Being a mom may be an extraordinary and transformative experience. But regularly you could struggle with a lack of identification, and even postpartum depression, after having a toddler.
You could feel like who you were before the baby arrived, is long gone. The individual you were, is swallowed up via being a mother.
When recently analyzing this submit on @heymamaco it definitely resonated with what I felt when I had my twins Iggy and Chloe:
"some days and nights still sense so empty. Like who you had been is long gone. The existence you had is long past. And what your identity become, has absolutely changed.”
Does this ring a bell with you? The shifts in the way you feel after becoming a mom isn’t pretty much changes in your emotions. Your frame has simply been thru the wringer - giving delivery isn't any walk inside the park!
And you grow to be a feeding device for a squalling, balling entity, that is now governing your every waking moment. And even as yes, your new identification as a ‘mom’ can be empowering, it may additionally be overpowering.
In particular on the ones activities whilst you’ve been up all night time, and also you stare at your tired and tired reflection within the replicate. You ask your self in the ones moments when you hit breaking point: ‘Who am I?’ And that loss of identity after having a toddler could be very, very real.
The changes You revel in As a brand new mom
In the post on @heymamaco, the mom stocks:
“After a difficult night time the night time before and inside the center of a tough morning. I used to be at my breaking point, crying while feeding and texting Chase announcing, “i'm able to’t try this.” due to the fact on the time I didn’t want to.
"I appeared lower back at this picture after taking it, though, and noticed 'Mama' written on my blouse. And the chain of my necklace tucked beneath my Mama shirt that says 'Eli' on the pendant. And that i remembered that I no longer best CAN do it, however that i'm doing it. And will hold to do it.”
She is going on to mention this is what makes motherhood powerful. How you control to just preserve on rallying while you are to your darkest moments. Because this tiny being is absolutely and absolutely depending on you. They may be defenseless in the international. And you need to rally whether you need to or no longer.
I can by no means forget about the primary issue the nurse at the clinic informed me the second I woke up from my first nap after surgical operation.
In preference to telling me to relaxation. She ordered: “you acquire to pump each three hours. In case you don't, your milk won't are available.” I notion, ‘For God’s sake, I simply had principal surgical operation!’ Then, the next thing she said became, “you need to placed your toddlers to nurse. In any other case, they will get used to bottles and gained’t latch on.” My goodness, I may want to barely get them to ‘latch on’ directly to me, i was so susceptible!
It made me experience like I just couldn’t do it.
While i was struggling with retaining tremendous, there had been two things that have been absolutely key.
I would always ensure i was very excited to be with my twins during the day. Even if I hadn’t had numerous sleep the night before. I simply ‘switched off’ the a part of feelings wherein I ‘felt worn-out.’ but, I do believe this caused a sure degree of postpartum despair. So from my enjoy, this could not be a very good idea.
In hindsight, I suppose it’s higher to specific your exhaustion! Now, when you have the potential to maintain on rallying while you sense you're in a dark moment, it may assist you overcome that overwhelm.
The second factor that was key turned into I didn’t have the? Worry to invite for assist.
There is a pronouncing: ‘It takes a village to raise a toddler.’ i was fortunate sufficient to have helpers when it came to looking after my twins in the ones early months. My night nurse helped me three nights per week. And that became my double shift nanny.
I definitely do now not assume it's humanly possible to look after twins with no assist in any respect. I realize i was very fortunate. So lots of you new moms are coping with this all on your personal. And you’re doing an excellent activity. Please remark and proportion your memories with our community and also you are not by myself.
What stuns me, after I appearance lower back, is despite all that help. It became nonetheless handiest masking eighty hours a week. Newborns are 24/7. That’s 168 hours per week. I nonetheless had 88 hours left to handle my twins on - my very own! I don’t have any siblings, and my mother become in Hong Kong. And my nanny have become greater like my sister. I had twins. She turned into my handiest answer. And i have no shame on sharing the truth that i found my twins a ‘second mom.’
The secret is to learn and apprehend, how to turn what is basically the very difficult paintings of looking after a newborn right into a passion. How do you exchange that 168-hour operating week right into a time of care and entertainment? And that during itself isn’t smooth.
Matrescence: what is It?
Seems, there may be a term for this transitional period: matrescence.
It sounds very just like ‘early life.’ And there’s a reason for that. Coined by means of Dana Louise Raphael, she determined every person knows that "transferring from being a toddler to a youngster is hard." There are temper swings, and changes for your body. Teenagers sense burdened and it’s a conventional fact being a teenager isn’t a laugh. But while you are transitioning to being a mom, you’re expected to be thankful, glad, and practically beatific as you include your new child.
But in actual truth, there are loads of comparable adjustments you experience to those you go through in adolescence. You're striving to understand and embrace your new identification, and it’s very hard.
Your break up persona As a brand new mother
When you come to be a mom, there are actual chemical changes that take place that can cause your emotions of bewilderment. Your mind creates chemical signals that make your infant the focal point of your existence. But guess what? You don’t just forget about the individual you had been earlier than you became a mother.
This will make you sense tense and doubtful approximately whether or not you can cope. Psychiatrist Elisabeth okübler-Ross, M.D., suggests there are five tiers of grief:
However, you don’t continually experience your grief in that order. And this is precisely what you're going via – you’re grieving your vintage ‘pre-baby existence.
The difference among Postpartum despair And The ‘toddler Blues’
In line with the journal of Midwifery & girls’s fitness, “as many as three of every 4 women will have short periods of temper swings, crying, or feeling cranky or restless in the course of the primary weeks after delivery.”
These reviews can be a lot worse if you are feeling worn-out or nerve-racking.
It’s usually called the ‘child blues,’ and could recede. Having the ‘toddler blues’ after giving start could be very commonplace. It usually starts in the week once you’ve given beginning and prevents by the time your child is around ten days antique.
A variety of these feelings are regular and are a end result of your body getting used to now not having your toddler inside you anymore.
You don’t need any remedy for the infant blues, however it could be helpful to speak to someone approximately how you’re feeling.
However, if these signs and symptoms persist, and also you cannot sleep, or you sense like you can't cope with your toddler, then you can be suffering from postpartum depression.
Signs and symptoms of PND can encompass:
*Bursting into tears for no obvious motive
*Feeling emotional and irrational
*Feeling irritable or touchy
*Feeling depressed or hectic
You have overwhelming feelings of unhappiness, hopelessness, guilt, or self-blame. And those can pass on for weeks or months once you’ve given beginning.
In step with The results of Pre and Postpartum melancholy on toddler conduct and psychological development, publish-natal melancholy influences between 5.2% and 13% of mothers in evolved countries and likely up to 20% of mothers in low and center-profits countries.
A way to understand when you have Postpartum depression Or anxiety
You could have postnatal melancholy when you have:
* lack of urge for food
* No self assurance
* emotions of agitation
* feelings of apathy
* Being sad or low
* troubles with dozing, or suffering to get returned to sleep after feeding your infant
* loss of amusement in existence in fashionable
* Guilt and blame on yourself
* considering or even making plans suicide
*difficulty concentrating and making selection
Now you can no longer feel all of those signs, or they are able to come on additional time. Or you may experience unhappy suddenly.
In a few instances, a few moms even sense like they can’t carry on. If you sense like this, it’s very crucial to tell a person. Don’t deal with these hard feelings alone.
You may call the countrywide Suicide Prevention Hotline on 800 273 8255.
Why Do you've got feelings Of lack of identity while you’ve Had A child?
As people, we're used to making our personal picks.
New mom’s tie formerly their experience of identification to a ramification of alternatives and values:
* Time to do what they need to do – pastimes, self-care
* Time with circle of relatives, friends, and partner
* price derived from operating existence
* Social life
* economic Independence
* sex appeal
That is now snatched away. You don’t experience sexy when you’ve no longer even had time to take a bath or brush your hair!
And meeting friends for brunch is off the time table as you’re generally too worn-out to make your personal breakfast at domestic never mind on the point of go away the house.
Something that has now emerge as a two-hour army operation just to get the proper matters together to get out the door.
What you can Do To address loss of identity And Postpartum despair issues After Having A toddler
Examine the positives –
Don’t consider having a child as a terrible issue.
Being spontaneous is honestly a element of the beyond. And you could’t be as carefree as you had been. However now you have become greater selfless, and greater expertise. In addition to patient! And these are wonderful attributes to have.
In the meantime, even as weekends away are not going to be occurring any time soon, organizing a coffee with a girlfriend IS possible. Take small steps closer to allowing your self a few freedom.
Here are a few matters you could do for yourself so you can sense whole again:
*provide yourself a break
*Don’t examine your self
*deliver your self a few ‘me’ time
*find antique friends and make new ones
*prevent beating yourself up…about not being exact sufficient
Please reach out to me at firstname.lastname@example.org when you have awesome guidelines for other new mamas. Do not forget, we're a network. Your participation approach the world to us.


