Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC) Born 2400 years ago, taught that we could not begin to understand the world around us until we understood our own nature. As scientists who seek knowledge of the mechanics within their own bodies, and those of other living creatures, we share something of Socrates’ inward inquiry. Fortunately, we do not share the public abuse that he suffered, and which led him, as an old man of 70, to be tried, convicted, and executed for “impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens.”
Plato (424 BC – 348 BC) The execution of Socrates had a profound affect on Plato, 51 years his junior and a member of the Athenian aristocracy. He began the philosophical inquiries that set forth most of the important problems and concepts of Western philosophy, psychology, and logic, as well as politics. Plato postulated a realm of ideas that existed independently of the sensory world, and considered observations and experiments worthless. However, he also believed that mathematics, a system of pure ideas, was the best tool for the pursuit of knowledge. His conceptualization of mathematics as the life force of science created the necessary womb for the birth and growth of mechanics.
Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) At age 17, Aristotle, the son of a physician in northern Greece, went to Athens to study at Plato’s academy. Aristotle had a remarkable talent for observation and was fascinated by anatomy and structure of living things. Indeed, Aristotle might be considered the first biomechanician. He wrote the first book called “De Motu Animalium” – On the Movement of Animals. He not only saw animals’ bodies as mechanical systems, but pursued such questions as the physiological difference between imagining performing an action and actually doing it. Aristotle eventually departed from Plato’s philosophy so far as to advocate qualitative, common sense science, purged of mathematics. However, his advocacy of syllogistic logic, the drawing of conclusions from assumed postulates, gave us the deductive method of modern science. Thus, in the span of a century ending 2300 years ago, three men identified our most fundamental scientific tools: deductive reasoning and mathematical reasoning. And in addition, biomechanics was born!
Galen (AD 129 – 200) With the fall of Greece and the rise of the Roman Empire, natural philosophy waned in favor of technology. The second century anatomist, Galen, physician to the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, comes and goes, leaving his monumental work, On the Function of the Parts (meaning the parts of the human body) as the world’s standard medical text for the next 1,400 years. He used number to describe muscles. His essay De Motu Musculorum (On the Movements of Muscles) distinguished between motor and sensory nerves, agonist and antagonist muscles, described tonus, and introduced terms such as diarthrosis and synarthrosis. He taught that muscular contraction resulted from the passage of “animal spirits” from the brain through the nerves to the muscles. Snook (1978) suggested that some writers consider his treatise the first textbook on kinesiology, and he has been termed “the father of sports medicine.” Due to his era’s discouragement of human dissection, the majority of Galen’s work was based on the dissections of dogs, pigs, and apes. Nothing like another biomechanician is seen for a long, long time.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) Indeed, the advancement of virtually all western science was halted until the Renaissance in the middle of the second millennium. Now we finally come to someone whom we might call a biomechanician of sorts: Leonardo da Vinci. Born poor in 1452 and largely self-educated, da Vinci became famous as an artist, but worked mostly as an engineer. He made substantial contributions to mechanics in the course of pursuing his numerous military and civil engineering projects and imaginative inventions, ranging from water skis to hang gliders. He had an understanding of components of force vectors, friction coefficients, and the acceleration of falling objects, and had a glimmering of Newton’s 3rd law. By studying anatomy in the context of mechanics, da Vinci also gained some insight into biomechanics. He analyzed muscle forces as acting along lines connecting origins and insertions and studied joint function. However, delightful as his notebooks are to explore, they were personal and unpublished for centuries, and his brilliant daydreaming had little scientific impact.
Andreas Vesalius (1514 – 1564) Galen’s anatomical hegemony was finally challenged when, in 1543, at age 29, the Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius published his beautifully illustrated text, On the Structure of the Human Body. Even so, it took still more centuries for the world to accept fact that Galen had made errors corrected by Vesalius. There is an old story of an anatomist telling a student that the reason the cadaver did not conform to Galen’s description was that human anatomy had changed in the intervening thousand years. We smile, though we, too, still get lost in the darkness of our dogmas.
Copernicus (1473 – 1543) The year Vesalius published, Copernicus died. Copernicus had discreetly introduced the concept of a heliocentric solar system in 1514, but concern about the reaction of the church to this theory prevented its publication until Copernicus was literally on his deathbed. On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres not only revolutionized astronomy, it revolutionized science by re-introducing mathematical reasoning, the antithesis of Aristotelian common-sense physics. This had direct implications for biomechanics, too, because the desire to explain the orbits of the heavenly spheres led directly to the development of mechanics.
Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) The father of mechanics, and sometime biomechanician, was Galileo Galilei, born 21 years after Copernicus died. At age 17, Galileo, son of a musician-mathematician of little wealth, was sent to the University of Pies to gain wealth through the study of medicine. This paternal plan was unsuccessful because Galileo could never accept anything his professors had to say on faith, but insisted on questioning everything and demanding that every fact be proven. This attitude being unacceptable in medical school, Galileo was nicknamed “the wrangler” for his damned argumentativeness. On being forced out of the university at age 21, he returned home to Florence and further disappointed his father by turning to mathematics, having discovered that its professors were obliged to prove every damned thing they taught.
At age 25 Galileo returned to Pisa as lecturer in mathematics, but within 3 years his caustic wit had stolen so many students from other faculty that he was forced to leave again. So, he moved again, this time up to Professor of Mathematics at the more prestigious University of Padua. The strength of his powerful, irascible personality came to dominate the scientific world of his time; he became the great animating spirit of the scientific revolution that followed the Renaissance. At age 45 he heard about the invention of the telescope and dropped everything else to make and use, sight unseen, one of his own. His observations with this instrument – the moons of Jupiter, and the mountains of our own moon, for example – were published the next year.
I dwell on Galileo because he also made important contributions to biomechanics. He was particularly aware of the mechanical aspects of bone structure and the basic principles of allometry. For example, he noted that:
- animals’ masses increase disproportionately to their size, and their bones must consequently also disproportionately increase in girth, adapting to loadbearing rather than mere size
- the bending strength of a tubular structure such as a bone is increased relative to its weight by making it hollow and increasing its diameter
- marine animals can be larger than terrestrial animals because the water’s bouyancy relieves their tissues of weight
Galileo’s genius as both a mathematical theorist and an observational experimentalist enabled him to make his most fundamental contribution to science, the essence of what we now call the scientific method: the need to examine facts critically and reproduce known phenomena experimentally so as to determine cause and effect and arrive at explanations for what is observed. Furthermore, and most importantly, he sought to formulate physical laws mathematically, further freeing scientific conclusions from the misperceptions of the senses.
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608 – 1679) We now come to the our most familiar ancestor in this genealogy – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli. There were close connections between Borelli and Galileo. The son of a Spanish soldier and Italian mother, Borelli was born in Naples in 1608, when Galileo was 44 years old. At age 16 Borelli went to Rome, where he became a student of Galileo’s former student, Benedetto Castelli, founder of the science of hydraulics. Borelli also knew Galileo himself, and was apparently in Rome in 1632-33 during the time of Galileo’s trial by the Inquisition. A few years later, Castelli’s recommendation helped Borelli obtain a lectureship in mathematics in distant Messina, on the northeast coast of Sicily, across from the toe of Italy. He worked in Messina until, at age 50, he ascended to the chair of mathematics at Pisa, where Galileo had taught as a young man.
Borelli left Pisa and returned to Messina, and later, at age 67, he moved to Rome where he died on New Year’s eve, 1679. His great treatise, the second book called De Motu Animalium, was published shortly after his death. Borelli was the first to understand that the levers of the musculoskeletal system magnify motion rather than force, so that muscles must produce much larger forces than those resisting the motion. Building on the work of Galileo, and an intuitive understanding of static equilibrium, Borelli figured out the forces required for equilibrium in various joints of the human body well before Newton published the laws of motion. He also determined the position of the human center of gravity, calculated and measured inspired and expired air volumes, and showed that inspiration is muscle-driven and expiration is due to tissue elasticity. Paul Maquet’s translation of De Motu Animalium makes it possible for every biomechanician to see why the ASB’s highest award is named for Borelli.
Marcello Malpighi (1628 – 1694) At Pisa Borelli worked closely with Marcello Malpighi, the much younger chair of theoretical medicine. Malpighi was to become the greatest of the early microscopists, and the father of embryology. He, Borelli, and Descartes were key figures in establishing the iatrophysical approach to medicine, which held that mechanics rather than chemistry was the key to understanding the functioning of the human body.
After Borelli, there is little sign of biomechanics in the literature until the latter half of the 19th century, which Benno Nigg has called “the gait century.” The idea of investigating locomotion using cinematography may have been suggested by the French astronomer Janssen; but it was first used scientifically by Etienne Marey (1830 – 1904), who first correlated ground reaction forces with movement and pioneered modern motion analysis. In Germany, the Weber brothers hypothesized a great deal about human gait, but it was Christian Wilhelm Braune (1831 – 1892) and his student Otto Fischer who significantly advanced the science using recent advances in engineering mechanics.
During the same period, the engineering mechanics of materials began to flourish in France and Germany under the demands of the industrial revolution. Engineers had learned about principal stresses from Augustin Cauchy, and German engineers were actually calculating the stresses in railroad bridges when they designed them – a novel idea for cut and try American and English engineers. This led to the rebirth of bone biomechanics when the railroad engineer Karl Culmann and the anatomist Hermann von Meyer got together one famous day and compared the stress patterns in a human femur with those in a similarly shaped crane, as shown here. Then Julius Wolff heard about their little conversation, and Wolff’s law of bone remodeling began to be a guiding tenet in 20th century orthopaedic medicine.
Eadweard Muybridge (1830 – 1904): How modern day gait analysis started with a bet, some cameras, and a horse. Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-action photographs, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography.
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Well planned classrooms provide a good ambiance for the learners. All the class rooms are mounted with smart digital boards, projector and a white board. The learners are given a net book each for their class room activities. Gone are the days that incorporated 'Chalk and Talk pedagogy' for learning. Yagappa assures giving a strong learning experience to the learners through the implementation of advanced technology measures of the nano age. The air conditioned class rooms assure the learners a good conducive environment for learning.
Yagappa library is equipped with treasures of knowledge maintained, organized, and managed by trained personnel to educate the children continuously and assist in their self-improvement through an effective and prompt dissemination of information embodied in the resources. Besides aiding in the studies of children and assisting the teachers in their teaching and periodical research, the library is primarily concerned to pro-create an urge for reading amongst the children who here get a first-hand-knowledge to use the library resources most effectively in their future career; thus serving to build up a strong mental base and character of the children.
Yagappa provides a vibrant Campus life to our students.To ensure a smooth transition to school life, students are surrounded by a supportive and caring environment that inspires academic excellence, while balancing the vibrant social life of a child. Always comfortable but never boring, our campus has got many interesting features …..
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I have to post this as vindication, for all my students who complained about my showing Blade Runner and making them do their first paper on it, for years in first-year composition.
I had a terrible nightmare this morning that had to have been something straight out of Dick, now that I think about it. It was just terrible, a flashback from my previous job. In the dream I sat for seemingly hours, trying to write three 15-second "stories," the details and order of which kept changing the entire time I was writing them, the whole time sitting in someone's ratty bedroom on some really uncomfortable upholstery. When I woke up, I was so sore, I could barely hobble to the bathroom.
They oughta do a study on how many people's dreams get polluted by waking up with NPR news bleed-thru into their dreams.
Anyway, I wasn't dreaming of electric sheep, but I do have a Dick novel I would option for a screenplay in a heartbeat. I'm not going to say which one it is, though. Someone else might get it first. [grin]
Philip K. Dick: A Sage of the Future Whose Time Has Finally Come
Published: June 8, 2007
Philip K. Dick was still an obscure pulp novelist known mainly to teenage boys when a friend predicted that he would one day have more impact on the world than celebrated writers like William Faulkner, Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. The prediction seemed almost delusional in the 1960s, when Dick was popping pills around the clock and churning out novels in a science fiction ghetto from which he seemed destined never to escape.
He did get out, but only posthumously. And with his recent celebration as the sage of futurism, and his pervasiveness on bookshelves and in Hollywood, the early predictions about the growth of his influence have come to seem prescient.
Dick was largely unknown to the general public at the time of his death in 1982. Most of his novels and short stories were out of print and seemed destined to stay that way. Things began to change after his favorite and best written novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,” was introduced to the country in the form of the now classic movie “Blade Runner.”
The film struck a number of chords in the real world. Its vision of the polyglot, environmentally ruined Los Angeles spawned the phrase “Blade Runnerization” among urban planners who recognized it as a frighteningly likely vision of things to come. In recent years, movies based on Dick’s work —“Minority Report,” “A Scanner Darkly,” “Next” — have become a cottage industry in Hollywood. Numerous other projects, including a film based on his life, are said to be in the works.
The movie craze carried over into the book world, where publishers have pushed more than 30 of Dick’s novels and scores of his short stories back into print, this time with book covers and promotional material designed to appeal to mainstream readers. The rehabilitation hit a literary high note earlier this month, when the Library of America issued “Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s,” which placed him in the company of Henry James, Saul Bellow, Faulkner and other heavyweights.
Dick wrote his share of bad novels, which is hardly surprising given that he wrote stoked up on drugs and suffered no end of paranoid delusions. His best books distinguish themselves from ordinary science fiction by focusing not on technology, but on the toll that technological advances often take on human values — and on the soul itself.
Dick was fully engaged in the science of cybernetics — which supposes a similarity between machine and human functioning — and deeply alarmed about what he saw as the encroachment of programmable machinery into human life.
His writing was shaped by the legitimate worry that human beings were merging with the technology that was supposed to be serving them and becoming less human (which is to say, more machine-like) in the bargain.
Androids in much of science fiction are cast as entertaining house pets. Dick’s androids are sinister and potentially dangerous, because they lack the leavening spark of humanity.
The science fiction writer’s job is to survey the future and report back to the rest of us. Dick took this role seriously. He spent his life writing in ardent defense of the human and warning against the perils that would flow from an uncritical embrace of technology. As his work becomes more popular, readers who know him only from the movies will find it even darker and more disturbing — and quite relevant to the technologically obsessed present.


