A multi-generational story by Disney-Pixar about the power of family relationships.
Disney-Pixar has repeatedly raised the bar of animated movies by telling stories that would appeal to children and adults alike. But their past couple of films seemed to miss that crucial element of storytelling, leading to some sub-par entries in their otherwise impressive catalogue. 'Coco' is an original tale, and a highly imaginative one at that, by writer/ co-director Adrian Molina. Based in Mexico, it introduces us to the Rivera family who makes shoes for a living and everyone absolutely despises anything related to music. Except for little Miguel Rivera, who shines shoes but aspires to be a musician. Through the course of the film, Miguel enters the Land of the Dead and learns the truth about who his family really is.
'Coco' is colorful and vibrant, blending a number of unique personalities and vivid landscapes. Director Lee Unkrich keeps the narrative taut; throwing in a couple of twists along with some truly powerful moments that will invariably pull at your heartstrings. The voice acting from an all-Latino cast is top-notch, with Anthony Gonzalez's Miguel being endearing. Gael Garcia Bernal & Benjamin Bratt who play Hector and Ernesto de la Cruz respectively make each character unique. Renee Victor as the wisecracking, feisty Abuelita is a treat. Even Dante, Miguel's pet street dog who doesn't have any lines, is adorable and plays a vital role too.
Going beyond the usual 'follow your dreams' mantra, 'Coco' has multiple messages to take home. It's also a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of being a celebrity, and more importantly an ode to family, especially the ones who aren't with us anymore. Even though it's primarily set in Mexico and steeped in their culture, anyone who values family, and music, will connect with it immediately. Expect guitar sales to spike as musically-inclined kids will be inspired to take up lessons. The fact that even some adults might be tempted to do the same, is a testament to why this film works so well. 'Coco' shows us what Disney-Pixar does best, and reminds us that it still hasn't lost its touch. Take your kids along for it, and if you don't have any, don't hesitate to go alone!
Disney-Pixar Shorts' 'Olaf's Frozen Adventure' (21.51 mins) will play before this feature. The short film was not screened for this review.
When Miguel, a 12 year old Spanish boy wants to follow his heart’s dream of becoming a musician, things turn for the worst as he finds himself trapped between family, egocentric and sleazy characters while looking for his Grandfather and discovering a world never imagined.
What a fantastic film, filled with intrigues, emotion and mesmerizing scenes.
The warmth and Spanish undertone of the film, evoke your own family bonds, fond memories and special love for one’s Grandmother.
I lost myself in the movie to such an extent that I forgot I was watching an animated production.
Coco is not a musical, but there is a hint of music in the film, which builds on top of the superb storyline. The screenwriter manages to create a suspense in which one can’t wait for Miguel to play his next riff on his strum.
The animated 3D adventure encourages oneself to follow your dreams at all cost, but most importantly to put your loved ones first.
Coco is heartwarming. It manages to show us a different side of the afterlife, a side which we never imagined, where the dead interacts with the living and corpses are beautiful, emotional and lovable characters.
Miguel strikes a friendship with a trickster named Hector and together they discover the story about Miguel’s family, which eventually leads to making his dream become reality.
The movie has been produced by Disney and taken Gross Income of $457,925,760 from it’s opening on the 22nd of November until 22nd of December 2017.
Coco is a wonderful film for the whole family and a must see for everyone who loves music, beautiful scenes and awesome characters!
Rupert Eghardt


Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction, Mysteries
Who Is Melissa Lenhardt?
Melissa Lenhardt writes women’s fiction, historical fiction, and mysteries. The New York Times called HERESY an “unapologetically badass western” and “an all-out women-driven, queer, transgender, multiracial takeover of the Old West.” Heresy also won the 2022 Audie Award for Best Multi-Voiced Performance. Her first women’s fiction novel, THE SECRET OF YOU AND ME, was the first LGBTQ+ novel published by Mills and Boon in the UK. A lifelong Texan, Melissa is currently traveling the world as a digital nomad.
RUN BABY RUN (June 2023)
A mother, a daughter and a road trip that’s about to take a hard left turn in this heartfelt and witty story about the sacrifices we make for love.
Darcy Evans is getting married. In a week. To a man who is her childhood dream come true. But a late-night confession from her best friend changes everything and before she even has time to unpack it, she must endure a road trip to the ceremony with her estranged mother, Marja. It was always the two of them against the world…until Marja ghosted Darcy three years ago. No car in the world has enough room for all of their baggage.
The drive from Austin to Chicago is nostalgic, claustrophobic, incredibly messy and exactly what both women need. As they each find themselves at a crossroads in their lives, long-held secrets are revealed—ones that reshape Darcy’s memories of the past and forever alter the future she’d recently been so certain of. She hadn’t known what a reunion with her mother might bring, but sometimes following your heart means taking a path you never planned…and finding a love you never imagined.
The Secret of You and Me
True love never fades—and old secrets never die…
Nora hasn’t looked back. Not since she fled Texas to start a new life. Away from her father’s volatile temper and the ever-watchful gaze of her claustrophobically conservative small town, Nora has freed herself. She can live—and love—however she wants. The only problem is that she also left behind the one woman she can’t forget. Now tragedy calls her back home to confront her past—and reconcile her future.
Sophie seems to have everything—a wonderful daughter, a successful husband and a rewarding career. Yet underneath that perfection lies an explosive secret. She still yearns for Nora—her best friend and first love—despite all the years between them. Keeping her true self hidden hasn’t been easy, but it’s been necessary. So when Sophie finds out that Nora has returned, she hopes Nora’s stay is short. The life she has built depends on it.
But they both find that first love doesn’t fade easily. Memories come to light, passion ignites and old feelings resurface. As the forces of family and intolerance that once tore them apart begin to reemerge, they realize some things may never change—unless they demand it.
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2022 Audie Award Winner for Best Multi-Voice Performance
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"Lenhardt has created a bold new story where women have taken their rightful place in the narrative of the Outlaw Western genre; where wit, wisdom, and wiles could mean the difference between life and death, and where the fellowship of women bested every challenge." (Kathleen Kent)
Margaret Parker and Hattie LaCour never intended to turn outlaw.
After being run off their ranch by a greedy cattleman, their family is left destitute. As women alone they have few choices: marriage, lying on their backs for money, or holding a gun. For Margaret and Hattie, the choice is simple. With their small makeshift family, the gang pulls off a series of heists across the West.
Though the newspapers refuse to give the female gang credit, their exploits don't go unnoticed. Pinkertons are on their trail, a rival male gang is determined to destroy them, and secrets among the group threaten to tear them apart.
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The Sawbones Series
Wrongfully accused of murder, Dr. Catherine Bennett is destined to hang. . . unless she can disappear.
With the untamed territory of Colorado as her most likely refuge, she packs her physician's kit and heads West. But even with a new life and name, a female doctor with a bounty on her head can hide for only so long.
Sawbones is the first novel in a gripping historical fiction series.
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"Thoroughly original, smart and satisfying. . .perhaps a new subgenre: THE FEMINIST WESTERN." -Lone Star Literary Life
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"I COULDN'T TEAR MYSELF AWAY. . . An epic story of love and courage that sweeps from east to west, Sawbones will rip right through you." -Marci Jefferson
"A PAGE-TURNER" -Jane Kirkpatrick, New York Times bestselling author
"YOU WILL FALL IN LOVE with Catherine." -Sandra Dallas, New York Times bestselling author
The Jack McBride Mystery Series
Big secrets run deep.
Former FBI agent Jack McBride took the job as Chief of Police for Stillwater, Texas, to start a new life with his teenage son, Ethan, away from the suspicions that surrounded his wife’s disappearance a year earlier.
With a low crime rate and a five-man police force, he expected it to be a nice, easy gig; hot checks, traffic violations, some drugs, occasional domestic disturbances, and petty theft. Instead, within a week he is investigating a staged murder-suicide, uncovering a decades’ old skeleton buried in the woods, and managing the first crime wave in thirty years.
For help navigating his unfamiliar, small-town surroundings, Jack turns to Ellie Martin, one of the most respected women in townher scandal-filled past notwithstanding. Despite Jack's murky marriage status and the disapproval of Ethan and the town, they are immediately drawn to each other.
As Jack and Ellie struggle with their budding relationship, they unearth shattering secrets long buried and discover the two cases Jack is working, though fifty years apart, share a surprising connection that will rattle the town to its core.
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“On the last lap Bill takes a chance. With Rogliardo edging alongside as they enter the ultra-fast Malmédy bend, Beevers leaves his braking late to keep his opponent at bay but drifts slightly off-line and gets onto the marbles. The bike spins out of control allowing the Frenchman to sneak through to bag second place. Worse, the centrifugal force of the gyrating outfit throws Bill off leaving John heading for potential disaster with a trackside post looming up...”
A book of anecdotes, reminiscences and fascinating adventures based on John Chisnall’s experiences over two decades of motorcycle racing at the Isle of Man TT and major European and British tracks.
Our sole intention in writing this book is to amuse, to entertain and to tweak the strings of nostalgia.
Brought up in a poor family in an agricultural environment, John could never have imagined that he would become an international motorcycle racer and travel the continent, rubbing shoulders with the idols of the sport. In 1957 he achieved his ambition of riding in the TT and continued competitive motorcycling for the next twenty years. He retains a keen interest in the sport and is an active member of the Vintage Motorcycle Club, the Velocette Owners Club and the TT Riders Association.
Co-author Tony first took an interest in motorcycle racing watching John's exploits riding grass-track with Derek Yorke and other local stars. Little did he know then that he would one day be joining them. He too raced with some success and in 1968 rode in the Isle of Man TT. He now lives in France and writes as a hobby.
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Study: Childhood TB Rates Much Higher than EstimatedJuly 10, 2014
Members of the Sentinel Project Network have published a paper titled, “Burden of childhood tuberculosis in 22 high-burden countries: a mathematical modelling study.” The paper was published in early online publication in the The Lancet Global Health on July 9, 2014. The aim of this paper is to estimate the incidence of infection and disease in children, the prevalence of infection, and household exposure in the 22 countries with a high burden of disease.
You can access an article highlighting the paper here.
Full Reference: Burden of childhood tuberculosis in 22 high-burden countries: a mathematical modelling study Dr Peter J Dodd PhD,Elizabeth Gardiner MSc,Renia Coghlan MPH,James A Seddon PhD The Lancet Global Health – 9 July 2014 DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70245-1


