Board games are a great way to relieve stress and encourage social interaction. Instead of the usually isolating tendency of video games, playing board games can enhance your social life. It can also sharpen your thinking and create a tight-knit community. Victor Hall, Manager of the Empire Game Library, reveals what makes Empire Game Library unique among Albuquerque residents.
The library itself stands by their belief in the importance of television- and internet-free family time. Empire's founder Rory Veronda has been a board gaming enthusiast for the majority of his life, eventually deciding to channel his passion into a successful business venture.
Anyone is welcome to come and play at Empire. There is also a café with a variety of refreshing coffees, soft drinks, desserts, baked goods, sandwiches and salads. Veronda wanted to create a comfortable atmosphere where gamers would have everything at their fingertips and wouldn't need to interrupt their games. One of Veronda's primary goals is to build a board gaming community, and his efforts are focused on making sure that people are well taken care of at his establishment.
"Empire was designed to be a family friendly space that encourages communication, cooperation, and fun without a screen as a medium for entertainment," Hall says. For instance, tabletop and board games encourage players to be active participants while learning and having fun. Especially for families, the kind of active gaming at Empire is perfect for encouraging interaction and bonding as well as for developing critical thinking and problem solving skills in children. There are a lot of intellectually stimulating board games that can keep kids and adults engrossed for hours.
"With a library boasting over seven hundred games, our board game library is a comprehensive mix of games, broaching many genres and styles," adds Hall. While they have many of the classic and established board games that many generations have grown up with, the primary focus is shifting to contemporary games such as Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne, Dominion and many others. Veronda is aware that many of the games they carry are obscure to the general public. Because of that, Empire Game Library requires that their floor staff is proficient with over fifty games and that they learn a new game every week. The staff's deep knowledge of the game library allows them to easily teach the public and provide instructions quickly.
Hall explains that the basic tenet of Empire Game Library is to provide a family-friendly atmosphere with access to hundreds of games as well as a delicious menu of drinks and snacks. "To the right, on white shelves, is the retail section, containing games that are, for the most part, in the library, allowing patrons to play before they buy," Hall says. Sampling the games is a huge factor in people's decision to buy them.
Veronda's short term goals have remained the same?to encourage more people to get involved with gaming in Albuquerque and to be part of a community. "To do this, we regularly host tournaments and gaming marathons to benefit local charities in town," Hall says. The success of the business has been steady, and Veronda feels he has an obligation to the community. Supporting various charities by donations is a small token of Empire Game Library's appreciation to the people of Albuquerque.
In the not too distant future, Hall hopes, they will open a second location either in the city or elsewhere in the state.


Sarah Maddock 500 (award discontinued at end of 2010-11 riding season)
Who was Sarah Maddock?
Originally known as the E.A. Maddock Award it was the club's only award to use initials rather than the person's first name, as her first name was not recorded in Jim Fitzpatrick's book The Bicycle and the Bush. Since then, some more information has been found and the award name has been adjusted accordingly.
Born in 1860 near Eden, New South Wales, as Sarah Porter, she married Ernest Alfred Maddock in 1886 and had a son and two daughters by 1890. It was the custom of the time for a married woman to be known by her husband's initials, rather than by her own name, thus Mrs E.A. Maddock.
Mrs Maddock learnt to ride in 1893 and was the first woman to ride Sydney to Melbourne in 9 days (924km in 1894) and Sydney to Brisbane and return averaging 129km per day (2575km in 1895). She inspired many women to cycle in Victoria and New South Wales and helped found several women's cycling clubs.
After 1914, Sarah separated from her husband, concentrating on golf, embroidery, woodcarving and her family until her death in 1955 at Double Bay.
More details about Sarah Maddock can be found in the online Australian Dictionary of Biography and in Diane Langmore's entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, 1986, pages 373-374. A photo of Sarah and Earnest Maddock from The Sydney Mail, 21 September 1895, with the caption, "Mr and Mrs E. A. Maddock, who have journeyed to Melbourne and Brisbane on bicycles" can be seen online at the National Library of Australia's website (in the Sporting Numbers section).
Research by Dave Minter
Alan William Baker


It's been a very long journey for "The Toad". This is the story of the birth of "The Toad" and how he landed up living in Toadsquare, the home of the creative industries.
13 Mar 2013
"The Toad" with no name.
A long, long time ago in a far away land called "Down Under", after a painstaking procedure, "The Toad" with no name was born unto a lady with an imagination of the greatest proportions. The lady believed that one day there would be a place where are the creative people in the world could live in harmony for the greater good of all creative mankind.


The Room by Emma Donoghue at Village Inn. This was a solid 3 star book. An interesting yet unbelievable story of a woman who was kidnapped and kept in a shed (Room) for years. The story is told from the perspective of her son, who was born in the room conceived by her kidnapper. Worth reading but not worth bumping to the top of your list. Village Inn was well generic.
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card at Training Table. Wonderful book one of my favorite in the Ender's series. I HATE sci-fi and yet I loved this book. Card does a wonderful job of moving the story line along while still developing the world around him in an understandable way. Worst book club meeting I've ever been too. Everyone bailed. Training Table was blah - completely overrated I probably wont ever eat there again.
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson at Chicago Pizza. When I first finished the book I HATED it. HATED.IT. It was slow and boring; it could have been so exciting but it just wasn't. However after the meeting and the awesome discussions I bumped my rating from a 2 to a 3.5. It's definitely not my cup of tea but I had to admit that there was a lot of very interesting history embedded into the story. The fact that it's a non-fiction makes it great but also leads to the boringness. If you enjoy American history or like architecture it's must read. Chicago Pizza was surprisingly tasty. A little over priced - but then again I think most pizza places are. I went simple and shared a thin crust prosciutto pizza and the house salad and was quite satisfied.
Today's book was The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
This was one of the first books that I listened to on MP3. It was amazing. I honestly loved it. A non-Nazi family in Nazi Germany. The story its told from the perspective of Death. Really a brilliant tale; it made me laugh out loud and then sob. I really think everyone should read this book and I would love to see it in school curriculum. The discussions about the book were good, we did get off on some tangents but over all it was interesting. A lot of people there were history buff which I am not so it was interesting to listen to their additional knowledge. The restaurant we ate at was Normandie in Holladay. My review? Meh. The food was fine but way over priced for the portion size and quality. Teardra got a mac-n-cheese that she deemed the best she's ever had. I got a steak sandwich and caesar salad and it was fine.
There are a ton of meetings coming up that I'm really looking forward to including The Giver, Tinkers, and The Reader (the last two I haven't read yet but look):
If by chance you are a historical romance or period piece person pick up The Gentleman Poet by Kathryn Johnson. I picked it up on the whim at the library and I was pretty sure I'd hate it and not finish it but I LOVE it.


wanted—exactly the something which her home required. Such a friend as Mrs. Weston was out of the question. Two such could never be granted. Two such she did not want. It was quite a different sort of thing— a sentiment distinct and independent. Mrs. Weston was the object of a regard, which had its basis in gratitude and esteem. Harriet would be loved as one to whom she could be useful. For Mrs. Weston there was nothing to be done; for Harriet every thing.
Her first attempts at usefulness were in an endeavour to find out who were the parents; but Harriet could not tell. She was ready to tell every thing in her power, but on this subject questions were vain. Emma was obliged to fancy what she liked—but she could never believe that in the same situation she should not have discovered the truth. Harriet had no penetration. She had been satisfied to hear and believe just what Mrs. Goddard chose to tell her; and looked no farther.
Mrs. Goddard, and the teachers, and the girls, and the affairs of the school in general, formed naturally a great part of her conversation–and but for her acquaintance with the Martins of Abbe-Mill-Farm, it must have been the whole. But the Martins occupied her thoughts a good deal; she had spent two very happy months with them, and now loved to talk of the pleasures of her visit, and describe the many comforts and wonders of the place. Emma encouraged her talkativeness—amused by such a picture of another set of beings, and enjoying the youthful simplicity which could speak with so much exultation of Mrs. Martin’s having “two parlours, two very good parlours indeed; one of them quite as large as Mrs. Goddard’s drawing-room; and of her having an upper maid who had lived five-and-twenty years with her; and of their having


Welcome to the Year 1 web pages. Mrs Palmer-Woods, Mr Gardner and Mr Williams are the Year 1 teachers in the morning.
Helping children of all ages and all genders find inspiration and courage from diverse women role models is key to education. And….
World Book Day is a celebration! A celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading! In fact,….
So far this new year, year 1 have been looking at Mrs Armitage On Wheels by Quentin Blake. It’s about a very….


