Mandarin Chinese Beginner-Level I - A book that you can use to learn Mandarin Chinese by yourself at your pace!
Mandarin Chinese Beginner-Level I is a book carefully designed for the non-native speakers who embark on acquiring the needed knowledge and communication skills. Unlike many other campus-oriented Chinese language learning materials, this book puts a special focus on practical usage through a number of real-life situational dialogues.
This book starts from the basic pronunciations, single phrases, to situational dialogues. New words and expressions come after each lesson. All the sentences in the texts are annotated with detailed explanations. The uniqueness is that each Chinese sentence is not only marked with Chinese pronunciation (Pinyin) and English translation but also presented with Chinese sentence structure in English. This special design helps the beginner-level learners quickly familiarize the Chinese sentence structure as well as the grammatical functions through comparisons.
Key words related to the particular texts are also annotated in details together with sample sentences. This design better helps the learners on the specific usage of the particular Chinese words. At the end of each lesson, there is also a writing practice section which collects some of the key words that a beginner-level learner could use for their writing exercise.
All the lessons contained in this book have been recorded. The audio recordings are burned in a CD and sold together with the book.
The beginner-level learners are encouraged to start with the audio CD and learn from the very first lesson. You can use “pause” or “rewind” functions from your computer in order to better understand the audio recordings. You will need to learn the new words and expressions first before you start to learn any new lesson. You may also use the audio CD to help correct your pronunciations. Please note that the situational dialogues contained in the book are recorded in a slightly slower-than-real-life speed in order to help the beginner-level learners successfully overcome some initial expression difficulties they may encounter in their endeavor of acquiring the new language. You may speed up when this language becomes more and more familiarized to you.
Mandarin Chinese Beginner-Level I is a book that you can use to learn Mandarin Chinese by yourself at your own pace!.
Size of the book: 8.5"X11". Total Pages: 138. Published on: 01/05/2013
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Intermediate-to-Advanced Level Mandarin Chinese
- An In-depth Analysis on China-Western Cultural Differences is featured with carefully selected learning content, well-knitted course structure, profound analysis and neutral point of views combined with extensive exercises after each lesson. Readers and learners are believed to benefit immensely from this book.
Intermediate-to-Advanced Level Mandarin Chinese
- An In-depth Analysis on China-Western Cultural Differences is ideal for the higher learning institutions, colleges and universities which offer Mandarin Chinese programs, cultural research institutes, overseas Chinese teachers, college students with intermediate-level or higher proficiency, business professionals, or researchers and scholars who are interested in Chinese language and culture. The book integrates both Simplified and Traditional written form to facilitate learners with different preferences.
Size of the book: 8.5"X11". Total Pages: 316. Published on: 05/08/2013
Mandarin Chinese Beginner-Level III is a meticulously structured textbook satisfying the needs for beginner-level learners. The features of this carefully designed book lie in the simulations of situational communications in typical business settings. The vocabulary and phrases are purposely chosen and applied to imitate real-life dialogue. The other features of Mandarin Chinese Beginner-Level III also include:
- Emphasizing the practicality of the situational dialogue and logical conversion of the dialogue under different situations.
- Addition of a certain number of complementary vocabularies after each lesson to allow learners to expand their expression skills by applying the new words and phrases.
- Highlighting the interpretations of the key words and phrases from each lesson with multiple examples and exercises.
- Enabling learners to master the word and phrases by annotating every sentence contained in each lesson.
- Providing both simplified and traditional written forms to facilitate learners with different interests and preferences.
Size of the book: 8.5"X11". Total Pages: 184. Published on: 12/21/2013
Beginner-to-Intermediate Level Mandarin Chinese
One of the questions that many beginner-level learners often ask is about the next logical step they are going to take after they have successfully accomplished their Beginner-level I, Beginner-level II and Beginner-level III studies. Simply put, successfully completing the three Beginner-level studies does not naturally move you up to an Intermediate level. You will still need to close some "gaps" and overcome some barriers, such as speaking fluency, literacy, and the capabilities in utilizing the vocabulary you have learned to expand your expressions, in order to achieve an essential proficiency that is required to become an Intermediate-level learner. Beginner-to-Intermediate Level Mandarin Chinese satisfies your learning needs in a transition from the Beginner-level to an Intermediate-level and helps you comprehensively upgrade your skills in speaking, reading, syntax, grammar and literacy, etc.
Size of the book: 8.5"X11". Total Pages: 198. Published on: 04/02/2014
The texts and the vocabularies of this book are prepared in both simplified and traditional written forms to facilitate learners with different interests.
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Introduction to the book Intermediate-to-Advanced Level Mandarin Chinese- An In-depth Analysis on China-Western Cultural Differences
One of the major challenges perceived in overseas Mandarin Chinese teaching in recent years lies in the excessive provision of pure-linguistic learning materials for beginner-level learners, while the food-for-thought which combines both language studies and cultural background analysis catering the intermediate-to-advanced level learners appears to be significantly insufficient.
Intermediate-to-Advanced Level Mandarin Chinese
- An In-depth Analysis on China-Western Cultural Differences addresses such a bottleneck with an aim to seek out a breakthrough in overseas Mandarin Chinese teaching circles.
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- An In-depth Analysis on China-Western Cultural Differences presents learners with cultural essence and pragmatic differences between China and the Western world, coupled with elaborations and interpretations of the impact of traditional culture and realistic environment on the mentality and behavior of Chinese people's modern life.
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Mandarin Chinese Beginner-Level II
Mandarin Chinese Beginner-Level II is a book carefully designed for non-native speakers or heritage learners who have had a basic foundation after a successful beginner-level I study in Mandarin Chinese. The focus of this book is to help the beginner-level learners to make further progress by applying the new vocabulary and sentence patterns learned to their daily communications.
Mandarin Chinese Beginner-Level II is composed of nine situational dialogues with the topics which are closely related to our daily life. New words and phrases are listed after each lesson. Multiple exercises associated with each lesson are designed to help the beginner-level learners to better solidify what they have learned from each text lesson. The types of exercises include:
• Elaboration of key words and phrases with sample sentences
• Translation of sentences from Mandarin Chinese into English and vice versa
• Supplementary words related to each text lesson
• Complete the dialogues based on the situational conversation in the texts
• Key words writing exercise sheets for learners to master important characters
• Annotations of all sentences in each text lessons
All the text lessons are prepared in both simplified and traditional written forms to facilitate learners with different educational background and academic interests.
Size of the book: 8.5"X11". Total Pages: 178. Published on: 01/06/2017
Mandarin Chinese Beginner-Level I
Mandarin Chinese Beginner-Level I is a book carefully designed for the non-native speakers who desire to acquire the needed knowledge and conversational skills in Mandarin Chinese. Unlike many other campus-oriented Chinese language learning materials, this book gears up to the needs of the business professionals and individuals who have plan to travel, work, study or live in China or have the needs to communicate with the Chinese people.
This book starts from the basic pronunciations, single sentences and expressions, to more practically used situational dialogues. New words, phrases and expressions are listed after each lesson. An adequate amount of exercises have been designed after each lesson. All the sentences in the texts are annotated with detailed explanations. Writing exercises and supplementary vocabulary were generated with advanced tools to help learners better master Chinese characters learned from each lesson. Chinese sentence structure is highlighted to provide learners with a unique view on the differences from English sentence structure, which is perceived as a special way helping the beginner-level learners quickly familiarize the Chinese syntax as well as the grammatical functions through comparisons.
This book is a product of Andy Zhang's 14 years face-to-face language teaching activities with thousands of business professionals and individuals. It is highly recommended to Beginner-level learners. Your satisfaction is guaranteed!
Size of the book: 8.5"X11". Total Pages: 172. Published on: 01/04/2018


