I have written a list of books that have helped me in the process of growing from entry-level to advanced reading on my career journey as a Data Scientist. These books are yearly guides I go back to read at the beginning of a new career year.
Getting Real about Bias: Thinking, Fast and Slow- Daniel Kahneman
I always recommend this book because it is not only useful for Data Science. Daniel, a psychologist, focused more on decision-making, explaining explicitly why and how we choose the things we do. On a daily basis, we make decisions, and the act of making the right decisions is a skill that is learned over time. He also gave an in-depth view of biases, both consciously and unconsciously.
Telling Stories with Data: Info We Trust – RJ Andrews
The whole essence of gathering Data is to disseminate the results of a particular project, and this is what this book extensively talks about. Andrews shows the whole Analysis cycle right through to the output. He built a long-lasting effect story based on Data.
Get Inspired about Deep Learning: Genuis Makers – Cade Metz
The Use of Deep Learning is taught in this book. Documenting the history rise, fall, and rising again of deep learning from the very beginning. There are so many deep-learning techniques listed in the book.
Building a Statistics Foundation: The Art of Statistics – David Spiegelhalter
Statistics cut across every industry and are very crucial in the world of programming because, without statistical Data, programming cannot be embarked on. Whilst, this book is not just an introduction, David went through everything statistics from the basics. The use of statistics in compiling and analyzing Data is extensively treated here.
The Future of Data Science: The Big Nine – Amy Webb
The future of a thing is important. A better understanding of the future of data science has awakened me to position myself for relevance in that future. This led me to seek the future of Data Science. This book reveals the future of most cutting-edge technologies. The Big Nine gives an in-depth future of Artificial Intelligence.
Understanding Causality: The Book of Why- Judea Pearl
This book breaks down a new effective model for how things affect one another. Pearl emphasizes Causality vs. Correlation. This book helped me to learn why certain things cannot be possible due to the relationship involved.
Building Ethical Models: The Cyber Effect – Mary Aiken
App, models, and pipelines are built to solve a problem. The problems are encountered by people, and Aiken is bringing Data Scientists to take note of how the problem they solve affect people’s lives. For instance, smartphones solved long-distance communication problems, and now the lives of people using them are affected by a lack of physical communication. People communicate more online than offline.
This book emphasizes how dangerous online content can be. This book helped me put paramount thought into researching from an ethical perspective before building any tool or model. I hope you forward this information to upcoming Data Scientists.


What You Will Get
Elevate your practicing beyond quarter or eighth notes to a metronome
Possibly the most fundamental and important skill of any musician is their sense of time and rhythm. In this rich collection of exercises, audio files, and ideas, I break down the study of rhythm into the categories of Metronomic, Groove, and Phrase.
Fully addressing each category, the book guides the reader /performer through an ever broadening journey starting with self discovery of their own rhythmic acuity and ending with an analysis and challenge of performing connecting phrases defining a rhythmically musical whole.
Within this work, you will discover:
- An accurate assessment of your own rhythmic sensibilities
- Beneficial and more enjoyable ways to play with a metronome
- A method for strengthening your performance skills in reacting to the rhythms around you
- Effective ways to model favorite players in order to develop a more musical feel to your playing
- A new way to think about the rhythm and pace of improvisation
- By recording and practicing excellence, how you’ll gain the most from this book


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In a fantasy of Goddesses and Knights, Geith, the Bringer of Change must overcome the challenges before him to save the world and everything he loves from a figure hidden in the shadows with a power our hero can not comprehend. This is the story of a world of change, a world that has stopped changing, and a world that needs a true hero to change, to evolve once again, and while it may at times read like something of a daydream, know this dear reader: This is a Reverie.
bound: 183 pages
publisher: Independently published (May 11, 2017)
isbn: 1521276846, 978-1521276846,
weight: 10.6 ounces (


Lobo Del Mar is a family. One family, whose members form,
(among other endeavors), a musical band & dance troupe,
a seaside cafe and a water activity company.
Over the years this family has traveled the globe but today
Lobo Del Mar has made the beautiful
South Padre Island their home in the amazing state of Texas.
The Family That Went Down To The Sea...
Ship's Log II
by Carrol A. Buntin
Our second book is finally here! "The Family That Went Down to The Sea - Ship's Log II" is a continuation of our family history and stories in poetry and prose written by our mother/grandmother/great-grandmother Carrol Buntin.
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Library Day. An exciting day. Joyously anticipated each week by my thirsting for knowledge 7 year old. (I am still having a hard time wrapping my mind around that fact that she's 7. I almost typed "6" and had to stop myself).
It falls on the same day at school each week. Reese reminded me last night that today was library day. "You better find your book then sweetie".
"Oh, I know where it is," she assured me. And that was that. I didn't doubt her for a minute. Because 9 times out of 10 she knows exactly where things are, a missing brush, a microscopic pink Barbie shoe, a sewing needle, etc.
This, of course, was one of the 1 out of 10 times she was wrong. And when she realized she didn't know where her library book was, it was 8:12am and we were on our way out the door to drop her off at school.
I pushed away my thought of "I told you so" and replaced it with, "I'm sorry Boo, we will look more for it tonight and you can turn it in tomorrow".
But she was beside herself. Her lip started quivering and the tears began to fall. Because if she didn't return her book, she wouldn't be able to check out a new one. The thought of watching all the other kids excitedly skim each title and carefully select a fresh book to bring home to share with their family was too much for her.
Thus my internal Mommy debate began. Do I go home and look for the book so I can run it back up to the school which will put a big smile on her face? Or is this one of those times I should be teaching her responsibility about preparing for school the night before?
I went with the former. We scoured the house. I think Drue was actually the one to find it. Back up to the school we went. We got buzzed in and went straight to the office and dropped the book off for her.
I felt good the rest of the day, knowing how surprised she had probably been to get her book. And I looked forward to hearing about her successful library day when she got home.
Reese was very happy after school and was excited to show me the new book she was able to pick out from the library. She reached her hand into her little backpack and pulled out a Dr. Seuss book...the same exact one we had just bought at Target a few days earlier!


Roberto MATTA ( 1911 - 2002 )
Roberto Matta was born in Santiago in 1911. Matta was educated in his native country as an architect and interior designer at the Sacré Coeur Jesuit College and at the Catholic University of Santiago from 1929-31. In 1933, he became a Merchant Marine which enabled him to leave Santiago and travel to Europe. From 1933-34, he worked in Paris at the atelier of the famous architect Le Corbusier. At the end of 1934, Matta visited Spain where he met the poet and playwrighert Federico García Lorca, who introduced Matta to Salvador Dalí whom encouraged him to show some of his drawings to Andre Bréton. Matta's acquaintance with Dalí and Breton strongly influenced his artistic formation and subsequently connected him to the Surrealist movement, which he officially joined in 1937. He was in London for a short period in 1936 and worked with Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy. Matta's employment with the architects of the Spanish Republican pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition, exposed him to Picasso's Guernica at the Prado museum in Madrid in 1937, which greatly impressed him and influenced him in his work. At this time, he was introduced to the work of Marcel Duchamp, whom he met soon after. He later went to Scandinavia where he met the architect Alvar Aalto and then to Russia where he worked on housing design projects. The summer of 1938 marked the evolution of Matta's work from drawing to painting. He completed his first 'Inscape' oil paintings while in Brittany and working with Gordon Onslow Ford. Forced to leave Europe with the outbreak of war, Matta arrived in New York City in the fall of 1938. In an article by Kathy Zimmerer of Latin American Masters, she describes Matta's "Crucifixion" from 1938 as "evolving biomorphic forms that mutate and flow across the surface of the canvas. Matta's fluid realm of space cushions their journey. His luminous palette of deep crimson, yellow, blue and black, defines and outlines the organic forms as they undergo metamorphoses." "Crucifixion" is representative of a non-figurative period of Matta's work where he developed his palette and use of colour to create energized forms and space. Consistent with his later works and with Surrealist theories of practice, Matta began his exploration of the visionary landscape of the subconscious. Matta looked to his friend and mentor Yves Tanguy whose works recall the hellscapes and allegories of 15th and 16th century Dutch artists such as Bosch or Brueghel. In addition, both Matta and Tanguy create a universe that is simultaneously firey and chilly that is often connected to their own social consciousness of the ongoing war in Europe. In addition to Tanguy's strong influence, there are parallels between Picasso's "Guernica" and Matta's "Crucifixion". Both works of art motivated by their respective spiritual and social consciousness. In Guernica, Picasso emphasizes the "spiritual hideousness of which mankind is generally capable". Matta focuses on the spiritual effect of the machinations of war. The visual landscape he creates connects us to each other, implying that when we declare war on others, we are really waging war with ourselves. These ideas are embodied in fluid forms and in their fluidity, texture, and contrast. Matta's style and willing exploration of the surrealist philosophy of "automatic composition" heavily influenced the development of the Abstract Expressionist school and their exploration of Action painting. Matta first exhibited in the Julian Levy Gallery in New York in 1940. The 1940s signified the re-entry of the human figure into his compositions creating a compositional dialogue of Man versus the Machine. The forms he created were organic and existed in symbiotic relationships with machines. In 1947, Matta was expelled from the surrealists' group, and he returned to Europe. By the 1950s and he established homes in Rome, Paris, and London. He visited Cuba in the 1960s to work with art students. In 1962, he was awarded the Marzotto Prize for "La Question Djamilla", a protest of the French-Algerian war. His work of the 1960s tended to have distinct political and spiritual intentions. Much of his work consisted of themes related to political events occurring in such places as Vietnam, Santo Domingo, and Alabama. An exhibition of 1968 at the Iolas Gallery in New York displayed much of this work. The 1960s marked not only a change in his themes, but in his style. He found influences in contemporary culture while remaining close to his Surrealist roots. His work can generally be split into two areas: cosmic and apocalyptic paintings. "Elle s'y gare", is an example of the cosmic arena and what Andre Breton called "absolute automatism". The idea of automatism was a key element of the Surrealist movement, which emphasized the suppression of conscious control over a composition in order to give free reign to the unconscious imagery and associations. Matta used automatism in a manner that allowed one form to give rise to another until unification was achieved or until further elaboration destroyed the composition. These "chance" compositions are exploited with a fully conscious purpose. The artist takes over. As Chilean painter, printmaker and draftsman, Matta left Chile as a young man and did not like to be thought of as a "Latin American" artist. He was certainly one of the few Surrealist artists to take on political, social, and spiritual themes directly and without abandoning the biomorphic mutations he is known for and without resorting to social Realism.


