Feb 28, 2013

Nairobi National Park



http://www.kws.org/parks/parks_reserves/NANP.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairobi_National_Park
http://nairobinationalpark.wildlifedirect.org/
http://www.magicalkenya.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=270&Itemid=221
http://fonnap.wordpress.com/

Creativity
http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/26/a-12-year-old-learns-to-scare-lions-richard-turere-at-ted2013/
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/51172/kenya+boy+13+gains+fame+for+protecting+livestock+from+lions/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLUS8ph9RCc
http://talentsearch.ted.com/video/Richard-Turere-age-13-My-invent

Need for Programmers?


http://www.zdnet.com/code-org-solving-our-cs-shortage-1-teacher-1-student-at-a-time-7000011841/?s_cid=rCOMBINED
http://www.code.org/
http://www.punkish.org/We-Do-Need-More-Programmers
http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/we-need-more-polyglot-programmers-678






Software Developers
http://computinged.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/we-need-to-produce-far-more-software-developers-than-programmers-how-do-we-change/
http://www.netmagazine.com/features/10-things-web-developers-must-know-become-truly-amazing

Kirkpatrick: The Chinese Experience in Guyana

Margery's fatherVictor Ting-A-Keehttp://www.guyanatimesinternational.com/?p=23556
http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2012/02/24/margery-kirkpatrick-launches-new-book/
http://guyanachronicle.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=39829%3Anow-on-bookshelves&Itemid=12
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=249036441896975&id=115337495237162
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5827057.Margery_Kirkpatrick
http://guyaneseonline.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/chinese-how-a-disastrous-fire-in-1913-aided-integration/
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2013/news/stories/02/05/margery-kirkpatrick-reflects-on-her-ancestors/
http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2010/08/23/chinese-women-celebrate-150-years-in-guyana/
http://www.landofsixpeoples.com/news301/nc301174.htm
http://www.sdnp.org.gy/chinese/articles.html
http://gynewsonline.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/chinese-women-heritage-for-public-%E2%80%A8display-in-august-descendants-being-sought/
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/features/08/19/history-this-week-44/
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/archives/08/27/chinese-women-have-made-sterling-contributions-to-guyana-%E2%80%93-hinds/
http://www.demerarawaves.com/index.php/201301285384/Latest/chinese-usher-in-year-of-the-snake.html

Feb 27, 2013

The Bible (History Channel)


http://www.history.com/shows/the-bible
http://www.myrecordjournal.com/meriden/article_9468b45c-8141-11e2-9bd3-001a4bcf887a.html
http://www.channelguidemagblog.com/index.php/2013/02/25/the-bible-history-channel/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_(TV_series)
http://video.foxnews.com/v/2193852431001/
http://screenrant.com/the-bible-history-channel-mark-burnett-mcrid-117156/
http://www.churchleaders.com/pastors/pastor-articles/164466-the-bible-miniseries-main-message-is-faith-and-love-producer-says.html


Earth Under Water (BBC)

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BBC Documentary: Earth Under Water

Published on Jan 15, 2013
A disaster waiting to happen in Earth Under Water ….
Imagine sea levels rising to over 70 metres… Eminent climatologists think another Great Flood is inevitable if current CO2 emissions continue. Based on research by NASA astro-biologist and paleontologist Professor Peter Ward and a group of respected American climatologists.
Earth Under Water is an eye-opening documentary uses scientific evidence past and present, archive footage, location photography and CGI to explore the terrifying consequences should the atmosphere’s CO2 levels treble over the next 100 to 300 years, as predicted.
Step by step, it paints a chilling picture of the world as the sea levels rise from between one and 70 metres, unravelling the science behind this cataclysm, revealing when it could strike and what its impact would be on humanity.
The film also questions experts and politicians about what measures can be taken now to stop the current rise of CO2 emissions, and explores how extreme engineering will buy us time. But the message of this film is stark, spelling out in graphic detail the Earth’s apocalyptic future that we have been avoiding.
http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Earth_Under_Water
http://kat.ph/bbc-earth-under-water-720p-x264-ac3-hdtv-t6986079.html

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rY0sq9nrvF0
https://twitter.com/First_Power/status/291705619612835841

Comments
http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=rY0sq9nrvF0

Feb 26, 2013

The Hamilton Project

The Hamilton Projecthttp://www.hamiltonproject.org/
http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/hamiltonproject
https://www.facebook.com/hamiltonproject
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hamilton-project-audio/id472371749
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution
http://www.hamiltonproject.org/papers/education_is_the_key_to_better_jobs/
http://www.hamiltonproject.org/multimedia/photo_galleries/
http://www.hamiltonproject.org/about_us/our_people/michael_greenstone/

