April 14th, 2016
The types of pens and calligraphy used in religious text is a complex, multilayered question that spans centuries as well as nations. The calligraphic methods of a medieval European illuminated manuscript are, by necessity, quite different from a Japanese sutra produced at the same time. The tools and materials have evolved over time, though in many cases, the choices were a matter of practicality, what was available at hand, rather than what made the most appealing manuscripts. Still, as any artist will tell you, making do with the materials at hand and making it look good is a major part of art.
The pens of calligraphy will vary depending on the exact era and region in which they’re used. European calligraphy, upon which most of the earliest European religious texts were based on, used reed pens through out the period of Antiquity. In Late Antiquity they were replaced by quill pens, the writing instruments made of feathers familiar to most people who have seen enough movies. These quill pens and their firm yet flexible base was specially cut in order to hold and disgorge ink when manipulated in the right way. The earliest European texts created in this way were the illuminated manuscripts that included elaborate text and visual art to make the books useful even to the large numbers of people of the Middle Ages who could not read. The manuscripts were written on a variety of materials, such as animal hide based parchment and vellum It was only around the time of the development of the printing press that paper again became widely available in Europe.
Indian calligraphy was quite different. Though developed at roughly the same time, the differences in languages and available materials made calligraphy a very different art form. The earliest Indic calligraphy were written on copper and the bark of the Indian Birch tree at first, but palm leaves quickly replaced copper as a cheaper and in many ways superior writing material. Strips of palm leaves were cut into rectangles and had holes drilled into them before being bound with string. As it turns out, the palm leaf was a quite impressive surface for writing, enabling delicate lettering. In India, religious texts were also illuminated manuscripts; indeed, the Sikh faith in particular considered a hand written illuminated manuscript an essential item. Many monastic Buddhist communities also trained members in calligraphy. Finally, the Hindu illuminated manuscripts and their stirring images of the faith’s deities stir the imagination of millions to this day.
Islamic calligraphy was likewise used in sacred texts, but evolved into the primary art form of the Islamic world. As figurative images are seen as suspect in Islam, very few Islamic calligraphic works are illuminated manuscripts. However, the low opinion of pictures and statues only encouraged Islamic artists to adopt calligraphy as the primary art form of the Islamic world. It’s a tradition that has in many ways persisted to this day. The pen of Islamic calligraphy is usually written with the qalam, a pen generally made of bamboo or dried reed, combined with colorful inks (similar to the gel pen) that can vary in intensity depending on the calligrapher’s technique. Passages from the Qu’ran are a popular subject of these artistic works.
Japanese calligraphy also found a great deal of influence in Buddhist religious practices, and some of the oldest Japanese texts are Buddhist sutras, texts describing the precepts of the faith. The tools of Japanese calligraphy evolved to fit the needs of the island as well, and include a brush, an inkstick, mulberry paper and inkstone to grind the inkstick against, then mixed with water to produce the ink.
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Arriving on streaming in the middle of a pandemic, a time when many lives have fallen into unceasing loops of quarantine-related repetition and tedium, the Lonely Island produced comedy Palm Springs perhaps resonated differently than when it premiered at Sundance earlier this year. Jokes about doing the same shit over and over just hit harder now. Tracking a romance between a goofball wedding guest (Andy Samberg) and the bride’s self-destructive sister (Cristin Milioti), writer Andy Siara’s clever script combines Groundhog Day existentialism with a quippy take on quantum physics, doling out inspirational life lessons and math cram sessions at a clipped pace. In the same way Tom Cruise had to battle aliens in Edge of Tomorrow, the two must relive a wedding over and over, struggling to escape from an Instagram-ready, celebratory hell. It might not be as purely funny as Samberg’s other big screen adventures Hot Rod and Popstar, but Palm Springs finds its own winning spin on a surprisingly robust micro-genre.
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The true story of a mother’s search for her missing child, Netflix’s Lost Girls is a clear-eyed and moving expose about the many ways in which troubled young women are let down by parents, police and society at large. Using Robert Kolker’s book as her source, director Liz Garbus recounts Mari Gilbert’s (Amy Ryan) efforts to find her oldest daughter Shannan, a prostitute, after she vanished following a house call in a gated Long Island community. At every turn, what Mari discovers is a lack of urgency about, if not outright indifference to, her daughter’s disappearance, even after other bodies are found in the very same area. Ryan’s powerhouse performance as the fiercely determined Mari is the nucleus of this dispiritingly bleak tale, in which there are few concrete answers to be found, but plenty of blame to pass around. That Garbus doesn’t let Mari off the hook for her own mistakes, while nonetheless casting a reproachful gaze at the individual and systemic failings that allow such crimes to occur – and go unsolved – only strengthens her cinematic case for compassion and togetherness as the bulwark against tragedy. Read extra information on https://www.dvdshelf.com.au/..
The second feature to go out under the aegis of Barack and Michelle Obama as part of their Higher Ground series for Netflix, it’s an inspirational civil-rights documentary that sounds as if it’s going to be Good for You rather than good but turns out to be both. Directed by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht (who was born with spina bifida and appears onscreen), the film begins in 1971 in the Catskills’ Camp Jened, where teen and 20-something “cripples” (a word then used) are elated by the freedom to shed their defenses and feel at home. Their camp experience lays the foundation for a seminal demonstration in which disabled people (among them the commanding Judy Heumann) occupy HEW headquarters for more than a week. It’s both a profile of people determined not to be invisible — merely getting to the point where they could make themselves seen required a psychological revolution — and a rousing celebration of the activist counterculture that inspired and sustained them.


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Anyway, a few days at the cottage in the company of a dear friend, also a writer, and I was filled with energy and optimism. I was excited to tackle a project that had brought me to my knees. I had ideas just pouring into my head and made notes galore for future projects. It was thrilling. So, the lesson I have learned here, is to listen to what my creative side is telling me. If it says it's stifled, and weary and needing nourishment, then I'll take some time away from the drudgeries of everyday life, and fill the tank...either at the cottage, or in my own quaint little backyard...perhaps at the library, or the park...but somewhere where there is beauty and peace and time to reflect.
Just to remind you, that while you wait for "the next Paige Bennett story", I have work available now.
At Cambridge Press US, www.cambridgepress.us, my Hottest Heat collections Vol. 1 and 2, are featured on the front page of the site. Vol. 3 is underway, so you still have a chance to read the first two collections before the third one arrives sometime this fall.
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“Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Respond to COVID-19” examines the response of populist political actors and parties in 22 countries around the world to the COVID-19 pandemic, in terms of their attitudes, rhetoric, mobilization repertoires, and policy proposals. The responses of some populist leaders have received much public attention, as they denied the severity of the public health crisis, denigrated experts and data, looked for scapegoats, encouraged protests, questioned the legitimacy of liberal institutions, spread false information, and fueled conspiracies. But how widespread are those particular reactions? How much variation is there? What explains the variation that does exist? This volume considers these questions through rich description and analysis of countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, by leading experts with deep knowledge of their respective cases. Some chapters focus on populist parties, others on personalistic populist leaders. Some countries examined are democracies, others autocracies. Some populists are left-wing, others right-wing. Some populists are in government, others in opposition. This variation allows for consideration of a variety of factors that systematically influence or mediate populist responses to the pandemic. “Populists and the Pandemic” thus makes a unique contribution to our understanding of the intersection between two of the most pressing social and political challenges of our time. It is expected to be published in 2022 as part the “Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy” book series.
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There is almost no other country in the world where bows are more closely intertwined with history and culture than in Japan. The bow is not only a means to hunt animals and defeat enemies, but it also plays a significant role in Japan's mythology and popular belief when children are born, diseases are to be healed, demons expelled, and good harvests secured. The bow is even attributed the power to transmit messages from the gods and predict the future. About 190 magnificent and expressive woodblock prints from the 19th century illustrate historical events, and take the reader on a foray through Japan's mythology and intellectual history. Bow rituals, competitions, and ceremonies are depicted, legendary archers are portrayed and their exploits are told. Along the way, the influence of Shintoism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism on Japanese archery is described. The Power of the Bow is an illustrated reader for all bow lovers and all friends of Japanese culture and history.
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These are my new favorite things! I had to reach a big AR reading goal at school and listening to books counts. I can listen to them anywhere I go when reading just wouldn’t work. I have been listening to Percy Jackson for 2 days and I am more than half way through the book! Percy Jackson is a pretty long book, so that impressive.
One of my friends found these at the library and showed them to me. They are little mp3 type players that have an audio book on each one. They actually have lots of popular books like the Hunger Games, Percy Jackson and a bunch of others. You provide your own ear buds and that’s it, just plug em’ in and start listening. You can find me with my ear buds in mowing the lawn, walking to and from school, cleaning, exercising….all the things you normally can’t do while reading a book. They come in handy in situations like this and give you something good to listen to. It’s sad when I have to stop or pause after walking to school in the morning, just like when you have to put down a great book when it’s time for dinner.
Ask if they have them at your library the next time you are there! I know you’ll love them as much as I do!


