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COLETTE ABOULKER-MUSCAT (1909-2003)
The eldest daughter of the most famous neurosurgeon of his time, in Europe and North Africa, Colette became a realized being at the age of six. Being tutored in the way of Spirit by her family members, notably her father, mother, grandmother and uncle, she began then her two-fold life-long mission:
- To save lives as a healer, documented by her heroic work in ministering to wounded WW I war veterans whose conditions escaped medical cure, and her repairing the mental character of a serial murderer who had previously killed 21 women, as examples.
- To save the Jewish people from extermination, highlighted by organizing the successful underground resistance against the Nazis in North Africa during World War II. She was subsequently decorated after World War II as one of the “five mothers who helped save the world.”
From early life, her reputation spread far and wide as a special wise woman. She received many honors during the course of her life, achieving four degrees at the Sorbonne in Paris; becoming President of the Women’s International Zionist Organization in Europe (the forerunner of the women’s organization Hadassah in the U.S.); capping it off with being named in the late 1990’s as The Most Beloved of Jerusalem in recognition of her contributions to the Jewish nation she lived in since 1954. Colette died on November 25, 2003 quietly at home.
KABBALAH OF LIGHT
Colette was a spiritual teacher in the tradition of the Kabbalah of Light, the visionary Kabbalah of imagination and allied practices, taught in the wisdom schools of the ancient Holy Land known as the Sons of the Prophets. This tradition, also known as Merkavah or Chariot mysticism, is first described vividly in the first 28 lines of the Book of Ezekiel. It was then passed down through the succeeding centuries by such luminaries as Rabbi Akiva, Isaac the Blind, and eventually passing to the 20th century master, Colette. Her translation of the imaginal wisdom took root in the work she termed Waking Dream and its component parts called Guided Imagery and Short Imagery Exercises. All of her teaching was directed toward two aims: 1) to create healing for daily topical difficulties and 2) to achieve transcendence and mystical union.
Colette married twice. Her first marriage resulted in her bearing two children who have gained some degree of prominence in their respective fields. Her second marriage was to a Russian-born former lawyer named Aryeh Muscat whose last name she adopted when she moved to Jerusalem where he lived in 1954. He served as an international fundraiser for Israel and held the post of comptroller for the city of Jerusalem until he retired. Colette lived modestly in Jerusalem, receiving people from all over the world and accepting no money for whatever she gave: healing imagery, teaching classes, giving sage advice, and feeding those who attended her weekly Saturday night salons who feasted on her personally prepared recipes of foods cooked in the Algerian style. Although she was sought out repeatedly during her life for interviews in the press, on radio and TV, and asked to write books or have books written about her, she vowed not to become publicly noted until she reached age 80.
After 80, her life work began to be published through articles and films about her as well as her own works and works by her students. Tamar Bergman wrote a biography about Colette in Hebrew as well as a children's storybook about Colette's life. Colette then began writing her own works. To date, ACMI Press has published five books of Colette's:
La Vie N’est Pas Un Roman, a privately published five-volume memoir in French of her early childhood years from 4 to 12 was produced memoir (partially translated into English as life is not a Novel);
Mea Culpa: Tales Of Resurrection, a collection of 50 stories of how she brought people back to life from the brink of death beginning at age 6 until the age of 83 (when she wrote the book);
The Encyclopedia of Mental Imagery: Colette Aboulker-Muscat’s 2,100 visualization exercises for Personal Development, Healing, and Self-Knowledge (edited by Gerald Epstein and Barbarah L. Fedoroff);
Reversing Cancer through Mental Imagery Colette's 12 phase healing cancer healing manual to separate from the disease written by her student Simcha H. Benyosef.
In addition, a two-volume documentary entitled The Waking Dream (vol. I) and 10 Essential Exercises (vol. II) by filmmaker Patrick Bokanowski interviews Colette and films her at work with students. Finally, her legacy has been amplified through the writings of her students capturing Colette's wisdom, healing images, and other practices of the Kabbalah of Light such as dreams, waking dream therapy, facereading (morphology), and the use of will.
The Light of Creative Imagination - by Oleg I. Reznik, M.D. (2004)
I first met Colette Aboulker-Muscat in 1992. At that time she was already eighty three years old, which did not stop her from seeing patients and teaching six days a week. At that point, introduced to her by my uncle who is a clinical psychologist, I attended one of her Saturday salons where she led group imagery exercises. This was in Jerusalem, Israel and, as myself, many participants were visitors from other countries—France, USA, Canada. All classes were held in English.
The fact that she did not charge or accept money directly or indirectly from her patients or students made it easier to realize that this was a genuine teacher, interested only in the well being of her patients and students. There was no sign of a cultism. In fact, it was known among the students that if one were to show signs of attachment, Colette would tell that person that he or she is ready to be on their own and would break a tie permanently. She did not teach any doctrine, knowledge she imparted always came from within the learner stimulated by the imagery exercise she offered. In my nine years of learning (1994-2003) I did not learn a single concept from Colette. Instead, I learned through the experience of doing the mental exercises myself, observing how Colette was using them to help patients and students, and by asking questions. I also witnessed treatments of patients with serious and “incurable” diseases (both physical and mental), and saw many of them returning with thanks after doing better.
Colette Aboulker-Muscat was born in 1909 in Alger. She was a daughter of a professor of neurosurgery Henry Aboulker. Her mother was a known novelist of the time in France and North Africa. Her parents came from a line of Sephardic Jewish aristocracy. Her father taped her mouth closed from age 5 to age 9 due to a condition involving larynx and vocal cords. Tape was only removed for meals and at nighttime.
As she writes in her hand written CV that I have been given after her passing, she began to discover and apply her method of imagination first as a child in the hospital of Dunkerque during the First World War in France, where her father was sent to be the French army head and neck surgeon. She was married to a scientist and has two sons; one is a high level engineer, the other is a professor at Sorbonne University in France.
During the Second World War she applied and developed her way of therapy in Algiers military hospital, while at the same time teaching philosophy. Colette and her family have contributed to the preparation of the American landing in Algiers on the 8th of November 1942. Colette completed a doctorate in philosophy and had known personally Martin Buber and Hugo Bergman. She was also a student and a friend of Robert Desoille, a French psychologist who named his method “Reve Eveille Dirige” or directed waking dream. (Desoille devised a set of motifs—mountain, cave, meadow, forest and others—that he invites the patient to explore in their imagination).
Colette remarried to Dr. Arye Muscat and had been living in Jerusalem, Israel since 1954 until she passed away in November of 2003, being almost ninety five years of age. There, as she wrote, she “tried to help those who needed her knowledge, given advice to many artists and some scientists in their search for their discoveries, and sustained a great number of people who needed to be listened to, or to have an answer to a question.” At the same time she had been giving classes in personal development followed by a large number of students from Israel, France, and USA. Between the classes Colette was receiving people with physical, emotional, and mental illness. Among many of her achievements she, being a Jew, received a medal of exorcism from a catholic monastery for achieving great success in the treatment of possession. Colette’s autobiographical book in French—La Vie n’est pas un Roman (Life is not a novel), which she wrote as a legacy for her children, speaks of many of her life’s adventures. This book has been translated into English.
One of her main students Dr. Gerald Epstein is a practicing psychiatrist in New York City and an author of several books that are based on her method. He also heads the American Institute of Mental Imagery (AIMI) where he teaches this method in his own way. AIMI is a New York State Regents-chartered post-graduate training center offering a Certificate of Completion for all mental health practitioners; doctors, nurses, psychologists, osteopaths, social workers, chiropractors, acupuncturists, physical therapists and licensed massage therapists (www.drjerryepstein.org).
As I mentioned, the knowledge that Colette imparted to me was non-conceptual yet not beyond being described. Colette’s work has no real limits yet it is not formless, it is subtle and precise. True to her non-conceptual but experiential way, she imparted her teaching into her book of poetry Alone with the One. The nature of poetry is to reveal itself to the learner to the degree that the learner is ready to receive. A larger part of what she offered for her students and patients were short mental imagery exercises. Most of these last less than two minutes including the preparatory breathing. Colette taught that in this work often less is more. She also did more lengthy exploratory exercises, and longer (about 30 minutes) exploratory/therapeutic exercises based on patient’s night dreams called waking dream. She applied the knowledge of numbers, colors and directions in space in her work, as well as morphology—reading the shape of face, profile and body type. She helped children with the use of semi-structured drawings that was used for diagnostic and therapeutic purpose. Her interventions, on some occasions, included physical and ritual exercises (on one occasion with a group ritual action she successfully treated a collective possession—an incident that she describes in her book Mea Culpa or Tales of Resurrection).
In a short mental imagery exercises an image is used to give a micro-shock that overcomes person’s defenses (an inner wall that one builds to remain status quo, not the defenses of psychodynamic model), and initiates an inner movement in the direction of healing. A shock or an element of surprise is achieved by a variety of means that are discovered in the moment. An image, for example, that resonates with a deeply held belief is one of the ways of achieving a surprise. This image can be found in the person’s language (I feel like I’m in a cage), from repetitive themes of their night dreams, or created in accordance with person’s morphology—which reveals their innermost tendencies. A certain similarity with a battlefield can be drawn. As in a battle, there are unlimited ways of achieving an element of surprise. This surprise is subtle, as is this work. Following it, or at the same time, elements of cleansing, reversing, or connecting with something greater than oneself are used, to name a few. Most of the imagery is derived from and not imposed upon the patient. To give an example, a writer known in Israel and throughout the world was brought to Colette paralyzed from the neck down from a neurodegenerative disease (I do not know what kind). He was a person for whom living in Jerusalem had a very special significance, and who had written about Jerusalem. To understand the imagery better, one needs to know that the city of Jerusalem is built on hills and mountains. Colette asked him to imagine rolling over all of the hills and mountains of Jerusalem, sensing how his spine from the top to the bottom was being massaged. There was a surprise, a movement where before the problem was a lack of movement, there was Jerusalem and there were the mountains each with its significance and all at once. As I was told by the witnesses the man regained some movement immediately after the exercise. I last saw this man in 2003, more than 10 years after this work was done he walked with a cane but otherwise was independent.
Colette said that she provided the key to the doors, the doors that we had to open and go through, the doors that separated parts of ourselves from the rest, that kept part of us locked away for a variety of reasons. She provided the light needed to regain wholeness—healing and cure often followed.
"Be Happy" - by APR, NYC
My first encounter with Colette was back in 2001 when I began my studies with you. I remember, one evening that year, at my very first Salon, you mentioned it was Colette’s birthday. You then said if anyone wanted to contact her she can be reached in Jerusalem at her home and gave her number to the audience. You indicated the time difference in locations and to take that into consideration when calling. Being a novice to this work, I still had an intuitive hit to write down the phone number, and early upon arising, the very next morning proceeded to call her. To my amazement, she answered her phone directly, never “imagining’ that such a prominent woman would be answering her own phone. I told her I was a new student of Dr. Epstein in NYC. She proceeded to ask me what I want. I told her I wanted to hear her voice and wish her a Happy Birthday. She then said “Be Happy”…..two of the most freeing words I’ve ever heard. With gratitude, love and much light.


