Books are the treasure of knowledge and education and so to inculcate the habit of reading among the students. Our school has a well equipped library with various types of books. A profession librarian is appointed to maintain the library. Books on fiction, human, dictionary, and encyclopedia are available to the students during and after the school hours.
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Click here for 35 full quotes from Barack Obama in the book From Promise to Power, by David Mendell. OR click on an issue category below for a subset. BOOK REVIEW by OnTheIssues. org:. This book, published in August 2007, is a general review of Obama's career by a Chicago reporter who has been following Obama's career since the State Senate days.
Элегантный аромат начинается радостным фейерверком. Плавно замедляясь, он переходит в центральную ноту королевской белой лилии с ее. Of Promises Past (Секретный). Посмотрите эпилог с Артиной.. The Power of Creation Compels You (Секретный). Впервые отредактируйте карту. Элегантный аромат начинается радостным фейерверком. Плавно замедляясь, он переходит в центральную ноту королевской белой лилии с ее.
Reporters tend to write analytical books that explore the candidate's background, and local reporters tend to expose parts of the candidate's background which the national audience is unaware of. This book accomplishes both of those -- as such, it's the first unbiased biography for this campaign season -- although more are sure to follow. This book is mostly a critique of Dreams From My Father (Obama's biography). Therefore it's the same type of book for Obama as A Woman in Charge and Her Way is for Hillary Clinton (those two books reviewed in detail Hillary's biography, Living History ). The two Hillary analyses were met with a large-scale book tour, and massive press attention -- but this book about Obama was not.
I suppose that reflects that, in 2007, Hillary's winning the Democratic primary seemed inevitable. Now that the inevitably is shattered, you can be a well-informed voter by comparing this book with the two Hillary analyses. The author of this book, David Mendell, has been a Chicago Tribune reporter since 1998, before Obama's rise to national celebrity. Here is an excerpt that expresses Mendell's core viewpoint about Obama's rise, and explains, in Mendell's view, why Obama has become so much more personally popular than Hillary:. "Obama was, in his own words, "a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views," or that the higher he soared, the more this politician spoke in well-worn platitudes and the more he offered warm, feel-good sentiments lacking a precise framework.
Как воспользоваться Norton Virus Protection Promise, если есть подозрения, что Загрузка и запуск средства Norton Power Eraser. ISBN 0-9663223-0-4; A Father Who Keeps His Promises, Servant Publications, Swear to God : The Promise and Power of the Sacraments, Doubleday, 2004.
We'll let our excerpts and the author's own self-description say the rest -- here is an excerpt that exemplifies the author's attitude towards Obama:. Page 12, About Obama's 2004 speech at the Democratic National Convention:. "Having covered Obama for the Chicago Tribune since the early days of his U. candidacy more than nine months before, I had already established a rapport with the senator, and I was mostly trying to stay out of the way and watch the day unfold, watch the story of Barack Obama unfurl.
Still, as a skeptical newspaper reporter, I was not completely convinced that, by day's end, all would come out well. I was still trying to gauge if this strut was something of an act, whether his winning free throw would clang on the rim and bounce away or whether he was on the verge of hitting nothing but net and making a national name for himself. I attended that same speech, with an OnTheIssues. org press pass to the convention, and I shared Mendell's skeptical viewpoint that day. Most of the convention delegates were predicting that this guy, a barely-known not-quite-elected Senator, would show his stuff and would be a likely contender for president, while the reporters withheld judgement to wait and see how he did before his first national audience.
I watched Obama's speech from the press box, just a few feet behind his right shoulder, and I was not very impressed -- mostly because I could barely hear what he was saying over the roaring crowd. Obama's staff delivered the speech transcript to those in the press box, and reading along with Obama was the only way I could follow the speech at all.
I left the convention feeling that the DELEGATES sure loved him, but I suspected that the VOTERS would feel more like I did. Then I got home, to my roommate all aglow -- "Did you see His speech?" (one could hear the capital H). "He's definitely running for president! And he's definitely going to win!" My roommate was just a regular voter, not a ga-ga delegate at all -- so I watched the recorded speech on television with him, to try to understand his perspective. Live, Obama started each sentence while the crowd was still applauding his previous sentence -- talking over the roar of the crowd, making his speech unheard by the crowd. On TV, Obama started each sentence just as the crowd's roar was starting to die down -- because the directional TV microphones picked up Obama more than they picked up the crowd.
The timing and delivery felt perfect on TV; live, the delivery felt rushed and like the audience was ignored. The TV version was indeed a brilliant speech.
The live version was not. That's Obama's greatest strength -- he knows how to deliver a speech so that the emotion of the speech is felt by the audience.
Obama knew that the REAL audience for this speech was the millions of people on TV, not the thousands in the convention hall, and certainly not the mere hundreds in the press box. And he "hit nothing but net" with the voters, if not the press. That speech is how Obama became nationally known -- and hence provides the reason this book became possible, and the reason Obama's presidential campaign became possible. So read this book with the understanding that the press don't always get it like the voters do.
--Jesse Gordon, jesse@ontheissues. org, April 2008. OnTheIssues.
org excerpts: (click on issues for details).


"Truly have the sages said that to cherish a base (unholy) character is to give one's honor to the wind, and to involve one's own self in embarrassment."
- Persian fable Scorpion and the Turtle,
(precursor to The Scorpion and the Frog)
Are you the frog or the scorpion in the Frog and the Scorpion?
The fable where the scorpion cons the frog to take it across the river, then stings it half way across.
When the frog asked why the scorpion would do such a thing, the scorpion replied that it was just his nature.
Do you realize both the frog and the scorpion drown?
So are you the frog or the scorpion?


External modules are normal modules, which
contains information about external object/library files. Currently
global variables, procedures and linked library functions.
Global variables in external files are defined with 'EDEF' keyword, with this syntax:
Syntax is completely same as with DEF. Only don't
forget that arrays are derived to pointers.