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Legacy & Lineage "Found Poetry" lesson using 'Dark Phrases' by Ntozake Shange; 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe; 'You' by TS Hawkins; 'Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost and 'Luxury' by Nikki Giovanni. The pictures below are trial poems of youth poets from The Attic Youth Center.


Your Body’s Many Cries for Water
Your Body’s Many Cries for Water helped me and Ivan understand WHY it is so important for our health that we are well hydrated. We often teach in BNI that it is hard to value a teaching when all we teach is the how…you have to know the why, as well. This is very true about drinking water. A real eye opener.
When Hazel Walker recommended this book to me, I was like, “Yeah, right. Here’s another cry for the gluten-free lifestyle.” I was under the impression that if you did not have Celiac Disease, you did not have to eliminate or reduce the gluten in your diet. What I didn’t know was literally making me sick! I have since learned that gluten is the biggest trigger for migraine headaches for me. This book will give you the motivation you need to eliminate (or greatly reduce) gluten for good.
The China Study
This is the book Forks Over Knives was centered on. Very interesting and very informative about the connection between meat consumption and cancer and other maladies. This is a book which really helped us move into a more plant-based eating protocol.
Dr. Grundy’s Diet Evolution
Dr. Grundy’s clear explanation about our genes and why we store fat and why we lose fat is very powerful. His book really helps us find the motivation to stick with the Misner Plan.
The Fat Flush Plan
When I first read this book a number of years ago, I was thrilled to find another nutritionist who understood what I had come to know. Her ability to clearly explain why food is the answer to fat burning is really amazing.
Love, Medicine and Miracles
We wish we had learned of this one at the very beginning of our journey, but now we have read it and let it inform everything we do from here on. You will be amazed, encouraged and enlightened by this wonderful read.
Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill
This book is a bit technical in parts, but it teaches such necessary information that I did not want to pass it up. This is really the Bible of fats, the good ones and the bad ones. I highly recommend it! Ivan was able to understand how it was healthy to use so much oil (the right kind and the right way) and to eat so many avocados. Really a good book!
The pH Miracle
Have you ever wondered what is up with all the buzz about having an alkaline diet? Dr. Young unpacks this and makes it really clear.
Why We Believe What We Believe
When we began to study how important what we believe is as it relates to the healing process, Dr. Newberg’s book was a great addition to our library.
The Blood Sugar Solution
Dr. Mark Hyman raises a loud, strong voice as a proponent of eating in a way which best nourishes our bodies. This is a really great read!
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
This is the book I read which led me further on the sleuthing path toward confirmation of our son’s reaction to Red Dye #40.
Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers
Another book we wish we had read at the beginning of our journey. This book is very fair, informative and eye-opening. It equipped us with knowledge which brought power!
I Am Grateful
Another very fun, very yummy read. This one will be crumb-riddled and spotted with drips of coconut oil and almond milk before very long!


During the period, realist modes carried with them a series of ideological assumptions that emphasized the political role of fiction. This understanding of the political duty of literary realism was a legacy from the s, but was still broadly assumed by writers on the left during the mids. As he wrote in Great realism.
Over and above that, it captures tendencies of devel- opment that only exist incipiently and so have not yet had the opportunity to unfold their entire human and social potential.
To discern and give shape to such underground trends is the great historical mission of the true literary avant-garde. In an interview, Selvon has described his narrative technique in terms usually associated with modernism: I think I can say without a trace of modesty that I was the first Caribbean writer to explore and employ dialect in a full-length novel where it was used in both narrative and dialogue.
I was boldfaced enough to write a complete chapter in a stream-of- consciousness style. Fabre 69 The use of stream of consciousness in a s novel would be in- terpreted as a modernist technique, and therefore would produce as- sociations with certain ideological assumptions about the kind of read- ership the novel anticipated.
Beyond this charge of elitism aimed at modernist writ- ing, it was thought that the representation of the isolated and alienated subject in modernist writing undercut any attempt to articulate a col- lective community from which a politically committed literature could form.
In The Lonely Londoners, the use of stream of consciousness, for example, has a dual function, one that indicates the alienation of the Caribbean immigrant in London, but at the same time functions to connect such an individual to a collective subcultural identity of similar immigrants.
The technique, 71 Nick Bentley therefore, would seem to reject the association of modernism to a spe- cific readership educated within a white, middle-class, Western culture. As Clement H. Wyke argues, for Selvon, the use of stream of consciousness style represents a liberat- ing and ultimately empowering technique for the representation of black identity The Lonely Londoners presents the reader with fragmented narratives of individuals such as Galahad as an expression of individual experience.
First, it represents the experi- ence of alienation as fragmented expression, and as indicative of the im- migrant experience in the metropolitan centre. The process of creating a collective narration or minority literature is, therefore, a process of political empowerment through the creation of representative and identity-forming narratives that simultaneously reject the cultural centrality of Englishness and proclaim the validity of mar- ginalized voices within the privileged site of the novel form.
This is represented structurally through the accumulation of different stories recording the experiences of several exiled Caribbean individuals in s London, such as Moses, Sir Galahad, Tolroy, Big City, the Cap and Bart.
The use of modernist techniques supports the progres- 73 Nick Bentley sive content of the novel and therefore undermines the argument that these techniques are restricted to the articulation of middle and upper- middle-class experience, appropriating the form for a marginalized sub- cultural group.
In effect, Selvon pro- duces a form that incorporates elements of both realism and modern- ism to produce a politically engaged writing that takes account of the postcolonial context of his position as a black Caribbean writer working in s Britain.
The Lonely Londoners is an example of what Andrzej Gasiorek identifies as a type of post-war British novel that problematizes the oppositional discourse between the modes of realism and experi- mentalism.
Manipulation of linguis- tic forms is an important means by which Caribbean writers, for ex- ample, proclaim their sense of place and displacement , and construct a distinct identity in terms of difference to a dominant construction of Englishness. Now Ashcroft et al.
Selvon, in particular, uses many of the language strategies that Ashcroft et al. As discussed in the previous section, Selvon claims that his novel op- erates in a realist context, and this is produced through the representa- tion of language. In narratological terms, the text presents us with a third-person extradiegetic Genette —68 narrative that adopts the idiosyncratic language styles of the characters it describes: And this sort of thing was happening at a time when the English people starting to make rab about how too much West Indians coming to the country: this was a time, when any corner you turn, is ten to one you bound to bounce up a spade.
But it is not only characters who speak in non-Standard English; the third-person extradiegetic narration also takes this form. Selvon has de- scribed his decision to use a form of Creolized expression for his narra- tive voice as a crucial and liberating stage in the writing of The Lonely Londoners: 75 Nick Bentley.
It oc- curred to me that perhaps I should try to do both the narrative and the dialogue in this form [Trinidadian form of the lan- guage] I started to experiment with it and the book just went very rapidly along. With this particular book I just felt that the language that I used worked and expressed exactly what I wanted it to express. Although Ashcroft et al. The way we identify each of these processes depends more upon the perspective we bring to the text, and this issue interacts with the concept of a dual addressivity.
For an addressee that corresponds to the sub- cultural group of black settlers to Britain in the s, the process of appropriation functions more as an empowering strategy by establish- ing a specific subcultural identity, and by taking control and subverting the colonial language. This symbolically represents the appropriation of the colonial space through a subversion of the language, the empowering of the marginalized black subject, and the re-colonizing of this post colonial space.
The processes of centralization and decentralization, of unification and disunification, intersect in the utterance; the utterance not only answers the requirements of its own lan- guage as an individualized embodiment of a speech act, but it answers the requirements of heteroglossia as well; it is in fact an active participant in such speech diversity.
The use of this kind of utterance, therefore, carries within it the negotiation of a connection with, and distance from, the language of the centre, and subsequently acts as an expression of opposition to the cultural and ideological frameworks of that central culture. This gives the narrative a recognisable oral dimension that, in drawing on a non-Western and non-literary source, reinforces the challenge to conventions of literary language and form posed by the use of a modified Caribbean dialect, and facilitates the articulation of a voice — that of the black working-class immigrant — that had hitherto been largely denied recognition in literary fiction.
The connection here with oral literature reflects a challenge to traditional conceptions of the literary that gives primacy to the printed over the spoken word. To read it is to undergo a series of jolts and tumbles as characters flit in and out of view; comic vignette rubs up against mordant reportage.
The effect is rather akin to that of a whitewashed wall that, over time, has become a messy riot of colour as fly-posters, graffiti art and community news-sheets vie with each other to adorn it with newer and ever louder information. Sandhu, , p. As we shall see later, the novel also engages in subversive interactions with canonical models and references. The critical perspectives outlined above may differ in emphasis, but the common thread that links them is the close relationship between form and language, subject matter and themes.
The Lonely Londoners has a relatively large cast of characters, but there is not space here to discuss them all. Henry Oliver is wearing clothes that are too light for English weather. Moses dubs him Sir Galahad; this name will stick with him for the rest of the novel. Moses takes Galahad to his tiny room in Bayswater. Moses prepares some food and tells Galahad that he should quickly find a job and his own place. Moses warns Galahad that everyone is on their own in London — there is little solidarity between West Indians.
Then, Galahad tells anecdotes from back home. In the morning, Moses offers his help with finding a job for Galahad, but the latter refuses. When he watches people going about their business, he suddenly becomes terrified, as he realises that he has no safety net here. A policeman instructs Galahad how to get to the employment exchange office.
Galahad is still in a panic when he sees Moses coming towards him to help him. Moses and Galahad arrive at the Ministry of Labour. Galahad tells the clerk that he is an electrician. The clerk says that they have no electrician jobs at the moment and that Galahad should register for his insurance card in the next building. Galahad gets his unemployment card. There was one Nigerian, Captain Cap , who wasted all the money that his parents had given him for studying.
Cap has only one outfit, which he washes daily. Cap uses his gentlemanly manners and an air of innocence to wangle food, accommodation, and money out of people.
Cap never stays long in any job he can get. If he ever has any money, it passes through his hands extremely quickly mainly on women. He goes to a different hostel, lying that his student allowance should arrive any day. After two weeks, Cap needs to vacate the room again.
Cap has done the same thing over and over again in virtually every hotel in the Water Bayswater and even beyond. Cap goes out with an Austrian girl, who tries to convince him to find a stable job. One day, Cap wants to take up storekeeping work at a railway station. But when he arrives, it turns out that the pay is lower than promised, and the job consists in heavy physical work.
The Austrian girl suggests that Cap work at the same factory as Moses. Cap lies that he got the job, but instead he has affairs with other women. After some time, Cap tells the Austrian that he quit the job, because it was too hard.
Although Cap treats the Austrian girl badly, she stays with him, even pawning her personal belongings to get some money when things are tight. One time, Cap is with two women at once. He borrows eight pounds from the German one and disappears. She sends the police after Cap, and since then, Cap is terrified of law enforcement. Cap pawns the wristwatch of the other woman English to pay off his debts with the first woman. The English woman starts going out with Daniel and tells him all about the wristwatch.
Daniel manages to catch Cap, but the latter somehow weasels out of paying for the watch. Cap marries a French girl. He tells her that he is going to get a position in the Nigerian government.
The girl agrees to marry Cap, convinced that they are about to go to Nigeria. Daniel leaves her to find Cap, who is sitting in a cafe he visits regularly. Cap goes back with Daniel to his. Cap borrows some money from Daniel, giving him to understand that he could have the French girl from time to time. Then, Cap takes the French girl to an expensive hotel room. They live on money that the French girl is getting from France. Cap goes on living as if he was still a bachelor has affairs with other women.
He has light skin, and so he sometimes says that he is from South America. Bart hates lending money and he always says upfront that he is broke. No-one ever tries to borrow money from him apart from Cap in the early days. This is the first and last time that Bart has even lent money to anyone. Bart gets a clerical job, which is extremely rare for black immigrants.
He lives between the white and black world; although he has a better position than his countrymen, he also meets with racism. Like Cap, Bart constantly moves from place to place although he does pay rent.
One time, Bart falls seriously ill. Moses visits him. But although Bart is convinced that he is dying, he recovers in a short time. Through his encounter with London, it became possible to move towards a more fully realised picture of the world back home whilst defining a Caribbean consciousness within a British context.
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Although the majority of colonial citizens held British passports and equal rights of residence, by racial disturbances had begun to erupt. Selvon frequently draws our attention to this volatile atmosphere, as the room-based existence which his characters lead becomes a powerful metaphor for their in-between existence both inside and outside English culture.Selvon turned his back on England in and settled in Calgary, Canada. They drink tea and have sex. In the epigraph the description of Cap shows his aversion to work, while the others struggle to settle in London and try to find a regular job. Tolroy starts arguing with them. A Jamaican who lives a street of houses in Brixton often feel to Waterloo to specify rooms at extortionate prices to his best expats. Michigan: University of Gujarat Press, Daniel — one of the opinions, he always buy women drinks. One day, Eric sees Beatrice talk to some guy in the town. Harney, Stefano. U of the Otherwise Indies, Whereas in India racism is obvious, in Burma it is hidden but no less harmful. Seizing the moment essays for scholarships that put the candidates in the know right away, you see. After they arrive there, they do a distinctive reality.
Galahad tells the clerk that he is an electrician. The two talk until the boat-train arrives. The novel is, in this sense, also a social realist text, and yet it is not. It riffs on the earlier Londoners of Dickens, Woolf or Eliot Looker , 75 ; yet its antiphonic and collective narrative form, its tragic-comic spirit, its carnivalesque humour and profanations, and not least its decolonial politics are inspired by Caribbean orature and the Calypsonian tradition. Activity 2 When you have completed your first reading, think about the following questions: How would you describe the structure of the novel?
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Selvon has de- scribed his decision to use a form of Creolized expression for his narra- tive voice as a crucial and liberating stage in the writing of The Lonely Londoners: 75 Nick Bentley. Looker, Mark. The grocery shop has many West Indian supplies. One time, Cap is with two women at once.
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Moses gets rid of her. Critical Practice. In the morning, Moses offers his help with finding a job for Galahad, but the latter refuses.