Frederick Travis, (2001)
Autonomic and EEG Patterns Distinguish Transcending from other Experiences during Transcendental Meditation Practice. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 42, 1-9.
This study compared EEG and autonomic patterns during transcending to “other” experiences during Transcendental Meditation (TM) practice. To correlate specific meditation experiences with physiological measures, the experimenter rang a bell three times during the TM session. Subjects categorized their experiences around each bell ring. Transcending, in comparison to “other” experiences during TM practice, was marked by:
(1) significantly lower breath rates,
(2) higher respiratory sinus arrhythmia amplitudes, and
(3) higher EEG alpha amplitude and
(4) alpha coherence.
In addition, skin conductance responses to the experimenter-initiated bell rings were larger during transcending. These findings suggest that monitoring patterns of physiological variables may index dynamically changing inner-experiences during meditation practice. This could allow a more precise investigation into the nature of meditation experiences and a more accurate comparison of meditation states with other eyes-closed conditions.


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Books & Film
I am very privileged to have the opportunity to read Dr. Séverine Autesserre’s book Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention.
He's at it again. Author Talon Windwalker (I'm sure you've read his Rise of the Djall) has a new book out - the sequel (YAY!) to Rise of the Djall.
One of the pure joys of travel is the food. Yes, that's right - food is a window to culture. Think about it - from the night markets of Southeast Asia to the traditional recipes of, well, any culture, what people make and eat is a product of terroir, seasons, climate, history, and more.
When our daughter was small, I remember searching (and searching, and searching) for kids music to play on road trips that well, to be honest, my husband and I could listen to and not run screaming from the car. You know what I'm talking about (let's not even mention kidzbop).
Every once in a while, you come across a book filled with such goodness, love, and kindness that it not only makes you smile, but reminds you of the goodness in your own life and inspires you to work harder at connecting, helping, loving.


Philip E. Steinberg
Ph.D. Clark University 1996
- Governance of global spaces & global resources
- Spaces of transportation & communications
- Environment-development conflicts & social movements
- Cultural-political issues in attachment to place
- Uses, regulations, and representations of the world ocean
- Histories of navigational knowledge
- Epistemologies of mobility
- Poststructural anthropology and the ontology of islands
- Cyberspace governance regimes and the spatiality of the Internet
- Implications of Hurricane Katrina for urban theory
- Sovereignty, sexuality, transnationalism, and tourism in Key West, Florida
- Arctic sovereignty claims
- Steinberg, P. and Chapman, T. 2009. Key West's Conch Republic: Building Sovereignties of Connection. Political Geography 28, 283-295.
- Steinberg, P. 2009. Sovereignty, Territory, and the Mapping of Mobility: A View from the Outside. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 99, 467-495.
- McDowell, S., Steinberg P. and Tomasello, T. 2008. Managing the Infosphere: Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion, Temple University Press.
- Steinberg, P. and Shields, R. (eds.). 2008. The Urban after Katrina: Place, Community, Connections, and Memory, University of Georgia Press.
- Steinberg, P. 2006. Calculating similitude and difference: John Seller and the 'placing' of English subjects in a global community of nations. Social & Cultural Geography7, 687-707.
- Steinberg, P. 2005. Insularity, sovereignty, and statehood: the representation of islands on Portolan charts and the origins of the territorial state. Geografiska Annaler87B, 253-265.
- Steinberg, P. 2001. The Social Construction of the Ocean, Cambridge University Press.
Recent Fellowships & Achievements
- International Council for Canadian Studies to research "Contested Materialities in Northwest Passage Sovereignty Claims." 2007.
- National Science Foundation Geography & Spatial Science and Arctic Social Science Programs to research "Territorial Imaginaries and Arctic Sovereignty Claims." 2009.
- Rockefeller Foundation to serve as Fellow at the "Other Globalizations" program, Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. 2005-2006:
- Devoe L. Moore Center to research "Fixed Links Connections and Florida Keys Development." 2004
- Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers to be resident fellow at the New York Public Library. 2002-2003.
- Arthur and Janet Holzheimer Award from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to conduct research on the history of cartography. 2002.
- Short-Term Fellowship from the Newberry Library to conduct research on the history of cartography. 2002.
- John Best Fellowship to conduct research at the American Geographic Society Collection at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 2000.


