I made this app ahead of the ACL 2020 conference. It is intended for the visual exploration and discovery of research publications that have been presented at it.
Every particle in the scatterplot is an academic publication. The particles are positioned in space based on the semantic similarity of the paper titles; the closer two points are, the more semantically similar their titles. You can hover over the particles to read their titles and you can click them to be redirected to the original source. You can zoom in the visualisation by scrolling and you can reset the view by double clicking the white space within the figure. Regarding the bar chart, it shows the most used Fields of Study for the papers shown in the scatterplot.
You can also search for publications by paper titles (more information below).
You can refine your query based on the publication year, paper content, field of study and author. You can also combine any of the filter for more granular searches.
- Filter by year: Select a time range for the papers. For example, drag both sliders to 2020 to find out the papers that will be presented at ACL 2020.
- Field of Study level: Microsoft Academic Graph uses a 6-level hierarchy where level 0 contains high level disciplines such as Computer science and level 5 contains the most granular paper keywords. This filter will change what’s shown in the bar chart as well as the available options in the filter below.
- Fields of Study: Select the Fields of Study to be displayed in the visualisations. The available options are affected by your selection in the above filter.
- Search by author name: Find an author’s publications. Note: You need to type in the exact name.
- Search by paper title: Type in a paper title and find its most relevant relevant publications. You should use at least a sentence to receive meaningful results.
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This package uses the cnpy library written by Carl Rogers to provide read and write facilities for files created with (or for) the NumPy extension for Python. Vectors and matrices of numeric types can be read or written to and from files as well as compressed files. Support for integer files is available if the package has been built with
-std=c++11 which is the default starting with release 0.2.3 following the release of R 3.1.0, and available on all platforms following the release of R 3.3.0 with the updated ‘Rtools’.
The following Python code
>>> import numpy as np >>> fm = np.arange(12).reshape(3,4) * 1.1 >>> fm array([[ 0. , 1.1, 2.2, 3.3], [ 4.4, 5.5, 6.6, 7.7], [ 8.8, 9.9, 11. , 12.1]]) >>> np.save("fmat.npy", fm) >>> >>> im = np.arange(12).reshape(3,4) >>> im array([[ 0, 1, 2, 3], [ 4, 5, 6, 7], [ 8, 9, 10, 11]]) >>> np.save("imat.npy", im) >>>
saves two matrices in floating-point and integer representation.
With this R code we can read and assign the files:
Going the opposite way by saving in R and reading in Python works equally well. An extension not present in CNPy allows reading and writing of gzip-compressed files.
The package has been tested and used on several architecture, and copes correctly with little-vs-big endian switches.
More details are available in the package vignette.
The package is on CRAN and can be installed per:
On CRAN, stable and mostly feature-complete.
Dirk Eddelbuettel and Wush Wu
GPL (>= 2)


Mrs. Kate Kesgard
From "History of Idaho, The Gem of the Mountains," Vol. III, pg. 454. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. Chicago, 1920.
Mrs. Kate Kesgard, the widow of Christian Kesgard, has resided in the neighborhood five miles west of Emmett on the New Plymouth road for a longer peried than any other resident of the district. She was born in Denmark, December 28, 1835, and is now in the eighty-fifth year of her age. Reared in her native country, she there became the wife of Christian Kesgard on the 2d of August, 1858. He was born in Denmark, May 17, 1824, and spent the period of his boyhood and youth in his native country. His wife bore the maiden name of Kate Bindrup and both represented worthy and substantial families of Denmark. Coming to the United States in 1862, they lived for six years in Utah before removing to Idaho, where they took up their abode in 1868, settling in the neighborhood of Mrs. Kesgard's present home. The ranch which they first occupied is now owned by their son, James A. Kesgard, their youngest child, who is one of the most progressive farmers of Gem county or of the Payette valley, mentioned at length elsewhere in this work.
In 1870 Christian Kesgard and his wife removed to Walla Walla, Washington, but in 1873 returned to Idaho and settled on a ranch that joined the one which they had previously occupied in Gem county, which was then a part of Ada county. Later a division in the county made their place a part of Canyon county and finally Gem county was set off, so that without removing from the ranch they lived in three different counties. Christian Kesgard was a homesteader and pioneer of this section, and he and his wife laid the foundation for the present prosperity and prestige of the family name in the neighborhood.
The death of Christian Kesgard occurred March 18, 1882, on the Kesgard ranch and his widow still occupies the one hundred acre ranch which adjoins that of her son James. She is yet strong and vigorous although now in her eighty-fifth year. Before leaving Denmark two daughters, Margaret and Mary, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Kesgard, but both have passed away. The other seven children were all born in the United States. These are: Elizabeth, a resident of Boise; Stena, who married Andrew Rasmussen, engaged in ranching at Falks Store, Idaho, but she passed away January 31, 1920; Christian, who is living at Emmett; Mrs. Anna Wallace, who with her three children, Esther, Edna and Maurice, resides with her mother; Mrs. Lena Riggs, who Is a widow; Mrs. Emma Helm; and James A., who is mentioned elsewhere in this work.
Mrs. Kesgard can remember many interesting incidents of the early days when she was living on the Idaho ranch property now occupied by her son. During the time of the gold excitement in the Boise basin supplies were largely hauled by wagon past the Kesgard ranch. In the early days Indians were numerous in the neighborhood, and bear and deer were to bo seen in large numbers, Mrs. Kesgard has lived to witness remarkable changes as the years have passed—changes in the methods of living, in the manner of developing the farms and also in the modes of travel. She maintains a keen interest in what occurs at the present time and is one of the valued pioneer women of the state.
son JAMES A. KESGARD on Page 702
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Your Fall 2019 Community magazine is here
We are proud to share the Fall 2019 edition of Community magazine. In it, you’ll find an update from CEO Dr. Stuart Howe on changes to our Outreach Attendant Services Program, an insight piece on ‘inspiration porn‘, the 7 benefits of charitable giving, a personal take on managing chronic pain, a look at building an accessible home office and the relationship between food and mood. Our cover story features a Day in the Life of our new Peer Support Co-ordinator, Kristen Cameron. We invite you to enjoy this issue and other SCIO publications available through our Library and Gallery. Feedback is always welcome at firstname.lastname@example.org.


