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The Bible is divided into the Old and the New Testaments:
The Old Testament is a collection of 39 books and it contains the creation of the universe, the history of the patriarchs, the exodus from Egypt, the formation of Israel as a nation, the decline and fall of the nation, the Prophets (who spoke for God), and the Wisdom Books.
The books are:
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
The New Testament is a collection of 27 books written in Greek. It consists of the narratives of the life and ministry of Jesus, the acts of Apostles, letters called epistles written by various authors and the book of Revelation, which is a book of prophecy.
The books are:
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, Revelation.


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When I go to the library for my kids, I always have to check out a few quilting books. I try to get some books that are not really my style so I picked up Dare to Be Square Quilting by Boo Davis.
This is a book that is perfect for beginners and for the rest of us who are tired of half-square triangles and curved seams. Some of the projects I could see myself completing, but most of the quilts pictured reminded me of a late 70's or early 80's mod style, and I didn't like those as much. Speaking of mod, this book has it's own YouTube. How cool is that?
The quilt I chose to do was Chatterbox out of Beatles fabric as a gift for my teen aged son on Christmas. Yes, I can post a million pictures of his quilt on my blog because what teen aged child would ever lower themselves to look at their ultra-unhip mother's blog?
The instructions were clear and uncomplicated. The quilt went together so easily. I backed it with minky fabric and didn't use batting. The only complaint I have is not with the book, but with the minky. This is the first time I've quilted with minky, and while quilting, the dark blue color of the minky came up through the front of the quilt. Also, the Beatles fabric didn't appear to be of the highest quality.
Nevertheless, the quilt was enjoyable and simple to complete. I loved looking through the book, and because the book had a project that I was actually inspire to complete, I give it 4 out of 5 stars.


Eddy Merckx, widely regarded as the greatest cyclist of all time, has left an indelible mark on the world of cycling through his extraordinary career. Known as ”The Cannibal” for his insatiable hunger for victories, Merckx’s list of accomplishments is nothing short of awe-inspiring. In this article, we delve into some of Eddy Merckx’s most unforgettable victories, where he showcased his unparalleled skill, determination, and sheer dominance in the sport of cycling.
The Duel in the Mountains
Giro d’Italia 1968: The Stelvio Pass Showdown
In 1968, Merckx faced one of his toughest challenges in the Giro d’Italia. The battle unfolded on the treacherous slopes of the Stelvio Pass, where adverse weather conditions added an extra layer of difficulty. Despite being attacked by his rivals, Merckx demonstrated his mental and physical fortitude, pushing through the grueling ascent to secure a memorable stage win and solidify his position as the overall leader. This epic display of resilience and climbing prowess became etched in the annals of cycling history.
The Record-Breaking Hour
The Tour de France Triumphs
Tour de France 1969: The First Maillot Jaune
Tour de France 1974: The Quintessential Dominance
The Monumental Classics
Milan-San Remo 1971: A Commanding Sprint Finish
Tour of Flanders 1975: Conquering the Cobbled Terrain
The World Championships
World Championships 1967: A Rainbow Jersey Debut
World Championships 1974: A Hat-Trick of Victories
Eddy Merckx’s victories have transcended the boundaries of cycling and have become part of sporting legend. From battling against the elements in the mountains to displaying his supremacy in the Grand Tours and conquering the prestigious classics, Merckx’s career was an extraordinary tapestry of triumphs. His relentless pursuit of greatness and his ability to dominate races made him an icon in the cycling world. Eddy Merckx’s unforgettable victories continue to inspire generations of cyclists, reminding us of the indomitable spirit and sheer brilliance of one of the greatest athletes to have ever graced the sport.


The Sahitya Section of the Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra has strived to build a forum for the discussion and upliftment of the rich written and oral literary traditions of the region. It has organized different seminars and discussions from time to time. Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra has been organising Sahitya Baktrita Mala, Author’s Meet in the field of Assamese literature.
The Sahitya Section has been regularly holding lectures, workshops, discussions, book reading sessions and so on to promote literature and light up the interest for literature which is a huge part of the cultural heritage of this region. The book stall at Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra Society now has one section completely for the sale of books published by Assam Sahitya Sabha. There have been many publications made by Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra Society of noteworthy literary works.


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My name is Randy Watkins, and I am currently a fifth grade teacher at Spring Farms Elementary. I am a 1982 graduate of Tussey Mtn. and a 1999 graduate of Juniata College. I hold a B.S. in El. Ed. and certifications in H.S. History and M.S. English. If you need anything, please don't hesitate to reach out at any time. Best regards, Mr. Watkins
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I find endless pleasure in re-reading the entire Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. To me, her writing is incredibly inspiring as a mother, as someone aiming for a simpler life, and as someone who occasionally tires of the daily grind of household and parenting duties.
The Ingalls lived a simple but hardworking life. From sun up to sun down, they cared for their home and family with very few breaks—and certainly no complaints. Their land, house and livestock were lovingly tended every day, with each member of the family playing a vital role in the upkeep. They took pride in their farming, gardening, sewing, carpentry, baking and other skills. The Ingalls saved for, invested in and then used and treasured beautiful heirloom items. After a long day of labor, they relaxed by reading poetry or hymns, singing together or listening to Pa play the fiddle. The occasional day of leisure might include riding horses, playing in a stream or picking wildflowers. Reading about their diligence and good nature is simultaneously inspiring and humbling. (It also sounds a bit far fetched, I admit, but I still love reading about it.)
The Little House books are so well written and with such interesting plot lines (yes, really!), I’d argue they provide just as much education and inspiration as books more formally discussing simplicity, time management and family life … perhaps even more so.
Have you read these books (I didn’t until I was a young adult)? If not, I encourage you to take a look, no matter your age or season of life. You won’t regret it.


