In this modern day fairytale, Evie is on a path to figure out who her mom really was, while discovering for herself what the future will hold. Charged with her late mother’s letters, Evie embarks on a quest into her past. The first item on the list is to attend Oxford, her mom’s alma mater. There, Evie stumbles upon a real life prince charming, Edmund Stuart the second Prince of England, who is all too happy to be the counterpart to her damsel in distress.
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Your Next Favorite Book: The Heir and the Spare
Y’all I am seriously kicking my 2016 reading challenge’s ass so far. Since my last book review I have read 2 more to total 6 books so far. I think I may even surpass my goal! Woo hoo!
Ok so today’s book was read because of my love of the book The Royal We. You can read my review on that American girl meets handsome heir to the British throne book here. My friend Lauren, who is a co-worker and fellow book lover showed me this book. We both loved The Royal We and so when she saw this one, she knew she had to show it to me. And after reading they synopsis I knew I had to read it. 🙂
Goodreads Synopsis: Family can be complicated. Especially when skeletons from the past pop up unexpectedly. For American Evie Gray, finding out her deceased mother had a secret identity, and not one of the caped crusader variety, was quite the surprise. Evie’s mom had a secret life before she was even born, one that involved tiaras.
My thoughts: I really wanted to completely love this book. Especially since it doesn’t look like there is going to be a sequel to The Royal We. The story was cute and the idea is obviously one that every American girl (well most of them….ok some of them….ok ME! lol) have dreamed of. And the book did hold my attention the entire time. Sadly however it wasn’t fabulous. The writing was subpar and the dialogue had me rolling my eyes more often then not.
A few times I had the thought that if I were to actually sit down and write a book, my writing might be just like this. Which is hilarious to think about and I think that’s another reason why I didn’t outright dislike the book. Because I would hope that some silly, overly romantic, and British obsessed girl would buy my book and like it despite my terrible dialogue. It did have it’s funny moments though I did feel like Evie was a bit dramatic and ridiculous about 85% of the time.
So should you read it? Meh, you could probably skip it, as long as you read The Royal We instead. But if you’re looking for more American girl meets British boy at a university and they fall in love kinda stories, then go ahead and give this one a shot.
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I just added The Royal We today. You're so right – poor dialogue can kill a book! I linked up with Steph too, but actually just found you through The Wandering Weekenders bc I'm in Houston too!
i love love loved the royal we, and this one is on my list because it seemed similar. i have read a lot of books like this and they always fall kind of flat, the royal we was the first i really really loved, and it's hard to hold a candle to that i think. i will still read this when i'm in the mood for a light easy read. i tweeted the authors after i read the royal we about a sequel and they said it was up to their publisher. i reckon if the movie does well, they will do a sequel. i am not a fan of the casting of bex though, womp.
It's upsetting when a synopsis is awesome and the book falls short of the expectations. Happens far more often than I'd like. Thanks for joining us!
It sounds like such a cute book, but if the dialogue is really weird in a book, sometimes I just can't get into it! I still need to read The Royal We though, and hopefully that will happen sometime soon!
I'm glad you joined us today!I considered The Royal We, but it's not high on my list. This one probably wouldn't be either!
I've been wanting to read The Royal We, but I haven't been able to find it at the library 😦 I'll be adding this book to my to-read list for when I need something light and happy 🙂
You're so right-if the dialogue is weird, it totally kills the book! I've been curious about this book, so I'm glad to hear it's not worth my time.


