Wet Lab Resources
- YouLab facilities
- ESF Analytical & Technical Services (A&TS): GC-MS/MS, LC-MS/MS, ICP-OES, NMR, FTIR, TEM, SEM, microplate reader, digital droplet PCR, etc.
- Upstate Medical University Molecular Analysis Core (SUNYMAC)
- Syracuse Biomaterials Innovative Facility (BioInspired)
- Syracuse University Blatt BioImaging Center
- ESF/Syracuse 3D printers
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Protocols
- OpenWetWare Lab protocols
- ESF/Syracuse University High Performance Computing Cluster
- The metafor Package: A Meta-Analysis Package for R (Wolfgang Viechtbauer) and its GitHub page (an overview of functions)
- A Guide to Statistical Analysis in Microbial Ecology (Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Alban Ramette ) and its website GUSTA ME
- Numerical Ecology with R (Daniel Borcard, François Gillet, Pierre Legendre) and its online resources
- DADA2 (High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data) and its GitHub page and tutorials
- QIIME (canonically pronounced chime, stands for Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology) and An Introduction To Applied Bioinformatics
- PICRUSt (phylogenetic investigation of communities by reconstruction of unobserved states) and its GitHub page
- R package "phyloseq" and its demo workflow and tutorials
- R package "vegan"
- R package "ggplot2"
- R package "MALDIquant"
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Programming for Biology 2017 GitHub
- FlowingData, Nathan Yau's website for data visualization
Writing and Presentation Resources
- Writing Science: How to write papers that get cited and proposals that get funded (Joshua Schimel)
- How to construct a Nature summary paragraph
- MIT BE CommKit (a collection of guides to scientific communication by MIT's Department of Biological Engineering Communication Fellows)
- Designing Effective Scientific Presentations by Susan McConnell
- The Secret Structure of Great Talks TEDxEast by Nancy Duarte
- Boosting the Signal in Scientific Talks Nature Career Column by Scott St. George and Michael White


The Plains is a narrative of obsessive recursiveness situated somewhere between the hilarious awkwardness of Kafka and the compulsive interrogation of Bernhard. Akin to Kafka, too, The Plains operates as an allegory. Or, more accurately, it has the feel of allegory, though deciphering the lessons in its parables is no easy task. To quote the book, it often seems “…a convenient source of metaphors for those who know that men invent their own meanings.”
The Plains is a work of unknowing, a travelogue of a journey toward alternate terrains and surrogate selves. An equally fitting title would have been The Planes, as every component of this text (narrative, setting, theme, etc.) is ultimately found to be multi-dimensional. It illustrates perfectly the platitude: “the more I learn, the less I know,” or, to pull again from the text itself:
“And I knew that plainsmen commonly consider all art to be the scant visible evidence of immense processes in a landscape that even the artist scarcely perceives, so that they confront the most obdurate or the most ingenuous work utterly receptive and willing to be led into bewildering vistas of vistas.”
Being led into bewildering vistas of vistas is as accurate and succinct of a description of the experience of reading The Plains as can be mustered. Confounding, to be sure, but The Plains is equally riveting and affirming. It’s a text I foresee frequently revisiting—each reading revealing entirely new terrain.
If nothing else, read The Flamethrowers for language. The vitality of the prose is breathtaking, and Rachel Kushner’s immense talent for description and relentless deployment of offbeat metaphor are extraordinary and bewitching. As to the plot, it’s a captivating examination of class, gender, and identity that utilizes as its subjects a handful of mostly—but beguilingly—fictional events and persons spanning the 20th century. Bits and pieces of odd but mesmerizing stories accrete haphazardly, offering moments of insight that are too brief to resolve, and it’s this open-endedness that prods the reader forward, however turbulently. And that’s how it needs to be, as the central story—the one of Reno the young artist; the quiet girl from Nevada; the intrepid motorcyclist; the patient narrator—is a messy one of indeliberate identity seeking, of a slow shifting from observation to action, and what it takes to ultimately force her hand is shocking but, by the novel’s end, inevitable.
Squeezing subject matter this historically, geographically, culturally, and politically vast into a few hundred pages almost inevitably leads to a disjointed narrative, and From the Ruins of Empire is no exception. That said, I wholly applaud the ambition and deep research that a text like this requires, and my reading was rewarded with a number of epiphanies–for instance, a contextualization of the shift from collective to individual jihad or how recent of a phenomenon nationalism is in China.
Most crucially, Pankaj Mishra offers a very necessary corrective to the (still!) pervasive, Western-centric view of colonialism/market economies/capitalism as progressive, just, and inevitable. Mishra’s alternative lens is not only good for viewing the past but also a useful tool when considering what the 21st century may hold. Thus, despite the occasional narrative hiccups, From the Ruins of Empire is a good general primer on the political landscape of modern–and, perhaps, future–Asia.
Memory lives on in mute objects and people, allowing occasional—albeit gauzy—glimpses into the past to those that seek and consider. In this examination of much that can’t be fully explained, W.G. Sebald proceeds with the rigor and research befitting a scientific study. He then packages his findings in a unique prose that is Bernhardian in structure but has a staid, almost 19th century tone and is coupled with documentary-like photographs that lack captions and are a touch too grainy to be considered definitive sources.
At times almost monotone, Sebald’s passages push forward despite bearing a tangible weight, yet there’s always a feeling that the text could combust at any moment. It’s this looming devastation that fills the book with ample tension, though the closest this comes to being realized is in the occasional moments of insight and clarity that Sebald affords us—be it a character, like Thomas Browne, that Sebald ties to seemingly disparate situations or the subtle yet horrifying connection between the Third Reich’s curriculum of silkworm rearing and their methods of extermination in the concentration camps. These are epiphanies of a sort, though the discoveries they offer are usually haunting and tend to offer no resolution. But therein lies the lure of Sebald’s writing: it’s impassioned, learned, singular, and honest to the point of never offering false hope.
A brief, manic history of humanity, the multi-layered saga of War & War follows provincial archivist György Korin as he seeks a “Way Out” of life’s war and violence. Built from long, discursive sentences akin to those of Thomas Bernhard, Krasznahorkai’s protagonist lacks the hyper-rationality of Bernhard’s narrators, relying instead on a high-octane illogicality that regularly drags the novel into realms of zaniness and absurdity. His buoyant comedy and refusal to succumb to myriad setbacks make it hard not to root for Korin, despite the creeping sense that his search for a prevailing peace is not only ill-fated, but the journey of a madman. At once engrossing and alienating, hopeful and miserable, epiphanic and befuddling, this coiled, convoluted novel—which emphatically eschews just about every literary convention—is strange and special and, thus, a struggle worthy of author, narrator, and reader alike.
I was interested in what I call the rhythm of memory–how people’s speech, inflections, and tempo change when they’re remembering something. Between that little transitional period when memory is not quite solid, you’re groping for it, and when it comes in strong, and then when it tails off again. I like these rhythms. –Annea Lockwood, Pink Noises
Identity is a force that can edify or destroy; it’s also an artificial construct, culled from class, gender, and race by society. That something so arbitrarily created can determine one’s fate is a devastating tragedy. This is what Light in August is about and why it is a powerful and important book.


