Titano 2018 was created to provide a study on the reorganisation of the San Marino financial system – as well as a way of strengthening in its entirety and also rebuilding new competitive foundations, the White Paper for reorganizing and reviving the San Marino financial system.
The Project, after being previewed and illustrated to a committee of international experts during a dedicated workshop at the Brookings Institution of Washington DC (USA) was presented to the community of San Marino on the 14th of December 2012 during a specific seminar to which the following people have participated as rapporteurs, the authors of the project itself: Marco Ferrini, Richard Greco, Domenico Lombardi and Carlo Pelanda. After the presentation, Titano 2018 was handed over to the San Marino Institutions, the International Organizations in the missions context of the same ones sent to San Marino (FMI, UE Commission, UE EFTA Team, etc.), and the Italian Banking Association.
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This TAN Books edition of “The Gift of Oneself ” by Rev. Fr. Joseph Schryvers C.SS.R., features the complete original text, along with a supplemental reading section entitled “Catholic Prayers”. We’ve also included unique hand-selected classicMoreThis TAN Books edition of “The Gift of Oneself ” by Rev. Fr. Joseph Schryvers C.SS.R., features the complete original text, along with a supplemental reading section entitled “Catholic Prayers”. We’ve also included unique hand-selected classic artwork for the reader’s enjoyment, exclusive to this eBook edition of “The Gift of Oneself ”.The Gift of Oneself :The Gift of Oneself will be for many a fresh- new approach to spirituality - an appeal to generous souls to offer themselves to God as a gift that is at once fitting - since He has given us all we are and have - and complete- for we thereby hold back nothing for ourselves. And in return- Almighty God in a special way concerns Himself with the sanctification of our souls and the care of our temporal needs. Jesus will work wonders in a soul so given over to Him- for He is the best of all spiritual directors- and He knows exactly the place in the Mystical Body that a consecrated soul should occupy. This gift of oneself to God is easy- for all we have to do is love Him. In return for the gift of oneself- God responds by giving Himself. What more could we want or need? Those who read this book derive a great feeling of peace and security from it. The Gift of Oneself will be a surprise and a delight to those generous souls who are ready to embark upon a secure and rewarding spiritual life!Catholic Prayers:This is probably the greatest little Catholic prayerbook you will ever encounter because it has over 100 Traditional Catholic prayers and is comprised of 4 Parts or sections: Part I contains the common prayers every Catholic should know by heart over 25 including the Acts of Faith, Hope, Love and Contrition, plus numerous short invocations. Part II contains over 25 especially powerful prayers: to Our lady, St. Joseph, St. Anne, St. Jude, St. Philomena, St. Anthony, etc. Part III contains miscellaneous favorite prayers: e.g., Morning Offering, Prayers to Our Lady, to St. Joseph for Purity, to overcome a bad habit, for grace, the Te Deum, Consecration to the Holy Ghost, etc. And Part IV contains various other favorite prayers, such as for a happy death, the choice of a state of life, for priests, Fatima Prayers, for safe delivery of a baby, for the dying, for the dead, for the Poor Souls, etc. For a small package, this little prayerbook is dynamite, and should be carried by all! The Gift of Oneself (with Supplemental Reading: Catholic Prayers) [Illustrated] by Rev. Fr. Joseph Schryvers C.SS.R.


Death Note is manga which was the creation of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata .
The main character in Death Note is Light Yagami , a student who found a supernatural
powerful note book , the Death Note , which was dropped by the God of health on Earth named
Ryuk. The Death Note give a ability to the user of that book to kill anyone whose name and face
they know , by just writing the name in the Death Note while picturing their face in mind.
Death Note was serialized by Shuesha in 108 chapters in japenese manga magzeine from December
2003 - May 2006. It was one of the best anime series ever after naruto , many movies and anime
series cartoons are made on the title "Death Note".


by Zhengxing Qin, Georgian Melinte, Jean-Pierre Gilson, Maguy Jaber, Krassimir Bozhilov, Philippe Boullay, Svetlana Mintova, Ovidiu Ersen and Valentin Valtchev
Angewandte Chemie, Communication doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201608417
Zeolites are widely used in many commercial processes, mostly as catalysts or adsorbents. Understanding their intimate structure at the nanoscale is the key to control their properties and design the best materials for their ever increasing uses. Herein, we report a new and controllable fluoride treatment for the non-discriminate extraction of zeolite framework cations. This sheds new light on the sub-structure of commercially relevant zeolite crystals: they are segmented along defect zones exposing numerous nanometer-sized crystalline domains, separated by low-angle boundaries, in what were apparent single-crystals. The concentration, morphology, and distribution of such domains analyzed by electron tomography indicate that this is a common phenomenon in zeolites, independent of their structure and chemical composition. This is a milestone to better understand their growth mechanism and rationally design superior catalysts and adsorbents.
Source : The Mosaic Structure of Zeolite Crystals – Qin – 2016 – Angewandte Chemie International Edition – Wiley Online Library


Here's a great book to help you plan your Open Studio:
Open Your Studio: Nine Steps to a Successful Art Event by Melinda Cootsona
This inexpensive book is full of really good, solid advice, including tips on pricing your work, choosing what to display, framing, presentation, attracting customers and more. Melinda has done a lot of very successful open studios and shares her experience with what works and what doesn't work. Some of her tips may surprise you, so the book is well worth consulting, especially if you're doing Open Studios for the first time.


"A powerful message of encouragement to those on a path
of personal growth"- Mahmud
Nestman, Counsellor M.Ed, RCC,HT
About the Author
Luannah has been a passionate writer since her youth writing her thoughts, experiences and poetry in her journals her entire life. She has written many articles on Personal Growth, Spirituality and Healing published in a local magazine that sparked her passion to write even more.
Now she presents her first book sharing candidly her journey of personal healing and growth through a multitude of traumas and situations, that by all rights, had the potential to destroy her.
Luannah now owns and operates a beautiful Healing Centre, Serenity By The Sea, on the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada, where she now offers the healing techniques that helped her heal to other women looking to reclaim their heart and life back from trauma.
She is happily married, living with her husband and ten year old son.
Resilience, Grace and the Art of Showing Up is both an adventurous and uplifting book, sharing a powerful story of empowerment, driven by one woman’s determination to rise above the abuse and traumas that had impacted her.
Through opening her mind to life and new possibilities of perceiving, rather than staying stuck in the pain, she discovered many insights on how to rebuild her self-esteem, restore her joy and live her deepest dreams.
This is an inspiring story of courage and determination about overcoming so many obstacles and traumas to finally creating a life full of love and fulfillment, where the seemingly impossible became possible.
Through gleaning life wisdoms from the cultures she encountered in her travels around the world and her observations of Nature Luannah made the shift from victim to victor.
She enlightens the reader to explore the Power of Nature as a resource of wisdom and truth, as ally and healer, awakening us to our own innate resilience and capacity to re-create ourselves.
This book has the power & potential to change lives in beautiful and enriching ways.
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Feb 14, 2019
"I'm pregnant" is not what Scarlet Pepin and her husband Brad expected to hear from their high school daughter at the breakfast table on a Saturday morning. This gifted girl of theirs loved Jesus and had such hope and purpose for her future but all was seemingly wrecked at that moment.
In this episode, Scarlet shares the story of the journey she walked with her daughter Lindsay Ophus and sister-in-law Bethany Pepin as they brought beautiful Kinley Joy into the world. Scarlet knew this story was not just for them but to bring hope to others facing shame and unexpected obstacles in their lives or the lives of their children. Joy Will Come: Exchange Shame For Redemption releases February 15, 2019!! This is a book that needs to be in the hands of everyone who has made a decision that has brought shame or disappointment or despair. It is gripping and honest and testifies to the fact that God is faithful and loves us unconditionally. He truly promises that joy WILL come.
The book is available on Amazon or at Scarlet's website.


New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter will visit Fort Knox’s Barr Memorial Library at noon Aug. 29 as part of the Authors at Your Library program to discuss and sign Pieces of Her, her newest stand-alone novel.
In Pieces of Her, Andrea Cooper has spent her entire life in the beachside town of Gullaway Island with her mother Laura. A routine trip to the mall explodes into violence and within a day, Laura is shot and hospitalized. Suddenly Andrea is confronted with the 30-year-old secret her mother has been hiding: she was once someone else. Now Laura’s history has caught up with her. Andrea must follow the clues to discover her mother’s past before there is no future for either of them.
Karin Slaughter’s books have been published in 37 languages. They have sold over 35 million copies. She is known for the Will Trent series and the Grant County series. Her first stand-alone novel, Cop Town, was nominated for a 2014 Edgar Award.
Slaughter lives in Atlanta. She is the founder of the Save the Libraries project, which has raised more than $300,000 for the DeKalb County Library Foundation.
This event is free and open to the public.


