Thomas Bartlett and Nico Muhly
Peter Pears: Balinese Ceremonial Music
It’s funny where the ear and eye can sometimes take you. Growing up as an awkward, bookish kid in New York, the late artist Tobias Schneebaum used to visit side shows in Depression-era Coney Island and elsewhere in the city. And it was on these excursions that he became fascinated by the Wild Man of Borneo, and other side show acts that featured “primitive” men of color. In 1955, when he was thirty-four, Schneebaum was awarded a Fulbright to study art in Peru. While there, he went into the jungle and vanished for a time, only to re-emerge naked and covered in paint, transformed by the experience in ways he could not anticipate. Later, after returning to New York for a time, the usually timid Schneebaum set off again, but this time for New Guinea, where he lived among the Asmat people, a place deep in the jungle where men had male and female lovers and where Schneebaum found a level of acceptance that had alluded eluded him in New York.
The point of the story is that we humans are homing pigeons of a kind, circling and landing on those worlds that speak to us more profoundly and effectively, sometimes, than the place we’re meant to be of, belong to. Think about Paul Bowles. Born to an upper middle class family in New York before the start of World War I, the gifted auto didact fell in love with what can be loosely termed “world” music when he was a young man. Living for most of his adult life in Tangier, he recorded local musicians and storytellers in an attempt to not only become more deeply immersed in the culture that drew him to them, but to decipher how he had become himself—a white boy drawn to the colored world.
Nowadays this might be called colonialism or appropriation, but I’m not buying that: When I was growing up in New York in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, I didn’t see myself in much of the stuff that interested me then, but that didn’t prevent me from finding the metaphors in the work that did inspire me, regardless of the cultural context. What did I share physically with Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duvall in Robert Altman’s 1977 masterpiece, “Three Women”? Not much but a sense of my own alienation and unwillingness to look at my own alienation.
So, when I first heard about the Canadian ethnomusicologist, musician, and composer Colin McPhee and his interest in Asian music, I was intrigued because he ended up exposing the white world to what he heard, which wasn’t white but part of the culture of an “other” world. McPhee was born in Montreal and attended the Peabody Institute. He was a student of Edgar Vares’, and a pivotal step in his development was marrying, early in the nineteen-thirties, a woman named Jane Belo, who was a protegeprotégée of the great anthropologist, Margaret Mead. Together the couple went off to Bali together so Belo could get on with her anthropological work. And it was there that the queer McPhee really began to devote his heart and ear to his new enthusiasm, Gamelan music, which he first heard in New York. Gamelan music is traditional ensemble music of Bali and Indonesia; it’s dominated by percussive instruments, such as metallophones, xylophones, and flutes.
It’s not difficult to imagine what swept McPhee up on that trip down East: a different world that had made a different way of communicating through sound, and separate from that monolith, otherwise known as the Western Musical Canon. The world was not all about white men, even if he was one himself. Being the minority can be liberating. What did the Balinese care about this man who was not them?
Following his divorce from Belo, McPhee lived in February House, the Brooklyn Heights domicile that had been established by the legendary magazine editor, George Davis, another gay man who would go on to marry the chanteuse, Lotte Lenya. Davis ran the house with W.H. Auden; it was an experiment in collective living. Among McPhee’s fellow boarders: Paul and Jane Bowles, the stripper and author, Gypsy Rose Lee, novelist Carson McCullers, the composer Benjamin Britten and (at times) his lover, the singer Peter Pears. By all accounts February House—so called because most of the inhabitants shared birthdays in February—was lively; it was the locale where McPhee shared his enthusiasm for this “new” old Balinese music with Britten.
Things were very gay at February House, and imagine what Britten heard in this “other” music: work that could inform his own. Prolific and inventive, Britten was always looking for new sources of inspiration. Just as he was taken with the music used in the strict and elegant Noh theatre he saw on a trip abroad in 1955—the itinerary included not only a stop in Japan but Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Bali, and Thailand—he was open to other sources that would give him himself. That self was complicated. Like Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) before him, Britten found children erotic. And when he found this “other” music, he also found, in the faces of those Balinese and Indonesian children, the kind of romantic purity that figures like Schneebaum sought outside of the usual tenets of queerness.
The question of appropriation is a thorny one, and I lean on the side of influence when I think of Britten and McPhee’s influence showed up even before Britten saw Asia; in 1941 McPhee and the composer recorded McPhee’s transcription for two pianos of Balinese Ceremonial Music. Is this appropriation, when a musician queers what he hears to become more of his queer self? It’s there in the title, right, the acknowledgement that thematic we are about to hear comes from somewhere else and has been transcribed by McPhee’s queer hand first?
Britten’s interest in those darker skinned children was, to my mind, a perversion of the white English belief in hierarchy. (I don’t know what his partner, the singer Peter Pears, thought of all this, but I can’t imagine he wasn’t supportive; they lived together for most of their adult lives.) In Britten’s day, homosexuality was not only outlawed, it was a source of horror shame and evil. What could be “less” and therefore more palatable than being gay? Children. Brown folk. And yet the music that inspired Britten—and McPhee before him—was made by those people and responded to in the purest way possible: through being heard, taken to heart, transcribed, and absorbed and now recorded again, coming out on the other side of something else—a world where these complications are not only articulated, expressed, but heard.
I didn’t know any of this or much of this when I first heard Doveman and Nico Muhly’s “Peter Pears: Balinese Ceremonial Music,” last spring. Doveman is, of course, the excellent musician and singer, Thomas Bartlett, and Nico Muhly is the estimable author of choral music, operas, dance music, movie music—work that has earned him a powerful position as one of the more original and protean composers and musicians working today. “Peter Pears “ marks their TK collaboration, and the nine track record has the aura of history—McPhee, Britten, that lot—and the aura of history remade according to the demands of Thomas and Nico’s own musicianship and understanding of what has come before, and what artists take and give, often at the same time. Produced over a TK period of time, the delicately rendered album also includes three gamelan transcriptions by Colin McPhee that inspired their work. Thus, “Peter Pears,” enters the world as an interesting mix—the old and the new and the queer, all at once.
It’s an upsetting-in-the-best-way record, one that floats towards the ear and then recedes and then takes up all of the mind, in part because of the wonderful singing, which says as much about breathing and the breath that singing necessitates, as it does about language. (When asked what the hardest part of singing was, Bjork said: “Breath.”) In various press reports Thomas has said that he wanted this record to sound different, vocal wise, than his previous as a vocalist and musician, 2009’s “The Conformist” (which, incidentally, has a wonderful track called “Breathing In”). I wasn’t so much alarmed when I read that as curious: how can you improve on intimacy? Because that’s what Thomas’ singing evokes—someone who is alone, waiting for love, or, having had love, regrets not having it: whispers of regrets, recriminations, and then sudden little clouds of joy. In tracks like the superb, “Dominic,” Thomas gives us that intimacy, but it is supplemented by all those glorious sounds that McPhee brought to the West: a whole catalogue of Eastern sound that still feels unfamiliar to us despite the advent of world music. Why? Because most Americans still listen, primarily, to American music or music written and performed in the American idiom—funk, blues, etc.—or that is part of the Western canon—Bach, Beethoven etc. In short, most audiences listen to music to hear themselves, or a more elevated version of themselves.
Thomas and Nico have an enormous amount of respect for Britten and Pears (the Western cannon) and for the American voice (Thomas’ voice), but with it all the record doesn’t really focus on one sound or idiom, it revels in the inspiration that McPhee’s work and thus Britten’s provides, not to mention all those Balinese musicians playing forcefully and softly into the air. “Peter Pears,” starts off with such power you don’t know where you are at first, listening to bells or a piano? Or? The piano is breathing! You can hear it when the pedal is put down and then a note struck and it’s like the heartbeats and breaths in Doveman’s voice to come, in “Festina,” for instance, and then “Grendl,” which bubbles with the sound of electronic waves; they lap at Doveman’s voice, just behind it, like waves looking for sand in some place like Bali, or England, or home.


