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Enviro & Sustainability Activities for Children and Young People
Do you have children or young people who are interested in getting out in Nature? We've been hearing about the benefits for kids, of getting into the outdoors - apparently it even boosts brain development!
The 50+ local environmental and sustainability organizations that make up ENM work in a range of areas – biodiversity, water quality, food security, waste minimization, urban design, alternative energy, and active transport. Many are happy to involve children and young people in their activities, introducing them to the natural environment and sustainable living. Check out the list of member groups; some of these groups are aimed at, or are particularly suitable for, children or young people.
Education and Trips
The Kiwi Conservation Club (KCC), the junior section of Forest & Bird, is aimed at children from 3 to 13 years old. Its aim is to encourage children to enjoy, respect, understand, and love their natural world. There are 34 active KCCs, with over 1600 members, including individual children, family groups and schools. KCC Manawatū trips have included looking for fungi at Totara Reserve, visiting the waste water treatment plant, and helping plant Pingao, a native plant which helps stabilize sand dunes, at Tangimoana Beach. Join at http://kcc.org.nz, or contact the Manawatū group on manawatu@kcc.org.nz or phone 021 0827 0819.
For 14-25 year olds, Forest & Bird Manawatū Youth organize activities such as field trips and social events. Local members of this group recently wrote a submission on the Palmerston North City Council ten-year plan, and presented it to Councillors in person. Find them on Facebook.
Palmerston North Girls' High School has an Enviro Group, to promote, inspire, and carry through environmental awareness, responsibility, and action at the school and in the wider community. Current and recent activities include a vegetable garden at school, an energy conservation "switch off" campaign, and compost and recycling bins around the school. The group encourages walking and biking to school. Last year the group held a youth enviro conference, challenging the youth in the Manawatū community to think and live more environmentally aware. Contact Dr. Heather Meikle, Head of Biology, on h.meikle@pnghs.school.nz or 06 357 9194 ext 878.
Volunteers of the Wildlife Foxton Trust are developing a visitor and environmental education centre on the corner of Main, Union and Harbour Streets. For those interested in creepy-crawlies, several native and non-native skinks and geckos are kept on the site, as well as native fish. Check the Wildlife Foxton website for more information; contact info@wildlifefoxton.nz about visiting the centre and seeing the skinks, geckos and fish. The Centre is adjacent to the Manawatū Estuary, an internationally significant wetland rich in bird life, where global migrating birds spend the southern hemisphere summer.
Palmy Parks and Reserves
A great place for families in Awapuni is the Ahimate Reserve, by the river. This was formerly known as Waitoetoe Park; the name change reflects the historical pa site that used to be located here. Several pedestrian/cycle tracks run through the park, connecting to longer walks by the river, popular with walkers; the park is off-leash for dogs throughout. A group of mountain bikers have developed a series of tracks and jumps in parts of the Park. At the river, there is a small rocky 'beach' surrounded by relatively shallow, swimmable water and a jumping cliff. Volunteers including the Ahimate Reserve Community have done extensive native planting in the park over the years, with children from Riverdale School and Kindergarten helping too. If you'd like to find out more about these activities, find the Ahimate Reserve Community on Facebook.
The Pit Park is in the former quarry by the historic Hoffman brick kiln. Volunteers the Pit Park People have, over the years, transformed the Pit into a lush urban park with extensive native plantings and its own wetland, while the City Council has developed easily accessible paths and seating. Native birds now thrive in the park; one park visitor told me how she watched a kingfisher catch itself a lizard for breakfast recently. The regular working bee, on the third Sunday of each month at 1:30pm, is family-friendly. All welcome to stay for a cuppa afterwards. The Pit Park is at the Vogel Street end of Featherston Street, with entry just before Tweed Street. Find Pit Park People on Facebook, or phone Marise on 06 354 0062.
On the second Sunday of each month at 9am, volunteers get together at the Apollo Butterfly Park in Milson, where special plantings have been made to support monarch butterflies and other butterfly species. Children from local kindergartens have also contributed to the work in this park, which is often host to large swarms of butterflies. Find them on Facebook.
Playing Palmy!
Back in March 2015, Heather Knox and a small group of like-minded parents set up the Manawatū Family Microadventurers group with the aim of connecting local families that like getting out and about in the great outdoors. The group was inspired by Alastair Humphreys' book "Microadventures" which encourages everyone to get outside and enjoy some adventures that are close to home, cheap, simple, short and yet very effective. Adventure is a state of mind - especially when you have small children! Their Facebook group now has over 600 members.
From this group, the Palmy Dirty 30 Challenge was developed – 30 fun, free things to do in the great outdoors in and around Palmerston North or further afield. Check out the website to find a PDF version of the challenge sheet to print off. Participants can use #PalmyDirty30 on social media to share their wild experiences, which include hunting for natural treasures, brewing up stinky magic potions and having water fights. Find them on Facebook.
The hugely successful Palmy Rocks group was also started by the same group of parents. The idea is simple, to create art and spread happiness by painting rocks to hide around Palmerston North, or wherever you may travel to. The goal is to encourage creativity, exploring and community. If you find an art rock, take a picture, share it on their Facebook page if you'd like, and either keep or re-hide the rock.
The Passport to Play Palmy is another community-led, free, family focused invitation to get outside and explore the Palmy area. Produced in collaboration with PNCC, the two Passport to Play Palmy booklets, downloadable from the Passport to Play website, guide you around Palmy parks or along the river, with suggested activities, and "stamps" to collect from each place.
If you know someone between the ages of 16 and 20 who is passionate about the environment or about sustainable living, they may want to consider joining ENM as Youth Committee Member. The youth member has full discussion and voting rights, although s/he cannot be held legally accountable for the actions of the committee. The committee takes a mentoring responsibility, supporting the young person as they continue to develop governance and leadership skills in the environmental sector. Email coordinator@enm.org.nz if this sounds like you!


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Category: MY BOOK REVIEWS
September 9, 2021 September 10, 2021 Tina Hogan Grant
Carol Koris' mind loves to imagine; It spins out of control thinking of "what could/would happen if…"
She was born in Clifton, New Jersey, where family and friends left indelible marks on her imaginative mind. In her first career as a Registered Nurse, she was educated to care for people, both their bodies and minds, at Mountainside Hospital School of Nursing.
Carol honed her craft of writing at Florida International University, where she received an MFA in Creative Writing.
Carol now calls South Florida her home, where she lives with her husband Dave, and, happily, close to her daughters and grandsons.
She recently retired from Johnson & Wales University as a Full Professor, as well as the Chair of the College of Arts & Sciences.
The Synopsis of the Book
Shadow and Light is a novel about a photographer who loses her eight-year-old daughter in a tragic accident then chances across an opportunity to help another parent save her own daughter.
With her marriage strained and her business on the verge of failure, the novel's protagonist, thirty-four-year-old Maggie Miller, seeks emotional refuge from the death of her daughter in the solitary activity of taking pictures of families at rest stops on the Florida Turnpike. When she finds she has inadvertently taken a picture of a missing child, Maggie's near-obsessional quest to find the missing girl further imperils her marriage, her business, and, to the concern of those closest to her, her already-fragile psyche.
Her decisions and the actions that follow her search could save or endanger the child's life, and Maggie realizes she has been attempting to do what she could not do for her own child. In the process of facing the subjectivity of perception and the fallibility of human nature, she brings herself to the first stirrings of self-forgiveness, acceptance, and growth. My Review
I finished this book over two weeks ago and still, it remains in my head. Koris knows how to write a story that captivated me immediately and she tells it with such raw emotions that I could truly feel the heartache of Maggie who lost her eight-year-old daughter. Something Maggie at times blames herself for.
A gut-wrenching novel that shows the heartache, anguish, and guilt parents go through when experiencing the loss of a child. Their marriage is also put to the test. Maggie wants to talk to her husband about their daughter and lean on him for support. He has no words and is angered by her grief. Will their marriage survive?
But this is not only a book about grief. It is a suspense thriller that involves a kidnapped child. Maggie believed she captured a picture of the girl and is determined to find out the truth at any cost. Even when the police turned her away, believing she was a grieving mother who was seeing things. Anxious to see what Maggie will discover, I could not turn the pages fast enough. What unfolded was a battle of "he said", "she said". Maggie needed to find a way to know who was telling the truth. What she discovers is mind-blowing.