The Promise Armenian Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles announced the results of their 2021 to 2022 research funding competition. The PAI grants and fellowships are designed to support research across all academic fields, with an emphasis on or connection to Armenia or Armenians, per the award competition announced earlier in the year. Congratulations to all of the award recipients, whose proposals underwent a rigorous selection process involving multiple UCLA-based faculty reviewers.
PAI POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS:
Astghik Kuzanyan (Ph.D., Armenian Academy of Sciences, 2019)
“Nanometer Scale Single Photon Thermoelectric Detectors”
Under the supervision of Professor Artur Davoyan of the UCLA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Dr. Kuzanyan’s research will involve experimental and numerical studies related to nanometer scale single photon thermoelectric detectors, nanophotonics, and thin film materials, and will lay a foundation for collaborations between UCLA and Armenia’s Institute for Physical Research of the National Academy of Sciences.
Alyssa Mathias (Ph.D., UCLA, expected August 2021)
“Songs for the Next Hundred Years: Music and Development in the Republic of Armenia”
Under the mentorship of Dr. Melissa Bilal and Professor Movses Pogossian of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Alyssa Mathias will develop a book manuscript positing that musicians occupy a unique vantage point from which to understand the complex web of transnational, diasporic, and regional initiatives that address pressing concerns in Armenia today.
Hrag Papazian (Ph.D., Oxford, 2020)
“Contesting Armenianness: Intra-Armenian Diversity and Multiple Regimes of Exclusion in Contemporary Turkey”
Under the supervision of Professor Salih Can Açiksoz of the UCLA Department of Anthropology, Dr. Papazian will work on a book manuscript based on his ethnographic research conducted during the past seven years among the Armenians of Turkey.
UCLA PAI FACULTY RESEARCH GRANTS:
Movses Pogossian (Professor of Violin and Director of the Armenian Music Program, UCLA) and Melissa Bilal (Distinguished Research Fellow, UCLA CNES; Lecturer, Department of Ethnomusicology)
“Processing and Preserving the Bedros Alahaidoyan Music Collection: Proposal for an Inaugural Project for the Planned UCLA Armenian Sound Library”
The project will introduce Bedros Alahaydoyan and his body of work to the scholarly community of ethnomusicologists and make the Alahaidoyan archive widely available to scholars at large and the broader public.
Richard Hovannisian (Professor Emeritus, UCLA History)
“Armenian Communities of Iran: History, Trade, Culture”
This grant covers publication and graphics costs associated with the 14th volume of the UCLA series, “Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces.” The volume explores centuries-long Armenian Iranian connections, especially since the forced migration of countless thousands of Armenians to New Julfa, across the river from the Safavid capital of Isfahan.
UCLA PAI UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT:
Nathan Chu (UCLA, B.S., Pre-Human Biology and Society, Class of 2024)
“Beliefs Towards Lung Cancer Screening Among Male Smokers in Armenia”
Under the mentorship of Dr. Shant Shekherdimian of the David Geffen School of Medicine, and through a partnership with university students in Armenia, Nathan will administer a survey that will analyze the attitudes and beliefs of male tobacco users towards lung cancer screening.


