This is my story of my memories, thoughts, and interpretations that I made from my experiences starting at the beginning of my age of awareness. I grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota where I faced living in two different cultures to the time I joined the U.S. Army. My story is not about the accumulation of wealth or being famous or being some savior. It is about a simple dream. My story starts from the time I remember reaching the age of awareness to the present. I do not claim to be a writer, so my story may not be a well-planned or polished literary work that meets all the high standards of writing. The story is about being on a path out of poverty. I was raised by my grandparents from a baby to the time I joined the U.S. Army. For some reason my mother left me to be raised by her parents. They were poor people, seasonal laborers, who lived with a strong belief in their God. We lived in a two-room shack with tarpaper siding that had not inside toilet, running water or electricity. That was our home. They were always short of money to buy necessities and usually faced hunger. However they were a good couple and had a faith to believe in God. However I was fortunate to get a good education and had the opportunity to join the army for a career. I experienced new horizons that exposed me to new learning’s that tempered my attitude. I wish to share my experiences and thoughts from traveling along a path chosen with especially the Lakota youth and the non-Lakota youth what have written in this book. Pilamaya—Thank you

Renowned ceramic artist Karen Karnes has created some of the most iconic pottery of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The body of work she has produced in her more than sixty years in the studio is remarkable for its depth, personal voice, and consistent innovation. Many of her pieces defy category, invoking body and landscape, pottery and sculpture, male and female, hand and eye. Equally compelling are Karnes's experiences in some of the most significant cultural settings of her generation: from the worker-owned cooperative housing of her childhood, to Brooklyn College under modernist Serge Chermayeff, to North Carolina's avant-garde Black Mountain College, to the Gate Hill Cooperative in Stony Point, New York, which Karnes helped establish as an experiment in integrating art, life, family, and community. This book, designed to accompany an exhibit of Karnes's works organized by Peter Held, curator of ceramics for the Arizona State University Art Museum's Ceramic Research Center, offers a comprehensive look at the life and work of Karnes. Edited by highly regarded studio potter Mark Shapiro, it combines essays by leading critics and scholars with color reproductions of more than sixty of her works, providing new perspectives for understanding the achievements of this extraordinary artist.

Long ago the Gods fought a terrible war that nearly destroyed all existence. Seeking to avert disaster they banished their kind to exile and left humanity to fend for itself. But now, an ancient enemy made mad by time seeks to raise his God again and wage a new war against those who would oppose him and his rule. Only a few can stop him. It is time for those chosen by the spirits of the Gods, guided by their servants, and immensely empowered by the elements to awaken for the way is long and the Path of the Chosen is only just beginning.

Named Finalist as Best Fantasy Fiction, Best Multicultural Fiction and Best Cover Design by Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2009, authored by a young writer at the age of 14-19, the novel is the first installment of an epic series. Although the story is set initially in a world that is familiar to the fantasy genre with the elements of Celtic mythology and Arthurian legends, it thoughtfully lays down a vast universe that encompasses Heaven and Earth for the first installment and its sequels, and brings forth a massive, multi-ethnic cast which includes many endearing characters who carry rich cultural backgrounds that will generate strong echoes from readers of different ages and ethnicity. The story perhaps is the first to depict the convergence of the western and eastern civilizations in a fantasy setting in the dimensions of culture, philosophy, mythology and theology. The story is deeply provocative in politics and humanity through the shadows of factual events in human history; nonetheless, it is a good read with complex plot lines, suspenseful outcomes, well-developed characters with diverse backgrounds and epic events with cinematic visualization.

This book can raise your thoughts about God and His power to a higher standard, challenging your faith to believe in His ability and greatness. In His Word, He tells us to prove Him and see.

Cheryl Ann Dorsett after coming out of Catholicism shares with her readers how she encountered her new spiritual life in Christ Jesus. She shares how she was chosen to be the first among her siblings to be baptized by the Holy Spirit and learnt how to worship, praise and honor Almighty God, beyond religious and denominational practices. If you are feeling uncomfortable with worshiping God within the practice of and fellowship with 'the family church' and know within yourself that there is so much more than what you've been doing, this is your book. Break the customs and traditions that has left you empty, searching and unfulfilled. Launch out and be the one CHOSEN to discover and experience Almighty God beyond the barriers of denominational practices and religion. "The challenges we face as God’s chosen are the result of our processing. They occur because we are learning a new way of living; a spiritual way of living which is contrary to how we’ve been accustomed to prior to being called or chosen." - Cheryl Ann Dorsett

The book is a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented in International Conference on Soft Computing Systems (ICSCS 2015) held at Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Chennai, India. These research papers provide the latest developments in the emerging areas of Soft Computing in Engineering and Technology. The book is organized in two volumes and discusses a wide variety of industrial, engineering and scientific applications of the emerging techniques. It presents invited papers from the inventors/originators of new applications and advanced technologies.