I love reading and at first was not going to make that apart of my blog but I have had a few really good reads lately. One of which I was thoroughly surprised by. I bought Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society two years ago and started reading it but didn't get past the first few pages and moved onto another book. I just now got back to it and I am so glad that I did.
The first few letters were boring and I found reading them tedious. But I powered through and didn't give up on it like I did two years ago. Then slowly the letters started to have more and more substance and built off of one another. By page 40 or 50 I couldn't put it down; I just had to now what was going to happen next.
The main character is Juliet. An author and columnist that shot to fame during WWII for bringing news of the war to England in weekly columns. The news during this time was heavy and those living in London especially were in a constant state of fear ;so, Juliet did the best she could to write on the news but doing so in a manner that still was able to lift their spirits. Her columns were very popular and after the war were published into a book.
One day through what could only be fate Juliet received a letter from a man on Guernsey Island. (Guernsey is a channel island between France and England that was occupied during the war.) This man had ended up with a book by Charles Lamb that had belonged to her and was writing to let her know how much that book had meant to him during the war. This correspondence lead to her corresponding with him and his friends on Guernsey. This correspondence led to a whirlwind of exciting discoveries and adventures and stories both of the Occupation and after.
While reading I became involved with these characters and envisioned them on Guernsey. I feel as though I know Guernsey through this book, thanks to the vivid detail and research done by the author. I cant imagine many people after reading this book would not feel the same way. This book was full of imagination and joy all while dealing with the heavy topic of WWII and the Nazi Occupation. More than anything this book left me with a sense of hope that will stay with me long after the book has faded.


Family History and Photo Gallery
It was the right around the year 1900 when my grandparents came from Italy to the United States, seeking a new start, and a bright future for their children. In the one-hundred years since then, much has happened. This page is a brief photographic history of my family in 20th-century America.
My grandparent's pages from the 1920 census. To the left is the Ferrari family, headed by Vincent and Linda. Below is the Cacciamani family sheet.
Vincent Ferrari was 47 years old in 1920, and his wife Linda was 46. Their eldest child, Zaira, had already moved to a home of her own, with her new husband, Benny. The youngest child in the family was Albino, my father, who was age 7 at the time of the census.
Vincent got a job working in the local coal mine, which was just about all that was available at that time to the many immigrant workers living in southwestern Pennsylvania.
As for the Cacciamani's, Aristeo was 38, and his wife Louisa, 31. My mother, Josephine, was just over one year old at census time, but was replaced later on by Henry and Mary Lou as the youngest children of seven.
Aristeo first worked in the mines when he came to America, but later became employed in a plate-glass factory as a laborer.
Vincent and Linda Ferrari, in a very old picture, possibly dating from the 1920's. These were my paternal grandparents, who came to America in the year 1897.
The above photographs are of Linda Ferrari, my paternal grandmother, and Aristeo Cacciamani, my maternal grandfather. These were taken somewhere around their homes in Pennsylvania, and the dates for both photographs are unknown.
Albino Ferrari, my father, sometime in the late 30's or early 40's.
This "not-so-good" quality photograph was taken from a newspaper clipping. The photo is of my mother, Josephine Cacciamani, who worked as a salesgirl in a local store in her town. She worked there for some time before being married..in those days, a wife did not work!
When they weren't working, one of the places that my parents used to enjoy was the beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In those days, it was a great place to go. The photos below are of my mother, one of her sisters, and friends, frolicking in the New Jersey sunshine.
In the photo on the left, you can see my mother at the top of the heap (right-hand side), smiling. Her sister Clementine is at the very bottom. In the photo on the right, my mother is on the right, and her sister Clementine is in the middle, sitting down.
Here is a rare shot of the Pennsylvania ladies in some rather risque swimwear for the time. My mother is the third from the left, in front.
With the 40's, of course, came the war. My father, who had already spent some time in the armed forces, knew as soon as he heard the news from Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, that he was going to be back in the army again. Below is an excerpt from a group photograph taken in 1945. Albino Ferrari is the third from the left, in the back row.
Here is another picture of my father in uniform.
On the left is a photograph of Louisa and her son Henry, in his naval uniform. The photo on the right is of three of the Cacciamani children; Angelo (known as Chi Chi) on the left, Mary Lou, and Henry.
In the picture on the left, my mother Josephine (left) with her sister Annie. The photo on the right is of Louisa with her daughter Mary Lou, in her band uniform.
After the war, it was time for weddings and grandchildren to come along. This is a photograph of Louisa Cacciamani, with her grandson, Ronnie. Ronnie was the son of Clementine and her husband Eleo.
Albino and Josephine, sometime before their wedding.
My parents with their first-born daughter, Carol. These photos were taken sometime around 1950.
The picture on the left is of Annie Cacciamani. On the right is her wedding picture, with husband Adolph.
The above picture is from a family dinner party somewhere around 1957. On the far right is Zaira Ruozzi, my father's (Albino's) eldest sister. The rest, from the far left, are as follows:
Gary Ruozzi (being held in his mother's arms); Louise Ruozzi (wife of Richard); Richard Ruozzi (son of Zaira); Tommy Contrella (son of Beatrice); Benny Ruozzi (Zaira's husband); Richard Ruozzi Jr. (Gary's older brother); Vincent Ferrari (standing); Albino (my father); Beatrice Contrella (another of Zaira's children); and finally back to Zaira.
Two photographs from 1965: On the left, Ronnie with his father, Eleo. On the right, my sister and me, under the tree at Christmas.
My sister Janice, as a Brownie, in the Memorial Day parade, 1967. She is the one in the background with the wide-opened mouth.
When my father was a young man, he got his first job at the local mine, as his father before him.However, it was not long afterwards that he became an employee of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, running a crane on the track crew. This is where he spent most of his life's work. His love of trains also led him to weekend employment as an engineer on this steam train, at an amusement park in Pennsylvania. This engine was powered by real steam, and burned anthracite coal to heat its boiler. The train was built by the Crown Metal Company, which made trains for many other amusement parks around the country. Many of these trains are still in use today. The photograph on the left is of my father, in the cab of the engine of the "Little Toot", which you can see crossing the bridge in the picture on the right.
The three Ferrari children, on the day of my sister Janice's First Communion. That's me on the left, and Carol on the right.
My sister Carol, on her high school graduation day, in 1966.
Another Memorial Day, with Janice at the cemetary standing with our parents. Visiting the graves of our departed loved ones was a regular tradition on Memorial Day with our family.
This is a picture from 1968, of my father's sister Angelina, and her husband Tuppy, taken in front of their home. Angelina was the third oldest of Vincent and Linda's children.
This is a very rare and special photograph. Taken in 1971, it has all six surviving children of the Cacciamani family in one place at the same time (Angelo had passed away some years earlier). In the back row, from left to right, is Carl, Annie, and Clementine. In front, Mary Lou, Henry, and my mother, Josephine.
When my mother's parent's left Italy at the beginning of the century, they were not the only members of the family leaving the home country. However, they did not all come to America. Some members of the family went instead to Argentina, where they planted their own roots and started a history of their own. The two branches of the family stayed in touch over the decades, and the Argentine members came from time to time to the United States to visit the relatives here. In 1995 the most recent visit occurred. Below is the group photograph of the Pavese family's visit to America.
Seated (left to right):
Nick Iacavino (Mary Lou's husband, deceased, April, 1999)
Holly (Nick and Mary Lou's daughter)
Holly's husband, Joe
Mary Lou (at the end of the table)
First row standing:
Kay Cacciamani (Henry's wife)
Jackie Palmieri (Carol's youngest daughter)
Christina Ferrari (my daughter)
Toni Palmieri (Carol's eldest daughter)
Carol Palmieri (my sister)
Leslie Ferrari (my wife)
Judy Palmieri (Carol's mother-in-law)
Josephine Ferrari (my mother)
Albino Ferrari (my father; deceased, June, 2000)
Gustavo Pavese (Carlos and Susana's son)
Albert Palmieri (Carol's father-in-law)
Vince Ferrari (me!)
Hank Cacciamani (Henry and Kay's son)
Dominic Palmieri (Carol's husband)
Adrian Pavese (Carolos and Susana's son)
Nick Iacavino Jr.(Nick and Mary-Lou's son), holding his daughter, Morgan
This photograph was taken in the spring of 1998. It is of my sister Janice, and her family, visiting the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C. The older boy (sitting) is Philip,
and the younger, Nathan. John is seated in front. Sadly, John passed away in October of that same year.
On Easter Sunday, 1997, the Palmieri's paid a visit to the Nation's Capitol and to the Ferrari's. We all enjoyed the cherry blossoms, as well as the inside of the Smithsonian Castle while waiting for the rain to stop.
From left to right above: Jackie Palmieri, Leslie Ferrari, Christina Ferrari, Vince Ferrari, Carol Palmieri, Toni Palmieri, Dominic Palmieri.
Much has happened over the course of one-hundred years. Many joys and many sorrows have come our way. Of the seven of the children of Vincent and Linda Ferrari, all have left this world. Albino, my father, was the last to pass away, in June of 2000.
Similarly with the Cacciamani's, only Josephine and Mary Lou are still with us. But with the sadness, there is always happiness to take its place. Children are born, grow up and have children of their own. Life goes on.
On Thanksgiving Day in 1997, my parents celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. All of their children were with them, as well as their children's spouses, and all five grandchildren. Below is a photograph from that memorable day.
Special thanks to my cousin, Richard Ruozzi, for providing me with two very special photographs for this page.
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Hi. My name is Niko, a current PhD student in Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech).
I hold a Master of Research (MRes) in Systems and Synthetic Biology from Imperial College London, where I worked with Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro and Tom Ellis. I received my Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Iowa.
I am interested in:
- Ongoing research in synthetic biology and genome synthesis.
- Reducing the labor costs and errors associated with human-driven wet lab work via lab automation
- Scientific outreach through literature and art
When I'm not doing work in the lab or studying, I like to write.
Some of my favorite books:
-The Black Cloud by Sir Fred Hoyle
-Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard Carlson
-Regenesis by George Church and Ed Regis
-The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
-How Economics Shapes Science by Paula Stephan
-The Four Books by Yan Lianke
-Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
-King Solomon's Ring by Konrad Lorenz
-Power Unseen: How Microbes Rule the World by Bernard Dixon


