Robert Coleman is a boy with a psychic gift who meets the girl of his dreams and falls in love for the first time. When the two of them try to help out a friend they become the target of a satanic cult who wants them silenced for what they have discovered. This leads them into battle after battle with evil forces that seek to kill them, but when someone close to Robert is murdered he calls upon his gift and uses it to levels he never dreamt; becoming something powerful enough to fight the coven that controls the entire town. To win, he must defeat the demonic forces behind it all wielding powers beyond his comprehension because what is at stake is his very soul.
This captivating six novel story - written by first time author G.D. Garman - culminates into a final battle between good and evil in the likes of which you've never read before!
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2 edition of From Worry to Worship found in the catalog.
From Worry to Worship
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Stress Relief: From Worry to Worship. When we feel bogged down with many burdens, the last thing on our minds may be worship, yet worshipping God has the ability to set things in the right perspective. Worship . Find Worry Worship Sermons and Illustrations. Free Access to Sermons on Worry Worship, Church Sermons, Illustrations on Worry Worship, and PowerPoints for Preaching on Worry Worship.
Don’t forget that worship is more than singing in church on Sunday. Worship is any expression of reverence and adoration for God. And that can take many forms. I personally love to sing and that is one of my favorite forms of worship. Books shelved as worship: Worship Matters: Leading Others to Encounter the Greatness of God by Bob Kauflin, Worship by the Book by D.A. Carson, Engaging.
Exodus 17 told us that the ancient Hebrews doubted God’s presence among them and collapsed into worry and anxiety. Psalm 95 said, “Let’s learn to come into God’s presence in worship and not make the mistake of the Israelites.” And the book . Every chance I got, I was reading this book. A rare thing, my friends. If you have often identified more with Martha (than her sister, Mary), then, THIS book is for you. One of my favorite area’s was in Chapter Two, entitled, The Worry-and-Worship .
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Call to Worship Scriptures - Encouraging Bible Verses. From Worry to Worship book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers/5. This book, From Worry to Worship,gives explicit instructions on how to overcome worry through the worship of God through Jesus Christ and in the power and person of His Holy Spirit.
Julie puts herself into the book,moving from the experience of worry 5/5(3). This book, From Worry to Worship,gives explicit instructions on how to overcome worry through the worship of God through Jesus Christ and in the power and person of His Holy Spirit.
Julie puts herself into the book,moving from the experience of worry 5/5(2). From Worry to Worship. Published Novem | By David. Last night I began reading the prophet Habakkuk.
A short book containing only three chapters it is unique in many way among the. Read From Worry to Worship - Greg Laurie Daily Devotion - Febru from Greg Laurie Daily Devotions.
Be encouraged and grow your faith with daily and weekly : Greg Laurie Daily Devotions. This video is unavailable. Watch Queue Queue. Watch Queue Queue. From Worry to Worship “O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.”Psalm Do you trust me.
I heard the Spirit of God speak to me as I walked briskly. An attitude of worry drowns out an attitude of worship. Conversely, an attitude of worship will drown out an attitude of worry.
Now, we’re ready to worship. Psalm –7 say, “Come, let us bow down in worship. Spend 10 minutes a day going from Worry to Worship. These are scary times we are living in. There are so many things to worry about.
If you're anything like I was, worries swirl around in your head taking. Just as the worry of the agnostic in my first point is described with the 3 Fs of food, fluid and fashion, the worship described in this point also includes 3 Fs – Faith in Father First. We don’t need to worry.
From Worry to Worship Studies in Habakkuk by Warren W. Wiersbe. Published June by Spring Arbor Distributors. Written in English. replace our worry with worship. In the dictionary I have on my desk, there are only three words between “worry” and “worship”.
But in real life, those two concepts are certainly much further apart than that. So how do I make that leap from worry to worship Author: Pat Damiani. Buy a cheap copy of From Worry to Worship: Studies in book by Warren W. Wiersbe. Have you ever looked at events in the world and wondered, What is God doing.
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The title of this book "From Worry to Worship" is a series of Bible studies on the Book of the Prophet Habakkuk. This prophetic book is still very relevant to believers today especially when we serious. Jesus tells you if you’re weary and burdened, to come to Him and He will give you rest.
If you take up His yoke and walk alongside Him, He will carry most of the load. As you read, From Worry to Worship. Instead of worrying about our circumstances, God wants us to worship him for his faithfulness.
There's an old Greek proverb that says, "The bow that is always bent will soon break." What that proverb. Moving from Worry to Worship: Chris Tomlin & Darren Whitehead – Episode # Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling guests today are GRAMMY Award-winning worship leader Chris.
When we feel bogged down with many burdens, the last thing on our minds may be worship, yet worshipping God has the ability to set things in the right perspective.
Worship can change our view from the haze of life's worries to the clear comfort found in the Almighty God. Change your worry into worship. Worry and worship are exact opposites, and we'd all be much happier if we learned to become worshippers instead of worriers.
Worry opens the door for the devil, but worship is reverence and adoration for God that leads us into His presence. God created us to worship. Worship by the Book brings together D.A. Carson, Mark Ashton, R. Kent Hughes, and Tim Keller to offer thought-provoking insights into the nature of corporate worship by approaching the subject from their differing church traditions.
Summary Worship by the Book does not attempt to lay out a comprehensive theology of corporate worship.Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.
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Leslie C. Berlowitz is President and the William T. Golden Chair of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is responsible for the intellectual vision and day-to-day management of the Academy and oversees its five research areas: science and technology policy; global security; social policy and American institutions; the humanities and culture; and education.
During her tenure, Berlowitz has greatly expanded the scope and size of the Academy's research programs, increased the number of publications, and established new collaborative relationships with other leading intellectual institutions through joint programming, events, and publications. Her major accomplishments include: the establishment of the Academy's Initiative for the Humanities and Culture; creation of residential fellowship programs for young scholars, including the Visiting Scholars Program and the Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy; and initiating an archival program to conserve, catalog, and improve access to the Academy's records for the first time in its 230-year history. She also created a network of more than 50 University Affiliates to work with the Academy on issues vital to the higher education community.
Before joining the Academy in 1996, Berlowitz was Vice President at New York University, where she was the senior officer responsible for academic affairs, responsible for academic policy formulation, planning, and major new institutional initiatives.
She is the coeditor of several books and journals, including Reflecting on the Humanities, Daedalus, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009), with Patricia Meyer Spacks; Restoring Trust in American Business (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005), with Jay W. Lorsch and Andy Zelleke; America in Theory (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), with Denis Donoghue and Louis Menand; and Greenwich Village: Culture and Counterculture (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1990) with Richard Eric Beard.
She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy in 2004.
Richard H. Brodhead is President of Duke University, where he also serves as Professor of English. He is a distinguished scholar in nineteenth-century American literature and a national leader in higher education.
Since arriving at Duke in 2004, Brodhead has ensured that the students and faculty who comprise Duke's vibrant intellectual community are engaged both locally and globally. He has enriched undergraduate education, working to unify Duke's academic opportunities with the residential experience. Committed to safeguarding access to higher education, Brodhead led the expansion of Duke's financial aid endowment to ensure that admitted students can afford to attend regardless of their financial circumstances. Under his leadership Duke established the Duke Global Health Institute, an interdisciplinary center that works to translate research findings to address health care inequities and improve the health of people around the world. He also launched the signature program DukeEngage, which gives Duke undergraduates the opportunity to apply their classroom knowledge in service to society, either in the U.S. or around the world. Brodhead has made globalization a major strategic priority for the University, overseeing the creation of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School as a joint venture with the National University of Singapore and forging a partnership for a new campus with the Municipality of Kunshan in China. Closer to home, Brodhead is a champion of the relationship between Duke University and the City of Durham. Under his leadership, Duke's investments have strengthened K-12 public education, funded several new community health clinics, and spurred downtown renewal and neighborhood revitalization through the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership. He is also involved in shaping the future strategic direction of the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina.
Nationally, Brodhead is a leader in education issues through a number of organizations. He serves as a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, working for the advancement of education and knowledge as well as international peace and democracy. He held a Presidential appointment to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, which is engaged with issues of international education and cross-cultural exchange. Brodhead also serves on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Security Higher Education Advisory Board.
Prior to coming to Duke, Brodhead had a 32-year career at Yale University, where he began as a student and became a beloved teacher, respected scholar and dean. Born in Dayton, Ohio, Brodhead graduated from Yale in 1968 and received his Ph.D. there in 1972. He then joined the Yale faculty, where he served as the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English and American Studies. Brodhead has written or edited more than a dozen books on American literature, analyzing the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Richard Wright and Eudora Welty. Brodhead researched and edited the pioneering edition of the diaries of Charles W. Chestnutt, the leading African-American author of the post-Civil War generation. His scholarly work has been honored by election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A devoted teacher, Brodhead won the DeVane Medal for outstanding teaching at Yale and spent eight summers teaching high school teachers at the Bread Loaf School at Middlebury, Vermont. He has lectured widely in universities in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
After serving as chair of Yale's Department of English for six years, Brodhead was named dean of Yale College in 1993 and served in the post for 11 years until he assumed Duke's presidency. As dean, he undertook a major revision of the Yale undergraduate curriculum. His writings as dean are collected in The Good of This Place: Values and Challenges in College Education.
Brodhead was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in May 2006 and received an Honorary Doctoral Degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing in June 2006; this was only the ninth honorary degree to be awarded to a non-Chinese person at Tsinghua, the second to a foreign university leader, and the first to a humanist. He also received a Doctor of Humanities honorary degree from Fisk University in May 2007.
John W. Rowe is Chairman Emeritus of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, one of the nation's largest electric utilities. Its retail affiliates serve 5.4 million customers in Illinois and Pennsylvania, and its generation affiliate operates the largest fleet of nuclear power plants in the nation.
Rowe is the senior chief executive in the utility industry, having served in such positions since 1984. Rowe has led Exelon since its formation in 2000 through the merger of PECO Energy and the parent of Commonwealth Edison. Rowe previously held chief executive officer positions at the New England Electric System and Central Maine Power Company, served as general counsel of Consolidated Rail Corporation, and was a partner in the law firm of Isham, Lincoln & Beale. Rowe is the past chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute and the Edison Electric Institute. He was co-chairman of the National Commission on Energy Policy and serves on the Secretary of Energy's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, a panel to provide recommendations on managing used nuclear fuel and waste. He is the lead independent director of the Northern Trust Company and a member of the boards of directors of Sunoco and UChicago Argonne LLC. In both 2008 and 2009, Institutional Investor named Rowe the best electric utility CEO in America.
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Rowe is committed to a wide variety of civic activities, with a focus on education and diversity. He serves as chairman of the Illinois Institute of Technology and president of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. He is a former chairman of the Commercial Club of Chicago and the Chicago History Museum. He is a member of the boards of the Field Museum, the Illinois Holocaust Museum, and the Morgridge Institute for Research. Rowe and his wife, Jeanne, established the Rowe Family Charitable Trust. The Rowes and the Family Trust have founded the Rowe Professorship of Architecture and the Rowe Chair in Sustainable Energy at IIT, the Rowe Professorship in Byzantine History and the Rowe Professorship in Greek History at the University of Wisconsin, the Rowe Professorship in Virology at the Morgridge Institute and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and the Curator of Evolutionary Biology at the Field Museum. The Trust co-founded the Rowe-Clark Math and Science Academy and the Rowe Elementary School. The Rowes serve as patrons of the Pope John Paul II parochial school on Chicago's southwest side. Rowe is chairman of the Renaissance Schools Fund, a nonprofit organization formed to fund charter schools in the City of Chicago, and serves on the board of the Northwestern Settlement House.
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Rowe has been widely recognized for his civic and professional leadership. Recent awards include the Misericordia Heart of Mercy Award (2010), the Edison Electric Institute Distinguished Leadership Award (2009), election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2009), the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Global Leadership Award (2009), the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce's Daniel H. Burnham Award for Business and Civic Leadership (2008), the Junior Achievement's Chicago Business Hall of Fame (2008), Illinois Holocaust Museum's Humanitarian award (2008), Civic Federation of Chicago's Lyman Gage Award for Outstanding Civic Leadership (2008), the National Latino Education Institute Corporate Leadership Award (2008), University of Arizona's Executive of the Year Award (2007), the Union League of Philadelphia's Founder's Award for Business Leadership (2005), the American Jewish Committee's Civic Leadership Award (2004), El Valor's Corporate Visionary Award (2003), the City Club of Chicago's Citizen of the Year Award (2002), and the Anti-Defamation League's World of Difference Award (2000).
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John Harris Memorial Collection
It began in 1988 and owed its start to an idea of Professor Arnold Wall (2983) and Ormond Wilson (3570) for a collection of books written by Old Boys. The idea was strongly supported by then Headmaster, Dr M J Rosser and the Deputy Headmaster, D G Hamilton. The idea might not have come to fruition had not Arnold Wall written to every Old Boy who he knew was an author, suggesting the donation of a book for the Collection, and many were happy to oblige. The scope of the Collection was expanded to include books written by the school's staff and members of the Board of Governors, and books of College interest such as biographies of Old Boys.
Arnold Wall was responsible for having the Collection named after John Harris (2767) who had inspired him, along with many other boys, to read books. John Harris was Head Prefect in 1922, a member of staff, and later a distinguished librarian of international standing.
The Collection may not be unique in New Zealand schools but it is certainly a rarity. As such it must be regarded as one of the jewels in the College crown and is worthy of every possible support from Old Boys. The aim is to have a copy of every book written by an Old Boy, unattainable though this may be. Old Boy authors are invited to donate their books to the Collection. In 1991 CCOBA became responsible for additions to the Collection and has a limited budget to fund the purchase of books, but generous benefactors are always welcome to assist in the purchase of rare books from English booksellers at English prices.
The Collection now has over 1,000 publications and is held on the first floor of the Hare Memorial Library at the school. The books may be accessed on the premises but are not available for borrowing. Any Old Boy wanting to know if his book is in the Collection may consult the catalogue at the CCOBA Office or make an online inquiry at the school's website.
As Keeper of the Collection, Lawrence Rickard (5057) catalogues new additions before they are sent to the Hare Memorial Library, and searches for new books to purchase, especially those that are out of print.
For more information please contact the Keeper.


