some pages of the displayed books and used their iPads to attempt a quiz. Most students could get the answers correct. In the oral lessons, students discussed the topic Living Green. The discussion helped students understand the causes, effects and solutions to different pollution problems.


Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi based on Google's Skia graphics library.
Skia is a great open source library for drawing 2D Text, Geometries, Images, focused on accurate, high quality and high performance rendering, which provides common APIs that work across a variety of hardware and software platforms.
Google's Skia Graphics Library serves as the graphics engine for Google Chrome and Chrome OS, Android, Flutter, Xamarin, Mozilla Firefox and Firefox OS, and many other products.
- Canvas 2D and Text Layout;
- CPU software rasterization;
- GPU-accelerated rendering
- right-to-left rendering;
- SVG rendering and creation;
- PDF output;
- runtime effects;
- shading language;
- Shaders, mask and color filters;
- image and path effects;
- Animated image player; (Lottie, GIF, WebP)
- image codecs; (bmp, gif, ico, jpg, png, wbmp, webp and raw images)
- Particles; (provides a way to quickly generate large numbers of drawing primitives with dynamic, animated behavior) and much more...
Using the Skia4Delphi library it is possible to override Firemonkey's rendering engine so that it can use Skia as its default Canvas. With that, your Firemonkey application will automatically:
- Draw with antialiasing on any platform (the drawing quality is based on the Form.Quality property);
- Increase the overall graphics performance of your application by up to 50% (even drawing with higher quality);
- Resize images with better quality (also based on Form.Quality);
- Support Right-To-Left text rendering;
- Fix dozens of inconsistencies in drawings (especially in corners and strokes, such as dashes, and in texts with special emojis);
- Increase the performance of the library in general ( controls , drawings, among others...).
You can install Skia4Delphi in 3 ways:
- Setup (recommended)
Download the setup of the latest release and install it.
- (RAD Studio > Tools > GetIt Package Manager...)
After install the Skia4Delphi , just right click in your application project and click Enable Skia .


Posted by Helge Fredriksen
at 2010-08-31 11:44
There, finally sat down and found out that yeah, I needed that QtJambi setup in IntelliJ to be able to work on the java part of the project. Also, IntelliJ has a pretty nice way of setting up all modules and dependencies in the code, so it's also useful for giving a QtJambi newcomer a good overview of how the project is built up. At least on the java part of it... For c++ devs I recommend opening the java.pro file in the QtCreator.
I've pushed the setup files into a new directory called IDE-setup on the 4.7 repo and put a HOWTO in the IntelliJ subdirectory. Have a look here
First, you need to build the project. Have a look at http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-jambi/pages/BuildingFromGit for help with that.
- Open the project in IntelliJ
- Open up the settings for the project with the keyboard shortcut ctrl-alt-shift-S
- Go to Project -> Project SDK and change to the location of the Java SDK you want to use.
- Go to Libraries -> ant and ensure that you have the right location for ant.jar (detach/attach the jar)
- Now, it should be possible to compile the java files using ctrl-F9
- You could also setup the Launcher class in the example module as a run target. Here's a descripton on how to do that:
- Open up the run configuration (Run -> Edit Configurations in the menu)
- Main class: com.trolltech.launcher.Launcher
- Use classpath and JDK of module: examples
- This should bring up the example app upon shift-F10!
So, now we're just waiting for someone to fill in with the Eclipse setup, the KDevelop setup, etc.
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EXPOSED – THE PERSECUTION OF CANADIAN PHYSICIANS BY ORGANIZED MEDICINE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
kind of scary , huh?
In this group interview facilitated by Sam Dubé, M.D., Ph.D., four physicians from across Canada – emergency physician Dr. Chris Milburn, rural family physician Dr. Charles Hoffe, general surgeon Dr. Francis Christian, and pathologist Dr. Roger Hodkinson – tell their stories of persecution at the hands of their governing bodies. Their only crime: practicing evidence-based medicine by questioning the safety of their patients and the public during the pandemic.
A legal representative for their cases, John Carpay, Esq., provides insights and legal commentary, invoking the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. These physicians, and others like them, are the living embodiment of the medical mantras of “do no harm” and “informed consent”.
[NOTE: The last twelve minutes of this video consist of the audio recording of Dr. Christian’s “tribunal” where he was fired, and has no video component.]