John S. Kiewit Photography Collection (Mss 228)
1000+ photographs by photographer John S. Kiewit.
The images reflect what Kiewit saw on his travels throughout California and the West, as well as trips to other parts of the U.S. and the world. Prominent places and themes include Baja, barns and farms, Big Sur, buildings and building elements (doors and windows), Carmel [CA], Central Coast [CA], Channel Islands, Death Valley, fences, ghost towns, Hawaii, Hollister Ranch [CA], landscapes, Malibu [CA], Marin County [CA], New England, New Mexico, ocean views, Oregon, Oxnard [CA], rock formations, signs, surfing, trees, Utah, wildflowers, Wyoming, and Yosemite. Other countries represented in the collection include Cook Island, Costa Rica, El Salvador, England, France, Guatemala, Marques and Tahiti Islands, Mexico, Micronesia, and New Zealand. Most of the images were taken from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Photographer John S. Kiewit (1948- 2000) grew up in California and spent his life documenting his travels in the state and beyond. Kiewit found inspiration in the works of photographers such as Edward Weston and Walker Evans, and loved wandering the back roads of the American West with his camera.
These digitized items represent a selection from the archival collection, held in the Department of Special Collections at the UCSB Library. The John S. Kiewit Archival Collection contains more than 10,000 color and black/white prints, color slides, and black/white negatives, taken from about 1968 to 2000. Color slides constitute the bulk of the collection. Over 1200 slides have been digitized and are available online, while the rest may be viewed in Special Collections.
Copies of John S. Kiewit's Gone to Sanctuary: From the Sins of Confusion (Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1997) have been cataloged separately and are available in Special Collections (Printers Collection Z478.86.C36 K53) and the Main Library (TR660.5.K54 1997). Additional copies are in box 1 of the collection.