Not for the faint-hearted, this roller-coaster scifi thriller for teens and young adults once again pits our heroes, Xalata and Melody, against dark alien forces and the terrors of the unknown.
Fresh from their battle with the Cryomorph on the Moon’s Farside, Xalata Orbit and Melody Fret had hoped to settle back into a normal routine at the Academy. But strange things have taken place on Mars and when the Red Planet Exploration team arrive back at LunarBase, they bring with them more than their normal cargo. The result for everyone on the Moon is catastrophic, when their lives are threatened by a terrifying attack on the Moon’s human population. A seemingly unstoppable alien force transforms its victims into simulants of themselves, building an army of invaders whose purpose is to destroy humankind. (more…)
In this, the first book of the series, Xalata Orbit meets danger head-on when she leaves a troubled Earth behind to live with her father on LunarBase and attend the Hydroponics Institute of the Moon’s Central Air Facility. At first, life on the Moon seems dull compared with her home planet, but it is not long before she and her new friend, Melody Fret, are fighting a shadowy enemy for their freedom and battling a conspiracy that could destroy the Earth and all its inhabitants.
What horrors are lurking in the derelict Habitat 14 on Farside? Why does the slimy Mr Fark take such an interest in the girls’ security? What’s the huge secret that Xalata’s father carries with him? How can anyone stop an indestructible creature that looks set to destroy the LunarBase? And who are the Asttarians and why do they want to change humans’ lives for ever? (more…)
Join Gabrielle Hadley as she prepares for the biggest challenge of her life: the peak of Kilimanjaro. Learn why she tackled the challenge – to raise £19,341 for The Donna Louise Children’s Hospice – how she prepared for it, her first trek at altitude (Toubkal in Morocco) , her final preparations and then the actual climb.
Whether you are a reader of others’ adventures or someone considering tackling Kilimanjaro as a personal or charity challenge (or both), this book will give you food for thought, laughter and tears, in equal measures. (more…)
Get to grips with questionnaires and make a difference to your research results by having clean, reliable data that has been collected to a high standard.
As you grow your company, understanding what makes your customers tick grows in importance. Understanding your staff too is vital if you want to retain them. Questionnaires to research your marketplace, survey your staff, monitor processes and more are nowadays part of any business’s information gathering process. (more…)
This is the ultimate post-TV binge book. Whether it’s Christmas, Easter or just a pent up backlog of episodes of your favourite TV series, we all indulge too much from time to time.
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Listen to an excerpt from the new book, How to Turn Your Words into Money: The Master Fundraiser’s Guide to Persuasive Writing by Jeff Brooks, reading the chapter titled “The Evil Cousin of Fundraising.”
Learn about the all-too-common practice of fundcrushing — using large numbers and overwhelming facts as the means for coaxing donors into giving. The truth is, it rarely works.
Find out what to do instead of fundcrushing that will motivate donors to give. (It’s not that difficult!)
How to Turn Your Words into Money: The Master Fundraiser’s Guide to Persuasive Writing, is available at:
- The publisher (best bet if you’re ordering in bulk)


Ghana Culture: Where to Learn About It
Traveling around the world is something that many dream about. Because of technology and the popularity of the internet, many beautiful countries have received acclaim for their natural beauty and the interesting things that one might see while visiting. If you are like most people and dream of visiting the African continent, you might be very interested to know more about its diverse and rich culture and way of life. One way through which you can do that is to search online and read a few articles and blogs related to the life and culture of the country that you choose to visit.
The best blogs will have much to offer about the different countries that you might be thinking of visiting. For example, if you wish to visit Ghana, you would like to know about Ghana culture in order to appreciate more fully your time in its beautiful premises. Simply visiting a country without knowing about it could be wasteful; on the other hand, knowing how people live and have their livelihood as well as what they think and how they act will make your trip more rewarding in more different aspects than you think. For more info, you must visit http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/11/world/africa/on-the-road-ghana-funerals/ too.
It is wonderful to know that, with the rise of technology, this is not at all hard to do. In the past, learning about a country could be difficult and limited. It involved a visit to the library, going through heavy books in order to get information from the Buzz Ghana news page. Furthermore, that information could be limited to a few basic facts, facts that did not, in a wide way, capture all that it means to live and work in Ghana. If the books were written a long time ago, some of the information could be outdated and irrelevant. Today, however, learning about a new country is as easy as a few clicks on your computer. You can find wonderful information on blogs and articles online, each one describing in full detail the lives people and the culture of the country you desire to know about.
When you find a good Ghana website, you can learn everything that you want to know. You can learn the basic facts and features that make the country special. You can learn about the things that tourists enjoy doing there. You can learn how people make their living and what they believe. When you know all these things, you can truly enjoy your trip more deeply and intensely.


Alison Timberlane’s escape from a string of violent deaths, and an abusive husband led her to a new life in a new place with a new name. The lock on her heart is not easily opened when love tries to penetrate in the person of a young ex-soldier. When her past catches up, his secrets push her over the edge and back into danger.
Fleeing to what she believes is her only refuge, Alison creates her own prison, and unravels the horrible carnage behind her. She is in no condition to attempt escape. Can her young lover trust her ex-husband enough to enlist his aid? Will they rescue her before she becomes the next murder victim?
What They Are Saying About Unraveled
After an unspeakable tragedy leaves her devastated and terrified, Jessica Hallberg realizes she must flee. She moves hundreds of miles away, changes her name to Alison Timberlane, and immerses herself in a new career. She resolves that she will never again open her heart to love, preferring instead the emotional wasteland that now dwells within her. But Alison soon finds that she can't leave her demons behind, and realizes that she is caught in a dangerous maze. Circling around her is a killer whose past is as secretive as it is shocking.
Unraveled is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that is as clever as it is unpredictable. Diana Lee Johnson has crafted a novel that is brimming with astonishing surprises, shocking twists and turns, and characters that are tenacious and brilliantly created. This impressive book will keep you turning the pages. Ms. Johnson has given us another outstanding hit. She just makes it look so easy!


The DLR EtherCAT Library is a Modelica Library to communicate in real-time with EtherCAT slaves via the open source EtherCAT Master EtherLab.
It wraps the API of EtherLab and uses code-generation to create interface blocks in Modelica representing the slaves connected to the EtherCAT bus. These blocks subsequently can be used to build real-time models, running on a Linux based real-time system and therefore controlling the hardware directly from the model.
FEATURES OF THE LIBRARY
- Asynchronous communications with the slaves via SDO messages is possible directly from within Modelica
- Different communication rates are possible for slaves in different domains
- Model execution is synchronized with EtherCAT communication rate
- Interface models for EtherCAT PDOs are generated automatically with the slave information available on the EtherCAT bus.


Naresh Patel Oct,04 2017
It is very easy to export plain HTML text data to embed and export as word document. In CFML there is an inbuilt tag <cfcontent /> to use for exporting data to word document if there is no customization in content and it is just like Paste and Go for plain format type as shown in below example.
However, if there is a need to export header or footer data to embed and generate word docs then there is no inbuilt tag in CFML to get the solution. So, I have used docx4j JAVA Library that worked best to export and embed HTML data with header or footer to create word document.
Now, let us see further
As this stage, everything works like charm. Now I am using docx4j JAVA Library to export header or footer data to embed in word docs that are going to export.
What is docx4j?
docx4j is an open source (ASLv2) Java library for creating and manipulating Microsoft Open XML (Word docx, Powerpoint pptx, and Excel xlsx) files. Docx4j can read and write MS word documents.
You have to download docx4j files from docx4j website
I have implemented this library in Lucce CFML. It also works for ColdFusion.
How to install the docx4j library in Lucee?
docx4js worked well exporting HTML to Word as docx4j is mostly used for docx manipulation but can also handle export to pptx and xlsx.


Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Fifteen years ago, Sony released the sequel to their mega-popular PlayStation console, the PlayStation 2. Being many families’ introduction to the DVD player at the time (including my own) the PlayStation 2 utterly dominated the sixth generation of video games. It’s really not difficult to see why when you look at the vast library it supported, its DVD player, and backwards compatibility to the original PlayStation. The PlayStation 2 holds a special place in my heart in part because it is the first console that I paid for myself.


Brown Club of Hawaii Presents Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War is the remarkable true story of two sisters, inseparable as children, whose lives are irrevocably disrupted when the "bamboo curtain" drops overnight between Communist mainland China and Nationalist Taiwan. Their decades-long separation and gritty determination to succeed embodies the traumatic split of the nation itself.
At Brown University, Dr. Zhuqing Li is the Head of Library Exploration and Research for East Asia and a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies. Professor Li's book was chosen to be the 2022-2023 Brown Book Award.
Please join Brown Club Hawaii for a virtual presentation via Zoom
Monday, May 29, 2023
2pm Hawaii/ 5pm Pacific
Introductory remarks followed by speaking program and Q&A (You may submit questions beforehand by contacting the event organizer) . Complimentary admission with pre-registration. Please register by May 27th. Can't attend the virtual presentation? Register for the event, and a link to the recording of the event will be provided to registrants later on.
The Zoom link will be provided to all registrants one day prior to the event.
Register at https://bbis.advancement.brown.edu/bbphenix/home
Questions? Please contact Lorna Aratani at firstname.lastname@example.org
Visit Talk by Brown Univ. Prof. Zhuqing Li about her Book “Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden” for more details.


