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The Baldwin High School Library Media Center is the HEART of our school. Through the library, students learn and develop information literacy skills. Those skills include:
- learning how to access information accurately and efficiently
- learning how to evaluate information critically and competently
- learning how to use information creatively and accurately
These skills help our students to become independent learners who:
- pursue information related to personal interests
- appreciate literature and other creative expressions of information
- strive for excellence in information seeking and knowledge generation
The result is:
- students who positively contribute to the learning community, recognizing the importance of information to our society
- students who practice ethical behavior with regard to responsibly sharing information with others via technology tools
- students who participate within groups and on their own to identify problems, seek solutions, and design, develop, and evaluate information products and solutions
(content adapted from Information Power by the American Library Association)
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Library Hours: 7:00 AM- 3:00 PM
Students who wish to use the library to read, study, or conduct research during a study hall period should report to the library before 7:45 a.m. to sign in for the appropriate period on that school day.
Students will report directly to the library instead of to study hall; the sign-in sheet will enable Ms. Del Re, the librarian, to take attendance and report all library students to their study hall teachers.
Students are also welcome to use the library during lunch. If a student wishes to use the library during his/her 30 minute lunch period, then he/she will sign in upon arrival and remain in the library for the entire lunch period.
No one is permitted in the library during their homeroom period.
Students from study hall will be granted access to the library based on available seating. Additionally, students must use the facility for the stated purposes and must demonstrate appropriate behavior or else they will be sent back to their study hall and may have their library privileges suspended or revoked.
- Non-fiction and fiction books: 3 weeks
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- Damaged books: students will be assessed a repair fee for any damaged book(s).
- Lost books: students will be assessed a replacement fee for any lost book.
Baldwin High School Library announces a partnership with Driving-Tests.org, a company dedicated to driver safety and education, to offer free Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) practice tests to library patrons. The new service includes free tests specifically based on the state’s DMV materials. It is the only site of its kind to include accessibility tools that let users hear selections read aloud, make them into MP3s, translate pages into other languages, magnify text, and mask portions of the screen for greater visibility on the practice tests.
This partnership allows the Baldwin High School Library to harness the power of Driving-Tests.org’s specialized practice exams to turn new drivers into safer drivers. The new program will work as an outreach to several valued groups of patrons, including teens, those with disabilities, and seniors who need to take a renewal exam, as well as patrons at every other stage of life.
Driving-Tests.org is a part of Elegant E-Learning, Inc., an eight-year-old company with a proven track record of revolutionizing online resources for learner drivers. Driving-Tests.org is part of a plan to improve global driver safety by providing free practice tests written by experts to anyone who wants to study, along with online copies of official study guides.


READ ALL ABOUT IT In “Everglades Forever,” the author explains several important scientific ideas. For example, she talks about the migration of animals within the wetlands, their various habitats, and the need for water conservation. By thinking about the relationships between these different aspects of the same topic, readers can understand the author’s argument more … Continue reading Everglades Forever, America’s Great Wetland.
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The SmartCAM Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software family consists of applications for Computer-Numerical Control (CNC) milling, turning, fabrication and wire EDM.
SmartCAM v2016 builds on the KBM Library functionality introduced in SmartCAM v2015. The improved KBM library supports the storing and re-use of tooling and operation settings, greatly increasing the efficiency with which new programs can be created using proven and repeatable processes. This ensures consistent and accurate CNC methodologies are used throughout the manufacturing facility.
The associativity feature of the KBM Library allows jobs that use library definitions to be quickly updated to the most current definitions.
“SmartCAM has always allowed users to manage their tool and operation parameters in a variety of ways to fit their needs. With the improvements to the v2016 KBM Library, that flexibility is still retained, but with the additional benefit of having all their manufacturing data stored and managed in a single repository.” said Doug Oliver, Senior Product Manager at SmartCAMcnc.
“Additionally, the SmartCAM KBM Library can be easily populated from existing jobs with just a few keystrokes.” Douglas went on to say. “Data stored in the library can be given a group name and associated to materials and machines allowing the data to be quickly filtered and recalled for reuse.”
Several improvements to the SmartCAM v2016 user interface have been included to make SmartCAM even easier and more intuitive to learn and use. The SmartCAM List View, a key component of the interface, now displays model data in a “tree structure” that is expandable and collapsible. CAD and CAM model elements can now be shown using this hierarchical list, which is convenient for viewing as much or as little detail of the model as needed.
A number of improvements have been made to the SmartCAM mill roughing processes. The Group Pocket process now supports separate pocket and island groups, including support for multi-level nested pockets and islands. Also added to Group Pocket, the Part Offset and Morph-path type options can be used to produce smoothed, continuously-tangent toolpaths that are suitable for high speed milling (HSM) techniques.
All SmartCAM v2016 products benefit from an updated ACIS® modeling kernel, and many customer-requested core improvements have been added.
“SmartCAM v2016 has made important advances in several key areas that will help users be more productive. The enhanced KBM library and its integration into the product greatly improves the ease with which proven tooling and operation settings can be reused and managed. Additionally, the new hierarchical list view provides a much richer view of the model, allowing users to instantly understand the organization and structure of the model.” said Oliver.