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Natasha Trethewey (BA ’89), who won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2007, takes her seat this month as the U.S. Poet Laureate for 2012-13, as selected by the Library of Congress. The Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, Trethewey has maintained close ties to UGA, contributing to the Georgia Review and participating in readings and workshops sponsored by the university. Her 2010 book, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a personal profile of the devastation of hurricane Katrina in her home region, was published by the UGA Press. Captain of the cheerleading squad while at UGA, Trethewey earned her undergraduate degree in English from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. She went on to earn a master’s degree in English and creative writing from Hollins University and a master of fine arts in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Domestic Work, 1937 All week she’s cleaned someone …
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When I wrote my novel, How To Be An American Housewife (Putnam Books), I wasn’t thinking of the experience of other hapas, just my own. The story deals with a Japanese mother who married an American after World War II, and her American daughter. It’s a mother-daughter story, told from the perspectives of both. Taking place in San Diego and in Japan, the book is about journeys, both physical and spiritual.
Though the plot is fiction, much of the book’s core is based on my experience with my own Japanese mother, and our admittedly strained relationship. I never knew any other person with a Japanese mother and an American father when I was growing up in San Diego. I felt isolated in my experiences and upbringing.
Since the book came out in August 2010, I’ve come to realize that I am not unique. I’ve gotten a lot of mail telling me that readers have had similar experiences with their Japanese mothers in America, with the ambivalence of belonging to neither American nor Japanese culture entirely, and with the importance of reconnecting with one’s roots. I’m proud and pleased that my personal narrative has lent a voice to the hapa culture. I wrote the book I wished I’d had as a teenager, about the relationship I would have loved to have had with my own mother, who passed away when I was 20.
Author of HOW TO BE AN AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE
August 2010 Putnam Books


