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The Keepers #2: The Harp And The Ravenvine, Becky Jamieson

Children's Book and Media Review

Horace, who can see up to one day in to the future, and Chloe, who can walk through walls, are no longer the newest Keepers on the block. They are veterans being asked to use their magical objects to protect the storehouse for such tools from their enemies, the Riven, once again. The Riven are following an animal empath named April with a broken object called the Ravenvine. They save April with the help of Chloe’s long lost mother who has the ability to stop the Riven with a magic-controlling harp. They are able to fix the Ravenvine, but Chloe …

Earth Aliens #1: The Expedition, Lisa Packard

Children's Book and Media Review

Hugh and his twin brother Rhys have been granted passage on a starship to a new planet called Terra Nova. Hugh gets to be an apprentice to an engineer during the seven year journey, but Rhys is put into cryo-tube to sleep the entire journey. As Hugh is dealing with the loss of his brother and learning the ropes of taking care of the engines he meets Elena. On the planet Terra Nova, a young Charneki becomes the ruler of them all. Zeneba, the ruler, is having to learn how to be a leader when she is very young. As …

The Menagerie #2: Dragon On Trial, Becky Jamieson

Children's Book and Media Review

Logan, Zoe, and Blue will do anything to stop the Menagerie from being shut down, and that means proving to a jury of magical creatures the innocence of Scratch the dragon. Scratch faces the death penalty for killing Pelly, the goose who laid the golden eggs. With the help of Marco, a werechicken in their seventh grade class, the three friends learn that Scratch is guilty of no more than eating a few farmer’s sheep and that Pelly is not dead after all. They find Pelly and bring her back in time to save Scratch, but they are still unsure …

After The Red Rain, Lisa Packard

Children's Book and Media Review

The world is dying and the humans are trying to survive on what they can. As Deedra is out scavenging for more food and resources, she sees a boy crossing a river separating the territories. When she goes to help him from being swept down the river she notices that he doesn't have any marks on his body identifying where he came from. She discovers his name is Rose before he suddenly disappears. She doesn't see him again for a while, but then he saves her life and they start to get to know each other. Rose stays at her …

The Menagerie, Becky Jamieson

Children's Book and Media Review

It's hard being the new kid in town for Logan Wilde. He is the only son of an overworked man and a woman who ran away from their family, and he has yet to make any friends in the small Wyoming town. However, his simple reality changes quickly when Logan finds a griffin in his bedroom. This young talking griffin leads Logan into the menagerie of magical creatures where he becomes friends with fellow seventh-graders Zoe and Blue. Logan helps Zoe and Blue find the other five griffin cubs that have escaped their enclosure at the menagerie and are hidden …

Rediscovering Senator Edmund Muskie, Kermit V. Lipez

Maine Law Review

I wish to begin my remarks by congratulating the Maine Law Review for sponsoring this important symposium on the legislative achievements of Senator Muskie. It is a well-deserved tribute during this 100th anniversary year of his birth. I also want to thank the Law Review for inviting me to give the opening remarks for the Symposium. It is a privilege to do so, and to speak in the presence of former Secretary of State Madeline Albright. We are all honored by her presence. I must acknowledge, however, that it is a daunting task to present these remarks in the presence …

Nineteenth Annual Frank M. Coffin Lecture On Law And Public Service: Community, Rights, And Climate: A Challenge To A Clever Species, Jonathan Lash

Maine Law Review

I want to talk to you today about individual rights and community. I have been struck in reading the Judge’s books and recalling working with him how he honored two competing ideas simultaneously: respect for individual liberty, and a deep belief in the power of government to enhance fairness and promote public well-being. As I shall explain, the tension between those ideas has become increasingly important in the debate over how to address global environmental problems.

Wagon Tracks, Volume 31, Issue 4 (August, 2017), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

2 On the Cover: Steamboat Arabia Sinks
4 President: As I See It
5 Joanne’s Jottings
6 Eclipse Along the Santa Fe Trail
7 PNTS, Kaw Mission Programs
8 Symposium 2017: “The Santa Fe Trail: America’s First Highway of International Commerce”
10 SFTA Proposed Bylaw Changes
12, 13, 21 Trail News
14 Diaries of Smith Archibald Sayre, by Gratton J. Giles
17 Juan de Dios Maese: New Mexican Leader 1821-1852, by Doyle Daves
22 Who was John Perry Sellar?, by Michael L. Olsen
24 Frank Stahl Diaries on Website
24 Chapter Reports
25 Membership Information
28 Calendar

Creating A More Inclusive Community Through Social Justice Activism, Jill Rodrigues

Featured News Story

As grassroots movement for social equity and justice builds on campus, RWU expands programming for Social Justice Month.

