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About the Association
Located in mid-coast Maine, Pemaquid Watershed Association (PWA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, membership-based conservation organization.
Our Mission
The mission of PWA is to conserve the natural resources of the Pemaquid Peninsula through land and water stewardship and education.
Our Vision
Our vision is a protected yet accessible Pemaquid Peninsula where people and wildlife thrive in a pristine and nurturing environment.
To learn more:
How it All Started
PWA has its origins in the Biscay Pond Association, formed in August 1966 by residents concerned about unsound development. The organization gradually grew in response to the interests and concerns of landowners throughout the Pemaquid River watershed.
Spurred by unprecedented development pressures, PWA became a Land Trust in 1988. As a Land Trust, we use conservation easements and land acquisition to protect the beauty and natural integrity of the watershed. For the full history, read our Watershed Watch Newsletter from Spring 2008 (page 8).
The Watershed
Map of the Pemaquid Peninsula
For contact information and a map of our office location, click here.
To purchase a copy of this full-color shaded topographic map, visit our merchandise page.
- The green-shaded topographic area is the Pemaquid Peninsula, which is PWA's "Service Area". The properties that PWA protects are shown in red. Other protected properties are shown in pink.
- The yellow line outlines the Pemaquid River watershed, which is PWA's "Focus Area".
Size and Scope of the Watershed
The Pemaquid River watershed covers parts of six towns (Damariscotta, Nobleboro, Waldoboro, Bremen, Bristol, South Bristol) and is 46.9 square miles in size, of which 5.4 sq miles are water and 41.5 sq miles are land. The Pemaquid River watershed includes the sub-watersheds that flow into the Pemaquid River or into Pemaquid Harbor (including Little Falls Brook, which flows into Pemaquid Harbor, and Beaver Dam Brook, which flows into Duckpuddle Pond). It also includes the coastline down to Pemaquid Point on Johns Bay on the west side of the peninsula. The Pemaquid River watershed boundary goes through the summits of Johnston Hill and Cordwood Hill on the east and Eugley Hill at the northern tip.
Wings Over the Pemaquid River
"Wings Over the Pemaquid River" is a 6½-minute video of spectacular aerial photos spanning the river system from Waldoboro to Bristol. The video shows the interconnectedness of the chain of ponds in the 19-miles of the Pemaquid River, including Tobias, Duckpuddle, Pemaquid, McCurdy, Little, Paradise (Muddy), Biscay, Little Biscay, Ross, and Boyd Ponds. From Boyd Pond, the flight winds down to Pemaquid Falls, the Pemaquid River estuary, Pemaquid Harbor, Pemaquid Beach, and Pemaquid Point.


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Proverbs 15 New International Version (NIV)
15 A gentle answer turns away wrath,
2 The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge,
3 The eyes of the Lord are everywhere,
4 The soothing tongue is a tree of life,
5 A fool spurns a parent's discipline,
6 The house of the righteous contains great treasure,
7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge,
8 The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked,
9 The Lord detests the way of the wicked,
10 Stern discipline awaits anyone who leaves the path;
11 Death and Destruction[a] lie open before the Lord—
12 Mockers resent correction,
13 A happy heart makes the face cheerful,
14 The discerning heart seeks knowledge,
15 All the days of the oppressed are wretched,
16 Better a little with the fear of the Lord
17 Better a small serving of vegetables with love
18 A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict,
19 The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns,
20 A wise son brings joy to his father,
21 Folly brings joy to one who has no sense,
22 Plans fail for lack of counsel,
23 A person finds joy in giving an apt reply—
24 The path of life leads upward for the prudent
25 The Lord tears down the house of the proud,
26 The Lord detests the thoughts of the wicked,
27 The greedy bring ruin to their households,
28 The heart of the righteous weighs its answers,
29 The Lord is far from the wicked,
30 Light in a messenger's eyes brings joy to the heart,
31 Whoever heeds life-giving correction
32 Those who disregard discipline despise themselves,
33 Wisdom's instruction is to fear the Lord,
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Proverbs 15 King James Version (KJV)
15 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
5 A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
10 Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
11 Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
12 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
14 The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
16 Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith.
17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
19 The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
20 A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
21 Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
23 A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
25 The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
29 The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.
31 The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
33 The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
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Jesuit Vocation
"Vocation is not just about working. It's also about being. It's not just about what you do, but, more importantly, who you are. So let's look at that question, 'Who should I be?'"
James Martin, S.J.
Cannonball Club
Welcome to the Vocations website for De Smet Jesuit High School. Our vocations discernment group looks to live according to St. Ignatius' standard of finding God in all things. In order to better live this standard, we have a group called the Cannonball Club that meets two times a month to discuss spirituality, and how God might be calling us to live and pray together.
The Cannonball Club is named after the event of St. Ignatius' life wherein he was injured in battle by a cannonball. This injury led to his first real spiritual experience, which led to him rejecting the life of luxury that he had adopted and instead choosing to live a life of service to God.
Please contact Mr. Wotawa, S.J., with any questions about vocations. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
Vocation Prayer
Prayer of Calling: Help Me To Know and Follow
You gift me with all the good gifts that make me the person you created me to be.
Help me to know and find your will and to trust that you will help me to understand the path you call me to journey in life. Where there is doubt give me courage.
Give me a heart open to your quiet voice so I can hear your call to me.
Help me to know your faithfulness and help me to be faithful to that which you are calling me.
Be Who You Is - How do I discover my vocation in life?
By James Martin, S.J.
When I was 9 years old and in CCD class, our teacher gave us a few pictograms, some from the old Baltimore Catechism, to help us understand our faith. To explain sin, three bottles of milk were shown. One was spotty: that was the soul filled with venial sins. One was black: the soul under mortal sin. The last one was pure white: the soul in the state of grace. To explain the concept of "vocation," there was a drawing of a married couple, above a legend that read, "Good." Under the drawing of the priest and the sister, the legend read: "Better."
The concept of vocation has undergone something of a theological face-lift since the Second Vatican Council. And not a moment too soon. The belief that one vocation is better than another has given way to the understanding that everyone, no matter who they are—single, married, vowed, ordained—participates in the "universal call to holiness" in their own way.
This is eminently sensible. Part of God's plan, after all, is diversity, with everyone building up the community in ways that others cannot do. Where would we be if everyone were a priest or a sister? (For one thing, we'd be somewhat challenged in the procreation department.) Or if everyone were married and there were no religious orders? To use the Pauline image of the Body of Christ, where would we be if the eye said that it had no use for the hand?
But that begs the obvious question: OK, so I have a unique vocation. What is it?
That's where Ignatian spirituality comes in handy. For St. Ignatius of Loyola, the 16th-century founder of the Society of Jesus, desires were an important way to discover one's vocation. Your desires—not your surface needs, but your heartfelt desires—were one indication of the way that God was drawing you to happiness.