This book was beautifully written. Koris is a brilliant writer who pays attention to detail and paints an amazing story with her words.
COVER DESIGN – 5 STARS – The brilliant bright blue color drew me in straight away. The cover captures the storyline perfectly.
CHARACTERIZATION – 5 STARS – I felt every emotion each character felt, from heartache, anger, and sympathy to name a few. The personalities of each person developed perfectly as the story unfolded. I could honestly say I knew them all well by the time I had finished the book.
STORY & PLOT 5 STARS – A fantastic storyline that kept getting better and better.
OVERALL RATING – 5 STARS – I can not say enough about this book. I loved everything about it and highly recommend it. I am anxiously waiting for another book written by Carol Koris.
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A Cuppa & A Natter (Live Chat) With Author Marci Bolden
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May 28, 2021 Tina Hogan Grant
Marcie J Keithley traded in her securities license to become an author when the universe shifted in her closet with the rediscovery of a 30-year-old shoebox. Armed with a powerful, dramatic story, which has been reported globally on major networks and newspapers across America, she is now known as the ShoeBox Sherpa, helping others find the freedom they desire by unpacking their own shoeboxes and stepping into truth and wholeness.
Marcie is also a Life Story Coach and national speaker. In her downtime, she loves to read historical fiction of the Elizabethan era.
Keithley, a native-born Hoosier and "Lady of Dunans," resides on the Sunnyside of Louisville, along the Ohio River in Southern Indiana with her Golden Doodle, Murfee. A personal development junkie, she can be found most days with her nose in the latest non-fiction book with a tall glass of iced tea, no matter the season. She believes life is always better with a
Many of us have one–a place where we store mementos that remind us of an earlier period in our lives–either happy or sad. Those ties to our past are commonly found in a similar place, hidden in a shoebox buried at the back of a closet shelf. It's called The Shoebox Effect–where you "forget", intentionally or unintentionally, about the contents of the box and what they represent.
Marcie Keithley's shoebox contained a secret, one she kept for decades, one released when her shoebox was unexpectedly revealed in a moment of grief. A flood of memories and emotions was unleashed when the lid was knocked off. No longer able to deny what she had sequestered away in her closet and in her spirit, the revelation created challenges for Marcie, but it also did something positively unexpected.
Releasing the truth began a cascade that resulted in a freedom Marcie did not know was possible. The dramatic story of this long-kept secret, which has been reported globally on major networks and in newspapers across America, will intrigue and enthrall you.
But Marcie Keithley doesn't just make her story all about her. Now known as The Shoebox Sherpa, she helps people unpack their own shoeboxes, and teaches us how to face our truths, heal our pasts, and find the freedom we deeply desire. Be prepared to consider Marcie's question to all of us, "What's in your shoebox?"
I read this book a few months ago and today I still find myself thinking about it. Keithley leaves no stone unturned when it comes to revealing the items in her shoebox and why she kept them. It reminded me of peeling away the layers of an onion as the author reveals her heart-wrenching story of putting her child up for adoption and finding a way to heal and come to terms with the decisions she had made throughout her life.
This is not only the author's story but a guide and self-help book with questions at the end of each chapter for readers to help them understand themselves better and the reasons for their actions. (I love this addition to the book.)
It is a raw emotional account that many will relate to and I can see the book helping so many people and not only those that were adopted. I want to thank the author for sharing her story and opening my eyes to mine.
COVER DESIGN – 5 STARS – The cover is perfect for the book and intriguing It makes you wonder what the book is about.
CHARACTERIZATION – 5 STARS – Keithley described everyone in the book with such detail that I felt like I knew them all very well.
STORY & PLOT 5STARS – This is an easy read that had me turning the pages quickly anxious to see what happens next.
OVERALL RATING – 5 STARS – An excellent read that I highly recommend.
I'm thrilled to announce that the publication date for Jill is August 3rd, 2021
You can now preorder the ebook for the discounted price of $1.99. That is 50% off the regular price.
Preorders for paperbacks will be coming soon.
Jill is the fourth book in the Sabela Series but can easily be read as a standalone.
A sizzling suspense romance with a grand finale ending and where the power of friendship shines.
Preorder your copy today!
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May 18, 2021 May 18, 2021 Tina Hogan Grant
K. A. Perry brings a unique perspective to her environmental thrillers. Her ability to utilize nature as the catalyst to keep her plot moving, and drive the character's pursuit of the truth, stems from her own appreciation and love of nature. Time spent in nature is restorative for many folks, and this tenet is an underlying theme of K.A. Perry's writing.
Although K.A. Perry grew up in northeastern Pennsylvania, she now lives in Connecticut with her husband and 4 children. Her years spent practicing environmental law combined with her time spent as a math teacher have melded to create stories that at their core raise real legal issues, but on the surface are an engaging, lighthearted read.
A funny, engaging legal mystery for all those who love and enjoy nature—and reading at the beach.
First, an amphibian expert is found murdered in the fancy shoreline town of Mayfield, Connecticut. Then, a second, shocking murder of a well-respected community leader occurs. Why are there murders happening in a town as peaceful as Mayfield?
Jenn isn't the perfect clever attorney. She doesn't love her job, has no innate ability to solve mysteries, no superpowers, and no awesome legal skills. But she does have her love and respect for nature—which tends to distract her from her legal work, yet still somehow guides her. Along with her entertaining and dysfunctional family, Jenn weaves her way into the midst of a momentous fight over land preservation.
The murders appear to be tied to the development of the largest parcel of pristine beachfront land between Boston and New York. Most folks in Mayfield want the unique beachfront preserved for the public and object to the construction of expensive homes, but are any of these folks extremist enough to murder for the environment and save coastal land? And how much will Jenn stretch the law to solve the mystery?
This is Perry's debut novel and for a first book she did really well
I was pulled into the story immediately when the main character, Jenn discovered a body in an ice machine in the back of a bookstore. My first question was, why did the bookstore have an ice machine? It was clear it was a homicide and Jenn is on a mission to solve the case, even though she is an attorney and not a detective. But it humors the story with her interference and when a second body is discovered, the plot thickens.
This is an easy read and what I love about this book is how the author also took me on a nature excursion and described in detail the natural surroundings and environment. I learned so much.
The romance that evolved was sweet and a nice addition to the story. I highly recommend this book.
An interview with the Author.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Karen on my Cuppa & A Natter (Live Chat) show a few weeks ago.
You can watch it here.
COVER DESIGN – 5 STARS – I love the colors of the cover, especially the bright yellow font which really grabs the attention of potential readers.
CHARACTERIZATION – 4 STARS – I loved Jenn. She was well developed and I thought that I knew her well by the end of the book.
STORY & PLOT 4 STARS – Great storyline and plot that moved along at a good pace.
OVERALL RATING – 4 STARS – I really enjoyed it and highly recommend it.
Book Review – Turn Back Time
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Award-winner author Tina Hogan Grant brings you an emotional tail of family values and the quest of three sisters to fulfill their mother's one wish.
Divided by divorce and separated by an ocean the sisters wondered if time would be on their side. This book brings the Tammy Mellows series full circle and can also be read as a standalone. A story that will stay with you: long after you have read it.
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"Loved the story and the whole series and will always read a Tina Hogan Grant book." – GR Reader
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A wonderful storyteller and her writing touches the heart." – GR Reader
"This is such a great book and hard to put down and you just don't want it to end." – GR Reader –
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MY BOOK REVIEWS, Reviews
April 22, 2021 April 22, 2021 Tina Hogan Grant
Turn Back Time (The Full Circle Series Book 1) By Annette G. Anders
Annette G. Anders grew up in Germany with a love for books, music, and traveling. In 1998, she and her husband moved to New England, where they raised their son.
In 2018, Annette turned her love for books into a freelance editing career, and in 2019, found the inspiration and courage to write her first novel, TURN BACK TIME, which released in October 2020, and is the first in the Full Circle Series.
When Annette isn't working, she enjoys meeting with friends, traveling, reading, and photography.
Three years ago, a book and a song led Stella to the love of her life. Two years later, he shattered her heart. Determined to shake off the memories of the fateful day, Stella promises herself she'll move forward. Little does she know, when she accepts her best friend's invitation to a week-long trip to France, that the ghosts of her past will come roaring back.