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This is my second professionally published book, published by Apress.
The is a fun way to learn computer programming by creating computer games. This is designed as a book to give you all the skills you need to start programming your own games, from designing the game, creating the graphics, designing sound effects and programming using Pygame Zero.
Here is a quick introduction to the main focus for each of the chapters.
An introduction to the methodology around programming, creating computer games and the Raspberry Pi.
A quick introduction to Python. Designed for those with programming experience from a language other than Python, or as a quick refresher for those that have done some programming in Python before. It introduces the first game which is a text based quiz. This is the only console based game with the rest being designed using Pygame Zero.
An introduction into what Pygame Zero is, along with an introduction to using the Mu editor with Pygame Zero. Create a first graphical game "Compass Game" and learn about how sprites (Actors) can be animated. Learn how to detect collisions in Pygame Zero.
This chapter goes outside of purely programming to investigate what makes a game enjoyable. It gives ideas of what to think about when designing a game. The code then looks at making the compass game more enjoyable through a more appropriate timer and adding obstacles.
To create graphical games then you need to know about how to create the graphics and how to incorporate them into the game. This chapter looks at how you can create graphics using 2D and 3D tools before exporting them for inclusion in a 2D game.
Understand how colors are represented in a computer and how they are used in Pygame Zero. This creates a color changing bouncing ball animation and a color changing which introduces how to handle mouse events in Pygame Zero.
Create a tank based game using Vector Graphics based around basic shapes. Also learn about creating a shell tragectory and how to introduce gravity into a game.
How to record or make sounds and music for use in games. How to use these to create sound effects or to play background music during the game. This chapter introduces a piano / keyboard style game designed for use with the Raspberry Pi touch screen.
Learn about object oriented programming with Python as a way to make code easier to understand. This creates a matching pairs memory game which you can play against the clock to try and find as many pairs as you can.
How to create computer players with an appropriate level of "intelligence". This looks at the memory game and looks at different techniques that can be used to provide a computer competitor instead of the timer. Also creates a new Battleship game using appropriate artificial intelligence to make the game challenging.
Learn additional techniques in Pygame and Pygame Zero. Look at how to create games for the Raspberry Pi Picade and a quick introduction to joysticks / game controllers. Some tips and trips for debugging, including Rubber Duck Debugging.
After following through the book you should have learnt enough skills to adapt the games or create your own games using Pygame Zero.
* Note the American spelling of color rather than the Britsh English spelling colour which is what I normally use on this website. I live in the United Kingdom and so use British English on my website. The book is however published by an American publisher so has been written using American English for most of the spellings. The code is exactly the same (many programming languages are created using American English, although in some cases Python can be either British or American spellings). Other than a few words spelt differently in the text this is suitable for anyone speaking any variant of English.
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General Ulysses S. Grant brought overwhelming force to defeat the Confederacy and to preserve the Union. From May 4 to May 7, 1864, General Grant led the Union forces in the Wilderness Campaign. Although he did not win the battle, he also did not retreat, thereby winning a strategic victory. He then led his troops on to Spotsylvania Courthouse where the next battle of the overland campaign against the Confederacy took place.
With grit, determination and mental focus he fought almost continuously until Lee’s final surrender on April 12, 1865 at Appomattox Courthouse where the Confederacy’s struggle to secede from the Union ended. There Grant displayed his magnanimity, allowing Robert E. Lee, a fellow West Pointer, to walk away defeated but a free man. To allow the healing process to begin, Grant told Confederate officers they were free to go home along with their horses and mules. "The Confederates were now our countrymen, and we do not want to exult over their downfall."
|Clock stopped at moment of death||Note found in Grant's pocket|
Grant’s character on the battlefield was mirrored in the last two weeks of his life. A New York financier friend invited Grant, accompanied by his family, servants and physician, to use his comfortable cottage high on Mount McGregor, near the resort of Saratoga Springs. In dreadful pain and dying from a large cancer in his jaw and throat, in precise penmanship, Grant hand wrote the last three chapters of his autobiography. The writing was a task he had taken on at the behest of his friend and admirer, Mark Twain, in order to restore his family’s lost fortune. He wanted both to tell the story of the War and also give his wife financial security — admirably accomplishing both goals with the same grit, determination and absolute mental focus he had shown in battle during the Civil War. Grant completed his autobiography in the few days remaining to him, from his arrival on June 16, 1885 to just before his death on July 20,1885.


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Twenty-five years after the crucifixion, Mary Magdalene still leads a double life as Jesu’s disciple and Susannah, the wealthy heir of an international import/export business in incense and perfume. But someone is watching, her two identities threaten to merge, and she must flee Jerusalem. Her journey begins with voices and visions that first drag her into the past and then propel her forward, through the temples of strange gods, across deserts and seas, to experience a near death experience, an unexpected initiation and a dangerous storm at sea. Her outer journey reflects the inner as Magdalene grapples with tradition and duty to discover what she most desires.
Part I: Pomegranates and Perfume In which Magdalene leaves Jerusalem bound for Petra, fabled rose-red city of the Nabateans. Her double life as Susannah, wealthy owner of a perfume import business, and Mary Magdalene, beloved disciple of the crucified Rabbi Jesu, is coming to an end. The journey leads her into unfamiliar territory – pagan temples, desert camps, Cleopatra’s perfumery, and a forbidden oasis. It will culminate in a pomegranate orchard, face to face with her past.
Part II: Gospel of a Mary In which Magdalene travels to Alexandria and finds sanctuary in the Temple of Isis in return for inscribing her memories of Jesu’s teachings. There she make friends, and incurs an enemy. A near-fatal attack from a sorceress shakes the foundations of her faith. She attempts a return to Israel but a storm at sea interferes. Set adrift in a small boat with a three companions, she is carried across the Mediterranean and cast ashore in Gaul.
Part III: Dance of the Seventh Veil In which Magdalene sets out alone by foot to continue her journey and find her calling. Along the way she encounters a crone and propositioned by three very different men. She resumes preaching in public and teaching in private. All the while, her lessons in consciousness continue. Eventually, she must find her own voice and choose her own destiny.
I am not unique in my fascination with Mary Magdalene. Interest in her has upsurged these last ten years or so. Dan Brown caught one of the first swells, but he did not initiate our fascination. In fact, curiosity about the Magdalene has been pretty consistent from the beginning, peaking and subsiding at intervals throughout the centuries. It is not surprising we are rediscovering her now, when women’s role in the church is changing radically. Mary Magdalene represents, more than any other figure, the reclamation of feminine presence and authority within the Christian church.
The most surprising thing about Magdalene is that she survived at all. The church fathers certainly tried their best to downplay her role and besmirch her reputation. Nevertheless, even when so many other things got cut from the canon, Magdalene’s story survived. Why?
There is really only one answer. She was integral to the story and everyone knew it. The new church couldn’t excise her memory and still retain integrity in the eyes of the audiences they hoped to reach. So in she stayed.
That tells me she was real, important and a force to be reckoned with. So what, I began to wonder, happened to her after the crucifixion and before men began organizing themselves into a hierarchy replete with dogma and rhetoric?
I began to ponder Magdalene’s life just as I started to notice what an extraordinary turn my own life was taking. I was writing more, teaching workshops, performing poetry, co-founding an annual women’s retreat, and deepening my relationships. At the same time I was releasing some old habits, affiliations and ideas that had lost their juice, exhausted me, or no longer served. A bunch of little phobias disappeared, my inhibitions seemed to melt away, and very little stuff warranted anxiety or upset. It felt like freedom. It felt like joy.
Finally, I realized I’d graduated! This wasn’t Life 101 anymore. In fact, all the life lessons I worked so hard to learn through introspection, error, discipline, duty, kindness and forgiveness were finally paying off.
Not just for me! Dozens of women I knew were experiencing the same thing. Have you read Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell? He says it takes 10,000 hours or ten years to master something, be it writing or planting a garden. I began to wonder if my friends and I, most of us well into our fifth or sixth decade , could possibly have mastered living? What would that mean? For a musician mastery means playing with joy, improvising with facility and staying fully present with the music; not having to think about what, when, how or why, because hands and fingers and feet already know.
My friends and I live that way. Sociologists and psychologists, even feminist theorists have barely noticed what has been happening with us. Instead, we are bombarded with palliatives to assuage our horrible fate (aging), or plied with drugs, creams and surgical procedures to slow or ignore the aging process. The liberation inherent to this third trimester of life is rarely mentioned. No one yet has even named this phase of life.
I wanted to write about it, but in story form. This is where Mary Magdalene re-enters the scene. She had long since moved into my imagination and refused to leave. In fact she was getting impatient. She agreed to illuminate my story with details from hers. Together we embarked on a journey based upon the hints and clues about her life found in Biblical, Apocryphal, and Gnostic texts, and medieval legends. She led, I followed. Magdalene A.D. is the result.


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This computer is situated in Belgium’s Royal Library. It offers you access to an internal network of 300.000 pages of Belgian periodicals, produced between 1831 an 1945. It has no access to internet, no usb ports, and no connection to a printer.
If the library allows any digital distribution of the materials outside of the library walls they risk claims of copyright holders.
During Public Domain Day (NL) Librarian Marc D'Hoore explains: determining the authorship of a newspaper is difficult. Much of the work is anonymous or pseudononymous. There are not always clear contracts between the publishers and the authors. You do not know who owns the copyright, and you do not know when it will pass into the public domain.
Because of its mission of preservation, the Library needed to scan these materials—the paper is of extremely poor quality and disintegrating. But the Library also has a mission to facilitate access to its materials in any way it can.
Digitalisation seems to offer a great potential to make the material from the collections more accessible. Once scanned, material can be indexed, and put online, and be available to everyone with an internet connection. In potential. In reality, the Royal Library can not do this, because it would open itself to all kinds of claims of damages by copyright holders.