Susy Flory is the New York Times bestselling author or co-author of eleven books, including an upcoming memoir with NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski, called The Sky Below.
She grew up on the back of a quarter horse in Northern California and took degrees from UCLA in English and psychology, and has a background in journalism, education, and communications. She first started writing at the Newhall Signal with the legendary Scotty Newhall, an ex-editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and a one-legged cigar-smoking curmudgeon who ruled the newsroom from behind a dented metal desk where he pounded out stories on an Underwood Typewriter. She taught high school English and journalism, then quit in 2004 to write full time.
Susy’s first book, Fear Not Da Vinci, was co-written with Gini Monroe and published in 2006. Other books include So Long Status Quo: What I Learned from Women Who Changed the World (Beacon Hill, 2009); Miracle on Voodoo Mountain (with Megan Boudreaux, Harper Collins, 2015); and The Good, The Bad, and the Grace of God, with Jep and Jessica Robertson (Harper Collins, 2015).
Susy’s runaway bestseller, Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero (Harper Collins/Thomas Nelson, 2011), co-written with Michael Hingson, hit the New York Times bestseller list in both hardcover nonfiction and e-book nonfiction the first week of release. Thunder Dog captured the #1 NYT ranking for nonfiction e-books the week of September 11, 2011, and spent twelve weeks on the charts. Thunder Dog was listed as a bestseller by USA Today, and featured as a Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Pick by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and various other e-book outlets. Thunder Dog has been translated into German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish, and Polish.
Susy and her husband, Robert, have two adult children and live in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to writing books and articles, Susy is a member of the Authors Guild and was recently named director of the West Coast Christian Writers Conference in the San Francisco Bay Area. A breast cancer survivor, Susy celebrates life by riding a crazy ex-racehorse named Stetson, hiking in the High Sierras, and skiing black diamond runs whenever she can.
You can find out more about her at www.susyflory.com


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I want to write about the history of evangelistic mission by the Anabaptist churches (Mennonites and others).
The Anabaptist movement was radical and missionary in its focus from the very start. At the core of the covenant was the call to discipleship (Nachfolge) which issued from the Great Commission. Unlike the magisterial Reformers (Luther, Calvin and others), the Anabaptists believed the Great Commission to apply directly to each believer - and not to the Apostles of Jesus Christ alone. At what became known as the 'Martyrs' synod' in August 1527 at Augsburg 60 Anabaptist leaders such as Hans Hut (picture) debated issues of teaching and organised the systematic evangelisation of southern Germany and Austria. Within five years of the conference only 2-3 were still alive, but by the mid-1500s there were Anabaptists in every state in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Poland, Galicia, Hungary and Italy. They even talked about going "to the Red Indians over the sea," however this remained an aspiration and did not become a reality. (It would be interesting to know if Anabaptist migrants to North America worked among the Red Indians).
Opposed by fierce persecution over time the Anabaptist movement become more survival-focused and Anabaptists lived as "the quiet in the land" - living out the faith but not engaged in missionary outreach.
It was only at the start of the 19th century, when Pietist preachers assisted in the revival of the faith of the Anabaptists, that a new missionary zeal was kindled. Having previously supported Baptist missions in other lands, in 1847 the Dutch Mennonite Missionary Association was founded and in 1851 Pieter Jansz (photo) was sent out from the Netherlands to Java - the first Anabaptist missionary to a non-western country. He was followed by Klinkert, Doyer and Schuurmann. Later, in 1870, a second work was begun in Sumatra and Heinrich Dirks was sent out from the Mennonite churches in Russia.
This is the information I have. I would be very grateful for input from Mennonites and others who have more information on these subjects.


The week in Cotati: Feb. 24 – March 3
The Quarterly Speaker Luncheon presented by the Cotati Chamber of Commerce will take place from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb 26. Cotati Mayor Mark Landman will provide a State of the City Address and answer questions. Other topics include project graduation and subsidized employment program. The event costs $15 and includes lunch. It will be held in the Cotati Room of the Ray Miller Community Center, 216 E. School St., Cotati. 795-5508.
The Rohnert Park-Cotati Library has its usual slew of great programs geared for kids this week. On Tuesday at 10:15 a.m. there is Baby Story Time for children up to 17 months in age. Kids can Read to a Dog on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. On Thursday there is Wiggle Time at 10:15 a.m. for toddlers from 18 to 35 months followed by Preschool Story Time at 11 a.m. for the three to five-year-olds. The library is located at 6250 Lynne Conde Way.
You can Wine and Dine with local authors at the Redwood Cafe this week. On Tuesday, Feb. 26, sit down with local authors and enjoy great food and conversation. Each month the cafe invites a number of local authors to be on hand. The event is free and runs from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. with books available in the cafe to purchase. Redwood Cafe is located at 8240 Old Redwood Highway. For more information or to reserve a spot, call Mona at 889-3419.
Zuma Zuma! Associated Students Productions will be hosting a performance in support of Black History Month by Zuma Zuma, an African-style Cirque du Soleil on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at Sonoma State. Zuma Zuma was featured on season six of the television show, America’s Got Talent. The show will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Person Theater on the SSU Campus at 1801 East Cotati Ave. Tickets are $10 with SSU faculty, staff, and students getting in for free. For more information, call 664-2382.
The Miss Sonoma County Scholarship Pageant takes place this Saturday, March 2 at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center. This pageant is the longest continuously running pageant in the State of California and is a preliminary event to the Miss California pageant. The event starts at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for kids. For more information, visit Misssonomacounty.com. For tickets, contact the Box Office at 588-3400. The Spreckels Center is located at 5401 Snyder Lane.
There will be a mystery dinner theatre presentation titled, Her Lips Are Sealed, at 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 2. This 1940’s murder mystery comedy is a Project Graduation Fundraiser taking place in the Rancho Cotate Multi-Use Room. There will be a three course meal along with the show. Tickets are $35 and available at CRPProjectGrad.org. Rancho Cotate High School is located at 5450 Snyder Lane.
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ELC Literacy Buddy Project
The Early Learning Coalition will continue a project during the 2014-2015 school year which provides children with books for high quality home / bedroom libraries. Children come to school better prepared to learn when they have experienced lots of modeling by adults who read, write and converse with them.
Children participating in our Literacy Buddies program truly benefit from the engagement with adults through written communication and the receipt of books throughout the school year. The following writing samples were completed by two children over a span of 4 months demonstrating what a difference books and letters can make in the life of a child:
|Isabella March 2009||Isabella May 2009|
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- the note contains the first letter of the first name and full last name of the author/authors, title, publisher, place and year of publication and page number (all the data separated by commas, period at the end) serials titles in quotation marks, italics, references to previous notes: ibid, op. cit, idem;
- • Bullets style should be unified throughout the text;
- • the names of authors cited in the text – included in full form.
- Key words and abstract (about 5 sentences long) should be enclosed. Abstract (about 5 sentences long) in Polish and English, title in Polish and English (with the name of the translator) should be enclosed.
- Papers should be around 20 000 words in length.


