![]() The Newport site should rattle the Welsh Government in its aspiration to create the world’s first sustainable nation.Īndrew Blum set himself the task of writing about the web behind the Web. That daily quintillion of data, those six billion photos on Facebook, have a cost. Currently they consume two percent of the world’s energy supply, rising by twelve percent a year. ![]() Next Generation is Europe’s leading provider of ‘premium carrier-neutral co-location data centres.’ Andrew Blum in Tubes does not get to Newport but he does get to a Google data centre, or colloquially ‘a server farm’, on Oregon’s mighty Columbia River. The company is a beneficiary of the great Lucky Goldstar project, signed off in 1996 by then Secretary of State William Hague, which never came about. ![]() Next Generation Data is a stone’s throw from Newport’s Tredegar House. ![]() Adam Sommerset reviews Tubes, Andrew Blum’s brilliant journalistic take on ‘the web behind the Web’ and how the internet really works. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Whether it's a father's unspeakable grief over his son who was at the wrong place at the wrong time, a mentor who tries to channel his rage by organizing, or a friend and neighbor who finds strength in faith, the lives lost on that day and the lives left behind become, in Younge's hands, impossible to ignore, or to forget. Far from a dry account of gun policy in the United States or a polemic about the dangers of gun violence, the book is a gripping chronicle of an ordinary but deadly day in American life, and a series of character portraits of young people taken from us far too soon and those they left behind. ![]() From Jaiden Dixon (9), shot point-blank by his mother's ex-boyfriend on his doorstep in Ohio, to Pedro Dado Cortez (16), shot by an enemy gang on a street corner in California, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the powerful human stories behind the statistics. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. ![]() "On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation & Knowledge: Asks and answers questions and makes comments about print materials. ![]() Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation & Knowledge: Shows interest in shared reading experiences and looking at books independently. Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversation, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.Īpproaches to Learning/Persistence & Attentiveness: Maintains interest in a project or activity until completed. Social and Emotional/Interpersonal Relationships/7.1: Explain why communication is essential in human relationships and identify people from whom children can learn how to communicate. ![]() Literature/ RL.PK.MA.9: With promoting and support, make connections between a story or poem and one’s own experiences. ![]() Literature/ RL.PK.MA.1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about a story or a poem read aloud. Speaking and Listening/ SL.PK.MA.6: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings and ideas. Speaking and Listening/ SL.PK.MA.1a: Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group. ![]() ![]() ![]() But honestly? Unless Goodreads personally contacts me and says there is a problem with my updates, please don't go around telling me how I should read a book or hint at what I should or shouldn't post. If you feel like my status updates are offensive and promote negativity, then easiest thing would be to ignore. I don't know if it was supposed to make the characters more primal or real, but it rubbed me the wrong way.ģ. ![]() For example, I would've preferred the characters to smell rather than scent, and I think I must be one of the few who didn't like the lion references. I think my main issue with this book was the wording. This doesn't mean it's a personal attack on the author.Ģ. That being said though, Mine didn't work for me, and after finishing Remy, it didn't work for me either (You can read about my problems with Mine here). Evans at a signing a while back and she is one of the sweetest authors you will ever meet. Evans and me in the future I won't be investing my time in this series anymore since 2/3 books were a miss.īefore I start, let me clarify a few things:ġ. ![]() It would have been better for me to DNF this, but I held out anyway. ![]() ![]() Caldecott Medalist Goade (who is Tlingit) contributes enchantingly expansive, star-stippled landscapes done in watercolor and mixed media, with a semi-translucent ribbon of stars tracing the connection between “all living things.” A tender celebration of parenthood that will resonate with Native and non-Native readers alike. When the child arrives, she relays how these items will keep the baby connected to their Native identity. ![]() “I loved you before I met you./ Before I held you in my arms,/ I sang you down from the stars,” begins Spillett-Sumner’s gentle tale, which shares, per an author’s note, “the traditional understanding of my Nation, the Inniniwak, and many other Indigenous peoples globally: that babies choose their parents.” As an Indigenous woman sings to the sky, a shooting star leads her to a white eagle feather, beginning her journey to create a “sacred medicine bundle” for her unborn child that’s filled with items from nature-a feather, sage and cedar, a “star blanket,” and a smooth stone from the river. A white feather, cedar and sage, a stone from the river. As she waits for the arrival of her new baby, a mother-to-be gathers gifts to create a sacred bundle. ![]() ![]() ![]() A unique baby book sings with Native Cultural detail, while striking a universal chord in its celebration of the blossoming of love that comes with expecting and welcoming a new