Microbial Inactivation And Cytotoxicity Evaluation Of Uv Irradiated Coconut Water In A Novel Continuous Flow Spiral Reactor, Manreet Singh Bhullar, Ankit Patras, Agnes Kilonzo-Nthenge, Bharat Pokharel, Sudheer K. Yannam, Kanyasiri Rakariyatham, Che Pan, Hang Xiao, Michael Sasges

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

A continuous-flow UV reactor operating at 254 nm wave-length was used to investigate inactivation of microorganisms including bacteriophage in coconut water, a highly opaque liquid food. UV-C inactivation kinetics of two surrogate viruses (MS2, T1UV) and three bacteria (E. coli ATCC 25922, Salmonella Typhimurium ATCC 13311, Listeria monocytogenes ATCC 19115) in buffer and coconut water were investigated (D₁₀ values ranging from 2.82 to 4.54 mJ·cm^{− 2}). A series of known UV-C doses were delivered to the samples. Inactivation levels of all organisms were linearly proportional to UV-C dose (r² > 0.97). At the highest dose …

Volume 113 Issue 6, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Katja, Ketevahi 'Katje', Tsos

TSOS Interview Gallery

Ketevahi “Katja” is from Georgia. She’s in her late 40’s. She grew up on a farm in the country and became the financial support for her family after her mother died and her father became “emaciated.” When Putin came to power, diplomatic ties deteriorated between Georgia and Russia, which eventually led to war. She fled her country using forged documents and first worked in Turkey but has now lived in Naples for nine years and regularly sends money home to her brother, who cares for their father.

Katja expresses her feelings about war, government, liberty, and what it means to …

Prospectus, October 4, 2017, Parkland College, Evyjo M. Compton, Alex Davidson, Greg Gancarz, Emma Gray, David Saveanu, Derian Silva, Anna Watson

Prospectus 2017

Staerkel Planetarium celebrates 30th anniversary; Students try to improve sleep with apps; Latin Film Festival celebrates its 10th year; Cobras win two softball games against U of I; Review: Parkland's production of "The Crucible"; Was DeVos' overturning the right choice?

The Indiana Statesman, October 4, 2017, Indiana State University

Student Newspaper

Sycamores to come together for peace rally; Yahoo says all 3 billion accounts affected by 2013 breach; American mass shootings: What happens in Vegas won't stay in Vegas

Spectator 2017-10-04, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

No abstract provided.

The Lumberjack, October 04, 2017

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

Self-Determination And Human Resource Retention: Employee And Volunteer Motivation To Stay In Rural Oregon Nonprofit Organizations, Nicole Richman

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

The present study used an existing model, the Volunteer Functions Inventory, to test the functional motives of volunteers and employees to engage in or continue service with a rural nonprofit organization. Self-Determination theory provides the underlying framework for the Volunteer Functions Inventory and the six motivational functions: understanding, values, enhancement, career, social, and protective. The model was tested using a sample of 168 employees and volunteers from Area Agencies on Aging located in rural Oregon. The results indicated that the protective function, reducing personal guilt by serving others in the community with less means, similarly motivates employees and volunteers to …

The Diamond, October 4, 2017, Dordt College

Dordt Diamond

• Front Page: NFL Players Take the Knee, Take Heat; Federal Government Updates Title IX Policy
• News: Trump's Tweet Prompts More Threats From North Korea; State of Transition for Science Department; Title IX: The Wheaton Case; Dordt Voices Opinion on Free Speech; BYOB-I-B-L-E; Rev. Brown Lectures on Dreaming a New Dream; Eight Month Isolation Test Ends; Shootings: Is Dordt Prepared?
• Opinion: Jenna, Just Married: I'm a Savage, Sue Me; Travel Blog: Fitting in and Hospitality; When Free Food Fails; Stay Where You Belong, Politics and Sports
• Feature: Professor Profile: Jeff Taylor on Politics, Pedagogy; Dordt College Welcomes New Music Professor; NERF …

Fleet Avenue Revitalization Strategy, Robert A. Simons, Kirby Date, Georgina Figueroa, N. Colt Ossoff

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

Slavic Village Development, Inc., the nonprofit community development corporation in the Slavic Village neighborhood of Cleveland, engaged the Center for Community Planning and Development at Cleveland State University to assist with a revitalization strategy for Fleet Avenue. The study team was charged to work with SVD leaders and the neighborhood’s City Councilman, Tony Brancatelli, to evaluate market opportunities for food production businesses and local retail, and to develop an overall parcel-by-parcel strategy for commercial rehabilitation, and new commercial and housing infill on the street.