There’s something about dire times that causes book reviewers to label every book timely, prescient. Parul Sehgal discusses it here in her excellent review of Raven Leilani’s debut, Luster, referring to the concept as publishing’s version of the hemline index. Mary South’s debut collection, You Will Never Be Forgotten, was always going to face this sort of review—it is timely and prescient. It certainly couldn’t have predicted the pandemic it was born into nor the alt-right coup attempt this past week, but it definitely wasn’t surprised by it.
The collection examines the cyclical relationship of technology and dehumanization—technology alienates people; alienated people seek the refuge of technology. It can destroy our relationships while building other communities. These communities, so insular and vulnerable, often dissolve quickly into a toxic breeding ground for the damaged, guilty, depressed, shameful and/or repressed. The collection strikes me as a strange yet incredible mix of Mary Gaitskill’s Bad Behavior and George Saunders’ Tenth of December—not to be reductive, it’s very much its own.
The title story, which appeared in The New Yorker, is the heart of the collection. In it, a woman who works at “the world’s most popular search engine,” removing obscene and traumatic content from the internet, stalks her rapist. She stalks his social media, obsessively reads his newsletter—”Today, I learned the statistic that more people have died this year from taking selfies than from shark attacks…If you’re fixated on monitoring your heart rate, you forget to listen to the beating of your heart,” is one of the great moments in which South skewers one of her characters—and creates a new dating profile to match with him on the dating app where they first met. Eventually, she stalks him IRL. She follows him while he walks his dog and stalks him in the grocery store, gathering the same ingredients to share a dinner with him while actually in the isolation of her apartment: “That evening, she has horrible diarrhea, for which she blames the rapist.” This is where the brilliance of the story lies. The woman can’t erase the rapist from her life; she can’t erase her trauma in the same way she erases content from the internet every day at work. Her trauma is compounded by the fact that the rapist is allowed to carry on a perfectly normal and mundane life: “The woman is annoyed that a rapist can be the owner of such a sweet dog. Shouldn’t the dog of a rapist always be marking its territory on said rapist’s bed or something?” The woman truly unravels once she finds out the rapist has a girlfriend, a woman also in tech who has come up with a vapid app, Tender Buttons, designed to prompt random encounters between people using GPS, prompts like, “Attempt handstands with Nancy in Golden Gate Park.” Not only does the rapist have a girlfriend, but they seem happy. At least that’s what social media would have everyone believe.
Another story, “The Age of Love,” also examines the way technology can be used to connect us, only to alienate us later. In it, a group of elderly men at the North Shore Nursing Home begin calling a sex hotline. The narrator and his friend Walter, two nurses at the nursing home, begin listening to and recording the calls. The telephone provides these elderly men with a way to connect to people after having been essentially abandoned to the nursing home, while the recording equipment leads to their ridicule and shame. The telephone gives them community and intimacy where the recording equipment further alienates them. It wouldn’t be a Mary South story if it didn’t have a hilarious yet heartbreaking twist: one of the members of the “phone sex clique,” Mr. Rogers, begins an over-the-phone relationship with the narrator’s girlfriend. The story also has one of the funniest lines I’ve ever read in fiction: “Mr. Klein—you know, the bowlegged guy with the colostomy bag? He’s wicked into food…A few days ago, he told a woman he wanted to eat an open-faced turkey sandwich from her open-faced butt crack.” South’s greatest achievement in this collection is her ability to not cheapen the stories with a quick punchline. Each joke fits because so many of these stories are written about the internet in the language of the internet.
All of these stories centre people who have lost something or had something taken from them: the men who have been abandoned by their families in “The Age of Love,” the woman who was raped in “You Will Never Be Forgotten,” the internet trolls hoping to heal in “Camp Jabberwocky for Recovering Internet Trolls,” the widow looking to replace her husband with a humanoid created for organ harvesting in “Keiths,” the parents hoping to replace their dead child in “Not Sesuko.” All of these people are grieving and hoping to heal their grief with the help of technology; instead, they are faced with the choice of abandoning technology and remaining human or continuing on their path of dehumanization. The ending of the title story is especially fitting: “It’s a sign. No one will save her. Nothing is going to magically make it better. The woman has to figure out her life.”