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Have you read a good book lately? Would you like to recommend it to other students? Share a few thoughts about it so others can enjoy it too!
A book that I would recommend is The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and it is a book that I think a lot of people would enjoy. When I started to read this book, it was nothing like I expected it to be, but in a good way. The book has many themes and life lessons that I think almost everyone that reads this could relate to in some way. The history and information about Native American Indians is introduced and taught a lot throughout the book and that is something I have never been introduced to and learned about which I found really interesting.
A book that I would recommend is The Thirteen Reasons Why and they have it in the school library. It is written by Jay Asher. The main character is a girl named Hannah and she actually plays a dead girl. The other main characters name is Clay, and he is listening to a voice recording that Hannah made before she killed herself. The setting of the book takes place in about 50 different places because on the recording, Hannah leads him to different places to explain why she took her life. In this story, Hannah kills herself and she records herself before, to give to a kid that explains all the thirteen reasons why she decided to take her life. I would recommend this book because it can teach people a lot and it is a book that I never wanted to put down while reading. It is a very interesting book and I think any age or gender would like to read it.
Another book that I would recommend to people would be The Things They Carried. It is written by Tim O’brien. There were many main characters throughout the book but two of the guys were named Tim himself, and Ted lavedner who are two soldiers fighting for American and their lived in the Vietnam war. It takes place in Vietnam during the war, and also back in the US as the soldiers write home to their loved ones. This book is non-fiction, so it is basically just things that happen to the soldiers while they are at war and most of the things are brutal dealing with death, grief, and the longing for their loved ones. Although this book isn’t as fun to read as some other books, I think people would find it very interesting. It is a story about the Vietnam War, but not a story that you would expect. Everyone learns about war in class at some point but this story goes into more detail than I have ever read. The story is pretty depressing but it teaches more in depth stories and events that happen in war then I think anyone has ever learned about.
A book that i would recommend is The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie. Two of the main characters are Arnold, and Rowdy. Arnold and Rowdy are best friends who live on an Indian reservation together until Arnold moves schools out of the reservation. This book takes place in the Spokane Reservation in Washington. This story is about a Native American boy who wants to persure his dream oustide of the Reservation he lives in and along the way he experiences poverty, death and dreams. It is a book that I think a lot of people would enjoy. When I started to read this book, it was nothing likle I expected it to be, but in a good way. The book has many themes and life lessons that I think almost everyone that reads this could relate to in some way. The history and information about Native American Indians is introduced and taught a lot throughout the book and that is something I have never been introduced to and learned about which I found really interesting.
A great book is Impulse by Ellen Hopkins. In the book there are three main characters, Vanessa, Conner, and Tony. These characters are all trying to figure out who they are during the book and solve their problems that they faced at the beginning of the book. The setting is present day in a psychiatric hospital for teenagers. The book alternates from chapter to chapter about whose point of view it is from. The storyline of Impulse is all three of these main characters attempt suicide and are sent to a hospital that helps them realise why life is important and how to get out of their depression slump.
I would reccommend this book because it is written differently than any other book I have ever read. Ellen Hopkins never fails to write page-turning books with unpredictable endings. The ending to this book ties everything from the book together in a perfect, twisted way. Not only are the stories by Ellen Hopkins interesting, they are an oppurtunity to learn and understand people that are going through tough situations because she is extremely accurate with demonstrating their emotions so you can feel them also.
Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Two of the main characters are Tally Youngblood and Shay. They are both adventerous and ready to stir up chaos if it allows them freedom, trying something new, and escaping the town’s odd rules.
The setting of this book is in the future in cities and in the wilderness.
In Ugly town people are turned ‘pretty’ at age 16. This is Tally Youngblood’s dream. She prepares her entire life to turn pretty and finally be able to move to Pretty town. However, she meets a new friend named Shay who has a crazy idea that she should remain Ugly because something is up with people turning ‘bubble heads’ (or stupid) once they turn pretty. Shay runs off a few days before her 16th birthday leaving Tally with the choice to become pretty or to also runaway also.
I would reccommend this book because it is clever and written about the future. As the story goes on you learn more and more about the town secrets and its very interesting. I enjoyed reading this book because it was adventerous and all the characters were risky.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The main character of this book is Charlie. Charlie’s only friend in middle school commits suicide and Charlie is left to go to his first year of highschool with no friends. He is a ‘wallflower’ which means he is told a lot but doesn’t talk about what he learns and what he sees. In highschool he meets Sam and Patrick who are seniors that become his best friends. The story takes place at different parties, school, and at Charlie’s home. The story is about Charlie’s first year of highschool and how he developes. He goes to his first parties, smokes weed for the first time, and becomes extremely close to multiple people.
I enjoyed this book because Charlie’s perspective of life is interesting and really does explain what a true ‘wallflower’ is. The book has a strange feel to it and as you continue reading the main characters seem to be going insane. At the end of the book Charlie remembers something that he forced himself to forget when he was younger and it somewhat explains other parts of the earlier book.
One book that I would recommend is The Help by Kathryn Stockett. The novel takes place in the southern state of Mississippi in the early 1960s. Two of the main characters are Skeeter who is a 22 year old and she wants to be a writer. After coming home from college she finds that her maid that she grew up with is gone from the house. She comes up the with the idea of writing a book about the view of 12 African American house maids, after seeing how her maid was treated. Aibileen is a house maid that deals raising the child of the women she works with and has to keep a clean house while also cooking meals. Aibileen is the first person to give Skeeter any information for her new book. The plot of the book is the events that lead up the the book being published. The maids are very afraid that their employers will read about how horrible they treat the maids and that they will loose their jobs. I would reccommend this book because it is a very sad story that you can feel the emotion through. You will learn more about the time period when maids were made to do anything and you can learn that you should treat people with more respect.
A book I would recommend would be The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The main character of the novel is Amir, the narrator of the novel, is a Pashtun who loved storytelling and flying kites. The second main character of the novel is Amir’s best friend Hassan, the son of Amir’s father’s servant. The story starts out with Amir living a luxurious life in Kabul, Afghanistan but then later moves into the United States when Amir and his father escape the Russian invasion in Afghanistan. The story is about a young boy and his experience before and after the Russian invasion in his home country. Through the novel, you see the choices, good and the bad, that Amir makes concerning his friends and family. You also get to experience the changes that take place in Amir. There are a few disturbing scenes portrayed in the novel and all around, I thought the novel was very sad. I would definitely recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys a deep plot revolving that triggers a few tears here and there.
A book I would recommend would be The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The two main characters were Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby. Nick Carraway is the narrator of the novel who lives next door to Jay Gatsby and tells the story of this man all the while trying to be moral. Jay Gatsby is a very mysterious and young, rich man who is in love with Nick’s cousin Daisy Carraway. No one seems to understand Gatsby’s background story or what he is doing in West Egg (a city in New York). The story takes place in East Egg (neighborhood for the rich) and West Egg (neighborhood for those who aren’t as rich) New York. Jay and Nick live in West Egg, while Daisy lives in East Egg. The story seems to revolve around the American Dream and what it meant to the different characters. Jay Gatsby’s American Dream is to attain the unattainable, Daisy. Jay and Daisy used to be young lovers but Daisy ended up marrying Tom when Jay went off to war. I would recommend this novel to those who appreciate a bit of history incorporated in a tragic love story given in another man’s point of view.
A novel I would recommend would be A Separate Peace, written by John Knowles. The two main characters of this novel are Gene and Phineas, who is known as Finny through the majority of the novel. Gene is the narrator of the novel and he is a very smart, intelligent young man who attends a boarding school with his best friend Phineas. Phineas, Finny, is the best friend who is very athletic and loved by many. He’s a daredevil who cannot say no to anything. With everybody looking up to Finny, Gene has no choice but feel envious and jealous of Finny. When one day Finny and Gene decide to jump out of a tree and into a river, Gene’s jealousy brings out the worst in him and causes him to make a decision that affects him and Finny for the rest of their lives. Most of the novel takes place in the prep school both Gene and Finny attend, Devon prep school. I would recommend this book to basically every person of every age due to the themes and the ideologies mentioned throughout the novel. All in all, it’s a really good book that I very well enjoyed.
One great book to read is “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This book is about the narrator, George, and his summer in New York during the 1920′s. George’s neighbor, Jay Gatzby, is a wealthy, mysterious man, who is in love with George’s cousin, Daisy, who lives across the bay with her jerk husband who cheats on her. George and Gatsby live on west egg, which symbolizes new money, and Daisy live One East Egg, which symbolizes old money. the book is pretty much about Gatzby trying to win over Daisy, his long lost love. who is linked to her through George. The book is so great because all of the symbolism and metaphors. I reccommend this book for readers interested in a really deep meaning. this is one of my favorite books I’ve ever read.
Another great book is “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins. It is about Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, who are chosen to participate in the annual Hunger Games. the games started after the nation of Panem took control of north america and devided it into 12 districts. each year, the capitol selects two teenagers, male and female, from each district to compete in a battle to the death as a reminder of the capitols power over the nation. together, Katniss and Peeta fight to stay alive in this thrilling book. This book takes place in the distant future and the games are held in some woods. I reccomend this book for a teenager because there is a lot of teenage-drama stuff that goes on. it is also a good read for people who like action and suspense.
Another good book I read was “of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck. The book takes place in 1930′s dust bowl. It is a timeless tale about two migrant workers. One of them, George is small, yet cunning, and he looks after his friend, Lenny who is very large, yet mentally retarded. George promised Lenny’s aunt that he would take care of him and they developed a special bond when they go out on their own to look for work. Together, they find work on a ranch, where Lenny gets into trouble, causing George to constantly come to his rescue. This book is one of the greatest examples of friendship you will ever see. I reccomend this book for anyone interested in learning more about the culture of the 40′s.
Another book I read was the book after shiver.The book is called Linger by Maggie Stiefvater, this book was even better than the last. Sam and Grace have found each other and fallen in love, but they have a new problem on their hands and this time and it’s not winter. It’s a new wolf named Cole. Cole has a troubled past that lingers with him and decides his future for him as a wolf and as a person.
And one more book I read was the third in this trilogy was Forever. By: Maggie Stiefvater, she basically puts everything together in this book and made it the best one out of the three. Grace and Sam have proven their love to the world but know it faces a true test of love. The wolves are being hunted by the people of the town and Grace has long passed her transformation and is now facing the truth about her past and that one day on the swing. Sam has to fight off the urge to change and leave her behind so he can not only save her but the other wolves that have joined the pack…
A book that I would recommend is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The main characters in the book are Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. The setting of the novel is sometime in the future in North America, but in now called Panem. The country is split up into several district and Peeta and Katniss both come from District 12. Peeta’s name was called out of the lottery, but Katniss volunteered to be tribute in her younger sister’s place of the annual Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a competition that a boy and a girl from the ages 12-18 from each district fight each other to the death and there can only be one victor. I would recommend this book because although it is an exciting novel and hard to put down after you started reading. I like this novel because I loved the excitement in the novel. Although the novel is rather violent in certain areas, it keeps you on edge and makes your heart race. I also thought that the transitions in Katniss and Peeta’s life were very interesting and how the author displayed their transitions of life in poverty, in the capitol and in the arena. The author also writes with excellent imagery in the novel, that it feels like watching a movie.
Another good novel is Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, which is a sequel to the The Hunger Games. Catching Fire has more secondary characters that become very helpful to the main characters, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. After Peeta and Katniss win the Hunger Games together, they return home trying to transition outside the Hunger Games arena and what they experience, as well as a wealthy lifestyle. Little to Katniss and Peeta’s knowledge, that both of them surviving the Hunger Games was an unintended act of rebellion. Katniss and Peeta try to convince the public from the other district that it wasn’t an act of rebellion, to prevent uprisings in the districts. In addition, for the seventy-five Hunger Games means that it is a Quarter Quarrel. Every twenty-five years of the Hunger Games, the Hunger Games has to present the Quarter Quarrel, meaning that the Capitol will put a sick twist to the rules of the Hunger Games. This novel takes place a year after The Hunger Games takes place, and the setting is in District 12, the Capitol, the arena, and briefly in District 11 of Panem (North America). I would recommend this book to those who enjoyed The Hunger Games, because it contains the same intensity and excited as the first novel did. It is also interesting how in the first novel, Peeta and Katniss’ relationship was for the cameras of Panem, but in Catching Fire, they grew to have a much stronger bond that was real and not just acting. Something that I enjoyed bout this novel is that the living victors and the citizens of Panem were re-evaluating the justice of the Hunger Games and the Capitol. This is actually the first time I read a novel whose sequel is as good as the first novel.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
A good book to read is The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Two main characters in this novel are Junior/Arnold and Gordon. It takes place mostly on the Spokane reservation and Reardon High School. The novel is about a boy, Junior, who has lived on the Spokane Reservation his whole life, and decides that he has to leave to go to Reardon, a white school, so that his life could have more meaning and purpose. I would recommend The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian because it is the perspective of a teenage boy, so teenagers are most likely able to relate to Arnold. This book is also very informative and insightful about the struggles, poverty and alcoholism on the Indian reservations, as well does it show the importance of expectations outside our own expectations. I think that it is very interesting how Junior/Arnold transitions from the different environments and people in Reardon and the reservation. It is also interesting how the different expectations from both Reardon and the reservation have big effects on Junior/Arnold and his decisions.
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"It's catty and poignant and an eye-opening glimpse into a unique world. Watching these kids dance, it's also strikingly beautiful." - The Globe and Mail
"Ballet High is full of fabulous energy. The performances are useful and strong. The struggles are real. It's a joyous celebration of the hard won art of dance." - Heidi Hagenlocher, Dance International
documentary follows the senior graduating class at a professional
ballet school, taking a unique look into the world of a group of remarkable teenagers leading far from typical teenage lives. Trying to balance high school with daily dance classes
and auditions, they now have to prove to everyone that they have what it
takes to become a professional dancer. 90 minutes.