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Inclusive Early Childhood Development - an Underestimated Component of Poverty Reduction
International Conference "Inclusive Early Childhood Development - an Underestimated Component of Poverty Reduction" (Bonn, 3.-4.February 2011)
Early child development plays a key role within the development potential of societies. It is a vital component which contributes towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty as well as to achieve the development goals in the area of health and education.
Aim of the conference was to show which significance early child development has for human development and what central role it plays for poverty reduction. Questions like “What impact does poverty have on human development and which strategies could avoid the negative consequences of it? Or how can children with disabilities who live in poverty be identified and supported as early as possible and, if available, be included in general early childhood programs?” were discussed throughout the conference. Furthermore the conferencel focused on how early child development could be more strengthened within the field of development cooperation.
The conference was organized and hosted by Disability and Development Cooperation (bezev), Caritas Germany international, Kindernothilfe and Kindermissionswerk “Die Sternsinger".
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Presentations of speakers
"The risks of poverty for child development" (Nora Sabani)
"Strategies and implementation of a Holistic Approach to ECD" (Nadica Janeva)
"The economic and social benefits of investing in early childhood development" (Emiliana Vega)
"Early child development in developing countries -
the role of nutrition and stimlation" (Sally Grantham McGregor)
"Early childhood development - Health, nutrition & stimulation" (Dr Pablos Stansbery)
"Kindergesundheit - Müttergesundheit" (Dr. Lisa Sous, only available in German)
"Consequences of poverty on early child health and development" (Dr. Bhoomikumar Jegannathan)
"Identification of child disabilities in low and middle income countries" (Carissa Gottlieb)
"Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) - an effective approach for poverty reduction & promotion of human development" (Chapal Khasnabis)
"Cheshire Homes Durban - improving the lives of children" (Sandy Padayachee)
"Early detection and early intervention"- challenges and solutions
in the framework of CBR programmes" (Roelie Wolting)
"Creating New Avenues For Early Inclusion" (Usha Ramakrishnan)
"Development of a national model for inclusive early education in Chile" (Patricia Araneda Castex)
"Kinder mit besonderem Förderbedarf unter 3 Jahren" (Marlies Mulder, only available in German)


Over the next 6 weeks Greg will be reading extracts from the new issue of 'Heavyweight'.
'Heavyweight' is an exclusive publication produced at Ella Road Adult Centre by students and staff for all Hamlet students, staff, volunteers, families and supporters to enjoy.
Ella Road were just about to publish the last two terms worth of material when the COVID-19 outbreak happened, but we thought it would be nice to share some of the stories, poems and horoscopes that were planned for this edition. We hope you enjoy!
In this episode Greg tells a story composed by Michael, Bobby and Simon called 'Miss Ten Lilly and the hay cart'.
Click HERE to watch.


Wishing on new year’s day has its own importance as its time to make a great start of the new year and in such time when you wish with wonderful new year messages, it becomes more valuable and incredibly welcome.
Happy New Year 2017
New Year Wishes take your lovely words to your family, friends, relatives, colleagues, acquaintances in short anyone you know. But of course the essence of the Happy New Year Wishes keeps changing with the change in recipient. New Year Wishes Greetings could be as intimate or as formal as you want them to be.
You could send an inspirational Happy New Year Greetings 2017 that could lay foundation stone to your dear one’s New Year resolution or you could send a hilarious few lines to start the person’s New Year with a ring of laughter.
For people close to you sentimental Happy New Year 2017 Wishes would surely touch their heart. There are zillions of options available online and offline from where you can get an idea to frame your Happy New Year 2017 Greetings. But always remember to add your own personal touch to make your Wishes for New Year one of a kind.
10 Best Quotes for New Year 2017
- A new year is like a blank book. The pen is in your hands. It is your chance to write a beautiful story for yourself. Happy New Year 2017
- New Year is not only about festive frivolities, but also hope in the fulfillment of our deepest dreams.
- Every one receives a blank 365 pages book each New Year. Wisdom lies in filling it with the right thoughts.
- Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one. Happy New Year 2017
- Don’t think of the opportunities that you have missed in the last year. The New Year is an unwritten book, so choose your actions and words wisely and fill it up with pages that are worth reading by the end of the year.
- For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. Happy New Year 2017
- Life is what you make it and it can be either be an exciting adventure or nothing at all.
- Life is a game that has unexpected turns. By effectively dealing with them you can develop your distinct character.Happy New Year 2017
- If you wish to see a rainbow you had better be prepared for the inevitable rain. Happy New Year 2017
- You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.


Guides and protocols
Guides sharing tools of working methods for knowledge of biodiversity, water police and support for public policies.
A hardcopy of each document may be requested as long as stocks last. Please justify your request when writing to veronique.barre [a] afbiodiversite.fr
Belonging to the genus Salmo, the Atlantic Salmon is a species in the family Salmonidae and the subfamily Salmoninae. The Atlantic Salmon is still present in numerous rivers of the French Channel-Atlantic seafront. It has always been absent from the Mediterranean. The overall objective of this guide is to serve as a user manual for interpreting the scales and estimating the age of the Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) from the French Atlantic Salmon populations.
Three biological forms of brown trout, river, lake and sea, have colonised a large number of aquatic environments in France, owing to a high ecological plasticity of the species. The overall objective of this guide is to serve as a user manual for interpreting the scales and estimating the age of brown trout (Salmo trutta) from the French trout populations.
This guideline is designed as a toolkit to support stakeholders and designers in the completion of constructed wetlands (CW) projects in tropical and equatorial climate zones.
This guide sums up the currently available knowledge on setting up buffer zones to limit the transfer of farm substances (pesticides, nutrients) to aquatic environments.