August 1, 2016 – Announcing the completion and dedication of the permanent large-scale commission clerestory in the newest branch of the Denver Public Library. An opening and dedication will take place Tuesday, August 9 from 6:00 – 7:00 PM [directions]. Other upcoming projects include shows at the Harwood Museum in Taos, NM and the Projective Eye Gallery of the University of North Carolina – details to be posted soon.
The work is based on the camera obscura, a Latin term for ‘darkened chamber’ in which a small opening admits light from the bright outdoors into an interior space. It’s the basis for the cameras we use today, whether they be sophisticated professional cameras, mobile phones, or pinhole cameras. clerestory uses a system of two apertures and two mirrors with a corresponding curved ceiling vault on which images are projected and focused.
Design work began in 2011 as the library was on the drawing board. The installation involves custom designed and fabricated optical elements– the largest ever used in Jackson’s work– and careful integration with the building’s structure. Many thanks to Contrast, Syntec Optics, and Denver Arts and Venues.
The Rodolfo ‘Corky’ Gonzales Branch Library is at 1498 Irving St. Click for directions.


The eastern part of the city is where the Dominican monastery complex is found, representing one of the richest treasure-stores of Dubrovnik's cultural heritage.
The interior of the church features a wealth of stone church furniture, a pulpit and Renaissance niches.
The monastery has a library with more than 220 incunabula, as well as a very diverse archive housing valuable manuscripts and documents. There is also a diverse art collection.
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Much of what we know as America was formed during the two decades around 1900. In 1893, the frontier, which had shaped our earlier agrarian Union,was pronounced closed, no portion of the land left to penetrate, clear, and settle. In 1896, in a postbellum industrial Nation, the Supreme Court decreed that the white and black races were to be kept “separate but equal”—a decision that stood until 1954; remnants of that iniquity litter our lives still. In 1898, war turned America into a world power, and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt came out of that war hailed as a national hero. In 1901, the hero became president; and a year later he bore down on trusts, huge corporate entities formed in a period of exploding growth and technological advances. Nothing like the trusts had been seen before. Soon after the turn of the century the patrician Roosevelt refined the tools to trim their burgeoning excesses; and it was during the same years that Mark Twain, the Missouri democrat Samuel L. Clemens, counted as his best friend an official presiding near the pinnacle of the most intimidating trust of all. MARK TWAIN AND THE COLONEL develops those lively personalities and the stirring issues of two decades from which the America we know emerged.
Philip McFarland’s new book, the latest in his distinguished series of American biographies and histories, fuses two vivid stories set around the first decade of the twentieth century. One touches on the astonishing career of President Theodore Roosevelt, an eastern patrician sometimes derided as a “cowboy” and saber-rattler. He speeded the emergence of modern America from a frontier nation to a world power with far-flung interests. The second of McFarland’s stories follows the comparably astonishing career of the democrat and westerner Mark Twain, who came east from the closing western frontier and became famous as author, humorist, and universal sage. More than a century later, these two flamboyant personalities, each a distinctly native production and neither at a loss for words on every issue of their time, continue to occupy a formative place in the American style and imagination. —Justin Kaplan, author of MR. CLEMENS AND MARK TWAIN
A magnificent storyteller, Philip McFarland has told the story of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America through the intertwined lives of two of its most memorable and colorful figures: Mark Twain and Theodore Roosevelt. Impeccably researched, beautifully written, MARK TWAIN AND THE COLONEL will delight anyone interested in American history, literature, or culture. —Jerome Loving, author of MARK TWAIN: THE ADVENTURES OF SAMUEL L. CLEMENS
LIBRARY JOURNAL (12/6/12) chose MARK TWAIN AND THE COLONEL, with its "sweeping, engrossing narrative," as one of the Best Books of 2012.
The biographer son of the author of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN wrote of his mother: "She was impelled by love, and did what she did, and wrote what she did, under the impulse of love." "I love everybody," Harriet Beecher Stowe once told a friend. But Stowe felt hatred for the foul stain of slavery, and hatred for the free-love advocate Victoria Woodhull, and hatred even for the poet Byron, as a husband who abused a woman whom Mrs. Stowe deeply loved. For love was Stowe's lifelong theme: of her Savior, of her husband, of her children, of her sisters and brothers, of the exalted Lady Byron and the humble black people alongside whom she worked through a lifetime. LOVES OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE describes that amazing lifetime, the woman who lived it, and the fascinating people it was lived among.
"Harriet Beecher Stowe is one of the great heroines of American history, and Philip McFarland brings her to life in all her glory, in a book at once so dramatic and so subtle that it rivals the best fiction." —Debby Applegate, author of HENRY WARD BEECHER: THE MOST FAMOUS MAN IN AMERICA
"Philip McFarland has written an absorbing biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe's passions—for husband, family, friends, and above all for her work. Stowe lived large, loved powerfully, and wrote to change the course of history." —Megan Marshall, author of THE PEABODY SISTERS: THREE WOMEN WHO IGNITED AMERICAN ROMANTICISM
"Often dismissed even by her admirers as a pious faculty wife who just happened to write the book of the century, Harriet Beecher Stowe emerges in Philip McFarland's biography in all her complexity and genius. In an age of bloated biographies, it is a pleasure to find a writer who can distill a copiously documented life into such supple and succinct prose." —Charles C. Calhoun, author of LONGFELLOW; A RECONSIDERED LIFE
And reviewing the book in the BOSTON GLOBE, Patricia Hill, professor of history and American studies at Wesleyan, describes Philip McFarland as "a wonderful storyteller," and LOVES OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE as relating "the adventures and misadventures of Stowe and selected members of her remarkable family" in an account "spiced with choice selections from the voluminous family correspondence that offer an almost voyeuristic pleasure. Ostensibly the story of one woman, the narrative paints, with broad strokes and graphic details, a history of the United States in the 19th century."
HAWTHORNE IN CONCORD is a narrative of Nathanel Hawthorne's years in Concord, Massachusetts, from his wedding day in 1842 to his death in 1864. "The whole cast of luminous characters is here," writes Bernard Bailyn, "their lives, loves, and comings and goings, not just as minds but as people—Emerson, Thoreau, Longfellow, Margaret Fuller, Horace Mann, the Alcotts, the Peabodies—all circling around the central figures of Hawthorne and his wife. It's a fine, readable book of biography and cultural history." David Herbert Donald concluded: "I don't know when I have read a book as satisfying as HAWTHORNE IN CONCORD. Not since Van Wyck Brooks's THE FLOWERING OF NEW ENGLAND has anyone else so perfectly re-created the world of the New England Renaissance." And for Pulitzer prizewinner Elizabeth Frank, "HAWTHORNE IN CONCORD probes, with exquisite insight, the close and intricate relations of the most gifted circle of writers America has ever had. It is a beautiful, indispensable and quietly stunning piece of work."
THE BRAVE BOSTONIANS provides a stirring account of the year leading up to the American Revolution, from the perspective of three intertwined lives: the Loyalist Thomas Hutchinson, the Diplomat Benjamin Franklin, and the Patriot Josiah Quincy. Robert Middlekauff, author of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND HIS ENEMIES, adjudges it to be "an excellent work that deserves to have a wide readership. It is interesting, thoughtful, and well-written." Justin Kaplan found the account "an exciting story told with stylistic sureness, narrative pacing, and a firm command of the materials. It dramatizes the human and personal transactions that helped drive a great historical event." And according to Pauline Maier, author of AMERICAN SCRIPTURE, "THE BRAVE BOSTONIANS tells with great vividness and human detail the story of how, in 1774 and 1775, England and America moved, step by step, toward a war that neither wanted. It provides a gripping introduction to the American Revolution for anyone anxious to know more about that event."
SEA DANGERS is a narrative that recounts the only mutiny of record in the U.S. Navy. In 1842, the captain of the SOMERS hanged at the yardarm three crew members accused of plotting to seize the ship. The ringleader was a teenaged midshipman who happened to be the son of the then-Secretary of War, John C. Spencer. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the NEW YORK TIMES felt that the book tells "a gem of a story" in "a wonderful setting of history." And Kirkus Reviews concluded: "As disturbing as THE BOUNTY TRILOGY, as provocative as THE CAINE MUTINY, as telling as anything this side of Melville, it is that rare breed of sea-saga—a four-sails-to-the-wind, can't-put-down piece of naval history."
SOJOURNERS is a narrative account of the life and times of Washington Irving. R.W.B. Lewis in the NEW YORK TIMES praised the book for bringing Irving's world to life with "an almost Faulknerian intensity," and called it "a constantly beguiling and informative experience." Ed Cray in the LOS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER called it "hands down, without qualification, the most audacious, compelling biography of an American literary figure, of any literary figure, in a decade." And James R. Mellow in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE described SOJOURNERS as "one of the most absorbing cultural histories I have read."


