Beyond music, my other passion is reading. Having been the English or Reading lead in schools over the last 7 years, it's an area of education close to my heart, so it recently got me thinking about how the process of listening to music and reading books could be linked in the classroom.
Back during the infancy of cinema, there never really was such a thing as a 'silent film'. Musical accompaniment heightened the action and amplified the moods on the screen. It was easy enough to consume for the audience. After the music came the voices, the dialogue, the sound effects and soundtracks, and we have become experts in watching and listening until our senses are overloaded.
Reading, however, is inherently a silent past time, and cognitively more challenging than watching a screen. Not only do we have to fully comprehend the text, we have to create the visualisations ourselves, one that undoubtedly varies from reader to reader. In a technological world with screens at our fingertips, perhaps this silence invites many of us to supply our own accompaniment. During a typical journey on public transport, you might encounter a multitude of readers immersed in their books, headphones on, pages open, each crafting their own personal soundtrack to the written words in front of them. Some having music as background ambience, others opt for using headphones, while some find any form of noise to be distracting, especially when lyrics overlap with reading words. I for one distinctly remember thanking Andrew W.K. in my university degree dissertation (about music censorship) for providing a continuous soundtrack and motivation to finish 20,000 words in time! I most definitely would not recommend this to anyone. We're all different!
In terms of the classroom, I've already created a range of lyric reading comprehensions based on famous rock, Disney and musical songs which can be seen here, but what about using music to help bring a novel to life or to stimulate visualisation and/or provide other layers of meaning or add to the richness of the text? Which children's books have songs or soundtracks forming an integral part of their story? We know that books that have turned to films are often synonymous with their soundtracks (e.g. Mary Poppins or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), including books that gone to theatre (such as Matilda) but what about books written with a soundtrack in mind?
One well-known book that links music to the content is Wonder by R.J. Palacio. From Bowie's Space Oddity to Beautiful by Christina Aguilera, the story is punctuated with references that tie in with the storyline, the themes and the emotions of different characters.
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
1. Wonder by Natalie Merchant
2. Space Oddity by David Bowie
3. The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side by The Magnetic Fields
4. Soldier's Joy by Anonymous
5. Beautiful Child by Annie Lennox
6. Beautiful by Christina Aguilera
7. Beautiful Things by Andain
8. Star Wars: The Throne Room Scene by John Williams
9. Canon in D by Pachelbel
10. Under Pressure by Queen
11. Light and Day the Polyphonic Spree
12. Wake Me Up When September Ends
(The Reading Parent: https://www.readingparent.com/reading-at-home/wonder-playlist)
Other authors have written soundtracks after having written the book. Christopher Edge has written blogs that outline songs to play at the start/end of each chapter that help bring the story to life and give the novel further depth. He has also written in The Guardian 'How to create a book soundtrack', which is well worth a read if you'd like to try it yourself. His book The Infinite Lives of Masie Day is one such example.
The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day by Christopher Edge
1. Birthday by The Sugarcubes (Chapter 1)
2. There She Goes, My Beautiful World by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Chapter 1/Chapter 3)
3. If You Don’t Want Me To Destroy You by Super Furry Animals (Chapter 3)
4. Way To Blue by Nick Drake (Chapter 5)
5. Pictures of You by The Cure (Chapter 5)
6. Space and Time by The Verve (Chapter 6)
7. Lazarus by The Boo Radleys (Chapter 7)
8. Black Milk by Massive Attack (Chapter 7)
9. 3 a.m. Eternal (Blue Danube Orbital Mix) by the KLF (remix by The Orb) (Chapter 9)
10. The Private Psychedelic Reel by The Chemical Brothers (Chapter 9)
11. Midnight in a Perfect World by DJ Shadow (Chapter 11)
12. Where Are We Know? by David Bowie (Chapter 11)
13. Infinity by The xx (Chapter 11)
14. Two Months Off by Underworld (Chapter 12)
15. Inbetween Days by The Cure (Chapter 13)
16. Hymn (David McAlmont version) by Ultramarine (Chapter 14)
17. Where The Light Gets In by Primal Scream featuring Sky Ferreira (Chapter 15)
18. Hey Sunrise by The Charlatans (Chapter 16)
After asking authors on Twitter to see if they had music in mind when they wrote a story, it was fascinating to find out how music was often wrapped up in the writing process itself or more consciously entwined within the content of the books. For example, Alistair Chisholm has recently come up with a mixtape of songs to bring his sci-fi novel Orion Lost to life. M.G. Leonard, who was interviewed by Lauren Laverne on BBC 6, created 5 key songs to play for each of her Beetle Boy books. The brilliant book Kick by Mitch Johnson is set in Indonesia, with the lead character Budi stitching football boots for a living. It's only when you look closely, you realise each chapter is named after an Elvis Presley song!
Some authors have an extensive playlist of songs that they listened to whilst writing their books which may have had some influence on (or provide atmosphere to) the novels they have written. Steven Butler has one such playlist which he uses when writing books such as The Nothing to See Here Hotel, which can be heard here. SF Said has also written about his musical influences on the content of his brilliant books Phoenix and Varjak Paw which can be read here.
Novels and songs could easily co-exist and become another tool to help bring a novel to life in the classroom without relying on visuals or TV trickery to do so. It's also a way authors could express themselves further when words can't. Finally, it's a great avenue for exposing children to a range of songs and musicians they otherwise may not have heard. Whilst instrumental music may provide an ambience whilst reading, a playlist of songs before or after chapters may add further meaning or context to help children reflect on what they have read or what they are about to read. Children could listen, then respond about how the music emphasises elements within the book in terms of tempo, dynamics, pulse and rhythm, or how the lyrics to songs complement the character's emotions or add to the storytelling.
Here is a mix of novels that I've found that already have soundtracks. Some I've made myself. They are a mixture of film scores, songs with lyrics, musicals and playlists. Give it a try next time you're reading in class as an extra hook into the book!
BOOK SOUNDTRACKS - The List
Enjoy the music! If you want to make one yourself, I'll gladly add it to the list. Email me at firstname.lastname@example.org. I'll be adding more playlists to books in the coming weeks too, so keep coming back to check!


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Matt Haig’s autobiographical Reasons to Stay Alive is a book which not only details the perils about depression, it also details the aftermath.
When first picking up this book, I have to admit that my main fear was that this book would just be another self-help book. That it would be filled with psychological terms that I would have to Wikipedia. That it would just be somebody else who thought that they knew the real-life experience of living with depression just because they either hold a degree or they have read a newspaper.
Haig’s book details the harrowing rollercoaster that is not only depression but is depression teamed with anxiety. Instead of filling the text with enough psychological jargon then you can shake a stick at, Haig breaks the reality down into honest lists and even more honest thoughts. It seems that nothing is really off the table when it comes to the author’s own experience, but it is evident that Haig understands the complexity of the illness. He discusses how common it is for people to sit and google ‘celebrities with depression’ and even lists some of the most well known public figures who suffered from depression.
Before moving into his section on anxiety, Haig outlines clearly the reasons that anxiety is such a big issue nowadays. Instead of enlisting the reader with a barrage of terms and outdated
For me, Haig’s book is a definite must-have for anybody who is either suffering from depression or has overcome their depression. Not only does Haig offer up an honest depiction of how isolating and terrifying those dark days are, it also reaffirms the truth that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Through fictional conversations with his past self, Haig says those words that all people wish that they could have heard when times are tough.
All in all, Reasons to Stay Alive may actually be one of the best books I have ever read about depression. Haig willingly opens up his own wounds in order to help others by analyzing his own experiences and figuring out the solutions that people need in those hard times.