‘Swallow Savannah’ a first novel with promise
“Swallow Savannah,” by Ken Burger. Evening Post Publishing Co. with Joggling Board Press. Charleston, S.C. 2009. 223 pp. $26.95.
By Deirdre Parker Smith
For a first novel, “Swallow Savannah” has several pluses: It’s not overly long, some passages are very well-written, and the Southern setting breathes life into the characters.It has some minuses, too: Overly detailed descriptions of some characters, some unintentionally funny dialogue, and a sudden switch to gratuitous violence at the end.
Ken Burger is an award-winning sports columnist for the Charleston Post and Courier (the parent company of the Salisbury Post), which probably accounts for the brevity and style of the book.
The story involves Frank Finklea, a crooked, ignorant state senator who has been successful thanks to dirty dealings and manipulation.
His wife, poor, fragile Martha, cuts herself to overwhelm the pain her husband causes.
Their son, Tom, has nothing of his father in him and a serious drinking problem.
It takes place in Bluff County, S.C., in the late 1960s. The civil rights movement has come late to this Savannah River backwater and the fight is nasty.
Finklea is the same way, the kind of man who uses people and then kicks them to the curb. He has alienated a lot of people who remember his kind father-in-law. Kindness is not a virtue Frank aspires to.
The first part of the book sets up Frank’s, shall we say, lack of personal integrity.
Burger finishes up book one with this description of the man who has just orated on the benefits of a bill on the state’s jurisdiction over the Savannah River Plant:
“Each experience molded him into the perfect politician of his day ó a man whose sense of history dawned with each day and stretched no farther than his afternoon shadow.”
Finklea has just helped to pass a bill he did not read that allows the U.S. government to conduct secret radiation experiments on black workers at the plant.
Then Burger fast forwards to 1968, when Tom, a college dropout, is home working at his grandfather’s newspaper. He comes across the town’s police officer standing over the body of Charlie Lincoln, a promising black football player who had a future with a college scholarship.
The racial tension is set, but it ebbs and flows as the story moves from Columbia to imaginary Butler Island and an alcohol treatment center, then back to gritty Groton.
At Hancock Hall on Butler Island, Tom meets the mischievous Leon Feinbaum and sees a girl who used to pickle herself at the same bar Tom floundered in.
Here, Burger veers off course a bit as the boys discover Jeannie is being prostituted to a bunch of doctors (and a bunch of legislators) and decide to rescue her in a movie-worthy scene that ends up with, no kidding, Mickey Spillane to the rescue.
Spillane died in 2006, so there’s no telling what he thinks of the subplot that has him ditching a huge yacht.
Meanwhile, back at the nuclear plant, things are heating up. Someone knows something about the stuff that no one should know about. And men are dying of strange illnesses.
In steps Nick Nolan (I kept thinking of a young Nick Nolte), ace reporter, devil-may-care pursuer of truth, justice and the Nolan way.
We never find out how, but he has discovered the trouble Tom and company caused on Butler Island. And, it just so happens, he’s gotten wind of the problems at the nuclear plant.
Then he finds Tom.
Here’s where the book takes its violent turn, in the character of Chet Sloan, ex-Marine, special SBI agent sent to work security at the nuclear plant. Translation: Keep the experiments covered up.
As the story begins its climax, Sloan turns into a bazooka-toting, grenade-throwing maniac who kills first and doesn’t bother to ask questions. But we’re given no reason for this explosion of action-movie violence or the resulting carnage.In jumps justice, allowing our heroes to escape into the swamp and break their shocking story. Burger lets Tom have a happy ending ó although the coincidences line up a little too neatly and the future seems unnaturally bright.
Despite the flaws, it’s a healthy first effort. Burger took on lots of subplots and characters in what is a relatively short book. But he obviously has skills as a writer. He keeps the reader turning pages right through. Let’s see what he comes up with next.


The new AW 23/24 collection is here! We say goodbye to August by welcoming 'OUR ORIGINS' , a collection about the origins of the city that saw the birth of the Twin&Chic project, the city of San Sebastián - in the north of Spain - at the beginning of the 20th century.
For the design of the Fall-Winter 2023-2024 collection we have also been inspired by different creators and artisans such as Cristobal Balenciaga , among others; culture of fashion and style that has continued in this region to this day.
Therefore, there are three main threads that take us to that time:
Within this collection we could not miss a little praise for the iconic garments from our “heritage” library, garments donated by former dressmakers or women who keep jewelry from other decades, and which each year are a great source of inspiration to create new designs and own prints.
FROM GETARIA TO SAN SEBASTIAN
In this part of the collection we take a short tour of the Basque coast, specifically from Getaria to San Sebastián, soaking up the blue tones of the sea, its cliffs and of course, the city where we were born: San Sebastián.
The last source of inspiration for this collection provides that “chic” touch that is always present in the DNA of our brand. The elegance, the “Babydoll” volumes, the bows, the black color..., all the references of the latest designs in this collection are direct inspiration from the legacy of Cristobal Balenciaga, who will always be an icon of Basque fashion and, in Consequently, from Twin & Chic.
As always, tell you that this entire collection has been designed under GOTS criteria. using only natural materials, developing exclusive prints and choosing the best LIBERTY LONDON prints, and under our Skin-Healthy clothes standard, following our values and vision of taking care of the health of our children and leaving them a better future.
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Premium organic and skin-healthy children's fashion brand with 'Made in Spain' production. One of our fundamental pillars is the craftsmanship and the timeless character of our garments. We firmly believe that another fashion industry is possible: deeper, more conscious, more responsible and sustainable. Because the only future that exists is the one we create.