Revolve:R, edition four (twenty copies (/20) available to reserve at pre-order price)
Revolve:R, edition four (Arrow Bookworks, 2023)
Works by: Sam Treadaway, Ricarda Vidal, Portia Winters, Alicia Torres, Sébastien Theraulaz, Kate Street, Daniel Smedley, Kelsey Skordal, Matt Rowe, Jessica Michelle Le Roux, Pietro Reviglio, Bernd Reichert, Juneau Projects, Mika Plutitskaya, Liza Neklessa, John Matthias, Domingo Martínez, Lovegrove, Will Kendrick, Karl Katschthaler, IAM13e, Sarah Hinds, Alice Hendy, Heather Harvey, Emmy the Harp, Kailum Graves, Georgie Grace, Patrick Galway, Sève Favre, ELAWIATR, Gen Doy, Amy Dickson, Charmagne Coble, Diana Ali.
Revolve:R, edition four – which began in the Summer 2021 and is due in 2023 – is a collaboration between artists, poets, filmmakers, and musicians from England and around the world (including Mainland Europe, America, Russia, Australia, and Africa).
Revolve:R was initiated by Sam Treadaway and Ricarda Vidal in 2011 as a multidisciplinary and international collaboration. The project explores a transmission of ideas through collaborative forms of communication, from the physical and tactile to the digital and intangible, in which contemporary artists, poets, filmmakers, and musicians, produce original artworks, poetry, films, soundscapes and music in response to a series of artworks and the collective work.
Each Revolve:R edition is formed of six rounds, or Revolves (forming six chapters within the bookwork publications) which each follow the same pattern whereby a two-sided artwork is shared with invited artists who then respond with an artwork of their own by a specific date. The collective artworks of each Revolve are then shared with invited poets, filmmakers, and musicians. Thus the initial artwork sets in motion a multitude of alternative creative responses reflecting various ways of reading, interpreting and responding.
The complete works of each Revolve:R edition is published as a limited edition bookwork, most recently Revolve:R, edition three (Arrow Bookworks & Intellect Books, Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA, 2018).
“…Picking up from where edition three left off Revolve:R, edition four holds a virtual litmus paper to the air and a finger to the pulse of the contemporary world to creatively explore some of the key issues of our times. With a central focus on the ever present Climate Change Emergency, against a backdrop of Global Pandemics and era of Lockdowns – via subjects including Artificial Intelligence, Modern-day Warfare, Cryptocurrencies, Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Activism – this collaborative and interdisciplinary work reflects on what it means to be human in an ever complex, uncertain, and chaotic world. The collective work of Revolve:R, edition four is thus intended to gently ask an open-ended question of its readers: If not now, when? If not you, who?…”
“A great collaborative project and new edition – we are happy to support edition four following the wonderful first three editions”.
Caterina De Pietri (Artphilein Foundation, Vaduz, Switzerland)
“An exciting fourth edition of Revolve:R, that continues to create a valuable platform for the exploration of ideas, collaborative working and cultural exchange”.
Kathryn Standing (Modus Operandi Art Consultants, London)
Revolve:R, edition four (Arrow Bookworks, 2023)
Bookwork (approx): 21.7cm, 21.7cm, 4.9cm.
273 pages (approx) (222 Artworks, 12 Poems, 6 films, 12 Soundscapes + Songs).
Card, cloth, DVD ROM, 170 gsm paper.
Arrow Bookworks deboss, numbered and signed. Limited edition /60.
Revolve:R, edition four can now be pre-ordered (with a saving of more than 75% RRP)
> There are twenty (1/20) copies available to pre-order.
> All supporters of the Revolve:R, edition four pre-order campaign shall receive the first copies of the Revolve:R, edition four when it arrives.
> Any orders for the first three Revolve:R editions (during the pre-order campaign) will receive a complimentary copy of Revolve:R, edition four.
> Revolve:R editions increase incrementally in value year on year as well as more substantially with the arrival of each new Revolve:R edition. Purchasing copies of the editions therefore represents a sound financial investment.
> Please feel free to forward a link to the pre-order page to any contacts who would be interested to learn about the project and forthcoming edition.
Revolve:R editions now feature within major public collections worldwide including:
Tate Artists’ Book Collection, Tate Britain, London, UK / MoMA Artists’ Book Collection, New York City, New York, USA / The British Library, London, UK / The National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London, UK / Newark Public Library, New Jersey, USA / Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK / Goldsmiths School of Art, London, UK / The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA / California Institute of the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA / Pratt Institute, New York City, New York, USA / MIT, Massachusetts, USA / The Neil Crawford Collection, London, UK / The Sutton Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK / Artphilein Editions & Choisi Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland, CH / amongst others and private collections.
The project has also received funding or in-kind support from other galleries and cultural organisations including:
Modus Operandi Art Consultants, London, UK / Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK / James Hockey & Foyer Galleries, Farnham, UK / Ceri Hand Gallery, London, UK / Spike Island, Bristol, UK / Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK / a-n, UK / Axisweb, UK / Visual Arts South West, UK / Thank-you to all.
For further information about the project see: Revolve:R
If your gallery or archive dosn’t yet have an Artists’ Book collection the Revolve:R edition set is a really great way to start.
Thank-you in advance for your reading and perusal. We’ll be most pleased if you decide to order the Revolve:R edition set or pre-order a copy of Revolve:R, edition four.
Sam Treadaway & Collaborators.


Lab Facilities: CD-ROMs
Some of our CD-ROMS are on a remote server, while others, to comply
with license agreements, are only available on request to run on one
machine. Among the mose important are the following:
- The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, which includes all extant
Greek literature through lage antiquity. Most items are in Greek; a
few are in Latin. PC software from Silver Moutain facilitates display
and printing of Greek.
- The Packard Humanities Institute Latin texts and Bible versions
through c. 200 A.D. (Disk 5.3) Some Coptic sources are also included
on Disk 7, Greek Documentary Texts. PC Software from Silver Mountain
facilitates display and printing of Latin and Coptic.
- All the writings of Zarlino appear in facsimile and in searchable
encoded texts (with MIDI files, where apporpriate) on Frans Wiering's
debut CD-ROM for the Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum.
- The Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum CD-ROM, a compendium of
Latin writings on music theory organized and maintained by Thomas
J. Mathiesen, contains graphic files and copyrighted texts not
avaiable at its website. Ruth Steiner's CANTUS files are also
included on this CD-ROM.


19th Century Romanian Transitional Alphabet Transliteration Project
The early 19th-century Romania
saw the appearance and evolution of several transitional scripts mixing the Cyrillic with the Latin scripts
in an effort by various scholars to migrate all texts to Latin script by the second part of the century. As a result, many texts from that period were written using this script. While many of the regular Cyrillic characters were found in the Romanian version, some were unique to it. Currently, these texts can be found either as original manuscripts or scanned documents within libraries across Romania. Their study is difficult not only because there were many versions of the transitional script, but also because modern researchers are unfamiliar with the script itself. OCR software is also faced with the challenge of understanding the special characters and fonts employed in the 19th century producing as a result incomprehensible text documents. A preliminary literature survey has outlined that little research has been made on the subject, recent (and most relevant) results being published by researchers from the Science Academy of Moldova:
Through this project we will overcome the limits of current technologies by employing state-of-the-art open source machine learning
techniques capable of learning to recognize the symbols of the various Romanian transitional scripts. In addition, to ease the effort of modern researchers we will produce text documents transliterated in the modern Romanian Latin script as well as an online service
that scholars can use to automatically transliterate their 19th century texts.
For that we will rely on the Tesseract software
and train from a diverse range of 19th-century texts an accurate AI model that can be used to recognize characters in the transitional scripts. Its validation and the text transliteration will be performed on a distinct set of 19th-century documents. The entire workflow will be automated and exposed as a demo web application validated in lab conditions.
The project aim is to offer a working solution for transliterating (by phonetic transcription) the 19th-century Romanian Transitional Script (RTS) into the modern latin alphabet.
1st July 2022 - 30th June 2024
- A machine learning-based (ML) learning model for to converting scanned images of Romanian texts written in the transitional script into text using the modern Latin script.
- A proof of concept online platform where scholars can upload their scanned documents and retrieve a transliterated document in MS Word format.


“An important, timely, and fascinating book focused on an extremely neglected subject.”
“The images are so beautiful that they make you want
"Astonishing, hidden treasures beautifully photographed and described in lively, interesting prose. An extraordinary book.”
Tourists throng India’s temples, palaces, forts and mosques, but the country’s ancient stepwells are largely unknown. These remarkable subterranean structures not only provided communities with water all year long but also served as civic centers, refuges, remote oases and, in many cases, active places of worship. But besides their many functions, stepwells were marvels of engineering, architecture, and art. Some were lavish and ornate, others minimal and utilitarian. They could be enormous, plunging nine stories into the earth, or could be intimately scaled for private use. Thousands of these fascinating edifices once proliferated across India, but most were abandoned as a result of modernization and depleted water tables. While some have been restored by the government, most are sadly neglected and in danger of extinction.
The Vanishing Stepwells of India presents seventy-five subterranean wonders, a fraction of those Victoria spent four years photographing throughout the country. Informative rather than scholarly, the book sheds light on a unique - if ignored - architectural typology, through several hundred color photographs and detailed entries. GPS coordinates are provided, in the hopes that readers will be inspired to see these elusive beauties with their own eyes.
I’m Victoria Lautman, a cultural journalist-at-large with three decades of experience across all media. My interests are reflected in my work which is focused on architecture, design, art history and literature, but in addition to writing, I hosted and produced several radio-interview programs. In my lectures – whether domestic or international – I present aspects of India unknown to most tourists, including the captivating if often elusive stepwells. Thirty years of traveling throughout the subcontinent, and my fascination continues.