Chef Marcus Samuelsson


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Samuelsson
http://www.marcussamuelsson.com/
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/top-lists/black-history-month-chef-marcus-samuelsson/

Articles
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/top-lists/larrys-blog-the-story-behind-harlems-famed-foodie-chef-marcus/
http://current.com/shows/the-gavin-newsom-show/videos/chef-marcus-samuelsson-explores-the-lack-of-african-american-chefs/

Book
http://www.amazon.ca/Yes-Chef-Memoir-Marcus-Samuelsson/dp/0385342608
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/books/yes-chef-by-marcus-samuelsson.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1361931911-xLHYXZbbAJOjteDO6EM0gg

The Encyclopaedia of British Slave-ownership

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
The LBS website is the umbrella for two projects based at UCL tracing the impact of slave-ownership on the formation of modern Britain: the ESRC-funded Legacies of British Slave-ownership project, now complete, and the ESRC and AHRC-funded Structure and significance of British Caribbean slave-ownership 1763-1833, running from 2013-2015.
The Encyclopaedia contains the identity of all slave-owners in the British Caribbean at the time slavery ended in 1833.

Of Interest
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/59983

Plant-based Diets

http://gurmeet.net/food/plant-based-diets/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant-based_diet
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/slideshows/7-reasons-to-choose-a-plant-based-diet
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-952/PlantBased-Diet-for-Beginners-How-to-Get-Started.html

Naomi Campbell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Campbell
http://www.naomicampbell.com/
https://www.facebook.com/NaomiCampbell

Articles
http://perezhilton.com/cocoperez/2013-02-25-oscars-2013-naomi-campbell-red-carpet-vanity-fair-party
http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/naomi-campbell-says-the-face-is-no-top-model-clone-1.1150116
http://models.com/models/naomi-campbell
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20675162,00.html

Feb 25, 2013

The Benefits of Turmeric


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmeric
http://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatmentsandsideeffects/complementaryandalternativemedicine/herbsvitaminsandminerals/turmeric
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-02-24/diet/37269972_1_turmeric-curcumin-yellow-colour
http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/stories/the-amazing-health-benefits-of-turmeric
http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/20-health-benefits-of-turmeric.html
http://www.bewellbuzz.com/general/benefits-of-turmeric-for-skin-and-more/
http://naturalsociety.com/overcoming-pharmaceuticals-top-health-benefits-of-turmeric/

The Mediterranean Diet


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_diet
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/mediterranean-diet/CL00011
http://oldwayspt.org/programs/mediterranean-foods-alliance/what-mediterranean-diet

Articles
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2013/02/25/mediterranean-diet-slashes-risk-of-heart-disease-new-england-journal-of-medicine/
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1200303
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/benefits-mediterranean-diet
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryhusten/2013/02/25/the-mediterranean-diet-the-new-gold-standard/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/health/mediterranean-diet-can-cut-heart-disease-study-finds.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Saints Students win Fire Prevention Month 2012 Awards


Fire Prevention Month.jpg

Congratulations to Saints students Mariam Khan, Alisha Singh (Grade 11), and Akshay Bankay (Grade 8) who were Award Winners in the Secondary School Essay Competition  sponsored by the Fire Advisory Board at the Ministry of Home Affairs, in observance of Fire Prevention Month October 2012. The topic established for participants to premise their essays upon was "Discuss your understanding of Fire Prevention Measures that can be taken in various environments such as homes and factories to adequately deal with these situations. Also how would you seek to educate the public on how fire and loss prevention plays a bigger role in your everyday life?"

St. Stanislaus College was announced to be the only school with winners from both the Junior and Senior categories. Congratulations also to teachers Ms. Glen and Ms. Baird who were responsible for working with students in the Senior and Junior categories respectively.

A Prize-Giving Ceremony was held on January 31st, 2013 at the GNS Sports Complex on Carifesta Avenue and was attended by very distinguished personalities, including the Hon. Minister of Home Affairs.

