On this day in 2009, Frank McCourt, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, runaway best-seller “Angela’s Ashes,” a 1996 memoir about his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland, dies at age 78 in Manhattan from metastatic melanoma. McCourt wrote “Angela’s Ashes,” his first book, when he was in his mid-60s, after teaching in New York City’s public schools for nearly 30 years.
Francis McCourt was born on August 19, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York, the oldest of seven children of Irish immigrants Angela and Malachy McCourt. In the midst of the Great Depression, 4-year-old Frank McCourt and his destitute family returned to his mother’s native Limerick. There his drunken, irresponsible father squandered the money he earned from his occasional work as a laborer, while his family subsisted in squalid poverty in the slums of Limerick. Three of McCourt’s siblings died in early childhood. When McCourt was 11, his father abandoned the family; at 13, the younger McCourt dropped out of school to work. As he would later write in “Angela’s Ashes”: “When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: The happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”
At age 19, McCourt moved to New York City, where he worked a series of manual-labor jobs. During the Korean War, he served in the U.S. Army, training German shepherds. Afterward, despite his lack of formal education, he attended New York University on the GI Bill, studying English and graduating in 1957. The following year, he embarked on a 30-year teaching career in New York City’s public high schools. A popular, unorthodox teacher, he shared with his students some of the stories about his childhood that would later appear in “Angela’s Ashes.” Along the way, he earned a master’s degree in English from Brooklyn College.
In the 1970s, McCourt and his brother Malachy, an actor and bartender, wrote and performed an autobiographical two-man show in New York, “A Couple of Blaguards”; they later took their show on the road to other cities. After Frank McCourt retired from teaching in 1987, he decided to write his childhood memoirs.
When “Angela’s Ashes” was published in 1996, it received rave reviews from critics (who praised McCourt’s use of language and ability to write about his difficult childhood without bitterness) and went on to become a huge best-seller, with hardback sales alone topping 4 million copies. In 1997, the book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography or autobiography. “Angela’s Ashes” was less warmly received by some in Ireland, where McCourt was criticized for tarnishing the reputation of his mother, the city of Limerick and the Catholic Church, which he portrayed in his book as repressive and unsympathetic.
In 1999, “Angela’s Ashes” was made into a Hollywood movie. That same year, McCourt published his second memoir, “’Tis,” which picked up where “Angela’s Ashes” left off and described his years in America. His third book, “Teacher Man,” about his experiences as an educator, followed in 2005.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE TALKS/SEMINARS:
Duck Family Environmental Politics and Governance Colloquium Series: David G. Victor (Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego), “After Paris: Will Nations Actually Do Something about Global Climate Change?” Friday, April 15, 12-1:30pm in the Smith 40A. More information available at: http://goo.gl/lM4qdP
OTHER DEPARTMENT TALKS/SEMINARS:
West Coast Poverty Center: Celeste Watkins-Hayes (Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University), "Remaking a Life, Reversing an Epidemic: HIV/AIDS and the Politics of Transformation." Monday, April 4, 12:30-1:30pm in Allen Library, Peterson, Room 485. Q&A until 2pm.
Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest: Edward D. Melillo (Associate Professor, History & Environmental Studies, Amherst College), "Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection." Monday, April 4 at 4pm in Communications 226. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Washington
Department of History and Simpson Center for the Humanities: Stephanie Coontz (History and Family Studies, Evergreen State College), "The Way We Never Were - How Myths About the Families of the Past Threaten Our Future." Tuesday, April 5, 3:30pm in Communications 120.
Jackson School and Middle East Center: Çağlar Keyder (Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University and at Koç University in Istanbul), "Turkey: From Islamic Democracy to Authoritarian Nationalism." Thursday, April 7, 3:30-5pm in Kane Hall - the Walker Ames Room. For information contact: firstname.lastname@example.org.
UW chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops: Noi Supalai (Nike factory worker and union president), "Nike Worker Speak-Out." Thursday, April 7, at 7pm in Savery Hall.
Joint Seminar in Development Economics: Gianmarco Leon (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra), "Interlinked Firms and the Consequences of Piecemeal Regulation." Monday, April 11, 11-12:30 in Savery 410.
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program: Onur Bakiner (Assistant Professor, Political Science, Seattle University), "Truth Commissions: Memory, Power, and Legitimacy." Friday, April 15, 12-1:20pm in the Allen Library Petersen Room. Sponsored by: Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, Comparative Law and Society Studies, Law Societies and Justice, Center for Human Rights


These books are the ones that stand the test of time, of age, of interest. They are the true classics of children’s literature that have shaped my own childhood, and have become as dear as friends to my children.
Any of these books would be the perfect place to start with reading aloud to your children. It doesn’t have to be a long reading session. Just a few pages, or a chapter, every single day. I guarantee as you build the habit with your children, and establish the tradition, they will begin to BEG for “just one more page” and “just one more chapter.”
3. The Complete Peter Rabbit Collection, by Beatrix Potter
4. Make Way for McCloskey: A Complete Treasury, by Robert McCloskey
5. Thornton Burgess Books (All of them are fantastic!)
6. A Child’s Garden of Verses, by Robert Lewis Stevenson
8.Little House on the Prairie Series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
9. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Graham
10. The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis
I have two ways I fit in read-aloud time with my children. The first is to read aloud at the table while they are eating breakfast and/or lunch. It keeps everyone quiet, focused and well-behaved at the table, and it’s actually prime listening time for them – I find their comprehension and memory of what we read at the table is often the best! Just a chapter, a poem, a short story. Not a long reading by any means, just a little bit.
The other tradition we have kept through the years, even as my children get older, is what we call “Apple Story Time.” I think a lot of homeschool families call this “afternoon tea and poetry” or something similar, but for us, it’s apples and stories.
I slice a mountain of apples on a plate and either put it on the coffee table in the family room, or spread a blanket and put it in the middle of the blanket. Everyone comes running and sits right down, and I read a chapter of a story book or a chapter from a longer book. I try to do this around 10:30 in the morning, half way between breakfast and lunchtime.
Do you have a read-aloud tradition with your children? Or a favorite read-aloud story? Please share below I’d love to hear!