M.E. Lewes Essay
In M.E. Lewes response to a letter from an American woman, Lewes emphasizes the importance of writing by expressing the significance of humble ambition. She demonstrates this through establishing credibility, reasoning, and direct connection to the heart of Melusina Pierce.
Lewes reacts to Pierce's as “touching and tender.” There is a direct connection between the two women because of their passion to write. Lewes has encountered and experienced many of the struggles Pierce has been through as a writer. Credibility is actually accomplished when Lewes reveals that she has entered “into those young struggles of yours” and into “the longing you (Pierce) feel.” By relating to Pierce in “all that I have gone thorough myself,” she reflects her position as a writer. Lewes implies the frustrations in the development of a writer.
Lewes' ethics and personality also embody credibility by admitting she was “too proud and ambitious to write.” She does not act superior to Pierce because she is a well-known author, but instead humbles herself to define an innate relationship with Pierce. She acknowledges Pierce as an author that shares similar characteristics to her.
Reasoning is also incorporated through the letter, providing evidence that “one's ignorance and incompleteness” can create a conflict. Lewes also remarks that a writer who has exhausted him or herself is “dreary.” However, Lewes uses these sentences to suppress Pierce's fears that she is “past her prime.” Lewes address that every writer has specific talents and gifts that are apparent in their writing. Lewes goes on to share some of her own story. This shows her own development as a writer to set an example for Pierce.
The English novelist addresses the rhetorical question of “Does this seem melancholy?” to confirm her opinion about the ways in which an author can be hindered. Lewes' answer to her question is “less melancholy than any sort of flattery.” This creates importance of avoiding conflicts that can burden writing. She wants Pierce to know that it is crucial to stick to one vision and goal.
By relating to the heart of Pierce, Lewe's draws on her emotions. She creates a connection between both of them instantly. Immediately she does this by complementing her writing ability and the she goes on to establish a deeper element to her letter implying a close connection. Lewe's explains that pierce is “held fast by woman necessities” of “neatness and household perfection.” She creates a definite persona which functions as a relational establishment. As she closes she remarks on her husband how that being married to good. This comment emphasizes how personal she intended the letter to be.
There are several apparent strategies in the piece that Lewes writes to Pierce that enhances her message. By appealing to Pierce through reasoning, connection, and credibly there is an underlying theme of encouragement in the development of a writer. By establishing this encouragement, humble ambition of a writer is generated.


Uncover the Future
At the beginning of winter, when all the field works were stopped, Ukrainian girls and women tried to entertain themselves while staying at home. That is why this season is so rich in rites and religious holidays, both Christian and pagan origin. Most of the spare time in winter was devoted to various divination. The single Ukrainian ladies and men were eager to find out when they were meant to find their best half soon or what kind of life is waiting for them. The Winter divination period begins on the feast of St. Catherine (December, 7), then on St. Andrew (December, 13) and lasts until the beginning of the Christmas holidays.
Who is St. Catherine?
According to beliefs, Catherine was the daughter of an Egyptian ruler, a very beautiful and intelligent girl. Though, she could not find a husband, who would be wiser than her. A Christian wise man who was her mentor became a match for her. But when the girl accepted his faith, she was killed for it. Her tortures became a plot of the painting kept in an Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden (see the picture below). Since then started a tradition of the commemoration of Saint Catherine’s Day on December, 7.
Patron of Happy Couples
The day of the holy Martyr Catherine has been considered a women's holiday since ancient times. Despite the fact that the fate of the girl has not developed in the best way, she is still considered a patron of a happy couple, a feminine fate, so on this day, the girls dream of a happy future.
St. Catherine's Day - Holiday Traditions
Wedded women on this day lit a holy three candles by the image - "so the family would grow further". If a lady put a candle and prayed to St. Catherine, then she would have a very happy couple. Single girls had their own rituals and divination.
Call for Fate
In ancient times on St. Catherine’s day, Ukrainian women gathered at an evening party and divined until late at night. First, every lady cooked a pot of porridge with poppy or a jar of borscht, tied it with a new towel, which is a symbol of family. Then the lady went out to the gate and called her fate: "Fate, luck, come for dinner!" Women believed that their fate would hear them, would be kind and merciful to them.
Divination with Things
Slavic ladies at St. Catherine’s day had many rituals. One of them was connected with different items of divination. They laid these objects under the plates so that nobody saw them and opened them in turn. If there was a ribbon underneath, the girl had to wait another year to meet her second half, and if a ring - she would soon be happy with her man. If a lady found a kerchief, she would become a single mother, and if a doll – she would soon give birth to a child. If a woman got across, it would symbolize a short life.
On this day Ukrainian ladies also went close to the neighboring houses and listened to the conversations. If communication was calm and peaceful, then the woman's fate would be the same. If a scream and a quarrel were heard, then fate would bring a lot of surprises.
Even men wanted to foretell on St. Catherine’s day. To do this, they cut a cherry branch and put it in the water. If the branch burgeoned with a lot of leaves until Christmas - the future wife would be beautiful, smart, and hardworking. And if it did not bloom - on the contrary.
Various rites and traditions have always played a significant role in the life of Ukrainian women and men. Though nowadays they are kept mostly in villages, they still unite Ukrainian folk with the ancestors, who praised nature much. I am pretty sure that every Ukrainian lady has tried to divine at least once in her life ;) Ask your Slavic woman to tell you about it and you will have a great topic for conversation in a chat!


Oral histories are intense in all the ways: they’re intensive in design, listening skills, execution, telling one’s story, to archive and to process.
But what about listening to them? How do we go about listening to oral histories? What does it take to construct a listenable interview? How much thought goes into oral history for the ear?
Join OHAC for the first How We Listen session, a new event series focused on sharing oral history audio from our deep and wide archives. Let’s figure out what it means to really hear the stories people tell when gifting the world with their oral history.
Sign up for the first How We Listen session with Clarissa Redwine, creator, producer and host for the podcast, Kickstarter Union Oral History. Clarissa is a former Kickstarter employee and was on the ground for the unionization drive.
Clarissa and Kimberly Springer, Curator for the Oral History Collections at Columbia University, will discuss the ins and outs of producing this ten-part podcast that documents the formation of one of the first white-collar unions in the tech field.
Kickstarter Union Oral History reveals podcast production for the craft that it is: a coherent story arc, vibrant storytelling, compelling characters and cliffhangers that don’t feel cheap and make you want to know more. The podcast is produced by Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU Law of Engleberg Center Live!
We’re also honoring the 600 laborers caught in the Shirtwaist Triangle Factory fire on March 25, 1909. One hundred and forty-six died in the fire. More than 20,000 workers who went on an industry-wide strike for “better wages, standardized work day, improved working conditions, and union representation.”
Register for this session and listen in advance. Unlike a book club where it’s “okay if you don’t read the book,” your participation will be greatly enhanced if you’ve listened to at least a few episodes and join the conversation. Trust us: you’ll want to listen to every available episode!
Update: here’s the video for the event!