External procedures are defined in the same was as normal procedures,
but leading with 'EPROC' instead of
'PROC'. All arguments and all return types
must be defined:
EPROC <name>(<args>) [ (<result>) ]
where <name> is the external procedure
name, <args> are fully typed variable
names (names are skipped by PowerD), <result>
must be the same as in the procedure definition. If you write an
external definition of C compiled function, use LPROC
instead of EPROC keyword.
Linked library functions:
Linked library functions are defined in same way as external procedures,
but leading with 'LPROC' instead of 'EPROC'.


E-Book: Conjugation Manual of Slovenian Verbs from A to Ž
We are excited to announce the release of our first e-book, the Conjugation Manual of Slovenian Verbs from A to Ž.
The Conjugation Manual of Slovenian Verbs is a practical language learning tool. It will help you find all conjugations for many of the verbs in Slovenian (more than 150 verbs), and includes all forms for the present, past and future tense, as well as the conditional and imperative.
In short, it’s a reference guide for knowing how to conjugate a host of Slovenian verbs, which we hope will be a valuable companion language learning tool, for beginners and advanced alike.


Gender Warriors is a work-in-progress of color and b&w archival pigment
prints of masculine females. The series poses several questions, including; Why is
there a societal need for gender normative presentation? Who and what do gender normative
presentations serve? Why are those who do not conform to gender normative identities
and presentations targets for discrimination and violence?
Fierce Sistahs! The Activism, Art & Community of Bay Area
Lesbians of Color 1975 - Present is an exhibition
consisting of four decades of photographs and ephemera
the Bay Area lesbian of color community.
are available to schools, college campuses, galleries, libraries and
community groups. For more info. contact: (510) 229-7578 or
began as a self-portrait series of ten b&w
silver gelatin and mixed media prints exploring the intersections of race,
gender and the natural environment. The series has expanded to include
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Popping the Bubble: Creating Community Across the COVID Chasm
Building off Imagine Fox Cities’ successful Community Conversations series on race, racism and anti-racism, Imagine Fox Cities, in partnership with Appleton Public Library, is proud to announce its second Community Conversations series on class, privilege and allyship. We invite you to lend your voice to the virtual conversation by registering at the links below.
Utilizing Imagine Fox Cities’ new discussion guides on class, privilege and allyship, facilitators will help participants examine their own biases and learn about our community from a different lens. We hope you will join us!
Bank of Kaukauna
Boldt Family Fund
Community First Credit Union
David & Rita Nelson Family Fund
Miller Electric Mfg. Co.
SECURA Insurance Company
U.S. Venture/Schmidt Family Foundation
United Way Fox Cities


The Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists (SCAA) represents the Saskatchewan archival community in the Canadian archival system, and is responsible for developing a cooperative and successful archival network in Saskatchewan, encouraging the establishment of new archives in Saskatchewan, promoting and developing standard archival policies and practices, and promoting public understanding and use of archives and historical resources in Saskatchewan.
SCAA adheres to the definitions set forth in the Canadian Council of Archives (CCA) Constitutions and Bylaws when determining institutional membership.
The Council offers workshops and other educational programs and an Archival Advisory Service providing advice and assistance to archives; and maintains the Saskatchewan Archival Information Network, a network of information about archival holdings in Saskatchewan, including virtual exhibits, descriptions of archival collections, and a photo database.
DIGITAL PRESERVATION WORKSHOP: The SCAA will be bringing in Jeremy Heil, Digital and Private Records Archivist at Queen's University, to present. Watch the Professional Development page for further details provided by the presenter!
SCAA Grant Programs
The deadline for IGP PROJECT PROPOSALS was Friday December 16 Thank you to the 14 applicants who submitted 16 applications to the 2017-18 Grant Program
The deadline for ARCHIVES WEEK 2017 grant requests was Friday December 16
ARCHIVES WEEK 2017 is February 5-11. See the Archives Week page for additional details
MARCH 10, 2017 Has been set as the cut off for 2016-17 applications to the SCAA's Professional Development. See the Funding Programs page for details
Newsletter OUTSIDE the BOX
The SCAA Newsletter "OUTSIDE the BOX" Spring 2016 issue!
Thanks to the efforts of Editor Stevie Horn, with the help of the SCAA Communications Committee and other contributors, the SCAA is pleased to announce the Spring 2016 issue of the SCAA Newsletter.
If you wish a printed version please feel free to contact scaa
- Annual General Meetings (AGM)
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- Directory of Archives in Saskatchewan
- Grants and Funding
- Institutions Virtual Exhibits
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- SCAA Virtual Exhibits
- Youth Heritage Fairs
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Last night after the budget presention from the Law Department, I was reminded of the Surrogate Court Judge debate happening over at the Albany Public Library. I hooked a ride up the hill with Mr. Herring and arrived just a couple of minutes late for what was the most congenial “debate” I’ve ever attended. Are ya wondering why? Well, even though there are three candidates in that race, Margaret Adkins, Kate Doyle and Helena Heath Roland….only two showed for the debate.
Guess which two. (Hey, I already told you it was congenial!)
First, I’ve got to tell you that library auditorium was the coldest I’ve ever felt it and I’ve spent a lot of time in there…come on library, you built all those new libraries and you leave this one to die a slow death.
(Aside: I was in the library the other day when a guy came in looking like a journalist….camera in tow. He saddled up to a table and watched the goings on. With telephone calls being loudly conducted, people sleeping, folks walking like they are in a carnival…chatting it up…did I say loudly. The guy seemed stunned as he watched each time us quiet patrons gazed in the direction of one of the parties. Then he went to the desk and had them call down the Director. Seems he knew her and I overheard her saying something like “oh, don’t look at this library….go look at the lovely libraries we just built. I got the feeling he was noting the carnival atmosphere taking over the main library. I guess this journalist guy left to go look at the prettier and more polite parts of the library system. Why can’t this be fixed, it’s frustrating that the library in our neighborhood is out of control.)
So, the frozen solid debaters sat beside a frozen solid facilitator from the League of Women Voters and 17 freezing people in the audience listened to each of the candidates “debate.” Since I was a little late, I’m going to have to start from the point I entered.