ATLANTA PUBLIC LIBRARY - SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018
Community cultural programs are supported by the Illinois Prairie Community Foundation
Children's programs will begin in November!
Coming on November 2: Special Illinois Turns 200 Live Event at Union Hall (Broadcast on NPR)
- Yoga at the Library - Every Tuesday morning at 9:00 a.m,
Instructor: Carmen Shaffer Individual and package rates available. Talk to Carmen!
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Dinner Programs: Celebrating Community
Always fun and informative, our dinner programs at the Palms Grill begin on October 6 with a performance by the Illinois Symphony Woodwind Quintet. Come for dinner at 5:30 and enjoy a concert of music inspired by the rural landscape, as well as other great music. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
The Lincoln College Jazz Orchestra is our featured guest on October 19. This event is sponsored by Abbott & Associates.
Events fill up fast. call 217-648-5077 for reservations.
This Golden Age: Learn from the Locals
This popular program kicks off on October 16 at 9:00 a.m. at the Library. This year's theme is Learn from the Locals, and this month we will host Neal Stimpet, CEO of the Atlanta National Bank. Neal will discuss the challenges facing small-town banks, changes in regulations facing community banks, and the efforts the ANB makes to provide personal service to it customers. Come and get to know Neal, enjoy continental breakfast, and join the lively conversation.
Blind Date with a Book
Blind Date with a Book returns for a 5th year from September 15-October 19. It's easy and fun, and you just might meet a book you never would have imagined loving so much. All you have to do is read the personal ads created by your library staff, choose a book "sight unseen" and read to your heart's content. For every book you read, we enter your name in a drawing to win fun prizes. Then join us on October 22 at 6:00 p.m. for our annual Blind Date with a Book Party. Enjoy a light supper and share your "dating" experiences! Find out what other might have to recommend as well!
Worldviews Book Group: The Many Faces of Community
This year's Worldviews group will explore community relationships through a variety of lenses. Join us to discuss a wide-ranging variety of novels sure to capture your interest. Our first book is Jessica Shattuck's "The Women in the Castle". Set at the end of World War II in a crumbling Bavarian castle, the book examines how three widows become a makeshift family coming to terms with complicated and dark secrets that threaten to tear them apart. Books are available at the Library. We will meet at the Library for a light supper and discussion at 6:00 p.m. on October 29.
Welcome to the 2018-2019 Atlanta Library Dinner Program
This year, the Atlanta Library Dinner Programs, catered by the Palms Grill Cafe’, will complement the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Mainstreet exhibit, “Crossroads: Change in Rural America” hosted by the Atlanta Public Library and Museum from February 2-March 15, 2019 (check date for sure). Featuring speakers and performers who will present programs focused on the rural culture and history, the Dinner Programs are held at the Union Hall Building, 114 SW Arch Street in downtown Atlanta. Dinner begins at 5:30 pm, with the evening’s program starting at 7 pm. Reservations are required and limited to approximately 50 people. The Palms Grill Cafe’ features a set of dinner specials, including homemade desserts for each program. Feel free to BYOB for dinner. Phone 217-648-5077 to make reservations.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 6, 2016 - Illinois Symphony Woodwinds
Our season opens with a spectacular performance by the Illinois Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Quintet. Two years ago, the ISO Brass Quintet entertained us with a variety of brass music, and now we are thrilled to highlight the ISO woodwinds. The Quintet will offer a range of great music inspired by rural identity and landscape. The Quintet will offer a range of great music inspired by rural identity and landscape. This performance is sponsored by the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 11, 2016- Danny Tackett & The Chicken & Pickin’ Orchestra
Come for a special evening of great country and gospel music along with delicious fried chicken, homemade mashed potatoes & gravy, sauteed green beans, dinner salad & homemade desserts.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 19, 2018 - Lincoln College jazz program
Back for an encore performance, members of the Lincoln College jazz program will offer a fun evening of written and improvised music. Come and be inspired by the talent and personality of these fine student musicians. This performance is sponsored by J>M> Abbott & Associates.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 - Illinois Bicentennial Podcast Program
Join us as we celebrate Illinios’ Bicentennial with a live podcast program hosted by Illinois Humanities, focusing on Atlanta and Historic Rt. 66. Local residents will relate stories of their connections to the Mother Road and singer/songwriter Chris Vallillo will be on hand to provide transportation related music and stories.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2018 - Danny Tackett & the Chicken & Picken’ Orchestra
Danny and the band return for another special evening of great country and gospel music, along with delicious fried chicken, homemade mashed potatoes & gravy, sauteed green beans, dinner salad & homemade desserts.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16, 2018 - Exploring Native American Culture Through Oral Tradition, Music & Food
Dressed in traditional Ojibwa regalia, author Kim Sigafus, will share her knowledge of many aspects of Native American cultures, including Native people who lived in Illinois in the 1800s. Kim will describe Native American foodways, including the planting of the Three Sisters: corn, beans, and squash. Drumming and singing, she will also share a traditional lullaby and invite everyone to learn some Native American language as well as to view and handle Native artifacts.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER XX, 2018 - CHRISTMAT CANTATA - TBD
FRIDAY JANUARY 11, 2019 - Spoon River Anthology
Spoon River Anthology, a collection of poems by Edgar Lee Masters published in 1915-16, presents and unvarnished representation of life in a rural, small town through the voices of inhabitants of its cemetery, who reflect upon their experiences from beyond the grave. Historical actors Paddy and John Lynn will portray characters from Spoon River anthology in costume. Their renditions will be interspersed with folk and popular music of the period performed by singer, guitarist, and banjoist, Patti Ecker.
FRIDAY JANUARY 25, 2019 - Sports and Community
Can sports events have an impact on a town’s sense of community? We’ll consider that question with a panel discussion focused on Atlanta High School’s 1959 regional basketball victory over Lincoln, as well as the several state baseball and softball championship titles earned in the early 2000s by Olympia High School. Players, coaches, and cheerleaders will share their memories and stories of those events. The program will include rare film from 1959, as well as video and photos from the early 2000s.
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8, 2019 - The Farmer is the Man
Chris Valillo is a nationally acclaimed singer/songwriter and folk musician who strives to make the people and places of “unmetropolitan” America come to life in song. Chris performs on six-string and slide bottleneck guitars, and hi combination of song and narrative present an entertaining portrait of life in the Midwest. This performance is sponsored by the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2019 - Making Media Sense in Changing Times
An expert in public news literacy, press practices and journalism ethics, Professor Stephanie Craft of the University of Illinois School of Journalism joins us to examine how the public can navigate a complex and varied media environment and make sense of the 24/7 news cycle. Professor Craft received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and is widely recognized for her writing and teach.
FRIDAY MARCH 8, 2019 - How Corn Changed and Then Changed Everything Else
About 10,000 years ago, a weedy grass growing in Mexico transformed itself into a larger and more useful plant: the cereal grass now know as corn. Corn sustained the American colonies and the early United States, then virtually created the Midwest - a region settled faster than any other in history. Even for those who know corn well, there is much to learn about its historic impact and why is is so vital today. Author Cynthis Clampitt has pursued food history over three decades and six continents. Join her as she introduces us to the remarkable, fascinating, vital, but of overlooked, impact corn had had on our history and everyday lives.
FRIDAY MARCH 22, 2019 - Orpheus Mandolin Orchestra
Music has always been an important part of rural culture, we we’re excited to welcome the Orpheus Mandolin Orchestra, the performing ensemble of The McLean County Mandolin Society. Classical mandolin ensembles were popular and the turn of the 20th-Century (1890-1920) with music from Tin Pan Alley, Ragtime, and early dance tunes arranged in parts, more like a string quartet than a traditional band. Join us for this special evening of what is sure to be some great, toe-tapping music. This program is sponsored by Ancel, Glink, Diamond, Bush, DiCianni, & Krafthefer.
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Having grown up in a large Mormon family, I can bear testimony (as a good Mormon might put it on a Sunday) that advising a teenager not to attend Brigham Young University because the socialist professors there will corrupt you, would be exceedingly rare. Yet that incident ranks low on the strangeness scale for one survivalist family in southern rural Idaho. That family was escorted onto the world’s literary stage last year by Educated, a memoir written by Tara Westover, youngest of the family’s seven children. I attended an interview with Westover last spring at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle but didn’t get around to reading her powerful and moving book until the end of the year. As 2018 progressed, the book’s reputation kept growing until by yearend Barack and Michelle Obama, Bill Gates, and the New York Times had all given it must-read status. (Publicity like that can make a writer believe in Heaven.) Here is a three-minute video of Gates interviewing Westover.
A situation that always amazes me and, I suspect, discombobulates social scientists, is how an urban child raised amid poverty, abuse and addiction, shines in school, earns advanced degrees, and makes important contributions to society. Westover’s memoir portrays an equivalent achievement but for the rural West. How did she do that? If she could do it, why can’t more? How does nature so soundly trump nurture?
Prior to leaving home in adolescence and setting foot in school for the first time, Westover had learned to read and write by reading only the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and speeches by early Church leaders. Getting into Brigham Young University required some creative paperwork, not to mention defying her father. I should point out that any reader seeking a take-down of the LDS (Latter-Day Saints aka Mormon) religion will have to look elsewhere. During her Seattle interview Westover explained there is much about the Church that she respects. She is especially grateful for her professors at BYU who, recognizing her determination to learn, were patient with her as she caught up. (Until she got to BYU she had never heard the world “Holocaust.”) The Church also helped her stay in school when she was flat broke. A few years later, with encouragement and help from BYU professors, she attended England’s Cambridge University where she earned a Ph.D. in History.
In reading her book it is evident that her family’s Mormon faith is almost incidental to their plight; her household could have subscribed to any number of more fundamentalist religions. The doctrine that framed her family’s beliefs and practices was not religion so much as an end-days survivalism, undergirded by a paranoia that doctors don’t heal us, God does; and public school teachers are socialists. Load up on ammunition, stockpile water and food, and get off the grid because socialism – capital S – is going to destroy our country. Armageddon, here we come.
Before Westover could obtain an education, she first had to survive working for her father. His farm was really a junkyard packed with peril. He earned a living by scrapping metal. The first half of the book can call to mind Dante’s Inferno: impalings, fractured bones, muscles cut, bodies engulfed in flame, melted skin, crushed skulls, falling off roofs. An abusive brother was dangerous, if you consider shoving your sister’s head in a toilet dangerous; I do. Schizophrenia and manic-depression are also implicated. Westover lays bare the immense need a child has for parental love and approval and, in a sick family, the torture a child will undergo in quest of that approbation. A child feels shame and unworthiness when a parent fails to protect them.
Westover can write. Her narrative carries along at a brisk clip and many sentences are beautiful. She mentions one of her first teachers after she left home being appalled at her poor grammar but who also glimpsed something. She told Westover, “You have a knack for writing.” A prescient teacher there. Westover never forgot her words.
I am in awe of the emotional bravery writing this memoir required. When you close the book you will be affirmed by what we can accomplish against impossible odds, and the good we are capable of achieving to balance all the bad we manage to do.
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William Wordsworth বিসিএস প্রস্তুতি । William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). He is a lake poet, and also called “The poet of nature”, “Poet of children”.
Best Known Works of William Wordsworth:
Michael: A pastoral poem of Lyrical Ballads.
The prelude: এটি কবির Magnum Opus, একটি আত্নচরিত মূলক গ্রন্থ। কবির বোন Dorothy Wordsworth লেখা চিঠিতে তিনি এটির নাম উল্লেখ করেছিলেন “The poem on the growth of my own mind” হিসাবে। তাঁর মৃত্যুর পরে তার স্ত্রী Mary নামকরণ করেন- The prelude হিসাবে।
Lucy: Lucy Gray is a poem written by William Wordsworth in 1799 and published in his Lyrical Ballads. It describes the death of a young girl named Lucy Gray, who went out one evening into a storm and was never found again.
The Excursion: A long poem.
Written In march: A poem.
Tintern Abbey: The full title of this poem is “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798. Wye নদীর তীরের টিনটার্ন মঠে লিখিত কয়েকটি লাইন।
The Recluse: (নিঃসঙ্গ বাসী বা একাকী ) The solitary Reaper: A poem in Lyrical Ballads.The poem functions to ‘praise the beauty of music and its fluid expressive beauty, the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” that Wordsworth identified at the heart of poetry.
Ode: Intimations of Immortality: (Intimations-সংবাদ, জ্ঞাপন, সংবাদ, সূচনা)
To the Cuckoo: A poem.
Daffodil: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” commonly known as “Daffodil” is a lyrical poem.
Lyrical Ballads: Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Coleridge contributing only four poems to the collection, including one of his most famous works, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”.
The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads: is an essay, composed by William Wordsworth, for the second edition of the poetry collection Lyrical Ballads,
Guide to the Lakes: more fully A Guide through the District of the Lakes, William Wordsworth’s travelers’ guidebook to England’s Lake District,
The Solitary Reaper is a poem of Lyrical Ballad
We are Seven: This is a poem published in Lyrical Ballads. It describes a discussion between an adult poetic speaker and a “little cottage girl” about the number of brothers and sisters who dwell with her. The poem turns on the question of whether to count two dead siblings as part of the family.
Quotes William Wordsworth:
1. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
2. Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
3. Child is the father of man. There is a profound meaning of the line in the poem ‘The Rainbow’ by William Wordsworth. Actually in this line ‘child is the father of man’ the poet wants to say that man is the product of his habits and behavior developed in childhood.
4. Our birth is but asleep and a forgetting–Ode: Intimations of Immortality.
5. The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.–The Solitary Reaper
বিসিএস সবচেয়ে বেশিবার William Wordsworth থেকে যে সকল প্রশ্ন হয়েছে:
1. Wordsworth was a romantic poet.
2. He was called a poet of nature
3. He and S. T. Coleridge jointly published ‘Lyrical Ballads’ in 1798.
4. Romantic age began with the publication of ‘Lyrical Ballads’ in 1798.
5. He became poet laureate in 1843.
6. He was greatly inspired by the French Revolution in 1789.
7. He believed in Pantheism ( ঈশ্বর সর্ববিরাজমান)
The Prelude, Tintern abbey, Odeon Intimidations of Immortality, Daffodils Essay: Lyrical ballads
Other: The Solitary Reaper, The Excursion, A Complaint, Ode to Duty, My Heart Leaps Up, To the Cuckoo, The Recluse, Lucy, Michael, Written in March,
Previous BCS Questions about Wordsworth:
1. The romantic age in English Literature began with the publication of ………..? [36th BCS]
Ans: Preface to Lyrical Ballad. (Written by William Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge)
2. Who is known as “the poet of nature”? [36th BCS]
Ans: W. Wordsworth
3. Who wrote the poem “The Solitary Reaper”? [36th BCS]
Ans: W. Wordsworth.
4. Who wrote the following lines, “All at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils”? [35th BCS]
Ans: W. Wordsworth.
5.Wordsworth introduced the reader’s — a new kind of poetry. Fill in the gap. [31st BCS]