David has reached the pinnacle of his career, but loneliness is a painful price to pay for being in the spotlight. When he catches a fleeting glimpse of Stella a year after their breakup, David realizes he has one chance to win her back. If he fails to earn Stella's trust again, he'll be cursed to follow in the footsteps of one of literature's most haunted and desolate characters—the one he brings to life night after night.
What will it take for Stella and David to remember their dreams, and to believe in their future?
TURN BACK TIME is a story about forgiveness, second chances—and believing in yourself.
This is Ander's debut novel and I was excited to read it. A contemporary second chance romance that doesn't disappoint.
I was immediately engaged from the first paragraph and rooting for Stella and David throughout the book. What I loved about this story is that Ander's takes you on a wonderful trip to Paris. A city I visited a long time ago. The author does a fantastic job of putting the reader in this beautiful city with her detailed descriptive writing. In fact, I would love to revisit Paris and take this book with me and see all the places mentioned in the book.
This book is not just about a sweet romance but also the strong friendship between Stella and her best friend Naomi. I loved everything about Naomi from her cocky attitude and how she always looked out for Stella. The bond between the two girls is clearly defined throughout the story.
This is a wonderful story that does have some steamy parts. I highly recommend this book.
I can't wait to read In Due Time Book 2 which I recently received from the author. This is Naomi's Story. Be sure to look for my review in the upcoming months.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Annette on my Cuppa & A Natter (Live Chat) show a few weeks ago.
COVER DESIGN – 5 STARS – I love everything about this cover. From the Eifel Tower in the background which tells you the setting of the book to the way, Stella's red dress pops off the cover grabbing the reader's attention.
CHARACTERIZATION – 4 STARS – The characters were well developed and each one had a well-defined personality. Sometimes I wished Stella had developed more of a backbone.
STORY & PLOT 4 STARS – Wonderful story, line. I had a great trip to Paris.
Book Review – A Shattered Marriage
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March 20, 2021 April 22, 2021 Tina Hogan Grant
A Shattered Marriage
(His Deadly Betrayal Series Book 1) By C.M Santoro
C. M. Santoro is excited to share her writing journey with you. She writes romance, suspense, and thrillers. Her first book, His Deadly Betrayal: A Shattered Marriage, is the first book in its series. Her background includes being a teacher's assistant, a PCA, and a mentor for middle school students that need academic support. She's also an advocate for breast cancer awareness. She lives in a rural town in south-central Pennsylvania with her husband, three daughters, and 3 fur babies. When she's not writing, she's supporting her special needs daughter–writing, taking walks, and mentoring all her favorite hobbies.
Julie desperately fights for her marriage—a marriage her husband Bill treats as a hobby. The less time he spends with his wife, the more time he spends with his assistant, Steffy, who wants him all for herself. She will stop at nothing to make that happen.
While Bill finds an excuse to leave, Julie begins to find herself. An old friend resurfaces after the death of his mother. Julie and James reconnect as they mourn their losses, and memories of the heart draw them closer. But is James' reinsertion into her life as simple as it seems?
Will the rising suspicion of her husband's affair give Julie the strength to move on? Can she accept the love she deserves—more importantly, who will have to die if she does?
This is Santoro's debut novel and I was excited to read it. Let me tell you the author does not disappoint. I was fully engaged throughout the entire book. The author did a great job putting the readers in Julie's head. I felt every emotion Julie was feeling while she desperately tried to save her marriage to Bill.
This book is a quick easy page-turner and the first in a series. The characters are well developed and true to life. My heart went out to Julie and I felt like I knew her very well by the end of the book and could easily relate to the heartache she suffered.
I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series, I'm hooked.
COVER DESIGN – 5 STARS – This is an eye-catching cover that grabbed my attention. I love the bold red font and the shattered picture frame. Excellent choice.
CHARACTERIZATION – 5 STARS – Well-developed characters. By the end of the book, I felt like I knew Julie and her husband Bill really well.
STORY & PLOT 5 STARS – Great storyline and a real page-turner.
Book Review – Sting – By Sandra Brown
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Divided by divorce and separated by an ocean the sisters wondered if time would be on their side. This book brings the Tammy Mellows series full-circle and can also be read as a standalone. A story that will stay with you: long after you have read it.
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Book Review – Sting by Sandra Brown
February 4, 2021 April 22, 2021 Tina Hogan Grant
Sting by Sandra Brown
Sandra Brown is the author of more than sixty New York Times bestsellers, including STING (2016), FRICTION (2015), MEAN STREAK (2014), DEADLINE (2013), LOW PRESSURE (2012), LETHAL (2011), and the critically acclaimed RAINWATER (2010).
Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels, bringing the number of copies of her books in print worldwide to upwards of eighty million. Her work has been translated into thirty-three languages.
A savvy businesswoman and an assassin struggle to outwit the FBI — and each other — in this #1 NYT bestselling story of sizzling romance and shocking deception from "a masterful storyteller" (USA Today).
When Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard lock eyes across a disreputable backwater bar, something sparks. Shaw is a man who gives off a dangerous vibe that makes other men stand back and women take notice. No one feels this more strongly than Jordie, a woman who doesn't belong in a seedy dive on the banks of a bayou. But here she is . . . and Shaw Kinnard is here to kill her.
As Shaw takes aim, Jordie is certain her time has come. Instead, Shaw has other plans. He abducts Jordie, hoping to get his hands on the $30 million her brother has stolen. But he isn't the only one: Jordie's brother made a deal with the FBI, but his ruthless boss will stop at nothing to find the money first. Now on the run from the feds and a notorious criminal, Jordie and Shaw must rely on their wits to stay alive.
Miles away from civilization and surrounded by swampland, Jordie and Shaw play each other against their common enemies. Jordie's only chance of survival is to outwit Shaw, but he suspects her from the start. Was she in on her brother's scam, or is she an innocent pawn in this deadly vendetta? And just how valuable is her life to Shaw, her remorseless and manipulative captor? Burning for answers — and for each other — this unlikely pair ultimately make a desperate move that could be their last.
With nonstop plot twists and the sizzling sexual tension that has made Sandra Brown one of the world's most beloved authors, Sting will keep you on the edge of your seat until its final pages.
I have been a huge fan of Sandra Brown's books for many years and one of the reasons is because she never disappoints. Sting was a fast-paced suspense story with plenty of mystery and surprises. Jordie is my kind of woman. Tough with a lot of grit.
The twist took me totally by surprise and I loved it. This book has all the ingredients for a great book, believable characters, mystery, suspense, a heavy plot, and romance.
COVER DESIGN – 4 STARS – Nice cover with soft colors. I would have liked it to pop some more with vibrant bright colors.
CHARACTERIZATION – 5 STARS – Lived up to my expectations. I loved it..
STORY & PLOT 5 STARS – I was pulled in after reading the first page. A fast-paced page-turner.
Book Review – The Bluebell Girls By Barbara Josselsohn Book Review
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Divided by divorce and separated by an ocean they wondered if time would be on their side. This book brings the Tammy Mellows series full-circle and can also be read as a standalone. A story that will stay with you: long after you have read it.
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Mail Order Sunset (Hawthorne Billionaire Series Book 4
She's stressed. He likes his laid-back life. They think they're opposites, but are they?Sawyer Hawthorne was tired of being another society playboy who was always in the limelight. Then one carefree weekend in the Caribbean, he made the decision to live the island way, so he bought his own island and left it all behind to enjoy a new laid-back life. But even with all that beauty around him, he felt something was still missing…until Jade Campbell burst into his life full of attitude.
Dr. Jade Campbell was happy in her career as a marine biologist, but when the marina her family had owned for over a hundred years was in danger of falling apart, she left behind all she had worked for to help her father. But her struggles went farther than money and she was out of ideas…until the money she so desperately needed to save the business and her father was dangled in front of her like a carrot.
Does she take the money to save her father and the marina, knowing that she could be getting herself into something worse? Does he see her for what she could be?
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Book Review – The Bluebell Girls By Barbara Josselsohn
December 7, 2020 April 22, 2021 Tina Hogan Grant
The Bluebell Girls By Barbara Josselsohn (Lake Summers Book 2)
Barbara Josselsohn grew up on Long Island and lived for several years in her beloved New York City before moving to the northern suburbs. She began her career as a business journalist and then turned her attention to her first love, fiction.
