Daisy Christodoulou has contributed an original brief outline of five pieces of literature: three novels; a play and a work of literary criticism. Daisy was keynote speaker at the Sept 2014 ENIRDELM Conference and is the author in 2014 of the controversial book “Seven Myths about Education”. At the Helsinki conference she attended the workshop about education’s failure to address the issues with which this website is concerned.
Literature about climate change and the environment
The beauty and preciousness of nature has been a theme for writers from the earliest times. In recent years, more and more literature has explored not just natural beauty, but the complex politics of the environment. All of the books below would be suitable for reading and studying at A-level.
Mara and Dann (1999)– Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing, the 2007 Novel Laureate in literature, had a track record of tackling big global issues. Her early work addressed the injustice of racial discrimination in 1930s southern Africa, while her later novels explored the feminist movement in the UK. Mara and Dann is one of her later novels. It’s set in a futuristic Africa, or ‘Ifrik’. The world has been transformed by climate change. The northern hemisphere is covered in ice, but the southern hemisphere is in drought. Mara and her brother Dann travel from the drought-stricken southern tip of ‘Ifrik’ to the last parts of the world that are still habitable. On the way they meet people who still refuse to accept the new reality.
“The ice came down, quite fast, in a hundred years.”
“Fast?” jeered one of the girls. She was seventeen. To her the hundreds, and the thousands, and the tens of thousands, meant no more than the kind of talk children overhear: grown-ups conversing above their heads using words they do not know.
“It began,” said Mara, “when these lands here.” — and she pointed to the north of the globe — “which had people and towns and plenty to eat, had to empty because it got so cold, and they knew the ice was coming. And that took.” — she looked at the girl who had spoken — “not much more than twice seventeen years.”
The girl burst into tears.
“These things can happen quickly,” Mara pleaded, imploring them, begging them. “Just imagine: all of this, all.” — and she made the globe spin slowly — “all of it here, the top half, beautiful and good to live in, and then the ice came down over it.”
The people were restless, their eyes evasive and gloomy, and they sighed, and wanted to leave.
There’s a sequel to this book called The Story of General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog. In an interview about this book, Lessing said that she worried about a future Ice Age, ‘because we’ve had many ice ages, and we are certainly going to have another one. What pains me is that everything the human race has created has happened in the last 10,000 years, you know, and most of it in the recent years. An ice age would just wipe that out. It would. Then we have to begin again then, don’t we, which is what we always do.’
The Road (2006) – Cormac McCarthy
The environmental writer George Monbiot called this ‘the most important environmental book ever written.’ The novel is a haunting and brutal description of a father and son’s travels through a post-apocalyptic world where the environment and civilisation have collapsed. It was made into a dramatic feature film in 2009.
The Heretic (2011)– Richard Bean
Richard Bean’s 2011 play deals with the modern politics of climate change. The main character is Dr Diane Cassell, a lecturer in earth sciences and a climate change sceptic. Her boss, Professor Kevin Maloney, wants her to suppress her research on non-rising sea levels so the university can win a lucrative research contract.
A clever blending of the personal, political and scientific, the play is also very funny, particularly the scene where Dr Cassell is interviewed on Newsnight by Jeremy Paxman.
Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition (1991) – Jonathan Bate
This work of literary criticism by Jonathan Bate argues that Wordsworth’s work has been a ‘vital influence’ on modern green thought, and that Wordsworth’s early revolutionary fervour and love for the environment are closely linked.
Bate’s book opens with a striking epigraph from a Czech writer: ‘the air pollution, more than the existence of the Iron Curtain, brought about the revolution in Czechoslovakia.’ Bate also argues that ‘the revolutionary torch now burns in the hands of greens rather than reds.’
Solar (2010) – Ian McEwan
Like The Heretic, McEwan’s 2010 novel is also a cleverly plotted and amusing depiction of modern climate change politics. The main character, Michael Beard, is a highly successful and dissolute scientist. His young researcher, Tom Aldous, has come up with a way to solve all of the earth’s energy problems. As he says,
If an alien arrived on earth and saw all this sunlight, he’d be amazed to hear that we think we’ve got an energy problem…And get this. There’s a guy in a forest in the rain and he’s dying of thirst. He has an axe and he starts cutting down the trees to drink the sap. A mouthful in each tree. All around him is a wasteland, no wildlife, and he knows that thanks to him the forest is disappearing fast. So why doesn’t he just open his mouth and drink the rain? Because he’s brilliant at chopping down trees, he’s always done things this way, and he thinks that people who advocate rain-drinking are weird. That rain is our sunlight. It drenches our planet, drives our climate and its life. A sweet rain of photons, and all we have to do is hold out our cups! D’you know, I read this guy saying somewhere that less than an hour’s worth of all the sunlight falling on the earth would satisfy the whole world’s needs for a year.’
The novel includes an evocative description of the central character Michael Beard’s trip to the Arctic, which is based on a trip McEwan made there in 2005 with the art and climate change organisation, Cape Farewell.


Brainy Baby Alphablocks: Educational Video Collection for Kids DVDRip Tutorial
English | 2011 | PDF + AVI | 950MB
Alphablocks is a children’s educational television program that attempts to teach children how to spell with the use of animated blocks representing each letter. The Alphablocks are 26 living letters who fall out of the sky onto an empty, white world and discover that if they hold hands and make a word, it comes to life. They learn as they go along and they’re always ready to have a go, help each other out and make their own entertainment.
Alphablocks is a series of adventures that invite you and your child to have fun with words. It is aimed at four to six year olds who are learning to read and its simple purpose is to entertain, while showing that wordplay can be a lot of fun. It is based on best-practice phonics teaching and it can help young children develop engagement and confidence with reading and making words.


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Anel I. Flores, is the editor of forthcoming anthology by Korima Press, Jota. She is author of Lambda literary award nominated book Empanada: A Lesbiana Story en Probaditas. Flores was born and raised in South Texas between homes in the Rio Grande Valley and San Antonio. Tejana, lesbiana, writer and artist earned her BA in English and MFA in Creative Writing. Her play, Empanada, has been produced at multiple venues including the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, MACLA in San Jose, CA, MECA in Houston, the Mexican American Cultural Center in Austin, the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, the University of Texas, Trinity University and at national art festivals. Flores’ fiction can most recently be found in Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art with UT Press (2016), Jota with Korima Press (2016), Queer Spiritualities, Korima Press (2016), Raspa Magazine: Spring/Summer Issue (2013), Empanada: A Lesbiana Story en Probaditas with Korima Press (2012), El Mundo Zurdo with Aunt Lute press (2010) in Sinister Wisdom 74 (2008), Rooted: A Queer Women of Color Anthology (2008), iungo Arts Magazine (2007), the Lodestar Quarterly (2005), The Pitkin Literary Review (2004), La Voz de Esperanza (2004 & 2006), Mother Tongues: A Literary Exchange Anthology (2003), Revolution (2002), Scarcely Scholarly (1997), and the University of the Incarnate Word’s Literary Anthology, Quirk (1995). Currently she is working on her novel Cortinas de Lluvia, and two children’s books.
In addition to her work as a community artist, activist and writer, she worked for 15 years as an educator and administrator in San Antonio’s public schools, and also curated and facilitated many creative arts partnerships. Her awards include The Nalac Fund for the Arts, The Accion Women Inspiring Women 20 x 20 Award, the Mentorship and Leadership Initiative Award from the National Performance Network, a nomination for the Lambda Literary Awards, 1st Place in the Cooper-Hewitt Community Design Competition, awarded Valedictorian of the Alexander Briseño Leadership Development Program, and the Constance Allen Heritage Guild for Lifetime Learning Award. She is an alumni of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Leadership Institute, a Member of Sandra Cisneros’ Macondo Writer’s Workshop, the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldua, the San Antonio LGBT Chamber of Commerce and the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber. While not working in the arts, Flores uses her creativity and skill to run her boutique Real Estate company A&N Realty and contributes to her community as the Co-Founder and Community Input Director & Treasurer of LezRideSA, a member of the Board of Directors for the San Antonio Pride Center and a graduade of Leadership San Antonio, Class of 39.
If the naked eye could see the passion and truth alive and brewing in a person’s soul, you would see the electric colors found in the subjects of Anel’s visual art. She works primarily in oil paints but has worked her hand in water color, pencil, ink and printmaking. She is always on the journey to find the next medium that will live longer than the previous, to tell the story and preserve the story in her work. Flores paints women in their most luscious, terrifying and loving moments of their lives. Currently, she is fusing native indigenous thought with gender, gender travel and gender spirituality. Her work always lives, grows and expands.
Gently handcrafted, with various inlays of lace, circa 1930, each of her fine silver and copper sculpted jewelry preserves history, tradition and craft, while resulting in a one of a kind piece of wearable art. Each of her pieces has the print of lace from her late grandmother’s five and dime store. She uses the lace, made by women’s hands, from her grandmother’s store, sold by women’s hands in her works to preserve the work women do with their hands and leave a legacy in her hand work. It is her commitment to the abundant life women contribute to the universe.
Anel’s silver and copper jewelry is made from the traditional metals found in Aztec ceremonial instruments. Her metals are not mined from the land; but instead, she uses recycled silver and copper from old car engine parts and digital mechanisms to create each piece. Furthermore, the gemstones found in her work are lab-grown and originate from a process that is environmentally sustainable and conflict-free to humans and animals.She studied in San Miguel de Allende where she founded an international artist partnership exchange while also mastering bronze, gold and silver sculpture and jewelry making.
Anel is a successful leader, artist and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience. Besides being a nationally recognized artist and published author, Anel has also been a leader in her community as an Art Education advocate, professor, lecturer and program director. She has a keen eye at recognizing the needs of her clients as well as her community and specializes in meeting those needs.
After an incredible journey with Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty she started her own firm, A&N Realty. She believes in family, leadership, technology, green practice and loyalty. Her decision to start A&N realty came with it being her father’s 30 year anniversary and my 10 year anniversary in the real estate business. With more than 40 years combined real estate experience, The A&N Realty team is tech-savvy, intelligent, articulate, detailed, and professional, with a keen view of the local market and an impressive connection to the global market. With an intuitive use of social media, Internet services and technology for instant on-line transactions, A&N Realty ensures quick delivery of new opportunities for their clients.
As part of her studies in undergraduate and graduate school, Anel traveled and studied throughout Mexico. Her artwork and writing has taken her on tour to such cities as San Jose, Chicago, Washington DC, Houston, Mexico City and her very own San Antonio. Anel’s extensive involvement in the community, her solid background in entrepreneurship, marketing and travel, and her eye for beauty all give her the edge it takes to find the perfect home for any buyer. She is a member of the National Association of Realtors, Texas Association of Realtors and San Antonio Board of Realtors.