The Theory of Everything that Matters and What to Do About It
The book “The Theory of Everything that Matters and What to Do About It” delves into the decoded language of consciousness. This primary language predates our spoken language and is the foundational language of all minds, including those of animals.
Uncovering the elements and the specific set of rules the language of consciousness uses offers us a system where logical reasoning can be employed reliably and consistently to investigate questions regarding the mind. The result is that we can now open the magic box that is our mind and begin to understand the nature of consciousness, the interaction between mind and matter, the mechanism underpinning free will, and numerous other enigmas that have long perplexed us. And that changes everything—it will completely transform how you view the world and the role you play within it.
The book is written for accessibility, wilfully eschewing academic jargon to attract a wide readership interested in discovering a foundational theory about mind and matter that can be applied to transform their lives.
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The Second Enlightenment
First, we understood the world.
Now we understand ourselves.
Power to You
Knowing how your mind works puts you in control of your growth, instead of others. Be in control.
There is a way to explain complicated stuff, so it's super easy to understand. We use storytelling and animation and avoid academic speaking like the plague.
If you control your emotions, you control your well-being. You will learn how to control emotions such as anxiety, anger, and depression so you become more confident, compassionate, hopeful, and loved.
When we opened the mind, we uncovered a profound story that offers a deep sense of meaning and purpose. It will make you fall in love again with what it means to be human. We will share this story with you.
Facts Not Faith
Faith is wonderful for filling in the gaps, but facts are more reliable, predictable, and consistent. We will show you how to rule your mind with a love based on facts.
We understand the mind for the first time, and the world is about to change. You have an opportunity to help shape that change by joining us on this extraordinary journey.
Why should you join the Flowmonics Community?
Early days We are only just starting this extraordinary journey so please sign up to our news letter so we can let you know what we're up to and so you're the first to gain these new insights.
You have been tricked. This Trickster has become the enemy of all of us. He has conned us to think about the world and the part we play in it in a way that keeps you and all of us on our knees. The trickery is a misconception about who and and what we are and the way our minds work that prevents us from gaining full control over our emotions and our sense of purpose and value. He strikes many of us down and then feeds us into the well-being industry he controls. The therapists, psychologists, self-help authors, mental-health support groups and many others are as much the victims of the Trickster's con as those they try to help.
The Trickster must be destroyed because every 40 seconds one of us takes their own live.
What we're working on
Finalising the edit of the book.
Working on a content marketing campaign to create awareness of Flowmonics. There will be lots of insights, videos, animations, a cartoon strip, and excerpts from the book, so be sure to follow us on social media.
Scriptwriting an animation to explain the nature of truth as you've never heard it explained. Things will make a lot more sense.
Unconning The Trickster
Solving the enigma of consciousness took nearly 2800 years of effort. Philippe Ingels was part of its last 25 years. His groundbreaking exploration into the mystery of consciousness was made possible due to his unconventional background and unique approach. Unlike traditional academic philosophers, his journey through the world of entrepreneurship, creative expression and programming, mixed with a profound personal transformation, equipped him with a rare blend of intuition, analytical logic, and creative thinking. As an ‘imposter’ in the creative industry, he always viewed intuition as a mechanism rather than an innate expression. This allowed him to identify its underlying language, and his experience as a game programmer enabled him to decode that language.
Philippe was frustrated with the lack of understanding of consciousness and disillusioned with how ineffective we were at making the type of progress that should be possible if we understood what was going on inside our heads. This led him to question everything ever written about the mind’s mysteries. Unburdened by established frameworks and with a fresh, sceptical perspective, he ventured into uncharted territories of our extraordinary minds. Now, he will share this journey of discovery that challenges conventional thinking and opens new doors to understanding our minds.
A fact-based understanding of who and what we are will make all the difference.
If you are interested in discovering the true nature of what's going on inside your head.
If you love philosophy, or psychology or just simply like exploring new and fascinating ideas about yourself, society and everything.
If you want to gain more control over your thoughts, emotions and decision-making processes.
If you want to be part of a second enlightment that promises to make the world a more compassionate, supportive and .... place.
If you want more faith in the goodness of humanity, hope that we will make this world better and fall passionatly in love to be human.
The Mystery of Consciousness Has Been Solved
Everything we know about the mind has been based on speculation. A comprehensive understanding remained elusive without a deeper grasp of the mystery of consciousness. Until now.
Now that we've decoded the language of consciousness, our understanding of ourselves and our place in the universe will shift dramatically.
Flowmonics is a journey of discovery and transformation based on facts, not guesswork.
Here we will establish a new, fact-based sense-making framework capable of giving you a profound sense of meaning and purpose, we will show you how to gain unprecedented control over your emotions, explain how free will works and so much more.


Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia was presented with a copy of Ariane’s book while visiting in the United States.
RELEASED FALL 2016
Ariane penned her book “I Shall Remember Thy Holy Name from Generation to Generation” with fellow Orthodox Christian Tim Weeks as a legacy to her children. It was published in 2016. Through the book’s journey, readers can see how she awoke to Christ’s call after careful and deep examination of her life and of those in her family who came before her.
Inspiration came from her research into her Serbian Orthodox faith and roots. In fact, the book was dedicated to her great-grandfather, the Very Reverend Trandafil Kocić, a priest who served the Orthodox Church in Leskovac, Serbia. He, along with many fellow priests, were martyred for their faith in Surdulica, Serbia on November 17, 1915. And, in 2017 he was canonized as a Martyr in the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Ariane hopes and prays that her book is a golden thread in the reader’s life, pulling him or her closer and binding them in their Creator. Her book is her offering to the God she loves with all her heart and her gift to her children and generations to follow, in hope that they also preserve their Holy Orthodox Christian Faith.
Ariane shares some of her thoughts in the audio and visual presentations below. The audio interview with the Orthodox News Network was conducted by Father Gregory Joyce. The videos give viewers a more in-depth opportunity to learn more about her perspectives that helped to craft the tapestry of her life, her call to faith, and her abiding love for her family.
Listen to Ariane's interview with the Orthodox News Network…


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The Tiny Christmas Collection
It's clay time o'clock.
These items, they want to be.'
A feeling whispered to me.
'The Tiny Christmas Collection is my name.
and to exist is my aim.'
The earth rumbled,
my head tumbled.
My chest burned alive,
filled with a sudden uber drive.
Of the desire to make,
Ceramic creatures to bake.
And so I pinched by night and day and see,
I created everything that wanted to be.
Cups, houses and statement bowls to make people go 'wow'.
I think, that this will do for now.
So, let's look out into the unknown.
the process of finding a fitting home.
A place where these creations,
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This article describes a measure that can be evaluated for a particular individual person, household, or family. It is not a statistical aggregate, though it may be statistically aggregated to provide average measures and distributions.
The measure is subjective, as the measurement of its value is based on people's beliefs, opinions, and/or values.
Ideal fertility (also referred to by the related term ideal family size) refers to the number of children a person considers should be present in an ideal family. Note that ideal conditions here presuppose that the children will survive to adulthood, since children dying off at a young age would not be ideal.
Ideal fertility is not a directly measured value, but rather, individuals are polled about their estimate of ideal fertility, and the values thus obtained are studied (by taking averages or considering the distribution of values).
The term ideal family size is sometimes used synonymously with ideal fertility, reflecting the fact that the number of children is the key variable in family size. Note, however, that technically, family size would include a count of the adults in the family too. Therefore, one should understand from context whether the measure reported is fertility or family size.
- Family Sizes in Europe: Evidence from the 2011 Eurobarometer Survey by Maria Rita Testa, : Ungated PDFMore info
- Intended and Ideal Family Sizes in the United States, 1970-2002 by Kellie J. Hagewen and S. Philip Morgan, Population and Development Review, Volume 31,Number 3, Page 507 - 527(September 2005): Full text on NIH websiteMore info
- Evidence bearing on the construct validity of "ideal family size" by Roger B. Trent, Population and Environment, Volume 3, (Fall/Winter 1980): JSTOR PDFMore info
- Attitudes towards ideal family size of different ethnic/nationality groups in Great Britain, France, and Germany by Roger Penn and Paul Lambert, Population Trends, Volume 108, (Summer 2002): ungated PDFMore info
- The emergence of sub-replacement family size ideals in Europe by Joshua Goldstein, Wolfgang Lutz and Maria Rita Testa, Population Research and Policy Review, Volume 22, Page 479 - 496(Year 2003): Gated PDFMore info
- Desired Fertility and the Impact of Population Policies by Lant Pritchett, Population and Development Review, Volume 20,Number 1, Page 1 - 55(March 1994): Ungated PDFMore info


