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Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington. His best-known book is the semi-autobiographical young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), which won the 2007 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Odyssey Award as best 2008 audiobook for young people (read by Alexie). He also wrote The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), a collection of short stories, which was adapted as the film Smoke Signals (1998), for which he also wrote the screenplay. His first novel, Reservation Blues, received a 1996 American Book Award. His 2009 collection of short stories and poems, War Dances, won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Early life Alexie was born at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, Washington. He is a citizen of the Spokane Tribe of the Spokane Reservation and grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. His father, Sherman Joseph Alexie, was a citizen of the Coeur D'Alene Tribe, and his mother, Lillian Agnes Cox, who was Spokane and also of Colville, Choctaw, and European American ancestry. One of his paternal great-grandfathers was of Russian descent. Alexie was born with hydrocephalus, a condition that occurs when there is an abnormally large amount of cerebral fluid in the brain's ventricular system. He had to have brain surgery when he was six months old, and was at high risk of death or mental disabilities if he survived. Alexie's surgery was successful; he did not experience mental damage but had other side effects. His parents were alcoholics, though his mother achieved sobriety. His father often left the house on drinking binges for days at a time. To support her six children, Alexie's mother, Lillian, sewed quilts, worked as a clerk at the Wellpinit Trading Post, and had some other jobs. Alexie has described his life at the reservation school as challenging, as he was constantly teased by other kids and endured abuse he described as "torture" from white nuns who taught there. They called him "The Globe" because his head was larger than usual, due to his hydrocephalus as an infant. Until the age of seven, Alexie had seizures and bedwetting; he had to take strong drugs to control them. Because of his health problems, he was excluded from many of the activities that are rites of passage for young Indian males. Alexie excelled academically, reading everything available, including auto repair manuals. Education In order to better his education, Alexie decided to leave the reservation and attend high school in Reardan, Washington., 22 miles from the reservation, and where Alexie was the only Native American student. He excelled at his studies and became a star player on the basketball team, the Reardan High School Indians. He was elected class president and was a
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Wellpinit is an unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington, United States. Wellpinit has a post office with ZIP code 99040. It is the setting of the young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. The population of the ZIP Code Tabulation Area for 99040 was 930 at the 2000 census. The community is located on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Notable residents Sherman Alexie - Native American author (grew up here) References Unincorporated communities in Stevens County, Washington Unincorporated communities in Washington (state)
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Novoneel Chakraborty is an Indian author and scriptwriter. Early life and career Chakraborty was born in Silchar, Assam and has lived in Assam, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. He did his schooling at Cathedral School, Lucknow. His first book, A thing beyond forever, was published in 2009. In 2019, he began writing for digital storytelling platform Wattpad using the pen name Elizabeth Eli. His book "The Forever series" found its place in Times of India's Most Stunning Books of 2017. His thriller series The Stranger Trilogy was translated into six Indian languages and has been adapted into a web series titled Hello Mini by Applause Entertainment and Rose movies. His thriller novel Black Suits You has been adapted by AltBalaji into web series Bekaboo. List of Works Novels A thing beyond forever (September 2010) That Kiss in the Rain (November 2011) How about a SIN tonight? (May 2012) Ex...a twisted love story (October 2013) The Stranger Trilogy Marry me, Stranger (November 2014) All yours, Stranger (July 2015) Forget me not, Stranger (April 2016) Black suits you (November 2016) "Forever Series" Forever Is a Lie (August 2017) Forever Is True (October 2017) Cheaters (February 2018) The Best Couple Ever (October 2018) Red Suits You (October 2018) Half Torn Hearts (February 2019) Do You Love Me Enough? (June 2019) Roses Are Blood Red (December 2019) Chill Down the Spine (April 2020) Cross Your Heart, Take My Name (November 2020) Whisper To Me Your Lies (October 2021) A Thousand Kisses Deep (July 2022) Heart On The Edge (December 2022) The Heartbreak Club: One Girl Vs One Twisted Legacy (March 2024) Television Million Dollar Girl (Channel V) Secret Diaries (Channel V) Twist Waala Love (Channel V) Pyaar Tuney Kya Kiya (Zing TV) Savdhaan India (star bharat) Mann Mein Vishwas Hai (Sony) Love is in the stories (Romedy Now) Web series Marry Me, Stranger as "Hello Mini" (2019) released on MX Player All Yours, Stranger as "Hello Mini 2" (2021) released on MX Player Forgot me not, Stranger as "Hello Mini 3" (2021) released on MX Player Black Suits You as "Bekaboo" (2019) released on (ALTBalaji) "Rejctx" (2019) released on ZEE5 original "Rejctx 2" (2020) released on ZEE5 originals Forever Series as "Roohaniyat" (2022) on MX Player References External links Novoneel Chakraborty at Penguin India Date of birth missing (living people) Living people Indian writers Novelists from Assam Year of birth missing (living people)
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Invisible is a novel by Paul Auster published in 2009 by Henry Holt and Company. It was Auster’s fifteenth novel. The book is divided into four overlapping parts, told by three different narrators. Plot summary The first section, titled "Spring" and told in first person, chronicles the entanglement of Columbia University student Adam Walker with French political science professor Rudolf Born, who meet in New York City in the spring of 1967 and who form an alliance to publish a literary magazine. Their friendship splinters as a result of a tense love triangle with Born's girlfriend Margot and as a result of a late night mugging that ends in violence. The second section, "Summer" describes the events in Adam's life later that summer in New York sharing an apartment with his older sister, Gwyn. This section of the story is told in second person. Adam's story of the summer of 1967 is also framed by his having sent his manuscript, written in 2007, to a college friend of his, James Freeman, who we are told is a famous author. In the framing story, James tells us how he receives the manuscript from a dying Adam and they arrange to meet. In the third section, "Fall" we learn that Adam, in 2007, has died before he and James could meet, and has completed only notes of the third and final section of his memoir of 1967. James fleshes out the notes Adam has left in a third person account. "Fall" tells the story of Adam's trip to Paris, where he encounters Born and Margot, as well as other friends of Born's, a woman named Hélène and her daughter Cécile. Adam inserts himself into the lives of these women and contrives a scheme to atone for guilt he carries stemming from his actions following the mugging in New York. The final section takes place in 2007. James has been told by Gwyn that the major events of the second section of the book are entirely made-up, and James wonders whether any of the purported memoir is true. In searching for corroboration, James tracks down Cécile, now a distinguished literary scholar. She concludes the story by describing in her diary how she, in 2007, has a final strange contact with Rudolf Born, at his remote island home in the Caribbean. Themes The book centers on the tension between sex and war in the hearts of 1960s radicals, and the magnetism of intelligence and evil. As with much of Auster's work the novel deals with questions of shifting identity, puzzles and illusion, a persistent sense of dread, and of characters feeling trapped by circumstances over which they have no control. Reviews "Invisible by Paul Auster: review" at The Telegraph "Invisible, by Paul Auster" at The Independent "Invisible by Paul Auster" at The Guardian "Love Crimes" at The New York Times Notes 2009 American novels Novels by Paul Auster Novels set in Columbia University Henry Holt and Company books
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The Princess Diaries is a series of epistolary young adult novels written by Meg Cabot, and is also the title of the first volume, published in 2000. The series spent 48 weeks on the New York Times Children's Series Best Sellers List. The series revolves around Amelia 'Mia' Thermopolis, a teenager in New York who discovers that she is the princess of a small European principality called Genovia. The series follows Mia's life throughout high school in the 2000s and juggling regular teenage life with being a royal princess. The books are noted for containing many pop culture references from the 2000s that influence some of the plot. Meg Cabot quotes the series' inspiration on her website stating: "I was inspired to write The Princess Diaries when my mom, after the death of my father, began dating one of my teachers; they later went on to get married just as Mia's mom does in the book! I have always had a 'thing' for princesses (my parents used to joke that when I was smaller, I did a lot of insisting that my 'real' parents, the king and queen, were going to come get me soon, and that everyone had better start being a lot nicer to me) so I stuck a princess in the book just for kicks... and voilà! The Princess Diaries was born." In 2015, a spin-off series for tweens launched. Mia's half-sister Olivia made her debut in From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess, released in May 2015. The new book in the Princess Diaries series, The Quarantine Princess Diaries, was published in March 2023. Setting The series is set primarily in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Some books take place in Genovia, a fictional European country. Genovia is a principality between France and Italy ruled by Mia's father, Prince Philippe Renaldi, and by Mia's grandmother, Dowager Princess Clarisse Renaldi. Characters Mia Thermopolis Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo (Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Renaldi in the movies), Princess of Genovia is the protagonist of the series. She is the daughter of Helen Thermopolis, a painter, and Philippe Renaldo, the crown prince of Genovia. Mia is also the Princess Regent of Genovia. Mia is sometimes shy and has a down-to-earth personality, though on occasion Mia shows herself to be quite sarcastic and sly. Throughout the series she is very critical of herself, describing herself as flat-chested, taller than most girls at 5-foot-9, and having embarrassingly large feet. She also has a tendency to over-analyze things and worry too much. In the 2001 film, The Princess Diaries, Mia (portrayed by Anne Hathaway) is aged 15, unlicensed, and owns a 1965 Mustang. She has similar qualities, but her father dies two months prior to when the movie begins, and her last name is Renaldi instead of Renaldo. She lives in San Francisco instead of New York. Clarisse Marie Grimaldi Renaldo, Dowager Princess of Genovia Clarisse Maria was formally known as Clarisse Marie Grimaldi Renaldo, Dowager Princess of Genovia. Clarisse
