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Exercise Immunology Review (EIR) is the official publication of the International Society of Exercise and Immunology and the German Society of Sports Medicine and Prevention. It is committed to develop and to enrich knowledge in all aspects of immunology that relate to acute exercise and regular physical activity. EIR publishes review articles and papers with new, original data including an extended, review-like discussion. In recognition of the broad range of disciplines that contribute to the understanding of immune function, the journal has adopted an interdisciplinary focus. This allows dissemination of research findings from disciplines such as exercise sciences, medicine, immunology, physiology, behavioural science, endocrinology, pharmacology, and psychology.
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Promise is a Promise (Intertwined Souls Series) – Sand, Sun, Love and Madcap Zoe On A Mission To Fulfill A Promise Made In The Egyptian Desert
It’s 1949 in Sydney, Australia Zoe is planning a surprise for Eva. She enlists the help of Elena and together they make one of Zoe’s zaniest ideas come to life. Zoe’s promise to Eva made in the Egyptian desert in 1946 is the basis for this romantic comedy. Zoe always delivers on her promises no matter how long it takes. Eva, Zoe, Elena, Henry and Earl are back.
It’s a feel good romantic comedy that will just make you smile – it’s all about the love with a dash of sand and sun in the land of Milk and Honey.
A Christmas To Remember – Multi-Author Anthology
A snippet of life in wartime Greece with Eva Muller and Zoe Lambros during Christmas 1943.
In 2016 The Jewish Museum of Greece added In “The Blood of the Greeks” and the companion book “In the Blood of the Greeks The Illustrated Companion” to their collection on Greek Holocaust during World War II.
If you are in the area, why not pop over to Nikis 39, Athina 105 57, Greece and see their collection of priceless documents, images and video about the Greek Jewish Resistance and the way the Greek Jews fought back against the Germans and how their compatriots protected them.
Pick up a copy of In the Blood of the Greeks and the Companion Book – historical fiction and the companion book features actual wartime photography, illustrations, real life accounts of Greek resistance and heroism.


Reading with your children is crucial for their development. But how do you know which books are right for your child?
In this post, we will talk about the best bedtime books for toddlers and how to choose the best for your kids.
Top Bedtime Books for Kids:
The Going to Bed Book is the perfect book for your little one who isn’t quite ready for bed. It is tons of excitement in the special anniversary publication of a Sandra Boynton classic. The book is about different kind of animals of different shapes and sizes getting prepared for bed on a boat. The writer amazingly shows the dressing, bathing, brushing teeth and exercising together. The illustrations are amazing and the rhythmic poetry is perfectly easy to read. Your kid will love the pictures. You will also love this book for reading at bedtime because it’s short in length and to the point.
If Animals Kissed Good Night will be another sweet bedtime book for your beloved. This book described the story of how various animals say goodnight. Your kids and also you will enjoy reading this book together and the kids also love to name of animals. Nice illustration, great rhythmic flow and tons of interesting animals makes this book much more attractive. It has 4.6 out of 5-star rating and also has 273 customer reviews on Amazon, it is number one best seller books of Amazon in Children’s parent’s Books category.
It’s Time to Sleep, My Love is a nice book for the parents who have ever tried to get their little one to sleep. This is a gorgeous and heartbreakingly beautiful book. It will become a classic with stunning artwork and truly loving story. There have been some critics they say, the language isn’t modern enough. But believe that your children require learning words in plenty of contexts, so they can read classics later. Hope you don’t have any problem with it. After all, the book provides a simple message: It’s time to sleep, my love. There is no better bedtime message to telling your beloved.
The Goodnight Train can be the best sleeping partner for those kids who love trains. It’s a fun and adventure about a train rocking them to sleep. The design is colorful, fun and interesting as well. The pictures show that the train passes through a lot of interesting places on its way to bedtime. If you look closely at the pictures then you can notice there are so many fun little things added in. One of the customers of this book says, it took him a few weeks or reading it nightly to really pay attention to what’s in the picture.
A Book of Sleep is a picture book which is beautifully illustrated and it doesn’t need a single word or text to be entrancing. This is one of the amazing books, can delight your eyes at the very first page and can hold your concentration all the way. The writer shows various animals in nap from the perspective of an inquisitive. Your child can observe how different animals get ready for their bed. The book features some repetitive dialogue which children love. They also can learn about sleep habits they can play the “find owl ”game there.
365 Bedtime Stories & Rhymes comes with your favorite nursery rhyme. It is the bigger version of 365 Animal stories. The book offers a variety of classic and new materials, short rhymes, stories several pages long. Its illustration is pleasant and colorful without being too dazzling. It has a 4.7-star rating out of 5 on Amazon and also has 37 positive customer reviews, I can’t find any negative at all about this book. Overall it can be a good bedtime standby for you.
Time for Bed is a darling bedtime story. So engaging will charm your youngster to charming dreams night after night. Writers water colored illustrations depicting animals and their offspring are so exceptional. For instance, the mice are portrayed at the bottom of a hollow tree, and the fish are deep in the marine. The sweet, and easy text appears on the left surface of the book, while every mimicking expression begins with, “It’s time for bed” light and rhythmic, the strike is ideal for nighttime impression, “It’s time for bed, little sheep, little sheep, the whole wide world is going to sleep.” The book concludes with a Mommy tucking a child into bed
Disney Bedtime Favorites is a great book for Disney lovers. This storybook collection comes with 19 stories like Finding Nemo, The Lion Kings, Cars 2, Toy Story 3 and over 250 illustrations. The characters and the books are well produced. You will love the art in this book. It is most wonderful than most kids books. There are many stories carry a little or no positive message. It can enrich your kid’s book collection. It has a 4.7-star rating out of 5 and 277 customer reviews while writing this overview and I can’t find any negative comment about this book. So it can be the best partner for your kid’s bedtime.
I hope you can make the right choice for your kids. But if you have confusion even now you can visit here to know how to choose the best bedtime books for toddlers.
Also Researched Top 31 Bestsellers Bedtime books for toddlers on Amazon.com


Eating Grass on the Franglais Shore
Once exposed to the world around him via television and U.S. radio stations, a teenager in a French Acadian village starts questioning everything about himself and his ethnic upbringing.
What readers are saying:
“I laughed and I laughed and then I cried. It’s been a long time since a book moved me this much.”
“What an uplifting and heart-warming story. Patrick d’Entremont certainly has a gift for delivering realistic characters in a very vivid setting."
“I was right there. Anyone who’s ever been a teenager will relate to this. And how well was it written!”