"Laugh until your cheeks hurt."
should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty." - Einstein
"In vain have I struggled ... it will not do. You must
allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." -Mr. Darcy
"There is nothing worse than being ordinary."
"You all laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same."- John Davis
you have to stand alone to prove that you can stand."
"Find a guy who will stay awake just to watch you sleep."
is when you look into someones eyes and go all the way into their soul, and you both know ... instantly."
the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
"Two souls with but a single thought,
two hearts that beat as one."
"I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation."
is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet."
"Surrendering to reality is a tranquil
"Take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine, that all the world
will be in love with night." - Romeo & Juliet
"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
- Princess Bride
"Don't frown because you never know whos falling in love with your smile."
"Life is 10% what
happens to you and 90% how you respond to it."
"To thine own self be true." - Shakespeare
"I would rather
die on my feet than surrender on my knees."
"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." - Gimli -
Lord of the Rings
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
"Courage is found in unlikely
places." - Gildor -Lord of the Rings
"I have a dream." - Martin Luther King
"I myself am ... strange and unusual."
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." - Einstein
"Two things inspire
me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within." - Einstein
"Watch the stars, and from them learn.
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground." - Einstein
"When I die
I wish to come back as one of her tears. What man would be so lucky as to have been conceived in her heart, born in her eyes,
live on her cheeks, and die at her lips."
"Love is ... running into his arms, colliding with his heart, and exploding
into his soul."
"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew."
"For you I would stop the
very rotation of the earth, simply to keep one moment forever."
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you'll land
among stars." - Les Brown
"Under all speech that is good for anything, there is a silence that is better. Silence
is deep as eternity, speech as shallow as time."
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth
is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts, that hope always triumphs over experience,
that laughter is the only cure for grief, and that love is stronger than death." - Robert Fulgahm
"To me every hour
of the light and dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle."
"Every child is an artist. The problem
is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
"No one can go back and make a new beginning, but everyone
can start here and make a brand new end."
"Change is never easy. You fight to hold on, you fight to let go."
only time a goodbye is painful is when you know you'll never say hello again."
"If you cry because the sun has left
your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are
dreamt of in your philosophy." - Shakespear
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They
have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts." - Shakespear
"'Twas not my lips you
kissed but my soul."
"The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss." - Anon
"When you kiss
me, without uttering a single word, you speak to my soul." - Anon
"He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless,
still dead." - Anon
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow". - Anon
"If you love somebody,
let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were." - Anon
"Reality can be beaten
with enough imagination." - Anon
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of
all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Einstein
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is
a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Einstein
important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when
he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely
to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." - Einstein
"Common sense is the collection
of prejudices acquired by age 18." - Einstein
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Sir Winston
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." - Michelangelo
"All men who have
achieved great things have been great dreamers." - Orison Swett Marden
"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." -
"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all." - Anatole France
"The eyes are the windows
to the soul; if you look into them long enough, one's true self is revealed." - Nicole Dawson
"I love to be alone.
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." - Henry David Thoreau
"I am what I am and that
is all I am and I am it."
"I never let schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
"In three words
I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." - Robert Frost.
"Surely there is something in the unruffled
calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts, the sight of the deep-blue sky, and the clustering stars above,
seem to impart a quiet to the mind." - Jonathan Edwards
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the
stars." - Oscar Wilde
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan
"Beauty is in
the eye of the beholder" - Plato
"I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be
sane." - Allen Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac
"Its the quiet ones you have to watch out for."
"Never forget that
only dead fish swim with the stream." - Malcolm Muggeridge
"After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing
a thing, after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true." - Spock, "Amok Time"
"We are each
of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." - Luciano de Crescenzo
"It is better
to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"I like a man who grins when he fights."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"Education is very important. School, however, is another matter."
"You are only what
you are when no one is looking" - Robert C. Edwards
"A stranger loses half his charm the day he is no longer a stranger."
Genevieve Antoine Dariaux
"Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone
to bring you flowers." - Veronica A. Shoffstall
"If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?" - Thomas Lovell
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." - Lorraine Hansberry
"No day is so bad it can't be fixed
with a nap." - Carrie Snow
"I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet."
- Denis Waitely
"If you want to be happy, be."
"Have you ever loved someone so much it hurt?"
my body. Water my blood. Air my breath. Fire my spirit."
"Some people exist just to annoy me!" - Garfield
to decide is to decide." - Harvey Cox
"If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance."
comes gradually and at its appointed hour." - Ovid
"People will always talk about you, especially when they envy you
and the life you live. Let them ... you affected their lives, they didn't affect yours." - Anon
"Pain is temporary.
Pride is forever." - Anon
"Presence is more than just being there." - Malcolm Forbes
"Always behave like a
duck; keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." - Lord Barbizon
clip an angel's wings,
Conquer all mysteries of rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, the gnomed mine,
"There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top." - Anya Seton
I could wish for one thing, it would be to have nothing to wish for."
"You know it's a best friend, when you can sit
on the porch swing for hours, not say a word, and feel like you've just had the best conversation of your life."
think you know me just because you know my name, think you've seen me 'cause you've seen every line on my face." - Jon Bon
"Passion + Persistence = Possibility" - Jon Bon Jovi
"Keep the faith, you know your gonna live through
the rain." - Bon Jovi
"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing
to admit that they are crazy." - Nora Ephron
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it." - Aristotle
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of
many things, of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax.
Of cabbages, and kings, and why the sea is boiling hot.
And whether pigs have wings." - Lewis Carroll
"When a thing has been said and said well, have no
scruples. Take it and copy it." - Mark Twain
"The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who
will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"Don't get mad, get even." - Joseph P. Kennedy
"There was one who thought he was above me, and he was above me until he had that thought." -
"The only thing about a man that is a man ...is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig
or a horse." - Archibald MacLeish
"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business." - Tom Robbins
"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."
- John Jay Chapman
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
"Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis -
a good hot cup of coffee." - Alexander King
"When I was a boy of 14 my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in 7 years." - Mark Twain
"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart." - Mencius
"See I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way." - Exodus 23:20
"Never give advice in a crowd." - Arab Proverb
"Getting what you wish for is the test of whether you understand what you really need." - Scott
"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." - George Halas
"There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that,
when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in." - Friedrich Hebbel
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." -
"A rainy day is the perfect time to sleep."
"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators." - Albert
"Content thyself to be obscurely good." - Joseph Addison
"Sit and daydream, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore
of the mind." - Longfellow
"One for all, and all for one" - Three Musketeers
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little
song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A sobering thought; what if, at this very moment,
I am living up to my full potential?" - Jane Wagner
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more
honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw
"A man has to live with himself, and he should
see to it that he always has good company." - Charles Evans Hughes
"It is easier to fight for one's principles
than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches
cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." - Oscar Wilde
"The strongest man in the world is he who stands
alone." - Henrik Ibsen
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your
closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw
"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping
him up." - Jesse Jackson
"Do what you can, with what you have, where
you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Not all those who wander are lost." - Bilbo
- Lord of the Rings
"I often think that the night is more alive
and more richly colored than the day." - Vincent Van Gogh
"Those people who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do." - Isaac Asimov
"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no
honors came my way, those were the lovely years." - Truman Capote
"It all boils down to whether someone
thinks what you do with your time is wasting it. The extrovert scolds the introvert for staying in the house all day when
there is a whole world out there, while the introvert laughs at the extrovert because he has all he needs in his room, and
needn't waste energy running about." - Nick Bensem
"I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men,
who haven't got one half sense I've got." - Margaret Mitchell
"Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was." - Margaret Mitchell
"Dreams and visions are infused into men for their advantage
and instruction." - Oneirocritica, 2nd century AD
"Romance means making love to his soul without ever touching
his body." - Anon.
"The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine
with the life of the stars." - Paracelsus
"He who feels it, knows it more." - Bob Marley
"Don't let your mind rule over your heart."
"There comes a time in every life we find the heart we're
"If kissing was just two people touching lips, it wouldn't
touch our hearts and bind our souls the way it does."
"Life itself is the proper binge." - Julia Child
"Open your heart and let the sun shine in"
"There is a garden in her face, where roses and white lilies
grow." - Thomas Campion
"Where should a woman wear purfume?" a young woman asked.
'Wherever one wants to be kissed" I said." - Coco Chanel
"The way I see it, if you want a rainbow you have to put up
with the rain."
"The flesh is fairest that farthest from the bone."
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the
or you alter yourself meeting them." - Phyllis Bottome
"I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror."
- Elaine Dundy
"Let us permit Nature to have her way; she understands her
business better than we do." - Michel de Montaigne
"Better by far you should forget and smile. Than that you
should remember and be sad." - Christina Rossetti
"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
"So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us
often." - John Donne
"In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit
for you." - Hardy Kruger
"Don't go through life, grow through life." - Eric Butterworth
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy
in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for." - Allan K. Chalmers
"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears." -
John Vance Cheney
"Let your tears come. Let them water your soul." - Eileen
"The great doing of little things, makes the great life."
- Eugenia Price
"Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life,
love gives us a fairy tale."
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."
- Colin Wilson
"One of the most adventurous things left for us to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams."
- E. V. Lucas
"I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what
the heart cannot feel." - Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"Sometimes you say the smallest thing, or smile, and it makes my entire day better."
"A kiss is just a kiss until you find the one you love. A hug is just a hug until you find the one your
always thinking of. A dream is just a dream until it comes true. Love is just a word until its proven to you."
"Love is when you don't want to go to sleep because reality is better than a dream."
"Normal people scare me."
"When all think alike, then no one is thinking." - Walter Lippman
"If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me." - Ted Nugent
Things around us, houses, jobs, cars, they're props, they're settings for our love. The things we own, the
places we live, the events of our lives, empty settings. How easy to chase after the settings and forget the diamonds. The
only thing that matters at the end of our stay on this earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?"
- The Bridge Across Forever
"Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that
is worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde
"We taste the joys of heaven above
when really, truly making love."
"Adolesence is the time in life when girls quit believing in fairy tales and start to believe
"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." - Chinese Proverb
"Good judgement comes from experience ... experience comes from poor judgement."
"You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down
the stairs." - Mark Twain
"I am an idealist. I don't know where I am going, but I am on my way." - Carl Sandburg
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
- Abe Lincoln
"Time you enjoy waisting is not time waisted."
"When you get in a tight place & everything goes against you, till it seems you could not
hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place & time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher
"He who has help has hope, & he who has hope has everything." - Arab proverb
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go
and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman
"Come Away With Me" -Song-
"Come away with in the night
Come away with me
And I will sing you a song
with me on a bus
Come away where they can't tempt us
With there lies
I want to walk with you
On a cloudy day
fields where the yellow grass grows
So won't you try to come
Come away with me and we'll kiss
On a mountain
Come away with me
And I'll never stop loving you
And I want to wake up with the rain
Falling on a tin roof
I'm safe there in your arms
So all I ask is for you
To come away with me in the night
Come away with me." -
"Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud
"Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while."
"Every now and again take a good look at something not made with handsa mountain, a star, the turn of a stream.
There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world."
- Sidney Lovett
"Be still and know that I am with you." - English prayer
"Every day people are straying away from church and going back to God." - Lenny Bruce
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it." - Rabindranath Tagore
"I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Hearts affections and the Truth of the Imagination." - John
"Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect."
- John Keats
"Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking." - Kahlil Gibran
"The beginning is always today." - Mary Wollstonecraft
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it
arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne
"Art is running away without ever leaving home." - Twyla Tharp
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?" - Satchel Paige
"If you never did, you should.
These things are fun, and fun is good." - Dr. Seuss
"Blessed is the person who can laugh at himself
he'll never cease to be amused."
"Life is too important to be taken seriously." - Oscar Wilde
"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." - Emily Dickenson
"Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life." - From the "Sanskrit Salutation of the Dawn"
"So you see, imagination needs moodling, long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering." - Brenda
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." - The 14th Dalai Lama
"The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up."
"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward." - Spanish proverb
"The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too." - Teresa of Avila
"Every animal knows more than you do." - Native American Proverb
"If you're too busy to go fishin', you're too busy." - Jed Clampett
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." - Stephen Wright
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth
will be filled with glory." - Betty Smith
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously
accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." - Victor Hugo
"...the fog is rising." - Emily Dickinson's last words
"The longest journey of any person
is the journey inward."
"The good and the wise lead quiet
lives." - Euripides
"To lose is to learn." - Anon
"Learn what you are, and be such." - Pinder
"We were written in the stars, my love, all that separated us, was time, the time it took to read the map
which was placed within our hearts, to find our way back to one another."
"Within you, I lose myself, without you, I find myself, searching to be lost again."
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts
and we are never ever the same."
"Every now and then, I wish it were then instead of now." -
"The giving of love is an education in itself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person." - Margaret Anderson
"I'll never let your head hit the bed without my hand behind it ..." - John Mayer
"Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often more accurate than you are willing to believe." - Claudia
"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the
But you have already borne the pain.
What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain." - Kahlil Gibran
"The best thing about the future is that
it only comes one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln
"Trust that still, small voice that says,
"This might work and I'll try it." - Diane Mariechild
"Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster." - Weston H. Agor
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love." - Sophocles
"High on a mountain, carved on a rock, are these three words: Forget Me Not."
"What is meant to be will always find a way."
"The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable.
Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling." - Katarina Witt
"There's one thing a quote does that nothing and no one else can do ... it can become a part of you. You may
never meet the person who said it, but that person is now a companion. Quotes help you get over pain, feel love, make you
smile and laugh, and help you through those tough days when you think that no one else knows what you're going through."
"I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. When
I was twelve, the words was my magic lantern, and by its green spirit glow I saw the past, the present, and into the future.
We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing
to birds and read the clouds and see out destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls.
We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put in the straight and narrow and told to be responsible.
Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for Gods sake. And you know why were told that? Because the people doing the telling
were afraid of our wilderness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad at what they allowed to whither
in themselves. After you get so far away fro it, though, you cant really get it back. You can have seconds of it. Just seconds
of knowing and remembering. When people get all weepy at movies, its because in that dark theatre, the golden pool of magic
is touched, just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and theyre left
feeling a little heartsad and not knowing why. For the briefest of instants, you have stepped into the magic realm. The truth
of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with burdens, some
of them good, some of them not so good. Things happen to us. Loved ones die. People get in wrecks, and get crippled. Its not
hard to do, in this world of crazy mazes. Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You dont know
its happening until one day you feel like youve lost something, but youre not sure what it is." -Robert McCammon
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but
do so with all your heart." - Marcus Aurelius
"To love one who loves you, To admire one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, is exceeding
the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven." - Delphine de Girardin
"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."
- Christopher Morley
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain
"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in a square hole, the
ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo.You can quote them,
disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change things.
They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the people who are
crazy enough to think they can change the world, and are the ones who'll do it." - Apple Computer TV Ad