This month’s book club pick is the graphic novel The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi!
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“Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran’s last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.
Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane’s child’s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love.”
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If you are in the first year of learning to play the oboe, or have a student who is, this is the beginner oboe music I recommend.
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- Technique Books
- Solo Music
- Frequently Asked Questions About Beginner Oboe
The first order of business is learning the basics. The first year will include fingerings, embouchure, breathing, instrument assembly, reed care, and more. Unless the student is transitioning from another instrument, beginner oboe music will need to cover notes, rhythms, key signatures, and basic music theory.
Rubank Elementary Method
This is my go-to book for beginner oboists of all ages and the very first book I recommend. Becasue of the pacing, it is great for both younger students and adults learning the oboe for the first time.
Additionally, there is a fingering chart included in the beginning of the book.
Pars Scales for Oboe
What I love about this scale method book is that the scales are tonic to tonic. While scale books that offer “full range” can be an incredible technique builder later, I find this can be ovewhelming for the beginning oboist.
Each chapter provides a new scale and builds progressivly. The scale is listed at the beginning, with additional exercises in each key.
Oboe Art and Method
This book by Martin Schuring is a must-have for all oboe students. While the information is in-depth and covers all aspects of the oboe, it incredibly helpful to read right away.
Included is information on breathing, embochure, oboe technique, reed selection, reed adjusting, reed making, instrument selection, and more.
Duets are one of my favorite ways to work with beginning oboists of all ages. They provide a comfortable learning enviroment with the security of another instrument. Beginning oboe duets also help the student learn ensemble and listening skills.
Christmas Duet Fun Book for Oboe
A classic for the holidays, this book offers really easy, familiar holiday pieces in duet format that can be played with another oboe or any treble-clef instrument. Enjoyable in lessons, these duets can also be used for fmaily gatherings or as sight-readable music for intermediate students playing gigs.
Beginning Band Fun
What I love about this duet book is how easy the melodies are. This is by far the easiest duet book to start with. The melodies are familiar, the manuscript is extra large, and the book has dozens of songs to work with.
After the beginning oboist has spent some time learning the basics, they can move onto some solo music. Solo repertoire is the next step with beginner oboe music and will challenge them to play on their own, learn phrasing and musicality, and build more endurance.
Concert and Contest Collection
This collection is often used for solo contests. However, it is also a great collection of easy pieces that can be a nice introduction to solo repertoire. The piano accompaniment book can be purchased seperately for students who have the opportunity to play with a piano. I recommend this book if the student is ready to progress past show tunes and familiar melodies.
First 50 Songs You should Play on Oboe
This book can proceed the Concert and Contest Collection as an oboists first solo book. It has a wide range of songs that is sure to include something familiar to everyone. The melodies are very approachable and the familiarity of the tunes will make learning the music easier, while providing something that is fun to play!
These books offer a fun challenge to the beginning oboist who is ready to move onto some solo music, but maybe isn’t interested in the classics, and/or just loves Disney tunes! These beginning oboe music books are also great for students who needs more stimulation in the practice room. The Play Along audio helps build ensemble and listenting skills and keeps things interesting.
Disney Solos for Oboe: Play Along with a Full Sympony Orchestra
This book has 12 familiar Disney pieces and comes with orchestral accompaniment. The easiest of the these books, this book ranges from 0-3 flats. Online audio is available via the link in the Amazon description and in the first page of the book.
Disney Movie Hits for Oboe: Play Along with a Full Symphony Orchestra!
This is an intermediate 12-collection play-along with symphony orchestra. Some of the pieces have up to 5 flats with more complex rhythms. Preview available on Amazon and Audio Access included in the book.
Disney Greats for Oboe
This collection has 15 Disney pieces and comes with Audio Accompianment. Some of the pieces in this book are very easy, while some offer more complex rhythms and key signatures. Preview available on amazon and Audio Acess included in the book.


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My research seeks to better understand processes of adolescent identity development from a psychological anthropology perspective. I bring together anthropology’s insights into how cultural institutions shape the field of potential identities and psychology’s insights into how individuals internalize these identities to construct a self-concept. By looking at both the broader social processes and individual psychological processes, we get a more complete understanding of how identities operate in the world.
I focus on gender identity and moral development from adolescence to early adulthood, a period of the life course often marked by increasingly solidified self-concepts and growing awareness of society’s influence on the self. I explore two main questions:
How do societies construct and reproduce certain identities that individuals can draw upon for making sense of their own lives?
How do individuals take up these identities through processes of socialization and internalization?
My most recent project addresses these questions by looking at how the institution of Buddhist monasticism in northern Thailand mediates boys’ uptake of concepts of morality and masculinity in Thai society.
My recently completed dissertation, “Making Monks, Making Men: The Role of Buddhist Monasticism in Shaping Northern Thai Identities,” draws on two years of ethnographic research with adolescent boys and young men who ordain as Buddhist monks for several years to complete their high school education for free. While monasteries have long been central to Thai boys’ education and moral development, these roles have taken on greater significance in recent years given Thailand’s increasing social and political uncertainty. Social changes have led to concerns over the state of Thai masculinity and boys’ moral development at the same time Thais are questioning the ability of Buddhist monks and monasteries to be models of moral masculinity. I look at the ways in which monasteries socialize boys to be particular kinds of moral men in Thai society. Through in-depth interviews and my own participant-observations while temporarily ordaining as a monk in a rural village, I trace how everyday interactions between young monks and the lay people who financially support them construct the very ideals of masculinity and morality the young monks are supposed to be internalizing.
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- Focus groups
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The Department of Science and Technology Region 1 (DOST 1), through its Science and Technology Learning Resource Center (S&T LRC), presents Science and Technology Academic and Research-Based Openly Operated KioskS (STARBOOKS) to the teachers of Vintar National High School through a virtual orientation on September 9, 2022.
Developed by Science and Technology Information Institute (DOST-STII), Science and Technology Academic Research Based Openly Operated KioskS or STARBOOKS is a standalone information kiosk which contains thousands of digitized science and technology resources sourced-out from DOST’s local and foreign linkages, subscription, archive collections and in-house publications in various formats (text and video/audio) set in a very user-friendly interface and can be accessed without internet connection.
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Engr. Benjamin S. Mercado Jr., the Provincial Director of the DOST 1’s Provincial Science and Technology Office of Ilocos Norte (DOST 1-PSTO-IN), gave a brief information about STARBOOKS. He stated that this will help increase the numbers of students enrolling in S&T courses. Meanwhile, Ms. Mary Ann C. Belen, Project Assistant II of the DOST 1 S&T LRC, discussed the features of STARBOOKS as well as its proper use and navigation.
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Shailendra Singh, an urban designer by profession, is an avid artist who has been actively involved with freelance cartooning and illustrating since 1997. His first published book as an illustrator was in 1998 when his sketches formed part of the narrative for ‘The Femina Book of Absolute Beauty’ by authors Pratima Raichur and Marian Cohn. He has cartooned for the local editions of two very reputed Indian newspapers- ‘The Times of India’ and ‘The Indian Express’ and has also been published in ‘Inside-Outside’, an architectural and interior design magazine in India. Here in USA, he has illustrated for the North American edition of 'The Indian Express' on issues addressing lifestyles of the Indian Diaspora in America. Effectively using his skills in sketching and the knowledge of architecture and planning, Singh has also freelanced as the official cartoonist for ‘The New Towns’ magazine, a renowned publication on traditional neighborhoods, since 2000. His illustrations that reflect urban planning issues in provocative but hilarious scenarios have since been widely appreciated and even used by other planning professionals for their own presentations.
Brought up on some of the most endearing stories that exist within the pantheon of tales from India and having a childhood love for reading comics, Shailendra’s true passion has always been sketching, illustrating and cartooning. His career and training in architecture has further exposed him to the art of telling a visual story through design and graphics. All of these being the reasons that easily conspired for him to try and bring this story to a wider audience.
The graphic novel, all to be written, penciled, inked, and lettered by Singh himself, would be comprised of roughly 144 pages and is targeted for young adults and mature readers.