Posts with the tag “memory”
Who Are You?
by Dana S on February 9th, 2020
“My son, do not forget my teaching...” Proverbs 3:1As a Pastor, I get to witness things that speak to the core of our faith in Christ. Many of these moments give sudden clarity to our task as Christians and to the work that Jesus Christ has for us.These moments also go unseen and unrecorded to all except God and those present. However, I wish many of you could witness these moments. They are hu...
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Finished reading: Horror Stories: A Memoir by Liz Phair 📚
If you were expecting a linear memoir Liz Phair, or “here’s what happened the night I wrote ‘Flower,’ you’re going to be a bit disappointed. Phair abandons the linear format that plagues many otherwise interesting memoirs and instead presents a series of stories that seek to answer the question “why are you like this?”
She’s always direct, never pulling punches, even when she’s shining a light on her own behavior. She never apologizes, but rather presents her truth and leaves interpretation up to the reader.
Being a huge fan of her discography isn’t required to enjoy this book; in fact, she devotes vanishingly few pages to it. Most of the musical discussion that is present in the book focuses on the aftermath of her 2003 self-titled record, and how exhausting and uncomfortable her brush with pop stardom felt for her. It never comes off as pity-seeking, but rather “these were the consequences of choices I made.”


The Painting in Room 48
Heather Bowring lives in the South of England and works as a professional artist.
Her first novel was inspired by a thesis she wrote as a mature student, ‘Art as a Complementary Healer’.
She has always been fascinated with the idea that the space between a painting and a viewer is filled with their own history and wanted to develop this idea for it to play a major role in the book.
The novel weaves in and out of the lives of the patients admitted to hospital room 48 and the care assistant Olga. It explores their reactions to a surrealist painting on the wall called Share my Dream.
The Painting in Room 48 is available on Amazon – Buy Now
Paperback £7.99 and Kindle £2.99
Heather is a member of The Society of Authors.
Media Coverage of The Painting in Room 48


The 110 Best Australian Albums
An updated version of the highly controversial and best-selling book 100 Best Australian Albums, 110 Best Australian Albums opens up the debate once more
An updated version of the highly controversial and best-selling book 100 Best Australian Albums, 110 Best Australian Albums opens up the debate once more, with 10 new albums mixing up the rankings and providing you with the ultimate, most up-to-date list of Australian music.
The book names the best Australian albums of the last 60 years, placing each album in order (from 1-110) and discussing why each album deserves its place. It tells the story behind the making of the album, where the album fits in the artist's career and the album's impact on the local and world stage. The entries feature interviews with the artists and the producers/managers involved in the recording and the release of the album. It’s a veritable who’s who of Australian music from Midnight Oil, Crowded House, Cold Chisel, Nick Cave and Paul Kelly through to Flume, Courtney Barnett, AB Original, Royal Headache and more.
A must for every Australian music lover!


Your body and postpartum.
Different changes you might experience in your postpartum body
Managing your postpartum period, from products to discharge to postpartum pads.
Table of Contents What are postpartum pads? Preparing for postpartum What is postpartum urinary incontinence? What is a postpartum care...
Postpartum and Urinary Incontinence: What to buy, how to treat it, and how to manage it.
What to expect and managing your bodily changes postpartum.
What is postpartum and how to prepare for it: from postpartum pads to incontinence to managing fatigue.
The Postpartum Body: from the mental to the psychical - what changes to expect and how to care for it.
How to find the best postpartum products for you, what to look for and how to know what fits.
Preparing for postpartum: from finding the best postpartum pad, to what to expect from your body.


A book fair is a display or exhibit of books typically by a group of publishers or book dealers for promoting sales and stimulating interest. A book fair is a great place to buy books, but it’s also so much more: It helps the local community by funding school projects and library events. It attracts people from all walks of life who have varying interests, making it a perfect event for families to attend.
Are you looking for a Report format on a Book Fair organised in your city, to be published in a newspaper?
Great! you’ve come to one of the best resources available on the internet. In this particular post, we’ve given best examples of report writing on the topic as mentioned above. This example will be helpful for CBSE, ICSE and other board students of class 8, class 9, class 10, class 11 and class 12.
A ‘Paradise’ for Book Lovers
By Ayushman Bhattacharjee
Bhubaneswar, July 23, 2022: The 22nd State Annual ‘Paradise’ Book fair kicked off with a huge hue of joy and anticipation combined with Excitement for the avid readers of books in the city of Bhubaneswar and the State. This year, the Book fair that takes place annually every 2 years, has made a grand comeback after it was missed on 2020 as a result of the Pandemic and Lockdown. It was announced earlier this year, that the 22nd ‘Paradise Book Fair ‘ will hit the city in July.
The awe-inspiring 22nd edition of the Book Fair was inaugurated by the Honourable Chief Minister of the state yesterday evening, July 22, 2022. With over 660 Book stalls from world renowned publications and writers cutting across different genres and generations, it was arguably the biggest ever celebration of knowledge and treatment for the readers and lovers all across the state. The grandeur of this edition of the event could be estimated by the fact that the committee members from the ‘Paradise’ group booked the whole of ‘City Children’s Park’ to accommodate the 660 Book stalls, rides for the children and numerous food stalls as promised.
The entrance to the venue was well decorated and painted with quotes and Autographs by various Established Authors. Though the Rain Gods did play a spoilsport for a good period of time, fortunately, it did not disappoint the Store managers and Book fair stakeholders as there was a huge crowd who battled the drizzle to buy the Books they love. The Honourable Chief Minister addressed the crowd with a short speech. He acknowledged the love for knowledge and readability that managed to pull a huge crowd of customers despite of the Rain.
As Day 1 of the ‘22nd Paradise Book Fair ‘ folded up, a total of 15,789 books were sold worth 12,42,333 INR in total with total footfalls ranging somewhere between 5000-10000 people. ‘These numbers are never seen before and are unbelievable’ – a shopkeeper was quoted saying. With six more days left for the Book fair to conclude, the business, numbers will be stagnant. More importantly, the love for books is a secret gateway to heaven and thus promises a knowledgeable and bright future for the country and the State which we all hope, shall never die among the readers, admirers, and future generations.
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I am using JBoss 3.2.5 on Fedora Linux. I've followed steps in the latest O'Reilly book Enterprise JavaBeans and in JBoss manual for configuring data sources, but have received varying results. For example, by following the steps in the O'Reilly book my JBoss bound the data source to the default HyperSonic (?) database. I've figured so much that the problem is in how the data source is named and referenced, but I am still puzzled as to what the right way is to name and reference a JDBC data source.
I've identified four places of interest (given on the example of MySQL DB):
4. lookup code in Java
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <datasources> <local-tx-datasource> <jndi-name>SomeDB</jndi-name> <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://host:port/dbname</connection-url> <driver-class>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driver-class> <user-name>bla</user-name> <password>bla</password> </local-tx-datasource> </datasources>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <jbosscmp-jdbc> <defaults> <datasource>java:/SomeDB</datasource> <datasource-mapping>mySQL</datasource-mapping> </defaults> </jbosscmp-jdbc>
... <resource-ref> <res-ref-name>jdbc/SomeDB</res-ref-name> <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type> <res-auth>Container</res-auth> </resource-ref> ...
In the Java code:
... Context ictx = new InitialContext(); DataSource someDS = (DataSource) ictx.lookup("jdbc/SomeDB"); ...
These files were placed in the right locations.
The above combination doesn't work well. Using the JNDI name jdbc/SomeDB in mysql-ds.xml and java:/jdbc/SomeDB jbosscmp-jdbc.xml gives the same lookup problems. Instead of trying out all the possible combinations in the universe, can't someone simply explain what the right way to do this is and why that is so?
For example, how does JBoss bind the resource reference name such as jdbc/SomeDB? Based on the name of this field, jdbc/SomeDB is just the name of the reference, but not necessarily the name of the resource, so how does the binding occur? I've read that jdbc prefix should be used for JDBC data sources, but where should it be used, in some of the locations above or all of them? And what about the prefixes java:, java:/comp/env/jdbc, etc. I've found conflicting information on the net.
I should mention that I did get the whole thing to work but in the way different than explained in the book. The trick was to use java:/someDB in the Java lookup. What I didn't understand is what the role of the resource reference field was when I was referencing the resource directly based on its JNDI name and not based on the resource reference name?
I admit that I may have some holes in my understanding of this topic, hence this post :).


Reading a good book is like taking a journey! They may look like pages full of dull print, but they open a door to a wondrous world of magic, mystery, wild imagination, legendary icons and ordinary heroes, adventure, love... all created through a fantastic interplay of words.
On the beautiful theme 'books my best friends’, the students of grades nursery and prep from Presidium Dwarka 22 recently conducted a special assembly. It started with some inspiring thoughts shared by students, emphasizing the importance of reading, which was followed by a skit, presenting the books as a medium to transport to another world. To add on, a thrilling dance performance was presented on the song ‘I love reading’. The act was enjoyed by all and helped students understand how a book can be a special friend.