To the outside world, Cara’s life seems perfect. The only one who knows the dark secrets inside her home is her best friend and next-door neighbor, Adam. Cara’s only escape is by writing and sharing her stories with him through their facing bedroom windows late at night.
Just when everything seems to get better, Cara’s world shatters, causing her to spiral into a deep depression and writer’s block. Even though Adam promises her “everything will be okay,” she knows things will never be the same.
As she clutches to the fractured wounds of the past, how will Cara ever be able to love or write again?
Breathtaking is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story that fans of John Green and Nicholas Sparks will love.
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“Breathtaking made me experience everything from the pain of loss to the joy of love, with twists that took my breath away, and characters that refilled my spirit. I left this story feeling grateful for the gift of living.”
— Jay Asher, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Thirteen Reasons Why
“. . . Courtney Turcotte Bond is so eloquent in her descriptions and manages to capture the angst and human spirit of the adolescent and the young adult. I absolutely cannot wait to see what else she writes and positively fell in love with this read.”
— Hope Bolinger, author of the Blaze trilogy and the Dear Hero duology.
"Courtney Turcotte Bond invites us into a tender tale of friendship and enduring love. Her book is a poignant reminder to live. Each character comes alive and awakens us to walk with them in their journey. A must-read, for sure."
— Sarah L. Dickey, founder of Cool Creative Press and author of Ode to Love
"Breathtaking is perhaps one of the most beautiful books I've read in the past few years. It is an exploration into the overlap between love, loss, and sacrifice that sticks with you long after you finish the novel. Courtney Turcotte Bond's characters feel real, tangible in a way that will both haunt and move you with the complexities of their lives and emotions." ~ F.M.
"Hauntingly beautiful. Breathtaking will remind you that through obstacles, you can still find hope and redemption. By the end, the character felt like lifelong friends. I thought about this book long after I put it down. You will, too." ~ H.Y.
"Courtney Turcotte Bond’s debut novel is the kind of story that invites you into the living room, sets a place for you at the table, entices you to peek into the closets, and still surprises you. You won’t want to leave." ~ A.S.
"Breathtaking conveys the raw and real experience of learning to live beyond life's tragic realities and into the life meant to be lived." ~ J.G.
"When you begin to find messages within messages, you know it's going to be a good book. An enjoyable read for any age." ~ T.T.
"Breathtaking left me breathless. Courtney Turcotte Bond skillfully tells a coming of age story that illustrates the trials and triumphs of friendship, love, and self-discovery. The unexpected ending left me crying for more!" ~ K.B.
"OH. MY. GOSH. I devoured this book in just one day. I couldn't put it down, and ugly cried in public . . . at least three times. That's how much you're going to love these characters." ~ K.A.