In this rare picture you see the traditional clothing one could find in Salonika, Ottoman Empire. This picture from the The Library of Congress of the USA is dated 1873 and belongs to Pascal Sébah (1823 – 1886), a prominent photographer of Istanbul.
This 1873 picture depicts a married Jewish woman of Salonika, a Bulgarian woman of Prilep and a married Muslim woman of Salonika. Pascal Sébah was a pioneer photographer based on Istanbul and had travel Ottoman Empire taking pictures; either models or scenery. In total there are 13 pictures of his work taken in Salonika.


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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Transcendentalist essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) did not effect much change in his borrowing from India in his poem “Brahma,” which originated from an extract in his journal for 1845. The extract is from H. H. Wilson’s Vishnu Purana: “What living creature slays, or is slain? What living creature preserves, or is preserved? Each is his own destroyed or preserver, as he follows good or evil.” “Brahma” first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly for November 1857, the year of what the British called the Indian Mutiny.
Emerson knows the Brahma he is writing about is the first person singular of the word “Brahman.” Brahma is Pure Being, without attributes, without form, unclassifiable, unknowable, the Everywhere Breather who breathes without breath. The advice to the seeker of the True Good at the poem’s end is “…And turn thy back on heaven.” Heaven is the easy reward of good deeds. What’s needed is selfless deed.
William Butler Yeats
Three Indians, two of them Bengalis, were influential in the life of the Irish poet/dramatist W. B. Yeats (1865–1939). In December 1885 he attended a talk in
Dublin on Upanishadic philosophy by the theosophist Mohini Mohun Chatterjee. He put me in a dream, says Yeats in his essay “The Way of Wisdom.” “Ah, how many years it has taken me to awake out of that dream!” Forty-three years, to be exact, because in 1928 he wrote what is probably the only poem in English literature that has for its title the name of a living Indian person: “Mohini Chatterjee.”
Chatterjee’s explanation of life and love to Yeats in 1885 was absurdly simple: Don’t ask for anything, because you will get it—and get fed up with it, sooner or later. Especially don’t ask for love. Speak from a position of strength, not weakness; fulfillment, not emptiness; giving, not begging. Only by giving love can you receive it. Life is the greatest gift; life is fulfillment, not love.
This pronouncement apparently placed Yeats in that incredibly long dream. In the third and fourth quatrains of “Quatrains and Aphorisms” (January 1886), Yeats does seem to endorse Mohini’s philosophy:
Long for nothing, neither sad nor gay;
Long for nothing, neither night nor day;
Not even “I long to see thy longing over”
To the ever-longing and mournful spirit say.
The ghosts went by with their lips apart
From death’s late languor as these lines I read
On Brahma’s gateway, “They within have felt The soul upon the ashes of the heart.”
Yet Yeats wanted love. He craved for Maud Gonne. When she refused him, and married John MacBride, “a drunken, vainglorious lout,” he proposed to her stepdaughter Iseult, who on Maud’s advice rejected him also. Yeats did not accept the wise advice of Mohini whom he describes as a “handsome young man with the typical face of Christ,” an Indian who taught “all action and all words that lead to action were a little trivial.” (What Mohini meant, of course, was “ego-loaded” action.)
The Western twist that Yeats gives to Mohini’s Hindu belief is obvious. We are born again and again (as Yeats puts it: “Grave is heaped on grave”) to seek and find the perfect love. To argue that love is not fulfillment is self-deception. Love is moksha (liberation, or release from the changing world and the cycle of birth and rebirth, samsara). Mohini Chatterjee would have smiled at that.
The second Indian in Yeats’s life was Rabindranath Tagore, with whom he kept up an on-and-off epistolary relationship until 1930. He found Tagore’s prose-poem translations from the Bengali Gitanjali good enough for inclusion in his anthology The Oxford Book of Modern Verse.
The third Indian was a Swami whose poems also found place in Yeats’s anthology. With Swami Purohit, Yeats entered the esoteric realm of Hindu religious myth and symbolism. Yeats met the Swami in 1930 and collaborated with him in translating the Upanishads and other sacred Sanskrit texts. Faber & Faber published these in book form through the good offices of one of its directors, T. S. Eliot, who, incidentally, had earlier in his “primer of modern heresy” consigned Yeats to literary hell, along with James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, for producing morally dubious and corrupting literature. The primer was aptly titled After Strange Gods.
Before he met the Swami, Yeats had composed in 1920, two years after the havoc of World War I, a poem titled “The Second Coming.” He writes: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold…revelation is at hand…what rough beast…Slouches towards Bethlehem to born?” Yeats transforms St. John’s vision of the coming of the Anti-Christ into a fearful image of an avatar of Vishnu, Nara-Simha (the Man-Lion), turning him into a Doomsday beast who, at the end of the 2000–year gyre of Christian civilization, crawls toward the Christ-child’s manger. In other words, the Christian values of love and innocence have been wasted on mankind. Bethlehem has become Bedlam (etymologically, “bedlam” is a corruption of Bethlehem Asylum in London). Poor Nara-Simha, one of the nine manifestations of Vishnu who restore dharma each time it declines in the successive yugas (ages). A perfectly sensible Hindu avatar saving an age of men-lions is metamorphosed (with a touch of the Sphinx) into a world-destroying monster in Yeats’s Christian imagination.
In 1934, Yeats wrote a remarkable sonnet titled “Meru.” Meru is the mythical Hindu mountain of spiritual realization. Everest is the world’s tallest physical mountain, the scaling of which is considered a major accomplishment. Which is better? Neither, concludes Yeats. Spiritual achievement and material achievement (“hermits on Mount Meru or Everest”) both lead to “the desolation of reality.” Eastern spirituality and Western technology are both temporary and illusory. “Before dawn/ His glory and his monuments are gone.”
So what remains? What is the message, if a poem can be said to have a message? “The Second Coming” was written just after World War I, “Meru” five years before World War II began. Is Yeats saying, when will they ever learn?