Kingfishers - Reception
Welcome to Kingfishers, our Reception class which is taught by Ms Dyet and supported by Mrs Alexander. We have been settling into our new home in the Burrow this term, and the children have been enjoying their new learning space. Our learning project this term is 'Once Upon a Time' .
In the Once Upon a Time project, your child will be introduced to the wonderful world of stories. They will listen to a range of traditional tales and have the chance to act out the stories in their play. They will also listen to alternative contemporary stories to see different viewpoints from the characters. They will use the stories to think about how life has changed from when the stories were written. They will also make up their own stories and make masks, props and puppets to act out their stories.
Supporting your child at home
- Read traditional stories and fairy tales to your child.
- Visit your local library and choose picture books to share.
- Talk about the characters in stories and whether they like or dislike them.
- Talk about how the characters in stories behave and what they could do differently.


So excited! My new book is out! Available as ebook (Kobo, Kindle, Narnes nd Noble et al) and as paperback on Amazon.
How well do we really know our friends? How honest are we with each other and ourselves?
On holiday in an Edwardian house on the Kent coast, 5 female friends from school, now 35, try to deal with fears for the future arising from problems in the past.
With them are two 13 year olds and watching from the shadows is Annie, who was a servant there long ago. How does her life contrast with women’s experience today?
What does Annie see?
What will she do?
This is Part 1 of The House on Cliff Road. If you would like to know more about the life of her employers’ family and whether there is any resolution for Annie, look out for Part 2, The Tunnel of Years, which is coming soon.
Together the two sides of the story present snapshots of English history over the last one hundred years and ways in which women’s lives have changed.


The Secret War Council, Germany’s spy organization in New York, received orders from Berlin to stop the flow of munitions through terrorism in January 1915. German agents in the U.S. firebombed freighters on the high seas, incited labor unrest, fomented troubles along the Mexican-American border, and damaged or destroyed dozens of American factories and logistics installations. The German secret war against the United States in 1915, its discovery and publication, combined with the disastrous sinking of the Lusitania in May of that year, did much to prepare the American public to finally accept joining the Entente powers against Germany in 1917. This is the story of a group of German agents in the United States, who executed this mission.
Von Feilitzsch’s meticulous research clears away decades of misconceptions and mysteries about the intelligence war during the Mexican Revolution. - Mark Benbow, author of Leading Them to the Promised Land: Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology and
the Mexican Revolution: 1913-1915
With rare skill and an eagle-eye, Heribert von Feilitzsch has untangled a Gordian knot of a story, with characters that seem hatched from a novel: the German sabotage effort against the United States in World War I, using everything from firebombs, cigar bombs, Anthrax, a multitude of ingeniously destructive chemical shenanigans, and a secret war to disrupt Mexican oil production. This is a vitally important story for understanding not only World War I, but revolutionary Mexico. - C.M. Mayo, author of Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution


AUTISM SOCIETY VIRTUAL EVENTS
Check out our monthly calendar here: Our Monthly Calendar
Omaha Silent Book Club for Au-some Readers and others interested in a sharing hour for the reading of “personally picked” reading materials. We meet the Second Tuesday of the Month from 8:00-9:00 PM CST (7:00-8:00 PM MST) via Zoom. 30 minutes of chat related to reading materials and general conversation, and 30-minutes spent in silently reading. Come join us for something slightly different!
Join us for a virtual night out. We will meet up via Zoom for a little ‘mom-time’ online.
Join us for a virtual night out on Zoom on May 8th at 7:00 PM CST!
Join the Elementary Group via Zoom for a Show & Share on May 22nd at 3:00 PM CST!