This sticky pocket set makes it easy to bring a host of lovely designs to your journals and planners! Each pocket also comes with a blank library card that is perfect for notes and musings. Just peel the backing and stick a pocket on your stationery to add dimension and a fun place to hold ephemera. Five different pocket designs are featured in each bundle. Set of five pockets and five cards.
Each library card is approximately 4.5"H x 3"W and each pocket is approximately 3"H x 3.25"W.
Accessories and decorative/demo items in product photos not included.
See the links below for the background stickers used in the journal layouts:


Articles on Talmidaism Theology
The Ebionite School (Ancient)
By the time the Ebionites arose about 70 CE after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (along with the chaos and upheaval that ensued), various beliefs and issues were coming to the fore that required Followers to take a stand.
For example, it wasn’t until the time of the gospels of Matthew and Luke (70 – 75 CE) that the matter of the virgin birth became an issue. Earlier sects made no statement against such a belief, because Paul’s Christians did not teach the doctrine before that.
Ebionites did not just spring up out of nowhere. A clue to their provenance may be the contemporaneous rise of the Nazarenes (Jews whose beliefs were totally mainstream Christian). Before his banishment to Rome, the Pauline teachings of the Apostle Peter had influenced various communities in Judea and Samaria. The loss of central authority that occurred after the destruction of the Temple, permitted these particular communities to turn wholeheartedly to Pauline beliefs and teachings, accepting the virgin birth, the atonement of Jesus’ death, and eventually the doctrine of the Trinity.
There was more than likely to have been a reaction to what they saw as this betrayal of the Israelite religion, and the oneness of YHWH. Certain Followers would have wanted to remain true to the movement’s original teachings. So the Emissarian movement split after the destruction of Jerusalem; one group remained true to the ideals of the Way, and became known as “Ebionites”, and those that took on fully Christian beliefs became known as “Nazarenes”.
The origins of the name Ebionite is obscure. In Hebrew, evyon means “poor”. In Aramaic, one of the words for “poor” is `enwana. However, this can also mean “humble”, and probably clears up some confusion in one of the lines of the Beatitudes: “Blessed are the humble in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of God” (in Aramaic: tobeyhon `enwanin b’ruha, arey dilhon malkuteyh d’elaha). So the Ebionites’ name may have been taken from the belief that the humble in spirit (not “poor” in spirit) would enter the kingdom of God.
The Ebionites had their own version of the gospel. From what Christian Church Fathers say in their polemics against Ebionites, it seems to have been the Gospel of Matthew (more or less), with the birth narratives removed, along with certain other amendments.
The question arises, why bother to have a version of the gospel, when you already have the Q-document (the scroll of the sayings of Yeshua`, from which Matthew and Luke took the sayings of Yeshua`)? Why the need to plagiarise a Christian document?
The only answer can be that somehow, in all the turmoil of the Jewish/Roman War, all copies of this Q-document were lost, and Ebionites had no alternative, but to cannibalise a Christian document. What other tool or weapon did they otherwise have of defending their beliefs? What other concrete way could they counter what was now being said and written about their prophet?
Ebionites continued in significant numbers right until the 4th century CE, and dwindled thereafter until the 10th century, when they finally disappeared.


Reneé Zettle-Sterling and I are writing a book about casting!
Our book will feature dynamic images from both contemporary and historical artists. It will be a creative look-book of sorts, inspiring more people to use casting in their work and to think more broadly about the process and its possibilities.
While we don’t want to write a technical manual or textbook, our book will offer information about using casting to its best effect. Many books do cover technical details about casting processes from kiln temperatures to the type of flame to use to melt metal. Youtube is also an incredible resource for how-to information. Because this technical information can be found elsewhere, we won’t include it in great detail, but we will touch on the many ways to cast without getting bogged down in technical minutia.
We are focusing on the overarching possibilities casting offers, regardless of the material that is actually cast to create the final object. We propose that casting is a way of thinking. Model creation, mold making, and finally, casting requires a different mindset than fabrication or other more direct approaches to making. Once makers embrace the casting mindset, they begin to see the incredible range of options casting provides, like wax carving and modeling, taking molds from the body (fingerprints, for example) and using found objects for the model creation. In the development of a model, material is irrelevant - almost anything can be molded. Once the maker has created a mold, they have the possibility of casting in a wide variety of materials, each offering different qualities, effects and meanings. We will discuss using molds to create multiples, the ability to alter what comes out of the mold to work in series and also using waste molds, which are destroyed in the process of casting, creating one-offs. The very nature of the casting process offers a conceptual approach to the creation of art jewelry and objects which, as far as we know, has not been covered in any book.
Renee and I both use casting as a primary technique in our work, although we approach it very differently. We are matched in our passion for the process and have a deep respect for each other’s approach. The urge to co-author this book sprung from our many conversations on the subject of casting which always seemed to return to the lack of great books on the topic. This is the book we would both dream of owning, and because it doesn’t exist yet, we need to write it.
CAST will be published by Schiffer Publishing and will feature essays by Suzanne Ramljak, Susie Silbert, Ezra Shales, and Elaine King.
Our Call for Entries is listed with Juried Art Services. If you cast things or if you know someone who casts, please apply and/or share! Click HERE


Seven heartwarming stories by seasoned Western Historical writers.
Here are samples to give you an idea of the content.
LORRIE FARRELLY—THE LONGEST WAY HOME
Lily Harmon’s heart was captured when she adopted little Maddie Cullinan, an orphan whose father was presumed killed in battle. But former Union Army Major Luke Cullinan is very much alive, and he’s determined to reclaim his cherished daughter in Lorrie Farrelly’s “The Longest Way Home.”
LINDA CARROLL-BRADD—FORGED BY FIRE
Ivey Treadwell, cook at her family’s boarding house, wants to accomplish something big. For now, she satisfies herself with improving on the traditional recipes for the boarders by adding herbs and spices she gathers. An incident with a broken pan causes her to see Berg Spengler, the town’s blacksmith, in a new light. Stigmatized for his huge size and blamed for his brother’s injury, Berg has discovered being alone is safer for his heart. But when he sees interest spark in Ivey’s eyes, he decides to take a chance and approach her. The pair discovers an attraction that heats up each time they are alone together. Will Ivey convince Berg his wandering days are over and home is here with her in Comfort?
AGNES ALEXANDER—SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE
Dr. Miles Kerry and his nurse, Cora Hilliard, have both given up on finding love again. But when Cora is asked to move out of the boarding house where she and her ten-year-old son Koby live, they have nowhere to go. Miles insists they move into the spare rooms in his house—an arrangement with no complications. But when Cora falls ill with a raging fever, she must rely on Miles as she never has before. Will Koby get the father he wants so badly? Will Miles and Cora get their Second Chance at Love?
BEVERLY WELLS—BRIGHTER TOMORROWS
Five years ago, Callie Lynch fell in love, only to have her dreams shattered when she realized she’d been played the fool and used like a puppet. Bitter and shamed, trusting no man and determined to stand alone, she leaves Virginia to find new roots in Wyoming. Three years ago, Marshal Chase Matlock lost the love of his life during a bank robbery and was left riddled with guilt for failing to protect her. For three years, he’s tracked the scum of the earth—and this time, by God, he’ll get his man.
ANGELA RAINES—NEVER HAD A CHANCE
Thomas Heath’s sister, Clara, abandoned him to the cruelties of the people who were raising them. As a young man, he finally finds her—but she is on her way to getting married. Tom leaves in search of something to give him the stability he yearns for…but what?
Maria Berñal, pampered and coddled by her wealthy father, is on the verge of becoming a woman as her eighteenth birthday approaches. When a stranger shows up at their door and is wounded as he tries to protect her, she finds him more than a passing attraction—she’s falling in love.
But Tom is the victim of a deadly trick, and can’t remember who he is or why he’s at the Berñal home. Will he regain his memory in time to prevent a second attack?
JULIA DANIELS—FOR THE LOVE OF GRACE
Poppy Stanton tracks down her mentally handicapped sister, Gracie, who has run off to become a mail-order bride. In the family way, Grace refuses to leave the dusty Wyoming town of Hope Springs, though she is married to an abusive husband. Bachelor Reed Ridgeley and his mother live nearby, and invite Poppy to stay at their spacious ranch while she sorts out what to do about Gracie. Can Poppy convince her sister to come back home to Chicago with her before Reed can show her what a new future could look like for them in Hope Springs?
MEG MIMS—WINNER TAKES ALL
Cora Peterson is dead set on winning the Fourth of July Barrel Auction with her Mile High Apple Pie. She expects her rival might best her once again, but what she doesn’t expect is a bid for love from the handsome newcomer to Cady Corners…
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Dear academics and researchers
It is planned to publish an edited book on Judaism and Israel studies in 2018 (preferably an e-book version). Its purpose is to publish peer reviewed research articles related to all aspect of Jewish studies from traditional studies in religion, history, politics, international relations philosophy, economics, literature, sociology, and law etc. to contemporary studies in security, conflict management, media, women, human rights, holocaust, area/region et. In addition to the research articles, it is planned to have review articles.
Documentation style in formatting, citation and reference should be given according to international standards (APA, MLA, AIP, NLM, AMA, ACS etc.). There are no strict requirements on reference formatting at submission. References can be in any style or format as long as the style is consistent. Where applicable, author(s) name(s), journal title/book title, chapter /article title, year of publication, volume number and the pagination must be present.
Edited book in the files of Israeli and Judaic Studies accepts optionally a using a particular The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS): Note and Bibliography system as documentation style. See the CMS manual for issues not listed in this guideline. (available online at http://chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html).
If you are interested in this call, please feel free to contact the editor, M. Mustafa KULU (email@example.com) for more information and for an outline of the proposed themes within the book and possible questions authors could explore.
Proposals for chapter contributions, in the form of a 300-500 word abstract, are being requested by August 15, 2018. Abstracts will be reviewed by the editors and potential authors notified of review results no later than August 15, 2018. Successful authors will be invited to submit full chapters (5,000-10,000 words) by October 15, 2018 which will be followed by a peer-review process. Publication of the book is planned no later than December 31, 2018.
M. Mustafa KULU
Res. Asst., Department of International Relation,
Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences,