Gaelic Society of Inverness - Comunn Gàidhlig Inbhir Nis
The Gaelic Society of Inverness was established in 1871 for the purpose of “cultivating the language, poetry and music of the Scottish Highlands and generally furthering the interests of the Gaelic-speaking people”. Currently we...
arrange series of talks on Highland history and Gaelic culture
publish a volume of Transactions every two years
organise an annual memorial service at Culloden Battlefield
organise a showcase of Gaelic music and song
run an escorted coach trip and a dinner
take part, with others, in campaigns relating to our core interests
support projects commemorating eminent individuals and events.
THE HISTORY OF HIGHLAND HOSPITALS
Jim Leslie gave a comprehensive and interesting talk to the Society on the history of Highland hospitals on Friday December 7th.
This. and the rest of the talks presented during the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons will appear in the Transactions of the Gaelic Society (TGSI) volume LXIX, which is due in 2020..
Picture: The old Royal Northern Infirmary building, Inverness
For updated versions of the subject-based and classified indexes to the Transactions, go to Archive/Transactions above and choose the appropriate link.
For a new short history of GSI click on: Eachdraidh.


Innovative Black Bear Baiting Tactics
by Bernie Barringer
Book Review by Steve Sorensen
Occasionally the Havalon Sportsman’s Post reviews books we’re sure you’ll benefit from. Here’s a book by Bernie Barringer, a black bear expert if there ever was one.
The author knows his stuff. He ought to, because he has been baiting bears for himself, his family and his friends for decades. And he’s been hunting bears with guides for just as long. And he’s been writing and editing the work of others who write about bears for several years.
He just might be North America’s leading expert on baiting black bears. Of course, I have no way of knowing that for sure, but I’ve read a lot of books on bear hunting and none are as comprehensive as this one on the topic of baiting. If you think baiting bear amounts to dumping some doughnuts in front of a treestand, well, you’ve probably never seen a bear bait.
The Truth About Bear Baiting
He begins by dispelling the view that baiting is easy. It’s not. It’s just easier than the impossible task of finding a bear to shoot in a jungle so thick you can’t see more than a few feet in front of you.
And the impossibility of finding a bear that way (to say nothing of the danger) isn’t so much because you can’t see. It’s because he can smell you so you won’t see him. In chapter after chapter, Barringer praises the bear for his powerful nose – because over and over and over he has witnessed bears using it to survive. A successful bear baiter must conquer the bear’s nose.
After a quick opening chapter on the amazing ways black bears are equipped to survive, he organizes his topics from general to specific: general bait locations, specific sites, picking out the precise spot, site improvement, placing a treestand, and cutting shooting lanes.
Packed with Tips It Would Take An Entire Career To Learn
Barringer delves into the baits themselves – what to use when starting a bait site, how the nutritional needs of bears relate to your bait, how much and how often to bait, how to fine-tune your bear bait to the individual tastes of bears, what are various ways to present the bait… the good stuff just keeps coming.
Here are a couple of tips I’ve never read anywhere else (1.) For a much greater chance the bear will come to your bait in daylight, locate it so he has a line of travel that keeps him in thick cover. (2.) The perfect shape for a bait site is a lightbulb-shaped opening with the stand at the stem end and the bear bait at the bulb end. Those are just two. Read the book with a highlighter – you’ll find a lot more.
Most book titles promise more than they deliver. Not this one. It is about bear baiting – you can learn other things from other books. To the degree Barringer discusses weapons, trail cameras, bug protection and other things – it’s all about how they relate to baiting.
The Three Audiences That Need This Book
- The frequent bear hunter. You’ll know how to evaluate outfitters after reading this book. Second, outfitters themselves.
- Outfitters seldom see how others do it, so the good ones subtly pick the brains of the hunters they guide to glean information that will make them better. There’s more here than any outfitter will ever learn on his own.
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Books about the Baja California peninsula (and ones that utilize it as a setting) have been appearing regularly for hundreds of years, from landmarks like Francisco Clavijero’s Historia de la Antigua o Baja California to 20th century standards such as The Pearl and Sea of Cortez.
Literary offerings from Steinbeck and others of similar prestige have always been easy to find, but for too long acquiring the important regional works of lesser known authors was a daunting task, requiring wit, wisdom and the patience to scan the shelves of innumerable bookstores.
Luckily, the internet shopping age has brought many of the classics of Baja California literature back to light, and made them readily accessible to a new generation of readers. Here are five favorites – some famous, some relatively obscure – all available through Amazon and other online booksellers.
Historia de Baja California by Pablo L. Martinez
“The origin of the word California, or rather when and how it was applied as a name to the peninsula, appears to be obscure, speaking from a purely historical point of view. It is not known, of course, whether Fortún Jiménez, the discoverer, or some other person among those who went with him, gave it a name. On the other hand, we have seen that when Cortez went there he called it Santa Cruz and nothing else.”
There is a reason Pablo L. Martinez is honored at the Jardín de los Cabeños Ilustres in San José del Cabo (he was born in nearby Santa Anita), and at the Rotonda de los Sudcalifornianos Ilustres in La Paz. His Historia de Baja California is the most complete and exhaustively researched book every written about “old Baja,” from the language and customs of indigenous tribes to the building of Spanish missions and the political movements of the first half of the 20th century. First published in 1956 (the English edition followed in 1960), this is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history and development of the Baja California peninsula. Unlike other Baja histories, which often rely on legends and lore, Martinez’s magnum opus is based on archival records, first-person accounts, and the documented finds of other noted historians. His companion volume, Guía Familiar de Baja California, 1700 – 1900, is the bible of Baja genealogists, tracing as it does the histories of the peninsula’s pioneer families.
The Journey of the Flame by Antonio de Fierro Blanco
“‘Shut up, Bonehead!’ whispered his mate. ‘They’ll think you locoed by the sun, and souse a bucket of water over your thick skull. It’s Don Juan Obrigon – Juan Colorado. Or perhaps you’ve heard him called Red John.’
“‘Or The Flame,’ suggested an aged Indian politely. ‘When I handled a bowstring, he once destroyed the warriors of a wild tribe by fire, which sprang from the earth at his command. They perished in flame while he rode on, not even looking back to see whether any survived to chase him.’”
Looking for “The Great Baja Novel?” Written under the rather florid pen name Antonio de Fierro Blanco, this picaresque tale is actually the work of wealthy American businessman Walter Nordhoff, who fell in love with Baja California while managing an enormous ranch his father owned on the peninsula. Although he is perhaps best known as a father himself – of Charles Nordhoff, who co-authored The Bounty Trilogy (including Mutiny on the Bounty) with James Norman Hall – Walter was a brilliant writer in his own right, as evidenced by The Journey of the Flame. The hero of the novel is an extraordinarily vital red-headed centenarian named Don Juan Obrigon, who recounts an adventure from his boyhood, when he accompanied the Spanish viceroy to California on an epic journey by burro from San José del Cabo to San Francisco. This incredible journey, which takes place in the year 1810, includes stops at many of the peninsula’s most notable towns, with each layover an occasion for Nordhoff to showcase his vast knowledge of the language and local customs of 19th century Baja Califonia residents. First published in 1933, this book is justly considered a masterpiece of California literature, and it has inspired generations of readers to set off on their own Baja adventures.