On the most basic level, a man and woman come together in desire to discover their vocations as a married couple. Doctors or lawyers or artists find that they desire a particular kind of life and so find their vocations. Desire works the same in the lives of the saints, drawing each of them to different brands of holiness and service in the church. St. Thérèse of Lisieux was very different, and did very different things, than St. Teresa of Ávila.
In this way, God's desires for the world are fulfilled, since ultimately our deepest desires are those that God has planted within us. So the notion of vocation (from the Latin word vocare, meaning "to call") is less about finding one and more about having it revealed to us, as we continually pray to understand what Jesuits call our "governing" desires.
The primary difficulty in all this is the false belief that to become useful, or happy, or holy, we have to become someone else. The young mother says sadly, "I'll never be Mother Teresa," when in fact her vocation is to be a mother. Or the lawyer, who reads about the Trappist monk Thomas Merton, says, "I'll never be like him." But you're not meant to be Mother Teresa or Thomas Merton, estimable as they were. You're meant to be yourself. As Merton himself wrote, "For me to be a saint means to be myself."
Part of that means letting go of the wish to lead someone else's life, and remembering that our own vocations—not somebody else's—are what will finally lead us to happiness. You don't need to use anyone else's map to heaven, because God has already placed within your soul all the directions you'll ever need. When people visited Mother Teresa in Calcutta, hoping to work with her, she used to tell many, "Find your own Calcutta." Discover your own vocation. And remember that every vocation is equally valuable and beautiful in God's eyes.
The best way to sum this up is to use a favorite expression of John Kerdiejus, a holy Jesuit who worked for many years at the retreat house in Gloucester, Mass., by the Atlantic Ocean. Today, John is confined to his bed in the Jesuit infirmary outside of Boston. He was as happy a man as I've ever known in his vocation, and he used to say, puckishly, "You have to be who you is, and not who you ain't. Because if you ain't who you is, then you is who you ain't. And that ain't good!"


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Master Courses
The IED Master philosophy is built upon design culture, using a methodology based on learning by doing and applying various creative and innovation process methods through project-based learning.
The IED Master training programme is set within a multicultural context and combines theoretical-technical specialisation alongside practical workshops and visits to companies. In other words, theoretical content is combined with practice during the completion of real projects in collaboration with various sector companies.
Following the principles of multidisciplinarity, IED Master offers theoretical and practical training in two complementary formats:
Classroom, with shared content that is common to all courses and individual course-specific content.
Online, with shared generic content on the cultural and methodological aspects of design.
The learning process involves an educational team of practicing professionals from the fields of business, design and communication.
Advantages of studying an IED Master
· Quality, innovative education in all areas of design and communications.
· Direct contact with the business world and culture.
· Didactics that balance theory and practice.
· All our professors and tutors are renowned professionals who are active in the industry.
· Transversal education that offers students a multidisciplinary professional profile: conferences, round tables, Master's classes, and workshops.
The courses are offered in different types:
Master Management (RSP: Research Study Program)
Master Professional
Research Study Program
Master in Design Management
- Barcelona - 11 months
Day after day the business world is becoming more complex to manage with lower and lower margin for errors. In this context the value of a discipline resides in its ability to facilitate better-informed decisions. This highly competitive environment requires… More Info
Master in Fashion Management
- Barcelona - 11 months
Fashion is part of our society. The act of "getting dressed" is part of our culture, covering functional needs of human beings and, more important, satisfying the necessity of communication. People from ancient times had always covered the body, both… More Info
Professional Master
Master in Innovation Strategies and Entrepreneurship (Intensive)
- Barcelona - 3 months in Barcelona and 4 months online
The Master in Innovation Strategy Entrepreneurship is a response to the need of incorporating innovation to organizations' strategic management. To apply innovation is a key component to guarantee competitiveness in the current economic and social environment, and it is fundamental… More Info
Master en Design for Urban Environment
- Barcelona - 6 months
The city is one of humanity's most important inventions and it is facing basic challenges for the future in the 21st century. Against this backdrop, design is an essential tool for improving the social, cultural and economic fabric of the… More Info
Master in Fashion Knitwear Design
- Barcelona - 6 months
The Masters in Fashion Knitwear Design has been conceived to boost creativity, experimentation and innovation in developing knitwear collections. The course combines manual techniques with industrial knitting technology to provide professionals with a global vision of knitwear design production. A… More Info
Master in Graphic Design
- Barcelona - 9 moths
In today's world, understanding the communication sector is crucial in order to offer a range of solutions to meet the graphic and visual communication needs that the market demands. Rising to this need, the Masters in Graphic Design trains professionals to… More Info
Master in Design for Virtual Reality
- Barcelona - 6 months
Immersive Design is changing the digital experiences and the way we learn and create. The Virtual Reality environment needs a multidisciplinary professional able to design creative content and experiences, communicate and manage projects for new immersive technologies and reach audiences… More Info
Master in Service Design
- Barcelona - 6 months
The Master in Service Design aims to build-up and to repurpose the abilities that designers already have, and support them in developing complementary skills that back their work with strategic and human complexity within a service context. What does designing… More Info
Master in Interior Space Design Methodology
- Barcelona - 6 months
Based on a project culture and on our own innovative methodology, this Master course aims to produce professionals with the ability to innovate in the vast field that is space design. Different spaces and scales will be worked on in… More Info
Master in Strategic and Creative Planification for Brand Communication
- Barcelona - 6 months
The Masters in Strategic and Creative Brand Communication Management teaches professionals how to make an impact on consumers bearing in mind the relationship that the digital world has shaped between advertisers, agencies, media and users. Advertisers have come to the… More Info
Master in Interaction Design
- Barcelona - 6 months
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Master in Fashion Design
- Barcelona - 9 months
The course is based on providing a solid cultural foundation to understand fashion as a social system tied to the historical evolution of styles, art movements and socio cultural and economic changes that influence society. The Master in Fashion Design… More Info
Master in Fashion Marketing and Communication - September
- Barcelona - 8 months
The Master in Fashion Marketing and Communication is developed starting on the principles of traditional and fashion marketing, analysing their several aspects and applications, but always with fashion communication in mind, given its role as integral and essential part of… More Info
Master in Fashion Marketing and Communication - January
- Barcelona - 6 months
The Master in Fashion Marketing and Communication is developed starting on the principles of traditional and fashion marketing, analysing their several aspects and applications, but always with fashion communication in mind, given its role as integral and essential part of… More Info
Master in Sustainable Design
- Barcelona - 6 months
This masters tackles sustainability from a 360°angle based on materials, the business model concept or service idea and profitability. Students are guided through the most complex aspects of product design and contemporary packaging with a special focus on creativity, project analysis… More Info
Master in Interior Design
- Barcelona - 6 months
This master course equips students with the know-how and tools they need to take on projects within the hospitality sector, which are the backbone of the course. Students are faced with real situations posed by real clients, providing them with… More Info
Master in Interior Design for Commercial Spaces
- Barcelona - 6 months
The Master in Interior Design for Commercial Spaces has been designed for dynamic professionals with global responsibilities or those destined to assume such responsibilities and aiming to study while continuing their successful careers. The programme, IED Barcelona and its international… More Info
Master in Brand Design and Management: food, wine and tourism
- Barcelona - 11 months
The overall aim of the Master in Brand Design and Management: Food, Wine and Tourism is to meet the growing demand for qualified professionals able to offer a new managerial approach to the tourism/food and beverage sector in the touristic/hospitality and catering… More Info


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Theme: There's a Bible study going on and the group are looking into the book of Acts and the lives and lifestyles of first century Christians. A newcomer, Phil, isn't buying into the entire idea but comes to a certain satisfaction within the drama.