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Magical Democracy Backstory
The Magical Democracy was founded by DrThestral on February 17, 2022. It was founded after a big magical tree at the edge of the forest just outside the United Animal Federation‘s territory started to sparkle and bring its magic into the world of the Waffles SMP. From there it started to spread and it made its way up to a small cabin where DrThestral lived, and turned it into an enchanted place full of magic and fantasy.
In return, DrThestral made a community with people who swore to help each other and where everyone is equal. Together they created homes all across the land and made little places to worship this magical tree.
But not everyone was happy with the miracle. On the other side of the ocean, a tribe of Thracians were planning on making an attack on the tree, because they were afraid that the magic came from the devil and they needed to defeat the evil. With their ships, they sailed south and managed to reach the continent where the tree was located. Fortunately, someone spotted the Thracians and sent a letter to DrThestral to inform him about the upcoming threat. DrThestral managed to get some people with him to the tree to defend it and managed to reach it just in time. A long and bloody battle followed, and the Thracians were forced to give up some territory, but after they regrouped, they fought back and the tables were slowly turning. But when all hope seemed lost, the tree gave us one last blessing before it would be quiet for a very long time.
From the leaves rose a magnificent creature. It had ginormous, aqua colored wings and a long, but beautiful tail. The creature was covered in tiny shields, which all had the same color as the wings. It was a dragon. Along with the dragon, which would later be known as Falkor, the Magical Democracy managed to push back the Thracians to the sea, where they would flee to their own land. While the Magical Democracy stopped at the sea, Falkor wanted more. He flew after the Thracians, and the Magical Democracy saw both of them disappear at the horizon. Neither have ever been seen again.
After the battle, the Magical Democracy built a wall around the magical tree to protect it, and everyone agreed that there would never be fighting again on the ground where so many lives were lost. Today, this land is known as our capital city: Spellbound.
The people of Spellbound managed to live like this for over 18 months. During these months, the magic thrived. It helped the people of the Magical Democracy to build wonderful homes, create magnificent things, taught them amazing new skills. Life was good. But slowly, the magic started to fade. The homes became less stable, the things people created suddenly didn’t work anymore, and there were fewer and fewer people who could master the skills once so easily obtained. The citizens started to worry, what if the magic suddenly stopped existing? What would happen to all the achievements we’ve made for over one and a half years? Would they also stop to exist?
The people took these questions to DrThestral, who had been researching ancient texts to see if he could find a reason for the situation. Up to this point, he was unsuccessful. He tried to calm down the people of the Magical Democracy, but their worries were too big. For this reason, DrThestral had to make a drastic decision. They have to find the source. The place all the magic sprouted from. The magical tree in Spellbound couldn’t have been the only one, right? It has to have an origin. Slowly but surely, a plan began to form in his head. He knows that the magic doesn’t see borders, but it sees people with the same beliefs. How else would it have spread through all of Spellbound? The tree wasn’t the origin, it was the people, the people who believed that through trust and hard work, anything can be achieved. With this in mind, DrThestral and the citizen of the Magical Democracy began their journey, three months after the magic began to fade and 21 months after the battle of Spellbound. They have to go somewhere where they can reshape Spellbound into something new, something better and hope that the magic returns to them.
But where would they find a place like that? If I was a magical tree, where would I be? This was what bothered DrThestral the most, the uncertainty of them ever finding a place to execute his plans. But it didn’t matter, they just had to find a place like that. They had to. But DrThestral did have an idea for where to look. So the citizens packed their things, said their goodbyes, and then they left. They set sail across the endless blue of the Thracian Sea and headed North, trying to find Falkor.