How to use the Document Map in Microsoft Word and generate Table of Content Automatically
The Document Map is an easy navigation pane on the left-hand side of the MS Word document that helps us to navigate to a page or a heading in a lengthy Word document without scrolling. This article demonstrates how to use the document map and generate a table of content automatically.
Step 1: Click on the ‘View’ tab, find ‘Navigation Pane‘ in the ‘Show’ group.
Step 2: Check the box adjacent to the ‘Navigation Pane’ under the ‘View’ tab, and now Navigation pane is displayed on the left side of the Word document.
If you have many headings and subheadings in your lengthy Word document, you need to use the ‘Styles‘ option under the ‘Home’ Tab.
Step 3: Select main or section headings in your document [I’m selecting ‘Molecules of life’ as a section heading in my Word document] and on the ‘Home’ tab, find ‘Styles’ and click Heading 1. Now, the main heading displayed in left-sided Navigation Pane.
Step 4: Select subheadings in your document [I’m selecting ‘Carbohydrates’ as a subheading in my document as this comes under main heading ‘Molecules of life’] and on the ‘Home’ tab, find ‘Styles’ and click Heading 2. Now, subheading displayed in left-sided Navigation Pane.
Step 5: Like this, you need to select your main headings and different levels of subheadings and assign respective ‘Styles’ accordingly. Now your document map is ready where you can navigate where ever you want easily without scrolling in the lengthy Word document.
Now we’re going to learn how to generate a ‘Table of Contents’ automatically in a lengthy Word document. Microsoft Word has a handy tool where you can create the Table of Contents automatically provided if you are using Document Map.
Step 6: First, you need to decide where you want to insert ‘Table of Contents’ and then click on that page of the Word document.
Step 7: Click on the ‘References’ tab, then find the ‘Table of Contents’ and click on it.
Step 8: Select any desired built-in automatic ‘Table of Contents’ style. That’s it; you have generated a Table of Contents to your Word documents with page numbers automatically.
Step 9: If you make any changes in the Word documents, you need to update the Table of Contents. Click anywhere on the Table; the entire ‘Table of Contents’ is going to be highlighted and find ‘Update Table’ on the left top of the Table.
Step 10: Click on ‘Update Table’ and click ‘Update entire table’. Now, whatever changes in the documents, including page numbers updated in the Table of Contents.
Please watch the below-embedded video where I have demonstrated the use of document maps and the generation of a table of contents automatically.


The Salem Scholars series, featuring Anna Blunt, are currently in publication.
Planting Walnuts, Absolute Magnitude, Summer 1995. Reprinted in Absolute Magnitude anthology, Tor Books, 1996. Also "Fantastic Stories of the Imagination" web site, 2014.
Play the Game, Flying Chipmunk Publishing, 2009.
Magicians And Vampires, Flying Chipmunk Publishing, 2016.


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I have been wanting to mention a movie and some books for a while now so here I go. These are certainly not reviews by any means. Just a quick mention of some of my new favorites and why I like them.
Come What May
Come what May is an independent film produced by 40 homeschoolers with a little professional help. If you must have blockbuster cinematography and acting, then you probably will not like this movie. On the other hand, if you like a good story about courage and doing what is right regardless of the consequences, this is the movie for you. I really enjoyed the pro-life and courtship angles of this movie.
Mysterious Benedict Society
This book was recommended by Wickle at the Book Nook Club. I enjoyed this book because of the emphasis on different kinds of intelligence and the emphasis on the love of truth being important. Each of the kids in the society is chosen because they are gifted and love the truth, but each is gifted in a different way. One knows tons of facts. Another is a planner and puzzle solver. The oldest is athletically gifted and very resourceful. The littlest is gifted in ways that you don't understand until the very end of the book. There are many excellent philosophical tidbits throughout the book that I doubt kids really notice but were right up my alley. The official Mysterious Benedict Society website has some puzzles and information about Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey.
I wish that every adult would read a book about Anne Sullivan before they have children. She thoroughly understood that being allowed to be a brat is a greater disservice to a child than physical punishment. This short little book is a good one. I enjoyed reading the story of Miss Sullivan's courage in the face of an unruly Helen Keller and how her rather extreme discipline changed Helen's life for the better.
This series is based on the story of David's life so if you are against allegory, don't read it. It is not historical fiction by any means. It is fantastical with made up animals and kingdoms on a made up island. It is about living the life God unfolds before you even if you don't understand what this phase of your life has to do with his promises for your future.
Mysterious Miss Slade
This is my favorite Dick King-Smith book by far. It is a short book in a big font, but there is a lot packed in there. This book deals with treating others (even strange and smelly others) how you would want to be treated. It deals with prejudice and spreading rumors. It is a really great little book aimed at 8-10 year-olds.
In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day
This book is about looking at your problems as God-given opportunities to grow. It looks at the life of Beniah, one of David's mighty men, as an example and the reason for the rather odd title.
The Qwikpick Adventure Society
This is another book that was recommended by Wickle. It is really delightful if you aren't bothered by a little gross-out-ness. It is about friendship and making special clubs and seeking adventure right where you are.