First novel a powerful tale of Vietnam, by Nancy Grape, Maine Sunday Telegram, November 1997:
History doesn’t make life simpler; it just makes it more ironic. Witness the revelation recently that Lyndon B. Johnson, far from confident about America’s military presence in Vietnam three decades ago, believed our commitment there was a mistake and wanted to end it.
Army Capt. Matthew Fairchild, an intelligence officer on the ground in Vietnam during the conflict, reaches the same conclusion.
Fairchild is the hero of The Innocent, a fine first novel by Robert Taylor of Blue Hill. There should be more. Taylor is an immensely talented writer, and The Innocentlaunches him auspiciously into fiction.
The story is rooted in two experiences – what it is like to be a gay man and what it was like to be a thoughtful American soldier in Vietnam. The immediacy with which Taylor portrays both experiences is stunning.
From the moment a Pan Am jet, complete with flight attendants and magazines, swoops into Tan Son Nhut Air Base outside Saigon to discharge a fresh load of American officers and enlisted men, the unpredictability of danger and death infiltrates the story as stealthily as enemy soldiers infiltrate U.S. bases themselves.
In the midst of death and dying, Fairchild operates in a sealed room at headquarters, tracing the moves of enemy combatants. He is of the war and yet a safe observer of it.
No such distance offers itself, however, when Fairchild, acknowledging his own awareness that from boyhood he has always been “different,” falls in love with a Vietnamese busboy whose once-lordly family has spent all it possessed to buy his way out of service in the South Vietnamese Army.
Why? The reason grows out of the compelling 2,000 years of Vietnam that The Innocent has been written, in part, to tell.
It is with fresh astonishment we read about a country whose real history so poorly matches America’s Vietnam-era stereotypes about it. Vietnam, Taylor tells us, far from being an ally or vassal state to China, has spent much of its existence repelling Chinese invaders. Sometimes Vietnam has failed. When that occurred, the Vietnamese have spent centuries enduring, surviving and ultimately outlasting their invaders.
What the Vietnamese did not expect was to face similar horrors from some among the American soldiers who had come to “save them from communism.” Yet that is what happens. Under the terrible stress of those horrors, Fairchild, armed with love and knowledge, must determine whether he has the strength needed not to betray them.
“All of a sudden I’m walking around in a nightmare,” Fairchild tells a trusted sergeant.
“All of a sudden, sir? Where’ve you been these last nine months?”
“Fighting a war that didn’t exist, I guess. Certainly not this vicious, insane one.”
“Maybe you just weren’t paying attention.”
Such dialogue helps Taylor tell his story freshly, with directness and clarity. He has something important to say about life experiences, global and personal, and he says it powerfully.
Few first novels exhibit the force and control Taylor brings to The Innocent, a title that appears to apply equally to Fairchild, his Vietnamese lover Nhan and to Vietnam itself. The novel might have been improved had Taylor taken the time to dramatize much of the sweep of Vietnamese history and culture that he lays out rather didactically.
Yet that’s a small complaint. The dramas, internal and external, that he does depict, and the insights he shares, make The Innocent a first novel well worth reading and Robert Taylor a novelist to whom readers will eagerly look for more.


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In 1740, upon the death of her father, Maria Theresa of the Hapsburg Monarchy attempted to seize the throne as Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Duchess of Parma and Archduchess of Austria. Her husband, Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, was to become the Holy Roman Emperor. According to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, it was legal for a woman to succeed to the Austrian throne. However, Prussia’s King Frederick II, laid claim to the Silesian region, traditionally controlled by the Hapsburgs.
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Introducing Maggie, a cracking woman whose fiery spirit brings 1940s Glasgow to life
When author JJ Scott was a child in the 80s, listening to her gran’s stories over a game of auld maid and a chocolate block, she never imagined the bombshell that would arise years later when, shortly before she died, the woman revealed that she had been proposed to four times. One of those was JJ’s grandpa, but that still left three big mysterious blanks surrounding a woman who was the best storyteller in Glasgow!
Thanks to her gran, JJ has a bank of family history to draw from and this was one big twist in the tale that allowed her debut novel, The Making of Maggie Munroe, to take root. The idea grew as the perfect way to retain the memory of this indomitable woman and, subsequently, JJ allowed some time to pass and let her imagination take hold. Who were these three men? Where did they come from? And what had they done to mess it all up? JJ freely admits that she took some inspiration from her own past relationships. Ultimately, all these questions can be summed up in a Knickerbocker Glory: with many layers to delve through, what will be Maggie’s cherry on top?
JJ worked hard to blend reality and fiction into The Making of Maggie Munroe, which is perhaps why it has taken so long to come to fruition. It began its journey in Perth, Australia, in 2009 as part of that year’s NaNoWriMo challenge – to write 50k words in a month – and developed from there. Originally it was written to capture family history and only for her mammy’s eyes. Now she is ready to share it with Scotland.
JJ is a Glasgow native and is the founder and editor of Firewords literary magazine. She has attained an LLB, PGCE and Msc from the University of Glasgow and has worked as a high school English teacher where she enjoyed spreading her love of literature and creative writing to young minds. JJ’s own writing is influenced by her experiences as a shoestring traveller but recently she has replaced air travel with campervan travel. Her writing always sees strong Scottish characters take on the world.