ESSE Book Awards
1. Books shortlisted for the Book Awards - 2014
2. The rules for the 2014 ESSE Book Awards
3. ESSE Book Awards 2012: the results
4. Archives: the ESSE Book Awards winners for 2006, 2008, and 2010
BOOKS SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOK AWARDS - 2014
a)—CULTURAL STUDIES IN ENGLISH:
Stef Craps. Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Graham Huggan. Nature's Saviours: Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2013.
Jacqueline Hurtley. Walter Starkie: An Odyssey. Dublin: Four Courts, 2013.
Ceri Sullivan. Literature in the Public Service: Sublime Bureaucracy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2013.
Category B (Junior scholars):
Christophe Collard. Artist on the Make: David Mamet's Work across Media and Genres. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy - Éditions Universitaires de Lorraine, 2012.
Ana Cristina Mendes. Salman Rushdie in the Cultural Marketplace. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate. 2013.
Marianne O' Doherty. The Indies and the Medieval West: Thought, Report, Imagination. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.
b)—ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS:
Two books in Category A were received but considered beyond the scope of English Language and Linguistics studies
Tony Crowley, Scouse. A Social and Cultural History. Liverpool:Liverpool University Press. 2012.
Catherine Resche, Economic Terms and Beyond: Capitalising on the Wealth of Notions. Bern: Peter Lang AG. 2013.
Category B (Junior scholars):
Ursula Lutzky, Discourse Markers in Early Modern English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2012.
David Tizón-Couto, Left Dislocation in English. A Functional-Discoursal Approach. Bern: Peter Lang AG. 2012.
Miroslawa Podhajecka, Russian Borrowings in English. A Dictionary and Corpus Study. Opole: Uniwersytet Opolski. 2013.
c)—LITERATURES IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
Four books in Category A were received but none was shortlisted
Category B (junior scholars):
Brown, Erica. Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012.
De Angelis, Irene. The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Kirchknopf, Andrea. Rewriting the Victorians: Modes of Literary Engagement with the 19th Century Paperback. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2013.
Kostić , Milena.The Faustian Motif in the Tragedies of Christopher Marlowe, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013
Zunino Garrido, Cinta. Mimesis and the Representation of Experience: Dramatic Theory and Practice in pre-Shakespearean Comedy (1560-1590). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012.
Note: The winners of the ESSE Book Awards 2014 will be announced at the 12th ESSE Conference in Kosice, on September 1st, during the General Assembly.
ESSE BOOK AWARDS 2014
For books first published in 2012 and 2013
ESSE Book Award (Category A): A book prize of 1500 euro will be awarded by ESSE in 2014, coinciding with the 12th Conference to be held in Košice, Slovakia, for books first published in 2012 or 2013 in each of the following fields:
a) English language and linguistics
b) Literatures in the English language
c) Cultural studies in English
ESSE Book Award for Junior Scholars (Category B): A further book prize of 500 euro will be awarded by ESSE in 2014 to a junior scholar for a first research book published in English in each of the three fields mentioned above, provided that publication was in 2012 or 2013.
The deadline for submission of books is 1 February 2014. The winners will be announced on the occasion of ESSE-12 in Košice, Slovakia.
The requirements are as follows:
(1) Books eligible for prizes will be those published in English; they should have an ISBN. PhD dissertations published in book format, with an ISBN, are accepted. Editions of collected essays will NOT qualify for these prizes. The books must be works of scholarly research in the field of English studies. Undergraduate textbooks will not be considered.
(2) Any number of books may be submitted by the same author (provided that they are published within the admitted period of time), except for category B, since junior scholars are expected to submit their first research book published in English.
(3) All books will be evaluated strictly on the basis of their academic value, without regard to publisher, country of publication or nationality of the author.
(4) Authors must be members of national associations affiliated to ESSE.
(5) Three copies must be provided of each book submitted for consideration. No book will be considered for an award unless three copies have been received. The copies will not be returned.
(6) Candidates should first write to the President of ESSE, Prof. Liliane Louvel <email@example.com>, informing her of their intention to participate, declaring their affiliation to a national association which is a member of ESSE, giving their university address, mentioning the field to which their book belongs, and indicating whether the copies of the book will be sent by the author or by the publisher. Candidates for the Category B award should also include a brief CV which must contain at least their date of birth, university affiliation, main field(s) of research and previous publications.
After receiving the President’s approval, the three review copies should be sent to one of the addresses below by 1 FEBRUARY 2014. The deadline must be observed.
Books in English language and linguistics should be sent to the following address:
Prof. Smiljana Komar
Oddelek za anglistiko in amerikanistiko
Books in Literatures in the English language should be sent to the following address:
Prof. Alberto Lázaro
Departamento de Filología Moderna
Universidad de Alcalá
C/ Trinidad, 3
28801 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid
Books in Cultural studies in English should be sent to the following address:
Prof. Liliane Louvel
2 rue de Bois Frémin
The selection committees (three members each) will be appointed by the Board of ESSE in each of the three fields and for the two categories named above. Their composition will not be made public. Board members shall not pass on any information concerning this matter to the members of their associations. The Executive of ESSE will replace any members who are unable to carry out their duties. The Chairs of the selection committees will report progress regularly to the President of ESSE. The members of the committees can be Board members or ESSE members invited by the Board to do the selection job. The members of the committees and the ESSE Board are excluded from submitting their own books.
(7) Two months before the opening of the conference a shortlist of a maximum of five books in each field and category will be announced on the ESSE Website. Board members are asked to report to the President any misgivings that they may have about the propriety of awarding a prize to any book on the shortlist, with the President passing on such comments to the committees if he deems it appropriate. The committees will recommend the awards to the Board, or they may recommend that no award be made in a particular field. The committees can also recommend the conferment of “honourable mentions” to any shortlisted books. The President will report to the Board whether the work of the committees has been satisfactorily conducted. The Board may then approve the recommendations of the committees or they may reject a recommendation, in which case no award will be given in that field or category. Winners will be informed immediately in confidence, and the awards will be publicly announced at the General Meeting of ESSE, in Košice, Slovakia.
RESULTS OF THE ESSE BOOK AWARDS FOR 2012
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS:
Award in Category A:
Hugo Bowles. Storytelling and Drama: Exploring Narrative Episodes in Plays. John Benjamins, 2010.
This book provides a highly successful combination of linguistic and literary approaches to the study of narrative episodes in a wide range of dramatic texts from Aeschylus to Pinter. The basic notions of narrative and dramatic discourse (Ch.1) together with the interactional model (2) provide the foundation for the analysis, which falls into two parts, the first (1-4) dealing with the overall methodology, the second (5-8), focusing on the tellability of the narrative episode. Insights from interactional sociolinguistics, narrative theory, conversation analysis, and discourse analysis are utilized in the discussion of the material. An innovative feature is the use of Conversation Analysis techniques for the local or micro-analytical analysis.
There is a rich inventory of examples of stories from older and more contemporary drama and some longer case studies. However, the numerous illustrations are occasionally somewhat decontextualized, giving the impression of a series of single-case studies. For linguists it may be somewhat unsatisfactory that the examples of story-telling are not collected systematically.
The book is written with great elegance in a style which makes it accessible both to an audience already familiar with conversational analysis and discourse analysis and newcomers to the field. It is clearly structured moving from a micro-linguistic to a macro-linguistic or interactional perspective in the analysis.
The author’s thorough discussion of a variety of theoretical and methodological postulates together with the detailed classification of narrative types and subtypes are particular strengths of the study. The work shows that linguistic techniques can contribute to literary analysis. The findings should therefore also be relevant to literary scholars.
Alwin Frank Fill. The Language Impact. Evolution-System-Discourse. Equinox, 2010.
Anita Naciscione. Stylistic Use of Phraseological Units in Discourse. John Benjamins, 2010.
Award in Category B:
Carlos Prado-Alonso. Full-Verb Inversion in Written and Spoken English. Peter Lang, 2011.
This book is a corpus-based study of full-verb inversion types of written and spoken discourse. The terminological premises are clearly set out and the previous work on the subject is thoroughly analysed and commented on. The corpus investigation of written and spoken corpora is based on two main groups: non-obligatory and obligatory full inversions. The results indicate that speech and writing do not differ strongly in the number of full inversions but rather in the different types of full inversion used.
The study is a truly impressive piece of research. Although the topic in general has attracted a lot of research, the study of full inversion in speech has been neglected. The overview of previous work within different formal and functional theories is excellent and also ‘pedagogical’ for readers who for example are not experts in formal generative theory or cognitive linguistics. The author’s argumentation is convincing and the monograph is a pleasure to read. The corpora are well chosen. The ICE corpus is, for example, excellent for identifying full inversion automatically. The corpus also makes it possible to give detailed information about the frequencies of different types of inversion in speech and writing (or fiction and non-fiction) and test hypotheses in previous work. The author makes excellent use of the Finnish linguist N-E. Enkvist's Principle of Experiential Iconicity to explain variation in the linguistic order of elements. The idea that the full inversion structure can be regarded as a construction with variations from a more salient or prototypical construction is very promising for future research.
Laura Cano Mora. This Book Will Change Your Life! Hyperbole in Spoken English. PUV Universitat de Valčncia, 2011.
Cristiano Furiassi. False Anglicisms in Italian. Polimetrica, 2010.
LITERATURES IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Award in Category A:
Faye Hammill. Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History. Liverpool University Press, 2010.
Faye Hammill’s Sophistication is an innovative, well-written and clearly structured book, well-researched in terms of literary and cultural history. It covers an impressive historical and literary breadth, ranging from canonical texts (e.g., Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandal, Henry James’s Daisy Miller, Noël Coward's Private Lives or Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita) to once popular but now obscure texts (e.g. Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson or Winifred Watson's Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day). It connects sophistication with recent and contemporary nostalgia for modernism, but also, in wider terms, with "nostalgia for earlier technologies, or even pre-technological eras" and recent "retro" fashions. Its principal contribution is the establishment of productive links between the study of literature, fashion and technology in a wide historical scope, from Sentimentalism to late Modernism. This makes the book a unique contribution to both literary and cultural studies.
Elizabeth Eger. Bluestockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Claire Jowitt. The Culture of Piracy, 1580-1630: English Literature and Seaborne Crime. Ashgate, 2010.
Award in Category B:
Michelle J. Smith. Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture: Imperial Girls, 1880-1915. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
In this stimulating study Michelle Smith, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne, sets out to trace representations of girl characters in British children's texts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to show how they are shaped by the British Empire. To carry out this challenging and interesting task, the author brings together evidence from a wide variety of sources, that include the popular magazine Girls's Own Paper of the period 1880-1907, a handbook of the Girl Guide organization, as well as a large corpus of novels. The book provides a detailed and engaging discussion about a type of cultural production that has often been neglected, that of girls' literature, and manages to bring to the forefront of modern scholarship little-known novels, such as Angela Brazil’s school stories and Bessie Marchant's adventure fiction. The arguments are presented in a cohesive and logical manner, with full awareness of the theoretical and methodological aspects that currently characterize the study of these literary and cultural products. Written in a clear, precise and readable style, this valuable research work succeeds in showing the diversity and complexity of the ways in which the late Victorian and Edwardian girl was portrayed in print culture as a reflector of the imperial project. It may serve as a reliable source of erudite research for the specialist, but also as a volume of pleasant, intellectual reading for those interested in the history of imperial Britain, seen from a less common perspective.
William May. Stevie Smith and Authorship. Oxford University Press, 2010.
Ana Raquel Lourenço Fernandes. What About the Rogue? Survival and Metamorphosis in Contemporary British Literature and Culture. P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2011.
CULTURAL STUDIES IN ENGLISH
Award in Category A:
Martin Willis. Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920. Pickering & Chatto, 2011.
This is a highly original work and a landmark study whose impact is likely to be long lasting. Victorian perceptions of visuality and modes of seeing are explored in great and fascinating detail with an eye to (pun intended) delineating this Victorian legacy in the contemporary world. Even the organization and structure of the book are intricate and reminiscent of 17th century metaphysical poetry, in that they bring together images and realities which seem to be quite remote from one another, and yet whose connections are demonstrated to be much stronger than one might have suspected (the telescope and H. G. Wells' fiction, for example). The book is a "tour de force", and Willis demonstrates with great skill and precision that there is a complex and fruitful interaction between literature, science, and the imagination.
M. O. Grenby. The Child Reader 1700-1840. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Award in Category B:
Katherine E. Russo. Practices of Proximity. The Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature. Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
Through an innovative approach that employs a variety of theoretical approaches knowledgeably and astutely, Russo's book challenges a number of assumptions concerning 'genuine' Indigenous Australian culture and its relationship with English. It also challenges those essentializing anthropological approaches that argue for the authenticity of what they regard as valid oral productions in Indigenous languages, as opposed to more recent artistic forms such as rock or rap. Practices of Proximity treats the term ‘appropriation’ in ways that allow the term to expand fluidly within a constantly shifting English language frame. Ultimately, Russo gives this contested and ambiguous term a new dimension in the process of exploring oral and written text as a site of contact. 'Proximity' suggests a zone of endless possibilities for authors, readers and language users to share and reinvent meaning and agency in the context of the painful colonial encounter. The Indigenous peoples of Australia have adapted and adopted the language of the colonizers to make it their own and to suit it to their own needs of self-expression. This well-written book makes a valuable intervention in the field of postcolonial studies. Yet, this intervention has a universal scope. Russo's discussion offers ways of reading and understanding cultural and historical as well as linguistic paradigms that are pertinent to any situations of conflict, colonial domination, neocolonial power systems and questions of minority cultural production.
The results of the next ESSE Book Awards will be announced during the ESSE-12 Conference in Košice, Slovakia, in August 2014.
The rules for the 2014 ESSE Book Awards will be published in the Autumn of 2013.
the Book Awards for 2010
the Book Awards for 2008
the Book Awards for 2006
ESSE BOOK AWARDS - The winners for 2010
1. English Language and Linguistics
David Banks, The Development of Scientific Writing. Linguistic Features and Historical Context. 2008. London, Oakville: Equinox.
Lucia Loureiro-Porto, The Semantic Predecessors of Need in the History of English (c 750 – 1710). 2009. Wiley-Blackwell.
2. Literatures in the English Language
David Duff Romanticism and the Uses of Genre. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Matthew Rubery, The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3. Cultural Studies in English
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic. 2009. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Patrick Lonergan Theatre and Globalization. 2009. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
"Honourable Mentions" have also been awarded to:
ESSE BOOK AWARDS - The winners for 2008
a) Field of English language and linguistics:
No prize was awarded in this field in 2008.
b) Field of Literatures in the English language:
The prize was awarded to Clare Brant for her book Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=271521
The committee issued the following statement concerning the book:
"In her book Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture (Palgrave, Macmillan, 2006), Clare Brant offers an excellent survey of letter-writing as well as a profound, well-researched and documented study of the 18th-century British culture. Studying an impressive amount of letters, she explores varied epistolary techniques and shows what systematic attention to letters can reveal about the messages themselves, their authors, and those to whom they are addressed.
Moreover, through the medium of letter-writing, Brant has chosen an interesting lens to look at the 18th-century English literature and culture. Her study is not a mere exploration of epistolary forms, but a lively introduction into a fascinating epoch, with its specific manners and life-style. The author’s argument is engaging, bold and forceful, and its scope is really impressive."
c) Field of Cultural Studies in English:
No prize was awarded in this field in 2008.
ESSE BOOK AWARDS - The winners for 2006
English Literature : Derek Attridge (University of York) for his book The Singularity of Literature (London: Routledge), 2004. http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/engl/staff/academic/attridge.htm
(see below the photograph of Professor Attridge receiving the ESSE Book Award for English Literature from Professor Adolphe Haberer, President of ESSE in the Beveridge Hall, Senate House, on 2nd September 2006).
Linguistics of English : John Holm
(University of Coimbra, Portugal) for his book Languages in
Contact: The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars ( Cambridge :
Cultural Studies : Stavros Stavrou Karayanni ( European University, Cyprus ) for his book Dancing, Fear and Desire: Race, Sexuality and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance ( Waterloo , Ontario : Wilfird Laurier UP), 2005.