Explorations in Lower California by J. Ross Browne and Spencer Murray
“At Cape St. Lucas we were told that San Jose was the great place for mules; at San Jose, it was Triunfo that offered the peculiar advantages; at Triunfo, La Paz was the chief market; at La Paz we were recommended to defer our purchases till our arrival at Todos Santos; and here we found but few mules, and none in good condition.”
Ross Browne’s peripatetic career included a stint as a confidential agent (read: spy) for the U.S. Treasury Department, and it has been speculated that the purpose of his 1866 trip to Baja California wasn’t merely to evaluate an option on a land grant for the Lower California Company of New York, but to evaluate the suitability of the peninsula for annexation by the United States. México would have had something to say about that, of course, but considering that the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo – in which the U.S. was ceded all or parts of present day California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado for cash considerations – was signed only 18 years earlier, it wasn’t exactly a far-fetched idea. Browne’s account of his travels in Lower California includes occasionally poetic, and often dryly humorous descriptions of life and the political climate in places like Cabo San Lucas, San José del Cabo, Todos Santos and La Paz. But his blunt opinions make it clear what he really thinks of the region’s long-term outlook. The best edition of this historical account includes commentary from Spencer Murray a century later, in 1966. Murray was an early promoter of Baja California, and his books Cruising the Sea of Cortez and Power-Boating the West Coast of Mexico helped popularize the peninsula as a tourist destination.
Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research by John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts
“The real picture of how it had been there and how we had been there was in our minds, bright with sun and wet with sea water and blue or burned, and the whole crusted over with exploring thought. Here was no service to science, no naming of animals, but rather – we simply liked it. We liked it very much. The brown Indians and the gardens of the sea, and the beer and the work, they were all one thing and we were that one thing too.”
The Log from the Sea of Cortez is probably the best known book ever written about Baja California, although it actually only an abridged version of an earlier work – Sea of Cortez. The Log keeps Steinbeck’s narrative observations, but jettisons most of the notes on specimen collecting and marine biology that were the prime motivators of the six-week expedition undertaken by Steinbeck and his friend Ed Ricketts – the inspiration for the character Doc in Cannery Row – aboard the Western Flyer in 1940. Literature lovers will want to read the original, while casual readers can content themselves with Steinbeck’s musings on boats, beer and Baja as it was just before the U.S. and Mexican entry into World War II. Equal parts travelogue, scientific journal and philosophical treatise, Sea of Cortez offers keen insights into the sea itself – “ferocious with life” in Steinbeck’s memorable phrase – as well as light-hearted ruminations on such things as the faithlessness of the Hansen Sea-Cow outboard motor, the beauty and maddening elusiveness of Sally Lightfoot crabs, and the sad state of Cabo San Lucas following a devastating storm (the latter sure to evoke a sense of retroactive déjà vu in those who experienced the wrath of Hurricane Odile in 2014).
The Unforgettable Sea of Cortez: Baja California’s Golden Age 1947 – 1977, The Life and Writings of Ray Cannon by Gene S. Kira
“Many of the early entrepreneurs of the modern age were airplane pilots of the World War II era who established fly-in fishing resorts on the shores of the Sea of Cortez. The very first pioneers of this group included Abelardo L. ‘Rod’ Rodriguez of Rancho Las Cruces, Ed Tabor of the Flying Sportsmen Lodge, Herb Tansey of Rancho Buena Vista, and Luis Cóppola Bonillas of the Hotel Los Arcos in La Paz. Whether by coincidence or by historical imperative, all four of these former pilots opened their businesses within a few months of each other between 1950 and 1952.”
Despite its surfeit of subtitles – the book might more concisely be called A Celebration of Ray Cannon – this lovingly crafted biography will have special appeal for those who traveled to Baja before the days of paved roads and luxury resorts. Few did more to promote and popularize Baja California in the 1950s and 60s than Cannon, a former Hollywood actor and director whose second act as a columnist for the Western Outdoor News and best-selling author of The Sea of Cortez helped usher in the peninsula’s golden age of tourism. Cannon was a lifelong fisherman – his other notable book was How to Fish the Pacific Coast – and his tales of extraordinary catches south of the border were hugely influential in the success of some of the early fly-in fishing resorts. Kira, himself an accomplished writer on Baja subjects, stitches together a colorful narrative, interspersed with passages from some of Cannon’s old columns, and accompanied by a treasure trove of old photographs that were donated by Cannon’s wife Carla Laemmle. Although Cannon’s own The Sea of Cortez is more properly considered a classic Baja California book, Kira’s historical perspective on Cannon and the peninsula’s development as a whole make this volume a better introduction to one of the region’s most fascinating eras.
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Today for organ buffs:
March 26 at 1:30 pm
Cinéma ONF / NFB
United Kingdom, Netherlands, 2009, colour, 114 min, Dutch, German, English subtitles
Extraordinary documentary on the lineage of Schnitger organs in Northern Holland from the 16th Century to the 1800s. In depth analysis of the history and the manufacturing process — from melting the lead into sheets to form each flute, chiseled by hand — to the length of each tube and the volume of the structure, the quality of the sound of the cymbals and reeds, the number of towers and stops, creating the special mix and texture of each organ, etc.
The interviews and narration in Dutch is at bit grating to North American ears and tends to interfere with the extensive reading of the subtitles over nearly 2 hours. However, the passion and experience of the old-timers who convey their knowledge in such great detail relate the importance of these majestic instruments, pre-emptive to the renowned Casavant organs, like a testament to a lost art.
Magnificent and earth shaking music by Bach and Mozart is played throughout the film. A real treat.


Medicinski Glasnik (MG) is the official publication (two times per year) of the Medical Association of Zenica-Doboj Canton. Manuscripts that present of original basic and applied research from all fields of medicine (general and clinical practice, and basic medical sciences) are invited.
Open Access Journal
This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Medicinski Glasnik will publish peer-reviewed articles as early as possible. All articles will be published (at PubMed, as well as at the Journal official web site) as Epub ahead of print as soon as they are accepted and edited for publication. Free-full text articles will be available immediately on publication.
Each article receives a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) which is unique for every article published in the journal and is used for easier referencing and archiving.
Guidelines for authors is in accordance with the text: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Uniform Requirements for Manuscript (URM) Submitted to Biomedical Journals (www.icmje.org)
Journal has been indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch) from 2006 to 2012; currently we are reapplying for indexing in SCIE.
ISSN: 1840-0132; eISSN: 1840-2445