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The Chapter Titles Were So Good (2011-2016) chronicled the magical journey of three young men (The Peter, Mr. Tom, and Regular Tom) through the seven novels in the Harry Potter series, chapter by chapter.
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HVDC Transmission: Power Conversion Applications in Power Systems By Chan-Ki Kim, Vijay K. Sood, Gil-Soo Jang, Seong-Joo Lim, Seok-Jin Lee
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HVDC is a critical solution to several major problems encountered when trying to maintain systemic links and quality in large-scale renewable energy environments. HDVC can resolve a number of issues, including voltage stability of AC power networks, reducing fault current, and optimal management of electric power, ensuring the technology will play an increasingly important role in the electric power industry.
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Balancing theoretical instruction with practical application, HVDC Transmission delivers comprehensive working knowledge to power utility engineers, power transmission researchers, and advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in power engineering programs. The book is also a useful reference to for engineers and students focused on closely related areas such as renewable energy and power system planning.
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This remarkable volume features and analyzes a private collection of some 130 textiles, mainly from the period between 1900 and 1940. An introduction explains the place of the kimono in Japanese society, including the essential cultural and historical background, but the heart of the book is formed by the photographs of the individual textiles, focusing on the decoration techniques and other main characteristics.
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Sofi got a book, The Last Polar Bear (Laura Geringer Books), for Christmas. It is about the effects of global warming on the environment of the polar bears, but written for the level of young children. It is a really good book, and has opened up a lot of discussion at our house about what causes global warming, and how we can help the polar bears.
We've talked a lot about the three r's - reduce, reuse, recycle. We talked about only using what we need, and being careful with our energy use. We talked about lowering our gas usage and getting better mileage. There have been many, many conversations following the reading of the book. It has made the concept of global warming a really tangible thing for my kids. Now they understand the WHY in our quest to be good to the Earth.
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After describing the national context, the book traces the development of Scoil Bhríde’s response to an increasingly diverse pupil cohort and goes on to explore in detail the impact of the response on classroom discourse, pupils’ literacy development, and their capacity for autonomous learning. The authors illustrate their arguments with a wealth of practical evidence drawn from a variety of sources; pupils’ and teachers’ voices are especially prominent. Bearing in mind that Scoil Bhríde developed its approach without access to special funding or resources, the concluding chapter considers issues of sustainability and replication and the implications of the approach for teacher education.
The book makes sustained reference to a wide range of relevant research findings and theories, including translanguaging, plurilingual and intercultural education, language awareness and language learner autonomy. It is essential reading for researchers and policy- makers in the field of linguistically inclusive education.
David Little was formerly Director of the Centre for Language and Communication Studies and Head of the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. For the past ten years, he has played a leading role in the Council of Europe’s work on the language education of migrants.
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44. “Gandhi’s Method to Raise the Quality of Our Lives” in Gandhi @ 150, Editor Rajan Welukar (Mumbai: JAICO Books, 2019)
43. YETI: The Ecology of a Mystery (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017).
42. Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures 2 nd Edition co- author Carl E. Taylor (Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016).
41. The Mount Everest Guide to Off-road Driving (Franklin WV: For Words Press, 2014)
40. Empowerment on an Unstable Planet: From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change, co-authored with Carl E. Taylor and Jesse O. Taylor (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
39. CAIRNS—A Novel of Tibet (Franklin WV: For Words Press, 2011).
38. Community-based Conservation: Is it More Effective, Efficient, and Sustainable? Michael Rechlin and Daniel Taylor (Franklin, WV: Future Generations Graduate School Occasional Paper #27, March 2008).
37. Primary photographer in illustrated volume: Robert L. Fleming, Liu Wulin, Dorje Tsering, Across the Tibetan Plateau, (New York: WW Norton, 2007).
36. Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures, co-author Carl E. Taylor, (Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).
35. Photographs in “Search for the Clouded Leopard,” National Geographic Magazine, September 2000.
34. "Population Environment and Development", co-author Carl E. Taylor, in International Perspectives in Environment, Development, & Health: Toward a Sustainable World, ed. Shahi, Levy, Binger, Kjellstrom & Lawrence, (New York: Springer Publishing & Rockefeller Foundation,1996).
33. "Interrelationships of Population Growth with Health and Human Habitat", co-author Carl E. Taylor in International Perspectives in Environment, Development, & Health: Toward a Sustainable World, ed. Shahi, Levy, Binger Kjellstrom & Lawrence, (New York: Springer Publishing & Rockefeller Foundation, 1996).
32. Something Hidden Behind the Ranges—An Himalayan Quest, (San Francisco: Mercury House, 1995)
31. Partnership for Social Development—A Casebook, (co-authors Carl E. Taylor, & Aditi Desai, Independent Task Force on Community Action for Social Development, (Franklin, WV: Future Generations & Johns Hopkins University, Dept of International Health, February 1995).
30. Community Based Sustainable Human Development—Going to Scale with Self-reliant Social Development, co-author Carl E. Taylor, (New York: UNICEF, February 1995).
29. “Mountains, Nations, Parks, and Conservation: A Case Study of the Mt. Everest Area,” in Mountains at Risk, Current Issues in Environmental Studies, (New Delhi: Manohar, 1995).
28. “The Rare Mountain Dog of Tibet,” in Dog World; Maclean Hunter; Nov 1993.
27. “Health Survey of Tibetan Villages North of Mount Everest,” co-authors Carl E. Taylor, Nancy Chin, Alex. Leaf; Gladys. McGarey, Anne Garrett, in Research & Exploration; (Washington DC: National Geographic Society, Vol. VIII, No 3, Summer 1992.)
26. AGENDA 21, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Mountain Issues project drafting committee, A/CONF/.151/PC/100/Add.18 Rio de Janeiro, June 1992.
25. “The Appalachians of North America: Marginal in the Midst of Plenty,” co-authors Daniel Schelling, Carol Nash, Jim Underwood, and Yarr Underwood; in The State of the World’s Mountains, (London: Zed Books & Mountain Agenda, 1992).
24. “Mountains, Nations, Parks, and Conservation,” co-authors Alton C. Byers, J. Gabriel Campbell, in (Dordrecht, Germany: GeoJournal, Vol 27, No 1, May 1992.
23. KyiApso News, Editor, Tibetan KyiApso Club newsletter, Franklin, WV, 1991-97.
22. Your Choice: Paths to Improving Your Small Schools, co-authors Jennifer Taylor-Ide, John Villaume, and John Eckman, (Franklin WV: Woodlands Mountain Institute, 1991).
21. Summit Magazine, columnist writing on issues of mountain cultures, 1991 & 1992.
20. High Himalaya—A Computer Generated Landscape Portrait, publication team member, Special Centennial Map Supplement, National Geographic Magazine, (Washington, DC: Nov, 1988, Vol. 174, No. 5).
19. “The Garhwal Yeti: Alternative Explanations,” Cryptozoology, Vol. 6, Tucson, 1987.
18. The West Virginia Scholar, Editor, a quarterly journal West Virginia Scholars Academy, Woodlands Mountain Institute, Vols. I, II, III, & IV, 1983-1987.
17. "The Makalu Biosphere Proposal", in National Parks and Protected Areas for the Hindu Kush Himalaya, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development/ International Union for Conservation of Nature, co-author Tirtha B. Shrestha, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1986.
16. "Report on Experiments In Water Quality and Storage" Journal of Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal, Vol. 6, No.3, September 1985.
15. "Medical Report From Helambu District", with Mary Frances Wagley, Journal of the Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal, Volume 6, No.1, March 1985.
14. The Barun Valley Report, The King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation & Woodlands Mountain Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1984.
13. "Medical Report from Tanahu & Parasi Districts", with Henry Taylor, Andrew Dannenburg, Robert Green, .B. Anderson, Shelly Tepper, Journal of the Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal, Volume 5, No.2, December 1983.
12. "Medical Report from Baitadi District", with James Alexander, Eleanor English, J. Warren; Upendra Devkota, Journal of the Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal, Vol. 5, No. 2, December 1983.
11. "Medical Report from the Buri Gandaki Valley", with Robert Syme, Journal of the Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal, Vol. 3, No. 2, September 1981.
10. "Report on Health Conditions in the Manang Valley", with Ron Voorhees, Journal of the Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal, Vol. 2, No. 1, March 1980.
9. "Education Beyond the Classroom, An Experiment in Medical Education, Health Survey in Ladakh", with Suraj Gupta and Carl E. Taylor, Indian Journal of Medical Education; New Delhi, India, Volume XVIII, No. 2, July/Dec. 1979.
8. "Health Observations from Northern Humla", with Robert Oertley, Robert Mason, and James Larrick, Journal of the Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu; Volume 1, No. 2; August 1979.
7. "U.S. Medical Students in Nepal", with Carl E. Taylor, Melanie Gibson, William Hubbard, Karen Plager, Henry Taylor, Journal of Medical Education, (New York: Volume 57, No. 7, July 1978).
6. "Population Planning In India & Nepal", with Carl E. Taylor, Growth & Change; University of Kentucky Press, Vol. 7, No. 2; April 1976.
5. Population Education for Nepal, with Hem Hamal (Chapel Hill, NC: Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina Press: 1973).
4. Nepal Country Profile, with Rita Thapa, (New York: The Population Council, Spring 1972).
3. "Population and Development in Nepal", Vasuda, Kathmandu, Nepal, Winter 1970.
2. The Time is Now: An Annotated Bibliography on Population Education, with David Burleson, (New York: Ford Foundation, 1968).
1. "Over the Rohtang," The Himalayan Journal, (Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1968).


