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It was bedtime, and Mom was tucking Julie into bed. Julie snuggled into bed and felt rather sleepy. Mom smiled. "Julie, tell me a bedtime story," she said.
"I'm too tired to think of a story," Julie said.
"Please," Mom said. "Pleeeeeease."
"Okay," Julie said. She yawned. "Once, there was a little monkey that climbed to the top of a jungle tree. The wind blew, and the monkey fell down. The end."
"No it isn't," Mom said. "He landed on the back of a unicorn."
"Did he? Okay," Julie said. "Then they ran to the top of the tallest waterfall so they could see the waterfall rainbow. But they slipped on the wet rocks and fell. The end," Julie said.
"Not yet," Mom said. "They landed on the rainbow and walked along it to cloud land."
"Cloud land?" Julie asked. "Hmmm. Okay. Cloud land was full of scary giants who like to pour water on the ground people and drop lightning bolts and hail and stuff. One of the giants stepped on the unicorn and monkey. The end."
"Nope," Mom said. "They fell through the cloud and landed on a different rainbow and were able to walk to the ground."
Julie yawned again. "Really? Well, a vicious tribe of leprechauns defending their pot of gold instantly surrounded them. They poked them with sticks until they backed up and fell into a deep hole. The end."
"That's not the end yet," Mom said. "They started slowing down the further they fell, until finally they landed in a hallway of doors in front of a white rabbit."
"I didn't expect that," Julie said. "Let's see. They asked the rabbit how to get home, and he pointed to one of the doors and ran away because he was late for something. They opened the door and fell into the ocean. The end."
"No it's not," Mom said, "because they were saved by mermaids."
"I should have guessed," Julie said. "The mermaids decided they wanted to keep the unicorn and monkey as pets, so they took them to their underwater city. The end."
"No," said Mom. "Not yet. On the way to the underwater city, they were swallowed by a whale."
"That sounds like an ending to me," Julie said.
"No, the whale spat them out on shore," Mom said.
"And I guess the mermaids hopped back in the water and swam away. So the unicorn and monkey were stuck on a deserted island forever. The end," Julie said.
"Nope. They were stuck there until some pirates came to the island to bury some gold. Then they hid in the ship," Mom said.
"And then the pirates found them and made them walk the plank," Julie said. "The end."
"But some fairies sprinkled them with pixie dust just in time and they flew to shore," Mom said.
"And they were back in the jungle and went home to their families. The end," Julie said.
"And they were best friends forever and ever. The end," Mom said.
Julie yawned. "Is the story over now?"
"Yes, thanks for the story," Mom said.
"Oh good. You're welcome," Julie said. She snuggled into her pillow. "I'm sleepy."
"Julie, can I have a bedtime song?" Mom asked.
"Too sleepy," Julie said.
"Please," Mom said. "Pleeeeeeease."
"Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream," Julie sang.
"Sing it again, Julie?" Mom asked.
"If you sing it first," Julie said.
Mom sang the song. "Now it's your turn," she said. But Julie didn't sing, because she was asleep. The end.
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I love those kind of bedtime stories!!!
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Me too! 🙂
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Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. daytoday, here are a few links to some lovely kids performing songs about MLK.
These songs are typical simple limited and easy for youngsters to understand to play along.?? typically, they are to melodies that youngsters are likely knowledgeable about like "This Oldman."
Below, a four-year-aged gal performs " Luther King Had a Wish."
This little-boy performs "We Should Preserve Their Dream Living."
This girl that is little forgets her outlines halfway through-but provides heartwarming performance.
You'll find lyrics to plenty of basic tunes for children to master below.
Make sure you go through the movie below also!
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Nine in 10 Women With Low Libido Don't Have Adequate Sex
Low sexual desire prevents nearly 9 in 10 women from spending adequate time in the bedroom with their partners, a new survey shows.
According to Hindustan Times, all of the 450 women who were survey reported low sexual desire which caused them distress. Nearly 90 percent of the women said they would like to have sex more often, and that one or two more sessions with their partner would bring quality improvements to their lives.
"Twenty-seven percent of premenopausal and 34% of postmenopausal women were very dissatisfied with their current sexual desire level. Over 70% attributed personal and interpersonal difficulties to low sexual desire, most often negative impacts on body image and self-confidence. Feeling "less connectedness" was the most frequently selected impact on partner relationships. Approximately 90% of respondents would like to have or desire sex more often; 95% believed that one or two more satisfying sexual experiences per month would be meaningful," researchers wrote in the Journal of Women's Health.
However the women were not aware that low sexual desire is a treatable medical condition and hence did not seek assistance. Quoting earlier surveys, researchers acknowledged that the existence of low sexual desire or hypoactive sexual desire disorder was prevalent and has been linked to reduction in quality of life when compared with women with normal sexual desire.
"Seventy two percent of premenopausal and 67% of postmenopausal women were not aware of distressing low sexual desire as a treatable medical condition. Also, 73% of premenopausal and 81% of postmenopausal women had never mentioned their low sexual desire to their healthcare providers. In response to the question 'Why have you not discussed your level of sexual desire with healthcare professionals?' the two most frequent responses were that they felt uncomfortable or embarrassed and were not aware of low sexual desire as a medical condition," researchers said.
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I am blessed to have three grandchildren ranging in age from 8 - 14. It is a wonderful time in my life to enjoy kids after being blessed with my own children. Our youngest daughter has PCOS and infertility problems. She is planning to enter her Master's Degree program in 2018. She also has decided it is time to take in two foster children. She has met them. They are a brother and sister - ages 21 months and 3 years old. The children will now go to my daughter and her husband. If all works out as planned she will also adopt them by 2019. I was a bit nervous about this at one time. With her work and her education pursuits, I was afraid that this was a bit too much for her. After much discussion and prayer, it is evident that she and her husband are very serious about this. Please pray for them. I do hope the children enjoy living with them and it all goes smoothly.
Sounds like the beginning of a lovely adventure! I wish your entire family all the best. I'm so happy for your daughter and her husband, and for the children.