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In order to make sure that this library is properly installed, this minimal working example can be very handy.
using namespace boost::geometry;
std::cout << "Using Boost "
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<< BOOST_VERSION / 100 % 1000 << "." // minor version
<< BOOST_VERSION % 100 // patch level
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the compilation of the aforementioned file goes like
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Instead of this exterior world, to which Balzac adapts himself, Aurore talks to us of an inner world, emanating from her own fancy, the reflection of her own imagination, the echo of her own heart, which is really herself. This explains the difference between Balzac's impersonal novel and George Sand's personal novel. It is just the difference between realistic art, which gives way to the object, and idealistic art, which transforms this according to its own will and pleasure.
Up to this time George Sand's ideas had not been put on to paper. Both _Corambe_ and the stories composed between four chairs were merely fancies of a child's mind. Aurore soon began to write, though. She had composed two novels while in the convent, one of which was religious and the other a pastoral story. She was wise enough to tear them both up. On leaving the convent she wrote another novel for Rene' de Villeneuve, and this shared the same fate. In 1827, she wrote her _Voyage en Auvergne_, and in 1829, another novel. In her _Histoire de ma vie_ she says of this: "After reading it, I was convinced that it was of no value, but at the same time I was sure I could write a better one. . . . I saw that I could write quickly and easily, and without feeling any fatigue. The ideas that were lying dormant in my mind were quickened and became connected, by my deductions, as I wrote. With my meditative life, I had observed a great deal, and had understood the various characters which Fate had put in my way, so that I really knew enough of human nature to be able to depict it." She now had that facility, that abundance of matter and that nonchalance which were such characteristic features of her writing.
When George Sand began to publish, she had already written a great deal. Her literary formation was complete. We notice this same thing whenever we study the early work of a writer. Genius is revealed to us, perhaps, with a sudden flash, but it has been making its way for a long time underground, so that what we take for a spontaneous burst of genius is nothing but the final effort of a sap which has been slowly accumulating and which from henceforth is all-powerful.
George Sand had to go through the inevitable period of feeling her way. We are glad to think that the first book she published was not written by herself alone, so that the responsibility of that execrable novel does not lie solely with her.
On the 9th of March, 1831, George Sand wrote to Boucoiran as follows: "Monstrosities are in vogue, so we must invent monstrosities. I am bringing forth a very pleasant one just at present. . . ." This was the novel written in collaboration with Sandeau which appeared under the signature of Jules Sand towards the end of 1831. It was entitled, _Rose et Blanche, ou la Comedienne et la Religieuse_.
It begins by a scene in a coach, rather like certain novels by Balzac, but accompanied by insignificant details in the worst taste imaginable. Two girls are travelling in the same coach. Rose is a young comedian, and Sister Blanche is about to become a nun. They separate at Tarbes, and the scene of the story is laid in the region of the Pyrenees, in Tarbes Auch, Nerac, the Landes, and finishes with the return to Paris. Rose, after an entertainment which is a veritable orgy, is handed over by her mother to a licentious young man. He is ashamed of himself, and, instead of leading Rose astray, he takes her to the Convent of the Augustines, where she finds Sister Blanche once more. Sister Blanche has not yet pronounced her vows, and the proof of this is that she marries Horace. But what a wedding! As a matter of fact, Sister Blanche was formerly named Denise. She was the daughter of a seafaring man of Bordeaux, and was both pretty and foolish. She had been dishonoured by the young libertine whom she is now to marry. The memory of the past comes back to Blanche, and makes her live over again her life as Denise. In the mean time Rose had become a great singer. She now arrives, just in time to be present at her friend's deathbed. She enters the convent herself, and takes the place left vacant by Sister Blanche. The whole of this is absurd and frequently very disagreeable.
It is quite easy to distinguish the parts due to the two collaborators, and to see that George Sand wrote nearly all the book. There are the landscapes, Tarbes Auch, Nerac, the Landes, and a number of recollections of the famous journey to the Pyrenees and of her stay at Guillery with the Dudevant family. The Convent of the Augustines in Paris, with its English nuns and its boarders belonging to the best families, is the one in which Aurore spent three years. The cloister can be recognized, the garden planted with chestnut trees, and the cell from which there was a view over the city. All her dreams seemed so near Heaven there, for the rich, cloudy sky was so near--"that most beautiful and ever-changing sky, perhaps the most beautiful in the world," of which we read in _Rose et Blanche_. But together with this romance of religious life is a libertine novel with stories of orgies, of a certain private house, and of very risky and unpleasant episodes. This is the collaborator's share in the work. The risky parts are Sandeau's.
Such, then, is this hybrid composition. It was, in reality, the monstrosity announced by George Sand.


Tribute To Prophesy President George Washington and the courage of his humility before his Maker which granted such a promise.
"He Cannot Die in Battle"
A little-known sidelight connected with Braddock's defeat [referring to a battle Washington fought in during The French and Indian War, under a British General named Edward Braddock] was an "Indian prophecy" pronounced fifteen years later by an aged Indian chief. In the fall of 1770, Washington and several other men traveled to the Ohio to examine some of the western lands that had been granted to colonial veterans of the French and Indian War. During that journey the men were met by an Indian trader who "declared that he was conducting a party which consisted of a grand sachem and some attendant warriors; that the chief was a very great man among the northwestern tribes, and the same who [had] commanded the Indians on the fall of Braddock.... Hearing of the visit of Colonel Washington to the western country, this chief had set out on a mission, the object of which [he] himself would make known." 32 After the two groups had arranged themselves around a council fire, the old Indian rose and spoke to the group through an interpreter:
I am a chief, and the ruler over many tribes. My influence extends to the waters of the great lakes, and to the far blue mountains. I have traveled a long and weary path that I might see the young warrior of the great battle.
It was on the day when the white man's blood mixed with the streams of our forest that I first beheld this chief. I called to my young men and said, Mark yon tall and daring warrior? He is not of the red-coat tribe-he hath an Indian's wisdom, and his warriors fight as we do-himself is alone exposed. Quick, let your aim be certain, and he dies. Our rifles were levelled, rifles which but for him knew not how to miss-'twas all in vain; a power mightier far than we shielded him from harm. He cannot die in battle.
I am old, and soon shall be gathered to the great council fire of my fathers in the land of shades; but ere I go there is something bids me speak in the voice of prophecy. Listen! The Great Spirit protects that man, and guides his destinies-he will become the chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him as the founder of a mighty empire! 33
This excerpt was taken from the book The Real George Washington .
"Since when did we as Americans stop wanting our leaders not to communicate with God?
The greatest moral failure of our modern American civilization is not defending our independence and liberty principles in the U.S. Constitution. When these principles corrode,delapidate, and go unsung the riches of the wealthy become slippery and the treasures you have burried for security will be lost. Watch for the greater depression is coming.
If the abscence of God creeps into America, an invasion of hell will ravage the country until goddlessness dies and a restoration of heaven is made; I have not run this race because I like the mocking voices of those daring God from high and low. My duty to God in appreciation for the Liberty and Independence which gives the mockers a breath to hang themselves has brought me here. If the withdrawl of God's Spirit can be stayed it is a little thing to endure some humiliation."
Aug 1,2008 Quote Cody R.Judy
George Washington Prophesy
Joseph Smith Jr.
A Prophecy of Joseph Smith on the United States (1844)
There will be two great political parties in this country. One will be called the Republican, and the other the Democrat party. These two will go to war and out of these two parties will spring another party which will be the Independent American Party. The United States will spend her strength and means warring in foreign lands until other nations will say, "Let's divide up the lands of United States," then the people of the U.S. will unite and swear by the blood of their forefathers, that the land will not be divided. Then the country will go to war, and they will fight until one half of the U.S. army will give up, and the rest will continue to struggle. They will keep on until they are very ragged and discouraged, and almost ready to give up--when the boys from the mountains will rush forth in time to save the American Army from defeat and ruin. And they will say, "Brethren, we are glad you have come; give us men, henceforth, who can talk with God." Then you will have friends, but you will save the country when it's [sic] liberty hangs by a hair, as it were.
A word from wise men
Cody Robert Judy