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Kenai's transformation is an event in which the Great Spirits transform Kenai into a bear as punishment for his senseless killing of Koda's mother. After the death of Koda's mother, Sitka's spirit emerges before Kenai and draws his attention to the body of Koda's mother as it is drawn into the heavens. Afterward, Sitka lifts Kenai into the air and uses the magic of the Great Spirits to transform him into a bear.
According to Tanana, Kenai's transformation is an unprecedented move by the Great Spirits.
After Sitka dies in a fight against a bear, Kenai swears his revenge and tracks the animal down. Though the bear attempts to flee, Kenai chases and corners it atop a huge rock, where the two have a final confrontation. After a brief struggle, Kenai manages to kill the bear and releases an anguished cry, which is heard by his brother, Denahi, who had been in pursuit so as to stop the fight.
Shortly after the death of the bear, the Great Spirits descend upon the huge rock and reveal themselves to Kenai, who is both awed and frightened. The spirit of Sitka materializes before Kenai and draws his attention to the bear's body, which is promptly drawn up into the heavens to join the Great Spirits. Afterward, Sitka – this time in the form of an eagle – lifts Kenai into the air and transforms him into a bear.
After the transformation, a storm forms overhead. Denahi reaches the summit just in time to see the bear, whom he does not know is Kenai, stumbling among the remains of Kenai's torn clothing. Before the two can have a confrontation, a fork of lightning strikes the ground, sending Kenai falling off the side of the huge rock into a raging river below. He is borne downstream by the current until he washes ashore, unconscious. Meanwhile, Denahi, believing Kenai to have been killed, resolves to avenge his brother's death by hunting down the bear himself.
- This is the first of three instances in which Sitka transforms Kenai. However, unlike the second and third transformations, in which Sitka is granting Kenai's request, this change is enacted as a form of punishment. Later on, Nita willingly becomes a bear, making this transformation the only one in which the Great Spirits transform someone against their will.
- Revealed in Disney's Brother Bear (2003). Written by Steve Bencich, Lorne Cameron, Ron J. Friedman, David Hoselton, and Tab Murphy, and directed by Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker. Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc.
- Revealed in Disney's Brother Bear 2 (2006). Written by Rich Burns, and directed by Ben Gluck. Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc.