Continue to excel, Saints!

http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2013/02/01/fire-prevention-seminar-growing-in-stature/
http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2011/10/18/firemen-hold-exhibition-at-fogarty%E2%80%99s/

Deepa Mehta




Deepa Mehta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepa_Mehta
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/deepa-mehta
http://www.tribute.ca/people/deepa-mehta/9655/
http://www.hamiltonmehta.com/
https://www.facebook.com/deepa.mehta?group_id=0

Midnight's Children
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight's_Children_(film)
http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCABRE90T0L020130130
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/film-reviews/midnights-children-deepa-mehta-captures-the-scope-of-salman-rushdies-tale-but-not-its-spirit/article4823931/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/deepa-mehta-sidestepping-midnights-stalkers/article5156472/
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/salman-rushdie-deepa-mehta-movies-416776
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/deepa-mehta--the-battle-behind-rushdies-film-debut-8413256.html

Videos
http://allangregg.tvo.org/story/deepa-mehta-and-salman-rushdie
http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/guest-page/oscar-nominated-director-deepa-mehta.html

Feb 24, 2013

Saint Thomas Christians


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Thomas_Christians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Thomas_Christian_churches
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Federation-of-St-Thomas-Christians/208775825830522
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14678a.htm
http://www.nasranifoundation.org/
http://www.srite.de/index?id=2&cikk=84
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/115623/Christians-of-Saint-Thomas
http://gnosis.org/thomasbook/ch16.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/april-24-2009/ancient-christians-in-india/2754/
http://nasrani.net/2009/03/16/the-indian-christians-of-st-thomas-by-dr-leslie-brown/
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=746837
http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/ancient-church-syro-malabar.php

The Nine Rasas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasa_(aesthetics)
http://www.rasas.info/
http://onlinebharatanatyam.com/2008/03/10/navarasa-the-nine-moods/
http://theaterofoneworld.org/2011/08/31/what-is-a-rasaboxes-actor-a-musician-of-emotions-according-to-a-new-actor-training-system/
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070117031642AArHqCO
http://www.gaurijog.com/emotions-navras.html

Rafi
http://bollyviewer-oldisgold.blogspot.ca/2010/06/navrasas-9-emotions-of-rafi.html


Sons of Providence

Front Cover
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Brown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(Rhode_Island)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/29/arts/29iht-bookmar.1842266.html?_r=0
http://bookwormsdinner.blogspot.ca/2013/02/review-sons-of-providence-by-charles_17.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/31/back-to-blood-tom-wolfe-review
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060801350.html
http://usslave.blogspot.ca/2012/03/sons-of-providence-brown-brothers-slave.html

Book Review: Sons of Providence-The Brown Brothers, the Slave

http://books.google.ca/books/about/Sons_of_Providence.html?id=j6UCXTxPDK0C&redir_esc=y

Preliminary Reading
http://library.brown.edu/firstreadings/

Of Interest
http://guyaneseonline.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/history-american-rum-and-slavery/

Tom Wolfe


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wolfe
http://www.tomwolfe.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_Blood

Books
http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Wolfe/e/B000APTFNS

Back to Blood

Book Review: Sons of Providence-The Brown Brothers, the Slave

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/10/15/121015crbo_books_wood
http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tom-wolfe/back-to-blood/9780316036313/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/tom-wolfes-latest-toss-it-on-the-bonfire/article4862878/

Kalpana Saroj


http://www.kalpanasaroj.com/
http://careerpath.info/KalpanaSaroj.aspx
http://www.sify.com/news/kalpana-saroj-india-s-original-slumdog-billionaire-news-mumbai-jegsITdhdff.html
https://www.facebook.com/kalpana.saroj.7
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-18186908
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/18/world/la-fg-india-caste-20120419
http://kamanitubes.com/index.aspx
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-07-29/news/29829281_1_dalit-kamani-tubes-ktl
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/tag/kalpana-saroj/
http://www.matpal.com/2013/01/kalpana-saroj-biography.html
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/a-low-born-dalit-top-business-mogul
http://tehelka.com/i-faced-the-goondas-who-threatened-to-kill-me-by-getting-a-gun-licence/

Videos
http://www.aljazeera.com/video/asia/2012/04/201242582512678132.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPud5LSt74I

Feb 23, 2013

The Lost Gospels


http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1006499,00.html
http://www.gospel-mysteries.net/lost-gospels.html
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/euangelion/2012/12/why-the-lost-gospels-did-not-make-the-canonical-cut/
http://www.thenazareneway.com/legend_of_the_lost_gospel.htm
http://www.reversespins.com/magdalene.html

Articles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Owen-Jones
http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/life/False_Gospels_On_TV__We_Deserve_Better/25537/p1/
http://www.ttem.org/forum/index.php?topic=2263.0
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/june/7.26.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0406_060406_judas.html
http://carm.org/myths-about-lost-books-of-new-testament
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5327692
http://www.halexandria.org/dward747.htm

Videos
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074t48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_9MfFewdTo
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-lost-gospel-of-judas/