For one of my seminars here at Cornell we have been working on anthropologist Cholthira Satyawadhna’s thesis on Lawa ethno-history. I really liked her opening, and thought it was worth sharing:
Cholthira Satyawadhna, The Dispossessed, 1991, p iv
Ithaca, October 29, 2013, Emiko Stock.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
 Making History on the Margins: The China-Southeast Asia Borderlands with Magnus Fiskesjö.
 Cholthira Satyawadhna 1991 The dispossessed: An anthropological reconstruction of Lawa ethnohistory in the light of their relationship with the Tai, Unpublished Ph.D. diss. Canberra: Australian National University.
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Udong, September 2007 ©Emiko Stock – Traditional Mawlid cakes made by Imam San are being put up on the flashy Kah Lasai as celebration displays.
In some Cham villages in Cambodia, the air has seemed milder for several days with the sweet-scented promise of delicacies to come. A pleasant smell of frying escapes from homes between Udong and Battambang. It announces the post-harvest season, the time for a treat for the palates. The cakes especially prepared for Mawlid celebrations will soon be ready so the saints can be celebrated. In Arabic, Mawlid traditionally refers to the celebration of the birth of Prophet Muhammad. Continue reading
A year ago Norodom Sihanouk, the King Father, the Father of the Nation, posthumous Preah Borom Ratanak Kaudh, went away. There is a sentence in the Rig Veda that I found profoundly beautiful and appropriate, three months later, when he was cremated: Continue reading


Spot of Mummery
In ancient times, Amon was an infamous, immortal Technologist – one of the legends of the late Allagan Empire. However, when calamity strikes his civilization, he’s forced to place himself and the remaining Allagans into a time-locked sleep in order to survive.
Fast forward many ages later when Amon and his people awaken once more. The world has drastically changed, and his kind is now deemed a threat. The heroic Alliance responded by sending a raid to eradicate the last Allagans, where Amon was ultimately defeated …or so the world thought.
Through his ingenuity and aetheric technology, Amon manged to cheat death. Only, things didn’t quite work out the way he planned.
Stripped of his magic and technological resources, Amon must now struggle to build a new life in a time long after the fall of his Empire. And if the people of this modern time discover who he once was, they would likely put an end to the last Allagan threat.
Tales from the 4th Age
There exists almost no records of the years immediately following the fall of the mighty Allagan Empire. This dark period is loosely referred to as The Forgotten Age, for very little is known of how its people lived.
The following are a series of broadcasts and records that were kept over a period of many weeks by Tad Kouris during the 4th Age, directly following the events that took place during the Calamity of Earth.
Tad finally finds his way home, after his struggling world was thrust into the 4th Astral Era, only to discover that he’s awakened as this age’s Warrior of Light – a destiny he neither wants nor understands. However, that he’s been newly-blessed with the power called “The Echo” he cannot deny — what’s with these strange visions and voices anyhow?
Now, he’s been recruited by the last known living Allagan of the royal family, Princess Salina, to assist with some far-flung quest to restore hope and light to the fallen people of Alag. Little does Tad realize that his Echo gives him abilities far beyond just crystal visions…


My dearest friend who died eliminated his background I know his parents are dead but I would love to know his background or some of it but have very little to go on and wouldnt know where to start any ideas?
There are lots of sites that help with this - Ancestry.com is one. If you have your friend’s birth certificate you can find his parents and any siblings he may have had. You can also find out where they lived via online electoral rolls. The best thing us to enquire at the local library who will be able to help you
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Losing a pet is heartbreaking but comfort can be found between the pages of a book. Through glorious artwork and beautiful prose, the following 10 books can help people of all ages cope with the loss of a pet.
Animals on the Other Side, written by Silvia Browne and Chris Dufresne, talks about the life of animals on the Other Side. The book is almost like two in one with the story of Browne’s beloved West Highland Terrier, Jolie, romping through the fields, along with a description of how all animals live on the Other Side. Learn how animals in spirit visit us after they have passed, how they spend their time on the Other Side and how they will be the first to greet us when our time comes to cross over. The soothing, soft pastel illustrations by Jo McElwee are a beautiful compliment to the story.
Written by Adrian Raeside, The Rainbow Bridge: A Visit to Pet Paradise is about a boy’s trip to the Rainbow Bridge to visit his dog. It’s a place where “you never run out of bones,” the catnip is plentiful, toys are everywhere, everyone is allowed on the couch and love is eternal. Knowing his old dog is safe and happy the boy is able to move forward and love another dog that really needs a home.
With amazingly beautiful illustrations, The Rainbow Bridge by Steve Bodofsky takes the reader on journey into the afterlife of animals where there is no sadness or suffering. Animals have healthy bodies again and there are fields where they can run and play. Finally, they are reunited with their humans for all eternity.
Cat Heaven by Cynthia Rylant has bold and colorful illustrations. It describes heaven as a place where angels love and care for the kitties. There are toys to play with and gardens to roam, and a big bed to nap in when playtime is done.
Dog Heaven by Cynthia Rylant is a place where dogs can run and run. When they’re tired from running, angels provide snacks and God makes soft cloud beds for them to nap. The illustrations are big and colorful and make readers feel good just looking at them.
The Amazing Afterlife of Animals describes author Karen Anderson’s gift of communicating with animals. She offers an in-depth explanation of how this works and provides samples throughout the book of actual clients and and interactions with their animals. The book has won 16 national and international awards and is a number one best seller on Amazon.
For Every Cat an Angel is a sweet little book written and illustrated by Christine Davis. In it each kitty that is born is given a guardian angel, who cares for them while they grown and eventually helps them find their person and a forever home. The person and kitty have a lifetime of friendship. Even when the cat crosses over the angel helps him stay connected to his person until its time for the person to cross over as well.
For Every Dog an Angel by Christine Davis describes the unconditional love of each dog sent to earth. When they find their forever person it’s like magic. After a lifetime of experiences together the dog will move on to the other side but the bond with their person will never be broken. Beautiful illustrations carry the reader through this story.
Pet Heaven by Pamela Wessinger has a simple story that imagines animals learning new tricks, playing video games and chasing kites. For me the feel good part of the book is the illustrations which are sweet and funny depictions of animals having a wonderful time doing various fantastical activities in heaven.
The Invisible Leash by Patrice Karst is a precious story of a boy who loses his his dog, Jojo. He is hurting and angry but his friend, Emily, explains how an invisible leash will always connect his heart to Jojo. The book is sweet and touching and it provides a realistic view of how difficult it is to lose a beloved pet.


02 Oct Dear Toronto, Let’s Start a Cookbook Club
If you haven’t heard the news yet, Bon Appetit is starting a monthly Cookbook Club! At the start of each month, the editors at Bon Appetit magazine will announce their pick for that month’s cookbook along with an excited explanation of why they are jazzed about the book (and why you should be too). To kick things off, Season by Nik Sharma will be the cookbook for October and I’ve already gone ahead and ordered my copy on Amazon.
I love to get wrapped up in a good cookbook, which is evidenced by my library queue which reads like a nomination list for James Beard awards. I know that I can’t be the only one in this city that gets antsy paging through a new cookbook before bed; only to lay awake thinking about how best to plate the dishes. Good cookbooks are subdued in their minute attention to detail and the beauty of the dishes. They can also be exciting in the tell-all explanations of how to pull off something extraordinary, making your palms itch for a chefs knife. I know that there are many people in this city that are just as obsessed about cookbooks as me, and I think we could get some magic happening if we all came together to celebrate good cooking each month. So I am launching a Toronto Cookbook Club that will follow along with Bon Appetit magazine’s recommendations.
We will meet at the end of each month to share dishes from that month’s Bon Appetit cookbook pick and swap kitchen stories & recipes.
Bring a dish, and a drink to share. The exact date will be determined by this Doodle poll. The time will be in the evenings if during the week, and mid-afternoon if during the weekend. The location will be wherever we can find a kitchen space in the downtown area (most likely a community center unless someone has space to host).
All are welcome!
Questions? Leave a comment!