Each was asked how has their prior experience has helped them prepare to be Surrogate Judge. Ms. Adkins was up first and she explained that as a lawyer, she has prepared wills and trusts, she has the education and training and has been a town judge. Kate politely says, she has been in Surrogate Court 21 years and prior to that she was with the District Attorney’s office and in her current role she has also acted judicial in Supreme Court.
The next question is something about an APA which both candidates “together” first, figure out what this audience member’s question is and the, together they explain that it has nothing to do with Surrogate Court. (If you followed that link you know that the APA has nothing to do with the Adirondacks but everything to do with the Administrative Procedures Act governing how things are done within agencies.) According to these two extremely distinguished debaters, the Surrogate Court operates based on that big green book of rules Kate Doyle carries in her purse, the New York Estates, Powers and Trusts Law and a whole library of other stuff but not the APA which applies to agencies.
The facilitator asks each what shortcomings each had to overcome to be a good judge….both answer…patience. Seems that “ditto” was the response of the evening as each shake and shiver in the cold air. What will you do about the length of time it takes for cases?” Kate takes a breath and in her exhale she says…”nothing.” (I’m sure HHR would have aggressively sought to shorten that time frame to rounds of cheering from her easily manipulated devotees.) Kate goes on to say that there is a misconception that cases go on and on for years. While some are settled in a day, they must wait a specific amount of time to “age.” Some cases are very complicated with many lawyers representing many people…each is entititled to discovery and sometimes that takes a long time. Sometimes they don’t find out for years that gramma wasn’t paying her income tax and that is something that would play into the decision. Margaret Adkins…”ditto.”
Next up, “what if no will exists?” From Margaret, “there are administrative procedures with deal with situations where no will exists and she believes that most people in New York have wills. Kate Doyle notes that there is a default statute and the legislature has defined how the assets of a decedent (the dead person) are distributed. They are asked what the biggest challenge of Surrogate’s Court is and both answered families. The families are often fighting. Kate tells the story of a large family where the IRS found assets of 60 Million (she notes, there’s no telling how much was really there.) She left the courtroom for a few moments and the guards came running after her “what do we do???” Kate ran back to the courtroom to find the ninety something mother strangling the sixty something daughter on the floor. Yes, things get testy in the courtroom.
Both are asked what the biggest issue impacting Surrogate Court in this day and age. Both answer it’s the “economy” stupid. (Naw, I stole that line from one of my favorite political guys.) Anyway, Margaret goes on to note that in the current economy there are more people being evicted and there are a lot of real estate sales…where people used to get along they are more combative now. Kate “dittos” and adds, “back in the sixties, you’d see siblings overlooking an uneven distribution but today they fight over every penny.”
The facilitator wants to know what makes each candidate more qualified than the other. Ms. Adkins smiles and says, “I’m differently qualified.” Yup, she’s a pip. Kate, notes, “ditto. We both have qualities we would bring to the bench.” Now they are asked, “how would you improve the court system. Kate notes that, in her position as a judge in surrogate court, they can do very little about the system as a whole. Each notes, they would make their own court the very best that it can be. Margaret adds, that the higher up the food chain the harder it is to make changes. She would like a better the dissemination of information and increased online resources. This, she notes, takes resources.
In closing Adkins hopes that Albany County will consider her for Surrogate Court judge and noted that there is a choice for our voters. Ten years ago, Kate had ever line on the ballot, this decade, you have an option…then she turns to Kate and says “I shold ask you how you feel about the rent.”
Hey, I like this chick’s sense of humor.
Kate closes with her feelings on the race. “We aren’t political, we have nothing to do with legislation…while I’ve been here I have gotten three calls from a husband and sons wondering when dinner will be…but this is important.” As a Surrogate Judge, “I stand in the stead of the decedent and it is a challenge to hold society together until this economy turns around.” She is up to that challenge…as soon as she cooks dinner!


Once upon a time there was a small school at the most isolated corner of the posh neighbourhood of La Moraleja, Madrid. In that school there was a girl who was not like the others, as she was not interested in clothes, make up, parties, boys or any of the things that drove girls her age crazy. Instead of that, she was passionate about werewolves, vampires, spirits, zombies or anything that had to do with halloween or paranormal activities.
Her elder cousin, Annabelle, aware of Caroline’s unusual thoughts, had the habit of telling her terror stories. She had told her so many stories that she probably knew every single one that had ever existed, except for one...
A week before halloween, Carol was dealing with her usual, boring, dull routine in French class, when surprisingly Lucie (her teacher) started talking about something that caught her attention. It was a terror story, different from those which her cousin had always been telling her:
At that same school, ten years before, there was a young girl who suffered from bullying because of her unusual feelings for the unreal. In consequence of the things she had to go through she drew everything that went through her mind in her beloved notebook.
Once she was drawing alone at the back of the school bus when a group of girls started making fun of her,she felt so powerless that she threw her book in an attempt to hit those girls.
The book flew over everyone's head and when it was just above the groups of girls some ink came out of it and the monsters inside the book that represented the little girl’s weaknesses came out of it. The day after no bus was seen around that area, no one could ever find the kids or the driver, not even their bodies.
While listening to this story,Caroline remembered Annabelle, since she also had a book where she drew everything she felt and thought.
That same evening Caroline went to Annabelle’s house and knocked on her cousin's door, and she felt a chill before she decided to enter the room.She found her cousin lying on her bed while listening to some music. Carol managed to catch her attention and told her, excited, the same story she had been told in school and how the main character reminded her of Ana.
When Caroline finished the story she looked up at her cousin, and she was surprised to see her reaction.
Annabelle had a vacant look, her skin was pale as snow and she looked terribly shocked.She looked at Carol’s eyes and started screaming at her,telling her not to ever mention that book again.Caroline was confused and asked what the matter was. Annabelle’s only answer was to grab Carol’s hand as she pushed her out of the house.