Bible Reference: Acts
Cast: 10, all but two could be m or f
Don – group leader
Sarah – Don's wife
Phil – unconvinced
Norma – Don's wife
Others: (m or f)
Set: blank set made to look like living room with chairs and/or couches
Lighting, Sound, Costumes: standard
Props: coffee cups, glasses, cookies
Special Instructions:
Suggest some music be added within the drama (at points which work best for the director). We recommend a choir be on a separate stage and the lights be dimmed on the acting stage when the songs are sung
Some suggestions (found in song books or on internet) or personal selections
He Lives
Because He Lives
Breathe On Me Breath Of God
There's A Sweet Sweet Spirit In This Place
Where The Spirit Of The Lord Is
Spirit Of The Living God
Blessed Assurance
Trust And Obey
Time: 60
Sample of script:
Sarah and Don are moving chairs around tables, setting out cups
Don: There, Sarah, I think that should be plenty of chairs for Bible study, don't you?
Sarah: Well Don, remember the Wilsons and the Johnsons are out of town so we will be down four.
Don: This should be lots of room then.
Sarah, smiles: I wouldn't be surprised if we had some new people show up. . . (giggles) . . We have an awesome leader and people are coming from all over to hear his wisdom!
Don: Very funny Sarah! . . I might be the leader but we have an awesome group who carry the discussion.
Sarah: Oh Don! . . I forgot to tell you. I met our new neighbors today.
Don: You mean the new people in Henderson's house?
Sarah: Yes, Phil and Norma Kyle.
Don: Good to hear Sarah. . . Nice people?
Sarah: Well . . Norma seems very nice. . . She works at CHEK television.
Don: And Phil?
Sarah: Phil . . . Actually I'm not too sure . . . Interesting guy.
Don: What does he do?
Sarah: Actually I asked him that. .. . . He said he was a fresh air inspector.
Don, confused: Fresh air inspector? . . . EPA employee?
Sarah: That's what I thought at first . . . But apparently fresh air inspector means someone unemployed.
Don: How do you figure that?
Sarah: Well, as Phil explained it . . . (deep gruff voice) . . when a guy is between jobs a guy gets to go walkin' around in the fresh air, communin' with nature!
Don, eyebrows raised:
Okayyyyyyy! . . . Well I guess I'll get to check him out myself sooner or later.
Sarah: Actually sooner than later.
Don: How so?
Sarah: Actually the Kyles, (checks watch), will be here any minute.
Don: You invited them here?
Sarah: You know . . . I am not exactly sure how it happened . . ! . . It just . . . happened.
Don: Well . . I guess that . . .
knock on the door/door bell
Sarah crosses to far side stage, opens door, Norma and Phil enter
Sarah: Hi Norma, Phil, come in. . . (points to Don) . . . This is my husband Don.
Don, shakes hands:
Norma, Phil, welcome to the neighborhood.
Phil: Good knowin' you Doug!
Don: Don. . . My name actually is Don.
Phil: Right on Doug. . . . I hear youse have a job.
Don: Yes I do have a job. . . God has blessed me with a good job at United Securities.
Phil: I tried the job thingie a few times. . . Didn't find that much fulfillment.
Sarah: Well it sometimes does take time to find the right job for you.
Norma: Phil was real good at his last job . . . was there almost a week. . . . But it didn't last.
Phil: Man's gotta feel his way through life, and what's not right's not right. . . . And right is might. . .That's Biblical you know. . . (looks around) . . . You should know that, youse bein' a preacher guy Doug.
Don: Don . . . My name's Don.
Phil: So whatcha preachin' on tonight Doug?
Don, getting annoyed:
My name is Don, . . . I am not a preacher, . . . and this isn't a sermon, it's a Bible study.
Phil: Yeh, I understand what you're sayin' Doug.
knock on the door/doorbell Rhonda, Kim, Sandy, Joe, Jean & Sydney enter stage
chatter of everyone saying hi, welcoming each other, general chatter
Sarah: Hi everyone, good to see all of you.
Don: Welcome to our home and to our small group Bible study.
If you haven't done so already please help yourself to coffee or juice, and also cookies made by my lovely and talented wife Sarah.
Phil: Not chocolate chip cookies by any chance are they?
(holds his stomach with both hands)
I got this sensitive stomach and youse just don't wanna know what chocolate chip cookies do to my system . . I mean, why I just . . .
Norma, embarrassed:
Phil has a restless stomach and . . .
Phil: Suffice to say, . . chocolate chip cookies make me just . .
Sarah, quickly: They aren't chocolate chip cookies at all . . They are . . .
Phil: That's all good then, pretty near anything else I can handle, it's just chocolate chip cookies that make me . . .
Don: Well that's good Phil, why don't you go and help yourself to coffee and a cookie.
Phil: That's mighty nice of you Doug . . .
Don: Don! . . My name is Don!
Phil: Yeh well, now youse mention it Doug I believe I will go take 2 or 3 cookies. My sweetie Norma here just got off work, never had time to scare up supper. . .
Sarah: I am sorry, I will go make you guys a sandwich. . .
Phil: No need to go to all that trouble Sarah, I'll just grab a couple cookies . . (picks up a handful & examines) . . . sure there's no chocolate chips hid in these? I mean if I get so much as a taste of chocolate chips I'll just . .
Sarah, quickly: None! . . No chocolate chips!
Phil: Good then. . . Norma sweetie, why don't youse just go get yourself some cookies, maybe bring an extra one or two for me . . I just gotta tell youse Doug these here cookies like to save my life, I'm that hungry, no supper and all!
Norma embarrassed, takes 2 cookies
Phil, shock: As you can . . see . . we have first time guests with us tonight.
(indicates Phil and Norma)
Phil and Norma Kyle have just moved into the Henderson house down the block.
(each person says "hi" "nice to meet you" etc. as their name is spoken)
That is Rhonda.
And last but not least Sydney.
(add more names as required)
Welcome Phil and Norma, you will get to know these fine people over the course of the evening, and, we hope, in future small group sessions.
Phil: Hey that's mighty kind of youse Doug. . . me and Norma, we look forward to. . . sharin' from the heart. . . I believe that's what youse churchey guys call speakin' out.
Don in shock: We will all, I am sure, look forward to the . . . speaking out.
Now then . . . Sandy . . . would you lead us in an opening word of prayer.