Apple has launched iBooks 1.1 for the iPhone which works with iOS4. When you install it you are asked:
Do you want to store your bookmarks and notes in your iTunes store account for syncing across devices?
Sadly in Ireland there is only those free Project Gutenberg ebooks, lets hope Jobs does not keep us waiting as long as we had to wait for movies…
So what’s new? Well here is what is promised:
• In addition to iPad, iBooks is now available on any iPhone or iPod with iOS 4.
• Open and read PDF documents from Mail. PDF documents will be added to your library and appear on the PDF bookshelf. You can even search PDFs for words or phrases and bookmark your favorite pages.
• Take advantage of new ways to bookmark. In addition to highlighting a word or a passage, you can now also add notes or bookmark an entire page with the new page ribbon.
• Keep your bookmarks, notes, and your current page wirelessly in sync between iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch with the new automatic bookmark syncing feature.
• See your book pages in a new font, called Georgia.
• Read your books on white or sepia colored pages.
• Choose left or fully justified text layout from Settings.
• Read pages with greater ease by increasing to even larger font sizes.
• Enjoy greater stability and better performance.


Erich Mühsam (1878-1934) was a leading figure in the German anarchist movement. This site will be home to critical English editions of several of his most important works.
Now in print from PM Press (US) and Merlin Press (UK)!
Erich Mühsam. Liberating Society from the State and Other Writings: A Political Reader.
Edited and translated by Gabriel Kuhn. Oakland: PM Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-60486-055-9
London: Merlin Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-85036-683-9


The retraction of 60 papers at one time (and resignation of the education minister), ‘predatory’ journals, journal hijackings, purported low inter-rater reliability, bias and conservatism and (obvious) difficulty in readily detecting fraud or misconduct are dynamics at science and medical journals that highlight a need to study these dynamics, starting with journal peer review.
The site is dedicated to the investigation of peer review as a scientific object of study – not a pre-constructed, self-evident process that is based on common experience with peer review. Of the hundreds of papers and studies on peer review that I have come across (starting in 1830 with Granville’s study), I have found only a handful that have attempted to carefully tend to the object of study prior to applying scientific methods of analysis. By this I mean that peer review was not laden with assumptions, i.e. that peer review must be pre-publication, that referees must be anonymous, or that peer review was borne of a need for rationality at the first journals in 1665.
One of the goals of the site therefore is to help steer research of peer review away from a common experience object to a decidedly scientific object. Currently, this site focuses on journal peer review at scientific and medical journals.
I invite you to browse through several preprints on journal peer review as a scientific object of study with historical (Part I, Part II, abridged) and contemporary shaping of peer review, on the changing meanings of scientific knowledge, and on the purported resistance of editorial readers to new scientific ideas. In addition, see my commentary on University World News.
Finally, I invite you to join the conversation with post-publication review of scholarship on peer review!
Joanne Gaudet Follow @gaudetj_99


Jan Richardson's latest book supports teacher planning for each stage of reading. There is a chapter devoted to each stage which clearly describes how to complete each step of a guided reading lesson. Each step of the lesson for each stage of reading is supported by videos of Jan teaching and adaptations for DLL and Students with IEPS.
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Master reading teachers Jan Richardson, Ph.D., and Maria Walther, Ed.D., developed and classroom-tested this lean, smart assessment kit to provide teachers with a complete picture of each reader’s word knowledge, phonics skills, fluency, and comprehension skills.
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Jan Richardson leads targeted lessons that accelerate reading growth for K–8 students. In this resource-rich spiral-bound book, Richardson shares prompts, discussion starters, teaching points, words lists and more to support all students, including dual language learners and struggling readers.
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Reading the Herculaneum Papyri: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Auditorium, Getty Villa Free Event; Ticket Required | Limited to 4 tickets per person.
Hundreds of papyrus scrolls carbonized by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79 were recovered from the ancient Roman residence known today as the Villa dei Papiri. Containing mostly Greek philosophical texts, these fragile scrolls and their contents have fascinated scholars since their rediscovery in 1752. Classicists David Blank of UCLA and Richard Janko of the University of Michigan discuss early and current attempts to unravel the fragile layers and decipher their texts, and computer scientist W. Brent Seales shares how advances in technology and machine learning might allow the still unopened ancient book rolls to be “virtually unwrapped” and read.