Adult Groups and Programs
Adult Book Club "Lunch Bunch"
This group meets on the second Wednesday of each month at noon in the Historical Room of the Library.
Wednesday, Nov. 12 at Noon
The Traveler`s Gift by Andy Andrews
Wednesday, Dec. 10 at Noon
Evening Adult Book Discussion Group
This group meets on the second Thursday of each month at 7:00 in the Historical Room of the Library.
Thursday, Nov. 13 at 7:00
Last Chinese Chef by Nichole Mones
Men`s Book Club
This group meets on the Third Thursday of each month at 7:00 in the Historical Room of the Library.
Thursday, Oct. 16 at 7:00
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Thursday, Nov. 20 at 7:00
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
"Threads & More" group
This group meets on the first Tuesday of each month from 10:00-12:00 in the Historical Room of the Library.
This group is a combination of people who like to knit, crochet, quilt, sew, or needlepoint. No registration needed. Just bring your unfinished project to work on during the meeting. This is a great time to meet fellow "threaders" for a creativity blast!
Next meeting is on:
Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 10:00


Join local author and Clarkstown school teacher Rebecca Freimann for a talk and book signing about her family’s experiences during the Holocaust.
Family Tree: Rooted in Survival tells the never-before-told true story of three family branches and their struggles to survive the horrors of the Holocaust. Family members are separated from one another and must find the will to survive on their own. Will their will to survive be enough to withstand the Nazi crimes against humanity? Will they find one another again and be able to make a life after survival?
Buy the book here:


Sunday, September 18, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
I have went through the process to get our class text, Baran's Intro to Mass Comm, put on reserve at the library. The librarians say it might take two weeks to process, but after that, at least, it will be there for you, if you need it.
Monday, September 12, 2011
An alternative response to the 9-11-11 commemorations, from a Nobel Prize-winning New York Times columnist, which caused former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to cancel his subscription, in this Fox News reported response. Krugman's follow-up post today.


Most of these transcriptions were made directly from the originals or microforms held by the Cumbria Archive Service at Carlisle. Some are from Bishops’ Transcripts – i.e. copies made as an annual return to the diocese by the incumbent. I was given access to some baptism and marriage registers held in the circuit safe of the Kirkoswald and Alston Moor Methodist Circuit and these are published with the permission of the Methodist Church.
The process of copying can introduce mistakes, as can the process of transcription. I believe the transcripts to be very substantially correct but the original sources should be consulted if something seems amiss. I should be very pleased to hear of any errors found.
Transcriptions of the following registers are on the website (click to download in Microsoft Excel format):


I can't say I enjoy reading about that scary period of the Russian history called the Civil War, but I often read memoirs about those years. I often think about their authors: what did they think, what did they feel, what did they hope for, what made them join one or the other side in that war. The war must have started subtly, creepingly, insensibly. Some of them were, probably, afraid of the German army, but then the Reds or the Whites came to the city and the people faced a simple choice: they could join that army or become, well, subjects of preventive actions. Had I lived in 1919 or 1920, I would, probably, try to avoid both sides, but, of course, I dislike the bolsheviks more. Could it have been the other way round if I really lived then? I believe, yes. Because I am sure that the communists were not all bloodthirsty maniacs. Like Whites, the Reds fought for a better life for the people. Well, some of them did.
Recently, I finished reading memoirs of Grigory Grigorov. He was born in 1900 in Ukraine, in a family of a poor tailor. The book starts in 1905, when his family lived in Aleksandrovsk, with one of his first recollections, a pogrom. In 1911, he graduated from a five-year Jewish school and started working: at a footwear factory, as a newspaper boy, an assistant at a barbershop... In 1915 he made acquaintance with a couple of students who ran education groups for workers and who helped him find good books, and he started learning. In just two years, Grigory managed to prepare for the gymnasium exams, which included math, geography, history, physics, chemistry, biology, German and Latin languages. In 1917, he was already reading Caesar in Latin and Schiller in German. At the same time, he read philosophy books, books about religion, classical Greek literature, Shakespeare's works. What's more important, these two students who became his close friends, were socialists. They introduced him to Marxism. By that time Grigorov was working at a factory, and the choice of socialism was quite natural for him.
He mentions some people, like young turner Bondarenko or foundryman Likhachov, who told him unanimously that the revolution, should it happen, would fail, because the workers would not be able to keep the power. "Either bourgeois, or opportunists would exploit the movement of the Russian proletariat", they told. Grigorov was not that pessimistic, so he joined the socialist party. In 1919, he worked as a spy on the territory occupied/liberated by the White Army. He was caught and put to jail, but liberated by anarchists of Nestor Makhno. Since then, he treated anarchists with respect. For a year he fought in the Red Army, but for some personal reason he prefers not to tell a lot about this period. In 1920, he decides that he has had enough and goes to Moscow. He always wanted to learn, so he enters the Moscow State University, where he studies philosophy and social sciences. In 1922 he entered the philosophical department of Institute of Red Professors.
It was a magnificent period for him, when he met a lot of great figures of the Russian culture: Mayakovsky, Stanislavsky, Chaliapin, Yesenin, when he was lectured by famous scientists and talked to influential politicians. In 1923, the bell rang. Someone reported to the party Central Committee that he promoted anti-Marxist views. As a warning, he was sent as a lecturer to a small town, Ivanovo-Voznesensk, then to Siberia: to Tomsk and then to Novosibirsk.
The first volume of the memoirs, the only one I had, ends in 1927. The other volumes were not published in Russia, but, fortunately, I found a blog of Grigorov's grand-daughter (Russian History). You can find a short synopsis of the whole book in a much better English there. Besides, that blog features large extracts from the books, so I will not go into further details. The blog authors told me they had published the second and the third volumes in Israel. These volumes cover Grigorov's life from the first arrest in 1928, return home in 1930, second arrest in 1934, twenty years in prison and all the following life in USSR. In the foreword to the first volume, the author promises some interesting news in the following books. So, he tells about a group of army officers who in 1926 met with Trotsky to propose a putsch to overthrow Stalin...
What is so interesting about this book? Firstly, it's a detailed description of life in the early USSR. Secondly, it is one of few biographies written by the people from the other side of the revolution. And, finally, to a certain degree, it has explained to me the way of thinking of the people who fought in the Red Army for the bolsheviks. Grigorov, like many others, was disappointed with the way the things went. I'd say he should have listened better to the wise people, like Bondarenko and Likhachov. There's a bunch of things where I would disagree with Grigory Grigorov, but he had made his choice and the book is a frank justification of that choice.
A bit later I read another book of memoirs, by Sergei Golitsyn, son of prince Mikhail Golitsyn, who, of course, disliked the bolsheviks. Actually, he never even tried to oppose them, but he hated them with all his heart. Paradoxically, this book has also helped me understand what brought people to the camp of the revolutionaries. Golitsyn's aristocratic arrogance and disdain towards all those who belong to the lower classes really made me feel what the bolsheviks must have called "the class feeling". So, Grigorov was not really that wrong when he joined the revolution, I believe. His books is a valuable source of information and I hope it will be made available in English soon. At least, Russian edition is already available in the library of Harvard university.