The Evolution of Dinosaurs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_dinosaurs
http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/dinosaurevolution/a/dinevolution.htm
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/communication/boulton/evolution.html
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/dinosaurs/dinosaur-evolution.htm
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/284/5423/2137.abstract
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/archive/xpeditions/lessons/17/g912/serenoevol.html?ar_a=1
http://news.yahoo.com/dinosaurs-grew-worlds-longest-necks-154618663.html
http://www.livescience.com/3945-history-dinosaurs.html
http://paleobiology.si.edu/dinosaurs/info/everything/evo_1.html
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/dinosaur-evolution

Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DlK0yEJSTo  1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFqx4Est-Ps  2
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/dinosaurs/dinosaurevolution.html

Of Interest
https://www.rt.com/news/325694-first-dinosaurs-million-years/

Dambisa Moyo

Dambisa Moyo, author of Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way For Africa', at the Hay festival last year

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambisa_Moyo
http://www.dambisamoyo.com/
https://twitter.com/dambisamoyo
https://www.facebook.com/dmoyo
http://www.leighbureau.com/speaker.asp?id=556
http://www.munkdebates.com/debates/foreign-aid/pro/dambisa-moyo
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dambisa-moyo/aid-ironies-a-response-to_b_207772.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/jun/24/natural-resources-and-development-china
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine/katine-chronicles-blog/2010/jan/27/aidanddevelopment-news
http://africaunchained.blogspot.ca/2009/02/dambisa-moyo.html
Dambisa Moyo on Foreign Aid - StreamGuys
http://mariemejamme.com/blog/tag/dambisa-moyo/
http://www.unz.org/Author/MoyoDambisa
http://bloodandmilk.org/2009/03/27/dambisa-moyo-and-dead-aid/
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/04/10/where-dambisa-moyos-right-and-where-shes-wrong/

Videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/dambisamoyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIPvlQOCfAQ

TED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zue_Mu3L8xs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QjiiM4jhbk

Dr. Shakil Afridi

doctor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakil_Afridi
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pakistan-Free-Dr-Shakil-Afridi-NOW/144262775690921
http://timesleader.com/stories/Act-now-to-free-Afridi,158951
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201301/doctor-cia-blood-of-bin-laden-january-2013
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/12/11/hero-doctor-who-helped-nail-bin-laden-tortured-in-pakistani-prison-says-family/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/12/dr-afridi-s-warning-pakistan-s-hatred-of-the-united-states.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19554551
http://tribune.com.pk/story/413147/revealed-dr-afridi-sought-asylum-in-us-says-investigators/
http://dawn.com/2012/10/13/satellite-phone-recovered-from-dr-afridi-in-peshawar-jail/
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=19&ved=0CGwQFjAIOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fentertainment%2F2013%2F02%2F22%2Fgroup-urges-hollywood-to-use-oscars-to-help-free-jailed-pakistani-doctor-who%2F&ei=gckoUZzjPMS80QHzzYCAAg&usg=AFQjCNFgl5htp8tXUhj4t0vviRed4vLCkw
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/24/cut-off-aid-to-pakistan-and-free-hero-doctor-who-helped-us-find-bin-laden/
http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/2013/02/19/i-dont-get-this-how-could-we-just-leave-dr-shakil-afridi-behind-after-all-he-did-for-us/

The Secrets of Happy Families

PHOTO: This book cover image released by William Morrow shows "The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More," by Bruce Feiler. (AP Photo/William Morrow)
http://brucefeiler.com/books/the-secrets-of-happy-families/

http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/15-secrets-to-have-a-happy-family
http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/qa-the-unconventional-secrets-of-happy-families/

Book Reviews
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/22/172722895/book-review-the-secrets-of-happy-families
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-secrets-of-happy-families-by-bruce-feiler/2013/02/22/f827ffbc-6e30-11e2-8b8d-e0b59a1b8e2a_story.html
http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Author+Bruce+Feiler+spills+secrets+happier+home+life/8002348/story.html


The Perfect Runner

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http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episode/the-perfect-runner.html
http://www.theperfectrunner.com/
http://clearwaterdoc.ca/the_films/the-perfect-runner/
http://30bananasadaysucks.com/2012/11/humans-the-perfect-runnerrunning/

Articles
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/03/15/the-perfect-runner_n_1346364.html
http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/03/14/the-perfect-runner-cbc-doc-is-a-journey-from-sore-knees-to-a-125k-race-in-the-rockies/
http://runningmagazine.ca/2012/02/sections/news/the-perfect-runner-premieres-in-march/
http://www.news.ualberta.ca/article.aspx?id=9E77460963AD4D2A800918D57BD66306