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Ready or Not is the sequel to the novel All-American Girl. Both were written by Meg Cabot, who is also the author of The Princess Diaries. The book takes place about one year after the events of All-American Girl. The book were banned by School District of Indian River County. It received 3.75 stars on goodreads.com. Plot Description Samantha "Sam" Madison is still teen ambassador to the United Nations and happily dating the President's son, David. She is also still a semi-celebrity for saving the President's life but does not like the attention she gets for it. As a way to go back to being unnoticed, Sam dyes her naturally red hair to jet black at the beginning of the novel. She and David also start to take a life-drawing class together, though she did not realize that it was about sketching nude models. When David invites her to spend Thanksgiving at Camp David, Sam believes that he wants to have sex. Unsure of whether she's ready for that step in their relationship, she consults her older sister Lucy. Lucy ends up being extremely helpful by giving her sex advice and buying Sam contraceptives. Meanwhile, The President announces his "Return to Family" campaign, which includes plans to limit access to abortion and birth control. Samantha is faced with a huge dilemma when she accidentally comes off as condemning the "Return to Family" policy on an MTV special by accidentally implying that she and David have had sex. Sam receives mostly negative backlash for her remarks, but is supported by her friends and family for being honest. When she goes to Camp David during Thanksgiving, she waits in her room all night for David to come, but he never does. Feeling furious, she sneaks into David's room and berates him for his mixed-messages over them having sex. David replies that he didn't mean to imply that anything was going to happen between them. Sam comes to understand that she made up the whole dilemma in her head, but also realizes that she does want to have sex because she loves David. When Sam comes home, she tells Lucy about her and David's first time and discovers that Lucy is actually still a virgin. Lucy explains that she wants to find someone she truly loves before taking that big step. She believes that her tutor Harold is "the One" for her, like how David is for Sam. References External links Meg Cabot's official website Meg Cabot Book Club 2005 American novels American young adult novels Novels by Meg Cabot HarperCollins books
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In statistics, mean absolute error (MAE) is a measure of errors between paired observations expressing the same phenomenon. Examples of Y versus X include comparisons of predicted versus observed, subsequent time versus initial time, and one technique of measurement versus an alternative technique of measurement. MAE is calculated as the sum of absolute errors (i.e., the Manhattan distance) divided by the sample size:It is thus an arithmetic average of the absolute errors , where is the prediction and the true value. Alternative formulations may include relative frequencies as weight factors. The mean absolute error uses the same scale as the data being measured. This is known as a scale-dependent accuracy measure and therefore cannot be used to make comparisons between predicted values that use different scales. The mean absolute error is a common measure of forecast error in time series analysis, sometimes used in confusion with the more standard definition of mean absolute deviation. The same confusion exists more generally. Quantity disagreement and allocation disagreement In remote sensing the MAE is sometimes expressed as the sum of two components: quantity disagreement and allocation disagreement. Quantity disagreement is the absolute value of the mean error:Allocation disagreement is MAE minus quantity disagreement. It is also possible to identify the types of difference by looking at an plot. Quantity difference exists when the average of the X values does not equal the average of the Y values. Allocation difference exists if and only if points reside on both sides of the identity line. Related measures The mean absolute error is one of a number of ways of comparing forecasts with their eventual outcomes. Well-established alternatives are the mean absolute scaled error (MASE), mean absolute log error (MALE), and the mean squared error. These all summarize performance in ways that disregard the direction of over- or under- prediction; a measure that does place emphasis on this is the mean signed difference. Where a prediction model is to be fitted using a selected performance measure, in the sense that the least squares approach is related to the mean squared error, the equivalent for mean absolute error is least absolute deviations. MAE is not identical to root-mean square error (RMSE), although some researchers report and interpret it that way. The MAE is conceptually simpler and also easier to interpret than RMSE: it is simply the average absolute vertical or horizontal distance between each point in a scatter plot and the Y=X line. In other words, MAE is the average absolute difference between X and Y. Furthermore, each error contributes to MAE in proportion to the absolute value of the error. This is in contrast to RMSE which involves squaring the differences, so that a few large differences will increase the RMSE to a greater degree than the MAE. Optimality property The mean absolute error of a real variable c with respect to the random variable X isProvided that the probability distribution of X is such that the above expectation exists, then m is a median of
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Standing in the Light, The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, is a Dear America novel written by Mary Pope Osborne. It was first published in 1998. The novel is set in Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania in 1763. Plot summary Catherine has always lived a simple life with her Quaker family. But when she and her brother are captured by Indians her whole world is turned upside down. She is adopted by an old woman and her daughter. The old woman lost her other daughter, Snow Bird, to measles. Initially, Catherine despises the Indians and is in anguish for her brother who was taken to live with another tribe. She yells at and insults the Indians, until she gets dreams of her brother indicating that he lives over the hill. She decided to climb it, but first she had to cross an icy river. the ice broke, and she was saved by a hunter named Snow Hunter. She discovers that he can speak English, and tells him of the dreams she had of her brother. The next day, Thomas was with her, but he was very sick. Catherine and the old woman nurse him back to health. Catherine and Thomas start to develop close bonds with Snow Hunter and the other Indians, Catherine especially. And then, one day the English attack their camp. They took Catherine and Thomas back to their original family, not knowing if Snow Hunter and the others are alive or not. This was especially hard for Catherine, because she had grown to love Snow Hunter. She felt estranged from her true family, and when her father read her diary, she still was miserable eventually she adapted to her true life but never forgot her experiences with the Lenape. Main characters Catherine Snow Hunter Thomas Little Cloud White Owl Little One Mother Father 1998 American novels American historical novels American children's novels Children's historical novels Fiction set in 1763 Novels set in the 1760s Novels set in Pennsylvania Novels about race and ethnicity American captivity narratives Delaware Valley 1998 children's books Children's books set in Pennsylvania Children's books set in the 1760s Children's books about Native Americans Fictional diaries
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In mathematics, the binomial series is a generalization of the polynomial that comes from a binomial formula expression like for a nonnegative integer . Specifically, the binomial series is the MacLaurin series for the function , where and . Explicitly, where the power series on the right-hand side of () is expressed in terms of the (generalized) binomial coefficients Note that if is a nonnegative integer then the term and all later terms in the series are , since each contains a factor of . Thus, in this case, the series is finite and gives the algebraic binomial formula. Convergence Conditions for convergence Whether () converges depends on the values of the complex numbers and . More precisely: If , the series converges absolutely for any complex number . If , the series converges absolutely if and only if either or , where denotes the real part of . If and , the series converges if and only if . If , the series converges if and only if either or . If , the series diverges except when is a non-negative integer, in which case the series is a finite sum. In particular, if is not a non-negative integer, the situation at the boundary of the disk of convergence, , is summarized as follows: If , the series converges absolutely. If , the series converges conditionally if and diverges if . If , the series diverges. Identities to be used in the proof The following hold for any complex number : Unless is a nonnegative integer (in which case the binomial coefficients vanish as is larger than ), a useful asymptotic relationship for the binomial coefficients is, in Landau notation: This is essentially equivalent to Euler's definition of the Gamma function: and implies immediately the coarser bounds for some positive constants and . Formula () for the generalized binomial coefficient can be rewritten as Proof To prove (i) and (v), apply the ratio test and use formula () above to show that whenever is not a nonnegative integer, the radius of convergence is exactly 1. Part (ii) follows from formula (), by comparison with the -series with . To prove (iii), first use formula () to obtain and then use (ii) and formula () again to prove convergence of the right-hand side when is assumed. On the other hand, the series does not converge if and , again by formula (). Alternatively, we may observe that for all , . Thus, by formula (), for all . This completes the proof of (iii). Turning to (iv), we use identity () above with and in place of , along with formula (), to obtain as . Assertion (iv) now follows from the asymptotic behavior of the sequence . (Precisely, certainly converges to if and diverges to if . If , then converges if and only if the sequence converges , which is certainly true if but false if : in the latter case the sequence is dense , due to