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I am astonished that I made it through the entire A to Z series, as I am far better at good intentions than I am at following through. Here for easy reference is my A to Z of Archives:
The zoologist in question is Dr. George Herbert Fowler, who founded of the Bedfordshire Record Office (now Bedfordshire Archives) and became the pioneer of local record offices in the United Kingdom. A man of many talents – his various accomplishments included being an expert downhill skier – he retired from a position as assistant professor of zoology at University College London and settled at Aspley Guise in Bedfordshire. Throwing himself into the life of the county, he served on the Bedfordshire County Council where he became interested in historical records and concerned that the county records should be carefully preserved. This led to him founding the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society in 1912 and the Bedfordshire Record Office in 1913. During the First World War he worked for the Admiralty in hydrographic and naval intelligence, but continued his historical work and (in typical Fowler fashion) as a sideline served as the head of the local volunteer fire service. He transcribed and translated many of the earlier medieval documents relating to Bedfordshire, making them available through the early volumes published by the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society. He also pioneered the conservation of documents, experimenting with different techniques in his workshop. In 1923 he published The Care of County Muniments, the first manual setting out the principles of caring for local archives. He remained directly involved in the work of the Bedfordshire Record Office until his death in 1940.
Dr. Fowler’s legacy lives on, not just in Bedfordshire Archives, which celebrated its centenary in 2013, but in the network of county record offices which provide a comprehensive archive service for the United Kingdom. His ideas spread, and staff trained by Dr. Fowler were involved in the foundation of other county record offices. For example, his protegé Frederick Emmison left Bedfordshire to become the first county archivist for Essex in 1938. Conservation techniques he pioneered are still in use, with some of his equipment still gracing the conservation studio at Bedford. After 104 years the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society continues to publish records relating to the local area, as do many other historical societies across the country.
And so this series of A to Z posts on archives has come full circle, arriving back at the beginning with the early days of some of the archives I mentioned in A is for Archives. If you have read this far, thank you for joining me on this journey through the archive alphabet.
There is such an extraordinary variety of items in archives that it is possible to find something relating to almost any imaginable subject in our archive alone. To prove the point I looked for documents mentioning a variety of things beginning with the letter Y. I found:
- Y is for Yacht: The logbook of the yacht “Lady Evelyn”, recording cruises to Norway in 1880, Albania and Corfu in 1881, and Ireland in 1884.
- Y is for Yoga: A leaflet from around 1980 with information about facilities and courses at a yoga residential centre.
- Y is for Yaktails (although not, apparently, for yak): In a codicil to his will in 1892 Thomas James Hooper left to his daughter Carrie Cotton an Indian box “with fittings and counters and Indian yaktails and chowns”. (I tried to find out what a “chown” is, but Google could not come up with an answer.)
- Y is for Yellow Fever: A photograph of a memorial to officers and men of the Bedfordshire Regiment who died of yellow fever in the West Indies in the 1860s.
- Y is for Yams: A photograph of a yam farm in Nigeria in the early 20th century.
- Y is for Yoke: The will of Stephen Rayley of Sandy, who in 1551 left to his son Walter items including a bedstead, two pairs of sheets, a coffer, a coulter (part of a plough) and a yoke with hooks and staples.
There were a few items I couldn’t find – nothing turned up when I searched for yo-yos, yurts and yoghurt.
Archive reference numbers are complex, indicating both the collection to which an item belongs and its place within in that collection. The collection code may also indicate something about the collection itself. In our archive larger collections get their own dedicated code letters, but many of the smaller ones will have a reference beginning with the letter X. This indicates that the items belonging to that collection have been deposited with the archive on long-term loan.
While many collections held by an archive will have been donated, with ownership passing to the archive, others are simply deposited for safe-keeping and accessibility while ownership remains with the creator or their successor. In some cases this is a given – hospital records, for example, are classed as public records and remain the property of the health authority, and everything deposited by Church of England parishes still belongs to the Church. Records relating to an organisation or institution that is still functioning are more likely to be deposited on loan. Family collections vary; children may be delighted to get rid of an attic sized collection of local history memorabilia hoarded by their father and happily donate it (and the problem of storing it) to the local archive, or they may want to retain ownership of their great-aunt’s diaries while depositing them for safe-keeping.
When a collection is deposited with an archive on loan, the archive is likely to accept it conditionally. Packaging and cataloguing a large collection is a time-intensive and therefore costly task, and there will often be a penalty clause requiring payment to be made as compensation for this time if the collection is withdrawn within a specified period (typically 20 or 30 years). Arrangements will need to be made for any items that the archive does not consider worth preserving – most depositors are happy for these to be disposed of, but some want them returned. Terms and conditions should always be set out in a deposit agreement so that any future confusion or disputes can be avoided. Unfortunately in the past the need to make sure a deposit agreement was in place was not always taken so seriously, and the paperwork for older collections can be vague or missing. The longer the time since a collection was deposited, the more likely it is that the legal status will be uncertain. It is also more likely that contact will have been lost with a depositor. Inevitably many collections will now be “owned” by defunct organisations or by individuals who died years (or decades) ago. Add to the vagaries of ownership of the records themselves the difficulties of establishing the ownership of copyright and at times an archivist can feel more like a lawyer!
When TV documentaries visit an archive they often show a white gloved archivist or presenter gingerly handling documents. We are often asked by visitors why we do not use gloves to protect our archives. In the UK this has largely become a thing of the past as archives have realised the disadvantages of wearing gloves. Firstly, they actually make it more likely that a document will be damaged because they reduce dexterity. It is easier to turn pages when you can feel what you are doing directly, rather than through a layer of cotton. The other reason is that of practicality. Gloves get dirty quickly and need to be washed or the dirt will be transferred onto other documents – most archives are not likely to have facilities to launder gloves, or the budget to cover the expense of cleaning and replacing them. Hands are very much easier to wash!
Some archives do issue gloves to visitors who wish to look at photographs, which are more sensitive to the oils in skin and more likely to be damaged by handling. Others will just ask people to handle them carefully by the edges and avoid touching the image. Providing suitable supports or weights, careful supervision, and encouraging gentle handling all help to protect documents without needing to worry about gloves.
I have already talked about the genealogy resources that can be found at an archive. In this post I am going to turn to local history resources and look at the items that might typically be available for researching the history of a village (or a town or city, or other location not beginning with V!). These include:
- Ordnance Survey maps
- Valuation maps and related records
- Enclosure maps and awards – these are an extraordinary resource showing how a parish was reorganised when the common fields were divided into individual allotments, often in the late 18th or early 19th centuries. New roads and footpaths were often introduced at the same time.
- Tithe maps and awards – where these exist for a village they show the layout as it was in the 1830s, along with the identity of the landowners and occupiers.
- Parish records, which may include information about Church buildings, rectories and vicarages, lands owned by the Church, local charities, and early education, as well as decisions taken by parish officials.
- Parish council records – these relate to the civil parish rather than the ecclesiastical parish which is run by a parochial church council (PCC). Parish councils deal with the nitty gritty of village life: their role includes maintaining local facilities such as playgrounds and parks, organising local events, and commenting on planning applications.Parish council minutes will often include information about a wide variety of matters of local interest.
- School log books are not only a source for the history of a school, they can also provide information about local events and other matters relating to the village (or town) as a whole.
- Local newspapers often included regular village news columns.
- Trade directories list local businesses, ranging from shops and public houses to farms and craftsmen.
- Estate maps and records can be rich sources where part of a parish was owned by a major landowner.
- Sale particulars describe both individual properties and substantial estates, often in considerable detail.
Many of the records which are useful for researching genealogy also provide useful information for local historians.For example, censuses show the main sources of employment, and court records show the extent and type of crime in a village (and the main culprits! Every village is different, so while there are many common sources, each will also have its own unique records.
I have already talked about some of the odder items found in our archive, so in this post I am just going to share some Unusual Archives news stories:
- In 2011 a reader at the UK National Archives got more than he bargained for when the file he ordered contained packets of heroin along with a document sent from the British Consulate in Cairo in 1928.
- The National Archives of Australia are baffled as to why their collections include a letter flown out of Paris by balloon while the city was besieged by the Prussians in 1870.
- A miniature and rather chewed archive of miscellaneous small slips of paper was found in birds’ nests in the roof of a Russian cathedral near Moscow.
And two unusual documents which were not found in archives, but are likely to end up in them:


Coffee: A Modern Field Guide
A field guide for the specialty coffee adventurer.
We believe that increased understanding can bring an increased appreciation and enjoyment of almost any subject, so the demystifying of delicious specialty coffee has long been a mission of ours. While there’s a swag of blogs and courses out there to help you build your knowledge, it’s uncommon that all the info you regularly need to reference is quickly and easily at your fingertips, especially if you’re out and about. That’s why we’re excited to introduce a handy new reference book, Coffee: A Modern Field Guide, by We Hunt and Gather & Full Court Press!
Bundled into this slim, easy to read pocket book is a distillation of key specialty coffee concepts with the neat illustrations clearly backing up the complete journey from seed to cup. Equip yourself with a solid foundation of coffee growing and processing and how each step along the way impacts on the final cup. Whether you’re a coffee freshie or have been deep in the jungle for a while now, you’ll find that Coffee: A Modern Field Guide will help arm you with the info you need to make informed decisions about your coffee.
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For 50 years, Kaydee Puppets has been providing original high quality educational puppet shows to libraries, schools and daycares. Our delightful shows are kid tested and sure to amuse children of all ages. These shows are available on video for our schools and libraries to use as they wish for group showings of any size, whether in person or online. We are proud of our expanding catalog of video puppet shows which seek to capture the joy and delight of watching a live show.
VIDEO PUPPET SHOWS
CLASSIC FAIRY TALE
THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
The Three Little Pigs are building their houses. The Big Bad Wolf is coming to huff and puff away.
15 min MP4
Starring Sam, Susie and Percy Pig and featuring The Big Bad Wolf.
"Have you guys seen any little pigs today?"
-The Big Bad Wolf
"Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Tra-la-la-la-La!
-The Three Little Pigs
Little Pigs Intro Video
CLASSIC FAIRY TALE
OUR NEWEST SHOW!
THE LION AND THE MOUSE
When the king of the jungle has a problem he can call on his animal friends for help. But when a thorn gets stuck in his paw, a little mouse saves the day!
16 min MP4
Featuring King Leo, the Monkey, the Fish, the Giraffe, Ellie Elephant and the Mouse!
ORIGINAL PUPPET VIDEO SHOW
Mama asks her little Sheldon to go get three things from Uncle Gunther's house. But a big hill, red berries and a sly fox may get in his way!
14 min MP4
Featuring Sheldon Sheep, Mama Sheep, Uncle Gunther, The Noddaberry Bush and, of course, the Fox!!!
FANCY CAT & THE GOLDEN EGGS
Come along with Fancy Cat as she steals four golden eggs. Can she outwit the barn animals? Will it be a purrfect crime or will she get eggs-actly what she deserves?
Fancy Cat and the Golden Eggs, featuring the Red Hen, Patty Pig, Dudley Dog, Mortimer Mouse. Starring Fancy Cat as herself!
THE THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF
Three Billy Goat brothers are going to cross a bridge. Will they make it past the silly troll?
13 min MP4
The Three Billy Goats Gruff, featuring The Littlest Billy Goat, The Middle sized Goat, The Big Goat, and starring The Troll
GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS
The Three Bears are going to take a walk while their porridge cools. Little do they know what is about to happen at home while they are gone.
12 min MP4
"Papa doesn't like it when someone sits in his chair!"
"The family that walks together, talks together."
"Why didn't you all tell me that there were bears in this house!!!"
A Visit to Santa's Workshop
Santa and the elves are getting ready for Christmas. Mortimer the mouse-elf has a very special job to do...but he can't remember what it is. Will the toys and reindeer help him?
26 min MP4
Starring Santa, Mrs. Claus, Elmer the Head Elf, Mortimer the Mouse-Elf, Toys and Puffy the Dog!
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What were the early days of donor conception like in Victoria? Here is a snapshot of the experience of a counsellor and parent from the Royal Women's Hospital. You may also be interested in the 2018 Louis Waller Lecture about the early days of donor conception in Victoria.
The Royal Women's Hospital
A health professional remembers
Jenny Blood was a social worker at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia during the 1980s and 90s where she counselled people involved with donor conception treatment at the hospital.
Elizabeth, a parent of three donor-conceived adults born as a result of donor treatment in the late 1970s and early 1980s at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne, recounts her experience of early donor treatment and having donor-conceived children.
A selection of documents and records from the early days of donor conception in Victoria.


Organisations appear across the Research & Innovation data sources with different names and IDs, making it hard for scholarly communication infrastructures to uniquely link results and people. OpenAIRE developed the OpenOrgs service to address this ambiguity which greatly affects the information aggregated from different research organization registries (e.g. Research Organisation Registry – ROR, the Europen Commission and other funder databases) into building the OpenAIRE Research Graph.
OpenOrgs mixes automated processes and human curation. It was presented in a demo session at the Open Science Fair in September 2021 highlighting the importance of this disambiguation task not only for OpenAIRE services but for building a robust Open Science ecosystem, and practically showing OpenOrgs main functionalities and how users can interact with the service.


“And life in the D is what was handed to me/And that’s what I’ve got.” – Brendan Benson, Life in the D
We want to do more than keep you on the town and in the know – we want to make you a savvy Detroitette. To do that we’ve written a few quick resource manuals for you with the help of a team of been-there-done-that Detroit girls. Check out the DGAT manuals below and use the “Contact us” form if you have any questions, suggestions, or ideas.
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On view at the Bangkok Art & Culture Center in Thailand. Photograph by Dreux Moreland
The Ballets Russes introduced an unprecedented freedom into the arts, influencing not only ballet and theater, but also fashion, visual arts, and interior design. An unprecedented, oversized special edition, out this November by luxury publisher Assouline, celebrates the explosion of creativity in Western Europe created by Serge Diaghilev and his collaborators—including Igor Stravinsky, Leon Bakst, and Pablo Picasso. Over 200 pages feature photography and drawings tipped on watercolor cotton paper.
Johan Lindeberg, designer of the BLK DNM label, premiered a new fashion film, entitled “Film 2″, this week during fashion week with a private screening at the SOHO store in New York. Directed by Martin de Thurah – starring Raina Hammer. See film after the jump. [more...]
In 1974 John & Yoko briefly separated, John moving to L.A., Yoko staying in New York. During this period, John released two LPs, ‘Walls & Bridges’ and ‘Rock and Roll’. Though it appeared at the time that Yoko was not doing anything, in reality she was touring her native Japan and recording this album, entitled Story. Pictured on the cover is an adorable photograph of a young Yoko. The album was shelved after her reconciliation with Lennon.
YOKO ONO – Hard Times Are Over
Carnal Knowledge (Violette Editions) is the first collection of Marder’s works in print. A seminal early experience for Malerie Marder was when a family friend invited her to photograph her with her lover, naked and in the anonymous setting of a motel room. This set the tone for Marder’s work for the next decade. Her photographs of nudes are composed simply, her subjects sitting plainly near the centre of the frame, often set against the bleak anonymity of motel rooms, their impassive gazes almost daring a viewer to interpret their bodies. Beautifully illustrated with more than 70 works by Marder – described by Charlotte Cotton in her introduction as an ‘episodic drama of adjacencies’ – Carnal Knowledge also contains a preface by Gregory Crewdson, a text by novelist James Ellroy, short stories inspired by Marder’s works by A. M. Homes, James Frey and Bruce Wagner, as well as a written and photographic correspondence between Marder and Philip-Lorca diCorcia.
Photo by Marija Mandic who is a photographer based in Novi Sad, Serbia
WARBY PARKER eyewear invades the NY Public Library yesterday – models sat quietly reading the classics, but the covers were replaced with labels specifying the style of glasses the models were wearing, such as the Thatcher and Everett. Brilliant.
PATTI SMITH: BABELOGUE: The Hunter College Art Galleries present Patti Smith: 9.11 Babelogue – on view from September 8-December 3, 2011 – twenty-six works on paper by the esteemed poet, performer, and visual artist Patti Smith as a response to the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001. The artist’s elegiac homage does not align the Twin Towers with one nation, religion, or race, but instead offers them as symbols of the universal resiliency of the human spirit. Smith’s “9.11” series was created between 2001 and 2002 and will be shown in its entirety for the first time in New York, in the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, to coincide with the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
PATTI SMITH: OUTSIDE SOCIETY: Patti Smith raises the curtain on Outside Society, a new collection of her signature songs on the Arista and Columbia labels. The landmark 18-song release marks the first single-CD collection to span Patti’s entire body of recorded work. The chronologically arranged tracks move from 1975 (her debut album, Horses, with “Gloria” and “Free Money”) through 2007 (Twelve, with her cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”).