BANNED BOOK WEEK: INTO THE RIVER
Banned Book Week is celebrated internationally this year from September 27th to October 3rd. The week has special resonance in New Zealand since the dates coincide with the interim ban of Into the River by Ted Dawe. Updates on the interim ban can be found on the Office of Film and Literature Classification website. The Classification Office has received correspondence about the ban and will be making submissions to the Film and Literature Board of Review. The decision on the interim ban is to be made by the Film and Literature Board of Review in October. The Board has issued separate advice about the interim ban. PEN (NZ) encourages correspondence to be directed directly to the Film and Literature Board of Review. Background material and a case study of the history of classification in relation to Into the River can be viewed here. PEN also contributes to Banned Book Week internationally. Librarians, teachers, writers, and students can access more information about banned books including information about censorship around the world here.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSLATION DAY: 30th SEPTEMBER
30th September is International Translation Day. This year PEN International marks the day by calling on PEN Centres around the world to translate the poem The Scourge of War by imprisoned Eritrean editor-in-chief and award-winning poet, Amanuel Asrat, into local languages. The poem, translated into English, is reprinted here. Please take time to mark International Translation Day by reading the words of one of our fellow writers.
Journalist Mohamed Fahey released from prison...
Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy has been pardoned by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Fahmy worked for Al-Jazeera and was sentenced to three years in prison on August 29th following an unsuccessful appeal on terrorism-related charges.
Click here for background material on Mohamed Fahmy and the other two journalists sentenced with him.
Into the River
The interim ban of Into the River has renewed interest in freedom of speech in New Zealand. Freedom of speech is an issue that is constantly with us. It is a complex issue, that in New Zealand operates within the legal context of the Films, Video, and Publications Classification Act 1993. A point I endeavoured to highlight in my opinion piece published in the New Zealand Herald which can be viewed here.
In a country which ranks 6th in world press freedom, and in which many authors experience a freedom to write that (until now) has been taken for granted, the ban reminds us that we need to be vigilant in supporting writers and the goals of PEN.
PEN (NZ) works to support writers both within NZ, and beyond our borders. The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN monitors between 700 -900 cases globally of writers imprisoned for their work each year.
This year PEN(NZ) endeavored to gain support for writers, such as Aron Atabek, currently serving a prison term for writing The Heart of Eurasia.
We issued requests for 'empty chairs' at literary events, and support for writers and freedom of speech for Courage Day (what we in New Zealand call the day known internationally as the Day of the Imprisoned Writer) held on 15th November.
In the upcoming weeks, as the Film and Literature Board of Review considers its ban, let’s take time to remember the bloggers in Bangladesh, the journalists in Nauru, and the 1144 journalists killed since 1992 (statistics provided by the Committee for Protection of Journalists).
Any restriction on freedom of speech is a concern for PEN. Let’s hope this renewed interest following Into the River mobilises support for PEN and its activities both in NZ and globally.
PEN (NZ) is a voluntary limb of the New Zealand Society of Authors, and anyone wanting to become involved and offer assistance is greatly appreciated.
For further information on PEN or any issues or concerns raised above please contact Dana Wensley, PEN Representative for NZ at PEN@nzauthors.org.nz