Returning home to her family's little lake house is the perfect way for Jenna to escape her heartbreaking divorce. Her mother Sweet has been losing her memory and Jenna is sure that taking her daughter Sophie for a break with Sweet in Lake Summers, tucked under the Adirondack Mountains, is what they all need.
Jenna finds comfort in lazy afternoons along the water, and during long nights overlooking their bluebell garden, she's relieved to hear Sweet telling stories about her long-lost loves. Surrounded by family, it seems that some of Sweet's memories have returned and Jenna knows she has made the right decision to come home. But when she meets handsome next-door neighbor Troy, she is reminded of a tragedy in her past she has tried hard to forget.
Troy is the boy with whom Jenna shared her very first kiss—she's relived that moment under the stars every night since she was seventeen. But though he once swept Jenna off her feet, he also broke her heart, and living next door to him for the summer feels impossible.
But sometimes the only way to heal is with those who know you best, and despite her best efforts, Jenna is drawn to Troy again. With her family reunited at last and happier than ever before, is she finally brave enough to face up to her past, and settle down in Lake Summers forever?
This is the second book in the Lake Summer Series but it can easily be read as a standalone. I have not read book one but I had no problem diving into the book and not feeling lost. The author did a great job providing enough of the back story from the first book.
This is a beautiful, well-written story that had me fully engaged throughout the entire book. If I wasn't busy writing my own book I would have easily finished this in a couple of days. The story is set in the small resort town, Lake Summer and from the author's wonderfully descriptive writing, she painted a vivid picture and I felt like I was there. It was a great escape.
A fast easy read with likable characters and a sweet love story that will stay with you for a long time. I would like to know what happens next and I'm hoping there will be a book three.
COVER DESIGN – 5 STARS – I have one word for the cover—Brilliant. Its vibrant, eye-catching, and a perfect fit for the book.
CHARACTERIZATION – 5 STARS – I loved the characters and easily related to Jenna – They were well developed and their independent personalties were well defined.
STORY & PLOT 5 STARS – I was captivated the entire time, wondering what the outcome would be. I loved the storyline and learning the history of the family.
OVERALL RATING – 5 STARS – This was a great read and I highly recommend it.
Book Review – Wedding At The Lakeside Resort by Susan Schild
My Book Better Endings Received Readers' Favorite gold medal award for best Fiction Adventure 2020
Better Endings is a beautiful story that explores a woman's heart and I enjoyed the way Tina Hogan Grant builds resilience in the protagonist. The journey that Tammy makes is inspirational and will give hope, especially to female readers who have suffered abuse and have experienced unhealthy relationships.
Tammy's character is well handled and the growth process that happens in her life is well-captured in the story. Tammy grows from someone who is prone to fear to a woman who takes control of her life, creating the kind of life she wants. Themes of family, love, and adventure are deftly handled and it is easy to develop a fondness for the sea after reading Better Endings. Great prose, exciting characters, and themes that evoke the realism of everyday life. -Readers' Favorite
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November 5, 2020 April 22, 2021 Tina Hogan Grant
My Book reviews are coming back
It's been a while since I have posted any book reviews. I have been so busy working on completing my two series The Sabela series and The Tammy Mellows Series that my reading time has been limited. But I wanted to start posting them again and share with you books I have enjoyed and recommend. I will also be posting my top ten reads for 2020 in December so be sure to look out for that.
Wedding At The Lakeside Resort By Susan Schild
The Lakeside Resort Series Book 4
Bestselling Author Susan Schild writes heartwarming stories about heroines over age 40, 50, and 60 having adventures, falling in love, and finding their happily ever afters. Readers have fallen in love with Jenny and the Lakeside Resort. Wedding at the Lakeside Resort is Susan's latest release and readers are loving it!
Susan's Lakeside Resort series features feisty forty-four-year-old rookie innkeeper Jenny, her eight rustic lakeside cabins, a hunky contractor, a beat-up Airstream, a miniature horse, and a second chance for a happily ever after!
The romance in Susan's stories is clean and wholesome, and all seven of her books are set in small towns in North Carolina.
Susan and her family live in North Carolina.
Ready for more love and adventure after forty? Come see why readers have fallen in love with the Lakeside Resort Series.
When it comes to love, forty-four-year-old Jenny Beckett's track record isn't great, but she's finally found Luke Hammond, a kind, down to earth man who adores her. And she's marrying him!
But Jenny has no time to moon about the big day. With the Lakeside Resort's busiest season fast approaching, she's busily preparing for guests coming to stay in her tiny cabins and vintage campers.
When Luke is called away on business, Jenny must singlehandedly manage the resort, oversee the construction of their new cabin, and plan the wedding. But she's also dealing with more troubling events. A late-night trespasser is destructive, and a developer is intent on building condominiums right next door. Jenny and Luke must scramble to protect the serenity and beauty of their beloved resort.
With love over 40 blooming all around, a plus-sized heroine, and relatable characters, come join your friends for a June wedding and stay awhile at the Lakeside Resort. Our Review
This is the 4th book in The Lakeside Resort Series but it can easily be read as a standalone. I have not read the first three books but I had no problem diving in and losing myself at the Lakeside Resort. I would love to visit this place. It sounds like it's right up my alley. A beautiful lake, small rustic cabins to spend a peaceful weekend getaway, and a charming little town.
This is a sweet love story with characters you can't help but fall in love with. By the end of the story, I wanted to take a drive to Lakeside and spend a week there writing my own stories. It sounds like the perfect setting. I was pulled into the story straight away and felt like I could spend hours hanging out with Jenny. She's my age, has my sense of humor, and she is not afraid to hold down the fort at the resort while Luke is away on a business trip. I think we could become best friends.
The story is well written with a beautiful setting and a perfect escape from these crazy times we are currently living in. I plan of reading the other books in the series and looking forward to the next book in the series. Thank you Susan for the enjoyable read.
COVER DESIGN – 5 STARS – I love the colors on this cover. they are bright and really pop and grab the reader's attention. The picture is inviting and makes you want to be there and perfect for the storyline.
CHARACTERIZATION – 5 STARS – The characters were well written and people I could easily relate to. they were real and I felt that in the author's writing.
STORY & PLOT 4 STARS – This was an easy read, a heart-warming tale, and concerns arise when a real estate developer is threatening to buy the property next to The Lakeside Resort.
OVERALL RATING – 5 STARS – I loved this book and was sorry to see it end. I enjoyed it immensely and highly recommend it.
I had The Pleasure of Interviewing Susan Schild on my Cuppa & A Natter Show (Live Chat) which airs twice a month, on a Monday on my Facebook Author page. The show will soon be expanding to YouTube and this website.
Here is the link to our chat
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Barbara Josselsohn Releases 2nd Book of the Lake Summers Series, The Bluebell Girls
October 8, 2020 April 22, 2021 Tina Hogan Grant
It's been a while since I've sent out a blog but I wanted to share this news with you and also have it on my website.
Barbara Josselsohn Releases Second Book of the Lake Summers Series, The Bluebell Girls
SCARSDALE, NY (September 25, 2020) – Acclaimed author Barbara Josselsohn today released the second book of the Lake Summers series, The Bluebell Girls. Her third novel to-date, Barbara's newest tale is a story of self-discovery, familial bonding, and the rekindling of a former spark. The novel follows three generations of women retelling personal stories of long-lost loves while uncovering the beautiful history of the town of Lake Summers, nestled in the Adirondack Mountains.
After a recent divorce, protagonist Jenna returns full time to her native town of Lake Summers from her life outside of Manhattan to help heal her mother, Sweet, whose health is failing, and better support her daughter, Sophie, who is acclimating to major changes in her own life. When she reconnects with Sweet's next-door neighbor Troy, recognizing him instantly as the boy with whom she shared her first kiss, secrets, and romance resurface. Now, Jenna must determine whether she's ready to settle down in Lake Summers for good.
Readers are already giving The Bluebell Girls high praise. Five-star reviewers on Goodreads rave that the novel is "a charming page-turner" and "a well written, enjoyable story with a blend of heartbreaking and heartwarming moments, of second chances, romance, and finding harmony in complicated family relationships."
The Bluebell Girls gives readers the chance to return to the small town and characters they fell in love with during The Lilac House, Barbara's second novel, and first in the Lake Summers Series. Published in March, The Lilac House is an uplifting summer romance that tells the story of Anna Harris' newly found independence following a personal loss, a devastating disclosure, and a daring new romance that reinvigorates her love for her summer escape, Lilac House.