within New Zealand
Tramping – A New Zealand History will strike a deep chord with the countless New Zealanders, and overseas visitors, who treasure the experience of pulling on their boots, putting a pack on their back and heading into the bush or the mouuntains in search of inspiration, rejuvenation and peace.
THIS TITLE IS NOW OUT OF PRINT.
Tramping: A New Zealand history tells the story of the development of tramping in New Zealand, tracing its origins to the way Maori and early Europeans engaged with the sometimes forbidding New Zealand mountains and bush. It describes how state-sponsored tracks and huts were developed for tourism in the late nineteenth century, most notably on the Milford Track, described as ‘the finest walk in the world’.
As a growing number of New Zealanders began to explore the outdoors, the first tramping clubs were formed in the early twentieth century, with a subsequent boom in tramping during the 1930s. The growth of an extensive hut and track network in the 1950s and ’60s saw New Zealand become one of the best-developed countries in the world for hiking. Trampers’ battles to have national parks and wilderness areas established, changes to gear and technology, and the role women have played in tramping are additional themes.
Shaun Barnett and Chris Maclean are experienced trampers and respected back-country historians who have worked together to tell the fascinating story of tramping in New Zealand. While tramping guidebooks and club histories abound, this wider story has never been told before. Tramping: A New Zealand history will appeal to all trampers, and anyone with an interest in the outdoors and history.
|Author:||Shaun Barnett & Chris Maclean|
|Format:||Hardback PLC with dustjacket|
|Size:||265 x 215 mm|


|New York Public Library Acquires Archive of Easy Rider, Dr. Strangelove,
and Candy Writer Terry Southern
Master Satirist's Literary Manuscripts, Correspondence, and Photographs
Made Available Through a Gift by Film Director Steven Soderbergh
New York, NY, April 1, 2003 -- The New York Public Library has acquired the archive of novelist, essayist, and screenwriter Terry Southern (1924-1995), whose distinctive voice in the screenplays Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider helped define the Cold War paranoia and counter culture of the 1960s. A serious writer who successfully transitioned to the film world, Southern bridged boundaries between literary and pop culture figures, working with authors like William Burroughs and Christopher Isherwood, as well as icons of the '60s such as the Beatles, Stanley Kubrick, and Peter Sellers. Southern, whose black humor struck at the heart of complaceny and hypocrisy, won a large measure of renown and notoriety for his sharply satirical and often sexually explicit writings, notably The Magic Christian and Candy.
In addition to materials directly relating to Southern's works, the archive includes correspondence and other items from such literary and cultural figures as George Plimpton, Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, William Styron, V. S. Pritchett, Gore Vidal, Abbie Hoffman, and Edmund Wilson, as well as rock stars including John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and the Rolling Stones. The archive was acquired for The New York Public Library's Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature from the Terry Southern Literary Trust through a generous gift from film director Steven Soderbergh.
"The New York Public Library is delighted to welcome into its Berg Collection the rich archive of Terry Southern, which will complement the Library's many resources documenting literary, political, and cultural movements in late modern America," said Paul LeClerc, President of The New York Public Library. "We are all grateful for the generosity of Steven Soderbergh and for the assistance of Terry Southern's son, Nile, who was so eager to see his father's papers placed here, in one of the world's great libraries."
"Terry Southern was an actual genius," said Steven Soderbergh. "His totally unique style and point of view extended beyond just his books and films, and anyone who chooses to explore Terry's life through these archives will find themselves endlessly fascinated and wildly entertained."
"The New York Public Library's acquisition of the Terry Southern Archive is very important to me as a real confirmation of Terry's accomplishments," said Nile Southern, the son of the author and co-trustee of the Terry Southern Literary Trust. "The collection will serve to connect the dots and bridge the gaps between the Beats and the Beatles. Terry helped introduce Ginsberg, William Gaddis, Henry Miller, and Burroughs to America -- when they were banned or unknown here -- it is all there in the archive, these secret histories. They are all stories which, taken together, weave a unique history of a man at the creative center of his times."
William D. Walker, Senior Vice President and Andrew W. Mellon Director of The Research Libraries, said, "Collecting materials documenting the richness of 20th-century American culture is a priority for the Research Libraries of The New York Public Library. The archive of Terry Southern, in addition to other recently acquired collections such as the Malcolm X Collection and the Jack Kerouac Archive, will offer researchers access to exceptional materials on artistic and political expression in the 1960s."
The Terry Southern Archive
Southern's screenplays Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) and Easy Rider (1969) earned him Academy Award nominations. "His screenplays are crafted in a very literary, writerly way, and he was a meticulous reviser, as researchers in this archive will discover," said Isaac Gewirtz, Curator of the Berg Collection of English and American Literature. "Southern remains a compelling literary and cultural figure," he continued, "because his best novels and screenplays straddle two eras -- the post-Beat early 1960s, when establishment values were still strong enough to shape the sensibility of the very works that mocked them, and the late 60s, early 70s, when many writers, artists, and pop musicians found the naive confidence to jettison mainstream cultural
assumptions about what art or entertainment should be. Southern's archive complements other important holdings in the Berg Collection, such as those of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and V. S. Pritchett, to name a few. It is also the first collection in the Berg in which the cinema figures so prominently."
Southern, first published in Britain after repeated rejections at home, was known by the late '50s for his short stories and novels, including Flash and Filigree (1958), and The Magic Christian (1959), when director Stanley Kubrick approached him to lend his satiric wit to the screenplay for Dr. Strangelove. Southern collaborated on the screenplay with Kubrick, who based the film on Peter George's book Red Alert, turning out the black comedy that made Dr. Strangelove a cult hit which still resonates, nearly forty years later. The Archive contains numerous materials relating to Dr. Strangelove including index cards outlining the film as a trilogy, and a1974 letter from Southern to Jay Levin about the perceived similarities between Dr. Strangelove and Dr. Henry Kissinger. In 1988, the film was selected by Congress as a cultural treasure by its Film Preservation Board.
The collection includes the original screenplay of Easy Rider, the 1969 counter-culture classic that ushered in the independent film movement. Southern co-authored Easy Rider with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, capturing the essence of youthful rebellion against the establishment.
Southern's other screenplays included Barbarella (1968), which starred Jane Fonda as the ingenue sex-pot space alien, and The Magic Christian (1969), on which he collaborated with Peter Sellers, Joseph McGrath, John Cleese, and Graham Chapman. Based on Southern's novel of the same name, The Magic Christian focuses on millionaire and practical joker Guy Grand, exposing and skewering complacency and materialism. The Archive contains the typescript of the novel, as well as unpublished fragments and various drafts of the screenplay.
Among the materials coming to the Berg Collection are numerous unpublished writings including a diary from Southern's years in Europe. The collection also includes materials relating to his novel, Candy (co-authored with hipster poet Mason Hoffenberg), a socio-sexual satire based on Voltaire's Candide, which bears the distinction of being one of only a few books in English banned in France. Commissioned by the notorious French publisher Maurice Girodias, it became a runaway best-seller in the States selling millions of copies throughout the mid and late '60s.
A dark comic sensibility animated Southern's writing. Few conservative values escaped his satiric wit. His favorite targets included politicians, big business, the military, sentimental spiritual seekers, the grossly rich, Hollywood characters of various sorts, and the medical profession. "Where you find smugness, you'll find something worth blasting," he once said. The Archive contains typescripts and manuscripts of novels, short stories, screenplays, and literary fragments; correspondence from a wide variety of writers, musicians, and artists, as well as business correspondence from agents, editors, and publishers; and photographs of literary and pop culture figures.
Born in Alvarado, Texas, Southern began writing satire at age 12, rewriting Edgar Allan Poe stories because, in his words, "they didn't go far enough." His studies at Southern Methodist University were interrupted by World War II. After serving in the army, he continued his studies, graduating with a degree in philosophy from Northwestern University in 1948. He then went to Paris to study at the Sorbonne on the G.I. Bill. His first published work to reach an American audience, a short story, The Sun and the Still Born Stars, appeared in the premier issue of The Paris Review. His first novel, Flash and Filigree, was published in 1958. He was a frequent contributor to The Paris Review, Evergreen Review, and The Nation.
Residing in Geneva with his wife Carol, Southern wrote Candy and The Magic Christian. Returning to the U.S., he settled in East Canaan, Connecticut, and soon after began his collaboration on Dr. Strangelove with Stanley Kubrick and Peter George, launching a successful screenwriting career. Other screenplays followed, including The Loved One (1965), The Collector (1965), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Barbarella (1968), and End of the Road (1970). In 1965, on the set of The Loved One, he met actress and dancerGail Gerber, who became his life-long companion.
Southern's other books include Red Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes (1967), Blue Movie (1970), and Texas Summer: A Novel (1991). Materials relating to these works are also in the Archive. In 1981 and 1982 Southern wrote forSaturday Night Live. He taught screenwriting at New York University and Columbia University from the late 1980s until his death in 1995.
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature is one of America's most celebrated collections of first editions, rare books, autograph letters, and manuscripts. It was assembled and presented to The New York Public Library by Dr. Albert A. Berg (1872-1950), famous New York surgeon and trustee of the Library, in memory of his brother, Dr. Henry W. Berg. Both men found relaxation from their medical careers in collecting the works and memorabilia of English and American writers. The original collection, which numbered 3,500 items, has grown through acquisitions and gifts to include some 20,000 printed items and 50,000 manuscripts, covering the entire range of English and American literature. The Berg Collection includes manuscripts by T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, W. B. Yeats, Walt Whitman, and many others. The Southern Archive will join the archives of Jack Kerouac, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov, and an extensive collection of first and rare editions.
The Terry Southern Literary Trust
The Terry Southern Literary Trust manages the assets and copyrights of Terry Southern. The Co-trustees are Nile Southern, the author's son. Susan Schulman, New York, acts as literary agent for the Trust.
Contact: Sabina Potaczek or Herb Scher 212.221.7676 or 212.704.8600.
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Excellent article on Tony Little & education:
Originally posted on 3D Eye:
Having spent an entire career committed to public state education, with a guiding principle of free education for all, it was fascinating to attend a lecture by the headmaster of Eton College and to be broadly in agreement with everything he said about holistic learning and the needs of young people.
Tony Little was the invited speaker for this year’s National Education Trust annual lecture – now held in memory of Mike Baker, an education journalist whose insights and observations on education are greatly missed.
The title of the lecture was “Looking Back to Move Forwards”. Mr Little considered the lives and works of three of his predecessors at Eton in order to focus on some priorities for education in the 21st Century.
Some might query the head of Eton addressing an audience about the aims and purposes of education without having experienced the challenges of working in inner…
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From the basics right up to advanced
Being one of the first books I read on finance, YMOYL was responsible for a very simple but powerful “light bulb” moment. Really ramming home the principal that money does need to be taken deadly seriously as it is tied so heavily to our life, how we spend and experience it as well as how to effectively gain control over it.
In Your Money or Your Life, Vicki Robin shows readers how to gain control of their money and finally begin to make a life, rather than just make a living.
Fantastic for a simple start to learning about money as well as automation and investing IWTYTBR is not only a great book, but also a fantastic source of extremely advanced tactics for all walks of life which you can find at their website.
At last, for a generation that’s materially ambitious yet financially clueless comes I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Ramit Sethi’s 6-week personal finance program for 20-to-35-year-olds.
A slightly more advanced (and extreme) version of how to manage your money for maximum efficiency. Whilst a lot of the concepts are too extreme, even for me, you can easily water them down a little bit and still come out ahead. Furthermore it introduces some amazing concepts of how to view your money and choices in life.
A strategic combination of smart financial choices, simple living, and increased self-reliance brought me financial independence at 30 and allowed me to retire from my profession at 33.
A fascinating look inside the REAL world of millionaires, how they live, what they buy and importantly how they came to be millionaires. TMND debunks a huge number of “common knowledge” surrounding not only the rich but also the poor that often just look like they’re rich.
The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don’t live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next door.
Moving more into investing WATCY helps to illuminate and drive home the point of why financial advisers often do far more harm than good.
Humorous and entertaining, this book exposes the folly and hypocrisy of Wall Street.
For more advanced readers of investing this highly detailed and revised book is a classic to help you learn the basic fundamentals of investing and what you must pay attention to to succeed.
This down-to-earth book lays out in easy-to-understand prose the four essential topics that every investor must master: the relationship of risk and reward, the history of the market, the psychology of the investor and the market, and the folly of taking financial advice from investment salespeople.