Video
http://vimeo.com/36338816

Of Interest
http://thegreatdistancerunners.de/
http://run-down.com/guests/je_black_athletes_p1.php
http://run-down.com/guests/je_black_athletes_p2.php
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/11/what-makes-a-great-olympian-sometimes-it-s-genetics.html

Great North African Runners


http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2012/08/08/feature-01
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Algerian_long-distance_runners
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Algerian_middle_distance_runners
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tunisian_long-distance_runners
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Moroccan_long-distance_runners
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Moroccan_middle_distance_runners




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoufik_Makhloufi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hicham_El_Guerrouj
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/181744/Hicham-El-Guerrouj
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noureddine_Morceli
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassiba_Boulmerka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Gammoudi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habiba_Ghribi
http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/tunisia/habiba-ghribi
http://www.diamondleague.com/athletes/14303124.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%C3%AFd_Aouita
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasna_Benhassi

Articles
http://www.france24.com/en/20120808-tunisia-runner-ghribi-women-rights-equality-compliment-constitution-ennahda-olympic-games
 http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/eyes-tunisia-0022316
http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2008/08/14/feature-02
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/04/sports/track-and-field-algeria-s-morceli-sets-another-world-record.html

Videos
http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video/algerian-gold-medallist-receives-heros-welcome/1ylx603ap?cpkey=4e62eefc-1066-46e9-b93b-24d9248068f8%257c%257c%257c%257c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvCsj7eJKKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOvgxVjO-8o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2B3A6cOJK4

Feb 22, 2013

Jamaica's Runners

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_in_Jamaica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10825486
http://www.davisenterprise.com/forum/opinion-columns/secrets-of-jamaicas-sprinting-success/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-1041958/Its-genes-New-research-says-Jamaican-runners-born-Bolt.html
http://www.npr.org/2012/05/04/151956595/a-need-for-speed-inside-jamaicas-sprint-factory
http://www.english-online.at/news-articles/sports/caribbean-runners-from-jamaica.htm
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/21/sport/olympics-jamaica-sprinting-heroes-bolt
http://www.thestar.com/sports/olympics/2012/07/20/london_2012_jamaican_sprint_factory_producing_some_of_the_fastest_runners_on_earth.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/jamaica/7721427/The-young-runners-of-Jamaicas-sprint-factory-in-action.html

Kenya's Runners


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Kenyan_long-distance_runners
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/why-kenyans-make-such-great-runners-a-story-of-genes-and-cultures/256015/
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/28/157503759/kenyan-runners-dash-to-olympic-gold-and-wealth
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2003/11/why_are_kenyansfast_runners.html
http://www.runnersworld.com/elite-runners/study-calves-elite-kenyan-runners-have-greater-elasticity
http://kenyanrunner.com/

Ethiopia's Runners

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ethiopian_athletes
http://www.ethiopians.com/Athletes.html
http://www.sportsscientists.com/2007/06/ethiopian-running-dynasty-what-is.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/apr/06/ethiopian-home-worlds-greatest-runners

Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BMSw4kL-zw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIFBU3-H20M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sPgrDAIwak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndTT1qgDKqw

Feb 20, 2013

The Second Vatican Council


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/
http://vatican2voice.org/2need/need.htm
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/v1.html
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/624014/Second-Vatican-Council
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Paul06/p6closin.htm

Articles
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2012/oct/11/second-vatical-council-50-years-catholicism
http://www.osv.com/tabid/7621/itemid/9793/Second-Vatican-Council.aspx
http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/ianker/vatican2.html
http://ncronline.org/council
http://www.vatican.va/jubilee_2000/magazine/documents/ju_mag_01051997_p-21_en.html
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2013/02/tough-talk-about-the-second-vatican-council-not-pretty/
http://www.crossroadsinitiative.com/library_article/856/Marriage_and_Family_Vatican_II.html
http://www.sspx.org/sspx_faqs/q6_vatican_ii.htm

Pope's Recollection
http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-to-romes-priests-the-second-vatican-council-a

Traditionalists
http://www.traditioninaction.org/

Escape from Planet Earth

US Advance Posterhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Planet_Earth
https://www.facebook.com/EscapeFromPlanetEarthMovie


Marvin Peart
http://www.barnabashealth.org/hospitals/newark_beth_israel/press/2013/escape-planet-earth.html
http://www.fandango.com/marvinpeart/overview/p345437
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/movies/principal/0,,2326181,00.html
http://kids.baristanet.com/2013/02/major-motion-picture-screening-at-njpac-escape-from-planet-earth/