Set in South Africa at the time of the discovery of diamonds, no-one could foresee the devastation and misery the colourless gems would unleash on the continent.
For many years, Mpande, half-brother of the great King Shaka, had kept the British forces south of the Tugela River and the Boers north of the Ukhahlamba (Drakensburg) mountains. Backed by forty thousand disciplined warriors, his people were secure and at peace.
Curious about the white man and their obsession with the valueless white stones at Kimberley, the king orders Mapitha of the Ndwandwe clan to investigate and report back. For three years Mapitha and his two companions, risk life and limb for his people and the Zulu King, only to learn that Mpande has died and has been succeeded by his son Cetshwayo.
Lacking his father’s wisdom, Cetshwayo falls for the duplicitous lies of Sir Theophilus Shepstone, self-styled ‘white father of the Zulu people,’ sparking off a war between the Zulu and the British invader. The Zulus achieve a great victory at Isandlwana but the destiny of the Cetshwayo’s people lies ahead at Ulundi.
The last battle looms and there will be only one outcome – freedom or death.
Rough Diamonds is another page-turning adventure that takes you into the heart and soul of South Africa and its people.
Rough Diamonds is a great read. It is full of interesting characters and crazy adventures. If only I had history lessons like that at school.......


Cornelius Ryan was an Irish journalist and author well known for writing about World War II military history. His most famous books were “The Longest Day” about the June 6th, 1944 D-Day landings in Normandy; “The Last Battle” about the Battle of Berlin, and “A Bridge Too Far” about the ill-fated invasion of the Netherlands called Operation Market Garden. The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far were made into major motion pictures.
Ryan researched his books in large part by interviewing and corresponding with participants in those battles. One of these individuals was Herbert Jeffery Buffalo Boy Jr. of Fort Yates, North Dakota. Herbert served as Staff Sergeant with the 82nd Airborne Division and was one of a limited number of elite Airborne members involved in four combat jumps and one of only a few Native Americans earning the Four-Star Airborne Veteran honor.
Another Four-Star Airborne Veteran was Brigadier General James Gavin, the only General in history to make 4 combat jumps. General Gavin commanded the 82nd Airborne and Buffalo Boy and Gavin knew each other personally. Herbert Buffalo Boy made combat jumps at Sicily and Salerno in Italy; Normandy in France during the D-Day landings and in the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden. His jumps were made from a C-47, the military version of the DC-3. He carried 125 to 150 pounds of gear and was expected to engage the enemy as soon as he reached the ground. Herbert was well thought of in his unit and known for his bravery and fighting ability, having continued to fight, even after being wounded several times. He at one time was the most decorated Native American from North Dakota.
After also serving in Korea, Herbert came home to North Dakota, farmed and ranched, married, and had 5 children. One of his sons, Robert, continued his dad’s legacy, serving 2 tours in Vietnam and coming home a decorated veteran.
Over the years, Herbert participated in many ceremonies and activities sponsored by the American Legion, including a turn as Commander of the Albert Grass Post in Fort Yates. He passed away in 1984.


HEALTHY MODERN HYOUMAN
Volume 1 (A)
This is not just another health book…
In fact, this book was researched and written as no other health book ever has been. The author has traversed the entire landscape of medicine, modern society, and how to carve out a healthy life from an otherwise toxic world. He climbed every mountain, forged every sea, entered every valley, and even far off caves – mining knowledge nuggets and unearthing a treasure trove of heretofore, unconnected information, understandings, and wisdom.
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World economy: Transformations & transitions
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Road to the Revolution: A Study of the Causes of the Revolutionalry War
"Our properties within our own territories should not be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own."
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1774
Something must have happened during the life of Thomas Jefferson in order for him and other patriots to feel such strong emotion towards England and strive for freedom. During this webquest, you will be exploring the causes of the Revolutionary War and how why these events created such strong feelings against England in America.


Ronald Winter joined Michael J. London & Associates as a Senior Account Executive in 2001 and was named a Director of MJL&A in 2005.Before joining the firm, Winter was Director of Public Information for the Florida Department of Transportation in the Tampa Bay region.
For 10 years he was a reporter at The Hartford Courant and then, for seven years, was supervising editor and a columnist at the Manchester-based Journal Inquirer. Winter owned and operated the event management firm Coordination Plus for nearly 10 years.
Winter has received several prestigious journalism awards including the Roy W. Howard Award, the Sevellon Brown Award, Sigma Delta Chi Public Service Award, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Ron Winter – Vietnam ’68
As a Marine, Winter flew 300 combat missions as a helicopter machine gunner and was awarded numerous decorations including the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry and 15 Air Medals. He is author of a Vietnam War memoir, Masters of The Art.
Winter holds a degree in electrical engineering from Hartford State Technical College and B.A. in English from the University of New Haven. He is married and has three children.
Click here to read Winter’s blog: www.RonaldWinterbooks.com/blog/
Masters of the Art is an historically accurate account of US Marine helicopter operations in the area of the Demilitarized Zone and the Laotian border during the Vietnam War.
The book, published by Random House, provides a compelling view of Marine training, the heroics of individual Marine pilots and crews, and the aftermath of a war in which the fighters, like out South Vietnamese allies were abandoned by their government.
Granny Snatching is the true account of the late Ella Winter’s successful fight to prevent her offspring from forcing her into an Alzheimer’s home, even though she never had Alzheimer’s.
Ella, who took refuge in her son Ronald’s home in Connecticut and lived out her final years in safety, despite repeated assaults on her freedom, symbolizes the growing national scourge, Granny Snatching, in which the elderly are forced into institutions against their will while unscrupulous family members and guardians strip them of their hard-earned lifetime assets.


The first is a book called “Flexible Circuit Technology” written by Joe Fjelstad. It is available at www.FlexibleCircuitTechnology.com, or by clicking on the picture to the right.
Saturn PCB Design, Inc. has produced an electronic designers toolkit, with many helpful features built in, including impedance modeling.You can get your copy for free here.
The IPC has a guide to help you design rigid flex and multilayer flexible circuits. It is called IPC 2223 – Sectional Design Standard for Flexible Printed Boards. You can purchase a copy for download here.