Book: Spiritual Sparks For Busy Women™
Author: Shirley W. Mitchell
Publisher: Strode Publishers
Date: February 1982 (Not in Print Currently)
***Coming Soon for 2013-2014 !!!
"Spiritual Sparks For Busy Women™", by Shirley W. Mitchell, is written for today's modern woman similar to herself, "busy and on the go." The book follows each half-page of text with seven elaborating Bible verses, one for each day of the week, illuminating her weekly spiritual writing with Seven Daily Scriptural "Spiritual Sparks." The book is designed to "Spark" in you a desire to know your Creator in a more intimate manner. The Bible verses, personal experiences, meditations, and prayers of each devotional interrelate to give better understanding and power! These devotionals are living! They will teach women to walk in the Spirit. Years from today these devotionals will continue to be a source of power for women. The devotionals in "Spiritual Sparks For Busy Women™" were written in the very crucible of life. The aim... is changed lives.
***Shirley W. Mitchell's mission is to provide inspirational books and lectures with popular appeal, live an exemplary life that is a worthwhile model, share God's love with everyone, and reveal Christ and his glory to all - Hurried living finds us sometimes too busy even to catch our breath, let alone discover more about our Creator. Join the Actively Growing following of Shirley W. Mitchell Today***
It only takes a "Spark" to get a "Fire" going ~ So Why FIZZ When You Can SPARKLE !