Bowing to my usual frustration with technology, I submit the following guide to my recent posts. They do not appear in the order I intended, as I updoaded photographs in too haphazard a fashion. So, they make sense in this order:
1. The Story of Marguerite and the Isle of Demons
2. Vieux (Old) Quebec I
3. Quebec II
4. Quebec III
5. Jacques Cartier Provincial Park
6. Tadoussac I
7. Tadoussac II
8. Baxter State Park I
9. Baxter State Park II
10. Baxter State Park III
11. Camden and Clark Island
12. Acadia National Park
13. Mount Megunticook
15. Farewell to Maine and Salem, MA
On our journey to Quebec, Tadoussac and the Saint Lawrence Seaway, I read aloud to Matt from Francis Parkman’s Pioneers of France in the New World, and here set down a marvelous account of female fortitude in the face of tremendous odds. I will quote Parkman, since these were the terms in which I first heard the tale, but there is more to learn from other references, which I will cite at the end.
First, concerning the Isle of the Demons:
“On this dim verge of the known world (the fisheries of Newfoundland) there were other perils than those of the waves…,other tenants than the seal, the walrus and the screaming sea-fowl, the bears which stole away their fish before their eyes and the wild natives dressed in seal-skins. Griffins…infested the mountains of Labrador. Two islands, north of Newfoundland, were given over to the fiends from whom they derived their name, the Isles of Demons. An old map pictures their occupants at length, devils rampant, with wings, horns, and tail. The passing voyager heard the din of their infernal orgies and woe to the sailor or the fisherman who ventured alone into the haunted woods. ‘True it is,’ writes the old cosmographer Thevet, ‘and I myself have heard in the air, on the tops and about the masts, a great clamor of men’s voices, confused and inarticulate, such as you may hear from the crowd at a fair or market-place; whereupon they well knew that the Isle of Demons was not far off.'” Pioneers of France, Samuel de Champlain Ch. 1
Matt and I spoke to a kayaker on the Saguenay who told us waterfalls on either side of this deep fiord of the Saint Lawrence echo one another back and forth in the fog and sound exactly like human voices conversing!
The Story of Marguerite:
“The ominous adventure of New France had found a champion in the person of Jean Francois de la Roque, Sieur de Roberval, a nobleman of Picardy…His commission declares of the objects of the enterprise to be discovery, settlement, and the conversion of the Indians who are described as ‘men without knowledge of God or use of reason.’ — a pious design, held doubless in full sincerity by the royal profligate, now, in his decline, a fervent champion of the Faith and a strenuous tormentor of heretics. The machinery of conversion was of a character somewhat questionable, since Cartier and Roberval were empowered to ransack the prisons for thieves, robbers and other malefactors to complete their crews and strengthen the colony.”
“Roberval…set sail, steering northward to the Straits of Belle Isle and the dreaded Isles of the Demons. And here an incident befell which the all-blieving Thevet records in manifest good faith, and which, stripped of the adornments of superstition and a love of the marvellous, has without doubt a nucleus of truth. I give the tale as I find it.
“The Viceroy’s company was…mixed….There were nobles, officers, soldiers, sailors, adventurers, with women too, and children. Of the women, some were of birth and station, and among them a damsel called Marguerite, a niece of Roberval himself. In the ship was a young gentleman who had embarked for love of her. His love was too well requited; and the stern Viceroy (disorder was dangerous under the iron rule of the inexorable Roberval), scandalized and enraged at a passion which scorned concealment and set shame at defiance, cast anchor by the haunted island, landed his indiscreet relative, gave her four arquebuses for defence, and, whith an old Norman nurse named Bastienne, who had pandered to the lovers, left her to her fate. Her gallant threw himself into the surf, and by desperate effort gained the shore, with two more guns and a supply of ammnunition.
(Notice that Roberval blamed the women only and left them short of lead and gun powder! Wretch!)
“The ship weighed anchor, receded, vanished, and they were left alone. Yet not so, for the demon lords of the island beset them day and night, raging around their hut with a confused and hungry clamoring, striving to force the frail barrier. The lovers had repented of their sin, though not abandoned it, and Heaven was on their side….In the form of beasts or other shapes abominable and unutterably hideous, the brood…, howling in baffled fury, tore at the branches of the sylvan dwelling….Marguerite became pregnant…., but…stood undaunted amid these horrors….Her lover, dismayed and heart-broken, sickened and died. Her child soon followed; then the old Norman nurse found her unhallowed rest in that accursed soil, and Marguerite was left alone. Neither her reason nor her courage failed. When the demons assailed her, she shot at them with her gun, but they answered with hellish merriment, and thence-forth she placed her trust in Heaven alone. There were foes around her of the upper, no less than of the nether world. Of these, the bears were the most redoubtable; yet being vulnerable to mortal weapons, she killed three of them, all, says the story, ‘as white as an egg.’
“It was two years and five months from her landing on the island, when, far out at sea, the crew of a small fishing-craft saw a column of smoke curling upward from the haunted shore. Was it a device of the fiends to lure them to their ruin? They thought so and kept aloof. But misgiving seized them. They warily drew near, and descried a female figure in wild attire waving signals from the strand. Thus at length was Marguerite rescued and restored to her native France, where a few years later, the cosmographer Thevet met her at Natron in Peribord, and heard the tale of wonder from her own lips. (The story is taken from Thevet’s curous manuscript of 1586.)”
For an expanded and less fantastical account read Legends of Newfoundland and Labrador by Donald Wilson Stanley Ryan. There is also a novel called Paradise by Joan Elizabeth Goodman and another called Elle by Douglas Glover (click on Marguerite above).
Sharon Chubbs-Ransom shares her memories of Harrington Island, where her mother showed her the “cave of Marguerite.”
These horse-drawn tours circle and circle the upper city and there is quite a lot to see, from the fortifications overlooking the Plains of Abraham on the Southwest, where the French future of Canada received its first blow and Montcalm and Wolfe died, to the Terrace Dufferin and Chateau Frontenac, which overlooks the Saint Lawrence and back up the Grande Allee on which one exits the City Gate and has before one on the right hand, the Hotel du Parliament — not an hotel, but the Parliamentary Buildings and gardens — and beyond to the Parc des Champs-de-Bataille (Battlefields Park) and the Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec (Quebec Museum of Fine Arts). We were unable to go into the later because it was closed on Mondays, but we enjoyed the walk.
Stone dated 1647 , once belonging to Governor Montmagny, who wanted to erect a large, urban city on the heights of Quebec. (He was frustrated by the Ursuline, Augustine and Jesuit religious orders, who held large tracts of land there and refused to have them divided up. For that reason, the old city remained largely administrative and religious in character until the 19th Century, when a few elegant residential neighborhoods developed along five streets.) It now overlooks the central courtyard of the Chateau Frontenac.
Quebec City was founded by Samuel de Champlain, a nerveless explorer and colonizer. I was thoroughly impressed by his exploits as retold by Francis Parkman. (One can read about his discoveries and activities in his own words, if one reads French.)
Here is a summarization of the man from Pioneers of France in the New World:
“For twenty-seven years he had labored hard and ceaselessly for its (the Colony of Quebec), sacrificing fortune, repose and domestic peace to a cause embraced with enthusiasm and pursued with intrepid persistency. His character belonged partly to the past, partly to the present. The preux chevalier, the crusader, the romance-loving explorer, the curious, knowledge-seeking traveller, the practical navigator, all claimed their share in him. His views, though far beyond those of the mean spirits around him, belonged to his age and his creed. he was less statesman than soldier. He leaned to the most direct and boldest policy….His dauntless courage was matched by an unwearied patience, proved by life-long vexations, and not wholly subdued even by the saintly follies of his wife. He is charged with credulity, from which few of his age were free, and which in all ages has been the foible of earnest and generous natures, too ardent to criticise, and too honorable to doubt the honor of others….The adventurous explorer of Lake Huron, the bold invader of the Iroquois, befits but indifferently the monastic sobrieties of the fort of Quebec, and his sombre environment of priests. Yet Champlain was no formalist, nor was his an empty zeal. A soldier from his youth, in an age of unbridled license, his life had answered to his maxims; and when a generation had passed after his visit to the Hurons, their elders remembered with astonishment the continence of the great French war-chief.
“His books mark the man, — all for his theme and his purpose, nothing for himself. Crude in style, full of the superficial errors of carelessness and haste, rarely diffuse, often brief to a fault, they bear on every page the palpable impress of truth.”
After our day in Quebec City, we drove an half hour north to the Jacques Cartier Provincial Park and followed the river. It was misty and mysterious.
Champlain’s exploration of the northern wilds from Pioneers of France:
“Now they glided beneath overhanging cliffs, where, seeing but unseen, the crouched wild-cat eyes them from the thicket; now through the maze of water-girdled rocks, which the white cedar and spruce clasped with serpent-like roots, or among islands where old hemlocks darkened the water with deep green shadow.
“Aloft, the white pine towered above a sea of verdure; old fir trees, hoary and grim, shaggy with pendent mosses, leaned above the stream and beneath, dead and submerged, some fallen oak thrust from the current its bare, bleached limbs, like the skeleton of a drowned giant. In the weedy cove stood the moose, neck-deep in water to escape the flies, wading shoreward, with glistening sides, as the canoes drew near, shaking his broad antlers and writhing his hideous nostril, as with clumsy trot he vanished in the woods.”
It took us only three and a half hours to drive from Warren, MN to Salem, MA. We debated whether to find a hotel and spend the night, but when we mentioned our desire to drive into Boston proper at the Visitor’s Center in Salem, the response was, “Are you crazy?” He quickly took it back, but we decided to head for home a day early.
Fortunately for us, the House of Seven Gables stayed open for tours until seven o’clock, so we had the time to tour another 17th Century Home, the so-called Witch House. I had an interesting conversation with the guide within about the atrocities of Indian Warfare and he reommended a new history of the Salem Witch Trials that suggests the critical paranoia that led to so many arrests and executions had everything to do with the general terror of attack during the Second Indian War, in which New England settlers were massacred by the Indian allies of Count Frontenac in Quebec. The Puritans imagined that these turns of fortune were God’s punishment on them for their sins and set about rooting out the evil in their midst.