The Dark Secrets of Oliveto by Stefano A. Giovannoni is a YA paranormal story. Oliveto is a small town, but it’s not a quiet one. Enchantments and spells are the order of the day for some residents, but there’s a problem—the fairy community is disappearing, abducted one by one. Nico comes home from college with Sofia, his best friend, when a death in the family occurs. It was no ordinary death. Nico claims to know nothing of the magical world of Oliveto when he and Sofia are thrust into an extraordinary adventure. They need to solve the secrets of Oliveto before any more fairies are taken, but can they do it in time? The clues are there; they just need to follow them.
The Dark Secrets of Oliveto by Stefano A. Giovannoni is a fascinating, exciting read with great attention to detail. The characters were a little different from what you usually find in this genre, which made this story unique. They were well developed, and while you may not take to them, to begin with, I guarantee that will soon change the deeper you get into the story. If you like the YA genre, this book will enthrall you and keep you reading. There is plenty of action, suspense, and a few twists and turns to keep you guessing. As the first book by this author, it’s an amazing story, well written and easy to read, and I hope there will be a sequel soon. This is a fun story, and it will keep you busy for a few hours as you disappear into the fascinating world of Oliveto. Highly recommended for fans of YA adventure and spooky stories.


Myst is an adventure/puzzle game for the CD-i. It is in first-person. The player moves by clicking on locations. There is a "Zip Feature" that lets the player move quickly but might miss important items and clues. The player explores the island called Myst. The player finds clues so the player can be transported to other Ages. The player must solve puzzles. There are no enemys or can the player DIE.
The game's instruction manual explains that an unnamed person known as the Stranger stumbles across an unusual book titled "Myst". The Stranger reads the book and discovers a detailed description of an island world. Placing his hand on the last page, the Stranger is whisked away to the world described, and is left with no choice but to explore; the player then gains control and is allowed to wander the new surroundings.
Myst, the island world described in the book, contains a library where two additional books can be found, colored red and blue. These books are traps which hold Sirrus and Achenar, the sons of Atrus, who lives on Myst island with his wife Catherine. Atrus uses an ancient practice to write special "linking books", which transport people to the worlds, or "Ages", that the books describe. From the panels of their books, Sirrus and Achenar tell the Stranger that Atrus is dead, each claiming that their brother murdered him, and plead for the Stranger to help them escape. However, the books are missing several pages, so the sons' messages are at first riddled with static and unclear.
As the Stranger continues to explore the island, more books are discovered hidden behind complex mechanisms and puzzles. There are four books in total, each linking to a different Age. The Stranger must visit each Age, find the red and blue pages hidden there, and then return to Myst Island. These pages can then be placed in the corresponding books. As the Stranger adds more pages to these books, the brothers can speak more and more clearly. Throughout this process, each brother maintains that the other brother cannot be trusted. After collecting four pages, the brothers can talk clearly enough to tell the Stranger where the fifth page is hidden. If the Stranger gives either brother their fifth page, they will be free. The Stranger is left with a choice to help Sirrus, Achenar, or neither.
Both brothers beg the Stranger not to touch the green book that is stored in the same location as their last pages. They claim that it is a book like their own that will trap the Stranger. In truth, it leads to D'ni, where Atrus is imprisoned. Upon opening the book, Atrus asks the Stranger to bring him a final page that is hidden on Myst Island; without it, he cannot bring his sons to justice.
The game has several endings, depending on the player's actions. Giving either Sirrus or Achenar the final page of their book causes the Stranger to switch places with the son, leaving the player trapped inside the Prison book. Linking to D'ni without the page Atrus asks for leaves both the Stranger and Atrus trapped on D'ni. Linking to D'ni with the page allows Atrus to complete his Myst book and return to the island. Upon returning to the library, the red and blue books are gone, and there are burn marks on the shelves where they used to be.
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List of all OSRI related papers
- Dissertation: A Study of Frameworks for Collectively Meeting the Productivity, Portability, and Adoptability Goals for Parallel Software This PhD Dissertation was published in 2011 by Sean Halle. It explains the problem being solved by parallelism research, and introduces new computation models as a basis for understanding parallel computation. The next-to-last 2 chapters cover the VMS proto-runtime approach. Chapters 6 and 7 are related to the model, and chapter 8 is the first publication of the basic elements of the model. 2, 3, and 4 are useful for understanding the base for the portability infrastructure.
- Support for the Collective Effort Towards Portable Performance The first paper published that mentions VMS, in HotPar 2011. It is a position paper arguing for a segment-wide infrastructure to support portability. VMS is mentioned as a candidate to base this on.
- A Mutable Hardware Abstraction to Replace Threads The first paper to give a detailed specification of VMS, in LCPC 2011. It gives technical depth and early measurements of time to create a plugin, VMS overhead, and performance comparisons.
- Integrated Performance Tuning Using Semantic Information Collected by Instrumenting the Language Runtime The first paper that mentions the basic parallel computation model, in the context of using it as a tool to gain insight while performance tuning applications. It takes a long time to load in the browser because the figures use real data collected during a run, and the pdf is 10 MB, so patience is needed ; )
- The DKU Pattern for Performance Portable Parallelism The first paper submitted for publication on the DKU pattern, submitted to EuroPar09. It provides an introduction to the DKU pattern and relevant background. It also describes BLIS, the automated infrastructure that specializes a single source bundle to multiple hardware platforms.
- PStack summary Summarizes the PStack approach, and includes measurements of proto-runtime versus Linux threads.
- A 5-page description of the project proposal submitted to the EU commission to develop the portability stack for parallel software.
- HWSim reference manual Gives an introduction, the philosophy (structure) of the language, and a list of constructs and how to use them
- Position: It Is Better to Support Runtime Systems than Individual Parallelism Constructs Gives reasons why runtime support is better than hardwiring individual parallelism constructs, and introduces architecture concepts for communications, memory models, and address spaces driven by results from the computation model and the language research.


Finding Joy in Depression-Review
For those who have been suffering silently, I pray that sharing my story
opens the door for you to face your depression~Amanda Pelser
Recently I was blessed by the opportunity to read Amanda Pelser’s book, Finding Joy in Depression, an encouraging account of her journey through a disorder in which many suffer. This two part book first uncovers what depression is and the struggles experienced mentally, physically, and spiritually. The second part illustrates how she cared for herself, suggestions that may benefit anyone who is struggling with this.
Depression afflicts countless people and occurs in different forms from fairly minor to extreme. Included in the book is a list of symptoms that will perhaps help you in determining if you suffer from this illness and need assistance. All too often though, like Amanda, many go on for years living in denial, fear of condemnation, and just not knowing what to do or how to handle these issues.
As demonstrated in the author’s inspirational story, it is possible to move forward and minimize the effects of this condition. Recognizing triggers that make it worse, adjusting daily routines, and taking a look at eating habits are just a few of the strategies that may be used in initiating the process of healing.
After reading Amanda’s narrative I was compelled to learn more not only for myself, but for others around me. It revealed that there is hope to be had, help to be found, and joy to feel in the midst of depression! Won’t you join her in walking the road to recovery? Click here to view more details