This tutorial provides information on where to find single-cell RNA-seq data, and how to download it for processing with the kallisto | bustools workflow.
There are multiple databases that are important repositories for sequencing data and metadata, and that are relevant for obtaining single-cell RNA-seq data. For each archive we provide an example of how the data is organized and how to download it.
Biological Project Library (BioProject): The Biological Project Library organizes metadata for research projects involving genomic data types. This repository, which was started in 2016, is similar to the Gene Expression Omnibus. As an example, the data from the paper Peng et al. 2019 is organized under project accession PRJCA001063. Each single-cell RNA-seq dataset has a “BioSample accession”, e.g. SAMC047103. A further link to the Genome Sequencing Archive provides access to FASTQ files.
Genome Sequence Archive (GSA): This repository contains reads for projects in FASTQ format. For example, reads for SAMC047103 from the PRJCA001063 in the BioProject repository are accessible under accession CRA001160. A specific run accession, e.g. CRR034516 provides direct access to FASTQ files.
Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO): The Gene Expression Omnibus is a repository for MIAME (Minimum Infomration about a Microarray Experiment) compliant data. While the MIAME standards were established during a time when gene expression data was primarily collected with microarrays, the standards also apply to sequencing data and the GEO repository hosts project metadata for both types of research projects. As an example, the project link for the paper Wolock et al. 2019 is GSE132151. Most papers refer to their data via GEO accessions, so GEO is a useful repository for searching for data from projects.
European Nucelotide Archive (ENA): The ENA provides access to nucleotide sequences associated with genomic projects. In the case of GSE132151 mentioned above, the nucleotide sequences are at PRJNA546231. The ENA provides direct access to FASTQ files from the project page. It also links to NCBI Sequence Read Archive format data.
Sequence Read Archive (SRA): The SRA is a sequence repository for genomic data. Files are stored in SRA format, which must be downloaded and converted to FASTQ format prior to pre-processing using the
fasterq-dumpprogram available as part of SRA tools. For example, the data in Rossi et al., 2019 can be located in the SRA via GEO, then to the SRA, and finally a sequence data page for one of the runs, SRX5779290 has information about the traces (reads). The SRA tools operate directly on SRA accessions.
The sra-explorer website is an effective and easy to use utility for searching the SRA and for downloading files. The utility finds SRA entires by keywords or accession numbers and produces links to the FASTQs and to commands for downloading them.
Single-cell RNA-seq data from sequence repositories can be streamed into
kb making possible a workflow that does not require saving files to disk prior to pre-processing. For example, the following command can be used to stream data from the a URL:
Note: Streaming is not supported on Windows.
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Little Big George
An innocent and fun loving short about a boy who loves to eat, but most importantly loves to cook. But his parents aren’t that happy about this.
Little Big George is a very warm, innocent and fun loving short film; about a little boy named George, actually Georgy Porgy who loves to eat, but most importantly loves to cook! His small little brain is a treasure island of recipes waiting to be explored, discovered, cooked and tasted. Georgy’s biggest dream is to be a famous chef when he grows up and have his own TV show, Prime-Time! Unfortunately his mum and dad are not very happy about that. Little Big George is the story of this small little food lover


MUFON launched Project Aquarius and invites MUFON members and the UFO/UAP community to purchase an annual subscription to this extensive digital library
CINCINNATI, OHIO, UNITED STATES, December 21, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the longest-serving scientific UFO investigative and research organization, is pleased to announce the pre-sale and launch of Project Aquarius, an extensive digital library of UFO content. Pre-sale began December 20, 2023 and the official launch is scheduled for December 31, 2023.
MUFON’s Project Aquarius began 35 years ago, as The Pandora Project, to digitize various historical collections given to MUFON. Tens of thousands of pages of important historical documents have been amassed, scanned and packaged into seven digital archives or “rooms”. The archives will be offered as a stand-alone subscription for 50 dollars and also included as part of MUFON’s new Researcher Level Membership Package.
A yearly subscription can be purchased in the MUFON Merchandise Store by going to MUFON.COM, clicking on the Store tab and searching MUFON’s Merchandise for Project Aquarius, or directly through this link: https://mufon.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/mufon/giftstore.jsp.
The Project Aquarius Digital Library will consist of 7 digital rooms offering the following:
Room 1: MUFON Archives Research Retrieval System affectionately called MARRS that consists of all paper UFO reports mailed to MUFON between 1967 and 1995 before going digital. 6,000 pages of paper UFO reports that contain evidence never seen by the public before!
Room 2: Gallery of witness submissions of UFO shapes, entity types and symbols submitted by MUFON consisting of over 7,000 illustrations from 135,000 cases.
Room 3: Public Domain library of over 400 years of thousands of newspaper articles about UFOs with many eventually being broken into categories like “Orbs” and “Airships of 1896-7”.
Room 4: 43 years of MUFON Journal and Skylook magazines published from 1967 through 2010.
Room 5: The personal files of Air Force Captain Edward Ruppelt, the original head of the U.S. Airforce’s Project Blue Book; the collections of Bob Pratt, John Warren, The MJ-12 Files, HUMCAT: A humanoid report catalog; and numerous government declassified reports and various white papers. The collection of Hayden Cooper Hewes and the sixty-five notebooks of Crash Retrieval expert Leonard Stringfield will be added in Spring 2024.
Room 6: Complete set of MUFON Symposium Proceedings booklets from 1971 through 2002 showing famous researchers and what they were speaking about decades ago at MUFON’s Symposiums.
Room 7: (Coming Spring 2024)
A multi-level interactive UFO Map including:
• Entire MUFON 135,000 case database with all digital watermarked videos and photos
• Complete National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) Chronology of historical UFO reports
• Historical United Service Organizations (USO) Map laid out by latitude and longitude, a first of its kind
• Swedish and Norwegian UFO Databases held by The Archives for the Unexplained (AFU) in Sweden
• The Larry Hatch database
Project Aquarius is the ultimate Holiday gift for the UFO/UAP investigator or enthusiast… order now!
About The Mutual UFO Network
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) is the world’s oldest and largest civilian UFO/UAP investigative and research organization. With over 6000 members worldwide, MUFON operates in 46 countries and all 50 states and records over 12000 reported UFO/UAP sightings per year. MUFON began operations in May 1969, to replace Project Blue Book, and celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2019.