Article by: Nina S Rafeek
It’s finally here! Science Literacy Week.
From Whitehorse, Yukon to St. John’s, Newfoundland, Science Literacy Week is a nation-wide initiative and a celebration of all things science. It was created to inspire curiosity and to promote engagement with the world of science. This week, participants will have the opportunity to explore the diversity and ubiquity of the sciences such as astronomy, geology, medicine, physics and engineering.
Science Literacy Week has its roots right here at the University of Toronto. It was founded by alumnus Jesse Hildebrand, graduate of Ecology and self-professed “life-long nerd” who’s heroes are Carl Sagan and David Attenborough. This is the third year of the event and it is bigger than ever! “Science Literacy Week is simply a primer, a push to encourage lifelong learning and a push to see just how wonderful science can be”, says Hildebrand.
During the week of September 19th, science-related events, displays, and interactive activities will be happening throughout the city of Toronto. The week’s events will be held at various libraries, universities, museums and laboratories. Activities will also be taking place outdoors which are designed to explore the wonders of the stars in the sky and the rocks of the earth.
Numerous events and displays will be found across all three U of T campuses such as a display of rare, early scientific works at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, a live demonstration of a 3D printer in action, a nature walk and even a sampling of food of the future at the Future Food Fair, just to name a few.
Also, be sure to visit the libraries around the campuses, for this year’s theme, Science Fiction: From Idea to Invention. There will be a display of intriguing science-themed books (not textbooks!) and resources for recommended novels, books, videos and podcasts.
To sign up and view the full schedule of the exciting activities and informative displays around the three U of T campuses, click here! http://guides.library.utoronto.ca/scienceliteracy2016
Jesse Hildebrand shared his thoughts on what makes this year’s Sci-Lit week unique:
“There are a lot more makerspace activities this year which I particularly like. If you can build something and use neat tools to do so I think you’re likely to be inspired to learn more. I’m also quite happy to see more events in nature – public hikes, bird banding, star parties – science is at its best in the field I think, and giving people a chance to get outside and see the wonderful world around them is always lovely.”
The events and activities during Sci-Lit week are welcome to everyone.


Dawn Brotherton is an award-winning author and featured speaker at writing and publishing seminars. When it comes to exceptional writing, Dawn draws on her experience as a retired colonel in the US Air Force as well as a softball coach. Her books include the Jackie Austin Mysteries and the Global Ebook Bronze Award Winner, Untimely Love (previously titled Worth the Wait). She is a contributing author to the non-fiction A-10s over Kosovo, sharing stories from her deployment. She has also written middle grade book Lady Tigers Series about girls’ fastpitch softball, encouraging female athletes to reach for the stars in the game they love. For more information about Dawn’s books and book signings, go to www.DawnBrothertonAuthor.com.
She offers a unique perspective from inside the military with her first book, The Obsession and its sequel, Wind the Clock. Dawn is currently working on the third book in the series, Truth Has No Agenda.
An avid fastpitch softball player, umpire, and coach, Dawn designed a new Scorebook that makes it easier to take notes and enables the coaches to re-create the game at a later date to pull out lessons learned for the players.
Inspired by her love of the game and her two daughters, Dawn is working on The Lady Tigers Series, fiction stories about a girls’ softball organization where the girls learn that being part of a team is about more than just playing softball. The target audience for this series is middle grade readers. Order your copy of Trish’s Team, Margie Makes a Difference, Nicole’s New Friend, and Tammy Tries Baseball today.
Get her newest cozy mystery, Eastover Treasures, for a light, easy summer read.
Learn more about Dawn through various media outlets
- Tidewater Behind the Scenes Podcast, Feb 2020
- AME Radio Show Interview with Dawn Brotherton, July 2019
- #12minconvo Interview with Dawn Brotherton, September 2019
- Virginia Gazette, May 2016
- Next Door Neighbors, March 2015 edition
- Interview with Dawn Brotherton
- From LitPick
Thanks to Li Cara and Meet the Author for her interview of award-winning author, Dawn Brotherton. Dawn has written multiple books including the Jackie Austin mystery series, The Lady Tigers series for middle school aged kids, the award winning e-Global Romance Fiction ‘Worth the Wait’ and more!You can order your copies at https://dawnbrothertonauthor.com/You can follow Dawn on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DawnBrothertonAuthor/You can follow Dawn on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dawnbrothertonauthor/Are you an author? Be like Dawn! Reach out to https://blue-dragon-publishing.com/
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CSOSA/PSA Research Review Committee
The CSOSA/PSA (Agency) Research Review Committee (RRC) is established by the CSOSA/PSA Research and Evaluation Policy Statement 1201 (Policy) as the body responsible for reviewing research proposed from internal and external sources to ensure that it is compliant with federal regulations, District laws, and Agency policy and is consistent with Agency priorities.
This includes review of research proposed by external entities as well as internal offices and individual employees. If you are interested in submitting a proposal for review, the guidelines for proposal submission, please refer to the Revised Appendix B-Submission Guidelines. The full policy also is available.
Copies of research proposals submitted to the RRC along with the RRC’s Recommendation Statements to the director(s) are available in the Reading Room. The appendices and other documents submitted by the researchers are not included here, but are available by contacting the RRC.