Grace Leads Me Home by Marlene Miller Marlene C. Miller grew up Marlene Bailey in a little town on the edge of the Holmes County, Ohio Amish settlement. One day while ice-skating, Marlene meets Johnny Miller, an Amish boy five years her senior. She would later marry Johnny, join the Amish church at age 23, […]
Continue Reading Joining the Amish: 45 years later
As luck would have it I am doing the above on two blogs this week. First, Saloma Furlong is running a Q-and-A with me as well as a giveaway of my book Success Made Simple. A snippet: You have several overall messages in this book — I like the one that we do not need […]
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Today we’ve got 6 winners of Ira Wagler’s Growing Up Amish. If you missed the original interview, in which Ira discusses Amish life, family relationships and how he ended up in Lancaster County, you can read it here: Growing Up Amish interview. Growing Up Amish winners I’ve tallied up all additional Facebook and blog entries. […]
Continue Reading Growing Up Amish winners and Chapter 1 excerpt
Commenting on a post last week, Donna Godfrey recommended reading books by Donald Kraybill. I’d second that. The Riddle of Amish Culture was one of the first I read and I think essential to understanding the Amish. The very first book I read on the Amish was Amish Society by John Hostetler, another good one, […]
Continue Reading What’s your favorite Amish book?
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From a Lancaster friend’s home: Sharpening minds and no. 2’s: Sigh. I remember spending a bit more time with these, once: Here’s the full list of Amish home interior photos.
Continue Reading Inside an Amish home: Library and reading room
A few odds and ends for your Friday. Enjoy! Mexican Mennonites Here’s a link to a recent piece on Old Colony Mennonites in Mexico. Old Colony Mennonites are the second-largest Plain Anabaptist group after the Old Order Amish. They share certain similarities with the Amish. Great photos and more info at the link. Growing Up […]
Continue Reading Friday odds and ends
The Martyrs Mirror is revered by Amish and other Anabaptists. It’s a 1,000+ page book recounting the stories of Christian martyrs. In addition to Biblical-era martyrs, it includes tales of the many early Anabaptists persecuted in Europe. The Martyrs Mirror is in the news because a very old (1748) German-language edition is up for sale […]
Continue Reading Why do we treasure old books?
Which Bible do Amish use? Typically, the Amish use the German Martin Luther version, particularly for church readings. For an English version, the most favored translation is the King James edition (KJV). Some Amish use the New International Version (NIV) as well. Often, the Bible Amish read in the home will have a dual format-German […]
Continue Reading The “Amish Bible”, and the appeal of Bible story books
Since the mid-1800s, the Hutterites have comprised 3 main groups–the Lehrerleut, the Dariusleut, and the Schmiedeleut. The Lehrerleut are considered the most conservative, with the Schmiedeluet being the most progressive, and Dariusleut somewhere in between. However, in 1992, The Schmiedeleut experienced an internal division, creating 2 separate Schmiedeleut groups. Donald Kraybill’s Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, […]
Continue Reading The 3 Hutterite groups
We use them all the time, but ever wonder how reference books and resources get put together? In a guest post today, Donald Kraybill offers a peek into the writing and research process for the Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites: Compiling the Concise Encyclopedia was a daunting task. In fact if I […]


From Meridian 59 - Open Source Wiki
- Growing Your Character
- What is a Revenant?
- Riija Sword Quest
- How do I change my hometown?
- Clothing: How do I change my regular outfit?
- Forget potions, so why would I ever want to use one?
- Gift wrapping, how do I do it?
- How many items can I carry?
- Ko'catanese Dictionary: What are they saying?
- Mainland Reagents: How can I find them on the island?
- Prism: How do I obtain and use one?
- Renting a Room: How do I do this?
- Robes of the Disciple
- How do I make cash?
- How do I make quick cash?
- Money Making (Hardcore)
- Can I stagger my schools?
- How do I avoid spell/skill percent and hitpoint loss when I die?
- How do I max my character?
Games Within the Game
- Guild Alliance: What is the bonus or effect for having an alliance?
- Guild Halls: How do I get one and what do they do?
- Guild War: How do you war another guild? What is a "Halo War"?
- Guild Halls: How many are there and where are they Located?
- How do I create a guild
- How do I disband a guild
- How do I calculate guild rent?
- How do I join a guild?
- How do I leave a guild?
- How do I pay guild rent?
Meridian History & Lore
- Angels of Darkness
- Circling the World
- Damion Schubert's Meridian History
- History of the Settlement
- Legend of the Vale of Sorrows
- Let it be told
- Meridian 59 Timeline
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- The Smuggler's Crossing
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“As for my work, when one looks at it, one knows well enough what it is all about. All that my works declare is simplicity,” said the inimitable Sanyu, also Chang Yu, the pioneering Sichuan-born, French artist who defied and blurred the boundaries of East and West in the 20th century. Sanyu’s own unique style, of saturated color, continuous, energetic brushstrokes and lines (derived from his training in Chinese calligraphy), and his compositions laid bold and bare, characterize a unique and distinct lyricism that have earned him global reverence as the “Chinese Matisse.”
Born in Nanchong, Sichuan in 1901 to a mercantile family who ran the region’s largest silk-weaving mills, Sanyu saw an early life with ample freedom and resource to create. Homeschooled and isolated away from the rigors and conflict of the time, namely the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, a 3,000-year-old imperial system that dictated China’s political, economic, educational and social customs and beliefs, Sanyu saw the continued support and patronage of his family, including that of his older brother, Chang Junmin. Formatively, he was able to take calligraphy lessons with renowned Sichuan calligrapher Zhao Xi, and learn painting from his father.
As Republican era China became increasingly fraught with competing ideologies and schools of thought to replace the old order, many students began to equate modernization simplistically with Westernization, and a rampant desire to reform. Subsequently, Chinese youth began to travel westward, including Sanyu, who first went to Europe in 1921. Following the footsteps of artists, like Xu Beihong and Jiang Biwei, Sanyu went to Paris, with a short stint in Berlin, where he formed meaningful and formative relationships with other members of the Chinese Bohemian elite, even creating a culinary club where friends gathered regularly to carouse and celebrate the food of their respective hometowns.
In 1923, Sanyu returned to Paris to enroll at the Académie de la Grand Chaumière and was introduced to his most celebrated subject, nude drawing, which would largely inform much of his oeuvre. Having rented a small flat in Montparnasse, Sanyu was in the thick of Paris during its roaring 1920’s prime: a mad mix of past tradition, heritage and masters, but also the forefront of modernism, experimentation and the avant-garde.
Unencumbered and free, Sanyu became a part of the zeitgeist, and Paris’s rich and dynamic cultural tableau. He could be found in local cafes, sketching all day, as time passed, idling, painting, and studying the human form, even grasping the attention of Henri-Pierre Roché, the famed art dealer, who temporarily promoted Sanyu’s work.
But living as an artist during his lifetime was not without its hardship. The artist fell upon financial strain, as allowance from his brother back in Mainland China began to dwindle, and Europe entered wartime. Sanyu, instead of returning to his home country, as many Chinese artists of the time did, continued to travel, finding himself in New York in 1948, where he met and lived with Swiss-American photographer Robert Frank. Dispirited and defeated that his artwork would not generate income, despite earlier experimentation to reach a broad audience, like printmaking with drypoint and linocut, Sanyu returned to Paris and became increasingly withdrawn and recluse. However, his cultivating spirit and search to bridge art and cultural traditions between East and West made him a true citizen of the world.
Sadly, Sanyu tragically passed while leaving the gas on his stove turned on in 1966, dying in his sleep with a book atop his chest following a dinner party the evening before. His collective work, which was later lifted from obscurity and rediscovered by art dealers in Taiwan in 1988 during a China-Paris exhibition at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, shed greater spotlight into the vivid, dynamic work of this legendary artist and his timeless legacy. To him, we pay respectful homage.


Local Historian Enters the World of Fiction
By Barbara A. Preston | May 25, 2023
Many locals will know David Cochran for his history blog “Blawenburg Tales.” Others will remember him as an upbeat, innovative educator who worked in the Montgomery Township School District as a high school vice principal, teacher, and in other roles.
At age 79, Cochran has produced and published his first work of fiction in the comedy murder-mystery genre. It’s titled “Where Are They? The Missing Men from Marlowe Mansion.”
"Love the main characters and their interactions. Intriguing story. "Where Are They?" is a great mystery that
keeps you wanting to read more."
- Marian C.
WHERE ARE THEY?
By David Cochran
Where Are They? is a comedy mystery about a retired detective who couldn't solve a cold case for over 20 years. He partners with a former delinquent to try solve it so they can split the big reward. Along the way they encounter many twists and turns.
Do they find the missing men dead or alive? They don't and you won't know what really happens until the end!
Ebook, paperback and hardback versions are available on Amazon and other book vendors.
Read a longer excerpt, book description, and reviews here.
"Oh my, I'm sorry the book ended, I fell in love with your characters! I can see you going up Hollow Road to the "mountain" and finding the graves somewhere in the
- John S.
TALES OF BLAWENBURG
"David Cochran's excellent blog seeks to paint a picture of the historic village, its people, and its surroundings by way of small vignettes."
- National Blue Family Association


