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Wulfthryth of Wilton
Wilfrida also known as Wulfthryth, was a 10th-century Catholic female saint[1] and Abbess from Anglo-Saxon England who was venerated locally in Wiltshire.
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Wulfthryth is known to history through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript,[2] John of Worcester's Chronicle, William of Malmesbury,[3] Osburn's uita of Dunstan, the vita of St Wulfthryth found in The Wilton Chronicle,[4] A Royal Charter of King Edgar to Wulfthryth,[5] and the Vita Edithae by Goscelin.[6] The medieval source record her as living an exemplary life of sanctity and virtue and her virtues were often contrasted to the machinations of Edgar's second (third?) wife, Aethelthryth.[7]
Near contemporary drawing of Edith.
Wilfrida was a noble woman, a cousin of Wulfhild, born about 937AD, who King Edgar of England carried off from the nunnery at Wilton Abbey and taken to his residence at Kemsing, near Sevenoaks.[8] While at Sevenoaks, Wulfthryth gave birth to a daughter, Edith.[9]
After at least a year, Wulfthryth returned to Wilton Abbey, taking Edith with her.[10] She later became head of the abbey and outlived her daughter.
According to early monastic texts, under Saint Dunstan's direction Edgar did penance for this crime by not wearing his crown for seven years.[11] As part of his penance, Edgar gave Wilfrida six estates in Wiltshire and the Isle of Wight which she passed on to her Abbey at Wilton in 965AD.[12] Since some form of bride abduction (often more simulated force than actual, by this time) may have existed as a vestige of earlier Anglo-Saxon tradition, historians have alternatively referred to Wilfrida as Edgar's concubine or his second wife, though never a captive. Given eccesiastical mores at the time, the penance was likely related to his violation of the sanctity of her religious vocation, rather than any personal affront to Wilfrida. It is clear that the two may have had continuing friendship long after her return to Wilton. At any rate, Edgar seems to have acknowledged Edith as his offspring; the relationship may have been considered a marriage despite formal church sanction, as was the custom of the time, and therefore Edith as legitimate. Wulfthryth continued to have considerable influence upon Edgar after her return to Wilton. She was able to stop bailiffs arresting a thief who had taken sanctuary in the Abbey[13] and was able to secure the release of two Wilton priests who had been imprisoned by the reeve of Wilton.[14] As Abbess she built a stone wall round the Abbey and also used her wealth to build up the relic collection of Wilton.[15] Goscelin calls her the 'hidden treasure and light' of the Abbey and she was held in high esteem during her life.[16] and she is credited with miracles during her lifetime,[17] and Alms giving.[18]
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St Mary's church, Wilton
Both she and her daughter Edith were regarded as saints after their lifetimes.[19] Wulfthryth died at Wilton on 21 September, c1000AD and was buried before the main altar of the abbey church of St Mary's Church, Wilton.[20] Her Feast Day is September 13.
A coin of Edgar, c.973.
↑ The Oxford Dictionary of Saints
↑ Stowe MS 944, British Library.
↑ William of Malmesbury Gesta Regum Anglorum, Volume 2 (Oxford University Press, 1999)p.139).
↑ Wiesje Emons-Nijenhuis, The Embedded Saint, the Wilton Chronicle's Life of St Wulfthryth in Revue Bénédictine Volume 119, Number 1 Jun 2009
↑ Manuscript Sawyer 799
↑ Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Stealing Obedience: Narratives of Agency and Identity in Later Anglo-Saxon England (University of Toronto Press, 2012) ebook.
↑ Stephen Morillo, The Haskins Society Journal (Boydell Press, 2003)page 97
↑ Pauline Stafford, Queen Emma & Queen Edith, (Blackwell, 2001), pp. 324-325
↑ Mrs Jameson, Legends of the monastic orders: as represented in the fine arts p. 95 google ebook.
↑ Ann Williams, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004), (Edgar Pacificus), accessdate=16 May 2012.
↑ Wulfthryth at OxfordDNB.
↑ Stephen Morillo, The Haskins Society Journal (Boydell Press, 2003)page 112.
↑ Gwen Seabourne, Imprisoning Medieval Women: The Non-judicial Confinement and Abduction of Women in England, C.1170-1509 (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2011) page 184.
↑ A. Wilmart, 'La légende de Ste Édith en prose et vers par le moine Goscelin', Analecta Bollandiana, 56 (1938), 5–101, 265–307
↑ The Liber Vitae of the New Minster, Winchester Fol 26r.20 (901 x 904 - ?)
↑ Barbara Yorke, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press , 2004), (St Wulfthryth, abbess of Wilton) accessdate=17 November 2012
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Rights and Humanity has long advocated recognition of the right to water and sanitation as an integral part of human rights. Despite the obvious vital nature of water to life, a few states still argue that there is no �right� to water.
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In September 1999, our President was invited to present the inaugural WaterAid lecture at City University, London, UK entitled �A Human Rights Approach to Development: Some Practical Implications for WaterAid�s Work�. WaterAid is an international NGO dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to the world�s poorest people. Ms H�usermann argued that WaterAid�s contribution would be strengthened by adopting a human rights approach in both its advocacy and field projects.
Our President was subsequently invited to join WaterAid�s Policy Advisory Committee and continued to articulate the benefits of adopting a human rights approach to water and sanitation. WaterAid has now made this approach a policy commitment and is reporting considerable benefits from adopting this approach. For instance, its human rights-based advocacy with authorities in Bangladesh has led to the cost of water connection being reduced from $90 a household to $15, ensuring that millions of poor people now have the opportunity to secure connection to safe water.
In 2002, the UN Committee Economic, Social and Cultural Rights adopted a General Comment confirming that the right to water forms part of the right to an adequate standard of living and the right to health, Articles 11 and 12 respectively of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Following the adoption of the General Comment Rights and Humanity joined forces with WaterAid and Freshwater Action Network to establish a website, www.righttowater.org.uk, to promote advocacy and realisation of the rights to water and sanitation globally.
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Buffalo Partners take on the 'Tough Mudder' Challenge and raise over £30k to support families with sick children in hospital
News provided by The Sick Children's Trust on Tuesday 5th Feb 2019
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Online Casino Affiliate programme Buffalo Partners have raised £33,800 for The Sick Children's Trust after 15 employees took on a ten mile 'Tough Mudder' obstacle course at Holmbush Farm Estate in West Sussex last year.
The Sick Children's Trust provides free, high quality, 'Home from Home' accommodation to families with seriously ill children in hospital. The charity currently runs ten 'Homes from Home' located at specialist paediatric hospitals across the country and supports around 4,000 families every year.
Following a staff nomination, Buffalo Partners selected The Sick Children's Trust to benefit from its fundraising drive, which asked account holders to donate 1% of that month's earnings to the charity. Robert Miller, Managing Director, says:
"We are delighted to have exceeded our fundraising expectations and raised almost £34,000 for The Sick Children's Trust. Having found out more about the charity by visiting Guilford Street House, which supports families with seriously ill children undergoing treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital, we feel we have made a very positive impact on the communities in which we operate and are looking forward to further fundraising challenges in 2019.
""When we took on 'Tough Mudder' last September it was a real test and raised our teambuilding efforts to a whole new level, with everyone fully committed to raising as much money as possible for the charity. It took us five hours to complete the course, but we all stuck together and completed each and every obstacle.
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Friend and student of Mykhailo Boychuk. Received his primary art education in Moscow. Attended Krakow Art Academy under Yu. Pankevich and received a silver medal (1905-1909). Member of the Ukrainian community in Paris (1909); with Boichuk delivered a lecture on the "Past and Present of Ukrainian Art." Invited to join the International Union of Artists and Writers (1910). Participated in the "Salon des Independants" (1910). With Boichuk visited Italy (1910). Worked as an icon conservationist at the National Museum in Lviv (1911). Worked in Kyiv and Chernigov as a painter and conservationist. Taught special courses for teachers of drawing and sculpture at the Mirgorod School of Art and Ceramics (until 1921). Professorat USAA (after 1921), also heading the conservation workshop at the State Cultural and Historic Preserve in Kyiv (1927-1930). Worked as a conservationist at the Kharkiv Historical Art Museum ( 1928) and at the Kyiv museums of Russian, Western, and Eastern art(1935-1937). Helped conserve the iconostasis of the Kyiv Kirillov Church (12th century), which had been restored in 1884 -1885 by Mikhail Vrubel' (1935).