Stephenie Meyer, the brilliant mind behind the critically acclaimed teen vampire-romance series Twilight, finally confirmed the released date for the upcoming companion book, Midnight Sun. Midnight Sun now has the official release date after going through almost 12 years in writing limbo.
Twilight was phenomenal among teenage and young adults as the vampire drama featured most of the emotions felt by these teenagers. Meyer brilliantly used emotions like alienation and rebellion in her novel series that attracted many young readers. The novel series was later adapted to critically acclaimed and commercially successful live-action feature films starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
Twilight tells the story of a seventeen-year-old Bella Swan, who moves into new places and develop a relationship with a vampire, Edward Cullen, and her life becomes endangered soon after. The novel is expressed in the narrative of the same introvert girl, Bella Swan. Meyer in 2008, revealed that she wanted to retell the stories from the perspective of fan-favorite, Edward Cullen.
Meyer in 2011 suspended writing the companion novel and mentioned that she has no intention to release the book ever. The change-in-mind rose after the first twelve chapters of Midnight Sun was leaked online in 2011. After holding the work indefinitely, she released the same leaked twelve parts on her website for Twilight fans to read them for free. The reports claimed that Meyer knew who had leaked those chapters but didn’t give names because according to her, the leak wasn’t done with bad intentions.
Fans were upset after not being able to read the whole story from Edward’s point of view. Some core fans even tried to reach Meyer and requested her to continue writing the unfinished part. Meyer released a gender-swapped novel titled Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined in 2015 that introduced Beau Swan and Edythe Cullen in place of Bella and Edward. The bok was released and the readers loved the reimagined version. The good reception gave Meyer strength to work on the companion novel, Midnight Sun.
On May 2020, Meyer confirmed that the book will be released on August 4, 2020, and Little, Brown, and Company (who published the novels series) will again publish the hardcover paperback novel.
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Happy Season 3: Release Date, Cast, Plot And Everything We Know
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Happy is an adult animated series and can be rated 8.7/10 by IMDb. Further Rotten tomatoes rate the series since 4.75/5. The show is a show. And it is believed that fans are not happy with the future of the series.
The American show is inspired by a comic book series of the same name. Grant Morrison has led Happy. Happy is a mixture of action.
Release date of Happy season 3: Is the third season of Happy canceled or renewed?
Netflix has released two seasons of Happy series. The first season was released on followed with a second season on 27th March this year. Season 1 comprised eight episodes, and season 2 included ten episodes. The 2 seasons have received positive reviews from the critics.
There was a gap of 14 months between the release of 2 seasons. We anticipate the same for the next season. We know that due to this COVID pandemic, movies and lots of shows are delayed. Therefore, if at all of the series will renew for the season it won’t release any time soon.
We anticipate the series to rekindle for its third year in 2021. Though Syfy canceled the upcoming season, we’re trusting that Netflix may restart the sequence.
The Cast of Happy Season 3
Here are a number of actors that are expected in Happy season 3.
Christopher Meloni will play the role of Nick Sax. Medina Senghore will be seen as Amanda Hansen. Patton Oswalt will voice Happy. The role of Hailey Louise Hansen and Louis Sheinberg will be played with Christopher Fitzgerald and Bryce Lorenzo. Patrick Fischler is expected as Smoothie. Further, Ritchie Coster may be viewed as Mr. Blue and Lili Mirojnick as Merry.
The Plot of Happy Season 3
So individuals who have watched the past two seasons are aware of what the show is about. The story revolves around a cop who attempts to rescue a girl kidnapped by Santa. A unicorn that he can find urges him to do so. The season is expected to continue after a story that was similar.
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18-Year-Old NY Teen Blazed In Apartment As Neighbours Watch
A New York City teenager was stabbed before his body was set on fire in an apartment in the Bronx
The victim has been identified as 18-year-old Winston Ortiz, and many reports say he died Wednesday afternoon; although at least one report, which is not dated, says it is in critical condition.
According to the reports, police sources said Ortiz suffered three stab wounds before a suspect bathed him with an accelerator and set him on fire in an apartment on Woodycrest Avenue in the Bronx. According to sources, Ortiz lived one block from his home.
A video captured the suspect entering the apartment
The video reportedly shows the suspect arriving at the building about 10 minutes before Ortiz. sources told that the suspect and the victim quarreled before the suspect attacked the teenager.
Many residents witnessed the horrific incident and heard the boy screaming
Residents of the building witnessed a horrifying scene after seeing a fire in an apartment building. Outside the apartment where Ortiz was set on fire, a screaming teenager was seen and heard, according to the witness.
A teen girl and the teenager’s mother reportedly washed the victim with water while waiting for the emergency services.
Ortiz was unresponsive when the medical staff reached to help
According to the officers, Ortiz was badly injured and barely conscious when the ambulance arrived.
Police have not yet publicly identified the suspect and do not appear to have made any arrests.
The GoFundMe campaign is raising money for the Ortiz family.
L.A.’s Finest: Delayed Season 2 Gets September Premiere Date on Spectrum — All 13 Episodes Dropping Together
Two of L.A.’s Finest are returning for duty next month. Spectrum Originals is making the entire 13-episode second season of its Bad Boys offshoot available to watch On Demand beginning Wednesday, Sept. 9, TVLine has learned.
The new season was originally slated to bow in June, but it was pushed back in the wake of civil unrest sparked by police violence that led to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor’s deaths earlier this year.
So, what’s in store for Syd (Gabrielle Union) and Nancy (Jessica Alba) in Season 2? According to Spectrum’s official teaser, “Syd mourns the sudden loss of a friend and struggles to find answers, while McKenna must deal with the aftermath of Izzy’s kidnapping and the rift it has left in her marriage. But when a powerful crimewave in Koreatown threatens to destroy the community, Syd, McKenna and the team must find those responsible before it’s too late.”
L.A.’s Finest also stars Duane Martin (All of Us), Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights), Ryan McPartlin (Chuck), Sophie Reynolds (Big Hero 6: The Series) and Ernie Hudson (Oz).
In other recent L.A.’s Finest news, Fox announced that it will air the show’s first season — acquired from Sony Pictures Television back in May — beginning Monday, Sept. 21 at 8/7c. It will lead into the network’s soapy drama Filthy Rich (9 pm), which stars Sex and the City‘s Kim Cattrall as the matriarch of a wealthy Southern family that is rocked by its patriarch’s sudden death.
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Interested in reading some of the articles published by the SLC? Please click on the links below:
Chris and the SLC were mentioned in the latest issue of Counseling Today. Read the article here.
Read Chris' December 2013 article in Counseling Today here
Read all of Chris' articles for Special-Ism by clicking here
“Defining a Hybrid of Social Interventions for Students with Strong Intelligence and Language Skills” by Michelle Garcia Winner and Chris Abildgaard was published in Autism/Asperger Digest Magazine (Sept/Oct 2010). Article
Chris’ review of the Zones of Regulation by Leah Kuypers(2011), a curriculum addressing emotional and behavioral regulation, was included on the cover of the published manuscript.
Chris’ review of Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: A Clinical Perspective by J. Palombo 2006, W. W. Norton was featured in the March/April 2010 issue of the Communique, The Newspaper of the National Association of School Psychologists.


Gary Batson – Executive Producer
M.A., Ed.M., Phd. Candidate Gary Batson is President of Batson Communications & Entertainment Company and co-publisher of Batson-Jones-Rea Publishing Company. He earned his B.A. from Fordham University, his M.A. and Ed.M. from Columbia University with a specialization in Communications. His articles and PR placements were published in the New York Times, Daily News, New Jersey Star Ledger, Billboard and The Amsterdam News. His plays have been produced at Samuel French and Strawberry One Act Festivals, The Paul Robeson Theater, Michael Carson Studios, The Negro Ensemble Company and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
His fiction and poetry were published in City University Magazine, Fordham University literary Magazine, Thirst for Fire (a California-based literary magazine) and several anthologies. Mr. Batson received a Fellowship from The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute for acting, The Mayor’s Scholarship and the Model Cities Writing Award.


You Aren’t Boring I Just Suck At Conversations I’m Sorry: a novel by me
I’m Not Ignoring You I Just Don’t Know What To Say: a sequel by me
I Feel Like I have Nothing Interesting To Say So I Don’t Say Anything At All And I’m Really Sorry Don’t Stop Talking To Me: the trilogy.
do you ever see a picture of someone with a body like yours and you’re momentarily comforted like they look pretty good…i probably look good too
apparently e.l. james called former child star mara wilson (matilda) a “sad f**k” for critiquing the 50shades books a while ago and now there’s a feud. i love it.
girls who pretend to act stupid because they think it’s cute need to be slapped in the face with a brick


Nougat is the oldest member of our pet family. She is 3 1/2. She will share her story....
Hi I'm Nougat! I'm 3 years old in that picture! I love my mommy and daddy! I'm a spoiled happy doggie! I would like to tell you my story.
When I was born my mommy must have really loved me !
.... but her owners did not.
I didn't understand what was going on when they grabbed me from her and stuffed me into a burlap sack with the other pups in my litter. It was hot and dark and very itchy. We cryed and whined but our mommy couldn't do anything about it. We didn't know why we started rolling around and bumping all over, even though we recognized the sound of the pickups engine we hadn't been on the bed before as it was moving and bumping along. All of a sudden the bumping and rolling stopped. It hurt when we landed on the ground in the sack where our 'owner' tossed us.
Oh how I itched from the fleas and ticks and that rough material we were shoved into! I was very scared and confused and my tummy was growling, it didn't help that the worms had already sapped so much strength from my little body. All of a sudden we felt wet and the heat turned to cold as we huddled closer together to try and keep warm. We heard the sound of the truck start up again....and we started shivering thinking of the rough bumpy ride we just went through.
We waited and waited but the noise got softer and then we didn't hear it anymore.
And there we sat...
on the shore of the creek half in the water in a burlap sack.
I don't know how long we sat...
it felt like forever after all we were only 41/2 week old little puppies! Then out of no where we heard a voice, we were so thrilled to hear something out of the darkness we cryed and cryed and wiggled and called "Help us Help us!!!!" as best as we knew how. It must have worked because the sack opened...
and as our eyes adjusted to the light we saw her, our savior! She cuddled us close and wiped us dry it felt so good and warm! Then she brought us to this big place with alot of other dogs around.
These people were nice we liked them alot! They gave us lots of warm food and clean water. They cleaned us up and got rid of the worms and the ticks and fleas. They fixed our coughs and runny noses. Then I felt a funny feeling as I fell asleep on a large silver table.
When I woke up my belly ached but they helped me feel better with the warm towels and cuddles. After a few days we were moved into a cage together all my brothers and sisters...and people came and looked at us. They picked us up and talked to us and I showered these people with kisses!! I was so happy! I was dry and clean and full and my tummy ache went away.
I was so happy to be alive and safe and away from the creek and out of that sack. Then this one person came by as I was asleep. I woke up cuddled under her chin and looked up into her eyes and kissed her face all over. I was trying to say "Good morning!! Hi I'm Nougat! Isn't it great to be alive!!" I really like this person because she talked sweetly to me and gave me kisses and rocked me like a baby. Then she put me back in the cage and I was sad! I tryed to call to her "wait come back!!" and she did!! She came back with another person, a man with a furry face like mine. I loved to kiss his whiskers!! She snatched me back up out of that cage and that was the last time I saw my other brothers and sisters. But I didn't mind too much because I loved all the individual hugs and kisses! I wished they would never put me down! Oh how I loved to be alive!! They held me as they talked to another person and handed over some green paper.
Then off we went...my first ride in a car without being in the dark! I loved it!! Then they took me to this place called PetSmart...I got toys and they dressed me up with my very own collar just like I remember my mommy had. I missed my mommy ... but these new people called themselves mommy and daddy. That was the best day of my life!! Here are some pictures they took of me when they brought me home!
Then mommy and daddy moved to NJ to get away from Tornado country !
I'd never seen the ocean before and I love it here! and I like not having to be afraid of storms and lightning anymore!
Nougat was a very active pup! She loved everyone she met! Including other animals. Here are some more pictures of Nougat...