The secrets of the rich man book
A rich man book is a guide to success, it’s what separates the rich from the poor and keeps the boys from the men. For some, they say it’s a sugar daddies go to. Sugar daddies don’t get rich overnight, it takes time and some cultivating, and perhaps a little help from a rich man book, but the end results couldn’t be clearer. The rich man book isn’t a get rich quick scheme, but more of a guideline for rich men who have worked their way up the ladder of success and are looking for a little more inspiration. The secrets hidden in a rich man book a pieces of inspiration and guidance for rich men and sugar daddies to explore. Of course, there is no hidden agenda in a rich man books, merely an extra luxurious item to add to the growing collection.
Does the rich man book work for everyone?
The rich man books isn’t going to make miracles happen, it isn’t going to shower your with gorgeous women, or help your plant a money tree, but it is there to provide that much needed inspiration in life. Sugar daddies tend to lead their lives by any luxurious means possible, they’re money making men and want that to be reflective in their lifestyles. Alongside books like the rich man book, websites such as my-sugar-daddy.com provide additional inspiration, especially in the form of attractive young women. Sugar daddies find that inspiring rich men books and dating websites, provide the best opportunities in the sugar daddy community. Not only do you get to experience a luxury like nothing before, but you also have the chance to experience that with a young and beautiful woman by your side.
Why do sugar daddies need a rich man book?
Overtime, sugar daddies find themselves growing with confidence, whether that’s because they’ve created a wealth that’s so impressive or have had their fair share of exotic and beautiful women, whichever the reason, it tends to fall down on the inspiration from a rich man book. Not all sugar daddies use wealthy books to see them through, but the inspiration from such a book cannot be denied. It’s a little piece of haven that only the wealthy get to enjoy


Kirki Patsianta has been leading an initiative aimed at promoting and protecting the rights of babies and infants (children aged 0-8 years old) in Greece.
Α. A «Mini Guide» to Children's Rights in Early Childhood (0-8)
As a first step, Kirki has created a «Mini Guide» (illustrations: Network for Children's Rights) explaining to parents, who have just welcomed a new member to their family, the rights their child has according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Due to their young age, babies and infants are not able to exercise their rights by themselves; their parents have a key role to play as they are the ones who will help their children exercise their rights. Τherefore, parents should be fully informed on the rights their children enjoy.
The «Mini Guide» is based on the General Comment n° 7 (2005) Implementing child rights in early childhood of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and is currently available in Greek only (see pictures on the left/attachments below).
The whole idea behind this initiative is to point out that children should enjoy their rights right from birth. Early childhood (children aged 0-8 years old) is an extremely important part of a child’s life as it majorly influences his or her future development. Unfortunately, Greece lacks efficient policies and legislation which could ensure the effective protection of children’s rights in early childhood and enable them to enjoy these rights according to their capabilities; consequently, babies and infants are practically «invisible» in Greece.
This «Mini Guide» is a first step towards drawing attention to the important issue of young children’s rights in Greece.
B. A highly significant textbook on Young Children’s Rights (0-8)
Kirki was involved in the writting of a textbook on children's aged 0-8.
Written to commemorate 30 years since the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), The Routledge International Handbook of Young Children’s Rights reflects upon the status of children aged 0–8 years around the world, whether they are respected or neglected, and how we may move forward. With contributions from international experts and emerging authorities on children’s rights, Murray, Blue Swadener and Smith have produced this highly significant textbook on young children’s rights globally.
Containing sections on policy, along with rights to protection, provision and participation for young children, this book combines discussions of children’s rights and early childhood development, and investigates the crucial yet frequently overlooked link between the two. The authors examine how policy, practice and research could be utilised to address the barriers to universal respect for children, to create a safer and more enriching world for them to live and flourish in.
The Routledge International Handbook of Young Children’s Rights is an essential resource for students and academics in early childhood education, social work and paediatrics, as well as for researchers, policymakers, leaders and practitioners involved in the provision of children’s services and paedeatric healthcare, and international organisations with an interest in or ability to influence national or global policies on children’s rights.
This book includes the comparative study of legislation, policies and practices in Greece and Scotland regarding the implementation of children’s rights in early childhood that Kirki has carried out with Dr Kristina Konstantoni, Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh.
Patsianta Kyriaki and Krinstina Konstantoni. 2019. «Young Children’s Rights in ‘Tough’ Times: Towards an Intersectional Children’s Rights Policy Agenda in Greece and Scotland»
The article «Babies in Greece and Scotland» available on the Νόστιμον ήμαρ website, in Greek only, offers a popularized version of this study.
Mini Guide I
Mini Guide II


The best non fiction books of 2018 that can be borrowed from Lee-Whedon:
Some of the best fiction books of 2018 that you can borrow from Lee-Whedon.
Children’s picture books
This is a page-turner! Very immediate, contemporary and absorbing.
Natalie works in the accounts department of a telecommunications company. She is young, attractive, bored, and short of money. A colleagues’ chance remark on how easy it would be to tamper with the checks she processes plants the seed of a nefarious idea in her mind. Just one minor detail before she can begin…she needs to change her initials. Natalie is a determined young lady and very thorough in her preparations. The details of her scheme are so very plausible.
But, there’s no such thing as the perfect crime. Or the victimless crime. One small oversight on Natalie’s part causes distress in the lives of others….and sadly, tragedy for one family. Wracked by guilt, the victim’s father makes the Final Demand of Natalie. How does this self-absorbed young woman respond?
Sheriff Joanna Brady is going through a lot in her life. She just solved the murder of her mother and step-father. Now she has to arrange their funerals while solving a double murder. On top of that, Joanna’s pregnant and her oldest daughter is going off to college.
Two women are found dead at the bottom of the locally known Geronimo peak, about a 400 ft climb. As the investigation kicks off, no connections can be found between the women so who was the target and who was in the wrong place at the wrong time? One is a graduate student and the other is a high school teacher, what possible motive would someone have to kill either one?
This is a great addition to the Brady series, set in beautiful Arizona. Having never read any of the others, I found it very easy to read as a standalone. Any background information I needed was provided. I definitely enjoyed the mystery, I didn’t know who it was until the Sheriff Brady figured it out for me! The storyline does include a controversial subject, teacher-student relationships, but it wasn’t graphic.
This is the first in a new series by Evanovich and Sutton. We are introduced to Riley Moon, a recent graduate from Harvard Business and Harvard Law. She has landed her dream job, an analyst at Blane-Grunwald. Unfortunately her mentor, Gunter Grunwald, has gone missing and his brother is acting very strangely about it. Riley is given a new assignment, meet with a very wealthy client and convince him that he needs to visit the bank to discuss his recently inherited millions. However, Emerson Knight has an entirely different idea about what he needs to do. Emerson suspects that the Grunwalds have done something nefarious. Soon he believes that his gold and the Fed’s gold has been replaced with fakes. Moon and Knight set out on a cross country adventure to solve the mystery of Gunter and the gold.
I have to say that Emerson Knight and his quirky behaviour and persona reminded me of Sherlock Holmes. Emerson is extremely smart, doesn’t rely on anyone, has a menagerie of animals living at his estate, has the most unusual friends, and disregards the rules (and laws) when they aren’t convenient for him. He drags Riley into his illegal schemes in order to solve the mystery. A great, easy read. Already a fan of Evanovich, I will definitely be reading the next book in the series to see what sort of hi jinks Moon and Knight get up to.


Stock content juggernaut, Videoblocks, has shared a sneak peek at their upcoming premium service offering dubbed Marketplace. While the design and layout may not be final, it gives us a good idea of how the site will work.
They wrote: “We’re excited to share a sneak peek with you of the VideoBlocks interface for buyers! Take a look at the screenshot below. Notice that there are essentially two sections to the library:
Subscription: this is VideoBlocks content – sourced, shot, and licensed over the years, providing instant value to buyers with their memberships.
Marketplace: this is your content! The marketplace has more than double the amount of content in the subscription library (and continues growing), and offers greater diversity.”
Take a peek at the image, and let us know your thoughts in the comments!