(2006, Atria Books)
Elayna Leopold, 35, lives with her young family in suburban New Jersey, working from home so that she can raise her daughter, Hazel, while her husband, Paul, puts in long hours as a corporate lawyer. Elayna is typical of women who spend their twenties chasing dreams in the city only to spend their thirties chasing children in the suburbs. And yet, no one knows better than she that life can change in an instant. Two years ago her infant son died, sending her into a depression from which she is just emerging, and Elayna finds herself suddenly—thrillingly—craving life's passions again. When she meets Kevin, a young artist with whom she spends more and more time during Paul's absences, Elayna discovers a version of herself she thought was gone forever. As she uncovers yearnings that could destroy everything she cherishes, a threat to Hazel emerges, making Elayna's choices and decisions that much more loaded and terrifying.
A dangerous novel of attachments and adultery, of marital crisis, sexual tension, and one woman's struggle to reconcile her needs and desires with her loves and obligations, Sweet Ruin raises heartrending questions about the challenges of everyday life.
Read Chapter One of Sweet Ruin
Praise and Reviews:
"Hanauer has a poet's eye for detail and a spot-on sense of the specifics of mothering in the suburbs....a compulsively readable story of [Elayna's] awakening"
--Elle (Read Full Review)
"Hazel is one of the best-written children in recent fiction...Hanauer skillfully handles the gray areas of emotional incest in all its weird permutations."
"Moral issues great and small laced with hot sex scenes...make Sweet Ruin a fine poolside choice for thinking moms."
--New York Newsday
"...a slow burn that bursts into a page-turner."
"...sex, suburbia, kids and career are still themes mined by [Hanauer]...but this time she weaves a tale full of drama and tough decisions."
"The suburbs never seemed as sexy as they do in this suspenseful story...."
"Excellent characterizations...[and] dialogue and the spot-on representation of the family dynamic make this book difficult to put down. One keeps waiting for something horrific to happen, but instead the story builds slowly and plausibly. What happens is subtle and ambiguous—as in real life."
--Publisher's Weekly, March 20, 2006
"Skillfully imagined, bittersweet portrait of marriage and
sacrifice...Bravely tackl[es] the complexity of sexual life."
"Given Hanauer's keen perceptions and delicate sensitivity, one cannot help
but acutely feel the emotional and moral turmoil that engulf this winsome
young wife and mother."
"As observant about family life as it is about love and sexual longing. I really didn't want it to end."
--Meg Wolitzer, author of The Position and The Wife
"Cathi Hanauer has perfectly captured the subtleties and nuances of contemporary, suburban motherhood...she has created a character so real, so flawed, so sympathetic, and so familiar...I kept hearing her voice in my head for days after I finished this book."
--Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Mothers
"Sweet Ruin is a juicy, delectable novel, with pitch-perfect dialogue and
characters that leap to fascinating life; every scene unfolds with complexly
intertwined sexual suspense and emotional resonance."
--Kate Christensen, author of The Epicure's Lament
"Cathi Hanauer's wise and generous new novel takes as its subject the loss of a child, the difficulties of marriage and the wages of adultery, but winds up being about nothing less than the miracle—and yes perils—of what it means to be truly alive. It's completely irresistable; be prepared to stay up late."
--Karen Karbo, author of Motherhood Made a Man out of Me


Neuman Documentary to Premiere at College of the Atlantic
Join College of the Atlantic for the premiere of a new film about modernist artist Robert S. Neuman (1926-2015). Pieces of the World: The Art and Life of Robert S. Neuman gathers in-person interviews with scholars, family, and friends, archival and personal photographs, and images of numerous artworks to create an intimate and compelling portrait of the longtime Mount Desert Island summer resident.
The showing takes place in the Davis Center for Human Ecology on Wednesday, August 3, at 5 p.m., and is accompanied by an exhibition of Neuman’s artwork and archival photographs that runs until September 4, also in the Davis center.
Neuman embraced the tenets of modernism early in his career and devoted the remaining seven decades of his life to an exploration of modernism’s visual essentials — an exploration infused with abstract, symbolic and occasionally overt references to places and people familiar to the artist. The film tracks Neuman’s early commercial success with Pace Gallery and Allan Stone Gallery and his efforts to balance his studio practice with teaching appointments at institutions including Brown, Harvard, and, eventually, Keene State College, where he retired as chair of the art department.
The film also looks at Neuman’s personal life: interviews with family members, friends, and colleagues reveal his long connection to Mount Desert Island, where he spent summers for nearly 50 years, his combined sensitivity and drive, and his ability to tell a humorous story at his own expense.
The film was produced by the Estate of Robert S. Neuman, with underwriting from Keene State College. It was written and narrated by Brian Wallace, curator of the David Sarnoff Collection at the College of New Jersey and assistant professor of Visual Communication at Landmark College. Eric Stewart managed post-production and editing. Former Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery educator Shari Osborn provided the film concept and initial interviews, and Anna O’Brien (Keene State College Class of 2020) was a contributing editor.
A young Army veteran and illustrator hailing from Kellogg, Idaho, Neuman was — as he admits in the film — shocked by the West Coast abstraction he saw upon his arrival in postwar Bay Area California to attend college. Rather than turning away, he quickly embraced these challenges, arranging to study with leading émigré proponents of modernism and traveling to Europe with the support of Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships to explore the movement’s roots.
Adopting a serial approach to his art practice, Neuman sought to define and resolve artistic contradictions in successive bodies of work — groups of paintings, drawings, or prints that sometimes extended over decades. The film includes footage of artists, collectors, and scholars describing Neuman working on multiple paintings simultaneously as he searched for related but unique visual solutions to the formal and material questions that so preoccupied him. Over time, as interviews and artworks included in the film reveal, Neuman’s works incorporated emblems of — and overt references to — places and people the artist had encountered. Neuman was verbally cagey about his artistic philosophy — he used humor to deflect questions and looked to his artwork to give answers — but he does express great respect for the capacity to create what he described as personalized abstraction.
Pieces of the World: The Art and Life of Robert S. Neuman brings together a range of voices to create an appropriately complex picture of an artist who used the language of a global art movement to explore uniquely personal concerns.
College of the Atlantic’s annual summer event series, including Coffee & Conversations, lectures, screenings, and Summer Institute, offers free presentations, salons, and art from July through early September. The summer series is underwritten by the College of the Atlantic Champlain Society. This event is open to the public; registration is not required. Learn more at coa.edu.


By Ralph Harbison
One day, the king died and his son took over. As time went by, the son lost more and more contact with the outside world. Gradually, the son was so insulated and isolated that the only people who he spoke to were his advisors and puppets.
Mr. UAB 1994
He was out of touch and tone-deaf to the world around him. Some distance away, farther in mentality than miles, the colony started by the kingdom was in a state. Over time, the colony had pushed its limits and tried to force more and more freedom from the old country.
As the upstart colonialists pressed for more, the king, unable to understand why they wanted to be different and afraid to lose the money the colony generated, struck back. With force, the king imposed his will upon the colonials, never once facing them himself or answering directly for why.
Finally, the colonials were DONE. A small group of them decided it was time for a change, and they started the process of gaining freedom from the unjust kingdom.
Care to guess where and when this story happened?
1776. American Colonies of England.
But, I cannot help if it sounds much like the #FreeUAB story. In fact, it is a little too much like the #FreeUAB story.
So, please, this Independence Day, as you reflect upon that group in 1776 who made the decision that it was better to die taking a stand than it was it live on your knees, ask yourself what you are willing to sacrifice to end oppression in your own world.


Today is the time to add a blog article. This weekend I attended a vendor event, because a gal from church wrote a book and I wanted to support her and buy one. I thought, wow, to write a book. I have a hard time keeping up with the blog, obviously. So here I am, blogging. The book she wrote is in a genre I have not read, at least in my adult life. I will try and read it soon, so when I see her at church, I can give her an honest assessment. I usually read motivational books, and books that will teach me something. I don't very often read for pleasure. My Mom was a librarian and she would suggest books for me to read for enjoyment, and would check them out again so I could keep them and not pay overdue fines. That was about as much of a rebel as Mom was. Me on the other hand, well...we will just leave it at that. Until next time.