By: Rick Landers
A few years back, many of us have whiled away our time reading some insightful interviews in the pages of Guitar Player (GP) magazine or discovered more information about acoustic and electric guitars and their players, all gifted to us by the hard work and guitar passion of Tom Wheeler.
It was with sudden sadness that I learned of his passing from a friend and fellow guitar fan.
Tom generated informed enthusiasm for guitars and left his mark in kind, friendly and measurable ways, and in his global reach while serving as the Editor-in -Chief of Guitar Player (1981 – 1991), freelancing for Rolling Stone, editing Bass Player and authoring numerous tomes on guitars, amps, and musicians.
“On behalf of NAMM and our Members, we mourn Tom’s passing. His role as a writer in the ‘70’s and then as chief editor of Guitar Player brought him into our world each month and he became required reading for all of us in music retail. He was also aware of the industry’s responsibility in creating new players and under his leadership GP regularly sponsored our Stairway to Stardom program when I was at Skip’s Music in Sacramento. Tom’s efforts helped shape the guitar market for decades and his contributions will live on.” – Joe Lamond, President, NAMM
Tom’s passion led him to conducting interviews with such legendary guitar masters and music industry leaders as, Les Paul, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Leo Fender, Keith Richards and Little Richard.
Tom and I collaborated on an interview with the legendary Les Paul, with Tom graciously agreeing to write the introduction. We became personally acquainted during his visits to Paul Reed Smith Guitars, while we enjoyed the company’s annual trade show in Maryland. And later, his excellent book, The Dream Factory: Fender Custom Shop, was named Guitar International magazine’s Book of the Year.
More recently, Tom served as a journalism professor at the University of Oregon where he taught courses on “Grammar for Communications” and “Feature Writing”.
Books by Tom Wheeler
- The Guitar Book: A Handbook for Electric & Acoustic
- The Soul of Tone: Celebrating 60 Years of Fender Amps
- Stratocaster Chronicles (Book of the Year Award – Vintage Guitar Magazine)
- American Guitars: An Illustrated History
- The Dream Factory: Fender Custom Shop (Book of the Year Award – Guitar International Magazine)
- The Fender Archives: A Scrapbook of Artifacts, Treasures, and Inside Information
- The Stratocaster Continues
- Phototruth or Photofiction: Ethics and Media Imagery in the Digital Age
Several of his books included forwards by luminaries in the world of guitar, including: B.B. King; Eric Clapton; Billy Gibbons, Les Paul and Eric Johnson.
Tom Hutchin Wheeler passed away in the San Francisco Bay area at the age of 70, on Saturday, February 10, 2018. His legacy continues not only in his masterfully written books and articles, and in the so many other ways that he personally inspired his fellow guitar players, but most especially in how he will forever live in the hearts of his family and his many friends.


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by Dr. Stuart Jeanne Bramhall
This is the first of two articles exploring the likelihood that capitalism is on the verge of collapse and what a post-capitalistic world might look like.
Global Capitalism: a House of Cards
As the global recession and debt crisis worsens, even mainstream analysts are starting to speculate that global capitalism is on the verge of collapse. At the moment, most attention is focused on European “debt contagion.” European Union economists are terrified that the Greek government will default on their debt.
by Paul Craig Roberts
George Orwell, the pen name by which Eric Blair is known, had the gift of prophecy, or else blind luck. In 1949 in his novel, 1984, he described the Amerika of today and, I fear, also his native Great Britain, which is no longer great and follows Washington, licking the jackboot and submitting to Washington’s hegemony over England and Europe and exhausting itself financially and morally in order to support Amerikan hegemony over the rest of the world.


Everything That Rises Must Converge Audiobook Listen
Everything that rises must converge by flannery o'connor 1925 1964 |return to short stories home page| her doctor had told julian's mother that she must lose twenty pounds on account of her blood pressure, so on wednesday nights julian had to take her downtown on the bus for a reducing class at the y. the reducing class was designed for. "everything that rises must converge" is a collection of short stories by flannery o’connor that was first published in 1965. summary read a plot overview or analysis of the story. Everything that rises must converge is a collection of short stories written by flannery o'connor during the final decade of her life. the collection's eponymous story derives its name from the work of pierre teilhard de chardin. the collection was published posthumously in 1965 and contains an introduction by robert fitzgerald. of the volume's nine stories, seven had been printed in magazines or literary journals prior to being collected, including three that won o. henry awards: "greenleaf", ". Everything that rises must converge. litcharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in everything that rises must converge, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. julian, a young man who has returned to his southern hometown after graduating from college, is upset with his mother. The short story “everything that rises must converge” mainly deals with the breaking of the conventional hierarchies in the society and the problems and tensions created by such changes. the aristocratic culture and honor of the old south in the united states were mainly formed on slavery and then on segregation is subject to a pluralistic and integrated society.
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“AN ESSENTIAL WORK -
“Interesting questions and answers about life, death and reality. This is one of the best books I have read on the subject of the nature of reality. The author's investigation takes us through physics and maths (in simple terms so the likes of me can grasp it), NDE experiences, and the author's own first hand accounts of his findings through past life hypnosis. It is a long but riveting read which will need your full concentration, and I would say that many of the theories presented here have given me an insight into what our reality might be.” [by beany on 7 Mar. 2016]
FROM AMAZON US SITE:
“WOW. An EXTREMELY well-
It's no small feat to cover the nitty-
At each step he applied tenets to his own life. We're privy not only to his intellect
and scholarship, but his life, his personal struggles-
“A Profound Work! This book is profound, both in its ideas and its research into
the meaning of our human existence. An amazing variety of perspectives are used in
the author's attempt to answer the fundamental questions of our existence. These
include "NDEs" (near-
One of the things that makes this book so special is that the author does not try to establish himself as some kind of daunting authority. He freely admits that he doesn't know all of the answers. Although he has a Bachelors degree in Mathematics and a Masters degree in Computers, Mr. Mennella presents himself as just a fellow human being who is searching for answers.
Despite this humility, Mr. Mennella is successful at providing his reader with a very wide spectrum of ideas that help to explain both our lives and the "afterlife". This is not a book containing only theories and abstractions. It is abundant with clinical studies in verifiable experiences, including those of the author, which provide authenticity to the writer's explanations.
As an aside, I was quite impressed with Mr. Mennella's descriptions of his own sessions while under hypnosis. They are interesting, engrossing, and revealing. He also includes some sections on mathematics. Fear not! He makes the mathematics understandable and simple enough, even for someone, such as myself, who is not nearly as advanced as he is in this subject. I have never read another author who could parallel Mr. Mennella's ability to present such a diversity of practical experiences and multiple viewpoints to support his writing.
This brings to mind the enormous bibliography he supplies. I was dumbfounded! I love bibliographies because they provide the opportunity to read other author's books on the same subjects. There are twenty fives pages of it, including well over three hundred entries! Here's another proof of this man's humility in not claiming to be some kind of final authority on these subjects.
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After the first reading, I felt compelled to seek more information about some of the many topics covered in this book. After reading several of the books the author mentioned, I found myself rereading his analysis for greater depth. At what seemed impossible in the first read thru seemed not only possible, but the likely. Mr. Mennella, you've made a believer out of me!” [by Amazon Customer on March 18, 2016]


Enjoy the adventures of a new heroine for protecting the planet in ‘Pippin and the River of Wonders’.
Yep, that’s me and my dog!
By Stacey Gerhart
Stacey Gerhart, DVM is a veterinarian, world traveler and children's book author. Her fun and inspiring stories will leave you cheering for nature, wildlife, and protecting the planet. Stacey believes fiction pairs beautifully with non-fiction for parents and teachers to share stories with children to raise awareness about wildlife, environment, and sustainability.