In my childhood bedroom, a pink, handmade dollhouse sat adjacent to my rod iron bed. Countless hours were spent creating storyline after storyline that centered around my barbies and their adventures within the wallpapered rooms. Many years later, walking on the path from the visitors center to the Mark Twain House and Museum, I felt like I was approaching a life-size version of that very same dollhouse that sat in my room.
During the mid-to-late 1800s, an explosive literary movement took place in Hartford. When Twain and his family moved from Buffalo, NY to Hartford, CT, they built a custom house. Memories and innumerable classics were crafted within the walls of the Twain residence. Some notable novels written in Hartford were The Prince and The Pauper, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and A Tramp Abroad.
Every knook and cranny of the Twain residence was one of a kind; each room had stenciled patterns and ornate trinkets. Not to mention, the Twains had countless pieces of carved furniture shipped from Europe. The different rooms breeded creativity and transported me to a different time, allowing me to easily picture Twain’s hours spent crafting his best works.
In 1891, Twain and his family sold their house for half of the original value due to financial turmoil. After the family moved, the house served many different purposes such as an apartment, a library, a school and eventually, the museum.
Tours of the house last approximately 45-60 minutes, and tickets can be purchased at the visitor center or online. Photography is only allowed on the exterior of the house, thus my pictures don’t do the Twain residence justice.
Although the literary movement eventually migrated to New York City, its time in Hartford left a historic mark. I highly recommend visiting the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford to learn more about the rich history.


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Nov 17 2010
SO TELL ME ABOUT THE AUTHOR ALREADY!
Lisette Brodey was born and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia. After high school, she moved to New York City where she attended Pace University and studied drama. After ten years in New York, several of them working in the radio industry, she moved to Los Angeles, where she held various positions at Paramount Studios in Hollywood and CBS Studio Center in Studio City, CA.
She returned to the east coast for several years, where she worked as a freelance writer, specializing in the entertainment industry. In May 2010, she relocated permanently back to Los Angeles.
Lisette’s third novel, MOLLY HACKER IS TOO PICKY!, was published in December 2011.
WHAT ELSE HAS SHE WRITTEN?
Well, gee, thanks for asking.
Lisette’s first-published book, CROOKED MOON, is a story of friendship and forgiveness. As children, Frankie Cavalese and Callie Mason were the very best of friends, growing up together behind opposite walls of a row home in a blue-collar neighborhood of Philadelphia called Rainytown.
The friendship they shared was special – the kind that storybook heroines had – and neither ever considered the possibility of it not lasting forever. But after high school, life interfered and circumstances separated them as they each went on to live in drastically different worlds. Twenty-three years later, one hot unsettled summer, their lives come crashing back together when Callie, who has led a life of privilege, returns to Rainytown and finds her old friend still living in her childhood home, unmarried, and caring for her angry dying mother, Ruby.
To complicate the fragile reunion, Callie’s marriage to her husband, Jackson, is suddenly at risk, further muddled by the affections of (and attraction to) Frankie’s brother Paulie. Tensions and passions explode in the sweltering heat, and amid pain and tragedy, each woman not only ends up with a life-altering secret regarding the other, but the burning question of what to do with it.
SQUALOR, NEW MEXICO is a coming-of-age story shrouded in family mystery. Darla McKendrick is nine when she first hears her mother and her aunt Didi secretly discussing their younger sister, Rebecca, speculating about her life in squalor. From the moment Darla asks to know more about her mysterious aunt, she is offered nothing but half-truths, distortions, and evasions. As Darla grows into her teen years, her life is oddly yet profoundly affected by this woman she has never known. She can’t help but notice that Rebecca seems to exist only in dark corners of conversations and that no one ever wants to talk about her-with Darla.
As the plot takes twists and turns, secrets are revealed not only to Darla but to the “secret keepers” as well. Darla learns that families are only as strong as the truths they hold and as weak as the secrets they keep.
To read the reviews, just search for each book on Amazon.com.
MYSTICAL HIGH (Book 1, The Desert Series – A YA paranormal trilogy) In Mystekal, a small, dying town in the Southern California desert, only 75 students attend the old, sometimes creepy high school dubbed “Mystical High,” where strange things have been known to happen. Jessie Dalworth and Jinxsy Patterson are juniors and lifelong best friends. At home, Jessie deals with the pain of an absentee mother who has abandoned the family for the lure of Hollywood; Jinxsy contends with a 17th “birthday present” she never wanted or expected.
Meanwhile, at school, the unexplained activity begins to escalate when Jinxsy keeps seeing a long-haired guy in the hallway checking her out. Jessie can’t see him, but her younger brother, River, can.
Then, in English class, a stapler mysteriously flies off teacher Eve Carrow’s desk, hitting a student in the face who has just mouthed off to her. The beloved teacher is in the unenviable position of having her brute of a father as principal, so she hates sending any student to his office. As Principal Ernest Carrow begins to terrorize Eve and others more openly, something or someone unseen decides that it’s payback time.
School is getting stranger, and Jinxsy and Jessie are faced with mind-boggling changes in their home lives that complicate everything. When a string of shocking events expose explosive secrets, decades-long mysteries are finally revealed.
DESERT STAR (Book 2, The Desert Series – A YA paranormal trilogy) Larsen Davis isn’t afraid to stand up to those who bully him, but in a two-against-one situation at Mystekal High, it’s never easy. When classmate River Dalworth witnesses the abuse and intervenes, the two seniors become good friends. Larsen explains that he’s fighting another battle at home: his own mother, Raylene, bullies him for being gay.
When Larsen meets River’s mother, Arielle, and learns she is overseeing the renovation of the Desert Theater, he shares his dream for a career on stage. Soon, Arielle offers Larsen a job as her assistant, but Raylene is dead set against the idea of her son doing what she considers “gay work.” After Raylene gets a new boyfriend, Reggie, the bad situation at home worsens and Larsen has no choice but to leave.
Now working at the Desert Theater, Larsen feels the unearthly presence of someone in the long-abandoned theater. Meanwhile, as the theater nears completion, a talent show is scheduled for opening night. As it becomes more evident that the theater may have a ghost, it also comes to light that someone may be sabotaging the renovation and the show. Is the ghost real or just the handiwork of someone with a grudge?
Opening night at the Desert Theater sets the stage for a crime, never-imagined reunions, long-awaited explanations, and otherworldly miracles.
DRAWN APART (Book 3, The Desert Series – A YA paranormal trilogy) When Avalon Martelli and Stephanie Lambert meet at the start of their junior year at Mystekal High, they form an instant connection. Stephanie is from South Jersey and Avalon from North Jersey, and they both feel out of place in the Southern California desert.
Aside from having a home state in common, they each possess a talent for art and the heartbreak of a broken family. Avalon has the gift of sight, where the future is sometimes revealed in her paintings, while Stephanie’s drawings are all about forever love. As Stephanie, a self-described poetry geek and hopeless romantic, talks about past lives and eternal happiness, Avalon denies she’s in love with her best guy friend, River Dalworth, who is attending art school in Los Angeles.
Only weeks before graduation, Stephanie is in a car accident and falls into a coma. Devastated, Avalon believes it is all her fault. The night before, she had painted Stephanie with her head against the steering wheel—and hadn’t told her. She confides this to River, who has come home to be with her, but he can’t convince her she’s not to blame. Avalon loudly proclaims to the universe that she no longer wants her gift, but River warns her she may receive another one in its place.
Avalon and her family, along with Stephanie’s mother, pray for a miracle. River tries to console her, but she finds his presence difficult, knowing he has someone else who “just might be the one.” Trying to push her own pain and disappointment aside, Avalon keeps vigil for her best friend, hoping that Stephanie will wake up and have her greatest wish fulfilled— the meeting of her soul mate.
THE DESERT SERIES is also available as a boxed set.
TELL ME AGAIN ABOUT
It is a romantic comedy that takes the reader on a yearlong ride through Molly’s life as she juggles four men and fends off matchmaking attempts from the town socialite. To read a synopsis, just click the link on the left side of this page. If you’d like to read Chapter One, you can either click Excerpt on the lefthand side of the page, or go to Amazon.com and download a sample.
WHERE CAN I BUY THESE BOOKS?
For readers who still like the feel of a book in their hands, the trade paperback editions of both novels are available on Amazon.com.
For those with electronic readers, all three novels are available as Amazon Kindle versions. Members of Kindle Unlimited can read all Lisette’s books for free.
AND WHERE CAN I FIND THE AUTHOR ONLINE?
You can follow her on Twitter
Check out her Author Website for updates, blogs, and guest blogs. Lisette also interviews authors at Lisette’s Writers’ Chateau.
Her Facebook Author Page is the primo spot for all updates
She has an author page on Amazon.com
She loves to post photographs on Instagram
She has an author profile on Goodreads