Conditions to trigger the instance: Have Alfine join your party.
Trying to enter the School of Wizardry will trigger the following conversation:
- Siela: HEY!
- Alfine: Be careful! Oh... it's you, Siela! Why are you here?
- S: No reason really. Where are you going Alfine?
- A: I need to go to the book tower.
- S: Book tower?
- A: In this tower there are a variety of books regarding the laws of magic.
- S: I didn't know that!
- A: There might even be a book you will be interested in! I'll teach you the spell to open the door. Pa Moss De Isca.
- S: Pa Moss.... De Isca?
- A: Yes, that's right. If you say it once, then the door will let you go in and out freely! I have to go look up some things. Good bye.
- S: (I guess I will check it out later)
- Siela: What was the spell again...? Pa Moss De Isca... Was that correct?
- Magical Door: SPELL CONFIRMED.
- Siela: Wow! It talked!
Middle Bookcase: Found and read Intro to Alchemy.「Spike Bomb」, 「Poison Bomb」 added to Recipe Book!
Top Bookcase: Found and read Bianso Style Cooking. 「Beets Creme」, 「Raisin Bread」, 「Gratin」 added to Recipe Book!
Left Bookcase: Found and read Three Little Pigs - After Story. 「Ham」, 「Bacon」, 「Sausage」 added to Recipe Book.
Top Bookcase: Found and read Eastern Diaries. 「Udon」, 「Salted Daikon」, 「Miso Riceball」 added to Recipe Book
Bottom Bookcase: Found and read Breakfast at Tea Honeys. 「Ham & Egg」, 「Coffee」, 「Pancake」 added to Recipe Book!
Behind the Wall: Secret Catalog added to Inventory


Behind the Kingdom’s Veil: Inside the New Saudi Arabia under Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman
Few of us have firsthand knowledge of who lives, suffers and wields power in Saudi Arabia. Now, Susanne Koelbl, award-winning foreign correspondent for the German news magazine Der Spiegel, takes us on an eye-opening journey Behind the Kingdom’s Veil. Koelbl unlocks the black box of Saudi Arabia and decodes why the country is such a crucial player on the world’s stage. She scrutinizes the dramatic change of the oil-export dependent nation into a vibrant society.
How did religious extremism and oppression of women over the past forty years serve to maintain the power of the House of Saud? To find out, enjoy breakfast with Royal Highnesses and meet Osama bin Laden’s bomb-making instructor. Enter the palaces of secret service chiefs and sit on floor cushions with spirited women who celebrate their new freedoms. Koelbl makes you an eye witness to what it’s like to be a third wife or a dissident and explains how the discovery of oil shaped the kingdom’s history – and changed the world.
As a journalist reporting from conflict zones around the world, Susanne Koelbl travels extensively, with special focus on the Middle East and Saudi Arabia. She recently lived in Riyadh during the most dramatic changes since the country’s founding. Koelbl’s unique gift is to make complicated political and societal contexts accessible and entertaining.
“Excellent introduction to the kingdom” Dr. Bernd Haykel, professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University
“An invaluable street-level perspective” Gerald Feierstein, ambassador to Yemen under the Obama Administration
“It’s like watching a movie – just better”
Dr. Elisabeth Kendall, Oxford University, Senior Research Fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies
“A brilliant contribution to our understanding of the transformation in Saudi Arabia especially among women.” Bruce Riedel, former CIA official and director of the Intelligence Project at the Brookings Institution
Mohamedou Ouls Slahi
Mohamedou Ouls Slahi was born in Rosso, Mauritania. He was an exceptional student in high school and received a scholarship from the Carl Duisberg Society in 1988 to study in Germany, where he earned an electrical engineering degree from the University of Duisburg.
While wrongfully imprisoned in Guantanamo for more than 14 years we wrote the “Guantanamo Diary”, which was published in 2015, while Slahi was still prisoner # 760.
Now Hollywood wants to make a movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jodie Foster about the man who says he’s forgiven his tormentors.
Since his release on October 17th 2016 he lives in Nouakchott, Mauritania.
The Movie: Prisoner # 760 based on Slahi’s book (Jody Foster / Benedict Cumberbatch) will be out in 2021
Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance
Victor McFarland is an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri, where he studies oil, energy, and U.S. relations with the Middle East. He received his BA in History from Stanford University and his PhD in History from Yale University.
His first book Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance was published by Columbia University Press in 2020.
Before joining the University of Missouri, he was a Miller Center fellow at the University of Virginia in 2012-13 and a Dickey Center fellow at Dartmouth College in 2013-14. In 2018-19 he served as a Warren Center faculty fellow at Harvard University.
Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance tells the story of the close but troubled relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia. Oil Powers traces the growth of the alliance through a dense web of political, economic, and social connections that bolstered royal and executive power and the national security state. McFarland shows how U.S. and Saudi elites collaborated to advance their shared interests against rivals at home and abroad. During the 1970s, as higher oil prices enriched the Saudi government, destabilized the American economy, and changed the balance of power in the Middle East, leaders of both countries responded by consolidating their alliance. Facing objections from their own people, Washington and Riyadh chose to shield their partnership from public oversight and accountability. While American support empowered the Saudi royal family and helped the kingdom expand its influence across the Middle East, Saudi elites also encouraged a rightward shift in U.S. foreign and economic policy―with profound long-term effects. Oil Powers reveals the role of the U.S.-Saudi alliance in laying the groundwork for American military involvement in the Middle East and the entrenchment of a global order fueled by oil.


The wide use of Exercise Balls in fitness and rehabilitation make this book an important reference for anyone looking for exercise ideas with the ball. This text provides 363 exercise ideas for the use of the Exercise Ball in conditioning and therapy.
The book is divided into eight chapters: Balance and Stability, Trunk and Abdominals, Legs, Arms, Chest, Back, Shoulders and Combinations. Each chapter is divided into Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced sections. Exercises in each section are sequenced from the position of greatest stability to one of least.
This book contains a wide variety of exercises from beginning rehabilitation exercises to very advanced strength on ball exercises. This collection contains new challenging exercises to reinvigorate any program.


I’ve always loved Christmas. And each year I vow to hold on to the spirit of the day throughout the year. When I became an author, I wanted to write a Christmas classic like Dicken’s, A Christmas Carol.
Most Christmas stories these days are television romances, robbers pulling heists or a kid left at home, with Christmas decorations in the background and playing an occasional Christmas song. I wanted to write a story like A Christmas Carol with meaning, and a contemporary setting.
This short story was a gift to my family for Christmas 2019. There is an adult version and a children’s version. The children’s version will be available for free in the fall of 2020 with the purchase of The Devil's Work. I will read on Christmas Eve to my children and grandchildren this year along with readings of The Nativity and 'Twas the night before Christmas.
Have I written a new classic? I hope so, but I’ll be happy if each person who reads the story finds inspiration in its message.
All the Best,


It is getting seriously deranged in this country, and hard to decide whether this is the culmination of one of the many processes that make Latvia a kind of failed state/society lite, or the start of a censorship and book-burning campaign by crazed religious fundamentalists.
It all started with a perhaps expensive (more that LVL 6000 for 500 print editions, an internet version and a teachers’guide) translated Danish children’s book with stories of small children switching gender roles for a day. The general idea is to put children in the place of others, to think what it would be like to play a girl’s traditional gender role (play with dolls) or for a girl to do “boy” things like team sports.
When Latvia’s Minister of Welfare Ilze Viņkele presented the book and the gender equality program, she was angrily criticized by a group of fundamentalist Christians. Some 50 Christian and “pro-family” groups also wrote letters to the Prime Minister, other government ministers and the media denouncing the book and asking for Vinķele’s resignation.
The reaction of Latvia’s holy rollers was hysterical, with one man claiming to be the father of six children suggesting on television that a book burning be organized. Many comments on the internet by people who had apparently never read the book saying that it was aimed at teaching homosexuality. Others saw it as a plot to deprave Latvia (as if a girl playing European football and a boy wearing a sweater with glitters was the height of moral collapse). It is almost as if Vinķele’s presentation of the book opened the depths of ignorance, religious fanaticism, and anti-Western or anti-modernist rage. It is like a time portal opened to the 19th century, if not the Middle Ages in a country that is outwardly a modern democracy and European Union member state.
Vinķele herself said that she feared book burning or physical violence could be the next step in the outrage by a segment of the public over what they see as “homosexual propaganda” in the kindergarten. Nothing, least of all facts and the views of modern science will convince these people otherwise. It almost makes one think that there was something positive about the Soviet Union’s “militant atheism” and anti-religious campaigns. A little of that might be useful, though as much at odds with democratic values and an open society (committed to freedom of belief) as the Soviet’s totalitarian crusade to repress everything except the secular religion of Communism.