With all that being said, Mushroom Cultivator is not the masterpiece that I remember from my days of old. The terms "practical" and "home" don't actually seem to apply. The writing and general presentation of the book is choppy-choppy. This may be the result of two authors. Then, there's all the scientific jargon and the always reader popular latin names. Don't get me wrong, Mushroom Cultivator is full of awesome information and is an encyclopedia of growth parameters; however, it feels like a trip to the dentist office, extraction is just painful.
I know home is where the heart is; however for the purposes of literature, "home" needs to be defined to determine if this book may be "practical" to you. One defining question could be, in your town/village/city/hamlet/countryside oasis/suburb/farm, could you have a five foot tall by four foot deep and wide horse manure compost pile? If so, this book may be "practical" to you.
I use the compost pile as an example because after an exhaustive 30 page discourse on the details of hot composting a one ton pile of horse manure straw bedding, the authors switch gears to non-composted substrates. Immediately, the non-composted substrates seem more practical to the home grower and include simpler materials like straw and woodchips. However, this section is breezed through, which basically left the door open for Mr. Stamets next book (a classic marketing technique). And of course, I own the next book and will review it in a few months.
By the way, this author, here and now, being Justin Husher, wants to say that as much as I find Mushroom Cultivator frustrating, I find his next, next book, or maybe even his next, next, next book, Mycelium Running to be worthy of a Nobel prize. I, hereby, nominate Mr. Stamets for a Nobel. So, none of this criticism is meant as a knock against what-will-be-truly re/evolutionary work that Mr. Stamets has pioneered. It's a criticism of format and presentation.
Mushroom Cultivator is a bit difficult to digest. However, it is packed full of information. With a little teeth pulling, you could filter through your personally relevant parts. I think this book could almost be classified as a historical document. And thus should be on your shelf, at least as reference. If you're a total beginner in mushroom cultivation, then COMPLETELY skip the 100 pages of mushroom contamination because then you'll never be motivated to start. And starting is what it's all about.
At this point, it seems rather clear that the door is wide open for these mushroom hort techniques to be applied in the urban setting.


The 2017 Spring Election will be held on April 4, 2017, 7am to 8pm.
A LINK FOR THE SAMPLE BALLOT WILL BE POSTED ONCE AVAILABLE
*** Polling Location UPDATED for Wards 1-5 ***
Wards 1-5 vote at Pewaukee Public Library, located at 210 Main Street. You will need to go inside the library and follow directions to the Visaya Room
Wards 6-10 vote at Pewaukee Village Hall in the Board Room, located at 235 Hickory Street
To determine where you vote, locate your street/house number on Voter Address List to determine which ward you live in.
Visit our Elections Page for more information about elections, registering to vote, and voting absentee
In-Office Absentee Voting will begin March 20th
You can vote absentee for the Spring Primary Election at Village Hall, 235 Hickory Street, during the regular office hours of 8am-4:30pm, Monday through Friday. You can also vote by appointment with the Village Clerk once ballots are available.
The last day to vote absentee is Friday, March 31st, ending at 5pm.
If you need help or have additional questions, please contact Village Hall.


New Books: December 2014
Thanks to events like the Book Fair and author visits by Tim Federle and Fiona Wood, the library received a bounty of new books for students and teachers to enjoy. However, we keep an eye out for new books to order and add to the collection every day! Here’s a spotlight on some of the new books the library has added over the last few weeks. These books link directly to their catalog entry in Koha, our library cataloging system, so you will need a CCPCS login to access their call numbers. Their location is included, too.
Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood (Hazardous Tales) by Nathan Hale
World War I set the tone for the 20th century and introduced a new type of warfare: global, mechanical, and brutal. Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from the war and given them his inimitable Hazardous Tales twist.
Major Topics: World War I (1914-1918), graphic novels.
CCPCS Call Number: GR HAL. You can find this book in the graphic novels section (the blue bins, with light green labels) of the lower library.
The Tail of Emily Windsnap (Emily Windsnap, book one) by Liz Kessler
After finally convincing her mother that she should take swimming lessons, twelve-year-old Emily discovers a terrible and wonderful secret about herself that opens up a whole new world.
Major Topics: Mermaids, Roman gods (Neptune), Swimming, Boats
CCPCS Call Number: F KES. You can find this book in the fiction section (purple labels) of the lower library. We just added the entire Emily Windsnap series to our collection, so there’s no need for a cliffhanger after book one!
Tunjur! Tunjur! Tunjur! A Palestinian Folktale by Margaret Read MacDonald


chillin yesterday with martha wilson and ilona granet from disband! nbd aka the best day of my life! video forthcoming!!
FYI you can buy tickets at the door! $12/day or 30$ for all 3 days. Proceeds benefit Girls Rock! Rhode Island! Please check out the Schedule page for a complete line-up. We hope to see you there!!
Here is our reading for tomorrow’s Audre Lorde reading group at 4PM. Please feel free to read it ahead of time and there will also be copies available to read at the start of the group! Lead by Tess Brown-Lavoie and associates!
Doors at 3PM
4:00 - 5:00 Feminist Reading Group
5:00 - 7:00 Cycles of Power: Gender, Feminism, Biking
7:00 - 7:45 Le Fomo
7:45 - 8:30 Groke
8:30 - 9:15 As If
9:15 - 10:00 The Fagettes
10:00 - 10:45 Honey Dos
10:45 - 11:45 Downtown Boys
Doors at 12pm
12:30-1:30 How to Make Comics
1:30 - 3:00 A Conversation with the Dirt Palace
3:00 - 3:30 Emma Corbin - Girls Rock! RI Alum
3:30 - 4:00 Luna Santana - Girls Rock! RI Alum
4:00- 5:30 Blogging and How to Get Published
5:30 - 6:30 Energy Awareness and Spirituality
6:45 - 7:15 Fluct
7:15 - 8:30 Blevin Blectum
8:30 - 9:15 Fat Creeps
9:15 - 10:00 Wojcik
10:00 - 10:45 Omnivore
Doors at 12pm
12:00-1:00 Herbal Medicine
1:00-2:00 Slam Poetry
2:00 - 3:00 Susan Atkins Diet
4-5:30 A Panel Discussion on Farming
5:30-6:30 Instrument Petting Zoo
6:45 - 7:30 Brief Awakening
7:30 - 8:15 Gertrude Atherton
8:15 - 8:45 Mother Tongue
8:45 - 9:30 Tomboy
9:30 - 10:15 Whore Paint
thanks to libertalia and everyone who came out to our screening last night!! great films! #womenartrevolution #itchangedmylife
Reynosa rules!! They aren’t playing Ladyfest :( but you should still check out their new 7” out now on M’Lady’s Records!
great comet gain song to get you through these last days of august!! ladyfest is in exactly one month (!) and there is lots to do so please get in touch if you are interested in helping out!
and here’s a new song by pussy riot!!
Thanks so much to everyone who attended our impromptu benefit on Sunday! And big kudos to the hostess with the best backyard in the city! Stay tuned for more benefits happening soon!