It was late,so Carol returned home hoping she could talk to Ana the following day. But the next day Ana wasn’t at home. Carol, fearful, entered her room and found a little red notebook on top of Ana’s bed, her notebook. Carol remembered Ana’s reaction the other day so her first thought was to leave everything as it was and not to touch the notebook, but the intrigue was so hard that she found herself opening the forbidden book slowly. A blast of cold air came out of it, followed by some spectral laughs which frightened the life out of Carol. As she trembled with fear,she threw the notebook on the floor and ran away as fast as she could out of Ana’s house. Some hours later,when Ana arrived home she found the most terrible of the surprises… her notebook, half-open, lying on the floor. “Oh Carol, what have you done?”
Time passed and it had been one week since the girls hadn’t seen each other.Caroline was at school, not paying much attention to her maths teacher, when she looked at the window and saw a tiny black drop of ink stuck to the glass. Terrified, while remembering what happened with the book,she asked if she could go to the bathroom.
When she crossed the corridor she saw her cousin apparently waiting for her with a look of concern.
Annabelle explained as fast as she could why she had freaked out the other day, and Caroline couldn't believe what she was being told.
The spirits inside her cousin’s book were the spirits of the kids in the story, who had been dragged inside the drawing book. If anyone opened that book,the spirits would search for the sacrifice of the closest relative of the book owner, in order to carry out their revenge.
Those spirits were coming for Caroline and for a moment she felt like fading, as a mix of fear and incredulity covered her whole body.
Annabelle asked Carol to please believe in her and let her try to save her.Carol took Anna's hand and ran with her,as she was the only person she had ever trusted so much to put her life in her hands.
Both entered a dark room to hide from the spirits, Annabelle struck a match while she held tight Carol’s hand.Carol was looking around as she heard some growls from outside the room.Suddenly the light went out. She could no longer feel Annabelle’s hand.
Caroline waited for a few more minutes, until she was absolutely sure that she could hear nothing outside and she went out and ran without a direction.She fell down to the floor, and, as she got up and lifted her eyes she saw her cousin at the end of the corridor.
She ran to her and jumped into her arms to hug her, but the only thing she felt was a cold chill crossing her spine.
She fell to the floor and as she looked up she could hear her cousin whispering “Im sorry...Im sorry...Im sorry…”
Caroline blacked out.
She finally opened her eyes, and as she looked around she couldn't see anything but a white,infinite room.She looked down at her black,sticky skin.She couldn't hear anything but a empty silence as she looked up again to encounter Annabelle at the distance of that white space.
Claudia Prieto, Bárbara Recio and Sara Gómez


The Story About Ping
by Marjorie Flack (Author), Kurt Wiese (Illustrator)
Since 1933, The Story About Ping has captivated generations of readers. No one can deny the appeal of the book’s hero, Ping, the spirited little duck who lives on a boat on the Yangtze River. Ping’s misadventures one night while exploring the world around his home form the basis of this timeless classic, which is brought to life by Kurt Wiese’s warm and poignant illustrations.


Parent Page for Phonics and Reading
Reading is the cornerstone of learning. Teaching children the skills of reading and developing a deep love of of books is at the heart of what we do in our school. We use the Ruth Miskin phonics scheme to ensure that children know letter sounds, digraphs and trigraphs, as well as 'tricky words' so that they have the skills that they need to access and enjoy a range of age appropriate texts. Below is a selection of videos to help you support your child at home with phonics and reading. Feel free to use them to find out how we teach phonics and reading and enjoy watching them with your child too!


The end of 2012 is almost here. To celebrate, Fairfax County Public Library released a list of the top 10 things library staff in the county are grateful for in December.
The full list was sent out via the library's email newsletter, FCPLease:
10. Good weather and electricity! We’ve stopped taking either for granted since blizzards, hurricanes and derechos have come to Fairfax County; you can’t check out a book or recharge your e-reader without electricity, and we need our books.
9. No bedbugs! Yes, we saw the New York Times article that shows some libraries in other parts of the nation are dealing with bedbugs in library books. This has not been a problem in Fairfax County, but if you want to cross your fingers, toss salt over your shoulder and what have you, that’s fine too.
8. Authors! Okay, the library is not only about reading good books – sometimes we read “bad” ones like "Fifty Shades of Grey" -- but think how sad the library (and our e-readers) would be if the thousands of writers weren’t sweating over their computers trying to meet deadlines right now! We’re especially grateful to the authors who visited us in 2012 including Alice Hoffman, SJ Rozan, Peter Bergen and David Baldacci who was a special guest at the fundraiser in October.
7. The frank discussions about the bond referendum and the many people who came to our bond reception in October. Special thanks to the Fairfax Library Foundation and Friends of Pohick Regional Library for hosting the event and donating e-readers as prizes. Thanks also go to the Friends of Reston Regional and John Marshall Libraries for donating gift cards for that event. (The bond referendum passed so four library branches will be renovated in the future. Yay!)
6. Our Facebook Fans! More than 3,000 people like us on Facebook. We’re so excited we feel like Sally Field at the Academy Awards. (Okay, not everyone got this reference right?)
5. Our FCPLease readers! More than 8,000 people subscribe to the library’s weekly e-newsletter learning about library events, services, online resources and more; a special call out to our devoted Bookish Birthday fans. (You know who you are.)
4. Friends who cart thousands of books to and from meeting rooms so they can sell books to the public and give the proceeds to the library. They’ve bought carpeting, furniture, eBooks, magazine subscriptions, digital displays and so much more! (If you’re not a Friend; consider becoming one in 2013.)
3. The Fairfax Library Foundation which supports the library and the staff in so many ways we cannot list them all here, but if you missed the Library Jubilee in October, than you missed a grand party, so like them on Facebook and be among the first to know when they pick a date for 2013. Check out their webpage www.fairfaxlibraryfoundation.org.
2. Our Volunteers –Where would we be without all the people who work without pay to help the library? They sort books; adopt shelves; landscape; conduct programs; teach classes and more. Included among volunteers are the Library’s Board of Trustees which meets monthly to decide the library’s policies and direction. Come to a meeting in 2013 and meet them!