WinRAR 5.71 Final + Portable
Started by KinginTamil, 12-19-2019
WinRAR 5.71 Final + Portable
Joined Dec 2018
RAR is a console application allowing to manage archive files in command line mode. RAR provides compression, encryption, data recovery and many other functions described in this manual.
RAR supports only RAR format archives, which have .rar file name extension by default. ZIP and other formats are not supported. Even if you specify .zip extension when creating an archive, it will still be in RAR format. Windows users may install WinRAR, which supports more archive types including RAR and ZIP formats.
WinRAR provides both graphical user interface and command line mode. While console RAR and GUI WinRAR have the similar command line syntax, some differences exist. So it is recommended to use this rar.txt manual for console RAR (rar.exe in case of Windows version) and winrar.chm WinRAR help file for GUI WinRAR (winrar.exe).
[b]* WinRAR introduces an original compression algorithm. It provides a high compression ratio on executable files, object libraries, large text files, etc.[/b]
* Internally RAR format does not limit archive and file sizes also as a number of files in archive. These values may be limited by file and operating systems also as by available memory.
* WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives and is able to unpack 7Z, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZH, TAR, UUE, XZ, Z archives.
* WinRAR offers both a classic interactive Windows interface and the command line interface.
* WinRAR provides functionality for creating a 'solid' archive, which can raise the compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing large numbers of small files.
* WinRAR offers the ability to create customizable SFX archives.
* WinRAR offers the ability to create a multi-volume archive as SFX.
* Optional recovery record allows to protect archives from damage.
* WinRAR offers a number of service functions, such as encrypting files, adding archive comments and preserving NTFS file security.
Spoiler: What's New
1. "Convert archives" command:
a) improved performance when processing a lot of small archives in Windows 10;
b) fixed memory leaks which could lead to excessive memory use when converting to ZIP format.
2. Corrupt ZIP archive processing:
a) "Repair" command replaces packed and unpacked file sizes stored in local file header with sizes from central directory if local header sizes look invalid;
b) file extraction is stopped at unpacked size stored in ZIP headers even if available packed data allows further extraction. It is done to prevent unexpected hard drive space usage.
3. Ctrl+C allows to abort RAR "l" command quickly. In previous versions it could take several seconds until list command stopped.
4. Bugs fixed:
a) WinRAR could crash when attempting to display some types of archive comments in GUI shell, resulting in a denial of service;
b) if "Save archive name" and "Add to context menu" options were set in compression profile parameters and profile was invoked from Explorer context menu, WinRAR proposed an automatically generated archive name instead of name saved in profile.
c) WinRAR displayed an unneeded pair of round brackets in "Archive" column of "Diagnostic messages" window for system error messages;
d) "Extract to folder\" Windows Explorer context menu command could fail to unpack ZIP archives if their names included a numeric part followed by .zip extension, arbitrary data was present before the first file record and "Remove redundant folders from extraction path" WinRAR option was switched on;
e) in "RAR x -x<mask> arcname" command, parent folders of files matching the specified mask also were excluded from extracting;
f) "Find" command returned the current folder own name additionally to its contents for "Current folder" search area if folder name matched "File names to find" mask;
g) if "Find in files" and "Find in archives" are both enabled, "Find" command did not match an archive name itself against "File names to find" mask after searching inside of archive. So it did not display archive names for masks like *.rar and applied this mask only to files inside of archives;
h) when running an executable directly from archive, WinRAR 5.70 did not set a temporary folder with unpacked files as current. So executables attempting to access other archived files in current folder could fail to work;
i) WinRAR could be inaccessible for few seconds after closing an archived file opened in internal viewer in Windows 10;
j) dragging a file to subfolder of ZIP archive with "Store full paths" option enabled produced invalid pathnames consisting of repeated subfolder name. Same invalid pathnames were produced if adding files to ZIP archive with -ap<folder> -ep2 switches.
1. "Files to process" option on "Time" page of archiving dialog allows to choose files based on modification, creation or last access file time. Previously it was possible for modification time only.
2. Command line -ta, -tb, -tn, -to switches accept 'm', 'c' and 'a' modifiers after the switch name. So file time conditions can include not only the file modification time as in previous versions, but also creation and last access time.
Such switch can include multiple modifiers to set the same date for all specified times. For example, -tamc20190215 will process files modified and created after 2019-02-15.
New 'o' modifier permits to switch from AND to OR logic, so -tamco20190215 includes files modified or created after 2019-02-15. It is also allowed to specify several time filtering switches with different dates in the same command line, like: -taco20190201 -tbmo20190210
Switches -ta and -tn also include files matching the specified date exactly. Switches -tb and -to exclude such files.
3. WinRAR file list can display creation and last access file times if they are available.
Creation and last access columns are disabled by default and can be enabled in "Select file list columns" dialog. This dialog is opened after right clicking on file list column headers or after pressing "File list/Files/Columns..." button in WinRAR settings.
4. "Double extensions for archives" and "Archives in subfolders" options on "Files" page of archiving dialog modify behavior of "Put each file to separate archive" option.
You can switch between archive names in filename.ext.rar and filename.rar style with "Double extensions for archives".
You can create a separate archive for every file in selected subfolders or store the entire contents of every selected folder in separate archive depending on the state of "Archives in subfolders" option.
5. New -ad1 switch can be used when unpacking multiple archives recursively, such as 'rar x -r -ad1 arc\*.rar'. It creates a separate folder for files unpacked from each archive, but unlike already existing -ad switch, it creates such folders in each archive folder.
6. If context menu "Extract each archive to separate folder" is applied to archives from different folders in Windows Explorer "Search results", subfolders with unpacked files are created in each archive folder. Previous versions created them all in a folder of right clicked archive.
7. New "File list/List style/Checkboxes" option in WinRAR settings allows to use checkboxes to select file list items.
8. New "File list/Files/Exact sizes" option in WinRAR settings.
If this option is on, file sizes are always displayed in bytes. If it is off, sizes are rounded up and use units such as KB or MB. Smaller files can be still displayed in bytes.
9. If several console RAR are started with -ioff switch, PC is turned off by RAR copy finished last. Previously this switch was processed by first finished copy.
10. Read and write buffer size is increased for .iso files. It can help to improve .iso extraction performance in some cases, such as for network drives.
11. If "Delete archive" option in extraction dialog is applied to a set of RAR and REV volumes in volname.part# format, WinRAR will delete REV volumes as well. Previously only RAR volumes were deleted keeping REV files intact.
12. If "Delete archive" option in extraction dialog is applied to set of ZIP volumes with .zip.001, .zip.002, .zip.003 extensions, WinRAR will delete all ZIP volumes. Previously only .zip.001 volume was deleted for such volume naming scheme.
13. If we unpack arcname.rar using "Extract to arcname\" Explorer context menu command and "arcname" file already exists, WinRAR shell extension will propose "Extract to arcname~1\" instead. Previously this context menu command attempted to create a folder with same name as already existing file and failed.
14. If we pack a shortcut file with .lnk extension from Explorer context menu, .lnk file itself is added to archive. Previous versions added .lnk file target instead of .lnk file.
15. Windows does not allow executables exceeding 4 GB, so WinRAR issues an error immediately when attempting to create 4 GB or larger RAR SFX volumes. Previously WinRAR issued such error only after creating the first RAR volume.
16. Total extraction progress is displayed for 7z multivolume archives. Accuracy of 7z total extraction progress is improved.
17. "Find" command "Disks and folders" drop down list has been renamed to "Search area". Additionally to already existing choices, it includes a new "Selected items" option restricting search to files and folders selected in WinRAR file list.
18. "Find" command displays the number of found items in status bar.
19. "Diagnostic messages" window displays archive names in a separate column to provide the better message visibility for lengthy archive names.
20. Switch -isnd[-] in command line WinRAR mode allows to override "Enable sound" option in WinRAR settings. Use -isnd to turn sound notifications on and -isnd- to turn them off.
21. Nadav Grossman from Check Point Software Technologies informed us about a security vulnerability in UNACEV2.DLL library. Aforementioned vulnerability makes possible to create files in arbitrary folders inside or outside of destination folder when unpacking ACE archives.
WinRAR used this third party library to unpack ACE archives. UNACEV2.DLL had not been updated since 2005 and we do not have access to its source code. So we decided to drop ACE archive format support to protect security of WinRAR users.
We are thankful to Check Point Software Technologies for reporting this issue.
22. Bugs fixed:
a) console RAR mixed up source and destination file sizes and times in the overwrite prompt when updating a file in RAR archive with -o switch;
b) dragging files from 32-bit applications to 64-bit WinRAR window did not work;
c) WinRAR Shift+Del command applied to a folder could fail to delete some its subfolders. This command is used to delete files and folders permanently instead of moving them to Recycle Bin;
d) folder tree panel could not change folders if archived pathnames started from path separator, such as in archives created by tar tool with --absolute-names option;
e) if relative "Path=.\somefolder" was specified in SFX comment and SFX archive needed to elevate privileges when extracting, it created 'somefolder\somefolder' instead of 'somefolder';
f) commands modifying an existing RAR4 volume reset the volume number field to 1. While it did not affect extraction, WinRAR displayed a wrong volume number for such volumes;
g) fixed a crash when reading a comment from a corrupt RAR file;
h) toolbar in "Find" command "Search results" window was not adjusted to different toolbar icon sizes properly.
Spoiler: File Information
* Install program.* Use keygen to make .key file, or copy "rarreg.key" to program folder.
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T H E B O O K
Configuration of Forces
University of Washington Press, Spring/Summer 2003 for the book "William Ingham Configuration of Forces" by Matthew Kangas
"The art of William Ingham demonstrates how the modernist tradition, Specifically Abstract Expressionism, has flourished in the Pacific Northwest.
This lavishly illustrated volume brings to a wider audience the Seattle born artist's highly gestural and vividly colored abstract paintings. Exploring gesture, form, scale, color, touch and texture, Ingham's paintings are exuberant statements.
Tracing the artist's evolution through detailed analyses of individual Works, distinguished art critic Matthew Kangas builds the case for Ingham's significance and, in so doing, broadens the literature on Pacific Northwest art to include non-regional influences on artists of the area, drawing Northwest art closer to other modernist traditions and innovations in American art."
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Who Lived In Kirkham
Kirkham Portrait Gallery – Faces of the Past
Kirkham has a long history that can be traced right back to the Doomsday book. It is a town with a rich and varied heritage, a history that includes the Roman encampment at Carr Hill, a Medieval Moot Hall and market, and a great industrial past, seen when the town was dominated by textile mills, with a workforce busily engaged in the weaving of cloth for the manufacture of sails and parachutes.
Each of the portraits below displays a character who would have lived in Kirkham, at some point, over the centuries. Their story has been inspired by heritage, however authors have been allowed to use artistic license where little evidence exists, drawing conclusions based on what appears to be true.
All the stories have been researched and told by local authors, bringing Kirkham’s heritage to life.
If you have enjoyed reading these stories and have a comment to make, we would love to hear from you please provide a review by getting in touch.
Tell a Tale of Kirkham
If you have a story to tell, maybe about your grandparents or a relative, then see the Get Involved page and read the information on how to add their portrait to the gallery and their story to the library. We look forward to building a library of your stories.