Gary Cook and The Secret Land
Research by the Secret Land Project has revealed much of the 4000 year history of New Zealand and the early-comers to this land. Findings of the deeper history are not, at this stage, acknowledged by mainstream thought and academics. This land abounds in ancient wisdom and reveals much that has been lost, but not forgotten.
His extensive journeys and experiences allows Gary to share much of the deeper nature of the forests, the waters and the mountains enabling us all to connect with the natural order in a deeper and more meaningful way.
The author of two books in The Secret Land series, Gary is a regular contributer to Australian and New Zealand magazines offering readers unique glimpses of the sacred landscape of Aotearoa. He holds an honorary Doctorate of Science.
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19 Minutes from Jodi Picoult
I don't normally suggest books because I don't feel my taste in books is the same as others. However, this book is different. Ms. Picoult takes you into the heart of a school killer, yet she leaves you wondering who was to blame, the killer-or the victims?
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I really enjoy her books and thought this was a good one. It does help you look at all sides of the matter and realize its not black and white as to where fault lies...
Having gone to school for education and having a husband who is a High School teacher, I never thought I would see any other side then the evil of the student... but, that is how good of a job she does with this book!
Hi Julie :) That book is on my reading list. My daughter is reading it now and she is enjoying it. Very thought provoking.
Have a Happy Day!
This was absolutely one of the most powerful books I've ever read.
I'm a teacher, and one of my colleagues and I were reading "Nineteen Minutes" shortly after it came out. All of a sudden, the principal came on the announcements during lunchtime (Krystin and I were both reading the book while we ate) and said in a deadly serious voice, "All teachers need to check their e-mail immediately. I repeat, all teachers need to check their e-mail immediately."
I think that might have been the most scared I've ever been in my seven years of teaching. Fortunately, the announcement had nothing to do with school violence. I was so freaked out, though!
eke! but i bet it is a fascinating read. i think i might just get it.
I was a bullied child. I don't understand the killing, but I understand the helpless rage. I will read the book.
that was my senior year in high school. i was key note speaker at baccalaureate that year. I spoke about during my speech. If I can find it, I will post it.
In one short paragraph you have sold this book to me as a must read. I am going to see if I can get a copy of this book. I am taking a week from work soon, perfect opportunity to read it.
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Four books by KSU Foreign Languages faculty recently published
KENNESAW, Ga. (Nov 30, 2018) — The Department of Foreign Languages at Kennesaw State University is proud to announce the recent publication of four books by DFL faculty. Congratulations to Dr. Anja Bernardy, Dr. Oumar Cherif Diop, Dr. Thierry Léger, and Dr. Robert Simon for their latest scholarly works.
J.P. Sariol, Delusions: A Bilingual Collection of Short Stories, translated by Anja Bernardy (2018).
This collection of short stories, written by José Prats Sariol and translated by Anja Bernardy, is representative of nearly 20 years of the author's works in short fiction. The stories could be grouped by various themes, such as masks and appearances; the inadequacy and even superfluity of words; and the nostalgia of exile and the bittersweet attainment of "freedom." However, while all of those, and more, lie beneath the surface of stories whose characters are often navigating the difficulties and scarcities of Cuba under Castro-or the mental labyrinths and philosophical conundrums created by the aforementioned-the collection's title alludes to the tie that binds them: delusions. Prats Sariol's prose style-a somewhat baroque sensibility mixed with subtle humor and often poetic descriptions-goes well with the theme of delusions, appearances, and the questioning of an imposed reality, a reality which in its nature and implementation is often contradictory to the very discourses used to impose it. (Katie Brown)
Violence and Trauma in African Literature focuses on representations of violence in African literature. The study starts with violence that emerged in the context of post-independence Africa plagued by the rule of tyranny after many African states failed to create viable institutions to spearhead national integration and sustainable socio-economic development. In this section, the author explores various aesthetic features—neo-baroque style, intertextuality, and narrative techniques—used by Sony Labou Tansi in La vie et Demie, Henri Lopes in The Laughing Cry, and Ahmadou Kourouma in Waiting for the Wild beasts to Vote to expose and deride despotic violence in the African postcolony. The study then turns to the ways in which protagonists resist two other forms of violence: racist violence in Alex Laguma’s works. A Walk in the Night, In the Fog of the season’s End, and Time of the Butcherbird and gendered violence in Nawal El Saadawi’s fiction Woman at Point Zero. Alex Laguma’s novels underscore the need for the emergence of collective consciousness to defeat the Apartheid system. In Nawal El Saadawi’s novel, multifarious patriarchal assaults against the main female protagonist pave her way to assumed agency in the face of death.
Achille Elvice BELLA, Thierry Léger, Sanda-Maria ARDELEANU et Louis Hervé NGAFOMO, "Francophonie académique et dynamique des savoirs contemporains," Saint-Denis: Connaissances et savoirs, 2018.
The academic francophonie, beautiful, ingenious, innovative, mediator of civilizations and aspirations, weaves the web of the knowledge economy into an address of the fruitful and transformative relationship of our humanity. Sustainable life is questioned in philosophical equation, especially under the modalities of identity of the cultural diversity, ecology or sociology of the peaceful connection, without shoreline, but as an offering of ethics and value of our conscience Collective. Two powerful words rally "This dynamic of contemporary knowledge" evoked in this collective of Francophone scholars from the five continents. These words draw the outline of a new paradigm, that of sustainable life, in the alliance of intelligence of Living together. Extensive, this project includes the fertility of environmental history, eco-feminism, didactics of Plurilingualism and pluriculturalism, cultural issues of biodiversity, linguistic practices, gender identities, security, the foundations of poverty and agricultural cultures Perennials, etc., and "Any form of cross-knowledge". Welcome to the 21st century. Achille Ekpenyong Bella (University of Yaoundé I), Thierry Léger (Kennesaw State University), Sanda-Maria Ardeleanu (University Stefan Cel Mare de Suceava), Louis Hervé Narayan (University of Yaoundé I)
Robert Simon, "Blanca Andreu, Galicia, and the New Galician Mysticism" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).
This book contributes to the ongoing discussion of the place of contemporary Galician writer Blanca Andreu’s work within the 1980s post-“novísimo” movement, as part of a larger resurgence of the Surrealist in Spanish poetry and its possible placement in the more recent mystical poetry of Spain. It provides a detailed textual analysis of her poetry, and in doing so reveals not only that her work encompasses notions of the surreal and the mystical but also, although Andreu has so far written entirely in Castilian (Spanish), that her poetry utilizes a variety of traditional Galician and Portuguese symbols and images. In this way her work challenges the boundaries between what we as readers may accept as a solely Castilian, Galician, or Spanish poetic. It bases its transtheoretical framework on findings from such fields as Galician studies, Iberian studies, mysticism studies, paradigm shift studies, and regional studies over the past two decades. Ultimately, this comprehensive and unique study shows how Andreu’s multifaceted transnational work may pertain to, and expand, our knowledge of each of these areas of focus.
Learn more about Dr. Simon's book here.