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People often ask me the question: Why would anyone be interested in the ancient Etruscans? There is probably no good answer to that. Perhaps it is the magnificent artwork including fine gold jewellery with the intricate granulation style, or the magnificent bronzes such as the Arringatore or the Chimera of Arezzo, or perhaps it is the enigma of the origins of this people, and their language which was so unlike any other. We are only recently beginning to understand the words of the Ancient Etruscans little by little.
However above all, there is the fact that for too long the Etruscan civilisation has been totally ignored in studies of the ancient world. This is totally unjustified given what we now know about this remarkable people.
I am glad to see that the balance is being set right thanks to renewed interest in the Etruscans, and the teachings of a few dedicated academics.
I would like to quote directly an introduction by Professor Graziano Baccolini (reproduced by his kind permission) which I believe summarises quite eloquently the immense contribution made by the Etruscans to Western Society. The original Italian version can be found at:
" I can never succeed in understanding why Italians still fail to recognize the enormous contribution that the Etruscan civilization has made to our Western civilization. We keep on believing the teaching that the Greeks and above all the Romans are the peoples to whom the Western world owes its origins. All of this is considerably exaggerated and based on historical falsehoods. However, I have ascertained instead that it is the Etruscans, coming from the East, who are the true founders of our European culture, for both good and bad aspects. This truth continues to be understated and at times hindered by various Italian historians while it has been being recognized for numerous decades by the majority of the historians of the whole world. Etruscology is now a subject of enormous interest all over the world and a lot of falsehoods and commonly held beliefs are crumbling because they were used to discredit a people for appropriating of their worths. In the past centuries first the powerful and unculturated Rome h as falsified its own origins and has ignored the legacy of the defeated Etruscan civilization, then the first Christian emperors have completed the work with their edicts. Subsequently on the ruins of the empire, the Pontifices of the new religion appropriated many ancient insignias of the Orient handed down to the Romans from Etruscan leaders and priests. For example the purple of the Lucumones became the colour of the cardinal, the Etruscan priest's Littus became the Pastoral one of the Bishops. The solemn ceremonies of the new religion are a reproduction of the Etruscan religious ceremonies. The ancient former Etruscan cities became the first Episcopal centers (Volterra, Vulci, Orvieto, etc). The longest existing Etruscan text is a calendar containing 12 columns with the religious instructions for every day.
Also the figurative Christian patrimony retraces the images found again in the Etruscan tombs. The winged figures of the Etruscans return in the Christian figures of the angels and Satan. On top of the ancient Etruscan temples has been built the new churches which very probably still conceal in many things their walls. It is strange that Etruscologists have not considered this yet. Then first Rome, then above all the priestly hierarchy of the new Roman religion snatched the symbols of the Etruscan civilization but denied the so-called pagan origin of it all. As always happens rather in the history and in the life, slandering the legitimate owners and accusing them of various inequities. Unfortunately our culture has inherited the worse of the Etruscan religion as for example, the concept of infallibility, seconded by the Christian religion.
However as also happens at times in life, the truth is reborn. From accumulated evidence, one succeeds in gathering that the truth is quite different. The great civilizing inheritance of the Etruscans was for centuries abandoned, earths once rich with produce became uncultivated, shops of artisans and artists became empty, their advanced knowledge of metallurgy and of hydraulics was forgotten and Etruscan creative individuality was oppressed - fortunately not entirely. After centuries of cultural regression (I probabably suspect due to the new religious Imperium) of hiding and of destruction of the sources of the Etruscan civilization there came the rebirth. In the ancient suburbs of the Appennines there remained the descendants of the Etruscans and the wonder contained in the tombs of their ancestors woke up again their native genome: the central part of the ancient world earth of the Etruscans, Tuscany, became the cradle of the Humanism and of the Renaissance. In these cities, for long generations Etruscan, characters such as Dante Leonardo, Brunelleschi, Giotto, Bernini, Michelangelo etc were born, and above all so many unknown artisans and artists to which the growth of our Western civilization is owed.
Rereading these reflections I now understand, and perhaps you will also understand yourselves, because many Italian historians are reluctant to recognize these truths."
See also Montovolo: perhaps an Ancient Etruscan Oracular Centre (also by Graziano Baccolini)
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Born on April 16, 1917, Betty was their third and youngest child and was closely
involved in both Scouting and Guiding all her life. She acted as assistant to
her mother and father on many of their world tours but her personal contribution
to both Movements went far beyond the demands of family connection. Perhaps her
greatest role, as well as her pride and pleasure, was to keep alive in the
thoughts of successive generations of members of the Scout and Guide Movements
the memories of her parents. How many hundreds of times must she have heard
after one of her talks ‘It was just like hearing your mother speak? for she
had the same mannerisms, enthusiasm and inflections of voice. But she was in her
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Her own childhood was full of ‘ordinary?happiness - picnics, learning to
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Chief Scout and the World Chief Guide. She
trained in secretarial work. In 1934 -1935 she joined her parents on a world tour visiting Scouts and Guides in the Far East,
Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States of America, having already
travelled with them in previous years on the Goodwill Cruises.
In May 1936 while returning by
ship with her parents from South Africa, she first met Gervas Clay. It was a scenario strikingly similar to
her parents?first meeting on a boat sailing to America in 1912. Like her
parents, Betty and Gervas also shared a birthday. So when Betty met a man on a
boat, also born April 16, it was as though fate was calling to her. Betty and
Gervas married in the village church near her parents?home at Bentley on
September 24 1936.
Family Album - Heather Baden-Powell & The Boy Man
Her Guide training and the Scout motto ‘Be prepared?must have constantly
stood her in good stead, living in the African bush and bringing up four
children in hard conditions. And, like so many parents before her and since, she
was a Cub Scout Leader for a time following the anguished appeal from her own
son who was afraid the Pack would close because the current leader was leaving.
In Guiding she served as Acting District Commissioner,
Division Commissioner and Commissioner for African Guides and finally as Colony
Commissioner. She was a Guider in all three sections. She held a Camper’s
Licence, a Guide and Camp Training Certificate and, for the last two years of
her time in Northern Rhodesia, she was adviser for Training in that country.
|1940 Betty, Grevas and their first two children, Gillian and
from World Adventure
When they returned to England in 1964 she continued her
work for Guiding becoming Division Commissioner for Taunton and Deputy Chief
Commissioner for England.
In Scouting’s 60th year she unveiled the memorial stone on Brownsea Island to
her father’s experimental camp.
When Guiding in England was divided into Regions in 1970 she became President
for South West England, a position she held until 1991 and in 1978 she was
appointed a Vice-President of The Guide Association. In addition she was
President of the Trefoil Guild from 1989 to 1994 and a founder member of the
Olave Baden-Powell Society in 1985. Because of her unique and valued place in
Guiding, The Guide Association presented her in 1995 with a special gold version
of its Silver Fish award in the form of a brooch.
|Betty and her daughter
||Betty lays a wreath on
her parent's grave
Memorial Service 1999
She was awarded the Silver Wolf in 1984, The Scout Association’s highest award
for good service, became a Vice-President of the Association in 1989 and in 1993
became only the second person ever to have been awarded an honorary Gilwell wood
badge (the first being her mother). World Scouting recognised her with its only
and prestigious award, the Bronze Wolf in 1999.
In 1997 her unique services to Scouting and Guiding were recognised with the
award of the CBE in Her Majesty the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List.
Camp, events, meetings, Jamborees - Scouting and Guiding were Betty’s life.
She was as much at ease chatting with the King of Sweden as she was with the
youngest Brownie. In an article on ‘Thinking Day? for the ‘Guider?magazine in 1978, Betty wrote: It can be given to very few families to be loved
by millions of people of many nations? looking back to the days of the
Founder and the World Chief Guide and of herself, Peter and Heather, as they
grew up in that unique family, sharing Scouting and Guiding with the world.
Betty continued that completely unselfish, warm-hearted sharing all her life and
through the link with her parents kept them ‘alive?for millions of young
people and adults who had never seen them.
adapted from Pinetree webste
The last direct link to
Chief Scout Robert Baden-Powell was lost on April 24th, 2004, when his last
surviving child, Betty Clay, died.
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Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. He was previously Professor of Comparative Literature and Intellectual History and founding co-director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester. His most recent research has been on cosmopolitanism, exile, and transnationalism. His publications include four books and nine (co)edited volumes, as well as over a hundred articles on German, Russian, French, and Central-European intellectual and cultural history and on cultural and literary theory. Some of his work has been translated into Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, French, German, Hungarian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovene, and Spanish. Tihanov is winner, with Evgeny Dobrenko, of the Efim Etkind Prize for Best Book on Russian Culture (2012), awarded for their co-edited A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism: The Soviet Age and Beyond (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011). He is Honorary President of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory (since 2008), Member of Academia Europaea (since 2013), Honorary Scientific Advisor, Institute for Foreign Literatures, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS, since 2014), and member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for World Literature (IWL) at Harvard. He sits on the editorial/advisory boards of fourteen journals (Arcadia; Bakhtiniana: Revista de Estudos do Discurso (Sao Paulo); Bijiao Wenxue & Shijie Wenxue (比较文学与世界文学 [Comparative Literature and World Literature (Beijing)]; Comparative Critical Studies; Evropa; Filosofskie nauki; Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies; Literaturna misul; Primerjalna književnost; Psikhologicheskie issledovaniia; Slavonica; The Journal of English Language & Literature (Seoul); Voprosy literatury; Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch), and five publication series (Brill Balkan Studies, Brill, The Netherlands; The Real Twentieth Century, Academic Studies Press, USA; Language and Literature Series, Mercado de Letras, Brazil; Durham Modern Languages Series, Manchester UP, United Kingdom; New Comparative Criticism, Peter Lang, Switzerland/Germany/US). Tihanov held visiting appointments at Yale University (2007), St. Gallen University (2012), the University of Sao Paulo (2013), Peking University (2014), Seoul National University (2015), as well as research fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and Collegium Budapest. In 2012, Tihanov delivered the Mihály Babits Lectures. He is member of one of the European Research Council Evaluation Panels, of the Academic Advisory Council of the Centre for Advanced Study (Sofia), and of the International University Forum for Curriculum Reform. He served on the sub-panel “European Studies” for the UK RAE (2008) and as an international member on the panel “Philosophy” for the Romanian RAE (2011) and on the international evaluation panel “Humanities” of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2014; 2015). He has evaluated grant proposals for the ERC, DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, the AHRC, the Newton Trsut, Kone Foundation, the Polish Science Foundation, The Icelandic Research Fund, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Centre for Advanced Study (Sofia), etc.
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i know it's not even thanksgiving yet, but i'm already thinking advent as it will be right upon us after we return from our trek to michigan. one way we like to celebrate "the coming" (advent) is to read a christmas book each night leading up to the big day.
to add a little bit of fun i wrap each book and number it for the date we will read it. the boys take turns being the "opener" each night.
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Genealogical Research is available at the Nicholas County Public Library. The Historical Society Board voted on 2015 to move all the genealogical resources to the Nicholas County Library. Contact Peggy Gilkerson for information regarding research. We also have some materials located in the library of the Neal Welcome Center; although the majority of resources are in the Nicholas County Library.
The Historical Society has hardbound copies of the Carlisle Mercury from 1914-1992 available for research. Other requests for research of Carlisle and Nicholas County History can be made by special request and appointment by contacting the museum and requesting materials.
Discovery Tours for children are available during museum hours. Veterans Day “Windows of War Exhibit” has over 300 students attend each year to learn the history of Veterans from the Civil War to the present day. We hosted a Smithsonian exhibit, Hometown Teams, back in the summer of 2017. We had almost 2,000 visits to the exhibit and many people were nostalgic upon seeing their teams memorabilia in the museum. We also have several pop-up museums located around the courthouse. We currently host a Jockey Museum (highlighting the history of Jockey International in Carlisle, KY), a Veteran’s display, and a quilt museum. We can also work with you to create lesson plans for your children that go along with Common Core requirements.
Resources include: Deeds, wills, and estate settlements Marriages and early marriage bonds from early 1800's to 1970's School census records 1895-1930's Nicholas County census records 1810-1930's Some information on adjoining counties Copies of document pages can be requested by mail at a cost of $1.00 a page or $3.00 for 5 pages Helpful staff.
Contact: Office of the County Clerk Nicholas County Courthouse PO Box 227 Carlisle KY 40311 (859) 289-3730
Hours of Courthouse as M-F 8:30-4:30 and Saturday 9am to 12pm Closed all major holidays.
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The newer section of the cemetery came gradually into use in the 1860's. It is estimated that about 10,000 people now lie there. A War Memorial near the entrance to the cemetery honors county service personnel from the First World War and subsequent conflicts.
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At one point Henryville was a good size town with over 300 people. Over the years people had died and others had moved away until there were few people left to keep the cemetery cleared. To date 36 grave stones that had fallen over have been re-set with new poured foundations. Local Funeral Director Brent Gaunce has been a big supporter and shared his expertise on how to glue broken grave stones back together and level them so they can be resurrected. He also helps with burials at the newer section of the Henryville Cemetery today. Efforts are underway to get plots laid out in the new area. (11) graves are there so far, all neatly lined up. About 350 or so plots are available in the three acre lot that runs over to Spring Valley Road.
The group plans to continue fund raising to eventually add a chapel and parking lot to the site. They also have another 30 – 50 feet deep area past the top of the hill to clear that is overgrown. They hope that more former Nicholas County residents will come back to visit family grave sites and perhaps come back to Carlisle to live. The CME Church each year has its homecoming the last weekend in September to celebrate Old Land Mark Days.
The Cemetery holds a lot of history for Nicholas County. There are slaves buried there who died in the 1880’s, and (16) Civic War Veterans along with veterans from WWI, WWI, the Korean war and Vietnam. According to records, the youngest soldier to enlist in the civil war was from Carlisle and is buried at the Henryville Cemetery. Talbert Boyd was born in 1850 and joined the Army in 1864 at the age of 14. He served in the 100th US Colored Infantry; a unit that fought in the Battle of Nashville in 1865. The oldest man buried in the cemetery is George Wesley but in 1828, died 1935. The oldest woman was Dicey Wilson born in 2807, died 1920. The oldest Civil War soldier was Levi Riggs, born 1818, died 1920. Several people died and were buried after influenza epidemics in 1904 and 1920.
The group has begun documenting the cemetery and graves with the 3 rind binder available at the Carlisle-Nicholas County Library and it’s also online if you Google Henryville Cemetery, and they are working on a Facebook page.
Anyone wanting to donate time or funds can call or text Ray Compton at 859-749-4968 or Ben Sharp at 859-967-4930.