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|Francisco Pizarro (1476–1541)|
Born into a poor family, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro was born in Trujillo, Spain in 1476. As a boy, he had heard tales of the New World, stories of wealthy empires, gold, silver, and exotic lands. These stories enticed Spanish royalty and explorers to take the opportunity presented to explore the Americas.
In 1513, Pizarro signed on to be a part of the expedition led by Vasco Núñez de Balboa, a governor of a Spanish town in Panama. He formed his exploration crew in search of the “great water” that lay beyond the mountains of the new land. Together, they discovered the Pacific Ocean, but Balboa got the credit of being the first European explorer to find it.
In 1532, Pizarro and his brother with around 180 Spanish soldiers received the orders from Charles V to conquer the southern American territory. The military force arrived in the Inca Empire and captured the ruler of the Inca, Atahualpa. They conquered the land that is now known as Peru, and founded the new capital city of Lima.
Pizarro is a fairly controversial figure in history. He was sometimes used as an example of bravery and piety, and his success in defeating the Inca Empire with a force of fewer than 200 soldiers certainly stands as one of the most remarkable military adventures in history. However, among the conquered South Americans, and more frequently in the views of historians and textbook writers in the 20th century, Pizarro’s name and career came to be associated with brutality, dishonesty, disloyalty, and extreme cruelty. It is also important to remember that the Inca Empire was not entirely conquered by Pizarro: it lingered on for decades, and memories of the resistance were significant in the Tupac Amaru Rebellion of 1780-83. Also, during the years just before Pizarro’s conquest, the Incans were greatly weakened by epidemics of diseases brought to South America by Europeans and a major civil war within the Incan Empire.
The accounts of the conquest of Peru include the work of Miguel Astete and Francisco de Jerez, who served as Pizarro’s secretary, and published Verdadera relación de la conquista del Perú y provincia del Cuzco llamada la Nueva Castilla published in Seville in 1533. An 1872 English translation of the account by Francisco de Jerez (or Xeres) is available online. Spanish historical accounts in the years shortly following the conquest portrayed the Incas as being just as ruthless and bloodthirsty as Pizarro, but writers who were hostile to Pizarro or the Spanish Empire emphasized the duplicity and murderous nature of Pizarro and his associates. There is also an account from an Incan point-of-view, written by Diego de Castro Titu Cusi Yupanqui (born just before the conquest and died in 1571).
After the conquest of the Incas, the Spanish began to fight amongst themselves. Francisco Pizarro had some people executed (including his former friend, Don Diego de Almagro), and then in 1541 Almagro’s son came to a party and murdered Pizarro.
Good sources on Pizarro include:
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Online Gardening Tips – How To Recognize And Also Expand Different Kinds Of Plants
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10 Days To Save the World: The Adventures of Diana Salinger
You only have 10 Days to Save the World! Find the secrets of an ancient amulet to stop flooding in Venice, a drought in Africa and the other disasters occurring all over the planet. Travel around the globe as you help Diana track down her father and explore the mysteries of the timeless amulet in this exciting Hidden Object game. Can you end the cataclysmic events and save the entire planet from destruction?


The USIL Fernando Belaunde Terry Library is a dynamic space with material and electronic resources for learning and research. It has academic databases with online access to thousands of articles in journals and electronic books. Our service is geared toward students and graduates of every academic program, as well as faculty and administrative staff. The library has an open-stack system, which facilitates direct access to the entire collection of books, syllabus materials, reference books, journals, dissertations, course work and investment projects. For further information, click here.
At USIL, we have over 200 International Strategic Partnerships with renowned universities and academic institutions throughout the world, so that you can participate in an academic exchange for one or two semesters. Go to our website to see a list of universities with which we have partnerships, as well as participation requirements.
DUAL DEGREE PROGRAMS
At USIL we have Dual Degree programs with renowned institutions abroad.
- San Ignacio University (USA)
This program enables our students to earn two bachelor’s degrees: an American Bachelor of Arts Degree from San Ignacio University (USA) and a bachelor’s degree from USIL. San Ignacio University is accredited by ACICS (Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools).For further information, click here
- Institut Paul Bocuse (France)
Students can earn a French bachelor’s degree in Culinary Arts and Restaurant Management from Institut Paul Bocuse, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Culinary Arts or in Gastronomy and Restaurant Management from USIL. For further information, click here
- Center for Global Education
USIL offers four academic programs through which you can earn a bachelor’s degree from abroad, with classes taught entirely in English. In five years, a student can earn two bachelor’s degrees: a Peruvian one from USIL and a foreign degree from the University of Houston, the University of Central Florida, the University of South Florida or the University of London International Programmes. For further information, click here
Find out here about the most important events taking place at our university and visits from well known personalities.