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This is a history of aesthetics. Ancient Greek aesthetics The first important contributions to aesthetic theory are usually considered to stem from philosophers in Ancient Greece, among which the most noticeable are Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus. When interpreting writings from this time, it is worth noticing that it is debatable whether an exact equivalent to the term beauty existed in classical Greek. Xenophon regarded the beautiful as coincident with the good, while both of these concepts are resolvable into the useful. Every beautiful object is so called because it serves some rational end: either the security or the gratification of man. Socrates rather emphasized the power of beauty to further the more necessary ends of life than the immediate gratification which a beautiful object affords to perception and contemplation. His doctrine puts forward the relativity of beauty. Plato, in contrast, recognized that beauty exists as an abstract Form. It is therefore absolute and does not necessarily stand in relation to a percipient mind. Plato Of the views of Plato on the subject, it is hardly less difficult to gain a clear conception from the Dialogues, than it is in the case of ethical good. In some of these, various definitions of the beautiful are rejected as inadequate by the Platonic Socrates. At the same time we may conclude that Plato's mind leaned decidedly to the conception of an absolute beauty, which took its place in his scheme of ideas or self-existing forms. This true beauty is nothing discoverable as an attribute in another thing, for these are only beautiful things, not the beautiful itself. Love (Eros) produces aspiration towards this pure idea. Elsewhere the soul's intuition of the self-beautiful is said to be a reminiscence of its prenatal existence. As to the precise forms in which the idea of beauty reveals itself, Plato is not very decided. His theory of an absolute beauty does not easily adjust itself to the notion of its contributing merely a variety of sensuous pleasure, to which he appears to lean in some dialogues. He tends to identify the self-beautiful with the conceptions of the true and the good, and thus there arose the Platonic formula kalokagathia. So far as his writings embody the notion of any common element in beautiful objects, it is proportion, harmony or unity among their parts. He emphasizes unity in its simplest aspect as seen in evenness of line and purity of color. He recognizes in places the beauty of the mind, and seems to think that the highest beauty of proportion is to be found in the union of a beautiful mind with a beautiful body. He had but a poor opinion of art, regarding it as a trick of imitation (mimesis) which takes us another step further from the luminous sphere of rational intuition into the shadowy region of the semblances of sense. Accordingly, in his scheme for an ideal republic, he provided for the most inexorable censorship of poets, etc., so as to make art as far
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Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? is a 2016 non-fiction book authored by five Kashmiri women: Essar Batool, Ifrah Butt, Munaza Rashid, Natasha Rather and Samreena Mushtaq. The book concerns the alleged 1991 mass rape by Indian security forces and is part of a series on "Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia" published by Zubaan Books and supported by the International Development Research Centre. The book was officially released at the Jaipur Literature Festival. Inspired by the public reaction to the Nirbhaya gang rape in December 2012, the five Kashmiri authors chronicle the night of 23/24 February 1991 in Kupwara district in the neighboring villages of Kunan and Poshpora, where the 68th Mountain Brigade of the 4th Rajputana Rifle killed several male members and allegedly raped a number of women. The Kunan Poshpora incident is the second time the Indian Army has been accused of "mass sexual violence", the first one is the mass rape accusation on Indian Army's IPKF against Tamil girls in Sri lanka ( Indian Army faces rape allegations in North Eastern States) The authors themselves lobbied the government to reopen the investigation of the incident, which was done in 2013. Description The book is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter is about the overall role that women have played in the resistance movement in Kashmir. This is followed by each of the authors penning down what they personally remember of the incident. The next two chapters lay out the background of what was happening in Kashmir at the time. Here the authors analyze a police case diary, statements to the State Human Rights Commission and the interviews of the authors with those in the village. The book is the first extensive interaction with the alleged victims. The fourth chapter portrays the lives of the two villages today. The fifth chapter covers the official information on the case where the authors criticize the Verghese report by the Press Council of India team which had concluded that the incident was a hoax. The sixth chapter goes on to reconstruct the events of that night through first person interviews. The seventh and last chapter of the book narrates the struggle by the survivors and authors to get justice including a public interest litigation in 2013. February 23 is now known as ‘Kashmiri Women’s Resistance Day’. Critical reception The book has been seen as the ability of Kashmiri women to tell their own story, lead the discourse, and show resistance. The new information, the interviews with the people of Kunan and Poshpora, as well as the case diary which the authors have brought into the public domain also add to the value of the book. The authors faced numerous hurdles in conducting a book launch. A seminar in Ambedkar University in which one of the authors was due to speak was cancelled for fear of violence. See also 41 biranganas Rape during the Kashmir conflict References Bibliography Rape in India 2016 non-fiction books Books about the Kashmir conflict
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Isaac Newton's rotating bucket argument (also known as Newton's bucket) was designed to demonstrate that true rotational motion cannot be defined as the relative rotation of the body with respect to the immediately surrounding bodies. It is one of five arguments from the "properties, causes, and effects" of "true motion and rest" that support his contention that, in general, true motion and rest cannot be defined as special instances of motion or rest relative to other bodies, but instead can be defined only by reference to absolute space. Alternatively, these experiments provide an operational definition of what is meant by "absolute rotation", and do not pretend to address the question of "rotation relative to what?" General relativity dispenses with absolute space and with physics whose cause is external to the system, with the concept of geodesics of spacetime. Background These arguments, and a discussion of the distinctions between absolute and relative time, space, place and motion, appear in a scholium at the end of Definitions sections in Book I of Newton's work, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687) (not to be confused with General Scholium at the end of Book III), which established the foundations of classical mechanics and introduced his law of universal gravitation, which yielded the first quantitatively adequate dynamical explanation of planetary motion. Despite their embrace of the principle of rectilinear inertia and the recognition of the kinematical relativity of apparent motion (which underlies whether the Ptolemaic or the Copernican system is correct), natural philosophers of the seventeenth century continued to consider true motion and rest as physically separate descriptors of an individual body. The dominant view Newton opposed was devised by René Descartes, and was supported (in part) by Gottfried Leibniz. It held that empty space is a metaphysical impossibility because space is nothing other than the extension of matter, or, in other words, that when one speaks of the space between things one is actually making reference to the relationship that exists between those things and not to some entity that stands between them. Concordant with the above understanding, any assertion about the motion of a body boils down to a description over time in which the body under consideration is at t1 found in the vicinity of one group of "landmark" bodies and at some t2 is found in the vicinity of some other "landmark" body or bodies. Descartes recognized that there would be a real difference, however, between a situation in which a body with movable parts and originally at rest with respect to a surrounding ring was itself accelerated to a certain angular velocity with respect to the ring, and another situation in which the surrounding ring were given a contrary acceleration with respect to the central object. With sole regard to the central object and the surrounding ring, the motions would be indistinguishable from each other assuming that both the central object and the surrounding ring were absolutely rigid objects. However, if neither the central object nor the surrounding ring
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is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by Cube, a brand of Cuffs. It was originally released on September 30, 2011, for Microsoft Windows. Later, Alchemist ported the game without the erotic content to the PlayStation Portable. Your Diary will be released for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. The story revolves around Tomoki Nagamine, who has feelings for an upperclassman named Sayuki Ayase. Upon receiving a diary from the library manager, he is informed by Yua that all of his happiest memories will be recorded in the diary. The gameplay of Your Diary follows a branching plot line which offers pre-determined scenarios with courses of interaction, and focuses on the appeal of the four female main characters by the player character. The game ranked as the third best-selling bishōjo game at the time of its release. It received a manga adaptation which serialized in Hakusensha's Young Animal Island between volumes 19 and 24. Gameplay Your Diary is a romance visual novel in which the player assumes the role of Tomoki Nagamine. Much of its gameplay is spent reading the text that appears on the screen, which represents the story's narrative and dialogue. The text is accompanied by character sprites, which represent who Tomoki is talking to, over background art. Throughout the game, the player encounters CG artwork at certain points in the story, which take the place of the background art and character sprites. Your Diary follows a branching plot line with multiple endings, and depending on the decisions that the player makes during the game, the plot will progress in a specific direction. There are four main plot lines in the original Windows release that the player will have the chance to experience, one for each of the heroines in the story. Throughout gameplay, the player is given multiple options to choose from, and text progression pauses at these points until a choice is made. Some decisions can lead the game to end prematurely and offer an alternative ending to the plot. To view all plot lines in their entirety, the player will have to replay the game multiple times and choose different choices to further the plot to an alternate direction. In adult versions of the game, there are scenes depicting Tomoki and a given heroine having sex. Plot Story Tomoki Nagamine attempts to confess his love to an upperclassman named Sayuki Ayase; however, he does not succeed in doing so, being caught off by a sad expression on her face. In the meantime, he works alongside his crush Sayuki in the library committee. One day, after wandering into a seemingly-abandoned library, the library manager Misuzu gives Tomoki a diary called "Your Diary", telling him that the book chose him. A cute girl introducing herself as Yua—who is the goddess of happiness—comes bursting out of the book and informs Tomoki that all his happiest memories will be recorded in his diary. The story mostly revolves around Tomoki interacting with the four heroines (in later versions, seven) and