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New York City, 1999. Three generations of a loving and radically leftist family gather to celebrate the law school graduation of its youngest torchbearer, Emma. But news of a forthcoming book with shocking revelations about late Grandpa Joe - a famously blacklisted Marxist - casts a pall on the party and throws the family into an inter-generational tailspin. Shaken to the core, Emma must reconcile her fierce politics and family loyalty to decide if the end ever justifies the means. Heads butt and relationships fracture in this insightful, moving and often-humorous family portrait from rising American playwright Amy Herzog (4000 Miles, Belleville).
"A shrewd, ironic meditation on what we do with history, how we appropriate it for our own psychological needs. Among the play's many pleasures...is the way the characters struggle through their differences to listen to one another. The ability to listen is, perhaps the definition of love." The New Yorker
Performance Run Time:
Playwright Amy Herzog (left)
ACT 1: 1 hour 10 minutes
ACT 2 : 45 Minutes
Balancing the Political and the Personal
"I had no idea my upbringing was anomalous. In my household, Walt Disney was a villain, Fidel was misunderstood, and the Boy Scouts was a paramilitary organization."
from "Playwright's Perspective: Amy Herzog" for Playwrights Horizons
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The Save Langney Library Campaign is holding a protest walk from West Rise Schools, along Sandpiper Walk, Heron Walk and Kingfisher Drive on Friday (December 1)
The walk, which will be led by Stephen Lloyd MP and Langney County Councillor Alan Shuttleworth, is to demonstrate against the proposal for East Sussex County Council to close the Langney library along with six other libraries and the mobile library service.
Councillor Alan Shuttleworth said, “People of all ages will be affected, and the walkers will include local residents, including parents and children from West Rise Schools. Many have already signed the petition to Save Langney Library.
“We invite all members of the community to join the Walk, and send out a clear message that Langney Library is a vital part of the Langney community. If the library were to be closed it will hit the youngest and most elderly people the hardest.
“I have had really productive meetings with the Langney Shopping Centre management. I hope that East Sussex County Council will listen to our representations.”
To find out more and to comment on the proposals before December 14, visit: http://consultation.eastsussex.gov.uk/economy-transport-environment/draft-strategy/.


THE MONEYYA CHRONICLES
Selected Poems, Essays and Musings of Bhikkhu Moneyya
last updated: February, 2019
Artwork for the front cover by I Ketut Murtana
With Original Artwork From Bali
In Memory of my Mother
Bhikkhu Moneyya was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946 and spent his early youth in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended Stanford University for one year and then transferred to University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Several months later, he dropped out and spent the next two-and-a-half years traveling through Europe and the Middle East, before returning to the US and joining the Rochester Zen Center in December of 1968. His involvement with the Rochester Zen Center lasted eleven years and included a two-year stint as a Zen monk.
In 1989, he sold his house and business, and retired to an ashram in central Virginia, where he met his future wife. In 2002, he traveled to Pa-Auk Forest Monastery in Myanmar, taking ordination there as a Theravada Buddhist monk and later putting together an introductory manual on the practice of Theravada Buddhism, which has seen repeated publications.
Due to a gradually worsening health condition, he left Myanmar in 2007 to seek medical assistance in Australia, spending time at several monasteries there. Over the next seven years, he traveled respectively to Sri Lanka, Malaysia, France, the US, back to Myanmar, and then on to the Philippines and Bali, where he currently resides.
“Through the mediums of poetry, prose and painting, Bhikkhu Moneyya brings his spiritual and terrestrial journey to life, as he shares his insights and experiences with the reader. His wit and unabashed sincerity become a magic carpet upon which the reader rides, soaring above the pettiness of daily life, with a monk’s-eye view of the world below.”
– David Chadwick, author of Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
Last updated: July 2018
Note to the Reader
The poems in this book may be printed out for free distribution, but may not be altered or reproduced for commercial purposes without the author’s permission.
My thanks to Ron Browning, Joanne Ferris and Philip Starkman for their support and encouragement, without which I would not have undertaken this project, and to others who read through the manuscript, made suggestions, and provided assistance with printing and emailing. A special word of thanks to the Venerable Anandajoti, for doing the document’s final formatting and posting it on his website, to Thomas Fricke, a long-term resident of Bali, for his hospitality and suggestions, and to Pak Merta Ada, for allowing me to stay at Forest Island, a retreat center in central Bali.
Illustrations accompanying the poems are from local and expatriate artists living in Bali.
New Edition, December 2017
Part of the joy of writing poetry is in sharing it with others, which I have done with my friends and family over the years, and now, for the first time, in this small book of verse, a select number of these poems have been compiled to share with a wider audience. With the exception of the first poem, this book spans the years of my life as a Buddhist practitioner, initially in the Zen tradition, later in the Theravada tradition, and finally as a Theravada Buddhist monk (bhikkhu in Pāli). This does not mean, however, that every one of these poems has a Buddhist theme or subject. Some of them do, but many do not, except in the sense that my orientation as a Buddhist practitioner serves as a backdrop for their presentation.
A number of the earlier poems merge this Buddhist orientation with those of other spiritual traditions. “Tears of Blood,” for example, has an unmistakably Christian theme, while “Hansīka” and “Return” were written during my residence at a yoga ashram. Another turning point takes place during my second visit to a spiritualist church in the Philippines, in 2015. This is reflected in several of the final poems in the book. In order to avoid confusion about these different periods in my life, I have arranged the poems in chronological order and included specific locations, where possible. This should make for greater continuity in the reading and also make it possible to trace the various threads of development running through the poetry. The poems are followed by a postscript, consisting of a series of aphorisms and musings that were separated out from the main body of the poetry due to their difference in style and character. To make the document more accessible to the general public, Buddhist terms have been footnoted and defined. A short biography has also been included at the end of the book, which will hopefully provide some insight into the origin of the author’s works and make for a more fruitful reading experience.
Pa-Auk Forest Monastery