Many prayers! What beautiful things they are doing & how much they are adding to so many lives!
That is wonderful Linda! I am so glad brother and sister are together. Your daughter and you have big wonderful hearts and thank you for all you do. My prayers are with you my friend, and know how awesome you all are!
Prayers sent and will continue!
Wow! She is taking on a lot! Its wonderful she wants to give these two children a home saving worry of them being sent to different homes. Praying all will go well and that her and her husband will give them a great home. Also praying for the poor Mother who had to give up her precious children..
She is in my prayers. God's blessings.
What a sweet thing for your daughter and her husband to do. Will pray for them and the little ones. Enjoy those new grandbabies, Linda.
What a wonderful gift your DD and her DH are giving to those children! My DD and her DH just recently took in his niece through the foster care program. They have two of their own by did not want her to go with strangers. She is faring very well and blending into the family. She will be put up for adoption if her parents do not start showing up to court and the kids have plans to adopt her. I am proud of them and very grateful as I've known the little one since she was about a year old (she is 6 now) and I would hate to lose her from my life.
Very hard yet very rewarding also!
Sounds like your daughter and her husband have big hearts and lots of love to share.
Praying God's will be done.
I have said a prayer for your family. What a blessing! Your daughter and son inlaw are very special people. My prayer is that God will truly bless this union of family. May God bless you as well.
What a great opportunity! I am sure that your daughter would love those children in her care, and may help her to fill the void of never being able to have their own. What a big heart she has to take in these foster children that are in need of some love!


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'The Lavender Scare' Film Review: Doc Explores Government's Pre-Stonewall Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination
Powerful but occasionally muddled film delineates how gays and lesbians were unfairly treated as Cold War-era security risks
Dan Callahan | June 18, 2019 @ 1:10 PM	Last Updated: June 18, 2019 @ 1:13 PM
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Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots comes "The Lavender Scare," a compact and fairly well-made documentary on the purging of homosexuals from government jobs; it began with an executive order from Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 — shortly after he was elected president — and only ended in 1995 when Bill Clinton signed an executive order to reverse it.
This is a movie with a clear hero: Frank Kameny, who was fired from his position as an astronomer in Washington, D.C. in 1957 and made it his mission to fight for the rights of homosexuals. Some of his letters are read by David Hyde Pierce, and we only get to see Kameny himself towards the end of the documentary, which details the lives of others who had been fired before him as well as the gay social life in Washington during the 1930s and 40s before the crackdown in the 1950s.
There are odious villains here, most notably a man named Peter Szluk, a security agent at the State Department who is heard in an audio interview gloating over his power to dismiss "sodomites" from their jobs, chuckling over how he "didn't give a hoot" about sending people to the "breadline." Szluk's voice is difficult to take, because he sounds very high-energy and fond of himself, like he thinks he's really a great guy. When we later hear him talking about gay people who killed themselves after he met with them, including one man who shot himself right after leaving his office, Szluk sounds only mildly regretful.
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Kameny sent letters of protest to many politicians in the early 1960s, and the responses he got back were often very nasty. John W. Hanes, a former State Department official, is seen reading his own letter to Kameny out loud, which is much more polite than the others, but when Hanes is asked if he feels remorse for firing members of the LGBT community and destroying their lives, he says, "You cannot spend your time feeling sorry for people" when the process has been lawful and "fair." Hanes's bright smile here and politician oiliness is nearly as unsavory as Szluk's boastful regular-guy voice.
The theory was put forward in the 1950s that gays were "easy marks for red spies," as one newspaper headline put it, because they could be so easily blackmailed, and so they were ousted from their jobs even though there was no evidence that supported this supposition. Gay people were being fired "on batting average now one a day," according to a memo that appears on screen. Red-baiting Sen. Joseph McCarthy is heard saying that he was not going to be "dainty" about ridding the government of subversives and would use "lumberjack tactics" if necessary, and all of this is coded macho language in favor of conventional masculinity and against anything that deviates from that.
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Madeleine Tress was fired from her first job out of college because she went to the Redskin Lounge, a lesbian bar in D.C., and we hear her account of this firing as read by Cynthia Nixon. Carl Rizzi worked at the U.S. Postal Service and did drag at night at the Golden Key Club, and he remembers being defiant with investigators when they showed him a picture of himself in drag, telling them that it was a bad photo and that he could give them a more flattering one for their files. But many gay men and women who were fired from government jobs were ashamed, and essentially tried to disappear, because they knew that they would likely have employment trouble for the rest of their lives.
"The Lavender Scare" is narrated by Glenn Close, who played discharged gay military Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer in a 1995 TV movie, and her voice-over is used to try to smooth over jumps forward and backward in time. Keeping all the players here in balance proves difficult for first-time director Josh Howard, who has based much of his film on a book by historian David K. Johnson.
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The sequence that runs right before the end credits is a shambles of information about how some of these stories turned out, set to a cover of "True Colors," and surely something more orderly would have been truer to the tenor of this story. But "The Lavender Scare" provides a kind of victory lap for a movement that has made surprisingly large strides in recent years. When Kameny refers to some "storybook endings" he has seen, it is clear that he deserves to term them as such.
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This Mother's Day, the Methodist Relief and Development Fund (MRDF) is highlighting the fact that over one thousand women worldwide die in childbirth every day.
The vast majority of these deaths take place in the developing world, where mothers can be up to 100 times more likely than their UK counterparts not to survive giving birth.
"This mother's day we hope that people will remember the families that have needlessly lost a mother today – and the loss of potential that these deaths represent. While we can be glad that in the UK, maternal mortality is increasingly rare, it is a scandal that so many women worldwide are still dying simply because they are poor" said MRDF Director Kirsty Smith.
Lack of affordable and accessible health care is one reason for high maternal mortality rates.
In Mali, where approximately 500 women die for every 100,000 live births, MRDF partner organisations aim to tackle this problem in the communities where they work. Local volunteers are trained to safely deliver babies and to provide pre- and post-natal care for women in remote and rural communities.