The villa at Ariis di Rivignano Teor is special because it was the setting of a tragedy that seems to have inspired Shakespeare. After recent careful research, the English professor Cecil Clough came to the conclusion that the true protagonists of the Shakespearian tragedy are the Friulian Lucina Savorgnan, who spent her summer holidays here, and her cousin Luigi Da Porto.
Lucina and Luigi both belonged to the Savorgnan family, powerful Udine lords. It was in the Savorgnan family palace in Udine at a carnival party in 1511 that the two young people first met and fell so hopelessly in love that they were betrothed in secret. However, the respective families who were fighting amongst themselves would never have accepted their relationship.
Fate was not kind to the young couple: several months later, Luigi was seriously injured in battle and was paralysed. In the meantime, Lucina, due to political and financial practicalities, was forced to marry Francesco Savorgnan. A soldier but also a man of letters, Luigi Da Porto decided to tell of his sad fate in the novel ‘Giuletta e Romeo’, changing the names of the protagonists and places to disguise the autobiographical origins of his story.
The novel underwent several alterations up to William Shakespeare’s final version that we all know and love.
What is [love] else? a madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet? (W. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)


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The 50 Greatest Guitar Books is both an indispensable reference and one of the finest tutorial books ever penned. You’ll find insightful commentaries and more than 100 individually tailored guitar lessons – in all styles – that will provide beginner, intermediate, and advanced players with a lifetime of knowledge, insight, and inspiration.
Unlike any other guitar method, The 50 Greatest Guitar Books is part guitar instruction, part music appreciation, and part literary criticism. Persinger delivers as much practical musical content as he does analysis and educated insight.
Includes contributions from legendary guitarists and educators:
Featuring More than 100 Stylized Guitar Lessons
Featuring All Styles
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The mp3s that accompany the book’s lessons are available in a single zip file. These are free, no codes or emails necessary. Click here to: Download Audio Examples. All examples are performed by Shawn Persinger.
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Author, Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World
About Paul Shapiro
Paul Shapiro is a bestselling author, four-time TEDx speaker, co-host of the Business for Good Podcast, and co-founder of a sustainable protein company. He’s spent his career working to improve sustainability in our food and agriculture systems, with an emphasis on accelerating alternative proteins that are better for public health, the planet, and animal welfare.
Most recently, Paul Shapiro debuted his first book, Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, that offers readers an inside view of the race to commercialize the world’s first real animal products that are grown without the need to raise and slaughter animals. The book received rave reviews, and was named a Washington Post bestseller in January 2018. Before the book’s publication, Paul published various articles and contributed to and authored other shorter works, including Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics and Animal Welfare in Animal Agriculture. He’s a guest on many news outlets, such as CNN, StarTalk Radio with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Point of Inquiry, as well as dozens of periodicals. He continues to speak publicly about the food systems currently in place, food systems of the future, and the general treatment and well-being of animals.
As the founder of Compassion Over Killing and a former Vice President at the Humane Society of the United States, Paul Shapiro has had the privilege of spearheading legislative initiatives in order to prevent abuse of farm animals, engage with major food corporations to help end cruel practices in their supply chains, and increase demand for plant-based proteins.
Currently, Paul resides in California with his partner Toni Okamoto, herself an accomplished author as well.
On Clean Meat
The next great scientific revolution is underway: discovering new ways to create enough food for the world’s ever-growing, ever-hungry population.
Whereas our ancestors domesticated wild animals into livestock, today we’re beginning to domesticate their cells, leaving the animals out of the equation. And the story Paul Shapiro tells of this Second Domestication is anything but tame.
Shapiro gives you a front-row seat for the wild story of the race to create and commercialize cleaner, safer, sustainable meat—real meat—without the animals. From the entrepreneurial visionaries to the scientists’ workshops to the big business boardrooms, Paul Shapiro details the quest for clean meat and other animal products and examines the debate raging around it.
“Paul Shapiro provides a fascinating look at the future of food and the innovators who are working to interrupt and reinvent the food system.” –Ann Veneman, former executive director of UNICEF and former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Clean Meat is “an inspirational look into a future where the cellular agricultural revolution helps lower rates of foodborne illness, greatly improves environmental sustainability, and allows us to continue to enjoy the food we love.” –Kathleen Sebelius, former U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services
U.S. Animal Rights Hall of Fame Inductee
The George Washington University
Bachelor’s Degree, Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution


The college rankings throughout the international locations and the planet are shown by taking into consideration a lot of factors. Of program, it is the potent college, the intelligence of the students and the scholarly excellence that occur 1st to estimate the rankings. Next the campus, the ambiance, the facilities that the universities offer the students and the involvement of the establishments in making the new experts, engineers, academics and physicians of the long term are judged to include the names of the Universities amid the toppers.
Though, it is a very complex and difficult method to choose the best ten greatest universities in the world due to the fact how an American College can be the greatest between the universities in China and vice-versa! On the contrary, it is fairly tough to arrange a tough combat among the Ivy League institutes with that of the century-old academic institutes of the European countries, specially Uk -The Great Britain. Even ราชภัฏ of California is counted by several among the prime ten, but it is not an Ivy League. Then how can anyone choose that the excellent state university is anyhow inferior to the Ivy Leagues?
Right here is the checklist of the prime 10 very best universities in the World soon after counting and judging the figures of the college members who are Nobel Laureates. Winners of Philosophical Society, Winners of the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, customers of the National Academy of Science, MacArthur Fellows and the much prestigious Pulitzer Prize winners of the wonderful universities.
Harvard College (1st in the United States)
Harvard College is a yardstick to evaluate the analysis expectations of others. This is one particular of the leading houses of training that has been ever challenged. Positioned in the Cambridge, US the University was established in 1636. The faculty created its funds from $four.six billion to $25.eight billion in the previous fifteen several years below the leadership of Jack Mayer. Besides monetary prosperity, the accurate treasures of the Leading College are the forty seven Nobel Laureates, 48 Pulitzer Prize winners, 32 Heads of Condition it has developed from its legislation, healthcare and organization colleges. The university boasts on its Widener Library – the world’s finest educational library with more than 6 million volumes of publications of diverse disciplines.
Stanford University (2nd in the US)
Located in the coronary heart of the Californian Silicon Valley, the Stanford College was established in 1891. This is the world’s next very best research and training university focused to offering the very best quality education and learning to receive leadership via the 7 schools- Humanities & Sciences, Enterprise, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Education, and Earth Sciences.
Massachusetts Institute of Technological innovation (MIT) (3rd in the US)
Since its basis back in 1861, MIT gradually has turn into the world’s preeminent middle of scientific searches and educating. The University boasts on the legions of experts and engineers it has made. There are eighty Nobel Laureates, forty three McArthur Fellows, 28 winners of Countrywide Medal of Technologies and Innovation, 56 Nationwide Medal of science winners.
College of California (4th in the United States)
Berkeley is a single of the elite universities throughout the globe. A lot more than 350 packages are supplied to 36,000 college students and the college is very best acknowledged for the PhDs it makes annually. There are seventy seven Fulbright Students, 39- Customers of the American Philosophical Society, 32 MacArthur Fellows, and 22 Nobel Laureates and between the Nobel laureates eight of them are present college members.
College of Cambridge (Uk)
Launched in 1209, Cambridge is one of the world’s oldest institutions. It has usually been one particular of the biggest rivals of its up to date Oxford. It is genuinely hard for the US university toppers universities to give a tough battle from the abroad. There are in excess of 18,000 learners across one hundred thirty five international locations and there is a report of earning 80 Nobel Prizes by their faculty.
Princeton University (5th in the US)


On Sunday, June 14, 2009, I marched for the first time in the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City. Thanks to my sister-in-law, who is an employee of Goya Foods, I joined her, my brother, sister, aunt, niece and about a hundred others in the Goya contingent down Fifth Avenue. The sea of red, white, and blue was magnificent, filled with prideful Boricua smiles and eyes of all ages. It was an experience of a lifetime.
The word Boricua is derived from the original Taíno name for Puerto Rico, Borikén: Land of the Brave Noble Lord. Boricua represents a proud sense of identity. Some people use the word interchangeably with Puerto Rican and others use the word to refer specifically to people native to Puerto Rico.
The most accurate definition of the word, in my opinion, is found in Roberto Santiago’s Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings – An Anthology. Santiago writes, “Boricua is what Puerto Ricans call one another as a term of endearment, respect, and cultural affirmation; it is a timeless declaration that transcends gender and color. Boricua is a powerful word that tells the origin and history of the Puerto Rican people.”
I am presently reading Santiago’s anthology and recommend it to any one who wants to obtain a better sense and understanding of Boricuas: the valiant people.