Murrieta Rotary Presents Five Vocational Service Awards
The Rotary Club of Murrieta awarded Vocational Service Awards to five individuals during a luncheon, Monday, April 17. The annual awards luncheon was held in the Murrieta Public Library’s Garden Court with city, education and health care leaders in attendance. Murrieta Mesa High School’s Culinary Arts Career and Technical Education pathway students catered the lunch under the direction of their teacher, Vanessa Cruz.
Vocational Service Awards were presented to:
Rebecca Plumlee, Stroke and Sepsis Coordinator at Loma Linda University Medical Center-Murrieta, and a nurse for 13 years, was recognized for her work with the care teams in stroke and sepsis care and her leadership in striving for excellence.
Todd Thornburg, a Murrieta Valley High School Teacher, was recognized for his work as an English teacher, coach and mentor. He has taught at MVHS for 22 of his 27 years in education and is passionate about literature and talented at developing writing skills.
Nina Trinh, Couplet Staff Nurse at Rancho Springs Hospital, received her Vocational Service Award for her exceptional approach to patients, visitors and staff in postpartum care. With 27 years in nursing, she strives to improve the lives of those she touches in the community as well.
Murrieta Firefighter/Paramedic Ben Urista was recognized for his resiliency in returning to duty after recovering from kidney replacement surgery. With six plus years at Murrieta Fire & Rescue, Urista was proactive in his journey through kidney disease and his return to active duty is a testament to his devotion to the City of Murrieta.
Rebecca Valerio, Public Safety Dispatcher with the Murrieta Police Department’s Support Division, was recognized for her exceptional dispatching skills and expertise based on her years of experience and commitment to the City of Murrieta, as well as her mentoring and leadership among her peers from all ranks. She has 31 years’ experience in policing and 15 years with the Murrieta Police Department.
“The Rotary Club is honored to recognize these upstanding citizens who through their work are making huge contributions to our community,” Linda Lunn, Murrieta Rotary’s Vocational Services Co-Chair, said. “These individuals exemplify the standards of Rotary, including ‘Service Above Self’ and the Four Way Test which stresses integrity and fairness while building good will and better friendships.
The honorees were nominated by their respective agencies for their distinguished vocational and community service during 2022.
The Rotary Club of Murrieta was chartered on April 28, 1992. The club is involved in many community and international projects, in cooperation with Rotary International, which has as its theme “Service Above Self.” Club meetings are held Mondays (excepting holidays) at noon at Richie’s Diner in Murrieta.
Holding their Vocational Service Awards were (from left) Fireman Ben Urista, Dispatcher Rebecca Valerio, Nurses Nina Trinh (represented by her daughter, Jasmine) and Rebecca Plumlee and Teacher Todd Thornburg.
Photo by Rob Haskins.


Although they helped turn hefty profits for their masters, these watermen also had a measure of independence. By the s wolves were extinct in the settled regions, though other animals—such as crows and squirrels—for which officials offered bounties, continued to thrive.
Helma Ward, Makah, Tulalip Indian School, from interview with Carolyn Marr The foremost requirement for assimilation into American society, authorities felt, was mastery of the English language. In autumn and winter—especially in the piedmont and uplands—the natives turned more to deer, bear, and other game animals for sustenance.
Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: For the study, the researchers searched more thanspecific DNA markers or "snips" SNPs, Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms from 52 Native American and 17 Siberian groups, looking for similar and different patterns of genes.
The team included researchers from: Alfred Sam, Snohomish, interview with Carolyn Marr As the years went by and most students persevered, strong friendships developed. According to the oral histories of many of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, they have been living on this continent since their genesis, described by a wide range of traditional Native american experience essay stories.
The first migration, that led to the majority of Native American populations, was of a single group called the "First Americans" that crossed from Asia to America in a land bridge called Beringia, that existed during the ice ages more than 15, years ago, say the researchers, whose efforts were co-ordinated by Professor Andres Ruiz-Linares of the department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London UCL in the UK.
Malaria and yellow fever would plague the South for decades to come. For other key issues in American Jewish history, as well as an extensive bibliography, see Jonathan D. While Protestant practices inevitably influenced the direction of American Jewish religious life, Jews monitored Protestant missionary efforts with caution.
In America a Jew's faith was not registered with the state, as it was in most of Europe, and observance depended upon the individual. These "apartment" style dwellings were the work of Natives of the Southwest. Another important component of the government policy for "civilizing" the Indians was to teach farming techniques.
Similarly, some view nineteenth-century American Jewish history as a whole as an "encounter with emancipation," thereby defining it in terms of a central paradigm in European Jewish history--the struggle of Jews to gain full civil rights in Europe in the late s.
The national system of Indian education, including both off reservation boarding schools, reservation boarding schools and day schools, continued to expand at the turn of the century.
Mathews also played a key role in helping to preserve the culture of the Osage people, documenting numerous stories and oral histories in his The Osages: Consequently, those who hunted animals, farmed, or gathered wild foods had to observe certain guidelines and practice particular rituals designed to demonstrate respect for the spiritual world.
Like so many of their Protestant counterparts, Jews resisted the hierarchical religious authority structures of Europe. In the mid nineteenth century, for example, there were more Polish-Jewish immigrants to America than German ones.
Some of the larger native cultures probably numbered in the tens of thousands. Both novels, one fiction and one non-fiction, are essential reads for anyone trying to understand the modern Native American experience. Index survives until the s.
It hangs in the United States Capitol rotunda. Second, Jews in the North not in this case the South had to fight for their right to have a Jewish army chaplain--no easy task, since by law an army chaplain had to be a "regularly ordained minister of some Christian denomination.
During the war the Iroquois destroyed several large tribal confederacies, including the HuronNeutralErieSusquehannockand Shawneeand became dominant in the region and enlarged their territory. The British had made fewer allies, but it was joined by some tribes that wanted to prove assimilation and loyalty in support of treaties to preserve their territories.
Rather than encrypting radio messages, it proved simpler to use Navajos to speak to each other in their everyday language to convey high-security messages.
He holds an M.
Address comments or questions to Professor Sarna and Mr. I stayed with my grandmother who wasn't wellSeeking Native American Spirituality: Read This First!
Judging from the email I get, there are a lot of people out there trying to learn about traditional Native American religion and spirituality these days. American Indian Experience from to the Present, 2d ed.
(Wheeling, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, Inc., ), is a collection of essays highlighting important topics in Indian history that range from native relations with the colonial French, Spanish, and.
The Native American Experience as Portrayed Through the Essay Titled, Address, and the Painting Titled, Among the Sierra Nevada - The Native Land Imagine living in a place where you feel free, and safe all of your life, and then one day it’s all taken away from you. The Andrew Jackson site has been retired from henrydreher.com To find similar history and technology content on henrydreher.com, explore our American Experience site.
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There is a lot of good information here for someone wanting to learn to play Native American Flute. There is also a lot of information at the beginning that will not make any sense to anyone who has not had a course or two in music theory.Download


Susan Ryan: Unforgettable Ella Book
Illustrations by Katie Ryan Donohue
Horses & Girls...how does it get better??? We discovered this fantastic book when Katie Ryan Donohue mentioned that she had just finished illustrating a book for her Mom...Susan Ryan! Katie is one of Austin’s very fabulous artists!!!!!!!
Nicole’s life is turned upside down when she has to make a choice between college or her beloved horse Ella. As she is packing for college she finds a long forgotten photo of a wobbly Ella taken only moments after she was born.The photo spurs memories of her wonderful relationship with Ella from the time she was just a young girl until the day she leaves for college. As you read about the memories of their journey together you are taken inside the horse world from the glamorous thrills and spills of showing to the dirty hard work of cleaning stalls and putting up hay. The real treasure of this book however, is how the love for her horse and the time they spend together transforms this young girl into a stronger, kinder, more compassionate person, who reaches goals thought impossible. You will see that with Unforgettable Ella love can truly be restorative.
Get to Know Susan Ryan: Author
Sue Ryan grew up in Green Bay Wi and never remembers a time when she was not enamored with horses. As a little girl, her family fell on hard times and they had to move from the city to the country. Her new neighbors had some horses that she fell in love with. Soon, she helped with the horse work and learned to ride. She worked closely with her neighbors until she entered college at UW-Stevens Point where she earned a degree in Communicative Disorders. Shortly after college she married and raised her four children on a small horse farm in the Madison, WI area. Over the years she trained, bred and showed horses. During these years she shared the love of horses and the outdoors with her children and friends. As District Commissioner of the local Pony Club, she saw firsthand how interacting with horses and the wonderful people that love them change the lives for the better of many youths.
She wrote Unforgettable Ella from the memories of the horses and wonderful people that passed through her life. She wanted to share the joy of how a close relationship with these wonderful animals can truly affect a life in a positive way.
Get to Know Katie Ryan Donohue (Austin Tx Artist): Illustrator
I have always felt a strong interest and connection to wild nature and animals of all kinds, both of which are constant themes in my paintings. When I am not painting, drawing or teaching, I am spending time with my son, my dog and my husband.