By: Paullina Simons
Goodreads rate: 4.32 / 5 | My rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 / 5
Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces and avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg.
Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living in one room with their brother and parents. The routine of their hard impoverished life is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. For the Metanov family, for Leningrad and particularly for Tatiana, life will never be the same again. On that fateful day, Tatiana meets a brash young man named Alexander.
The family suffers as Hitler’s army advances on Leningrad, and the Russian winter closes in. With bombs falling and the city under siege, Tatiana and Alexander are drawn inexorably to each other, but theirs is a love that could tear Tatiana’s family apart, and at its heart lies a secret that could mean death to anyone who hears it.
Confronted on the one hand by Hitler’s vast war machine, and on the other by a Soviet system determined to crush the human spirit, Tatiana and Alexander are pitted against the very tide of history, at a turning point in the century that made the modern world
Oh what can I say about this book…Paullina Simons definitely knows how to write! the way she wrote the story was amazing and Paullina described the war and characters so well. I love every single thing about this book. I had so much mixed emotion during reading it.
The Bronze Horseman is my first historical fiction book I have ever read. I struggle to read it at first as it definitely wasn’t an easy read, a few words I had to google. Characters name were hard to read, so I basically just skip those names 😂.
Overall the writing, the story and the characters were created well. Paullina Simons did an amazing job with this book. This book is definitely one of my favourite. I really highly recommend it.
About the author:
Paullina Simons was born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1963. At the age of ten her family immigrated to the United States. Growing up in Russia Paullina dreamt of someday becoming a writer. Her dream was put on hold as she learned English and overcame the shock of a new culture.
After graduating from university and after various jobs including working as a financial journalist and as a translator Paullina wrote her first novel Tully. Through word of mouth that book was welcomed by readers all over the world.
She continued with more novels, including Red Leaves, Eleven Hours, The Bronze Horseman, The Bridge to Holy Cross (also known as Tatiana and Alexander), The Summer Garden and The Girl in Times Square (also known as Lily). Many of Paullina’s novels have reached international bestseller lists.
Apart from her novels, Paullina has also written a cookbook, Tatiana’s Table, which is a collection of recipes, short stories and recollections from her best selling trilogy of novels, The Bronze Horseman, The Bridge to Holy Cross, (also known as Tatiana and Alexander) and The Summer Garden.


FReSH Start Toolkit: Fracture Recovery for Seniors at Home, A hip fracture recovery guide for patients & families
A hip fracture is a life changing event. It's the role of your healthcare team to give you the best care possible while you're in the hospital but what about when it's time to go home? For many, it can be a challenging time for the person recovering and for caregivers who want to provide the best help possible.
As part of the BC Hip Fracture Redesign Project, FReSH Start represents physiotherapists, nurses, surgeons, and patient partners to inform this manual to assist people and their families who are on the road to recovery.
This guide covers:
- What will happen in the hospital
- Best practices for home recovery including nutrition, safety, and sleep
- Preventing further falls and injuries
- How and when to resume activities
- Recovery exercises
The FReSH Start Manual is now available in Punjabi, Simplified Chinese, Farsi, Korean, Spanish and French for BC users and in Punjabi and Simplified Chinese for out of province users.
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Fergie Jenkins 2001 Topps Archives
Back before Topps issued their All-Time Fan Favorites set, they had ‘Archives’.
And from what I can tell, the theme was the same: Re-use winning card styles and images from pervious baseball card releases and show them off to a new generation of collections.
So, this may be the card of Fergie Jenkins from the 2001 Topps Archives set, but to this collector, this is and will always be a 1984 Topps baseball card!!!


by Arley L. Dial
By 1880, European immigrants, enabled by their social institutions and technology, had largely displaced the stone-age inhabitants of the current United States. That is the likely year of the novel, Nagodzaa: A Warrior’s Elegy, by Arley L. Dial. It is a believable, highly readable, and engaging snapshot of this transition’s end game in the Arizona territory. Mr. Dial moves smoothly between points of view, taking us inside the feelings and thoughts of cavalry soldiers, both white and black, Indian agents, Apache scouts, Mexican vaqueros and Apache warriors. You’ll find heroes and villains, desperate fights, love, hate, horrors, humor, justice of a sort, even a cavalry charge, but this is not a Hollywood treatment. Don’t expect noble savages, heart-of-gold cowboys, or John Wayne soldiers. When we hear the Apaches talking and thinking there is no, “Ugh-How-Me heap Paleolithic philosopher,” language, although his sparing use of Apache vocabulary and names is effective. Nor, are the Native Americans simply white men wearing scanty clothes. Mr. Dial works from the basic humanity of his characters, and gives us their words, thoughts and deeds from within the context of their culture. Even the bad men, and they are very bad indeed, come to us as human beings working from different motivations, morals, and social values.
To the Europeans, the indigenous tribal-groups were at best a religious challenge and at worst a dangerous nuisance. To the aboriginal Asian immigrants, long established in the New World, the Europeans were a befuddling menace, against whom they fought a lingering and fragmented war, until finally overwhelmed around the end of the nineteenth century. The progress of European, now called American, settlement accelerated after the founding of the United States. By the end of the Civil War, in 1865, the so-called American Indians had been neutralized in all territory east of St. Joseph Missouri, along most of the Pacific Coast and in a large swath through much of Montana, Idaho and Utah. Fifteen years later, at the time of this story, they had been pushed or starved onto reservations, except for some undervalued areas in the current states of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and the Dakotas. The world of the indigenous tribes was coming to an end, the evident meaning of the book’s title.
As with his previous novel, Plews, Mr. Dial is at his very best in giving us the climactic battle scene. It is a dirty, gritty, horrifying event with little romance and utterly no mercy. If you’d like to form an impression of what it felt like to be alive in 1880, living in the American Southwest, whether white, black, Indian, or Mexican, this book will help you. If you just want a good, well-researched read that faithfully reconstructs and presents an historical period, this is your book.
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Power of Attorney
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An Enduring Power of Attorney is one of the most important documents that you should complete in your lifetime. It is a legal document that allows another person to act on your behalf with respect to your property and financial affairs. It allows you to prepare for a time when you may become ill or suffer a disability and, as a result, become unable to manage your own financial affairs.
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This collection of paintings goes back to 2001 when I began the Patriot Games series in the aftermath of 9/11 and the Enron and WorldCom scandals. The website went on-line in September 2003. The latest series, An Organized Crime, was begun in 2011.
The folly of our political leaders continues to be
“the invention of endangered ‘national security,’
the invention of ‘vital interest,’ the invention of a
‘commitment’ which rapidly assume[s] a life of
its own, casting a spell over the inventor.”
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman


The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
First published in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a mystery tale about the inexorable conflict between good and evil. In this faithful adaptation by Mark Stratford, Stevenson’s gripping narrative is brought vividly to life through a combination of powerful story-telling and masterful character creation.
Gabriel John Utterson is Henry Jekyll’s lawyer and most trusted friend. Deeply concerned by a strange clause in his friend’s will, Utterson feels compelled to investigate the sinister Edward Hyde – Jekyll’s unlikely protégé. Convinced that Jekyll and Hyde’s relationship is founded on blackmail, Utterson embarks on a quest to learn more, but as he does so, he finds the truth to be far worse than he could have ever imagined.
★★★★★ “This is 75 minutes of the most effective theatrical storytelling…a truly mesmerising performance.” (North West End UK)
“A gripping piece of theatre” (British Theatre Guide)
“Stratford is a master in the art of creating characters” (Broadway Baby)


Twenty Journey Booklet
The Twenty Journey Booklet is a collection of stories, paraphernalia and photos from the life changing journey through South Africa.
First Edition limited to 250 copies. (Sold Out)
Published in August 2015
260 x 182mm
Edited by Sarah-Claire Picton
Designed by Hanno van Zyl
“The book’s cover image of a boy mounting a pole upon which hangs the old South African flag, wagging their tongue and raising one middle finger in the air, captures the zeitgeist of how students feel at this very moment: Fuck the system!” - True Africa
The Twenty Journey Booklet was nominated for Design Indaba’s MBOISA (Most Beautiful Object In South Africa) in 2015.