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S.L. and J.E. wrote for Hollywood. One of their earliest sales was to the Gunsmoke franchise -- Kitty's Love Affair just celebrated it's 40th anniversary of its first airing, 22 Oct 1973. What makes this episode so important is that it was the first time ever in which a kiss was shown on screen for this series. Until then, hand holding was as steamy as Gunsmoke ever got. It was a good old shootem up western, not a romance. But we all know, Kitty and Matt had a thing between them since the series first aired in 1955. Kitty's Love Affair also earned the franchise their highest ratings ever! Well done, ladies.
S.L. and J.E. went on from there to write pilots for William Shatner, who gave S.L. her nickname, Captain. They've both written for a number of magazines and periodicals, and as medical professionals in their 'day job', the pair have also written some very important medical texts which are used in universities today -- Smallpox: A History ; Cholera: A Worldwide History; The Complete Guide to Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring and Full Disclosure Telemetry; and their book, Yellow Fever: A History, is due out later this year.
If that wasn't enough, S.L. and J.E. also wrote and published historical nonfiction -- The Steamboat Era: A History of Fulton's Folly on American Rivers, 1807-1860; Ballooning: A History, 1782-1900; The Rise of the American Circus, 1716-1899; and Riverboat: The Evolution of a Television Series, 1959-1961.
Wait! I'm not done yet. Pirate Treasure is the first in a complete series called The Kansas Pirates Saga. And in May, S.L. and J.E. will see the first book in another complete series released . . . a western series called The Hellhole Saga; book one is First Draw.
And do you want to know about an untitled series which has 137 completed novels? All things in time, friends, all things in time. Today, we'll focus on pirates and the treasure they seek.
Pirate Treasure isn't your average buccaneer swashbuckling tale. I mean, it IS set in Kansas after all. But the arrival of a special woman into the Ward's lives will bring some of that pirate magic to this midwestern state.
Set in 1857, the state of Kansas had been part of the Louisianna Purchase just 54 years earlier. In 1854, the Kansas Territory had been organized. And it will be two years until the US Constitution would be would be adopted.
In this year, there is relative peace, but in a small town like Lawrence, people are still suspicious and superstitious. And when Seth Ward's wife dies, leaving him with two young children to raise alone, the last thing he needs is for his community to turn their backs on him when his son, Peter, shows signs of something unexplainable. They call the boy haunted.
At his wits end, Seth places a help wanted ad. The way things are going in town, he's pretty sure it will go unanswered, but he has to try for the sake of the kids, and himself.
Born in Nova Scotia, Barbara Nelander served on board her father's ship, learning the ropes from the deck up, so to speak. She's used to working in difficult situations and when she takes a job with the Wards, she's truly put to the test as she walks in the ghost of Seth's late wife and helps Peter come to terms with his situation.
Neither Seth or Nelander, as she's called, expect to be attracted to each other, and as their affections grow, so does the bond within the new family. Using her high seas experience, Nelander transforms their home into a figurative pirate ship, each of them having a job to do on that ship. Nelander and Peter set out to deal with Peter's tormenters, exacting a buccaneers' revenge, and discovering the illusive treasure all pirates search for.
All is not roses though. The hot Kansas summer threatens everything Seth and Nelander are working so hard to achieve, as tempers grow hotter under the Kansas sun.
Wow! Pirate Treasure is an edge of your seat read. From chapter one, readers will be pulled into a unique world where great historical romance meets swashbuckling high seas drama. Pirates in landlocked Kansas? At the heart of the story is the budding relationship between Seth and Nelander. The attraction isn't traditionally instant, but we grow with the characters through the reading and see how their relationship blooms. Nelander's character is well-drawn and believable. Her spirit lifts from the page with each turn. Seth's plight compounds the drama as he suffers the loss of his wife, has to raise two young children on his own, has a community of peers shunning him because of his son's new-found 'affliction', and how can it be possible he's falling in love again? A gripping must read, and a wonderful start to a fabulous series!
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Left alone to raise Patricia and Peter, Seth has been isolated from his neighbors since the death of his wife from a lingering, malignant disease. Nearly at his wits end, a young woman appears in response to an advertisement for help.
Barbara Nelander dared brave the terror of a dead woman's ghost and the haunting of her son because she was not like other women. Born in Nova Scotia, "Nelander," as she was called, had served as a crewman aboard her father's trading ship since early childhood. Used to working in a man's world and handling difficult situations, she signs aboard with the determination to dispel the ghosts of the past.
Transforming the homestead into a figurative pirate ship, she uses her wiles to restore Peter's self-confidence, extract a buccaneer's revenge on those who tormented him and battles drought alongside Seth as the harsh Kansas summer threatens to destroy the family and the relationship that develops between the "captain" and "first officer."
Nelander had little exposure to men of such ilk. Her father had owned his own vessel and therefore kept clear of banks. Captains of her acquaintance who worked for hire, however, spoke of them in language unfit for public ears.
The teller waited until the manager retired to his office, then scurried after him, politely knocking on the door. It required three light scratches before a booming voice ordered, “Come in!” The man adjusted his starched neck collar and disappeared. Ten minutes later he reemerged, pale and perspiring. Not daring to speak, he used two fingers to motion the waiting customer.
“Mr. Pronger will see you, now.”
Fully aware that the delay had been a purposeful one, Nelander followed the clerk down the hall, waved her hand by way of dismissing the minion and strode through the door. The teller later described the incident by saying, “It were as though she owned the place!”
Mr. Pronger rose from behind his massive mahogany desk in a gesture of civil obedience. The observer likened the act to a magistrate offering a condemned man a hood before ordering him to walk the plank.
“What can I do for you...madam?”
“I desire to transfer money from an account I have in Nova Scotia to this facility.” In order to make herself perfectly clear, she added, “From one bank to another. The account is in my own name. I shall sign whatever documents are necessary. I would appreciate expedience in the matter.”
“You are not from around here, madam?”
“My name is Barbara Nelander, sir, recently Second Officer aboard the Bottom Dollar. I have arrived only this morning from San Francisco.”
“You are in need of funds?”
She supposed he meant to embarrass her as the question appeared superfluous.
“And you need this money for—?”
Her head shot back. “To continue my journey.”
“You are returning to Canada?”
“I am. As soon as I get my money.”
Which may, or may not, have been a threat.
Or an inducement.
The bank president removed an official form from his desk. Making a show of fitting a nib to the end of a pen shaft, he uncorked an inkwell and dipped it. Hand hovering over the paper, he inquired with a judge’s dour inflection, “Name on the account from which you wish to transfer funds?”
“Would it be easier for me to fill out the form, myself?”
Pronger evidenced genuine surprise. “You can read and write?”
“I have a degree, sir, from Davy Jones University.”
“I am unfamiliar with that institution. Is it in Canada?”
Not normally prone to lie, Nelander considered it more in the nature of a jest.
“It has branches there.”
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Being a black professor at a predominantly white university can be just as uncomfortable as—if not more so than—being a black student at one.
In his new book, The Scholar Denied, the sociologist Aldon Morris writes that contrary to the discipline’s preferred origin story, the field of sociology was actually founded by W.E.B. DuBois, the first black person to receive a Ph.D. in the United States. DuBois earned his degree from Harvard, but due to rampant racial segregation at the time, he was shut out of many employment opportunities. He ended up working at Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University), a historically black college with few resources, but still managed to do pioneering work in the field of sociology.
Morris describes in clear detail the ways that DuBois’s emphasis on race as a socially constructed—rather than biological—phenomenon threatened white elites of his day, who much preferred Booker T. Washington’s message that blacks should accept and embrace their subordinate status. Furthermore, many white sociologists co-opted DuBois’s innovative research designs, empirical methods, and scientific approach, while failing to credit him as their originator. Morris argues that consequently, DuBois’s centrality to the discipline of sociology and his role as one of the preeminent analysts of race relations have been obscured.
DuBois lived and wrote his most famous books during the early part of the 20th century, but how different are circumstances for black academics today?
The recent student demonstrations at University of Missouri, Yale, Amherst, Emory, and other universities have drawn much-needed attention to the challenges that minority students, particularly black ones, face at predominantly white colleges and universities. There’s a great deal of research—including the work of the sociologists Joe Feagin and Wendy Leo Moore—showing that the conditions black students are protesting are serious, widespread, and often ignored. In one account, Feagin shares a story of a black student who waits after class to ask a white professor a question about that day’s lecture, only to be told “I thought you were waiting to rob me or something.” Another student describes “one of those sad and angry nights” when, walking to the dorm, white students drove by yelling racial slurs and throwing beer cans at him.
In Wendy Leo Moore’s study of elite law schools, she offers similarly wrenching examples. For instance, there is the white professor who punishes a black female law student for discussing the offensiveness of racial slurs, but does not challenge the white male law student who comments during a class discussion that black students are intellectually inferior. As Moore describes, even the ways law schools teach students to focus on “individual intent” means that social, academic, and legal practices that discriminate against students of color can be summarily dismissed if white social actors “didn’t mean any harm.” Thus, no matter how invidious the action, no matter the consequences of the behavior, legal reasoning centers on individual whites’ intentions and discounts the lived experiences of people of color.
For faculty of color, similar processes are frequently at play. In fact, predominantly white colleges and universities may even be more reluctant to recruit and hire faculty of color than students of color. While students matriculate at an institution for a short period of time and then leave, the tenure system means that faculty of color may remain at a university for decades, even a lifetime. With this longer time frame, these professors develop more of a stake in the school, and may be more empowered to push for the reforms many colleges resist. For universities that see no real reason to change their existing practices, traditions, and organizational cultures, bringing in a critical mass of faculty of color is often a stated goal that never materializes.
Indeed, when it comes to faculty diversity, the numbers suggest a pretty bleak picture. Blacks constitute less than 10 percent of the professoriate, and these numbers thin out the higher the academic rank. And as lots of research shows, when these professors are in the numerical minority, their experiences aren’t all that different from what DuBois encountered as he attempted to navigate higher education in the early 20th century: exclusion, marginalization, and the consistent message that, as a black person, he was not suited for the academy and that his ideas were unwelcome. Indeed, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent suggestion that blacks are best suited for “less advanced, slower track school[s] where they do well” are strikingly similar to the arguments about black inferiority that DuBois confronted in the 19th century—the very assertions he was able to debunk with scientific research.
Many faculty members and administrators will dismiss this lack of diversity as a pipeline issue, claiming that they simply can’t find “qualified” candidates of color to fill faculty positions. But as was the case in DuBois’s day, many historically black colleges and universities are populated by faculty of color, many of whom are exemplary researchers and teachers who work with a fraction of the resources offered at elite, predominantly white universities. “Qualified” candidates of color are there. They simply are not proportionately represented in historically white institutions.
For faculty of color who do seek and find employment at predominantly white schools, research suggests that the issues they face are in some ways similar to those that students of color have described in the recent wave of protests. For example, in a recent study, the professors Ebony McGee and Lasana Kazembe noted that black faculty were racially stereotyped at work, including being generally expected to entertain and perform for colleagues in ways that were not expected of their white counterparts. Other black professors report that if they study issues related to race, their research is assumed to be less credible, serious, and rigorous than their white peers—even if white colleagues also study racial issues. Black faculty also do a disproportionate amount of service work—jobs that are expected of workers but not explicitly required. These can include mentoring and advising students and junior faculty, serving as a faculty advisor for campus clubs, or being on committees.
And there are gender dynamics present as well. The sociologist Roxana Harlow found that black female professors had to manage gendered racial stereotypes that they were “mean” and “cold” in the classroom, stereotypes that are commonly applied to black female professionals more generally. And this says nothing of the racialized assumptions that many students (and fellow faculty) bring with them to the university—that black Americans, and by extension, black professors, are less knowledgeable and credible than their peers of other races, regardless of the subject matter they teach. This means that in practice, black faculty routinely face students, coworkers, and administrators who assume that they are not truly qualified for or capable of faculty work—all the while concealing the understandable feelings of frustration and annoyance that result. The overall message is that, like black students, black faculty simply do not belong.
Though these issues are complex and won’t be solved easily, universities could begin doing more to support faculty and staff of color. DuBois defined the premier problem of the 20th century as the issue of the color line, and this certainly shaped his experiences in higher education. It doesn’t have to be this way today.
Originally seen via The Atlantic by: ADIA HARVEY WINGFIELD – A contributing writer for The Atlantic and a professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men’s Work.