In case you’ve wondered, we’ve moved to the Orem Public Library. We’re really excited about this because:
As always the Our Events page has the most accurate information on our meeting dates and times. We look forward to seeing you at our meetings!
Utah Valley Writers
Directions to OPL:
The Main Library is located at 58 North State Street in Orem, Utah at the north end of the City Center Complex (on the northeast corner of State and Center Streets). Parking is to the east of the library building and is accessed from 100 North. If you need assistance please call 229-7050.
Here are library maps for your convenience.


Written by Valdo Praust on September 7th, 2006 at 22:21
Answer on: Suche Adressbücher v. Adolf Richter
written by Eva-Maria Baronin Buchholtz on August 4th, 2006 at 11:25
Dear Mrs Eva-Maria Baronin Buchholtz,
both of these books exists if the Estonian National Library in Tallinn. I have taken almost a full copy of them concerning the all rural areas which nowadays belong to Estonia (more than 400 pages) and I own these copies as the working material for me.
If you can say me the regions (name of manors etc) you are interested in, I can scan these sheets for you and to send them to you by email.
Estonian Manors Portal
P.S. Sorry for answering in English, but my written German is quite poor.


Dreams Into Action: The Future-Storybook (DE)
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THE book for all true charismatics - those who are THE CHANGES THAT THEY want to see in the world.
- What if what you envision came true?
- What if you created the world you dream of yourself?
- What if your dreams weren't just castles in the air, but you had the courage to make them come true?
Then you would be a maker, a maker.
18 authors, brought together through the initiative of Martina Gleissenebner-Teskey & Christina Thomar, took this courage on March 28, 2020, in the middle of the biggest global crisis for almost a hundred years. In just one month, out of nowhere and without knowing each other beforehand, they created a book that is nothing less than a total work of art. A total work of art as an expression of what humans are capable of: exhausting something new out of nothing.
Immerse yourself in 32 future stories, fairy tales and poetic journeys of thought.
Read about a future without money, let yourself be carried away to Lisbon, Paris or Vienna after the crisis. Accompany our heroes on their new paths and dare, like them, to be mindful of yourself again. Put on a cucumber mask and experience the dialogue between tulip, leek and the cherry tree! "Beam you up and away" into your new future, be amazed, laugh, enjoy yourself.
Let yourself be inspired by the energy of every single story, enjoy the variety of stories and recognize yourself as a maker and as a maker.
Take a look at the book here: Dreams Into Action-Table of Contents_Foreword_Authores


The Boston Public Library’s Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center will add an Avenue of the Arts map designed by Sasaki’s graphic design team to its permanent collections.
The map depicts Boston’s Huntington Avenue, known as the “Avenue of the Arts.” This district is home to several of the City of Boston’s major cultural and educational institutions, including Northeastern University, Wentworth Institute of Technology, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, MassArt, and the New England Conservatory. Designated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a Cultural District, the area attracts nearly 3 million annual visitors who enjoy some 2,400 performances, exhibitions, and other cultural events every year.
Sasaki developed the map as part of a cultural planning effort commissioned and supported by the Boston Foundation and led by Futurecity, a London-based consultancy. “Sasaki was responsible for visualizing complex information that came out of a cultural audit, explains Sasaki creative director F. Philip Barash, who is currently serving as a fellow with the Boston Foundation. “The resulting map contains multiple layers and ideas stitched together in a beautiful and provocative visual language. It gives the district a cohesive identity, enumerates its cultural institutions, provides transit and walking overlay, and interprets the area through brief vignettes.”
Hard copies are now being printed to coincide with the launch of the district’s cultural plan, which will be announced on Wednesday, October 10, at an event hosted by the Boston Foundation at HUBweek.
A limited edition run of 150 prints of the map was printed at MassArts last week, under the direction of Fred Liang, a faculty member, and with support from the Boston Foundation. The prints were done in six-color process, split fountain screenprint, on 22″x30″ Stonehenge 250gsm Black paper.
The first print of the edition will be accepted into the permanent collection of the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. “It will make a beautiful and highly relevant addition to our collection, as maps of Boston and New England are one of our Collections of Distinction,” said Dory Klein, Map Librarian at the Leventhal Map & Education Center upon accepting the map to the collections.
Sasaki’s graphic design team at MassArt’s printmaking studio last week, overseeing the initial run of prints:


These companion logs for The New Rules of Lifting book series were created when I found that many readers for The New Rules of Lifting for Women were (in their words) "hopelessly confused" about what they were supposed to be doing in the gym. The author did a great job with the book, but the most confused users were simply too new to the whole experience to fully understand what the text of the book was describing the workouts to be. One poor soul did 8 workouts worth of exercises in one 2-hour massive gym trip.
These logs were my attempt to concisely explain "this is what you do when you go to the gym, in this order, exactly what's here on the page" and from all testimonials, it worked admirably. Previously confused users got it and were no longer intimidated or worried that they were "too dumb to understand" what the workout was supposed to be.
After the huge success of the logs for the For Women book, the author asked me to make "official" logs for all of his subsequent books. They've been a huge hit with his readers.
Each subsequent work has seen an improvement to the logs based on previous feedback from users.
You can see these live if you have access to any of the books at http://werkit.com.


Welcome to the gallery of Chocolate Creations by British designers Anthony Price (Creative Designer: 2D, 2.5 & 3D prints) and Mark Jones (Digital Designer: Head & objects scans).
The wide range of prints below by Anthony and Mark demonstrate the concept of chocolate printing. As both Anthony and Mark also contributed a great deal to the development of the Choc Creator V2.0 Plus, it can be said that the printer has been designed with a high level of artistic funcationality in mind. From 2017, a set of 15 popular designs selected by Anthony and Mark can now be found pre-installed into the internal memory of the Choc Creator V2.0 Plus as ready-to-print G-codes for couverture chocolate. [The 15 designs are shown directly below.]
PLEASE NOTE # 1 : All the objects seen below were printed by Anthony and Mark using machine-tempered Belgian Couverture Chocolate (which they recommend for quality printing results) in a studio with an ambient temperature of approx. 21°C / humidity 50%. PLEASE NOTE # 2 : This gallery has been uploaded for the purpose of conveying the concept of chocolate printing and inspiring newcomers to this form of artistry. A small number of the examples featured in this gallery are available to users in either STL or G-code format. It should be noted that not every example featured in this gallery is available to customers - Some of the designs are for promotional use only, while others have been retired due to improvements in our technology, specifically the introduction of the new 0.8mm nozzle; The 0.4mm nozzle has now been retired and is no longer available. Any images below produced using the old 0.4mm nozzle are kept here soley as inspirational concept examples which are scheduled to be removed. The MIX&MATCH app is the new 2D/2.5D STL library which contains many of the original templates used to create the 2.5D prints seen below, and a selection of 25 objects can be found in our 3D library in G-code format. PLEASE NOTE # 3 : The images in this gallery are copyrighted by the respective designers and must not be used without permission.
A selection of 1 and 2 layer single-line and infilled designs. These images are presented as concept examples only. A small selection of these designs are available in un-sliced STL format as part of the MIX & MATCH app.
Extruded 2D designs of 3 or more layers. These images are presented as concept examples only.
Solid 3D shapes and construction kit designs from multiple components (aka 2.75D). These images are presented as concept examples only. A small selection 25 3D shapes is available in G-code format.


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“After just one day using Revinate, I knew it was going to save me an amazing amount of time and dramatically improve our customer focus. We were missing so many reviews before because there wasn’t a systematic way to review everything. Now all of my staff, across all organizations use Revinate daily to read the reviews and see how we can make our hotel better."Sandra Hallmann, General Manager
Sandra Hallmann has been the General Manager of the property for the last decade. She began learning the hospitality trade from her grandmother when she was just a teenager and has been working in hotels on and off for the last forty years. She knows that her hotel becomes part of her guests’ vacation memories and the goal she sets for all the employees of the three-star hotel is to provide five-star service.