Mark travelled down to London today to deliver the opening lecture of the year in the UCL Institute Research Seminar Series—The Silk Road: The Place of Asia in World Archaeology.
His talk, entitled ‘The flow of ancient metal across Eurasia’ presented the project and the outcomes of our first few months of work.
December was a very busy month for the FLAME Team and the Christmas break has come round only too quickly.
We will be back in January with a full update on our news and activities.
Until then, have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
On Friday, several members of the FLAME team (current and prospective)—together with students and staff from across the School of Archaeology—visited the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield for the first Sheffield-Oxford Seminar on Cultural Materials (ShOX 2015). The meeting included presentations from Prof. John Barrett, Drs Roger Doonan and Miguel del Pino, and four current Sheffield PhD students (Roberta Mentesana, Yvette Marks, Lenore Thompson, and Kuan-Wen Wang). It was a really positive event and a great chance for students and staff to develop ideas and build new connections. We hope it will be the first of many!
The School of Archaeology already hosts a number of useful, freely accessible resources for researchers interested in the study of ancient metals and metallurgy, including the fantastic Tylecote Collection (curated on behalf of the Historical Metallurgical Society) and the OXALID Lead Isotopes Database. We have also restored access to OXSAM (a database of ancient metal analyses from Great Britain and Ireland)—(NB this resource is freely accessible, but currently remains password protected. Please contact us to arrange access).
If you have any questions about these resources, please contact us.


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- Roffe, George Edward
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George Edward Roffe was born in Toronto on February 1, 1905. His father was A.W. Roffe, an influential pastor who served as superintendent of the District of Canada for the Christian and Missionary Alliance from 1919 to 1925. After graduating from McMaster University and Nyack Missionary College, G. E. Roffe was appointed by the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) to serve as a missionary in French Indochina. In 1928, while studying in France in preparation to travel to Southeast Asia, Roffe was directed by the C&MA to pioneer a new field among the tribal peoples of northern Laos. In 1929, G. E. Roffe became the first resident Protestant missionary in north Laos, settling in the city of Luang Prabang. Soon after, Roffe brought his new bride, and recent Nyack graduate, Thelma Mole, to live and serve there with him. While on Furlough during World War II, Mr. and Mrs. Roffe attended two sessions of Wycliffe's Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL). G. E. Roffe also took advantage of the delay which the war posed to earn his wings, and consequently upon returning to Laos in 1947, became the first missionary pilot in the area. In addition to the ongoing direct evangelistic efforts and administration duties, the Roffes were also given the responsibility following the war of running a Bible College tasked with raising up indigenous leaders. In 1950, a young student from this school by the name of Kheng was instrumental in sparking a mass movement among the mountain tribal people of northern Laos which saw whole villages come to Christ in a matter of days. This revival precipitated the formalization of the national church structure in northern Laos. The "Evangelical Church of Laos" held its first assembly in 1957 with pastor Saly (the first Laotian ordained by the Alliance) as the first president. In 1951, the Roffes were transferred to the city of Vientiane. After returning to Laos in 1955 from an extended furlough, during which G. E. Roffe was able to complete graduate studies in Linguistics at Cornell University, the Roffes were assigned to engage full time in the ministry of translation and literature. In a ten year period, G. E. and Thelma Roffe were able to turn out approximately 100 titles, some of them original. G. Edward. Roffe was eventually freed from his other duties to work exclusively on translating into Lao a new version of the New Testament, complete with cross-references, a glossary, a dictionary of unfamiliar terms and a limited concordance. The completed work was presented to the king of Laos in late 1973. In 1975, the communists took control of the government in Laos, and the Roffes were forced to leave the country. In all, punctuated only by war and furlough, G. Edward and Thelma Roffe had labored faithfully in Laos for over forty-six years. Upon returning to North America and settling in Orlando, Fla., their ministry to the Laos people did not come to an end. In addition to keeping tabs on the situation in Laos, the Roffes actively cared for Laotian refugees in their area, and helped many get adjusted to a new way of life. During his retirement years, G. E. Roffe was also actively involved in constantly correcting, editing, or translating, various documents sent to him for comment.
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The fonds consists of correspondence, reports, manuscripts, personal memorabilia, maps, periodicals, pamphlets, booklets, books and some pictures.
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The material has been kept for the most part in its original order. It is arranged according to the following series: Articles; Documents Concerning Linguistics; Seminar Notes; Books; Booklets; Various Documents, Exams, Programs, Invitations and Maps; Received Letters; Pamphlets; Periodicals; Reports; Correspondence Concerning Misrepresentation of Work in Laos; Miscellaneous; and Original File List.
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Who was Panini?
Panini was a Sanskrit grammarian from Pushkalavati, Gandhara, a region which is now part of modern-day Charsadda District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan).
One guess is that Panini lived around the 6th century BCE. Ancient Gandhara was part of Hapta Hindu (meaning Seven-Indus, the upper Indus basin of the Indus River and its tributaries), the 15th Avestan-Vendidad nation.
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His theory of morphological analysis was more advanced than any equivalent Western theory before the mid 20th century. Vaibhav Niku informs us that 'संस्कृत' (commonly transliterated as Sanskrit) means "highly elaborated/well constructed speech".
While the emergence of Panini's grammar is now taken to mark the end of the period of the Vedic language period (otherwise known as Vedic-Sanskrit) and the beginning of the Classical Sanskrit period defined by Panini's grammar, we should be careful not to state that his grammar caused or marked the transition since according to some references in Panini's text, the language of the Vedic scriptures had already fallen out of common use as a spoken language in his time. In other words, the Vedic language had already become archaic by Panini's time and Classical Sanskrit was an established language to whose grammar Panini gave definition and structure.
Panini gave a comprehensive and scientific theory of phonetics, phonology and morphology. Sanskrit was the classical literary language of the Indian Hindus and Panini is considered the founder of the language and literature. It is interesting to note that the word “Sanskrit” means “complete” or “perfect” and it was thought of as the divine language, or language of the gods. Panini’s grammar is considered to be the world’s first formal system in language. It was invented way before Gottob Frege’s innovation in language in the 19th century.
Panini was one of the most inventive and original people who helped in the development of knowledge of Sanskrit grammar. He is considered to be the founder of literature and language. To put it more clearly, this famous Sanskrit Grammarian gave a scientific analysis of Sanskrit phonetics and morphology. Being the language of Gods, Sanskrit was considered to be complete and the perfect language. Panini analyzed the classical Sanskrit language which was the language of all literary works, and more light was thrown on the phonology of this language.