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Little Adventurers' Club is a parent assisted, cooperative, children's game that includes a book of over 100 illustrated encounters designed and written by Jason Maxwell (Agents of SMERSH) with additional story contributions by Scott Almes (Tiny Epic Kingdoms). Players (or parents) read aloud 4-5 encounters as the Little Adventurers race against a Wizard that is trying to prevent them from reaching their destination, a dragon's cave in the mountains. The Dragon is the only creature that can get the Little Adventurers back home. Older players may elect to read the encounters themselves; the game is suitable for a variety of ages.
Little Adventurers' Club can accommodate any number of players.
Players are members of the Little Adventurers' Club that meet every Saturday because their boring parents get together to play cards. The children find themselves transported into a book found in an old trunk in the attic to a fantastic world of funny and odd creatures. However, there is a Wizard that wants to keep the children from returning home. The players race against the Wizard to be the first to reach the Dragon that lives in the mountains.
There are plenty of illustrations and sketches by Kenneth Garcia. Little Adventurers' Club will include a small fold out board, two large custom dice, over 35 unique and funny cards rewarded by encounters with titles such as 'Love Poem to a Cow', 'Skeletal Remains of a Jelly Filled Donut', 'Seeing Eye Cricket', 'Find Your Inner Pie', 'I Once Had a Snap Then Suddenly...No Snap!', ' It May Be Silly But Magical Bunnies Are Real' and more. Also included is a children's book of illustrated encounters. Gameplay includes dice rolling coupled with strategic decision-making based upon six cards that are placed next to the board. Players choose how best to apply their dice results, which will advance both the players' token as well as the Wizard.
There is an entire world of creatures to discover in the book, so the game can be replayed many times before repeating encounters. Creatures encountered include the Green Eyed Googly, Bluebeak the Patchwork Bird, Sir Frapple the Cyclops, Shamboozle the Witch, Phillip Turtle, Mother Dragon, Deepfat Bokra with Nugget Crusher, and many others.Dies ist ein Spiel-Datensatz. Bislang wurde noch kein ausführlicher Spieltest hinterlegt.