For the triumphant (?) return of the Saturday Shoe, what better theme than the queen of triumphant returns (and falls from grace, but we’ll skirt over that for now) – Angelique. Now, if you don’t know Angelique, then I think you should get acquainted post haste! Here’s Wikipedia’s very brief summary, while the official website can be found here.
My Mum read these books in her teens/twenties and I can remember their rather buxom covers being on our bookshelves throughout my childhood. When she recommended them to me, I’ll admit I was put off by their pulpy, prurient covers and so it wasn’t until this year that I finally read them.
And what an adventure they have taken me on.
Pirates, thieves, princes, poisoners, whores, child-killers, Sultans and the Sun King himself – no one escapes the thrill that Angelique brings to 17th century France (and, in later books, Canada and the east Mediterranean). Anne Golon and her late husband, Serge, take the reader on a wild adventure full of romance, intrigue and even philosophy and alchemy – their depth of research is not overwhelming and instead it renders the period utterly real.
Sadly these books are out of print (though there are possible plans to re-print them now the legal battle between Anne Golon and her former publishers has been settled), but if you can get your hands on them (at the library, a second hand bookshop or a kind friend who’s willing to lend them out) I heartily recommend them.
(Though I’ll give a couple of warnings: there are different translations and I’ve noticed this makes a big difference to the quality of the writing in English; the beginning might not seem so promising, bear in mind that the novel was written before we became so demanding of our gripping openings and trust me when I say that it becomes utterly enthralling.)
Yes, yes, yes, Clare, but where do shoes come into this? Well, these spangly silken creations are from the height of the Sun King’s reign and with those dizzying heels in red leather, I’d suggest these are shoes fit for our indomitable Angelique.


Lynn Marecek and MaryAnne Anthony-Smith are Professors of Mathematics at Santa Ana College in Santa Ana, California, where they have each been honored with the college’s Distinguished Faculty Award. They have worked together on many projects focused on improving student learning in the developmental mathematics courses.
Lynn and MaryAnne each have three adult children. Years ago, while volunteering in their children’s classrooms, both Lynn and MaryAnne became fascinated at the methods they saw being used to develop mathematical concepts through the use of manipulatives. They decided to adapt these methods to the adult college learner, and obtained a number of grants to develop curriculum and purchase materials for the Santa Ana College developmental mathematics classes.
Recognizing a need to improve literacy as well as bolster math foundations, they wrote curriculum to link children’s math literature to the curriculum of the college Prealgebra course. Using any available funding they found, they purchased books for the college library. As an added benefit, the library’s books are used by children who come to the library with their college student parents!
Many college students have poorly developed study skills. Lynn and MaryAnne believe teachers of developmental mathematics should proactively assist their students in improving their study skills. To this end, they created study skills activities, which they call Strategies for Success and Take Charge of Your Success.
These projects have been integrated and unified into a cohesive textbook, Foundations of Algebra.
Lynn and MaryAnne have given presentations about the components of Foundations of Algebra at recent annual conferences of AMATYC, CMC3, CMC3-S, CalADE, NCTM, ICTCM, and On Course.


Students Access the Impressive Library of the World-Renowned MWP Arts Institute
The Library’s collection includes more than 30,500 fine art books, 35 art periodical subscriptions, 3,100 music CDs, 2,500 entertainment and educational videos, and 2,000 artists’ files.
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AMIP News Head Discusses Upcoming Obama Africa-Legacy Book with African Ambassadors in Washington
Photo by BNA – AMIP News
Wednesday June 29, 2016
AMIP News CEO, Mr. Frederick Nnoma-Addison today briefed the African Diplomatic Corps in Washington on progress on a commemorative book about President Obama’s engagement with Africa since 2009. AMIP News http://www.amipnewsonline.org/ is the publisher of The United States & Ghana -2010/2012, and The United States & Nigeria – 2010.
In his presentation, Mr. Nnoma-Addison explained that The United States & Africa: The Historical Legacy of the Obama Presidency – “is a detailed chronicle of the President’s engagement with Africa and African leaders, an important, national and international historic document, and a volume that highlights Africa in the United States”.
The United States & Africa is a joint production by AMIP News, and The Africa Society on the National Summit on Africa, http://www.africasummit.org/ now headed by veteran U.S. career diplomat, Ambassador Pamela E. Bridgewater (Retired) – former U.S. Ambassador to Benin, Ghana, and Jamaica.
In her introduction to the book Ambassador Bridgewater writes:
“Every U.S. President has engaged in initiatives aimed to impact and to improve U.S. and Africa relations, but President Obama’s are remarkable in many respects. This important publication will highlight the bold programs of the Obama years and the benefits they have yielded, and will yield for generations of Americans and Africans.”
– Pamela E. Bridgewater
The 300-page volume highlights some of President Obama’s most important policies, programs, and key initiatives like Power Africa, Feed the Future, and the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. It includes White House Fact Sheets, excerpts of the President’s speeches to Africans, statements by African leaders and governments during the historic U.S.-Africa Leadership Summit, bilateral meetings, state visits, and a collection of historic photographs.
Contributors to this historic volume include a number of African Presidents, African Union representatives, and government officials like Senator Richard Green “Dick” Lugar (Retired) – Chair of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (2003-2007). Ambassador Johnnie Carson (Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: 2009-2013), and Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield (Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: 2013-Present) shared information about the Administration’s engagement with Africa in separate interviews.
Concerning the significance of one of the President’s initiatives, Ambassador Carson remarked on June 15, 2016.
“The Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders formerly known as The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), has the potential to be for Africa what the Fulbright Scholarship program was to western Europe after the end of 2nd world war. It is of enormous importance and benefit to establishing ties with the next generation of African leaders… and I will give it high marks”
– Johnnie Carson
The United States & Africa is a culmination of extensive research, and over seven years of covering the Obama Administration’s engagement with Africa. Created with a large international audience in mind, it combines both human and national interest stories, and pictorially presents people, places, events, and common challenges and opportunities that Africans and Americans share.
The book will be launched in the United States in fall 2016, and promises to take an important place in international relations literature.


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We have a large regional library in our area, including a university city. The Friends of the Library have a big sale of used books twice a year. I donate my books to them. I rarely keep books to reread. I am a heavy user of the library, even more so since I retired. But I still can't help buying books, usually old ones that the library no longer has. Got to love the sellers of used books at Amazon.


Battle of the Bulge and Airborne Support | Kevin Hymel
General Omar Bradley
Battle of the Bulge
Join Bob Gould and his guest Kevin Hymel for a lively discussion of the Battle of the Bulge and Airborne military strategy.
It was Dec 16, 1944. The Allied front line extended 200 miles along the Belgium border with the 85 mile center of the salient defended by the 12th Infantry commanded by American General Omar Bradley. The Germans, with Walter Model as Field Marshall, launched what would be their last major campaign to break the Allied advancement in Europe, create a “bulge” in the Allied line and capture a water port for supplies.
Kevin Hymel, Author, Historian and General Patton biographer, will outline the triumphs and tragedies of this significant military battle.
Kevin Hymel Bio
Kevin Hymel is an historian for the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. He is also a Historian/Tour Guide for Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours and gives World War II tours on D-Day, the Band of Brothers and General George S. Patton’s battlefields. He has also been the Research Director for Sovereign Media which publishes WWII History and WWII History Quarterly Magazines, for which he continues to write articles.
He is a former historian for the U.S. Army’s Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he wrote on the war in Afghanistan. He is the author of Patton’s Photographs and Patton, Legendary World War II Commander. He has appeared on the History Channel, the American Heroes Channel, the Fox News Channel, C-SPAN and Book-TV, speaking about General George S. Patton and military history.
He has worked for more than 20 years for various military and military history magazines and journals, and has worked as a researcher for the National Archives and as an historian for an archaeology company. He holds a Master’s degree in American History from Villanova University.