Sandy: Bow with me please.
all except Phil bow heads, Phil lowers head, sneaks looks around at others
Sandy: Father God we just come to you now, our hearts open to what you can teach us from your word. We just know that you want to instruct us in things we, as your flock, should know. Build us up oh Lord and fill us with your blessings and grace.
Sandy pauses, everyone starts to lift heads but Sandy continues on with more fervour, others quickly bow again
Sandy: Fill your servant Don with the power of your Holy Spirit, make him an instrument of your word, oh Lord. Make us all open vessels that your word might enter us and dwell within us.
Sandy pauses, everyone starts to lift heads but Sandy continues on with more fervour, others quickly bow again
Sandy: Tonight, Lord, we just think of all your people, here and around the world, those who have never heard the blessed name of Jesus. Build up your people to create an army of Christian soldiers to go forth to all corners of the world, preaching and teaching in your name, oh God. As you said in your word, truly the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few Lord. Build us up to minister in your name Jesus.
Sandy pauses, everyone starts to lift heads but Sandy continues on with more fervour, others quickly bow again
Sandy: Let us not forget the strife that is so rampant throughout the world Lord. Country against country, family against family, brother against brother. Oh Lord, show us the error of our ways, come into our hearts, fill us with your love.
Don quickly cuts in
Don: For we ask all this in your name, Lord. Amen.
Thanks you Sandy for leading us in that . . very far reaching and beautiful prayer.
Phil: Yep, prayer was for sure good . . but I thought Don wanted a word of prayer and here youse like kinda brought out the full dictionary.
Don, stern: Phil, in our times together we never criticize another member.
Phil: No, no, no! . . . I wasn't speakin' out against Sandy's prayin'. Fact is I never heard a prayer like that, was awesome. Maybe when you get a minute Sandy you could give me a copy of that prayer so's I can use it and know what to say to God and all.
Sandy: I don't have any copy of my prayer, it's just like a prayer and I am like . . talking to God.
Phil: But how do you like, remember what to say?
Don: Phil, talking to God is no different from talking to a friend. You just say what you want to tell God, what you want God to know.
Phil: I for sure could never do that. . . I'd for sure just get all nervous and my teeth would get locked together.
Sarah, laugh: Doesn't sound or look like your teeth are getting locked at the moment.
Phil: No they ain't but, no offense meant, goin' talkin' to youse guys, youse guys are OK guys but youse ain't God neither!
Sandy: No we for sure aren't Phil. . . . I would be happy to give you some prayer suggestions though.
Phil: I maybe get back to you on that, K?
Sandy: Of course.
Don: As most of you know we are studying the book of Acts.
Sydney: I thought I knew the Bible really well, but studying Acts in depth is giving me a new perspective on the early church and on the apostles.
Phil: Maybe somebody can straighten me out . . . Apostles and epistles . . . Which one of them is women?
Sarah: Women?
Phil: Yah, I think it's the apostles that are men and the epistles are women . . but I'm not sure.
Sarah: No actually the apostles were the closest followers of Jesus and were the main people who spread the message of Jesus Christ after Jesus left the earth.
Rhonda: Yes and epistles are letters sent by some of the apostles to the churches they had established throughout the area. The letters were full of instructions on how Christians should act and how a Christian church should be run.
Sarah: Well since the early churches faced a lot of persecution the epistles were also used to encourage the people in those churches.
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The Finance Department maintains and preserves the Town's financial records and delivers support and other services to Town staff and outside agencies; and manages the Town's cash, investment and debt portfolios in compliance to New York state statutes, federal requirements, mandates and following generally accepted accounting principles. A brief listing of the responsibilities are as follows:
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How To Think About Immigration
David Cameron's speech on demographic change was utterly brilliant. Rather than focus exclusively on migration, he offered a broad look at future population growth and its likely consequences on the quality of life in Britain. And so he was able to discuss economic migration and family breakdown, which of course also forces an expansion of the built environment, in a shared context that reflects the priorities of Cameron's liberal Conservatism.
Broadly speaking, British voters favor a reduction in net immigration. At the same time, they've reacted negatively against outright xenophobia, leaving Cameron a very difficult needle to thread. By emphasizing the positive impact of immigration while also stressing its environmental burdens, he offered a balanced, nonhysterical perspective.
I strongly recommend that you check out ConservativeHome's excerpts from the speech.
Many conservatives and libertarians will be disappointed by Cameron's evident hesitation regarding the virtues of untrammeled population growth. I happen to think population growth is a very good thing, and that Britain's growing population reflects the country's best qualities, namely economic dynamism and cultural attractiveness. That said, the environmental concerns Cameron raises are no mere camouflage for cultural prejudice: these are real, legitimate concerns that carry a lot of weight with the all-important suburban middle class. England in particular has long been a glorified garden, with almost every inch of land shaped more or less directly by human hands. So it's easy to see why the British would have a more "Dutch" attitude towards the landscape.
P.S.- If you have a few minutes, this series of videos is pretty amusing. Actually, I was pretty impressed by how Cameron directly engaged a few middle-aged men who seemed to think the CIA might have been behind the 7/7 plot. Good for him.


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Rather than go through their regular workout routines for the day, four women decided to take the FBI Fitness Test to see if they could earn a passing score.
The workout, shot in a video for BuzzFeed, consists of four events: sit-ups to be done in one minute, a 300-meter dash, push-ups to be done without stopping, and a 1.5-mile run.
The women are given points depending on their numbers from each event. For example, if the women do 37-40 sit-ups in one minute, they get two points. Zero to 29 sit-ups deducts points from your score.
Participants must reach a cumulative score of 12 points in order to pass the test.
Time to work out.
And like the total badass women that they are, each participant works up to pass the test, some even reaching as high as 23 total points.
"Now that I've passed this I kind of feel unstoppable," one woman says at the end of the video. "I feel like I should be in a James Bond movie or something."
Could you pass the test? Check out the full video below and then give it a go yourself!


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The conference will focus on helping you figure out how to get more qualified and interested candidates to submit to your hiring managers.
Another great PowerBoost conference with 8 renowned speakers:
- Laura Stoker, Executive Director of Global Training, for AIRS (the Original Pioneers of Internet Candidate Sourcing) – Examining changes taking place with professional networking sites, and what are the other options available for finding candidates easier and faster.
- Eric Jaquith, 5X SourceCon Speaker, Elite Sourcer, Director of Operations, Artech
- Megan Cohen, Sr. Director of Talent Acquisition for AECOM – The AECOM Talent Acquisition Transformation Story via Process, System, People Transformation
- Katrina Kibben, Founder and Principle Consultant of Three Ears Marketing – Building Recruitment Marketing Personas
- Anna Forsberg – Talent Acquisition Manager City and County of Denver – How They Reduced Time-To-Fill by 50%
- Amy Jewell – Talent Acquisition Onboarding Manager for the City and County of Denver – How to Build the Red-Carpet Experience
- Sheri Miller, Senior Vice President of SkillSurvey – Identifying the Soft Skills that Power Organizations
- Tony Bengtson, – Coors Corporate Gold Supplier Award Winner, Founder and President of the Colorado Talent Recruitment Network / Precision Recruiting, Inc. – Will Share His Proven Talent Acquisition Advisor Approach with Candidates and Hiring Managers
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To join our group just go to our CTRN LinkedIn Group. This will allow you to get periodic email updates and participate in discussions with talent acquisition professionals across the Colorado Front Range.