The Entando CMS is now enriched with new features
Entando 5.1 release brings, among a number of other updates, new functionalities in the Entando CMS. In particular, this release introduces the ability to edit and crop images inside the platform and the automated capture of image metadata in the CMS.
This is a quick introduction to the new image editing and metadata features released in 5.1 to the Entando CMS. You can also watch the video tutorial.
In Entando 5.1, you can now load more than one file at a time and crop images newly uploaded via Digital Assets. You can either crop the image dynamically or by using pre-configured crop ratios.
The first step is to log into our Entando instance and to navigate to the Digital Assets section of the Entando CMS.
On Digital Assets, selecting Add / Upload new images shows the new capability to upload multiple files concurrently. You can use the drop zone to drag and drop multiple files at once into the Entando CMS for processing.
Selecting Edit from the menu of one of the images presents the new image editor. In this editor, use the CMS feature to custom crop images to prep them for addition to content. All of the images being uploaded can be cropped at the same time.
Use your mouse or the set of controls below the image to flip, move, rotate or zoom on the uploaded images. Each cropped image is uploaded as a separate asset into the Entando CMS. So each image can be used as needed in different parts of content or across different content types.
Details on image size and composition are presented in each cropped image in the editor. Once the images are uploaded you can see all the crop versions available as separate assets for inclusion in Entando content.
In the CMS under Content Settings, users of the CMS can also define custom predefined crop ratios to use on uploaded images. This helps content editors create images with the right aspect ratio for the content the image will automatically render into. When we select Add and select the image to load, selecting Edit from the menu on that image, the new crop ratio available for use on the image is shown and the new crop image, with the correct aspect ratio for the content model, can be uploaded for use.
Also new in Entando 5.1 is the automated capture of image metadata in the CMS. In the CMS under Content Settings, tags can be defined to automatically map image metadata fields to values that are available for use in content models. Users of the CMS can also define custom tags and each of those tags is available as an attribute to be rendered into the content model. Attribute definitions and tag data can also be accessed and defined programmatically.
The metadata appears in the Metadata table at the bottom of the Edit screen.
Users can see the metadata attached to an image navigating back to Digital Assets in Entando CMS by selecting Edit from the menu on an existing image.


2016 Spearfish Community Resource Guide
The 2016 Spearfish Youth and Family Community Resource Guide is complete and has arrived!
You can click the link below to view a digital copy of the guide. You can also look for your own hard copy in your mailbox if you live in Spearfish or pick up a copy at many local businesses around town!
This year's addition includes lists of programs and events to get involved in, great articles about living smoke-free, a full list of web resources and much more! Pick one up today!
We hope you enjoy the publication! This is a collaborative effort with the Spearfish Rec Center/City of Spearfish. You can also click here to view the Parks and Recreation Activity Guide.


At Our Edit we are huge fans of books that encourage us to reflect and consider how we are living our lives, from mediation and mindfulness to cooking and craft, we believe that every book you read is an opportunity to expand your mind and learn something new.
So it’s no surprise that we enjoy a motivational read that offers insight or solutions to enhance and aid our busy lives. If you are indeed of some business inspiration or psychological support, check out our favourites.
If you have not heard of Joey Bradford and Persia Lawson then simply put you need to get acquainted. The duo makes up Addictive Daughter, best described as modern day life coaches very much geared up to helping and healing the high stress existence of our generation. Their first book, The Inner Fix, is a fascinating read sharing practices and tools to help reader get ‘addicted to the good stuff’. Fluff and babble free, this is a must read for all girls on the go.
In a world where we are bombarded by images of The Perfect Life, Bloom, by Canadian born lifestyle vlogger Estee Lalonde, sets out to help you enjoy and thrive in the life you are living, embracing your past and your flaws and moving forward anyway. An uplifting read and one that shows even the most perfect appearances can be deceptive.
This book was literally life changing for us. We read it on the beach during a much needed winter break to Antigua in November 2015 and have been recommending it ever since. Media power house Arianna Huffington’s selfhelp-come-business-tome details her third metric for a successful life, majoring on the need to take time out and enjoy life instead of beavering away and missing the good stuff. Sounds simple right? And yet so many of us fail to do it and Huffington aims to redress the balance.
A business auto biography with a difference. Founder and CEO of Nasty Gal, Sophia Amoruso, details her ascendancy from dumpster diver to fashion mogul. This honest account of how Amoruso grew her EBay business to a multi million-dollar corporation is as amusing as it is inspirational. The book is just one part of the Girlboss movement, and the ethos speaks of integrity and ingenuity and will leave you with the sense that anything is possible with enough hutzpah.
If you have ever felt you are being held back by your own thoughts then Mindset is for you. Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck examines how we can limit our potential simply by how we approach a set of circumstances, and how a simple change in mindset can unlock success. A real eye opener.
With such a pile of motivational non-fiction, all written by women, you have the perfect excuse to skip book club this month and swap chick lit for something that will really enhance your life.


Europe Endless is a column examining European comics that are now available in North America, ranging from overlooked oddities to classics and everything in between.
America’s tycoon era is ripe for creative pillaging. The Wild West might get all the glory as a fertile ground for outsized characters and legends, but America’s rise as a burgeoning economic power after the Civil War is full of its own cast of rebels, outlaws and larger than life figures. Christian Rossi, Xavier Dorison and Fabien Nury’s series Spooks is an attempt to correct that, following a team of supernatural detectives transitioning from the Wild West to the modern era, investigating an occult plot to take over the merging worlds of commerce and politics at the dawn of the 20th century. The Fall of Babylon, Cinebook’s first volume collection of the series, is a slight but promising work that is beautifully rendered and should appeal to readers who enjoy both The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and The X-Files.
Spooks’ characters still vividly remember the frontier days, and the Civil War that interrupted the country’s evolution, and as such they’re struggling to adjust in the more technological frontier of the 1900’s, where weaponry and forensics are advancing at a dizzying rate. In the past, the Spooks (SPecialists in the Odd and OCult) worked at the orders of the president get to the heart of mysteries that are decidedly outside the realm of normalcy, but now, like The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, they seem to be adrift in culture, aware that the future is swiftly advancing on them and the adventures that brought them to prominence are diminishing in number.
The Fall of Babylon centers around the suspicious murder-suicides of a number of extremely powerful men, all connected by membership in a secret organization called The Century Club that is seemingly equally out of time, but more direct in its confrontation of that fact. Spooks supervisor Richard Clayton tries to convince President McKinley that the murder-suicides are not random but connected and something horrible is on the horizon, but McKinley is too obsessed with the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition and the progress it signifies to care about Clayton’s theories of a murderous conspiracy (and given what happened in reality to McKinley at the Exposition, that mistake is going to cost him). So Clayton strikes out on his own, reforming his old Spooks team to uncover the mystery as rogue operatives.
Though Clayton is the supervisor of the Spooks, its true leader is Morton Chapel, who is even more lost in time, living in what’s left of the Wild West, putting his talents to waste in poker table brawls. Much of the first volume follows Clayton and Chapel as they put the band back together, most of whom are just as astray as Chapel. All of the characters more or less fit expected archetypes; Angel Salvaje is the mystic, an indigenous priest specializing in exorcisms, Joey Bishop is the psychotic marksman, Bart Trumble the brawny but lovable giant, and Kathryn Lennox is the brainy rebel daughter of a tycoon involved with the conspiracy.
As enjoyable as these characters are for the most part, they’re not really the draw of Spooks. What makes the story stand out is instead Rossi’s superb detail and dedication to building up a world that’s like our own but different enough to be entirely entrancing as it provokes more and more questions. Rossi’s painterly style brings the era of Spooks to vivid life, and his willingness to depict surprising moments of brutality with curious supernatural flavor enables the comic to stand out not only from many of its Eurocomic peers but also from the too frequently drab and lifeless American indie comics trying to do similar hybrids, like its Oni successor The Sixth Gun. Dorison and Nury’s script is mostly thoughtful and engaging and they bring similar detail to their historical connections, though Salvaje’s character stands out as a weak, problematic link in the otherwise more progressive series.
That said, The Fall of Babylon is an excellent set-up for the series, combining the cleverness and retro accoutrements of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with the mystery and world building of The X-Files. It may not be as epic in scope and design as some of its more fantastical peers, but Spooks is an engaging, pulpy work that’s easy to get into and hard to put down.
Spooks Volume 1: The Fall of Babylon is available now through Cinebook.
Nick Hanover got his degree from Disneyland, but he’s the last of the secret agents and he’s your man. Which is to say you can find his particular style of espionage here at Loser City as well as Ovrld, where he contributes music reviews and writes a column on undiscovered Austin bands. You can also flip through his archives at Comics Bulletin, which he is formerly the Co-Managing Editor of, and Spectrum Culture, where he contributed literally hundreds of pieces for a few years. Or if you feel particularly adventurous, you can always witness his odd .gif battles with friends and enemies on twitter: @Nick_Hanover