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Pau Karma Wangchuk performing a rice divination, 2006. Photo by Sarah Sifers.
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Foundation for Shamanic Studies Living Treasure Pau Karma Wangchuk on the evening of January 26, 2008.
After his initial calling to shamanism when he was 8 years old, Pau Wangchuk spent the next eighty years of his life treating all patients who presented themselves for healing in the Tibetan refugee camp in Nepal where he settled after fleeing the Chinese invasion of 1959. In the 1980's, stories of his healing abilities reached His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who summoned Pau Wangchuk to Dharamsala India to treat the Tibetans living in exile and to be honored by His Holiness. He continued to treat patients right up until the time of his death.
Pau Wangchuk's family wants to honor him by completing the seven weeks of funeral rituals that are an integral part of Tibetan Buddhism. Special ceremonies to honor Pau Wangchuk will be held during the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th weeks, following his death, at the Monastery in his refugee camp. Also, a special Thangka (painting of deity on cloth) of Dechen Shingkoe and a statue of Jamphel Yang will be created for the 7th week ceremony. These objects, which were divined by the monks, will represent Pau Wangchuk and will be placed in his home so that his family can continue to make offerings in his honor. The family also wants to send offerings to His Holiness' Monastery in Dharamsala in Pau Wangchuk's name. All of these offerings are designed to help Pau Wangchuk to safely transition through the Bardo and into his next incarnation.
Pau Wangchuk's family sends their heartfelt thanks for all of the support that Michael Harner and the Foundation for Shamanic Studies have provided over the years. Any help that Foundation members can provide at this point in time to help the family complete all of the necessary ceremonies in Pau Wangchuk's name would be greatly appreciated.
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THANK YOU FOR DONATING FOR PAU KARMA WANGCHUK
Pau Wangchuk's family wishes to express their deep gratitude to all of you who responded to the request for donations to help Pau Wangchuk's family honor him according to their traditions. Your donations were received by the Foundation and passed to Sarah Sifers, FSS Field Associate.
Sarah Sifers has forwarded your donations and the Foundation's contribution to Pau Wangchuk's family in Nepal. Your generosity makes it possible for all of the traditional funeral rituals to be completed. Thank you.
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Pau Karma Wangchuk & son reading about shamanism, 2007. Photo by Sarah Sifers.
I have just returned from my annual pilgrimage to Nepal, where I was able to deliver the Foundation for Shamanic Studies' annual stipend to FSS Living Treasure Pau Karma Wangchuk.
I am very happy to report that I found Pau Wangchuk in both excellent health and spirits. He sends his highest regards and deepest gratitude for the on-going support that FSS provides to his family. Because of your support, Wangchuk and his family are able to buy food, pay their utility bills and purchase the medicine that Wangchuk needs for his nebulizer. The only other means of support for his family is the money he earns treating patients who come seeking help. This he does willingly, but, considering he is almost 88 years old, his ability to work full-time is somewhat limited.
This past year was very kind to Pau Wangchuk. His daughter, who lives in India, came for a one month visit. She traveled with her husband and three children. It had been ten years since Wangchuk and his daughter had seen each other and the first time Wangchuk met his grandchildren. During my time in Nepal, he shared many stories of seeing his daughter, meeting his grandchildren and how thrilled he was that the reunion had finally come to pass after so many years apart.
The other positive news was that his son's wife had also come home. She had returned to her village over a year ago to complete her education and while she was gone, the care of Wangchuk and his wife (who is deaf and blind) had fallen on his son's shoulders. With the return of his daughter-in-law, Wangchuk was once again being well tended.
Pau Karma Wangchuk performing a treatment, 2007. Photo by Sarah Sifers.
In September, Nepal was inundated with an unusual amount of rainfall. This resulted in catastrophic landslides near Wangchuk's refugee camp. These landslides destroyed the camps source of water. The only way the people in the camp could get water was to haul it from the nearest river. Last February, during Losar (the Tibetan New Year), His Holiness the Dalai Lama had announced that the earth spirits were angry and that all construction that would disturb the earth needed to be stopped for one year. Unfortunately, not everyone in the camp heeded his request and Wangchuk believes this is why the mountains slid, destroying not only the water line but most of the local crops. What wasn't wiped out by the landslide was later destroyed by a freak hail storm in November that left a foot of hail.
One of my favorite encounters with Wangchuk concerned his hair. He is blessed with a head of black hair. Yet during one of my visits with him, he requested that I check the markets and locate some white hair dye. His complaint was that people did not believe he was as old as he claims because his hair had not turned white. I thought he was teasing me at first, until I showed up empty handed during my next visit. I was unsuccessful locating any in near the camp, so my goal is to find a box of white hair dye here in the states and surprise him next year.
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The Tipping Point on LGBT Equality Has Arrived
Sure, full legal equality may take two decades and the battle against bigotry will last forever but there is no denying that the LGBT movement is on the move like never before.
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A couple of week ago I wrote, "The war over gay rights in America and other modern nations has been largely won. Too many people have come out of the closet and will never go back in for the clock to be turned back."
This trend towards acceptance has only accelerated since my column and may have reached a tipping point. New York Times columnist Charles Blow wrote about a new Gallup Poll that found, for the first time, the percentage of Americans who perceive "gay and lesbian relations" as morally acceptable has crossed the 50 percent mark. Also, for the first time, the percentage of men who hold that view is greater than the percentage of women who do.
Blow attributes these advancements to LGBT people coming out and the realization that it is primarily weirdos and socially stunted hypocrites who are obsessed or threatened by homosexuality.
"Virulent homophobes are increasingly being exposed for engaging in homosexuality," wrote Blow. "Many heterosexual men see this, and they don't want to be associated with it. It's like being antigay is becoming the old gay. Not cool."
Blow is correct. Normal, healthy, functional heterosexuals do not become paranoid or fixated on homosexuals. It is primarily people with sexual hang-ups, extreme religious indoctrination or deep, dark secrets that are preoccupied and consumed by the sexual orientation of others.
Of course, this does not mean that all supporters of civil rights for LGBT people are comfortable with the idea of gay sex. The good news is they don't have to be. While speaking across the nation I have found an easy way of diffusing this issue. I ask the crowd to look at people they assume are heterosexual in the audience. Then, I ask if they would want to see all of the people they stared at having sexual intercourse.
The answer is inevitably and resoundingly, "No." Then, I simply make the point that there are many people, heterosexual and homosexual, they would not want to witness in bed. And, they never have to unless they elect to do so -- making any objections in terms of the "ick" factor moot. As simple as this sounds, it works and audiences "get it."
Adding momentum to the LGBT struggle for equality is a cute McDonald's television commercial in France that dealt with a teenager who had not yet told his father he was gay. The message of the campaign is, "come as you are, just leave a little fatter." Okay, I added the last part.
While such an ad is not likely to air in the United States anytime soon, it does not have to in order to have a positive impact. Thanks to the Internet and talk shows, millions of people will see the ad and associate the message with their beloved Golden Arches.
Speaking of the impact of social media, in Newsweek, Joshua Alston made the case that websites such as Facebook are accelerating the demise of the closet. He wrote about the, "painstaking labor that goes into being secretly gay in the age of information sharing." His advice to a friend who was outed by a seemingly innocuous tweet: "if you want to be in the closet, you can't be on Facebook and Twitter."