‘Here’s a special Father’s Day present. The Volkswagen Golf Story is written by my mate Russell Hayes – one of the UK’s best automotive authors – and covers every incarnation of VW’s second people’s car. Lavishly photographed with great text, it’s everything you ever wanted to know about Wolfsburg’s wonder.’ – Quentin Willson on The Volkswagen Golf Story, First Edition
The definitive history of the second people’s car
The Volkswagen Golf is a motoring paradox, seemingly never really changing its look but always pushing technical development forwards, a ‘classless’ car which still carries a ‘premium’ feel about it. While the Golf wasn’t the first front-wheel-drive hatchback, its interpretation established the template for others to follow and the benchmark by which they are still judged today.
As this motoring icon nears its 50th anniversary, The Volkswagen Golf Story, already the definitive history of the Golf, has been expanded and updated to include the full Golf 7 range and the latest incarnation, the Golf 8. Comprehensive and expertly researched, it remains a timely reminder of the Golf’s enduring appeal and a fitting tribute to Volkswagen’s second people’s car.
Russell Hayes is a London-based motoring author. As of 2021 he has written eight books, including the first edition of The Volkswagen Golf Story in 2014, marking its first 40 years. He has also written about the Volkswagen Beetle and Type 2 van. Other subjects have been as mixed as Lotus, the Ford Cortina, Aston Martin V8s and the Earls Court Motor Show. He was formerly a motoring journalist for British magazines and national newspapers, and has worked for TV programmes such as Top Gear, The Car’s the Star and Driven.


This week at ABC Wednesday R gets centre stage.
R is for READ and READING and being a READER
Reading has always been a part of my life. I cannot imagine a world without books and being able to read what or when I want.
As a child, I loved going to the library and working my way through the children’s books. My Dad was a big reader, my mother not as much. He encouraged me to read widely and often. In fact, when my mother tried to stop me from reading a rather risqué book when I was 12 or 13, my father said the only way I could discern a good book from a poor one was to read widely. I got to read it!
I especially loved as a parent the time I snuggled with my children and read them book after book. Favourites like, “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch were read over and over again.
As a teacher, I read several books every day – some as mentor texts to encourage writing, some just for the sheer joy of listening to a superb book. I can still remember reading “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane” by Kate DiCamillo and nearing the end of the book, when one of my Gr. 3 students cried out “She can’t die!”. This was a girl who was developmentally challenged, did not have a good memory but she always could summarize where we were in each chapter book which we read at the end of the day.
Studies have been done to show just how many words children learn when they are read to from an early age. Even just 20 minutes a day will have then learning almost two million words by 6th Grade.
Now that I am retired I can indulge my love of reading. I read every day and for the past 3 years I have read over 400 books a year (this does include over a hundred children’s books I read as mentor books for my own writing). I take part in several challenges, including the Popsugar Challenge through Goodreads. I love the challenge of finding books to meet the criteria for each.
Here are a few quotes that attest to the importance of reading:
Some books leave us free and some books make us free. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. – Frederick Douglas
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.– George R.R. Martin
There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss


Alfonso ‘Coke’ Bolipata is one of the country’s leading musicians; he’s a seasoned performer, teacher, writer, and administrator of a community school for music and the arts. He has been widely recognized for his performances and efforts in cultural development and was a recipient of the 2000 TOYM Award (Ten Outstanding Young Men), the Katha Award for his recording Pelikula, the 2001 Aliw Award Best Instrumentalist for his performance of Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, the 2002 Gawad ng Maynila Award, a National Book Award (Book Design) in 1997 for his children’s book Water in the Ring of Fire, and the NCCA Alab ng Haraya Award.
A child prodigy, Coke comes from a family of musicians and received his first violin lessons at the age of eight from master musician Oscar C Yatco as a scholar of Stella G Brimo. His lessons continued with Basilio Manalo and Rizalina Buenaventura. At age twelve, he won First Prize in the National Music Competitions for Young Artists, subsequently leaving to study at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. His teachers include Dorothy Delay, Jascha Brodsky, Felix Galimir, and James Buswell. He was a member of Alexander Schneider’s New York String Orchestra and an original member of the New World Symphony in Miami under Michael Tilson Tomas.
THE MASTERS: Alfonso “Coke” Bolipata