Founded in 1992, Colorado Talent Recruitment Network (CTRN) is a non-profit professional association dedicated to improving the skills of Colorado's talent acquisition professionals. Tony Bengtson, SPHR started and manages this organization as his way of giving back to the Colorado talent acquisition community that has served him well in his career. His full time job is running his award winning full service recruiting business, Precision Recruiting, Inc. (www.pri.jobs) that he started back in 1997.
Our goal is to encourage integrity and professionalism of our members through cooperation, education and participation in various activities.
CTRN membership is open to anyone involved in talent acquisition for companies. Membership is granted to any industry and category of talent acquisition professional.
Our membership is primarily composed of corporate, 3rd party, and independent contract talent acquisition professionals. Our membership also includes Human Resources, workforce development and university career services professionals whose duties include talent acquisition and job placement.
Benefits of CTRN Membership:
- Notification of CTRN sponsored training events
- Ability to network with your peer professionals-some that have been in the talent acquisition industry for over 30 years
- Participation and networking through our CTRN LinkedIn group. The CTRN LinkedIn group is used for member communication related to talent acquisition and CTRN topics only. Talent acquisition questions and dilemmas are encouraged. Don't be shy about tapping this phenomenal resource of experienced talent acquisition professionals across the Colorado Front Range. Positive communication is encouraged.
- Keep up to date on the latest talent acquisition industry trends and information
Come and learn how to go from just filling a requirement to being an engaged partner with your hiring managers.


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We just got the good news last week:
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The University of Saskatchewan Students' Union is still facing criticism from students following the election protests in March. Three students are claiming that they were wrongly rejected for a position as a centre co-ordinator because of their affiliations with the student action.
Ashlynn Weisberg, a fourth-year women's and gender studies student, is one applicant who is taking issue with the USSU. In a statement shared with the Sheaf as well as on Facebook, Weisberg states that this is her "final standoff" with the union and that she will not return to the Women's Centre in the following year.
She explains that, while she appreciates all the student volunteers in the centres, she will "refuse to answer" to the USSU administration any longer, saying that they do not respect the safety of those students.
Weisberg says that she is unsatisfied that the USSU did not acknowledge that approximately 10 students wrote letters on her behalf to reconsider her for the position and that the hiring committee did not appeal their decision following the support for her. The statement posted on Weisberg's Facebook page included their arguments.
"As select representatives of our Women's Centre, we urge you to reconsider the decision to hire a lesser qualified candidate over senior applicants with greater levels of experience, both internally and externally… We argue that our voices and our understanding of our own community exceeds that of the USSU hiring committee… We urge you to follow your own mission statement and represent us in the way we see fit."
The USSU has not yet announced who the incoming co-ordinators are; although, some students believe they have found out their identities through informal methods. However, the Sheaf was unable to confirm which students were selected for the positions as co-ordinators and whether or not those students participated in the protests.
When contacted to respond to the claims, Jason Kovitch, the business and services manager of the USSU, explained the difficulty in choosing students for the positions.
"Because of privacy issues, the USSU will not discuss the specifics of any individual hiring. One of the hardest things the hiring committee has to do is tell the people who are passionate about the centres that they were not chosen for the position. However, we are extremely pleased and excited about the incoming coordinators, and we are confident that they are going to do a fantastic job in the coming years," Kovitch said, in an email to the Sheaf.
Kovitch said that the hiring committee consists of several representatives including the co-ordinator of the centre, an executive member of the union and one or two staff members knowledgeable about the student centres. He also reports that everyone who applied was interviewed.
On April 6, Weisberg received an email from Kovitch notifying her that she was not selected for the position. After her supporters emailed the union asking them to appeal their decision, Weisberg followed up with both Kovitch and Caroline Cottrell, the general manager of the USSU, to ask for a second interview.
Weisberg explains that the request was not for selfish reasons but because she felt responsible to the students who had vouched for her. She says that Cottrell responded to her email the following day with a statement that the hiring committee made their decision based on due process.
Two other students have also echoed Weisberg's claims that the protests precluded them from the Pride Centre co-ordinator position. Thomas Gendzwill is a third-year women's and gender studies student who applied for the Pride Centre position and received a rejection email on April 4. However, the third student was not willing to comment at this time.
Despite her grievances with the USSU, Weisberg expresses a heartfelt sentiment about her decision.
"This is one of the most difficult decisions I have ever had to make, and the thought of leaving my centre has completely broken me… Please know that the centres were more than just spaces for me — they are a piece of my heart," Weisberg wrote on Facebook. "I will continue to fight for justice, and I will continue to fight for the centres. I just cannot be physically present in them any longer."
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With the year winding down in a couple weeks, Barnes & Noble has just announced their 15 best books of the 2018 and you know we want in! Here is the list of these amazing books plus their Amazon synopsis!
1. An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy's time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy's conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together.
This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward—with hope and pain—into the future.
2. Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo,' Zora Neale Hurston
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In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States.
In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjo's past—memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War.
Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjo's unique vernacular, and written from Hurston's perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the twentieth-century, Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.
3. Becoming, Michelle Obama
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare.
In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.
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If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong.
When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself.
With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. Make no mistake: these stories are very, very funny–it's a book that can make you laugh 'til you snort, the way only family can. Sedaris's powers of observation have never been sharper, and his ability to shock readers into laughter unparalleled. But much of the comedy here is born out of that vertiginous moment when your own body betrays you and you realize that the story of your life is made up of more past than future.
This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk and love a good tumor joke. Calypso is simultaneously Sedaris's darkest and warmest book yet–and it just might be his very best.
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child–not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power–the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.
Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.
But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.
With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world.
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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.
7. Fire & Blood, George R. R. Martin
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Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen—the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria—took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.
What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why was it so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What were Maegor the Cruel's worst crimes? What was it like in Westeros when dragons ruled the skies? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley. Readers have glimpsed small parts of this narrative in such volumes as The World of Ice & Fire, but now, for the first time, the full tapestry of Targaryen history is revealed.
With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire & Blood is the the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.
8. Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be, Rachel Hollis
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As the founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Rachel Hollis developed an immense online community by sharing tips for better living while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own life. Now, in this challenging and inspiring new book, Rachel exposes the twenty lies and misconceptions that too often hold us back from living joyfully and productively, lies we've told ourselves so often we don't even hear them anymore.
With painful honesty and fearless humor, Rachel unpacks and examines the falsehoods that once left her feeling overwhelmed and unworthy, and reveals the specific practical strategies that helped her move past them. In the process, she encourages, entertains, and even kicks a little butt, all to convince you to do whatever it takes to get real and become the joyous, confident woman you were meant to be.