The Book of Tobit (or 3rd or early 2-nd century BCE) is an ancient Jewish work that describes God’s test for the faithful, the way in which He responds to prayers , and how He safeguards the covenant community (i.e. Israeltes). The story is told through two Jewish families, one of blind Tobit in Nineveh and of the secluded Sarah in Ecbatana. (tobitmovie.com). Tobit’s son Tobias is given by Raphael to recover the ten silver talents Tobit left behind in Rages in Rages, a town in Media. He is sent to Ecbatana where he is introduced to Sarah. Asmodeus the demon, who is evil has a crush on Sarah and kills all her plans to wed. Raphael assists Tobias to remove the demon, and Sarah is wed. Tobit is then cured of his blindness.
The text is part of the Catholic and Orthodox canons, however it is not included in the Jewish canon; the Protestant tradition puts it in the Apocrypha which includes Anabaptists Lutherans, Anglicans and Methodists acknowledging it as part of the Bible and useful for purposes of edification and liturgy, though it is not canonical in its status. Many scholars view it as a fictional work, with some historical references.
Summary and structure
The book has 14 chapters, forming three major narrative segments, which are then that are framed by a prologue as well as an epilogue.
- Prologue (1:1-2)
- Situation in Nineveh & Ecbatana (1.3-3.17)
- Tobias’s Journey (4:1-12.22)
- Tobit’s song of praise and his death (13:1-14:2)
- Epilogue (14:3-15)
- (Summarized from BenediktOtzen’s “Tobit and Judith”)
The prologue explains to the reader that this is the story of Tobit of Naphtali’s tribe who was who was exiled from Tishbe in Galilee to Nineveh by the Assyrians. He remained loyal to the laws of Moses and performed sacrifices to the Temple at Jerusalem during the time before the Assyrian defeat. The story focuses on his marriage to Anna, and they have an infant son named Tobias.
Tobit is a religious man who tobit, a religious man, burys dead Jews But one night when he’s asleep, he’s blinded when a bird is able to feces inside his eyes. https://www.change.org/p/jim-osborne-of-apa-mel-gibson-should-play-tobit-in-feature-film He becomes dependent on his wife, but accuses her of stealing and prays for death. His cousin Sarah living in distant Ecbatana is also praying for death, for the demon Asmodeus has killed her lovers on their wedding nights and is accused of having caused their deaths.
God responds to their prayers, and Raphael, the archangel sent by God to assist them, is to help them. Tobias is sent to recover funds from a family member, and Raphael, in human disguise invites him to join him. They catch a fish in Tigris. Raphael informs Tobias that the burned liver and liver are able to drive away demons and that the gall can treat blindness. Raphael predicts that the demon will be slain when they reach Ecbatana. Sarah is also there.
Tobias and Sarah get married Sarah and Tobias get married. Tobias becomes wealthy. They return to Nineveh (Assyria) which is where Tobit, Anna, and their children. Tobit is healed of blindness and Raphael departs, telling Tobit and Tobias to praise God and to declare their acts before the people (the Jews), and to pray and fast in addition to giving alms. Tobit praises God who has taken his people’s punishment by exile, but promises to show mercy to them and rebuild the Temple if they turn to him.
Tobit informs Tobias in the conclusion that Nineveh will be soon destroyed as an example of sin. Israel will also be desolated, with the Temple destroyed. But, Israel and the Temple are able to be rebuilt. Tobias should therefore leave Nineveh and be a righteous man with his family.
Tobit is considered fiction, with a few historical references. It blends prayer, moral exhortation, and adventure with elements from stories of wisdom and folklore or travel tales as well as comedy, romance and even love. It also gave advice to diaspora Jews who were living in exile about how to preserve their Jewish identity.
Latin Rite readings are based on the book. It is commonly used by the Latin Rite to read from the book in weddings. The book is noted for its teaching on the intercession of angels, filial piety, almsgiving and tithing, and reverence for the deceased. In the chapter five of 1 Meqabyan (a book considered canonical within the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church) Tobit is also mentioned.
Texts and composition
Leaf from a manuscript made of vellum, c. 1240.
While the Book of Tobit was written in the 8th Century BC but the actual manuscript was written between 225 and 125 BC. There isn’t a consensus regarding the exact location of the composition (almost all regions of the ancient world appear to be suitable”); a Mesopotamian origin is logical considering that the tale is set in Assyria, Persia, and refers to the Persian demon “aeshma Daeva” that is “Asmodeus”. But the book has a number of geographic errors (such as the distance between Ecbatana and Rhages and their topography) and arguments for or against Judean or Egyptian composition.
Tobit exists in two Greek translations. One is Sinaiticus longer than the other (Vaticanus or Alexandrinus). Aramaic and Hebrew fragments of Tobit (four Aramaic, one Hebrew – it is not clear which was the original language) found among the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran tend to align more closely with the longer or Sinaiticus version, https://icatholic.ph/category/doctrine/book-of-tobit/ which has formed the basis of most English translations in recent times.
The Vulgate places Tobit, Judith and Esther in the context of the historical works (after Nehemiah). Some manuscripts from Greek versions put them in the context of the wisdom writings.
Status of Canonical
They are Jewish books found in the Septuagint but not included in the traditional Masoretic canon of the Jewish Bible are called the deuterocanon, meaning “second canon”. Protestants stick to the Masoretic canon. Tobit is therefore not included in their canon of standard. However they do recognize it in the deuterocanonical books category , which is known as the apocrypha.
The Council of Rome (A.D. 382) lists the Book of Tobit as a canonical work. This includes the Council of Hippo (393), Council of Carthage (397) and Council of Carthage (419) as well as the Council of Florence (1422) and then, the Council of Trent (1546). It is both part of the canons of the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Churches. Catholics refer to it as https://icatholic.ph/category/tobit-study-guide/ deuterocanonical.
Augustine (c. A.D. 397) and Pope Innocent I(A.D. 405) both confirmed Tobit’s inclusion within the Old Testament Canon. Athanasius (A.D. 367) stated that other books, including the Tobit book Tobit although not part of the Canon, “were appointed by the Fathers to be read”.
Rufinus of Aquileia (c. A.D.400) stated that the book of Tobit, along with other works deuterocanonical to the Torah, weren’t Canonical but Ecclesiastical.
According to Protestant custom according to Protestant tradition, the Tobit book Tobit is placed in an intertestamental zone known as Apocrypha. Anabaptism employs the book of Tobit in the liturgy used at Amish weddings. The “book of Tobit” is often used as the basis for the wedding sermon. Tobit is included in the Luther Bible’s “Apocrypha,” which means books that are not as being equivalent to the holy Scriptures however, they are usefully used for reading.  Article VI of The Thirty-Nine Articles of Church of England refers to it as an book that is part of “Apocrypha”. The Sunday Service of the Methodists the first Methodist liturgical book uses verses from Tobit for its Eucharistic celebration. The lectionaries for the Lutheran churches as well as the Anglican churches have readings from Scripture from Apocrypha. Alternate Old Testament readings are also included. The Anglican, Methodist and Catholic churches have Holy Matrimony with a Scripture Reading from the Book of Tobit.
Tobit gives fascinating evidence of the early evolution of the Jewish canon. It is in reference to two rather than three divisions that include the Law of Moses (i.e. The Torah and the Prophets. The Torah is not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible for unknown reasons. Possible explanations include its age (now being considered to be highly unlikely), Samaritan origin or an unintentional violation of ritual law in that it depicts the marriage contract of Tobias and his bride in the form of her father, rather than her husband. However, it is located in Septuagint Greek Jewish writings. This Septuagint was used to incorporate it into the Christian canon at the end of the 4th century.
Tobit’s position in the Christian canon has allowed it to influence culture, art and theology throughout Europe. The Church fathers of the early days often spoke about it, and the theme of Tobias with the fish (the fish being the symbol of Christ) was extremely popular in art and theology.  Particularly noteworthy for this are the work of Rembrandt who, though a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, was responsible for a number of drawings and paintings that illustrated episodes of the book.