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Jeni Fowler Zambrano was committed to building stronger readers throughout the greater Houston area. She was passionate about reading and putting books in kids' hands. Most importantly, books they wanted to read so they would gain a love of reading the way she did. As we continue to carry out Jeni’s passion for reading, you can join us and provide rich literature and high-quality reading instruction to A+ partner campuses in the Houston area. Collecting books for deserving schools will show that Jeni’s work was not in vain, but warm the hearts of many knowing that we are continuing to invest in children across the Houston area. Make a donation today towards the purchase of books or Reading PD Scholarships for teachers. As Jeni would say, let’s go book shopping!


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Through the reigns of nine monarchs, massive changes in the world of retail and other businesses, and two World Wars, Jarrold has played a part in the lives of generations of Norfolk families. The roots of the Jarrold business were in shopkeeping, it then developed to become a leading printer and publisher during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Today the business is concentrated on retail activities in Norwich and its branches in Norfolk, and property development and business services in the city. The company archive is now held at the Norfolk Record Office and is contained in over 350 boxes. The collection has recently been comprehensively catalogued for the first time. This rich archive, a selection of which is featured here, provides a fascinating peek into the workings of one of Norfolk's longest established family businesses, whilst reflecting a wider historic picture.
In this display the main focus is on the retail side of the business. Who knows, you might even spot yourself or a relative among the images of customers and staff over the years? Click here to check: http://www.jarrold.co.uk/about-jarrold/history
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In this beautiful memoir, a tender Nawuth defies the percentages and survives the invasion of his place of birth by way of the Khmer Rouge. below the brutal reign of the dictator Pol Pot, he loses his mom and dad, younger sister, and different contributors of his relations. After his fatherland of Salatrave was once overrun, Nawuth and his final kin are finally captured and enslaved through Khmer Rouge opponents. They undergo actual abuse, starvation, and inhumane dwelling stipulations. yet via all of it, their feel of kin holds them jointly, giving them the power to persevere via a time whilst any statement of id is punishable by means of death.
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Additional info for Alive in the Killing Fields: Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide
Cover design by Jonathan Halling. Interior design by Sandi Owatverot. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Keat, Nawuth, 1964- Alive in the killing fields: surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide /by Nawuth Keat and Martha E. —1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 978-1-4263-0666-2 1. Keat, Nawuth, 1964—Juvenile literature. 2. Political refugees—Cambodia-Biography. 3. Political refugees—United States—Biography. I. Kendall, Martha. II. Title. 604’2—dc22 [B] 2008039805 09/WOR/1 This book is dedicated to the men, women, and children who lost their lives under the Khmer Rouge.
It was filled with my family’s blood. When a Khmer Rouge kicked my head one way, I let my head flop. He kicked it the opposite way, and I let it flop again. ” Another Khmer Rouge kicked me again. They must have thought I was dead, so they didn’t waste another bullet on me. A few minutes later, they were gone. My youngest brother, barely five years old, was crying, and I tried to calm him. Hackly said nothing. He looked like he was in shock. My mother had held my little sister to her breast, hoping to keep her quiet as we squatted in the ditch.
The ants crawled all over her face and body. She screamed all day long as they bit her everywhere. No one could help her. If they did, they’d suffer the same torture or worse. When I woke up one morning, Van Lan was gone. When the other families were getting up and making some noise, Chantha whispered to me, “Van Lan has gone to see his parents. ” No matter what she said, she looked worried. My eyes opened wide in fear. What would happen to us without him? Chantha whispered again, “He has a friend in the Khmer Rouge.
Alive in the Killing Fields: Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide by Nawuth Keat


The good news is that there are now more than a dozen new and updated Wikipedia entries for the people and places that are central to the story of Oil Springs and the modern oil industry in it industry.
The Wikipedia entries are the product of The Robert Cochrane Fellowship with Western University’s for public history students working on their Masters degree. The annual fellowship is funded by Fairbank Oil Fields and the fellowship is done in conjunction with the Oil Museum of Canada.
Usually a fellowship student works six weeks of the summer at the oil museum to produce an impressive research paper. With the pandemic, Thomas Lang, the 2020 fellowship student, needed a project that could be researched without being in Oil Springs.
Lang’s work on the Wikipedia entries is a valuable resource. With little prior knowledge of early oil, he had to read a vast amount of books and resources, digest it all, and boil it all down to its essence to make each entry. For clarity, they were proofed by Fairbank Oil and The Oil Museum of Canada.
New entries include John Shaw, who produced Canada’s first gusher in 1862 on what is now Fairbank Oil land. There is also a new entry for Hugh Nixon Shaw, who died in his well here in 1862 and for decades the stories of the two Shaw men were mistakenly blended into one person.
Updated and fleshed out Wikipedia entries include Charles Tripp, who founded North America’s first oil company when making asphalt in Oil Springs in 1854. Also included is Jacob Englehart who founded Imperial Oil and made nearby Petrolia the headquarters and site of all refining operations. The story of William McGarvey is now more complete. He’s the Lambton County driller who revolutionized Poland’s oil industry with Canadian technology and expertise in the 1880s. The Village of Oil Springs entry is updated and so is The Oil Museum of Canada’s.
Importantly, The Geological Survey of Canada played an vital role in locating the oil here in Oil Springs and pointing out its uses. Key players in the scientific community such as Abraham Gesner, Sterry Hunt, William Logan and William Frasch will now be better understood with these updated Wikipedia entries. (Fun fact: Canada’s highest mountain, Mount Logan in the Yukon, is named after William Logan, who became the founding director of The Geological Survey of Canada in 1842.)
It’s hoped that Lang’s Wikipedia work on early oil will spark a thirsty curiosity and thankfully, all his sources are cited for those who want to dive deeper.


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FYI: I have published a book titled: "Shoulder Pain? The Solution and Prevention"
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Free Online Plagiarism Checkers - Can Students Benefit From Them?
It is easier than ever to be a student in the modern, computerized world. Students who write research papers and essays have access to information without having to leave their homes. Even as late as the 1980s and 1990s, students had to go to the library to look up information in actual card catalogs, use actual periodicals, and search pieces of microfiche. Students had to write from their own knowledge and use actual typewriters to create neat papers for classes.
Today’s students can use search engines, find sample papers, and even hire someone to write a paper for them. They also have access to a tool that students in the previous century would never have considered using: a free, online plagiarism checker. Due to the fact that teachers are very leery of any work that students turn in, online plagiarism checkers have popped to help teachers and professors ensure that students are actually writing their own papers.
Use the Plagiarism Checker - You Know Your Teacher Will
If a teacher can use an online plagiarism checker, so can a student. Any student who is writing a paper for a class or buying a paper for a class should always use a plagiarism checker before turning the paper in to the teacher. Students should always print out the report from the plagiarism checker to prove to the teacher that they did not copy. If a teacher happens to use a different one with different results, the student can prove that he wrote a paper that he found to be free of plagiarism.
Make the Necessary Changes
Many people who use free plagiarism checkers are often shocked to discover how easy it is to find plagiarized lines. Because there are only so many words and phrases, plagiarism checkers usually find something that has already been written. If there are a few phrases that pop-up on a plagiarism checker, you usually do not have to worry, especially if they are from websites or papers that are about completely different topics.
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