Crucial to the sudden surge of success is the falling of ugly stereotypes, such as the old canard that LGBT people are a threat to children. This week, the research journal, Pediatrics, published a study by Nanette Gartrell, a professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco and Henry Bos, a behavioral scientist at University of Amsterdam. The article discussed a landmark study that measured the long-term affects on children who were raised by lesbian parents.
"We simply expected to find no difference in psychological adjustment between adolescents reared in lesbian families and the normative sample of age-matched controls," says Gartrell. "I was surprised to find that on some measures we found higher levels of [psychological] competency and lower levels of behavioral problems. It wasn't something I anticipated."
Finally, The Human Rights Campaign reports that Kaiser Permanente updated its Patients' Bill of Rights to fully protect LGBT patients and their families from discrimination. These changes make Kaiser Permanente the first large health network to have a fully inclusive non-discrimination policy for LGBT people.
Sure, full legal equality may take two decades and the battle against bigotry will last forever. But, there is no denying that the LGBT movement is on the move like never before. The homophobes are finally the minority and appearing more secluded and deluded by the day. It's not time to crack open a bottle of champagne, but feel free to treat your self to a cold beer and appreciate the progress.
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I am by no means a trader. I am not always looking for stocks to buy. However, since last October when the stock market started to sink, I have been active, relatively, on trading stocks. In fact, stocks I bought and sold since October 2008 are more than the total number of trades I did in the pas three years. On one hand, I want to take advantage of the market fluctuation to make a few quick bucks; on the other hand, when stock prices dropped to multi-year, or even all-time, lows, I also want to buy and hold them for a little bit longer so, hopefully, I will be able to get better returns in the future.
Since late October, I have added $10,000 to my Scottrade account to buy hard-hit stocks. As I mentioned early, I have already sold some stocks purchased early to take profits, but I am still holding a large number of stocks that I have no plan to sell, at least not in the new future. Following is the complete list of stock trades I made since October 2008.
There are a few trades I didn't do with the profits I wanted to have, or I could have waited a bit longer. Also, there were times I sold the stock just to have the money to buy others since I don't usually have spare money in the account. For example, I sold both Ctrip.com (CTRP) and WuXi Pharma (WX) with little profit on March 5 and used the proceeds to buy Citigroup (C), which didn't turn out to be a bad move, even though CTRP has also moved up very nicely during the same period of time.
Right now the market value of those stocks I am still holding is nearly twice as much as my initial investments of $10,000. I will probably buy a little bit more latter, but given the run we have since March 9, stock prices probably won't go up as fast as we have seen in the last month.
Personally I woulda kept Wuxi and sold SIRI, the latter being too speculative even for me unless you have real conviction about it.
Hope you can give an update on your Etrade Global account experience as I'm looking to get more direct exposure into China and Etrade seems to be one of the few options for the small investor available.
Love your blog btw! Been reading post after post – I don't remember when I agreed with someone so strongly about so many things on the markets, from oil to China to buying low and being an investor- good stuff!


After some twitter musings the other night, I got several requests for my list of "books that aren't about game design that I think game designers should read." Now, don't get me wrong, there are many wonderful texts on game design and game development in general with all sorts of useful information. However, I am fond of supplementing these reads with books from unrelated fields that still have something to teach about game design. I think it is because you have to forge your own connections when you read them, and when you do your own digging and have the insights yourself without them being presented to you, I find it tends to make the insights a little stickier. Basically it makes for good learnin', so here we go!
I think that Improv was one of the most useful classes I took in my formal game development education, and most of the things I learned came from this book. There are several vectors of useful game designer knowledge in here – storytelling, perception of your audience and all that, yes. But more importantly, there are secrets about how humans work that unlock powerful tools for teamwork that I use almost every day as a designer. In particular the chapter about status is extraordinarily useful.
My favorite lesson in this book was the curiosity and wonder that struck me when I encountered its unusual format for the first time. I try to recall that feeling often in attempts to recreate it in some game contexts. This is a book about writing, and a bit about drawing, but more generally it is a book about pulling images out of your brain for creative use. If you read it with your designer hat on, you'll notice all sorts of delightful tricks in its collage-like structure for pulling your mind around, but the content itself is also a wonderful lens for probing out creative thought.
I won't lie, this is a beast of a book, and at first skim it can feel a little dry. But there are so many useful snippets of insight here that can be applied to world design and level design. On another layer, it gave me a lot of insights on the systems design front just in how the patterns related to one another up and down the scale from patterns for city layouts all the way down to patterns guiding how you choose decorative trim for a window. I have heard that his other essay series, the Nature of Order, also has bountiful insights, but I haven't read it yet (it's on my list).
Another writing book, but one of a different tone and structure and one with different insights to share. The most striking image from this came from King likening writing fiction to digging up a fossil, as though the whole thing is down there, just waiting to be coaxed out and carefully brushed off. There are times when design can be like that, so reading this drew all sorts of new connections between the two, and I feel I can approach these instances better because of it. His telling of the muse resonated with my own level design dragon for sure.
I'm a little embarrassed to admit this one being on my list, because if you read up on the people who follow the GTD philosophy they can come off as a little…cultish? And when you read it you feel like "this was written for corporate executives." But there you have it, it's useful as hell. From the purely productive standpoint of being a game designer, this book has been a lifesaver, and I still follow the method more or less in everything I do. Even if the whole philosophy doesn't work for you, there a ton of little tips and paradigm shifts that can make structuring design work a lot more doable. Just learning to think about things through the lens of "knowledge work" and what that even means helped me immensely.
When I read this book for the first time, I wasn't quite a game designer yet, but it struck me right in the heart. "I need to be having more adventures," it made me think, and not in a frivolous fashion. "I need to be able to tell more stories when I'm old." When I re-read it as a designer, I realized that I was absorbing experiences and learning more about their structure. If anything it inspired me to get out and consume the world on multiple fronts, and gave me insights on new ways to use the lens of essential experience.
Alright, so, this is actually a sneak entry. It's not on my list in context of learning more about game design, but given the world climate recently I thought I'd sneak in here for all of you when your brains are in the receptive "books I should probably read" mode.
So there you have it, there's my list! What about you? If you have a list of non-design books for designers, I would love to read them!


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I went scuba diving here on 2/15/2019. Average viz: 26-30ft/8-9m. Water temp: 50-55°F/10-13°C.
I went scuba diving here on 2/10/2019. Average viz: 11-15ft/3-5m. Water temp: 50-55°F/10-13°C.
I went scuba diving here on 12/1/2018. Average viz: 5-10ft/2-3m. Water temp: 56-60°F/13-16°C.
I went scuba diving here on 8/19/2018. Average viz: Under 5ft/2m. Water temp: 66-70°F/19-21°C.
I went scuba diving here on 8/18/2018. Average viz: 5-10ft/2-3m. Water temp: 81-85°F/27-29°C.
I went scuba diving here on 6/15/2018. Average viz: 31-35ft/9-11m. Water temp: 56-60°F/13-16°C.
Jason is down there. I saw him when I was diving with some friends I met on meetup. I was just following them around for the most part so I don't know exactly where it's at. He has a map of all the different stuff down there. I can ask for a copy if you want one.
That would be great if you could ask for a map of that.
I went scuba diving here on 5/20/2018. Average viz: 21-25ft/6-8m. Water temp: 56-60°F/13-16°C.
I went scuba diving here on 5/19/2018. Average viz: 11-15ft/3-5m. Water temp: 66-70°F/19-21°C.
I went scuba diving here on 4/27/2018. Average viz: 21-25ft/6-8m.
I went scuba diving here on 1/5/2018. Average viz: 5-10ft/2-3m. Water temp: 50-55°F/10-13°C.
Took a 0 degree heading off the float and found that someone laid out a runway made of rocks. At the end of that was a dive flag and the table with a skeleton sitting at it and hanging skepetons in the tree. Continued to the wall and descended right on top of the door, which someone now put a neon yellow line on that continues out past the wall. We followed that, hit the mining car track and kept following it past that. It led us to another smaller wall that we were already at the bottom of, which we explored before turning around.