Videos
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/2174250680001/weinstein-companys-success-with-escape-from-planet-earth/

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEM_fields
http://puregrowthcapital.blogspot.ca/2011/11/stem-education-in-america.html#!/2011/11/stem-education-in-america.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/stem-education
http://successfulstemeducation.org/
http://www.usnews.com/topics/subjects/stem_education
http://www.poly.edu/k12stem
http://www.nga.org/cms/stem
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/10/199153.htm
http://www.edudemic.com/14-best-resources-web-stem-educators/
http://www.edudemic.com/5-important-things-come-educational-summits-2014/
http://www.stemeducationawareness.ca/

Caribbean
Increasing the Caribbean's human capital in the STEM (Science ...
http://cadsti.org/
Education Reform - Caribbean Science Foundation
 Caribbean Scientific Union (CCC) | STEM Connector
http://education.cu-portland.edu/blog/math-teacher-toolkit/?source=seo-taboola

http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/features/in-the-diaspora/08/27/science-technology-engineering-and-math-stem-and-the-caribbean-science-foundation/Guyana
http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2013/02/20/stem-has-important-role-in-national-development/

http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2011/09/04/education-for-tomorrow/

http://www.guyanatimesgy.com/?p=1492


http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/features/in-the-diaspora/08/27/science-technology-engineering-and-math-stem-and-the-caribbean-science-foundation/




Guyanese participation in Caribbean science and engineering ...

http://gina.gov.gy/wp/?p=7603
http://www.guyanatimesinternational.com/?p=24338
http://www.guyanachronicle.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55611:guyanese-students-eager-to-vie-for-caribbean-stem-awards--national-competition-set-for-march-16&catid=2:news&Itemid=3

Feb 18, 2013

Pamela Mordecai

Ten Questions, with Pamela Mordecaihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Mordecai
http://www.pamelamordecai.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pamela.mordecai
http://www.hswliteraryagency.humber.ca/news/?tag=pamela-mordecai
http://www.openbooktoronto.com/pamela_mordecai/main
http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/ten_questions_with_pamela_mordecai

Erna Brodber


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erna_Brodber

Velma Pollard


http://www.peepaltreepress.com/author_display.asp?au_id=63
Velma Pollard - York University
http://www.mona.uwi.edu/notices/monaconf/profiles/pollard.htm
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=17472
http://www.spaceswords.com/?page_id=909

Olive Senior


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Senior
http://www.olivesenior.com/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/dancing-lessons-by-olive-senior/article596250/
http://diasporadialogues.com/writers/profiles/olive-senior/
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=14910
http://www.insomniacpress.com/author.php?id=134

Shahbaz Bhatti


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahbaz_Bhatti
http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/tag/shahbaz-bhatti/
http://www.sbmt.org/
http://www.newyorkencounter.org/2013-schedule/2013/1/19/freedom-in-politics-the-story-of-shahbaz-bhatti.html

Blasphemy Laws
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/canadas-office-of-religious-freedom-should-protect-arrested-indonesian-atheist-1613918.htm

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBTBqUJomRE

Mamphela Ramphele


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamphela_Ramphele


http://www.citypress.co.za/politics/full-speech-mamphela-ramphele-rekindling-the-south-african-dream/
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Mamphela-Ramphele-unveils-political-plans-20130218

Richard Allsopp

Richard Allsopp: lexicographer and teacher
http://caribbeanchronicle.com/Richard_Allsopp.html

Richard Allsopp enjoyed one of the most significant academic and intellectual careers in the Commonwealth Caribbean. He was the leading lexicographer of the English spoken and written in the region and edited the Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage. Though ill for a number of years he managed to finish a supplement which is due for publication soon.

He was born Stanley Reginald Richard Allsopp in 1923, in Georgetown, British Guiana, the eldest of four boys. One brother died in adolescence, the others had long and distinguished careers in public service. He won a scholarship to the leading boys’ school, Queen’s College, in 1936.

This began a long relationship with the school, for he taught there before and after he left to do a degree in England and he became its acting headmaster. There too he met Forbes Burnham, later Prime Minister, then President, of an independent Guyana. Burnham would best Allsopp in the competition for the most prestigious scholarship in 1942.

The region in the 1930s was experiencing political unrest: the Depression had, as with other agricultural economies, started in the 1920s and by the mid-1930s was leading to strikes. The demand for self-government and a federation of the British West Indian territories grew. The intellectual influences were also becoming more favourable to nationalism.