And the number one thing we are grateful for this December:
1. Library customers, of course, the reason libraries exist (that and the principles of the United States that provide for free and open government, access to information, equality, yada, yada, yada) but the customers who read books – even if it’s "Fifty Shades of Grey" – search for information – even if it is when they’re cheating on the New York Times crossword puzzle – or use computers – even if it is to post a photo to Facebook that they absolutely promised their sister they wouldn’t post, we are grateful for all of them!
This list is republished in its entirety with permission from the Fairfax County Public Library.


India is home to one of the earliest records of human wisdom, meticulously preserved and passed down orally for thousands of years before being committed to writing. The Vedas, meaning “knowledge,” document the insight of the ancient ṛṣis, those who could directly see reality for what it is. The Vedic corpus has long been venerated for the probing vision of these ancient seers, and yet the exposition of Indian wisdom has evolved over time in response to changing historical and cultural conditions as well as human receptivity. As a result, Indian classical texts present a rich compendium of approaches to the age-old questions of what it means to be human and to live a fulfilled life in society.
In India, philosophy is called darśana [seeing] because it is the distinct product of the seeing or understanding of the ancient sages who dedicated their lives to observing the world and how their minds formed an understanding of it. Classical Indian thinkers expounded elaborate theories of an unconscious, causal basis of the mind, a cyclical process of time and history, as well as a unitary, limitless source for all life. The diverse schools of thought—from the Upaniṣads and Sāṃkhya to the contemporary social philosophy of Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi—offer students compelling descriptions of the human condition, not to mention vestiges of the stirring debates that ensued between philosophical schools. Learning Indian classics will contextualize Indian Buddhist thought and the classic literature comprising religiously varying themes.
Through close reading of primary texts, students will consider issues fundamental to Indian systems of thought. For example, what is the influence of past karmic tendencies [saṃskāras] on the experience of the present moment? What is the relationship between language and reality? What kind of behavior is socially responsible? Students will read Indian insights into causation, human nature, and the goals of human life [puruṣārtha]. They will explore South Asian perspectives on religious thought and practice, the structure of the human mind and perception, paths to liberation, and limitations to infinite freedom. Through their engagement with the texts, students will grapple with the perennial riddles of existence and human potential.
The Indian Classics strand enables students to develop a sincere appreciation for texts while at the same time encouraging them to critically evaluate the ideas presented. Following Indian tradition, no views are to be accepted unless the students’ direct experience corroborates what they read. By understanding the texts in the spirit of transformation intended by their authors, students will develop the capacity to see the world through a traditional Indian perspective.
In the course of a year, the Indian Classics strand aims to lead students not only in discovering the content of particular knowledges spanning the history of Indian literature, but also in generating the confidence to apply their skills to contemporary discourses. Through their encounter with Indian philosophical systems, students will explore the concept of self, the process of knowing and experiencing the world, and the nature and function of knowledge. Reading classical Indian literature will contribute to the students’ ability to live responsibly, think critically, value diverse perspectives, and troubleshoot from multiple vantage points.
In the first semester, sophomores will read selections from Vedic literature, including the Vedas, Brāhmaṇas, and Upaniṣads, focusing on creation myths, unity and multiplicity, religious practice, self-realization, and concepts of the absolute, death, and desire. Students will then read from different schools of Vedic exegesis, including Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta. Here students will encounter the diversity of traditional interpretations. Students will then read Jaina, Sāṃkhya, and Yoga philosophies, and the epic Mahābhārata and its Bhagavad Gītā, taking up questions of the goals of human life, nonviolence, social duty, devotion, concentration, and nonattachment.
In the second semester, students will read classical Indian poetry, drama, and prose literature, which build on the philosophies studied in the previous semester. In addition to reading Vālmīki’s epic Rāmāyaṇa and the Purāṇas, students will read other Hindu and Buddhist literary works that investigate the psychological influences of past karmic impressions, enslavement to desire, human relationships, and the social conduct of an exemplary human. Students will read such masterpieces as Aśvagoṣa’s Handsome Nanda, Kālidāsa’s Kumārasambhava, Harṣa’s How the Nāgas Were Pleased, and Bhavabhūti’s Rāma’s Last Act.
Students will read the texts in this strand in thematic groups. Beginning with selections of Vedic literature, students will proceed to read a sampling of philosophical schools that interpret theVedas. Vedic literature was composed during the last few millennia b.c.e., whereas the Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta schools developed later as exegetical responses. Students will read the texts in this order because the later texts assume prior familiarity with earlier ones.
The second grouping of texts concerns the epic Mahābhārata, of which the Bhagavad Gītā forms a part, and its philosophical underpinnings, including Sāṃkhya and Yoga. The first two groupings will conclude with modern Indian texts by Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi in order to show that the classical texts, adapted for modern times, are still living traditions in Indian society.
The final grouping of literary texts will be taken up in the second semester, since this set builds on the cultural understanding of previous texts. Classical poetry, prose, and drama will be read to survey the development of ideas over time for the sake of the transformation of the student. This approach effectively conveys the traditional knowledge of South Asia and orients students to learn through sincere inquiry and self-reflection.
Selection of authors and works explored in the Indian Classics strand
Indian Classics 1
- Swami Vivekananda
- Sāṃkhyakārikā by Īśvarakṛṣṇa
- The Mahābhārata
- M.K. Gandhi
- Upadeśasāhasrī by Śrī Śaṅkarācārya
- Yogasūtra by Patañjali
- Bhagavad Gita
Indian Classics 2
- The Rāmāyaṇa by Vālmīki
- Rāma’s Last Act by Bhavabhūti
- The Mahābhārata
- The Recognition of Śakuntala by Kālidāsa
- Handsome Nanda by Aśvaghoṣa
Indian Classics 3
- Devī Māhātmya
- Shivastotravali by Utpaladeva
- Paramārthasāra by Abhinavagupta
- The Enclosed Garden of the Truth by Hakim Sanai
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Hazrat Inayat Khan


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Lie Down with Lions is a spy novel by Ken Follett. Jean-Pierre Debout. She decides to follow his career to Afghanistan, where they will ostensibly give medical aid to a village of rebels uniting against the invasive Soviet regime. When she finds that Jean-Pierre is a Soviet spy, she is horrified.