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Subhash Awchat is an Indian artist and author based in Mumbai. Literary career Awchat wrote the novel Madam in memory of Smita Patil, a collection of short stories, and a book of essays. His book Studio was collated from diaries that Awchat wrote over a period of 20 years. Studio is dedicated to Smita Patil and opens with a poem dedicated to Patil, who was a childhood friend of Awchat's. Awchat talks about the book: "Studio does not explicitly deal with my art, but the undercurrent of art is forever present. Here, in my own way, I have expressed my idea about art among other things. I have tried to explore the need for an artist to step out of the immediate urban microcosm, and into the rural India." Career as an artist Awchat started off as a graphic designer but left the world of advertising to take up painting. Awchat intermittently worked on canvases from his Clown series from 1986 to 1991. Awchat's writing is an offshoot of his art in that each time he struggles with his artwork he returns to writing as a creative outlet. Subhash Awachat acted in the award winning Marathi film 22 June 1897 (1979). Awchat is working on a commission. he is planning on moving to Alibaug, Maharashtra. References Indian male writers Writers from Pune 1960 births Living people
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"Diary Queen" is the 12th episode of the thirty-second season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 696th episode overall. The episode was directed by Matthew Nastuk and written by Jeff Westbrook. The episode follows Bart’s discovery of his former teacher's diary. Plot When Ned Flanders holds a yard sale, Bart and Milhouse buy several books as part of a scheme to record a stunt. When that backfires, the boys discover their late teacher Edna Krabappel's old diary among the books. They then escape Fat Tony and his mob and prank the school staff. Despite Milhouse repeatedly urging him not to invade Edna's privacy, Bart heads to his treehouse and starts reading the diary, discovering a page where Edna had written that she thought Bart had potential in succeeding in school. Convinced that he is the most improved student, Bart starts doing well in school. After Bart passes a test, the family celebrates with a cake, but Marge and Lisa look around his room, suspecting him of cheating. With the help of Maggie, Lisa finds the diary at the treehouse and discovers that Edna was actually referring to her pet cat. Lisa hides this from Bart, which soon stresses her out. When Bart decides to enter the school spelling bee, Lisa reveals the truth, causing a depressed Bart to hide in his treehouse alone. Later in the treehouse, Ned reveals to Bart that his family had considered leaving Springfield, but were stopped by Edna, who believed she needed to stay, as children like Bart needed her. Realizing that Edna truly did care for him, Bart returns the diary to Ned. At home, Ned reads the diary and is brought to tears over an entry where Edna says that being married to him made her dreams come true. The episode ends with a montage of Edna's moments throughout the series. Production Casting The late Marcia Wallace guest-stars as Edna Krabappel through archive recordings. Her estate cleared her appearance and was compensated for it. The show did not give a farewell to Wallace's character at the time of her passing because producers were not aware she was ill, so this episode was an attempt to memorialize her. The producers also decided not to reveal how Edna died. This is the final episode in which actor Harry Shearer voices the black character of Dr. Hibbert. Beginning with the following episode "Wad Goals," he is voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson, who is African-American. In addition, Julio had his voice provided by Mario Jose in this episode. Joe Mantegna appears as Fat Tony. Release The episode was scheduled to debut on January 10, 2021, but was rescheduled to February 14 due to being preempted by the NFL playoffs. Rain delays at the 2021 Daytona 500 further delayed all prime time shows scheduled for broadcast to February 21. Reception Viewing figures In the United States, the episode was watched live by 1.43 million viewers. Critical response Tony Sokol with Den of Geek, said
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"Black Hole Sun" is the 4th episode of the sixth season of the American series The Vampire Diaries and the series' 115th episode overall. "Black Hole Sun" was originally aired on October 23, 2014, on The CW. The episode was written by Melinda Hsu Taylor and Neil Reynolds and directed by Kellie Cyrus. Plot Back in the present, Stefan wants to leave Mystic Falls to continue his life, but Elena wants him to prove to her that he is indeed happy and then she will accept his decision. While sitting in a snack/bar, Stefan proposes to her in front of everyone, showing her how they can get new identities and new lives and start over. When Elena leaves, Stefan gets into a fight with a guy letting him beat him up. Elena comes back to take her jacket and stops the fight, compels the guy and sends him home. When she tells Stefan that she does not agree with his coping methods and asks for explanations, Stefan tell her that everyone has their own to move on. He tells her what she asked Alaric (Matthew Davis) to do and that she removed all her good memories about Damon just because she could not handle his death. Elena does not want to believe him and when she gets home, she asks Alaric if it is true. Alaric gives her a diary of hers where she wrote everything about her decision and when he asks her if she want her memories back, she tells him no. Matt (Zach Roerig) decides to probe Tripp (Colin Ferguson) to find out how much he knows about vampires. When Matt tells him about Jay (Matthew Barnes) told him before he died that he was tracking a vampire, Tripp decides to trust him and tells him all he knows while leading him to the place where he keeps Enzo (Michael Malarkey). He says that Enzo was the one who killed Jay but he wants to make him talk and reveal where his other vampire friends are before he kills him. Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) returns to the Salvatore house and finds Sarah (Gabrielle Walsh) there. Sarah tells him that she knows about his vampire sister and she also shows him a picture she found in the house of her parents. Sarah asks for explanations and if he knows them. Jeremey recognizes Zach in the picture and tells her that her father is Zach Salvatore. Sarah explains that her mother was killed (by Damon Salvatore) while she was pregnant but the doctor did an emergency C-section (Caesarean section) and didn’t save the baby (Sarah’s little sister) Feature music In the episode "Black Hole Sun" the songs are: "Black Is the Color" by Lucette "St. Louis Who" by The Lexingtons "Harlem" by Cathedrals "Fell on Black Days" by Soundgarden "Wild Ones" by Jessarae "Figure It Out" by Royal Blood "The Power of Love" by Gabrielle Aplin Cultural references The title of the episode refers to a sun during an
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Guadalcanal Diary is a memoir written by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis and originally published by Random House on January 1, 1943. The book recounts the author's time with the United States Marine Corps on Guadalcanal in the early stages of the pivotal months-long battle there starting in 1942. It was the first book published by Random House to sell more than 100,000 copies. Almost immediately after publication, the memoir was made into a movie of the same name featuring William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn, and John Archer, marking the movie debut of Richard Jaeckel. Synopsis The book chronicles the author's experiences as a war correspondent for the International News Service (INS) during the first seven weeks of the Guadalcanal campaign, from the first landings on August 7, 1942 to his departure on September 26, 1942. Tregaskis was also around for Operation Dovetail, a practice run for the Guadalcanal landings, but while he was on board one of the troop transports involved, his book does not cover the operation or him being at Koro Island, where the operation took place. Tregaskis relates combat and conversation in vernacular, citing the full name, rank, and hometown of each of the Marines he encountered during the weeks he was on the island. Background During his time on the frontlines with troops from the United States Marine Corps, Tregaskis wrote down what he saw onto various small notebooks, which he stored in his pockets and had numbered for easier reference. At night, he would compile the information into his diary, adding references to specific books in the event he wanted to publish his journal as a full-length book. On September 25, Tregaskis flew out of the island to New Caledonia and then boarded a flight for Honolulu, where he began writing Guadalcanal Diary. Due to wartime media regulations, he had to write the book under supervision at the Navy offices at Pearl Harbor, and his diary was kept in a safe during the night. (Tregaskis never got the diary back.) According to a follow-up essay Tregaskis wrote in 1964, his manuscript was subject to military censorship by the Office of Naval Intelligence. For example, one of the Naval Intelligence officers excised a portion about Japanese encampments smelling "sweet-ish"; the officer, according to Tregaskis, was "apparently" worried about Japanese troops reading the book and using deodorant to hide their camps. Tregaskis finished his manuscript in November 1942 and sent it over to Barris Faris, editor-in-chief of the INS, who in turn sent it over to Ward Greene, head editor of King Features Syndicate. Greene then sent it out to nine other publishers for bidding, an unusual practice at the time. Bennett Cerf, one of the founders of Random House, received his copy on November 11, read it from beginning to end that night, and called Greene the next day to secure publishing rights, anticipating a high demand for stories about the Guadalcanal campaign. Random House rushed Guadalcanal Diary into print and published the book on