Although it has been a while since the release of the magnificent Criterion box set of ‘The World of Apu Trilogy’, it is worth reflecting on some of the the responses to the ‘extra’ Mamoun contributed to the set.
The Criterion forum Chris Galloway wrote: ‘We next get a piece on the trilogy, featuring the former head of the BFI, Mamoun Hassan. Entitled The Apu Trilogy: A Closer Look, it features Hassan offering a rather thorough examination of the trilogy as a whole, giving detailed analysis of Ray’s framing, how he introduces characters, the flow of editing, and how the visual language of the films can be broken down into “sentences and paragraphs.” He goes through each film, talking about particular scenes and sequences. It’s lengthy at 43-minutes but found it a very strong scholarly supplement that does make up somewhat for the lack of commentaries, an item that I’m surprised is missing from the set.’
Brian Tallerico on RogerEbert.com : “”This is Ray’s first film, and it is amazing.” So says Mamoun Hassan in a fantastic, detailed examination of “The Apu Trilogy” included in the amazing array of special features on the Criterion release. Hassan, the former head of the British Film Institute, breaks down the movies beat by beat, with such attention to detail that you further appreciate the filmmaking in new ways.”
Peggy Earle of HamptonRoads.com cited Mamoun’s extra as the ‘best extra’ in the collection. “Mamoun Hassan, former head of the British Film Institute, gives a fine overview of the trilogy, Ray’s directorial style, and the significance of the three films. He points to Ray’s ability to show emotions with no dialogue, and urges viewers to “give themselves up” to the films. “Ray had ambiguity. And that’s why we participate in his films. He’s given us room to interpret.””
Jake Cole for Slant magazine – “For a deeper dive into the films themselves, a 43-minute analysis from filmmaker Mamoun Hassan is so minutely observed that even actors’ body language and orientation to the camera is fodder for discussion.”
It is always nice to be appreciated, and we must acknowledge the work of Abbey Lustgarten of Criterion, who worked with Mamoun on the extra with amazing focus, crafting it into the final product.


Providing space and resources to enhance community engagement and activity, the new, 16,840 SF Lakeside Library will not only be a landmark building but an important resource to the community. Through a variety of events and services, it will serve as a central point for civic engagement, information and education.
This new “zero-net-energy building” will function entirely on solar energy and fulfill the Net Zero Energy criteria of the Living Building Challenge. The new building will be constructed just a few blocks from the original branch on Woodside Road near Channel Road. The project is scheduled for completion by the summer of 2022.


COVID 19 Book Evaluation
The COVID 19: Reserve Review is a composed review of the book COVID 19: A True Tale of Love as well as Reconnaissance. I read it for the first time and was instantly drawn in to its compelling story line, its colorful characters, and also the outstanding creating style of the author, Matthew Raby.
The plot of the book revolves around two spies that are appointed to aid to shield the Russian princess from being abducted by the French. The primary personality of this story is the young Russian lady called Vasilisa, that has been chosen by her dad as the successor to the Russian throne. As a youngster her moms and dads are killed in an assassin’s attempt, and she after that takes a trip to Europe, where she is taken on by a Frenchwoman as well as gave stay in Paris.
As the tale unfolds, we see the life of Vasilisa mature in Paris with attractive clothing, make-up, and a wonderful carriage. All that changes when she obtains pregnant, and quickly the young woman are wed to a German soldier and end up being a spy for the French, a setting that brings her several risks. When her husband is detained on uncertainty of reconnaissance, Vasilisa is forced to leave Paris in order to return home.
She makes it to Berlin and also there she fulfills her long-lost lover. While they spend the rest of their lives with each other, they keep in call with letters and the occasional call, till one day, when the guy is recorded and also sent to prison, they meet on an abandoned street. It is during this meeting that Vasilisa’s identity is uncovered as well as all hope of flexibility for her is removed from her. She has actually ended up being a detainee of the Germans and also can just fantasize regarding what awaits her if she is returned to Germany.
This publication evaluation will offer you my point of view of this book. I discovered it to be a great romantic tale concerning a female who is forced into the life of reconnaissance. It was well created, had an excellent tale, as well as the personality of Vasilisa, that had a very interesting journey ahead to.
Raby takes us via his tale with all the intensity and also detail that you would certainly get out of a true tale. He presents us to the different people as well as places that the unique happens in, such as Russia, France, Germany, England, as well as Canada. and afterwards the different ways that he connects his story to those places. Additionally, we discover a great deal of the background of the various nations, as well. The book is also extremely intriguing as a result of the numerous events that it tells us about.
For example, Raby informs us how Vasilisa obtained entailed with spying, how her other half was eliminated, and also her connection with her fan in London, and of her other half’s love affair with her very own mother. Various other intriguing realities include the Russian transformation, the fatality of Russian Prime Minister Alexander II, the outbreak of World war, the war in France, and the war between Germany as well as the Soviet Union. Raby also informs us the numerous methods which the French are treated and also the method which the Russian federal government tries to control them.
I assumed that this book testimonial did a wonderful task of providing me info concerning this publication and also offered me a feeling of the tale that it was informing. I took pleasure in the book quite a bit, yet I would certainly not advise this to any individual who does not delight in romance and also espionage tales. If you enjoy reading about reconnaissance and romance after that this may be a great option for you to read.


Deep in the stacks of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell.
Humans, witches, vampires, and daemons. I don’t know what daemons are in this world, only that they are highly intelligent and talented. There are hardly any daemons encountered in this book (probably in the following books?). It focuses more on witches and vampires.
What I like:
- It’s a combination of paranormal, science, and a lot of history which I absolute like.
- I like that bits and pieces of actual history are added.
What I don’t like:
- The book tends to get dragging. I think there are scenes that can be omitted.
- If you can get through reading the first several chapters, I can assure you things will get very interesting in the later parts.
Well it got my interest enough to stop me from totally abandoning it. So much so that I am now reading the second book “Shadow of Night”, which is also a bit dragging that it’s taking me too long to finish it (haha).
I might watch the upcoming TV series based on this novel that will come out this September. The trailer looks interesting enough. And it stars Matthew Goode as Matthew Clairmont and Teresa Palmer as Diana Bishop. Hopefully it will be more interesting to watch. We’ll see.


TSBA 2023: A Celebration of Books and Storytelling
We were delighted to host the recent Trinity Schools Book Awards (TSBA), a celebration of books and storytelling.
The theme of the awards this year was ‘Facing the Future’ and topics featured included climate change, justice, activism, civil rights, artificial intelligence and cloning.
We welcomed fourteen participating schools and seven of the shortlisted authors to Ibstock, as well as additional authors, schools and VIP guests who attended the event remotely.
A high-spirited performance by our Sixth Form Rock Band kicked off the show, before the winners of the pupil book reviews and creative responses to the shortlisted books were announced.
Finally, the moment had arrived to reveal the TSBA 2023 winner and Trinity Plus Award winner, as voted for by participating pupils.
The TSBA 2023 winner was Green Rising by Lauren James, a climate change thriller, and the Trinity Plus Award was awarded to Dry by Jarrod and Neal Shusterman, a novel about drought and survival.
After the award ceremony, pupils had the chance to meet the authors, have their books signed and view the pupil creative response competition entries.
To conclude a wonderful evening, the authors were invited to a celebratory dinner on the Mezzanine and gifted with special iced biscuits decorated by our Literary Baking Club.
A huge thank you to Mrs Cleaves, our Librarian, for organising such a fantastic event and congratulations to the winning authors and pupils who won prizes in the creative response competition.
You can watch a recording of the TSBA 2023 here: TSBA Book Awards 2023 – YouTube


martes, 31 de octubre de 2017
What is media archaeology?
Cambridge, Polity Press. 205 p.
Resumen: This cutting-edge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic methodology used to excavate current media through its past. Written with a steampunk attitude, What is Media Archaeology? examines the theoretical challenges of studying digital culture and memory and opens up the sedimented layers of contemporary media culture. The author contextualizes media archaeology in relation to other key media studies debates including software studies, German media theory, imaginary media research, new materialism and digital humanities.
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|Green Energy for a Billion Poor|
How Grameen Shakti Created a Winning Model for Social BusinessNancy Wimmer
Foreword by Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate
Green Energy for a Billion Poor reveals for the first time the story of Grameen Shakti, uncovering its remarkable growth, its pioneering philosophy and its unparalleled entrepreneurial approach to business. Readers will trace Shakti’s evolution in rural Bangladesh - one of the toughest business environments in the world - while learning how they can adopt and adapt the Grameen Shakti way to their own organizations. By understanding and embracing Shakti’s innovative business model, readers will learn how they can replicate Shakti’s success in a scalable way, showing them how to profit by thinking long-term, providing full service, and bringing green energy and jobs, hope and prosperity to millions of villagers.
Green Energy for a Billion Poor illustrates the possibilities in the untapped market of billions of rural customers in developing countries who are deprived of electricity. The analysis and description of a unique business model, combined with the authentic stories of those who made it happen, make this a compelling, insightful and entertaining book.
“I congratulate Nancy Wimmer for getting interested in the activities of Grameen Shakti and studying it so deeply to bring out what makes it work. She did not stop at presenting the philosophy and the impressive results produced by Grameen Shakti, she went beyond them to discover and understand the foot soldiers-cum-creators of Grameen Shakti. That makes this book very unique.”
Professor Muhammad Yunus
Founder, Grameen Shakti