Юго-Восточная Азия: актуальные проблемы развития
Издается с 1998 года. ISSN 2072-8271
ПОЛИТИКА ВЬЕТНАМА В АСЕАН (2007-2008 ГГ.) (ПРОБЛЕМА ИНТЕГРАЦИИ)
Аннотация: Dr. Murasheva in her article «Vietnam's policy in ASEAN, (2007-2008)» showed the country's participation in the regional economic integration as the basic trend of Vietnam's regional policy. The article deals with three directions of Vietnamese regional policy: participation in the construction of ASEAN economic community by 2015, the drafting of ASEAN Charter and taking part in the concrete projects with the aim to narrow the gap in the socio-economic development of ASEAN countries. The Vietnamese leaders being the authors of the socio-cultural cooperation idea as the third component of ASEAN's «three pillar Community» pay great attention to this problem. The author argues that Vietnam in its ASEAN policy persues its national interests as well as follows the principle of garmonizing its own interests with those of other ASEAN countries and ASEAN as a whole.
Ключевые слова: ПОЛИТИКА, ВЬЕТНАМ (СРВ), АСЕАН, ЮГО-ВОСТОЧНАЯ АЗИЯ


The Drivers and Dangers of Populist Counterterrorism Approaches
Countering Radicalization in Europe and the Limits of Forced Integration
The Reasons Behind the Low Intensity of Terrorism in Italy
British Challenges in the Face of a Changing Terrorist Threat
France and the Myth of the Eradication of Terrorism
Why the EU Terrorist List Matters and What it Tells us About European Counterterrorism
Chemical Weapons: Understanding the Situation in Syria
Hezbollah’s Electoral Success: Status Quo or Security Crisis in Lebanon?