Djouraba Koné, who gave birth to her son Yacou under the care of a trained birth attendant, is just one of the mothers who have benefited from the simple, low-cost techniques which help to improve the chances of survival for both mother and child.
Action is taking place on a global scale as well. In 2000, world leaders agreed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of targets to reduce poverty that included the commitment to reduce maternal mortality rates by three quarters by 2015.


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September 14, 2021 Attlas Allux
A response to Dr. Michael Sugrue's YouTube Lecture
Gilgamesh & Enkidu Battle Humbaba – The Psychological Work of Annihilation of the Ego
Dear Dr. Sugrue,
Allow us to preface our comments here by mentioning how we enjoy your lectures immensely. They are succinct and illuminating in many ways. However, (you knew this was coming), when it comes to The Gilgamesh Epic, particularly in the context of Biblical scripture/tradition, it seems you have fallen prey to several common misconceptions about the nature of ancient stories. It falls to us to offer you insight into an objective reading of The Epic of Gilgamesh, with the hope that by planting this seed, the whole of your knowledge of philosophy will sprout anew as the Tree of Life (the plant which gives eternal life), and in the synthesis of seemingly disparate readings of the dialectic in your psyche will bear a whole new kind of fruit on the Tree of Knowledge (Self-Evident Experiential Knowledge…that which we SEEK on our own Heroic Epic).
For those who may not be familiar with the Epic of Gilgamesh, or Dr. Sugrue's lecture on the subject, here it is for your consideration…
Just as we know that dramatized stories like Ridley Scott's "Gladiator," Peter Schaffer's "Amadeus," or even Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List," may be "based on real events," we would be foolish to treat them as valid historical texts. In fact, in the case of Gladiator and Amadeus, their historical context is simply a backdrop for what are deeply symbolic esoteric allegories. They are vehicles/vessels for timeless, objective, universal Truths which apply to the whole of humanity. The fact that very precious few possess "the eyes to see and the ears to hear" the Truth embedded in such works is a commentary on the state of this FALLEN humanity (fallen ASLEEP, psychologically: sleeping consciousness).
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In the Epic of Gilgamesh, for Gilgamesh to attain the power of immortality, he is given a test by Utnapishtim, in which he must stay awake for seven days. Utnapishtim is Noah, of course, but what you may not realize is that his name in Hungarian (which is a truly ancient language and wholly phonetic i.e. mantric) suggests "road day/sun God" and/or "new day/sun of God" ("nap" means both "day" and "sun"). The reason we suggest new here (uj) and not road (ut) is the fact that in the ancient Hungarian runic alphabet both "i" and "j," having practically the same phonetic sound (like a "y") all look like "t/T," where "t" is a short "i" and "T" is a long "i" as in the mantra "eeee" of the crown chakra, which is the chakra of the cross and the Christ (who is not a man but a Force in the universe which men can embody…men like Utnapishtim, The "New Day/Sun of God" (symbolically: the Newborn Son of God…a Christified God-Man…Immortal). And, let us not forget that the other name for Shamash is Utu, "The Sun God"…And, since the Hungarian "Ishten" (and Pishti, spelled phonetically here) derives from Ishtar and Pistis (as in the Pistis Sophia), respectively, the connections between this Immortal Man Utnapishtim and The Christic Sun/Son of God/Goddess are striking. And remember, Ishtar is a highly sexualized goddess who KILLS heroes, according to Gilgamesh, suggesting that Immortality is acquired only after death by the hand of our Divine Mother (Durgha, Kali, Destroyer of Worlds) and resurrection. But we need a vessel to cross the waters (i.e. river Styx) to attain immortality, as Utnapishtim did. By the way, the m at the end of Utnapishtim, connotes mem, in Hebrew (another ancient and phonetic language), which represents the waters. It is an inverted shin, the fire, Neptune's Trident (which is a 3 on its side and 1/2 of an 8, which is infinity…immortality). Suggesting the Trinity of the Logos, the Christ, is hidden within and related to the waters, which is why surviving "the Great Flood" grants immortality, IF, that is, one had created the appropriate VESSEL.
Ancient Hungarian Runic Alphabet
And Utnapishtim has indeed attained immortality, to which he tells Gilgamesh the secret is to be able to stay awake for 7 days and 7 nights. Now, this has a clever exoteric as well as esoteric significance: to be awake 7 days and 7 nights is the same as saying "to stay awake 24/7." That means to AWAKEN the consciousness and remain awake; not "TO FALL" (asleep) as all the tragic heroes (and/or "the fair maidens" they are out to rescue, which are all analogs of Psyche, daughter of Eros–the psyche is feminine), from antiquity, myth, scripture, literature, opera, Shakespeare, et al. But 7 is also the number which refers to the 7 octaves, the 7 heavens (that is, the 7 dimensions), and the 7 bodies of our being: the physical body, vital body, astral body, mental body, causal body, Buddhic body, and Atmic body. But to stay awake in each of the 7 bodies means they must be, like Utnapishtim, "new day's suns of God"…SOLAR BODIES; living embodiments of the Christic Light of The Logos. This humanity is LUNAR, mechanical, ruled by the primal instincts and reactions of mechanical ego-mind, ego-emotion, and ego sensation. Gilgamesh, as King and hero of the story is more than an intellectual animal falsely believing himself to be a true human being, however. At this point Enkidu has "died," cursed by Humbaba, and is no longer by his side, but we will address his death and how that means Gilgamesh is awake, and a True Human Being, in a moment. (As an aside: hume=earth, in microcosm; man=manas, Divine Mind…a True human being is "the Microcosmic Embodiment of the Divine Mind of Being." Or, in a more simplistic interpretation: hu=God; Man=man…"God in Man is Being" (a little Yoda-like grammar there, but it is what it is). "Hu" is the primordial sound of creation, and is why Hungarians take their name from Attila the Hun. Baba in Hungarian means doll or baby, in other languages it is father; but we will get to Humbaba shortly). The process of transforming the lead of ego (our mechanical lunar bodies) into the gold of the human soul (our solar bodies) requires the mystical metaphysical science of Alchemy as taught by Hermes Trismagistus, and every mystery school from Egypt to the Essenes, to Greece and Rome, to Northern Europe, to Central America. And how does EVERY epic hero in the history of storytelling go about achieving this alchemy? Why of course, by embarking on the epic hero's journey into the wild (subconscious mind: darkness, dungeon, underworld, labyrinth, et al) to recover the gold and/or free the maiden (awaken consciousness: recover treasure/awaken the maiden–Psyche) from the clutches of some sinister adversary (egos/sins/nafs/psychological aggregates: monsters, dragons, demons, devils, furies, witches, et al).