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Okay, I admit it, I stole this quote from Fred Zackel's post on Rara-Avis this morning, but hey it's a great way of looking at what we read and write. But I've got to say that I'm still not tossing my Georgette Heyer's. A girl has to have a little laughter and romance in her reading once in a while!
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? ... But we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. That is my belief." (Franz Kafka to Oskar Pollak, January 27, 1904)


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Revenue Act Commentary
Sharraxaadda Xeerka Dakhliga
Here you will find a commentary on the Revenue Act no 72 of 2016.
Halkan waxad ka helaysaa nuqulka sharraxaya Xeerka Dakhliga ee 72/2016.
Nuqulkani waxa uu ku qoran yahay Af-Ingiriisi. Nuqulka Af-Soomaliga ahi wuu soo socdaa.
About taxpayer registration and TIN
This guide explains who should register and obtain a Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), what the benefits for business are, and how to register.
Guide to completing taxpayer registration form
Hab-raaca Diiwaangalinta Foom-ka Cashuur-bixiyaha
This guide explains how to complete the taxpayer registration form
Halkan waxad ka helaysaa sharraxaadda qodobada uu ka koobanyahay foomka diiwaangalinta cashuurbixiyaha.
About tax clearances
Tax clearance form and guidelines
This guide explains how to complete the form to apply for a tax clearance certificate and includes the form.
About Employment Income Tax (Payroll Tax)
This guide explains how the income tax withholding from employment income works, what it applies to, and how to work it out and comply with the law.
Payroll tax return form and guidelines
Hab-raaca Foom-ka Cashuurta Shaqaalaha
This guide explains how to complete the new employment income tax (payroll tax) form
Documnetkani wuxu ku tusayaa foomka cusub ee cashuurta shaqaalaha iyo sidaad loo buuxinayso.
Employment income tax (payroll tax) calculator
You can download an excel calculator from the link below. Enter the amounts of salary and benefits given during the month and the calculator works out the month’s employment income tax for that employee.


We have Bread, but no Health; we have Land, but no Freedom; we have "Peace," but no Truth. For Truth, Freedom and Health, we need Revolution. And, Revolution occurs when you set your goals for your life and understand what it takes to achieve those goals. This book will give you the practical understanding of the scientific principles of all systems to know the science to achieve any goal. Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai
The book is based on a scientific and systems theoretic understanding. Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai’s work at MIT and as a part of his Fulbright research on Siddha and Systems Biology resulted in recognizing the correlation between the lingua franca used in traditional systems of medicine and modern control systems engineering. Please click on the image below to read Dr. Ayyadurai's paper.
We at IJSSE are honored to bring this incredible work to the world of systems and medicine. This work demonstrates the power of a systems engineering approach to reveal the invariance of foundational engineering principles, across both cultural and temporal scales spanning 5,000 years.
This discovery is not based on a reductionist medical approach but on an engineering systems approach, and conclusively ends the age-old debate on whether Ayurveda and Siddha have scientific integrity. This ‘Rosetta Stone’ provides a much-needed gateway across east and west, ancient and modern, science and tradition, to illuminate western scientists and the modern world to the scientific foundation of Siddha and Ayurveda.
This is a seminal paper that unequivocally proves the scientific basis of Ayurveda and Siddha. The research demonstrates that the ancient scientists of India, over 5,000 years ago, independent of the Western world, discovered principles of systems science, the underpinnings of Ayurveda and Siddha as well as the underpinnings of modern systems engineering principles (which were defined by the West in the 1930s) that govern modern technologies from the thermostat to the spacecraft, as well as the functioning of the human body.
With great clarity, this paper reveals a direct one-to-one correlation between the terminology used by the ancient Rishis and Sages of India to describe Ayurveda and Siddha and the principles of western systems science. This discovery demonstrates the true genius of Ayurveda and Siddha.


Incredible Lego Ideas Pop-Up Book!
The first pop-up book in lego is here! In the book you can build two fairy tale stories Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and the Beanstalk. The set includes the minifigures Little Red Riding Hood, Grandmother, the Wolf in a grandma’s nightgown, Jack and the Giant plus information about pop-up books, the fairy tales and the designers. The book is 28 cm wide when its opened.
Of course only your own imagination stops you to create your own stories!


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Don't you just love to read? I sure do! :-)
I'm curious, what are some of your favorite books? I have quite a few books on my "to read" list but you can never have too many.
A few of my favorite books are:
Sovereign God For Us and Through Us - David Eells
Love & Respect - Dr. Emerson Eggerichs
Rachel's Tears - Beth Nimmo
Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free - Nancy Leigh Demoss
A Woman After God's Own Heart - Elizabeth George
Fountain Creek Chronicles (3 book set) - Tamera Alexander
I hope you all have a great weekend!


Renaissance and Reformation
For this section you will need to be familiar with the following:
Renaissance 1300 - 1600 CE
Begins in Italy and spreads throughout Europe.
Rebirth in art, science,thought and learning.
New interest in Classical civilizations - Greece & Rome.
Gutenberg invented the printing press.
Galileo studied space with the telescope.
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa & The Last Supper.
Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted David & Moses.
William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays.
Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation in 1517. He believed people should follow the Bible not the Pope. This is the start of the Protestant Church.
The Catholic Church was selling indulgences (buy a ticket to Heaven).
Henry VIII (Tudor) started the English Reformation and the Church of England in order to divorce his first wife and marry Anne Boylen.
Elizabeth I (daughter of Henry & Anne) she won against the Spanish Armada and brought great power and wealth to England.


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The Hardouyn Hours, a jewelled fifteenth-century prayer book in Trinity College Library belonged to Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to King Henry VIII, new research has found.
The most exciting Cromwell discovery in a generation – if not more.Tracy Borman
Hever Castle curator, Alison Palmer, recognised the bejewelled, silver gilt binding of Trinity’s Book of Hours from the famous portrait of Thomas Cromwell painted by Hans Holbein the Younger in 1532-3, which hangs in the Frick Collection in New York. Palmer then worked with colleagues Kate McCaffrey and Dr Owen Emmerson to uncover the mystery of the book’s ownership.
The researchers followed a provenance trail that links the book from its donor, Dame Anne Sadleir, directly back to Thomas Cromwell. A team of experts have reviewed the new evidence and are confident that this is the very same book in the Holbein painting and that it belonged to Thomas Cromwell.
The Hardouyn Hours is thought to be the only object from any Tudor portrait to survive to this day.
The team established that the book, printed in Paris by Germain Hardouyn in 1527 or 1528, would have been among the books left by Cromwell to his secretary and protege Ralph Sadleir.
The book came to Trinity from Dame Anne Sadleir who married the grandson of Cromwell’s secretary. Anne was the daughter of the eminent lawyer Sir Edward Coke, a member of Trinity. She donated this Book of Hours, along with Trinity’s best-known manuscript – The Trinity Apocalypse – to the College in 1660.
Trinity’s Librarian Dr Nicolas Bell has collaborated with researchers at Cambridge and beyond to find out more about the Hardouyn Hours.
Based on a note in the front of the book, the gems on the covers and clasps were thought to be jaspers or jacinths, but analysis by Joanna Symonowicz, a doctoral researcher working with Dr Giuliana Di Martino in the University’s Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, has used Raman spectroscopy to identify them as grossular garnets.
Michèle Bimbenet-Privat, formerly curator of metalwork at the Louvre in Paris, has confirmed that the silver gilt edging was made by Pierre Mangot, goldsmith to King Francis I of France. Mangot, who had moved to Paris the previous year from Blois, also made items for members of the Boleyn family. Mangot’s hallmark is the letter ‘M’ and a lower case ‘a’ tells us that the binding was made between December 1529 and 1530, in Paris, only a year or two after the book was printed.
The Holbein portrait celebrates Cromwell’s appointment as Master of the Jewel House which may explain why the Hardouyn Hours features so prominently.
Dr Nicolas Bell said: “This book of devotional prayers is remarkable for its unusually grand binding, covered with velvet, jewels and highly decorated silver gilt borders, all of which date from the time it was printed and illuminated. It has been enormously exciting to position this luxurious creation in the very centre of the court of Henry VIII, where we know that both Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn owned copies of the very same edition.”
Kate McCaffrey, from Hever Castle, said: “We now believe that Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, and Thomas Cromwell all owned a copy of the same prayer book… We are confident that this discovery will shed new light on the often-troubled relationship between these giants of the Tudor court.”
Dr Tracy Borman said it was: “The most exciting Cromwell discovery in a generation – if not more.”
Hever Castle recently exhibited Catherine of Aragon’s 1527 prayer book (on loan from the Morgan Library in New York) alongside Anne Boleyn’s 1527 Book of Hours.
The Hardouyn Hours will be on loan to Hever Castle for their exhibition Catherine & Anne: Queens, Rivals, Mothers which runs until 10 November 2023. This is the first time that the book has ever been lent by Trinity College since it was received on 10th August 1660.
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Statistical Physics. An Entropic Approach
This undergraduate textbook provides a statistical mechanical foundation to the classical laws of thermodynamics via a comprehensive treatment of the basics of classical thermodynamics, equilibrium statistical mechanics, irreversible thermodynamics, and the statistical mechanics of non-equilibrium phenomena. This timely book has a unique focus on the concept of entropy, which is studied starting from the well-known ideal gas law, employing various thermodynamic processes, example systems and interpretations to expose its role in the second law of thermodynamics. This modern treatment of statistical physics includes studies of neutron stars, superconductivity and the recently developed fluctuation theorems. It also presents figures and problems in a clear and concise way, aiding the student’s understanding.
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A Review of \’The Blessed Hope\’ by George E. Ladd
The appearance of this important volume on the return of the Lord just at the time of the completion of the study of “Premillennialism and the Tribulation” will be of such special interest to readers of Bibliotheca Sacra that it justifies an interruption of the series for this review. Dr. George E. Ladd, Professor of New Testament History and Biblical Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, in this his second book in the field of eschatology, ably pr
The appearance of this important volume on the return of the Lord just at the time of the completion of the study of “Premillennialism and the Tribulation” will be of such special interest to readers of Bibliotheca Sacra that it justifies an interruption of the series for this review. Dr. George E. Ladd, Professor of New Testament History and Biblical Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, in this his second book in the field of eschatology, ably presents a spirited defense of posttribulationism. According to Dr. Ladd himself, “The central thesis of this book is that the Blessed Hope is the second coming of Jesus Christ and not a pretribulation raptures” (p. 11, italics his). Dr. Ladd is recognized as a New Testament scholar and on occasion he has contributed articles to Bibliotheca Sacra. In offering this review, no personal criticism or discourtesy to the author is intended. The reviewer is convinced that the arguments of the book do not sustain adequately the posttribulational position, but Dr. Ladd is entitled to be heard. He has marshaled with unusual force the traditional arguments for the posttribulational theory. It is not too much to say that this is one of the best studies in support of posttribulationism which has appeared in book form for some time and will probably strengthen the cause of posttribulationism in contemporary conservative theology.
A number of important assumptions are basic to the point of view presented. While Dr. Ladd plainly champions posttribulationism, he explicitly assumes the premillennial interpretation of Scripture.
EATONTOWN, N.J. – A retired police officer was arrested and charged with trespassing this week for witnessing to patrons of a New Jersey mall. David Wells is a former corporal with the Long Branch Police Department, and over the past year, he has spent time sharing his faith at the Monmouth Mall in Eatontown. Wells says that he likes to distribute materials from Ray Comfort’s Living Waters Publications to shoppers in hopes that it will cause them to ponder matters of eternity.
Motorola’s vision of wearables extends beyond watches and spectacles into new consumer territory that would involve people wearing tattoos on their skin as supportive communication tools with their devices to improve sound. In this instance, according to a patent filing, Motorola is thinking in terms of a tattoo that is worn on the person’s throat. The patent is titled Coupling an Electronic Skin Tattoo to a Mobile Communication Device, first filed in May last year.
'Reign Of Terror': Islamist Rebels Target Citizen Journalists, 'I Swear To Allah Your Head Will Be Cut Off'
Islam. When it reigns, it pours. Blood. And lots of it ...
Qur'an Sura 8:12a, "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads ..."
AFP - "Al Qaeda is targeting citizen journalists in Syria's Raqa with a wave of kidnappings, beatings and assassinations aimed at silencing them, in what activists call a reign of terror.