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To discover Milan start first at the hotel where every detail reveals the story of the city and its way of life.
Alessandro Bianchi, the architect who designed the Senato Hotel Milano space, guides us throughout his favourite spots in the city.
Would you like to introduce yourself to Senato Hotel Milano's guests?
I was born in Genoa in 1967, but I've always lived in Milan.
I am an architect and designer with a passion for design and history, always motivated by artistic desire and critical awareness.
Model and context, sustainability and imagination, tradition and innovation are the founding pairs of my work.
What are your inspirations?
The great masters such as Michelangelo and Borromini, Ledoux and Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn and the Milanese architects of the '900 and above all cinema, art and nature.
Are there some places that you were pleased to share with Senato Hotel Milan guests?
Sure... If I were an alien (as I often feel...) I would land at the Bicocca Hangar. I would open my eyes in the darkness of the seven heavenly palaces’ by Anselm Kiefer to start my journey in Milan.
So, Let me guide you for 5 spots of my city... some of them are my favorite ones
Let's start with the Garden of Villa Belgiojoso Bonaparte (formerly the Garden of the Villa Comunale, headquarter of the GAM) which is also my daughter's favorite place, the park of one of the most elegant buildings in Milan, an urban villa neoclassical synthesis that touches perfection.
Where is it?
It is a stone's throw from Villa Necchi and the Planetarium, by Piero Portaluppi, one of the greatest architects of the twentieth century in Milan from which I drew the design of the entrance gates of SHM, a quotation from the doors of the building of the Buonarroti-Carpaccio-Giotto company.
Here, the courtyards of Filarete and the great court of Ricchino, the decorative richness of the Lombard Renaissance and the elegance of the Milanese baroque: a mysterious masterpiece. Coming out you cannot miss a glance at the apses of the ancient Saint Nazaro in Brolo and a stop at the "Giardini della Guastalla" for its giant magnolias, in front of the Synagogue.
Braidense Library in Brera
When you come out of the reading rooms you feel more cultured and European than when you entered it even if you didn't open a book.
To visit the "Botanical Garden" where to find two specimens of gingko biloba among the oldest in Europe.
(We have planted the most recent ones in the garden of the Senato hotel Milan, tough).
And then loose yourself in the neighborhood of Via Lincoln
A small multi-colored village with uncoated gardens; an unexpected urban objet trouvé among the tree-lined boulevards of the historic Milanese expansion. By the way, in this neighborhood there are my favorite bakeries!
Take a visit to the ‘Fondazione Prada’
An exhibition organization that tells how architecture can make art "art".
Finally, walking south for a few kilometers you could have lunch in one of the ancient "trattorias" of the Abbey of Chiaravalle and then stroll around the tower, one of the masterpieces of Cistercian architecture; a rural landscape just a few kilometers from the Duomo and Senato Hotel Milan...


|When||:||January 28, 2019|
|Event||:||"Greybeards on Storage, Episode 79"|
|Session||:||"GreyBeards talk AI deep learning infrastructure with Frederic Van Haren, CTO & Founder, HighFens, Inc."|
|Where||:||Taneja Group, Hopkinton, MA|
|When||:||April 5, 2017 (published July 2017)|
|Event||:||Interview: Taneja Group - HighFens Inc|
|Session||:||"Big Data, HPC and Storage Interview with Frederic Van Haren, HighFens"|
|When||:||May 17 2017|
|Event||:||The Future of Shared Storage|
|Session||:||Keynote speaker - The Future of Shared Storage|
This whitepaper compares the evolution of HPC with that of modern SaaS and other cloud-based Software to better understand the technologies and architectures that will dominate the datacenter in the age of digital transformation.
Coming from the research side in 2005 I wasn't sure what defined HPC and Big Data and how to start. Sure, I had ...