John Luckett was born October 18, 1874 in Kentucky. Both of his parents were also born in Kentucky.
John married Lillian B. Hendricks on November 23, 1908 in Vanderburgh County, Indiana. He was 34 years old and she was 33 years. Lillian was born on May 9, 1875 in Indiana. This was John’s first marriage, and Lillian’s second.
Lillian was born in May 1870, in Indiana. She married John Englehart in 1888 in Indiana, probably in Posey County. She was 18 years old and John was 34 years. She and John Englehart divorced sometime between 1902 and 1908.
There were seven children born to John and Lillian Englehart. The 1900 Census lists Lillian as the mother of six children with three still living. The Indiana Birth Index lists an additional child born to Lillian in 1902. Only three of their seven children lived to reach adulthood. These are the children of John and Lillian Englelart:
Minnie born December 10, 1889
Fred born April 17, 1892
Anna born in January 1895
Child born about 1896
Son born January 31, 1898
Child born about 1899
Son born May 15, 1902
In 1910 John Englehart, age 56, was living in Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana with two of his children; Anna, age 15, and Fred, age 16. He was a proprietor of a saloon in Mt. Vernon at that time.
After their marriage, Lillian and John Luckett settled down in a rental home on Upper Third Street in Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. By 1920, they had purchased a farm on Pollock Avenue in Evansville. John was employed as a pipe fitter for a steam pipe company. In 1930, John and Lillian were living in a home located at 2015 Bellameade Avenue in Evansville.
Lillian B. Hendricks Luckett died on May 21, 1951 in Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. She was 81 years old at her death. Lillian had been a member of the First Christian Church in Evansville.
Notes for John Luckett
Birth & Marriage: Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Title: Vanderburgh County, Indiana, Index to Marriage Records 1846 - 1920 Inclusive Vo, W. P. A. Original Record Located: County Clerk's O; Book: 36;Page: 234.
Residence and Occupation in 1910: Year: 1910; Census Place: Evansville Ward 3, Vanderburgh, Indiana; Roll: T624_383; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 104; Image: 399.
Residence and Occupation in 1920: Year: 1920; Census Place: Evansville Ward 1, Vanderburgh, Indiana; Roll: T625_470; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 93; Image: 120.
Residence and Occupation in 1930: Year: 1930; Census Place: Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana; Roll: 632; Page: 17B; Enumeration District: 56; Image: 156.0.
Notes for Lillian B. Hendricks
Birth and Marriage to John Englehart: Year: 1900; Census Place: Center, Posey, Indiana; Roll: T623 398; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 44.
Births of Minnie, Fred, and Two Sons: Ancestry.com. Indiana Births, 1880-1920 [database on- line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Original data: Works Progress Administration. Index to Birth Records. Indiana: Indiana Works Progress Administration, 1938-1940.
Death and Religion: Browning Genealogy: Evansville, Indiana Area Obituary Search [database on-line]. http://browning.evpl.org/. ID#174006. Accessed on 7 August 2007.
Notes for John Englehart
Birth: Year: 1900; Census Place: Center, Posey, Indiana; Roll: T623 398; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 44.
Residence and Occupation in 1910: Year: 1910; Census Place: 3-Wd Mt Vernon, Posey, Indiana; Series: T624; Roll: 375; Page: 69A; Enumeration District: 50; Part: 1; Line: 9.


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By Michael Berry
The portrayal of ancient atrocity in fiction, movie, and pop culture can demonstrate a lot concerning the functionality of person reminiscence and the transferring prestige of nationwide id. within the context of chinese language tradition, motion pictures akin to Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of Sadness and Lou Ye's Summer Palace and novels equivalent to Ye Zhaoyan's Nanjing 1937: A Love Story and Wang Xiaobo's The Golden Age jointly reimagine prior horrors and provides upward thrust to new historic narratives.
Michael Berry takes an cutting edge examine the illustration of six particular ancient traumas in glossy chinese language background: the Musha Incident (1930); the Rape of Nanjing (1937-38); the February 28 Incident (1947); the Cultural Revolution (1966-76); Tiananmen sq. (1989); and the Handover of Hong Kong (1997). He identifies fundamental modes of restaging old violence: centripetal trauma, or violence inflicted from the skin that conjures up a reexamination of the chinese language kingdom, and centrifugal trauma, which, originating from inside, conjures up annoying narratives which are projected out onto a transnational imaginative and prescient of worldwide desires and, occasionally, nightmares.
These modes let Berry to attach portrayals of mass violence to principles of modernity and the country. He additionally illuminates the connection among ancient atrocity on a countrywide scale and the soreness skilled by way of the person; the functionality of movie and literature as ancient testimony; the intersection among politics and artwork, heritage and reminiscence; and the actual merits of contemporary media, that have came upon new technique of narrating the load of ancient violence.
As chinese language artists started to probe formerly taboo points in their nation's heritage within the ultimate a long time of the 20 th century, they created texts that prefigured, echoed, or subverted social, political, and cultural tendencies. A historical past of Pain recognizes the far-reaching impact of this paintings and addresses its profound position in shaping the general public mind's eye and conception-as good as misconception-of sleek chinese language history.
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But people of each nation always recognize their mother country; the soil of the country on which you are born shall too decide the country to which your ghost will return after death. No matter how the enemy may rape us or try to win us over, I cannot turn my back on my conscience and forget what is most fundamental by kissing up to the foreigners. No matter how much stronger the enemy may be, they must never destroy my country. And if they are truly bent on destroying this nation, they will do so only if they wipe out every last living breathing person who calls this place home—then, and only then, will they be able to win over what will be a piece of utterly deserted land.
This time, however, he expanded his meditation on brutality into a penetrating twenty-two-minute, thirty-four-second installation film,7 which was originally shown in museums on three large screens. Lingchi: Echoes of a Historical Photograph revealed a sophisticated dissection of 7. Note: this analysis is based on an alternate twenty-five-minute version of the fi lm, provided by the artist. “Shot–reverse shot”: (left) Medium shot of the gaping chest wounds and (right) reflections of the victim in the camera’s lenses.
What could easily have turned into a morbid exercise in fetishized, masochistic violence is elevated to a sublime level that not only explores the nature of pain but also questions the philosophical underpinnings involved in witnessing and representing historical violence. In the film, an anonymous man is silently stripped of his clothing, bound to a pole, and forced to ingest liquid opium before being gradually flayed alive by the executioner. As the torture continues, the perspective continually shifts from the victim to slow, panning portraits of the crowd who have come to witness the spectacle, all of whom gaze in silence, looking numbed, emotionally deadened.