With unflinching faith and rock-hard tenacity, Girl, Wash Your Face shows you how to live with passion and hustle–and how to give yourself grace without giving up.
9. Leadership: In Turbulent Times, Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader?
In Leadership, Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights)—to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entries into public life, we encounter them at a time when their paths were filled with confusion, fear, and hope.
Leadership tells the story of how they all collided with dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to shatter forever their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged fitted to confront the contours and dilemmas of their times.
No common pattern describes the trajectory of leadership. Although set apart in background, abilities, and temperament, these men shared a fierce ambition and a deep-seated resilience that enabled them to surmount uncommon hardships. At their best, all four were guided by a sense of moral purpose. At moments of great challenge, they were able to summon their talents to enlarge the opportunities and lives of others.
This seminal work provides an accessible and essential road map for aspiring and established leaders in every field. In today's polarized world, these stories of authentic leadership in times of apprehension and fracture take on a singular urgency.
10. The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah
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Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier.
Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents' passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. She is desperate for a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown.
At first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. In a wild, remote corner of the state, they find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. The long, sunlit days and the generosity of the locals make up for the Allbrights' lack of preparation and dwindling resources.
But as winter approaches and darkness descends on Alaska, Ernt's fragile mental state deteriorates and the family begins to fracture. Soon the perils outside pale in comparison to threats from within. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother learn the terrible truth: they are on their own. In the wild, there is no one to save them but themselves.
In this unforgettable portrait of human frailty and resilience, Kristin Hannah reveals the indomitable character of the modern American pioneer and the spirit of a vanishing Alaska―a place of incomparable beauty and danger. The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, the fight for survival, and the wildness that lives in both man and nature.
11. The President is Missing, Bill Clinton and James Patterson
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The President Is Missing confronts a threat so huge that it jeopardizes not just Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall Street, but all of America. Uncertainty and fear grip the nation. There are whispers of cyberterror and espionage and a traitor in the Cabinet. Even the President himself becomes a suspect, and then he disappears from public view . . .
Set over the course of three days, The President Is Missing sheds a stunning light upon the inner workings and vulnerabilities of our nation. Filled with information that only a former Commander-in-Chief could know, this is the most authentic, terrifying novel to come along in many years.
12. The Reckoning, John Grisham
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Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi's favorite son—a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, and committed a shocking crime. Pete's only statement about it—to the sheriff, to his lawyers, to the judge, to the jury, and to his family—was: "I have nothing to say." He was not afraid of death and was willing to take his motive to the grave.
In a major novel unlike anything he has written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey, from the Jim Crow South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II; from an insane asylum filled with secrets to the Clanton courtroom where Pete's defense attorney tries desperately to save him.
Reminiscent of the finest tradition of Southern Gothic storytelling, The Reckoning would not be complete without Grisham's signature layers of legal suspense, and he delivers on every page.
13. The Woman in the Window, A.J. Finn
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For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade's most anticipated debuts, to be published in thirty-six languages around the world and already in development as a major film from Fox: a twisty, powerful Hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house.
It isn't paranoia if it's really happening . . .
Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors.
Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble—and its shocking secrets are laid bare.
What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems.
14. There There, Tommy Orange
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Tommy Orange's "groundbreaking, extraordinary" (The New York Times) There There is the "brilliant, propulsive" (People Magazine) story of twelve unforgettable characters, Urban Indians living in Oakland, California, who converge and collide on one fateful day. It's "the year's most galvanizing debut novel" (Entertainment Weekly).
As we learn the reasons that each person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow—some generous, some fearful, some joyful, some violent—momentum builds toward a shocking yet inevitable conclusion that changes everything. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle's death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle's memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and will to perform in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and loss.
There There is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. It's "masterful . . . white-hot . . . devastating" (The Washington Post) at the same time as it is fierce, funny, suspenseful, thoroughly modern, and impossible to put down. Here is a voice we have never heard—a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. Tommy Orange has written a stunning novel that grapples with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and profound spirituality, and with a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide. This is the book that everyone is talking about right now, and it's destined to be a classic.
15. Unsheltered, Barbara Kingsolver
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The New York Times bestselling author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, and The Poisonwood Bible and recipient of numerous literary awards—including the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Orange Prize—returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval.
How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law and an exasperating, free-spirited daughter. When the family's one success story, an Ivy-educated son, is uprooted by tragedy he seems likely to join them, with dark complications of his own.
In another time, a troubled husband and public servant asks, How can a man tell the truth, and be reviled for it? A science teacher with a passion for honest investigation, Thatcher Greenwood finds himself under siege: his employer forbids him to speak of the exciting work just published by Charles Darwin. His young bride and social-climbing mother-in-law bristle at the risk of scandal, and dismiss his worries that their elegant house is unsound. In a village ostensibly founded as a benevolent Utopia, Thatcher wants only to honor his duties, but his friendships with a woman scientist and a renegade newspaper editor threaten to draw him into a vendetta with the town's powerful men.
Unsheltered is the compulsively readable story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum in Vineland, New Jersey, navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it. With history as their tantalizing canvas, these characters paint a startlingly relevant portrait of life in precarious times when the foundations of the past have failed to prepare us for the future.
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Please, Mr. President: Save our libraryAugust 20, 2009 at 6:44 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
A story about the William Leonard Public Library closure appeared in Wednesday's Chicago Sun Times
From the outside, it's an uninspiring little building made of pink and gray cinder block, and surrounded by a few wilting shrubs.
But within its walls, children dream of pharaohs and pyramids, boy wizards and Quidditch, and a mischievous little girl named Matilda who once put glue inside her daddy's hat.
On Tuesday, another little girl made a direct plea to President Obama to help keep the doors open at the cash-strapped William Leonard Public Library in Robbins.
"Please help us," said Shawna Lewis, 8, standing in front of the library. "I read and write and use the computer here every day. This is an emergency. I know you are very busy, but please don't let our library in Robbins, Illinois, close. Bail us out."
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Family Tanagers (Thraupidae)
Least Concern
Guira Tanager (Hemithraupis guira)
French: Tangara guira German: Guiratangare Spanish: Tangara guirá
Motacilla Guira
Linnaeus, 1766,
Pernambuco, Brazil.
This species and H. ruficapilla, which are closer to each other than either is to H. flavicollis, hybridize to some degree in limited zone of contact in SE Brazil, but do not intergrade; their levels of genetic divergence are relatively low but consistent with species rank#R. Eight subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution
H. g. nigrigula
(Boddaert, 1783) – locally Venezuela (E of Andes) E to the Guianas and NE Brazil N of R Amazon.
H. g. roraimae
(Hellmayr, 1910) – Cerro Roraima region of Venezuela and Guyana.
H. g. guirina
(P. L. Sclater, 1856) – Colombia in Cauca Valley (Antioquia S to Valle, once on Pacific slope in Valle), Magdalena Valley and E Andes (W slope from Santander S to Huila, and E slope in at least Boyacá and Cundinamarca and probably S to Caquetá), also Ecuador (W of Andes) and NW Peru (NW Tumbes).