Catfishing on CatNet (A CatNet Novel, #1)
by Naomi Kritzer
Format: hardcover, 304 pages
Release date: November 19, 2019
Publisher: Tor/Forge (Tor Teen)
ISBN: 9781250165084 (1250165083)
Author: Naomi Kritzer
Series: A CatNet Novel, #1
About The Book
How much does the internet know about YOU?
From Hugo and Locus Award-winning author Naomi Kritzer, Catfishing on CatNet is a thought-provoking near future YA thriller that could not be more timely as it explores issues of online privacy, artificial intelligence, and the power and perils of social networks.
Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn’t lived anyplace longer than six months. Her only constant is an online community called CatNet — a social media site where users upload cat pictures — a place she knows she is welcome. What Steph doesn’t know is that the admin of the site, CheshireCat, is a sentient A.I.
When a threat from Steph’s past catches up to her and ChesireCat’s existence is discovered by outsiders, it’s up to Steph and her friends, both online and IRL, to save her.
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東坡解：Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series IV: Dictionarium Sino-Hispanicum
製造商/作者：Fabio Yuchung Lee（李毓中）, Tsung-jen Chen（陳宗仁）, José Luis Caño Ortigosa, Wen-cheng Shih（石文誠）, Regalado T. José, Louis Ianchun Ng（吳昕泉）
This manuscript is a collection of the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome, Italy. It was compiled by the Jesuit Pedro Chirino with collaboration of some Chinese people in the Philippines in 1604. The manuscript used by the Spanish for learning Hokkien is divided into two parts: a miscellaneous assortment of words and a list of daily expressions. The former follows the contents of zazi (雜字), a book that was popular in Southern Fujian, and contains words of daily life, whereas the latter is a selection of daily sentences. Beside the words and expressions, corresponding Spanish words and transcriptions of Hokkien pronunciation are also provided. This manuscript is the earliest known text regarding the linguistic exchange between the Spanish and the Hokkien people, making it a valuable asset of Memory of the World.


“The ‘Color by Color’ Color Scheme Inspiration Tool”
Use your favorite color with good taste! The first book authored by OUWN Atsushi Ishiguro,
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It also includes a color encyclopedia that can be consulted at a glance, allowing readers to intuitively select colors.
It is a book that has been created in order to enable any color to be used in good taste through the use of color scheme techniques.
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Swords Of Steel Omnibus / Road to Infinity BOOKS - By DMR
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Mighty-thewed barbarians… vengeful lords of chaos… desolate devil-haunted ruins… carnage-soaked battlefields… forbidden spells of great power…
All these you will find in the works of authors of heroic fantasy as well as heavy metal musicians. But modern fantasy has been plagued with convoluted plots and series without end. Who better to return traditional fantasy to its former glory than the heavy metal bards?
Swords of Steel Omnibus Edition is an anthology of fantastic and horrific adventure stories, each penned by a heavy metal musician. Members of bands such as Bal-Sagoth, Manilla Road, Cauldron Born, Slough Feg, Nocturnus, Eternal Champion and more prove their talent for the written word as well as song by invoking a fresh wave of dark and twisted dreams from worlds beyond our own.
“All Will Be Righted on Samhain” by Howie K. Bentley (CAULDRON BORN) and David C. Smith
“Vengeance of the Insane God” by Jason Tarpey (ETERNAL CHAMPION)
“The Mirror Beguiling” by James Ashbey (SOLSTICE, LETHEAN)
“The Heart of the Betrayer” by Howie K. Bentley
“Return to Stynar Vort” by Joe Minichino (DOOMSWORD) *
“Journey in Somnamblia” by Jean-Pierre Abboud (GATEKEEPER, TRAVELER)
“Eldon” by Chris Shoriak (ICE SWORD)
“Beyond the Mirrors of Faellnoch” by D.R. Lackner (LEGENDRY) *
“The Darkness Among the Trees” by Max Birbaum (LUNAR SHADOW) *
“The Forgotten City of Tehm” by E.C. Hellwell (MANILLA ROAD)
“Beneath Dead Lake” by Geoff Blackwell (GATEKEEPER)
“Thannhausefeer’s Guest” by Howie K. Bentley
“The Chamber of Juleptsu” by Jaron Evil (ALMURIC, ARCHSPIRE)
“The Riddle Master” by E.C. Hellwell
“Eve’s Grave” by Scott Waldrop (TWISTED TOWER DIRE, WALPYRGUS)
“That Than Which There Can Be No More Terrible” by Michael Scalzi (SLOUGH FEG)
“Mystery Believer” by Scott Waldrop
“Red Ochre” by James Ashbey
“Darke Manor” by Jaron Evil
“The Key” by Mike Browning (NOCTURNUS A.D.) and D.M. Ritzlin
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The Road to Infinity
By Gael DeRoane
Poised on the brink of manhood, young Aran Dyfar makes a rash and momentous decision that will either elevate him to glory or seal his doom. Obsessed since childhood with finding the legendary Road to Infinity, he forsakes his comfortable home and the love of beautiful Elfwina Catlix to embark on a quest through demon-haunted forests and forbidding wastelands in pursuit of his destiny.
Perilous encounters with magical beings and human adversaries compel Aran to hone the skills of a warrior. Though tormented by memories of his beloved Elfwina, he presses onward. When at last he finds the Road to Infinity, he confronts an unexpected challenge that will test the limits of his courage and guile.
The Road to Infinity will take the reader into realms of adventure and imagination evocative of Tolkien, Jack Vance, and Robert E. Howard.
Gael DeRoane is a writer and tennis coach who lives in Williamsport, PA. He is planning a sequel to The Road to Infinity.
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Arabs took the lead in the field of Medicine and their contributions were staggering. Much attention devoted to Medicine by first caliphs, especially Harun Ar-Rashid and his son, Al-Ma’mun, took the form of decrees to translate classical medical works of Greek physicians. In the meantime, there were hospitals where physicians had used to make clinical observations while treating their patients. It is said that, by 850 AD, there were 34 hospitals in the Arab World, some of which caliphs had used to endow with surplus funds. In 978, there were 24 resident physicians in Damascus Bimaristan (Hospital). Moreover, there were women-only hospitals, and special clinics for providing written prescriptions.
Annexed to hospitals, there were also medical schools where students could receive clinical training in treatment of all diseases besides surgical practice. They attended lectures and visited superb medical libraries to study. Those who were permitted to practise as doctors were to pass exams after which they were awarded diplomas.
Doctors were highly respected in both the Court and society. Some of them succeeded in building up vast fortunes. It is said that Dr. Gabriel Bakhtishu’ (died circa 830 AD) made a fortune of 88,800,000 Dirhams during the Abbasid, Ma’mun’s reign. Later, Europeans probably knew more about Eastern Bimaristans, and the Knights Hospitaller in battlefields of crusades complied with earlier Arab models.
The remarkable figure of the golden age of Arab Medicine was Abu Bekr Muhammad bin Zakaria Al-Razi (865 - 925), a Muslim Arabist knight from Ruy City, near Tehran, who was knowledgeable about Greek, Persian, and Hindi Medicine. Moreover, he studied Alchemy, and science. Eventually, he became one of the authours of this age whose writings are abundant. He wrote no less than 200 books half of which deal with Medicine. His most well-known original contribution was his paper on smallpox and measles in which he gave an accurate diagnosis of each of them and warned of their infections.
Moreover, it seemed that he recommended a type of vaccination. This paper was first translated into Latin and then into other languages in several editions after the invention of the printing press. Regarding his great book dealing with general clinical Medicine, Al-Hawi, which runs into 20 volumes, it was translated into Latin and was the curriculum of the European Medicine schools till the 17th century. Al-Razi methodically went through the Greek, Seriani, and Persian observations. He actually was a man of great knowledge and deep insight.


< List of probability distributions < Kummer distribution
The Kummer distribution was derived by Armero and Bayarri [1, 2], who derived it as a posterior distribution of certain basic parameters in a Bayesian analysis of a queuing system. It is named after the inclusion of the Kummer function, aka the confluent hypergeometric function of the second kind, in its density function.
Properties of the Kummer distribution
A random variable X has a Kummer distribution if its probability density function (PDF) has the form
- ψ = the confluent hypergeometric function of the second kind
- Γ = the gamma function.
The Pareto distribution can be derived as a special case of the Kummer distribution when η = 1, ν = 0, and β > η is heavy tailed. The Pareto distribution is a popular for modeling the distribution of wealth, income, and city sizes. It is also used in engineering to model failure rates of components.
Kummer Distribution Laplace Transform
The Kummer distribution Laplace transform is
The Laplace transform converts a function of time into a function of complex frequency. It is a powerful tool for solving differential equations, and it has many other applications in engineering, physics, and mathematics.
 C. Armero and M. J. Bayarri, ‘A Bayesian analysis of a queuing system with unlimited service’, J. Statist. Plann. Inference 58 (1997), 241–264
 Konzu, E. (2021). Rate of convergence in total variation for the generalized inverse Gaussian and the Kummer distributions. Open Journal of Mathematical Sciences. Vol. 5 (2021), Issue 1, pp. 182 – 191 DOI: 10.30538/oms2021.0155
 C. Armero and M. J. Bayarri, ‘A Bayesian analysis of a queuing system with unlimited service’, Technical Report No. 93–50, (Department of Statistics, Purdue University, 1993).
 Aalen, O. et al. (2008). Survival and Event History A Process Point of ViewA. Springer.