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Worlds of success
Readers around the world have fallen in love with Diana Gabaldon time travel/romance series. They adore its combination of history, science fiction, and passion. But the story of how Diana Gabaldon came to write
the series is every bit as exciting as the books themselves.
When she was growing up, Gabaldon's parents urged her to value education as a means to financial
security. Gabaldon listened to them, earning an MBA in marine biology and a Ph.D. in quantitative behavioral ecology. Soon her life was full. She was a research professor of environmental sciences at Arizona State University. She was married and the mother of three children. In her spare time, she did freelance writing, worked on
Science Software (a publication specifically for fellow scientists) and wrote comic book strips for Walt Disney.
Eventually Gabaldon decided that she wanted to write fiction and planned to start with a mystery. But since the university library was an invaluable resource, she decided that she should try a historical novel instead. She could research the historical background, then write the novel.
Meanwhile, Gabaldon spent much time on the internet. As she began the story of Claire Randall, a woman with a husband in one age and a courageous lover in another, she posted parts of it on-line in a literary forum. It wasn't long before members of the forum began asking her for more. On-line, she talked with published authors. As a result, even before the manuscript of
Outlander was completed, a publisher had bought it.
Diana Gabaldon's books have been so successful that she left the university a few years ago and now devotes most of her time to writing. She has taken on a formidable task: the series was originally conceived as a three-part work. But Gabaldon now says it will take six books to finish Claire Randall's adventures.
In an article in The Seattle Times, journalist Erik Lacitis praises Gabaldon's focus and energy. After admiring her ability to write 300,000 word manuscripts and still have time to answer e-mail and maintain her own web site. he concludes that she is "incredibly disciplined." Her fans are grateful for her ability to tackle such a huge writing project and eagerly anticipate each book in the series.
When Recorded Books
released its unabridged recording of Outlander, audio fans were overjoyed. The combination of Gabaldon's text and Davina Porter's voice is pure magic. One listener writes: "No fan of romance novels, and not even a reader of historical novels, I nonetheless LOVED
Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon. Davina Porter was the perfect narrator, able to slip in and out of the Scottish 'burr' with ease, and the character of Jamie really got to me..."
Reviewers echo the fans. One in Kliatt commented: "I've previously read this, but Porter's reading made the story more exciting and atmospheric. Her English narrative voice, her Scottish burr, and her English regional accents are phenomenal... This is an outstanding matching of story with reader; long but accessible to any listener."


The Historical Concerts of Hermann Kretzschmar in Rostock (1881-1887) and the First Bach Festival in Berlin 1901
During the years of his occupation as academic music director in Rostock, the conductor and musicologist Herman Kretzschmar (1848-1924) introduced a concert series of a new type, that was laid out to be “music-historical”: in the so-called “historical concerts” an interconnection of concerts and comments was supposed to make little known works accessible to the audience from the concert season of 1881/82 – an idea that was already realised by Fétis in Paris and Mendelssohn in Leipzig. With this he laid the groundwork for the concept developed by him which determined the work of the Neue Bachgesellschaft since the beginning of the 20th century: the organizing of regular Bach festivals at varying places.
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Möller
Hartmut Möller studied violoncello, philosophy, musicology and liturgics in Detmold, Berlin, Vienna, Munich and Mainz. He taught at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Rostock and was one of the first to teach at the newly-opened University of Music and Performing Arts Rostock. In 1997, he attained his habilitation with a thesis about historical-theoretical questions in musical historiography. He was professor for musicology at the University of Music in Freiburg and since 2001 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Rostock, of which he was rector from 2001 to 2004.
Accompanying concert for this lecture.


The SICC and SIDRA recently concluded a thought leadership event on dispute resolution options for trust disputes. The key issue was: given the increasing prevalence of alternative forms of dispute resolution (“ADR”), why was there still uncertainty as to whether trust disputes were amenable to ADR (and in particular, arbitration)? The distinguished panellists provided a stimulating discussion of the various conceptual and practical difficulties faced in submitting trust disputes to arbitration.
Dr Ardavan Arzandeh (Ardavan Arzandeh, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol Law School) discussed his recently published book, Forum (Non) Conveniens in England: Past, Present, and Future (Hart Publishing, 2019) during a research seminar of the same name. Here are the conference notes for this discussion of the history. application, and direction of the doctrine of forum (non) conveniens in private international law.


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The Story of a Beggar
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One day, in the evening, when I returned to my house after spending the whole day playing in the square with the other boys, I remarked that there were women visiting my mother. I think that the number of women visitors did not exceed four and most of them were regular visitors of my mother. As soon as I arrived there I went to the salon of the house and saw these women visitors sitting there.
Starting from their arrival they spoke only of the small beggar of the square of the quarter. I could not explain why all the people in the quarter, especially women, were interested in the small strange beggar.
The women, the visitors of my mother, were all telling each other a lot of stories concerning the strange small beggar. They spoke of all possibilities regarding the origin and the reality of the beggar.
None of the five, my mother and the four visitors, showed any other interest, with the exception of the beggar. All of the women in the meeting were in a total and unanimous agreement that the small beggar could not be at all of a poor and a humble family origin. On the contrary, they agreed that this enigmatic boy belonged to a very rich and prosperous family living somewhere in the community or outside of it.
All the women visitors agreed that this rich family was of a gypsy origin which lived outside the limits of cities, towns and villages. My mother told me later on when I was about to sleep that it had been said that in every quarter of the community there was a small beggar who looked more or less like the one who was found in our quarter. I could not understand and believe that this part of the whole story could be true. It was not possible, according to my reasoning, to discover the same beggar in all the other quarters.
To believe in this new aspect of the story of small beggars, a campaign of verification and substantiation should be carried out according to which I and in company with some other boyfriends would visit most of the quarters of the community to find out whether there were beggars such as the one we had in our quarter.
It should be mentioned that in those days most of the small boys of the quarter were not much interested in the affair of the small and strange beggar. Whenever the details and the implications of the story of the beggar used to be mentioned and discussed fully by some of us, all the rest of the boys did not show any interest in the affair of the life of the small beggar. All what they did was just to have a look of the small beggar in their going to the square and in their coming back to their homes. For them, to most of the small boys, the beggar was something normal and did not attract their full interest or attention. Beggars at that time in our community were witnessed everywhere.
Of course, the small boys could not notice the peculiarities and the eccentricities of the small beggar of our quarter. It should be mentioned that not a single small boy of my friends ever thought to give this beggar a small piece of coin and to put this coin in the wooden bowl of the beggar.
For most of the small boys the strange beggar did not exist at all. They did not notice that the beggar constituted a peculiar and an unusual phenomenon. They were neutral to the whole problem. Thus they were not aware that here was some kind of confrontation between the statue-like small beggar and the whole community.
It was the opinion of some of the decision makers and the influential people in the quarter that it was the duty of all the inhabitants to adapt themselves to the situation in which the small beggar was to be considered as a given and an acceptable fact. The least thing which everybody could do was to have a daily look on the statue-beggar.
As for me, Amin, and as I have been trying to say in this story, the little beggar was both an arduous challenge and a daunting riddle. In my case, I could not take a passive and a careless position and attitude regarding the riddle, the beggar. But with the passing of time, I have taken the firm decision to discover the reality and the secret of the riddle. I was determined to know who he was.
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I wanted to be involved, by myself, in the search for a solution of the puzzle, of the riddle, without the aid of others or the interference of my mother. During my life in this important quarter of the community, and during which I spent the six or seven years of my very short life, I can claim that I have faced a lot of riddles and a lot of puzzles.
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I have been indulged in difficulties and involved in confusing situations and I have been facing problems which others could not confront and solve. Therefore, this situation of the beggar which I was facing now could not be more challenging than the ones which I have so far faced.
Based on this background of my personal life in the quarter, I could now claim that it would not be difficult for me to find an answer for the riddle of the small beggar who looked to us to be a real statue made out of marble and devoid of life. I had the inner deep feeling that I myself would be able to find a solution to the riddle of the small beggar.
For several days, I stayed all the time in my house avoiding going out in order to avoid seeing my friends, the small boys of the quarter. I had the serious intention, by not leaving the house, to concentrate all my time in discovering a solution for the problem which I was facing.
My father, my mother and all the old and young members of the family were amazed to see me for the first time since a long time choosing to stay in the house for several days. My mother was watching me from a distance in the house just to see what I was doing. Because of my long stay and isolation in the house my mother got worried and confused. She herself also has decided to know the verity and to look for the reality.
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Sunday, 6 December 2015
Kenneth's Legacy at the British Library
The news earlier this week that Kenneth Williams' (in)famous diaries have been bequeathed to the British Library in London is just wonderful. I cannot think of a better place for the many volumes of Kenneth's diaries and I hope to go and see whatever the library choose to display.
For many years now the diaries have been hidden away in a vault somewhere in London which always seemed a shame. Sure, there are probably vast sections of them that can never be seen by the general public due to their content, but I've always felt they should have greater exposure. It also seems fitting for this to happen so close to the 90th anniversary of Kenneth's birth in 1926.
I have written before of my love for Kenneth's diaries. First published in 1993 and edited by Russell Davies, they are undoubtedly Kenneth WIlliams' main legacy and they are at times frustrating, maddening, saddening but always a joy to read. So many famous faces appear on those pages but it is often the snippets of daily life, the interactions with his closest friends, family and public that make the diaries so special.
I applaud Kenneth's former neighbour and close friend Paul Richardson for making the decision to gift the diaries to the British Library. Paul was a loyal friend to Kenneth for many years, frequently appearing in the diaries himself in Kenneth's last years. He only rarely speaks of their friendship or the great man and has been true to Kenneth's memory since his sad death back in 1988.
I really hope the British Library make a suitable fuss of this latest addition to their fantastic resources. Perhaps there will be a retrospective on Kenneth when they officially add them to their collection? It would be great if some exhibition space was given over to tell the story not only of the diaries, but also of the man himself. I look forward to further announcements on what they have planned early next year.
You can read my blog about Kenneth Williams' diaries here
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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey invents new modes of scientific storytelling to reveal the grandeur of the universe and re-invent celebrated elements of the original series, including the Cosmic Calendar and the Ship of the Imagination.
Uniting scepticism and wonder, and weaving rigorous science with visual, emotional and spiritual elements, it is a transcendent experience – a vision of the cosmos on the grandest scale we know.
Original title Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
First air date Mar 09, 2014
Last air date Jun 08, 2014