Palm leaves to tablet as Lao manuscripts go online
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) - The nation’s heritage of palm leaf manuscripts is now available for everyone to read free of charge via their computer, tablet or mobile phone, Director of the National Library of Laos (NLL), Khanthamaly Yangnouvong said recently.
Containing priceless wisdom and ancient literary expression, images of these ancient palm leaf manuscripts are now widely accessible to everyone over the internet for the first time at http://www.laomanuscripts.net
Mrs Khanthamaly explained the NLL is in efforts to encourage readers to access Lao manuscripts more easily as an important goal of conservation.
The Digital Library is not only available for Lao Manuscripts. Books related to Lao linguistic dialects, history, tradition and culture will also appear on the E-book system.
The Preservation of Lao Manuscripts Programme (PLMP) is under of Lao Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, and received support from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
PLMP was established in 1992 and ran for more than ten years. It followed an inventory project funded by the Toyota Foundation of Japan, laying the groundwork to reignite interest in the manuscripts held in rural Lao communities.
The oldest manuscripts known in Laos today are from the beginning of the sixteenth century.
Identified in the manuscripts held at NLL are at least seven different spoken languages transcribed in at least nine distinct written scripts.
The Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts (DLLM) has created images of over 12,000 texts from throughout Laos via collaboration between NLL and the University of Passau and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
The project was funded by the German Research Foundation and the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development.
There is a wide diversity in the manuscript collection, covering a broad geographical area and historical timeframe, different literary traditions and schools of scribes, and different languages and scripts.
The majority of the texts are from the Lao, Lan Na and Tai Lue traditions, with further texts in Tai Neua and Tai Dam.
The DLLM website also provides information about the Lao literary tradition, the Preservation of Lao Manuscripts Programme, study resources, and a gallery of photographs showing the manuscript preservation work of NLL.