Gilgamesh, of course, embarks on just such a journey earlier in the tale to recover the precious CEDARS from the demon Humbaba together with Enkidu (note: Enki is one of the three most powerful gods in the Sumerian pantheon; Enkidu is Gilgamesh's Monad (his Innermost Atman, consciousness, and human soul, in other words, his Being) which "falls" when Enkidu is seduced by the priestess and joins Gilgamesh in the city and on his journey). They are ordered to enter the forest by Shamash (another mantric name and a palindrome–a solar deity which, according to legend, gave the Babylonian king Hammurabi his code of laws). Shamash is the unrealized Innermost Intimate Christ: Krishna in the Ramayama who motivates Rama (Innermost Being; Enkidu) to embark on his quest along with Hanuman (the monkey-god-man; Gilgamesh). Humbaba, a demon (who normally wears SEVEN coats of armor but today is wearing only one, suggesting Gilgamesh is very near attaining all his solar bodies if he but defeats this one last coat of armor–lunar body–of Humbaba's), changes his face to frighten Gilgamesh. This is possible because our egos alter their form to hypnotize and terrorize us (the ego of fear is the most adept at this; fear is the great con artist and chameleon of the psyche, as we describe in our own semi-biographical epic non-fiction testimony, Face your Fear's many Faces – ATTLAS IN FORMATION). It is only with the assistance of Shamash that Enkidu and Gilgamesh triumph, but not before Humbaba "curses" Enkidu who later appears to "die." It is with the cedars that he and Enkidu will build a raft to travel the river back to the kingdom, and it is with the cedar wood that they plan to build a tremendous gate, presumably to keep demons such as Humbaba out…this is a reference to creating a "Hermetic seal," which is an essential aspect of alchemy. Understanding that death and resurrection are necessary for the process of Christification (as evidenced in the tales of Mithras, Osiris, Tammuz, Adonis and Attis, Dionysus and Jesus to name only a few), Enkidu dies and Gilgamesh is now a "Buddha," his city hermetically sealed–awake, but not yet immortal.
Far from being "poorly redacted," the last part of Gilgamesh deals with Christification, attaining the level of Bodhisattva, or Resurrected Master. The plant which grants immortality does indeed relate to The Tree of Life and The Tree of Knowledge (the Two Trees in the Garden of Eden), and the serpent is absolutely significant as the universal symbol of the sexual force: prana, chi, electricity, Divine Mother Devi Kundalini Shakti, the foundational force of the universe which can create or destroy…uplift or tempt (as the various serpents in Exodus which serve Moses vs. those which torment his adversaries and/or the Israelites who lose faith in God). But we feel at this point we have said enough and do not wish to overwhelm anyone. That said, there is a video on our YouTube channel which will go into the nature of these esoteric symbols in much more detail, and in the process reveal the True nature of "The Great Arkanum" and "the Covenant" between God and man…
Our goal here was simply to offer you insights into the objective esoteric Truths embedded in the epic of Gilgamesh, as they are in all scripture, myth, stories, high art, architecture, opera, Shakespeare, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, comic books, even many contemporary fantasy and sci-fi properties and even a handful of video games. If Art Mirrors Life, what do Video Games, Sci-Fi & Fantasy show us About Ourselves? | The Attlas Project
The Living Breathing Word of God is not bound to any book, school, or religion. It is writ large and small in the book of life, all around us and within us, if we but develop "the eyes to see and the ears to hear" it. The Divine Potter works with the clay that is on the wheel. It is up to us to experience the Truth of The Logos in our lives, as served to us by our own Innermost Individual Divine Mother, who delivers all we need on our epic journey to awaken the consciousness and Self-Realize our Innermost Being; yes, even all our tests, trials, TEMPTATIONS, and ordeals. Yes, EVERY LIFE has the potential to be its own epic. And there is no shortage of the kind of serendipities and synchronicities of symbolism, mantra, and meaning we find in the names of characters in the epic of Gilgamesh. Just consider for a moment the real-life drama of the mutiny on The Bounty.
Let us mention, only briefly, that in the previously mentioned Mutiny on the Bounty, the leader of the mutiny is named Fletcher Christian, and the Ship's Captain, the subject of the mutineers' grievances, William Bligh. A fletcher is one who attaches the fins, flights or feathers to the shaft of arrows enabling them to fly. A Christian is, by all accounts, one who lives by the teachings of the Christ (The Logos; The Word…The Divine Law). The short form of William is Bill, and a bill sets out the law of the land. Bligh can be pronounced B-ligh (belie), which means to give a false impression of something; to disguise or contradict; and/or, to fail to fulfill or justify (a claim); betray (Source: Lexico powered by Oxford > belie). (As an aside, belie is the esoteric root word of belief, not to be confused with the exoteric root word of belief found in modern etymological dictionaries, which is explored in-depth on our YouTube video on The Hard Truth of Belief.)
So in this scenario from history, we have a fletcher who gives flight to Divine Law leading a mutiny against the false laws of men which betray It, upon a vessel whose name, Bounty, is not only directly related to the sea and Mother Nature, but which carries Christian and his fellow mutineers to truly resplendent islands in the South Pacific where they are greeted by boundless affection, female companionship and all the boundless gifts of said resplendent islands.