Read on for General Notes for World Literature Papers – 2012
CRITERION A: Aspect/Treatment
Many fine ideas. Now: follow through, follow through. Remember: this is an ARGUMENT for a particular interpretation. The following paragraphs must develop this in detail.
CRITERION B: Knowledge/Understanding
Look for opportunities to weave in your knowledge of the genre, style, and culture as it pertains to your thesis. Don’t force it, but do remember that this is the “World Literature” component, and (for Assignment one), a comparative essay. Thus, detailed cultural/historical grounding/context is essential to your ability to make meaningful comparisons.
Be specific about plot, characters, symbols, and so on. Show your expertise with detail, particularly when choosing relevant quotations/evidence.
CRITERION C: Presentation
Thesis: Last sentence of first paragraph, please! Literary technique + effect/significance of that technique.
Topic Sentences: First sentences of all body paragraphs, please! TS has 3 jobs: 1) must link to thesis (make sure there is an “echo” word; 2) must provide a transition (hopefully a logical one) from previous paragraph; and 3) must directly control the main idea of the paragraph.
Intro: Authors and title must be mentioned — preferably in sentences 1-2.
Conclusion: Make it sound like you care. Make it matter. Make it shine. Think of this analogy: a well written conclusion should sound a lot more like you are putting the final wax and polish on a collectible Cadillac and a lot less like you are cleaning up after dinner with a smelly old sponge. On your papers, CC = sounds like you’re shining a Caddie — good work! SSp = smelly sponge — freshen it up.
Criterion D – Language
- Review for common errors, esp. sentence fragments, comma splices, and errors of agreement (subject-pronoun; subject-verb; singular-plural).
- P2A. Change passive to active voice.
- 2B. inimize “to be” verbs as the main verb of sentence (“Claire is a grotesque character”). “To be” forms are fine as helping verbs when indicating the tense of a stronger verb.
- PT. Write in critical present tense.
Diction — enhance your professionalism by following these caveats:
- Do NOT use the words “similar” and “different” in a vague manner in the same sentence, as in: “These two plays are very different with some similar components.” This is ovbious and true about everything in the world worth comparing, and therefore not specific enough a statment to belong in an astute analytical essay. Especially do not do this in the first or last paragraphs as it is an instant indication that you are unsure of yourself.
- Do NOT use the words “LARGE” or “BIG” unless you are describing something physical (“a large dinosaur” is ok; however, “another large difference between Cyrano and Lysistrata…” or “the word ‘never’ is the biggest use of repetition” sounds amateur. In the first example substitute “significant”; in the second example try “common.”
- Do NOT use phrases like “in this passage it says…”
- DO look for opportunities to naturally integrate vocabulary of literary analysis for more effective and precise interpretations. Here is a reminder of useful terms for dramatic study.
Conventions and References:
- TITLES: Where are your clever and concise titles? Really? Where are they? Remember: titles should be attention-grabbing and should be specific to your essay. Authors and titles and Aspects are identified in strong titles. Alliteration is a neat trick (as in “The Matter of the Mother: Encoding of the Mother in H. D.’s Poetry and Prose”). The Clever Phrase-Colon-Clarifying Subtitle method is also standard (previous example and “Double Selves: Katherine Mansfield’s Encounters with Her Mother’s Legacy in “Prelude” and “At the Bay.” (No titles necessary for Assignment 2 commentaries/KPA’s, though).
- MLA Formatting: Really, an absurd number of you seem to be mounting a protest against the MLA convention of underlining the title of the work within your essay. What’s with that?
- MLA citations both in text or at the end. Check out the rules for citing DRAMA in this link and FOLLOW THEM: http://libguides.pstcc.edu/content.php?pid=24540&sid=1751573. Remember — The Visit came from an anthology; all the works have translators.