Sin always brings destruction, especially in relationships. When left unchecked, friendships, homes, and even churches can be completely destroyed by years of unresolved hurts. Through the cross, Jesus made a way that sins can be forgiven by God and men. This booklet is designed to help you understand the principles of forgiveness, the practical steps to reconciling relationships, and the means by which the cycles of anger and pain can be broken and rebuilt in love. Check out, “Learning to Forgive, Getting Past the Hurt to Find Healing”: Download: BOOK (305 KB).


My scholarly interests primarily concern the multiple intersections of writing and technology. As a tool that enables human communication, writing itself is a technology, but it also intersects with multiple other technologies in the production and consumption of writing.
I define writing broadly to include the traditional alphabetic form, as well as other modes, including the visual, aural, and other symbolic modes that support communication. As such, my research focuses on theorizing literacy and writing pedagogy across multiple media, genres, and sites. In examining writing in the academic, personal, and professional contexts, my approach integrates rhetorical theory—from the ancient to the digital, multimodal/multiliteracy theory, genre theory, communication across the curriculum, and cultural studies.
To understand twenty-first century composing practices, I historicize literacy across centuries and media to highlight the embodied nature of composing in the digital era. In my book project Ubiquitous Composing: From Corporeality to Virtual Reality, I analyze texts in the developing media of Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality, collectively termed Extended Reality (XR). In comparing XR texts with similar versions in "antiquated" media, I present how understanding the similarities between and affordances of these forms enables both creators and instructors to better understand composing in new and longstanding modes.
“Levelling up with Emergent Tutoring: Exploring the Ludus and Paidia of Writing, Tutoring, and Augmented Reality.” With Lindsay Sabatino. Unlimited Players: The Intersections of Writing Centers and Games Scholarship. Ed. Stephanie Vie and Holly Ryan. Utah State UP, 2022, pp. 103-122.
“The Literacies of Augmented Reality: Linking Traditional and New Ways of Composing.” Writing Changes: Alphabetic Text and Multimodal Composition, Ed. Pegeen Reichert Powell. Modern Language Association, 2020, pp. 177-193.
“Podcasts: Sound Strategies for Sonic Literacy.” Multimodal Composing: Strategies for Twenty-First-Century Writing Consultations, Eds. Lindsay Sabatino and Brian Fallon. Utah State University Press, April 2019, pp. 140-152.
"Teaching Digital Literacy Composing Concepts: Focusing on the Layers of Augmented Reality in an Era of Changing Technology." Computers and Composition, Dec. 2018, pp. 21-38.
“Developing Inclusive and Accessible Online Writing Instruction: Supporting OWI Principle 1: Review of Norman Coombs’ Making Online Teaching Accessible: Inclusive Course Design for Students with Disabilities.” Writing Program Administration, vol. 40, no. 3, 2017, pp. 94-99.
With Stacy W. Rice and Russell G. Carpenter.
The Peer Review (October 2015): n.p.
Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. October 15, 2014.
Named Review for Creating Mobile Augmented Reality Experiences in Unity, Jacob Greene, Programming Historian, Aug. 2018.
I have delivered numerous peer-reviewed research presentations and workshops at such conferences as Modern Language Association (MLA), Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Rhetoric Society of America (RSA), and Computers and Writing, among others. More detailed information can be found on my CV.


'We say the map is different from the territory. But what is the territory? Operationally, somebody went out with a retina or a measuring stick and made representations which were then put on paper. What is on the paper map is a representation of what was in the retinal representation of the man who made the map; and as you push the question back, what you find is an infinite regress, an infinite series of maps. The territory never gets in at all. Always, the process of representation will filter it out so that the mental world is only maps of maps, ad infinitum.'
Gregory Bateson, in "Form, Substance and Difference," from Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972)


Yandina: From Staging Post to Township
This digital story explores the community stories, history and significant events of Yandina. The film was launched as part of the Yandina Street Fair celebrations in August 2018.
Yandina was proclaimed in 1870, making it the first gazetted town in the Maroochy district, and one of the oldest towns on the Sunshine Coast.
Thanks to Audienne Blyth for the link to this short documentary that the Sunshine Coast Council made about our town’s origins in collaboration with the Yandina & District Historical Society.
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Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.
I am consciousness. I am alive. I am Chappie.
Release : 2015-03-06
Genre : Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Runtime : 120 Minutes
Company : Media Rights Capital
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“In 2016 Graham Hancock will bring out his new book, ‘Magicians of the Gods’, the sequel to his worldwide bestseller ‘Fingerprints of the Gods’. In this lecture, recorded in March 2014 for Alternatives London at Saint James’s Church in Piccadilly, he reviews his past work and shares some of the research for the new book.” ~ GrahamHancock.com
This is the presentation Mark Passio gave at the Free Your Mind 2 Conference in Philadelphia, PA on April 27, 2013.
In this presentation Mark exposes 10 “New” Age Deceptions, and then offers balanced corrections to each distorted “New” Age “teaching.” If you have fallen for the “feel-good spirituality” of the “New” Age Movement, this presentation will provide a much-needed street-wise viewpoint, and help you to understand how you’ve been deceived by “New” Age Religion.
Today’s powerhouse of a guest, Robert David Steele, grew up all over the world as the son of an oil engineer – witnessing colonialism and predatory capitalism up close and personal. He’s been a marine core infantry officer, a CIA spy, and even had a brief presidential campaign in 2012 with the Reform party. A man who has been an insider, served the system, yet has emerged like a white knight from the deep, dark, belly of the beast to become the CEO of Open Source Solutions, and a voice for what could and should be the next evolution of human society….the blueprint of which is largely laid out in his book: The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust
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