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Revaltia: From Dark to Light
Revaltia: The Lost Chronicles III
From Dark to Light
Mareina and her family were born in Revaltia in the city of Voinera; she met Ezreal while attending the Asterian Academy and they became good friends neither Elzevar nor the Dark Legion exist in this dimension, and so everyone led a peaceful life. One day, Ezreal said that he would leave the Academy to pursue his dream to be an explorer; he and Mareina were best friends, so naturally they were inseparable. Lansen encouraged Mareina to continue her studies, but she insisted on going with Ezreal. Her parents eventually agreed to let her go, only if she promised to continue her studies while she traveled with Ezreal Mareina agreed and asked if Lansen would come along. For a time, the three of them were a dynamic adventuring team, but one day, Lansen met a beautiful harpy named Elle at a place called Madora Beach. He soon decided that he would stay with her in order to help her recover from a recent trag
Revaltia: The Dragon Princess
Revaltia: The Lost Chronicles II
The Dragon Princess
Mareina had arrived in Revaltia due to being summoned by powerful magic that could cross time and space she does not have any remaining family in this time line. When she awoke, she was in Myrzarek, the land of the dragons. Here, she was exalted as the Lady of Dragons, Amariethena su Asrantiel. Not knowing how or why she was called such a name, she was glad to be gone from Earth for a while to experience such a magical world. One day, several months after her arrival in Myrzarek, she was presented with a magical blue gem and encouraged to touch it; when she did, she was granted the power of a Revernite Dragon she received her crystal wings, along with the ability to transform into a baby dragon she was informed that once she mastered her abilities, she would be able to even transform into a full-fledged dragon. Days later, the dragons inform Mareina that she must choose a mate and become Queen
Revaltia: Secrets Held Within
Revaltia: The Lost Chronicles I
Secrets Held Within
Mareina has lived in Revaltia all her life, and at the young age of 19 she has already become a popular freelance writer who travels to different Mindoto in search of an exciting new tale. Lately though, she's become bored of the same routine and decides to take a vacation in the summer paradise Mindoto, Tervende. When she arrives at a private island that she rented for an unbelievably cheap price, she's in for a big surprise...
Mareina grumbled to herself as she sat under a lone umbrella on the beach, "Man, if I would have known this place was so hot I never would have come," she sighed. "I should have found a 'winter paradise' Mindoto instead... but nooo, Lansen said that this place was nice! Hmph." Her eyes wandered the horizon, "Still, the view is nice! The ocean looks so clear and fresh... too bad I can't swim." She stood up, lowering her sunglasses over her eyes and rubbing her sunburn shoulders, "Okay, b
My Shattered Feelings
My Shattered Feelings
Cirath was an angel full of curiosity never before had she experienced what humans called 'emotions' and so she created a servant named Noosa Kagami. Noosa was a half dragon albino humanoid who looked similar to her master; one of the main differences between them were Noosa's red eyes. "Noosa," the angel said to her newborn servant, "I want you to descend from Heaven and go to the world of humans... your mission is to learn what 'feelings' are. Observe the humans and try to live amongst them if you learn anything, please report to me." Noosa nodded, "I will go, My Lady." Kagami Noosa descended from Heaven, but there was some kind of interference that caused her to arrive in an unknown location. "Is this Earth...?" she walked forward everything was pitch black. Before she knew what happened, she walked straight off of the edge of the strange realm and plummeted down to a world of fiery red she tried to flap her tiny wings, but th
My Sunny Paradise
My Sunny Paradise
I raise my hand to the bright sun,
The warm rays of life pour upon me.
A beautiful gift given to all
The light of life, a spark of hope.
As the sands of time run through my fingers,
The blue sea sparkles in my eyes.
Sprinting through the beach, smiling wide,
My laughter sounds along the ocean-tide.
No matter how many days go by,
I can always find joy with you, my sunny paradise;
My secret, special place where glee runs bountiful,
Where a peaceful song is sung by the sea, so beautifully.
The waves gently swaying to and fro,
The sea-spray washing the sorrow from my soul.
My heart belongs with you, my sunny paradise,
Shine your warm smile upon me and give me the strength to endure.
As the sun grows tired and dim,
I you farewell, my magnificent, special friend.
I promise we'll meet again, when the night retires and day returns again;
Here in my sunny paradise, we'll sing the melody of the sea...
Here in my sunny paradise, we'll smile and laugh together,
World of Revaltia - Part 38
World of Revaltia
The Dreamfield Revelries
Ezreal walked along the breezy Bluejay Walk to the south; as he stooped down to look into the clear water of the river, he noticed nothing out of the ordinary. Picking up a small stone, he had an idea, "Maybe the Dreamflower is somewhere on the river... since it's a magical flower, if I throw a stone in the water to create ripples, I'm sure I'd be able to sense it then... if it's here, anyway." He tossed the rock in the water, and it skipped along several times before plunking into the river. "Hmmm, nothing." he sighed and decided to try it again farther down. After he went farther down the river, he threw another rock into the water, and this time he thought he saw the image of the Dreamflower for a split second it was a beautiful crystalline flower floating an inch above the water that constantly changed color. Ezreal blinked, thinking that he may have been imagining it, and it was gone. Sighing, he crosse
Only for You
Only for You
Once upon a time there lived a beautiful Angel in Heaven whose name was Cirathiel; her long life of over one-thousand years had been full of despair and loneliness, but that all changed when she came to Earth on a mission to make peace with the Humans. One day, there was a terrible storm that swept over the land where a poor young man called Kanda just so happened to be; he tried to find shelter, but there was no where to hide in the desolate land. When he thought all hope was lost, he said his farewells to the world that never knew him and braced himself as the destructive tornado raced towards him. Then, a beautiful voice rang out, its sound more powerful than the howl of the raging winds. The voice calmed the storm and caused it to disperse, saving Kanda from his doom.
"Hello," the same voice called out to him as the sun's rays broke through the grey clouds above. Kanda looked upon the form of a wondrous angel with flowing silver hair and bright, colorful wings.
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‘Getting it Right: Making Corporate-Community Relations Work’ by Luc Zandvliet and Mary B. Anderson (2009). Greenleaf Publishing Ltd., 240 pages, $45.
At energy and mining projects around the world, managers often strive to foster constructive, or at least non-hostile, relations with local people affected by their operations. But too often, good intentions do not translate into broad-based support. Luc Zandvliet and Mary Anderson’s new book takes this dilemma as its starting point, asking what goes wrong and how it can be put right. No doubt many managers will welcome the authors’ efforts to provide clear guidance in this area.
‘Getting it Right’ is based on years of research at extractive operations around the world, and the authors take a balanced, practical and jargon-free tone well suited to their corporate audience. The book opens with a section exploring the assumptions and dynamics that may cause problems across three broad aspects of corporate-community interaction: distributing benefits, corporate behaviour and a project’s unintended side effects. The main body is devoted to detailed discussions of several common points of contention, from compensation policy to NGO engagement. These chapters highlight the kinds of company actions and community assumptions that can undermine a good relationship, and suggest approaches to avoiding or overcoming these pitfalls.
The book is perhaps most valuable in terms of the overarching perspectives it attempts to impart to managers: that ‘community relations’ activities are not the only, or even the most powerful, drivers of local perceptions of a project (for example, the impact of actual business operations on communities inevitably can be far more important); that an inclusive and respectful process of engagement is often more valuable than generous community investments made unilaterally by the company; and that all aspects of a company’s operations which affect its ‘license to operate’, from government relations to security policy, are better addressed as elements of a coherent strategy than through ad hoc fire-fighting. If managers were able to fully take these principles on board, much local opposition could no doubt be avoided.
An equation for relationships?
At the same time, any besieged operational manager who picks up the book hoping for a miracle cure is unlikely to be satisfied. The authors do not set out to provide clear-cut instructions or detailed answers; rather the aim is to prompt managers to ask the right questions. For example, in their discussion of distributing benefits, they make the important point that local perceptions of ‘fairness’ should be taken into account, but it is left up to the manager to discover exactly what those perceptions are. The authors are right to avoid detailed prescriptions – corporate-community relations are after all necessarily context-specific, and there are no one-size-fits-all solutions – but those managers most in need of help might be hoping for more concrete guidance.
This highlights an inherent challenge for a book seeking to improve interpersonal relations. A company is likely to build support only if its staff are respectful and empathetic and willing to view their own behaviour from the perspective of local communities (‘Personalities count!’, in the authors’ words). ‘Getting it Right’ will help such people think through their interactions with communities, but these are managers who likely are already much of the way there. For those managers who struggle to empathise with local concerns it is questionable whether this book – or any other – can really help, despite the authors’ claim that ‘respect, trust and caring’ can be institutionalised as standard operating procedures.
Much of the book is also pitched at a level which assumes relatively little cross-cultural experience: the authors highlight, for example, the (one might think) obvious points that respect is reciprocal and that culturally significant sites should be honoured. If the authors are right that such basics are not already widely understood, their book is all the more necessary and likely to be read – but equally this does not bode well for a swift ending of corporate-community tensions.