I went scuba diving here on 9/28/2017. Average viz: 11-15ft/3-5m. Water temp: 71-75°F/22-24°C.
Dove here on 7/2/2017. Average viz above 30 ft: 4-6ft. Average viz below 30 ft: 15-20ft. Water temp at surface 82-85°F, lowest at depth 59°F. Dramatic thermocline at about 30ft. Lake about 80% full. From edge of parking lot have to walk down about 60-75ft to get to water edge.
I went scuba diving here on 6/10/2017. Average viz: 36-40ft/11-12m. Water temp: 56-60°F/13-16°C.
Went diving here on 3/25/2017. Average viz: 10-15 ft at best. Water surface temp 61°F, no thermocline but chilly deeper: 53°F at 60 ft. Lake about 94% full - edge of water at most 10-15 ft from parked cars. Lots of floating debris at shoreline (branches, bits of wood) due to previous runoff.
I went scuba diving here on 12/10/2016. Average viz: 16-20ft/5-6m. Water temp: 56-60°F/13-16°C.
Almost no critters to see in hot summer weather, viz very poor in summer due to prolific algae. Great example of a thermocline - very drastic in summer. Find the sudden dropoff to go deeper.
Went diving on 8/13/2016, in the water just after 11am. Viz: 5-7 ft down to ~35 ft. Water temp down to ~35 ft: 83-89°F. Water temp below thermocline, below ~35-45 ft: 73-78°F. Viz below thermocline: 10 ft at most. Saw maybe 5 fish total after 3 dives, including a sunfish ~9-10" long at about 20-25 ft, 2 unidentified fish at least 12-15" long at about 25-35 ft. Saw the table & chairs with the fake skeleton ~25 ft, grandfather clock at ~52 ft. Dive buddy found a pair of sunglasses in very good condition.
I went scuba diving here on 7/29/2016. Average viz: 11-15ft/3-5m. Water temp: 61-65°F/16-18°C.


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Women Rise to the Top in Family Business
Susan Rix AM , Partner, Business Services |
BDO is a proud sponsor of the research conducted for the book Women in Family Business Leadership Roles: Daughters on the Stage by Mary Barrett and Ken Moores, which demonstrates women's entrepreneurial leadership.
Thirteen international cases have been included in the research on the challenges that women have faced in traditionally conservative family business environments. The research focuses on the patterns of success and failure, and analysis on whether this is the result of gender or other factors. Insights are provided on growth and sustainability, dynamic leadership, and a desire to achieve and succeed.
After millennia spent behind the scenes, women are rising to the top of family firms in ever increasing numbers. Recent Bond research sheds new light on their experiences.
The family business model is the oldest and biggest business model in the world. Since the dawn of trade, family business has dominated commerce. In fact until very recently, a family business was the only kinds of businesses. The term 'family business' is a modern distinction.
When the family-owned company Kongo Gumi closed its doors in 2006, it ended more than 14 centuries of continuous operation. The Japanese company had been in the business of building Buddhist temples since the year 578, making it the oldest family-operated business in the world.
Kongo Gumi's final president, Masakazu Kongo, was the last in a line of 40 family-members who led the company during its 1428-year life.
Two generations earlier, Kongo Gumi's 38th leader was the company's one and only female president, Masakuzo's grandmother Yoshie. Yoshie Kongo's leadership was a one-off departure from the traditional practice of passing the reins to a male heir, and it was born of extraordinary circumstances when her predecessor committed suicide. Yoshie Kongo's preparation for leadership in the family firm was informal, incomplete and unexpected. Nevertheless, she developed the business as capably as any of its male leaders, overseeing the reconstruction of Shitennoji's five-story pagoda after it was hit by a typhoon in 1934. Masakazu Kongo reportedly said of his grandmother, "If anyone is a superhero in our family, it's her."
Identifying the path to leadership
According to a new publication by family-business experts Professor Ken Moores (Director of Bond University's Australian Centre for Family Business) and Professor Mary Barrett (Professor of Management at the University of Woolongong's School of Management and Marketing), Yoshie's path to leadership was representative of the differences between men and women when taking the helm of the family business. Professors Barrett and Moores conducted a study of successful chief executive officers (CEOs) in family run firms in 2002. They identified four distinct phases in the preparation for and administration of family-business leadership: learning the business, learning our business, learning to lead our business, and learning to let go.
However, the significant skew in family business toward male leaders meant the study was heavily weighted toward men. In fact, there was only one woman in the data set. This raised the question in Barrett and Moores' minds as to whether or not women were afforded the same sequential preparation process as men along the road to the top.
The resulting study was published late in 2009 as a book, Women in Family Business Leadership Roles: Daughters on the Stage. By analysing 13 international cases of women in family business, Professors Barrett and Moores began to uncover patterns in the way women attained leadership in their family businesses, and to learn why, in some circumstances, they failed to do so.
Not the least of the study's insights was the discovery that while the path to leadership for women was neither as strategic nor as sequential as the process identified for men, most women nevertheless did manage to find their way through each of the four phases identified in the earlier study.
And most importantly, they were equally equipped for success when they reached the top.
Defining the family business
Family-owned business outperform their publicly-owned counterparts with higher returns on investment, better profit margins, more stable earnings and better cash-flow and earnings per employee.
Probably the most telling characteristic that defines a family business, and separates it out from other businesses in which family members work or even lead, is the intention to continue the business across generations.
"If you or I start a business and engage members of our families, it is in one sense a family business," Professor Moores says. "But does it really have all of the characteristics that we typically associate with a family business? Has it formulated the intention to carry across into the next generation? I would suggest not.
"So intentionality becomes a critical distinguishing feature to separate a family business from any other business."
Many family businesses are a far cry from the tiny 'Mum and Pop' storefront operations we may often envisage. "They transcend all of the size categories, from the largest firms to indeed the smallest firms," Professor Moores says. "More of them are small, simply because more businesses are small. But a significant percentage of family firms is owned and operated at the top end.
"News Corporation, the Packers, Linfox and VisiCorp: they are all significant family firms, both public and private, in Australia. And of course when you take it to the world stage, you're talking about Walmart, Ford, BMW, Samsung ... all of those are family-controlled companies."
Approximately 15 percent of the businesses publicly listed on the Australian stock exchange are family operated businesses. Moving through the ranks of private companies, that percentage grows a lot larger. And ultimately, "when you crank all the numbers you come out with about two-thirds of all businesses in Australia being family owned and operated," Professor Moores says.
"Worldwide, family firms are a very significant economic force. If you have a look at the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), it considers the start-up of new enterprises. In the creation of new enterprises, family businesses are dominant players. So they are not only there in percentage terms as established businesses, they are going to continue to grow in years ahead.
Females and family dynamics
"Families within businesses can create good, bad and even ugly business practices," Professor Moores says. "The good can indeed become great, while the bad and ugly can turn nasty, and endanger the survival of the enterprise.
"In many cases, the founders of businesses are enthusiastic, visionary, busy people who take their family members along with them. But they don't always spend time explaining to the family what their longer-term intentions are."
For example, whether or not the business will be handed down to male heirs.
Cultural and sociological traditions have often dictated the roles of women in family business and until relatively recently; it was widely assumed that only the male members of a family would take the helm of the family business. Male succession is no longer an instinctive assumption in contemporary Western society, although it does remain the predominant outcome in family business leadership.
However, this will not likely be the case forever. Female leadership of family business is growing at a considerable rate. "It's not necessarily outstripping the men, but then it's coming off a fairly low base," Professor Mores says. "Perhaps even more importantly, the opportunities being afforded to women in family business have been escalating quite a lot."
Data collected by Mass Mutual Financial Group and the Raymond Institute found that between 1997 and 2002, the proportion of family-owned businesses with female CEO's doubled. More than a third of family owned business (34 percent) said their next CEO could be a woman, up from 25 percent in 1997.
Female business leadership in the all-important start-up phase of a business is a significant growth area. "Women entrepreneurs are emerging as a very significant force in the starting up of new businesses," Professor Moores says.