Seth had to read Catcher in the Rye for English this past school year.
Catcher in the Rye, Catcher in the Rye. What is it that makes this particular book so beloved? A habit, a laziness, a patina of gold. If the point is to talk about growing up, dealing with the inevitable betrayal of adults as we all must, aren’t there perhaps one or two other books that might fit the bill? Featuring more modern teens, featuring girls, queers, people of color, people from other cultures, other classes?
I recently rediscovered Colson Whitehead, easily as good a writer as J. D. Salinger (oooh, it felt deliciously naughty to write that!!). What about his novel Sag Harbor? The narrator is a middle class black boy from New York City whose family owns a house in Sag Harbor where they always spend the summer. He is an outsider, smart, horny, lost, observant, funny, flawed, lonely, vulnerable, sweet. It’s a story about growing up in America. It’s an anecdote to too much Catcher in the Rye and A Separate Peace and The Great Gatsby and even to To Kill A Mockingbird. White people holding forth, their stories presented as quintessentially American, the only stories that matter, still drowning out other voices after all these years.
Seth just got his wisdom teeth out, and on the waiting room table was a copy of Essence in which I read an excellent article about Prince and a poignant column by Melissa Harris-Perry about music and parenting a middle school girl, a child of color attending a mostly white school. http://www.essence.com/2014/05/05/melissa-harris-perry-listening-sessions
I pointed out to Seth that the magazine display is a political choice, but this was after the extraction and he may not have been paying much attention. Then again, he probably was, given that this is the surly lad who got a B- on his final English speech for not addressing the topic (“What is the American Dream?” “How do the authors we read this year define happiness?”). Instead, he busted out a fiery rant, challenging the English Department to step up and assign more relevant books, ending by referencing the school’s logo (a stylized version of a sculpture of an American Indian), saying that people are not mascots or symbols, and that if the students read stories by folks other than straight, white men or boys, the hurtful and racist logo might have been questioned and done away with by now.
Ok, to me, that’s a fucking A fucking plus. And the two kids of color in his class came up afterwards to thank him. Double A plus.
I’m glad that Seth is proving an ally to the kids of color in his mostly-white school, but even more, I hope he is learning that paying attention to issues of inequity and systemic racism is going to make him – Mr. White Boy – a better person. White people go around acting like fools, and it’s not only embarrassing, it’s soul crushing. To people of color, it goes without saying, but also to the white people themselves. I just read about this exhibit in New York where white people were particularly egregious at an exhibit pointing up the extreme toll the sugar industry took on people of color (http://www.indypendent.org/2014/06/30/why-i-yelled-kara-walker-exhibit). I couldn’t help thinking that those folks all probably read Catcher in the Rye in high school and perhaps truly had no reference point for thinking about an other-than-white life experience or history and no good reason for educating themselves as adults. (Or maybe they’re all assholes, says Tex, also a good point.)
Which (finally) brings me to Mark Spitz. “Mark Spitz” is the nickname of the main character in another Colson Whitehead book, Zone One, his take on the zombie apocalypse. There is nothing more delicious to me than books where my life-long loves of fuck-up-the-man, politics, anti-racism, feminism, queerness, science fiction, post-apocalyptic survival, and horror intersect, and not many people can do it. Fledgling by Octavia Butler comes to mind, and I would have to think long and hard to dredge up some others. But Zone One comes close. For as long as it took me to read it, I lived with Mark Spitz, heart and soul. I miss him so much, even now.
That is the mark of a good novel, of course, that you are left wanting more, and that the characters live on in your heart and imagination. Although perhaps not on the best seller list, those novels really are plenty thick on the ground, novels written by authors who are any combination of not white, not straight, not male, not able-bodied, not rich or even middle class. I’m not holding my breath that membes of our suburban high school English Department will suddenly see the light and kick back against decades of stultifying tradition, but I’m proud of Seth for calling them out. And for continuing to educate himself outside their narrow parameters: he’s about half way through Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony as we speak.
Real education for white people is out there, but it’s up to us to do that work. It’s up to us to question tradition. It’s up to us to open our hearts and minds and stop being so ignorant. It’s up to us to keep reading.