In the first two decades of the 20th century two works had been published locally on English and Creole in British Guiana. Norman E. Cameron, who taught at Queen’s College and was still there when Allsopp became a permanent member of staff, published his Evolution of the Negro (1929 and 1934) examining the African background to the history of British Guiana. A. R. F. Webber published his history of British Guiana in 1931, and West Indians were beginning to publish their writings not only in a growing number of local magazines but also abroad.

Claude McKay from Jamaica, C. L. R. James and Alfred Mendes from Trinidad would all have novels published abroad. From British Guiana, Edgar Mittleholzer would publish his first novel Corentyne Thunder in 1941. Allsopp belonged to a generation shaped and inspired to greater confidence by these events.

After briefly teaching at Queen’s College before going to England to take a degree in French at the University of London he returned to teach there and was also an extramural teacher for the newly founded University College of the West Indies. At Queen’s he was known for his exacting style of teaching. His great ability meant that in 1962, when the last British principal left, he took over the school. Unfortunately, by then British Guiana had descended into a period of violence and unrest, caused by local political rivalries and abetted by outside influences. The ethnic tensions invaded even the school, and the traumas of this period remained with Allsopp as with most Guyanese who had experienced it.

He was relieved to take up an appointment with the University of the West Indies as it had become and could not, a few years later, be tempted by Burnham’s offer to head the University of Guyana, even though several of his Queen’s colleagues had moved there.

Joining the newly established Barbados campus of the University of the West Indies in 1963 as its first lecturer in English, Allsopp was influential in its development, serving as vice-dean and chairing the division of Survey Courses and Social Sciences. The most significant of its survey courses was Use of English, which introduced students on both the other campuses, in Jamaica and Trinidad, to the varieties of Standard English and Creoles of the West Indies. He became the first public orator of the campus and served on its council and senate. In 1971 he started his Caribbean Lexicography Project. By the time he retired he was Reader but was then appointed to an honorary chair and later honoured with a doctor of letters degree.

The seeds of this project lay in a translation from French when he was an undergraduate. Allsopp’s “the rain held up” instead of “it stopped raining” met with no approval from either the lecturer or his fellow students. When he began to teach French on his return to his old school he started to collect evidence of the differences between Standard English and Standard Guianese English to help his pupils. This began his shift from French to English. He published his first articles on the topic in the new local literary journal Kyk-Over-Al, founded and edited by the poet A. J.Seymour. His new interest in language led to further academic work in linguistics: in 1958 he received a distinction for his London MA dissertation; in 1959 he attended the first International Conference on Creole languages at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and received a PhD from the University of London in 1962. All this had been accomplished while he taught full-time.

Ambitious plans to produce a West Indian version of F. G. Cassidy and R. B. LePage’s Dictionary of Jamaican English (1967) which was based on historical principles, soon disappeared as impracticable. The decision was made to concentrate on contemporary usage. The project, however, was directed not at the Creoles of the West Indies (basilects) but the most prestigious forms of English (acrolect) and the variety intermediate between that and Creole (mesolect).

What it did share in common with the Creole specialists was a recognition that much in the way of grammar and syntax had been inherited from Africa. It was intended to be useful in education at all levels. The collection of data involved workshops in most of the territories and was expensive. The Government of Guyana provided US$100,000 from 1975 when it seemed that the project would founder. Even Allsopp despaired of its ever being finished. Fortunately, with the support of colleagues and his third wife, Jeannette, who contributed a supplement on the French and Spanish names of flora and fauna, it was finally published in 1996.

A supplement, Allsopp’s last academic work, will soon appear. In 2004 he published A Book of Afric Caribbean Proverbs. The Lexicography Project continues under the direction of Jeannette and the French and Spanish supplements continue to appear.

Having contributed much to Caribbean intellectual life Allsopp was honoured by the Barbados Government and received the Guyana Literary Prize and a doctorate of letters from the University of the West Indies.

He is survived by his wife, Jeannette, and his four children.

Richard Allsopp, lexicographer and teacher, was born on January 23, 1923. He died on June 3, 2009, aged 86

Jean Rhys

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5291701/The-Blue-Hour-a-Portrait-of-Jean-Rhys-by-Lillian-Pizzichini-review.html
http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/rhysjean/index.htm
Jean Rhys (1890-1979) - pseudonym of Ella Gwendoline
http://caribbeanchronicle.com/Jean_Rhys.html

She was born Ella Rees Williams to a Creole mother and a Welsh-born doctor in Roseau, on the Windward Island of Dominica. As a white girl in a predominantly black community, Rhys felt socially and intellectually isolated; in 1907 she left the island for schooling in England, returning only once, in 1936. Although Rhys's attitude to her birthplace remained ambivalent throughout her life, the Caribbean shaped her sensibility. She remained nostalgic for the emotional vitality of its black peoples, and the conflict between its beauty and its violent history became enmeshed in the tensions of her own often-fraught personality.