It gives me immense pleasure to present my EDITED BOOK titled,“REVITALIZATION OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION”,along with fellow editors, Prof. B. Dutta and Prof. R.G. Saha.The book published by MTC Global, with ISBN 978-93-5142-965-4 consists of 17 chapters running into 445 pages. The book has articles contributed by leading academician, academic administrators and Quality Assurance Professionals in the Higher Education Sector. The insights combines the illuminated minds from India and the Gulf Cooperation Council to present a detailed snapshot on the need to revitalize the management education sector. There are two chapters authored by yours truly, viz. chapter number, 14 and 15, titled, “ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION FOR VARIOUS STAKEHOLDERS : PROMOTERS / INVESTORS ACADEMIC LEADERS (DIRECTORS/PRINCIPALS/DEANS ETC) FACULTY MEMBERS SUPPORT STAFF STUDENTS AND PARENTS EMPLOYERS REGULATORS / GOVERNMENT SOCIETY” and “PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE IN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION-A ROADMAP”. The collaborative effort of authoring with senior colleagues, Dr. Azzah Al Maskeri, Acting Dean and Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, Ibra College of Technology, Sultanate of Oman and Dr. Bamini Rajashekhran, Quality Assurance Expert, Ministry of Manpower, Sultanate of Oman, respectively, provided with first hand experiences in different areas pertaining to management education in particular. The book comes at an opportune time with Management Education globally going through trying times so as to reinvent itself as compared to other branches of study. The book costs only INR 475 and can be sought by emailing at email@example.com .
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A comprehensive guide for farmers struggling to reduce predation of sheep, goats, and other livestock. three chapters address the use of guardian dogs, explaining how to evaluate, train, understand, and socialize these hardworking canines.chapters on livestock guardian donkeys and llamas help readers select and train these animals as well. Includes health care information, breed profiles, case studies, and more. A comprehensive, practical guide to help farmers reduce predation and effectively protect their family and property. paperback.
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Data supporting the thesis, "Debating the US Constitution - A computational approach to the structure and geography of the ratification debate". Files used to create the thesis appendix website and topic modelling raw data results.
These website files and Topic Modelling raw data result tables were used to build a supporting appendix website for the thesis: Debating the US Constitution - A computational approach to the structure and geography of the ratification debate
This thesis uses computational research methods to investigate and analyse the themes and topics under debate during the US Constitutional ratification campaign (1787-1788).
The ratification of the Constitution, and the American founding period in general, has been of near constant interest and debate among historians of the United States. There have been many interpretations and re-interpretations of the Constitution’s nature, causes and consequences. The ratification debate has always been a major source for these interpretations. Many aspects of the framing and adoption of the Constitution continue to yield lively debate. However, so far, the ratification debate has not yet been extensively analysed using the relatively new methods labelled as ‘Digital History’.
The most comprehensive collection of primary source documents relating to the ratification debate is found in the multi-volume Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, which is now available in digital form at the University of Wisconsin Libraries’ Digital Collections. By subjecting this corpus to computational analysis, this thesis offers quantitative empirical data in a presuppositionless categorisation of the debate’s topics. The resultant research data output is then interpreted, analysed, and contextualised using more traditional qualitative assessment. This combined quantitative and qualitative approach prioritises the importance of using digital techniques to actively engage with creating argument-driven history.
The thesis begins with both an outline of the developments in digital historical studies and an overview of the historiography of the American founding, outlining the major interpretative frameworks (broadly categorised as: Progressive; Multiple Traditions; and Federalist, Unionist, and Internationalist). The second chapter provides a detailed description of the methodological tools and approaches used in the research, covering: corpus preparation; topic modelling; network maps; data charts; and GIS mapping. This is then followed by a brief assessment of best-practice in presenting digital research outputs in an historical monograph.
Chapter three offers a high-level overview interpretation of the resultant data for the 40 modelled topics and a case-study assessment of the 85 document sub-set that makes up The Federalist, the most important work to come out of the founding period and a classic of American political thought. Chapter four focuses on a group of topics concerned with debates over the Form of Government that will be created under the Constitution, with the fifth chapter providing a detailed assessment of a single topic – the discussions regarding a Bill of Rights.
The final chapter makes an assessment of the digital research approach as used for this project, highlighting the advantages and limitations of the methods employed. The chapter then discusses the main historiographical observations and conclusions that can be drawn from the research and revisits the American founding’s interpretative frameworks in light of these findings. Finally, a number of suggestions are made for future studies that could be made to advance the research further.
In support of the thesis, an appendix website has been created to host the research data outputs including: dynamic data tables; topic-network maps; time-based graphs; and interactive maps showing the printing and reprinting locations of contemporary newspaper and pamphlet articles. A live version of the website may be available at: www.ratificationdebates.com. A back-up version of this website is available here.
The map image used throughout the website is courtesy of the “David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries” (list no. 33231) licensed under the Creative Commons License CC BY-SA. This license applies to the images only, with the data licensed as CC0.


Weddings and Courtships
The History of Cupid
The History of Cupid
While not a real person, Cupid was the God of Love to ancient Romans, and many Italians believed in his powers. Even in the modern world, references to Cupid and his bow and arrows of love are found everywhere on Valentine’s Day.
Cupid was not initially the cherubic, happy little angel that we think of today. In his original incarnation, he was a very mischievous, sometimes dark god of love and desire who enjoyed matching 'odd couples' and seeing how they worked out.
Cupid eventually fell under his own spell of odd matches. He fell in love with Psyche, a mortal. In the Greek language, Psyche means "butterfly" and also means "soul". In many ways, what Psyche goes through is symbolic of the path of each woman’s soul in life.
Cupid had actually been sent by his mother, Venus, to punish Psyche for her beauty. Instead, he was captivated by her. He arranged to have her brought to his mountain home to live with him, but he hid his identity from her, only visiting her at night. Their time together was so tender and full of gentle talk that Psyche fell in love with Cupid, without ever seeing him.
Psyche’s jealous sisters were angered by her wealth and love, and convinced Psyche that her lover must be a monster to so hide himself. The sisters persuaded her to sneak up on him after he left her one evening, armed with a knife. He awoke and saw her there, and said sadly, "I inflict no other punishment on you than to leave you forever. Love cannot dwell with suspicion."
Psyche realized how foolish she’d been, and decided the only way to be with Cupid again was to go talk to Venus and ask for her blessing. Venus was delighted at having Psyche kneeling down before her, and set forth many tasks for Psyche to perform to prove her worthiness. Each task was more than Psyche thought she could manage, but in each case a God stepped in to assist her. Finally Psyche and Cupid were allowed to be married. They were very happy together, and had a child, named Pleasure.
Bring cupid into your life by drawing hearts with arrows in them on the steamy morning bathroom mirrors, or by signing your letters and notes with the symbol!


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This medium article shows a distinct lack of research and analysis from the author.
There's some great books on the subject of the effectiveness of non-violent political action as a force for change, and the overall success of non-violent movements at achieving political change (versus violent revolutions, which are less effective in the modern era).
There's a good article from Harvard about this that synthesizes some of this information.
The article is centered around the book "Why Civil Resistance Works" by Dr. Erica Chenoweth and Dr. Maria Stephan.
Their book is an excellent synthesis of this research and a good starting point for anyone interested in this topic. This particular article engages in the American fantasy of the need for violence for political change (i.e., the mythology of the founding fathers) versus the reality of political change in the modern age.