In addition to publishing two novels during a pandemic, Barbara recently re-signed with her publisher Bookouture and will publish two more heartwarming and feel-good romance novels set in the same charming, fictional town of Lake Summers in 2021.
"I am so thankful to have the opportunity to bring readers The Bluebell Girls and tell stories about powerful women discovering their identity and navigating the next chapter of their lives which I believe is such an important message, especially now," said Barbara Josselsohn. "I am beyond thrilled to continue the Lake Summers series with two more books in 2021 and can't wait to share the next adventures that take place in the wonderful town of Lake Summers, which has become a second home to me."
The Bluebell Girls was published by Bookouture, an imprint of Hachette U.K. Readers can now purchase the novel in three formats in paperback or eBook from Amazon or from select retailers.
Barbara Josselsohn is the author of The Bluebell Girls, The Lilac House, and The Last Dreamer. She is also a journalist and magazine writer whose work appears in the New York Times, Consumers Digest, Parents, New York Magazine, and Westchester Magazine, and on numerous websites. She lives in Westchester County, New York, and teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College and privately.
To learn more about Barbara Josselsohn and her newest novel, visit barbarasolomonjosselsohn.com, or follow @barbara_josselsohn_author on Instagram.
A Live Chat with Barbara Josselsohn
I can't wait to dive into this book and talk to Barabra about it when we go live on Monday, October 26th, at 5:00 pm PST / 8:00 pm EST, and you are all invited.
I will be broadcasting from my Facebook Author page and YouTube so be sure to tune in.
My Review to follow
After our live chat, I will be posting my review of The Bluebell Girls here on this page and in my Facebook group.
My Award-winning book which won Readers' Favorite Best Fiction Adventure 2020 is available for FREE in Kindle Unlimited or you can buy for $3.99. The Paperback edition is available where ever paperbacks are sold.
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Book Review – Educated by Tara Westover
January 30, 2020 April 22, 2021 Tina Hogan Grant
Book Review- Educated
Educated was my book club's choice for Dec/Jan read and boy did it create quite the discussion.
Tara Westover is an American author living in the UK. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. She spent her days working in her father's junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother, a self-taught herbalist, and midwife. She was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom, and after that first taste, she pursued learning for a decade. She graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 2008 and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009, and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a Ph.D. in history in 2014.
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Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far if there was still a way home.
Well, this book created quite a diverse conversation at our meeting. Half of us absolutely loved it and the rest either finished it but didn't enjoy it or couldn't finish it at all. I was one of those that couldn't finish the book. We had one member who found this book to be an extremely emotional read because she was able to relate to it so much. Listening to her was heart-wrenching as she revealed to us some personal insights into her childhood.
This story is a raw account of the author's family and her abusive childhood that at times were hard to read. How she and her siblings survived some of the brutality was amazing. About a third of the way in I had read enough and closed the book feeling hatred toward her father and just too upset for the author to be able to read anymore.
But after listening to our member's account on how it helped her understand her own childhood on so many levels I can see how this book can be uplifting for many in some way. Note; I did not feel this way prior to our meeting. Only after we had shared our thoughts. This is why I love book clubs. They show all the sides of a book.
I applaud the author for the courage it took to tell her story and give hope to others. This story will stay with you for a long time.
COVER DESIGN – 3 STARS – For some of us, we thought it was misleading. Our first impression was that it was about schools.
CHARACTERIZATION – 3 STARS – Many of the characters were unlikeable
STORY & PLOT 4 STARS – At times very depressing and hard to read.
OVERALL RATING – 3 STARS – A tough one to swallow that will leave you wondering how many other children are experiencing the same abuse today.
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By Patti Smith
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A survivor's grace permeates Patti Smith's heartbreaking memoir/meditation/artist's notebook, M Train (Knopf). Unlike her earlier National Book Award–winning Just Kids, which told the relatively linear story of her passionate friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe when the two were young and struggling in late 1960s and '70s New York, M Train loops and swirls through dreams, memories, images, journeys and acts of mourning in and around Smith's 66th year. Or, as she puts it, "Sixty-six, I thought, what the hell."
Like a modern Antigone, Smith attempts to honor her many dead—her husband, Fred; Jean Genet; her brother; Frida Kahlo; the writer Osamu Dazai; her parents. For Smith, who regards herself as one of "the gone Beats' orphaned children," artistic forebears and heroes leave behind as deep a void as family members. But in this enchanting and enchanted book, the dead exist right alongside the living, still haunting Smith years, or even decades, after they're gone. We get vivid glimpses of her marriage to Fred, nearly 20 years after his death ("I could feel Fred closer than ever," she writes). They loved to live according to what they called "the clock with no hands"—talking all night, driving aimlessly, sleeping all day in motels. She rests in Diego Rivera's bedroom and is so moved by the energy there that a song about his wife, Kahlo, comes to her whole. While visiting Sylvia Plath's grave, she has "the uncontrollable urge to urinate" on it, as if to summon Plath back to life. The book feels like a long, poetic letter directly from the brain of your smartest, oddest, bravest friend, the one who has ventured so much further than most of us dare to.
Smith's life in the present is also riddled with losses, albeit of a more mundane kind. In her travels she loses photos, books, a beloved coat, a camera. The café where she writes every day—always in the same chair, always ordering brown toast with olive oil and black coffee—closes. An eccentric and erudite club she's a member of, honoring Alfred Wegener, the theorist of continental drift, disbands. She falls in love with and buys a house in the Rockaways only to see it severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy. She withstands all these losses by reading, roaming, brooding, and sometimes checking in to a hotel in London to binge-watch British mysteries. One wouldn't necessarily know from reading M Train that it was written by a rock icon; we see little of Smith's public life. Instead, she opens her extraordinary heart and soul to us, holding nothing back and never permitting vanity to intrude. "I love you, I whispered to all, to none," she writes. "I'm going to remember everything and then I'm going to write it all down." It's a gift, this record of beloved absences, to which one can only respond, thank you.
— Stacey D'erasmo
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Quan Hy Vietnamese Restaurant is usually one of my top recommendations for non-Vietnamese who ask me where to go in Little Saigon. It's popular with Vietnamese too so you're not getting watered down fare.
My only complaint about Quan Hy is that the portions are rather small for the price. Not that it's expensive, mind you. You're looking at a $7-$8 range for most dishes, compared to $5-$6 at other places.
It's one of the "fancier" Vietnamese restaurants located in the "new-ish" T&K Plaza. Save room for dessert and go to Thach Che Hien Khanh located at the other end of the parking lot.
There's almost always a line.
The entryway has a very shallow koi pond and bridge.
Several large aquariums divide the space into two. Look for the "Nemo" fish, it's my favorite.
Quan Hy specializes in Northern Central Vietnamese food, specifically food from the old imperial capital of Hue and nearby Da Nang. Hue specialities include Bun Bo Hue (Vietnamese Spicy Beef Noodle Soup from Hue), com hen (Vietnamese clam rice), and lots and lots of banh (Vietnamese dumplings).
Hue is known for all the little dumplings or rather the dumplings were created in Hue because at meals the king would be offered a large variety of dishes to eat. Since he couldn't possibly eat it all, he'd sample a little bit here and there. So the banhs were a way for the chefs to give the king maximum taste into one little bite.
Quan Hy is known for serving banh beo (Vietnamese steamed rice discs topped with shrimp) in individual bowls. A tray of 8 is $4.75. If you're in the San Gabriel Valley, you can visit Nem Nuong Ninh Hoa or Nem Nuong Khanh Hoa for Southern Central Vietnamese food and do a comparison of banh beo.
The banh beo here is freshly steamed, smooth, topped with fresh shrimp. Almost every table orders this so there's always a cup with small spoons at the ready. To eat, spoon a bit of the fish sauce into the individual saucer, divide in half, and scoop it out.
The banh it ram (Vietnamese rice flour dumplings on a fried disc) comes on a plate of 3 for $4.50. The dumplings are usually stuffed with ground pork and mushrooms. I'm used to eating banh it plain, and actually don't much care for the fried disc. The disc is made of rice flour and is crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside, too gummy in texture for my taste as it gets stuck to my teeth.