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Rustomji Homusji Mody, known to most as Russi Mody (17 January 1918 – 16 May 2014), was a chairman and managing director of Tata Steel and a leading member of the Tata Group. Early years Russi was born on 17 January 1918 in Bombay (now Mumbai) to a Parsi family. His father was Sir Homi Mody. His mother was Lady Jerbai Mody née Dubash. Russi had two brothers, Kali Homi Mody and Piloo Mody. After a few years of schooling in India, he was sent to England for further studies. He studied at St Cyprian's School, Harrow School and later at Christ Church, Oxford. On his return to India he joined Tata Steel as an office assistant. Russi was married to Siloo Mugaseth, the daughter of his mother's sister, and lived in Kolkata until his death. Career Mody joined Tata Steel in 1939 and he was promoted to the position of Director of Personnel in 1953. He took up the position of the Director of Raw Materials in 1965. In 1970, he was appointed Director of Operations and became Joint Managing Director in 1972. He was the most generous Managing Director of Tata Steel Ltd. He started many rewards like giving of AC Maruti Suzuki 800 to all Divisional Managers of Tata Steel. He never faced a strike at the Tata Steel Plant. After retiring from Tata Steel in March 1993, the then Prime Minister of India, Shri P V Narasimha Rao appointed Mody as Joint Chairman of Indian Airlines and Air India. Russi Mody Centre for Excellence, built by noted architect Hafeez Contractor that contains archives of the Tata Group, was named after him. Anecdotes Hearsay has it that Russi Mody was pulled up by a policeman as he tried to park his car on the narrow road. Admonished with "Tumhara baap ka rasta hain kya?" ("Does this road belong to your father?") the young scion pointed in good humour to the road sign indeed printed with the distinguished paternal name. He was also known to eat 16-egg omelette for breakfasts. During his studies at Oxford, he happened to accompany Albert Einstein on the violin, while he played the piano. Once, Sir Jehangir Ghandy was scheduled to come to Calcutta on a Wednesday afternoon when he would normally play tennis. In his diary lying on the table, he wrote, "TPT CSC meeting on Wednesday at 3 pm," and told his secretaries to take Sir Jehangir to his room, show him the diary and say that Russi had gone to the meeting. True enough, Sir Jehangir came and was shown the diary. He nodded knowledgeably and walked away. Little did he know that TPT CSC was an abbreviation of "To Play Tennis at Calcutta South Club". Award Padma Bhushan (1989) Death Mody died during the night of 16 May 2014 at a private hospital in Kolkata. Books Russi Modi: The Man who also made Steel Russi Modi: The Man And His Vision See also Up, close and intimate with Russi
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If It's Not Forever is a novel by Durjoy Datta and Nikita Singh. It was published in the year 2012 by Grapevine India Publishers. It is set on the story of the 2011 Delhi High Court blasts. Though mentioned as a love story, it is more of a suspense thriller. There are seven characters mentioned in this book, with the main protagonist being Debashish (Deb), who hails from Bengal and is deeply scarred with haunting memories of the blast. The book has received average reviews from critics all over India. Plot The author starts off with memories of the blast day. Deb had survived the bomb attack that left eighty nine people injured and many people dead. He feels sick at home and could not help wipe away the evil memories of the day. He recites the tragic event repeatedly to Avantika, his girlfriend. Avantika loves him and also feels bad, but she tries her best to make him forget what had happened. Quoting from the book, Deb says, "It could have been me". Deb is said to work at a publishing house "that publishes trash novels". His co-worker is named as Shrey, who is addicted towards girls and cannot live without them. He finally recovers from it. He wants to seek redemption as he stood there, on the blast day, watching the victims die. He finds a diary while re-visiting the area, and the edge of the diary is burnt beyond recognition. He takes it home and reads it. The diary has "R.D" written on it. No name, or for that matter address, is provided. But Deb wants to return the diary to Ragini, who "R.D" loved. Most of the novel revolves around the trio (Avantika, Shrey, Deb) and a girl named Tiya, travelling in an old car. They travel and the secrets come back to life. From Dehradun to Mumbai, the novel covers most of the Indian metropolitan cities. In the beginning of the novel the trio's daily life is described. Shrey is reported to work at Grapevine India, and often goes out to "meet someone from the Times". Deb knows that Shrey is actually meeting new girls. It is also highlighted in the novel that Avantika, Deb's girlfriend, hates the company of Shrey's girlfriend Tiya. Tiya is said to be stupid and crazy. Deb doesn't reveal anything about the diary to anyone. He reads the diary and decides to find Ragini so she could know about R.D's true feelings. He plans a road trip with Shrey to Dehradun where R.D and his best friend were studying. They reach Dehradun where Deb goes to Imperial academy to search for R.D's best friend who was listed as an all rounder of that year. He finds his name is Piyush Makhija and an address of Haridwar. When he comes back to hotel he finds out that Tiya is crashing their trip and deeply misses Avantika. Next day they reach Haridwar, Avantika surprises Deb by coming their and spends time with
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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas is a 2001 novel by James Patterson that argues the importance of balance within one's life. Two interwoven stories are told throughout the novel. The framing story is based on Katie Wilkinson, a New York City book editor, whose relationship with poet Matthew Harrison ends suddenly. During this period, Katie learns about Matt's past through the diary written by Suzanne. Background Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas marks Patterson's first attempt in the romance genre. Patterson, a best-selling author, is known for his mystery thriller series featuring detective Alex Cross. Continuing the trend with his novels, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas has sold millions of copies, proving to be very popular. Patterson used some of his experience with heartbreak to write Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas. In 1974, Patterson fell in love with Jane Blanchard. After dating for several years, she was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor. When she died, Patterson devoted his time to writing and stayed away from romantic relationships. Over a decade later, he married Susan, who wrote a diary for their baby son. Plot New York City book editor Katie Wilkinson is devastated when her boyfriend, poet Matt Harrison, abruptly breaks up with her for no apparent reason. He later sends her a diary as a means of explaining why he can't be with her, and Katie discovers the diary is written by a woman named Suzanne, who is writing to her newborn son, Nicholas. Suzanne begins her story in Boston, where she was working as a doctor in a hospital. After she has a heart attack at a young age, her fiancé leaves her, partly because he believes they won't be able to have children due to her health issues. In an effort to start over, she moves to Martha's Vineyard and buys a house that she plans to fix up. Suzanne meets Matt Harrison, a house painter, at a diner and hires him to paint her house. They fall in love and are married, and soon after have a son, Nicholas. When Suzanne becomes pregnant again, she becomes ill with toxemia and is hospitalized, ultimately losing the baby. With Matt's support, she recovers and writes that she feels lucky to have the life that she does. Suzanne's diary entries end suddenly after she writes about having pictures of Nicholas, now almost a year old, taken in a professional studio. Matt takes over writing in the diary and expresses immense grief over the loss of his wife, eventually revealing that Suzanne had a heart attack while driving to pick up the photos of Nicholas and crashed the car, killing both Suzanne and Nicholas. In the present, Katie is devastated by the truth about Matt's past and finally understands that his tremendous grief and guilt is keeping him from moving on with Katie, who he does not know is pregnant by him. She visits Martha's Vineyard and pays her respects at the graves of Suzanne and Nicholas, then finds the house where Matt lived with
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Pori () is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language action comedy film directed by Subramaniam Siva. The film stars Jiiva and Pooja. Pori released on 9 February 2007. The film met with negative reviews and turned out to be a box office bomb. Plot Hari (Jiiva) is an unemployed youth who runs a pavement book shop in Tripiclane area. His father (Nagesh), an upright retired schoolteacher, buys him a shop in a building with his PF money. He names it "Periyar Bookshop" and runs it with his friends (Karunas and Ganeshkar). Meanwhile, he constantly bumps into a TV reporter Pooja (Pooja), and a love-hate relationship happens. One day, a Malaysian-based businessman named Mahadevan (Seeman) comes and evicts Hari from the shop, claiming that it belongs to him. Hari now discovers that his father was cheated by a land mafia gang which specializes in forged documents and is hand-in-glove with revenue officials. He decides to take the gauntlet and unveil the evil forces behind the property grabbers. Soon, he discovers that Nama Shivayam (Sampath Raj), Vinayagam real estates owner, is the brains behind the entire operation. How Hari becomes a one-man army and brings Nama Shivayam to justice forms the rest of the story. Cast Production The film was initially announced in December 2005 with Jiiva and Nila starring, before the latter was replaced by Pooja. A set resembling a street consisting of book shops and homes where most of the action takes place was built at AVM Studios for and was shot there for three weeks while the film was also shot around locations such as Besant Nagar, Ashok Nagar and K. K. Nagar. Soundtrack Soundtrack was composed by Dhina, with lyrics by Yugabharathi. Reception A critic from Nowrunning.com rated the film 1/5, stating that "If you have all the time in the world to do nothing else, go watch Pori. A seriously depressing movie with absolute lack of comedy, story line, good music and everything which goes into making a good movie." Sify wrote "There is no script or narrative as the director deploys all cinematic cliches since time immemorial. Six songs at regular intervals that are badly picturised tests your patience. Jeeva has done a larger-than-life role which just does not suit him". Rediff wrote "Watch Pori if you want to aimlessly fritter time away". Chennai Online wrote "This is the director's second film after the highly successful 'Thiruda Thirudi'. The debut film, though lacking in finesse, had managed to hold audience interest with its humour, colourful characters and peppy song-dance numbers. But 'Pori' fails to excite with its lacklustre script and predictable situations". Lajjavathi of Kalki wrote the story starts only after the break, so it becomes very tiring. She added that the director confuses himself and us by putting many characters. References External links 2000s Indian films 2000s Tamil-language films 2007 action comedy films 2007 films Films directed by Subramaniam Siva Films scored by Dhina Indian action comedy films