Having not written anything for nearly 3 months now, it seems about time to give another overview of books I've read recently. Fortunately, that number isn't too formidable, as during October and November I basically read no books other than those that were necessary (the demands of university), so it's mainly those I've read within the last couple of weeks.
A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham:
An interesting premise and it comes with very high praise from GRRM himself, who compares Abraham to Vance, Harrison and Wolfe. Safe to say this is exaggerated, but it is still undoubtedly one of the better examples of epic fantasy out there. The main idea is in the form of the magic system - the andat, a concept in corporeal form, transcribed by "poets" who control them, have the power of gods. Of course, to become one there is an arduous training programme, etc, etc. But surprisingly, we don't simpy follow someone through a predictable life as they emerge as a poet fighting for noble causes, never making mistakes. Instead, our protagonist, offered a great opportunity, leaves the school to become an anonymous labourer. The culture of the Saraykeht (and the wider world, at least what we see of it) is refreshingly different from that of most other epic fantasies, drawing influence from the east. And the main story is not about saving the world, it is not a tale of good vs evil, it is not about the triumph of righteousness. It is instead the story of the lives of a few ordinary people, who end entangled in far more complex intrigues than they ever intended to be involved in. True, Abraham never approaches the depth of political intrigue or weaves the story with such skill as a pinnacle such as GRRM does, but it is there, and a credit to the novel. His attempts to address ethical questions are perhaps less successful, taking a heavy handed approach on the issue of abortion, but it is better to see the issue raised, even if imperfectly, rather than to have yet another vacant epic fantasy. It isn't perfect, but for a debut it is excellent. It isn't another Lies of Locke Lamora, and it is a shame that it was released in the same year, because it will almost certainly be overshadowed. 8 out of 10.
Prodigy by Dave Kalstein: A very impressive novel. One that I'm surprised I've heard so little about. A SF story set 30 years in the future in a spectacular school for the brilliant doesn't sound like a hugely enticing premise. But one remarkable aspect of the novel that makes this so worthwhile is the atmosphere of it and the author's sheer cynicism - on a level with Kafka and Heller. And it is entirely believable. There are some aspects which he emphasises too much, some implausibilities - but that is only to be expected. The main characters really shine through in this - the brilliantly intelligent, hard working Valedictorian, Goldsmith, the popular, failing, drug dealing Cooley, the cold, emotionless Camilla, the naive, kind headmaster and the Machiavellian President Lang. It is filled with twists with characters you had supported unreservedly throughout suddenly turning traitor. The school is slowly revealed to you, as if you are a visitor, walking through its front doors into the technological marvel, blinded by its great visible attributes, until slowly the mirage is torn away, revealing the darkness of its foundations. This plot itself is not a brilliant, complex, intricate story, the setting is not startlingly original, the
book's insights are not truly remarkable or particularly subtle, but these are mere details. It is both a hugely entertaining SF thriller and a morality tale, based on one key question: What is an acceptable price for progress?
8.5 out of 10.
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
A brilliant short story collection. I'm still pretty new to reading short stories, but Borges is the best short story writer I know of - even surpassing Kafka. The stories in Labyrinths are always intelligent, philosophical and most of all entertaining. They generally take on a surreal tone, but it is difficult to generalise about such varied tales. Most take a theme, idea or metaphor and extend and exaggerate it to its limits. For example, the idea that a writer writes what they know, based upon their experiences. So in Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
, Menard manages to rewrite the Quixote word for word without ever copying, purely by going through similar experiences. Yet his Quixote is immeasurably superior to Cervantes' original, as Borges so eloquently explains to you. Other stories range from the cryptic library of Babel, filled with books of seemingly meaningless gibberish, to the radical premise of society based on a lottery in the Lottery of Babylon. In short, if you want to read short stories, read Borges. Not one of the stories was weak, and several were absolutely brilliant. 9 out of 10.
Feeling Very Strange edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
This is probably one of those short story collections released this year that you've never heard of, never seen on the shelves in even the largest bookshops, never seen an advert for, and in short, isn't likely to become a bestseller. But it is still remarkable, with stories by some of the most talented writers in speculative fiction, including Jeff Vandermeer, Jeffrey Ford, Theodora Goss, Michael Chabon, Ted Chiang, Kelly Link and Bruce Sterling. There was not a single weak story in the collection, and some were absolutely brilliant. And it does its job admirably - it makes you feel very strange, and in the process, you begin slowly to understand what slipstream is, with a debate on the subgenre interspersed between the stories, ending on the humourous note of rebranding the genre as "infernokrusher" fiction. To conclude, now that you know this exists, go and read it! 9 out of 10.