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A celebration 125 years in the making.
Join Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh for a weekend-long celebration you won’t want to miss.
Come "crash" our historic Oakland campus in honor of our shared 125th anniversary.
Enjoy FREE museum admission, live performances, tours, hands-on artmaking, story-time, and more! We'll be joined by cultural groups from across the city who are helping us bring something extra special to our museum and library spaces.*
Thank you, Pittsburgh, for 125 years!
*Please check back soon for a full schedule of activities and timed-ticketing information.
WHEN: November 6 & 7
TIMES: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
WHERE: Our Historic Oakland Campus, home of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh &
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh


After nearly three years of research, community engagement, partnership building and planning by over 5,000 citizens and more than 700 local organizations, One Region Forward will be releasing its Regional Plan for Sustainable Development entitled “A New Way to Plan for Buffalo Niagara”
Join us on February 12th, 2015 from 5:30PM – 7:00PM at the Buffalo & Erie County Central Library located at 1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY.
Learn more about the next steps for One Region Forward, sign up for the Citizen Planning School, and take home a copy of the Plan Summary.
Citizens Plan a Change for Their Communities
Whether you are a concerned citizen interested in learning more about the basics of planning and sustainable development, or you want to implement your idea for a sustainable initiative in your neighborhood, the Citizen Planning School has something to offer. Hosted by One Region Forward and UB’s School of Architecture and Planning, the program offers two levels of training.
Already participated? Or new to the Citizen Planning School? This semester features new, more in-depth content. Come and join us again, learn something new or apply for the Champions for Change program!
Sign up today! Details for session dates and locations coming in January.
Paul Pérez wants to create a rain garden on the East Side of Buffalo.
Jill Rohring has a plan to transform an underutilized park in Wilson into an educational heritage garden.
Through the Citizen Planning School, 17 Champions for Change are developing community-based projects across the region.
Watch and learn more about the Citizen Planning School and the Champions for Change Program


To effectively use cmkr it helps to understand the basic concepts of CMake.
A CMake project is a collection of targets. In the context of libraries the project usually corresponds to the package that other projects can depend on.
Visual Studio: a CMake project corresponds to a solution.
The basic unit of CMake is called a target. A target (also referred to as binary target in the CMake documentation) corresponds to an executable or library you can build. There are also pseudo targets, but we ignore them for now.
Visual Studio: a target corresponds to a project.
Targets have a collection of properties that describe how to build them.
Examples of properties:
- Sources: the
*.cppfiles used to build the target.
- Compile options: Command line flags for the compiler.
- Link libraries: The dependencies required to build this target.
See the CMake documentation for an exhaustive list of target properties.
Important: The term link has a slightly different meaning in CMake than you might expect. In addition to adding a library to the command line of the linker, CMake also propagates properties of the target you link to.
You can think of linking as depending on.
The propagation of properties depends on their visibility:
- Private: properties that are only used when building the target itself.
- Interface: properties that are used when depending on this target.
- Public: combination of private and interface.
In practice you default to private, unless consumers of your library require the property to build their target. In that case you use public.
The most intuitive example is with include directories. Imagine there are two targets:
StringUtils: A library with string utilities.
- Include directories:
DataProcessor: An executable that uses functionality from
StringUtilsto process some data.
- Link libraries:
The include directories property of
StringUtils has to be public. If it was private, the
DataProcessor target would fail to
#include <stringutils.hpp> since the include directories property is not propagated.
cmake.toml for this example would look something like this:
[project] name = "DataProcessor" [target.StringUtils] type = "static" sources = ["StringUtils/src/stringutils.cpp"] headers = ["StringUtils/include/stringutils.hpp"] include-directories = ["StringUtils/include"] [target.DataProcessor] type = "executable" sources = ["DataProcessor/src/main.cpp"] link-libraries = ["StringUtils"]


Sunday, October 15, 2006
Harriers, The Makings of a Championship Cross Country Team
This is a relatively short novel based on a real story of a high school cross country team as told by Joseph and Paul Shivers. It's about a bunch of ordinary high school kids that find themselves in a mediocre cross country team. They all have raw athletic talent, some better than others. The story is really about how a great coach can overcome all obstacles and make you the best athletes possible. Reading this book, I came to the realization that all runners, great and otherwise, go through the same emotional highs and lows, through the same self doubt and despair to triumph like I do. As I wait for the gun to go off, I am always immersed in deep thought, all the training runs and injuries I had to endure, how I might do in this run etc. etc. In running, you really don't know what kind of race you will be having until after the gun goes off. Soon enough, your body will tell you, but until the rubber meets the pavement, you just don't know.
As I anticipate running a half marathon later this month and running the Houston Marathon in January, I will again go through the same doubts before the gun, hoping for a great run yet expecting the worst at the same time. This book reads the same way, bunch of high school runners, hoping for the worst yet expecting the best, a State Championship. Somehow, in sports, a difference between a Champion and a runner-up is so small that on any given race day, fate will mercilessly dole out different end results despite equally gutsy performance by all athletes involved.


The literature review of a dissertation has three main purposes. The first is to demonstrate knowledge of the foundational theories and models. The second is to demonstrate appropriate understanding of the current state of the body of knowledge in your field. The third is to provide support within the historical literature for your proposed design. Finally, your literature review will need to definitely indicate that scholars recently indicated a need for your study, or, as I like to say, that the needle does not exist in the haystack.
The review of the literature should not read like a series of book reports. Rather, you will organize the review around five to seven themes that emerge from the literature. The one section within Chapter 2 will need to be a minimum of 30 pages covering a minimum of 50 unique sources. You can have more themes and sources, but you will not want fewer. The review of the literature demonstrates to the reader that you understand the body of knowledge, that you have read it comprehensively, and know the current thinking on your topic. You cannot simply discuss the sources that support your presumed or hypothesized outcome but will need to discuss all sides of the discovered arguments or positions.
Your review of the literature must focus on the recent body of knowledge; 85% of your sources in the review of the literature section may need to have been published within five years of when the dean signs your completed dissertation. If you plan to finish in 2024, for example, only 15% of your sources in the section can be published before 2020. Older sources should be reserved for the Background to the Study and the Theoretical Foundation discussions. Note that the 85% rule does not apply to the entire proposal or dissertation, but only to the one section in Chapter 2.
Note that the majority of your sources will need to be articles from peer-reviewed, academic sources. The university will limit you to no more than five dissertations and five books; your chair may reduce that number, but not increase it. You will not be able to use books or dissertations to substantiate your problem space. You should also resist the temptation to be overly liberal or expansive in your generalization of the context for published studies to fit your selected context; you should not, for example, use a study from outside the United States to substantiate a study inside the United States or a study of turnover among nurses to substantiate a study of turnover among community college faculty.
Your literature review will be organized around five to seven themes. While you may select the themes on your own, the themes will usually emerge logically from your review of the literature. It is important, then, to organize your notes to capture the themes identified by others. You should also capture the design elements of the studies you review and the foundations selected by the authors. What assumptions and limitations did they identify? How did they select their sample? What population did they select? How did they collect their data?
The literature review logically leads to your identification of the problem space and also to your design of your study. How will you get a sense of what the primary themes related to your dissertation are and who the foundational theorists and what the foundational models are?
Considered actually mapping out your dissertation. In mapping the dissertation, like an outline, consider how the headings flow together and how the sub-themes connect to your main themes and everything connects to the problem statement. As you think about themes and sub-themes, an important element of writing, especially Chapter 2, is to create appropriate transitions from the end of one section to the beginning of the next. Effectively, you use the conclusion of the discussion of one theme or sub-theme to transition to the next theme or sub-theme and use the introduction of that next theme or sub-theme to continue the transition.
How do you know when to stop? The literature review is not your opportunity to publish for the world to read everything you know about everything. However, a solid, but not rambling, review of the literature can be 50 or more pages. The review, like the rest of the dissertation should reflect synthesis, not summary.
If synthesizing the literature takes time and practice, or skill, when should a doctoral learner begin practicing that skill? How do you synthesize if your knowledge of the topic is limited? When do you feel comfortable enough with your knowledge of the topic to synthesize? What do you do in the interim? Why would synthesis lead to new concepts?
Most dissertations will have at least 50 sources and perhaps as many as 100. At least 43 sources need to have been published within five years of your expected dissertation defense. How many sources is not really the question, but rather how many do you need to demonstrate that you understand the current body of knowledge regarding your topic, the historical development of your topic and its foundational theories and models, and the methods, designs, and instruments used by scholars looking at topics related to yours. As with many of the research designs you will explore, you keep reading until you are reading nothing new or until your chair tells you to stop.
It is critical that you write at a doctoral level if you want to finish the degree in something close to three years. It is also critical that you have read 100 articles related to your topic before you start writing your prospectus. Knowing APA will help considerably, but not as much as knowing the literature related to your topic. Where you will really notice a difference is if you both know APA and doctoral writing, you can save yourself considerable time and money for editors. An editor might take a week or two each time you ask them to review your document and might charge you a few hundred dollars each iteration.
An abundance of research, as with a dearth of research, can be both good news and bad news. On the one hand, you have a large volume of material to process, and may get some specific guidance as to the gap. On the other hand, you may find that the gap you believe exists in the literature does not actually exist. On the flip side, a dearth of research means that the topic is wide open but may also mean that nobody has actually asserted that a gap exists in the literature but may also mean that nobody has expressed any interest in your proposed topic.
Consider this process map for a literature review: Developing the Literature Review