When she investigates, she finds that he has been providing medical aid to the rebels while giving the Russians more intel to kill them off. Traumatized and caught in the middle of these two diametrically opposed men who want to kill each other, she tries to reclaim some of her agency and keep them from destroying themselves or each other.
The novel begins in Paris during the last decade of the Cold War. Lambert lives in a small flat and dates Ellis, whom she believes is an American anti-war activist and pacifist who makes money as a writer.Michel platini et sa femme
Lambert starts the novel confident that she will soon marry Ellis and live a fulfilling life in political activism. One day, he lets slip that he is a covert CIA agent working to collect intelligence on Russian operations in Paris and the rest of Europe. Despite her knowledge that he truly loves her, Lambert is outraged at his deceit and his distorted moral system.
She leaves him immediately, itching to restart her life. After her split from Ellis, Lambert meets Dr. Jean-Pierre Debout, seemingly by chance, in Paris later events question whether it was chance.
After falling quickly in love, she agrees to marry him, following him to Afghanistan to aid Soviet rebels. During this time, she becomes comfortable in the town, making a number of Afghan friends. After a couple of months, she realizes she is pregnant, and then gives natural birth to a daughter that the couple names Chantal.
His real agenda in their Afghan town is to acquire intel on the operations of the rebels, feeding it back to military officials so they can squelch any revolutionary fronts before they erupt. Lambert agonizes over how to respond to the revelation about Jean-Pierre.Ergodox moonlander keycaps
Making matters worse, Ellis appears in the town, on a mission to forge an alliance between Masud and a number of other rebel groups in Afghanistan. During this time, a jaded Lambert and lost Ellis reunite and express their love. One day, the KGB launches a military assault on the town. Lambert and Ellis manage to detonate a bomb on the bridge that the military vehicles are passing over, thwarting them.
Knowing they can no longer safely stay lest their identities be broadly known to Russia, they escape Afghanistan with Chantal via a maze of mountain passes known as the Butter Trail. KGB helicopters pass overhead, searching for them, and they learn that some of the Afghans they meet are working for the Soviets. As they pass through small towns looking for resources, Follett draws a realistic account of rural mountainous Afghan life: insular but at the same time, vulnerable to instabilities in the region, and lacking solidarity and trust.
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To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Lie Down with Lionsplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Lie Down with Lions. I was expecting to enjoy this book a lot more! After all, this novel has been written by Ken Follett — the author of my favorite The Eye of the Needle.The men who wanted to kill Ahmet Yilmaz were serious people.
Continue reading. I get a lot of letters about the love scene in this book. I suppose it is rather steamy. I worked for a year on a story, called Country Risk, that I never finished. It was about a group of Russians who take over a Western bank and attempt to manipulate a financial crisis. I did a lot of research and came up with a plot which my agent and my publishers liked.
As I began Chapter One, I started thinking about how people talk about Eye of the Needle and how they are on the edge of their seat, desperate to know what happens next. I realised nobody was ever going to feel that way about a what happens in a bank and I abandoned it. And as in Eye of the Needle, I put a woman at the centre of the story. This is his most ambitious novel and it succeeds admirably. About Books Adaptations Events Contact. Lie Down With Lions. Lie Down With Lions is the thrilling tale of suspense and deceit from master of the spy story, Ken Follett.
A Dangerous Romance. In Paris, rival spies Ellis and Jean-Pierre both fall in love with Jane, and all three become gripped in a tangled web of lust and deception as they battle terrorist conspiracies. Ultimately Jane can marry only one and chooses Jean-Pierre. A Fight for Freedom.
In Afghanistan the Mujahedeen are fighting to free their country of the Soviet invasion and the newlyweds travel to the Valley of the Five Lions to help the cause as doctors. Fierce fighting means they must find a way out of the line of fire. A Perilous Escape. First chapter.Choisya gone yellow
Ken's view.Is all the art authorized by the church false, which was created under the eye of the Pope and clergy of the Catholic Church? This is known as the Mandala Effect. And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, And the leopard will lie down with the young goat, And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little boy will lead them. Isaiah NASB. The Greek Septuagint was created in the period of — B.
C and the Dead Sea Scrolls date from as early as B. The book of Isaiah contained in the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible and in the Dead Sea manuscripts found at Qumran all include the statement that the wolf and lamb would dwell or lie down together. They never cite Isaiah as including a lion and a lamb. The list and their quotes are as follows: — Chrysostom.
Demonstration Against The Pagans. Homilies Concerning The Statutes. Homilies On Ezekiel. Commentary on Isaiah. Commentary On Hosea.curiosity (almost) killed the cameraman
The quotes can be verified by looking up the references below. They reveal that the text of Isaiah has not changed from the earliest copies that we have of the verse which is about B. There is no logical reason to conclude that Isaiah once referred to the lion and the lamb. Those who claim that the words of Isaiah have changed have ignored almost 2, years of historical data and are contradicting Christ. In Matthew Jesus said that neither the smallest letter or stroke will pass away until the end of time.
Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Matthew NASB. In fact, the apostle Paul states that Scripture is accurate down to even the plural or single sense of a word.
Therefore, if the smallest letter or stroke will not disappear from the Hebrew word and Scripture is accurate even to the plurality of a word, then a single word or multiple words in Isaiah will not disappear or change either. To conclude otherwise means the Jesus lied.
It would mean that God was not powerful enough to protect the Word of God or sovereign enough to keep all of the words. This means that Jesus Christ, our God, has declared that Isaiah could not have had such a radical change. Now a word of caution must be given. Jesus was not referring to the wide range of varying, modern English Bibles.
He was referring to the Hebrew language in which the Old Testament was written in the original autographs. The real issue is not the accuracy of the Roman Catholic Church or past memories, but can we trust Christ and Scripture.Follett returns once again to his Eye of the Needle triangle-formula—a passionate woman is torn between two lovers who happen to be rival spies—and once again produces only a serviceable, contrived replica of his original blockbuster.