I lived to get high.
I didn’t care if I lived or died.
A fool on a mission of death,
constantly destroying myself.
I got “busted” and went to the “pen.”
That’s where poetry became my friend.
Poetry saved my life.
Poetry became my mistress and my wife.
Poetry helps me to fight the war raging within.
This broken man made poetry his friend.
“I’ve been writing poetry for the past 40 years. When I was young, my grandmother saw that I was good at writing and bought me my first typewriter. As a teenager, I went to the library and read poetry by Langston Hughes, e.e. cummings, T.S. Eliot, and Robert Frost. In English class, they introduced us to Poe and Shakespeare and Longfellow. I was fascinated with these people. I knew that when I grew up, I wanted to be a poet. I fell in love with literature.”
Luther Jarman is a participant in ASC's Creative Writing Workshop. His poetry appears in Situations 7 (published in Fall 2004) and Situations 8 (forthcoming in Fall 2005).


The Shepherds Play is a translation and adaptation from Middle English of the famous Second Shepherds Play by an unknown playwright usually referred to as The Wakefield Master.
Part of the comedy of the original is the anachronism of putting medieval English shepherds in a biblical setting. My version updates the anachronisms but keeps the intense Dr. Seuss-like rhyme scheme.
The Shepherds Play is available to amateur and school productions without royalty. I only ask to be informed of the dates and place of any upcoming production.
The original text in Middle English can be found here


Listening: The Heart of What Documentation Really Is
School: Monument High School
Documentation by Lindy Johnson/Making Learning Visible Team
During a panel on documentation at the 2004 MLV Summer Institute, Lindy Johnson, a 9th grade English Language Arts teacher at Monument High School in South Boston, presented her account of learning to use documentation in ways that were meaningful to her and her students. A transcript and still images from Lindy's presentation at the Institute can be found below.


“Madamoiselle From Armentières” is often considered the most famous of all World War I soldier’s songs. It tells the story of an assault on a helpless young French woman. This is one of those songs that soldiers would add verses to, with varying degrees of suitability for family listening.
“Mademoiselle from Armentieres”, is alternately known as “Two German Officers.” Another song known as “The Little Red Train” also is reputed to be a source for verses. It was also known as “Hinky Dinky Parley Voo” – not necessarily with that precise/imprecise spelling. The original may be dated to the 1830s (or maybe not!), with the unfortunate lady an inn keeper’s daughter.
The tune of the song was believed to be popular in the French army in the 1830s, and the original words told of the encounter of an inn-keeper’s daughter, named Mademoiselle de Bar le Luc, with two German officers.
During the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, the tune was resurrected, and again in 1914 when the Old Contemptibles got to know of it. The Old Contemptibles was nickname given the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), initially commanded by General French, that was sent to the Western Front to battle the Germans.
Legend has it that Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, who famously dismissive of the BEF, reportedly issued an order on 19 August 1914 to “exterminate….the treacherous English and walk over General French’s Contemptible little army”. In later years, the survivors of the regular army dubbed themselves “The Old Contemptibles”
There are a few people who have claimed to have written the lyrics to this song including Harry Carlton and Joe Tunbridge, a Canadian composer called Gitz Rice and Edward Roland.


Dr Laura Stanton has authored two bilingual children's books. Books can be purchased individually and are available in bulk for classrooms, non-profit organizations, travel and tourism bureaus and gift shops. For special pricing, please contact us.
The Gypsy Queen/La Reina Gitana, written in English and translated into Spanish, is an American adventure across six states: Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Idaho. Featuring the Cervantes, their dog Bonnie and the family camper named “Gypsy Queen,” this story is an enthusiastic exploration of the western United States with plenty of fun facts unearthed along the way. Through spirited illustrations, bilingual narrative and personal journal entries, you’ll ride along with Pedro, Heather, Penny, Paul and Bonnie as they share the best road trip ever! Illustrated by Beth Armstrong. 46 pages, $20.
Animals/Animales uses vibrant, pictorial illustrations and phonetic pronunciations to showcase an ABC "parade" of animals, displaying the name of each animal in both English and Spanish. Also included is an activity page where your child can draw their own favorite animal and practice writing the name. Illustrated by P.M. Richard. 30 pages, $10.