Another month, another off-topic bookish post. I’m lucky that even in the busiest of times, I usually manage to find time to read — some of that is thanks to the highly problem-plagued NYC subway system, where I might be stressed about getting late to appointments all the time, but do have plenty of time to read… because what else can I possibly do when my train has stalled for the umpteenth time?
That said, I haven’t had time to continue the Ron Chernow Alexander Hamilton biography much — it’s a nightstand book for me, and I wound up devoting some of that bedtime reading to the book devoted to “Hamilton” the play (pictured above) because I’m still thinking about it two months after seeing it. Oops. But I’m determined to complete the biography soon and I will get around to sharing my thoughts before summer’s over.
I had time for some other non-pictured books as well, so read on…
Three Wishes (by Liane Moriarty) – I put a bunch of Liane Moriarty books on my to-read list recently. After reading “Big Little Lies” last month, I got to this one via a Kindle library loan and I quite enjoyed it. So far I find that Moriarty’s books have a “beach read” quality, while touching on some important themes — this book generally felt like much lighter fare than “Big Little Lies” on some levels, but there were a few dark undercurrents as well. That said, I found myself laughing quite a bit and really enjoyed the triplets at the center of the story. I recommend it if you’re looking for a book you can breeze through….


Ankita Sharma is a writer, artist and entrepreneur based in Faridabad, India. She is an alumni of NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Technology) and is passionate about writing, reading and portrait sketching.
She has written three books ‘The Wedding Trousseau and Other Short Stories’ published in 2015, ‘Swati’s Marriage and Other Tales of India’ published in 2016 and 'You Must Be Around- 80 Poems On Love, Life And Longing' published in 2016. Two of her poems '‘Snake’ and ‘Who Says Silence Haunts?’ have been included in the international multilingual poetry anthology ‘Lakdi Ka pul II’ published by the Twin Cities Poetry Club, Hyderabad.
Her sketch works have appeared on the cover pages of a few titles.


HOA Board Meetings are now open to the public
See the events in the calendar for more details!
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HOA Board Meeting
September 17, 2019 @ 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The Stockmans Hollow HOA Board will hold a meeting of the board of directors on September 17th, 2019 at 6:30 PM at Sump Memorial Library in Papillion. The meeting will be held in meeting room 50.
All HOA members are invited to attend the first 30 minutes of the board meeting, from 6:30 PM – 7:00 PM to address any questions or concerns to the HOA Board.


Here are our Student Activism Handbooks, compiled from a number of sources from around the world, and from all political persuasions.
They are all works in progress, being updated on the suggestions and experiences of societies within our network.
- Starting up a Society Handbook – how to get started, grow your society and ensure you have new leadership to replace you
- Tabling Handbook - practical advice on how to run stalls at Freshers’ Fairs and throughout the year
- Events Handbook – practical advice on holding a speaker event on campus
- Convincing / Debating Handbook – advice for all libertarians on how to convince people of your ideas
If you have queries that need answering, or would like to suggest additions and edits to these handbooks, contact Anton Howes at firstname.lastname@example.org