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|GForge is a free software fork of the web-based project-management and collaboration software originally created for SourceForge. GForge is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
GForge provides project hosting, version control (CVS and Subversion), bug-tracking, and messaging.


If you are library staff, you log in to the system using the “staff” login. Normally when searching, you default to only searching your local library. However, when cataloging, you should start all of your searches by search the entire Balsam Consortium. You can easily change your default search library. Here is how:
2. Select “Balsam” as the Default Search Library.
(It saves automatically)
3. Test the default – search the catalog,
The Default Library should now be “Balsam Libraries”. Of course, you can always change the default to your local library again by following these procedures.


3D printing offers transformative benefits for supply chains in terms of improving efficiency, speed, and certainty of supply, but poses a great design and implementation challenge for supply chain managers. How should 3D printing be implemented in the supply chain? Across what product range? Using which technologies? The broad scope of these questions creates a complex problem—developing the right strategy is critical to achieving the desired outcomes.
This article, authored by GRA's Michael Dentry and Charles Edwards, explores how to approach 3D printing within the supply chain, setting out a strategy for implementing 3D printing in your organisation today.
Read the article Developing a Strategy: 3D printing in the Supply Chain as published in MHD magazine.


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Clay has gone off to find work, and Laura, now a beautiful young girl, volunteers to do so. They generated political unrest. On the journey, they stop at a house where a young child is mourning the death of his mother.
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Wayne W. Daniel, "Biostatistics: A Foundation for Analysis in the Health Sciences, 9th edition"
Wil ey | 2009 | ISBN: 0470105828 | 960 pages | PDF | 12,1 MB
Develop the statistical tools needed in the allied health fields
Anyone entering the allied health field needs to have a working understanding of how data can be turned into useful information. Now in its ninth edition, Wayne W. Daniel’s Biostatistics: A Foundation for Analysis in the Health Sciences provides a comprehensive introduction to biostatistics as it is used in the biological sciences.
Designed for the undergraduate and graduate student across a range of fields, from the health disciplines to forestry and animal husbandry, the text takes an applied and computer-oriented approach to its topical coverage. Its chapters take you from the basic concepts of probability through hypothesis testing, linear regression and correlation, the analysis of variance, chi-square distribution, nonparametric and distribution-free statistics, and more.
This new edition adds much new and expanded material, including such features as:
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Highlighting of main ideas with bulleted objectives at the start of each chapter
Summary boxes of formulae and statistical rules for easy reference and review
Support for multiple programs such as SPSS, SAS, and STATA, in addition to Minitab
Screen captures and technology boxes with step-by-step help
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Ministry to Adults
Adult Christian formation at St. John’s takes place in a variety of forms from presentations at our Sunday forums to weekly book studies. We invite you to jump in!
Adult Sunday School - September-May
Sundays 9:30 - 10:15 AM
“Can You Believe That?” presented by Chris Roussell will explore the history and meaning behind
the Nicene Creed. Some of the things we will learn together are:
• When and why was this Profession of Faith developed?
• What does “light from light, true God from true God” mean?
• How is Mary’s virginity a fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies?
• Why did the phrase “proceeds from the Father and the Son” split the Church?
• What is “the resurrection from the dead”?
This course is designed so that anyone can join at any point and learn something valuable.
Women’s Book Study
10:00 AM Thursdays: Library
Women invited to meet weekly to engage together in discussion about a book focused on a theological theme. The group chooses books by consensus. Join this group to be fed in your mind, body and spirit!
Wednesday Noon Day Prayer and Eucharist
Wednesdays at 12:10 pm; St. John’s Chapel, an abbreviated Eucharist service for midweek inspiration and sustenance.
George Bean Men's Discussion Group
7:50 AM: Hume Room, Westminster Canterbury
The George Bean Men’s Discussion Group reads and discusses books suggested by members of the group. All are welcome.


ICOMOS-ICCROM ANALYSIS OF CASE STUDIES IN RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION
|The joint ICOMOS-ICCROM publication, Analysis of Case Studies in Recovery and Reconstruction brings together the voices and experiences of experts and practitioners working in the field. Published in two volumes with an accompanying report, the publication includes 11 case studies addressing post-trauma recovery and reconstruction. Managed through a joint Working Group comprising members of both organizations and was administered through both the ICOMOS Secretariat and the ICCROM-Sharjah Regional Office, this highly collaborative project has provided an opportunity for both organizations to learn from a diverse set of experiences in recovery and reconstruction around the world.
Fuente: ICOMOS Open Archive


A bit of Elizabethan England comes to life during the Odessa Shakespeare Festival at The Globe Theatre of the Great Southwest, Shakespearean Library & Anne Hathaway Cottage, modeled after Shakespeare's original Globe. The Globe also produces everything from Broadway musicals to country and Gospel revues. In addition to the Globe Theatre is the Anne Hathaway Cottage, which is a replica of the home Shakespeare built for his true love, Anne Hathaway. There is also a Barter Booth offering everything from souvenirs to refreshments.
2308 Shakespeare Road
Odessa, TX 79761
Odessa Meteor Crater
The Meteor Crater is approximately 550 feet in diameter, is the second largest in the nation. The crater is the result of a barrage of meteors crashing to the earth some 20,000 to 50,000 years ago. It is approximately ten miles west of Odessa; via Interstate 20, exit 108. Enjoy a self-guided tour and visit the Thomas Rodman Museum and Visitor Center on site. Museum hours Tuesday- Saturday: 9 AM- 5PM; Sunday, 1 PM-5 PM. Crater Trail is open for self guided tours everyday from 9 AM-5 PM. Free admission. Gift shop.
3100 Meteor Crater Rd
Odessa, TX 79760
Twenty stone blocks, similar in size and shape to those of England's ancient Stonehenge, were trucked in on tractor-trailers and lifted onto bases made of reinforced concrete. The replica is 70 percent of the original's vertical dimensions and exact in horizontal size, with the tallest of the limestone pieces standing 19 feet. The exhibit is located off East University Boulevard on the UTPB campus.
Located on the campus of The University of Texas of the Permian Basin, this replica of Stonehenge was constructed over a period of six weeks in the summer of 2004. A community group, wanting to draw more visitors to the city from I-20, initiated the idea, and the university approved the location.
4901 E. University
Odessa, TX 79762
Big Sky Theater
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- Address:6200 W. Hwy 80
Midland, TX 79706
- Phone:(432) 617-3001 Website:http://www.bigskytheatre.com/
Big Sky is open seven days a week, playing a double feature on all three screens every night. The box office opens at 7:00 P.M. so be sure to come early.
Tickets are $7 for ages 12 & over, $6 for ages 6-11. Children 5 and under are free! Wednesday night they offer Poor Boy Night and tickets for ages 12 & over are $4, ages 6-11 are $3. A ticket allows you to see two great movies! It's a double feature every night.