baby with art by bestselling illustrator Michaela Goade. ![]() ![]() This book can be read as a catalogue of good practices in which you can pick and choose those that suit you best. By projecting the moment when we stand on the podium, we find it easier to start work immediately! Chris Bailey, The Productivity Project: Proven Ways to Become More Awesome. Rita Emmett, the author of The Procrastinator’s Handbook, summed this up well in what she labeled Emmett’s law: The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself. Indeed, we prefer immediate rewards rather than those in the longer term. The Productivity Project Quotes Showing 1-30 of 78. For example, while launching into an important activity, projecting ourselves in the future by visualizing the moment when we have achieved it: this minimizes the procrastination temptations and helps our brain make the right choices. Others come from research in neurosciences and are more surprising. Some are already known, such as the fact of setting ourselves at the beginning of the day three high-priority tasks to complete. The author essentially presents the practices that helped him most. ![]() On a rather congenial and humorous tone, he also shares his failures and disappointments the lessons he draws from them can probably make us gain time, for example by not starting our day at 5 in the morning when we are definitely not an early riser! This book stems from a unique idea: the author tested himself, during one year, the most recommended productivity methods. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everitt has taken some of the household names of history-Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Cleopatra-whom few know the full truth about, and turned them into flesh-and-blood human beings.Īt a time when many consider America an empire, this stunning portrait of the greatest emperor who ever lived makes for enlightening and engrossing reading. The world that made Augustus-and that he himself later remade-was driven by intrigue, sex, ceremony, violence, scandal, and naked ambition. Augustus's rise to power began with the assassination of his great-uncle and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, and culminated in the titanic duel with Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Here, Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of Cicero, gives a spellbinding and intimate account of his illustrious subject.Īugustus began his career as an inexperienced teenager plucked from his studies to take center stage in the drama of Roman politics, assisted by two school friends, Agrippa and Maecenas. Yet, despite Augustus's accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. ![]() ![]() ![]() Liz Lighty has always believed she’s too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. The original creator of this tag is Reviews From The Stacks! ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ♕ ![]() I cannot wait to read these books~įirst up I will show you guys a picture of my stack and after that I will show the book covers + blurb (for the Dutch-Dutch books I translated the blurb for you, for the English>Dutch translated books or English books I picked the original blurb). Three of the four books are on my TBR (yes, we are back to TBRs again) and one is a book I already read (Una LaMarche). So in the end I went with names, author names to be specific. I did find plenty of I’s so I could have made the word, but then it would be in Dutch. ![]() N’s are fairly OK to find, but J, U, E? Not easy! I was planning on doing titles, but then I found out that I don’t have any E’s. ![]() While I get plenty of library books and normal books in my life, it wasn’t an easy month to find the letters. Welcome all to a new Spell the Month in Books post! June is here and it took me a bit but I finally have books to spell the word June! ![]() ![]() ![]() Religious scholar Martin Palmer and Chinese divination expert Man-Ho Kwok discuss the Kuan Yin myths and stories, and Jay Ramsay provides fresh translations of 100 Kuan Yin poems that function both as literature and divination tools. Kp boken The Promise of Kuan Yin av Martin Palmer, Jay Ramsay, Man-Ho Kwok (ISBN 9781642970210) hos. Originally published as Kuan Yin by Harper Collins in 1995 (and republished as The Kuan Yin Chronicles by Hampton Roads in 2009), this seminal work explores the origins and evolution of the goddess in ancient China, early Buddhism, Taoism, and shamanism. Until relatively recently, she was barely known in the West, and few studies had been made of her. Shambhala, 1988) Sandy Boucher, Discovering Kwan Yin, Buddhist Goddess of Compassion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999) Martin Palmer, Jay Ramsay, and Man-Ho Kwok. She is the living expression of compassion whose gentle face and elegant figure form the center of devotion in most Chinese homes and workplaces. Kuan Yin is the most ubiquitous Chinese deity-and the most loved. He is an expert on Chinese philosophy and culture and the author of. Go to any city in China and open your eyes. Martin Palmer is the director of ICOREC the consultancy on religion, education and culture. Walk through the downtown streets, look in a shop window. ![]() Walk down the streets of Chinatown in any American or western European city and look around. The best and most comprehensive book on the most important and best-loved Chinese goddess. ![]() ![]() He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.īest known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. ![]() Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.Īn acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. ![]() Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. ![]() |