I am an elementary school teacher. I work four days a week, including, new to me this past September, planning and leading five story times every Friday for students ages 3-7.
I have gained so many ideas online this year, especially from the sites and members of Storytime Underground and Flannel Friday. I have always loved children’s books and reading to kids and this year I have added puppets and flannel board stories to the mix with happy results. This is my first time participating in Flannel Friday.
I came across the book except if by Jim Averbeck at a public library. The book starts with an the words, spanning several pages and accompanied by lovely, slight of hand illustrations, “An egg is not a baby bird but it will become one, except if it becomes a baby snake.” The story continues with this structure, repeating “except if” several times as it twists creatively though different possibilities, in the end circling back to another egg.
To create flannel pieces for this story I used photocopies of the book’s pages as templates. I added black to the back of the snake so I could hide the lizard behind it. I wish I had made the dinosaur a little bigger, I’ll just have to remember to use a bigger voice when it’s his turn on the board. To make the fossil I sketched the dinosaur using a marker on felt.


the New Jersey Bear
- Release Date: September 1, 2000
- Taffy honors the invention of salt water taffy, first made (according to legend) in Atlantic City in 1883. Salt water taffy remains a popular item today, still associated with the Jersey Shore.
- Taffy is a 9 3/4" light pink bear with the state name and a piece of delicious salt water taffy embroidered on its chest.
- New Jersey Info and Links
- Kids' Books about New Jersey
Stately Bears was pleased to hear from one of the descendants of David Bradley, a candy maker and the originator of salt water taffy. Heather Corcoran Harrison was kind enough to share her family's story:
In 1880, David Bradley was a candy maker and salesman with his brothers on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He had a cart he walked up and down the Boardwalk in order to sell his candy. One day, when he closed up his cart and went home, a big storm came. The next morning he found his candy spoiled, as waves from the ocean had flooded his cart of candy, especially the taffy.
As he was (not happily) cleaning up his goods, a little girl came up to him. She asked him if he had any candy to sell. With his quick (and rather sarcastic) wit, David Bradley replied to her, "I had taffy, but it's salt water taffy now!" The girl became more interested, telling her friends about the man with the salt water taffy. David Bradley's mother and sister urged him to keep this name "salt water taffy," and it sold more than ever.
The name has stuck ever since - even though there is no salt water actually in the taffy. On some boxes of salt water taffy (James', Fralinger's), you can still read this story. This was my Great, Great, Great Uncle David Bradley - brother to my Great Great Grandmother Margaret Bradley Kelly, and son of my Great, Great, Great Grandmother Mary Anne Wilde Bradley.
I hope you enjoy the story as much as our family does!
Heather Corcoran Harrison


Encyclopedias are great for your kids to learn introductory information on multiple topics or a focused topic.
Pictorial encyclopedias for children are even better as they offer a visual reference for a child to get an idea of what the thing looks like.
This helps keep them interested in the topic.
Amazon today offers a wide range of children’s encyclopedias for an affordable price with excellent reviews.
Here are 5 children’s encyclopedias you can buy for your child today:
1) National Geographic Little Kid Series
This series comes in a myriad of topics which makes it a great collector’s item for you and your child.
We recommend a few of their encyclopedias and they include:
This beautiful book is the latest addition to the National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book series.
Illustrated by David Aguilar, the space encyclopedia include colourful pictures which are perfect for early learners who are just learning to read aloud.
The book will explain basic concepts of space, beginning with what is most familiar to kids and expanding out into the universe.
In this children’s encyclopedia, you will find a fascinating array of the world’s coolest creepy-crawlies.
It is a fully photographic book that profiles bugs, beetles, wasps, bees, ants, caterpillars, butterflies, dragonflies, spiders, flies, crickets and grasshoppers, and centipedes and millipedes.
In short, this book includes everything a young fact-hound needs to discover the weird, wacky, diverse, and fascinating world of bugs.
This book is for older kids ages 4- to 8 years old who love dinosaurs.
Illustrated by Franco Tempesta, he created a world where dinosaurs of all sizes come alive to entice and captivate their readers.
Bursting with fun facts and age-appropriate information, each spread features a different dinosaur, along with simple text in big type that is perfect for little kids.
Young dino fans will love the interactivity included in every chapter, and parents will appreciate tips to help carry the readers’ experience beyond the page.
This encyclopedia has an overall star rating of 4.8 stars out of over 2000 top reviews on amazon.
It is a good book that comes in hardcover if you are looking to purchase only one child’s encyclopedia as it contains all sorts of information on earth, space, animals, history, and even STEM-related information.
There are 424 pages with featured recommendations from 100 expert consultants from all over the world.
This single volume also contains 1000 images with specially commissioned illustrations and stunning photography.
Britannica is a brand that can verify trustworthiness and unlike other countries’ encyclopedias, it explores a wide range of topics without using the usual structured A to Z.
This book of amazing facts you can trust will provide hundreds of hours of fun learning for curious children and their families.
This is an award-winning encyclopedia that can be bought in hardcover, kindle or paperback.
It has an average review of 4.8 stars and is suitable for kids ages 5 to 9 years old.
It features a unique approach to the subject of places from around the globe as well as focuses on what the world is like from a child’s perspective.
You can also find that they cover everyday subjects that are related to a child’s own experience.
This is a wonderful children’s encyclopedia that can be read for free on the amazon app or can be bought as a hardcover.
It has 4.8 stars with over 6000 reviews for it.
A reviewer bought who bought the book stated that it is a great book to encourage young ones to learn about geology.
The book allows readers to identify colourful gemstones, sparkly crystals, the toughest rocks, and ancient fossils.
It is also interactive as readers can learn about 64 different types of rocks and minerals and how to tell the difference between them.
Suitable for kids aged 6 to 9 years old, it is a captivating book that introduces children to hands-on science with fun activities like starting your own impressive rock collection and how to stay safe on your rock-finding missions.
5) Smithsonian Children’s encyclopedia
The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex.
They also have their own series of children’s encyclopedias and here are some we recommend:
This is one of the best sellers for children’s encyclopedias on Amazon.
Written by the Smithsonian Institution, it has an average of 4.9 stars with over 5000 reviews.
It has become the ultimate guide for children to understand the science of what goes on under our skin.
You can find this encyclopedia to be:
1) Packed with facts, charts, infographics and illustrations about the human body
2) It even uses a visual approach to its illustrations, and photographs and even comes in extremely details 3D CGI images.
3) Crystal clear text distils key information
4) The encyclopedias are also fact-checked by subject experts to offer accuracy beyond online sources of information.
It is suitable for children aged 9 to 12 years old and ideal for inquisitive minds, with a unique head-to-toe approach that makes the complex structure of the human body both appealing and accessible for curious young readers.
This visual encyclopedia is the ultimate page-turner, bringing our planet’s most diverse and dramatic features together in spectacular style.
It has an average of 4.9 stars on amazon.
This book is made for curious kids who want to know everything about their planet.
Like how tornadoes form or what a volcanic eruption looks like?
It can also tell them where the hottest inhabited place is on earth and allows them to investigate our planet from its core to its cosmic connections through the spectacular imagery of colourful coral reefs, castle-like ice caves, and violent microbursts.
You can find these encyclopedias online or on Amazon and in case you might forget, hurry and add items to your wish lists to ensure you buy them for your kid.
Amazon is also an e-commerce site that offers great customer service and a wide array of interesting books.
It is always a good thing to invest in your child’s education especially when they are young.
These books are also a great purchase for friends with children.