The story of Shammarah McPherson is a guiding light in the pursuit of self-awareness and development. This article explores the life of a great person who overcame hardships, accepted difficulties, and ultimately became a role model for resilience and achievement. The life of Shammarah exemplifies the limitless possibilities of the human soul.
Early Life: Overcoming Adversity
Shammarah McPherson’s early life was defined by a succession of hardships that may have discouraged others. She was born in a small village in Georgia, USA. Her early life was marred by difficulties on every front: financial struggles, health problems, and the like. Instead of giving in to hopelessness, Shammarah used these trials as opportunities to grow stronger.
The Power of Education: A Turning Point
Shammarah’s awakening to the life-altering potential of learning was a watershed moment. She realized that education was the route to freedom and independence from adversity. Her dogged determination paid off when she earned a full scholarship to a top institution.
College Years: Pursuit of Excellence
Shammarah worked really hard during her time at university. She decided to study psychology because she desperately wanted to learn more about people and be of service to them. Her extraordinary academic success won her the acclaim of her peers and the respect of her teachers.
Empowering the Underprivileged: Shammarah’s Noble Mission
Having overcome significant challenges in her own life, Shammarah was determined to share the benefit of her accomplishment with others. To help underprivileged youngsters gain access to higher education, she founded a nonprofit. Her organization has had a tremendous effect, opening doors for innumerable young people and helping them to realize their full potential.
Ascending Career: Illuminating the Field
The rise of Shammarah’s career is a reflection of her dogged dedication to improving herself. After finishing her education, she dove headfirst into a profession in clinical psychology, where she quickly rose to prominence. Her unconventional treatment methods have won her significant praise.
The Power of Mindset: Personal Growth
Shammarah’s success may be traced back to her unwavering faith in the efficacy of a hopeful outlook. She talks a lot about how important it is to have a strong mind and spirit to go through tough times. The inward growth symbolized by her voyage is equally as impressive as her outside successes.
Shammarah McPherson journey is a shining example of the positive impact that perseverance, education, and an optimistic approach can have. Her story inspires us to view challenges as opportunities for development and to pursue greatness in every area of life. Many people have been inspired by Shammarah’s persistent dedication to empowering others and to their own personal progress.


How to detect M3U8 files and download
To detect M3U8 files and download them, you can use a tool like FFmpeg or a programmatic solution like Python with the
requests library. Here’s an example using Python:
import requests url = "URL_OF_THE_M3U8_FILE" response = requests.get(url) if response.status_code == 200: with open("video.ts", "wb") as f: for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=1024): f.write(chunk)
This code sends a request to the URL of the M3U8 file and, if the response is successful (status code 200), it downloads the contents of the file in small chunks and writes them to a file named
Note: M3U8 files are just playlist files that contain URLs to the actual video segments, so you’ll need to parse the file to get the URLs of the video segments, and then download them as shown above.


In 1993, Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC) established the Axumite Heritage Foundation to preserve and promote the cultural heritage of Axum and northern Ethiopia. Since 2001, ECDC been operating a library in the restored ‘Inda Nebri’id, the former home of the governor of Axum. After discussions with city officials and residents, we realized that the current building could no longer meet the community’s growing needs, and we began work on a permanent modern library. The new library will have enlarged reading rooms, an auditorium, and classrooms, which will be used for computer training, literacy classes, and support for local entrepreneurship.
Dr. Tsehaye Teferra, ECDC Founder and President, recently traveled to Axum to oversee the ongoing construction and reported that great progress has been made on the new building. He reported at that time that the basic structure has been completed, the roof has been installed, and much of internal framing and plastering on all three levels has been finished. Once completed, we will begin work on landscaping, installing a septic tank, a water conservation system, and solar panels. As you can see from the photos below, we are very close to our goal!
With all the progress that has been made, Dr. Teferra is requesting bookshelves to prepare for opening of the new library, and needs help finding resources for donated or reasonably priced shelves or furniture from public libraries, schools, universities, or local residents. Please contact Carrie Thiele at Carriet@acc-den.org to donate items or connect Dr. Teferra with resources to find the needed items.


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By Angela Kohn
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Illustrated by Georgia Stylou
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Sugar Cone Publishing sat down with author Angela D Kohn to discuss her first picture book, James and His ADHD Superpowers, illustrated by Georgia Stylou. Angela, please let us know a bit about your book.
James and His ADHD Superpowers is an extremely powerful story of two young brothers that band together to use their superpowers to battle —ADHD—and win!
What was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating your book?
I was struck, while writing my story, at how lucky my son is to have a parent with ADHD who can relate and help him with his struggles, as I was not afforded the same opportunity to be diagnosed at an early age. It was only as a young adult that I learned how to manage my symptoms and turn what I had previously considered my weakness (a fast brain) into a positive (intense creativity and imagination). I was inspired to share my story one year ago after my son was diagnosed with ADHD, and I developed a treatment plan to ensure that he would be successful in school and not struggle in his personal life.
What are you hoping readers take away from reading your book?
I hope that my young readers and their families learn from reading my book to identify ADHD strategies and use those tools to help their child better manage their symptoms so that they feel empowered and accepted
What makes this book special to you? What impression do you hope it will leave with young readers?
This story is personal. I hope readers will no longer view ADHD as a condition that is traditionally considered a disadvantage. It is important to bring awareness about ADHD and the stigma’s associated with it, and that people with ADHD can be just as successful as those without the condition when they learn the techniques that will help them flourish. And that, in fact, their struggles can turn into their biggest strengths.
Angela D Kohn is a Registered Nurse by profession. When she isn’t writing inspiring children’s stories, Angela loves to create things—from making a new invention and getting it patented to creating a kid’s video with a game developer to decorating interior spaces. An RN, wellness advocate and strong believer in faith, Angela enjoys spending time with her family and her son’s two skinny pigs in Southern California where she lives. James and His ADHD Superpowers is her debut children’s book..


You can fix the error by installing locales-all, on Debian by doing:
apt-get install locales-all
And then adding this to your GemFile:
if RUBY_VERSION =~ /1.9/ Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8
Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8
You might also want to try to export the variables:
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8" export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
Either one of the 2 solutions will solve the issue.