"To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true ‘American Primitive.’ He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could."
-John Carter Cash
“Neither of my parents ever threw anything away,” says John Carter Cash, the only son of Johnny Cash and June Carter. So, by his parents’ death in 2003, the family vault brimmed with photos and scattered ephemera. John Carter spent years cataloging everything, and the result is “House of Cash” (Insight Editions, $40), a deeply personal, often surprising scrapbook of his home life. (Now 41, he appears as a boy in many of the photos from the book.) In addition to the pictures, many taken by the Man in Black himself, the book includes Johnny Cash’s handwritten poems; one, from 1982, is hopelessly titled “Don’t Make a Movie About Me.”


The story of wise men from the East, who follow a star in search of a king, have to stop off in Jerusalem to ask the way, get involved in dealings with Herod (a most unsavoury monarch!), and end up worshipping a child who must have been far removed from what they had expected, has inspired many an artist. As indeed many a Christmas card!
Yet, of the Gospel writers, only Matthew gives an account of this event. It certainly follows his theme of the Kingship of one who has come to fulfil the promises of God: look at the way that the gifts offered to Jesus mirror Isaiah 60:1–6, our Old Testament reading for Epiphany.
So, is the story true? As with witnesses in court, one has to be careful when there is only one source, so it cannot be possible to prove that the event happened in the way Matthew recorded. However, as John Martens puts it: “Whether every aspect of the account of the Magi coming to worship Jesus is historically accurate is not that significant to me spiritually, for the story points to deeper truths: God’s son is the true King, though vulnerable and weak, not the earthly Kings who seek their own aggrandizement and power; and people from the entire world will come to worship this King and they are represented in Matthew by the Magi.” Whether the Magi actually came to Jesus as described, or not, Martens was happy that the story of their coming to Jesus had been told. “Epiphany is the celebration of the manifestation of the divine in the infant Jesus and the recognition of that reality the world over. I believe that is true.”
Based on a blog post by John Martens


Welcome again to another update! This time we have create a History page where you can read more about the historical period of Japan.
Here is what you can find on the History Page:
- Prehistoric and Ancient Japan
- Classical Japan
- Medieval Japan
- Early Modern Japan
- Modern Japan
- Contemporary Japan
Additional period and era for Modern and Contemporary Japan will be added this month. After that we will continue to expand the History Page every once in a while.
We hope you enjoy this historical update, and see you next month!


Hi. My name is Michelle, I am 33, and I still read Juvenile Fiction.
I don't discriminate. I will read pretty much anything that contains words. I'd also like to say that the children's sections of libraries and book stores are so much for fun--comfy little chairs or bean bags to sit in, floors to sprawl out on, and sometimes there are even toys to play with :).
When it comes to picking out and reading books from this genre I am not picky. All I ask for is a protagonist that is relateable, a story that moves along, and an interesting point of view. Pretty simple.
Hope Is A Ferris Wheel by Robin Herrera came as a recommeneded book by another blogger in this article and when I happened to see it on the new book shelf in the children's section of the library, I grabbed it. (I hang out in that section pretty exclusively, not only do I have three children, but I have read everything that I care to in the adult section--it's a small library.)
Herrera's protaganist Star Mackie is a ten year old girl having a terrible time fitting into a new school. In an effort to make friends, Star forms a Trailer Park Club thinking that people would have an easier time accepting her if she could dispell some of the stereotypes that go along with living in one. Star's club quickly evolves though, into something even greater and this small group of ecletic kids set out to define the meaning of hope, a task that would give even an adult trouble.
Now technically, the overall themes, literary devices, and plot are a tad predictable, but I am an adult reading a book whose targeted audience is much younger. However, what made this book worthwhile for me to read though, is the refreshing and very honest perspective of ten year old Star. I laughed out loud at some of the things she said and that felt great.


In Lieu of Heaven explores the notion that the true villain of the Bible–and therefore in Western culture–is none other than God himself. Part Socratic dialog, part religious allegory, but all incendiary. (Here’s Chapter 2.)
Reviews have been abundantly exuberant.
There is an excellently written review at: www.rambles.net
“IN LIEU OF HEAVEN” was selected as one of the best fiction titles of 2004! Thanks, Rebecca’s Reads!
Midwest Book Review:
…enthusiastically recommended, especially for those who prefer their literary entertainment to be thoughtful and thought-provoking. (See the full review below.)
Kevin Archer unapologetically explores this new idea of God as the villain of the Bible, using the Bible itself as his ammunition, and the results are mind-blowing to say the least. In Lieu of Heaven will have your jaw dropping down to the floor. This is a daring and gut-wrenchingly honest book.
“…the implications for recovering addicts are startling to consider.”
“The writing is striking and vivid. Its figurative and allegorical quality reminds me a great deal of C.S. Lewis.” (In response to this philosophically amusing comparison, I wrote Resurrection.)
From Wild Violet, Spring 2004:
Allegory, as in the classic example, Pilgrim’s Progress, is a literary technique typically used to teach religious truths. In an allegory, the protagonist goes on a journey, meeting people who represent abstract concepts that relate to the principles being taught.
In Lieu of Heaven by Kevin Archer takes this technique in an entirely different direction, using allegory to unwind religious truths. The unnamed protagonist, embarked on an undefined journey, sidetracks into what appears to be a heavenly garden. There, he meets a man who calls himself Adam and who, as it turns out, is the biblical Adam.
Through Adam’s tales, the protagonist experiences the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible, identifying flaws in logic and reasons to believe that the biblical God is neither as kind, nor as forgiving, nor as praiseworthy as Christians have been led to believe.
In fact, Adam contends, the Bible serves as an indictment of the selfish, cruel behavior of the biblical God.
Biblical contradictions are not new, and biblical scholars and theologians are well aware of them. They account for discrepancies by the fact that these books, while believed to be divinely inspired, were written by many different hands over centuries, and then edited and put into canonical form by the Catholic Church.
If In Lieu of Heaven is aimed at believers, the logic-based argument, though using some emotional appeals, such as Adam’s emotional descriptions of the fate of those who fail to please God, is not likely to convince them, particularly when Adam alleges that Jesus of Nazareth is simply the same selfish Old Testament God, in corporal form.
But perhaps Archer does not seek to change the mind of the true believers but, instead, to raise questions and then to change the mind of those, who like the protagonist, are on a spiritual journey, looking for their own truths.
In Lieu of Heaven could be useful at a seminary for pastors to understand what sort of objections and questions nonbelievers may have about the faith. Equally, it could be interesting for a comparative religions class or philosophy class, fueling discussions. Likewise, for those who wish to view the Bible as literature, since it evaluates the consistency of characters and the logic of plot lines.
In Lieu of Heaven is well worth reading and could fuel discussion among a number of different groups. The allegorical structure, as ironic as it might seem, works well to clarify the argument and frame it in an entertaining way.
From Midwest Book Review, April 2004:
Author Kevin Archer does not identify with any specific religious group, preferring to practice Zen and meditation, and the power of the profound world view that “It takes much more will to be a man than to be a god” is unforgettably expressed within In Lieu Of Heaven, a philosophical and deftly probing novel about two men who meet in the wilderness – one of whom is on a tireless quest to meet God, while the other claims to have already done so. The crossing of their paths brings about difficult examination of each other’s beliefs, and will lead the reader down a personal path of self-examination concerning the concepts of God and individual faith. An exploratory and unapologetically deconstructive narrative ponderance, In Lieu Of Heaven is an enthusiastically recommended novel — especially for those who prefer their literary entertainment to be thoughtful and thought-provoking.
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ISBN Hardback 1413421865, ISBN Paperback 1413421857