Our meeting room may be reserved by any non-profit community oriented group. Equipment available: projector, screen, laptop, speakers, DVD player, overhead projector, and television.
There is no charge for the use of this room by non-profit organizations. All other reservations require a $25 non-refundable usage fee. The reservation must be requested prior to the meeting date.
Call the Library for a reservation.
Guidelines for use and an application are available in pdf format.
Computers with Microsoft Office and internet access available. Library staff will identify specific starting points for searches on the Library's main page which are appropriate to the Library's mission and service roles. The Library cannot control or monitor other material which may be accessible from internet sources. It is not possible to apply the same selection criteria which are used for other materials. See also the Internet Usage Policy.


Girl in Snow: January 2021 "Fun" Book Selection
For January 2021, the fiction book I will be reading is Girl in Snow, a novel by Danya Kukafka. This book can accomplish the "In 2021 Read...Books" Bingo squares for "a book that takes place in winter or autumn, an author's debut book, a book written by an author you have not read before (if that is the case for you, as it is with me), a book with trees on the cover, or anything else that may be the case for you, such as a book with your favorite color on the cover. Just as an FYI, this book is available on Scribd, which is how I am reading it. If you are interested in checking out this app, let me know and I can send you an email so you can try the app out for two months for free!


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A new level of digital support, powered by Cambridge HOTmaths, allows effortless and immediate access to multiple-choice quizzes, links to other activities, online testing and a powerful learning management system. The online version of the student text delivers a host of interactive features to enhance the teaching and learning experience of the student text. It is accessed online through Cambridge GO using a unique 16-character code supplied with the Print Textbook, or available for purchase separately as a digital-only option. You will need to purchase your own copy of the Cambridge Latin Course Book I textbook (ISBN 978-0-521-63543-1) from any good bookshop or online from www.amazon.co.uk (not amazon.com). Students outside the UK should be sure to purchase the British edition of the textbook, rather than the North American edition. Cambridge University Press has been publishing high-quality curriculum-based materials for school students for over 150 years.
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Welcome To Quantum Realism & Special Reference Frames
This website is dedicated to the subject of developing physically realist interpretations of quantum mechanics (as opposed to the Copenhagen interpretation) together with the discussion of the need for special references frames in doing this, such as with emission theories of light. If you are interested in the subject of realist models of the physical world, as opposed to our perceptions of this world, you are encouraged to read the free eBook by Robert E. French “A Model of the Physical World.”
Now you might have heard about the term “Quantum Realm” in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), but there is a whole world of the realist physical world that is not explained in there. This website will introduce you to the real world of quantum mechanics.
Free Ebook – A Model of the Physical World by Robert E. French


Flemish Government Architect
Commissioned by Flemish Government Architect Isabelle documented the captivating transformation of the Krook in Ghent. Since 2017, De Krook is one of the most striking architectural landmarks in Ghent. Among other things, the multi-award-winning building on a bend or crook in the Scheldt River houses the public city library, Ghent University labs and offices and the nanoelectronics and digital technology research centre imec. As well as a café with a terrace overlooking the Scheldt curve and the city centre.


1. You genuinely don’t understand why people have so much trouble finding books.
2. People ask if you know the best study spots in the library. OBVIOUSLY you do, but you’ll never tell.
3. You’ve gotten to the point where you’ll dance in the stacks while you shelve books and do not care if someone sees you.
4. When you have a late shift and your supervisor has you shelf reading or shelving in the basement
5. You know the feeling when one of your friends starts walking over to the desk
6. Until you start talking to them about weekend plans and then they say “So I’m looking for this book for my history class?”
7. Your crush will approach the desk with a huge stack of books and you’ll pray the system doesn’t work so they have to make small talk
8. You’ve had to push an old, loud, awful wooden cart through a quiet room at least once
9. And someone you know probably took a snapchat of you doing it
10. It probably ended up in some groupmes. And on facebook.
10. Someone will check out a book and one look at the title will make you feel inadequate.
11. At some point, a professor that made your life a living hell for a semester will approach the desk and you have to muster all your strength not to be an a**hole to them
12. When someone comes over to the desk and asks if you can get a book for them
13. You’ve probably thought that staying at school and working over a short break was a good idea
14. And then when you had no human contact for 4 days you realized how stupid that was
15. That feeling when you’re finally entrusted with the library golf cart so you can drive books around campus
16. You’ve inevitably had to go to work hungover at some point.
16. Even though you have a love/hate relationship with the library, you know it’s the best job any college student could have.