Open Source Projects
Here are a few open source projects that I have contributed to
Tag Helper Samples
A collection of real-world, useful examples of tag helpers in ASP.NET Core
GenFu is a library you can use to generate realistic test data. It is composed of several property fillers that can populate commonly named properties through reflection using an internal database of values or randomly created data. You can override any of the fillers, give GenFu hints on how to fill them.
This is a sample project showing how to evolve a legacy ASP.NET application to the modern ASP.NET stack.
Entity Framework Seeder
A collection of helper methods to help seed entity framework databases from CSV files
ASP.NET Core MVC
An open source project leveraging SignalR to make real time forms easy
- David Paquette and Kevin A. Schneider. Task model simulation using interaction templates. In Design, Specification, and Verification of Interactive Systems 2005 (DSVIS’05), pages 49–60, 2005
- David Paquette and Kevin A. Schneider. Interaction templates for constructing user interfaces from task models. In Robert Jacob, Quentin Limbourg, and Jean Vanderdonckt, editors, Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces IV, pages 223–234. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005
- Carl Gutwin, Kevin A. Schneider, Reagan Penner, and David Paquette. Supporting Group Awareness in Distributed Software Development. EHCI/DSVIS 2004, 9th IFIP Working Conference on Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction, Tremsbuttel Castle, Hamburg, Germany, July 11-13, 2004, 14 pages
- Kevin. A. Schneider, Carl Gutwin, Reagan Penner, and David Paquette. Mining a Software Developer’s Local Interaction History. MSR 2004, Edinburgh, 2004


Book Review: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard || Jirah Merizz
So hello everyone! This is one of the books that I’ve been loving this month! I just borrowed this book, and I’m definitely in love with it.
I like Mare’s personality. I usually enjoy if the main character is chatty, but Mare isn’t, and I love that she’s like that. The way how she fought for her friends and for her brother and family, it’s just so lovely.
Oh, and I actually love the two princes as well. (And hate the queen.)
I suggest you to read this book if you still haven’t. You’ll surely enjoy everything in it. Too bad, I want to add this on my collection of books, but yeah, maybe I’ll buy one soon (when I’ve got enough money haha.)
I’m not yet finished with it but I’m like 50 pages away from the ending. I can’t wait to see what happens!
Below are the infamous quotes of the said book:
(I don’t own anything. Saw it on Pinterest.)
I really really suggest you to read this. This is worth a shot! So here’s the book description:
Mare Barrow’s world is divided by blood—those with red and those with silver. Mare and her family are lowly Reds, destined to serve the Silver elite whose supernatural abilities make them nearly gods. Mare steals what she can to help her family survive, but when her best friend is conscripted into the army she gambles everything to win his freedom. A twist of fate leads her to the royal palace itself, where, in front of the king and all his nobles, she discovers a power of her own—an ability she didn’t know she had. Except . . . her blood is Red.
To hide this impossibility, the king forces her into the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As Mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks her new position to aid the Scarlet Guard—the leaders of a Red rebellion. Her actions put into motion a deadly and violent dance, pitting prince against prince—and Mare against her own heart.
From debut author Victoria Aveyard comes a lush, vivid fantasy series where loyalty and desire can tear you apart and the only certainty is betrayal.
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars.
There, thank you for reading. I hope you’re doing good wherever you are,


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Next to the documentation it's also useful to look at the non-minified .js files that come with APEX.
You find them in ~your APEX directory~
In there you find many interesting .js files, based on the filename you have an idea which area they are in. For example if you want to work with cookies you can find that in storage.js. The navigation.js for example contains an interesting function to create popups and so much more...
Not everything is in the online documentation yet, but the documentation is updated frequently now, so definitely good to check it out again.


by Dr. Margaret Aranda
This depiction of a woman through menstruation, maternity, and menopause is just pretty, I think. Our pagan predecessors coined this term to describe a woman as she journeys through life's stages.
Thought I'd just share that I think the Crone has osteoporosis, as she has shrunken in size. She has more central obesity in her abdomen, thick legs, and appears rather stiff and inflexible, compared to her younger counterparts. Her hair is gray and wiry, shorter and perhaps thinner, too. Her arms are not uplifted or outstretched, and she appears to need help, as the Maiden and the Mother seem to be facing her perhaps to make sure she doesn't get lost. Look how strongly the Mother holds her hand. They are intertwined, not loosely held. They seem to be pulling her along, as if she is fragile and needs help.
I just think it is pretty, and symbolic.
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A Modular Digital VLSI Flow for High-productivity SoC Design
Joel S. Emer,
Yakun Sophia Shao,
Sam (Likun) Xi,
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A high-productivity digital VLSI flow for designing complex SoCs is presented. The flow includes high-level synthesis tools, an object-oriented library of synthesizable SystemC/C++ components, and a modular VLSI physical design approach based on fine-grained globally asynchronous locally synchronous (GALS) clocking. The flow was demonstrated on a 16nm FinFET testchip targeting machine learning and computer vision.


The Academy of Marketing holds an Annual Conference and Doctoral Colloquium.This is traditionally held in July and is hosted by a different Institution each year. You can find out more about the Conference on these pages. (Visit the Conference History section of the site for previous conferences.)
Academy of Marketing Conference 2014
The 2014 Conference is being hosted by Bournemouth University 7-10 July 2014.
The Conference theme is Marketing Dimensions: People, places and spaces.
To visit the 2014 Conference website click here
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As part of the Franciscan Monastery Humac, Ljubuški, a collection of works of art, with its permanent exhibition entitled Mother, was opened in 2004. The idea of founding the collection came from Dr. Fr. Ljudevit Rupčić and Dr. Fr. Viktor Nuić. The two decided to open a collection in 2001 as a joint donation to the monastery in Humac. Over the course of three years, the collection has multiplied. Thanks to donations from good people, the space of the former library was thoroughly renovated, so the collection, thanks to donations of works of the required artistic level and sponsors, was ceremoniously opened. The collection contains about 250 works of art, of which almost 140 are sculptures in various materials, and the rest are paintings, drawings and graphics.