Publication Release – Inward Outward 2021
On October 13–15, 2021, the second edition of the Inward Outward symposium took place online. Initiated between the KITLV and Sound & Vision, and with special support from the RCMC, Inward Outward brought together archival practitioners, artists, academics, and researchers to explore the status of moving image and sound archives as they intertwine with questions of coloniality, identity and race, focusing specifically around the theme of Emotion in the Archive.
Today, we’re proud to release the second Inward Outward publication Emotion in the Archive: A Publication of the 2021 Inward Outward Symposium.
Conceived as a way to further discussions that surfaced during the symposium, this digital publication collects different contributions from the speakers of Inward Outward. Across this publication 12 individual texts unfold, interrogating the interrelation of emotion and archival practices as they intersect with coloniality: Where do we encounter emotions, affects and feelings in the archive? How are these captured in both sounds and moving images and in the practices used to organise the archive? And, most pressingly, how do these emotions inspire us to unlearn and undo the dominant imperial practices and discourses that have determined our work so far?
The publication begins with an abridged version of the symposium’s opening conversation, “Anger and Defiance and the Archive”, in which Amal Alhaag and Teresa Cisneros reflected on feeling everything from rage to boredom to amusement as they work in colonial archives, and what actions they take in response to those emotions.
Inspired by their talk, Stevie Nolten shares a series of questions that probe the nature and detail of “Anger in the Archive”.
Wigbertson Julian Isenia explores transnational dialogues between Black, LGBTQI+ intellectuals in “Love and Compassion amid Many Adversities: On Black, Queer Archival Practices”. In doing so, Julian embraces the often, but not always, contradictory relationships between love, critique and personal and institutional change.
Eliza Steinbock offers contemplations of discomfort by encouraging white readers in particular to lean into difficult emotions in “White Affect Caught in the Colonial Act: The Cultural Archive of Shame and Guilt”.
Mary Huelsbeck shares a description of the Wendy Clark Collection’s Love Tapes, a video art installation, and explores the unique contribution of audio and visual archives to the discussion of emotion.
Centring the body in a dialogue between present and past, Cécile Accilien examines her own body as “a record of practices [and] values that date back centuries” and help her navigate her individual connections to collective history in “My Hair Is My Archive”.
In “Algerian Letters: The Jewellers of the Oumah”, keynote speaker Ariella Aïsha Azoulay ponders whether, when one’s ancestors have been doubly disappeared from colonial archives, it is possible to trace their experiences and existences through their craft and the objects they created.
In “Item Cannot be Displayed: Refusal as a Modality of Care”, Carine Zaayman reflects on the significance of objects and their curation in light of her recent experience of the Jagger Library fire at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She shows us how these reflections on loss and care resulted in a different kind of intervention during a workshop she facilitated at the symposium, where participants decided not to share the objects they had brought with them to the workshop.
Taking the question of objects from the material to the digital plane, Daniela Agostinho first contemplates her discomfort with being involved in the digitisation process in “Encounters with the Danish Colonial Archive: Affect, Labour and Spaces of Care”; she then seeks insight and inspiration from artist Jeannete Ehlers’s installation Black Is a Beautiful Word. I & I (Encountering the Danish Colonial Archive) which creates context for and dialogue with what had been a static, colonial image.
Imara Limon and Inez van der Scheer explore the reframing of colonially implicated material in an adaptation of their presentation which explored curatorial practice at the Amsterdam Museum and how shame and guilt are connected to a research project and exhibition about the Golden Coach. To think beyond museum collections as they currently exist, they also speak to the museum’s collaborations with artists, asking how critical art practices can interact with museum practices and their collections, while also complicating such relationships.
In “The Museum Visits a Therapist”, visual artists Mirjam Linschooten and Sameer Farooq share images and descriptions of their film of the same name, which explores the similarities and connections between symptoms of and treatment for trauma and the processes by which workers restore colonial-era objects at the Tropenmuseum, the Netherlands’ largest ethnographic museum.
Finally, in “How to Hold an Image”, Jue Yang shares her process of “interrupting the colonial gaze” by contextualising images produced for the Dutch colonial project and juxtaposing them with images of their creators and traces of herself.
We welcome you to download the publication.
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|Material Library at EiABC|
|Monday, 09 May 2011 06:50|
The Material Library, currently constructed out of reused shipping containers, is located near the Materials Research and Testing Center (MRTC) at the campus of EiABC. Administrated by the Chair of Construction Materials and Geotechniques, the Library will be used to collect and exhibit construction materials, with a focus on materials “Made in Ethiopia”.
The library will inform the visitor about building materials mainly produced or available in Ethiopia, and shall also be used for teaching purpose as well as to present research output on material innovations developed at EiABC. Students can experience materials with all their senses, and find information about the origin, way of production and purpose in building construction of specific materials.
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11.12.2017 The network edition “Science almanac of Black sea region countries” is indexed by the scientific database Turkish Education Index.
26.07.2017 Dear colleagues!
We are accepting materials for the issue 3, 2017.
Theme scope of the issue: Historical, ethno-cultural and political aspects of the Black sea region countries development.
The publication for authors is free.
Terms of submission - till August 20, 2017.


Author(s): Nick DiNardo
Report Published: On Launch
The Game of Adversity is a whistle stop tour of the underlying philosophy that lies at the foundation of QUAKE Books. Fittingly, DiNardo talks passionately about many of the authors responsible for some of the tremendous bookquakes unveiled here back at HQ… Ryan Holiday, Norman Doidge, Carol Dweck, Leo Babauta, Malcolm Gladwell and Tim Ferriss… the distinguished list goes on.
The quotes are inspiring, the tips extremely useful and I can clearly see Nick’s intentions, which is why this book, so frustratingly, could and should have been so much more! Simply put, Nick had the best paints and the ultimate canvas in his possession, but his brush strokes let him down with somewhat clumsy storytelling, which as repetitive as it is disjointed in parts.
The result? A great introduction for those new to non-fiction reading habits, as it will give insights into the kind of books that will make a difference to your attitude and journey of life learning, but one which will, unfortunately, fall short of most people’s expectations.
“A life without challenge is not only a life not worth living but also a life devoid of meaning.”
“Poker players are good not because they have the best hands but because they know how to play the shitty ones.”
“Life is more about doing our best to acquire wisdom.”
The tremor happened when, on closing a book, I smiled at the thought that someone the other side of the world from me could have been impacted by the same authors and lifestyle choices that led me to create QUAKE Books. I am almost certain that Nick arrived at that similar sentiment of wanting to share life shifting moments when he wrote and published his book. He is truly a man after my own heart.
Nick’s ability to navigate one massive bookquake after another makes him, in my opinion, one of QUAKE Books’ Top Agents, not to mention lifestyle coaches, so I hope that he will write a QUAKE Report for the benefit of all of us here. I also hope that Nick, being the learner that he is, can draw encouragement from this review and make his second book all the better for it.