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This is a list of my publications in English. For a full list of publications (including those in Japanese), please visit the Japanese page.
- Yamamura, Takayoshi. 2020. The Old Town of Lijiang 1998-2003: Photo Memories of a Chinese World Heritage City. (Kindle Edition) Bunshiken Publishing (9 November2020).
- Yamamura, Takayoshi and Seaton, Philip. (Eds.). 2020. Contents Tourism and Pop Culture fandom: Transnational Tourist Experiences. Channel View Publications (14 January 2020).
- Yamamura, Takayoshi. 2020 ’Contents tourism and creative fandom: the formation process of creative fandom and its
transnational expansion in a mixed-media age’, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, Vol.18, No.1, pp. 12-26, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2020.1707461 (Published online: 03 Jan 2020).
- Graburn, Nelson and Takayoshi Yamamura. 2020. ‘Contents tourism: background, context, and future’, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, Vol.18, No.1, pp. 12-26, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2020.1707460 (Published online: 28 Jan 2020).
- Heidi Project of Japan. (Ed.). 2019. Heidi in Japan. Heidi Project of Japan (July 2019).
- Yamamura, Takayoshi. 2018 ‘Pop culture contents and historical heritage: case of heritage revitalization through ‘contents tourism’ in Shiroishi city’, Contemporary Japan, Vol. 30, No.2, pp.144-163, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2018.1460049 (Published online: 09 Apr 2018).
- Yamamura, Takayoshi. 2017. ‘10 Books/Articles for Understanding Animation and Pilgrimages’, Japanese Association of Animation Studies, Database for Animation Studies (May 9, 2017).
- Seaton, P., T. Yamamura, A. Sugawa-Shimada and K. Jang. 2017. Contents Tourism in Japan: Pilgrimages to “Sacred Sites” of Popular Culture. New York: Cambria press (April 3, 2017).
- Seaton, P. and T. Yamamura (eds). 2017. International Journal of Contents Tourism. Volume 1. Sapporo: Center for Adovanced Tourism Studies (March 1, 2017).
- Yamamura, Takayoshi. 2017 ‘Cooperation Between Anime Producers and the Japan Self-Defense Force: Creating Fantasy and/or Propaganda?’, Journal of War & Culture Studies, DOI: 10.1080/17526272.2017.1396077 (Published online: 22 Dec 2017/Volume 12, 2019, pp.8-23). (Author’s version)
- Seaton, P. and T. Yamamura (eds). 2016. Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism. London: Routledge (October 13, 2016).
- Yamamura, Takayoshi. 2015. Japanese Anime and Contents Tourism: Models of Collaboration between Anime Industries and Local Communities in Japan. Asia Animation Forum 2015: The Boundless Space: Transcending the Threshold. Korea Manhwa Contents Agency Seminar Hall, Bucheon, Korea, 26 October, 2015 (Proceedings, pp.193-207).
- Yamamura, Takayoshi. 2015 ‘Revitalization of Historical Heritage Using Pop Culture in Japan: Shiroishi City and the Game/Anime Sengoku Basara’, Tourism Analysis, Vol.20, No.3, pp.327-332 (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3727/108354215X14356694891933)(1 August 2015).
- Philip Seaton & Takayoshi Yamamura. 2015 ‘Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism’, Japan Forum Special Edition (27.1), pp. 1-11 (1 March 2015).
- Takayoshi Yamamura. 2015 ‘Contents Tourism and Local Community Response: Lucky Star and Collaborative Anime-induced Tourism in Washimiya’, Japan Forum Special Edition (27.1), pp. 59-81(1 March 2015).
- Zhang, T.X., T. Yamamura & Y. Fujiki. 2014. Can vernacular buildings survive with traditional life inside and tourism outside? In Diaz, P. and M. F. Schmitz (eds) Cultural Tourism, pp.83-92. Southampton, UK: WIT Press (January 2014).
- Beeton, S., T. Yamamura and P. Seaton. 2013. The Mediatization of Culture: Japanese Contents Tourism and Pop Culture. In Lester, Jo-Anne and Caroline Scarles (eds) Mediating the Tourist Experience: From Brochures to Virtual Encounters, pp. 139-154. Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, Limited (November 2013).
- Yamamura, T. 2005. Dongba Art in Lijiang, China: Indigenous Culture, Local Community and Tourism. In Ryan C. and M. Aicken (eds)Indigenous Tourism: The Commodification and Management of Culture, pp.181-199. Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd (September 2, 2005).
- Yamamura, T. 2004. Authenticity, ethnicity and social transformation at World Heritage Sites: tourism, retailing and cultural change in Lijiang, China. In Hall, Derek R. (ed.) Tourism and Transition: Political, Economic and Social Issues, pp.185-200. London: CAB International (September 16, 2004).
- Yamamura, T., T. Zhang and Y. Fujiki. 2006. The social and cultural impact of tourism development on world heritage sites: a case of the Old Town of Lijiang, China, 2000-2004. In Brebbia, C. A. and F. D. Pineda (eds) Sustainable Tourism Ⅱ, pp.117-126. Southampton: WIT Press,（August 30, 2006）.
- Yamamura, Takayoshi. 2003. Indigenous society and immigrants: tourism and retailing in Lijiang, China, a World Heritage city. TOURISM: An International Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 51/No.2, pp. 215-235 (March 2003).


Please find in below the March Minutes and April Agenda.
At the April meeting we will be discussing quotes received for the structural alterations in the hall for the proposed History Room.
As well we will discussing the purchase and positioning of the noticeboard. We are also seeking ideas for a wall hanging to
commemorate the WW1. Members are invited to make red poppies to be placed on the hanging.Please come along to the meeting and have an input into the decision making process.
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On the 4th of June 1629, the Dutch East India Company trading ship Batavia ran aground on the Abrolhos Islands off the coast of what is now Western Australia. Even before the wreck, conflicts between the Batavia’s crew members had made the ship a powder keg of suspicion and factional division. When the ship hit the reef, the powder keg exploded, and propelled the more than 300 men, women, and children of the Batavia into a nearly three-month-long nightmare of rape, mutiny, and murder.
The Batavia ordeal was a brutal and complicated affair that ended in the deaths of at least 110 passengers at the hands of nearly 30 mutineers. Eventually, the massacre was brought to a halt and most of the murderers met their fate at the gallows. Two of the mutineers, Wouter Looes and Jan Pelgrome de Bye, avoided execution and were instead exiled to the Australian mainland.
Some scientists and historians believe that Looes and Pelgrome de Bye found new lives—and new families—in Western Australia. The evidence, they say, can be seen in the light complexions of the local Aborigine population, and in a handful of Dutch-sounding words in the local language.
This August, the Empire project draws to its close with a final shoot in Western Australia. Stay with us for the next month as we travel to the other side of the earth and explore the outer reaches of the Dutch colonial empire.
Image: Plate 3 from the book “The Unlucky Voyage of the Ship Batavia,” artist unknown


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in the dimension.
This function is designed specifically to allow you
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(database, dimension, member)
Explained below are the 3 parameters that have to
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wherein you want to access the name of the member to track its
index / alternatively enter the cell reference in the Excel sheet
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exists in the dimension mentioned above and it is the member for
which you want to access the index number from its positioning
in the dimension / alternatively enter the cell reference in the
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the result will be a #value.
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- The member specified in the "Member"
parameter should exist in the dimension that is mentioned above.
- These arguments are compulsory and neither
argument is optional.
This function may be easier to understand with an
- In order to build this function with more ease,
open the specific database and bring a slice from that database
into Excel. In this way you will have connected to PowerOLAP because
you now have the OLAPOpen formula automatically on your sheet
when you bring a slice of the cube into Excel.
- In Excel, use the menu: Insert -> Function
and select PowerOLAP from the drop down list.
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list of functions provided and click "Ok".
- When building the formula enter the cell range
for the database name with the required dimension, and the dimension
name which has the member whose name you specify next, and finally
the member name for which you are tracking the index number within
the dimension. If you don't want to manually enter the member
name or the dimension name, you can use the functions called OLAPMember
and OLAPDimension respectively in order to get this value and
then use those cells as references for the function.
- In the following example B1 is the cell that
holds the database name, B5 is the name of the dimension from
which the member names will be accessed, and the for the member
called "Period_09" the corresponding index number will
be the value returned by this function.
($B$1, $B$5, "Period_09")
The above formula returns a value = "12"
which signifies that in the database "Acuity" (B1), in the
dimension "Time (Periods)" (B5), and for the member "Period_09"
the corresponding index number in the dimension, is number "12",
which is the value returned by the function as displayed above.