Remember, dear reader: Mutiny on the Bounty is not just a novel which has been adapted into films in 1935, starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton; 1962, starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard; and 1984, starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins. It is a story based on actual events: meaning the names of Fletcher Christian and William Bligh were not dramatized by some novelist. Who then, orchestrated those names? Find out here: O Divine Mother, Here Art Thou – ATTLAS IN FORMATION
We are nothing: just a spark, an Essence, a seed (our Being, Attlas) of said Logos (Allux: All Light; God Light), and physical body and personality as vessel and messenger (the corporeal person/persona typing these words). And as messenger, there is really only one thing we can do for you, or anyone, and we are doing it here and now… Ratatoskr and the Seed – ATTLAS IN FORMATION and on our YouTube channel, Attlas in Formation – YouTube
Yours most humbly and Truly in service of the Cosmic Christ for the sake of the end of suffering and ignorance,
Attlas Allux
P.S. We would gladly welcome hearing from you, Dr. Sugrue. You can reach us via the website of our Life's Work, The Attlas Project
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Running for Water in Cincinnati
August 9, 2011 •
Team Samaritan's Purse is in Cincinnati this weekend for the Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon and Half-Marathon. Brittany Donald Salmon is one of 20 Team SP runners who will be in the race tomorrow. She lives in Wake Forest, N.C., with her husband Ben, works in a missions office, and is a graduate student at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Last year, Brittany raised $2,080 for our HIV/AIDS programs when she ran her first marathon in Raleigh, N.C. This year, her goal is to raise $3,000 for clean water programs in Uganda.
Brittany has been blogging about her experience training. This is one of her entries from earlier this month.
Y'all… this is crazy. I'm supposed to run 20 miles tomorrow. Yeah… I know. I feel like I'm in way OVER my head. Pray for me.
But that means race day is 2 weeks and 2 days away. I'm feeling a lot of emotions about this race… mainly anxiety. But I'm hoping and praying for strength and endurance. I feel like tomorrow's run is going to be a good indicator of how May 1st will go. But at the same time, not putting too much pressure on this one run. Bad running days happen, I'm just praying May 1st, and tomorrow, isn't one of them.
I keep reminding myself that although I am running to finish, I'm running for something so much more precious than a finisher's medal and bragging rights. I'm running for a village in Uganda. I am their runner, their representative, and their advocate in my social circle. And together, with supporters and other Team SP members, we're running for…
The construction of wells in five villages of the Kihuura sub-county in Western Uganda
The establishment and training of five water-user committees in the Kihuura area
The provision of access to safe clean drinking water for more than 1,200 community members
The provision of training in proper hygiene and sanitation for more than 2,000 community members
The growth of God's church in Uganda
I truly believe that "Every action, no matter how small, can bring about change" (from Samaritan's Purse HIV/AIDS campaign).
Learn more about supporting Samaritan's Purse.
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Run, cycle, swim, walk; for a purpose. Your efforts make a difference! Use your next athletic event to raise funds for the worldwide relief projects of Samaritan's Purse.


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D-Day veteran returns to Oxfordshire
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Drag Em-Oot at Abingdon 2009
An aircraft that actually fought on D-Day in 1944 will be returning to Oxfordshire in May as part of this year's Abingdon Air & Country Show on Sunday May 2nd.
The C-47 Dakota named "Drag-em-oot" flew missions with the US Army Air Force on D-Day, June 6th 1944 – and still has bullet hole patches in its fuselage showing its war service.
The Dakota was a star of last year's Abingdon Air & Country Show and is back again for 2010 as one of a number of priceless historic aircraft at the show. Other veteran aircraft on show will be the Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster bomber of the RAF's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, a Vampire jet, Harvard trainer and a rare bomber version of the Hurricane.
There will be other flying attractions including an RAF Hawk and the Swift Glider Aerobatic Team. There will also be a wide range of aircraft on the ground, including a US Army Blackhawk helicopter.
The show, raising funds for the Thames Valley & Chiltern Air Ambulance, will be held at Abingdon Airfield, Dalton Barracks, just off the A34. It is now in its 11th year, and is organised by an all-volunteer team.
The show will include a wide range of attractions on the ground besides the aircraft.
Highlights include Dr Who Daleks, over 80 trade stalls and displays, the return of Fiona Harrison singing 1940s music and an Abingdon MG Car Works meet.
There will also be sheepdog demonstrations, a parade of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, RBS Williams F1 showcar, various World War Two re-enactment displays, a mobile farm, a craft marquee, tank rides, childrens' amusements, a display of Army exhibits from Dalton Barracks and more.
Advance tickets are on sale now from a variety of outlets. For more information about the show, ticket prices and details of how to buy tickets, visit www.abingdonfayre.com
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European Commission approves Dutch public support for setting up new development bank
The European Commission has given its approval under the EU State aid rules for Dutch plans to set up a new development bank, 'Invest-NL'. The Act on the establishment of Invest-NL was approved by the Dutch Parliament on 21 May 2019 and is currently pending in the Dutch Senate.
The State will hold 100% of the bank's shares and will provide the bank with a capital of €1,7 billion in several instalments. Invest-NL will focus on improving access to finance for Dutch small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and facilitating activities of undertakings in the context of large transitions in society (such as the transition to cleaner energy). Furthermore, the bank will support the participation of Dutch companies in European investment funds, such as investEU.
The Commission found that the setting up of Invest-NL is an appropriate and proportionate measure to provide additional financing to companies that remain underfinanced because of market failures. Invest-NL will implement safeguards to ensure that the State's support does not negatively affect private investors. On this basis, the Commission concluded that the measure is in line with EU State aid rules.
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Hybrid mobile application built on the Ionic Framework and serves as an organizational and management tool for households. This app tracks household tasks, from chores and bills to supplies and announcements, and keeps users updated through a live newsfeed.

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Finn – Friends for Life Crufts 2019
At Bowerland and Devon Dogs we are very pleased to see that Finn received this award, we all strive for the best relationship with our dogs and this story is one of true devotion. Finn, a retired Hertfordshire Police dog, and his owner PC Dave Wardell were awarded a top honour at Crufts last weekend. They were announced as the Kennel Club Friends for life winners!!!
In the line of Duty
Finn was stabbed multiple times as he tried to protect Dave from an armed attack in Stevenage back in 2016. This tragic event sparked the "Finn Laws Campaign" calling for better protection for all service animals.