Moreover, "The whole idea in many cultures of 'primogeniture', the firstborn son assuming leadership when the incumbent steps down, has been jettisoned in favour of choosing the best person for the job.
"Even in cases of very male-oriented industries, such as transport or trucking for example, when the businesses have grown and become more sophisticated, their leaders may not be dealing with trucks so much as with managing people and managing finances, and those are skills at which women are equally adept."
So with women coming out of the kitchen and emerging from the HR department, how are they being prepared for family-business leadership, and what does this mean for the company employee and stakeholders?
Daughters on the stage
In their 2009 study, Professors Moores and Barrett identified four key circumstances that illustrated the manner in which women came to lead the family business, and then explored how that journey impacted on their leadership styles. They used a showbiz metaphor to best explain the process.
'Stumbling into the spotlight' was the title given to women who unexpectedly found themselves leading the family business. 'Building your own stage' described women who came from a family business background but, instead of leading it, chose to create their own firms. 'Directing the spotlight elsewhere' grouped a category of women who led the family business precisely by not appearing to do so. And 'Coping with shadows' was the title given to women who must deal with an earlier leader.
None of these categories necessarily fit the ordered, sequential and strategic four-phase journey to the top that Barrett and Moores identified in 2002 as being a common experience of men (learning the business, learning our business, learning to lead the business, learning to let go). Nevertheless, they found that women did tend to pass through each of those four stages, albeit in a less defined manner.
The end result was that by the time women attained leadership of the family firm, they were equally as equipped to lead it as their male counterparts. However, they often faced challenges in building a case for legitimacy among employees, shareholders and most importantly other family members, since their career progress was not as easy to define.
Building a case for legitimacy
"Legitimacy for leadership typically means that you've earned your credentials in terms of your prior development for that particular role," Moores explains. "And most women typically haven't been afforded that sort of neat, sequential development, so often it's not as obvious that they are ready for the role. They may therefore need to project their talents a little bit more obviously, in order to achieve that."
Bond alumnus Emma Hill, daughter of the Michael Hill who gave his name to the international retail jewellery empire, prepared for her current role as Deputy Chair (and her aspiration of becoming Chair) in a thorough, if not linear, manner.
"I was seven years old when my father started Michael Hill Jeweller (MHJ)," she recalls. "Dad was always home for dinner with us and, as a result, business was always part of the dinner-table conversation. I loved hearing my dad talk about the business and his vision, he gets so passionate about it that you can't help but be inspired."
"Building legitimacy" in Hills's case meant getting to know the business from the bottom up. "To be respected and, more importantly, to have the skills required to continue the success of my father, there are no shortcuts. Being Michael's daughter, I have had to prove myself more than anyone else, which is a good thing," she says.
Hill started learning the family business at the age of seven. "I started with Windex in hand, cleaning the counter glass. I progressed to selling at age 12, and spent years mastering the art. I was the fifth-highest sales professional by volume in Australia when I was 22, and became a manager-in-training. I then managed MHJ stores for four years. At this point, Hill decided to take a break from the business. She completed her MBA at Bond University, and left the family company to work in the advertising industry.
Going away and continuing differently
Leaving the family firm, and even leaving the family industry, is a process on the path to leadership that Professors Moores and Barrett found was extremely common among both men and women. Moreover, it was an important step in the learning stages toward leadership of the family firm.
"The first developmental sequence is typically to go outside," Professor Moores explains. "Women have the tendency to have to go further outside than men: they go further away from the family business, and that therefore sometimes means they are delayed in coming back.
"But when a person does come back to the family business, there is often a need to undertake what we call, in paradoxical terms, "continuing differently". They need to adapt and adjust the family business, the old strategic renewal. When a new generation takes over, that's often the time when the business gets repositioned.
"Take for example the Packer family. Sir Frank was newspapers, Kerry was television, and James is now gaming. It's the same family business, but every generation has repositioned it. They haven't jettisoned the past completely, but they have repositioned it."
In Hill's case, "continuing differently" meant taking Michael Hill Jewellers into new geographic regions. The company started in Hill's native New Zealand, moved into Australia, and has now expanded across Canada and into the United States, a move spearheaded by Hill.
"After working in advertising for a while, I realised I wasn't happy unless I was at MHJ," she says. "I was appointed International Expansion Manager and then General Manager Canada. I started our business in Canada in 2002, and opened 22 stores across the nation, returning to New Zealand five years later.
"When I was 21 years old and living in London, I set myself the goal that I wanted to establish MHJ in the UK within 10 years. As it turns out, when you are determined to achieve a goal it really comes to reality. I opened MHJ in Canada in 2002 when I was 31. Got the continent wrong, but achieved the overall objective!"
More Opportunities in the family
In fact, Moores says family business often provide women with more opportunities than they would gain in a non-family business environment.
"Generally speaking, there seems to be a wider acceptance that women could be contemplated for senior roles within family firms," he says.
"Yes, women are being developed for family business leadership, and not necessarily as a second choice," he continues, "although their development for those senior roles is nowhere near as organised and sequential as it is for the men."
Moores says family businesses are more tolerant and accommodating of career interruptions by women, such as taking time off to have a child.
"There's flexibility for the interruption of women's careers without it being detrimental to their ongoing progress. Clearly this is all about child-bearing and those sorts of family responsibilities, which are seen as being particularly important and relevant in the context of family firms," he says. "Generally speaking, females in family firms are given more opportunities than they perhaps would experience outside the family firm."
Certainly, Emma Hill seems well on track to achieve her career goals in the family firm, and says being a woman has not hindered her professional path. "It was hard to get ahead, but being female didn't make it any harder," she insists.
"BDO wishes to acknowledge Bond University for permission to re-produce 'Family Ties' as published in The ARCH, Autumn 2010. BDO is the proud sponsor of this significant research."


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Singer Pink donates $500G to help fight Australia wildfires
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - NOVEMBER 13: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) P!nk attends the 53nd annual CMA Awards at Bridgestone Arena on November 13, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
American pop singer Pink says she is donating $500,000 to help fight the deadly wildfires that have devastated parts of Australia.
"I am totally devastated watching what is happening in Australia right now with the horrific bushfires," Pink tweeted Saturday to her 32.2 million Twitter followers.
"I am pledging a donation of $500,000 directly to the local fire services that are battling so hard on the frontlines. My heart goes out to our friends and family in Oz."
The death toll in the wildfire crisis is now up to 23 people. The fires are expected to be particularly fierce throughout the weekend.
The wildfires, which have been raging since September, have already burned about 5 million hectares (12.35 million acres) of land and destroyed more than 1,500 homes.
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Introduction to Critical Information Literacy: Promoting Social Justice through Librarianship
April 10, continuing for 5 weeks
Fee $225.00
Librarians have a long history of fighting for social justice, and today the need to continue the fight seems as strong as ever. You may find that members of your community are eager to get involved as well, but how can you help them? How can you provide them with resources that you know are unbiased, reliable, and accurate?
In this new eCourse, information literacy expert Dawn Stahura will show you how. Together, you'll look at instruction sessions through the lens of critical information literacy, discussing the inherent biases and systemic oppression in how information is disseminated and processed. Stahura will provide you with useful strategies to incorporate the process of knowledge creation into your instruction sessions, while highlighting the racial disparities found in publishing.
Throughout the eCourse, you, along with your instructor and fellow participants, will discuss the creation of critical annotated bibliographies and how your students can take evaluation a step further and learn more effective ways to evaluate sources. You will look at alternative texts and resources to not only humanize the research process but address the lack of marginalized voices in the scholarly pursuit for information. Register
Programming with Cosplay: Embracing Costume Play in your Library Workshop
May 17, 1:30pm Central
Cosplay?! What is that? It's costume play and it's a rapidly-growing pastime among teens and adults – basically, people of all ages!