Tiverton residents should go back and read the headlines of some of the articles that the library put on its Web site supporting the bond to build a new library, such as: “Library Costs Will Increase Only Slightly” in the Sakonnet Times on October 17, 2011.
Based on historical data from the Rhode Island Office of Library & Information Services (OLIS), if the library gets the budget that it wants for next year, it will represent a 35% increase over the operating budget from that year. Families that haven’t seen much of an income increase (if any) in the past six years may not see that as “slight.”
The library’s “frequently asked questions” section from back then is worth revisiting, as well:
9. Will a larger library require a much larger staff?
A: The New Library has been designed with sight lines and room usage that will allow it to be efficiently supervised by the same size staff as Essex. The one-floor design will increase staff efficiency, as will the much-improved organization of the Library resources. Moreover, the current staff will be able to provide enhanced programs and services in the New Library. Because 80% of the library operational budget is committed to personnel costs, keeping the staffing level unchanged will keep the increase in operating costs for the new library under 10%.
If the library’s requested budget is approved, it will represent a 42% increase in the cost of staff from its level when that paragraph was written — an average increase of 6% per year. What happened to “efficiency” and “enhanced programs” at “slight” additional cost? An annual staff increase of 2% over the same years would be saving the library just under $130,000 in the upcoming budget.
OLIS has data for all Rhode Island library systems through fiscal year 2016 — last year. By population, Tiverton Library’s total operating expenditures were 17th highest out of 48, and local taxes made up the 12th highest percentage of that budget. Our library was 6th highest in the state for the percentage of the budget that goes to employees.
For some perspective, if the local grant for the library were at the middle of the Rhode Island pack (per capita), it would have been about $92,000 lower last year, let alone the $90,000 requested increase for next year.
Tracking with the state median shouldn’t be an impossible task. After all, Tiverton Library’s budget was 26th in the state, per capita, the year before the new library opened, but it jumped almost $60,000 in one year, almost all of it for staff.
Residents can believe it’s wonderful that the new library is getting so much use and still feel like something is very wrong, here. With our combination of high taxes and tight budgets, we should insist that the library fix its problems and keep its promises until the rest of town government is back on track.


6 edition of A Refuge in Thunder found in the catalog.
by Indiana University Press
Written in English
|The Physical Object|
|Number of Pages||251|
This book (book 3) abruptly ends in the middle of a scene. There are 15 books so far and the audio production has a long way to go before it catches up with the series. It really frustrates me when a series is cut up this way. At least end the book at an actual stoping point. It can't be that hard to complete each story. ISBN: OCLC Number: Notes: Originally published: Description: pages ; 24 cm. Contents: Slavery, Africanos Libertos, and the question of Black presence in nineteenth-century Brazil --Salvador: the urban environment --The Bolsa de Mandinga and Calundu: Afro-Brazilian religion as fetish and Feitiçaria --"Dis continuity," .
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But there is a place of strength and peace, a true refuge from the storm. In this powerful book, President Packer discusses the priesthood, the family, and the Church, three important forces that, working together, create a haven from the world.5/5(2). "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place" by Terry Tempest Williams is a work of non-fiction that follows the personal family trauma of the author in addition to the evolution of the Great Salt Lake and the birds that call the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge their home.
Winds over the World
Under the eaves of a forgotten village
Interviewing the Interviewer (The IRE Collection)
Public private partnership in urban rail systems
Kim Anderson Yesteryears 2004 Engagement Calendar
A True relation of the most horrible murther
This thing called life
Interdisciplinary approach to liquid lubricant technology
Guest Quarters Best of Atlanta
The Christian movement in the Japanese empire
Index of majors.
Blues Bass Basics Mega Pak
Standardized Federal regions
To the camp of Israel (whom He hath brought up out of the land of Egypt by a mighty hand and outstretched arm) called Quakers in England (or elsewhere upon the face of the earth)
A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness (Blacks in the Diaspora) Paperback – Febru by Rachel E. Harding (Author) › Visit Amazon's Rachel E. Harding Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Cited by: A Refuge in Thunder book. Read 2 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.
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Walker The Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé has long been recognized as an extraordinary resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil.
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Hello. Welcome to The Book Refuge. I started this channel to grow my community of book readers and make connections around the world. I live in Fargo, ND and. "Refuge" was a beautiful book of love, loss of loved ones, loss of self and doing what you can to get it all back.
I love the opening of each chapter with the tracking of the elevation of Great Salt Lake during the flood of the s -- how the lake began to embody everything for the author and to all of the people of Salt Lake City/5.
Harding develops her distinctive interpretation of Candomblé in the introduction, eight chapters, Coda, Glossary, Appendix, Notes and Bibliography of Refuge in Thunder.
In identifying the different factors which led to the construction of Candomblé she weaves a portrait of Candomblé as a complex religious tradition whose fabric and multiple.
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By Harding, Rachel E. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. IndexAuthor: Hendrik Kraay.
A graphic novel adventure from the world of Erin Hunter’s #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series. In the second book of the Graystripe’s Adventure manga arc, follow ThunderClan warrior Graystripe after he is captured by Twolegs in Warriors: The New Prophecy #3: Dawn—and embarks on a difficult journey home.
As Graystripe and Millie begin their quest to Brand: HarperCollins Publishers. A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness All Book Search results » About the author () Rachel E. Harding is Associate Director of the Gandhi Hamer King Center for the Study of Religion and Democratic Renewal at the Iliff School of Theology.
The Artists' Refuge at Thunderhead, Monarch, Montana. likes. A rustic cooperative mountain retreat for professional performing artist.5/5(1).
On a map, the path of an exile is easy enough to trace. He or she flees one country, goes to another. But the geography of an exile’s interior life defies traditional cartography. A Refuge in Thunder, by Dr. Rachel E. Harding, takes a close look at the trajectory of Candomblé in its Brazilian home as a religion of resilience and affirmation of a Black identity in Brazil.
Harding, who is also an Egbomi of Oxum, lectured about her work, introduced her Iyalorixá – Mãe Val de Ayra, and answered pertinent questions during a Q&A.
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The deadline for your entries is Wednesday, June 3rd at noon ET. Refuge is a wonderful book. It's simple but contains a powerful message.
The illustrations are beautifully done. Everyone who has read it in my family,young and old, have enjoyed it and it has provoked much discussion about /5(49). A dying world, shattered by a broken machine. A desperate flight, their only hope for refuge. A robotic race, ally and destroyer alike.
The Republic of Exilium has grown in strength and confidence at the far end of the galaxy from the rest of mankind, sending out scout ships to survey the worlds around them as they try to learn more about the mysterious Construction Matrix AIs.
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place is a book-length essay by environmentalist Terry Tempest book explores the relationship between the natural and unnatural along with condemning the American government for testing nuclear weapons in the ms uses components of nature such as the flooding of the Great Salt Lake and the Author: Terry Tempest Williams.
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A refuge in thunder: Candomblé and alternative spaces of blackness. [Rachel E Harding] -- "Candombe has long been recognized as an extraordinary resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. Outlawed and persecuted in the late colonial and.