Implementing Psychological Methods In The Management Of Trauma-Associated Tinnitus, Marc A. Fagelson

ETSU Faculty Works

Dr. Fagelson, (Professor Audiology, ETSU) will discuss the unusual challenges facing patients and providers when tinnitus severity is linked to traumatic exposure. Interactions between neural mechanisms associated with tinnitus, posttraumatic stress-disorder (PTSD), and traumatic memory will be reviewed with particular attention to the way and degree to which such interactions affect tinnitus and disorders of sound tolerance. Conference attendees will be provided theoretical models of emotional memory consolidation that underscore trauma‘s durable effects on a patient‘s emotional state, reaction to the tinnitus signal, and to potentially-triggering environmental sounds. The putative benefits of tinnitus counseling will be presented in the context …

Livestock Production And Health, Christopher Gustafson

Cornhusker Economics

As in Nebraska and other cattle-producing states, livestock are an important source of income for hundreds of millions of people living in developing countries. However, for livestock keepers in developing countries, animals are often central to multiple dimensions of the family’s existence, providing—in addition to income—important sources of energy-dense, nutrient-rich animal source foods, generating cultural status, including playing a role in family formation through wedding dowries, and serving, for some, as the household’s primary store of wealth. Livestock play all of these roles in pastoralist—semi-nomadic livestock-keeping—communi-ties. While in the past pastoralism was a relatively common way of life throughout the …

Klf9 And Jnk3 Interact To Suppress Axon Regeneration In The Adult Cns, Akintomide Apara, Joana Galvao, Yan Wang, Murray G. Blackmore, Allison Trillo, Keiichiro Iwao, Dale P. Brown Jr., Kimberly A. Fernandes, Abigail Huang, Tu Nguyen, Masoumeh Ashouri, Ziong Zhang, Peter S. Shaw, Noelia J. Kunzevitzky, Darcie L. Moore, Richard T. Libby, Jeffrey L. Goldberg

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Neurons in the adult mammalian CNS decrease in intrinsic axon growth capacity during development in concert with changes in Krüppel-like transcription factors (KLFs). KLFs regulate axon growth in CNS neurons including retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Here, we found that knock-down of KLF9, an axon growth suppressor that is normally upregulated 250-fold in RGC development, promotes long-distance optic nerve regeneration in adult rats of both sexes. We identified a novel binding partner, MAPK10/JNK3 kinase, and found that JNK3 (c-Jun N-terminal kinase 3) is critical for KLF9's axon-growth-suppressive activity. Interfering with a JNK3-binding domain or mutating two newly discovered serine phosphorylation acceptor …

Spectrum, Volume 39, Issue 4, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: SHU alumni return for alumni weekend -- Introducing the campus concierge -- SHU student awarded physician assistant grant -- Band hosts be the match registration drive -- Men's soccer begins NEC schedule -- Men's lacrosse announces 3 coaching changes

Robots As Intentional Agents: Using Neuroscientific Methods To Make Robots Appear More Social, E Wiese, G Metta, A Wykowska

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Robots are increasingly envisaged as our future cohabitants. However, while considerable progress has been made in recent years in terms of their technological realization, the ability of robots to interact with humans in an intuitive and social way is still quite limited. An important challenge for social robotics is to determine how to design robots that can perceive the user’s needs, feelings, and intentions, and adapt to users over a broad range of cognitive abilities. It is conceivable that if robots were able to adequately demonstrate these skills, humans would eventually accept them as social companions. We argue that the …

Poison Pen: Rita Skeeter, Her Quick-Quotes Quill & Journalism Ethics In The Wizarding World, Lola Burnham

Twenty Years of Harry Potter: Celebrating a Phenomenon

The news media play an important role in the Harry Potter books almost from page one. In the first three books, the news media are taken at their word and what they report is to be believed. Beginning with “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” however, author J.K. Rowling’s portrayal of the Wizarding news media takes a dark turn with the introduction of the unscrupulous Rita Skeeter, correspondent for the Daily Prophet. This program will weigh Skeeter’s reporting methods against the ethical principles espoused in the U.K.’s (admittedly Muggle) Independent Press Standards Organisation’s Editors’ Code of Practice. The IPSO …

To Build The Fire Of Revolution, Stephen Roddewig

James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)

Scholarly examinations of naturalism in Jack London’s 1908 short story “To Build a Fire” often overlook the influence of the socialist political movement. After surveying the American Socialist Party movement and London’s activism in “How I Became a Socialist,” this essay uses the frame of Marxist rhetorical criticism to inspect sociopolitical themes in London’s famous story. London’s critiques of Individualism in “How I Became a Socialist” parallel one of his concerns in “To Build a Fire” as his unnamed protagonist progresses through the Yukon with the larger ideals of American society and the capitalist economy guiding his actions. Although masculinity, …

Amusement Muse, John Miller

Exile

No abstract provided.

Concerning Flem Snopes And Benjamin Franklin, David Schieber

Exile

No abstract provided.

Biopolitical Masochism In Marina Abramović’S The Artist Is Present, Jaime Brunton

Department of English: Faculty Publications

This essay analyzes The Artist Is Present, Marina Abramović’s heavily mediatized 2010 performance at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, through the lenses of Freudian and Deleuzean concepts of masochism, specifically with respect to how the masochistic tendencies of this performance may be read in the current context of biopolitics. The essay seeks answers to questions of political import that many critical analyses of Abramović’s performance, which focus on details of the performer’s personal history, have not adequately addressed. Drawing on the documentary film Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (2012) that follows Abramović through the conceptualization and enactment …

On Capstones: Rachael Konke, Mapw Alumna

MAPWriting

A profile article about Rachael Konke, MAPW alumna, and her take on capstone writing.