Pleasantly surprised to read of this conclusion drawn in the soon to be released University of Toronto compilation of essays titled,Global Tax Governance What is Wrong with It and How to Fix It”.
Here’s an excerpt from the press release:
‘Tax specialists may think they have little to learn from a book on global tax governance, especially one that concludes that the best solution is to create a new International Tax Organization (ITO). They would be wrong. Anyone concerned with international taxation will benefit from this excellent collection of essays about the nature and possible resolutions of the conflicts within and between states about fiscal sovereignty, tax competition, and domestic and international equity that underlie the international tax discussion. The authors do not always agree with each other and few readers are likely to agree with all of them. But this book makes clear what is really at issue in this discussion and shows why even the recent prodigious efforts of the OECD-G20 BEPS group are most unlikely to produce any lasting solutions. For nation-states and economic globalization to coexist, something like an ITO may indeed prove necessary.’
Richard Bird, University of Toronto
As you know this was my view long before the G20 adopted the OECD’s, aggressive, seemingly all-encompassing agenda for International Tax Reform ( BEPS)
See blog posts here.
Of course, this is not to discount the work of the OECD’s Centre for Ta Policy Administration and its Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes.
Rather it it recognises the progress, successes, and the lessons learned in seeking to create a ‘level playing field’ for non-EU, non-G20, non-OECD members of the Forum who are largely excluded from OECD membership.
Despite the well-documented shortcomings of the Bretton Woods system of global governance, there is still great value that can be added to the International Tax dialogue; especially since tax is now firmly a part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and not merely the exclusive concern of capital exporting countries.
Indeed, while the OECD may have a competitive advantage in managing the affairs of its 34 members; the UN system has the expertise in attending to the concerns of 194.


This textbook aims to be an approachable introduction to the world of data science. In this book, we define data science as the process of generating insight from data through reproducible and auditable processes. If you analyze some data and give your analysis to a friend or colleague, they should be able to re-run the analysis from start to finish and get the same result you did (reproducibility). They should also be able to see and understand all the steps in the analysis, as well as the history of how the analysis developed (auditability). Creating reproducible and auditable analyses allows both you and others to easily double-check and validate your work.
At a high level, in this book, you will learn how to
- identify common problems in data science, and
- solve those problems with reproducible and auditable workflows.
Figure 0.1 summarizes what you will learn in each chapter of this book. Throughout, you will learn how to use the R programming language (R Core Team 2021) to perform all the tasks associated with data analysis. You will spend the first four chapters learning how to use R to load, clean, wrangle (i.e., restructure the data into a usable format) and visualize data while answering descriptive and exploratory data analysis questions. In the next six chapters, you will learn how to answer predictive, exploratory, and inferential data analysis questions with common methods in data science, including classification, regression, clustering, and estimation. In the final chapters (11–13), you will learn how to combine R code, formatted text, and images in a single coherent document with Jupyter, use version control for collaboration, and install and configure the software needed for data science on your own computer. If you are reading this book as part of a course that you are taking, the instructor may have set up all of these tools already for you; in this case, you can continue on through the book reading the chapters in order. But if you are reading this independently, you may want to jump to these last three chapters early before going on to make sure your computer is set up in such a way that you can try out the example code that we include throughout the book.
Each chapter in the book has an accompanying worksheet that provides exercises to help you practice the concepts you will learn. We strongly recommend that you work through the worksheet when you finish reading each chapter before moving on to the next chapter. All of the worksheets are available at https://worksheets.datasciencebook.ca; the “Exercises” section at the end of each chapter points you to the right worksheet for that chapter. For each worksheet, you can either launch an interactive version of the worksheet in your browser by clicking the “launch binder” button, or preview a non-interactive version of the worksheet by clicking “view worksheet.” If you instead decide to download the worksheet and run it on your own machine, make sure to follow the instructions for computer setup found in Chapter 13. This will ensure that the automated feedback and guidance that the worksheets provide will function as intended.