In this workshop, avid cosplayer and librarian Ellyssa Kroski will introduce you to the amazing world of cosplay. She will cover the tools and techniques used by cosplayers, the many different types of events you can host (library comic cons, anime cons, cosplay events, themed library lock-ins and more!), and how to reach out to your cosplay community to get them involved. Kroski will provide numerous examples of how libraries are incorporating cosplay into their programming and how these programs are bringing in new patrons, encouraging use of graphic novel and comic collections, and getting people of all ages engaged with the library.
You will also be able to share and learn from the other participants' experiences with cosplay and library programming. You'll walk away from this workshop brimming with ideas for new library programs that will wow your patrons! Register
Earth Science for a Better World
April 12, 1:00pm Mountain
Register now for this two-part webinar! (password is "star"). Librarians, camp programmers, and other out-of-school time facilitators are invited to join STAR_Net and the Lunar and Planetary Institute on April 12 for two free professional development webinars on the STAR_Net Earth science activities. Register to receive connection information and directions to help you better participate in the activities during the webinar.
Attend both webinars – or just one! – as it fits your needs and schedule!
Earth Science for a Better World, Part 1: Looking for fun activities related to your local environment? This 30-minute session will model and include discussions of these activities:
• Fastest Dresser: Race to dress in clothing and gear appropriate for a specific type of weather.
• Nurturing Life: Explore what living things need to survive and thrive by creating and caring for a garden.
• Recipe for a Region: Discuss how your climate influences the local agriculture, then identify a type of food unique to the region and select (and possibly make) a recipe that features that ingredient.
Earth Science for a Better World, Part 2: This 45-minute session will explore our watery world and changing climate with the following activities. Participants will discuss various options for implementation, and share ideas in how to best conduct these programs.
• Catch the World's Ocean: Toss a soft Earth globe and record how often your thumb is on land or on ocean.
• Ice-Y Experiences: Play "Ice Bingo" by finding other participants who have had the icy experiences matching those on the game cards.
• Polar Bears Go with the Floes: Play a board game in which chance and choice determine the fate of a polar bear on an ice floe.
Crowd-pleasing Hands-on Activities for Your Eclipse Programs
Learn how to facilitate activities that will have your patrons asking, "Really!?!," and exclaiming "That's so cool!" Sun Cookies are a sure crowd-pleaser — join us to see how these tasty treats can help young learners explore the Sun. Engage both youth and adults in out-of-this-world explorations of how our small Moon can eclipse the huge Sun. Experiment with integrating technology into your eclipse programs using online games as well as equipment you may already have on hand. Register
Sleeper Hits for Summer 2017
April 11, 3:00pm Eastern
You may already know the biggest titles for coming months, the books that are best sellers before their official publication date. But what about sleeper hits, those great discoveries that librarians will want to have, though they might not know it yet?
Does Balli Kaur Jaswal's title Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows make you curious? Do you get the shivers at the thought of reading Leah Weiss's If the Creek Don't Rise? And what's being served during Donia Bijan's The Last Days of Café Leila?
This webcast introduces you to such titles and offers recommendations from leading publishers. Register now and find out about these books and more!
How to Make Blended Learning Work in Your School
April 20, 1:00 pm Central
The blended learning approach is growing in popularity for K-12, but what are the best practices to ensure you achieve its full benefits? Don't miss this opportunity to gain invaluable insight from Instructional Technology Coach Anne Aita, who'll share how she's helped the Beaufort County Public School District (SC) successfully integrate eBooks and audiobooks into the classroom. Register
Lights, Camera, Advocacy to Action: Digital Storytelling for Libraries
April 26, 11:00am Pacific
How can you tell your library's story in a way that will increase public support? Digital stories can be used for advocacy efforts, from raising awareness to fundraising campaigns to taking political action. Libraries can develop a compelling story using video, and leverage that story to show the impact they have in the community.
This free webinar will identify how to use digital storytelling for advocacy, as well as good practices for video production and digital storytelling. Presenters will share a list of technology tools that will help you develop top-notch stories.
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Understanding E-books: A Guide to Current Challenges and Future Possibilities
The popularity of e-books exploded with the emergence of tablets and e-readers like the Kindle and has risen steadily ever since. For librarians, this growth has meant the development of a new area of service and content delivery. For the librarian who is new to e-books and e-readers, this can be intimidating. Where do you start? How can you learn what you need to know to provide the services that your patrons expect?
In this new workshop, Mirela Roncevic, director of No Shelf Required, a well-known site on e-books and e-content in libraries and beyond, will help you get started. Roncevic will cover e-books from every angle, giving a practical overview of the e-book landscape that's easy to follow no matter your experience working with e-books or e-book vendors. Register
#OwnVoices: SLJ in Conversation About Publishing Diverse Books
April 18, 12:00pm Eastern
Join Shelley Diaz, School Library Journal's reviews manager, for an in-depth conversation with editors and publishing insiders, Francisca Goldsmith of Library Ronin, Christopher Johns of Tuttle Publishing, Cheryl Klein of Lee & Low and Carrie Gleason of James Lorimer & Company.
They'll dig deeper into publishing diverse children's and young adult literature with a focus on #OwnVoices titles—books about marginalized cultures and characters written by authors from that same identity. Each panelist will also offer a special preview of several upcoming titles. Register
Introduction to Immigrant Stories for Educators and Librarians
Minitex
By Rita Baladad
This training will introduce participants to the Immigrant Stories project, its tools, and its resources for educators. Immigrant Stories helps recent immigrants and refugees create, share, and preserve digital stories: brief videos with images, text, and audio about a personal experience.
Educators will learn about the project's curriculum and free website, immigrantstories.umn.edu, where students can create their own digital stories.
Founded in 1965, the University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) aims to transform the way in which we understand immigration in the past and present. Along with its partner, the IHRC Archives (University Libraries), it is the oldest and largest interdisciplinary research center and archives devoted to preserving and understanding immigrant and refugee life in North America. Article
Researching Minnesota History from the Comfort of Home (or anywhere with WiFi)
April 19, 1:00pm Central
Feeling overwhelmed or out of the loop when it comes to the latest resources for researching Minnesota history? Wondering exactly what is online, what isn't, and how to effectively sort through it all (and help your patrons do the same)?
The reference librarians at the Minnesota Historical Society are here to help. In this webinar learn about: The content and scope of Minnesota history online research collections (from newspapers to government documents); How to use various online search tools for finding information in Minnesota history related collections; Reasons why librarians/patrons may be interested in particular resources; Tools & services available for remote research assistance.
At the end of this session you will have a solid sense of the type of research you can do online, how to tell when you need to visit the library in person, and how best to use online resources to prepare for such a visit.
This webinar is presented by Jennifer Rian of MNHS. Jennifer is a reference librarian for the Gale Family Library at the Minnesota Historical Society where she works regularly with groups visiting the library to learn about how to do archival research (both online and in-person). Her previous experience includes work as a librarian at Luther College (Decorah, IA) and as an educator at the Iron Range Research Center (Chisholm, MN).
A New Gadget for Your Research Toolkit: Using the Minnesota People Records Search
This webinar is an introduction to the Minnesota Historical Society's newest search tool–the Minnesota People Records Search. The system currently indexes birth and death records, state census, and Veteran's Grave Registrations, so it will be a vital resource for genealogists and other researchers working on biographical research.
Reference librarian Jenny McElroy will walk you through this new search tool, give a variety of hints for using it effectively and efficiently, and talk about how the tool will be expanding in the future.
Designing a People-Focused Library
June 7, continuing for 6 weeks
Fee $261.75-$349.00
Designing a great library used to start with the books. Now, it starts with users and their needs. Learn what people want from their library and how to translate that into spaces that are flexible enough to adapt to rapidly changing technologies, and enable today's learning, creation, and community connections.