Hi there everyone!
So thanks to the wonderful Martin over at http://www.aprettywonderfulbook.wordpress.com and the amazing Ashley at http://www.ashleyreadsit.wordpress.com, I’ve been nominated for the Liebster Award not once, but twice, which means two sets of great questions to answer!
Here’s a bit about the award and how the whole process works:
What does the word Liebster mean? Liebster is German for sweet, favorite and dearest. (aww).
The Liebster Award is an award for bloggers. It helps to discover new blogs and to build a sense of community in the blogging world!
1. Thank the blogger(s) who nominated you.
2. Answer the 11 questions the blogger gives you.
3. Nominate 11 bloggers that you think are deserving of the award.
4. Let the bloggers know you nominated them.
5. Give them 11 questions of your own.
Here are my answers to Martin‘s questions:
If you could live in any fictional town, which would it be?
I would choose one of the Eggs, east or west from The Great Gatsby. There’s something beautiful and haunting about these corners of town during that era that make them so attractive to me. Perhaps it’s how the story plays out, who knows.
Which fictional character would you most like to meet?
Off the top of my head, Henry de Tamble from The Time Traveler’s Wife. Why? Because I have so many questions for him. The whys, and hows are obvious but my questions go deeper. How did it feel to constantly, and unknowingly, leave the woman he loved for endless periods of time? How did it feel to not know? How did it feel to know? The list goes on and on and on, and there are many other characters I’d love to meet. I get overly involved with my characters, and so I think I’d want to meet most of them.
Which book would you like to see made into a movie, and who would play the main characters?
This is a fantastic question because I’m not big on movies made from books. They usually disappoint. Off the top of my head, I’m going to choose Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden. This story is about World War One and First Nations. It’s fiction, and it’s intense, but it’s a must read. Xavier, the main character, would be played by Nathaniel Arcand, a Native Canadian actor who played Scott the vet in Heartland for a very long time.
Do you have any ‘must buy’ authors or do you always check the synopsis before buying?
Here’s the truth: If you purchase anything written by Edward Rutherfurd, you will not be disappointed. His books are huge though, so beware. Also, a big Ken Follett, and Erich Segal fan.
If you eat out, do you always order a trusty favourite or do you spend ages looking through the menu?
I’m a bit of a foodie, so I like to try new things, and get the opinions of the waitstaff on what’s good and recommended at the restaurant. However, when a craving calls, trusty favourite it is.
If you could be a character in a book, which genre would you want to be in?
Historical fiction, hands down. Not only do I want a story of my own, I want other things to happen that matter – real events.
Which country have you always wanted to visit but not had the chance?
All of the countries. Seriously. I’ve never been anywhere. I guess atop my list are Ireland, France, Germany, Italy and Russia.
Have you been sorted on Pottermore, and if so, which house are you in? And are you happy with your house?
Oh my jesus – I didn’t know about Pottermore! I’m being sorted as we speak. Heeere we go! Gosh, I’m way too excited about this!! I got Hufflepuff, which is not a bad thing, but of course I wanted to join Harry!
When is your favourite time to read? During the day or at night in bed?
All of the times! It’s always time for a book. I read everywhere too!
Do you have any books you have more than one copy of?
Yes! Shake Hands with the Devil by Romeo Dallaire. One is a hardcover autographed copy and one is a paperback. I’m sure there are others, but that stands out at the moment. I’m not only into reading, but collecting.
Have you ever bought a book just because you liked the cover?
Not specifically. However, I’m a big fan of colourful books as I arrange my shelves in a rainbow pattern.
Thanks again, Martin! Now here are my answers to Ashley’s questions!
What is the best book you have read so far in 2016?
Hands down above all us – The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew. If you read this, carefully, it has the power to change you. Kinew is brilliant.
Which character do you identify with the most?
This varies, truly. I always try to connect with one character in every book I read. One character I really related to (to get into my childhood) was Fern from Charlotte’s Web. Inside me, although I’m 28-years-old, I’m still that hopeful, playful little girl, just like Fern.
What book has made you laugh out loud?
Most books get all of my reactions. I tend to be very visually emotional – if something’s funny I laugh, if it’s sad I cry. These aren’t just characters to me, I think a book and a reader take on a sort of friendship and a closeness until they’re separated. I’m a big fan of stand-up comedy and what makes funny people become so funny, so a lot of these. It takes a lot of strength and intelligence to stand up in front of thousands, or even hundreds of people and then proceed to make them laugh. For this I’ll list two favourites: Seriously, I’m Kidding by Ellen Degeneres and Call Me Russell by Russell Peters.
Whose writing style do you enjoy the most?
Edward Rutherfurd!! The man is magic with words. He can sweep you off into so many different worlds and decades. You really become one with his stories. The involvement is a necessary dedication, though. These aren’t short reads, but epic sagas of times long ago lost.
French fries or salad on the side?
My brain says salad and my stomach says fries. More often than not, my brain wins, but sometimes by stomach wins. Hello, McDonald’s french fries, nice to see you again.
Which fictional setting would you never want to live in?
I’m going to go with anything Stephen King ever concocted in his twisted, beautiful mind. Oh, and L.A. No matter who writes about L.A. as their “fictional setting” there are a series of assholes. Seriously, though.
Can you name a book that references song titles?
Eleanor Rigby! Book by Douglas Coupland, songs by The Beatles. (See? I learned something in high school.)
Speaking of music, do you wear sunglasses at night?
Only so I can, so I can – forget my name while you collect your claim! ♪ ♪
What book genre did you use to not care for but have recently gotten into?
I’ll give almost anything a chance, however, I’m not into the old romances, though I really want to sit down and read Gone With the Wind. Let’s leave this question up in the air, and we’ll see how it goes.
What is your favourite book to movie adaptation?
Love Story. Book by Erich Segal. The movie was made in the 1970s starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw. This book had a massive impact on me. I read it usually once a year, and I re-soak up every word. The key to it being my favourite book to movie adaptation is simple: the screenplay was written by Erich Segal. Almost none of the dialogue, or happenings change. Everything is just the way it should be. The chemistry between the actors is just what you’d imagine it’d be. To me, it’s just perfect.
Are you into graphic novels? If so, which ones?
Simply: not really. I’m not a fan of having my images supplied. I have a very vivid and exciting imagination and I love to see how far it can take me. However, during my last semester of my history degree I read a graphic novel called Safe Area Gorazde by the talented Joe Sacco. This is the true story of the treacherous war that happened in Yugoslavia in the 1990s. It is a micro-history. That is, an on the ground history that takes place in only one small town – Gorazde, in Eastern Bosnia. Sacco left America for Gorazde because of the war – to bring the stories of the people home. And yeah – you guessed it. Things were not as the media liked to report. Stunning read.
So, here goes. Here are my 11 QUESTIONS!
- You’re stranded for an entire year. You can only have two books. Which do you bring?
- Where do you buy your books? Do you buy from a specific site, store? Used?
- How do you treat your books? Do you collect, read and get rid of, borrow from the library?
- Where’s your favourite place to read?
- How old were you when you discovered your passion for reading?
- Have you ever had a fictional crush? If so, who?
- What is your favourite children’s book?
- Who is the most inspirational character you’ve discovered, and why?
- Has a book ever made you cry? Which?
- If someone were to ask you “What should I read?” what would be the one book you immediately suggest without a second thought?
- What’s your favourite book that is set outside of North America and Europe?
I’d like the nominate the following bloggers to answer my questions! Happy reading, everyone.
Nominees (I know there are supposed to be 11 but I’m rather new at this.)
Yvo at https://melovebooks.wordpress.com/
Caitlin at https://shelfiepodcast.wordpress.com/
Jaed at https://bibliophilewanderlustblog.wordpress.com/
Candace at https://literarydust.wordpress.com/
Chloe at https://chloesbooksblog.wordpress.com/
Anyone else that wants to join in to do this, feel free! I love reading the answers.


Are the pieces of your life not fitting together? Are you tired of fixing
the same old things in your life?
Do you feel weighed down from bad memories?
Do you feel like no one cares about you? Do you wish you could find that perfect
Does your life seem to be falling apart?
much do you trust what you "believe"? Have you been avoiding God, but still feel empty inside?
“Blessed are those who have regard for the weak; the LORD delivers them in
times of trouble. The LORD protects and preserves them - they are counted among the blessed in the land - he does not give
them over to the desire of their foes.” Psalm 41:1-2


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Harry Potter's Platform 9¾. Snap a picture of yourself. My wife wanted to snap a picture but the line was a bit long when we were visiting this area.
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She never gave up and now people across the World can enjoy her books. Thank you for your persistence J.K. Rowling!
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How long did it take J.K. Rowling to completely write the Harry Potter books? - Quora
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J.K. Rowling is a woman with an amazing imagination. I'm surprised she is not worth more!
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Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM)
The definition of the Fiducial Reference Measurement (FRM) as provided in the preface on page xiii of the [Banks et al. 2020] is adapted from the original idea of [Donlon et al. 2013, 2014a, 2014b] for Sea Surface Temperature measurements, whereby the defining mandatory characteristics of a FRM are as follows.
The FRM must:
- have documented traceability to SI units (via an unbroken chain of calibrations and comparisons);
- be independent from the satellite retrieval process;
- be accompanied by a complete estimate of uncertainty, including contributions from all FRM instruments and all data acquisition and processing steps;
- follow well-defined protocols/community-wide management practices and;
- be openly available for independent scrutiny.
 Here, guided by the International Vocabulary of Metrology (VIM) [BIPM et al. 2012], the original phrase has been truncated with the removal of the second part “[An uncertainty budget for all FRM ... measurements,] traceable where appropriate to the International System of Units/Système International d’unités (SI), ideally through a National Metrology Institute”. It is the measurement result that must be traceable to SI (as noted in the first mandatory characteristic), not the uncertainty estimate.
BIPM, IEC, IFCC, ILAC, ISO, IUPAC, IUPAP and OIML (JCGM), International Vocabulary of Metrology — Basic and General Concepts and Associated Terms (VIM), JCGM, 2012.
Banks, A.C.; Vendt, R.; Alikas, K.; Bialek, A.; Kuusk, J.; Lerebourg, C.; Ruddick, K.; Tilstone, G.; Vabson, V.; Donlon, C.; et al. Fiducial Reference Measurements for Satellite Ocean Colour (FRM4SOC), Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 1322, doi:10.3390/rs12081322.
Donlon, C.; Goryl, P. Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM) for Sentinel-3. In Proceedings of the Sentinel-3 Validation Team (S3VT) Meeting, ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, 26–29 November 2013.
Donlon, C.J.; Wimmer, W.; Robinson, I.; Fisher, G.; Ferlet, M.; Nightingale, T.; Bras, B. A., Second-Generation Blackbody System for the Calibration and Verification of Seagoing Infrared Radiometers. J. Atmospheric Ocean. Technol. 2014, 31, 1104–1127, doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00151.1.
Donlon, C.J.; Casal, T., Sentinel-3 Scientific Validation Team Implementation Plan, EOP-SM/2641/CD-cd, ESA, EUMETSAT, 2014
Zibordi, G. and Donlon, C.J.; Chapters 3 and 5, vol. 47, Zibordi, G. and Donlon, C.J., and Parr, A. C. Eds. Academic Press, 2014.