Friends for Life Award
Finn was beyond brave and courageous and was one of the five hero dogs shortlisted for Friends for Life – Crufts 2019. Dave shared Finn's story, along with 4 others; after which the UK voted for their favourite hero. On the final day of Crufts, The results were announced by hero soldier, Ben Parkinson. Dave and Finn were awarded a £5000 cheque to go to the charity of their choice.
Speaking about their win, Dave said:
"I can't believe it. I feel so emotional. Just by being here, we had won already. It has been a culmination of years of campaigning to get Finn's story heard. I am so grateful to the Kennel Club Charitable Trust for the prize money, which we're going to donate to German Shepherd Rescue Elite."
Caroline Kisko, the Kennel Club Secretary, said: "We congratulate Dave and Finn on winning this year's Friends for Life award; their story is incredibly moving and highlights what wonderfully loyal and brave companions our four-legged friends are. They are truly man's best friend.
Lifetime Bonds
Each and every one of the dogs in the final helped to transform their owner's lives, showing unwavering devotion and companionship. They are a great example of the positive difference that dogs can make. They are all winners and their bonds will last a lifetime. Dave has also co-written a book with Lynne Barrett-Lee called Fabulous Finn. Available in Kindle, Hardcover and Paperback.
Here at Bowerland and Devon Dogs we are so inspired by Finn's heroism. If these are the traits you wish your dog to achieve then please give us a call on 07717 696623. We can get you and your canine companion on the right track to success. You can also email us on contact@devondogs.co.uk.
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Introducing the Game: AI Vendetta
November 08, 2016 in Games, Game Development
There are so many excellent indie games and indie game developers around that I believe they all deserve to be seen and appreciated! So, this week, let's take a look at a game called AI Vendetta, created by CatByte Games...
Who are you and what is your game about?
'We are a small team of three friends and game developers from the Netherlands. Together we are CatByte Games. We have a deep passion for games and game development. We all studied Games/Software development and went into the industry at different levels. during the day we are all employed in the (applied-) games industry & in our spare time we chase after our dream: to become an independent games developer. Together we occasionally partake in small game projects, but this time we decided to develop one of our long time project ideas for a commercial market: AI Vendetta.'
Let's meet the team!...
Davey: Game & Level Designer. Community manager, streamer. Designs the fine details that make AI Vendetta work the way it does.
Rens: Programmer & Composer. Specializes in AI Programming. Designs, plays and composes all music and sound effects for the game.
Thom: Team-Lead, Programmer, Jack-of-all-trades. Game and Tools programmer, tries to keep development on schedule and does social media management and visual art on occasion.
So, what is AI Vendetta?
'AI Vendetta is top-down puzzle platformer in which the player plays as Proto, a robot with the ability to transform into different modes. Each mode has its own unique playing style and abilities allowing for the player to play the game their own way. Completing the game requires the player to explore and try out the abilities of each mode in order to solve all the puzzles.'
'The core idea and design for AI Vendetta has actually been written a long while ago (way back in 2010), but we decided to wait until a time when we could develop it to its full potential. In 2010 we created a prototype of the game as a school project. We really liked the project and in October 2014 we decided to give it a reboot. Since then the game has been fully re-created and matured a lot in many ways. Soon we hope to share this experience with the whole world!'
How long have you been working on it?
'We have been working on AI Vendetta for almost 2 years now! In that time we managed to make the game feature complete and create all the levels that we want. We also perform regular internal quality assurance and sometimes feel the need to change some of the behaviour in the game. Game development is an iterative process of course.
At this point we can say that we have almost reached what we in the industry call a beta product; the game is feature complete but still requires touching up, fine tuning and bug fixing. What we are lacking at this moment is the graphical representation of the game. Besides not having a dedicated visual artist, we felt that working with placeholder art would allow us to focus on what is really important: making the game fun and making it work well. In that sense we are really quality focused.'
What has the process been like?
'Game development is always a fun and interesting process, you really never stop learning. This has been the case with AI Vendetta and I'm really proud of my team for all their hard work and passion throughout this entire project. The key thing about development is iteration:- this means being able to create a dynamic and flexible project that allows for change and iteration. I think that up until now, we've managed pretty well on that aspect. However, what we really would love is more external feedback to drive change and improvement in this project. Because at the end of the day, we are not just creating a project for ourselves, we are creating an experience that we want to share with the world! Therefore it also has to be tailored to what other people like.'
Did you work with a composer and would you recommend doing so for any game?
'Yes, we are lucky that Rens is not only a great programmer, but he has a passion for music as well. he has spent years learning to play the piano and making use of audio/music creation and composing software. Now he is putting all that experience into creating a unique audio scape that is completely tailored to the experience we want players to have when they play AI Vendetta. We would really recommend to others to invest into music and also in sound effects, as this really adds onto the immersion and experience players take away from your project!'
What do you think makes your game fun and different?
' what we think that makes the game stand-out is that it enables players to choose their own playing style. the game also invites players to explore and try out the different abilities that each mode that the playable character, Proto, offers. While creating the game we ensured that all of the modes are unique in their own way, each one offering their own abilities and usefulness in the game. We hope that the drive to explore and adventure is that which opens up the player's hearts to our game!'
When are you releasing it and how do we get it?
'We do not have a solid deadline yet, but we hope to complete the game in about half a year. We will enrol in Steam Greenlight and perhaps through other online stores. The game is designed for PC but will feature full controller support.'
In the mean time you can play a browser based demo of the game here. You can also find out more about the game on the CatByte Games Website or follow them @CatByteGames
Please note: this demo will require you to install the Unity Web Player plugin and is exclusively playable using one of the following browsers: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera.
About the author: Ninichi is a composer for games, film and media. If you have a game or project in need of some music, contact me to discuss how we might work together.