The Adventures of Gerry Gee at the NFSA — A New Acquisition
Earlier this year I paid a visit to the National Film and Sound Archive Melbourne office and met with Helen Tully who is responsible for acquisitions of broadcast materials. The NFSA has recently acquired a 16mm reel containing two episodes of The Adventures of Gerry Gee — both from the story “Gerry at Gigantic”. (You can find a catalog entry for this acquisition here.)
The NFSA have scanned this new reel on their Scanity film scanner and Helen was able to show me a preview of the reel. The NFSA’s focus is on collecting and preserving. Copyright restrictions (often complex) and lack of resources limit how many materials they can make publicly available. However it is possible to request copies of holdings. Wouldn’t it be great to get these episodes up on The Tarax Show website!


Ever get the feeling there's something very wrong with the library you're using, something a little too framework-y about it, but you can't quite put your finger on the problem? My pet theory: it's often that the library is structured to push its functionality to client code, rather than having client code pull functionality that's needed.
In a push library, the library pushes the functionality to clients, who then override how certain steps are performed. In this model, client code can only change overall program behavior by overriding or changing code in places predetermined by the library. A consequence is that overall control flow is rigid - it is mostly fixed by the library writer. As push libraries develop over time, they accumulate more and more options and hooks in different places to handle all the different control flows users want. The result isn't pretty. But even with all the complexity that accumulates, the library never seems to do exactly what you want it to.
In contrast, a "pull" library puts client code in control. Client code makes all decisions regarding control flow and the library provides control flow combinators appropriate for the domain. Not only is this way more flexible and expressive (the client can construct control flows not envisioned by the framework designer), it's also much more pleasant for the client programmer. The client programmer now just has to understand the primitives and the control flow combinators he's using for his particular application, and nothing more.
Libraries written in the pull style are more like combinator libraries and tend to make use of higher order functions, closures, etc. Perhaps this explains why this style isn't very common in languages like Java and why the big "frameworks" in these languages are often bloated monstrosities nobody likes using.


Following are the year-long in-depth research activities carried out by students under the supervision of Dr. Dimpy Mahanta and are under review for publication in national and international journals:
1. Mahanta, D. & Baruah, T. (2017) Relationship of Social Support, Hope and Depression amongst Visually Impaired and Sighted Adolescents: An Exploratory Research. Manuscript Submitted & Accepted for Publication.
2. Mahanta, D. & Hussain, F. (2017) A Study on the Impact of Occupational Stress, Anxiety and Self Efficacy among Medical Professionals. Manuscript Submitted.
3. Mahanta, D. & Khound, H. (2017) Personality Dimension of CRPF Personnel and Traffic Police of Assam: An Exploratory Study. Manuscript Submitted.
4. Mahanta, D. & Paul, P. (2017) Occupational Stress amongst the Employees in Private and Public Banks. Manuscript Submitted.
5. Mahanta, D. & Sarma, B. (2017) Challenges encountered by Women Bureaucrats of Assam: An Exploratory Study. Manuscript Submitted.
6. Mahanta, D. & Sarma, J. (2017) A Study on the Impact of Training on the Employees in Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL). Manuscript Submitted.
7. Mahanta, D. & Singson, C. (2017) Use of Social Media and its Effect on the Mental Health of College Students. Manuscript Submitted.
8. Mahanta, D. & Laishram, S. (2017) The Impact of Technology Usage by Teenager on Parent-Child Relationship in Guwahati (Assam). Manuscript Submitted.
9. Mahanta, D. & Hanchepi, S. (2018) Psychological Impact of Exposure to Floods: An Exploratory Study in Majuli Island (Assam). Manuscript Submitted.
10. Mahanta, D. & Chowdhury, A. (2018) Psychological, Social and Spiritual Wellbeing of Cancer Patients in Guwahati, Assam. Under Preparation.
11. Mahanta, D. & Baruah, N. (2018) Teachers’ Attitude on School Bullying: A Comparative Study between Government and Private Schools of Assam. Manuscript Submitted.
12. Mahanta, D. & Das, S. (2018) Psychological Morbidity of the Prisoners in the District Jail of Sivasagar (Assam). Under Preparation.
13. Mahanta, D. & Kaushik, K. (2018) A Comparative Study on Stress & Coping Mechanisms of Institutionalized and Non-Institutionalized Elderly People of Assam. Manuscript Submitted.
Mahanta, D. & Bora, S. (2018) A Comparative Study amongst Private and Public School Teachers in relation to Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction. Under Preparation.
15. Mahanta, D. & Boral, D. (2018) Bullying amongst the High School Students in Assam: An Empirical Study. Manuscript Submitted.
16. Mahanta, D. & Bhuyan, C. (2018) Marital Adjustment, Stress and Depression among Working and Non-Working Women: A Comparative Study. (Under preparation)