Framework for Building an Evolving Mindset and Lifestyle by Dr. Javnyuy Joybert
This 11-step framework is designed to guide individuals and institutions through the process (framework) of building an evolving mindset and lifestyle.
In today’s rapidly changing world, the ability to evolve is more crucial than ever. This 11-step framework offers a comprehensive path for individuals and institutions committed to fostering an evolving mindset and lifestyle. This guide is crafted to inspire transformation, encourage deep reflection, and prompt meaningful action.
By embracing this journey, you unlock the potential to navigate complexity and cultivate a life rich with innovation and growth. This framework is your blueprint for personal and professional evolution, a map to thriving in an ever-changing landscape.


History room making do in pandemic
Monroe County Local History Room Director Jarrod Roll, as guest speaker at the Sparta Kiwanis Club’s weekly Zoom meeting Tuesday, Oct. 12, said there was one bright note in the COVID-19 pandemic.
“From the very beginning we were closed,” said Roll, preventing visits to MCLHR exhibits, public programs and research facilities.
Typically, some 12,000 people would have been served in the spring season. But Roll described how History Room activity continued. In his office-at-home he created a series of educational videos for 4th and 5th grade teachers’ Civil War studies.
MCLHR staffers, working with the Sparta Kiwanis Club, sponsored a successful citywide Scavenger Hunt for Sparta area students. MCLHR Museum Services Associate Hannah Scholze, uninterrupted, updated nearly one million key-word names for researchers. And most visible to the public, the MCLHR staff was able to paint the Research Library and Workroom walls and replace worn flooring.
Roll reminded Kiwanians of the MCLHR exhibit “Lost Voices of Mariel’ which chronicles the sudden arrival of 14,000 Cubans in Monroe County 40 years ago. He said MCLHR is already asking, ”What should we save that would speak of how the Pandemic has affected Monroe County?”
In June the Museum reopened for visitors and researchers. In keeping with COVID restrictions, reservations must be made by phone (608-269-8680) or by email (MCLHR@centurytel.net). The new holiday exhibit, The Toys We Love, featuring the top toys from the 1940s-1990s, opens November 19. 2020. As always, admission to the Museum is free.
Roll’s appearance coincided with the launching of the Local History Room Fund Drive. The Annual Fund provides two-thirds of the MCLHR budget, with the other third coming from fund raising efforts.
The Sparta Kiwanis Club, part of Kiwanis International, focuses on improving the lives of young people. In November it will begin a year-long celebration of its 100th anniversary.
It is seeking artifacts and stories related to its 100-year history as a Sparta-area service club. For more information contact Jim Liska, 608-269-6888. For membership information contact Doug Dengel, 608-269-2939.


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The writings of Greg Bogart PhD explore astrology and depth psychology, astrology and psychotherapy, dreams and the art of astrology.
Astrology and Depth Psychology
Greg’s writings bridge the worlds of astrology and your dreams, astrology and depth psychology, astrology and psychotherapy, and the stages of life span development. His books on spiritual depth psychology integrate yoga, meditation, and Jungian dream work into the practice of the art of astrology. These books have been developed in the course of 35 years of work as a psychotherapist, astrological counselor, and university educator. This website features book descriptions and reviews, several downloadable articles, and information about astrological counseling and how to schedule an appointment. For information about my holistic psychotherapy services, visit gregbogart.net
Books by Greg Bogart
- In the Company of Sages
- Dreamwork and Self-Healing: Unfolding The Symbols of the Unconscious
- Planets in Therapy: Predictive Technique and the Art of Counseling
- Astrology and Spiritual Awakening
- Astrology and Meditation: The Fearless Contemplation of Change
- Therapeutic Astrology: Using the Birth Chart in Psychotherapy and Spiritual Counseling
- Finding Your Life’s Calling: Spiritual Dimensions of Vocational Choice
Dreams and Depression
My latest book is Dreamwork in Holistic Psychotherapy of Depression: An Underground Stream that Guides and Heals (Karnac Books, Fall 2016). This book describes how dreamwork can help alleviate depression, in both long-term and time-limited psychotherapy, and in self-treatment. The text explores how dreams shed light on issues contributing to depression—including drug and alcohol abuse, divorce, death and bereavement, conflicts about sex, health and body image, parenting, workplace stress and burnout, and ancestral, inter-generational trauma.
Combining Jungian and existential psychotherapy, I describe how attention to archetypal symbolism brings into focus new responses to pressing life challenges; and how allowing oneself to be affected by dream images and narratives promotes emotional, relational, and spiritual rejuvenation. This book will interest those who experience depression, as well as their therapists and loved ones. It details a method that can be practiced by couples and family members and adapted to group work in a variety of clinical, educational, and occupational settings—any place where people feel safe and free to explore, reveal, and discover themselves.
Visit karnacbooks.com for information and orders. You may also order through Amazon.com and other online booksellers. As an author I earn a higher royalty when you order directly from the publisher, Karnac Books, as Amazon takes deep discounts, therefore I request that, if possible, readers order the book directly from Karnac.
Read Greg’s interview in the April/May 2006 issue of The Mountain Astrologer.
Some of Greg’s work was recently translated into Russian


Published December 29, 2005
by Xlibris Corporation .
Written in English
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Another site you may want to explore is Project Gutenberg.
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.
Meet Pocono Pines’ local drum expert, Ken Meyer, in this informative and instructive video. Learn about the health benefits of drumming both physically and mentally. Ken progresses in segments with his instruction from knowledge and history of the drums to actual performing. Click on this link for the June session.
Percussionist, Ken Meyer, presents a unique form of meditation. The pandemic has shown us the importance of mindfulness and its effects on our health and well-being. Let the Gong Meditation bring the sounds of the universe into your home to help you focus on yourself and your environment. Click on this link for the August session.
A Bit of Bliss – Stretching
This video is about 20 minutes of gentle stretching for neck, shoulders, and hips. Click on this link to view the video.
A Bit of Bliss – Singing Bowls with Meditation
This is about 15 minutes of guided meditation accompanied by Tibetan singing bowls, for stress relief. Click on this link to view the video.
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Zoom Irish Soda Bread Bake Along (grades 6-12)
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Zoom Teen Writer’s Group (grades 6-12)
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Zoom Teen Zentangle Workshop (grades 6-12)
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You can import documents from any enterprise system into the Shafa system. Shafa can become a single aggregation point for documents and store them in the required nomenclature. For example, you can save all the documents on a client, counterparty, or partner in one dossier (case).
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There is a library inside the campus of the college to assist the students in their study. Wide ranging books covering almost all subjects are available in the library for the students to browse through and there is spacious reading room adjacent to the library to help the students carry on their study properly books have been arranged properly. Books have been arranged properly and catalogue too has been prepared to help to locate the books easily. Newspapers, journals and magazines are also available to the students in the library card is also issued to the students to make maximum use of the books. A handsome amount is inverted towards the purchase of books and every year a large number of books are added to its coffer. Separate selves have been provided for books of different subjects. Cataloging of books has been made alphabetically to avoid any problem locality the books.