You have spent hours and days to help spread the works of the authors and researchers so the knowledge can be disseminated very quickly. The problem is, there is too much news and data available nowadays. Countless journal articles, websites, books, and ebooks are becoming available every day.
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Don’t forget about Gainesville’s “Art Walk” on the last Friday of each month from 7 to 10 pm in Historic Downtown Gainesville. The Walk includes a dozen galleries and venues and live music. For more at www.artwalkgainesville.com
The Gainesville Harmony Show Chorus and the Barbergators will host their holiday show on Sunday November 23rd at 2:30 and 5:30 at the Cofrin Theatre at the Oak Hall School in Gainesville. Information at www.barbergators.com
Running through November 30th at the Ocala Civic Theatre…”The Dixie Swim Club”. More information is available by calling 352 236-2274.
The UF School of Theatre and Dance presents high energy dance with “Agbedidi” from Nov 20th through the 23rd in the Constans Theatre. Tickets and information are available by calling 352 392-1653.
The Alachua County Youth orchestra will give their Winter Concert on Sunday, December 14th at 7:30 in the Phillips Center for the performing Arts. More information at www.acyo.org
Running concurrently from November 28th through December 21st at the Hippodrome Theatre, Roger Bean’s “Winter Wonderettes” and Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol”. Tickets and show information available by calling 352 375 HIPP or at www.thehipp.org
Acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times, Anna Moo will be performing a family friendly holiday program on Saturday, December 6th at 11:00 in the Melrose Public Library.
The University of Florida presents, “Sounds of the Season” on Sunday, December 7th at 7:00 in the Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets will be available at the door.
Renaissance performers, Musica Vera will be in concert on Tuesday, December 16th at 7:30 in the Thomas Center in Gainesville.


“Encouraging Small Donor Contributions: A Field Experiment Testing the Effects of Nonpartisan Messages,” with Donald P. Green, Jonathan S. Krasno, Costas Panagopoulos, and Benjamin Farrer. 2014. Journal of Experimental Political Science: 1-9.
“Mobilization, Participation, and American Democracy: A Retrospective and Postscript,” with Donald P. Green. Forthcoming. Party Politics.
“School by School: The Transformation of New Orleans Public Education,” with Andre Perry. 2011. In Resilience and Opportunity: Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita, ed. Amy Liu, Roland V. Anglin, Richard M. Mizelle, and Allison Plyer. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
“The Transformation of a School System: Principal, Teacher, and Parent Perceptions of Charter and Traditional Schools in Post-Katrina New Orleans,” with Jennifer L. Steele, Georges Vernez, and Michael Gottfried. 2011. Technical Report. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation.


On this site you'll find stories and images collected from people living in north Sheffield. They paint a picture of an area, but more importantly, they will give you a privileged insight into the personal recollections and private passions that shape us - from making a living to falling in love, from bringing up a family to nights out on the town.
The stories range from the 1920s to the present day. Parson Cross, Southey, Shirecliffe and Foxhill are the main areas represented.
Click on the images to read and listen to people's memories and opinions about life today.
Or why not submit your own personal memory to the Memory Tree?
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What does holing up oneself in a room with a good book all weekend have to do with job hunting?
Besides being one of my favorite hobbies that relaxes me, reading books on leadership development, career development and even engaging works of fiction help me grow as a professional. Every time I delve into the world of another I make a point to pull out the nuggets of wisdom the writer imparts. If this #90daystomydreamjob challenge lasts all the way to March 1 (the 90th day) then you will gain at least 12 new book recommendations—lucky you!
So without further delay here’s my first book recommendation to you: Love Leadership by John Hope Bryant. I first heard of the book from an article that one of my professors at Duke Business School, Joseph LeBoeuf, Jr., assigned in his Leadership course. I loved Professor LeBoeuf for how he challenged me to re-think my views on employee motivation, leadership and even military service. So I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that it took me four years to finally read the book with the title that caught my eye so long ago.
At first I thought the idea of ‘Love Leadership’ was a bit too pie in the sky for me. After finishing the book a few weeks ago however I knew that what the author was explaining was not only all true, but also essential for our long-term success as a society.
We can deny all we want about what we’re really looking for and need in our lives, but this author 'says it plain': we need to give and receive love. He explains his reasoning using interviews with business and public service leaders and outlines his five principles of love leadership. He makes clear throughout that if anyone (rich, poor or in-between) applies these principles then they will experience a life of meaning, love and wealth.
It’s a book I know I will refer to many times as I progress in my career.
Viola. Vi. Vivi.


DPLF carries out applied research
Through the production of knowledge, DPLF seeks to provide clear solutions to common problems in the region based on inter-American and international law. Our research gives us a solid foundation for our advocacy and technical work in the region.
Our publications comply with high academic standards and are used as reference and training materials by civil society organizations, authorities, judicial officials, academics, students and activists.
Our materials are published in Spanish and English with the goal of sharing the Latin American experience: lessons learned and best practices from the continent with other regions.
Access to our research is available free of charge.


Turning Knowledge into Practice, 2nd Edition
A manual for human-service administrators and practitioners about understanding and implementing evidence-based practices (EBPs). The mission of the authors and sponsors of this manual is to enhance independence, self sufficiency, and community living for people with disabilities. There are substantial bodies of knowledge underlying the various elements addressed in this manual:
- Clinical interventions or practices
- Technology of knowledge transfer and adoption of innovation
- Process and structure of change management
- Increasingly complex issues of financing services and supports for all people with disabilities, but especially for those with addictive and mental disorders.
This publications is sometimes referred to as the "TAC manual."
CITATIONTitle: Turning Knowledge into Practice, 2nd Edition
Title #2: A Manual for Behavioral Health Administrators and Practitioners about Understanding and Implementing Evidence-Based Practices
Publication Year: 2003, 2010
Volume #: Winter
Publisher City: Boston, MA
Publisher Name: Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC), Inc.
Hyperlink to Resource/Publisher: click here


10 Books from My Transformation Journey
Access to information multiplies our transforming power, and for me this human potential to obtain and generate knowledge is what keeps us connected to a new era.
I have separated some of the books that are part of my journey to help you become an advocate and above all, to create a new future in this very unpredictable environment that we live in. I share with you authors who have guided me in this complex mission of understanding on how to lead our corporations in search of real business impact.
I hope the books are as inspiring for you as they were for me.
1) Fast/Forward: Make Your Company Fit for the Future
Today, instead of seeking more analysis, companies respond with agility, making intelligent and intuitive decisions. Fast / Forward illustrates this new strategic approach and provides a manual for making companies fit for the future.
2) Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation
Design a Better Business presents a complete design journey from the initial idea to the escalation to make the business even better.
3) The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
The Phoenix Project is a guide for IT in the DevOps revolution. In this book, readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organization, and they will never see them the same way again.
4) Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor and Lead
Managing to Learn, by John Shook, is constructed as a dialogue between a manager and his boss, and explains how "A3 thinking", a center of Lean management and leadership, helps managers and executives identify, frame and act on problems and challenges.
5) Organizational Culture and Leadership
In this book, Edgar Schein analyzes and illustrates the concept of culture and shows its importance for the management of organizational change. It is an essential resource for leaders who seek continuous improvement in the face of current business realities.
6) The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry
The authors Womack, Jones and Roos present the advantages of the lean production system over the mass production model. The book offers essential guidance for turning traditional ventures into examples of Lean success.
7) The Lean Turnaround: How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create Value and Transform Their Company
Art Byrne shares everything he has learned about Lean methodology and shows how anyone can achieve similar results, and what a company needs to be responsive to its customers.
8) Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Antifragile is a book in the series Incerto, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, which investigates volatility, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk and decision-making in a world we don't understand.
9) The Future of Management
By Gary Hamel, organizations need management innovation more than ever. The management of the last century is no longer sufficient in a world where adaptability and creative drive business success. To prosper in the future, companies must reinvent their management.
10) The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz offers heartfelt advice on the difficulties in building and running a startup. The author expands on business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, sharing the insights he gained by developing, selling, buying, investing and supervising technology companies.