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Toolbox ninteger for MatLab, v. 2.3 (September 2005)
July 15, 2009 - Files for calculating variable-order derivatives (with orders both real and complex) may be found at Matlab's File Exchange website.
This toolbox implements non-integer controllers both in the frequency and the discrete time domains. Over thirty formulas are available for approximating a non-integer order derivative on-line. Structures such as non-integer PIDs are directly available and second and third-generation CRONE controllers may be reckoned. There are functions for finding norms, identifying models and plotting frequency diagrams. A graphical interface allows choosing parameters interactively and checking what the performance will be. The toolbox also includes a Simulink library.
Its code may be freely distributed and altered provided that the source of the code is acknowledged and this warning is kept in all further copies and/or alterations.
This version is a Beta release. Reports of eventual errors (the absence of which the author cannot ensure) and suggestions of improvements will be gladly accepted. Please use the author's e-mail given in the main page.
Files for download
You may find the toolbox at Matlab Code Exchange site, Control Design category. As an alternative you may use the link below.
- Zip file with the entire toolbox (65 K)
- PDF user and programmer manual (1135 K)
Requirements for running the toolbox
- MatLab version 7.0 (release 14) or above. Actually most functions run under version 5; but the graphical interface and the Simulink library do not.
- Control toolbox.
- Optimisation toolbox.
- Map toolbox. Actually this toolbox is only needed because of functions rad2deg and deg2rad. If these are not available, download these files and put them in some folder found in MatLab's path..
- Version 2.3 - September 2005 - Simulink library and functions for computing norms, identifying models and plotting frequency responses added. A few minor enhancements were also incorporated.
- Version 2.2 - July 2004 - Prompt user interface for fractional derivatives and PIDs was simplified. The manual's bibliography was significantly expanded and old publications included; more references were added in the text. A bug in the graphical interface preventing some functions from being plot or recovered was fixed.
- Version 2.1 - February 2004 - Code for developing second and third generation CRONE controllers was improved and, for the digital case, enlarged.
- Version 2.0 - January 2004 - All code was rewritten while the structure of the toolbox underwent a significant change. A serious bug in the reckoning of third generation CRONE controllers was corrected. The graphical interface was also completely rewritten. Non-integer identification methods were added.
- Version 1.1 - 2001 - Everything in version 1.0 was translated to English. Matsuda, Carlson and discrete time domain methods were added, together with non-integer PIDs.
- Version 1.0 - 2000/2001 - Toolbox in Portuguese implementing CRONE controllers of all three generations. A graphical interface was included.
The author thanks the following users (in alphabetical order) for their suggestions of improvement and / or bug reports. Of course, that the toolbox sould not have been improved further is solely the author's fault; the same can be said of still surviving bugs.
Blas Vinagre; Igor Podlubny


The FVRD compiles statistics illustrating the growth and development of the region. In addition, publications are prepared in partnership with the region's municipalities or other partners. The end result is a comprehensive summary of where the FVRD has been, is at and most likely headed towards.
The Regional Snapshot Series for the Fraser Valley Regional District has been created to provide a picture of the forces which are shaping growth and change in the region today. The intent is to familiarize the public and policy makers both locally and further afield on some of the growth management issues affecting the FVRD and its member municipalities. This includes raising awareness about the region in general, especially with regard to the many successful sustainability and planning initiatives currently being undertaken at the municipal and regional levels.
New documents in the series will be added as they become available.
In 2005, Urban Futures produced a report that looked at the future changes in population, employment, housing, and land use in the FVRD and five sub-areas. These sub-areas include Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Mission, Harrison-Kent and Hope.
The report considered the factors, trends, and processes that will shape the nature and magnitude of change that will be experienced in this area from 2003 to 2031. Below is a copy of this report in its entirety as an Adobe PDF file.
FVRD: Population Growth and Context for Managing Change by Urban Futures, January 2005 (2.91 MB)


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As the academic heart of the Columbia College campus, the J. Drake Edens Library provides professional guidance to students, faculty, and staff and houses materials to help students explore all aspects of the liberal arts. To support that research, the library maintains a core collection of books, periodicals, and media items.
The library provides students with access to tens of thousands of full-text articles through database subscriptions. Students can access these databases from anywhere by selecting the database, then entering their Columbia College e-mail address and password. Students can receive help from librarians in selecting keywords, choosing databases, or trouble shooing technical issues by e-mailing email@example.com.
The Research and Instruction Librarians are eager to assist students, faculty, and staff with their research. The Reference Desk is located on the main floor, and librarians are available to help on an individual basis, including nights and weekends. Individual and group study rooms are available on the main and top floors of Edens Library. Computers are located near the Reference Desk, on the top floor, and in the Overton Media Center on the bottom floor.
On the lower level of Edens Library is Educational Technology. Educational Technology supports instruction at Columbia College through the use of technologies such as Google apps, SMART Boards, video editing, social media, and the campus’s online learning management system, Koala Connection. Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome to make appointments to discuss the use of technology in the classroom. Educational Technology strives to troubleshoot technical issues as well as enrich curriculum through new tech tools. Many helpful resources can be found on Educational Technology’s website and through its social media channels on Twitter, YouTube, and Pinterest.
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Some online programs may have additional requirements.
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One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. Wade, the father, does the stacking. The two daughters, June and May, aged nine and six, drink lemonade, swat away horseflies, bicker, sing snatches of songs as they while away the time.
But then something unimaginably shocking happens, an act so extreme it will scatter the family in every different direction.
In a story told from multiple perspectives and in razor-sharp prose, we gradually learn more about this act, and the way its violence, love and memory reverberate through the life of every character in Idaho.
"You know you're in masterly hands here. [Emily] Ruskovich's language is itself a consolation, as she subtly posits the troubling thought that only decency can save us. . . . Ruskovich's novel will remind many readers of the great Idaho novel, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping. . . . [A] wrenching and beautiful book." -The New York Times Book Review "Sensuous, exquisitely crafted." -The Wall Street Journal "The first thing you should know about Idaho, the shatteringly original debut by O. Henry Prize winner Emily Ruskovich, is that it upturns everything you think you know about story. . . . You could read Idaho just for the sheer beauty of the prose, the expert way Ruskovich makes everything strange and yet absolutely familiar. . . . She startles with images so fresh, they make you see the world anew. . . . Idaho 's brilliance is in its ability to not tie up the threads of narrative, and still be consummately rewarding. The novel reminds us that some things we just cannot know in life-but we can imagine them, we can feel them and, perhaps, that can be enough to heal us." -San Francisco Chronicle "Mesmerizing . . . [an] eerie story about what the heart is capable of fathoming and what the hand is capable of executing." -Marie Claire " Idaho is a wonderful debut. Ruskovich knows how to build a page-turner from the opening paragraph." -Ft. Worth Star-Telegram "Ruskovich's debut is haunting, a portrait of an unusual family and a state that becomes a foreboding figure in her vivid depiction." -The Huffington Post "Poetic and razor sharp, Idaho is a mystery in more ways than one. . . . Ruskovich's prose is lyrical but keen, a poem that never gets lost in its own rhythm . . . with a Marilynne Robinson-like emphasis on the private, painfully human contemplation going on inside the characters' brains. The result is writing as bruisingly beautiful as the Idaho landscape in which the story takes place." -A.V. Club " Idaho is both a place and an emotional dimension. Haunted, haunting, Ruskovich's novel winds through time, braiding events and their consequences in the most unexpected and moving ways." -Andrea Barrett "It's been six years since I first read Emily Ruskovich's breathtaking prose, felt the force of her unsparing imagination, and knew I was in the presence of a singular talent. I've been waiting for the novel she would write ever since, and now it's here: Idaho begins with a rusted truck and ends up places you couldn't imagine. Its language is an enchantment, its vision brutal and sublime. This book is interested in what can't be repaired and every kind of grace we find in the face of that futility. It caught and held me absolutely." -Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams "Emily Ruskovich's Idaho is a novel written like music. Striking arpeggios, haunting refrains, and then you come to a bridge, and Ruskovich leads you up into the mountains, introducing a chorus of rich and beautiful voices woven deep in the Idaho woods, each trying to come to their own understanding of a terrible tragedy. This book is full of extraordinary women and men overcoming extraordinary loss through love and forgiveness. Ruskovich digs deeply into everyday moments, and shows that it is there, in our quietest thoughts and experiences, where we find and create our true selves." -Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief "Emily Ruskovich has written a poem in prose, a beautiful and intricate homage to place, and a celebration of the defeats and triumphs of love. Beautifully crafted, emotionally evocative, and psychologically astute, Idaho is one of the best books I have read in a long time." -Chinelo Okparanta, author of Under the Udala Trees "Emily Ruskovich has intricately entwined a terrifying human story with an austere and impervious setting. The result-something bigger than either-is beautiful, brutal, and incandescent." -Deirdre McNamer, author of Red Rover