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“At the yesterday election women had their first chance to vote under the full suffrage granted them last fall. Heretofore they have voted only on appropriations and only such women voted as paid taxes. Yesterday they were equal with men. We hoped to report that they turned out in large numbers, but they didn’t. These five were Mrs. G.R. Ogilive, Mrs. Alexander Russell, Mrs. A.C. VanAllen, Mrs. H.R. Gilbert, and Mrs. H.R. Gibson. Mrs. Ogilvie has the honor of being the first Avon women to exercise the full right of franchise.” Source - APHS collection
When we go to the voting booth we are offered a little sticker claiming “I Voted” and think nothing of it. All residents have the right to vote in local and federal elections, but what was it like before this privilege became so easy? New York State is celebrating the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote this year. An extraordinary movement that began in Seneca Falls and Rochester in 1848 saw its goal achieved in 1917, three years before a federal amendment extended that right to all U.S. women. The Avon Preservation and Historical Society is pleased to honor this event on Sunday, May 7 at 2:oo pm. with Rochester City Historian Christine L. Ridarsky, who will provide an overview of the women's rights movement and an introduction to some of the lesser known women who worked diligently to make this success possible.
Christine L. Ridarsky is Rochester City Historian and manager of the Local History & Genealogy Division of the Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County. She is co-editor with Mary M. Huth of Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights (University of Rochester Press, 2013) and also edits the biannual Rochester History journal.
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Mary Dempsey is President of DePaul College Prep, a co-ed Catholic high school serving Chicago and surrounding suburbs. She previously served as the first Chair of the Board of Directors of the school, from its founding in July 2014 until January 2016 when she was elected by the Board as the President of the school. She is responsible for the administration of DePaul College Prep and for the implementation of the school’s strategic plan, Faith in our Future:Vision 2020.
Mary Dempsey has also served as President of the Philip H. Corboy Foundation since 2004. The work of the Foundation is devoted to education, arts and culture, social justice, access to the courts and preserving the rights of the disabled.
From 1994 to 2012, she served as Commissioner of the Chicago Public Library. She was appointed to the position by Mayor Richard M. Daley in 1994 and reappointed Library Commissioner by Mayor Rahm Emanuel in May 2011. The Library is comprised of more than 800 employees in 79 neighborhood locations. Its mission is to promote and preserve intellectual freedom and access to resources that promote lifelong learning and quality of life for all people. Under her direction, 44 new libraries were constructed in Chicago, 13 of which are LEED certified. Also under her direction, all libraries were equipped with state of the art technology including free desktop and WiFi access to the Internet; access to more than 80 online databases; rich book collections; and innovative reading and digital learning initiatives such as One Book, One Chicago and YOUmedia. Under her leadership, the Chicago Public Library successfully concluded two 5 year strategic plans, and began development of a third.
From 1982 to 1993, Ms. Dempsey practiced law in Chicago.
Mary holds a B.A. from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, an M.L.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a J.D. from DePaul University. She is a past Chair and continues to serve as a member of the Board of Trustees of DePaul University; was the first Chair of the Board of Directors of DePaul College Prep and continues to serve as a member of the Board of Directors; founding Chair of the Leader Council of Mercy Home for Boys and Girls and member of Mercy’s Board of Regents; a member of the Board and Executive Committee of the Big Shoulders Fund; a member of the Board of the Frances Xavier Warde School; a member of the Advisory Board of Misericordia; a member of the Board of the Polk Bros. Foundation and is a past Chair of the Urban Libraries Council.
Ms. Dempsey is the recipient of five honorary degrees, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of DePaul University, a Laureate of the Lincoln Academy and has received numerous awards for her work including the Chicago History Museum’s 2014 Making History Award in Literature. In 2016, she was the Guest of Honor of the City of Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.


Review: ‘Goblin’ The Graphic Novel and ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Game
Leprechaun. Author: Eric Grissom Illustrator: Will Perkins Cover artist: Will Perkins
Rikt is a young goblin with high aspirations. He wants to become a renowned fighter, able to stand his ground and defend him against all the races that have pushed the goblins to the ends of their world.
His parents are very good at making gold and believed that by keeping a low profile they would be safe. However, soon a human will come, bringing with him hatred, destruction, and death, and leaving young Rikt orphaned.
What this young aspiring warrior is looking for now is revenge. For this, he will find unlikely allies among the fairies, a wolf and other creatures who will help him unlock the secret power hidden in the heart of the First Tree. Of course, he’ll encounter some major obstacles along the way, and many, many creatures are bigger than him.
Will Rikt survive the trials that await him on his perilous journey to the First Tree? And is Rikt really prepared for what he might find there?
The story is linked to a Dungeons & Dragons Game. After defining the characters of this fantastic graphic novel, you are subsequently invited to enter the world of this tabletop game, with this premise:
A child has disappeared from the city of Ara and his mother suspects the Black Sisterhood, a legendary clan of witches that inhabit the area. The city guard refused to uphold their theory, so instead they enlisted the help of adventurers.
You can discover the game in this link.
‘Goblin’ is on sale since 08 June 2021
Release Date: June 8, 2021
Format: graphic novel
Genre: Fantasy adventure
Age: 10-14, grade 5-9 (but really anyone above that)
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
Price: $ 14.99
Image presented by Will Perkins, all images are owned by Dark Horse Comics


Today is 1/27/2015
Ames Public Library
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Ames, Iowa 50010
- What is a news feed?
- How do I subscribe to Ames Library news feeds?
- What is a news reader?
- Should I use a news reader?
- What does RSS mean?
A news feed (also known as an RSS feed) is a listing of a website's content. It is updated whenever new content is published to the site. News readers "subscribe" to news feeds, which means they download lists of stories at an interval that you specify (every 30 minutes, for example), and present them to you in your news reader.
A news feed might contain a list of story headlines, a list of excerpts from the stories, or a list containing each story from the website. All news feeds will have a link back to the website, so if you see a headline / excerpt / story you like, you can click on the link for that piece of content and will be taken to the website to read it.
Step one is to download your favorite news reader. If you have never used one before, check out the "What is a news reader?" and "Should I use a news reader?" sections below.
Once you have a news reader, point it to the following address:
A news reader (also known as a news aggregator) is simply a piece of software that you can use to read your subscribed news feeds. It is to news feeds what Outlook, Hotmail, and Entourage are to email.
The short answer: it depends.
The longer answer: if you visit a lot of websites on daily basis, or read a lot of weblogs (or "blogs"), a news reader can save you a lot of time. Sites like ABCNews.com, Salon, and the New York Times all have syndicated feeds.
Using a news reader to consume your web media means that you only need to visit a website when you read a story in your news reader that is of interest to you. You won't have to visit your favorite sites to see if there are updates; your news reader will do that for you and will let you know when there is a new story to be read!
So if you visit a lot of websites regularly, or want to be alerted automatically when your websites published a new story, using a news reader might make sense.
Some commonly used news readers are Feed Demon, Sharp Reader (free), and NewsGator (a free Outlook plugin) for Windows; NetNewsWire and Shrook (free) for Macs; and Bloglines.com (free) for those who like web-based readers.
Depending on whom you ask, the acronym RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication", "Rich Site Summary", or any of a handful of others.
The meaning of the acronym is not terribly important, however. An RSS feed (also known as a news feed) is a site's syndicated news feed that you subscribe to using your news reader.