3.8.3. VarSeq CNV Reference Manager¶
The reference sample manager looks for reference samples stored in the Reference Samples folder. The Reference Samples folder can be set by going to Tools -> Options and changing the CNV References Folder. This folder will be used by default when adding the CNV algorithm to a VarSeq project.
Exploring Current Reference Folder¶
Open the Manage Reference Samples dialog by going to Tools -> Manage Reference Samples…. This dialog will display the all of the reference samples in the current Reverence Samples folder. Each reference sample has the following attributes:
Sample Name - This is the name of the sample. If the reference file was created with the Manage Reference Samples dialog this value is read from the input BAM file, if the file was created by VarSeq the sample name will be the sample name used when the variants were imported.
Panel Name - The name of the BED or TSF file used when computing Target coverage, or Binned Coverage Statistics and the number of bins if computing coverage on whole genomes using the binned coverage method.
Panel Hash - This is used to match sample coverage to corresponding reference samples. It is computed using the chromosome, start, and stop, of the regions spanned by the panel. If reference samples have the same panel hash then they belong to the same reference set.
Target Count - The number of targets regions in the panel or binned genome.
Adding Reference Samples¶
Click the Add References button in the Manage Reference Samples dialog to add reference samples to the current Reference Samples folder.
Selecting Sample BAMs¶
The first step to adding reference samples is selecting the BAM files that will be used to compute the coverage statistics for the samples. Select the BAMs by using the Add buttons or by dragging the files into the dialog.
The BAM files for the references should follow the same prep and secondary analysis that is used for the samples of interest. Inconsistencies between the samples of interest and the reference samples can lead to unpredictable results. Once all of the BAMs for the reference samples have been selected click Next.
Selecting Panel Type¶
Select Taget References to compute coverage across a set of target regions, you must then select a interval track which defines the target regions. Alternatively you can select Binned References if you are computing whole genome coverage. If computing Binned References you have the option to select a blacklist interval track, this can be used to mask out regions of the genome that you do not want to include in your analysis.
After you have made your selection, click Create to start the computation.
The computation step will first compute genomic indexes on the selected BAM’s if they do not already exist. Finally computed is computed over the selected regions of the BAM files. Click Close to view the new reference samples in the Manage Reference Samples dialog.


Prominent Odia and English Writer Manoj Das died.
Manoj Das was a prolific bilingual writer, famous for his dramatic expression as well as attire. As a writer and a philosopher, his writings drew social and psychological sketches of common people and frailties of political leaders.
He was suffering from a prolonged sickness and died at a nursing home in Puducherry on Tuesday. He was 87 years old and a Padma awardee. His commendable works in Odia include 'Shesha Basantara Chithi,' 'Manoj Dasanka Katha o Kahani,' 'Dhumabha Diganta,' 'Manojpancabimsati' (short stories), 'Tuma Gam o Anyanya Kabita' (poetry). His notable English works include The crocodiles' lady: A collection of stories, The submerged valley, and other stories, Farewell to a ghost: Short stories and a novelette, Cyclones, A tiger at twilight, Mystery of the Missing Cap, and other short stories.
He wrote his memoir chasing the Rainbow: Growing up in an Indian Village in 2004.
He has several prestigious awards in his name, including Padma Shree, which he won last year.
Paying tribute to Das, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Das distinguished himself as a noted educationist, popular columnist, and prolific writer. "He made rich contributions to English and Odia literature. He was a leading exponent of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy. Pained by his demise. Condolences to his family. Om Shanti," he tweeted.
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A l’occasion de l’exposition en 2001 d’oeuvres de Salvador Dalì nouvellement acquises
THE ENIGMATIC ISIDORE DUCASSE AND THE SURREALISTS
Chris Will, curator of the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
The Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum owns a number of works of art that are closely linked with the name and work of the French writer Isidore Ducasse. The makers of these works (two illustrated books, a set of prints and an object) - Salvador Dali, René Magritte and Man Ray - were all representatives of the surrealist movement. Who was this unknown nineteenth-century author, and why did the Surrealists regard him as a cult figure?
Les Chants de Maldoror
Lice of remarkable beauty that crawl like aspiring philosophers from cherished eggs; pubic hairs conversing in a brothel; sharks preparing duck-liver paté and cold soup from victims of drowning; a human-faced toad, as sad as the universe and as beautiful as suicide; covetous fingers prodding the lobes of innocent brains in order to smilingly prepare an effective unguent for the eyes; how Man. applauded by the crablouse and the adder, shits on the Creator's uplifted face for three days; devouring your mother's arms with gusto while she is still alive by tearing them off and cutting them into snippets...!
A random selection from a hallucinatory tissue of words, and there are plenty more in one of the most bizarre books of all time. Entitled Les Chants de Maldoror, it was published in 1869 by the Comte de Lautréamont, the`noble' pseudonym adopted by the Uruguayan-born Frenchman IsidoreLucien Ducasse (1846 - 1870). Ducasse died in 1870, aged 24, in the chaos of the siege of Paris during the Franca-Prussian war. His provocative ideas are presented in two books, Les Chants de Madoror (1869) and Poésies (1870), from which the author emerges as a man apparently deranged, possessing instinctive cruelty, nihilistic humour and extraordinary sexual prowess. The romantic epic of the anti-hero Maldoror consists of six `songs'. It is difficult to fathom. Rife with bombastic clichés, crazy Homeric epithets, absurd comparisons, unexpected banalities and pseudo-profundities, the work has a style entirely its own which is mystifying to the reader. One gets the feeling that absolutely everything is undermined, and that every passage is therefore questionable. Maldoror's overriding preoccupation is to combat God and humanity. The book is a swingeing onslaught on and total invalidation of Western society, the social system, institutions and ideologies. Often resorting to extreme parody, grotesquery and burlesque. cynicism and black humour, Ducasse brazenly takes up arms against the church, state and morals. In a letter to his Belgian publisher Verboeckhoven, Ducasse wrote: 'I have sung the praise of evil.' And indeed, his literary hero's name derives from evil: 'Mal d'Aurore' means the Dawn of Evil.
Embraced by the Surrealists
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the goal of the Dadaists and Surrealists was absolute freedom. They could identify with Ducasse's world of ideas, for imagination runs riot in Les Chants. Like Ducasse, these artists flouted convention, ridiculed values and standards, and launched their weapons of provocation and untrammelled imagination against the dictatorship of reason. The writer Louis Aragon came across Les Chants by chance in 1917. In 1918 he told the writer and physician André Breton, who was to pioneer the surrealist movement, about the book. Les Chants proved to be a mine of inspiration, and Isidore Ducasse became the Surrealists' hero. To the Surrealists his nihilistic 'poetry in prose' was pure écriture automatique. An example is the now famous comparison of a sixteen-year-old youth's beauty with 'the retraction of the claws of birds of prey, or the uncertainty of muscular spasms caused by wounds in the soft parts of the back of the throat... and above all the chance encounter of a sewing-machine and an umbrella on a dissecting-table.' André Breton regarded the last phrase in particular as a classic example of surrealist thought. The statement might be called a metaphor for one of the most important principles of the surrealist aesthetic: the enforced juxtaposition of two totally alien realities.
Series of Dali prints
In 1999 the museum acquired an unusual edition of Les Chants de Maldoror. Illustrated by Salvador Dal! (1904 - 1989), it was published in 1934 in Paris by Albert Skira, who was also the publisher of the surrealist magazine Minotaure (1933 - 1939). The new edition of Les Chants was a substantial volume of 207 pages, with 42 etchings by Dali: 30 full-page and 12 vignettes. The book is accompanied by a so-called 'suite': a looseleaf set of the same 42 etchings, many of whose lower margins show scribbled motifs that are missing in the book. Skira had planned 120 'suites' but due to financial problems only 40 were printed, on Vélin d'Arches paper. The book was not printed in the originally planned edition of 80 either, only 60 copies being produced. It was Pablo Picasso who proposed that Lautréamont's inspiring 'cult' book should be illustrated by his compatriot Dali, who has been introduced to it by the writer René Crevel. Dalì embarked on the task in 1932, drawing preliminary studies for some of the illustrations. He was approximately 28 years old when he made the series, about the same age as the 19th-century author of the bizarre texts who died so young. Dali deployed the entire arsenal of his characteristic imagery in his illustrations to Les Chants. The etcher's tool transformed the poet's satanic deluge of words into a paradigm of the artist's own 'criticalparanoid' method. In the like-minded artist, Les Chants evoked associations, hallucinations and deliriums which are linked with his 'personal myths'. For example, Dali quoted Jean-Francois Millet's popular painting The Angelus here for the first time. The well-known figures of the farmer and his wife sunk in prayer, standing in a potato field, appear in four etchings with items from Dal!'s typical vocabulary, such as flaccid parts of the body supported by crutches and distorted bones.
The museum's collection boasts another edition of Les Chants de Maldoror. In 1945 René Magritte (1898 - 1967) drew a remarkably humorous series of 13 fullpage illustrations and vignettes in a caricatural style for a Brussels edition of the book (1948). An object by the Surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976) shows quite a different approach. His works are often based on puns, and such is the case with L'Enigme d'Isidore Ducasse. Man Ray designed The Enigma of Isidore Ducasse in 1920, an unidentifiable object wrapped in a horse-blanket and secured with a piece of rope. The vague form of the object concealed by the blanket suggests a sewingmachine. Man Ray made the object for the express purpose of photographing it. The photograph appeared in Breton's introduction to the first number of the magazine La Révolution Surréaliste, which appeared in December 1924. The original object has been lost. In 1971 Man Ray made a reconstruction, which was issued as a multiple in an edition of ten by the Galleria Schwarz in Milan. In 1972, however, the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum purchased the object directly from the artist. The title and the object refer to Ducasse's comparison, quoted above, of beauty with the 'chance encounter of a sewingmachine and an umbrella on a dissectingtable'. Man Ray's object is a kind of portrait of this metaphor. He approaches the writer's work in an ironic but realistic fashion, while Ducasse's literature both attacks and denies reality. Man Ray brilliantly juggles with the words in the title and the form and content of his 'simple' object.
European review of modern prints, books and paper art
1rst issue 2000
[Reproduit avec l'aimable autorisation de Chris Will]
[De bonnes reproductions des illustrations de Dali sont disponibles sur le site de la
Weinstein Gallery de San Francisco]