Craft your roadmap for creating a future-facing building for your public or academic community—aligning your priorities with your community's perspectives, goals, and aspirations. Learn strategies from leading librarians and design thinkers in live keynote sessions and get personalized feedback on your plans from a dedicated advisor that will provide one-on-one feedback for your plan. You will also participate in online discussion groups, where you can share resources and best practices with peers from across the country. Register
60 Tools in 60 Minutes
Our popular series returns with all-new presentations on technology in the education space, from helping struggling readers to sorting fact from fiction when it comes to digital information. Led by top practitioners in the field, these one-hour free programs will offer practical insight into these hot topics in tech, with implications for schools and libraries. Register
The Stars So Far, K-12
Even as early as spring, new titles are rising to the top with multiple-starred reviews. Join Deborah B. Ford and her co-host, Shelley Diaz, Reviews Manager and YA Editor at School Library Journal, for a look at the K-12 books receiving rave reviews. From favorite authors Nikki Grimes and Kevin Henkes to a heart-warming story about foster kids, you won't want to miss the stars so far. Register
Making the Most of Indie Author Day
Planning for Indie Author Day 2017 is officially under way! Libraries of all sizes internationally are busy preparing for the second annual day to celebrate their local writing communities. Whether you're brainstorming breakout sessions, developing a marketing strategy or interested in learning more about Indie Author Day, this webinar will serve to answer any questions and help you organize a strong approach to make October 14th a success. In addition to the Indie Author Day team, featured speakers will include Indie Author Day sponsors and innovative librarians who coordinated outstanding Indie Author Day events in 2016. Register
Three Keys to Digital Preservation—Management, Technology, and Content
In this webinar, Edward M. Corrado and Heather Moulaison Sandy cover the basics of digital preservation, starting with what it is and what it is not. They then examine three overarching (and interrelated) concerns in digital preservation: management, technology, and the content itself. They conclude by considering some additional aspects of the digital preservation puzzle such as what you can do to prepare if you don't already have a digital preservation system in place at your library. Register
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One day Tomoyo's brother, Takafumi, brings his father's illegitimate child, Tomo, to Tomoya's apartment.
Tomo had been abandoned by her mother, and Tomoya and Tomoyo reluctantly decide they would look after her.
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Is There Still a Chance for a 'Superbad' Sequel?
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It took about seven years after its initial release for me to finally watch Superbad. Everyone I knew who loved R-rated comedies had seen it and wouldn't stop giving me a hard time until I did. Afterwards, I finally understood all the references my friends made about the name McLovin. Now I stand by them and everyone else who sees Superbad as one of the best comedies of the last decade.
It's difficult to imagine a sequel never happening, even nearly ten years later. A majority of the actors are now big names in Hollywood and the film has stood the test of time. Unfortunately, a sequel would be just wishful thinking at the moment, especially when the film's director and writers aren't interested in doing another.
Director Gregg Mottola has a new film releasing this weekend called Keeping Up with the Joneses. Chances are you've seen the trailers, which star Zack Galifianakis and Isla Fisher as a married couple who investigate their new neighbors (Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot), who seem a little too perfect. It looks like a good comedy. Anyways, the director of this film also directed Superbad, and during an interview for press on his new film, he was asked about a sequel to the popular comedy. His response to the idea was pretty straight forward. Neither he nor the writers (Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg of Neighbors) are particularly interested in making another one. To them it would be more of a cash grab. As disappointing as this sounds, it shouldn't be all that surprising. This writing duo also turned down the opportunity to write a sequel to another one of their comedy hits, Pineapple Express.
So although it's understandable why this team is not interested in Superbad 2, it's also difficult to ignore the potential to pick up where the first film ended. How did college life treat Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) once they graduated? I can only imagine the kind of shenanigans these two would get into. Or maybe a sequel could focus on a new group of high school students. Either way, studios are all about money, and that means we can (potentially) expect a sequel long after it's too late.
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Will Smith Using His "After Earth" Movie to Promote Scientology?
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Updated May 31st, 2013 at 4:05 pm
Will Smith considers himself to be a "student of world religion," which is a pretentious way of saying you don't have a declared dogma that you cling to. Or perhaps, as some have speculated, it's his way of covering the fact that he is involved with the Church of Scientology.
Though Smith has long denied this, he and his wife Jada do have ties to the faith — including using his old home to help fund a private school that uses teaching methods developed by Scientologists.
Now, there's a new blog post that notices that many of the themes found in his new film, After Earth, incorporates much of the beliefs of L. Ron Hubbard, the sci-fi writer who founded the Church of Scientology.
Blogger Matt Patches writes:
In the end, it doesn't really matter — but it's hard to dismiss Smith's ties to L Ron Hubbard's sci-fi-inspired belief system when its ideas are all over his new film, After Earth.
I won't get too spoilery here, but consider this:
In After Earth, Smith's character Cypher Raige (ha!) is a commander in a human society that fled Earth 1,000 years ago. They escaped their ecologically-ravaged homeworld to a new planet that was picture perfect… minus a race of blind aliens with a thirst for the pheromones produced by fear. Convenient! What makes Cypher special is that he's capable of "ghosting," the ability to abandon fear and become invisible to the aliens. As we've seen in the trailers, circumstances eventually take Cypher and his son Kitai (Jaden Smith) back to Earth with company — a fear-hungry alien. Kitai ends up having to cross the terrifying forest land of Earth and his biggest problem is that he's a total pussy. He is bubbling over with fear. He's too fucking emotional and that makes him a huge target for the alien.
This struck me as Scientology 101. Cypher spends most of the movie guiding his son through the dangerous environments of evolved Earth, coaching him to drop his emotions and believe in his self. Fear is imaginary, a construct of the mind that can be abolished if you believe in your own abilities. To me, After Earth is all about cleansing the body's "thetan," or soul. If Kitai can leave behind the physical dangers of the world and invest in self-determinism, he'll be triumphant. He'll be a hero because he's entitled to be one.
Scientology is all about personal survival — the "first dynamic"— and that's the key to Katai's mission. Washing away the past, any bad decision he's made, in order to come out on top. It's the way his father has lived and it's basically gone unpunished, even when he has massive mistakes on his record to show for it. Unlike many Hollywood science fiction movie's, After Earth has an emphasis on self that I don't believe is coincidence.
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Illuminating 9/11: AE911Truth Shines During the 10th Anniversary Events
Written by Mike Cook
The 10th anniversary events will bring Richard Gage, AIA, together with renowned 9/11 researchers, including Dr. David Ray Griffin, Dr. Steven Jones, and Dr. Neils Harrit
The past few years have seen profound advancements for the 9/11 Truth Movement generally and for us here at AE911Truth. We grow stronger with breakthroughs like the discovery of nanothermite in the WTC dust, the appearance of the Remember Building 7 campaign on Geraldo At Large , and the surprising success of our new 15 minute WTC 7 Documentary with Ed Asner, which has been viewed more than 500,000 times in just over a month. Even defenders of the official story, such as "Among the Truthers" author Jonathan Kay, have admitted that the calls for a new investigation are growing. Of course, informed psychological professionals such as those at American Behavioral Scientist disagree with Kay's analysis of why the calls are growing.
We have now stepped across the 10th anniversary, and the increased public attention on 9/11/11 presented an unparalleled opportunity for us to break through to a tipping point, beyond which our efforts will hopefully become easier. Deep, positive changes could begin to reshape our world as a result of a real 9/11 investigation that accounts for the abundant physical and forensic evidence. We may not have reached that tipping point with this opportunity, but we do know that it will come, as sure as the dawn, and we will continue to do all we can to bring it about. Truth has no expiration date.
All through history, the ways of truth and love have always won.
We have redoubled our efforts at this critical time and we are encouraging everyone to get involved and do what you can in your local area. We hope that you have promoted the events listed below through social media and have attended them wherever possible.
Regional premieres of "9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speaks Out" were presented all across the country and around the world over the last two weeks. Visit AE911Truth.org/ESO for information about screenings in your local area.
Note: All times listed are Eastern Standard Time (EST).