Glimpses is a book you’ll find yourself reading more than once. I was so gripped by the stories of Jan and Carrie’s twin journeys through cancer, each with a different ending (and beginning), that I raced through the first reading. The second time through it was with highlighter in hand, as the insights, illustrations and scriptural principles Jan relates are ones I want to share with others. This is a book I plan to purchase multiple copies of for those who are currently walking through “the valley of the shadow.”
Maggie Wallem Rowe
Public Relations Specialist
Tyndale House Publishers
Rarely does one come across a book that speaks with the truth and reality of life while unfolding a deep love relationship with the Lord. But this book DID IT! Never having any major health challenges, I felt through these two amazing women the compassion, understanding and connection with our Savior in their passion for healing and love of Him. This book shows that other things are truly unimportant.
Cynthia Kubetin Littlefield, MA, LPC
Director, Christian Counseling Center of Houston
Author of Shelter from the Storm and Beyond the Darkness
As you read Glimpses you will come face-to-face with the teaching of two women: One through her final journey until she saw Jesus face-to-face, and one through her journey of illness and healing. There is a beauty in the intricacy of the 'tapestry' that God has woven through their stories. I know you will be struck through your reading more with Jesus than with either Jan or Carrie. This is a book worthy of adding to your library of spiritual formation.
Director of Caring Ministry
Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church
Author of Helping Those Who Hurt: A Handbook for Caring and Crisis


A more precise timeline now shows Aotearoa was first settled in the North Island before the settlers expanded south and then retreated again when the climate changed.
This article has been republished from The Conversation under Creative Commons licence CC BY-ND 4.0. It was originally published under the title New research shows ancestral Māori adapted quickly in the face of rapid climate change and is written by Magdalena Bunbury and Dr Fiona Petchey.
When the ancestors of Māori made landfall in Aotearoa some 750 years ago, it marked the final stop of the greatest expansion of human migration in prehistory.
Much of their story – exactly when they arrived and where they initially settled, how quickly the population grew, and how they sustained themselves and adapted during rapidly changing climate conditions – has remained elusive until now.
Our research traces the first 250 years of settlement, including changes in resource availability and population growth. It provides a more precise timeline for arrival and settlement, beginning as early as 1250–1270.
We also demonstrate for the first time a difference in the age of settlements in the North and South islands. The research shows that Māori adapted quickly to their new environment and again during later periods when temperature and rainfall changed significantly.
A more precise timeline of arrival
People travelled from tropical islands in East Polynesia at a time when a warm climate facilitated travel across the world’s largest ocean.
Researchers have long debated the exact timing of their first settlement, with estimates varying between the 12th and 14th centuries, depending on the material selected for radiocarbon dating.
We show that early settlers reached the North Island first, between 1250 and 1270, a decade before the South Island became more popular.
At the time of settlement, the south had colonies of the large flightless moa. The early settlers rapidly adapted to this temperate climate, living on a diet of moa, seafood and vegetables grown in their garden plots.
But then the Little Ice Age interfered with this lifestyle. After 1350, conditions became significantly colder in the south. By around 1400–1420, moa hunting became uneconomic and put these fledgling communities under immense pressure. Once again, people had to adapt quickly.
Models developed from radiocarbon dates and the distribution of archaeological sites indicate the population shifted back to the north and grew between 1350 and 1450. In the north, soils were ideal for agriculture and temperatures were warmer.
New scientific approach
Estimates of arrival and settlement in earlier studies and models vary depending on the material they used. For example, radiocarbon dates of the Pacific rat (Rattus exulans or kiore) tell a story about the spread of rats following the introduction by Māori ancestors. This study documents an explosion in the rat population but not information on the earliest human settlement date.
Likewise, radiocarbon dates on moa eggshell and bone tell us about the timing of moa-hunting activities but little about activities elsewhere.
This piecemeal approach has blurred the settlement chronology and contributed to the notion of a ‘mass migration’ event. These studies also ignored dates on marine materials, one of the most commonly dated sample types.
In a previous study, we demonstrated that dates of midden shells could increase the accuracy of models if we had a better understanding of how radiocarbon in the ocean changed over time.
The development of a regional marine calibration curve that mapped this change allowed us to include more than 800 shell radiocarbon dates in the current study. This curve doubled the number of dates available for analysis.
It was also necessary to develop a new approach to modelling that combined terrestrial and marine radiocarbon data sets. The increased precision and accuracy of these new models enabled us to draw links between the number and distribution of archaeological sites, climate, resources and deforestation trends.
Why our results are more precise
We scoured journal papers and books to assemble more than 2,250 dates, the largest radiocarbon data set from any island context. We carefully evaluated the archaeological context and scientific reliability of each date and removed almost 700 problematic dates before modelling began.
Differences between the terrestrial and marine calibration curves used to convert radiocarbon measurements into calendar ages enabled us to refine ‘wiggles’ that result in multiple ranges for some early settlement events.
This research goes only a small way to providing a time baseline for understanding the complexity of ancestral Māori society. Future work aims to achieve the precision needed to establish more links between people, climate and time.
Read how whakataukī can give us insight into the moa’s conservation and extinction in Dead as the moa: oral traditions show that early Māori recognised extinction.
Learn about ‘wiggle matching’ and the complexities of radiocarbon dating through research into the volcanic eruption that created Lake Taupō in Explosive lies – how volcanoes can lie about their age, and what it means for us.
This interactive explores the C-14 carbon dating process.
Learn more about other technologies that are contributing to our knowledge of human evolution in Evolutionary research – advancing our understanding of us and techniques for refining samples for AMS dating of palaeolithic bones and other artefacts.
In 2008 scientists published research on how they used radiocarbon dating on old rat bones and seeds to establish their age.
The activity Investigating middens helps students understand what ancient middens can tell us about past lives and what discarded rubbish can tell us indirectly about the environment. You could adapt the extension idea so students also identify the organic rubbish that would survive into the future and could be dated by C-14 methods.
The activity Radioactive decay models the radioactive decay process for carbon-14 by flipping coins. It features the randomness and exponential nature of radioactive decay.
Find out more about some of the research mentioned in this article:
- A new chronology for the Māori settlement of Aotearoa (NZ) and the potential role of climate change in demographic developments, PNAS, Volume 119 | No. 46. 2022.
- Climate windows for Polynesian voyaging to New Zealand and Easter Island, PNAS, Volume 111 | No. 41. 2014.
- Extinct New Zealand megafauna were not in decline before human colonization, PNAS, Volume 111 | No. 13. 2014.
- Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly, Science, Volume 326, Issue 5957, 2009
- Using rat-gnawed seeds to independently date the arrival of Pacific rats and humans in New Zealand, Sage Journals, Volume 14, Issue 16, 2004, (note this research article has restricted access to the full version).
- High-precision dating and ancient DNA profiling of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) eggshell documents a complex feature at Wairau Bar and refines the chronology of New Zealand settlement by Polynesians, Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 50, October 2014.
- Mass Migration and the Polynesian Settlement of New Zealand, Journal of World Prehistory, Volume 30, 2017.
- Vital evidence: Change in the marine 14C reservoir around New Zealand (Aotearoa) and implications for the timing of Polynesian settlement, Scientific Reports, Volume 10, Article number: 14266 (2020)
- A wiggle-match date for Polynesian settlement of New Zealand, Antiquity. Volume 77(295), 2003.
Articles from The Conversation:
- See this article from 2021 arguing that Aotearoa New Zealand's early Polynesian settlement should be recognised with World Heritage Site status.
- In 2022 the article Linguistics locates the beginnings of the Austronesian expansion – with Indigenous seafaring people in eastern Taiwan was published.
On the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi website, read about work being undertaken by Associate Professor Fiona Petchey on constructing a precise and detailed picture of the past, using carbon dated shells from Te-Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa, the Pacific Ocean.
Listen to 95bFM who spoke to Dr Fiona Petchey about her research on the timing of Māori settlement in Aotearoa.


“Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.”
A Preparatory Centre for IAS/IPS aspirants was inaugurated on 1 August 2016 to mark 16th Anniversary of Patrician College of Arts and Science. The centre was named after Bro. Aloysius who rendered yeoman service to the cause of education. The chief guest Thiru S. Nagarajan, Director, ‘e’- Governance and the national topper in UPSC examination, IAS inaugurated the centre. Bro. O. Joseph declared open a dedicated corner for civil services in the college library and donated books essential for preparation. Around 300 civil services aspirants participated in the programme. The centre aims at training the students very rigorously to face UPSC examination.
A meeting was organized for civil services aspirants and members of Reading Club on 15 September 2016 to insist the importance of reading Newspapers for competitive exams. Brother Aloysius Centre conducted a special class on “How to get Current Affairs and General Knowledge from Dailies”. Sixteen students attended the class.


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Looking for something to read in the new year?
Atheistic Platonism: A Manifesto by Eric Steinhart is available as an e-book or printed format via Amazon.
Eric Charles Steinhart is Professor of Philosophy at William Paterson University. Among many articles and books, he has authored Your Digital Afterlives: Computational Theories of Life after Death, The Logic of Metaphor and Believing in Dawkins: The New Spiritual Atheism. You may wish to visit Steinhart’s website for chapter abstracts as a sampler.
According to Steinhart, “Atheistic Platonism is an alternative to both theism and nihilistic atheism. Where atheisms based on materialism fail, atheisms based on Platonism succeed.
Atheistic Platonism provides reality with foundations that are eternal, necessary, rational, beautiful, and utterly mindless. It argues for a plenitude of mathematical objects, and an infinite plurality of possible universes.
Atheistic Platonism provides mindless rational grounds for objective values, and for objective moral laws for the persons who evolve in universes.
Atheistic Platonism defines a meaningful and spiritually deep way of life, which facilitates ethical self-improvement.
Atheistic Platonism includes computational theories of life after death, in which humans ascend through transhuman and superhuman degrees of animal excellence.
Atheistic Platonism includes a rich system of spiritual symbols. It values transformational practices and ecstatic experiences.”
- Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2023 edition (December 1, 2022)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 3031177517
- ISBN-13 : 978-3031177514
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Calling all Liberty Academy members and guests!
The North Valley Home Schoolers and Hybrid Schoolers “MeetUp” group is organizing a field trip for an event at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley.
We are hoping to meet the 25 person minimum requirement to avail of the group rate for this event which is $15.00 / person
The event is on a Friday December 2, 2016 at 10:00 am
We would love to see you there!
Below is a quoted description from the Reagan Library Web Site
“The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum is excited to announce its latest exhibition, Interactive! The Exhibition – How Pop Culture Reshapes Technology.
Interactive! is a large-scale, hands-on examination of how popular culture in movies, books, TV, and the arts has influenced modern technology and changed the ways we live, work, move, connect and play. In addition to a wide variety of “hands-on” experiences, including Oculus Rift virtual reality, interactive robots, the driverless car, multiple gaming stations, remote control drones, 3D printing stations and more, Reagan Library visitors will also get up close to some of science fiction’s most iconic characters, including a roving, interactive R2D2 from Star Wars, a T-800 endoskeleton from The Terminator, and a full-size Alien from the Alien films. The exhibit also showcases the creative inspiration behind legendary innovators such a Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Walt Disney.
- Over a dozen immersive games await, including Virtual Reality Gaming by Oculis Rift, robotic arm interactives, 80’s gaming stations and more.
- Create and compose your own musical masterpiece.
- Seek out resources on Mars with a remote-control version of the rover from the hit film The Martian.
- Get up close with the first ever 3D printed car, by Local Motors.
- Examine communications from the landline rotary telephone and VCR to smartphones.
- Check out jetpacks, Marty McFly’s hoverboard and even meet Baxter the robot!
- And much more!
This exhibit is great for museum guests of all ages – from the young, to the young at heart!”