There are many great students who have done some extraordinary things during their school years at Cope.
For this article, I interviewed a particular student. I interviewed her because she used her talent to accomplish a goal… to publish a book.
Just a couple of months ago, 8th grader Caroline Caballero finally became a newly published author! After almost a year of working on her book, “Dark Horizon,” she was finally able to publish it. “Dark Horizons” is a story written from the perspective of a group of lynxes. Two lynx sisters, Horizon and Feather, journey together along with three other lynxes. They soon learn that they are the Chosen Ones. They must work together and overcome obstacles in order to defeat two evil awoken spirits before it’s too late.
I read the book myself when it first came out on Amazon. Honestly, the book was amazing. I got hooked on the book because it was so thrilling and filled with adventure. I definitely recommend this book, especially if you need a book to help you get through quarantine. Now, let’s get to the interview.
On September 5th, 13 year old Caroline published her first book on Amazon.
She stated that she originally wanted to publish her book in Barnes & Noble. Unfortunately, they only worked with people 18+ years old. According to Caroline, she did all of the research and work for publishing her book all on her own, with some tips from a friend!
Caroline first started on her book in 2019. When asked why she wrote “Dark Horizons,” she responded, “I don’t know if there was a reason for it. I just had a journal to write it in, and then I decided to type it into a story because I wanted to share it.”
As mentioned before, Caroline used lynxes as the main characters of the story. When asked why, she replied, “Lynxes were a cross between Warrior Cats fiction and wolf stories. Lynxes are strong animals and aren’t typically used.” If you didn’t know, Caroline is a big fan of the Warrior Cats series by Erin Hunter, which inspired her to write fanfiction and even her own stories from an animal’s perspective.
When Caroline was creating her main characters, she described them as drafts that developed themselves over time into better characters. There were even a couple of characters that Caroline didn’t consider adding in the story at first. There are seven main characters: the five protagonists, also known as the Chosen Ones, are sisters Horizon and Feather, Reed, Frost, and Crow. As mentioned before, the Chosen Five were chosen to defeat the two awoken evil spirits. These two villians are known as Blood and Stone. Caroline commented that she was very proud after creating these two characters. Lastly, there’s always a Dumbledore in stories like there, or in other words, that wise person. In this story, Night is a wise spirit who guides the Chosen Ones. She’s the enemy of the two villains Blood and Stone, and has defeated them before. But as time passes by, Night doesn’t have the ability to send Blood and Stone back to where they belong, which is why it’s up to the Chosen Ones to fulfill the prophecy.
While writing the book, Caroline stated that she was annoyed with her past-self for writing in unnecessary parts in the original story, but other than that, she was very excited while writing her book. When asked what her favorite part of the book was, she eagerly replied, “Definitely the end…I am very proud of the ending.”
Once Caroline finally finished her book, she felt very proud of it, and was hopeful that people would like it. For her book, Caroline drew an amazing cover. It’s supposed to be Night’s face, along with five stars beneath her, which represent the Chosen Ones. Geez, not only is she a talented writer, but she’s also a fantastic artist!
Caroline was asked if there would be a sequel to her book, and she replied, “There is an idea for it, but it would definitely be deeper than the first one.” I personally think that Caroline’s first book deserves to be part of a series. Caroline even considered writing other books other than Dark Horizons.
Lastly, Caroline wanted to offer a few words of wisdom. “It’s actually something that you wrote, Lilus,” Caroline said as she pulled out a journal. The journal she held in her hands contained the first few drafts of her story Dark Horizons. It was the journal I gave to her as a gift, and in it, I wrote at the very end of my letter, “Turn your CAN’Ts into CANs. Turn you DREAMS into PLANS.” (Lilus Montes 2019)
Alright, not to toot my own horn , but, wow, those were some real pearls of wisdom.
To conclude, Caroline got to become a professional young, talented writer. Next time you hear from her, she would’ve sold her bestseller book series to all types of readers.
*If you’re interested in reading Caroline’s book, be sure to check out the link below!
OR just look up “Dark Horizons by Caroline Caballero” on Amazon


Go to the winter woods; listen there, watch, and ''the dead months"will give you a subtler secret than you have yet found in the forest.
-Fiona Macleod, Where The Forest Murmurs
Susan's 2014 Schedule
- Pleasant & Practical Herbs for the Home landscape
Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
Location: Marshall District Library, 124 West Green Street
Fee: Free but pre-registration is necessary.
- Michigan Herb Associates Annual Conference
“A Sensory Approach to Herbs”
Friday and Saturday, March, 7 and 8, 2014, Michigan Sate University
Friday: Native Treasures: Tales from the Plant Kingdom
Saturday: Happy & Healthful Herbs: Practical Plants for Pleasure & Purpose,
The conference will feature programs on herb culture, design, aromatherapy, household use and cooking. educational displays, garden and plant vendors, herbal treats and fun fellowship. For more information please visit the Michigan Herb Associates webpage : http://www.miherb.org
- International Herb Day Celebration
Hidden Lake Gardens, Tipton,Michigan
Saturday, April26, 2014, 11:00 AM-3:00 PM
Herb Day is an international celebration of herbs and herbal products. This one-day event is aimed at educating and sharing ideas about the many ways herbs bring joy and well being into our daily lives. More details coming soon!


Bay Psalm book is most expensive printed book at $14M
Sotheby’s does it again with another record-breaking item they had auctioned off. Last Tuesday night, a US financier and philanthropist had bought the Bay Psalm Book at $14M.
According to www.bbc.co.uk:
A tiny book of psalms has been sold at auction in New York for more than $14M, making it the world’s most expensive printed book.
The high value of the small book comes from its rarity and historical relevance. It is one of only 11 copies that remain out of the 1,700 that were originally printed and the Bay Psalm is the first known book to be printed in the United States. Bay Psalm Book was published by the Puritan leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in Cambridge.
In 1947, a copy of the Bay Psalm Book was sold for $151,000 which made a record for that period. Still, the record for most expensive book ever remains with Leonardo da Vinci’s handwritten notebook, sold in 1994 for $30.8M.
What do you think of the most expensive printed book?


Yesterday on Twitter, quintenttsy was all, "Have come to the conclusion that the world is in need of a bandom/Narnia fusion. I don't even LIKE Narnia." (I'd link to the specific Tweet, but I can't figure out how.) And I thought to myself, why not? It doesn't even have to be Wardrobe fic. It could be Horse and His Boy fic! But then I remembered that A Horse and HIs Boy was my LEAST favorite Narnia book, and I didn't really want to go all Apocafic and End Of Days with The Last Battle (which IS my favorite - "Further up and farther in!"), so instead...somehow.... I ended up writing fic for her instead of doing learning-type things, and the final result was dryad!William and his buddy, satyr!Michael? And it takes place in one of the 1000 years between Wardrobe and Caspian, I think.
Yeah, not entirely sure how that happened. But it's got coverart, too!
ETA (03/27/12): There is a podfic of this story, and quintenttsy made it. You should totally go listen to her read it, right now!
Some Melodious Plot
A Narnia/TAI fusionfic for quintenttsy, written by reena_jenkins, rated PG, no warnings, et cetera
(Title from the John Keats quote: "Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees / In some melodious plot / of beeches green, and shadows numberless / Singest of summer in full-throated ease.")
They say that Aslan was there the day the world was born. That his breath roared over the hills and rose the sun into the sky, that his steps caused the grass and trees to grow, that the shake of his mane brought order to the chaos of the new world and set it into being. They say that Aslan walks not just between countries, between Archenland and Narnia and over the waves of the Eastern Ocean all the way to Terebinthia, but between worlds as well. That as long as he walks on Narnian shores, their land will ever prosper and dryads grow ever taller in the sunlight.
Aslan has always been William's favorite story - the Eastern Emperor is too abstract, too far removed from him to make for good tales, and the Kings and Queens of Narnia too Human with their foibles and follies to relate, but Aslan… Aslan is more Narnian than Narnians themselves, William thinks, if he was there at the beginning of the world.
William's favorite story of Aslan, he thinks, is Aslan's victory over the White Witch at Aslan's How. It seems that Aslan has forever been locked in struggle with her, as the White Witch has many names - Jadis, the Empress of Charn, the Lady of the Green Kirtle - and a power to rival his. Yet, like all good stories, prevailing through setbacks and loss, the hero wins in the end - and so, Aslan always emerges victorious. At Aslan's How, he defeated the White Witch not through his great strength - for a Lion always has great strength - but through his compassion. This is the best part of Aslan of all, William thinks - that he cares so much for the people of Narnia that he might die for them.
William first heard the tale of Aslan's How as a sapling. His mother, perhaps, or an Aunt, had whispered the words to him on the gentle wind, her branches and leaves a soft susurration as she told him that story. The life of a hamadryad finds great solace in stories, William thinks. Dryads are a quiet folk, as a whole, never wandering far, and never raising much commotion - but stories…stories take William beyond the grove where he first sprouted, and lend him a view of the greater, wider, wilder Narnia in which he grows.
It is difficult for a hamadryad to have adventures. William can leave his tree if he must, but cannot venture far. He's heard that other dryads can leave all they want, go wherever and do whatever, but William is part and parcel to his tree. He can step away from his strong truck and his protective bark, but without them William is delicate, little more than glimmer and wind. He can leave behind his gracefully draping branches and quietly murmuring leaves, but without them William is only faintly Man-shaped, willowy as his tree but far less able to withstand a storm. In winter, William's mind slows down along with his sap, and in Spring, he perks back up to sharp-tongued eloquence. It pangs, too, when he goes too far or too long - and upon returning to his tree, William is far less likely to leave again for whiles and whiles. This is why stories are so important to William - they give him the adventures he cannot find himself, the knowledge he cannot learn at home in his grove.
William's mother - or maybe his Aunt - might have told him his favorite story, but Michael tells William the best stories. Michael is a satyr, and lives sometimes in the woods further down the river that flows tangent to William's grove. Truth be told, Michael and William did not begin as friends of an unlikely sort at all - Michael had stopped beneath Wlliam's branches to relieve himself, not even stopping to check if William were a tree or a Tree, and so William had dropped a branch on his head in retaliation for the indignity. Truly - who wants satyr urine all over their nicely lichened bark? But after all the shouting had died down, and Michael had realized that it was a person who he had turned into his own personal latrine, and both had apologized to the other at the insistence of William's mother, it was revealed in due course that Michael had had many adventures - and even more tales to tell, from his visits to far-off lands.
In one such tale, told slowly as the winter months approached and William grew less able to leave his tree for long stretches of time, Michael told William of how he learned to play the lyre. He had traveled all the way to Anvard in Archenland, and picked up both the instrument and several songs along the journey. The words were slow and deep, soft and ponderous, and perfect for William's countenance as his leaves fell and the ground grew harder. Michael sat beneath William's branches for much of that winter, playing him songs on the lyre and listening as William sang along as best he could, with branches stiffening under frost.
Satyrs are certainly not a sedentary race, but perhaps Michael would have been better off born a naiad for all the waterways he frequents - he has put his hooves in the River Shribble, and has crossed the Fords of Beruna, and has even seen the castle overlooking the beaches at Cair Paravel - though, perhaps, a naiad would have more trouble playing his beloved lyre so beautifully with watery fingers. Michael travels often, but he always returns eventually to William with new stories, new adventures, new tales to tell. He brings new songs with him, upon his returns to William's grove, and takes William's verses, those songs the two of them have made together over long winters' months, with him when he leaves again. And one day, Michael is going to meet the great Aslan himself, and he will come home to tell William all about it in the most wonderful story of all.