The Poet image description tool was developed as an open source resource to make it easier to create image descriptions for DAISY books, and to allow crowd sourcing of image descriptions to reduce cost. The tool is used to add image descriptions to existing books and may be accessed from the Benetech hosting environment, or the code may be downloaded, installed, and managed in the user’s own environment. It includes a feature called Math Helper which allows a user to transcribe math into a machine-readable format (MathML). For more about accessible math, see our presentation at CSUN 2013.
In order to describe images, a user must first download a DAISY book (zip) file from their digital book library. Once a book is downloaded to a local computer, the image description tool permits the following steps to be accomplished:
- Upload the DAISY zip file to a server which will hold the book while image descriptions are added.
- Add image descriptions to the book. Having the book reside on a server during processing allows multiple concurrent users to describe images as well as individuals with reduced network bandwidth to work effectively.
- Process image descriptions back into the DAISY book as prodnotes (will be updated to longdesc or other standard field as appropriate).
- Once the file is processed back to the user’s computer, it may be read by assistive technology capable of voicing prodnotes.
Accessing the Image Description Tool
Follow these links to access:
- The Poet image description tool (hosted by Benetech)
- Step by step instructions for using Poet
- A PDF of the step by step instructions for using Poet
- A recorded demonstration video of using the Poet tool
- A recorded NCAM webinar on effective practices for description of science content
- Poet image description guidelines with links to the NCAM effective practices guidelines
Obtaining the Open Source Code for Poet
If you want to to obtain or contribute to the open source Poet code, or set up your own instance of Poet, go to the Benetech GitHub repository for Image Description Service. You can view the source, submit issues or comments, fork the project, and make your own modifications. The Readme section contains licensing information and guidelines for setting the environment variables.


Comprehensive technical library on SATRA Bulletin website
Did you know that an impressive library of technical information is available for internet access by SATRA members?
The online version of SATRA Bulletin magazine (www.satra.com/bulletin) now features over nine full years of published technical articles solely reserved for SATRA members. As a constantly growing resource of expertise on footwear and leather, it is proving popular with visitors to the site, who can look for information on specific issues.
As an example, typing the word ‘heels’ into the search box near the top of the page quickly reveals that there are a number of relevant articles, covering such topics as ‘Heels with small seats, ‘Managing consumer complaints – heels and heel attachment’, ‘Attaching heels by the ‘inside’ method’ and ‘Using wedge heels’, to mention just a few. In the same way, searching with the word ‘soles’ indicates that important information can be found in such features as ‘Textile soles’, ‘Priming rubber soles for bonding’ and ‘Testing the hardness of footwear components’. Live links on screen allow for easy access to these articles, which can be downloaded as pdf files if needed.
In addition to this rich library of technical information available on the website, there are also several hundred additional news reports, country profiles, test descriptions, equipment reviews, topical articles and many more extras – a number which is increasing every month, and all of which can be easily identified through the search option. Many of the pages on SATRA Bulletin online also include direct links to other relevant articles, which makes sourcing ancillary information on a particular subject a simple task.
How can we help?
This article was originally published on page 7 of the July/August 2020 issue of SATRA Bulletin.


I’ve been writing this review for to long, sadly some work related issues forbade me of concluding this sooner. And this is why I want to formally apologize with the author Alfredo Serafini and Punit Shetty, the “guy” form Packt Publishing; wonderful fellows who gives me the opportunity of writing this reviews and provide access to the book, which otherwise I couldn’t afford.
When I start reading a book (any technical book, actually) I like to take a sneak peek through the index before actually reading the book and my first expression about the index of this great book was: This is a BEGINNERS GUIDE? My first impression came from the fact that in the index I saw sections about merging of segments and it’s impact in your indexes, another section about writing Solr plugins; so you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand any of those topics; and yet you don’t expect to see those topics covered in a book with the word “beginners” in the title. Nevertheless it’s fare to say that this only increase my interest on reading the book, and as I sayed before this was my first impression BEFORE reading the book, but when we start reading the book you get hit by this sentence in the Acknowledgments: Continue reading “Solr: Instant Apache Solr for Indexing Data How-to Book Review”


The Mind & Body Library
Self development library
Welcome to the Mind, Body library. Here, you will find an ever-growing library of books that support personal development.
Reading is a powerful way to develop all areas of your life, which I am passionate about.
Not that I was a big reader in my younger days, but I have seen my most significant growth personally and professionally since reading daily.
As the great Stoic philosopher Seneca once said
“It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.”


According to McDonnell (pictured): “The book is aimed at Irish business owners and managers of non-profit organisations who want to become more effective at Facebook marketing. Whether they are complete beginners or have been using Facebook for a while, readers of this book will learn how to implement a strategy that will get better results.”
Written in a clear, accessible style and with dozens of illustrations, the book provides a clear understanding of the architecture of Facebook, shows how to set up business pages and create page administrators, and gives a comprehensive explanation of page settings.
McDonnell also illustrates how to carry out customer analysis and profiling, offers advice on how to come up with compelling content for business pages and demonstrates how to craft content that encourages engagement.
Facebook Marketing also contains a guide to using Facebook Ads. “Many SMEs are missing out by not using this powerful and popular resource more effectively,” McDonnell added.
The author, who lives in Sligo, works with many government agencies including Failte Ireland, Enterprise Ireland and Local Enterprise Offices in Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal and Roscommon.


