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Podcast & Audio - Janet Lansbury. “This book… is an absolute go to for all parents, therapists, anyone who works with, is, or knows parents of young children.

Podcast & Audio - Janet Lansbury

Online Presentation Tools. Michael Bierut: How to design a library that makes kids want to read. One search. all jobs. Indeed. QR Code Generator - Create QR codes here. QR Code Generator: QR Stuff Free Online QR Code Generator And Creator For Brochures, Print Advertising, Business Cards & Stickers. Poetry Foundation. Programming Librarian. Indian tea workers' conditions remain very poor. Image copyright Getty Images If you are drinking tea, I suggest you put down the cup right now because I've got bad news for you.

Indian tea workers' conditions remain very poor

You can forget those pretty pictures of happy women in saris on rolling green hillsides that you see on some tea packets. That is not the reality for most tea workers. Last year, I was part of a BBC team that revealed the appalling conditions for workers and their families on estates that grow tea for some of the biggest brands in the world. Fair World Project. About us. Calling all map nerds: Funky 'Atlas of Design' is back with Vol. 3.

In creating 'UFO Sightings,' designer John Nelson used data from reports spanning more than 100 years.

Calling all map nerds: Funky 'Atlas of Design' is back with Vol. 3

(Photo: John Nelson/Atlas of Design, Vol. 3) Every two years, experts at the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) gather to choose the best examples of contemporary cartography. The winning designs — from students, professors, designers and professional cartographers — are collected into a beautifully published volume titled the "Atlas of Design. " PUB to PDF. The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Early Retirement. Here at Mr.

The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Early Retirement

Money Mustache, we talk about all sorts of fancy stuff like investment fundamentals, lifestyle changes that save money, entrepreneurial ideas that help you make money, and philosophy that allows you to make these changes a positive thing instead of a sacrifice. In addition, the Internet presents us with retirement calculators, competing opinions from a million financial advisors and financial doomsayers, unpredictable inflation, and a wide distribution of income and spending patterns between readers. I reviewed my own path to age-30 retirement in “A brief History of the ‘Stash“, then I did a hypothetical calculation using two average teacher salaries to show how long it would take them to retire in “The Race to Retirement – Revisited“. Plugin-based content doesn't work on Chrome - Chrome Help.

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Most of these features are already included by website creators in a more secure way. NPAPI plugins no longer work. Online pdf converter. How to Size a Facebook Event Cover Photo. What's the Correct Facebook Event Image Size? Social Media Cheat Sheet 2016: Must-Have Image Sizes! Kids Yoga Story Kit: The Grateful Crane - A Story from Japan - Storytime Yoga. Product Description Kids Yoga Story Kit: The Grateful Crane - A Story from Japan Description: The Storytime Yoga® Kids Club Yoga Story Kit features the Japanese folktale of The Grateful Crane retold by pioneering storyteller and kids yoga teacher Sydney Solis.

Kids Yoga Story Kit: The Grateful Crane - A Story from Japan - Storytime Yoga

An old man frees a trapped crane and reaps unexpected gifts for his kindness to the bird. These completely downloadable and printable materials include the featured written story with accompanying Kamishibai storytelling cards, perfect for the e-reader or iPad to encourage retelling of the story orally by the parent or child. Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids-and How to Break the Trance: Nicholas Kardaras: 9781250097996: Amazon.com: Books. Seattle University. Drug Court Treatment: The Verdict: Intentional Drug Court Counseling, Therapy and Treatment Using the ABCs of Treatment (Criminal Justice and Addictions Treatment) (Volume 1): Stan Dokmanus: 9781514181614: Amazon.com: Books. Profile For Michael Bever. American Library Association. Teen Creates App So Bullied Kids Never Have To Eat Alone. School lunch can be intensely lonely when you don't have anyone to sit with.

Teen Creates App So Bullied Kids Never Have To Eat Alone

A new app aims to help change that. Tetra Images/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tetra Images/Getty Images. Beanstack: Reading Programs and Personalized Recommendations. Home. Kalu dharma that illuminates all. Home. Show your #eBookLove and celebrate Read an eBook Day with us on September 16. Mark your calendar for September 16th!

Show your #eBookLove and celebrate Read an eBook Day with us on September 16

OverDrive is celebrating the third annual International Read an eBook Day and you’re all invited to participate. This year, we’ll be giving out $1,000 content credits to a lucky 10 participating libraries and schools as well as tablets for your library users. Read an eBook Day is a yearly celebration of modern story telling.

It’s a day dedicated to promoting the convenience, capability and excitement digital reading provides and your library could win big just by joining the fun. Throughout the day on Friday, September 16 we’ll be using the hashtag #eBookLove to show how Team OverDrive is celebrating Read an eBook Day and we want your library and users to do the same. In the past we’ve seen libraries throw parties, use temporary tattoos and tweet out their #eBookLove in support of digital reading. Readers and libraries alike can visit the brand new Read an eBook Day website for more information.

OverDrive Resource Center. We are here to help you get the word out about your OverDrive digital library.