Saturday, 6 October 2012
Thing 16: Advocacy, speaking up for the profession and getting published
This week's Thing struck a chord with me. As a public librarian (a rare breed, it sometimes seems) I am well aware of the need for advocacy. In the period where the most news of libraries closing was reaching the public and during our own authority's consultation period I was in an interesting position. At various points during our consultation I have been: a library assistant in a village library at risk of closure; a student at library school, following the news about library closures from an academic and research perspective; a librarian at a busy city centre library, and at all times; a library user. At times it has felt a bit like being on the front lines - particularly in a village library. The response to the possibility of closure of the library was very interesting. People were obviously very upset and wanted to save the library, but the way in which they wanted to do it took me by surprise. Over and over again we heard the same mantra - "we'll take it over if we have to; we'll run it for free." This was a nice sentiment and was obviously well meaning - it showed just how much people cared, but as a member of staff it was a bit dismaying to say the least. It reinforced a feeling that I often get that many people don't really understand what it is that librarians and library assistants do. I remember a library campaigner coming to speak in one of my lectures who really annoyed everyone with his constant assertion that everyone had forgotten that libraries are about books, and his aggravation at the fact that CILIP "won't admit they are about books either". There is no doubt that libraries are about books, but they are about so much more than that: they are about people and getting people the information they want and need. The staff that are there to help are trained to do just that (and people would probably be surprised by the kinds of things we are asked to do every day)and if you take them away, or expect people to do it for free, then you run the risk of turning libraries into book depositories, where people can do no more that pick up and return books. When it comes to advocacy, my own personal crusade is probably less about the saving of libraries as about the saving of library professionals. I continually feel like I have to fight against people who, upon finding out what I do for a living assume that I have some kind of wonderful stress-free job. (It is wonderful, most of the time, but it's certainly not stress-free)! At one stage, the popular moneysavingexpert.com recommended that anyone wanting to make a little extra money might consider working in their local library as it is such a nice easy job. A quick look through the forums will reveal that there was such an uproar in response to this that it was removed from the site. I have to be honest and admit that I don't think I've done a great deal to try and change this image of library professionals, but I would certainly like to. I particularly liked the article what it takes to be a 21st century librarian. Building on what I said in Thing 15, perhaps this a possible topic for presentation at a conference?


Toys abound in our home. Dolls, trucks, stuffed animals, games, DVDs and every possible contraption that makes noise came with the kids. But stories are what bring solace to Katrena, particularly books. They provide her with an avenue of escape and feed her imagination.
One book series in particular has become to Katrena what Piggy is to her brother. The main character, Éclair, comes alive as a precocious seven-year-old girl. She and her two-year-old sister, Meggie must go to live with their eccentric grandmother, Stella, while their mother is getting treatment for an illness and their father travels for work.
The books were written by Michelle Weidenbenner, a talented author who was raised two of her grandchildren for a while. She sent the first two books in the series, Éclair Meets Stella and Éclair Meets a Gypsy, to Katrena in time for Christmas last year. Katrena opened the book, began to read and was instantly captivated. She ignored her other Christmas presents while she drank in the story. The similarities in their stories are remarkable. Éclair and Meggie were the same age as Katrena and Isaac when they were displaced. Éclair’s persistent attempts to fix her parent’s problems and reunite the family echoes the desire of Katrena’s heart. The books, like Isaac’s piggy, are getting worn and dog-eared. I’ve found Katrena awake and reading them at four in the morning because, “I fell asleep while I was reading and now I just need to get to the end of the chapter.”
These books have been a blessing to me as well because it helps me get inside Katrena’s and Isaac’s head and understand what they may be feeling. Although I don’t have maroon-colored hair and I haven’t painted our barn pink, like Stella, I can identify with her.
At the end of this past year, Michelle published the third book in the series, Éclair Goes Geocaching. Katrena and I had the honor of pre-reading it and sending Michelle a critique of the book. We both absolutely loved it and a bit of Katrena’s critique was printed on the back cover.
She was so excited to see her name in print she announced to our houseful of guests at the time, “I’m famous. I want everybody’s autograph.” She passed around the paper, and received many “autographs” with words of encouragement.
Now she wants to write a book of her own. She certainly has many life experiences and lots to say. We’ll let you know when it goes to print. In the meantime, she is enjoying these books and looking forward to book four, Éclair in the Show Ring.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, Thank you for Michelle and the many other talented writers willingly share their hearts and experiences–whose words encourage and give solace to the wounded and those caring for them.


Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
“Hamas! Hamas! Jews to the gas!”
When Evelyn Markus made the difficult decision to leave Amsterdam, the “world’s most liberal city”, where she had grown up and come to the United States, she thought she was leaving hate behind.
Her reasons for leaving a country where her ancestors had lived for four centuries, and her continuing journey through history and hatred, is at the heart of her new documentary film, Never Again is Now.
Evelyn’s Amsterdam is a city of contrasts filled with the familiar sights of flowers and canals, and the shocking, but alsoincreasingly familiar sights of angry mobs chanting support for the Islamic terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah, and howling out their hatred for the Jews. It’s this everyday horror that drove her out of the Netherlands, and that drives Never Again is Now’scollision of history and current events.
For Evelyn Markus, the daughter of Dutch Jews who survived the Holocaust, the “world’s most liberal city” stopped being all that liberal. The death of her parents and the death of the ‘liberal’ city where she had grown up became intertwined as a journey of the mind and the soul.
That journey, in which Evelyn pored through her parents’ letters and their stories of the Holocaust even as she confronted the rebirth of popular anti-Semitism, eventually became Never Again is Now, a documentary about the past, present and future of Jewish life, and its evil twin, anti-Semitism.
Evelyn’s journey in Never Again is Now takes us into history, not just in the past, but in its endurance and emergence today, in the heroic, as she meets Frank Towers, the 90-year-old veteran who helped save her family, in Nashville at the last reunion of the 30th Infantry Veterans of World War II, and in the confrontation with evil, encountering an anti-Semitic mob chanting, “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas.”
Evelyn’s parents had fallen in love under the shadow of the Nazi occupation of Holland, and survived, reunited and married, only to have their daughter flee the rise of that same hatred, this time not under the Swastika, but the red banners of the Left and the green banners of Islam. A generation after her parents had built a life together, Evelyn observed a new anti-Semitism coming from the “political Left.”
And the growth of Muslim migration had also spurred a new wave of anti-Semitism in the Netherlands.
Evelyn’s struggle to understand this rising hatred drew her to Ayaan Hirsi Ali: a Somali ex-Muslim immigrant who had faced death threats for her willingness to speak out against Islamic hatred. Ali notes the close parallels between the Islamic bigotry that she had escaped and Neo-Nazi movements.
As Muslim immigrant children filled Dutch schools, Ali describes how history lessons about the Holocaust came under fire. Meanwhile the anti-Israel protests of leftists and Islamists incorporated chants of “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas”, fantasizing openly about perpetrating another Holocaust.
In interviews with the Jews who have remained behind in Holland, Evelyn repeatedly encounters stories of harassment and threats by those Jewish residents who are visibly identifiable as being Jewish.
“It is very difficult to be outwardly Jewish,” Rabbi Raphael Evers describes.
A Jewish resident interviewed in Never Again is Now describes hearing taunts of, “Hitler should have finished the job.” He was physically attacked twice by gangs of Muslims who beat and kicked him.
Never Again, as the movie’s title emphasizes, is once again now in Europe. And in America. Jewish synagogues and schools in Europe, and now in America, have become fortresses protected by heavily armed guards.
“Life in the Netherlands if you are Jewish and not ashamed of being Jewish is a predicament,” Ali observes. “Or you move.”
And that’s where Never Again is Now finds its journey, caught between Europe and America, between liberation and hatred, and between the old historical crisis of anti-Semitism and its new rebirth. Near the Hague, Muslim protesters chant, “AllahuAkbar” and “Death to the Jews”. What does liberalism even mean when it leads to tolerance of pro-Hamas and pro-ISIS rallies?
“We should be tolerant of those who are tolerant of us,” Geert Wilders argues.
Much of what passes for tolerance is actually a tolerance for intolerance. The sympathy toward anti-Semitism on the Left that Never Again is Now chronicles in interviews and videos betray that truth.


Amid all the uncertainty and turmoil caused by this global COVID-19 pandemic, one thing I am grateful for is a newly kindled excitement to read physical books. As someone who is on screens nearly half the day, every day, I really enjoy the experience of disconnecting and reading a good printed book.
Today I wanted to take a moment to spread the word about A Selfish Plan to Change the World by Justin Dillon.
What if your search for meaning could solve the world’s problems? What if everything you are passionate about could save a life or change history?
In this paradigm-shifting new book, Dillon reveals the secret to a life of deep and lasting significance: the discovery that our need for meaning is inextricably linked to the needs of the world. Drawing upon his own unlikely transformation from touring musician to founder of a global movement and telling the stories of other surprising world-changers, Dillon shows how to create a life of deep purpose by stepping into the problems of the world. Taking readers on a journey from sweatshops in India to punk rock concerts in Ireland, Dillon exposes the limitations of the “giving back” approach involving donations and volunteerism to reveal the unexpected power of “giving in” to pursue self-interest in a way that alters the very dynamics of the world’s most challenging problems.
A Selfish Plan to Change the World is your “self-help-others” guide to a life that matters, demonstrating how you can repurpose your existing talents, backstory, and networks to improve the lives of others. Changing the world no longer belongs only to martyrs and professional do-gooders. You can live an extraordinary life. You can change the world. All you ever needed was a plan.
As I work towards finding my own riot throughout my life, I will certainly refer back to this life changing book. I hope this helps someone else as well.


In 1937, a young Henri Cartier-Bresson travelled to London to document the coronation of King George VI for French news magazine Regards. The set of photographs, which captured adoring citizens in various candid scenes (and noticeably omitted any record of the actual monarch himself), was significant not just because it was an important record of London life and its people, but also because it was the first of his photojournalist works to be published.
The Photographs come from the Eric and Louise Franck London Collection, and over two thirds of the 1400-strong image library, created over 20 years, has been donated to the Tate. Curators Helen Delaney and Simon Baker have chosen works by celebrated names such as Elliott Erwitt, Bruce Davidson and Bill Brandt, together with snapshots of the city by lesser known photographers.
Varied and contrasting, there are glimpses of life for the affluent upper and middle classes, as well as shots highlighting the plight of the urban poor, such as Bill Brandt’s arresting ‘Bethnal Green Housewife’, taken in 1937, capturing a scene from an east London doorstep.


Project planning and control: An overview of the latest developments
Project management as a science and a profession owns its reputation to the development of network scheduling techniques such as PERT and CPM. These techniques have been developed sixty years ago. This anniversary provides the opportunity to look back, and ahead, to overview the history, the lessons learned and to take a glimpse into the future, how this knowledge can be utilized for the future. An overview is given of the most important developments of those tools that can be applied during the course of project planning and control. Special emphasis is put on the comparison of the techniques used for project control such as EVM and network based forecasting. Topics like non-linear activities, continuous precedence relations, AND/OR logical switches on precedence relations, bi-directional precedence relations, Earned Schedule and their application for planning and control are discussed in a complex contex
||Prof. Milan Radosavljevic
Assistant Dean Research and EnterpriseSchool of Engineering and Computing
University of the West of Scotland,UK
Building information Modelling (BIM) and the future of Construction
BIM is purposeful digitisation of the construction process for the benefit of all stakeholders and the society. It relies on a complex network of digital approaches, solutions and tools. The implementation of BIM thus necessarily entails seamless integration of context, conditions as well as input, process and output requirements within the virtual environment to enable data-driven intelligence throughout the lifecycle of a project. Whilst the desired outcome of digitisation is known, the process itself requires careful consideration of requirements to achieve its effective implementation – it is much less about the model and so much more about data sources, data analytics and data mining.