Author, Librarian, and Community Educator.
If I’m not writing at home, or working at Coastal Alabama Community College, you will find me talking about, reading, or listening to stories about Fairhope. I’m a student of all things Fairhope, from the founders to the flowers. After a recent drive around the city, I realized that in the hurry up day-to-day, we either forget why we moved to Fairhope, or just realized there was something different and unique about the place that attracted you. If you’re a visitor looking for it, if you’ve lost it, or if it’s fading, my goal is to bring you a new perspective about Fairhope, it’s history, culture and people. I want to be a bridge between the founders and her new residents. If you lived here yesterday, or if you’re just visiting, you’re part of Fairhope history.
Curious about Fairhope architecture, buy a copy of Alan’s book, Clay City Tile: Frank Brown and the Company that Built Fairhope. Curious about Alan, and really with that leg, how can you not be, buy Stump the Librarian: A Writer’s Book of Legs, a memoir and history of amputees for teens and adults. Books will be available to purchase after the tour.
Alan’s first job in Alabama was writing for the Fairhope Courier. He even earned a Mobile Press Club Award. While obtaining degrees in communication, creative writing (Master of Fine Arts), and librarianship (Master of Library and Information Studies), he volunteered at the Fairhope Museum of History and worked part-time at the Fairhope Public Library. He served briefly as the Fairhope Museum of History director. Part of the gig economy, Alan is a part time librarian, free-lance writer, and walking tour guide.
Alan is a licensed substitute with Baldwin County Public Schools and he holds a Distance Education Certification from Coastal Alabama Community College.


Over the past several years, I have developed syllabuses for several interdisciplinary courses, which are linked below. Click on the images below to access the detailed syllabuses.
TAUGHT 2015-16 AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
ANCIENT MYTH: EAST AND WEST
The mead-producing goat Heidrun eating near Valhalla in Asgard. From the 18th century Icelandic manuscript SÁM 66 in the care of the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland.
ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE
GREEK AND ROMAN EPICS
Aeneas and Dido at Carthage. Folio 13r of the Vatican Vergil (Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3225)


It’s Black History Month – an opportunity to honor and learn about the achievements of black people, from activists to inventors – and we at Free to Be Kids want to share some of our favorite resources for helping kids learn about the African-American experience. Kids of color deserve to see awesome role models that look like them, and white kids need to see awesome role models that don't. Fighting racism and unconscious bias starts in the home, so let's do this, y'all.
First of all, we’ll be sprinkling a little black history into every package for the rest of February with some help from these awesome Black History Flash Cards from Urban Intellectuals. (We have no marketing relationship with this company; we just think they’re awesome.) We bought several decks of their flashcards and will be dropping one card into each order. So when you open your package of cute shirts you’ll also have a conversation starter! Each night my kids and I are choosing two cards from the deck and reading them along with our bedtime story. Last night we learned about Malcolm X and Bessie Coleman, and they’re already pretty excited to see who we’ll get tonight. Who knew cards were so much more exciting than books?
For the resources that follow below, we tried -- as we try with our own kids-- to keep it balanced between an emphasis on “the struggle” and “firsts” and celebrations of art, music, and cultural traditions. If you have any recommendations, or things that worked well with your kids, please leave them in the comments!
PBS Kids African-American World for Kids: Find the Face
Kids play online, or print out cards (we think printing is more fun!) and match famous African-Americans to events associated with them. This is a great game, and a great way for them to learn about Black history without feeling like it’s an artificial slog, or a detour from their regular learning. The site also includes e-cards kids can send -- including one of Malcolm X. Rock on, PBS!
Poems to Celebrate Black History Month
I don’t know about your kids, but our kids LOVE when we read them poetry and take the time to talk about it with them. They may be small, but they can understand more than you know, and they love to let the rhythms wash over them. So often the notion of “Black History” gets subsumed into a narrative from slaveships to I-Have-A-Dream, with stops for special heroes like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman in between. This is so much more than that. Yes, these poems discuss the struggle. But they also discuss the extraordinary in the ordinariness of the Black experience, for example, in Kevin Young’s “Eddie Priest’s Barbershop and Notary.” You’ll want to linger on this page forever as a parent. “Miz Rosa Rides the Bus” is beautiful, and a good place to talk about both Rosa Parks, Jim Crow, and metaphor. They won’t quite get it. That’s okay. They'll hear it, and they will remember.
If you get nothing else off this list, if you read nothing else or listen to nothing else (though please go read some poetry!), check out “The Art of Invention” by Jair Dynst, a 3-minute rap video that tells kids about some important African-American inventors. Its chorus? “We invented rock and roll/ And we gave ‘em blues and soul/ But these inventions you didn’t know/ That we made ‘em possible.”
Other things on the site include video round-ups of inventors, videos of individual inventors, from the popular to the little-known, and and a searchable database. Pure awesome.
Itty-bitties will LOVE to play with the jazz mixer, which lets them fade different instruments in and out of three jazz songs (our fav is “When the Saints Go Marchin’ In”), thereby understanding the importance of the instruments and how they all work together to create the song. Older kids will appreciate the jazz timeline that -- scroll down on the history, don’t click on the links under the timeline, which will take you to their shop -- includes samples of each subgenre. The map is fun too, though it doesn’t include too many places and is a bit hard to learn to use. We’re mostly there for the mixer and the timeline with samples.
National Geographic Activity: How Slaves Found Their Way North
This is a classroom lesson, but you can adapt it for the home. They give you all the resources you need, from links to how quilts were used to clue-in fugitive and would-be fugitive slave to dangers and things they needed to know to get to freedom, to a worksheet that shows routes of the underground railroad. It’s geared towards kids in grades 1-2. Plus, you make a paper “quilt” at the end (out of markers and construction paper and presumably, staples or tape because no one has time to glue that stuff).
First and foremost, visit your local library and you're sure to find a wealth of treasures. In February any library worth its salt should have plenty of biographies of awesome black people and other books about the African American experience faced out on its shelves (if they don't, please ask why). You should find a wealth of goodness.
Aside from that, here are a few we love.
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Ellen Levine, rec. 6+)
This book tells the story of Henry “Box” Brown, a Richmond man who literally mailed himself to freedom in Philadelphia.
Little Melba and her Big Trombone
Melba Liston was a jazz pioneer who traveled the country with some of the best players in the nation starting when she was just a teenager, and ended up arranging music and fronting her own band. This biography is beautifully illustrated and is one of my kids' favorite books at any time of year.
Whoever You Are (Mem Fox, rec. 4+)
Says Family Education, “Mem Fox tells little ones that wherever they are, whatever they look like, and no matter their customs, there are other kids like them all around the globe: "Joys are the same, and love is the same. Pain is the same, and blood is the same." Not explicitly about Black History Month, but a great message all the same that resonates with the themes implicit in it.
Whoosh - Lonnie Johnson's Stream of Super-Soaking Invention (Chris Barton)
Have African American inventors invented things a lot more valuable to society? Yes. But what do you think your kids will find cooler: fiber optic cable, the pacemaker, VoIP technology, or the super soaker? We're going with the Super Soaker. My son brought this book home from school last year and believe me, he would not be nearly as impressed by the story of the first pacemaker.
Follow the Drinking Gourd (Jeannette Winter, rec. 6+)
This book tells of the ways slaves would escape their bondage and get to freedom, sometimes literally by “following the drinking gourd” -- i.e., the North Star. It’s a must-pair with the Underground Railroad activity listed above.
Nappy Hair (Carolivia Heron, rec. 4+)
Told in traditional call and response, this book tells the story about Brenda’s “knotted-up, twisty, nappy hair” and how it got to be that way. Celebrates African-American diversity, pride, and encourages kids to see beauty in those who may be different from them.
What are your favorite Black History Month resources? Tell us in the comments!