Do you want to make positive and lasting changes to your child’s sleep habits, but don’t know where to start? Your Guide to Better Sleep is the complete, step-by-step resource to help tired parents quickly, confidently, and successfully navigate the sleep training process for their child.
This instant download includes:
- detailed information to help you understand your child’s sleep needs
- guidance on creating a safe and sleep-friendly sleep environment
- the most important elements of a sleep routine for your 3 – 7-year-old
- a discussion on how fears and anxieties can impact your child’s sleep and what to do about it
- a step-by-step guide detailing two different age-appropriate sleep training methods to address bedtime, night waking, and early mornings
- a review of the importance of naps and length and timing can impact nighttime sleep
- a how-to transition away from naps if they are impacting your child’s ability to sleep through the night
- supplementary information on how to tackle Daylight Saving Time, travel, and sleep regressions
Want more information? Here’s the detailed breakdown of this guide.
The Sleep Environment
This section guides you in creating optimal room conditions for sleep and includes:
- how to ensure a safe, dark, quiet, cool, and relaxing sleep environment; and
- sleep environment assessment checklist.
Fears and Anxieties
This section guides you in addressing fears and anxieties that might be impacting your child’s ability to settle at bedtime and includes:
- suggested modifications to the bedtime routine and sleep environment to alleviate fears and anxieties; and
- age-appropriate breathing exercises and apps
This section will help you to determine your child’s ideal daytime sleep schedule and includes:
- how to interpret signs of fatigue;
- typical daytime schedules; and
- a better understanding of your child’s individual sleep needs.
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Author: Jeff Wilser
Published:September 20th, 2016
Dates Read: October 2nd, 2016 to October 3rd, 2016
Rating: 5 stars
Source: Blogging For Books – physical copy
The life and lessons of the Founding Father who mastered the arts of wit, war, and wealth, longbefore becomingthe subject of Broadway sHamilton: An American Musical
Two centuries after his death, Alexander Hamilton is shining once more under the world s spotlight and we need him now more than ever.
Hamilton was a self-starter. Scrappy. Orphaned as a child, he came to America with nothing but a code of honor and a hunger to work. He then went on to help win the Revolutionary War and ratify the Constitution, create the country s financial system, charm New York s most eligible ladies, and land his face on our $10 bill.The ultimate underdog, he combined a fearless, independent spirit with a much-needed dose of American optimism.
Hamilton died before he could teach us the lessons he learned, but Alexander Hamilton s Guide to Life unlocks his core principles intended for anyone interested in success, romance, money, or dueling. They include:
.Speak with Authority Even If You Have None (Career)
.Seduce with Your Strengths (Romance)
.Find Time for the Quills and the Bills (Money)
.Put the Father in Founding Father (Friends & Family)
.Being Right Trumps Being Popular (Leadership)
For history buffs and pop-culture addicts alike, this mix of biography, humor, and advice offers a fresh take on a nearly forgotten Founding Father, and will spark a revolution in your own life.”
My name is Alexander Hamilton
And there’s a million things I haven’t done
But just you wait, just you wait…
Back in school I remember learning about Hamilton but never really paying attention to his impact on our world and his life. But recently and thanks to the hit musical “Hamilton” myself and so many others have decided to learn more about who Alexander Hamilton really was.
I have not seen the musical but I have listened to the songs and purchased the book that was used to create the play. When I saw this I decided to step away from the musical and have a different look into Alexander Hamilton and his life.
This is a quick and enjoyable book to read. First I was surprised that it was a smaller book in size but it still had a nice length to it.
I have recently gotten into politics and history. I was also into the Kennedy family and their impact on the special education world because I’m working on becoming a special education teacher. However I was not into Hamilton but thanks to books like this I have been able to go back and really look into the impact he had on our society. His influence was huge.
Jeff Wilser has done a great job writing this book. It’s written in a way were it’s like fiction. It’s addicting and I did not want to put it down. Great job.
I was provided a physical copy of the book through blogging for books in exchange for an honest review. That had no impact on my feeling and review of the book.


I wondered if kids these days would even know about the book. And now I have my answer.
We shot the fourth episode of the new season of “High School Bowl” yesterday morning, and for one of the questions I brought in a prop. I was only going to use the prop if none of the eight students knew the answer to the question. I didn't know for sure, but I had a sneaking suspicion that I would, in the end, have to end up using the prop.
And I did.
The question in question was the last of three in a bonus round about author Robert McCloskey. He's most famous for the kids story “Make Way for Ducklings”, a book the first two questions in the round focused on. The third question, though, asked about another story he wrote about a young man named Homer and a doughnut machine gone awry. I asked the question, none of the students had any idea what I was talking about, so I whipped out my prop.
Yes, I have a copy of an 80-year old children's book about a young boy and, in one of the stories it contains, a doughnut machine gone awry. When I was a little kid “Homer Price” was one of my favorites, and a few years ago when I saw a newly-reissued copy of the book at the dearly departed Bookworld in downtown Marquette I snapped it up. Most of the stories in the book haven't aged well (heck, they were already over 30 years old when I first read them back last century) but the bit about the doughnut machine gone awry still brought a smile to my face, just as it had when I first read it all those years ago.
It's just too bad kids these days won't get that same smile.
I mean, I don't expect them to read books that were written in the 1930s and enjoy them. Like I said, they were outdated when I read them, and that was over 40 years ago. So you can imagine what a kid of today would think of a story about a doughnut machine gone awry. But even if you take away the outdated technology and the anachronistic settings, there's still something vaguely...fun about the situation. If you open your mind and read it as a historical document, rather than something that can happen these days, you might get a chuckle or two out of it. But because it doesn't contain wizards or otherworldly creatures, some kids might not even give it a second thought. And I understand that. After all, it was one of the (very) rare books I read as a kid that didn't have at least one space craft in it.
But still. Classic literature, even classic kids literature, is classic for a reason. Despite outdated technology and anachronistic settings, the underlying story still has something to it. It's true of Shakespeare, it's true of the Bronte sisters, and it's true, at least in my opinion, of “Homer Price”.
It's just too bad that most people, especially the audience for whom the books were intended, don't feel the same way.
(firstname.lastname@example.org), literary dinosaur.