Stories of Valentine's Day
are many myths & stories reagrding the history of
Valentine's Day. This is one of them.
a nobleman about to become a saint, was ordered to be
executed by the Cruel king of Rome.
in jail, Valentine fell in love with the daughter of the
the day of his execution (February 14th) he wrote a note
to his beloved and signed it "Forever
he was matryed , he became St. Valentine.
the Encyclopedia Brittanica negates all such stories
saying "The custom has no
connection with St Valentine" or
any historical figure with that name, and that ' Special
forms ' of greeting cards are exchanged in observance of
St Valentine's day.
is probabble that the Valentine was the first of all
festival of love dates at least from the 14 th century,
for the now generation , stories about how valentine's
day began are immaterial ; for us it is a great occasion
to celebrate & spread love and to be indulged in
cards with sugary messages,chocolates,flowers, gifts and
everyhting heart shaped starting from pizzas to cushions.
After all this is our way of celebrating and spreading
the sweet fragrance of "LOVE."
Another story of
Valentine's day history
Valentine's story begins in the third century.
During the time of the Roman Emperor Claudius II,
a Christian priest named Valentine secretly
wedded people forbidden to marry by Roman law. At
the time, Claudius was attempting to raise a
large army - he thought that single men would
make better fighters as they wouldn't be worrying
about a family back home. Valentine was arrested
and beheaded on February 14th, 269. He has since
become the patron saint of lovers.
But there's another story about a different
person named Valentine who lived at the same
time, and was martyred on the same day. This
Valentine was also a Roman priest who was
arrested by Emperor Claudius II. Valentine
confessed his faith before the emperor, declaring
that the Roman gods Jupiter and Mercury were
"shameless and contemptible
characters." While in prison, he befriended
the blind daughter of his jailer. Valentine cured
her and converted Austerius, his captor to
Christianity. When Emperor Claudius heard of
this, he had Valentine beaten and beheaded.
Until two hundred years after the accounts of
Valentine's death by Emperor Claudius II, the
Roman feast of Lupercalia was celebrated on the
15th of February. Lupercalia was a celebration
for one of the many deities in the Roman
pantheon, Faunus. To the Romans, Faunus was the
god of flocks and fertility, the protector of
crops, fields, and shepherds.
During the feast, single women would place their
names in a large bowl with each single male
drawing one name. The men would be that woman's
partner for the festival. Sometimes the couple
would fall in love, and there would be no reason
to enter the drawing next year.
It is possible that the feast of Lupercalia was
combined with the February 14 feast for Juno, the
Roman goddess of women and marriage, and moved
back to the day of the anniversary of the
martyrdom of St. Valentine.
But what about the tradition of exchanging cards
and gifts on Valentine's Day? Did that start with
the Roman women writing their names down and
giving them to the men? Or did the tradition
originate with the story about the second
Valentine, who was said to be a prolific writer
who exchanged several dozen letters while
Most likely, it was Geoffrey Chaucer, author of
The Canterbury Tales.
One historian notes that there is no link between
the Roman festivals and Valentine's Day, and says
that before Chaucer's time, there wasn't any link
between the day of St. Valentine and courting -
but after him, the link becomes widespread. This,
and the fact that there were few authors who were
well-read by the commoners as well as royalty,
suggests that Chaucer was responsible for
inventing the modern traditions of Valentine's
Day. It was an old belief that birds began to
mate on this day, as he relates in The Parlement
309 For this was on seynt Valentynes day, 310
Whan every foul cometh ther to chese his make
[For this was on Saint Valentine's Day, when
every fowl comes there to choose his mate*]
After the time of Chaucer, the tradition of
exchanging love letters, gifts, and cards became
More Stories about
Valentine's day history(click to read)


This is the third edition of a book I've been proud to contribute to. A total of 171 marketing bloggers have each contributed a chapter. Like the previous two editions, proceeds go to a children's charity of our choosing.
The book is loosely based on social media - but that includes any marketing channel that encourages conversation. And yes, that means newsletters too (the subject of my chapter). It's interesting to track the development of social media from a fledgling concept when the first edition of the book was published to a mainstream marketing tool
Take a look to see how 171 people in 15 countries (led expertly by Drew McLellan and Gavin Heaton) can put together a fascinating book.


Your Loved Ones, Your Self; Finding and Raising the Family Within
Published by Infinity Publishing, 2007
Who are your "LOVED ONES?"
Your "Loved Ones," are your Spirit Parents. They are waiting to guide you and help you, but you must contact them first. Learn how to contact them and accept their love and guidance.
Did you know that each human being is made of parts? There are three basic parts to each one's self. The parts of the self are usually hidden. The parts function like a family within us and must learn to communicate. This book is all about those parts and how you can find your own family within and improve that communication. It is also about seeing those parts in others and learning to communicate with them. This informative and educational book is written by a warm-hearted, father, therapist, consciousness explorer and spiritual guide. Wil is the author and originator of Parts Consciousness Therapy (PCT).
After 54 years of spiritual and psychic exploration, Wil Langford has written the sum total of what he has learned about life, its purpose, the different parts of human consciousness that make each person and how those parts work together. Lessons on finding the real meaning of your life, learning to find peace within and to spread that peace throughout the world are included.
Using modern science and clues from ancient religions, Wil explains how each person is created by two powerful forces, one maternal and the other paternal, who come together and form each person in a higher domain and project that person, as a subconscious and conscious mind into this world. Using this information and the knowledge that each part is like a member of your inner family, Wil teaches how to communicate with your own parts to find secrets about your hidden desires and emotions. Also included is a section on how to use this information to better communicate with the ones you love.
Wil has drawn upon his studies of Christianity, Siddha Yoga, Integrated Energy Therapy, Clinical Hypnotherapy, as well as his meditation experiences and real life cases of his hypnotherapy clients.
If you or someone you know, a loved one, is sad, lonely, frustrated, frightened, angry, or confused about life and his or her purpose, or the meaning of life, this book can help. It will help him or her to find the hidden parts of his or her own (self) consciousness through secrets cloaked in the Bible, ancient religions, and modern science. Your Loved Ones Your Self will improve self knowledge, relationships, and communication. This is a life-changing book with an inspirational and spiritual message and practical advice written in a personal and gentle style.
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Finding the purpose of life and the meaning of life as well as inner peace is part of the message of "Your Loved Ones, Your Self; Finding and Raising the Family Within."
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These resources are designed to educate and support parents as they address mental health at home, in school, and out of school. Help build an environment that supports the well-being of your children and teens, including those experiencing mental health challenges.
This workshop helps parents understand the difference between everyday feelings versus overwhelming feelings and what their children will be learning. This ready-to-use workshop is discussion-based and is approximately 45-60 minutes in length. Free phone support to facilitate a successful implementation is available from Erika’s Lighthouse: 847-386-6481.
These workshops help families support teens experiencing depression and can help build a positive mental health culture in your community. These ready-to-use workshops are discussion-based events and are approximately 90 minutes each. Free phone support to facilitate successful implementation is available from the National PTA: 703-518-1200 (ask for a “consultation for Shine Light on Depression”).
This book, available in both English and Spanish, was written for parents, by parents and covers signs & symptoms, treatment options and ways to support children and teens at home.
Check out these family resources - from discussion guides, to informational documents, to family action plans - to learn more about what families can do to make mental health a priority.


Miss Ye in Wonderland (2022)
Other name: 千金莫嚣张 千金太嚣张 千金莫囂張 千金太囂張 Qian Jin Mo Xiao Zhang Qian Jin Tai Xiao Zhang Arrogant Lady Arrogant Heiress Miss Life in Wonderland My Life as a Villain Character
Office worker Ye Wan Ge got involved in a car accident and wakes up to find herself transformed into a character. Ye Wan Ge thinks she can return to reality if she sets up the male lead Feng Mu Chen and the virtuous female lead Lu Wan Qing together. After failing time and again, Ye Wan Ge realizes that she can only truly leave after completing the life quests in the story.
Adapted from the web novel "Qian Jin Tai Xiao Zhang" (千金太嚣张) by Qian Chen Yuan Ge (前尘远歌).
Original Network: iQiyi,
Director: Wang Yi Wei [王逸伟]
Genre: Novel, Romance, Web Series,


This week we wrap up The Giver with an open-note, open-book test. Additionally, we complete Unit 8 vocabulary and roots. Please remember that the newspaper article is due NO LATER THAN December 12. I cannot make any exceptions to this deadline due to printing. This week, the only required guided lesson will be on subject complements on Day 2. You may choose when you wish to take your vocabulary and Giver tests - Day 2 or Day 3. Monday I will answer any questions you may have about material covered on both tests. We'll also try to get to the Book Fair. On Friday, we'll begin our review for Midterms. Each day will be a different series of competitions between groups, which I will assign. Review is always a fun experience in Room 110!
You will need to select your mystery novel from the list on the link to the right of the blog. We have some of these titles in the classroom, some in the media center, and many may be downloaded electronically. You are welcome to check out a copy from the local branch of your public library as well. You are expected to finish reading your book of choice by January 5.
I will provide information about recovery for the Mechanics test on Tuesday, at which time all students will have completed the test. If you scored below 75% you are eligible for recovery.
Monday: I will answer any questions about vocab, roots, and The Giver.
We take a trip to the Book Fair.
Students who were asked to read Among the Hidden will have a small group chat.
Use remaining time to work on E.G. 57-61 or complete a monster drawing/description.
Day 2 or Day 3: Guided - Subject complements (predicate nominatives, predicate adjectives)
Vocab and Roots Test, The Giver Test
Day 4: NEWSPAPER ARTICLE DUE TO ME ELECTRONICALLY
Group review for Midterms
If I asked you to create a podcast, you will record today. Please complete the script in advance.
I'm glad you are all enjoying Murder Files!
Complete your newspaper article by Friday.
Complete the next Edmodo post (#8) by 12/16
E.G. through p. 70 by Friday (may be completed in class as well)
Take the time to clean out your binder and language arts folder. These are the items you should have in the yellow folder all year:
1) Roots list
2) Chart of literary elements
3) Six types of conflict
4) Spelling and diction packet (this is printed on blue paper)
5) MLA format
6) Point of view table (this is on more than one handout)
Other papers should be archived.