Curvita is HSPH’s new web-based system to manage faculty career information and training grant data. Sessions are open to all departmental staff who manage faculty CVs, Biosketches, and/or training grants. Bring a CV or two that you would like to review and update in the system!
New classes available! Register on the OFS/iSite Sign up Page.
ecrt (Effort Certification Reporting Technology) is Harvard University’s web-based time and effort reporting system. An instructor-led Effort Reporting Basics class is available through the Center for Workplace Development (CWD). Register through PeopleSoft.
eCrt Open Labs for HMS and SPH Effort Coordinators:
- February 5, 2015, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. – Longwood Medical Area, Countway Library L2-025
- February 24, 2015, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. – Longwood Medical Area, Countway Library L2-025
Online Trainings for ecrt is available through Eureka (pin log-in required):
You can also access a copy of the slides used in the CWD training course: ecrt Basics Training
Grant Management Application Suite (GMAS)
- GMAS Basics and Requests This hands-on class provides an introduction to Harvard’s Grants Management Application Suite (GMAS) and how to use it to manage sponsored projects. Register via the OSP Training Calendar page
- GMAS System to System This hands-on class instructs users how to identify S2S eligibility, build electronic forms, enter budgets, upland documents and submit to grants.gov using GMAS. Register via the OSP Training Calendar page
Wasabi (HSPH only)
The Wasabi Basics class is required for all new Wasabi users.
Wasabi Hands-on Lab sessions demonstrating features of Wasabi modules. Register on the OFS/iSite Sign up Page.
- Sponsored Account Maintenance and Budgets
- Payroll Actions
Harvard Crimson Online Marketplace (HCOM)
HCOM Shopper/Approver class – How to use HCOM as a shopper or approver. Attendees must have log-in ability to HCOM and an understanding of Harvard’s Chart of Accounts structure. Register through PeopleSoft.


Camp Kaleidoscope’s Literary Adventure…
“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss
Dive into books this summer with Camp Kaleidoscope!
Campers, prepare to be transported this summer to the wondrous lands that can only be found in the pages of books. You will explore the unique powers of your favorite graphic novel super heroes like Iron Man and The Hulk, cast magic spells with young wizard Harry Potter, and read short stories from around the globe! You will discover American Tall tales with Paul Bunyan, Fairy Tales with Cinderella and The little Mermaid and Greek and Roman mythology with Percy Jackson. We will even write our own haiku poetry, classroom newspaper and comic books! You will have a blast hitting the books with Camp Kaleidoscope!
Daily Camp Schedule
|8:00am – 9:15am||Child’s Choice Activity|
|9:15am – 9:45am||Breakfast*|
|9:45am – 11:00am||Theme Discussion & Field Games**|
|11:00am – 12:00pm||Theme Discussion & Arts and Crafts|
|12:00pm – 12:30pm||Lunch*|
|12:30pm – 2:00pm||Outside Play / Water Play|
|2:00pm – 3:00pm||Independent & Cooperative Play (Puzzles, Books or Board Games)|
|3:00pm – 3:30pm||Arts & Crafts|
|3:30pm – 4:00pm||Snack Time*|
|4:00pm – 4:30pm||Child’s Choice Activity|
|4:30pm – 5:20pm||Outside Play|
|5:20pm – 5:35pm||Clean up and Departure***|
*TCC & ELC provides three meals a day for your child ( breakfast, lunch & afternoon snack)
***Early/Late Extended Hours Available
Roses are red, violets are blue, poetry is fun; we have so much to do! This week we will visit child friendly poets such as Shel Silverstein and try our hands at creative rhyming with Dr. Seuss. Not all poetry has to rhyme however, which we will see when we explore the haiku, a Japanese form of poetry. We will even write our own haikus by week’s end!
Comic Books /Graphic Novels Week
What is spider sense? Why does kryptonite weaken Superman? How does Batman always manage to save the city of Gotham? We’ll suit up as our favorite crime fighting super heroes this week as we answer these questions. We will even work collaboratively on a class comic book creating our own heroes and arch enemies.
American Folklore Week
Hop abroad our covered wagons and venture out to the American Frontier this week to explore Tall Tales. We will meet the legendary characters Paul Bunyan, Babe the Blue Ox and Pecos Bill just to name a few. We will discover the history of these exaggerated tales and what made them a staple among American Frontier men. We’ll enjoy S’mores and share our original tall tales around our class “campfire” too!
Fantasy Part 1, Harry Potter Week
This week we will enter the magical world of Harry Potter as students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Can we help Harry defeat Lord Voldemort? Of course we can! Even though we are muggles, we will learn to play a game a Quiddich, cook up some butter beer and even sample Bertie Botts every flavor jelly beans.
Fantasy Part 2, Greek/ Roman Mythology
What is a satyr? What is a demigod? This week we will explore myths with the modern 12year old fictional character Percy (Perseus) Jackson. What better way to slay giant monsters, sing with mermaids, and train heroes than with the son of Poseidon himself!
International Short Stories and Fables Week
This week we will visit the countries of China, Russia, and Spain( just to name a few) through such wonderful short stories as Lon Po Po, The Three Questions and The Story of Ferdinand. We will also explore and discuss fables, how they differ from short-stories and the lessons in famous tales such as Aesop’s The Tortoise and The Hare and The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
Fairy Tale Week
Once upon a time the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christen Anderson wrote some tales that would be enjoyed for many years to come. Some famous ones such as Cinderella and The Little Mermaid were written by these gentlemen. How do the original fairy tales differ from the ones adapted by Walt Disney? This week we will explore our happily ever afters complete with Snow White ice cream sundaes with seven toppings!
William Randolph Hearst would be proud this week as Camp kaleidoscope “publishes” a newspaper! We are calling all campers to be reporters, photo-journalists, cartoonists and editors! This week we will discuss what a newspaper is, what the basic components are and what jobs are necessary to report the news.
Famous Authors Week
This week we will honor our favorite children’s authors and the beloved characters they created. We will recreate the artwork style of Eric Carle, take our favorite mouse to the movies with Laura Numeroff and visit our “Grandma Witch” Strega Nonna with Tomie DePaola. We will also celebrate this week with a favorite character day!


misty & the wildflowers
The Wildflowers Miniseries, Book 1 :
Novel © VC Andrews
Artwork © Lisa Falkenstern
It's the story of four girls (Misty, Star, Jade, and Cat) who are going through their parents' divorce and act out in harmful ways. As a result, they are each ordered to see a psychiatrist to work out their problems and be at peace with themselves and their lives. And unknown to them, they would meet in group therapy and become the closest of friends.
The first book of the series is Misty and is narrated by Misty Foster. Her parents' divorce leaves her in the middle and simply a tool each parent uses against the other. Misty grows to hate her parents and decides to act out to get them to notice what they are doing to her.
Misty becomes very affected by her parents' actions and their growing feud. They use her in cruel and hateful ways. She grows a little more hurt and hateful every day. Her friends drift away, her grades fall, and she is constantly in emotional pain.
She gets involved in bad relationships. And finally she lashes out and tries to get her parents attention, and to stop their hurtful treatment.
Misty is a strong and sensitive character. Through her therapy she is able to let go and become free of the past. She makes it through and becomes friends with the other girls in therapy. And the incredible friendship they form becomes her true family.


Praise be to Allah.
It is not permissible to
apply this description to nurses, because the angels are male and are not
female. Allah denounced the mushrikeen (pagans) for describing the angels as
female. Moreover, the angels of mercy have their own description which
cannot be applied to nurses, for there are good and bad nurses, so it is not
permissible to apply this description to them.
And Allah knows best.
From Majmoo’ Fataawa wa Maqaalaat Mutanawwi’ah li Samaahat al-Shaykh al-‘Allaamah ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Baz


Welcome to my website! Here you will find information about my debut biography, Garden of Dreams: The Life of Simone Signoret, ranked Top Ten Performing Arts by Publishers Weekly. Click on the link for the book trailer or check out other sites of interest in Quick Links.
I'll update the website periodically so stop by for a visit. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy reading Garden of Dreams as much as I enjoyed writing it. Simone was a remarkable, inspiring woman and an incredible actress!
Thanks for stopping by,
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GARDEN OF DREAMS: THE LIFE OF SIMONE SIGNORET
The incomparable Simone Signoret (1921–1985), one of the grand actresses of the twentieth century and one of France’s most notable stars, considered herself the “oldest discovery” in Hollywood. After years of blacklisting during the McCarthy era, she was thirty-eight years old when she entered Hollywood through the back door in the 1959 British blockbuster Room at the Top. Her portrayal of the endearing Alice Aisgill earned her the Academy Award in 1960, the first French actor to win a coveted Oscar.
Though a latecomer to Hollywood, Signoret was already an international star who had survived the Nazi occupation of Paris, emerging in 1945 as a beautiful, promising actress capable of communicating more emotion through body language than dialogue alone could achieve. She gained a reputation as the thinking man’s sex symbol, and in several films she portrayed prostitutes with subtlety and depth.
She was fiercely protective of her privacy. But after winning the Oscar, she was dragged through the gutter when her second husband, Yves Montand, had a well publicized affair with Marilyn Monroe. Many attributed her rapid aging and alcoholism to this betrayal. She endured this perception in silence, all the while demonstrating a remarkable capacity to reinvent herself as a best-selling author, respected social activist, and revered actress who remained in the cinema, her “garden of dreams,” for over four decades.
Patricia A. DeMaio combines Signoret’s courageous story with Montand’s biography to reveal new information and insight into Signoret’s humanitarian efforts and the vibrant film career that sustained her.
Published by University Press of Mississippi. Available January 2014