New Documentary on Carl Schenck and the Beginning of American Forestry Showing at Morris Thompson Cultural Center in Fairbanks
May 16th (Arbor Day) at 3:00 PM
On Monday May 16th , as part of the 50th anniversary of Alaska’s Arbor Day celebration, the Yukon River Chapter of the Society of American Foresters will host a free screening of America’s First Forest, the first full-length, in-depth documentary film ever made about legendary forester and educator Carl Schenck. This new film explores Carl Schenck’s work at the Biltmore Estate and its impact on the conservation movement.
America’s First Forest: Carl Schenck and the Asheville Experiment is produced by the Forest History Society in cooperation with Bonesteel Films. The film tells the story of how Carl Schenck realized Frederick Law Olmsted’s vision of introducing forestry to America. It was on George Vanderbilt’s magnificent Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina that a 120,000-acre forest became America’s first sustainably managed forest. Here the nation’s first forestry school was founded, and the call for scientifically based forest management was inspired
Although probably best known as the author of the classic memoir Cradle of Forestry in America, Schenck is also renowned for his work as an educator, forester, lumberman, and forest conservation advocate. Central to Schenck’s extraordinary career and impact was establishing the Biltmore Forest School—America’s first and arguably most influential. With the Biltmore Forest School and his experiments on the ground, Schenck laid the foundation for the conservation movement in the twentieth century and still inspires people today.
Drawing on Carl Alwin Schenck's memoir Cradle of Forestry in America: The Biltmore Forest School, 1898–1913, the new documentary America's First Forest is the first film to examine the pivotal role of Biltmore Estate chief forester Carl Schenck and America’s first school of forestry in American history. Though the conservation movement and professional forestry began on Biltmore’s forested lands—now preserved and celebrated as the Cradle of Forestry in America near Asheville—Carl Schenck remains an unheralded early leader of both.
America’s First Forest is distributed by the Forest History Society, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization located in Durham, North Carolina. The Society links the past to the future by identifying, collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating information on the history of interactions between people, forests, and their related resources—timber, water, soil, forage, fish and wildlife, recreation, and scenic or spiritual values. Through programs in research, publication, and education, the Society promotes and rewards scholarship in the fields of forest, conservation, and environmental history while reminding all of us about our important forest heritage.
To learn more about the Forest History Society and the America's First Forest movie, visit www.americasfirstforest.org.


Sign Language Program Book - Edition 2
The Signing hands Baby & Toddler Sign Language Programme book is a complete signing course. This is the 2nd Edition, updated in July 2022.
The course was designed by Debbie Bundock (B.Ed. Hons) who has 25 years primary teaching and 12 years Baby signing experience.
The book accompanies the Signing Hands Baby & Toddler Sign Language classes in Western Australia. Signing Hands has been the leading provider of baby signing classes in WA for 10 years.
All of the signs included in the book are Auslan (Australian Sign Language).
It contains everything you need to know to introduce sign language to your babies & toddlers successfully in your on home.
The history & benefits of signing with babies is included and there are lots of songs to help you teach your baby signs for daily routines (Bathtime, bedtime & nappy changing), foods, colours, emotions and many more.
170 signs are grouped into easy to find categories and they are split into two groups (First and Advanced signs). All signs are shown with pictures and written descriptions to help you learn them.
This comprehensive book will have your whole family signing in no time at all!


The Awakening “…should be labeled ‘poison,’” states the May 21, 1899 issue of the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, “too strong a drink for moral babes.” The novel is “a masterpiece,” gushes the New York Times Book Review almost a hundred years later. “Kate Chopin was long before her time in dealing with sexual passion…”
It is extraordinary that a book once reviled and condemned, one that nearly cost its previously respected author her reputation, is now considered spectacular and ground-breaking. This fact alone elucidates the changed face of the American woman, and society’s opinion regarding expectations of the life this woman is to lead.
The idea of females being more than property of their husbands and caretakers of their homes and children was prescient during this era, and Chopin’s revolutionary work was clearly ahead of its time.
We first meet Edna Pontellier, a young, high-society New Orleans house wife, when she is summering on sultry Grand Isle, in the Gulf of Mexico. Her days consist of chatter and gossip with the other wives on the breezy front-porch, running after her young children on the beach, and attending fancy socials at nightfall. She is to be nothing more than pretty arm-candy for her husband, an ornament to the sumptuous locale and sensual surroundings.
A subtle change, however, begins to occur. Edna strikes up a friendship, which finally develops into love, with a younger man also staying on the island. She gains a newfound strength and courage, and begins to realize how devoid of meaning and independence her life is.
Her desire to break free culminates in her decision to go for a swim late one steamy summer night. As she plunges into the tepid water underneath the clear black skies and glowing moon, “a feeling of exultation [overtakes] her, as if some power of significant import [has] been given her to control the working of her body and her soul. (47)” “She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.”
From this moment on, a change is evident. Edna point-blank refuses her husband’s request that she go to sleep, and instead spends the night on the porch swing. Once back in New Orleans, she abandons her appointments and obligations, spends time with a socially-shunned and disagreeable old woman, and eventually moves out of the home she shares with her husband and children.
Edna is not without faults, and one can sense her pain and frustration at the sheltered life she is forced to lead. These traits make her a sympathetic character, one that the reader can not only identify with and admire, but also learn from.
Initially, I was unimpressed with her “rebellious” actions. I felt that she was behaving like an insolent child testing her parent’s limits, mindlessly defying her husband without fulfilling any purpose. As the novel progressed, however, it became evident that Edna was simply attempting to be happy on her own terms, while still remaining cordial with her husband and taking part in her children’s lives.
I also enjoyed Edna’s relationship with Robert. It seemed very logical that a woman defying the expectations and societal norms of her time would conduct an affair with a man younger, and culturally different, than she.
Chopin very successfully illustrates the transitions in Edna’s character and relationships in a subtle way. They progress naturally, and the reader doesn’t feel as though anything has been rushed. Rather, Edna’s developing independent spirit, and her still-growing friendships and relationships, are nurtured gradually.
One cannot help but feel their heart break, along with Edna’s, as she experiences the ups and downs of her love with Robert. The sadness and heartbreak of what seems to be every facet of her adult life are almost too much to bear. Edna’s strength to abandon all that she knows, and the opposition she then faces, make her an inspiring character.
The Awakening must have been nothing short of earth-shattering in the time of its publication; and it is exactly because of this revolutionary importance that it was abhorred by all those uncomfortable with the new direction women’s lives were taking.
By: Casey Feldman