The amazing AE911Truth Action Group volunteers in Buffalo include Marty, Rob, Eric, who, along with others, organized two well-attended AE911Truth speaking events on 9/6/11 in record time
AE911Truth founder Richard Gage, AIA, gave presentations at two different campuses of the University of Buffalo in New York.
If you were unable to attend, please pick up a copy of the 9/11: Blueprint for Truth presentation on DVD.
9/11: Blueprint for Truth Presentation
University at Buffalo North Campus
North Campus event:
Show of hands results
Believe fires brought down buildings 2 1
Unsure 38 6
Agree with evidence for controlled demolition 84 117
7:30PM – 9/11: Blueprint for Truth Presentation
University at Buffalo South Campus
South Campus event:
Gage attended two of the very successful world premiere screenings of the documentary 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out – Pre-Release Edition.
Audience members at a premiere eagerly to share their feedback to help AE911Truth make this documentary the best it can be at its Final Release on November 1
This powerful new educational tool has been well worth the work and the wait. The Pre-Release edition is now at version v1.3a for download and PayPerView. Watch now in order to grasp the impact of 43 of AE911Truth's top technical and building professionals expressing their grave concerns about the official conspiracy theory and calling for a new investigation of NIST itself. The evidence is also laid out carefully by these experts. Family members of the 9/11 victims and psychologists assist in making the evidence more tangible and help to place it in context.
7:00PM – Premiere of "9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out"
with Q&A by Richard Gage, AIA
Toronto Underground Cinema
On Friday, September 9, Gage attended the historic Toronto Hearings with other 9/11 experts, including Dr. Steven Jones, John Cole, David Chandler, Kevin Ryan, and Dr. Niels Harrit, to cover our best technical evidence along a dozen other researchers in an atmosphere akin to a courtroom. Hopefully this will be a warm-up for actual court proceedings in the not-too-distant future. Stay tuned for a full report in our October issue of The Blueprint.
9:00AM – International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001
On the eve of the 10th anniversary, AE911Truth returned to New York City to present at Liberty Fest. With speakers like Sheriff Mack, Adam Kokesh and Gary Franchi, this was an opportunity to educate several hundred people who were not already informed about the evidence for explosive controlled demolition of the 3 WTC towers. The audience included those in the Tea Party, the Patriot movement, and similar groups of justifiably concerned Americans. Over a hundred DVDs were distributed.
5:00PM – Libertyfest NYC
Club Amnesia
The 10th Anniversary itself was both solemn and busy. Gage joined several other panelists including Webster Tarpley, Barbara Honneger, Mark Crispin Miller, and other 9/11 researchers at How the World Changed After 9/11 and gave a half-hour presentation. This made-for-TV event was hosted by INN World Report at the Walker Stage in lower Manhattan, just 10 blocks from the historic attacks of 9/11 that most presenters highlighted.
11:00AM – How the World Changed after 9/11
Walker Stage
The evening of September 11 featured both AE911Truth's NY Premiere of "9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out" and a series of well publicized to radio debates about 9/11. KPFA's Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff hosted the debates with sponsorship from Project Censored, which were broadcast on all five Pacifica radio stations and more than 100 affiliates nationwide. At 6:00 PM, Dr. David Ray Griffin and 9/11 whistleblower Kevin Ryan faced off with Jonathan Kay and Skeptical Inquirer editor Karen Stollznow. This dynamic discussion was followed at 7:00 PM by a scientific showdown pitting Gage and Dr. Neils Harrit against physicist Dave Thomas, leader of New Mexicans for Science and Reason, and physics professor Richard Mueller, senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Stollznow and 9/11 activist Paul Rea closed out the broadcast with a live call-in segment.
Gage gave an introduction to the Experts Speak Out documentary, encouraging attendees to proactively give feedback on the pre-release version of the film. Then, while the packed house of almost 300 attendees were watching the movie, Gage was able to join Harrit in challenging Thomas and Mueller with the scientific evidence of controlled demolition.
6:00PM – 9/11 Radio Interview/Debate on KPFA
7:00PM – AE911Truth Debate on KPFA
Broadcast nationwide
Listen to the podcasts at KPFA.org and stay tuned at our website, AE911Truth.org, for a full review of the events.
After the lively one-hour debate Gage returned to the rapt audience and then heard their questions and suggestions for improvements to the film – which of course included shortening it from 2 hours and 15 minutes and reducing the repetition.
Psychologist Robert Griffin, who is featured in the new DVD "9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out," shared his experience and insight with the audience about coming to terms with the implications of the explosive 9/11 evidence
If you have feedback for AE911Truth from your review of "9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out" we would very much like to hear from you at 911ExpertsSpeakOut.org.
A Unique Time in the History of the Movement
The time upon us is momentous in both our grief for the deep loss we all suffered, and for the promise that it brings to the march towards truth and justice regarding the 9/11 catastrophe. An awakening is happening in our country – one that extends even overseas. As a street activist I have witnessed receptiveness to the heavy knowledge that we bear and it has been extraordinary. We can now easily go broke handing out material, instead of returning home with unused DVDs as we did many years ago. The nation is in dire straits from many standpoints; disenfranchised,
One of the great pleasures Richard Gage, AIA, has on the road is the opportunity to meet AE911Truth petition signers like Richard Humenn, P.E., who was the chief electrical designer of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and who stated that he was convinced on Day One that his buildings were destroyed with explosives
disenchanted people are looking for answers. We are presenting some of those answers and calling on official bodies to expose the rest. Gandhi said, "When I despair, I remember that all through history, the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think on it – always." The urgent situation that 9/11 Truth exposes demands diligent and frequent action of all good people everywhere.
Dedicated volunteers like Catherine and Mary are what made AE911Truth a powerhouse of WTC education during the week of 9/11/11
Such action is also liberating, in every circumstance, and can even be quite enjoyable at times. People have lost jobs and relationships in their pursuit of the truth and in speaking out for it. But, speaking as one of those who has suffered some of these losses, what has been gained and what yet stands to be gained are both worth vastly than what has been lost. We must remember that, as Gandhi said, "An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it." We are making sure that everybody sees the evidence of the WTC controlled demolition.
As if all of those activities weren't enough to get the job done, on Sept 23 AE911Truth presented at Cal State Chico, in Chico, CA along side David Ray Griffin to a nearly filled auditorium. Dr. Griffin seems fully engergized and recovered from his recent health concerns and gave a lecture providing deep insight into his new book, "9/11: Ten Years Later - When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed". He asks the questions, and answers, in his crystal clear fashion, why journalists like Bill Moyer and Robert Parry endorse miracles (i.e., the official accounts of the 9/11 events.)
Dr. David Ray Griffin and Richard Gage, AIA, engage in off stage speculation - fueled by the active minds of the local Chico, CA 9/11 Truth coordinators
We provide the WTC evidence in a quick hour and were able to obtain quite a shift in the thinking of the audience as to "What is science" and "What is conspiracy?" - "What brought those towers down?".
This crowd, numbering 237 - was a mix of young and old for our AE911Truth presentation of "9/11: Blueprint for Truth". Before the talk 34 believed the official account of the destruction of the Twin Towers (jet plane impacts and fires) and 55 were unsure. The remainder, 148, were already convinced that these towers were brought down by controlled demolition. Whereas, after the AE911Truth presentation only 2 believed in what can be called the official conspiracy theory of the towers destruction, and just 17 were unsure. The remainder were convinced by the C.D. evidence.
There were 2 architects and 4 engineers in attendance. 43 were unfamiliar with WTC 7.
Chico State University
Chico State University event:
Believe fires brought down buildings 34 2
Unsure 55 17
Agree with evidence for controlled demolition 148 218
So we are continuing to make progress - a few at a time wake up to the information. Others won't come and hear it at all. Ten years later and we still have a lot of work to do.
And you can help. In addition to participating in the events that so many of us have engaged in during the last couple of weeks, volunteering at AE911Truth provides yet another powerful opportunity for you to make an ongoing difference and bring us closer to our vision of a new, independent investigation with subpoena power. Join us now!


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