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Harness the power of symmetry in art to teach math. This Art-Rithmetic lesson plan book offers teachers an innovative approach to teaching.
From crayons to computers, this is a collection of multimedia art projects inspired by great masterpieces of art and literature. Easily a two year curriculum of exciting art lessons, it will introduce children to the world’s great artists. Da Vinci, Van Gogh and other great masters down through the ages promote a deep and abiding love of art.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the easiest way to learn about art is to look at it. Here, great masterpieces illustrate the art concepts that we use to understand and value art. Coming soon!
The mathematical concept of pattern is taught through engaging art activities.
Fasten your seatbelts! Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime. Cross oceans, climb mountains, do time travel, fly, all through the magic of the artistic imagination. Award winning art educator Susan Striker shares a rich curriculum of exciting children’s art projects that teach history and culture while allowing for personal expression and creativity.
In Oaxaca, Mexico, carved wooden animals might have purple feet, flowers on their faces and polka dot backs. This alphabet book is a collection of musuem quality sculptures that are so colorful and child-like that they delight youngsters of all ages. It is a glorious introduction to Mexican folk art. (available September 2012)
Exhilarating activities are used to teach the mathematical concept of line. Linear art activities help teach math to visual learners.
The Kuna Indians isolated and primitive until mid century, have added modern symbols to their traditional designs. Any child fascinated with transportation, will find everything from rickshaws to rocket ships in this museum quality collection of Molas on the Move. Coming soon!
A visually stunning alphabet book that introduces children to the world’s wildlife through recently discovered masterpieces by the Kuna Indians of Panama. Colorful reverse applique and detailed emboidery teach visual discrimination and fascinate both children and adults.


A librarian at the reference desk is always available to assist students with MLA format for specific sources.
The library offers free classes (lasting 1.5 hrs.) in L126 in the library on MLA format. See the schedule on the web.
The library website has a sample research paper that students may use as a model. Also, the library maintains a web page with a variety of MLA examples.
Individual MLA handouts with examples are available in the library.
The library subscribes to NoodleTools, a citation generator, that is available to all students and teachers at Richland.
The Richland College Library Handbook is on the web and contains many pages of MLA examples.


