http://dpsmusings.today.com A work in progress and in time an eclectic mix Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:05:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Access to a library can be a pass time that allows children to escape to meet characters such as Harry Potter, or enter a magical forest, or meet Aslan in Narnia, the opportunities are endless. It can also be a good way to encourage your child or pupil to pick up ... http://dpsmusings.today.com/2009/04/12/national-library-week-april-12th-18th-2009/ (Picture from connecttheworld.wordpress.com)  Earth Day will be celebrated in the USA on April 22nd , so there is still time to sign up and volunteer for various activities across the USA, check out www.earthday.net. May be you’ve already volunteered, share your message here.  What is Earth Day? Earth Day is committed ... http://dpsmusings.today.com/2009/04/12/earth-day-april-22nd-2009/    Is Google Maps a useful tool or a method for privately investigating the world’s habits?   For some time now Google camera cars have been touring streets both in the UK and the USA capturing front lawns, drawn curtains as well as capturing those out on lunch breaks, let’s hope ... http://dpsmusings.today.com/2009/04/11/google-or-pi-google/      The Historian, by Elizabeth Kastova Caveat, not to be read in the dark, if you don’t like horror fiction. If you do, remember the garlic necklace. Historical fiction mixed with historical folklore and traditions make for a dark read, this story unfolds before your very eyes through Kastova’s in depth knowledge ... http://dpsmusings.today.com/2009/04/02/the-historian/ Do you like to read books?             how many times have you just not known what to read? So many different genres to select from.   Maybe you wait for a recommendation from a friend or receive a book as a gift. May be you are a devouted reader and will have a read of most ... http://dpsmusings.today.com/2009/04/02/do-you-like-to-read/ Freedom Writers, Smacks of history, Martin Luther King's I have a dream!   This film makes you remember the importance of tolerance for one another, not to judge one another too harshly and to work together despite differing approaches so as to be free from prejudice and to achieve. This ... http://dpsmusings.today.com/2009/04/01/freedom-to-choose/                                                                                    Slice the pie! this is your chance for a piece of the pie, where music is concerned.   This newbie website is a chance for you to hear new acts, review music, enter forums and do what you like best, listen to music with no strings attached!!  To get full benefit of ... http://dpsmusings.today.com/2009/03/31/get-your-slice-of-the-pie/   1934 - 2009 Uriel Jones, has died aged 74  Sadly left this world for a new road, music heaven! A Motown Drummer with Funk Brothers has passed following a heart problems.  Motown was a record company set up originally in Detroit, during the sixties to principally ... http://dpsmusings.today.com/2009/03/30/the-beat-lives-on/                                                                                                                                                                                                                This is not a ‘pick me up’ prose, more an insight into the thoughts and life of Mary Bell, who became the forefront of news in 1968, aged 11 years and charged with the murder of two children. This is one of two novels written about her life ... http://dpsmusings.today.com/2009/03/27/guilty-but-why/ With the world’s economic climate being in steep, steep decline and the full magnitude of our financial crisis is yet to be felt and undone by those in charge, the Government has finally presented a bill to the UK Parliament. Not a bill for damages on the unwitting publics purse, ... http://dpsmusings.today.com/2009/03/26/irony-or-appeasement-that-is-the-question/