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La invención de Morel (; 1940) — translated as The Invention of Morel or Morel's Invention — is a novel by Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares. It was Bioy Casares' breakthrough effort, for which he won the 1941 First Municipal Prize for Literature of the City of Buenos Aires. He considered it the true beginning of his literary career, despite being his seventh book. The first edition cover artist was Norah Borges, sister of Bioy Casares' lifelong friend, Jorge Luis Borges. Plot introduction A fugitive hides on a deserted island somewhere in Polynesia. Tourists arrive, and his fear of being discovered becomes a mixed emotion when he falls in love with one of them. He wants to tell her his feelings, but an anomalous phenomenon keeps them apart. Plot summary The fugitive starts a diary after tourists arrive on the desert island where he is hiding. Although he considers their presence a miracle, he is afraid they will turn him in to the authorities. He retreats to the swamps while they take over the museum on top of the hill where he used to live. The diary described the fugitive as a writer from Venezuela sentenced to life in prison. He believes he is on the (fictional) island of Villings, a part of the Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu), but is not sure. All he knows is that the island is the focus of a strange disease whose symptoms are similar to radiation poisoning. Among the tourists is a woman who watches the sunset every day from the cliff on the west side of the island. He spies on her and while doing so falls in love. She and another man, a bearded tennis player called Morel who visits her frequently, speak French among themselves. Morel calls her Faustine. The fugitive decides to approach her, but she does not react to him. He assumes she is ignoring him; however, his encounters with the other tourists have the same result. Nobody on the island notices him. He points out that the conversations between Faustine and Morel repeat every week and fears he is going crazy. As suddenly as they appeared, the tourists vanish. The fugitive returns to the museum to investigate and finds no evidence of people being there during his absence. He attributes the experience to a hallucination caused by food poisoning, but the tourists reappear that night. They have come out of nowhere and yet they talk as if they have been there for a while. He watches them closely while still avoiding direct contact and notices more strange things. In the aquarium he encounters identical copies of the dead fish he found on his day of arrival. During a day at the pool, he sees the tourists jump to shake off the cold when the heat is unbearable. The strangest thing he notices is the presence of two suns and two moons in the sky. He comes up with all sorts of theories about what is happening on the
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Psychoanalyse und Yoga (English: Psychoanalysis and Yoga) is a 1923 book by the German writer and philosopher Oscar Adolf Hermann Schmitz (16 April 1873 – 17 December 1931). The book introduces the synthesis of the Indian yoga method and the European psychoanalysis with the aim to create a yoga system for Europeans. The content of his essay is an elaboration on a lecture series about yoga and psychoanalysis given at the psychoanalytic conference of the School of Wisdom, which took place on the 3rd until 5 March in 1923. Since 1916, Schmitz worked on a framework that should include yoga and Psychoanalysis, but he lacked the final piece that would have allowed him to meaningfully combine them. The inspiration for the absolute binding of yoga and psychoanalysis came from a correspondence with Count Hermann Keyserling, an associate of Schmitz and one of the founders of the school of wisdom, to whom Schmitz dedicated the book. Keyserling's doctrine of creative self-awareness (schöpferische Selbsterkenntnis) serves as a basis for this synthesis and states that there is only one aim in life, namely self-fulfillment, which can be attained by a combination of both methods. Content The book is split into three sections, which build upon each other in order to explain the logic behind the synthesis of the two opposing methods, yoga and psychoanalysis. Schmitz not only attempts to relate them, but he tries to establish psychoanalysis as a European yoga method. In the first part, he explains general terms and concepts of yoga and psychoanalysis and how they relate to each other by referring to the Indian philosophy and different schools of psychoanalysis. In general, he believes that both methods were developed because people have the natural desire to search for a way to unify the individual with the true, inner self. In Indian philosophy, this true inner self is also known as the Atman, which every person should become aware of. While Yoga is a method to separate from the world to find unity with the personal origin, psychoanalysis instead focuses on the isolated parts of the individual and analyses them critically. However, there is no certain way of how to integrate the single pieces back together into one unity. As a result of their differences, the two methods complement each other. Yoga tries to silence a person's conscious awareness in order to let the unconscious surface. This allows a person to free himself from it and to finally find Atman. However, Europeans are often held up to reach in-depth self-knowledge because they are afraid of their unconscious, which can only be identified and eliminated with the help of psychoanalysis. Schmitz elaborates on the characteristics of the different schools of psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, and Carl G. Jung. In his opinion, the Jungian system comes closest to the Indian yoga method in that it considers a person's psyche as an individual unity and not as a function or part of society. According to Jung's analytical psychology, a person's conscious
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In mathematics, an infinite series of numbers is said to converge absolutely (or to be absolutely convergent) if the sum of the absolute values of the summands is finite. More precisely, a real or complex series is said to converge absolutely if for some real number Similarly, an improper integral of a function, is said to converge absolutely if the integral of the absolute value of the integrand is finite—that is, if A convergent series that is not absolutely convergent is called conditionally convergent. Absolute convergence is important for the study of infinite series because its definition is strong enough to guarantee that a series will have some properties of finite sums that not all convergent series possess—absolutely convergent series behave "nicely". For instance, rearrangements do not change the value of the sum. This is not true for conditionally convergent series: The alternating harmonic series converges to while its rearrangement (in which the repeating pattern of signs is two positive terms followed by one negative term) converges to Background In finite sums, the order in which terms are added is both associative and commutative, meaning that grouping and rearranging do not matter. (1 + 2) + 3 is the same as 1 + (2 + 3), and both are the same as (3 + 2) + 1. However, this is not true when adding infinitely many numbers, and wrongly assuming that it is true can lead to apparent paradoxes. One classic example is the alternating sum whose terms alternate between +1 and −1. What is the value of S? One way to evaluate S is to group the first and second term, the third and fourth, and so on: But another way to evaluate S is to leave the first term alone and group the second and third term, then the fourth and fifth term, and so on: This leads to an apparent paradox: does or ? The answer is that because S is not absolutely convergent, grouping or rearranging its terms changes the value of the sum. This means and are not equal. In fact, the series does not converge, so S does not have a value to find in the first place. A series that is absolutely convergent does not have this problem: grouping or rearranging its terms does not change the value of the sum. Definition for real and complex numbers A sum of real numbers or complex numbers is absolutely convergent if the sum of the absolute values of the terms converges. Sums of more general elements The same definition can be used for series whose terms are not numbers but rather elements of an arbitrary abelian topological group. In that case, instead of using the absolute value, the definition requires the group to have a norm, which is a positive real-valued function on an abelian group (written additively, with identity element 0) such that: The norm of the identity element of is zero: For every implies For every For every In this case, the function
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Selected Stories of Lu Hsun is a collection of English translations of major stories of the Chinese author Lu Xun translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang and first published in 1960 by the Foreign Languages Press in Beijing. This book was republished in 2007 by the Foreign Languages Press with the updated title of Lu Xun Selected Works. Stories included in the collection are drawn from three of Lu Xun's story collections: 《吶喊》Call to Arms (CTA), 《彷徨》 "Wandering" (W), and 《故事新編》 "Old Tales Retold" (OTR). Major themes One major theme in the stories in this collection is that habits of mind (psychology or "spirit") need to be examined; improvements in material conditions and institutions, while important, are not sufficient by themselves to renew China. See in particular A Madman's Diary and The True Story of Ah Q. Lu Xun employed point of view in his stories in a way that was novel at the time for Chinese literature, helping readers consider new possibilities about the true nature of the reality around them. A second major theme in the stories is the problem of how members of the intellectual class are to live their lives. It is a theme in many stories, including Kong Yiji, My Old Home, In the Wine Shop, Regret for the Past, and others. A third major theme in the stories is commentary on traditional customs and institutions. The stories look at the specific dysfunctions of particular customs and institutions, and also at the general result in which people are discarded. It is a theme in many stories, especially Kong Yiji and The New Year Sacrifice. Story synopses Preface to Call to Arms In the preface, signed on December 3, 1922, Lu Xun describes the evolution of his social concerns. An important thread to this preface is his encounters with traditional Chinese medicine and the problems of health care, which bears directly on several stories in the collection. Lu Xun also describes one of his overarching objectives as a writer and social critic: he sees society as "an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation." Is it possible to help them? Or will he only make them suffer unnecessarily by intervening? A Madman's Diary (狂人日記, (CTA), dated April 1918) This story ostensibly reveals the delusions of a man who has passed through a period of madness, and has now returned to sanity and participation in "normal" society. A theme in the story is the nature of reality, and the difficulty of attaining a perspective from which to see reality clearly. "I begin to realize that during the past thirty-odd years I have been in the dark . . ." A secondary theme is the self-destructiveness of traditional Chinese society, likening it to cannibalism. "I have only just realized that I have been living all these years in a place where for four thousand years they have been eating human flesh." The story is said to