I ordered mi quang, a Da Nang specialty of tumeric noodles, pork, shrimp, peanuts, on a bed of lettuce and herbs, served with toasted sesame rice paper.
Lil' sis and my dad ordered Hu Tieu (Vietnamese Clear Rice Noodles with Pork and Shrimp) on a bed of lettuce and herbs. A bowl of broth comes on the side in case you want to make the noodles "wet." The hu tieu was just the way I like it, soft, chewy.
My mom ordered xoi ga (Vietnamese chicken with sticky rice). The mozzarella cheese-like sticks are actually the sticky rice, shaped into sticks and fried. It's a different presentation but quite tasty.
Other foods that I've liked here but didn't order this time are the egg rolls, made with crab and wrapped in rice paper and bun mit (Vietnamese green jackfruit noodles). As I said, the portions are a bit skimpy for the price, but Quan Hy is a good introduction to Northern Central Vietnamese food, or Vietnamese food in general, for the uninitiated.
There's also a vegetarian version of many of their dishes if you're so inclined.
Who else ate at Quan Hy?
Elmo of Monster Munching who loved Quan Hy's jackfruit salad best.
ChubbyPanda said he wasn't such a fan of the sticky rice cakes but liked everything else.
Dylan of Eat, Drink, & Be Merry slurps every bit of the bun bo Hue (Vietnamese beef noodle soup from Hue) broth.
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wow.. that's good variety of vietnamese food there. I dont remember seeing xoi ga here in Aus.. must keep my eyes open for them.
Sounds like a good eatery. You should profile some places up north in the SF Bay Area.
I've never seen the sticky rice sticks anywhere else.
I did profile some places in the Bay but I don't go there as often as I used to.
And another one I discovered after a few trips is those beef wrapped in noodle...so good!
I like the pho cuon too but rarely order it because it's so much cheaper to make at home.
OMG, I LOVE THIS restaurant! Anytime I am visiting Little Saigon, I have to make it to this restaurant. Their Bun Bo Hue is the best and I love all of their little hue influenced dishes.
You know, I have yet to try their bun bo Hue. I alway send up filling up on banh beo and bun mit.
Oh wow, you are missing out, two of the best places that I have ever had Bun Bo Hue was there at Quan Hy and then in VN. I am not sure which location but Quan Bun Bo Hue 3a3 is what the restaurant is called in VN HCMC. Dist 1 either on Dang Tran Con or Ngo Duc Ke. Well hopefully you get to try it soon.
Oh no! I hope it was just an off-day? I admit, I haven't been in a while because of the long lines. For mi quang, have you tried Quan Vy Da or Ngu Binh? The banh beo in both places isn't quite as silky, but banh it ram at Quan Vy Da and the banh bot loc at Ngu Binh are really good too.
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Nine teams started the first Israeli League in 1932. The first winner of the league were the British Police who, under the guidance of Police Chief Speiser, were the best organized club in the country. Later he would serve as the first chairman of the Israeli Football Association.
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China's official Xinhua News Agency says the death toll of a fire that engulfed a high-rise apartment building in China's business center of Shanghai has risen to 42.
The fire occurred on Monday at a building under renovation. Previous reports put the toll at at least eight dead and more than 90 injured.
A witness told Xinhua that building materials had caught fire, and the blaze spread to scaffolding and then to the 28-story building itself, which houses a number of retired teachers.
The government says more than 80 fire trucks were called to battle the fire, which appeared to have been put out after about six hours.
SHANGHAI (AP) -- China's official Xinhua News Agency says the death toll of a fire that engulfed a high-rise apartment building in China's business center of Shanghai has risen to 42.


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/standort/Standorte/standort-de/KB-Roller-Tech-Kopierwalzen-GmbH
/standort/Standorte/standort-de/KB-Roller-Tech-Kopierwalzen-GmbH/MetaData
/standort/Standorte/standort-en
/standort/Standorte/standort-en/MetaData
/standort/Standorte/standort-en/Böttcher-UK-Ltd-
/standort/Standorte/standort-en/Böttcher-UK-Ltd-/MetaData

But i want only the nodes:
/standort/Standorte/standort-de/Teststandort
/standort/Standorte/standort-de/Hauptwerk-Köln
/standort/Standorte/standort-de/Geschäftsstelle-Berlin
/standort/Standorte/standort-de/Geschäftsstelle-Frankfurt
/standort/Standorte/standort-de/Geschäftsstelle-Hamburg
/standort/Standorte/standort-de/Geschäftsstelle-Hannover
/standort/Standorte/standort-de/Geschäftsstelle-Köln
/standort/Standorte/standort-de/Werk-Leipzig
/standort/Standorte/standort-de/Geschäftsstelle-München
/standort/Standorte/standort-de/Geschäftsstelle-Stuttgart
/standort/Standorte/standort-de/Gelsdorf-(Mischwerk)
/standort/Standorte/standort-de/Gelsdorf-(Handläufe)
/standort/Standorte/standort-de/KB-Roller-Tech-Kopierwalzen-GmbH
/standort/Standorte/standort-en/Böttcher-UK-Ltd-

thus without the MetaData nodes and the parent-nodes. I need everything beneath Standorte. The children of Standorte can be type of standort-de or standort-en.
I hope i could make my problem clearer. I've shortened my output in the last version of my question. So far i didn't find any xpath-expression which could help me out. But this is due to my lack of xpath-knowledge.
Thanks in advance!

A: The expression
//element(*, standort)//*

selects any element (final *) that is a descendant (second //) of an element anywhere in the document (//element()) that has been successfully validated against a schema-defined type definition for standort. (Thanks to @Alej for helping correct this statement and the following.)
So basically you are selecting every element that is a descendant of a validated standort element, assuming you have a schema successfully attached..
Try the XPath expression (updated):
/standort/Standorte/(standort-de | standort-en)/*

A: Use:
(//element(*, standort)//*)[not(ancestor-or-self::MetaData)]


Is Asus considering an Atom-based Eee Pad Slider?
Update: Intel has removed the Slider from its web site. Either there was a big mixup or Intel wasn't supposed to be sharing these details yet. I still have yet to get any explanation from Intel or Asus.
Update 2: Asus says this was a mix up. The Eee Pad Slider will not have an Intel Atom chip, but the company is working on an as-yet unannounced Oak Trail tablet.
Original article: Earlier this week Intel officially launched its new Intel Atom Oak Trail chipset for low power tablets, smartphones, netbooks and other mobile devices, promising that more than 35 products would ship this year with Atom Z670 chips. One of the products featured on Intel's press page for the Oak Trail platform caught my eye: The Asus Eee Pad Slider.
The Slider is one of four Android tablets Asus unveiled at CES in January. It's a tablet with a slide-out keyboard which hides behind the display when you're not using it. The tablet has a 10.1 inch IPS display with a high resolution 1280 x 800 pixel screen and runs Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb. And according to everything I've seen up until this week, the plan was to ship the tablet with a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra dual core processor. But there it is on the Intel page with a note suggesting the Eee Pad Slider will have an Atom Z670 chip.
I've reached out to my contacts at Asus and Intel but so far nobody can tell me what the Slider is doing on the Intel web site. But it's been three days and nobody's taken the page down yet either.
The other day Notebook Italia heard that Asus would be launching a hardware update for the Slider later this year. That would mean that the tablet would ship as planned in May, while a second model would be available in September.
Is it possible that the updated version will have an Oak Trail chip? Or did someone at Intel just confuse the Slider with the Samsung Sliding 7 Series tablet, a 10 inch tablet with a similar slide-out keyboard design which will have an Atom Z670 processor and Windows 7 operating system?
Brad, the Samsung slider is listed on page 2 so it's not confusion on Intel's part.
I'm wondering though, what everyone things will be the eventual OS of the Slider. I do see mostly Windows logos on those tablets on the Intel page. Perhaps Chrome OS is an option but that's a bit risky. I dunno, I've always thought Atom + Windows and that's about it. Would that change now? I'm curious what others think. I just think another Android OS with keyboard from Asus is duplicate product and that doesn't make sense at all to me.
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Natalie Allison
Ranked second to last in the nation for voter turnout and nearly as bad in voter registration, Tennessee is faced with a problem: Getting residents to the polls.
Among those concerned about civic engagement in the state, it's a ranking that raises a question.
Why aren't Tennesseans voting like they should?