flat-out perfectly drawn characters in Stories from the
Afterlife will stick to me in much the
same manner as Richard Ford’s and Raymond
Carver’s. Please, please buy this collection if, indeed,
you’ve ever contemplated ditching your job to work as a stripper;
felt guilty for impregnating the nursemaid; wondered how you’d
react in a beer cooler with a pistol in your face; or contemplated
holy men in a hardware aisle. Want to know what can happen from
a one-night stand? You’ll get this answer, plus. These
stories are lyrical, complete, stunning, and
— George Singleton, author of Work Shirts for Madmen
Stories from the Afterlife showcases Dalton’s great skills
as a writer as well as her acute understanding of human nature. The
intricate patterns she weaves around her characters are rich in
detail and history and compassion. Their lives—these
stories—are filled with loss and longing and yet they are
also triumphant as they shine light on those small victories that
allow people to survive. Stories from the Afterlife is
a moving and compelling collection.
— Jill McCorkle, author of Creatures of Habit and
Stories from the Afterlife is a raw, brave collection,
punctuated with surprising moments of tenderness
and hope. Dalton writes with the eye of an artist and the precision of a poet.
— Valerie Ann Leff, author of Better Homes and Husbands
Quinn Dalton burrows so deeply into the hearts and psyches
of her characters that, while reading her work, one has the
unshakable feeling that she has rifled through our own secret thoughts,
revealing our very own fears and desires. Stories
from the Afterlife is jam-packed with
Dalton's brilliance and proves, once again, that she deserves recognition as a master in
the realm of contemporary American letters.
— Julianna Baggott, author of Girl Talk and
debut: Amazon’s Top 100 in Fiction & Literature
"Quinn Dalton is that rare being, a writer who combines fierce passion and keen intelligence. Both are amply present in the far-ranging stories of this splendid collection."
Margot Livesey, author of Banishing Verona
"Bulletproof Girl is a smart, subtle, delightful book. Dalton has written a marvelous first collection about what happens when, inevitably, the world's slings and arrows pierce that false and flimsy vest."
Michael Griffith, author of Bibliophilia
"With prose as precise and elegant as calculus, Quinn Dalton's Bulletproof Girl portrays tough, tender women struggling through the puzzles of modern life. Her vision is unflinching and always surprising. These stories gleam."
Karl Iagnemma, author of On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction
"Brilliant, wild, scathing, hilarious these deeply psychological stories of our contemporary world are essential reading. Dalton is one of the most enthralling short story writers of her generation."
Julianna Baggott, author of Girl Talk, The Miss America Family and The Madam
Also from Quinn Dalton
"A quietly moving debut novel."
"Dalton's prose [is like] a Lucinda Williams song: full of sass, sexual tension, and dive-bar cool."
The News & Record (Greensboro, NC)
"Dalton is an evocative writer...genuinely funny. She has a knack for pulling off the delightfully unexpected detail, and she keeps her story moving forward at an easy, pleasing pace. Expect more good work from Dalton."
Cleveland Plain Dealer
"The main character in High Strung is incredibly likeable. Worried that she's like her mother, the underfed, sexually exhausted, pornographically overwhelmed London-dwelling adult-novel editor moves to Ohio, which she discovers is not boring but crazy in a whole new way."
The Kansas City Pitch Weekly
"A biting and witty story."
Akron Beacon Journal
"High Strung deals a dish best served with charm...it tickles the throat on the way down."
"Quinn Dalton writes whip-smart prose that will charm you while she picks your pocket and steals your soul. I'm convinced her sentences are made of Kevlar, and her characters - wily, wry, dangerous - are so true they're bulletproof."
Julianna Baggott, author of Girl Talk and The Miss America Family
"Finally, a novel for the nicotine-addled lip-biter in every woman. Relax, read, and let Dalton do your worrying for you."
--Erika Krouse, author of Come Up and See Me Sometime
"Dalton's characters captured me with their quirky audacity. In their fierce drive to connect, difficult truths result. Her characters love each other imperfectly-the best way they know how. High Strung is infused with the absurdities of contemporary culture, and the fallout of political adventuring in a divided country; the combination makes Dalton's novel a timely and important debut."
--Elizabeth Oness, author of Articles of Faith, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award
"Quinn Dalton exposes the hole in the emotional landscape of new-century America and fills it with sharp, discerning prose. Loss is the mortar sealing past to present in her protagonists personal history; hope resides in the beauty of the writing. Dalton is a writer to look out for."
--Nancy Zafris, fiction editor of The Kenyon Review and author of The Metal Shredders
"High Strung is a family drama with kinky edges, and Quinn Dalton's deft handling of the bombastic, outrageous and poignant is a remarkable achievement. Readers everywhere will cheer Merle Winslow as she learns no matter where we go, we can't escape where we came from."
--Lynn Pruett, author of Ruby River


Last week in The CN’s Hits & Misses section, one of our “misses” was the banning of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” in Arizona’s schools.
I can never fathom why anyone would want to ban any book, but I was especially shocked to hear the great bard had fallen victim.
Curious as to what other books were thought unfit for students, I looked it up. Among the banned and challenged classics listed on the American Library Association’s website were F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” and Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”
Also on the list: “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee (one of my all-time favorite books). I read it for the first time in sixth grade and many of the themes were difficult to comprehend completely. It’s a story that confronts major issues: racism, rape, treatment of the mentally ill, and injustice.
It was a difficult first read, but because it was challenging I went back to read it for a second, third and fourth time.
Many of these books are censored for various reasons: violence, sexuality, language, or controversial viewpoints. They make people uncomfortable and I think that is exactly why they shouldn’t be banned.
The best works are those that make their readers or audience a bit uncomfortable. They take us out of our comfort zones and teach us something new.
Some of my favorite works were those that made me a bit uncomfortable, but they gave me a new perspective. Sometimes they teach me about a different culture or group of people, transport me to a new world or make me confront difficult issues.
I think it’s funny that in a country where we espouse the value of free speech, we ban literature. If we allow students to read these books, expose them to viewpoints that perhaps aren’t orthodox, but teach them to read it critically, we teach them to evaluate other points of view. Isn’t that what an education should do? Shouldn’t we teach students to challenge what they think they know? Censorship only undermines that goal.
Censorship is a slippery slope; we risk losing that right which we hold most dear (speech) and by banning books, rather than protecting students, I think we harm them.
We should challenge them to read controversial books critically. It tends to be in the controversial works that the most powerful statements are made.
I am grateful to have been exposed to great works that may be questionable to a few. These are the ones that taught me the most about life, the world and human beings.


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My bedside-reading those days is Poe's Short Stories illustrated by Benjamin Lacombe, an illustrator I find AMAZING. I tried to copy his style as en exercise here. Ok, I said "tried"!
When our teacher told us we could work on whatever subject we wanted, I told myself 'what the h*ll, let's be... crazy!'
So I came up with Flo's story. First I would like to reassure you guys, I have nothing against kids!
Here's the story of Little Flo and his ghost.
There's a boy named Little Flo. A solitary boy who can't go out without a balloon; a very scary balloon on which he drew a skull. His classmates see him walking and talking to his balloon like it's a human being and think "what a weirdoe"! And indeed his behavior is quite strange. Nobody likes Little Flo.
One day, Pat, the natiest boy of the school decides to burst Little Flo's balloon. For no reason at all, you know, just to be mean, because hey, that's who he is! But what he doesn't know, is that Flo's balloon holds a spirit... A very nasty ghost whose only goal is to possess human bodies to exist...
It's a disaster! Little Flo is horrified! As soon as the balloon falls down on the ground, the spirit is freed. It goes up in the sky, sinigng and rejoicing... He's looking for a new host to possess! "Liitle Flo, Little FLo, Who is it going to be? This one or that one?" The children around Flo don't understand his shouts, they think "that's it! He's lost it!" but they don't move.
So to save those poor classmates of his from being taken hostage by the nasty nasty nasty ghost, Little Flo picks up little stones on the ground and throw them at the children. And one by one, after hearing the nasty ghost's threats, he kills them. The last one standing is Pat... "So, Little Little FLo, will you, will you, save this one?"
Hehehe! Here are the pages!


Internationally Best-Selling Books by James C. Hunter:
Creating Excellence with Those You Lead
The long-awaited sequel to the international bestselling book, The Servant, has finally arrived! John Daly, along with the "Gang of 7" return to the monastery for more lessons from the wise monk, Simeon. Learn with the "Gang" the crucial importance of culture in any organization and discover the steps necessary to creating a culture of excellence through growing leaders and building community. As the weekend progresses, the group is surprised to learn that only one of the participants managed to achieve sustainable changes in his life as a result of the teaching and experiences at the retreat two years prior. This realization confuses and distresses the group, so they spend time deep-diving into the topics of human change and growth, creating excellence, servant leadership and high-performing teams. Join the "Gang" as they uncover why people do not become better leaders by reading books or listening to lectures, rather through sincere desire, intentional, habit-forming efforts and friction.
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This internationally best-selling book is available in 14 languages and has sold over 4.3 million copies worldwide.
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Jim’s second book, The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader is a follow-up book to The Servant. This practical how-to book provides a step-by-step approach of implementing the timeless principles of Servant Leadership into your personal/work life.
Now translated into eight (8) languages and over 750,000 copies sold, this book takes the reader through the Servant Leadership implementation process.


Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf, noted for his gorgeous and cryptic images, died at 64. His softly lit settings and surrealistic compositions were featured in fashion publications and high-end art galleries. The official Instagram page announced his demise. It stated he died of sickness after a lung transplant, leaving a great artistic legacy.
Art and Hard Work Shaped Erwin Olaf Life
Erwin Olaf’s artistic path was remarkable. In 2019, The New York Times reported that he was diagnosed with emphysema in 1996. At the time, physicians predicted his death at 60. Olaf defied expectations and wanted to live to 70. His strong and driven art created a collection too rich to categorize.
How to Navigate Commercial and Fine Art
Like many modern photographers, Erwin Olaf was adept in commercial and high art photography. He helped Bottega Veneta and Diesel with their art. At the same time, he gained art world fame. His work defied business and fine art photography conventions, making it challenging to define.
The loss was global
Erwin Olaf was a famous Dutch artist. Even outside that country, his death was felt. Shiny surfaces, gentle lighting, and thought-provoking themes were his trademarks. He blended corporate and fine art photography. Static and purposely open-ended tableaux gave Olaf’s works an enigmatic atmosphere. His images appear emotionless, yet their formal accuracy hides a deep emotional depth.
History and Impact
Erwin Olaf’s art inspires people worldwide. The Gemeentemuseum and Fotomuseum in The Hague held retrospectives of his work. He donated hundreds of items from his library to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in 2018. This was significant and proved his impact on the art world.
Olaf honored by Rijksmuseum director Taco Dibbits. He said he could see beauty in everyone and fought for LGBTQIA+ rights. Olaf’s meticulousness and distinct aesthetic perspective altered shooting and the art world.
Erwin Olaf Journey, from journalism to artmaking
Born in Hilversum, Netherlands, Erwin Olaf began his creative career in 1959. He began at the Utrecht School for Journalism but quickly changed course. After meeting a photography expert, he grew fascinated in the art, creating his most renowned pictures. His early journalism photography included photos of Amsterdam’s party scene and coverage of the homosexual rights movement.
A faked picture trend
Staged images and asking punks and LGBTQ persons to pose in his studio transformed Erwin Olaf’s work. In this controlled environment, he could create his own dream world and play with imagination. His career changed with this adjustment. It got him notice by homosexual and mainstream media.
Erwin Olaf Significant Impact on Self-Portraits
Erwin Olaf’s self-portraits broke the mold by addressing gayness and death. Art and societal standards challenged by his work. Olaf’s self-portraits revealed his inner world. They included emotive black-and-white photographs and provocative, hard-to-understand photos.
How Present Shapes Past
Understanding that life should be lived in the moment molded Erwin Olaf’s path. His paintings conveyed this notion. His striking self-portrait trilogy, “Self-Portrait 50 Years: I Wish, I Am, I Will Be” (2009), demonstrated how time passes and how vital self-acceptance is. Erwin Olaf’s work challenges, inspires, and moves people worldwide. Because he never gave up and made the most of every minute.


The Muslim Council of Elders’ stand at the International Publishing and Book Fair in the Moroccan capital Rabat has held a seminar titled ‘’Religious Pluralism, Identities, and the Paths to Peace’ by Dr. Said Kafaiti, Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University in Fez and Dr. Karima Norah Al-Issaoui, Professor of the History of Religions and Dialogue of Civilizations at the Faculty of Theology at Abdelmalek Essaadi University in Tetouan.
At the seminar’s beginning, Dr. Karima Norah Al-Issaoui discussed the history of the relationship between Islam and the West. She pointed out that this relationship has not always been good, as misunderstandings and religious conflicts have prevailed over the past centuries. She also highlighted the presence of misconceptions and negative attitudes towards Islam in the West, which affect the integration of Muslims in those countries and increase identity tensions. She also called for promoting mutual dialogue and cultural understanding between different cultures and working towards overcoming religious differences and focusing on common values.
For his part, Dr. Said Kafaiti shed light on important data regarding religious pluralism and identities in European countries. He pointed out that the challenges related to pluralism are not limited to the increase in the number of immigrants and refugees, but also involve unprecedented religious and cultural diversity in those countries in recent decades.
Professor Kafaiti also emphasized the importance of the Document on Human Fraternity which was co-signed by His Eminence Dr. Ahmed El-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and Chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders, and His Holiness Pope Francis, Pontiff of the Catholic Church, in Abu Dhabi in 2019. He explained that the document promotes the language of dialogue among followers of religions and contributes to enhancing tolerance and peaceful coexistence.
Dr. Kafaiti called on youth and new media outlets to widely disseminate the principles of the document to combat misunderstandings of religious texts and electronic fatwas that reflect misconceptions, impede dialogue, and reject differences. He stressed the need to include a definition of religions and enhance the values of dialogue and tolerance in educational curricula, with a focus on religious and human commonalities.
In conclusion, the interventions and discussions raised important issues about religious and identity pluralism in the West. The participants emphasized the necessity of working towards enhancing communication and mutual understanding between cultures and religions, and building bridges of dialogue and cooperation to achieve peaceful coexistence in diverse societies.
The Muslim Council of Elders’ stand at the International Publishing and Book Fair in Rabat is set to host several seminars and activities aimed at rectifying misconceptions, promoting dialogue and tolerance, and building bridges of communication and coexistence. These efforts align with the Council’s message, under the Chairmanship of His Eminence Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, which aims to enhance peace in Muslim and non-Muslim societies.


Jennifer Shannon is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for anxiety. She has worked with children, teens and adults since 1985. Originally trained as a psychodynamic or “talk” therapist, she noted that while her clients felt better, she still sought more lasting and permanent change for them. Then she attended a UC Berkeley course taught by her first mentor, Michael Tompkins Ph.D. on evidence based treatment.
What this means is treatment that has been found by scientific studies to be the most effective for specific mental health problems. Consistently Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, or CBT was found to be the most effective treatment for the most common disorders such as anxiety and depression. Jennifer began to avidly study CBT going to workshops, reading books and consulting with masters in the field, including Michael Tompkins, PhD, Christine Padesky, Ph.D. and Jacqueline Persons, Ph.D. Practicing CBT has been the most rewarding work Jennifer has ever done professionally.
Currently she works with adults, children and teens specializing in Anxiety Disorders, including Social Anxiety or extreme shyness, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Separation Anxiety, Panic Disorder, Phobias, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and some types of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. She also treats insomnia and depression.
This Holiday, Give Your Teen a Gift That Will Help Set Them Up For Success!
Do you procrastinate? And if so, what’s your procrastination type? In this fun and illustrated guide, author Jennifer Shannon blends acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral strategies to help you recognize your procrastination habits, discover the strengths of your unique procrastination type, and find the motivation you need to meet important deadlines and reach your highest goals.
This isn’t a manual on how to please your parents, teachers, professors, or friends. This is a book to help you understand why you procrastinate, whether or not procrastination works for you, and if not, how to improve your work habits and really get things done. By helping you uncover your own unique strengths, this book will help you master your to-do list—and your life!
How To Manage Time (In 3 Minutes)
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Jennifer Shannon, LMFT, cofounder of the Santa Rosa Center for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, has topped Amazon’s sales for books targeting teenage mental health and depression. The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens and its companion workbook, The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens (New Harbinger Press) are written to help teens overcome the fear and worry that can keep them from feeling confident and independent.
“Teens who suffer from anxiety often think of themselves as weak, stupid or any of many other negative labels,” Shannon writes. “You may think you are the only one who feels things this way and that everyone else is normal. The thing is, normal doesn’t exist. Everyone feels anxiety, and in a surprising variety of situations.”
Based in cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy, Survival Guide is designed to help teens develop practical strategies for overcoming the primitive part of the brain where anxious thoughts arise, and arm them to handle even the toughest situations that would previously leave them paralyzed.
Don’t Let Terrorism Hijack Your Brain
by Jennifer Shannon, LMFT
I, too, experience horror, heartbreak, and anxiety when I read about mass shootings and other acts of terrorism, whether in Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels, or Orlando.
But what is of special interest to me is how we respond. As a psychotherapist, I specialize in the treatment of anxiety, from panic attacks and OCD, to general worry and stress. What all types of anxiety have in common is a fear of the unknown—that something bad could happen in the future. This might be the fear of having a panic attack while standing in line at the grocery store or worry that a small mole might be cancer.
Underlying this fear is the idea that what you don’t know might kill you. Terrorism and mass shootings activate this fear of the unknown, that carnage could happen anywhere at any time, in places that we have always assumed were safe. (Read More…)