Attending The Birth
A Guide for Grandparents
Carolynn Bauer Zorn
Carolynn left her career as a sales engineer to pursue writing full time. She has a degree in Sociology from the University of Detroit/Mercy.
Carolynn grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. She lived in Chicago and Seattle before settling in the Detroit area where she raised her four children. As a grandmother of nine, who attended the birth of four grandchildren, Carolynn brings not only a passion for the subject but first hand experience as well.
She is now retired with her husband, Dave, who is a former CBS radio news broadcaster. See Dave’s website at www.drzorn.com about his Marine Corps life and book, Dinky Dau: Love, War and the Corps.
Her grandmother, Florence Marvyne Bauer, was a prolific biblical novelist and her grandfather, Dr. William Waldo Bauer, was a popular writer of health and family books.
Carolynn is a former member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, the Ventura County Writers Club and the National Writers Union. She has been published in the Los Angeles Times, the Ventura County Star and in various online magazines. Attending Your Grandchild’s Birth: A Guide for Grandparents is her first book.
While currently working on her second book about her grandson’s tragic stillbirth, Carolynn continues to submit freelance articles on the subjects of parenting, grandparenting, pregnancy and childbirth, and neonatal death.


The book came out in April 1986, just a few weeks after the Famicom version of the game it’s written for. I wasn’t expecting too much from a thirty year old book that barely scrapes past the 100 page mark, but I was soon found to be wrong.
With that out of the way we’re finally on to the gui-oh. No we’re not; we’re onto a special fourteen page manga that serves as a prequel for the game. It sets the story up in a lovely 80’s RPG sort of way – all princesses, fairies, and sudden attacks by evil monsters - and the colourful art matches the charming illustrations found throughout the rest of the book.. This is also the part where I realised that the entire book’s in full colour, which feels quite unusual for the era and a nice sign of quality – my memory of UK guidebooks from around this time is that they were almost non-existent, and those that did find their way onto shop shelves were generally text-only affairs printed on the cheapest paper the publisher could find with a few colour pages in the middle if you were very lucky.
You’d think by now the writers would have dispensed with the (brilliant, but) frivolous extras, but before starting you off on your epic quest the book takes a few pages to explain the controls, the UI, and the password system. This might seem like filler to some people, but I do like to see a guide that includes this sort of information as it’s a handy reference tool if you do forget something and even if you do already know it all it can be taken as an indicator of a writer that cares enough to be thorough and isn’t going to assume too much.
Then we move on to the gui- oh, I mean the ‘World’ section, which contains a bestiary showing damage and XP tables for every enemy in the game, as well as a screenshot and an illustration to match. Then there’s a tour of all the magic spells Jim can learn on his quest, and these all again have their own descriptions, art, and screenshots to go with them.
It’s my great pleasure to announce that at this point we’ve finally hit the actual guide part of this guide book – and I love it! It’s laid out as a sequence of key events, making it easy to see what you’ve done and removing the need to follow it religiously from start to finish for it to be of any use. There are actually three walkthroughs for you to choose from – a normal one that includes recommended levelling up spots, a high speed one that only lists the bare minimum required tasks to get through to the ending, and one that takes you on a journey to see every monster in the game. The illustrations here are absolutely wonderful, small but endearing images that aid the brief bullet points and enhance the entire guide.
If that’s too brief for your tastes you’ll be happy to hear the book then dedicates two chapters to monster killing strategies (as well as monster avoiding tips), and a more traditional walkthrough that takes key areas of the map and how to tackle them, littered with extensive screenshots, hand drawn maps, and yet more art. These in-depth areas cover right up to and including the very last battle in the game – sparing you the ‘Good luck!’ rubbish that some Japanese guides do, presumably for fear of spoiling the final boss (who are these people buying guide books and then complaining they tell you how to beat the last boss?!).
This slender guide has clearly been produced with love and care that goes far beyond what was strictly necessary, and the information has been broken up in a way that allows you to find exactly as much or as little as you want, when you want it. I wish more game guides in any language were like this little book – a good selection of useful information that takes the time to explain things when you need the extra help but doesn’t forget that sometimes you just want someone to point you in the right direction. Of course modern games are very different beasts to Hydlide Special, but even so I think there’s something FAQ writers of all levels could learn from the structure of this unassuming little book.


How does the research question impact the overall study? How do know what a good research question is? This week, we will explore the development of research questions and how that influences the rest of the decisions that are make during the design phase of a research project.
- Kowalski et al. (2018). Identifying a Research Question and Study Purpose (Chpt. 2, pp. 19-41).
- Creswell & Creswell (2018). Research Questions and Hypotheses (Chpt. 7, pp. 133-146). PDF available on Canvas.


The last two clear paper black out art is part of my collection
the book that i chose for my collection is the epic poem Odyssey commonly attributed to Homer an ancient poet who lived in Greece.
I chose Odyssey because it is a common for people to have heard about the books and not know what it is. it also helps that it is the “great man book” about a guy called Odysseus and his story after the Trojan war and his journey back home to his grieving wife who has been waiting for 20 years. and with the fancy way of writing that is very different to our modern way of writing and speaking, there are many different creative ways to black out the page to change the story or meaning of the page.
The Iliad and Odyssey is published by the same company and follows the same printing format and as another dimension of playfulness i want to see if it my black out poetry can work with the Iliad, another epic poem commonly attributed to Homer 10 years before the Odyssey about the Trojan war and Achilles.
the following images with the ruler and the notebook is my method of finding what words to use. the set rules i written, although i dont want to say but let people who read my work. I read the chapter, or referred to in the book as “book” find the theme of the chapter/book and twist that in the limited words im going to use.
the rule for the second page is that the line has to be in line with the text in the first page.
they are called 442 and 443 although not visible in the second clear paper.
page 442 shows:
Page 443 shows:
and grasped two rugged bronze
passage always shut
to sound the alarm
can you see the secret?
kind of hard to tell in this format but try reading them across like a book.


BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- A Vermont man who pleaded not guilty to charges of stealing an historical document from the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington and trying to sell it has failed to appear in court on new charges.
The Burlington Free Press reports (http://bfpne.ws/1bW6t5X) an arrest warrant was issued Tuesday for 55-year-old Patrick Rooney of Colchester after he failed to appear for an arraignment on charges including possession and selling of stolen property, namely the "Chittenden County Road Commissioners 1828-1831" manuscript. It was sold for $625 to the University of Vermont's Bailey/Howe Library.
Last month, Rooney pleaded not guilty to petty larceny for taking a page from "The Proprietors Volume" from Burlington's Fletcher Free Library and attempting to sell it to the Bailey/Howe Library. The document was written in 1791.
Information from: The Burlington Free Press, http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com


If you haven’t already picked up on it, I’m a pretty big space geek. I love reading about it and have dreamed of going up into space. This book was right up my alley.
This book throws some cold water on humanity’s dream of truly settling space, at least in the near term. Kelly and Zach do a fantastic job of going through the different challenges, technologic, scientific and legal of us as a species venturing into space. They touch on a lot of things that we often don’t think about when talking about sending humans into space.
The book is fascinating and is written in such a way to be realistic about things, but also with the hope for the future and the caveats that there is much we don’t know and don’t have data for.
I’m a fan of Zach’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics and this book has the same humor that he’s known for. If you enjoy space and science, I’d highly recommend this book.


Daubert & Scientific Links
It is more true all the time that there is an extra-legal core competency required to apply optimally the rules for admissibility of expert testimony. Counsel should know that the Federal Judicial Center provides each federal judge with its Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence 2d ed. (2000). It provides largely self contained treatments of a number of expert testimony expertise areas, including the nature of science, and reference manuals on statistics, econometrics, damages and engineering methods. You can download individual chapters or the whole manual below. You need Adobe Acrobat Reader, (which is available by clicking here or by going to www.adobe.com) to read or download the Manual.
Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence 2d ed. (2000)
Title page, contents, and Preface by Fern M. Smith (65 K)
Introduction, Stephen Breyer (65 K)
The Supreme Court's Trilogy on the Admissibility of Expert Evidence, Margaret A. Berger (163 K)
Management of Expert Evidence, William W Schwarzer & Joe S. Cecil (163 K)
How Science Works, David Goodstein (98 K)
Reference Guide on Statistics, David H. Kaye & David A. Freedman (455 K)
Reference Guide on Multiple Regression, Daniel L. Rubinfeld (260 K)
Reference Guide on Survey Research, Shari Seidman Diamond (228 K)
Reference Guide on Estimation of Economic Losses in Damages Awards, Robert E. Hall & Victoria A. Lazear (228 K)
Reference Guide on Epidemiology, Michael D. Green, D. Mical Freedman & Leon Gordis (260 K)
Reference Guide on Toxicology, Bernard D. Goldstein & Mary Sue Henifin (195K)
Reference Guide on Medical Testimony, Mary Sue Henifin, Howard M. Kipen & Susan R. Poulter (228 K)
Reference Guide on DNA Evidence, David H. Kaye & George F. Sensabaugh, Jr. (423 K)
Reference Guide on Engineering Practices and Methods, Henry Petroski (228 K)
Index (98 K)
Other Daubert sites I visit regularly.
www.daubertontheweb.com : Webmastered by Peter Nordberg, a lawyer who truly gets Daubert and is a gentleman to boot.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/daubert/fl.htm: The Harvard Gatekeeping Project
A good general legal website
Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute
Employment Law Applications
Note, Beyond the Prima Facie Case in Employment Discrimination Law: Statistical Proof and Rebuttal, 89 Harv. L. Rev. 387 (1975).
Finkelstein, The Judicial Reception of Multiple Regression Studies in Race and Sex Discrimination Cases, 80 Colum. L. Rev. 737 (1980).
Rubinfeld, Econometrics in the Courtroom 85 Colum. L. Rev. 1048.
Lempert, Statistics in the Courtroom: Building on Rubinfeld 85 Colum. L. Rev. 1098 (1985).
Note: Title VII, Multiple Linear Regression Models, and the Courts: An Analysis J. Law & Contemp. Probs. Fall 1983, p. 284.
Feinberg, The Increasing Sophistication of Statistical Assessments as Evidence in Discrimination Litigation, 77 Am. Stat. A. J. 784 (1982).
Proving Antitrust Damages: Legal and Economic Issues, Section of Antitrust Law of the American Bar Association, 1996.
Rubinfeld and Steiner, Quantitative Methods in Antitrust Litigation. Law and Contemp. Probs., Autumn 1983, at 69 (providing, in the words of two of the experts in the Ampicillin case, a description of the regression analysis that was the basis for the ampicillin expert testimony.)
Finkelstein and Levenbauch, Regression Estimates of Damages in Price Fixing Cases, Law and Contemp. Probs., Autumn 1983.
Securities Law Applications
Brown & Warner, Measuring Security Price Performance, 8 J. Fin. Econ. 205 (1980) (developing the event study technique).
Brown & Warner, Using Daily Stock Returns: The Case of Event Studies, 14 J. Fin. Econ. 3 (1985) (continuing development of the event study technique).
Fama et al., The Adjustment of Stock Prices to New Information, 10 Int'l. Econ. R. 1 (1969) is the first routinely cited event study article.