FORT ERIE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Fort Erie Public Library
CEO Craig Shufelt stated, “We want to make it into the place to go, the place to be.”
The Fort Erie Library had been built in 1967 and not updated for forty years. The new concept needed to reflect the evolution of modern libraries from simple book repositories to gathering places for the community.
As interior designers and space planners, we developed an entrance space plan and functional service counter design including a lounge area for reading at the front window area with carrels. The new space plan accommodates people with mobility issues. The changes included all new furniture, carpeting, booth seating in some areas and a revamped children’s area with more space throughout the branch. When the design concepts were complete, we prepared construction drawings, assisted in the review of construction bids and supervised construction.


What is NLoad?
NLoad is an open source performance and load testing framework for .NET used for testing Websites, WCF Services or small bits of code to identify and eliminate bottlenecks at an early stage of development.
To get started please read the Getting Started guide for instructions on using NLoad in your projects.
Easy to use
Simply install a NuGet package and start load testing
Customize load tests to your needs
Configure load tests using a simple Fluent API
Do you have feature requests, questions or would you like to report a bug? Please post them on the Issue List.
Any contribution is greatly appreciated. Simply fork NLoad repository on GitHub and create a pull request.
NLoad is a free and open source software, licensed under the terms of Apache 2.0 license.


Spin Sucks By Gini Dietrich
You can try and mimic what others are doing but until you actually do it you’re not going to be good at it.”, says Gini Dietrich. The book will teach you how to communicate honestly, responsibly, openly, and authentically, and truly earn the trust of your customers, stakeholders, investors, and communities.
Digital Media and Society By Simon Lindgren
This is a must-have resource for all the people of the digital society. The book provides the tools from digital ethnography, social network analysis and text-mining, to guidance on digital ethics and mixing methods. This book also covers the topic of the impact of data, software and mobile technology
Tribes – We Need You to Lead Us By Seth Godin
This book beautifully explains how humans have an inherent tendency to form groups and communities. These communities follow an idea and a leader. The Internet has eliminated the barriers of geography, cost, and time. The digital platforms of today have enabled more and more such groups and communities to be formed.


The Dailymotion experience is composed of three main sections:
- For You: A personalised feed populated with content from the channels you follow as well as recommendations based on your viewing habits. In this space you'll find all the latest videos that are uploaded by the channels you follow.
- Explore: A space where you can discover more popular, trending content as well as videos recommended by our editorial teams.
- Library: A dedicated space where you can easily find and manage the content that you interact with - Watch Later list, Subscriptions, Synced Videos, your Playlists etc. The Library sections also provides access to your account settings and preference center on mobile apps.


It’s a fact. I have an unhealthy relationship with my community library. I love it, with every ounce of my being. I can spend all day inside it’s loving arms.
Before I had kids, I would go there and spend hours. I would open up books, read a little bit and either slide them back into place, annoyed, or I would excitedly add them to my stack of take-homes. Back then I would read biographies such as Madam Secretary: A Biography of Madeleine Albright*, or historical fiction, such as The Queens Fool by Philippa Gregory. I read books about Wal-Mart, and it’s effect on the global economy; I read books about the future of food; I read books on web design – whatever tooted my horn at that moment. But the most life altering book I got a hold of was called Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health, by Toni Weschler. This book started what is now a long distance relationship with my library.
With the knowledge I gained from this book, I was able to become pregnant after suffering my first miscarriage. Sure, I endured several more after that but this book taught me the realities of the ordeal and kept me on track. It changed my life.
Now I have two kids. Instead of spending hours at the library, I spend minutes reserving books so that some nice librarian can place them in a single spot for me to swoop up and check out in a flash – with or without my kids. Instead of biographies about political figures or sappy romance novels, I pick books about child development, brain games and nutrition.
I love that when I come upon a subject that I am only mildly curious about, I can jump on my library’s website, find and reserve a book, whenever I want to. Some might call me a nerd for this, but I prefer to be labeled as an informed mother who wants to do the best for her kids.
Just for grins, here’s a list of books that I currently have checked out from the library:
- Absolutely Organized: A Mom’s Guide to a No-Stress Schedule and Clutter-Free Home, by Debbie Lillard
- Frozen Assets Lite and Easy: Cook for a Day, Eat for a Month, by Deborah Taylor-Hough
- The Best Homemade Baby Food on the Planet, by Karin Knight, R.N., and Tina Ruggiero, M.S., R.D., L.D.
- Starting Solids: The essential guide to your baby’s first foods, by Annabel Karmel
- No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog, by Margaret Mason
- WordPress Web Design for Dummies,by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
…and I’ve got a couple more just waiting for me to scoop them up. If this makes me a nerd then hand me the pocket protector and retractable pens, please.
*As a side note, this book introduced me to the name “Adlai”, as in Adlai Stevenson, for whom Albright volunteered during his presidential candidacy during the 1950′s. I thought it was pronounced Ad-a-LEYE (rhyming with “eye” at the end), and loved the name so much that it went on my girl’s baby name list. It’s actually pronounced Ad-a-lay. Now you know.


Presentation and defence of the bill authorising the President of the Republic to
ratify the Marrakech Treaty aiming at facilitating access to published documents for the blind, the visually impaired and persons with other print reading difficulties. This was on March 24, 2021 before the Foreign Affairs Committee. The Minister of Social Affairs, Pauline Irène Nguene, presented to the members of the said body the difficulties faced by thousands of visually impaired persons to have access to books and other printed texts.
The ratification by Cameroon of the Marrakech Treaty, which provides an exception, an attenuation of copyright, should open up new perspectives in favour of the blind, the visually impaired and other persons with reading difficulties.


The 1st Maccabiah was a dream come true. The 2nd one had to deliver on the promise of that dream and prove there is substance to the claim that Jews can be great athletes and can stand on their own merit. 1350 athletes came to the 2nd Maccabiah, more than 3 fold increase from the 1st one in 1932. Many of them actually stayed on in Israel, bypassing the British immigration limits and saving themselves from the horrors of WWII and the Holocaust. This is the cover of the 2nd Maccabiah handbook – which included a speech by Meir Dizengoff, Tel Aviv Mayor as well as summary diaries of the 1st Maccabiah events. The handbook includes an article about the Haavara company that was dedicated to saving Jewish fortune from Nazi Germany – this is a great example of how much the fate of Germany’s Jews was at the center of the 2nd Maccabiah event.