OverDrive Resource Center

Explore the free resources below to print, distribute, or share digitally. Questions? Contact your Account Specialist or email us at partnerservices@overdrive.com. Get the word out quickly and easily with these print-ready materials. Add your OverDrive URL to the editable field at the bottom and print in-house or through a local printer. 'Hillbilly Elegy' Recalls A Childhood Where Poverty Was 'The Family Tradition' This is FRESH AIR.

'Hillbilly Elegy' Recalls A Childhood Where Poverty Was 'The Family Tradition'

I'm Terry Gross. My guest, J.D. How to Put Free Ebooks on Your Amazon Kindle. The Amazon Kindle is a great ebook reader, but it's tightly tied to Amazon's ecosystem. If you have a Fire tablet or a smartphone, you can download other e-reading apps to beef up your library, but with the E Ink Kindles (including the Kindle$69.99 at Amazon, the Kindle Paperwhite$119.99 at Amazon, and the Kindle Voyage$199.99 at Amazon), you're pretty much tied to getting your content directly from Amazon.

Well, sort of. Using a bit of free software, you can take ebooks in the EPUB, Mobi, and PDF formats and zap them over to your Kindle lickety-split. Here's how to do it. EmailThe easiest way to put books on your Kindle is to do it via email. To get your Kindle's email address, go to www.amazon.com/myk using your PC's Web browser. Send to Kindle by E-mail. Endangered Species. You Are Here: Endangered Species Home » Interactive Website View our new interactive map to learn about endangered species success in your state or territory.

Launch Map » Foxes on Three California Islands Saved from Extinction in Record Time Thanks to Conservation Partnership Foxes that are unique to three Channel Islands off the southern coast of California went into the record books today having achieved the fastest-ever recovery of a mammal in the history of the Endangered Species Act. Learn More » Channel Island Fox. Elephants of the Tsunami: Jana Laiz: 9780977181834: Amazon.com: Books. Effective Out-of-School Time Reading Programs. Proficient readers often take the act of reading for granted. Whether we're glancing at street signs, reading the morning paper, or reviewing e-mail, reading is just one more thing we do as we go about our daily routines. For many children, however, learning to read is far from simple. Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) indicate that a large percentage of students are not meeting reading standards.

In 2003, just 31 percent of fourth-graders, and 32 percent of eighth-graders, performed at or above the proficient level in reading (National Center for Education Statistics, 2004). Resources - Summer Reading Programs - LibGuides at American Library Association. Freeware. Read It, Make It, Take It: A Year's Worth of Storytime Crafts. Epic! - Read Amazing Children's Books - Unlimited Library Including Flat Stanley, Scaredy Squirrel, Batman, and Many Others.

Aina Haina Public Library. ReadingGroupGuides.com. Amazon. 13 books for helping children with anxiety. Did you know that anxiety disorders affect one in eight children? Research shows that untreated children with anxiety disorders are at higher risk to perform poorly in school, miss out on important social experiences, and engage in substance abuse. (via Anxiety and Depression Association of America) I learned years ago that anxiety issues can be generational, due to environment and/or genetics and that the chances of me having children with anxiety disorders was much higher, due to the fact that I was diagnosed with my own.

Read That Again: Children's Book Reviews (Main Index Page) Special Topics (Read That AgaIn .com) Little Parachutes: Children's picture books about Working parents. The Great Big Book of FamiliesAuthor: Mary HoffmanIllustrator: Ros AsquithHow this book may help: Highlighting the fact that families come in all shapes and sizes, this book celebrates diversity, explaining how every personal situation is different. It's a good book for debunking the traditional storybook myth that happy families usually consist of mother, father and two children. It highlights how different humans are in other ways too, from the hobbies they choose, through to the way they think and what they choose to cook and eat. Project MUSE. Kalama resources. Class Subject Topics and Subtopics followed by Kalama Teacher resource links Class Subject Websites Fine Arts.

Waldorfmaui. TinyCat. Reading Lists. World Literature Today. New Books: Kitty Lit. Digital Inclusion Survey 2013. Welcome to our interactive mapping tool! Our data visualization tool maps all public libraries using the FY2013 Public Library Survey data file released by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for library locations, names, and other library demographic data. The tool overlays Census data (demographic, economic, health, and education) from the American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year dataset (2009-2013). The map also includes selected 2013 and 2014 Digital Inclusion Survey data from participating libraries, thus showing the roles that libraries play regarding digital inclusion in their communities. A Conversation With Jamie Holmes, Author of 'Nonsense,' About Humans' Discomfort With Uncertainty. Gary Noesner is a former FBI hostage negotiator.

The Benefits Of Being Comfortable With Uncertainty. About. Who We Are. The Long Now Foundation - Fostering Long-Term Thinking. Ginger Software Company Overview. Ginger’s mission is to remove language barriers between people by enabling everyone to communicate better and faster. Ginger creates apps and products that help people communicate more productively and efficiently on their mobile devices and desktop computers. Our goal is to offer an enjoyable, productive writing experience that is both efficient and fun.