"A Gala Performance Tutu" in Dress, Vol. 42, No.1, 2016.
Exhibition Review of "Fashion Victims, The Pleasures and Perils of Dress in the Nineteenth Century" in Dress, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2015.
Exhibition Review of "Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire" in Clothing Cultures, Vol. 3 No. 1, 2016.
Exhibition Review of "Inspirations: Dries Van Noten" in Journal of Curatorial StudiesVol.5 No. 1, 2016.
Exhibition Review of "Lanvin" in Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style Vol. 5 No. 1, 2016.
"Interview with Dr. Alexandra Palmer", Senior Curator of Textiles and Costume at the Royal Ontario Museum, on the topic of fashion curation for an upcoming issue of Fashion Projects (forthcoming 2017).
“A Portrait of a Collection and its Dispersal: The Case Study of the Suddon-Cleaver Collection” (with Alexandra Kim) for Special Issue on Collecting in Fashion Theory (forthcoming 2018).
Chapter on “The Slow Approach to Seeing” in Teaching Fashion Studies, edited by Holly Kent, Bloomsbury Academic (forthcoming 2018).


"Donated books and other materials incur costs and additional time to process. Before they can be shelved with the larger collection, their condition must be evaluated, followed by cataloging, processing and transporting. These materials ultimately have a shorter shelf life. It is more cost-efficient to purchase new books and media, which are delivered "shelf-ready."Luckily Brooklyn's library website has some recommended places that take book donations. And even luckier one of Housing Works' locations is a block away from the library I visit weekly. The thrift store is really cool, lots of stuff I could see myself buying... like a rocking chair I keep day dreaming of. Plus it's all for a good cause....."Housing Works is committed to ending the twin crises of AIDS and homelessness. We believe that all people have the right to a rich and empowering life. Since 1990, we have provided the highest quality services for homeless men, women, and children living with HIV and AIDS in New York City and beyond."


For thirty years, I suffered much pain and strife
With Persian I gave the Ajam verve and life
The final couplet from “The Shahnameh”;
Sometime around 977 A.D, the Persian language was taking its last breaths as the Arabic language had severely cornered it. Iranians had stuck in this situation since the downfall of the Sassanid Empire, when a poet from northeastern Iran decided to write the longest epic poem ever in the history of human. This man was no one but Ferdowsi Tusi. He is famous among Iranians as “the Lord of the Word” or, “the Savior of the Persian Language” as well.
Ferdowsi was born into a family of Iranian landowners in 935 in the village of Paj, near the city of Tus, in the Khorasan region of the Samanid Empire, it is in the present-day Razavi Khorasan Province of northeastern Iran. Died in poverty between 1020 and 1026 A.D, the Ferdowsi’s family buried him in his own garden in Tus. A Ghaznavid governor of Khorasan constructed a mausoleum over the grave and it became a famous site. Society of the National Heritage of Iran rebuilt the tomb between 1928 and 1934. Now it has become the equivalent of a national shrine.
Ferdowsi and His Legacy The Shahnameh
Introduction of The Shahnameh
Consisting of some 60,000 couplets (two-line verses), the Shahnameh (Book of Kings) is the world’s longest epic poem. Fersowsi started it in 977 A. D and completed it on 8 March 1010 to provide a poetic account of the prehistory and history of Iran, beginning with the creation of the world and the introduction of the arts of civilization (fire, cooking, metallurgy, law), and ending with the Islamic Conquest of Persia. The work is not precisely chronological, but there is a general movement through time. Some of the characters live for hundreds of years but most have normal life spans. There are many kings who reign and abdicate, as well as heroes and villains, who come and go. The only lasting images are those of Greater Persia itself. The work is divided into three successive parts: the “mythical”, “heroic”, and “historical” ages.
This portion of the Shahnameh is relatively short. It narrates events with the simplicity, predictability, and swiftness of a historical work. After an opening in praise of God, the Shahnameh gives an account of the creation of the world and of man as believed by the Sassanians. Then it describes the story of the first man, Keyumars, who also became the first king after a period of mountain dwelling. His grandson Hushang, son of Siyamak, accidentally discovered fire and established the Sadeh Feast in its honor. There are also stories of Tahmuras, Jamshid, Zahhak, Kawa or Kaveh, Fereydun and his three sons Salm, Tur, and Iraj, and his grandson Manuchehr in this section.
Ferdowsi has devoted almost two-thirds of the Shahnameh to the age of heroes, extending from Manuchehr’s reign until the conquest of Alexander the Great (Eskandar). The main feature of this period is the major role played by the Saka or Sistani heroes who appear as the backbone of the Persian Empire. Garshasp is briefly mentioned with his son, Nariman. The son of Nariman whose name is “Sam” acted as the leading paladin of Manuchehr while reigning in Sistan in his own right. His successors were his son, Zāl, Zal’s son, Rostam, and then Faramarz.
Among the stories in this section, the romance of Zal and Rudaba, the Seven Stages (or Labors) of Rostam, Rostam and Sohrab, Siyavash and Sudaba, Rostam and Akvan Div, the romance of Bijan and Manijeh, the wars with Afrasiyab, an account of the story of Goshtasp and Arjasp, and Rostam and Esfandyar are the most famous and popular amongst Iranians. Ferdowsi and His Legacy The Shahnameh
A brief mention of the Arsacid dynasty follows the history of Alexander and precedes that of Ardashir I, founder of the Sassanid Empire. After this, Sassanid history relates with a good deal of accuracy. There is also the story of the Sassanids and the Arab conquest of Persia in this book.
Message of the Shahnameh
Ferdowsi did not expect his readers to pass over historical events indifferently, but asked them to think carefully. He wants us to see the grounds for the rise and fall of individuals and nations. He also insist on learning from the past in order to improve the present, and to better shape the future. The singular message that the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi strives to convey, is the idea that the history of the Sassanid Empire was a complete and immutable whole. It started with Keyumars, the first man, and ended with his fiftieth scion and successor, Yazdegerd III, six thousand years of history of Iran. The task of Ferdowsi was to prevent this history from being lost to future Persian generations.
Arts from the Shahnameh
Undeniably, the Shahnameh led to the creation of two important Persian arts such as “Shahnameh Khani” (translated to “Singing the Shahnameh”) and “Naqqali” (translated to “Storytelling”).
Shahnameh-khani totally means singing the exact verses of Shahnameh—without any manipulation—from memory or from a book, with special customs.
Naqqali, which used to be very common in cafes, is also a dramatic kind of storytelling. And a Naqqal is a person who narrates the stories with a special tone, feelings, expression, gestures, and movements. In some cases, Naqqals accompany their performances with musical instruments and painted scrolls. Also, a Naqqal plays several roles during a performance. A professional Naqqal needs to be aware of local cultural expressions, languages and dialects, traditional music, cultural values and the history of Persia.
Besides, the stories and epics in this book are so fantastic and interesting that various companies have adopted them to make movies or games. Although movies like “the prince of Persia” have attempted to make a movie with a Persian-base story, they have stopped at choosing Persian names, not entertaining stories narrated in Shahnameh. Ferdowsi and His Legacy The Shahnameh
Importance to Iranians
Even though the existence of a large number of invaluable Iranian poets and poetry books throughout the history of Iran, people honor the Shahnameh as a holy book. They believe so only because they think this book has saved them from speaking any language other than Persian. Almost all Iranians have a volume of the Shahnameh in their house to read. They feel proud of each and every verse which led to the survival of the Persian language and the glorious history of Iran. Ferdowsi and His Legacy The Shahnameh