To hear some examples of my music check out my game music, royalty free music or film music. Learn more about me (Ninichi) and follow me @ninichimusic
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Seeing a salt solution's structure supports one hypothesis about how minerals form
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Symphony Notes for Week Six
by David Levy on August 2, 2017 1.84K views
Symphony no. 5 in C-sharp Minor/D Major
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was born in on July 7, 1860, in Kalischt, Bohemia, and died on May 18, 1911, in Vienna. He was one of the most gifted conductors of his generation and a musician of unusually passionate conviction. These features manifest themselves vividly in his compositions, which comprise 10 symphonies, songs for voice and piano, and for voice and orchestra. The Symphony No. 5 received its premiere in Cologne on Oct. 18, 1904, with Mahler conducting that city's Gürzenich Orchestra. The work is scored for four flutes (third and fourth doubling on piccolo), three oboes (third doubling on English horn), three clarinets (third doubling on D clarinet), bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, six horns, four trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp and strings.
"Mahler was the child and beneficiary as well as the captive and victim of … diverse elements; he was Jewish in religious background, German in upbringing, Bohemian by environment, pan-European in his adult thinking. As brilliant artistic, medical, and scientific achievements enhanced the Austrian image in inverse ratio to its political, diplomatic, and military decline, Mahler became the final gigantic cornerstone of a period which reached a climactic finale with his massive musical canvasses at the sunset of a century, of romanticism, and of a dynasty." —Egon Gartenberg, Mahler, the Man and his Music (New York, 1978)
By the end of 1897, Mahler had triumphed over earlier adversity to be named the principal conductor and artistic director of the Imperial Royal Opera House in Vienna. Soon thereafter he followed the legendary Hans Richter as music director of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. This new, and sometimes stormy, relationship lasted until 1901, the year in which Mahler began work on his Symphony No. 5. For the moment, at least, Vienna, that most musical of cities, lay at his feet.
No less an important event of 1901 was the beginning of Mahler's relationship with the young and beautiful Alma Maria Schindler, the woman who was to become his wife in the next year. The 20-year-old daughter of the painter, Emil Jakob Schindler, was herself a gifted composer. Mahler was twice Alma's age and he proved to be a demanding consort and husband, demanding nothing less than total and unconditional dedication to him and his career. Mahler forbade her to compose, instructing her under no uncertain terms that her job was to take care of family matters and to stand by him through thick and thin. While an understandable resentment on her part ensued, she at first accepted his unyielding terms.
The year 1901 marked a new beginning for Mahler as the composer. The previous year witnessed the completion of his Symphony No. 4 — the last of four symphonies that were related in one way or another to songs, especially those with poems derived from the anthology known as Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth's Magic Horn, published in 1805). Mahler's interest in the poetry of Friedrich Rückert yielded a new orchestral song cycle, Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children), as well as some additional songs for voice and piano. Mahler continued work on these songs from 1900 through 1902.
The major symphonic project of this period, however, was the Fifth Symphony. Mahler himself considered the piece to mark a new beginning in his development as a composer. The absence of a specific extra-musical reference did force Mahler to rely on his mastery of form, orchestration, melody and harmony to carry the day. Much has been made of Mahler's handling of counterpoint in the Fifth Symphony. While there certainly are elaborate passages of imitative and non-imitative counterpoint (especially in the Rondo-Finale), the Fifth derives much of its character from its melody and color (the heavenly Adagietto, scored for strings only, comes to mind), and, above all, its near hysterical expressiveness (Movements 2 and 3).
Despite the absence of either a specific literary text or overt reference to any external inspiration, this "abstract" (i.e., nonprogrammatic) symphony fairly cries out for explication. Mahler arranged its five movements into three distinct sections:
(1) Funeral March (Trauermarsch), and (2) Stormily, with utmost vehemence (Stürmisch bewegt, mit grösster Vehemenz)
(3) Scherzo: Powerfully, not too fast (Kräftig, nicht zu schnell)
(4) Adagietto (Sehr langsam), leading without break to (5) Rondo-Finale: Allegro
The thematic recall of the march within the second movement clearly justifies the joining of the first two movements. Some have identified the Trauermarsch as an introduction to the faster second movement, but its sheer size argues against such an interpretation. More to the point, it is not out of place to question why Mahler would begin this symphony with a funeral march at all. The fact that he had done so earlier in his Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection") makes the question all the more intriguing. What death — real or symbolic — is being observed here? And why write so elaborate a tempo indication — "Funeral March. In Measured Pace. Strongly. Like a Processional" — when the character of the music seems to have no need of so obvious a description?
After all is said and done, it is Mahler's handling — now subtle, now overpowering — of his huge orchestra that lingers in the memory. It is strange to think that Mahler was never satisfied with the orchestration of the work, effecting changes virtually every time he conducted it after its premiere in Cologne on Oct. 18, 1904. The program for the premiere was an interesting one: Mahler's Symphony No. 5, intermission, three songs by Franz Schubert (Ständchen "Zögernd leise" for mezzo-soprano, piano and female chorus; "Bei dir allein," "Nacht und Träume" and "Das Lied im Grünen" for voice and piano), concluding with Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3. It was as if Mahler were telling his audience, "Listen first to my symphony, and then see how it relates to the musical heritage to which it belongs." (The author of these notes was privileged to hear this very program performed by the Gürzenich Orchestra of Köln on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Fifth Symphony's premiere.) Another fascinating document concerning the first movement of the symphony is a "recorded" performance of the composer playing it on the piano, as preserved on a Welte-Mignon piano roll.
Nobody, once having heard Mahler's Fifth Symphony, can forget the stunning impact of its opening trumpet fanfare or the spectacular solos for the French horn, especially in the scherzo. No less memorable are the chorale-like passages for the entire brass section in the Rondo-Finale, or the hauntingly beautiful scoring for harp and strings in the Adagietto, whose strains reverberate throughout Visconti's film adaptation of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. The folkish lives in close proximity to the urbane throughout the work, just as raucous outbursts dwell side by side with the most refined sensitivity. The Fifth Symphony begins in death, but ends in a joyous affirmation of life. Mahler himself opined that a symphony "must contain the world." The job of the artist, he once told his assistant, Bruno Walter, is to take disparate sounds and "to organize them into an intelligible entity." The Fifth Symphony represents an important and magisterial step toward Mahler's realization of that lofty goal.