H. g. huambina
Stolzmann, 1926 – S Colombia (Nariño), E Ecuador, E Peru and W Brazil (E to R Madeira).
H. g. boliviana
J. T. Zimmer, 1947 – E Bolivia, NW Argentina; probably also Mato Grosso, in C Brazil.
H. g. amazonica
J. T. Zimmer, 1947 – C Brazil S of R Amazon (between R Madeira and R Tapajós).
H. g. guira
(Linnaeus, 1766) – EC Brazil from R Tocantins E to Ceará and S to Goiás and NW Bahia; also extreme NE Brazil from Paraíba to Alagoas.
H. g. fosteri
(Sharpe, 1905) – E Paraguay, NE Argentina (Misiones), and interior SE Brazil from Minas Gerais S to Rio Grande do Sul.
Descriptive notes
13 cm; 9·5–14 g. Rather thin-billed tanager; male resembles oriole (Icterus). Male nominate race has crown to nape olive-green, face and throat dark sooty-brown,... read more
Song may vary geographically, or individuals may sing several different songs. Song at dawn in N... read more
In Amazonia occurs in canopy of humid várzea and terra firme forest, as well as... read more
Food and feeding
Variety of arthropods, also occasionally small fruits. Observed to consume Miconia berries and seen to examine flower corollas for... read more
Reported as breeding in Sept and Oct in Paraguay. Nest a flimsy cup of plant fibres and lichen placed in high fork; eggs white, sprinkled... read more
Mainly resident. Some may withdraw seasonally from extreme S portions of range in Argentina and S... read more
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened. Widely distributed, but typically uncommon throughout most of range. Occurs in a large number of national parks and other protected areas; in... read more
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Written by larapiegeler
Innumerable places are dubbed 'a city of contrasts', but Warsaw lives the epithet in a superbly surreal and completely charming fashion. The cross-section provided by the sightseeing trip I took on the Vistula River on my first afternoon revealed ancient defensive architecture, glass-walled skyscrapers, Gothic church spires, grey, prefabricated apartment blocks, concealed gardens tumbling over high walls and quaint Medieval houses.
I checked into peaceful but central La Regina Hotel – arguably the city's best, but definitely an ideal balance of modernity and respectful restoration. Dinner on my first night was a reassuringly well-composed French-style affair, set in the courtyard garden, in honour of a Summer far warmer than any I imagined Central Europe to be capable of, but apparently typical of Poland.
Layer upon layer of history is peeled back as you pass through the streets; 85% of the city was levelled during World War II and many of the colourful Medieval buildings in the Old Town were reverently restored to their current joyous-looking selves less than fifty years ago. On the lower floors of the ones on the market square ('Rynek Starego Miasta' in Polish) you'll discover jewellers selling local amber set in silverwork, souvenir shops and cafes spilling out onto the cobblestones – the perfect place to while away an afternoon after a visit to the Royal Castle, just steps away, which filled the morning of day two for me. A fort was first built here in the 13th century and successive extensions and alterations include red brick Gothic, early Roman baroque and 18th century designs. The interior is filled with fantastic artefacts salvaged from the 1944 wreckage.
I enjoyed an unpretentiously delicious (and disconcertingly cheap) lunch at an umbrella-shaded table on the Plac Zamkowy beneath King Sigismund's Column; local food is definitely worth a try and the Restauracja Polska offers a good first sampling.
Even the most voracious cultural historian will find days' worth of diversions here; there's surprising intensity to the shadows of the War that still linger around Warsaw's memorials, such as the austere statue that marks the place of the Warsaw Ghetto, the mass graves in the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, attended by groups of silent, thoughtful visitors. The Royal Route, south of the city centre (which is itself home to striking social realist architecture worth seeing), skirts buildings of note such as the imposing, classicist Presidential Palace and University, and others - the Lazienki and Wilanow palaces and the Opera House, to name a few – are scattered around the middle of the city.
I paid a brief visit to the vast Stadion Dziesieciolecia (a ten-minute taxi ride away). It was created in the 1950s as an Olympic stadium but deserted in the 80s following structural problems. It has since been gradually overrun with immense numbers of market stall traders, selling clothes, curiosities, accessories, souvenirs, and household bargains – and some other, more questionable items – and the sheer scale of the place is incredible. It's best avoided at night, though, and not just because it's supposedly haunted! Better head back towards the river and enjoy dinner on the terrace at the famous, maritime-themed Boathouse.
The countryside surrounding Warsaw is breathtaking - often underrated and relatively unspoiled – and on my day three, I found the slow and very warm bus ride to Zelazowa Wola village worth the effort for the views of rural Mazovia. This little place is the location of the house in which Chopin was born, now a museum devoted to him. It's closed on Mondays but holds concerts every Sunday afternoon in Summer. This area is one of rich heritage, from which the Mazurka folk dance emerged, and it's full of ideal spots to picnic and soak up the atmosphere.
Departed from London By Plane to Warsaw £117
Two nights' B&B and one dinner at Le Regina £302
Boat trip £3.50
Lunch on Plac Zamkowy £8
Dodgy market shopping budget £20
Dinner at The Boathouse £47
Return bus ticket to Zelazowa Wola £5.40
Sunday afternoon Chopin £7
Picnic lunch £5
Taxi rides £40
(All costs are given per person, based on two sharing.)
Hi Laura,
Thanks for the info and blog on Poland. I'm going there for 12 days in August, just 3 days in Warsaw, travelling to other cities after that.
Not sure what time of year/month you were there, what was the weather like? Did most people you met speak English?


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Although it has yet to reach the big screen, the much-awaited new Star Wars movie yet again set the Internet alight this week as the latest trailer was released to the public. According to data from Tubular, the 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer (Official)' has generated 83.3 million views on YouTube, and Facebook in just six days – and that's just for authorized Star Wars channels and pages! If you include uploads from channels like MovieClips or JoBlo Movie Trailers, as well as user-generated reaction footage, and the many hundreds of re-uploads of the trailer, you are looking at a figure closer to 130 million views across the major social video platforms.
Before we take a deeper dive into the stats, for those who haven't seen it, here's the latest 2:35 minute teaser for one of the most anticipated new releases of recent years:
"The Force Awakens": Video Views and Engagement
Using Tubular data, we took a look at the views and engagements for the new official trailer across all authorized Star Wars channels such as Star Wars UK, Star Wars Brasil, and of course the main Star Wars channel itself.
Since November 2014, when the first teaser was released online, official trailers, teasers, and other snippets for 'The Force Awakens' have generated over 223 million views on the main 'Star Wars' pages on Facebook and YouTube. The most watched so far is 'Official Teaser #2' which has generated 67M views on YouTube, and 14.7M views on Facebook, but the latest full-length trailer looks on course to beat those figures over the next few weeks.
