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“Tomorrows’ Tides” is published at Amazon Kindle Store

To my friends and acquaintances, old and new, I’m pleased to introduce my new book:

“Tomorrows’ Tides” –

coming in at 85,000 words.

Thank you. You all made constructive comments about “Tomorrows’ Winds”which I have tried to respond to, so now we have “Tomorrows’ Tides”

Previously you said:

Very imaginative and stimulating, it’s a damned good read. I couldn’t put it down.”

“That was great, when will the next be available?”

“Highly imaginative view into one possible outcome of a highly technological society in the future . Optimistic, good fun , easy to read , amusing little twist at the end. I enjoyed it . Lets have the next one!”

“I felt he could have written a much larger book or even given some of his ideas a book of their own to explore them more fully. I’m now intrigued to see how many new ideas are in his next book.”

The new book with the others are at: http://tinyur l.com/5tqyvz2 or

http://tinyurl.com/Tomorrows-Tides

For new readers the first book “Tomorrows’ Winds” is now available free of charge on Kindle. It’s an hour’s read, so try it, see what you think.

All the books are now on Kindle. If you don’t have a Kindle, you can download the App to your iPhone, your Windows PC, your Mac, iPad or Android phone. – no Kindle required. Just click here to download the one for the Windows PC from Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/2uajty4

Someone said “Everybody’s got one book in them” so if you write an new episode using the theme or the characters, send it to me and I’ll publish a collection as “Tomorrows’ Vortices,” giving each author due credit.

Cheers,

Cliff

PS “Everyone has one book in them” so write an episode of two to fifteen thousand words, using the theme or the characters, send it to me and I’ll publish a collection of them as “Tomorrows’ Vortices,” giving each author their full credit. Let’s combine all our ideas.

Cliff Jenkins, 4 Julian Court, Wilmot Road,, Shoreham by Sea, BN43 6NG,01273 708433. 07951677379, See my website at yoolaa.co.uk

Fiction, fantasy or a fascinating forecast – It’s your choice

How can we best use Kindles in children’s education?

How can we best use Kindles in children’s education in the UK or even just in Adur?

They cost £111 each, inc Vat. They are monochrome and have no images, just text – loads and loads of text.

Let’s say we (a school) bought twenty of them, who would we give them to or lend them to and how would they use them? If you damage one, presumably then that child would miss out for say three months.

Or children could download the Free Kindle reader software to any PC (possibly not portable) so that those users can download what they want, provided that it’s free (500,000 books.) Could the education broadband facility cope with this, both speed and permissions.

Range of books is from Winnie the Pooh to the complete works of Shakespeare. But they can also be used for ‘white noise’ for very young children.

With six devices per Kindle unit account a group of six six-formers could be allowed a subscription to the Economist, say. They could also download possibly all their academic study books. Amazon are trialling a library service in America, where a book can be lent (electronically) to someone else for two weeks, not available in the UK yet. Then again we could give the six-former groups a budget for them to spend as they will.

What do schools and colleges spend on books each year?

Are there any charitable trusts who could help us?

Does it need to be part fo an overall strategy or is it just a tactic we should just get on with.

Some schools have already started.

As always the full question has to be sub-divided into Who, What, Why, When, Where and How and for each sub-group at the various stages in school.

Cliff Jenkins’ Policies, Independent prospective local councillor

Cliff Jenkins’ Policies

Independent prospective local councillor

Objectives. Cliff wants to:

  • Improve the aspirations and opportunities for our children,
  • Improve public transport services
  • Increase housing available for young people locally
  • Support local personal involvement
  • Reduce Council Tax by ten per cent whilst improving services

Cliff’s comments o local and Concerns.

When asked about three important topics…

  • Solving local problems with the local authority. “Too often genuine grievances are met with a combination of arrogance and ignorance. I intend to change that.”
  • Children’s education and welfare “Our children are our future, we need to give them as good a start as we can. I intend to do just that.”
  • Efficiency and effectiveness of the council “As a monopoly, it has no competition and therefore has no need to improve. I intend to change that.”

Cliff replied “In my opinion the key areas for debate and then action are:

What can we do to help society reduce their use of energy, fuel, electricity and other natural resources?
What can we do to improve the success of our schools and our children?
What can we do to help people to respect each other more?
How can we help people improve their self-esteem, to be proud of themselves, of their family and their community?

Finally how do we create the extra houses for our young people to buy or rent.”

As always the underlying questions are Who, What, Why, When, Where and How

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