David B. Levy is professor of music at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He will present a pre-concert lecture on Thursday's program at 6:45 p.m. in the Hurlbut Church sanctuary.
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Quartararo form motivated Tech 3 Lecuona signing
Tech 3 MotoGP team boss Herve Poncharal says Fabio Quartararo's sensational rookie season in 2019 was partly behind his desire to sign Moto2 underdog Iker Lecuona for next year.
Lecuona has been plucked from Moto2 following just three full years in the intermediate class to take the Tech 3 seat originally earmarked for Brad Binder, who will now take the place of Johann Zarco at the works KTM squad.
Petronas Yamaha rookie Quartararo has scored six podiums and four pole positions across a surprising campaign, given he had just one Moto2 win to his name last season before his MotoGP move was confirmed.
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"Very quickly I told KTM management that my guy is Iker Lecuona," said Poncharal. "I love his riding style, he's very young but very aggressive. For sure everybody remembers the race in Thailand a few weeks ago where he was fighting with Brad Binder like a luchador.
"This is what we need, this is what we like and we are not a junior team, but we are a team who is taking a young rider to discover the MotoGP class.
"So Iker fits completely well, and if you look now at the 2019 season, what is the main [talking] point? The main point is Fabio Quartararo. This is the big surprise.
"One year ago a lot of people were asking themselves was it too early, was it the right decision? Now I think the team and Yamaha think, 'Thank God, we took the right decision.
"So I'm not saying Iker is going to do what Fabio is doing, but I have a good feeling and we need to look at young riders, we need to prepare the future.
"I just love Iker; the way he rides, the way he is. This is the man we need."
Lecuona made his circuit racing debut in '16 in the CEV Moto2 class, and has two podiums to his credit in his three years in grand prix racing.
Despite having a deal for Moto2 in 2020 with Ajo Motorsport, Lecuona said it only took him "five minutes" to agree to Tech 3 and KTM's offer.
"I had the option of going to MotoGP and logically I said yes," Lecuona stated. "It didn't take me 10 hours, [it took] five minutes to say yes.
"I had a contract with Ajo and I was very happy. It disrupted everything.
"I've been [racing on short circuits] for four years. No one has made such a jump. I know that you have to be lucky to get where I am and that all the stars line up so when a person looks for someone you are there.
"But it's also true that I've worked hard. I know that next year if I was in Moto2 I can fight for the world championship.
"That was one of the reasons why I said yes to going to MotoGP. When you're ahead, winning it or not, you're very prepared."
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'The Paradox of Prosperity' – Selling books in early modern Leiden
Posted in Early Modern, Reviews by thehistorywoman on January 12, 2010
The booksellers of early modern Leiden prospered despite being regulated by a guild. In fact, they petitioned for and received permission to set up a guild as late as 1652 when other trades tried to get rid of the tight constraints such an institution imposed (p. 14). For, contrary to a widespread belief among economic historians, traditional guilds helped printers and booksellers in Leiden to adapt to a changing market and thrive. This is 'The Paradox of Prosperity' Laura Cruz talks about in her book on the printing scene in early modern Leiden published by Oak Knoll (2009).
The Leiden booksellers survived on an increasingly competitive market because they found a new way to make money in the trade with second-hand books. In particular, they specialised in auctioning the libraries of deceased scholars of which the local university seemed to produce a never-ending supply (p. 57). Their customers were, of course, (foreign) students out for a bargain (p. 222) but also the great and the good who wanted to furnish their libraries with scholarly works (p. 214).
In five well-researched and clearly written chapters on 'Guilds', 'The Academy Printers', 'Auctions', 'Social Structure' and 'Demand' Cruz tells us about the organisation and regulation of printing in Leiden, the relationship between the budding publishing industry and the famous University of Leiden, the evolution of the second-hand book market, the social status of people in the business, and about the buyers and readers of printed matter. All this is conscientiously done with the help of lists and tables and tax registers, and a lot of numbers. I skimmed most of those because I really wanted to know how far the experience of Leiden printers and booksellers was typical for the United Provinces as a whole and how the book trade developed over the course of the early modern period. And, of course, after the first few tables my ADHD set in. Don't get me wrong, the tables add a lot of scholarly substance to the study. But as a historian of ideas I'm more interested in the how and why than in the how much and how long.
Laura Cruz has set herself a difficult task aiming to bridge the gap between economic and cultural history, and she will probably find a lot of readers looking either for the one or the other. For someone unfamiliar with Dutch history, moreover, the sections that contextualize the situation in Leiden with the print cultures of England, France and Germany are most valuable. But they are few and far between.
It gets interesting, for instance, when Cruz tells us about the influx of printers and booksellers from the southern Netherlands after the northern states declared independence from Spain in 1572 (p. 65ff). Yet, she doesn't explain the religious component of their move or how these newcomers to Leiden changed the character of the city's printing industry. As someone interested in early modern republicanism I also wonder how printing and bookselling were influenced by the political structure of the country. Cruz contrasts the 'proactive' regulation of the press in England (p. 204) and the government-run print shops in the Catholic world (pp. 201/2) with the situation in the Dutch republic, but leaves the significance of centralised institutions and the royal elephant in the room. Responses to censorship (or the lack of it), the political inclinations of printers – I would like to know more about it all.
Overall, however, The Paradox of Prosperity is a very informative book that tells us a lot about the business of printing and publishing in early modern Leiden and the social structures it was operating in. I found at least one error to irritate the stickler in me (the splitting of 'bookshops' into 'books-hops' on p. 213), and I would have found a few more footnotes very helpful. But I put down the book thinking that I had learnt a lot from it.
Laura Cruz, The Paradox of Prosperity: The Leiden Booksellers' Guild and the Distribution of Books in Early Modern Europe (New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2009).
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I sought this book out based on this review. And very accurate the review was, too! A useful book but sadly let down by lots of distracting copy-editing errors. That said, it's provided lots of leads for other sources. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!
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