|We regret that due to circumstances beyond our control this program is being postponed to a future date. Thank you for you understanding.|
On Sunday, April 15, 2018 at 5 PM |
please join Amaras Art Alliance
the Iranian Association of Boston
the Armenian Society of Boston
at a Gala Concert
Iranian and Armenian music titled “Enduring Cultures”
to salute millennia of history shred by these neighboring people.
The concert will be held at the Cary Auditorium, 1605 Mass Ave, Lexington, MA.
Featuring the Avetisyan Chamber Orchestra (Sargis Karapetyan, Managing Director) and URARTU Women’s Choir (Maestro Artur Veranian, Artistic Director), this program will bring together sopranos Shooka Afshar from Boston, Narine Ojakhyan from New York and tenor Edgar Brut also from Boston. Maestro Mikayel Avetisyan, invited guest from California who has presented several programs of this nature to enthusiastic audiences in the Los Angeles area, will lead the orchestra which is named after his late father, a composer who lived in Armenia.
Events in May
Compiled and Edited by Ara Ghazarians | Published 2018
The Armenian Review, an internationally recognized, multidisciplinary English language academic journal, is the longest continually published English-language Armenian publication of its kind. Established in Boston in 1948, its mandate has been to "acquaint the English-speaking public with the history and cultural achievements of the Armenian people.“ It has promoted scholarly research covering all periods and aspects the Armenian history and culture, the Armenian Diaspora with a renewed focus on Soviet Armenia and post Soviet Armenia, and the history and culture of peoples neighboring Armenia.
The Armenian Review: A Bibliography & Index (1948-2008) is the most comprehensive index of the journal to date. Comprised of over three thousand entries in three main parts, the Bibliography covers fifty volumes and two hundred issues. The first and largest part, Articles, is comprised of twenty-four subject categories, including anthropology, sociology, ethnography, philosophy, the arts, Armenian church, language and linguistics, literature, history from antiquity to the present, diasporan communities and institutions, political parties, education, Soviet Union (its republics, ideology, nationalities policy, law, political and civil liberties). A second section, Book Reviews, provides a wealth of information on about five hundred titles related to Armenia, the Armenian experience and people, and relevant topics. Lastly, Illustrations provides a detailed index of all the images, sketches, maps, drawings, portraits and photographs that have accompanied the issues of the Armenian Review throughout the years. The Bibliography concludes with an alphabetically listed detailed index of names and subjects.
Amaras is committed to working with professional artists and musicians to stage and present high quality cultural programs in New England and Armenia. Founded in 1990, Amaras also supports young aspiring performers to achieve their full creative potential. ...
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“MOGOK, The Valley of Precious Stones”, published by the Asian Institute of Gemological Sciences (AIGS), is an exploration narrative, as well as an ethnographic reportage and scientific reference book, according to a statement.
The book was produced by renowned gemologists Emmanuel Fritsch, Franck Notari, Thomas Hainschwang, and Candice Caplan, along with reporter/photographer Jean-Baptiste Rabouan.
“We conducted five expeditions of unprecedented scale and scope, enabling us to travel through the entire valley, visiting normally inaccessible mines, and collecting precious samples,” said Executive Editor Kennedy Ho, Chairman of AIGS. Many of our observations and conclusions are discoveries that are published here for the first time.
“Experts, teachers and students of gemology will find in this work previously unavailable, often surprising, yet highly precise information on the incredible ‘natural gemstone factory’ that is the Mogok Valley.”
The book is also a plea for socially equitable and environmentally sustainable mining, Kennedy Ho added.
Mogok has a tradition of small-scale mining operations that are currently under threat from mechanized techniques.
The book conveys the beauty of Mogok and its gems. “The photographs taken in the field as well as the laboratory images created using electronic microscopes, reveal an array of unique mineral wonders, including rubies, spinels, peridots, sapphires, and even the mysterious johachidolite, less well-known, but no less resplendent,” Ho said.
The team provides insights into their work, including quality assessment and valuation of rubies, sapphires, spinels, peridots and other treasures of Mogok.
The unprecedented exploration of the Mogok Valley, made possible by the AIGS, has unearthed fascinating new discoveries, resulting in a new reference work for scientists, devotees of precious stones and travelers seeking a unique experience.
The full-color hardcover book with 192 pages, costs US$100, and will be available at the AIGS booths at the Hong Kong fair.


"Azerbaijan Pharmaceutical &
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Issued since 2001
"Azerbaijan Pharmaceutical and Pharmacoterapy Journal" is the first and the only scientific journal in the field of pharmacy in Azerbaijan.
"Azerbaijan pharmaceutical and pharmacotherapy journal"-being as scientific-practical journal has been published not only original articles, brief information, letter to editor, the actual problems about pharmaceutical and pharmacotherapy, but also thoroughly adjacent medical and chemical science.
By the decision of the Qualification Commission at the President of Azerbaijan Republic the journal has included in the list of scientific publishing which recommended for printing of the main dissertation results.
Materials published in journal is reported in Chemical Abstracts (CA) (and Bibliographic Database ELSEVIER (EMBASE).
Journal is published by East View International Services (EVIS).
The Journal was declared the winner of the "Prize SCOPUS Azerbaijan – 2016" in the category of “seriously developing journal in the field of medical sciences” by the world famous publisher "Elsevier' and Sicence Development Fund under Prezident of Azerbaijan Republic in 25 January 2016.


THE DAWN OF THEIRVINE RANCH
The Irvine Ranch History Irvine, California
The Irvine Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the rich
heritage of the Irvine Ranch, once one of the largest private
ranches in the United States
Diversifying From Sheep
Irvine - a Land and a Family
A Fascinating Transformation
of Irvine — Preservation
of Its Rich Heritage
Discover Irvine's rich history started when James Irvine I
and two partners bought Mexican and Spanish land
grants in 1864.
History nurtures personal and collective identity in a diverse world. History teaches vital critical thinking skills. History is the foundation for strong, vibrant communities.
We are dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of the Irvine Ranch, once one of the largest private ranches in the United States.
The information is from the files of the Irvine Historical Society, Judy Liebeck Gauntt, and Ellen Bell. Judy's research produced the book Irvine, A history of Innovation and Growth, Pioneer Publications Inc 1990, Library of Congress Catalog Card number 90-62011. Ellen Bell wrote the "Images of America IRVINE" published by Arcadia Publishing Company.
All through its history, people have shaped the transformation of Irvine. Whether it was the Native Americans, the flamboyant dons of the rancho era, or the determined members of a first-generation Irish American family, the fingerprints of former residents are everywhere. The street names tell the story — Portola, Culver, Michelson, Jeffrey, and Jamboree. Everywhere you look in the modern city of Irvine, there are markers from its past.
Irvine has always reaped the benefits of sound planning. James H. Irvine saw great potential in the land. In his 55 years as owner of the Irvine Ranch, the 100,000 acres landholding went from undeveloped grazing pastures to one of the premier agricultural producers in the world. It did not happen by accident. Irvine meticulously managed his ranch.
The ranch that James Irvine purchased in 1876 has remained intact and in private ownership. Rich in history, The Irvine Ranch land is considered a precious and nonrenewable resource, an asset not to be sold or squandered for short-term gain, but to be held onto and used in carefully planned to benefit those who choose to live and work here.


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Attention Woodbrook!! The Scholastic Book Fair is headed our way! The Scholastic Book Fair will be taking place at Woodbrook Elementary, in the Library, from November 11th to November 15th.
Everyone is invited to the Book Fair featuring the theme: Reading Oasis: A Cool Place to Discover Hot Books! Journey back to Ancient Egypt to an oasis overflowing with fun, engaging, and affordable books kids want to read. In addition, check out the “Classroom Wish List” located at the Book Fair to see what books your teacher would like to add to his/her classroom library.
Book Fair Dates: November 11th to November 15th
Shopping Hours: Monday - Friday
8:20 am to 2:30 pm
*All students will have the opportunity to visit the Book Fair at least once with their class during Media time
Special Event: Family Night
Tuesday, November 12th
5 to 8 pm
If you’re all booked up during Book Fair week, no problem! You can still participate by visiting the Book Fair online at http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/woodbrookelementaryschool. Our Online Fair is available for an extended time from November 7th to November 19th. Books ordered online are expected to be delivered to your child’s classroom 7-10 days after the Online Fair ends.
Come visit the Book Fair and see what great books you can discover! All purchases benefit Woodbrook, so please help make this our most historic Book Fair ever! Don’t forget that books make great gifts, and the holidays are right around the corner. We hope to see you there!


15 August 2023
As part of a new series of articles providing guidance on some of the key issues affecting Irish business, John Given and Daragh Connolly of KPMG Law, in collaboration with Practical Law, have prepared a Practice Note (“Note”) outlining how to run an effective board meeting for a private limited company (“LTD”) in Ireland.
This Note considers, among other things, how the board of directors may take decisions, how the management of a company is delegated to the board of directors and directors’ resolutions in writing. It also considers the process of calling board meetings, the role of the chairperson, how voting is conducted at a board meeting, and the quorum needed to hold one. Finally, the Note looks at what records must be kept, who must keep it, the form it must take, retention periods, minutes as evidence and the right to inspect minutes.
Conducting a Board Meeting in Ireland (PDF, 2.3MB)