Bu çalışmanın amacı, yüksek tirajlı Suudi Arabistan ve Türk gazetelerinin Suudi Arabistan’da en çok izlenen Arapça dublajlı Türk dizilerinden biri olan Noor (Gümüş) dizisine dayanarak yaptığı haberler sonucu ortaya çıkan Türkiye imgelerini incelemektir. Çalışmada, söz konusu diziye ilişkin olarak Suudi Arabistan ve Türk gazeteleri tarafından kullanılan haber çerçevelerinin farklı Türkiye imgeleri oluşturduğunun altı çizilmektedir. Çalışmada, Türk gazetelerinin Arapça dublajlı dizi için kullandığı haber çerçevelerinin olumlu bir Türkiye imgesi oluştururken, Suudi Arabistan gazetelerinin kullandığı haber çerçevelerinin Türk kültürünün ötekileştirilmesine yol açtığı sonucuna varılmıştır.
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"Studies in Brotherly Love," is a collection of four poets responding to the art of Malcolm Corley. This hand bound, limited edition artist book is designed by Jaz Graf. Poets responding to Malcolm's work are disability activists Lateef McLeod and DJ Savarese, and University of Iowa MFA graduates Jorrell Watkins and Claretta Holsey.
At the age of three, Malcolm Corley (b. 1999) was diagnosed with autism. At about the same time, he began to draw the sketches from the TV show, Blues Clues. Recreations of Dr. Seuss’s illustrations came next, some of which he drew from memory.In February, 2019, his sketch “Jazz Hands” was published in Hot Metal Bridge, and eight of his portraits were published in Up the Staircase. “Kiana” appeared on the Fusion Art website in March, 2019; two months later, “Closet” was published in Penn Review. His art has been shown at the Ware Center in Lancaster, PA, and two juried international exhibits/sales: Art of Possibility at the Courage Kenny Rehab Center in Minneapolis and the 2019 and 2020 Art Ability Exhibitions at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, where one of his pieces received an honorable mention prize. In addition, he has had solo shows at the Winter Center and the Emerald Foundation, also in Lancaster. He is a nominee for Lancaster PA’s 2021 Black Artist Waystation Project.“Untitled #1,” an acrylic painting Malcolm created in AP Art class at Hempfield High School, was one of 15 works chosen by The Kennedy Center’s 2019 VSA program. Malcolm was the youngest artist to be recognized, and the only one with no post-secondary art training. “Untitled #1” was also chosen, along with “Hoodie Self-portrait,” for the CRIP Ritual art show in Toronto, Ontario, currently scheduled for January, 2022. “Untitled #1” formed the “T” in an installation of the word UNITY at the Kennedy Center from January-February, 2021.
Details about the book construction from artist Jaz Graf: Malcolm’s Self-Portrait is translated and reproduced as a gold screen print on deep blue bookcloth covers. The image is printed about life-size. The image was split so that the portion of his face in the light is on the front cover, and the shadow portion continues to the back cover. Thus, when the reader opens/enters the book, it is a bit like going within this portrait….The interior covers are screen printed with a version of Malcolm's “leaves” drawing - gold ink on burgundy linen paper interiors. It is a 4 hole stab-binding with bright red nylon string.
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Thank you to our amazing volunteer parents and children who braved the cold last weekend to help sort, clean and move stock to the newly allocated P&F storage shed. Many hands make light work, as was the case on the weekend. You're a fantastic group of people! Pictured below are just some of our awesome P&F members who volunteered on the day.
QUARTERLY MEETING – 13 JUNE
Class Representatives, parents and friends of Huntingtower are warmly invited to attend the P&F quarterly meeting. Mr Bowen and Ms Greiveson will be in attendance. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, 13 June at 7.30pm in the Senior School Library.
A big thank you to the Huntingtower families and friends who supported this year's P&F honey drive fundraiser. The honey drive concluded last Friday and produced over $470 in profit which will be returned to the school for much-needed resources. Orders will be processed by the beekeeper over the next fortnight and will be available for collection around mid-June. Your class representatives will provide details of honey order collection point and date(s).
LIBRARY DONATIONS – JUNIOR AND SECONDARY SCHOOL
Huntingtower P&F is proudly supporting our Junior and Secondary School Libraries in 2018. We have deployed some of the P&F funds to the value of $500 for each of the Junior and Secondary School Libraries. Our wonderful Librarians, Cathy Batemen and Fiona Hamzi, have submitted their "wish lists" for books which have now been ordered. There is an eclectic mix of titles that will no doubt be enjoyed by the respective student cohorts (and quite possibly their parents as well!). It is a wonderful opportunity for the P&F to support the commitment of our hardworking Librarians and to enrich the curriculum for students. It is also great that "old-school" books have not been completely displaced by technology! Our thanks to the Huntingtower Librarians for their enthusiastic embrace of this initiative and to the Huntingtower community for their ongoing support of P&F fundraising.
Please see attached list of titles ordered by the Secondary School library.
1.Harry Potter: A history of Magic The book of the exhibition (Hardback)
2.The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics
3.The Psychology Book: From Shamanism to Cutting-Edge Neuroscience, 250 Milestones in the History of Psychology
4.The Engineering Book: From the Catapult to the Curiosity Rover, 250 Milestones in the History of Engineering
5.The Chemistry Book: From Gunpowder to Graphene, 250 Milestones in the History of Chemistry
6.Goodnight stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Favilli
7.Stories for boys who dare to be different by Ben Brooks
8.Artificial Intelligence by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
9.Eon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Young Reader's Edition) Vance
10.Encyclopedia of Space by Steve Parker
11.Freedom Ride: A freedom rider remembers by Ann Curthoys
12.Middle Ages Unlocked: A guide to life in the Middle Ages by Polack (Hardback)
13.Renaissance People: Lives that shaped the Modern World by Robert Davis
Planning for the Huntingtower Fete is well and truly under way. We thank our dedicated Fete Committee for the time spent meeting, planning and organising this year's HT Fete. Thank you also to the many parents supporting the Committee as Fete Representatives. Our Fete Reps have volunteered to coordinate a stall associated with their class/year level, area of expertise or a specialty stall. They will be in contact to seek your assistance; we hope you can support them with tasks leading up to fete day, volunteering on the day or with set up or pack up duties. What a delightful opportunity to work with a variety of people towards a common goal and even make lifelong friendships!
FETE – BOOK STALL
In preparation for the HT Fete this year, we would like to ask you to start collating any second-hand books and putting them aside for the big day. Further information about book drop-off dates/times will be circulated as we get closer to Fete day, but in the meantime if you find any books you don't mind parting with, start putting them in a box in readiness.We would be grateful to receive any books in general, however please do not include your child's textbooks.We thank you in advance for your support of the Book Stall.
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FETE - SILENT AUCTION
The Silent Auction at the Fete is traditionally the responsibility of the Yr7 parents, who have made it an extremely successful and popular stall through the years. It's not unusual for this stall to make $10,000!
The current 2017/2018 Entertainment Membership expires at the end of May.20% from every Membership sold goes to our School so please continue to support Huntingtower by purchasing the 2018/2019 Entertainment Membership.
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I can be wrongI don't remember how "The Healthy Habit Revolution: Create Better Habits in 5 Minutes A Day" by Derek Doepker ended up in my Kindle library, but I know my first impression was that this was another self-help/me-too kind of book. I went to Audible to check a sample of the audio and found out it was read by the author. The author is a fitness and life coach. I could just hear the "bro"ness in his California accent. I was convinced this would be a bad read and that I would be able to poke holes in his methods and techniques. I even thought I could make a game out of counting the "Dude" and "Bro" quotes in the book
Maybe I should not even take the time to read this book and move on to something more intellectually stimulating like "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" by Nick Bostrom. That surely would make me smarter.
But I decided I was at the pool and my Kindle said the book would take me less than 3 hours to read. Why not risk it. I am glad I did.
I was pleasantly surprised very quickly at Mr. Doepker's referencing of other books like "The Power of Habit" on how to make - and break - habits.
An Action Oriented BookMany habit books I have read have been full of theory, biochemistry, and studies. This book references several of those. But this book is not about that. It is about getting you moving.
The core of the book is a 21-day plan to get your first "micro-habits" going. The book is intended to be read over 22 or 23 days (not the 3 hours I took). One chapter per day so that you can reflect on your journey to that point and educate your path going forward.
The breakdownThough not directly named by the author this book has three major sections.
- Background and Introduction to Micro-Habits
- Daily Chapters
- Review and Going Forward
Background and Introduction to Micro-Habits
After a quick yet concise history of how Mr. Doepker used the methods described in this book to improve his life and the life of his clients, he goes into a breakdown of the basics of creating a few small habits, micro-habits, that the reader would use during the 21-day exercise of this book.
As someone that has built many good habits in my life, I found myself nodding in agreement with Mr. Doepker's definitions and methods. If you follow them, you will select good initial micro-habits to start with.
The daily chapters are short. Something you could read in less than 10 minutes per night. So they would not be much of a burden on even the most hectic schedule. Chapters seem to include another small bit of advice that would be well timed for that portion of the habit building journey.
Each daily chapter builds off the one before it. Though direct in the advice given, there is a building set of sub-lessons, what the author calls "hidden lessons," that are pointed out in the final section of the book.
Review and Going ForwardIn the final segment of the book, Mr. Doepker directly covers the "hidden lessons" in the daily chapters. But more importantly, he gives good advice on how to take this start and build on it. There is a good preview of the mistakes one can make in the building process, like being too inflexible.
Finally, there is an excellent reference section so that ones newly formed habits can be taken even further by reading the biochemistry, philosophy, and lessons from others.


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An issue that we have when we are starting to learn spark is that there is not much information on datasets available for working on them.
I found that there is an interesting dataset that is being maintained by databricks team. You can check its documentation on the following link https://docs.databricks.com/data/databricks-datasets.html.
For accessing this dataset, please follow the next steps.
Steps for using the databricks datasets.
Step 1: Check available datasets on folder.
This consist in checking the folder that contains the databricks community datasets.
For accessing this folder all you need to do is to create a notebook on databricks community. It is there by default.
For checking what datasets does this folder contains run the following command.
This will return the list of datasets available.
After checking what datasets are available you can check what is insight the directories for example Now, I am going to check what files are insight dbfs:/databricks-datasets/airlines/
This is going to return us the list o files available on that directory.
Step 2: Check README files inside the folder.
This is going to give you an insight of what does the dataset contains. For doing that please execute the following command.
val df = spark.read.text("/databricks-datasets/flights/README.md") df.printSchema() df.show(200,false)
This will store the md file into a dataframe them it will display that dataframe containing the information on the dataset.
Step 3: Load the dataset into a dataframe
For being able to use it you will have to load the information and work on it you will have the load the dataset into a dataframe. For doing that you will have to use the following command.
val csvFile = "/databricks-datasets/flights/departuredelays.csv" val tempDF = (spark.read .option("sep", ",") .option("header", "true") .option("inferSchema", "true") .csv(csvFile) )
If you don’t understand how are we loading data from a Csv into a dataframe check the following link. https://datamajor.net/how-to-read-csv-files-in-spark/.
After doing that you can check the schema of the dataframe.
Then you can proceed to display the dataframe.
As you have seen, there is a lot of datasets available on this directory. This gives you a good Starpoint for learning on how to work on big datasets and a chance for practicing your Spark skills.