The time has come. I am beginning to get rid of all my books. Well, 80% of them at least; all of the books that I collected over the years when I was selling books online. I didn't do it for long, but it was a good little cushion when I needed it.
I was encouraged by a friend, a longtime used bookseller, who sold books on ABE (Advanced Book Exchange) and Biblio. She said that all the work it took was worth not having to work for someone else. It was a lot of work to do well. It could have easily turned into a full time job, but I would have been living and breathing books which I felt like I was doing already. I was never really brave enough to jump in with both feet. We are, and have always been, dependent upon our employers and have known no other way to muddle through our frugal life without them.
I've been gathering boxes but putting off filling them for weeks now, maybe even months. Yes, I confess, months. Yesterday I filled half a dozen boxes and took them to the library donation place and said goodbye to them. It felt good. I felt lighter. I probably have another 20 boxes to go. I hope I feel 20 times lighter by the end of it.
It looks like we're moving, I told Michael. He agreed. Slowly more space is presenting itself. Slowly I am seeing manageable piles of reading material instead of insurmountable heaps of wishes, "Some day when I have the time..." because although the bulk of the books were acquired for book stock, there were some gems among the titles that I always wanted to read. A few by Thomas Merton, one by Annie Dillard, the classic Gunter Grass's, The Tin Drum. As you can guess I've kept a few books for myself which brings me to this phenomenon.
How is it that I can be gliding along, not a care in the world, no oppressive desire rearing its head and shaking its mane in my face when suddenly, I must have a book by an author that I knew nothing about only minutes ago? This happened to me after reading an email from a friend asking if I had read My Struggle: Book One by Karl Ove Knausgaard. After reading an excerpt, reading the author's bio and lustily pulling it up on Amazon so I could ogle the cover, I've had to struggle with not impulsively buying it. I am, after all, shedding books and I am in the middle of reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer which I inexplicably set aside as I am wont to do from time to time. I don't need another book be it a kindle version or paper version, but the reptilian part of my brain desires it. I want to bask in the narrative like a lizard on a rock soaking up the sun. I want to taste new sentences, have them melt in my mouth leaving a sweet and lingering after taste, a phrase to mull over, let go of and return to again and again.
Denying myself is my own form of discipline. I tell myself that I will reward myself with Knausgaard after I finish packing up and freeing myself of another twelve boxes of used books that have been taking up precious space in our little home. The speed that it takes to complete that task will be the true barometer of my desire.
Eventually, I'll reward mysel with it. I'm sure I'll use some nonsensical and lame justification like the season. It is summer afterall, and summer, as we all know, is a time for leisurely reading.


Here are Wynn Wagner’s audiobooks (*nsfw*).
Wynn Wagner has written or edited some 40 books, but he says that Brent: the Heart Reader is his favorite. It’s easy to see why, and the tender loving tone is one of the reasons that Brent was added to the Gay Book Hall of Fame. Brent is a tarot reader, not because he’s into weird occult stuff, but because he found out he’s a complete master of those cards. He first falls in lust with Takota (an Apache man from a Navaho region). They later take that wonderful trip into a deep loving relationship. Brent and Takota both bring plenty of history and baggage, but they work through their doubts and fears. Brent is a lively story with a few funny and snarky characters.
Chris Patton (right) takes to the mic to narrate the story. He’s noted for narrating gobs of Anime. You will probably recognize his voice and fall in love with Brent/Chris.
The audiobook is unabridged.
In case you’re curious, Brent’s t-shirt says “one man’s junk is another man’s treasure.” This is a fun gay romance novel.
Vamp Camp is narrated by Jason Lovett (right). It’s the story of a young man from a tiny town in Texas who was in Germany as an American soldier in World War One. He was turned into a vampire by a hateful German vampire. So we have this hick-town Texan living in Germany. He has an awful time with German and French… Hell, he isn’t all that talented with English! That’s a hard character to pull off in print, and it’s almost impossible to do in an audiobook. Jason Lovett does a wonderful job with the story.
The audiobook is unabridged. The author reads an introduction and the dedication. Free samples are available everywhere Vamp Camp audiobook is sold.


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In today’s digital age, the ability to transcribe audio recordings into text has become an invaluable tool for various industries and individuals alike. Whether it’s converting interviews, meetings, lectures, or personal notes, the process of converting recording files to text has proven to be a time-saving and efficient method of documenting spoken content. This article explores the significance, methods, and applications of chuyển file ghi âm thành văn bản (converting recording files to text).
The Significance of Converting Recording Files to Text
Transcribing audio recordings into text holds numerous benefits that extend beyond mere convenience. Here are some key reasons why this process is significant:
Accessibility and Searchability: Textual content is easier to navigate, search, and reference compared to audio recordings. Converting recordings to text makes it simple to locate specific information within lengthy files.
Content Preservation: Text documents are less susceptible to degradation or loss over time compared to audio files. By converting recordings to text, valuable content can be preserved for future reference.
Enhanced Understanding: Reading a transcript allows individuals to absorb information at their own pace, aiding comprehension and retention. It’s particularly helpful for educational settings, where learners can review lectures.
Translation and Localization: Textual content can be easily translated into different languages, enabling global accessibility and reach.
Methods of Converting Recording Files to Text
Several methods and tools are available for converting audio recordings into text. Here are some commonly used approaches:
Manual Transcription: This involves listening to the recording and typing out the spoken words verbatim. While it can be accurate, manual transcription is time-consuming and requires human effort.
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Converting recording files to text is a transformative process that facilitates accessibility, searchability, and comprehension of audio content. With various methods available, individuals and industries can harness the power of transcription to enhance productivity and knowledge management. Whether it’s for business, education, law, or media, the ability to convert spoken words into written text is a valuable asset in the modern digital landscape.


Jewish Background to New Testament Studies - series 1
Jesus the Jew - the historical Jesus
Uncovering the historical Jesus. Its relevance and contemporary opinions.
Jewish sects: Pharisees, Essenes, Sadducees
Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes . . . Which was Jesus closest to?
Jesus the Teacher - a rabbi come from God
Jesus as a Jewish teacher, his methods and doctrinal content.
Jesus and the Torah - fulfilling the law
The true Biblical and Jewish understanding of the Torah/law. Fulfilling without ending the law.
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The Biblical purpose of the temple and Jesus’ attitude to it
Jesus and Jewish prayer
Understanding the ‘Lord’s Prayer’ and its Jewish background
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Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
Winnie the Pooh, a beloved collection of children’s tales, written by A.A. Milne, starting in 1926, is full of inspiring and classic lessons for its audience. Tese tales have been turned into a series of movies, starting with the classic Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree in 1966, to the television series today on Disney Channel. Many call its author, Milne, not only an author, but also a philosopher (Bustle). Milne’s tales were inspired by his son and his stuffed animals, especially his stuffed bear (Bustle). Watching the world’s most beloved bear, you can help but to learn a few notable life lessons along the way.
In the movie Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin, The friends in the Hundred Acre Woods band together once again to save their friend. Pooh gets a note on the morning of Autumn but can’t read it, so he searches or Christopher to help him but can’t find him, and Pooh goes through the woods finding all of his friends who also cant read the note. Ending up at Owl’s house he misinterprets the letter leading the friends on an adventure to rescue their friend from Skull Rock. This story is an adventure of conquering fears and relying on friends to help you out, as they are “saved” by Christopher who was at school not skull.
In Gianetti’s chapter on Ideology of films, he discussed the different scales of films, as well as the left v. right views on issues. One that was touched upon in Pooh’s Grand Adventure was the Democratic v. Hierarchal society. In the Hundred Acre Woods, everything is equal, fair, and happy amongst the people because there is non one that is better than the other. While some may be more gifted in certain areas than others, no one person is deemed the greatest. This is s very leftist view, having the traits of equal distribution, and an emphasis on the collective (Gianetti 410).
Other lessons seen through the Winnie the Pooh film are negative and positive. First, In the beginning of the movie, Christopher Robin says he has something bad to tell Pooh. Pooh replies to that saying “if its bad it can wait forever” teaching the lesson that bad things can be pushed as long as one wants, because if one cannot handle bad news or the outcome from it, they believe it never has to happen. Another lesson is that of individual progress, in which all of the animals from the Hundred Acre Woods have realize they can all conquer their fears and are strong enough without Christopher Robin.
I think these films have been very successful in conveying positive messages, such as importance of friendship and strength found in yourself, but also in conveying realistic problems that are confronted but not solved, such as the prolonging of a bad event, or the denial of things happening. I would rate this film with five nachos.
1. White, Caitlin. "On A.A. Milne's 'Winnie-The-Pooh' Anniversary, 10 Life Lessons From The Hundred Acre Wood." Bustle. Bustle, 15 Oct. 2014. Web.
2. Giannetti, Louis D. Understanding movies. Boston: Pearson, 2016. Print.