what you need to say in your literature review
Literature review is a collection of relevant topics on any topic. Feedback on the topic or the reader’s view on the topic. A literature review provides a reader with a comprehensive look at previous discussions prior to the one the reviewer will be making in his or her own research paper or dissertation. How does a literature review work and how is it created? First of all, the literature review depends on the continuation of your project. You can write a lot about your work. It doesn’t matter how much you write. The main thing is to use your point of view.
Firstly, you need to define the purpose of your review. If you are writing an argument paper, create a thesis statement with a clear position. At the beginning of your article, you should define a goal. Your review should be sound and consistent with your point of view about this article. Moreover, you have to do your research. Understand who the top voices are in your topicÕs academic field, and be sure to include the most pertinent publications by those scholars. As you summarize each publication, you have to give examples and show how it’s all connected. You can search for additional information to write about something in more detail. Secondly, create an organized directory if you want. Because it is very important to create your own catalog of literature. Try using Excel to run filters, colour code and sort Ð all very useful when your list grows large. If you want to create a spreadsheet, you can use these tips. You can start with the three columns that contain this basic information. This will make it easier for you to search for titles with specific words, sort research by date or group by author. Also, you can create several columns, one for each category or topic, and then mark the corresponding categories or you can create one column with keywords.
Write down any quotes that you think may be useful in the future. Also, take notes on everything that has not yet been described. For example, connections with or disagreement with other theories, questions asked but unanswered, shortcomings or limitations. Keep the topic as narrow as possible. Remember that there are hundreds and in some cases thousands of sources or points of view on any subject area or topic. Researchers study research problems in different ways, and the literature available on any given subject is extremely extensive. In a literature review, you are not expected to address all the arguments or points of view on your topic – it can actually undermine your ability to write a coherent and focused article. You will simplify your work if you limit the amount of your work. In your review, make sure that you clearly indicate what your work will focus on. In conclusion, look at the sources that the authors refer to in their work. If you see over and over again that the same researchers are cited, it often indicates that no new ideas have been created to solve the research problem. You have to clearly consider all the sources and do not forget about it!


30TH ANNUAL DUTCHESS COUNTY EXECUTIVE’S ARTS AWARDS
Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, members of Arts Mid-Hudson and civic leaders honored this year’s recipients at a reception held at Villa Borghese in Wappingers Falls on October 6, 2016. Click here to see photos from this year’s event.
This is the 30th Anniversary of the Awards, originally founded by then Dutchess County Executive Lucille Pattison in 1986 with a purpose to recognize the individuals and institutions that contribute to the area’s artistic quality.
Arts Organization Award: Howland Chamber Music Circle
Business/Corporation Award: The Moviehouse
Arts in Education Award: Meredith Heuer
Individual Artist Award: Marva Clark
Award for Art in Public Places: The Culinary Institute of America
Patron Award: Marlene Golia
Special Citation Individual Award: Patrick Madden
Special Citation Organization Award: Poughkeepsie Public Library District
Artivist Award: Bettina “Gold” Wilkerson
New for 2016! Volunteer Award: Angela Cole, Tangent Theatre Company
Student with Exceptional Promise in the Arts: Imani Jones
Photo by Lori Adams.


During the early 1900s, Monmouth County saw more than its fair share of crime. This book is about local history, law and order, and chaos. It recounts the lives and careers of three Monmouth County detectives during Prohbition and the Great Depression. Detectives Jacob Rue, William Mustoe and Harry Crook spent much of their time investigating murders, arresting gangsters, chasing down leads in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, and sometimes, they crossed the line themselves.
There is plenty of intrigue for readers of true crimes, including several unsolved 'who-dun-it' cases that remain open to this day.
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Do you know someone who likes going to the beach and needs something to read? "Wicked Monmouth County" is the perfect gift for your favorite beachgoer.
It will be an excellent addition to all genealogy libraries throughout the United States, to people with ties to Monmouth County, true crime buffs and everyone researching their ancestral roots. Joynson's method of thorough research is evident in this narrative book. It includes over 60 pictures, several appendices and is indexed for easy reference.
Wicked Monmouth County is published by The History Press, Charleston, SC. The publishers released the book to the public on July 27, 2010.
Interested? Get your copy today! Order an autographed copy of Wicked Monmouth County direct from the author for $20 + $4 shipping.


008 Remembering Steve Jobs
In this special episode of “Off the Mothership” we honor the one year anniversary of Steve Jobs’ passing by remembering the man who started the company we all love so much. We also discuss a few recent Apple events including the maps situation.
If you want some additional reading on Apple history here are a couple of good books on Apple and Computing history.
Return To the Little Kingdom: Pretty much the the founding of Apple all the way up to the release of the Macintosh. iWoz Steve Wozniak’s autobiography. Dealers of Lightning The story of Xerox PARC. and one of my favorites The Second Coming of Steve Jobs the story of NeXT and Pixar.


Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The Ban Hammer
First off, I'd like to say how disappointed I am with the comments on those youtube videos. I have come to expect a certain lack of coherent thought when it comes to internet commenting, and I don't think I saw one person that I could legitimately call a troll. That epic beard man looking dude was ripe for it. The terminals.
In regards to banning books I guess I'm on board with most everyone else in taking a general stance against banning books. I keep thinking about how it seems many people are of the opinion that if a library possessing a piece of material it also means they agree/approve of said piece of material. I don't know where this mindset came from, but it seems fairly clear to me that a library collection operates differently from a personal collection. If people aren't interested in the subject matter of something, it's really easy never to check that book out or even go find it in the library. The argument often is that the children don't know any better and will go read it and be ruined. While I do think the library can be an influence on a child's growth and development, unless something's going wrong at home it's not going to overshadow some parenting.
Onto to Nazi stuff, I don't think there's really that much of a dilemma. In a perfect world a library would collect everything and rejoice in their complete knowledge of the infinite. However, in reality public libraries aren't swimming in Scrooge McDuck piles of gold coins, so they've got to spend acquisition money on materials that will be useful for their public. If there's a huge demand for holocaust denial literature, collect away. Most likely there's not, and the money is better spent elsewhere.
However, I recognize that my viewpoint probably won't work as policy. Thus it's very important to get a solid policy in place on how materials are collected to combat people complaining about this or that being or not being in the library.
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This set is covered in brown satin. The 4 inches pen base and 10 inches x 6.5 inches guest book cover is decorated with brown satin knotted ribbon. The pen is silver with black ink. The guest book has 30 two-sided pages.
The front of the first page reads: "This is the Keepsake of On the occasion of On this the day of in the year. " The back of the first page is blank. The next 29 pages are for signatures -- the front and back of each page has the header "Guests" and 10 blank lines. This book fits 580 signature lines total.