Tasked with answering that question and suggesting what the state can do to encourage more residents to vote, Secretary of State Tre Hargett, U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Nashville, state Sen. Steve Dickerson, R-Nashville, and Shanna Hughey, president of ThinkTennessee, took the stage Monday in a forum sponsored by The Tennessean and Lipscomb University.
"If we were talking about economic development or level of taxation or anything like that, we would pretty much demand that Tennessee be top five in America — maybe even No. 1," Cooper said. "In the economic area we demand so much more. But in the democracy area, it's OK to drag bottom? I don't think so."
Pew's Election Performance Index ranked Tennessee 49th in the nation for voter turnout in 2016 and 45th in voter registration.
Voter turnout in Nashville was lower in 2015 mayoral election than 1971
Cooper, like Dickerson, pointed to the bipartisan pair of lawmaker's Project Register, an initiative they launched in 2017 to encourage Middle Tennessee employers to incorporate online voter registration in their onboarding process, as well as to increase voter registration among high school students.
"Steve Dickerson and I thought it was deeply disturbing that a great city like Nashville had more voters in 1971 than we did in a recent election," Cooper said, comparing the number of votes cast in the mayoral election that year versus 2015.
In Nashville's 2015 mayoral election, 6,000 fewer residents voted than in 1971, despite the city's population having grown by 206,000 people during that time.
"Something is very wrong with that picture," Cooper said.
'Somehow in this area, some people love red tape'
Hargett, whose office oversees elections, likened the dilemma and his role in encouraging citizens to vote to him being the chef of a dining establishment.
"We open the restaurant and we prepare the dinner, but we can't make people eat," he said.
He cited the state's creation of a social media campaign, #GoVoteTN, as an example of how his office is asking voters to urge their friends and acquaintances to also vote, as well as efforts to help register high school students, and essay contests and mock elections that involve younger children in the discussion.
He pointed to the state's online voter registration system — Tennessee was the 37th in the country to roll out such a feature in September 2017 — and an app with voting information and results.
But throughout the discussion Monday, Cooper repeatedly referred to state legislators' need to act to make it easier for Tennessee residents to cast a ballot.
"Somehow in this area, some people love red tape," Cooper said. "They love paperwork. They love making it complicated."
He drew applause from the audience when he suggested the state needed to "stop suppressing the vote."
Tens of millions of federal dollars unused for Tennessee elections
Cooper offered several suggestions, including implementing one-stop voter registration; allowing residents a choice of polling places, such as what Rutherford County has done; and linking voter registration data with the state driver's license database to clean and update voting data.
Voters in Tennessee must register at least 30 days before an election.
He pointed to the need for an Albert sensor, a device recommended to election administrators by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that continually monitors election databases for signs of hacking or outside intrusion.
Cooper described Tennessee's election machines as "some of the most dated and hackable in America."
He noted that there were tens of millions of unspent federal dollars available to Tennessee to improve elections, much of which comes from the Help America Vote Act.
On the topic of voter fraud, Hughey reminded the audience that following the 2016 election, the Secretary of State's office found 42 instances of suspected voter fraud out of the 4.3 million votes cast in Tennessee.
Hargett's response wasn't well-received by the audience, some of whom booed and jeered at his suggestion that voter fraud could have been more widespread than his office had determined.
"Those are 42 reports," Hargett said. "And it's like saying the only people who were speeding on the interstate are the ones who got tickets."
For his part to expand access to the ballot, Dickerson said he planned to work with Nashville-based Project Return to introduce legislation to make it easier for men and women being released from prison to have their voting rights restored.
The deadline to register to vote for the Nov. 6 election is Oct. 9. Early voting in that election begins Oct. 17 and continues through Nov. 1, though early voting is currently underway for Nashville's Sept. 6 vice mayoral runoff election.
Reach Natalie Allison at nallison@tennessean.com. Follow her on Twitter at @natalie_allison.


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Apex Learning, a recognized pioneer and innovator in online learning for secondary education, announces the expansion of its middle school digital curriculum for the 2018–2019 school year. The recently released 2017 NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) results show only 33 percent of eighth-graders are proficient in math and 36 percent proficient in reading, indicating a majority of incoming ninth graders lack the knowledge and skills required for success in high school.
For more than twenty years, Apex Learning has partnered with school districts nationwide to implement digital learning programs to keep high school students on track for graduation. Now with a complete digital curriculum in math, science, English, and social studies for grades 6–8, Apex Learning is able to support middle school students in mastering grade-level content and put them on the path to high school success.
Paul Ottum, Online Learning Specialist for Beaverton School District, recognizes the importance of readying students for success in high school. "In many cases, students leave school because they aren't prepared academically for high school," Ottum said. "Students who fail a course during their freshman year are much more likely to leave school before they graduate."
The district uses Apex Learning Tutorials to help middle school students master grade-level content and prepare them for the rigors of high school. According to Ottum, "Tutorials are the way to do this right, enabling our teachers to offer each student personalized support and just-in-time remediation, which is precisely what middle school students need."
"We've seen firsthand the positive impact of digital curriculum on high school achievement levels and graduation rates," said Cheryl Vedoe, CEO of Apex Learning. "We are excited to also be able to support districts in preparing more middle school students for the rigors of high school."
Apex Learning's middle school digital curriculum catalog will be available for the 2018–2019 school year. To learn more, call us at 1.800.453.1454 or visit: https://www.apexlearning.com/middle-school.
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Schools and districts nationwide implement Apex Learning digital curriculum to personalize the learning experience and support success for all students-from those who are struggling to those capable of accelerating. Proven to increase outcomes, Apex Learning digital curriculum actively engages students in learning, with embedded supports and scaffolds to meet the needs of diverse learners. During the most recent school year, there were more than 3.6 million enrollments in Apex Learning digital curriculum. Headquartered in Seattle, Apex Learning is accredited by AdvancEd and its courses are approved for National Collegiate Athletic Association eligibility. For more information, visit http://www.apexlearning.com or call 1.800.453.1454.
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Town Hall Nation - Home
Town Hall Nation Events
Organizing Artists
Thanks everyone for sharing where you are so far…
Miami University : Dr. Ann Elizabeth Armstrong
Sex Education, Birth Control and Citizenship: The daily headlines illustrate how conflict between religious ideology and publicly funded healthcare and sex education test the boundaries between the public and private. Controversies such as the Komen Foundations recent de-funding of Planned parenthood and Obama's call for employer funded access to birth control illustrate how the private and public agendas come into conflict. College students at Miami University will explore and debate these issues within our own community by looking at access to birth control, access to sex education, and the erosion of other services such as free HIV testing. Using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, students will create a workshop with other campus groups invested in these topics and explore some of the specific issues in the culture of our surrounding area in southwest Ohio. Workshops will take place between April 1-18th.
Georgia College : Karen Berman
Our Town Hall Nation project includes collaboration with Gregg Kaufman of our American Democracy Project here on campus as well as a focus on literacy and K-12 education funding. We are also hoping to place the event at Digital Bridges, an innovative neighborhood incubator for community businesses. We will collaborate with my Improvisation for Social Change class who will do a Boal problemetizing piece. We hope to bring in the Mayor, City Council, Superintendant, teachers, parents and other constituencies.
Northwestern University : Michael Rohd
I'm working on a THN event that will occur in mid April this year. I have, for the past several years, facilitated an orientation session for 200 students from around the world who come to Northwestern's campus each year for what is called the Global Engagement Summit. It's a three day series of workshops and panels that helps these students hone their skills as social entrepeneurs and activits in their home communities. I usually begin the Summit with a workshop that aims to help them begin some of the more complicated conversations they will undertake related to place, values and ideological divisions they will encounter in their work. This year, I will be working with my Spring quarter Devising class to develop a process thru which they can assist me at this Orientation session in creating a one time THN event where the GES participants first help create rules, then pick a core topic and finally go thru a public forum that deamands they reach a collective decision on a challenging issue by session's end.
Arizona State University : Elizabeth Johnson, Stephani Woodson and John Genette
Town Hall Nation at Arizona State University is shaping up as a multi-disciplinary, experiential approach to practicing democracy. We are looking at staging two types of events, one which brings citizens of various ideologies together in the same room to reflect on important and locally relevant issues of our time (specifically Arizona's citizen propositions) through a blend of dialogue structures and artistic engagement; and one inspired by the Citizens Initiative Review process in Oregon, in which citizens engage in a fair and thoughtful public review of tough issues. Participants in our events will include graduate and undergraduate students in Public Affairs in a course titled "Participatory Democracy," theater students enrolled in "Theater for Social Change" and interdisciplinary students in "Public Practice: Engagement and Community."