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Haider named Member of the Year
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Ellen Haider has been selected as Member of the Year by the board of the League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Columbus.
Haider has co-chaired a year-long study of public transit in central Ohio – the first local study undertaken by the Metro Columbus League in many years. Researched and written primarily by Haider, the study report examines the current transit climate in the metro area and recommends criteria the League may use in evaluating future transit efforts.
Nancy Brown, who co-chaired the study committee with Haider, said it was a privilege to work with her. “Ellen is perhaps the only person I have ever met who loves to do research,” Brown said. “You can imagine what such a person brings to a study committee.”
While Haider has been a League member since the late 1970s, she did not consider herself an active member until she began chairing the study committee. Now, Haider said, she is eager to stay involved.
Haider grew up in Clintonville and then attended Bowling Green State University, where she majored in speech and hearing therapy. She took a stab at being a therapist and at teaching elementary school before finding her niche working in libraries.
After earning her master’s degree in library science from Indiana University, Haider worked at the Bexley Public Library before settling into her career as librarian at the Ohio Department of Transportation. She retired from the state in 1994.
Haider founded the Central Ohio Sleep Disorders Support Group in 1986 and remains one of its leaders.
Her husband, “Woody,” is from Yemen. Some of her most treasured memories as an adult are from her six trips there to visit his family, first in 1981 and most recently in 2009. During that period of time, Haider said, she watched a generation grow up and the country make significant, if uneven, progress.
Haider has stayed on top of changes in the field of library science as it has evolved, honing her research skills on the web. “Every time the transit study committee met, Ellen had new information to share and facts she thought we needed to know,” Brown said. “Her background as a librarian was invaluable, but so were her leadership and enthusiasm.”
Haider will be honored at the League's annual meeting Jun. 7.


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The following web presentations of selections from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) relate to the debate about the ratification of the U. Constitution in Massachusetts (including the District of Maine). These materials have been assembled for a workshop, Ratification.
The People Debate the Constitution, A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text.
William Hooper, was the oldest of five children of the Reverend William Hooper and Mary Dennie, daughter of Boston merchant John Dennie. Hooper was the grandson of Robert and Mary Jaffray Hooper of the Parish of Ednam, near Kelso, Scotland.
Hooper was born on 17 June in Boston, Massachusetts. Text of the Massachusetts Constitution. PREAMBLE. The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body-politic, to protect it, and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natural rights and the blessings of life; and.
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Boston (UK: / ˈ b ɒ s t ə n /, US: / ˈ b ɔː s t ə n /) is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States, and the 21st most populous city in the United city proper covers 49 square miles ( km 2) with an estimated population ofinalso making it the most populous city in New England, and is the seat of Suffolk County: Suffolk.
It was in June, way back inthat the Commonwealth of Massachusetts officially ratified its state constitution. The document took John Adams—yes that John Adams—about a month to write, and has lasted years and counting.
To mark the anniversary, here are four things worth noting about a document civil rights attorney Harvey Silverglate calls "the grandaddy of constitutions."Author: Edgar B.
Herwick III. On this day inthe Massachusetts constitution was declared ratified. The previous fall, the world's first constitutional convention had met in Cambridge. A committee was chosen to write a constitution for the new state; the group delegated the task to John Adams.
USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned ship in the United States Navy. Naval officers and crew still serve aboard her. The Navy operates the ship as a historic site in cooperation with the National Park Service. The Naval History and Heritage Command, Detachment Boston, is housed in Building 24 and is responsible for the maintenance.
Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία, The term is derived from the Greek words dēmokratiā, dēmos (“people”) and kratos (“rule”) "rule by [the] people") is a form of government in which the people have the authority to choose their governing people are and how authority is shared among them are core issues for democratic theory, development and constitution.Price book, or, Rules of carpenter work recommended by the Housewright Society, of the Town of Boston.
Published: () System 6: a pricing strategy for long blanks / by: Hansen, Bruce G., et al. Published: ().*The Dominion Governor-in-Chief, Edmund Andros, outlawed town meetings, disputed titles to certain colonial lands, and proselytized on behalf of the Church of England *New England colonists had originally been in favor of some sort of voluntary association, but the Dominion was very unpopular because of these types of impositions.


Georgetown University Law Center held a conference related to the book—called Reviving Progressive Constitutional Political Economy—on November 18, 2022.
You can watch the whole symposium here on YouTube.
For a rundown of panels and speakers, see here.
C-Span covered all three panels and the keynote by Rep. Jamie Raskin; to see their coverage click here.
The new American Journal of Law & Equality published a particularly rich exchange of ideas on the constitutional theory behind The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution:
Frank Michelman, The Anti-Oligarchy Popular Constitution
Fishkin & Forbath, Dualist Popular Constitutionalism: A Reply to Michelman
The Boston Review hosted a forum on the book in spring/summer 2022. The authors’ introductory post and the five responses can be found at these links:
- Joseph Fishkin & William Forbath, Make Progressive Politics Constitutional Again
- Andrea Scoseria Katz, Up from Originalism
- Aziz Rana, The Limits of Imperial Social Democracy
- Mark Tushnet, Imagining a Twenty-first Century Constitution
- Kate Andrias, From Constitutional Theory to Political Practice
- Sanjukta Paul, Beyond Neoclassical Antitrust
The authors reply here:
- Joseph Fishkin & William E. Forbath, Toward an Inclusive, Democratic Political Economy
The entire exchange also appears in the Boston Review’s Spring 2022 print volume Rethinking Law.
The LPE Project hosted a symposium about the book in Spring and Summer 2022. Posts can be found at the following links:
- Joseph Fishkin & William E. Forbath, Constitutional Political Economy for a Democracy, Not an Oligarchy
- Aziz Rana, American Social Democracy and its Imperial Roots
- Katharine Jackson, Democracy, Bureaucracy, and Rights
- Luke Norris, Procedural Political Economy
- Jennifer Klein, Reconstituting Political and Economic Democracy for the 21st Century
- Amanda Shanor, Dobbs, Anti-Oligarchy, and the Problem of History
The legal blog Balkinization hosted a symposium on the book in spring 2022. You can read the posts at the following links:
- Emily Zackin, Constitutional Meanings
- David Pozen, Inside or Outside the Modalities?
- Mark Tushnet, A Contemporary Manifesto for a Left-Liberal Constitutional Political Economy
- Kate Andrias, The Hard Questions about Constitutional Political Economy
- Ken Kersch, Constitutional Politics After Defeat: Fidelity to What?
- Gerald Torres, Common Sense Constitutionalism
- Bertrall L. Ross II, The Constitution We Have and the Constitutions We Want
- Mark Graber, The People’s Constitution
The authors respond to these posts here:
- Joseph Fishkin & William E. Forbath, The Future of Progressive Constitutionalism: A Response