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In 2002, the corporation known as the Centre was infiltrated by various law enforcement agencies that acted in a synchronized global effort to eradicate the organization. And then one day, Jarod's huntress ran away.
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Unseen Worlds and Practical Aspects of Spiritual Discernment
Anastacia J. Nutt. 2008. Anastacia is one of the dearly beloved members of the Fairy & Human Relations Congress. She has given workshops at the Congress, is the partner of Robert J. Stewart, and helped lead the Saturday evening ritual. I highly recommend her book for all spiritual seekers. It gives a great deal of insights into the hidden realms and its denizens. This book is especially geared to help us comprehend and deal with negative, retarding energies on the other side of the veil. How to safely navigate the realms. I highly recommend the book to all who seek to travel beyond the veil.
Awakening: Life Lessons from the Sidhe
RionaghnaArd. June, 2014. RavenSidhe Publishing, Meridian, Idaho. 212 pages. $14.95. To order books: http://www.ravensidhe.com/books.php
This book, and its author, showed up at the 2014 Fairy & Human Relations Congress. This book is the story of Rionagh meeting (on the inner realms) one of the Sidhe, Niall, who becomes a friend and ultimately is revealed to be a faery companion from other lifetimes. Rionagh channels many life lessons from Niall which are good advice for all of us humans. One of the few modern glimpses into the realm of the Sidhe.Rionagh will be a presenter at the 2015 Fairy Congress. Recommended.
by Marjorie T. Johnson. First published in English in 2014. From the Lost Archives of the Fairy Investigation Society, Authentic Reports of Fairies in Modern Times. It includes the accounts of over 400 fairy sightings collected by Marjorie Johnson.
The Fairy Investigation Society had two phases. Prior to World War II and after WWII. The FIS was suspended during WWII and its secretary at the time reports that most the records of the Society were destroyed during the war. After the war, FIS began anew and Marjorie Johnson became the FIS secretary and driving force.
This book has an amazing story that started in 1911 with the birth of Marjorie T. Johnson in England. Marjorie saw fairies from the age of six onwards. Marjorie died at the age of 100 in 2010. Here is a sentence from the book’s introduction by Simon Young: “It all began in 1955, when the British author, Marjorie Johnson, then aged 44, began to put together the material for a book entitled “Fairy Vision”. It wasn’t until Marjorie was 85 in 1996 that the book’s manuscript was finally typed up. It wasn’t until the year 2000 that Marjorie was able to hold a copy of her book in her hands, but it was in German (which she couldn’t read) because no English language publisher could be found. Subsequently in 2004 when she was 93, it was published in Italian (which she couldn’t read). This first English language edition finally made it into print in 2014 after Marjorie had died. Marjorie can’t hold the English language edition her hands, but we can. I just obtained a copy a day ago and have just begun to read through the accounts. Some are short and some are detailed. It offers the perspective of people of all ages and walks of life reporting their fairy encounters. All in all, it offers a rather large array of what fairy encounters can be like.
Of course, anyone familiar with Daphne Charter’s fairy history will see a striking resemblance in the stories of Marjorie Johnson and Daphne Charters, who was born in England in 1910, a year before Marjorie. Daphne in her 40s began compiling writings of her own interactions with fairies. Like Marjorie, she also it difficult to find English publishers who would do fairy books. Her first pamphlet The Origin, Life and Evolution of the Fairies was published in French in 1951. She self published her first book “A True Fairy Story” in 1956. In 1969 it was published in Spanish in Argentina. In 1979, Friends of the Trees Society published it in the United States. Daphne passed on in 1991 leaving Michael Pilarski to finish publishing her writings. In 2007, I arranged for publication of Forty Years with the Fairies: Volume I of Daphne’s Collected Manuscripts by RJ Stewart Books. Volumes II and III are still to come. See information on Perima.
Marjorie and Daphne lived in England at the same time and both dedicated a lot of their life energies to the fairies. Did they know each other? We may never know. They both left a legacy of fairy writings to be published posthumously after they died. Simon Young has played a similar role in bringing Marjorie Johnson’s work to light as Michael Pilarski is doing for Daphne Charters. As some of you know, Daphne Charters’ work was the inspiration for putting on our contemporary Fairy & Human Relations Congress.
In my humble opinion, if you are into fairies, you should read both of these books.
Marjorie Johnson’s book Seeing Fairies is available on Amazon for $18.55.
Daphne Charters’ book Forty Years with the Fairies is available for $24 Michael Pilarski’s Friends of the Trees Society website.
For more information on fairies and the latest incarnation of the Fairy Investigation Society, see Simon Young’s website: http://www.fairyist.com/


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In his letter to the Corinthian churches, the apostle Paul commands Christians to – “Follow the way of love, eagerly desire the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and especially that you may prophesy”
This three-session online course explores how to wisely exercise the gift of prophecy within the context of the local church and mission.
In this three-session series, Bruce Collins covers –
– What the gift of prophecy is and how it differs from a prophetic ministry, or a prophetic office
– Why it is so important and valuable for the church’s ministry, and especially in evangelism.
– Covers values that should govern the practice of prophecy
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“You are stronger than you think. You are braver than you feel.”
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Lucy has a bully at school. After struggling to deal with it, she goes to her mom for help. This story is about kindness, compassion and resiliency; it is a reminder that all people are dealing with different challenges and sometimes just need a little kindness to change things.
"Another winner, from a fantastic author! I will be recommending these books to all of my parent friends!"– Amazon Review
Children’s book that can be used in elementary schools, at bedtime, or as gifts. Help parents to start the meaningful discussion about the power of kindess, our personal resiliency, and new ways to address bullying!


Genre - Documentary
Year Released - 2008
Running Time - 95 minutes
Directed by Benson Lee
Last for One
Rating: 4 Skulls
This Tribeca Film Festival selection affords viewers exclusive access to the underground world of break dancing, charting the highs and lows of 5 B-boy teams practicing for the all-important "Battle of the Year".
Combining stunning dance footage from Japan, Germany, South Korea, France, and the United States, documentarian Benson Lee sets out to show that break dancing didn't fade into history - it merely evolved into a remarkable art form.
What a fascinating documentary! It is absolutely amazing what these folks can do - the athleticism, the artistry, the energy and expression - Crazy! [Me, I couldn't dance to save my life, much less do what these folks do!]
In the beginning of the film, we are told that Hip-Hop is not Rap. Hip-Hop is a culture that is broken down into 4 elements: B-boying, Scratching, Rapping, and Tagging. We are filled in how B-boying began in the 70's, how it was exploited in the 80's - simply becoming a fad, and how it has evolved into what it is today.
Throughout the film, we follow the main teams [mentioned above, in the cast]
Ichigeki - from Japan, Gamblers and Last for One - both from South Korea, Phase-T from France, and Knucklehead Zoo - from the USA (Las Vegas!) as they prepare for the ultimate showdown: the "Battle of the Year" held each year, in Germany.
Other crews are there as well, from China, South Africa, Thailand, Hungary, Taiwan, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Greece, Spain - all over! It is amazing how this has spread, from America, to all over the world!
Even if you are not a break dancing fan, this is an enjoyable and entertaining documentary.
Here's the trailer:
This movie is currently available Instantly through Netflix [which is how I watched it] Just so you know! :-)