This time the sensuous heroine is radical-chic English interpreter Jane Lambert, working in Paris when she fills in love with American writer Ellis Thaler—only to discover to her horror that he's really a CIA agent! Furious, Jane dumps sexy Ellis who does truly love hermarrying instead handsome young Dr. Jean-Pierre Debout—who takes her off to Afghanistan, where they'll both provide medical aid to a village of anti-Soviet rebels.
Soon after giving birth native-style to baby Chantal, however, Jane secretly learns that Jean-Pierre is also an undercover spy. In fact, Jean-Pierre's mission—aside from betraying his rebel-comrades on a daily basis—is to set up rebel-leader Masud for KGB assassination. What's poor Jane to do?
After all, she still loves J-P—sort of—even if he must be stopped from virtually murdering all their new Afghan friends. Then, of course, old flame Ellis appears: his mission is to arrange an alliance between Masud and the other Afghan-rebel factions—which he manages to do despite attempted sabotage by J-P, who deserts wife and child temporarily, anyway for total KGB involvement. So now, inevitably, there's a long, X-rated reunion for disllusioned Jane and lonely Ellis.
And, after saving the village from a KGB assault thanks to a scenic bridge-bombingEllis and Jane flee from Afghanistan together, baby in tow—pursued across treacherous mountain trails by KGB helicopters, Afghan back-stabbers, and the increasingly manic, cartoonishly evil Jean-Pierre. As in The Man from St. Petersburg, all the principal characters here must frequently act like idiots in order to keep Follett's synthetic plot-contraption clattering along: Jane's passionate flip-flops are nearly comic; Jean-Pierre's motivation for Communist fanaticism the persecution of his leftwing father is never convincing.
The narration ranges from solid pulp to Harlequin pap. The familiarity of Ellis' curly blond hair "tugged at her heartstrings. And the Afghan-village scenes are agreeably thickened with anthropological details.
So this middling effort—less involving than Key to Rebecca, less outlandish than Man from St. Petersburg—is likely to do just as well as its uneven predecessors.
He lives for their verbal sparring matches, but when one of their fights at a royal wedding goes a bit too far, they end up falling into a wedding cake and making tabloid headlines. The plan? Alex and Henry must pretend to be best friends, giving the tabloids pictures of their bromance and neutralizing the threat to Ellen's presidency. But after a few photo ops with Henry, Alex starts to realize that the passionate anger he feels toward him might be a cover for regular old passion.
There are, naturally, a million roadblocks between their first kiss and their happily-ever-after—how can American political royalty and actual British royalty ever be together? How can they navigate being open about their sexualities Alex is bisexual; Henry is gay in their very public and very scrutinized roles? The love affair between Alex and Henry is intense and romantic, made all the more so by the inclusion of their poetic emails that manage to be both funny and steamy. Terri Rayburn is devastated that her perfect man belongs to someone else, but once Nate Taggert realizes that Terri's the one for him, her complicated past still stands in the way of their being together.
Terri is attracted to Nate the moment she lays eyes on him, and soon they fall into an easy partnership at the Virginia lake resort she runs with her father. However, Terri, whose mother left when she was 2, has always had a problematic relationship with the citizens of Summer Hill.
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Since Leslie disappeared, the town gossip has made sure everyone remembers her as a promiscuous vixen, a label which tainted Terri as she got older and made her look like a problem when, as Nate begins to understand, she was really a victim. The story is well plotted, though Nate is unnecessarily oblivious sometimes and the book takes an unexpected swing into romantic suspense territory in the last quarter.
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So this is the movie. Now I have to find it somewhere. From other reviews it doesn't seem to follow the book as closely which outlines a lot of the Russian war with Afghanistan. But there is certainly enough plot, action, history, romance, deceit, and intrigue to keep you interested. Descriptions of the Afghan countryside, people, tribes and their inner conflict before Osama Ben Laden lets you know that not much has changed.
Follett even mentions Bagram Air Force Base which we are using now. A friend of mine is working in the South of Afghanistan and he says it is truly completely different from the Northern area where the book is set.
The book really gives you a picture of what our troops are up against and why it is possibly a futile war, for a lot of reasons. Did You Know?
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We love to comfort our children with soothing stories and happy endings by plugging in the latest Disney movie or reading Snow White at bedtime. But “true” fairy tales are far too horrific and were never meant for children’s eyes. From cannibalism to gouged out eyeballs, here are 15 fairy tales that were originally too horrific to read to children.
1. Cinderella – Brothers Grimm
Cinderella lived happily ever after with the prince and forgave her wicked stepsisters. That’s how the story goes, right? Nope. In an earlier version, Cinderella was far from forgiving, in fact she sought punishment by decapitating both of her stepsisters’ feet and had their eyes plucked out by birds so they would forever live maimed and ashamed.
2. Little Red Riding Hood – Brothers Grimm
In a sick warped earlier version, the red-hooded girl cannibalizes her own grandmother. And here we are, blaming it on the big bad wolf all along.
3. Sleeping Beauty – Charles Perrault
It’s not surprising that Disney didn’t make a sequel to Sleeping Beauty. Otherwise, the story would have shown you that sleeping beauty and her king eventually had kids and lived with the king’s mother. Unbeknownst to the king, his mother is an evil ogre queen (like most mother-in-laws are) who eventually ate sleeping beauty and their kids, happily ever after.
4. Rumpelstiltskin – Brothers Grimm
When a poor miller stupidly lied to the king that his daughter had a magical ability to spin straw into gold, the king locked the daughter in a room to make gold — or he would cut her head off (nice guy). A nebbish dwarf (Rumpelstiltskin) secretly helped her and was promised her first born in return. When the king saw how talented this woman was, he married her (because we love a man that threatens to kill us) and she gave birth to a beautiful baby. When the dwarf tried to claim what was his, the miller’s daughter refused to hand over her child. Enraged and defeated, Rumpelstiltskin tore himself into two pieces. The moral of the story? Not all stories have a moral.