An ancient Greek papyrus roll, the Derveni papyrus, is the first Greek item to be included in UNESCO’s Memory of the World program, announced the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, where the item is been displayed. The papyrus is considered Europe's oldest surviving readable manuscript and it was found in pieces in 1962 in Derveni, an area near the city of Thessaloniki, among the remains of a funeral pyre of a late Classical period tomb (4th century BC). The inclusion of the document was decided by the Program’s International Advisory Committee (IAC) which convened in Abu Dhabi on October 4-6. “The text of the Papyrus, which is the first book of western tradition, has a global significance, since it reflects universal human values: the need to explain the world, the desire to belong to a human society with known rules and the agony to confront the end of life”, says UNESCO. The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki believes its inclusion in UNESCO’s international list will further promote and preserve Greece’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage. The Memory of the World Program aims at preserving against decay and oblivion the world's documentary heritage and highlighting its value by facilitating access to the works.


Posted byon August 25, 2016
One in Four People will Experience Mental Illness
Mental health affects us all. Know what to do. Get trained in Mental Health First Aid.
When: Wed. September 14, 9:00am-5:00pm
Where: Kenton County Library Erlanger Branch 401 Kenton Lands Rd. Erlanger, KY 41018
Cost: FREE, thanks to sponsorship from Skyward and Interact For Health
Training includes lunch, a student manual, and a Mental Health First Aid certification upon successful completion of the course.
Registration is only open to individuals who live or work in Northern Kentucky.
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Filed under: Book Reviews, Horror, Literary Fiction | Tags: book reviews, books, colson whitehead, horror, literature, zombies, zone one
Colson Whitehead manages the seemingly impossible in Zone One, injecting the zombie novel with a literary bent. He takes this idea of the undead, the afterlife taken to its most gruesome conclusion, and uses it as a filter to look at a city, to look at the people who survived the apocalypse (or rather, the people who have survived longer than the others have), to look at the reasons for their survival, and to examine what hope means when there seems little reason to hope. What’s more, in doing these things he makes them seem obvious – how did no one think, sooner than this, to do with zombies what Whitehead has done so well in Zone One?
As it opens, the novel is almost a love affair with New York City, with “Mark Spitz” (a nickname, but the only way we know our main character) looking back on visits to his uncle and the ever-changing city. This image of New York, of wreckage followed by new buildings, again and again, are eerily prescient of the later images of the zombies walking the New York streets, apparently capable not only of endless arrival but of endless development. This early image of New York, though, retains a sort of quiet beauty in its vision of endless restructuring:
In every neighborhood the imperfect in their fashion awaited the wrecking ball and their bones were melted down to help their replacements surpass them, steel into steel. The new buildings in wave upon wave drew themselves out of rubble, shaking off the past like immigrants. The addresses remained the same and so did the flawed philosophies. It wasn’t anyplace else. It was New York City. (6)
The world Mark Spitz inhabits, a New York that’s been decimated and cleared of its former inhabitants, a New York that has been divided into zones now being painstakingly cleared of “skels” (the zombies) and “stragglers,” who aren’t quite zombies but exist in some nether world, standing motionless at some post they’ve selected for reasons Spitz and his compatriots will never be able to understand, is one with moments of hope. Though Spitz suspects the world has been left with only the people who were mediocre in their former lives (like him, whose “most appropriate designation” in a high school yearbook “would have been Most Likely Not to Be Named the Most Likely Anything” ), and though his life at the moment consists of little but walking through building after building, seeking the stragglers missed by the marines who did the first run-through of Zone One, he also finds some cause to hope for a better world as a result of the crushing defeat of the former system. Brief as these moments may be, Whitehead’s vision of the indominatibility of both human hope and despair is powerful:
There was a single Us now, reviling a single Them. Would the old bigotries be reborn as well, when they cleared out this Zone, and the next, and so on, and they were packed together again, tight and suffocating on top on each other? Or was that particular bramble of animosities, fears, and envies impossible to recreate? If they could bring back paperwork, Mark Spitz thought, they could certainly reanimate prejudice, parking tickets, and reruns. (231)
Whitehead occasionally uses this zombie plague as an opportunity to comment on these issues of race and class and the bigotries humans can’t seem to help holding. He’s never heavy-handed with this, though, and the New York Mark Spitz is working in now is at times crushing for the ways it is similar to the previous world, and the ways in which it is different. Though Spitz and the others trying to clear Zone One of skels and stragglers are, on paper, the survivors of the old order, Whitehead suggests, too, that the skels are blindly keeping that old world alive, that in them you can see some true New York story.
The damned bubbled and frothed on the most famous street in the world, the dead things still proudly indicating, despite their grime and wounds and panoply of leaking orifices, the tribes to which they had belonged, in gray pin-striped suits, classic rock T-shirts, cowboy boots, dashikis, striped cashmere cardigans, fringed suede vests, plush joggings suits. What they had died in. All the misery of the world channeled through this concrete canyon, the lament into which the human race was being transformed person by person. Every race, color, and creed was represented in this congregation that funneled down the avenue. As it had been before, per the myth of this melting-pot city. The city did not care for your story, the particular narrative of your reinvention; it took them all in, every immigrant in their strivings, regardless of bloodline, the identity of their homeland, the number of coins in their pocket. Nor did this plague discriminate; your blood fell instantly or your blood held out longer, but your blood always failed in the end. (243)
Zone One is an extraordinary novel, one of those rare concerted mashups of literary and genre fiction that doesn’t cheapen either genre but rather brings both to new heights. Whitehead’s zombies are zombies, literally, but they are also a marker of something else – of the way the things and stories we hope to bury have a way of endlessly renewing themselves.
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Filed under: Book Reviews, Commercial Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery & Thriller | Tags: book reviews, books, crime novels, dennis lehane, literature, mystery, mystic river, reading
Dennis Lehane’s novels may be shelved in the crime section, but what you begin to sense as you read his fiction is that many of his overarching concerns – in family, in community, and in how people use these things to define themselves and their decisions – would be at home in the “literary fiction” genre. To point this out isn’t to suggest that literary fiction is “better” than crime novels, but rather to say that Lehane is an extraordinary writer producing works that are at once accessible, plot-driven, and thought-provoking.
Mystic River is his best novel to date. Hand this one to anyone who speaks about genre fiction with their nose in the air and you’ll have a convert to the world of mass market paperbacks. Mystic River is as well-plotted as any of Lehane’s Kenzie & Gennaro detective novels, but because he follows his three main characters from youth he is able to explore more deeply those issues of community that have appeared in his other works.
Mystic River opens in 1975, with three friends who will in time be divided by community (who’s from the Point? who’s from the Flats?), differences of personality, and what happens when one of them, Dave Boyle, gets into a car driven by “policemen” who are in fact child molesters. After Dave escapes his captors, we leave them until 2000. All three remain in Boston: Dave, married with a child; Sean, a police officer separated from his wife; and Jimmy, an ex-con whose daughter is murdered the same night Dave comes home to his wife covered in blood, claiming to have been mugged.
Lehane’s narrative loops us back in history, pointing to the ways long-ago events (not just the day Dave got into the car when the other two boys wouldn’t, but Jimmy’s two-year sentence for robbery and what got him there) color seemingly unrelated moments in the present. Near novel’s end Jimmy reflects on the karmic nature of his daughter’s death, how her seemingly random murder can in some way be viewed as the only natural response to something Jimmy did shortly after his long-ago release from prison.
Lehane’s skill lies not only in carefully plotting so that these loopings through time and history read as naturally as actual events, but in fully exploring his characters’ motivations and the ways they’ve been formed. There’s Dave, who initially seems not greatly affected by his molestation as an eleven-year-old, but who, as novel progresses, reveals himself to be a scarred and flawed man seeking some form of redemption; Sean, who is unable to let go of his pride to find a way to get back the wife who left him a year earlier, and who has to investigate the lives of two childhood friends; and Jimmy, whose grief over his daughter’s death is coupled with a desire for some revenge, as well as a redemption for his community.
After Jimmy’s daughter, Katie, is found murdered after a night out, the police speak to Dave Boyle only because he happened to be in one of the bars she visited with her friends. Long before Jimmy begins to suspect that Dave was involved in Katie’s murder, Lehane reveals the ways Dave’s seeing Katie is painful, somehow wrong, to Jimmy:
It was this knowledge – that someone other than Jimmy possessed an image of Katie that postdated Jimmy’s own – that had finally allowed him to weep in the first place. (263)
Although we see Jimmy’s grief for his daughter, it’s the married couples that gain most of Lehane’s attention, and where we see the most powerful relationships taking place. Jimmy and Annabeth compare themselves to Dave and his wife, Celeste; they are able to mark themselves as different, better, than the other couple, because of the strength of their belief in one another.
No character in Mystic River is entirely clean or free of blame in either Katie’s death or Dave Boyle’s story. Lehane explores their degrees of guilt without judgement, and while the characters pass judgement on one another there is little temptation for the reader to do the same. Lehane writes, as ever, about deeply flawed individuals who are trying to somehow better themselves and their worlds. Lehane suggests, at the same moment, that there is little possibility of his characters escaping their pasts and their communities, and that these ties and faults are what make them worth knowing.
Filed under: Story Sundays | Tags: daniel orozco, literature, orientation, reading, short stories