Ordinance 193 - Vacate Central Ave
The Board of Supervisors of Upper Nazareth Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, will conduct Public Hearing and consider adoption of the following proposed Ordinance at its Regular Meeting on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, at 7:00 P.M. at the Upper Nazareth Township Municipal Building, 100 Newport Avenue, Upper Nazareth Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
The Board of Supervisors invite public comment on the proposed Ordinance, the following of which is only a summary:
AN ORDINANCE VACATING A PORTION OF CENTRAL AVENUE BETWEEN EAST SECOND STREET AND THIRD STREET, UPPER NAZARETH TOWNSHIP, NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
Copies of the proposed Ordinance are available for public inspection at the Upper Nazareth Township Municipal Building, 100 Newport Avenue, Nazareth, Pennsylvania, between the hours of 7:30 A.M. and 3:30 P.M., Monday through Friday and on the Township website. Copies of the proposed Ordinance are also available for public inspection at the Northampton County Law Library, Northampton County Courthouse, 669 Washington Street, Easton, Pennsylvania, and The Express-Times, 18 Centre Square, Easton, Pennsylvania.
GARY NEIL ASTEAK, ESQUIRE
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Easton, PA 18042
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Here's some strong opinions I had about books I read a decade ago.
All the King's Men
Quite possibly the best book ever written. The plot is engrossing and unpredictable, the writing style is unique and entertaining, and there are some insightful bits of life knowledge sprinkled throughout.
Be prepared for a slow first chapter or two, followed by mind-blowing awesome. If you finish this book and don't rank it in your top two and a half books, you and I can't be friends anymore, and I say good day to you. If you start this book and don't finish it, you can probably still be my friend, but only the kind that I borrow things from and never return.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
This is a book about a man's descent into madness, and his attempt to drag you down with him. Don't let him. Avoid this book.
If you don't believe me, read the first three chapters. When he starts talking about how gravity didn't exist until Newton invented it, you'll understand.
If you're an elitist Westerner disillusioned with the society around you, and you really need a Zen fix, try reading an actual Buddhist book. I recommend What the Buddha Taught. One crazy dude's advice as he bikes across the country just doesn't measure up.
Count of Monte Cristo
Unabridged version if you're not a goddamn sissy.
Revenge is awesome. 1200 page books are awesome. What could be more awesome than combining the two? The answer is: not much. Add to that a badass main character and an intricate plot, and you've got yourself a book you must read.
While the writing is somewhat vanilla (understandable given that it's a translation (unless you speak French)), the plot more than makes up for it. You can tell that's the case because there have been multiple movies made about it. But don't fall for that trap - as usual, the movies don't live up to the book.
Very interesting read with an ambiguously nightmarish story. If you like crazy bizarre sci-fi, you need this book. If you don't, read it anyway and expand your mind, dumbass. Good plot with interesting and novel ideas. What are you waiting for?
Do you like made up words, nonsensical plots, and a rambling story that goes nowhere, while satirizing a society that you know or care little about? If so, this book will probably overwhelm even you.
This book is a classic. That means if you like this book, then you must be smart and cultured, so everyone keeps on pretending to like it. Incidentally, appearing smart and cultured is the only possible reason to read this book. If you've seen the made-for-TV movie, you might think the book will be a fascinating tale full of wacky and whimsical adventures. Unfortunately, Swift manages to detail the plot in the most dry and uninteresting way imaginable.
Ilium + Olympos
If cheesy romance novels are porn for women, then these books are porn for sci-fi geeks. There's very little literary value in them, but they are entertaining for the most part. Dan Simmons uses the classic 5-plotlines-at-once-with-every-chapter-ending-in-a-cliffhanger style of writing, which makes it a page-turner and also gets extremely irritating after about 30 chapters.
I have a couple beefs with this series. [Minor spoilers ahead.] First, the motivations of many of the characters are kept hidden, and it is implied that things will be revealed when the story concludes. Nothing is revealed. The characters are basically acting upon a whim. Second, there are several simultaneous plotlines, each one containing one or more hero protagonists in an epic struggle against the end of the world. Unfortunately, only one of the plotlines actually matters in the end. The plotlines converge and the seemingly important protaganists all turn out to have been impotent and useless and only served as filler while the main plotline got shit done.
All told, the books kept me interested, but I was irritated by its shortcomings. You might want to consider passing this one up if you're not a huge sci-fi fan.
Neal Stephenson doesn't know how to end a story. While an improvement over Snowcrash, Anathem's ending is pretty abrupt and leaves some glaring questions unanswered. Maybe I'm the only one annoyed by this sort of thing. I like my plots unambiguous and closed to interpretation.
That said, this book is really pretty amazing. It touches on several interesting topics in philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, quantum physics, and human behavior. Stephenson invents a parallel world with an incredibly internally consistent set of rules. Both its similarities and differences when compared to our world serve to highlight the varied absurdity or tragedy of our society, customs, and power structures.
The book starts off fairly slow, which might be difficult to stomach if you're not into math, but it picks up and becomes pretty engrossing from about page 200 on.


Summer 2013: Black Film Festival
The Newark Black Film Festival (NBFF) kicks off its 39th season on June 19 at the Newark Museum. Youth Cinema, the accompanying summer-long series of free children’s features and short films, debuts on July 8 at The Newark Public Library, and July 10 at the Museum.
Newark Black Film Festival Schedule
Screenings start at 7pm are free, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. They will take place at the Museum unless otherwise noted.
June 19: Kinshasa Symphony
This film by Claus Wischmann and Martin Baer shows how people living in one of the most chaotic cities in the world have managed to forge one of the most complex systems of human cooperation ever invented: a symphony orchestra. It is a film about the Congo, about the people of Kinshasa and about music.
Speaker: Jean Claude Chiyuka, Kinshasa Symphony and Jacques Lacombe, Music Director for the NJ Symphony Orchestra.
June 26: Cosmic Africa
A co-production by Cosmos Studio, Åland Pictures and Anne Rogers, and directed by Craig and Damon Foster. This film sheds new light on traditional African astronomy and in turn global understanding of the world’s oldest science.
Speaker: Derrick H. Pitts, Chief Astronomer, Franklin Institute Science Museum.
July 10: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Hushpuppy, a six-year-old girl who lives with her father, Wink, in the Bathtub, a southern Delta community in the Bayou cut off from the world. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, his tough love prepares her for the time when he's no longer there to protect her. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink's health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.
Speaker: Dr. Clement A. Price, Ph.D., Professor of History and Director of the Rutgers Institute On Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience at Rutgers – Newark.
July 17: Standing In The Shadows Of Motown
@ New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
This documentary and performance film tells the Funk Brothers' saga through archival footage and still photos, narration, interviews, re-creation scenes, 20 Motown master tracks, and twelve new live performances of Motown classics with the Funk Brothers backing up Chaka Khan, Ben Harper, Bootsy Collins, Montell Jordan, Meshell Ndegeocello, Joan Osborne, and Gerald Levert.
Host: Felix Hernandez, Radio Personality & Musicologist
July 24: Sing Your Song
An up close look at a great American: Harry Belafonte. A patriot to the end and a champion for worldwide human rights, Belafonte is one of the truly heroic cultural and political figures of the past 60 years. Told from Belafonte’s point of view, the film charts his life from a boy born in New York and raised in Jamaica, who returns to Harlem in his early teens where he discovers the American Negro Theatre and the magic of performing.
Speaker: Jason L. Pollard, Film Editor.
July 31: Woman Thou Art Loosed
@ CitiPlex12 Newark
On the 7th Day — The Ames' seem to have built the perfect life until their six year old daughter is kidnapped; over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that could rip their marriage and lives apart. Directed by Neema Barnette staring Blair Underwood & Sharon Leal.
NBFF Youth Cinema Schedule
Youth Cinema will be held on Mondays at The Newark Public Library at 10:30 am and at the Newark Museum on Wednesdays at 1 pm unless otherwise noted.
July 8 and 10:
Follow The Drinking Gourd – Runaway slaves journey north by following directions in a song titled "The Drinking Gourd."
The Outer Planets – Alien space travelers Adi and Woops give students a lift to the outer planets.
George Washington Carver: His Life And His Work – Carver's life story, from his birth into slavery to his many accomplishments in the fields of science, agriculture and horticulture.
July 15 and 17
July 17 at 10 am @CityPlex12 Newark
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa – The animal castaways end up in the African wilderness, where they meet Alex the Lion's family.
July 22 and 24
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain – A young African boy brings rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain.
Standing Up For Freedom: The Story of Rosa Parks – Rosa Parks made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
Barack Obama: The Story Of Our 44th President – Facts about President Obama, the 44th president of the United States and the first African-American president in American history.
July 29 and 31
Myths, Legends & Traditional Holidays From Latin America - Two siblings introduce children to Latin American folktales and holidays.
Portugal – Travel to the capital city of Lisbon to snack on pastries and shop for salt-cod at a fish market.
South Africa: How Tortoise Won Respect ¬– Find out how the tortoise uses his wisdom to outsmart the monster and save the animals.
Aug. 7: Akeelah And the Bee
– Akeelah enters various spelling bee contests despite the objections of her mother.
Global Wonders: African American – Join twins Trey and Alisha and their friends Lee and Marisa on a play date of dreams and imagination
White Water - A journey of self-discovery that is based on a childhood experience of co-author Michael Bandy.
May 15, 2013


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Debra Jean Clark, 63, of Palatka, passed away unexpectedly at her home on Friday, May 11, 2018 from natural causes. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, she had been a long-time resident of Palatka. Debra worked 18 years as a licensed practical nurse at Putnam Community Medical Center and then 8 years as a library assistant at the Palatka Public Library.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Chester L. Clark and Neva Ruth Sturgill Clark.
Debra is survived by a sister, Lorraine Mootz of Celle, Germany, 2 nephews, Hans Eric Mootz and Karsten Clark Mootz as well as a great-nephew, Gustav Mootz.
Graveside services will be at 11:00 A.M. Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at Forest Meadows Cemetery West, 700 NW 143rd Street, Newberry, FL 32669 with Pastor Don Aycock officiating. No visitation is planned.
Memories and condolences may be expressed to the family at Debra’s Book of Memories page at www.johnsonoverturffunerals.com
Arrangements are entrusted to Johnson-Overturf Funeral Home in Palatka.