CUNY : Julia Taylor and Jess Levy
Safe in This Place: A Franklin Avenue Theater and Dialogue Project is an applied theater project in the Crow Hill section of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Together with adult volunteer participants who live, work, and/or socialize in the neighborhood, we are exploring the question "What does it mean to be safe in this neighborhood?" using participatory theater and dialogue conventions. After eight weeks of workshops, the group will open up the conversation with a larger audience at a public theatrical event.
Virginia Tech University : Bob Leonard and Jon Catherwood-Ginn
Building Home uses interactive theatre and music techniques to help animate public dialogue among citizens about life in the New River Valley, VA as they experience it now and as they would like to see it in the future. The Building Home team meets with small groups where they gather throughout the region. During community gathering events, the group collects citizens' perspectives on localized events and shares those views with the New River Valley Planning District Commission (NRVPDC) as the latter engages in a three-year planning process known as the Livability Initiative.Over the course of Building Home's one-year development, the project team has conducted eighteen (18) community gatherings and connected with 200+ locals. At this stage, the team has begun devising original theatre and music pieces based on community members' quotes and stories about life in the four counties of Floyd, Giles, Montgomery, and Pulaski, and the City of Radford.The Building Home project—in concert with a variety of other community engagement efforts from the NRVPDC—has revealed that one of the most pervasive challenges in our region is its lack of affordable housing options. With this in mind, the Building Home team will create an original theatre for locals that first contextualizes the multifaceted issue of housing availability in the region and culminates in a public forum to explore the issue as a community. While the particulars of the performance and town hall design are in development, it is likely—based on Building Home's existing methodologies—that the Town Hall Nation piece will include Story Circles, Image Theatre, and Forum Theatre.
Ohio State University : Kate Collins
This project will invite a small cohort of graduate students from across the arts disciplines on the OSU campus to create a small-scale interactive gallery-type event designed to respond to the ongoing struggle between invested groups and individuals to communicate and collaborate in light of OSU's continued expansion in the university neighborhood. Getting university representatives, neighborhood association leaders, as well as local business owners and residents to engage in any kind of productive dialogue about this rapidly changing neighborhood has continued to be a struggle and yet change is eminent. The goal of this project is to use the arts as a vehicle to create space for people to hear and be heard. Working individually or in pairs, student artists will engage in dialogues with the various invested parties with the task of gaining better insight to their story – not the rhetoric of their argument – but the story behind what concerns them most about the changes that are happening and why it matters. It will then be upon the student artists to create an artistic response in their various mediums (performance, visual art, music or a combination thereof) meant to honor that perspective and shed light for others giving deeper insight to the concerns and challenges of those invested in this neighborhood. The art works will then be revealed at an opening at a neighborhood site (off-campus) where all participants will be invited to listen and respond at a meal hosted by OSU's Humanities Institute.
Oklahoma State University : Rebecca Damron and Carol Moder
The call to promote more effective democratic dialogue across differences represents a significant challenge in conservative political environments like Oklahoma In our state, opinions on many issues are strongly polarized around entrenched positions. In order to open a space for dialogue, we chose to begin by constructing campus-community discussions around an issue that is commonly shared and provides opportunities for cooperative action, food and food policy.
Oklahoma State University's Town Hall Nation event will take place in celebration of National Food Day. We are linking our preparatory events to a local student Green Grant Initiative on campus, and to the national Real Food Challenge. We have received the grant funding, which focuses around graduate students and nontraditional student consciousness-raising regarding food and sustainability resources on campus. We are currently building campus and community partnerships to support the event. We are planning the collection of food stories at the local farmer's markets and at the local children's museum over the summer. The culminating event will consist of a Food Day dinner which will be open to Oklahoma producers, the campus community, the local Stillwater community and legislators. Tentative plans for the program include performing stories, serving locally grown foods and dialogue around voting with your mouth.
University of Oregon : Lori Hager with Christine Madzik
Description forthcoming.
Eastern Michigan University : Decky Alexander
Whose City is it? Project #1 – A city income tax; role & responsibility of the University to the city which houses it; present and future generations asked to fix the mistakes of the past; staving off the inevitable (i.e. bankruptcy), and asking people to pay more only to maintain the status quo.
This is not a two-sided issue, but a multi-sided issue with players straddling multiple positions and identities.
Goal: to bring diverse and divisive groups of people together to talk and engage around an issue of equal importance to all
Goal: to engage in civic discourse –that is discourse (conversation) intended to enhance understanding
Goal : to use personal narrative as a means of fostering dialogue and subsequent understanding of various perspectives: residents who want the income tax and believe it will 'save their city from a state financial takeover' and property and business owners and those who live and work in the city.
Goal: generate ideas, conversations and visualizations (from various stakeholder perspectives) on what they want this city to be.
Goal: to convey information on this issue through personal narrative & authoethnogaphicperformance.
Strategies : invitational rhetoric, personal narrative performance, PTO, landscaping, environmental theatre & small group communication.
(Am reminded of many performance theorists who basically address the idea of performing the everyday. Whereas many of the stakeholders of this project are out speaking publically and in print, performing them and their words we may hear/see/feel something that we would not had they just 'performed' themselves.)
Notes: Action is being taken at the ballot box. Our purpose is not to promote change but understanding . Change may occur as a result of understanding but our goal is not to persuade one point of view over another. Participants and attendees of this event may also gain information about the ballot proposal through the personal narratives and subsequent dialogue.
Details on the issue and the people it impacts.
On the May 8th ballot there are two proposals
A City Income tax
A Water Street Service millage (to pay back past debt from a failed city development initiative.)
A combination of the economy and for-profit businesses in the city closing (including auto manufacturing), and a decrease in state revenue sharing have had a grave impact on the city's economy. The city currently has one of the highest property taxes in the county given its lack of revenue from local businesses. The University is the city's largest employer (2000 plus personnel) and does not pay property tax. The second largest employer in the city is the County and State government who also do not pay property tax.
This is a complex local issue as it involves a ballot proposal that will require all those who work in the city limits to pay an income tax. The majority of people who would be required to pay income tax do not live in the city, and will be unable vote. However, if the city does not increase its revenue it may be bankrupt and have its assets taken over by a state Emergency Manager. All elected officials under the current state of this state law would be dismissed from their positions.
The ballots financially impact those live and work here such as property owners and university personnel more intensively than those who just work her or live here.
Voices/Stakeholders: Property owners and residents, elected officials, residents who work and live in the city, individuals who solely work but do not live in the city, and business owners.
University participants: Creative Writing professor (resident and local activist, involved in the Occupy Ypsilanti Movement), Communication professor whose research is focused on townhalls; Director of Government and University relations (on the Save Ypsilanti committee) MFA and MA students in educational and applied theatre, faculty members in Political Science, and university students and staff who also reside in the city, myself included.
Tentative Date-Last week of April or May 1st or May 2nd
University of Minnesota : Sonia Kuftinec
University of Minnesota : Elliot Lefler
University of Central Florida : Courtney Grile
Macalester University : Harry Waters
Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus : Martha Bowers and Deborah Mutnick
This is an Honors Experiential Methods class we are offering for the first time this spring at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University.
The course has examined the intersections of two historical moments in Brooklyn as the sites of important social actions: the 1960s activities of the civil rights group Brooklyn CORE and the Crown Heights tragic chain of events in 1991 sparked by the death of Gavin Cato. In addition to doing readings on various theories of civic discourse, we have also sampled the General Assembly protocols for consensus decision making utilized by Occupy Wall Street. By analyzing the matrix of socio-historical, political, and cultural forces at play in these examples, we have explored the roles of artists, writers, activists, and students in promoting civic dialogue as an agent of change. The course will culminate in the creation of an innovative, dialogic, Town Hall event at LIU this April. The students have chosen the topic of student debt and are currently researching its history, current policies, and impact on current, past and future generations of students. The event is still being shaped but to date it looks like it will incorporate a multi-media educational component, facilitated small group discussions, story circles, performances and opportunities to propose actionable plans to address this critical issue.


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