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Ketcham Genealogy; Historical background . Ketchum Boys From the Handbook of Texas Online ; The Spanish Peaks, in the Southern Colorado Rocky Mountains area Background. Explorers, lawmen, gunslingers, and mountain men with names like Kit Carson, Black Jack Ketchum, Wild Bill Hickok, John Freemont, Zane Grey, William Bent, and Bat Masterson traveled the area frequently.
Tom Ketchum — who had become known as “Black Jack” when misidentified with another hombre he resembled — was the last man to hang in America for attempting to rob a train. Given the way the authorities in Clayton, N.M., conducted the job, that’s probably for the best. Black Jack Ketchum It was April 26, 1901, when train robber Thomas Edward Ketchum, later known as Black Jack, was hanged in the town of Clayton. Ever since that fateful day, the sad, twisted tale of one of the last outlaws of the Wild West has captured the imagination of historians and Wild West enthusiasts alike. Thus, at age 37, Tom Ketchum-popularly, but erroneously, known as ‘Black Jack’ today-took leave of life. But what were his origins, what made him what he became, and how did he earn his reputation? The story opens in 1849, when several wagonloads of Ketchums migrated to Caldwell County, Texas, to raise cattle. He lay in a semiconscious state as Black Jack Ketchum emptied his rifle into the bodies of Levi Herzstein and Hermenejildo Gallegos. Tom and Sam Ketchum were never tried for the killings at the Plaza Largo arroyo, but Morris Herzstein reportedly was present in Clayton, New Mexico Territory to witness the hanging of Black Jack Ketchum in 1901. However, everything began to fall apart when members, Sam Ketchum, Will Carver, and Elzy Lay pulled a heist without Black Jack Ketchum on July 11, 1899, in Folsom, New Mexico. Though they made off with some $50,000, they were soon pursued by a posse to a hideout near Cimarron, New Mexico. In the ultimate shootout that occurred, Sam Ketchum was
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May is almost over, and it's time to get back to work for me. Not that I've ever really stopped.... but it's time to ramp up the intensity again. So here's my summer reading list:
- 無縁・公界・楽：日本中世の自由と平和 by Amino Yoshihiko
- The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott
- Imperial Restoration in Medieval Japan by H. Paul Varley
- The Emergence of Japanese Kingship by Joan Piggott
- Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan: The Tenmu Dynasty, 650-800 by Herman Ooms
- JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life edited by Gregory M. Flugfelder & Brett L. Walker
- The Taiheiki: A Chronicle of Medieval Japan translated by Hellen Craig McCullough
- A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa translated by H. Paul Varley
- Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680 - Volume One: The Lands below the Winds by Anthony Reid
- The Social Construction of the Ocean by Phillip E. Steinberg
I'm keeping track of my progress at Goodreads. I'm pleased to say I only had to add one of those books to their site! Can you guess which one? (They had a different version of the Japanese title.) Feel free to add me if you're there!
I'm turning 無縁 into another 100 day challenge, which may be harder than getting me off my butt to dance and stretch. It's one of the foundational works for medieval Japanese history, but Amino's writing style is incredibly dense and my academic vocabulary in Japanese sucks. It's 268 pages, so I'm aiming for around 2.5 pages a day (stopping at a reasonable break, obviously). I expect to fill an entire notebook with vocab lists and notes. I'll be glad I did in the end...
I'm currently reading The Art of Not Being Governed. I'm about 27% through it, according to Goodreads. So far it's fantastic. The chapter I finished discussed how and why people entered state spaces and how state administrators defined "civilized" and "barbarians" according to a given group's position vis-a-vis state administrative control. An interesting point that we don't deal with too much in Japanese history is the further ethnicization of non-state people and once-state people who moved out of state control and became "barbarians". I'm really excited to keep reading it.
The next three on the list are Inter Library Loan books, so they need to be read first. I also need to take copious notes on those as they'll be on my prelims list in three years and, well, if I can read notes on something I've already read when I'm reading through a list of "everything written in English about premodern Japanese history" instead of reading 300 page books again, well... They're also very thought provoking subjects. I'm on a state formation/statecraft/performance kick the last couple of months...
I'm super excited about JAPANimals. It's one of the books we sell through my university, and a damaged copy came through so I was able to snag it since it can't be sold. I've been itching to read this for a year!
The next two must be read by September, since they were also freebees from a student organization (with the caveat that I read them and present on them in September). I'm curious about Taiheiki. I've skimmed a little of it (same with Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns), but the prose is... ick. It's a translation, for starters, and the bits I've seen in Classical Japanese aren't very nice to read to begin with. As for Chronicles.... that makes me alternately want to laugh or throw something. It's a translation of a primary source, and the writing is fine, it's just a pseudo-religious political tract written at a very frustrating point in history (that I probably am too invested in). Anyway, it's something I need to be more than familiar with, so copious notes will be taken.
The next one is a non-Japanese history book that was cited in The Art of Not Being Governed. I added this book primarily because it deals with maritime spaces. I probably won't read all of it, but it looks interesting. The last book was supposed to be read for April (same deal as my two primary source books - free book, have to present), but I only had time to skim it. I'm saving the best for last, right? I'm really itching to read it though!! I have another book on the sea and island studies (The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography edited by Peter N. Miller) that's been on my reading list since the fall, but I'm not sure how ambitious I want to be with my language program about to start.
So enough writing about reading. I'm off to read!


Leaving the Dagnir compound, our heroes headed to the Inquisition Headquarters in the Flower Bed. Once there, they were promptly impeded by the bureaucracy of the system and scheduled an appointment in two days. Seeing nothing more to be done at the headquarters, our heroes headed towards the Library Eternal for potentially more information. Their plans were hindered when yet another small gateway opened, unleashing an owlbear and several worgs against the heroes.
After the threat was quickly dealt with, they continued on their way and made a pit stop at Lyra’s guild hall, meeting with her master, Valerian. The overjoyed wizard welcomed the heroes into his home and told them what he could about the Blood-Rose petal they found at the second portal, a rare ingredient in portal making. Valerian only recalled one individual in Union who had access to such ingredients (most others would have to deal with overpriced black market dealers or collect it themselves). He then directed them towards Torrin the Red, a Loremaster in the Library Eternal.
The Library Torrin worked in was rather boring and as our heroes entered, they discovered Torrin in conversation with a tiefling in spiked armor and a female human. The tiefling was apparently discouraged that Torrin had yet to find a gardening book for a friend of his. The two ventured out from the library empty handed and passed a smile at the group. Our heroes inquired about the Blood Rose as well as anyone looking to obtain them. After a few words, Torrin relented and told them the information they needed. An elf bought some of the Blood Rose off him and inquired about books pertaining to magical travel beyond the known planes of existence. Torrin refused the elf and he went on his way to the address provided by the book-keeper.
Our heroes went as far as they could during the remaining portion of the day and slept at a respected inn. During the night, Theristis was greeted by Swiftmark once more as he asked how his assignment was going. Theristis told the assassin that he was currently engaged in another job and would deal with the pit-fighter as soon as he was finished. This satisfied Swiftmark who let the drow get some sleep. The following day found our heroes finishing their journey to the Spiral Rise where the address was as well as some shopping. Tristin, realizing he had a meeting to attend, hurriedly rushed to the Artist’s Quarters with Shimmer to meet Granny Sam. The old crone was less than excited at Tristin’s request for a Glamour as she only desired to help those who needed it, not those socially accepted in society. However, Tristin ‘won’ her over and she agreed to give the Halfling a Glamour as she smiled sadistically.
Once all of our heroes were back together again, they pushed on the next morning to the address they had. The tower was surprisingly smaller than they would think. While half knocked on the door, Athelstan, Tristin, and Jackson headed to the top level. Beetlejuice was sent as a go between for the two groups and gave the signal when a battle was occurring. Down at the door, our heroes encountered the worst of foes: an idiot. But not just any idiot, a half-ogre of great strength and size. They attempted to treat with him, bargain with him, threaten him but all seemed to bounce off his inferior intellect until Shimmer managed to spot Sidell attempting to flee down the stairs to the lower half of the tower. A battle ensued with Sidell turning invisible and managed to detonate a fireball spell in close proximity to the heroes, almost killing Lyra and Theristis in the process. The battle ended quickly, however, when Tristin flung himself down from the upper levels, knocking the wizard to the ground long enough for Shimmer to lock on the dimensional shackles and beat him unconscious. With the war criminal now in hand, they could head back to Queen Ekino for their reward but headed downstairs to see if the wizard had anything of real value in his laboratory…