Story Sundays is a weekly feature at Fat Books & Thin Women. Always short stories, always ones available online for free.
Daniel Orozco’s “Orientation” is a compact and perfect example of what a short story can do. In format, the story is similar to one featured here a few months ago, John Jodzio’s “This is All the Orientation You Are Gonna Get”: a monologue directed at a new employee. Orozco’s picture of the office is spot-on and sometimes hilarious for how clearly it highlights the miseries (and endless minutia) of office work:
If you must make an emergency phone call, ask your supervisor first. If you can’t find your supervisor, ask Phillip Spiers, who sits over there. He’ll check with Clarissa Nicks, who sits over there. If you make an emergency phone call without asking, you may be let go.
Orozco captures, too, the tendency of office-ese to verge into redundancy or meaninglessness:
We have our Biannual Fire Drill twice a year, and our Annual Earthquake Drill once a year.
In reviewing the office’s employees, though, there’s a certain sadness, a sense of all that goes unsaid and unknown at the office; everyone seems to be in love with someone else, who is barely aware of their existence. Orozco has his narrator review these hoped-for romances and personal problems in the same tone as he goes over copy machine etiquette. In doing he highlights not just the divide between the bland standards of office life and how each person in that office considers his or her life, but the inevitable way those inner stories and longings are tamped down. These are stories and facts the narrator considers worthy of note, but no more so than any other detail of the office.
John LaFountaine, who sits over there, uses the women’s room occasionally. He says it is accidental. We know better, but we let it pass. John LaFountaine is harmless, his forays into the forbidden territory of the women’s room simply a benign thrill, a faint blip on the dull, flat line of his life.
“Orientation” is a five-minute read by turns funny and crushing and eerie. This office, this idea of knowing – but not really knowing – the people you work alongside of, will be familiar to anyone who’s ever faced a baffling list of rules regarding everything from bathroom breaks to using the office scanner.
Filed under: Book Reviews, Literary Fiction | Tags: book reviews, books, jeffrey eugenides, literary fiction, literature, the marriage plot
Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot is a good college novel. It’s a good novel about a few kids their first year out of school, and it’s a good novel about relationships and about, duh, “the marriage plot.” But it’s a novel that suffers for what we might expect it to be; however good Eugenides’s latest may be, it doesn’t, it can’t, approach the quality of Middlesex. Unfair as it may be to compare the novels, it’s impossible to read The Marriage Plot (just as it’s impossible to read The Virgin Suicides) without Eugenides’s best novel in mind.
The Marriage Plot opens on graduation day for Madeleine, an English major who wrote her senior thesis on the marriage plot. Though Madeleine may first appear in the novel a hungover disaster, it’s soon clear that her life, and the life of this novel, is going to follow the same topic as her senior thesis. Which of her two (unsuitable) suitors is she going to end up with? What does a contemporary novel, taking marriage as its theme, look like? Her two suitors, Mitchell and Leonard, appear on the periphery of her life when the novel opens, but it’s evident that Madeleine is going to go for one of the two. Mitchell, a friend who’s been in love with Madeleine for years, appears about as well suited to her as her (momentarily) ex-boyfriend, the unstable, recovering Lothario, Leonard.
The biggest problem with Eugindes’s novel isn’t that it pales in comparison to Middlesex, but that Madeleine as a character appears a shadow compared to Leonard and Mitchell. Mitchell is by far the most sympathetic and best developed character of the novel, and it’s his post-graudation year-long “journey of self-discovery” that forms the most enjoyable part of the novel. And unlike Madeleine and Leonard, Mitchell seems most out-of-place at Brown University, the most in awe of this world of assumed success (not to mention expensive clothes and ice cream). Visiting a friend’s home for the first time, Mitchell is overwhelmed by the offerings of their kitchen; in some way, Mitchell feels like our guide to this world, the one member of Eugenides’s group of characters who doesn’t quite belong in Madeleine’s circle.
He still remembered the thrill of it: coming down to the kitchen one morning, the majestic Hudson visible in the window, and opening the freezer to see the small round tub of exotically named ice cream. Not a greedy half gallon, as they had at Mitchell’s house in Michigan, not cheap ice milk, not vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry but a flavor he had never dreamed of before, with a name as lyrical as the Berryman poems he was reading for his American poetry class: rum raisin. Ice cream that was also a drink! In a precious pint-size container. Six of these lined up next to six bags of dark French roast Zabar’s coffee. What was Zabar’s? How did you get there? What was lox? Why was it orange? Did the Pleshettes really eat fish for breakfast? Who was Diaghilev? What was a gouache, a pentimento, a rugelach? Please tell me, Mitchell’s face silently pleaded throughout his visits. He was in New York, the greatest city in the world. He wanted to learn everything, and Larry was the guy who could teach him. (133)
Leonard doesn’t quite fit into Madeleine’s upper-crust world either, but there’s a sense that he could, if not for his mental illness. Eugenides does an extraordinary job following Leonard over the course of the novel, his collapses and recoveries, his attempts to self-medicate and how his illness influences his feelings for Madeleine. Though Leonard is presented, from Mitchell’s view, as a womanizing asshole who doesn’t deserve Madeleine, he emerges later in the novel as a profoundly decent person who may not deserve Madeleine but recognizes his failure to be what he should be.
Madeleine, though, remains an enigma. We see her largely through the eyes of her two suitors, and when a section of the novel is told from her point of view, it’s not about her life as much as it is about her life with Leonard, or her lack of a life with Mitchell. Although Mitchell’s college memories of Madeleine are of someone determined not to marry, to find some independent course for her life, her actions point to a desire to define herself through her relationships. Madeleine may stay with Leonard during his bouts of illness, but she’s with him as much for duty as for love; it is, she seems to believe, what she is meant to do. That Eugenides based his entire novel around a character who only exists through the eyes of others is troubling, and points to some failure in the attempt to breathe new life into the marriage plot. He may take the plot on a different course at novel’s end, but The Marriage Plot remains a novel that views Madeleine as existing mostly for the benefit of the men surrounding her. And when Madeleine, at novel’s end, begins to take some more independent path – we think, we hope – it’s not because she realized the need to find her own way, but because Leonard and Mitchell each, independently, realized that Madeleine deserved to be on her own.
The Marriage Plot captures elements of the college experience, of intellectualizing our lives, of attempting to find ourselves through work and travel and relationships, more clearly and exactly than any other novel in recent memory. Where Eugenides fails is in having a main character who is nothing more than a canvas for men to project themselves onto. Madeleine exists not as a person in her own right, but as someone who offers to others a chance to better themselves, a chance for redemption. Eugenides may suggest that Madeleine’s bout with the marriage plot has led her to some understanding of the need for self-development and -discovery (following Mitchell’s path, in spirit if not in manner), but that remains only a suggestion, overshadowed by 400 pages of Madeleine living for everyone but herself.
Filed under: Book Reviews, Literary Fiction, Noir | Tags: book reviews, books, fatale, Jean-Patrick Machette, literature, noir, nyrb classics
If Jean-Patrick Machette’s Fatale represents the height of French noir (this is what the cover tells me) then, hell, I don’t want to read any more. The 90-page novella has its moments – at first there is an appeal to the inscrutable nature of the main character and killer, who we know only as Aimée, and moments verge on the comically absurd – but there is not enough plot or enough coloring of the scene to make this a rewarding read.
Fatale opens with Aimée murdering a man hunting in the woods, then follows her as she travels to her next town, Bléville, refashioning her image on the way. (Changing her hair color seems a standard post-job affair.) The translator’s notes make clear that there’s some meaning to the town’s name, which translates roughly to “Doughville.” Even before arriving Aimée views this town, picked at seeming random, as offering some unique money-making opportunities, a chance for a last big job before she retires. Her relationship with her chosen work and with money are the most interesting things about her character, as when she is traveling to Bléville with the payment from her last job:
She leaned over, still chewing, and opened the briefcase and pulled out fistfuls of banknotes and rubbed them against her sweat-streaked belly and against her breasts and her armpits and between her legs and behind her knees. Tears rolled down her cheeks even as she shook with silent laughter and kept masticating. She bent over to sniff the lukewarm choucroute, and she rubbed banknotes against her lips and teeth and raised her glass and dipped the tip of her nose in the champagne. And here in this luxury compartment of this luxury train her nostrils were assailed at once by the luxurious scent of the champagne and the foul odor of the filthy banknotes and the foul odor of the choucroute, which smelt like piss and sperm. (6-7)
Apart from this, Aimée reads as a dishearteningly one-dimensional character. There’s some reference to an earlier husband and an abusive relationship, but the novella offers no room to explore this history. (Nor is it certain that a novel two or three times the length of Fatale would ever get around to it, Aimée not seeming like a person who cares to reveal herself.) We’re informed that she’s killed seven men before arriving in Bléville, but there’s little to suggest how she came to commit murder for hire. We know only that Aimée doesn’t separate herself from her killings, that she likes to arrive in a town and insinuate herself into the social structure in order to learn who wants who dead; or who, perhaps, most deserves to be dead.
Machette’s vision of Aimée’s world is of one in which only social graces hold people back from killing each other. This allows the action to move quickly, Aimée scarcely arriving in town before finding the affairs and tensions that precede her work, as well as a man who despises the town’s residents as much as she does. The fault here is that Machette’s world, while dark and at times extraordinary, is wholly unbelievable. There is a cartoonish nature to Aimée, the town, the nature of the murders she commits, that is hard to overcome. These things could well make for a novella that is as extraordinary as the oversize world it contains, if only there were a single character in Fatale who reads as more than a broadly-drawn character sketch. Fatale may well be a fine representative of French noir; it’s not, unfortunately, one that makes me want to further explore the genre.