Stewart Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church History
No institution has been more vital to family unity than the Church. Since the early days of slavery, people of African descent have relied on the Church for comfort, as well as spiritual and moral leadership. Still today, the Church remains the single most influential organization in the life of black families.
The philosophy of Stewart Memorial is embedded in its parent Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, organized in America in 1784, and subsequent divisions organized by Negro groups in 1816 and 1820. The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (C.M.E.) had its beginning in 1866, after a group of Black people separated from the Methodist Episcopal Church South because of unchristian-like racist practices.
Even though the history of Stewart Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is far from being complete, what historians have been able to compile thus far shows that it, too, has waged a continuous struggle to provide Christian leadership in the life of families. The Connectional Church name – was changed to Christian Methodist – in 1954 to denote both spiritual growth and a closer fellowship with families of other races. The earliest record of Stewart Memorial was found in the Local History and Genealogy Division of the Mobile Public Library where the 1902 edition of the Mobile County Directory lists a Stewart Chapel C.M.E. Church at 316 Hercules Street. It was presided over by a Rev. Charles Smyly, Presiding Elder. That reference was followed by the pastorship of a Rev. Ned D. Lane in 1905.
The earliest recollection of Church members reveal that a Rev. Tellis either was sent by the General Conference to organize the Church or he organized and presented it to the Conference. They recall that Tellis was succeeded by a Dr. S. J. Elliott in that same year. City records, however, show the pastor to have been a Rev. A. R. Grace in 1906, and makes no mention of either Tellis or Elliott. Separate interviews with several pioneer Church members confirmed that Tellis and Elliott served the Stewart Chapel congregation about that time. It is believed that Tellis was the actual organizer of the Church and was sent here by the Conference for that purpose. The edifice in which this congregation worshiped has been described as a small, unpainted structure, located at 316 Hercules Street, situated much farther back from the street.
During the administration of Dr. Elliott, Stewart Chapel was destroyed during a storm. In the Christian spirit, services were conducted in the Truevine Baptist Church building. The invitation to use the Truevine facility came from its pastor, the Rev. O. J. Jackson, in return for Stewart Chapel having opened its doors to the Truevine congregation for worshiping when their building was blown down during an earlier storm. It is not known in exactly what year or years these events took place or for what period of time.
The Rev. L. W. Mitchell came in 1913 to build a new church and to administer the congregation. The frame structure built under his leadership was somewhat larger than the previous building and was closer to the street. The names of the trustees in the years 1913-1914, as inscribed on the cornerstone were J. Larkins, E. W. McGrew, Wm. Smith, secretary; Wm. Crenshaw, treasurer, and grandfather of the late William Carroll; Grant R. Smith, Abe Kennedy, father of the late Leroy Kennedy, Sr., and the late Mrs. Geniece Kennedy Alexander, grandfather of Dr. Yvonne Kennedy; L. Lindsay and A. D. Houston.
Information about the years between 1914 and 1921 was more difficult to obtain. Historians have learned that a Rev. Carr served as pastor of the Church in 1915 and was succeeded by a Rev. Warren in 1916. Their first names were not remembered by the persons interviewed. A Rev. J. E. McDowell came to lead the congregation in 1917 and remained until about 1920. He was described as a Agood speaker, who carried out the affairs of the Church pretty well.@
In the year 1921, Rev. L. H. Chandler was sent to carry on the Christian fellowship. It was said he was Aa lovely man with a lovely family@, who inspired members with righteous leadership until 1923.
Rev. Atchinson came to Stewart Chapel in 1924 and stayed until 1926. When he was succeeded by the Rev. J. B. Seals, who still has family members branched out all over the Church. They include his sisters, the late Mesdames Susie Young, the mother of Sis. Hermie Y. Simmons and Lizzie Ruffin, the mother of Sis. Louise Pettaway and Bro. Louis Ruffin; and their families and the late Mrs. Bell Finney, aunt and adopted mother of Mrs. Lucille Stallworth; and the family of his brother, the late Zack Williams. It is thought that Rev. Seals was sent to increase membership and to build a new church. Official records show that land was purchased during the two years he pastored here. Mobile County records show that a land contract for a tract of land 60 feet by 150 feet was entered in 1927 between James K. and Florence Glennon, after whom Glennon Avenue is named, in the amount of $2,500. The contract of deed was signed April 26, 1927, by Messers John J. Packer, chairman Board of Trustees of the Stewart Chapel C.M.E. Church in America, and Isaiah Hoyt, secretary. It was recorded July 11, 1927.
The Conference sent the Rev. Eugene Shelton in 1928, who pastored until he was succeeded by the Rev. J. Lorenzo Williams, who is credited with organizing the Junior Church in 1931. It was at this time the City had completely renumbered Mobile streets and listed Stewart Chapel=s address as 1258 Hercules.
The Conference sent the Rev. Harold S. Belcher to Stewart Chapel in 1933. Rev. Belcher and his wife, Florence, were well received and well liked by the Mobile congregation. He was described as a AGod Sent@ man who was dedicated to the principle of Christian fellowship. Both Rev. and Mrs. Belcher were fond of children and she established the first kindergarten operated under the auspices of the Church. They remained at Stewart Chapel until 1936.
The year 1937 was a difficult one for the congregation. It brought a succession of pastors until Rev. John A. Hunter was assigned by the Conference late in the year. Among the pastors that served during that year are Reverends A. Edward Berry, Christian Gaines and I. W. Hodges. Rev. Hunter, according to members of the Church, transferred from the North Central Conference to the Alabama Conference. The congregation was happy to have a leader who would restore vitality and continuous leadership to the Church.
Then came 1940 and the very spiritual pastorship of the Rev. Andrew Hawk for the next eight years. He was a very strict devout man who tolerated Ano nonsense@ from his members. The Junior Church was very active under his administration and Z. Z. Copeland was ordained and served as junior pastor until he was transferred to the North Central Conference. Rev. Hawk reconstructed the Church building, veneering it with brick in 1945.
The Rev. O. O. McJunkins pastored the Church in 1948 – 1949. He was a man of small stature who brought many new members into the Church through his sincere sermons.
The Rev. G. S. Judkins came to Stewart Memorial in 1950, during his administration new church pews and an organ were purchased.
The Rev. J. W. Dickinson, father of the late George W. Dickinson, and father-in-law of Mrs. Catherine Dickinson, came to lead the congregation in 1954. Rev. Dickinson was a dedicated man who for four years worked to keep the membership alive and growing and the boards functioning in high gear.
The Conference sent the Rev. Lucius H. Smith to the Stewart Memorial congregation in 1958. He served as President of the City-wide Ministerial Alliance and an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was the organizer of the Mammoth Tea and he provided the impetus for the construction of a new church when the new parsonage was built. Under Rev. Smith=s Christian leadership, several members were licensed to preach: Rev. Caesar A. Smith., Rev. Robert Ford, Rev. Henry G. Allen, Rev. A.D. Weeden, Rev. I. C. H. White, and Rev. H. Pope.
Rev. L. H. Smith left Stewart Memorial in 1965 to become a Presiding Elder, as did his successor at Stewart Memorial, the Rev. R. L. Harrington. Under Rev. Harrington=s leadership, the church continued its fund raising efforts to build a new church. Many sites were located, but none were accepted by the congregation. Rev. R. L. Harrington was a pastor who knew the Laws of the Church and taught it to his parishioners with the assistance of the Board of Christian Education. It was under his leadership that a program celebrating Centennial of Christian Methodism in Mobile was planned and implemented. Rev. Harrington, after nine (9) fruitful years of ministry, was assigned Presiding Elder of the Mobile District; where he served with distinction for nine (9) years. As you have observed, Rev. Smith and Rev. Harrington both served the church for nine years each and were both assigned Presiding Elders. In addition, Rev. Harrington served our Connectional Church@ as a member of the Judicial Council.
Following Rev. Harrington was the Rev. Ronald McKelvey, a family man, a scholar, and a friend of people. Rev. McKelvey followed the Liturgical Calendar of the Church, and informed the church of the meaning of each. Under Rev. McKelvey=s leadership, the Male Chorus was organized and named in his honor. Rev. McKelvey was respected by his fellow ministers in and out of the denomination. He served from 1974 to 1976.
The second Sunday in August 1976, was the first Sunday the Reverend Marion L. Newman shared fellowship with the Stewart Memorial Church family. Bishop Kirkendohl assigned Rev. Newman, a known church builder, to Stewart to lead the congregation in erecting a new church edifice. In organizing his administration, many changes were made in order that he might launch successfully the building program. During the next few months, Stewart Memorial became the center of activities, which ultimately led to the completion of our current Church edifice, on one square block of property beside the historic two-story parsonage, the origin resident of the first black wealthy Mobilians, Dave and Lorna Patton, of which the church connection is proud. Rev. Newman, with his able committees, did that which some believed impossible, and did it in record time.
In 1980, Rev. O. R. Jackson was assigned as Pastor. Under his dedicated leadership, many creative programs were initiated and the responsibilities of the Local and National Church were met when due. Many members were added to the church and two of them were licensed to preach, admitted into the Conference and ordained both deacon and elder. These two young ministers, Reverends Roderick and Frederick Zak, who are twins, graduated from Phillips School of Theology, ITC of Atlanta, both young ministers were called of God and sent from Stewart to served with distinction several of our Connectional flagship churches, among which were Carter Tabernacle CME Church (Orlando, Florida) and West Mitchell CME Church (Atlanta, GA), respectively. Having felt the call of God to a new ministry, Rev. Roderick and Frederick Zak are now independent pastors of a non-denominational Christian ministries in Orlando, Florida. Rev, Jackson organized a Young Adult Division of the church and the group is continuously making contributions in all facets of the church.
During the five years Rev. Jackson was at Stewart Memorial, he was successful in leading the congregation to pay off the Old Church mortgage and the loans encountered before the assignment. He equipped the sacristy, the Sunday School and Secretary=s offices, and the Usher=s room. He supervised the construction of the pulpit stand and the new intercom system. A new piano was purchased. His slogan was AWE ARE UP TOGETHER; WE ARE DOWN TOGETHER – BUT, WE ARE TOGETHER!@
In August 1985, Bishop D. I. Isom, Jr., Presiding Bishop of the Southeast Alabama Conference, assigned Rev. W. Clinton Haynes, Sr., and family. Reverend Haynes came to us as a transfer from Cincinnati, Ohio. The church continued to make much progress under his leadership.
Reverend Roscoe C. McKinney was assigned to us in 1991. This young minister came to us from BeBe Memorial C.M.E. Church in Oakland, CA. The youth, young adults and adults benefitted from his manner of preaching and teaching. We grew in membership and in the community.
Reverend A. C. Gilbert came to us with many ideas and full of energy. He began a revival on Martin Luther King, Jr., Avenue the same day he came to town with many of us singing and praying for new members. We walked and prayed on each and every block around the church. He was no stranger to people and he had a great deal of personality. With his leadership and with his prayers, God helped us, blessed us to move on.
Rev. L. O. Gellington came to us in 1995, a soft-talking, educated man who knew the Bible and his subject matter. He taught each of us each Sunday morning and Wednesday night Bible study was biblical and refreshing. We were lifted to high heights.
In August 1996, Reverend Johnny Wilson, a native Texan and Presiding Elder of the Mobile District, was assigned to us. He was able to help us to understand the Bible with more depth. He was kept busy, but he never put us behind. He was a good leader and a kind person.
In August, 1997 The Reverend Dr. William Wallace and his family were assigned to us. The teaching and preaching of Reverend Wallace blessed us. Reverend Wallace served as Presiding Elder of the Birmingham Region until 2011 at which time he honorably retired.
In August of 2000, Bishop Paul A. G. Stewart, Sr., felt the leading of the Lord to assign Reverend Bernard Johnson to our faith community. Reverend Bernard, Sis. Gloria B. Johnson and family were welcomed by Stewart and began to immediately pray, plan and implement the vision that God gave to the church=s pastoral and lay leadership. Greeting Pastor Johnson and Family along with Stewart Memorial was the Rev. Roosevelt Tinker a son of the Church who was willing to assist our Pastor.
In the years , Pastor Johnson and family were assigned to us, God proved to be faithful and has given to the church spiritual, financial, and numerical growth. Example of the Church=s numerical growth are 103 new members added in 2000-2001 Conference Year; 89 new members added in 2001-02 Conference Year; 93 new members added in 2002-03 Conference Year; 65 new members in Conference Year 2003-04 and 92 new members in Conference Year 2004-05; 78 new members in Conference Year 2005-06; 97 new members in 2006-07; and 21 new members since the setting of our last Conference. In all 555 new members joined under the leadership of Pastor Johnson
In the same way, God has blessed us with new and innovative ministries during this period. A short sampling of some of new ministries are: The Golden Gems (Senior Adult Ministry), Young Adult Council (Young Adult Ministry), the Young Men=s Sunday School Class (Pre-Young and Young Adult Ministry), Children=s Church (worship experience for children 8 and younger), The Men=s Ministry (Adult Men Ministry), Ladies Night Out (Women=s Ministry), New Membership Class, and revitalization of the Greeter=s Ministry and Christian Youth Fellowship as well as increased participation in the Tutorial Ministry and Sunday School Bus Ministry. Additionally, the 8:00 a.m. Worship Hour, initialized by Pastor Johnson has grown to be a permanent door of our life and work. The Wednesday Night Bible Study and Family meal became a joy to one and all. A special blessing in the life of the Church was the gift of a new son in the ministry, in the person of Brother Vincent Hertz after more than 25 years. And, through, the keen insight of Pastor Johnson and the Board of Christian Education, the Minister Wesley Perine, was installed and accepted the post of first Youth Minister in the 2007 Conference Year. Each of these young men have proven to be a blessing to the people of God.
In August of 2008 Pastor Lucius H. Pitts, Jr was assigned to be our pastor. Pastor Pitts came to us after
being the Pastor of Phillips Temple in Phenix City, Alabama, Bethany in Clearwater, Florida for 10 years, and St. Paul in Russellville, Alabama for 8 years. Pastor Pitts has a diverse background. He has worked at Miles College where he was Director of Admissions, Assistant to the Dean of Students and Assistant to the President. At Paine College Pastor Pitts was the Director of Admissions and Recruitment. He has also worked for the states of Georgia, Florida and Alabama. Presently he is entering his 30th year as a pastor in the CME church. He was excited about being at Stewart Memorial and following such a list of distinguished Pastors.
In August 2010 Dr. Anthony M. Alford, Sr. was assigned by newly elected and late Bishop Wallace E. Lockett as Pastor of Stewart Memorial. Pastor Alford came to Stewart Memorial after having served for the past fifteen years as Pastor of Butler Street in Atlanta. Dr. Alford brought an array of experience having served at Lane Metropolitan in Cleveland, Ohio, Phillips Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky and Grace in Richmond, Indiana. His ministry began at Phillips Temple in Dayton, Ohio where he also served as Associate Minister. Dr. Alford has broad experience as a church administrator, business and community leader and as a dynamic and much sought after preacher and teacher. Dr. Alford is a 2005 inductee in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Board of Preachers at Morehouse College in Atlanta and he has been consistently named one of Atlanta=s twenty greatest preachers since 1998. He served as founding President of the Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta an alliance of some 5,000 Christian Churches in Metropolitan Atlanta. Dr. Alford along with his wife Attorney Debra G. has brought renewed sense of esteem and vision to Stewart Memorial. As a church we are walking in an embrace of what we know God has in store for us. As scripture reminds us Ait doth not yet appear what we shall become.@.
Throughout the 113 years of the history of this great Church, the dedicated leadership of capable pastors and ardent support of devout members have kept Stewart Memorial as a warm and loving Church, where generations of families have sought and found Christ. Evidence of the witness of this congregation has been demonstrated by the number of young men who have been called to the ordained ministry and gone out to lead congregation of their own. Among them are Reverend(s) C. A. Smith. Sr., Robert Ford, the late A. D. Weeden, Sr., the late I.C.H. White, the late Henry Allen(- the father of the late Sis. Henrianna A. McGrew), David Robinson, Frederick and Roderick Zak, and Vincent Hertz.
Members of Stewart Memorial are participants in every facet of community life – religious, educational, political, civic and social. Thanks to God Almighty, during the past 113 years, Stewart Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church has made many worthwhile contributions on the local, state, national and international levels. However, now is not the time for us to become complacent and rest on our laurels because the race is not to the swift or strong, but to those who hold out until the Captain of the Church triumphantly says, WELL DONE!@


