MORAL STORY BOOKS AND OUR PRACTICAL LIFE
Moral and ethical values are part and parcel of human life. These morals and ethics set him apart from savages and animals. Hundreds of moral story books have been written to inculcate moral values in the minds of people to help them lead a pious and virtuous life to enable them to be successful Herein and the Hereafter.
Moral story books play a very pivotal part in helping people, especially children to acquire good habits, manners and morals to be useful members of society. Their proper education, training, and religious teachings go a long way to mould their personalities and make them good and worthy to live in an egalitarian society. However, regrettably and ironically, we find unethical and immoral activities being prevalent and rampant in our society with impun
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15 Aug
Raleigh, NC. – The 99th Match, by Author Vinny DiGirolamo, is packed with simple but powerful, life changing perspectives for everyone facing personal trials or adversity of any kind. It is a quick read and intended for youth, teenagers and adults of all nationalities and religious persuasions.
The story takes place at the legendary Brentwood High School on Long Island, N.Y., when their six year historical record of undefeated wrestling team matches is caught in the balance between an unlikely third string wrestler and a decisively fierce match against seemingly insurmountable odds. The school is real. The events are real. The odds are real. The 99th Match is about wrestling with real life.
“During difficult times, we’ll find ourselves in various roles; sometimes we’re the wrestler and at other times we’re the coach, the cheerleader, the referee, or even the spectator,” commented the author. “But regardless of our role, it’s through our trails
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22 May
For the past few years I’ve been tearing up old books and magazines, and selling them on eBay. Other people’s “rubbish” is earning me $20 a time – sometimes a great deal more – every single day!It’s an easy business and items other people throw away can attract fierce bidding and incredible profits for me and other lucky sellers.
We’re selling prints and advertisements, crochet and woodworking patterns, recipe books and other niche market publications, alongside hundreds more totally different items, all taken from books, magazines and newspapers that are available in profusion and cost very little.
Let’s start with old prints, they’re incredibly good sellers, especially popular themes like: animals, sports (especially golf and horse racing), royalty, music hall artists, topographical (named locations) and children.
Very early magazines contained lots of prints, the best being Illustrated London News, The Graphic, Sketch, Sphere, a
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10 Feb
Author: Max Redd www.ReddRacing.co.uk
Ever wondered how a bookmaker ‘makes’ his ‘book’? When you visit a race course and look along the rows of bookmaker pitches, just how do they come up with the different prices? Surely the figures are not just plucked out of thin air, because its not often you hear the sob story about a poor bookmaker!
Normally the prices for any given race are settled around 4pm the day before a race. Every major bookmaker will have a team of five or so odds-compilers, one working on each race on the card. These odds are then delivered to the trading team, and the rails bookmakers at the respective courses. Once a market opens on track, the individual bookmakers will keep an eye on what the others are doing as the market unfolds. Each will be competing against the others, trying to attract business by offering the best pr
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20 Dec
Pedigree, Speed and Stamina.
Pedigree and Potential
The facts about pedigree relate largely to stallions – the males.
Many of the best stallions can sire up to 100 horses in a lifetime.
Pedigree can suggest a lot about young horses in respect of their temperament, their preference for a particular going and distance, and their overall enthusiasm.
As always with racing, breeding is an inexact science.
The quality of the race determines how relevant pedigree becomes. With higher quality racing the results are more intrinsically linked with the pedigree of a horse.
As with anything as random as genetics, it is not possible to say 100% which traits will be inherited from the sire or which from the dam. Or indeed whether anything will be inherited at all.
The study of pedigree however is being moved on by science with geneticists now able to examine a thoroughbreds genetic profile and actual
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13 Dec