What is Banned Books Week?
Banned Books Week was Sept. 24 to Oct. 1. Several of the teachers have expressive ideas on the controversy that is Banned Books Week.
Higher authorities, sometimes teachers, have banned books. Adolph Hitler began to ban books for public reading due to the controversy these books created. This was a way for the Nazis in Germany to control the ideas of the public. Since Hitler, several books have been banned by governments, such as the communist governments, in the same attempt to withhold some of the ideas contained in these books.
“It brings attention to the fact we do have freedom of speech,” school librarian Sharon Holder said, “and when we challenge that, it goes against everything our country is built on… Just because it’s controversial doesn’t make it wrong.”
BBW was begun by the Office of Intellectual Freedom, established in 1967, whose goal was to educate people about the importance of intellectual freedom in libraries. The week was celebrated in a convention in 1982. This celebration was founded by the American Book Association. This week was originated to celebrate the many books that were once censored by governments, such as the ones in Latin America.
”Change is essential to the world and progress. If we take out… the ideas… then we throw a wrench in the machine that is revolution,” said theatre teacher Tara Granberry. This year BBW was recognized by Rebecca Randolph’s English II class. The banned books were set out in the library for Randolph’s class and other students to experience what Banned Books Week is all about.
“I want to encourage reading of [almost] anything that excites them, and I hope that the community would encourage the same,” Randolph said.
Most of the school’s English teachers do not think books should be banned from public view. Though some books are thought to be inappropriate for some ages, most teachers agreed they should not be withheld for their ideas
“It brings to light that there are narrow-minded people in the world that think they have the right to tell free citizens what they can and cannot read,” said John Binns, English teacher.
Favorite banned books of the teachers
“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger. (Favorite of John Binns) “The Catcher in the Rye” was banned between 1966 and 1975 for being “obscene,” with an “excess of vulgar language, sexual scenes, and things concerning moral issues,” according to About.com.
“Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck. (Favorite of Sharon Holder) “The Grapes of Wrath” was considered “dangerous” because of “obscene language” and “the unfavorable depiction of a former minister,” according to Blogspot.
“Fahrenheit 451″ by Ray Bradbury. (Favorite of Tara Granberry) A parent complained to the superintendent of West Marion High, a high school in Mississippi, about the book’s usage of a phrase and subsequently, the book was removed from the reading list… The initial complaint was that the words … in it were making it a corrupting force on society, According to Answers.com
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain. (Favorite of Elizabeth Nunley) “ ‘Huckleberry Finn’ was banned from the start. People did not approve of the ‘foul language’ inside the book. It was also disliked because it was said to show derogatory [criticism] towards African Americans,” according to About.com.


Recently, I read the book, “Do Fathers Matter? What Science is Telling Us About the Parent We’ve Overlooked.” The author, Paul Raeburn, describes the latest research covering fatherhood. In describing various benefits, Raeburn creatively brings to life unique aspects of the father-child relationship that positively impact the family in particular, and society in general. It’s a great read!
In relation to language development, how valuable could the father’s involvement be? Raeburn reveals it to be almost prophetic. The advanced language of three year olds stems from their expressiveness at 15 months. And this can be traced to their father’s use of vocabulary and amount of time spent reading picture books when his child was only six months of age.
Raeburn also describes character development, especially courage. And he gives a unique twist to the adage, “child’s work is child’s play.” Often fathers’ play involves some form of uncertainty or surprise element that helps children become more confident. “Father’s unpredictability in play helps children learn to be brave in difficult situations or when meeting new people.” (Pg. 149, italics mine.)
I wonder what would happen if dads combined their unique style of play with books. Beginning with a rough-and-tumble time with their children (followed by a cool down), then they could read a fun story together. Raeburn's research predicts amazing benefits. This combination would build bravery in the child’s heart and excite them about the adventurous world of reading.


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A lot of applications use digital images, and with this there is usually a need to process the images used. If you are building your application with Python and need to add image processing features to it, there are various libraries you could use. Some popular ones are OpenCV, scikit-image, Python Imaging Library and Pillow.
We won’t debate on which library is the best here, they all have their merits. This article will focus on Pillow, a library that is powerful, provides a wide array of image processing features, and is simple to use.
Pillow is a fork of the Python Imaging Library (PIL). PIL is a library that offers several standard procedures for manipulating images. It’s a powerful library, but hasn’t been updated since 2011 and doesn’t support Python 3. Pillow builds on this, adding more features and support for Python 3. It supports a range of image file formats such as PNG, JPEG, PPM, GIF, TIFF and BMP. We’ll see how to perform various operations on images such as cropping, resizing, adding text to images, rotating, greyscaling, e.t.c using this library.
Installation and Project Setup
Before installing Pillow, there are some prerequisites that must be satisfied. These vary for different operating systems. We won’t list the different options here, you can find the prerequisites for your particular OS in this installation guide.
After installing the prerequisite libraries, you can install Pillow with `pip:
$ pip install Pillow
To follow along, you can download the images (coutesy of Unsplash) that we’ll use in the article. You can also use your own images.
All examples will assume the required images are in the same directory as the python script file being run.
The Image Object
A crucial class in the Python Imaging Library is the
Image class. It is defined in the
Image module and provides a PIL image on which manipulation operations can be carried out. An instance of this class can be created in several ways: by loading images from a file, creating images from scratch or as a result of processing other images. We’ll see all these in use.
To load an image from a file, we use the
open() function in the
Image module passing it the path to the image.
from PIL import Image
image = Image.open('unsplash_01.jpg')
If successful, the above returns an
Image object. If there was a problem opening the file, an
IOError exception will be raised.
After obtaining an
Image object, you can now use the methods and attributes defined by the class to process and manipulate it. Let’s start by displaying the image. You can do this by calling the
show() method on it. This displays the image on an external viewer (usually xv on Unix, and the Paint program on Windows).
You can get some details about the image using the object’s attributes.


The Legend (source)
"Many, many years ago, there lived an old man who had seven sons. It so happened that during the famine all his sons died. After the death of the first son, the old man single-stringed a gouged piece of wood and played the kyui-requiem (kyui - a piece of instrumental music). After the second son's death, he stringed another cord and played the kyui Broken Wings. He dedicated the following kyui to the sons who died in succession, each time adding another string to his instrument: The fire's Cone Out; Joy Has Left Me; The Sun Has Darkened; The Moon Has Disappeared. After the death of his last son the old man stringed the seventh cord and played the requiem After Losing My Seven Sons, I've Gone Blind for all his dead sons.'
The preceding legend is about the ancient musical instrument zhetygen (Zhety means seven in Kazakh).
More about the traditional culture and arts of the Kazakh people to come.


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This listing is for a signed copy of "DOGGOS A to Z", my new Dog Breed Alphabet book. The book is hardcover and 8x8 inches in size.
"DOGGOS A to Z" is a Dog Lover's guide to 26 breeds in alphabetical order featuring funny, clever, and surprisingly educational poems accompanied by beautiful watercolor illustrations.
DOGGOS is not only a Children's Book, it's the perfect gift for the dog or art lover of any age! Original rhymes and watercolor paintings by artist Heather Kent.
"DOGGOS A to Z" features funny short poems (and one Haiku!) about the following breeds: Afghan Hound, Bull Terrier, Corgi, Dachshund, English Springer Spaniel, French Bulldog, Greyhound, Harrier, Irish Setter, Jindo, King Charles Spaniel, Labrador, Mutt / Mixed Breed, Newfoundland, Old English Sheepdog, Pug, Queensland Heeler, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Shiba Inu, Tibetan Terrier, Utonagan, Vizsla, West Highland White Terrier, Xoloitzcuintli (Mexican Hairless Dog), Yorkshire Terrier (Yorkie), and Zuchon.
P - Poodle
A Poodle's the smartest
And does as she pleases.
Her hair eases the sneezes.