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We are very glad to inform that ISAT 2015 proceedings are indexed now by the Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), DBLP and SCOPUS.
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The ISAT 2016 book is published and available online on SpringerLink:
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As the weather gets chillier, our county libraries are chock-full of great programs for our little ones!
Babies in Bloom (Ages birth to two: a half-hour of stories, music, and fingerplay.)
Annapolis - Thursday, November 8 at 9:30 am. Repeated at 10:30 am
Broadneck - Wednesday, November 7 at 10 am
Crofton - Saturday, November 10 at 10 am
Eastport/Annapolis Neck - Wednesdays, now through November 14 at 10 am
Maryland City at Russett - Wednesdays, November 7 – December 12 at 10 am
Mountain Road - Wednesday, November 21 at 10:15 am
North County - Monday, November 5 at 10 am
Provinces - Wednesday, November 7 at 10 am
Riviera Beach - Wednesday, November 7 at 9:45 am
South County - Wednesdays, November 7, 14, and 28 at 10am
West County- November 12 at 9:30 am. Repeated at 10:30 am
Check out the special events and programming available for older kids here.


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The Library's collections are displayed in two permanent exhibitions: "Sacred Traditions" and "Artistic Traditions". The "Sacred Traditions" Gallery exhibits the sacred texts, illuminated manuscripts and miniature paintings from the great religions and systems of belief represented in the collections - Christianity, Islam and Buddhism with smaller displays on Confucianism, Daoism, Sikhism and Jainism. The Biblical Papyri, the remarkable collection of Qur'an manuscripts and scrolls and books of Buddhist thought provide the focus for the displays.
Audio-visual programmes on Rites of Passage in many faiths, prayer and pilgrimage enhance the displays. The "Artistic Traditions" gallery is devoted mainly to works of art on paper, techniques of print-making, binding and paper-making and the art of miniature painting. The display draws on the rich manuscript holdings, the collection of rare printed books and of decorative arts, especially from East Asia. The exhibition is introduced by a display devoted to the life and work of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty. The Chester Beatty Collection is a unique treasure reflecting the connoisseurship and enthusiasms of its founder.
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NOAH member Maureen Ryan announces the publication of her new book, My Fair Child
Inspired by the author’s personal experiences and her strong desire to write a book for all children especially children with albinism and their families, Maureen Ryan announces the publication of her children’s book, My Fair Child. My Fair Child gently speaks to our hearts as it is reminiscent of a child’s innocence and the infinite beauty of human diversity.
The story begins when a young child born with albinism hears her mother lovingly speak the words, “Mirror, mirror reflecting from the wall, I am seeing the fairest child of all. Smiling warmly like the rays of the sun, you bring much happiness to everyone.” The child falls asleep feeling a true sense of security. She dreams of magnificent pale creatures like herself and contentedly sees herself playing amongst her fair-haired friends. The reader feels her childlike innocence as she is later approached by a bully. She appears fearful but not defeated. There is no tolerance for this inappropriate behavior as “the creatures form a circle to protect these fair children from any disrespect.” She awakens and shares her dream with her mother and is compassionately reminded of her unique beauty. “Be proud of who you are, let your love shine and hold your head up high fair child of mine.”


Sam Pack is a professor of cultural anthropology at Kenyon. His research interests address the relationship between media and culture and specifically focus on an anthropological approach to the production and reception of television, film, photographs and new media. In this capacity, he has conducted ethnographic studies among school-aged children in inner city Philadelphia, middle-class families in suburban Pennsylvania and New Mexico and adults in two different Native American communities (Navajo Nation and Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community).
More recently, he has undertaken research and/or film projects in Central America (Honduras and Costa Rica), the Arctic (Labrador, Canada), the Middle East (West Bank, Palestine), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines) and East Asia (South Korea and Japan). Dr. Pack has held visiting appointments in universities and research institutes in India, Costa Rica, Palestine, Iceland, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and South Korea. He will serve as the resident director of the Japan Study Program at Waseda University in Tokyo during the 2019-20 academic year.
Pack has authored almost fifty articles published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. He has completed two manuscripts ("Television Through Navajo Eyes: Situating Reception in Everyday Life" and "Vis-à-Vis: The Life History as Dialogue") as well as two films ("Celebrating Semana Santa: Change, Conflict and Continuity in Rural Honduras" (with Said Zagha '11) and "Water Puppetry in Vietnam: An Ancient Tradition in a Modern World" (with Caleb Bissinger '13). Another manuscript titled "Ethnographic Media: History and Practice" (co-authored with Jayasinhji Jhala) is under contract with the University of Toronto Press.
Pack teaches a wide variety of courses in cultural anthropology, visual anthropology, Native American studies, Asian studies and narrative history. He currently serves as the book review editor for Visual Anthropology, the flagship journal in the field. Pack is the grateful recipient of the ASIANetwork Freeman Award for Faculty-Student Collaborative Research (2010 and 2016), Alpha Delta Phi's Outstanding Teaching Award (2011), Next Generation Libraries Grant (2012), GLCA New Directions Initiative Grant (2013), Fulbright Specialists Grant (2013 and 2016), POSCO TJ Park Foundation Research Grant for Asian Studies (2014), Academy of Korean Studies Research Grant (2015) and Ohio Five Digital Scholarship Initiative (2018).
Areas of Expertise
Cultural identity formation and contestation, global and local dynamics of mass media, media ethnography, reception studies, indigenous modes of (self-re)presentation, subject-generated imagery, life history, Native North America, Southeast and East Asia.
— Master of Arts from Temple University
— Doctor of Philosophy from Temple University
— Bachelor of Arts from Colorado College