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Danny Harms, Senior Designer at The Brewers Association (BA)
Jason Smith, Art Director at The BA
Luke Trautwein, Creative Director at The BA (unless otherwise noted)
Brewers Publications is a subsidiary entity of the Brewers Association by that publishes books for amateur and professional brewers, as well as titles that promote understanding and appreciation of American craft beer.
I helped manage the book design process from concept to completion for three new book titles published each year.
I designed the covers and art directed photoshoots with photographers. I also designed the interior page layouts and style guide.
Click the books above to navigate to its section below:
Since this book is all about brewery finance, I designed the cover to play off the theme of an increasing bar chart.
I art directed a photoshoot with Luke Trautwein at Beyond The Mountain brewery.
This book will help you and your staff understand the importance of a strong financial foundation to help you run a more successful brewery.
This book is all about simplifying the homebrewing process, so I designed the cover to feature the absolute basics of the hobby: ingredients and delicious beer in a reused glass bottle.
I art directed a photoshoot with Aaron Colussi to capture the beer and ingredients, and Luke Trautwein photographed several portraits of Drew and Denny—the book's personality-filled authors.
Simple Homebrewing reduces the complicated steps for making beer and returns brewing to the fundamentals.
I art directed a cover photoshoot with our Creative Director Luke Trautwein and designed the cover to feature an IPA poured in a style-specific glass. We surrounded the beer with some of the boundary-pushing ingredients featured in book's recipes.
Craft beer’s most popular style, India Pale Ale, is experiencing a flavor revolution.
For this book about a traditional German Beer style, I art directed a photoshoot for the cover with Luke across the street from our office at the Bohemian Biergarten in Boulder, Colorado.
Follow the development of this lightly sour wheat beer as it grew, then bordered on extinction, before surging into popularity.
For the cover of this book I wanted to focus on the complex chemistry required to brew quality beer. I art directed a photoshoot with Aaron Colussi with a beautiful glass of beer and a microscope against a pure white background, later layering in a cell-level microscope slide pattern for the background.
Discover how to build a foundation and culture of quality within your brewery—no matter what the size—by establishing protocols, corrective actions, and improvements.
This book design came about to quickly capitalize on the trend of craft breweries brewing new hard seltzer beverages. I art directed a photoshoot with Luke to capture the clarity and carbonation of the popular beverage with some flavorful ingredients from some of the receipes included by author Chris Colby.
Simple to make and with a wide range of creative flavor additions, hard seltzer is a sparkling alternative for beer lovers looking to give their palate a different experience.


About the Archives: a Message from USA Ultimate
Posted: January 7, 2013 11:54 AM
In the years after the Ultimate Players Association (UPA) was formed in 1979, there was no internet or personal computing as we know it, so it is fair to say that most things were done on paper. The UPA had no permanent headquarters office yet, so all of the materials to run the organization and other historically relevant materials resided with various UPA volunteers and ultimate players.
In fact, when Tom "TK" Kennedy
passed on the reigns to Brian "Murph" Murphy
in 1982, "the UPA" fit in a shoebox. According to Mr. Murphy: "Tom Kennedy ran this thing out of a shoebox in his spare bedroom in his bungalow in Santa Barbara and handed me the shoebox in 1982 and said here you go." [full story]
As the organization grew, and it was no longer practical (nor prudent) for UPA volunteers to pass down these historical documents in this manner - the archives needed permanent storage. John Caporali came to the rescue in 1988 and was able to offer to house the archives through his connection with the library at Penn State.
As announced in the October 1988 UPA Newsletter, the UPA established its archive and named John archivist. Newsletter after newsletter included calls for donations of memorabilia, discs, shirts, programs, research papers, photographs, media articles and videotapes. John oversaw the growing collection as people mailed in their dusty boxes. He was listed in that role as late as the September 1995 UPA Newsletter
. Fast forward a few years, and as happens to many ultimate players in time, life got in the way and he and the UPA lost touch with each other.
In 2000, Joey Gray took on the role of UPA Executive Director. Gray, with a background in Library Science, made it one of her missions to track down these materials. With the help of Dan "Stork" Roddick
, they tracked down his email address and received a response indicating he was residing in Sharon, PA. After further attempts at emailing Mr. Caporali met with no response, Ms. Gray decided it was time for a field trip to try to locate John and put the archives issue to rest. So, she adjusted her travel plans to the 2001 College Championships by two days and embarked on the adventure.
As detailed in her article in the 2002 Spring UPA Newsletter (not yet available online), she tracked down his home address from a staffer at Penn State campus. Ms. Gray was able to meet with Mr. Caporali and learned that the archives had been preserved. Although no longer associated with the Penn State library, John led them to a gym closet on campus where the archives sat alongside basketballs and volleyball nets. The next morning, Joey packed the rental car full of materials and shipped them back to headquarters in time to make a plane ride to Boston for the 2001 College Championships.
Wrote Ms. Gray at the time: "What's next? As usual with archive collections, there is a huge difference between housing it, and having the resources to make it available." Although she understood and outlined the steps it would take to inventory, digitize, index, and make it all available, the required staff time and budgetary implications placed this project on the back burner. For years the archives remained in storage: some at a local brewery warehouse, others stacking up in corners of UPA headquarters.
With the increasing concern that the videotapes were deteriorating, the UPA (now USA Ultimate) set aside room in the budget to digitize the old videos in 2011, and began scanning select UPA Newsletters for online viewing. Beyond that, all that was publicly available was a rough, and often incomplete, listing of the finals standings of championship events. A new, scalable website structure was needed to better house and make publicly available these materials...which brings us to today.
These pages serve as a skeleton to house information regarding our past championship events and the history of our organization. In addition to being able to see the past UPA College rankings, also available are: more complete event final standings, event dates/locations, and event logos. There are also opportunities to interact in the comments within each of the year and division pages. With our new channel on YouTube
, there is now a great platform for our video holdings which we can embed and make available for everyone to enjoy. In time, the remaining UPA Newsletters/Magazines, select photos, and other materials will be added to these pages.
How this resource grows is largely dependent upon the further involvement of the ultimate community:
- Does your attic still have some dusty boxes of ultimate archives? It would be a shame if important moments ultimate history (especially old videos from the 70s, 80s, or 90s) were not preserved. Please consider gifting them to our archives so we can digitize them.
- Have a great story to tell from your experiences? Are you an aspiring great who wants to cover a moment in our history? Please send story ideas or submissions for potential feature articles to be published on our website or in our magazine.
- Do you have library science experience and/or an interest in ultimate history? Please consider volunteering to help with this project.


In 2004-2005 I helped organize an art project in the shape of a book of children’s stories. The book was then read by people who were asked to read them unprepared, as if a bedtime story in a book they’ve never read before. Those readings were then set to music written custom for each one. The final result, called “little kid stories” was released as a pdf+mp3s set, and as a webpage that unfortunately did not survive into the modern era of browsers.
It’s now a bit past the 10 year anniversary of this project, and for the occasion I went ahead and converted the book and audio into videos using the original pdfs of the text and illustrations. They’re now available for easy watching on youtube.
I want to say thank you to Tanya Bjork who did an absolutely incredible job creating illustrations from the text. Her digital etchings fit the mood of the stories perfectly, both in what they portray, but also in their stark raw contrast of black and white. I also want to thank all the readers who had the very difficult task of being recorded as they read a foreign text for the first time in their life, everyone who helped shape the stories by editing, and everyone who contributed seeds of the stories to me through conversations or other communication fragments.
It’s not a perfect piece, and it’s at times difficult for me to listen either cause of imperfections of production, or simply because I’m not the same person I was 10 years ago, but it’s still a very beautiful one, and one deserves to not disappear completely.
I also realize the inherent rudeness of asking people to experience a long form piece of video in the age of 5-second entertainment, so thank you to everyone who can take the time to experience the piece.
The videos are available here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs4cjJsBkUN28_oDK0m293G_UZK2csVSF.
I hope that you can view it in a positive light.


About the Author
Barbara H. Shannon has been perfecting her art skills since childhood. Desiring a career in the art world, she studied Studio Art and Art Education through undergraduate and graduate school at California State University, San Jose. Her passion for the arts is expressed in her concurrent venues as an award winning painter, free lance illustrator, portraitist and secondary school art educator.
The independent learner's need for a textbook was the impetus for writing Exploring Art Media. Through her classes and the book Barbara strives to introduce both the fun and the serious aspects of studio art.


I have recently been inspired to reconfigure our Pinterest account to align with our Spotlight attention on twelve different material genres each month that focus on we have and use at the studio.
Pinterest is a fantastic resource tool I find myself turning to often. As a virtual “pin board” it allows me to keep a paperless connection to all of what would otherwise be “tear sheets” (as my dad used to call them during his Illustrating days). My dad had a huge collection of magazine and book page inspiration that he used as a go-to resource library of sorts which is exactly what Pinterest is!
Our spotlighted boards allow us to collect and share ideas and ways to reuse things that would otherwise be thought of as cast-offs by many.
This month we are Spotlighting Yarn and String at the studio. Check out our Pinterest Board of the same name to see what we make with yarn at the studio, what artists make with yarn, how it is being “recycled”, as well as where it comes from and other interesting things to know about yarn and string. As the month wares on our board will surely grow with ideas galore about this creative medium and it’s extensive reuse options. I am so excited!