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At the very start of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, the Interregional Library Cooperation Centre released a unique publication “My Mother Tongue. Almanac 2022. Preservation of Indigenous Languages of Russia" which is now available online. In this collection of analytical materials, prominent Russian experts representing Russia’s indigenous peoples analyse the current state, problems, and prospects of preserving their ethnic languages; the development and implementation of Russia’s national and regional policies aimed at revitalizing and promoting these languages; the achievements and shortcomings of such policies; and the role of the federal government, regional governments, cultural, scientific, educational, and civil society institutions, mass media, publishing houses, the private sector, and language communities.
The materials for the almanac were collected within the framework of the implementation in Russia of the UNESCO Information for All Programme (IFAP) and the My Mother Tongue Programme developed in 2019 by the Russian IFAP Committee and the Interregional Library Cooperation Centre based on IFAP's achievements and findings and designed for long-term implementation in different regions of Russia.
On July 5-7 Moscow successfully hosted the high-level international conference “World Treasury of Mother Tongues: Nourish and Cherish. National and International Context, Policies and Practices to Preserve Indigenous Languages”.
The event was organized by the Russian Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs, Intergovernmental Council of the UNESCO Information for All Programme, Russian UNESCO IFAP Committee and Interregional Library Cooperation Centre within the support by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO and Russian Civic Chamber.
The event gathered about 150 prominent Russian and international experts in the field of education, culture, social sciences and humanities, communication and information (including advanced language technologies and other information technologies), representatives of governing bodies, civil society institutions and private sector from 46 countries. They focused not only on preservation and revitalization of indigenous languages, but also on broader contexts (linguistic, sociocultural, historic, economic, geopolitical, etc.) in which indigenous people and their languages exist and survive.
IV Edition of the International Conference "Tangible and Intangible Impact of Information and Communication in the Digital Age"
The IV International Conference on Tangible and Intangible Impact of Information and Communication in the Digital Age took place on 7-9 June 2022 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, within the XIII International IT Forum and the UNESCO Information for All Intergovernmental Programme. The event gathered over 100 experts from 35 countries – representatives of intergovernmental, international, regional and national non-governmental organisations, universities and research centres, government authorities and institutions in the field of information and communication, science, culture and education, including prominent Russian and foreign experts in the field of philosophy, cultural anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, linguistics, management, international relations, communication, information technology, information security, teacher training, librarianship, museum and archiving, creative industries, diplomats, journalists.
The conference was aimed to contribute to the advancement of international and national policies in the field of information and knowledge society building and relevant recommendations; to reducing the gap between the pace of development in the field of information, communication and related technologies, and the ability of science and society to comprehend the changing reality and, accordingly, to influence the vector and nature of progress.
The Third Edition of the International Conference "Tangible and Intangible Impact of Information and Communication in the Digital Age"
The Third Edition of the International Conference "Tangible and Intangible Impact of Information and Communication in the Digital Age" will be held on 17-18 June 2021 in Khanty-Mansiysk (Russian Federation) in the framework of the UNESCO Information for All Programme and XII International IT Forum. The Conference will gather more than 150 participants from 58 countries.
On 1–5 July 2019 Yakutsk successfully hosted the world’s biggest international conference “Preservation of Languages and Development of Linguistic Diversity in Cyberspace: Context, Policies, Practices”.
Over 100 reports were presented at plenary sessions and eight thematic sections held at the Sakha Theatre, in two buildings of the Sakha Government, at the State Assembly of the Republic of Sakha, and the North-Eastern Federal University. Most topical issues of the modern world were discussed by conference participants, including:
All these issues were discussed from different perspectives by researchers representing developed and developing countries, where multilingualism exists in various forms and at different levels.
The event brought together over 500 experts: public figures, politicians, diplomats, researchers working in the fields of ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics, ethnopolitology, ethnosociology, cultural anthropology, philosophy, as well specialists in the elaboration and analysis of national and international language policies, educationalists, academics, representatives of cultural institutions and the infocommunication sphere from 63 countries and all world regions (Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, China (including SAR Hong Kong and SAR Macau), Columbia, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Maldives, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Palestine, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia), as well as UNESCO.
The conference was organized by:
· Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
· Russian Committee of the UNESCO Information for All Programme
· Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University
· Interregional Library Cooperation Centre
· UNESCO Chair on Language Policies for Multilingualism (Brazil)
Organizational and financial support to the conference was provided by:
· Government of the Russian Federation
· Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
· Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO
· Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs of the Russian Federation
· Federal Agency for Print and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation
· Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation of the CIS (IFESCCO)
· UNESCO / UNESCO Information for All Programme
Second International Conference “Tangible and Intangible Impact of Information and Communication in the Digital Age” was held in Khanty-Mansiysk on 9–13 June, 2019, under the auspices and in cooperation with UNESCO.
Discussions within the Second International Conference “Tangible and Intangible Impact of Information and Communication in the Digital Age” held in Khanty-Mansiysk on 9–13 June, 2019, under the auspices and in cooperation with UNESCO in the framework of the XI International IT-Forum were focused on the following topics: “Digital Age: Quo Vadis?”, “Freedom of Information: Global Challenges for Utopia”, “Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage in the Digital Age”, “Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence and International Psychological Security”, “Media and Information Literacy and Ethics”, “Technologies and Linguistic Diversity”.
The conference was attended by experts from various fields – computer science, sociology, political science, philosophy, futurology, economics, history, as well as diplomats, politicians, government officials and journalists from 35 countries (Argentina, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Denmark, France, Georgia, Ghana, Hungary, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Moldova, Morocco, New Zealand, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Zambia).
The conference was organized by the Russian Committee of the UNESCO Information for All Programme (IFAP), Interregional Library Cooperation Centre, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education, and Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the support by the Government of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Ugra.
The final document of the conference is available in following languages:
The international conference “Tangible and Intangible Impact of Information and Communication in the Digital Age”
(Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, 4-8 June 2018)
(Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, 5-9 June 2017)
(Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, 7-10 June 2016)
The Khanty-Mansiysk Declaration Media and Information Literacy for Building Culture of Open Government in English / Hungarian / Russian
Proceeding of the meeting download in english
(Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, 4-9 July 2015)
Proceedings of the meeting
(UNESCO's Headquarters in Paris, 28-29 October 2014)
Final Recommendations for the Action Plan of UNESCO’s World Atlas of Languages
Yakutsk Declaration on Linguistic and Cultural Divercity in Cyberspce
Proceedings of the conference
The Sakhalin Declaration on Internet and Socio-Cultural Transformations
Proceedings of the conference
The Moscow Declaration on Media and Information Literacy
Proceedings of the conference
The Moscow Declaration on Digital Information Preservation
The Interregional Library Cooperation Center, an interregional public organization, is the working body of the Russian IFAP Committee since 2007
Moscow Declaration on Mother Tongues Preservation is published online
Ugra Communique "Tangible and Intangible Impact of Information and Communication in the Digital Age” is published online
My Mother Tongue Almanac 2022 is available online
A high-level international conference on mother tongues preservation was held in Moscow
IV International Conference on Tangible and Intangible Impact of Information and Communication in the Digital Age took place on 7-9 June 2022 in Khanty-Mansiysk,
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Writen by Razaq Raj (UK Centre for Events Management),¬†Paul Walters (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Tahir Rashid (Centre for Hospitality & Retailing, Leeds Metropolitan University), Events Management: An Integrated and Practical Approach guides readers through the practicalities of events management and acts as¬†a resource for understanding the many elements of working successfully in the events industry. Bridging the ever-widening gap between specialists, this book will enable you to be fully conversant with the application, theory, practicalities and value of events management essentials, including: equipment and design; planning; marketing and PR; terminology; legislation; finance and budgeting; technology; sponsorship; logistics; and, the role of events tourism. Topics are brought to life through application to a range of events case studies, including live music venues, arenas, conference centres and community festivals.
Available from here.¬†
Reference: Raj, R., Walters, P. and Rashid, T. (2008) Events Management: An Integrated and Practical Approach. London, SAGE Publications Ltd


The Electron Pair Localization Function is a function defined in the three-dimensional space. It measures the degree of pairing of electrons in a molecule, with an increasing value as the electron pairing increases. Therefore chemical bonds, core domains and lone pairs can be visualized.
The following packages are needed:
The source code can be downloaded here
Electron pair localization function, a practical tool to visualize electron localization in molecules from quantum Monte Carlo data
A. Scemama, P. Chaquin, M. Caffarel, J. Chem. Phys., vol 121, pp. 1725-1735 (2004).
Electron Pair Localization Function (EPLF) for Density Functional Theory and ab initio wave function-based methods : a new tool for chemical interpretation
A. Scemama, M. Caffarel, R. Chaudret, J.-P. Piquemal, J. Chem. Theory Comput. vol. 7 (3), pp. 618–624 (2011).