The book’s subtitle: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef.
Without flinching, Gabrielle Hamilton candidly pours onto paper the food-accented roller-coaster ride of her life. There is her upbringing by a French-born mother and artist father, her older youth as a strung-out server, summers as head chef at a sleep-away camp in the Berkshires, several years in the stifling New York catering business, a journey to Europe and the finding of roots, sojourns to Italy and her new Italian family, and eventually, the opening of a restaurant in NYC that bears her childhood nickname.
Throughout this memoir, she seems to realize with shining clarity the impact food has had on her memory and on her very soul. All these places, not least her mother’s rustic well-stocked kitchen, have played a grand role in making her crave the flavors and textures that are her comfort foods and in setting her deliberate standards for good food: unadorned but rightly done.
The exquisite writing in this book makes it difficult for me to give it any kind of beautiful review. Hamilton is such a sensual writer that the way to entice any remotely interested reader is to simply instruct him to read a few passages from any chapter in the book, specifically the ones depicting food. She makes you want to not only eat that tender spit-roasted lamb, but smell that unctuous marinade and hear the oil and blood sizzling on the hot coals below. I’ll share perhaps my favorite excerpt, which comes early in the book:
from chapter 1–
The lambs were arranged over the coals head to toe to head to toe the way you’d put a bunch of kids having a sleepover into a bed…The lambs roasted so slowly and patiently that their blood dripped down into the hot coals with a hypnotic and rhythmic hiss, which sounded like the hot tip of a just-blown-out match being dipped into a cup of water. My dad basted them by dipping a branch of wood about as thick and long as an axe handle, with a big swab of cheesecloth tied at its end, into a clean metal paint can filled with olive oil, crushed rosemary and garlic, and big chunks of lemons. He then mopped the lambs, slowly, gently, and thoroughly, back and forth with soft careful strokes like you might paint your brand-new sailboat. Then the marinade, too, dripped down into the coals, hissing and atomizing, its scent lifting up into the air. So all day long, as we did our chores, the smell of gamey lamb, apple-wood smoke, and rosemary garlic marinade commingled and became etched into our brains. I have clung to it for thirty years, that smell. I have a chronic summertime yearning to build large fires outdoors and slowly roast whole animals. I could sit fireside and baste until sundown. Hiss. Hiss. Hiss.
I wish I had that childhood memory.
But this book isn’t just about food. It’s the story of an independent woman governing her passions, and there is plenty of her personal drama included. It’s just that, for Gabrielle Hamilton, food is connected to everything:
from chapter 13–
So I came to possess, of all things, a husband. This didn’t make sense for the longest time, to anyone, myself included, but that was also before I met his Italian mother. Eighty-year-old Alda Fuortes de Nitto cooks eggplant that satisfies like meat, grows her own olives, peels apricots from her own trees, and sun dries tomatoes to make her own tomato paste. I adore her and our summer visits to her home in Puglia, at the tip of the Italian boot heel.
I recommend this book to anyone who loves to eat with all the senses, who has a soft spot for culinary Europe, or who is interested in witnessing the gritty insides of catering and restaurant business. Now go and find this book if any of this delights you!


About “Russia Revisited”
November 27th, 2013
We are gearing up for our “Russia Revisited” concert on DSE Presents:
Sunday, December 15, 2013 at 3:00pm
Followed by Post-concert Conversation with the artists
Gould Rehearsal Hall, Lenfest Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, 1616 Locust Street, Philadelphia
Mimi Stillman, flute
Burchard Tang, viola
Charles Abramovic, piano
Tatiana Abramova, piano (guest artist)
Sergei Prokofiev, Sonata for Piano #6, Op. 80 [Abramovic]
Dmitri Shostakovich, Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147 [Tang, Abramovic]
Mieczeslaw Weinberg, Five Pieces for Flute and Piano – U.S. premiere [Stillman, Abramovic]
David Finko, Sonata for Flute and Piano – world premiere [Stillman, Abramova]
Yevgeniy Sharlat, Sonata for Flute and Piano [Stillman, Abramova]
Virtuosity and emotional intensity abound in this program of masterworks by Prokofiev and Shostakovich, along with the U.S. premiere of a recently rediscovered piece by Mieczeslaw Weinberg, a world premiere by David Finko, and a sonata by emerging composer Yevgeniy Sharlat. Prokofiev’s Sonata for Piano #6, Op. 82, written in 1940 and the first of his three war sonatas. Prokofiev died on March 5, 1953, the same day the death of Stalin was announced. Shostakovich lived on until 1975, and his intricate, controversial relationship with the regime has been much documented. We will perform his last composition, the Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147.
Mieczeslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), a Polish Jew who escaped the Nazis by fleeing to the Soviet Union, enjoyed a distinguished career but his music fell into relative obscurity in the West until very recently. His work Five Pieces for Flute and Piano was premiered in 1948 just before the purge, and the manuscript score languished in a St. Petersburg archive for around 60 years before it was discovered by Bret Werb, musicologist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. When I consulted Mr. Werb while doing research on the music of the Holocaust for Dolce Suono Ensemble’s project commemorating the Holocaust, he gave me the manuscript of Weinberg’s piece. I am honored to be giving its United States premiere on the Dolce Suono Ensemble Presents series “Russia Revisited” concert.
In addition, we will give the world premiere of David Finko’s Sonata for Flute and Piano. Finko, a Russian Jewish composer, narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II, and suffered persecution under the Soviet regime before emigrating to the United States in the 1970s.
Yevgeniy Sharlat, whose Sonata for Flute and Piano we will also perform on this program, was born in Moscow and came to the United States with his family as a child, having endured economic privation and anti-Semitism under the Soviet regime.
General $25 / Senior $20 / Student $10
Available online www.dolcesuono.com, by phone 267-252-1803, and at the door.