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A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane is a biography of J. B. S. Haldane, British-Indian geneticist, communist and writer; written by Samanth Subramanian and published by Simon and Schuster in 2019. Publication A Dominant Character is a biography of J. B. S. Haldane who was a British-Indian geneticist, scientist, innovator, author, writer and communist philosopher. The book was published on 10 December 2019 by Simon & Schuster UK and has 384 pages. Summary J.B.S. Haldane was a scientist who was born in Britain yet was spiritually inclined towards India. He saw action in the two World Wars, was engaged in the most radical politics of his day, conducted scientific research, and wrote with flair and conviction. The book describes his intellect, vision of society, philosophy, and scientific progress. In the latter part, the book mentions his journey to India and within India, from Kolkata to Bhubaneswar. Reception Jacob Koshy, in The Hindu, wrote that the work is an "exquisite literary expedition" into J.B.S.’ boyhood, his family history, his schooling. Koshy wrote that many facts of Haldane's life are well documented in the book and concluded that Subramanian gave compelling context. Shobhit Mahajan wrote that the book is a "comprehensive account" of Haldane's life in a review for Outlook magazine. He noted that the biography grapples well with a great life and found the book well-researched, with extensive use of Haldane's diaries and private letters. He praised the author's "lucid writing" and described the book as a "page-turner" with brilliant asides. He further wrote that the book does a decent job of explaining complicated scientific work in simpler terms, but points out that the author leaves out some details of the work done by Haldane. Vineetha Mokkil, writing for The Hindu Businessline, praised the work and called it a "major contribution in modern intellectual history as well as an insightful and moving biography". She wrote that the author did a "fine job" in bringing Haldane to life. In a review for The Wire, T. N. Avinash also wrote that author did "admirable job" describing Haldane's life and how political scenarios formed his worldview. However, he criticised the omission of some of the scientific responses to Haldane's work, such as Ernst Mayr’s critique of ‘beanbag genetics’. R. Prasannan, writing for The Week Magazine, called the work an "honest biography", but noted that there are few details about Bhubaneswar, a city where Haldane settled in later life. He also lamented the lack of an index. Firstpost listed it in the Books of Week on 11 January 2020. The book has been selected as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2020 by The New York Times. References External links The New York Times review of A Dominant Character 2019 non-fiction books Books about scientists Indian biographies 21st-century Indian books Simon & Schuster books
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The Dead House is a 2015 young adult novel and the debut novel of Dawn Kurtagich. The book was published in paperback in the United Kingdom on 6 August and 15 September 2015 by Orion Publishing and in hardcover in the United States on 15 September 2015 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. It is told through a mixture of medias such as diary entries, news clippings, video footage, and various interviews. Synopsis At the beginning of the novel, the reader is made aware that the book's content was compiled from several sources, including a diary that was found in the remains of Elmbridge High School, a British high school that burned down 25 years prior. The material is a mixture of video clips, interviews, recovered diary entries, Post-it Notes, and other similar items, and will also occasionally have notations about missing content. Throughout the book, Kaitlyn repeatedly refers to her diary as "Dee" in her entries. Carly and Kaitlyn Johnson are two personalities that exist in the same body. They've been living in a mental hospital named Claydon Mental Hospital for an undisclosed amount of time. She works directly with a therapist named Dr. Annabeth Lansing, and it is established that Kaitlyn/Carly's parents died in a horrific accident that they cannot remember. They are aware of each other's existence, but they never directly interact as Carly is only active during the day and Kaitlyn at night, although they do communicate through various means, which they attempt to hide from others. In the mental hospital, Dr. Lansing diagnoses them as having dissociative identity disorder, an eating disorder (Carly), self-harming (Kaitlyn), and hearing voices (Kaitlyn, who hears the voice of a demonic entity known as Aka Manah). Dr. Lansing also believes that Kaitlyn is not the true personality and that Carly created her as a coping mechanism, although Kaitlyn insists that she is real and existed before their parents' deaths. Carly/Kaitlyn is sent to Elmbridge where Carly makes friends with a spiritual girl named Naida. Naida believes that both personalities are real and that they're two souls in one body. As the semester progresses, Kaitlyn uses an attic in an abandoned building as a refuge and meets Ari, with whom she reluctantly falls in love. Her peace is short-lived as Kaitlyn begins to see visions of a menacing dead girl and becomes stressed when she cannot see her little sister Jaimie, who was placed into foster care. Things come to a head when Carly stops emerging, provoking Kaitlyn into attempting suicide, which sends her back to the mental institution. Their therapist is surprised since she assumed that Carly was the dominant personality, but assumes that this is a sign of both personalities merging. During this time she comes back into contact with her friend John, who she hasn't seen since her parents' accident. Naida asks Kaitlyn to break herself out of the hospital, fearing that a Shyan, a dark magic user, is after Kaitlyn/Carly because of the power held by
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White Mughals is a 2002 history book by William Dalrymple. It is Dalrymple's fifth major book, and tells the true story of a love affair that took place in early nineteenth century Hyderabad between James Achilles Kirkpatrick and Khair-un-Nissa Begum. Summary The book is a work of social history about the warm relations that existed between the British and some Indians in the 18th and early 19th century, when one in three British men in India was married to an Indian woman. It documents the inter-ethnic liaisons between British officers, such as Charles "Hindoo" Stuart, and Indian women, and the geopolitical context of late 18th century India. Like From the Holy Mountain, it also examines the interactions of Christianity and Islam, emphasizing the surprisingly porous relationship between the two in pre-modern times. At the heart of White Mughals is the story of affair which saw a British dignitary, the East India Company Resident in Hyderabad, Captain James Achilles Kirkpatrick, convert to Islam and marry Khair-un-Nissa, a Hyderabadi noblewoman of royal Mughal descent. As the British Resident in Hyderabad, Kirkpatrick is shown to balance the requirements of his employers, the East India Company, with his sympathetic attitude to the Nizam of Hyderabad. The very title of White Mughals indicates its subject: the late 18th- and early 19th-century period in India, where there had been ‘a succession of unexpected and unplanned minglings of peoples and cultures and ideas’. On one level, the book tells the tragic love story of James Kirkpatrick, ‘the thoroughly orientalised’ British Resident in Hyderabad and Khair, a beautiful young Muslim noblewoman. On another level, the story is about trade, military and political dealings, based on Dalrymple's researches among letters, diaries, reports, and dispatches (much of it in cipher). Out of these sources he draws a fascinating picture of sexual attitudes and social etiquette, finding an "increasingly racist and dismissive attitude" among both Europeans and Indians towards mixed race offspring after the rise of Evangelical Christianity. He paces the gradual revelations with a novelist's skills, leading us on, after the death of Kirkpatrick, to "the saddest and most tragic part of the whole story". The doomed lovers actually engender an optimistic coda, when their two children move to Britain. The daughter Kitty becomes a friend and muse of Scottish writer and philosopher Thomas Carlyle, and re-establishes contact with her grandmother in India through Henry Russell. Production The usage of memoirs and chronicles in Urdu and Persian (the court language of India at the time) were used as sources for the writing of the book. Dalrymple collected these by retrieving it from the cellars and back rooms of secondhand booksellers in India. He dedicated the book to Bruce Wannell for the latter's help with translation of source texts in Persian and for providing insight into the Muslim world. Popular culture and adaptations In August 2011, William Dalrymple announced that Ralph Fiennes would direct and star in the movie version of White Mughals. Nothing seems to have come of this project,
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Indian Predator: The Diary of a Serial Killer is an Indian Netflix true crime docuseries which premiered on 7 September 2022. Produced by India Today Group and directed by Dheeraj Jindal. It is the second installment of Indian Predator series. Premise This docuseries is inspired by the notorious case of Raja Kolander, who is thought to be a cannibal and is responsible for the deaths of more than 15 people in eastern Uttar Pradesh. It consists of three episodes, and its timeline begins in the year 2000, when Dhirendra Singh, a journalist based in Allahabad, vanished without a trace. But later his decapitated and mutilated body was found in the neighbouring state of Madhya Pradesh. Episodes Episode 1: The Murderer Episode 2: The Cannibal Episode 3: The King Reception Writing for The Indian Express, Rohan Naahar in his review suggest that "The Diary of a Serial Killer has one key ingredient that separates it from its predecessor: an on-camera interview with the serial killer himself." The Hindu's Bhuvanesh Chandar, a senior sub-editor of the paper in his review suggests " (the docuseries)... is a chilling exploration into the darkest of corners of the human mind. There is a strong narrative structure in place — there is a reason why the series begins and ends with Dheerendra’s murder in particular— and it also resists employing cheap gimmicks to elevate drama or fear." See also Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi, Indian Predator: Murder in a Courtroom, part of the same television franchise References External links Hindi-language television shows Netflix original programming True crime television series Indian documentary television series Television series about serial killers Indian crime television series