.Holly Bush Books
Coming this spring - a new historical romance
Cross the Ocean
The very proud Duke of Wexford was about to have his orderly world blown apart. At the age of nineteen Blake Sanders had wed a beautiful, dutiful wife and she had borne him three children. But now as mid-life approached, the Duchess had the unheard of temerity to leave him! Too mortified by her behavior to mix in ton company, Blake sought companionship with his best friend and neighbor, Anthony Burroughs and his wife Elizabeth. But Blake had forgotten the Burrough’s were entertaining a house guest, Elizabeth’s distant cousin, a spinsterish ‘Amazon from America’.
Gertrude Finch, a champion for women’s rights, had long ago decided most men were useless other than Uncle Fred who’d raised her on his horse ranch near Chicago. While traveling with other Suffragettes, Gert lectured women on the perils of passion and the value of independence but thought of neither when Blake kissed her. While opposite in nearly every way, other than an attraction neither could deny, their one night of passion would change her world, and send Gert scurrying her way back home across the ocean.
When Blake discovered his heir had stowed away on Gert’s ship, he set out on his own adventure to America, to bring the boy home and to see Gert once again. Traversing America’s vast wilderness, Blake discovered that this tall, loud Suffragette had changed his life. Whether riding the rails or meeting common folk, Blake saw a whole new way of living but most of all, he realized something about love. He found he was not immune, and his heart could love, and love deeply.
Excerpt from Flashlight Commentary's review for Reconstructing Jackson:
"The courage Bush exhibits in creating a book that approaches these subjects without bias, offers such compelling characters as
Reed, Belle and Beulah, combined with her obvious love and gift for storytelling make
Reconstructing Jackson a remarkable and highly recommended piece of literature."
26 Five Star Reviews at Amazon!
1867 . . . Southerner, Reed Jackson, returns to his family’s plantation after the Civil War in a wheelchair. Schooled as a lawyer, he moves west to start again after his father deeds the Jackson holdings to a younger brother. Circumstances bring Reed and Belle Richards together, a dirt poor farm girl aching to learn how to read. Bleak times will challenge Reed and Belle's courage and dreams as they forge a new beginning from the ashes of war and ignorance. Read an Excerpt
". . . Reconstructing Jackson . . . reminds me why I love novels by Holly Bush. Her ability to place you into a previous time period and enthrall you with a story so compelling that you can't put it down is incredible." Author Deanna Lynn Sletten
Train Station Bride
31 Five Star Reviews at Amazon!
1887 . . . Julia Crawford, Boston debutante, travels to South Dakota to marry an aging shopkeeper and escape the ridicule she endures as the plump, silly daughter of one of Boston’s premiere families. What happens when the groom is not who Julia bargained for? Will her secrets keep her from love and acceptance? Or will Julia’s love be strong enough to conquer her past and give her the future she’s always dreamed of? Read an Excerpt
". . . . a fantastic historical romance, with wonderfully developed characters and a story that I hated to see end. Ms. Bush has certainly gained a new fan here! Highly recommended!"
34 Five Star Reviews on Amazon and an Indie B.R.A.G. Book!
1891 . . . Spinster librarian, Olive Wilkins, is shocked to learn of her brother’s violent death at a saloon gaming table. Compelled to rescue and raise his children, Olive travels to Ohio, intending to return to her Philadelphia home with her niece and nephew. Little does she know that the children have come to love their caretaker, widower Jacob Butler. Will Olive return home without them or learn to love Jacob as well? Read an Excerpt
". . . A poignant read, ROMANCING OLIVE is an inspired, emotion-packed historical story that will touch your heart." Dottie reviewer for Romance Junkies.
" . . . Put away your notions of romancing. Dust off your ideas of shocking and pick up a copy of ROMANCING OLIVE by Holly Bush, a family saga reminiscent of THE THORNBIRDS." Susan Russo Anderson author of Death of a Serpent


By Jim Osman
Selling the Stairway to Heaven
In this book, author and pastor Jim Osman of Kootenai Community Church examines the claims of Heaven Tourists: Don Piper (90 Minutes in Heaven), Colton and Todd Burpo (Heaven Is for Real) and Eben Alexander (Proof of Heaven). Pastor Osman offers a critical theological critique of their writings and media appearances, comparing their claims to Scripture and to each other. He also examines their stories for internal consistency. He shows that these “eye-witness” testimonies of Heaven are not only self-contradictory, but more importantly, they contradict Scripture.
Pastor Osman calls upon faithful Christians everywhere to reject these cleverly devised fables and affirm their commitment to the sufficiency of Scripture as God’s infallible and final revelation. This book will equip you to expose the errors of the Heaven Tourism industry and to defend the truth of Scripture. By providing critical theological reviews of these three bestsellers, this book helps expose the errors made by ALL those who claim to have visited Heaven.


Mitchell, a rural town, is 500 km north-west of Brisbane and 80 km west of Roma. It is on the Warrego Highway and the Maranoa River.
In 1846 the New South Wales Surveyor-General, Thomas Mitchell, explored the Maranoa district, and eight years later Edmund Morey occupied the Mitchell Downs pastoral run. His homestead site was later used for the Maranoa Hotel (recycling the remains of the homestead structure) and the town of Mitchell Downs grew around it. The Mitchell Downs post office (1865) was renamed Mitchell in 1878. A provisional school was opened in 1876 and Catholic and Anglican churches were opened in 1885 and 1889.
The Western Railway line was extended from Roma to the east bank of the Maranoa in 1883, and the river was bridged into Mitchell in 1885. By the turn of the century Mitchell's population was about 560. An optimistic description was published in the Australian Handbook in 1903:
A hospital was also opened in 1904.
Although the rainfall is not high there was a plentiful supply of good artesian water. In 1927-28 it was reticulated throughout the town.
The surrounding shire comprised mainly large pastoral properties, a trend which continued into the postwar years. In the town a local newspaper, Maranoa News, was published and the newsagent brought moving pictures for regular showings. Other recreations were found at the school of arts and the Mitchell racecourse (Maranoa Diggers Race Club conducts two race meetings a year (2000) as a member of the Downs Country Racing Association).
Mitchell's most famous son was Frank Forde (1890-1983), deputy prime minister in the Curtin Labor government. There is a Frank Forde history room in the shire council's library. The library is housed in the town's former cinema, prior to that the shire hall. A new civic centre was built in 1967, soon after the town's population reached 1800 in the early 1960s. Rural amalgamations and better urban facilities in Roma have contributed to a steady decline since then.
The railway station (1885), the primary school building (1914) and the war memorial (1927) in the town's memorial park are listed on the Queensland heritage register.
Mitchell was the main administrative centre of the former Booringa Shire, and for most of the twentieth century held half or more of the shire's population. Civic facilities include a combined sports complex, a civic centre and hall, bowling and golf clubs and a show society. The sports complex adjoins the Gallipoli and Kokoda ovals, a recognition of the local RSL's contribution to sports funds. There is also a memorial park. The hospital, rebuilt in 1985, shares its site with the Maranoa Retirement Village (1987). An aquatic centre is based around the Great Artesian Spa. The town has five hotels and two caravan parks, a State P-10 school and a Catholic primary school (1925). Mitchell's census populations have been:


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202 West Broadway
PO Box 128
Summerdale, AL 36580
Director: Cindy Suggs
Hours of Operation:
Monday – Friday: 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM
The Marjorie Younce Snook Public Library is located at 202 West Broadway Street and offers an array of books, magazines, e-books, CDs, DVDs, public computers with Internet access, educational computers for PreK – 6th grade students, wireless connections, and copy, fax and notary services. The library also has a conference room available for use by the community. Preschool programs are held on Thursday mornings from 11:00 to 12:00 and Afterschool programs are held on Thursday afternoons from 3:30 to 5:00 during the school year. A variety of programs are held throughout the summer.