This paper attempts set forth systematically some of the knowledge questions that determine certain strategies for institutional change.
This paper, written upon request for the UNDP volume on Capacity for Development and in time for a big conference in Mexico on the topic, is a good brief summary of my then forthcoming book, Helping People Help Themselves –even if I was screwed out of a sizable honorarium by one of the editors, Malik.
After the dissent-motivated departures of Joseph Stiglitz, Ravi Kanbur, and now Bill Easterly, even “the most casual observer” can begin to “connect the dots” and see that the Bank is having a problem handling dissent and criticism coming from internal sources. This editorial in the World Bank Staff Association Newsletter traces the problem to the organizational stance of taking “Official Views” on the complex questions of development–thereby mixing power and truth to the detriment of the latter.
This survey of the literature on migration and development was my last written product before retiring from the World Bank. But the results of years of documented experience is that migration leads to poverty alleviation (remittances) but not development. This is not the message that the Bank wants to hear so the results are largely ignored.
The major development agencies have ex cathedra “Official Views” (with varying degrees of explicitness) on the complex and controversial questions of development. At the same time, knowledge is now more than ever recognized as key to development—in the idea of a “knowledge bank” or knowledge-based development assistance. I argue that these two practices are in direct conflict—much as making Lysenko’s views as “Official Soviet Science” was in conflict with the progress of the science of genetics in the Soviet Union. When an agency attaches its “brand name” to certain Official Views, then it is very difficult for the agency to also be a learning organization or to foster genuine learning in the clients.
This is a presis of my book Helping People Help Themselves: From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance. (U. of Michigan Press, 2005) I explore several principles or themes of a theory of autonomy-compatible assistance and show how these themes arise in the work of various authors in rather different fields.


8. Finding Me – Viola Davis
Viola Davis has always been one of my favorite actresses in Hollywood. I was completely hooked on her show How to get away with murder last year because her acting was top tier.
When I heard she was releasing a memoir, I knew it was something that I wanted to read.
This book was so much more than what I thought it would be.
In the book she takes us through her life. All the way back to when she was a child living in poverty, her struggles with bullies, her relationships with her siblings as well as her parents and so much more.
This book took me through all of the emotions. I laughed, cried, felt anger, happiness, and I felt proud when she spoke about making her dreams come true as an actress.
When I finished this book I immediately knew it would wind up on the favorites list.
If you are looking for a memoir that will stick with you, I recommend reading Finding Me.
7. Daisy Darker – Alice Feeney
I actually recently finished Daisy Darker and I have to say it really surprised me. I love murder mystery stories but I have been let down by other murder mystery books in the past so I decided to give this book a try.
I had very low expectations for this book and I must admit that I didn’t pay it my full attention when I was reading it because I didn’t think it would be that great.
This book follows our main character Daisy Darker.
Daisy has legally died multiple times and been brought back to life due to a heart condition she’s had since she was a child.
In the story Daisy and her family are all invited to their grandmothers house on the night before Halloween. The house is on an island, so no one can leave until the next morning when it is low tide.
One by one, family members begin to turn up dead.
This sounds like a fun story and I should have put more energy listening to it. I woke up one morning and decided to finish the last 35 minutes of the book before getting out of bed.
I was SHOCKED.
This book has a twist that I didn’t see coming.
Also twists like this are my favorite kind of twists.
The ending of the book was incredible in my opinion.
If you want a thriller with a good twist at the end, read Daisy Darker.
6. A thousand Ships – Natalie Haynes
I read this book early in the year and immediately fell in love with it. By this point you might already know that I am absolutely obsessed with Greek Mythology so it is no surprise that I loved this book. A Thousand Ships tells the tale of the Trojan war from the perspective of the women.
When I heard of this I knew it would be interesting because I’ve always only heard about the war from the men and in books like The Odyssey and The Iliad.
This book completely blew me away. I already knew a lot of these stories going into the book but the detail is amazing and the writing in the book is absolutely breathtaking.
5. Haunting Adeline – H.D. Carlton
I decided to step outside of my comfort zone and read a dark romance this year. I got more than I bargained for but in the best way. This story follows Adeline who has a stalker who finds his way in her home. Adeline is also trying to solve the mystery of her grandmothers murder as well.
This book is extremely dark and deals with a lot of heavy issues. The trigger warnings at the beginning are there for a reason. This story is not for everyone.
The spicy scenes were so well done and honestly this book was hot.
4. Twisted Games – Ana Huang
Neon Gods was actually the first spicy romance that I ever read. I wasn’t into romance books before because I stumbled upon romantic comedies and they were all easily forgettable.
I was introduced to Ana Huang and the Twisted series via Tik Tok so I decided to give them a try.
All four of the books are 4 and 5 star reads, but Twisted Games is my favorite.
The story is about a Princess named Bridget who falls in love with her body guard, Rhys. It was steamy, and romantic. I loved every minute of this book and the other books in the series as well.
3. Neon Gods – Katee Robert
I wasn’t ready for this book. In the beginning of the year I discovered Katee Robert. She is honestly one of the queens of spice. Her books are extremely sexy and the spice scenes are absolutely amazing.
The best part is that this book feeds into my Greek Mythology addiction because it is about a modern day Hades and Persephone.
Everything about this book is amazing and if you decide to give it a read I suggest listening to the audiobook. It is a dual POV book which are the best when it comes to romance. Hearing both of their voices adds to the experience.
2. Stone Blind – Natalie Haynes
Medusa. I found out about this book a while ago before it was published and I heard that it was going to be released in September.
Well it was released in September…but only in the U.K.
The book isn’t set to be released in the U.S. until February 2023. I couldn’t handle that. I went into my amazon settings and temporarily changed my location to the U.K. And I was able to access the book via kindle that way.
This book was everything I was hoping for and more. I have always felt like Medusa was a very misunderstood character and I was excited to learn more about her story.
Not only did we learn more about her story, but we also got to follow her severed head as Perseus used it for his benefit. We also briefly get the story from the POV of the snakes on her head. It was quite the adventure and perfect for my because I’m a mythology lover.
I also realized that Natalie Haynes has 2 books in my top 8. Fascinating!
1. The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
Where do I even begin with this book? I should tell you that this is a re-read. I read The Song of Achilles in 2021.
I loved it last year and it really stuck with me so much so that I decided to re-read it this year. Re-reading a book that you loved the first time can be risky because you don’t know if you are going to enjoy it as much as you did before.
This book though…
I loved it so much more the second time around. I love Greek Mythology, so the cast of characters and the story of this is like a drug to me.
The writing is unmatched and it is truly a feast for the imagination.
This book tells the story of Achilles’s life from when he was a child all the way through the Trojan war.
It is incredible and I highly recommend.
My Favorite Movies
I watched a lot of movies this year. Some in the theaters but most at home on streaming services. I enjoy movies but I do prefer books.
There were 2 movies that really stood out for me this year!
1.Don’t worry Darling
I’ve always been obsessed with the 1950’s era. I love the fashion and I like the music. I also love the show Black Mirror because it is mind bending.
When I found out there was a movie that was described as black mirror set in the 1950’s I was instantly excited.
There was a lot of drama surrounding this movie when it was released and
2.The Gray Man