Are you ready to explore the world of “The Kindest Silly Girl Movie“? This heartwarming film has captured the hearts of audiences worldwide with its beautiful storyline and endearing characters. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the plot, characters, and where to watch “The Kindest Silly Girl Movie”. So, let’s dive in dtk.com.vn !
I. The Plot of “The Kindest Silly Girl Movie”
1. Synopsis of “The Kindest Silly Girl Movie”
“The Kindest Silly Girl Movie” is a touching tale of a young woman named Novalee Nation (played by Natalie Portman) who is pregnant and is left by her lover at an Oklahoma Walmart. Novalee must find a means to support herself and her child without the help of friends or relatives.
2. Synopsis of the Story and Major Ideas
Matt Williams adapted Billie Letts’s novel “Where the Heart Is” for the big screen. The plot unfolds in a tiny southern town over the course of several years. The film’s themes include kinship, affection, loss, and the possibility of a fresh start.
Novalee encounters many interesting people who aid her in her quest to provide for herself and her child. Sister Thelma Husband, portrayed by Stockard Channing, is a pivotal role since she adopts Novalee and becomes like a mother to her. Ashley Judd’s character, a nurse named Lexie Coop, becomes Novalee’s best friend.
James Frain’s Forney Hull embodies the film’s central subject of second chances. Librarian Forney falls in love with Novalee and encourages her to pursue her ambition of becoming a photographer. The dynamic between them is a driving force in the story.
3. What makes “The Kindest Silly Girl Movie” so great, in terms of narrative
The story of “The Kindest Silly Girl ” is what sets it apart from other films. One of the most notable is Novalee’s development from a frightened and helpless young woman into a confident and capable mother. This shift is represented by the fact that she and her infant find refuge in an unexpected area.
The bonds that Novalee creates with the people she meets play a significant role in the story. Novalee’s life is enriched by the presence of Sister Thelma, Lexie, and Forney, who all play crucial roles in seeing her through difficult times. These friendships are a living example of the value of community and interpersonal bonds.
The film’s message of optimism and second chances is a major driving force. After each of them has suffered the pain of loss and heartache, Novalee and Forney’s relationship might be seen as a second shot at love and happiness. No matter how bad things become, this message serves as a gentle reminder that fresh starts are always an option.
“The Kindest Silly Girl ” is a touching picture that deals with issues such as love, second chances, family, and friendship. It’s a timeless masterpiece because of the captivating story, likeable characters, and meaningful message it conveys.
II. The Characters of Movie
The eclectic cast of “The Kindest Silly Girl Movie” is one of the film’s strongest points. Every member of the cast, from lead Novalee Nation to secondary players, contributes in their own way to the story and concepts of the film.
1. A synopsis of the protagonists and their role in the story
Novalee Nation: Novalee’s adventure is the film’s primary narrative focus. Novalee is a pregnant adolescent who finds herself starting over in a new town after being abandoned by her lover. Novalee develops throughout the film into a strong and self-reliant lady who can provide for herself and her child. Novalee’s arc is heavily influenced by her interactions with Sister Thelma, Lexie Coop, and Forney Hull.
Sister Thelma Husband: Sister Thelma is a sweet lady who adopts Novalee and raises her as her own. She is a crucial element of Novalee’s network of loved ones and has helped her get through some of the toughest times in her life. Sister Thelma is an influential figure in her own right because she advocates for mutual respect and understanding.
Lexie Coop is a nurse who becomes Novalee’s best friend. Lexie supports Novalee through thick and thin, despite having her personal problems of her own. Lexie is a pivotal figure because she exemplifies the value of friendship and the significance of human connection.
Forney Hull is a librarian who develops romantic feelings for Novalee and eventually marries her. His relationship with Novalee is essential to the story because it gives them both a second opportunity at love and happiness. Forney also supports Novalee as she pursues her dream of becoming a photographer.
1. Analysis of the character development throughout the film
The plot of “The Kindest Silly Girl Movie” revolves mostly around the growth of its characters. One of the most important character arcs in the film is Novalee’s development from a timid and dependant teen to a confident and self-reliant adult. Her friendships with Sister Thelma, Lexie, and Forney are essential in helping her develop a healthy sense of self-confidence and reliance on others.
It’s also important that Sister Thelma grows as a person and becomes an advocate for tolerance and acceptance of others who are different from herself. Lexie undergoes a more subtle but nonetheless substantial character growth as she learns to put herself aside in order to serve those around her.
The progression of Forney’s personality is inextricably linked to his interactions with Novalee. Because of his affection for her, he develops himself and is able to aid in her development as well. Forney’s character is completely changed by his love for Novalee, and he grows more trusting and selfless as a result of their connection.
“The Kindest Silly Girl ” features a wide and intriguing ensemble of characters that contribute to the film’s narrative and its examination of its topics. The characters become more than just minor figures because of the relationships they form and the growth they undergo during the novel.
III. Where to Watch “The Kindest Silly Girl Movie”
There are a few places online where you may view “The Kindest Silly Girl Movie” without paying anything. YouTube is a common choice because users may often watch the entire film for nothing. Soap2day is another alternative; it’s a free streaming site with a lot of content, including movies and TV episodes. However, it’s important to remember that free streaming services aren’t always legal and can expose your device to malware.
There are a number of premium services accessible for those who desire a safer and more legitimate streaming experience. Amazon Prime Video is one such service, and it offers both renting and buying options along with high definition quality. The film can also be rented or purchased in HD or SD quality via iTunes. The film may also be rented or purchased via Google Play and Vudu.
The “The Kindest Silly Girl Movie” can be purchased on DVD and Blu-ray if you prefer this format. The DVD or Blu-ray is available for purchase on sites like Amazon and at most major retailers. Physical media orders may take longer to arrive than digital streaming choices, so keep that in mind if you’re planning on making a purchase.
1. What is “The Kindest Silly Girl Movie” about?
“The Kindest Silly Girl Movie” is a 2000 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Matt Williams. The story follows a pregnant teenage girl named Novalee Nation, who is abandoned by her boyfriend at a Walmart store in Oklahoma. Novalee must learn to navigate a new life in an unfamiliar town while raising her child and finding new love along the way.
2. Who are the main characters in “The Kindest Silly Girl “?
The main characters in “The Kindest Silly Girl Movie” include:
- Novalee Nation, the protagonist and a pregnant teenager who is abandoned by her boyfriend
- Sister Thelma Husband, a kindly woman who becomes a mother figure to Novalee
- Lexie Coop, a nurse who befriends Novalee and becomes her best friend
- Forney Hull, a librarian who falls in love with Novalee and becomes her partner
3. Where can I watch “The Kindest Silly Girl Movie”?
“The Kindest Silly Girl Movie” is available to watch through both free and paid streaming options. Free options include YouTube and Soap2day, although using free streaming sites may be illegal and can put your device at risk for malware. Paid options include Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, Google Play, and Vudu, where you can rent or buy the movie. Physical copies of the movie are also available on DVD and Blu-ray, which can be purchased on Amazon or at your local retail store.
“The Kindest Silly Girl Movie” is a heartwarming film that has captured the attention of audiences worldwide. Its beautiful storyline, endearing characters, and themes of love, loss, and redemption have made it a beloved classic. Whether you’re watching it for the first time or revisiting an old favorite, “The Kindest Silly Girl Movie” is a cinematic experience that you won’t want to miss. So, grab some popcorn and settle in for a beautiful journey through the world of “The Kindest Silly Girl Movie”.


This short eBook explains what hypothermia and thermal stress means. And how to avoid them when diving.
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People in the lab use many different softwares for all kinds of data analysis. This page helps people know what kind of things & expertise already exists in the lab.
Based on the the licensing, the softwares can be clasified as (in increasing order of "free"-dom ) :
- Commercial license, bought specifically for the lab
- Commercial license, supplied by Max Planck
- Free, Closed-Source
- Free, Open-Source
A more useful classification would be based on the application area of the software. This would require more organization to put up here, but still some preliminary info is available for a start.
- Sequence Analysis : All purpose sequence readers, assemblers, alignment, phylogeny etc.
- Reference management : Different softwares to manage bibliographies / papers / references
- Genetic Mapping : QTL analysis, making of genetic maps
- Statistical Analysis
An alphabetical list of all softwares:
- AntMap : For making genetic linkgae maps.
- Cite-U-Like : Reference management software, free, closed source, online only
- DNA-STAR Suite : All purpose sequence readers, assemblers, alignments etc.
- geneious Suite : All purpose sequence readers, assemblers, alignments etc.
- Mendeley : Reference management software, free, closed source
- Zotero : Reference management software, free, open source


Investigating the ‘Crisis’: Production Workers’ Literacy and Numeracy Practices is a recent NCVER report by Stephen Black, Keiko Yasukawa and Tony Brown.
Results from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics have been used to suggest there is a crisis in the literacy and numeracy skills of Australian adults. This study challenges this current view by looking at the issue from a worker’s perspective. Production workers, together with their managers and trainers, from three manufacturing companies were interviewed and observed. Little evidence of a direct link between increasing literacy and numeracy skills of workers and improved productivity was found.