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Introduction to the Mystery
It is the story of the small town of Conway missing girl Tanvi. Report of the disappearance of 15-year-old Tanvi Marupally on January 17th. This created a ripple of concern and confusion. A search that lasted for almost seventy days was initiated as a result of her abrupt disappearance. This left the community and law enforcement searching for evidence and explanations.
The Community’s Response
As the days passed with no trace of Tanvi, the Conway community banded together, holding out hope. Flyers were distributed, social media campaigns were created, and the local police, commanded by Chief William Tapley, worked hard in coordination with the US Marshals Service. Tanvi remained absent despite their efforts, and the mystery grew deeper.
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A Turning Point in Tampa
An unexpected breakthrough in the investigation occurred when a Tampa resident identified Tanvi from an online missing person article. This astute observer observed her in a nearby library, a location that would prove crucial to her discovery. The fast response of the resident in snapping a photograph and informing the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children was critical in the subsequent chain of events.
Conway Missing girl Tanvi’s Journey
Investigations revealed that Tanvi had embarked on a remarkable journey. Fearing her family’s deportation back to India, she traversed several states with incredible resourcefulness. U.S. Marshal Jeremy Hammons expressed his amazement at her survival skills, likening her to a “little Rambo.” Her path took her from Conway to Kansas City, Missouri, and eventually to Tampa, Florida, showcasing her extraordinary resilience and adaptability.
The Underlying Fears
Tanvi’s dramatic decision was motivated by a prevalent dread among immigrant families. Tanvi was concerned about her father’s job security and their immigration status, according to a family friend. This fear, albeit unwarranted, highlights the concerns of immigrant families and the impact these concerns can have on young people.
The Role of the Library and the Final Discovery
Tanvi’s love of libraries, ironically, was what lead to her discovery. Her presence in a Tampa free library, a haven of solace and enlightenment for her, was critical to her safe return. This plot twist emphasizes the significance of libraries as secure community spaces.
The Reunion and Aftermath
Conway Police responded quickly after receiving the call. During their inquiry, they happened to come into Tanvi in the library. They took her into protective care after confirming her identity and began the process of reconnecting her with her family. This reunion provided much-needed closure to a community that had been hoping for her safe return for months.
The Reunion and Aftermath
Conway Police acted quickly after getting the report. During their inquiry, they happened upon Tanvi at the library. After confirming her identity, they placed her in protective care and began the process of reconnecting her with her family. This reunion provided much-needed closure to a community that had been yearning for her safe return.
Reflecting on the Broader Implications
Tanvi’s experience, while unique in its particulars, parallels a larger narrative about the difficulties that young people encounter in today’s complex society. It is a sobering reminder of the vulnerabilities and pressures that can influence youth, particularly in immigrant communities. Furthermore, this tragedy highlights the need of community vigilance, as well as the important impact of social media and public knowledge in addressing such crucial circumstances. Tanvi’s story will definitely generate talks about safety, understanding, and assistance for youth at the crossroads of many cultural and societal difficulties as Conway moves forward.
Conclusion: A Story of Strength and Hope
Tanvi Marupally’s story goes beyond the story of a missing girl. It is a powerful monument to the human spirit’s tenacity, the strength of community relationships, and the complex emotions entangled in the lives of immigrant families. Her story of survival and resourcefulness in the face of dread and uncertainty is a compelling reminder of the inner strength that often goes unnoticed until circumstances push it to the surface. Tanvi’s narrative leaves an unforgettable impression on Conway and beyond, a tale of fortitude and hope that will echo for years to come.


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