LucasFilm has confirmed that the new trailer generated 112M views in just 24 hours, but that included all content relating to the teaser, including reaction videos. To bring the stats right up to date, Tubular states that since the 19th of October, official uploads of the new trailer (which you can see below) have garnered 83.3M views across Facebook and YouTube, while all uploads relating to the new JJ Abrams movie generated around 129M views.
In terms of views for the official release, YouTube currently has twice the amount of Facebook, which could be attributed to at least 2 different reasons. Firstly, it's the YouTube link and video embed that's popping up all over blog posts and news sites, and each view from the embed still counts towards the view quota on YouTube. Secondly, as with all major movie studios these days, there is likely to have been at least some paid promotion behind the launch in order to drive views and awareness to the video.
In terms of engagement, the new trailer has generated over 852K likes, comments, and shares on YouTube (the second highest of all the movies trailers and teasers released to date). However, despite a lower percentage of views, and with less uploaded content, engagement for the official Facebook native uploads has almost caught up with YouTube. It could actually be potentially much, much higher than YouTube as secondary sharing of the videos aren't accounted for in the data.
When it comes to total uploads, official, and fan-generated, Facebook almost matches YouTube in terms of engagement, albeit with considerably less video uploads and views.
Social Video and Movies: A Vital Part of Marketing & Promotion
According to a recent study by Google, 69% of young adults turn to YouTube to watch trailers before deciding which film to watch at the movie theater. A staggering 81% of all moviegoers questioned will watch a trailer on YouTube over another platform, confirming that the online video platform plays a major role in the decision-making process.
Uploading a trailer or teaser to YouTube, and often backing that publication with a paid or cross promotional campaign, is standard for most of the big movie studios now. YouTube also offers a range of tracking metrics, and interactive features (like cards, and the new shopping ads) to guide the consumer off-site to buy tickets through a third-party like Fandango, or back to the official website where they can find out more information about the film they are interested in seeing.
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' opens in movie theaters on December 18th 2015, and pre-ticket sales have already been smashing box-office records in the US and the UK. But despite the many teasers issued by the movie studio, none have given too much of the plot away, driving fans into a frenzy of the latest instalment of the world's biggest space film franchise.


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Ted Corbitt, who began running as a child on his father's cotton farm in South Carolina and virtually never stopped, becoming a pioneer of ultramarathon running in the United States, died Wednesday in Houston. He was 88 and lived in Manhattan.
His death, at a hospital, was caused by respiratory complications, his son, Gary, said. In recent years, Corbitt was found to have prostate cancer and colon cancer, his son said.
When Corbitt was 55, bronchial asthma ended his elite running career but not his participation in ultramarathons. At 81, he walked 240 miles in a six-day race, with interludes for sleep. The next year, in the same race, he walked 303 miles.
In 1993, the year before he died, Fred Lebow, the founder of the New York City Marathon, called Corbitt "the father of American distance running."
By his own count, Corbitt ran 199 marathons and ultramarathons, which are typically races of 50 or 100 miles or 24 hours. (Marathons are 26 miles 385 yards.) He won 30 of those races and never dropped out of one until he was 75, he said. He trained by running as many as 200 miles a week. In his heyday, Corbitt shy and slight at 5 feet 7 inches and 130 pounds was a United States marathon champion and a member of the United States team at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, where he finished a disappointing 44th in the marathon.
At various times, Corbitt held American records in the marathon, the 100-mile run and the 25-, 40- and 50-kilometer events. He also won national American Athletic Union championships in several distance running events. His fastest time in a marathon was 2 hours 26 minutes 44 seconds.
In 1957, Corbitt helped found the Road Runners Club of America; he was later its president. He established guidelines to measure courses accurately for the thousands of nationally certified races. In 1958, he was a co-founder and the first president of the New York Road Runners Club. He was among the first five athletes inducted into the National Distance Running Hall of Fame in Utica, N.Y., in 1998.
Theodore Corbitt was born Jan. 31, 1919, in Dunbarton, S.C. "On the farm, I ran to the store, to the mailbox and to school," he told Trishul Cherns in a 1988 interview that appears on the Web site UltraRunning Online.
After moving to Cincinnati, he ran competitively in high school and at the University of Cincinnati in half-mile, one-mile and two-mile events. As a young black athlete, he also encountered racial barriers.
"The color line was drawn even in some of the meets in Cincinnati, so I could not participate in them," he said in the 1988 interview. "In the Midwest, places like Illinois and Indiana, there were track meets, but I was a little reluctant to take part in them because I did not know what type of reception I would get and what problems I would have getting a place to stay and getting something to eat."
After graduating from Cincinnati with a bachelor's degree in education and serving in the Army in World War II, Corbitt moved to New York, where, as a night student, he earned a master's in physical therapy at New York University in 1950. He ran his first marathon, in Boston, in 1951.
In 1959, as the president of the New York Road Runners Club, Corbitt organized the first ultramarathon event in the United States, a 30-mile course through the Bronx and Queens and into Westchester County, said Gail Waesche Kislevitz, a coordinator for the New York Road Runners Foundation. Corbitt won that race, called the Cherry Tree, a forerunner of the New York City Marathon, and went on to organize many more.
Corbitt championed running for exercise long before it became popular in the United States. He never smoked, he said, and had only one drink in his life, a can of beer while in the Army.
His training regimens were legendary. For a time, he ran 200 miles or more a week, often in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx and Prospect Park in Brooklyn. He once ran the marathon distance every day for a month. He often ran a 31-mile loop around Manhattan in about 3:45. Sometimes he did two loops. He also trained with weights.
Corbitt was the chief physical therapist at the International Center for the Disabled on East 24th Street in Manhattan. Until 1973, he ran to work every day, sometimes making a 20- to 30-mile detour through Westchester.
He also taught physical therapy at Columbia and N.Y.U., wrote widely on athletics and physical therapy, and officiated at races. On at least one occasion, he ran connected to electrodes to study the effects of running on the body.
He retired from his job in 1993 but remained a full-time physical therapist into his 80s. His wife of 42 years, the former Ruth Butler, died in 1989. His son, Gary, of Jacksonville, Fla., is his only immediate survivor.
"The marathon demands patience and a willingness to stay with it," Corbitt was quoted as saying in a 1998 book by Ms. Kislevitz, "First Marathons: Personal Encounters With the 26.2-Mile Monster." "You must be willing to suffer and keep on suffering. Running is something you just do. You don't need a goal. You don't need a race. You don't need the hype of a so-called fitness craze. All you need is a cheap pair of shoes and some time. The rest will follow."


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Todd pick up these Divine confections in Toronto at that very special nut free bakery www.thecupcakeshoppe.ca amazing work , this is butter creme icing , with vanilla cupcake , they got the hot pink just right , I need to know just how much work goes into these, when Todd picked them up they asked him where they were going , to put them on the floor of his car , to get them into a fridge asap they wanted these babies properly cared for .
Well worth the effort and cost , they will be eaten today by Sophie and her little friends when we go to the movies to see Wall-E tonight , happy weekend all .
Today is my sweet mason's birthday she is turning 10 today , wow , double digits.