Rhys's Dominican background is important to her works, playing a part in both her longer fictions like Voyage in the Dark, and in short stories such as "The Day they Burned the Books." Dominica is the most rugged of the Caribbean islands. Its peaks rise to more than 5000 feet despite being only 29 miles long. The violent contrasts between dense vegetation, deep gorges, waterfalls and stretches of arid wasteland are totally unlike the atmosphere that Rhys was presented with upon her arrival in Britain. The irreconcileability of the landscapes is evoked in Wide Sargasso Sea when Rochester's attitude to the beauty is to mistrust its lushness -- "what an extreme green!"

Rhys identified with the Negro community in her childhood, and indeed throughout her life, although she came to realise that her world could never align itself with that of her nursemaid, Meta, and other Negro mentors. She envied the Negro community its vitality and often contrasts the sterility of the white world with the richness and splendour of black life. Themes of attempted friendship with black girls recur in her work, an obvious example being the figures of Tia and Christophine in Wide Sargasso Sea, but Anna Morgan in Voyage in the Dark also attempts to find a friend among the Negro community.

Rhys's early life paralleled that of other postcolonial writers who have felt themselves betrayed by the reality of Britain; it was only when she was in her seventies that she found a social niche in England. Shaped by her instinctive drives and created out of the struggle to comprehend her own isolated predicament; her writing was obstinately unconventional. In part, this prevented her work from receiving due recognition for much of her lifetime.

Rhys's short fiction shows a remarkable variety of themes. A significant number of stories recall her childhood in the Caribbean and range from a girl's cruel sexual awakening ("Goodbye Marcus, Goodbye Rose") to incisive sketches of the narrowness of small-island life ("The Day They Burned the Books"). Others, such as "Vienne," reflect Rhys's restless bohemian life in Europe. In "Let Them Call it Jazz," she assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parallel her won. However, although Rhys declared "I have only ever written about myself," it is important that her life and her writing not be confused. Her first published novel was Postures (1928, American title Quartet: A Novel, 1929). While it lacks the confidence of her later work, in the character of Marya Zelli it introduced what was to become the recognisably Rhys heroine -- sensitive, sexually attractive, and vulnerable, with a tendency to self-defeat. It also shows Rhys's stylistic control in moving within characters and in observing them objectively, without irony.

In After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (1930), the heroine is Julia Martin, who is recovering from the experience of sexual betrayal and attempting a futile liaison with the decent but inadequate Mr Horsfield. The moral descent is completed in Good Morning Midnight (1939), a brilliant evocation of psychic disorientation and despair. The heroine, Sasha Jensen, remembers a life of love and defeat and faces the ultimate darkness suggested by the novel's title. Told in first person narrative, alternating between the past tense and the continuous present, Good Morning, Midnight is a technical tour de force.

Voyage in the Dark (1934), Rhys's third published but first-written novel, is her most autobiographical work of fiction. Its heroine, Anna Morgan, aged nineteen, has come to England from Dominica. The novel opens with a compelling evocation of the Caribbean, its colours, sights, smells, and warmth. As the novel recounts Anna's attempt to come to terms with her new life the inner narrative traces a remembered life in the Caribbean.

Rhys disappeared from public view until 1958, when the BBC dramatised her Good Morning, Midnight. The publication of Wide Sargasso Sea followed in 1966. Jean Rhys's great-grandfather, John Potter Lockhart, acquired a plantation in Dominica in 1824. After his death in 1837 his widow was left to run the estate. The riots in 1844 following Emancipation (see Slavery) led to the destruction of the estate and the burning of the house. Rhys visited the plantation and was affected by the experience. An awareness of this may help to explain some of the more ambiguous attitudes in Wide Sargasso Sea, such as Antoinette's caustic remarks to Christophine and Tia about their blackness. Rhys's own background, as well as Antoinette's, was that of the former slave-owning Creole community.

Rhys's final years brought fame and freedom from financial anxiety, but no work of similar importance. She published a collection of new short stories, Sleep it off Lady, and worked on her autobiography, unfinished at death, published posthumously as Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography (1979). Her letters were published in 1984 in England as Jean Rhys's Letters: 1931-1966, edited by Francis Wyndham and Diana Melly.



This project was completed under the direction of Dr Leon Litvack as a requirement for the MA degree in Modern Literary Studies at the Queen's University of Belfast. The site is evolving and will include contributions from future generations of MA students on other writers and themes.