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I wrote this article originally back in 2005. It was originally available at http://www.georglutz.de/wiki/DiskArchiver. The information you find below might be rather outdated now and I don’t plan to work on it further, but I put it in the blog for archival purposes on this particular date – Georg in June 2011.
DiskArchiver (DAR) is an highly sophisticated backup and archive tool written by Denis Corbin. It has some advantages over the widely spread tar or zip formats. Some of its key features are:
- Each file can be compressed individually. If there is an error inside an archive file only one file is corrupt, not the entire archive (like tar.gz). gzip and bzip2 are supported as algorithms.
- The position of the files inside the archive is recorded in the catalogue. During a restore you have not to scan the whole archive (like tar). You have direct access.
- Support for differential backup
- Handle deleted files: if an file is not present in a differential run it is marked as deleted. If you do recovery these deleted files are also honored.
- Differential backups are usually based on isolated catalogues. An isolated catalogue is the list of files (among other information) which has been saved during a backup run.
- Automatically splits the archive to support removable media with limited space.
- Ability for remote operation.
For more information goto http://dar.linux.free.fr .
saraB stands for schedule and rotate automatic Backups and is a frontend for dar. Through an easy to use configuration it supports backup schemes like Towers of Hanoi or Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS).saraB is actually a shell script and has been written by Tristan Rhodes.
For more information goto http://sarab.sourceforge.net .
From the release of version 0.2.2 in 2004-09 up to now there has been some bugfixes and improvements on the mailing list:
- Bugfix for mail reports (Tristan Rhodes)
- Bugfix for cut/awk problem (Tristan Rhodes and Alfredo Tripicchio)
- Added support for ARCHIVE_SCRIPT (Steven Clark). ARCHIVE_SCRIPT is a script which is executed after a backup has taken place. The script can be activated via the keyword archive in the file rotation.schedule.
- Maintain a central isolated catalogue file for all virtual tapes (Steven Clark).
I have collected and merged (manually) the various patches. You can download the altered file here: sarab-0.2.2_georglutz.tar.gz


116. Reason in the rise and fall of civilizations
According to Cioran, when civilizations emerge, the new religion, values, myths, ideology, or doctrine, are vigorous, vital, clear, hard, simple, and compelling. In time, tested by earthly realities of complexity and variability, they develop nuance, differentiation, refinement, tolerance of diversity and individuality, and become soft, more pliable. Culture strays from nature, and instincts are subdued by reflection. This is next experienced as degeneration, decadence. Too clever for its own good. Diversity is seen as confusion. And then the old doctrine becomes vulnerable to a takeover by the next more hardy vision looming on the horizon.
According to Cioran, decline is accompanied by intellectualization and erudition: myth is replaced by science, song by discourse, and emotion by reason. That may have been the case in the decline of ancient Greek culture in Hellenism and in the decline of the Roman Empire. But does it apply to current times?
It seems to me that the Enlightenment, since Descartes, especially in its radical stream, initiated by Spinoza, constituted a new culture at the peak of which, in the 17-18th century, myth was replaced by science, finesse by geometry, emotion by reason. Central values became reason, truth, freedom, and democracy.
And now we seem to be in a stage of decline where those Enlightenment values, right or wrong, are surrendered for the return of emotion, idolatry, myth, hype, and post-modern relativization of truth and freedom. In which lies the decadence?
Consider the supposedly ‘degenerate’ values of diversity, individuality, tolerance, nuance and change? Early, 16th century humanism celebrated those, notably the philosophy of Montaigne. They were briefly institutionalized in the reign of Henri IV, who instituted the Edict of Nantes for the sake of religious tolerance. According to Toulmin, in his Cosmopolis, in the 17th century those were replaced by dogmatic doctrine, and intolerance, and the Edict of Nantes was repealed, under the pressures of religious strife between Catholics and Protestants, as in the 30-year war. Under the polarization of Protestantism versus Catholicism there was no room for nuance: one had to choose sides.
Thus, in the Enlightenment we see an emerging civilization at odds with Ciorans thesis. It is not vigorous myth at the peak, followed by the decadence of reason, but a peak of vigorous reason, with universalistic, pure ideas. Presently we see, I propose, a decline, with departures from reason and argument, and a reopening of the gates for myth, emotions, hype, and delirium. There, I propose, lies the degeneration.
So, what next? Are we in wait for a new, more vigorous culture? Would that require hard myth and ideology without nuance or differentiation, as Cioran claims? Does culture require unreason, intolerance and repression to be vigorous? Or could we, perhaps, think of, and hope for, a revival of the 16th century humanist combination of reason and tolerance, with a dynamic interplay of universals and individuals, the general and the specific, as I have argued for in several places in this blog? Could this not be vigorous?


HAYES Edward [Ted]
1936 – 1967 and 1971 – 1971
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E. (Ted) Hayes (Staff 1936-67, 1971) was born at Timaru and educated at Ger¬aldine District High School, Christchurch Training College and the University of Otago, gaining an M.A. with First Class Honours in economics and being awarded a Sir Robert Stout postgraduate research scholarship.
In 1936 Mr Hayes become a member of the foundation staff at King’s High School where he taught for 31 years, mainly geography, history and social studies. He also taught night classes for many years at the Technical College. He assumed control of cricket and personally supervised the laying of the wicket block at King’s. When Mr Fraser retired, Mr Hayes was appointed Deputy Rector and his equally meticulous administration skills ensured a smooth transition.
Mr Hayes was a foundation member of the Otago Branch of the N.Z. Geographical Society and after his retirement acted as librarian to the national body. He was also a member of the Otago Historical Society.
Apart from his considerable skills in imparting technical detail when coaching cricket, Mr Hayes was one of the game’s more notable administrators, both at provincial and national level. He was made a Life Member of the Otago Cricket Association following stints as chairman and president, and he served for many years on the N .Z. Board of Control, ultimately becoming President of N.Z. Crick-
et Council. During the l 950’s he become well-known for his radio commentaries
from Carisbrook, which were enhanced by his technical appreciation for the game.
In later years, he too joined the St. Clair Bowling Club.


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Inspired by the idea of a library village in England and Maharashtra, a Kashmiri youth Sirajuddin Khan has set up libraries in more than 22 houses in his native village Aargam in north Kashmir’s Bandipore district. The village is home to some 500 people and has some 100 houses
Sirajuddin Khan has grown up at Pune's Sarhad Foundation, an NGO run by Sanjay Nahar to support the education of Kashmiri boys and girls – many of whom are victims of terrorism.
Speaking with Awaz-the Voice at the stall of Sarhad Foundation in the ongoing World Book Fair in New Delhi, Sirajuddin said, "Books open your eyes. Knowledge lets you know where you stand and what you can do”.
Sirajuddin, who is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in History, says that the idea of a 'Library Village' is from England. When he started following this idea on the ground, Covid-pandemic struck the world.
After some time, he came to know that a 'village library' has been opened in the village Bellar of Maharashtra. This was opened with the help of the state government.
Sirajuddin’s project in his native village has been supported by the National Book Trust of India (NBT) and the Jammu and Kashmir government.
As a result in the last two months, he has established libraries in more than 22 of 100 houses in Aragam.
Sirajuddin's idea behind 'Har Ghar Library' is that every family should have a collection of books on a particular subject so that people the villagers can visit each other for information and exchange of ideas and even books.
He says this move will not only increase the unity of the villagers but also help unite them in finding solutions to their common problems as they live close to the Line of control.
Sirajuddin's campaign clubbed with that of 26-year-old Mubashir Mushtaq of Helmatpora, a village of neighbouring Kupwara has brought about a change in the thinking of the youth and giving them food for thought and made them focus on their future.
Sirajuddin says that the government is not in a position to provide jobs to all and therefore there is a need for self-help. He has been following this mantra.
With the help of the Sarhad Foundation, he has recently taught English, computers, etc. to 25 girls from villages near the LoC at the foundation's headquarters in Pune. These girls attended the Train the trainer programme and would help others once they are back home.
He said after finishing his campaign of having a library in each house of his village, he plans to work on other villages to turn Kashmir into a “Valley of Knowledge.”
He also plans to get colourful pictures of eminent national personalities including from Jammu and Kashmir pasted on the walls of schools and colleges to increase public awakening about the real heroes.
On the other hand, Mubashir Mushtaq’s campaign in Helmatpora was triggered by his desperation of finding something to read during the Covid-19 lockdown. He had to come to Srinagar, 100 km away from it, and that made him realize the importance of having a library at home.
Mubashir, with the help of his friends and relatives who donated books set up a library in the village. He collected about 2000 books and opened a library in a 14 x 10 meters room in his house. The library also has fiction and self-help books and also magazines that help in the preparation for competitive examinations like UPSC, NEET, etc.
Mubashir told the media that when he first told his family about opening a library, everyone laughed at him. However, today all members of his family are his partners.
His house always has a beeline of book lovers in the morning and evening for making use of 'Let's Talk Library.'
He says that most of the readers pick Rich Daddy Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki, the world bestseller that explains the mantra of becoming rich.
"Most of the customers for these books are college students and school children," says Sheikh Ejaz Ahmed, owner of Gulshan Books, a leading bookseller in the Valley.