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I will get a cravings for a specific genre. Until after I read this collection of stories, it was science fiction.
PEACE AND WAR, The Omnibus Edition, by Joe Haldeman
Has been my bedtime read of choice for the last few weeks. This collection of stories that are novel length, each, stick to these three themes: war, freedom, peace. The stories have existed in various forms for over thirty years, but in this edition they're all brought together in versions that the author believes are definitive.
William Mandella: The Forever War, and Forever Free
The first two stories in the collection centre around William Mandella, a man thrust into the Forever War from its beginning, and who is there at its end, over a thousand years later. Mandella is forced to fight in a war where Earth does not even know the enemy its fighting when it begins its assault.
The second book takes place after the war, as Mandella tries to find his place in a universe he no longer has a stake in. This is a future that Mandella cannot endure.
Julian Class: Forever Peace
The final story is set in a different universe, on Earth. An Earth where not everyone is equal.
Julian Class fights for the Alliance in the Ngumi War, because he is 100 percent American. Julian is a mechanic, he does not go on the battle field, his Soilderboy does, controlled from thousands of miles away using a brain jack. However, Julian is also a physicist and when his girlfriend asks for his help in trying to figure out whether the end of the universe is about to begin, killing innocents on the battlefield seems the least of Julian's worries.
Not light hearted reading
The war scenes that are described in these stories are brutal and nightmarish. Joe Haldeman admits to drawing on his experiences when he served in the Vietnam War, and it shows.
If you're looking for some serious science fiction to read this summer, hunt down this collection published by Gollancz Science Fiction, 2006, ISBN: 0-575-07919-3, RRP: £8.99.
Wiki entry on Joe Haldeman


Thunder City Metropolitan Library
After over 200 years of service, Thunder City’s very own library is more museum – and relic – than it is a place of thriving intellect in today’s digital society.
The Thunder City Metropolitan Library was founded in the 1940’s in a joint effort between the city’s many intellectual societies, colleges, and local government. Many Thunder City citizens supported the idea of a local, centralized resource, as well as the traffic and business the addition would bring to uptown TC. Construction of its white marble, Classical style building (the same one it remains in to this day) was funded in part by taxes and donations from Thunder City’s generous upper-class citizens, as well as numerous city-wide fundraising events. The library started operating in the early 1950’s, and has been ever since.
In its heyday, the library and the area it occupies in norther Thunder City were popular locations to hang out. A fair number of businesses catering to school-age youths and young adults, and intellectually-inclined adults, popped up around it, increasing its popularity. With the gradual decline in physical books starting in the early 21st century, however, the public lost interest in a building full of books they could read online or in the comfort of their homes (or on the go in the case of e-readers). A few of the businesses still remain, but many shut down decades ago only to be replaced by more popular electronics, clothing, and specialty stores.
In attempts to combat declining patronage and the costs of badly needed repairs, the library has shifted its focus to become more technologically friendly. The past 20 years has seen the addition of an in-library coffee shop and book store, the expansion of computer labs, common areas, and private meeting rooms equipped with a variety of not-quite-state-of-the-art technology. Their selection and quantity of books has consequently suffered, and instead focuses on rare and out of print books, classic literature, standard research resources, and a section of newer books that is refreshed monthly.
The library also houses a thorough collection of old news and magazine publications in its archives, as well as city records.
Most books (with some exceptions) and various media can be rented from the library for up to a month at a time. Public access to the library is free, but rentals require a card; the card costs $20 for a first-time fee, and $5 to renew every three years. Meeting rooms may be reserved by card holders for no additional fee, but must be registered two weeks in advance. Access to the archives and city records is granted sparingly, as visitors must be overseen by a library employee or volunteer.
Periodically, the library will host a variety of literary, historical, and educational events in attempts to both draw the public’s attention and provide something productive and healthy to the youth of Thunder City. However, despite its greatest attempts to reclaim its old glory, the library is barely scraping by.
Built in the standard neoclassical style popular among governmental agencies in the 1940’s, the library is a gleaming white marble masterpiece that occupies two large city blocks. The building’s shape is straightforward (or boring, depending on who you talk to), a simple rectangle with extended sections in the middle, on both sides. These sections are fronted by 6 huge, marble pillars. The front entrance faces Old Main Street; the back, Elderberry Blvd. The Elderberry side used to also be an entrance, but due to safety and security concerns as well as lack of space, that entrance was closed down in the early 21st century.
Being a marble building, there are not many windows cut out of the walls of the library. The roof, however, is at least 40% domed glass, allowing for a view of a beautiful span of sky and ample light during the day. There are a few floor to ceiling glass panes flanking the Main Street entrance and along the back Elderberry wall, as well as a sprinkling of windows here and there elsewhere.
Inside, thanks to semi-recent grants, the library is a touch more modern and refreshed, incorporating metal and wood into curved, artistic architectural elements, like the front of the coffee shop and book store. Typically, this modernization only extends to the newest additions; the rest of the library remains untouched – though repaired.
Two great marble stair cases lead to the basement and second level. The bookstore and coffee shop are on the first floor, as well as the largest computer lab. The second floor hosts primarily books and meeting rooms, interspersed by reading areas, study nooks and smaller computer labs. The basement is much smaller than the ground floor and encompasses the archives, administrative offices, and activity rooms.
There is no dedicated parking except for a tiny 8-car parking lot behind the building, reserved for staff. Patrons can either park on the street (metered on weekdays from 8am to 5pm, except on holidays) or use one of two parking garages that are within walking distance.
2240 Old Main Street
Monday & Tuesday | 10am-6pm
Wednesday & Thursday | 9am-7pm
Friday | 9am-8pm
Saturday & Sunday | 10am-7pm