REMEMBER ME: An Alzheimer's Journey Through Art and Poetry
Remember Me is a must-read collection of poetry and artwork portraying the declining effects of Alzheimer's disease on patients and its impact on caregivers.
Debut author Cheryl Kempner takes readers on a real and honest journey through the patient's eyes and onto a caregiver's perspective. Her poetry starts a conversation about the plight of a person with dementia and the family caring for them. Cheryl's words are hard-hitting at some points, retelling dwindling moments through the eyes of her mother to show how gripping the condition is for those diagnosed. Accompanied by the visual decline of her mother's artwork, the book offers a creative depiction of how this disease overcomes one's mind.
Cheryl wants caregivers to feel less alone, validating their feelings along this challenging path. She authentically remains transparent with readers as she openly expresses the truth behind the inner conflicts faced while watching the decline of a loved one's cognition in this way.
Remember Me is an artistic tool of awareness, reminding us that while those with Alzheimer's may not remember us, it is essential we remember for them.


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A lone motorcyclist travels the empty streets of Tehran at night. He wears an aluminum suit to guard against the electromagnetic waves that raise his body temperature. Yet he is determined to make his appointments to kill cockroaches and fumigate factories, the night placing many strange encounters along his route. Artfully shot cityscapes expound on the man’s solitude in this atmospheric take on science fiction from the heart of Iran. |Read MoreScience Fiction
The lives of two strangers-a struggling mother (Minnie Driver) and a gambling addict (Jeremy Renner)-converge in unspeakable tragedy. Years later, they must come to terms with themselves and one another. As two pivotal days, one past and one present, unfold in a non-linear mosaic, Take offers a powerful reflection on redemption and forgiveness.
Ray is in the boutique simulated abduction business. It’s an understandably threadbare market, so he jumps at the chance when a mysterious call contracts him for a weekend kidnapping with a handsome payday at the end. But the job isn't all that it seems. A black comedy that threads the needle between crime thriller and slapstick farce, Take Me is as twisty as it is funny. |Read MoreDrama, Thriller, Comedy, First Time Filmmaker
Margot (Michelle Williams) and Lou (Seth Rogen) are happily married. Their life is thrown out of order when Margot falls for another man and is forced to choose between the comfort of the familiar and the excitement of the unknown. Writer-director Sarah Polley's follow-up to her acclaimed film Away From Her is a quirky, uncommonly heartfelt look at the evolving nature of love and the difficulty of sustaining a relationship over time. |Read MoreDrama, Female Director(s)
This upbeat story features the crazy escapades of two teen-idol worshippers, Gabby (Daniella Monet) and Devon (Alona Tal). These best friends are also the ultimate fans of mega-boy band 5 Leo Rise (played by real band The Click Five). When they botch their high school's chance to win a free concert, the desperate pair cooks up a juicy plan. Ages 8+ T4TEENS
|Read MoreComedy, Music
Filled with bitterness and a thirst for revenge, a 17-year-old boy leaves his rural Chinese village to seek out the father who abandoned him 6 years earlier. But once the boy arrives in the big city of Zigong, the long-awaited encounter with his father leads him to make a dramatic decision. In Mandarin. |Read MoreDrama
In contemporary Istanbul, the basic goodness and simplicity of Muharrem, a 45-year old single man living in one of the city's oldest neighborhoods, earn him new duties with the leader of the religious sect he serves so selflessly. But soon he falls victim to the group's hidden agenda, as faith and materialism collide. In Turkish.
Based on Fox’s own true story, The Tale follows Jennifer (Laura Dern) as she faces life-altering questions when a short story she wrote at thirteen forces her to re-examine her first sexual relationship––and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. |Read MoreFemale Director(s)


Peter Mesenhöller und Oliver Lueb (Eds.)
Made in Oceania:
Tapa – Kunst und Lebenswelten |
Art and Social Landscapes
250 pages, ca. 96 illustrations
21 x 27 cm
The soft-cover edition can be purchased for 29.90€ at the
museum shop (published as part of the series Ethnologica).
A hardcover edition of the catalogue is available in book stores or can be ordered directly from the publisher.
James Cook, the Bounty mutineers and 15 million people in Oceania: They are all connected by a unique ‘fabric’, made from the bark of trees. From clothing in Hawai’i to ritual masks in Papua New Guinea, from a room divider in Fiji to an important wedding gift in Samoa or even as the ‘red carpet’ during coronation ceremonies in Tonga – tapa can be found nearly everywhere in the Pacific.
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition for the first time combines contributions on the various social and cultural meanings of tapa in Melanesia and Polynesia by internationally renowned experts from the USA, Australian, New Zealand and Europe. It covers the spectrum from the ‘souvenirs’ of the great journeys of ‘discovery’ of the late 18th century to the production and use of tapa as an expression of new identities in the 21st century.
Special attention is given to the role of tapa motifs in Oceanian contemporary art which – in the continuing process of nation-building - also provide important stimuli to the discussion on global significance of artistic expression in migration and diaspora.


Arthur C. Clarke on Information Pollution. Castolari writes “Here is an interesting interview of Arthur C. Clarke and his views on regulating communications, as well as what he sees as the past, … [Slashdot]
Insight and perspective from one of my favorite authors. Here’s my favorite comment:
We are now faced with the responsibility of discernment. Just as our ancestors quickly realised that no one was going to force them to read the entire library of a thousand books, we are now overcoming the initial alarm at the sheer weight of available information and coming to understand that it is not the information itself that determines our future, only the use we can make of it.
It comes down to exercising judgment. Clarke has it and thinking about what he has to say is worth the time.