5. Hansel and Gretel – Brothers Grimm
The cutesy version explains the story of two siblings who got “lost” in the woods and dropped breadcrumbs to find their way back. The real version shows that Hansel and Gretel’s mother ditched them in the woods to starve to death. Who’s the real villain here? The cannibalistic witch or their mother?
6. The Little Mermaid – Hans Christian Andersen
Sorry to tell you, but this is no red-headed girl in a purple-shell bra story. In the original story, the prince marries someone else and the distraught humanized mermaid throws herself to the sea, drowning herself.
7. Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
In an earlier version, Pinocchio isn’t the lovable wooden boy we all know from Disney, instead he is an obnoxious brat. Pinocchio’s creator, Geppetto went to prison for harming children and Pinocchio had no choice but to beg on the street. In his miserable homeless journey, he accidentally burned off his feet and is eventually hanged for several crimes.
8. Goldilocks and The Three Bears – Eleanor Mure
Instead of the pretty little girl with the blonde locks, the female protagonist of the story is actually an old woman. When the bears discovered the old woman sleeping in their beds, they impaled her on the steeples of a cathedral.
9. Rapunzel – Brothers Grimm
When attempting to rescue Rapunzel from her tower, the evil queen pushes the prince off the tower and he falls into the thorny bushes and becomes blind. The prince wanders around without a sight until Rapunzel’s tears cure his blindness.
10. The Frog Prince – Brothers Grimm
The story goes — a prince was turned into a frog and the only way to reverse the spell was to be kissed by someone who loved him. A beautiful princess kissed him, he changed back to prince charming and they lived happily ever after. Right? Not quite. In the original version, the princess broke the spell by throwing the smiley frog against the wall in disgust. Ribbit.
11. Beauty and the Beast – Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villenueve
Who can blame Disney for trying to cover up the real story of Beauty and the Beast when the original tale explains that the beast was banished and cursed after trying to seduce an orphaned child. The moral of the story? If Belle can find pedophilia to be forgivable, so can you (yeah right).
12. Snow White – Brothers Grimm
The evil queen wanted Snow White killed because she was far prettier (even though Snow White was only seven years old). Snow White wins victory over the queen, and for punishment, the queen had to dance in scalding red hot iron shoes until she dropped dead. The end.
13. Pied Piper of Hamelin – Brothers Grimm
When dealing with a horrible rat infestation in his city, the king promised the Pied Piper that he will reward him if he led all the rats out of the city. When the Pied Piper delivered, the king refused to pay him. In anger, the Pied Piper hypnotized all of the children(except a few disabled ones) to follow him out of the city and meet the same fate as the rats, by drowning in the sea. Moral of the story? Don’t cheat the piper, dude.
14. Puss in Boots – Giambasttista Basile
We’re most familiar with “Shrek” version, but the real Puss in Boots is far from the doe-eyed feline we came to love. In Basile’s story, the cat belonged to a poor farmer who was made rich by his cat. In return, the farmer promised his cat that he would bury him in a gold coffin. The skeptical cat feigned death to test his master and overheard his master tell his wife to throw the dead feline out of the window. Enraged, the cat abandoned the farmer and took his new-found wealth with him.
15. Bluebeard – Charles Perrault
Bluebeard is an ugly man who married several women (all of them mysteriously disappeared). When he persuaded another woman to marry him, he gave her a key to every room in the castle with one promise–never enter the basement. When Bluebeard left town, his wife was too curious and decided to go in the basement. There she found Bluebeard’s horrible dark secret– mutilated ex-wives.


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Last issue, I discussed Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch and its ability to still cause a stir. I have always loved books that spark controversy. Wetlands by Charlotte Roche, first published in 2009, is no exception. The Daily Mail described it as ‘profoundly unsettling’ and Look Magazine cited it as ‘this year’s most controversial read’. I was desperate to get my hands on it. But everyone has their limits and when I attempted to read it, at the tender age of seventeen, I threw the book down in disgust. At twenty, I decided I was ready to handle the novel which so boldly breaks down every sexual and hygienic taboo, whilst, also questioning the stereotypical standardisation of the female body. In fact, questioning is too weak. Roche holds up the archetype and takes an axe to it.
The protagonist, eighteen year old Helen Memel, narrates the story from her hospital bed. The reason for her incarceration? ‘An intimate shaving accident.’ Wetlands is utterly gross – ridiculously so. Helen states, ‘Hygiene’s not a major concern of mine’ and this couldn’t be a more accurate description of her character. Roche describes, in painstaking detail, homemade tampons, poo, vaginal hygiene (or lack of) and, not to forget, all types of sordid and extraordinary sexual practises. Some scenes were so graphic I actually thought the book jacket should carry a sick bag inside it. For example, Helen rips her own anal wound with the pedal of a hospital bed.
This leads me on to the part of the book I found most troubling. Helen is obsessed with reuniting her long divorced parents. However impressive her sexual exploits are, and however revolutionary her hygienic concerns may be, the story becomes a little sad. Helen begins to sound more like a little girl crying for help, than a sexually liberated heroine.
However, Wetlands is an interesting read, as the Guardian stated, ‘If you ever wondered what you’d be like if you weren’t shy, polite, sexually repressed and constrained by modern standards of hygiene, this may be the book for you.’ Roche herself, in an interview with Philip Oltermann, states that, ‘[She] wanted to write about the female body in a way that was funny and entertaining but also sexy.’ The mixture of the somewhat gross facts about women: we bleed, we defecate, and we don’t always keep ourselves squeaky clean and the overtly sexual is interesting. I liked the idea of women not just being a sexy image in a magazine, but real people, and if you sleep with them you are getting the whole deal – haemorrhoids and all. I just don’t think that Wetlands truly delivers its message, as the narrator ends up sounding as if she is trapped by her promiscuity and using everything she can as a desperate attempt to reconcile her broken family. So, read Wetlands if you’re after a sexy and sickening story, just don’t expect it all to pull all its punches. And it really is graphic, so don’t say I didn’t warn you.