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The Peter Pan Prize (Swedish: Peter Pan-Prisets) was established in 2000 by IBBY Sweden and the Göteborg Book Fair. It is awarded annually "to a book for children or young adults of high quality in both literary and subject terms, satisfying one or more of the following criteria: (1) by an author previously unpublished or little known in Sweden; (2) from a country, language group or culture with limited representation in Sweden; (3) with content concerning children or young adults in less familiar countries and cultures less familiar to Swedish readers" Runner-up prizes are called Silver Stars (Swedish: Silverstjärna). Peter Pan Prize Winners 2019 Doften av ett hem (The Scent of a Home) - by Bonnie Sue Hitchcock 2018 Akissi och det flygande fåret (Akisssi and Flying Sheep) - by Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin 2017 Mitt år av längtan (My Year of Longing) - by Dasha Tolstikova 2016 Sabelles röda klänning (Sabelle's Red Dress) - by Marina Michaelidou-Kadi, illus. Daniela Stamatiadi 2015 Guji Guji (Guji Guji) - by Chih-Yuan Chen 2014 Världens ände (Everybody Jam) - by Ali Lewis, translated by Elisabeth Fredholm (Förlaget Opal) 2013 Naku, Nakuu, Nakuuu! - by Nanoy Rafael, illus. Sergio Bumatay III, translated by Anna Gustafsson Chen 2012 Ensam hemma (While We Were Out) - by Lee 2011 Ankomsten (The Arrival) - by Shaun Tan for translated from English (Kabusa Böcker) 2010 Makwelane och krokodilen (Makwelane and the Crocodile) - by Maria Hendricks, illus. Piet Grobler, translated by Ulla Forsén 2009 Den absolut sanna historien om mitt liv som halvtidsindian (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian) - by Sherman Alexie, translated by Ingela Jernberg 2008 Blunda och öppna ditt fönster (Vừa Nhắm Mắt Vừa Mở Cửa Sổ) [Open the Window with Closed Eyes] - by Nguyen Ngoc Thuan, translated by Hoai Anh Tran 2007 Kiffe Kiffe imorgon (Kiffe Kiffe demain) - by Faïza Guène, translated by Lotta Riad 2006 Long-longs nyår: en berättelse om den kinesiska vårfesten (Long-Long's New Year) - by Catherine Gower, illust. He Zhihong, translated by Lotta Riad 2005 Persepolis - by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Gabriella Theiler 2004 Över näktergalens golv (Across the Nightingale Floor) - by Lian Hearn, translated by Carla Wiberg 2003 Den osynliga flickan (The Breadwinner) - by Deborah Ellis, translated by Helena Ridelberg 2002 Alexis Kouros for På en ö i havet (On an Island in the Sea), translated by Janina Orlov (Alfabeta Bokförlag) 2001 Hipp, hurra för mormor (Hip, Hip, Hurray for Grandma) - by Cari Best, illus. Giselle Potter, translated by Barbro Lagergren 2000 Katies krig (Katie's War) - by Aubrey Flegg, translated by Gunilla Borén Shortlist 2020 Molnbullar – by Baek Heena (South Korea), translated by Johee Kim and Jonas Thelander Josefs vagga – by Jude Daly (South Africa), translated by Ulla Forsén Planeten Frank – by David Yoon (USA), translated by Carina Jansson Dubbel trubbel för Anna Hibiscus! – by Atinuke (Nigeria), illus. Lauren Tobia (UK), translated by Matilda Wallin Min pappa och jag – by Nari Hong (South Korea),
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Kardashian Konfidential is a 2010 non-fiction book by sisters Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian and their Ghostwriter. The book is a mix of autobiography and self-help. It contains family photos, anecdotes, personal letters, and diary entries. It was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list in late 2010. Kardashian Konfidential is the first book published by the Kardashian sisters. Synopsis The book contains personal stories, photographs, and diary entries from each of the three sisters. Among the personal stories, Khloé discusses her regret about losing her virginity at age 14 to an older boyfriend, writing "Feeling rushed and pressured and unsure should have been my clue that I wasn't ready to take that step." Kim discusses being starstruck by meeting many celebrities she had admired. Kourtney talks about her obsessive need for neatness and organization in her home. All three write about their late father, attorney Robert Kardashian. They also write about their father's friendship with O. J. Simpson and their memories of the O. J. Simpson trial in 1995 and the effect it had on their family. In addition to personal stories, the book contains advice about makeup, style, and dating. In regards to dating, Kim Kardashian writes in the book "When no one in your family likes a person, there's got to be something to it," referring to her unsuccessful relationship with her second husband. Reception The book made The New York Times Best Seller list, and reached #31 on the USA Today Best seller list. Breia Brissey of Entertainment Weekly wrote of the book, "it's all relatively endearing coming from this bunch, and a must-read for any true Kardashian fan." She also noted that while the book does share a lot of personal information about the family, it largely ignores anything negative such as the details of Kim's first marriage. References 2010 non-fiction books Show business memoirs
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Dhirendra Verma (17 May 1897 – 23 April 1973) was an Indian poet and writer. He used to write in Hindi and Brij Bhasha. Verma holds the same prominence for introducing scientific methods to research in Hindi language and literature as does Ramchandra Shukla. On the basis of his research in Indian languages, he published the first scientific history of Indian languages in 1933. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Brij Bhasha in French which was later translated into Hindi. Life Verma was born on 17 May 1897 in Bhui colony of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, India. His father, Khanchand, was a Jamindar by birth and occupation. Khanchand had deep interest in Indian culture and was influenced by the ideals of Arya Samaj. Verma was significantly influenced by his father and the ideals of Arya Samaj in his formative years. Verma died on 23 April 1973. Education Verma was admitted to D.A.V. College, Dehradun in 1908. However, he soon returned to his father and took admission in Queen's College, Lucknow. He passed the "School Leaving Certificate Examination" with first division with special honours in Hindi. Subsequently, he went to Myor Central College, Allahabad where he received his M.A. in Sanskrit (1921) from. Later, he was awarded a D. Litt degree from Paris University. Teacher and researcher Verma was appointed as the first lecturer of Hindi language at Allahabad University in 1924. Subsequently, he was promoted as a Professor and then Head of Department of Hindi department at Allahabad University, which he headed for several years. Later on, he served as the Vice Chancellor of Sagar University in Madhya Pradesh. It was his stint as a teacher and researcher that brought a lot of fame for Verma. He is recognized as the pioneer in introducing scientific methods to research in Hindi language and literature. Verma is known to have mentored many prominent writers, among them Dharamvir Bharati, who edited the Hindi magazine Dharmyug. Works Along with Rahul Sankrityayan, Dhirendra Verma represented the spatial and temporal dimensions of Akshayat. Considered knowledgeable on Hindi literature, Verma has written many books. Notable among them in Hindi are Hindi-Rashtra ya Suba Hindustan (1930) Hindi Bhasha ka Itihasa ( History of Hindi language ) (1933). Notable books written by Verma in Brij Bhasha are Brij Chhap- Grammar of Brij Bhasha, Ashtchhap, Sursagar Saar, etc. Also he wrote books on rural Hindi. Verma was the principal editor of the first 'हिन्दी विश्वकोश' (Hindi Encyclopedia). Verma maintained a diary during his student years in 1917–23 about the political events taking place in India then. The diary entries were published in four parts called Meri kalej dayari (My College Diary). Father Kamil Bulke, the Belgian Jesuit, who later became famous as India's most famous Christian Hindi scholar, wrote that it was on the inspiration of Verma that he went to Allahabad in 1945 and did research in Hindi for four years. Partial bibliography References 1897 births 1973 deaths People from Bareilly Poets from Uttar Pradesh Hindi-language poets Hindi-language writers
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Absolutely Live is the first live album by the American rock band the Doors, released on July 20, 1970, by Elektra Records. The double album features songs recorded at concerts held in 1969 and 1970 in several U.S. cities. It includes the first full release of the performance piece "Celebration of the Lizard" and several other tracks that had not previously appeared on any official Doors release. The album peaked at number eight on the Billboard 200 in September 1970. Recording Many shows were recorded during the band's 1970 Roadhouse Blues Tour to create the Absolutely Live album. The Doors' producer and longtime collaborator Paul A. Rothchild claimed to have painstakingly edited the album from many different shows to create one cohesive concert. According to Rothchild, the best part of a song from one performance may have been spliced together with another part of the same song from another performance, in an attempt to create "the ultimate concert". Rothchild said, "I couldn't get complete takes of a lot of songs, so sometimes I'd cut from Detroit to Philadelphia in mid-song. There must be 2,000 edits on that album." However, most of the tracks were taken from the Doors' performances at the Felt Forum in New York City on January 17 and 18, 1970. Absolutely Live marks the first release of the Doors' performance piece "Celebration of the Lizard" in its entirety, which had originally been attempted in the studio during the Waiting for the Sun sessions but was eventually abandoned. The album also included several new songs: "Love Hides", "Build Me a Woman", "Universal Mind", "Dead Rats, Dead Cats" (performed as a preamble to "Break on Through") and cover versions of Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love?" and Willie Dixon's "Close to You" (the latter featuring lead vocals by keyboardist Ray Manzarek). Reflecting on the live album in an interview, Jim Morrison remarked, "I think [Absolutely Live is] a fairly true document of what the band sounds like on fairly good night. It's not the best we can do and it's certainly not the worst. It's a true document of an above average evening." In his autobiography, Manzarek explained the group's intentions with the album: "We wanted to get the Doors experience on tape. Live. One time. For the ages. And in doing so, perhaps we could capture the moment of escape. Live." Album cover According to the biography No One Here Gets Out Alive, Morrison hated the album cover for Absolutely Live. He had changed his appearance dramatically since the band's early days, growing a beard and discarding his onstage leather attire in an attempt to overcome his "rock god" image, but was dismayed to find that his record label opted for an earlier photograph of him for the cover. In his book Krautrocksampler, the British rock musician and writer Julian Cope described the photo of Morrison as one of his "two favorite all-time images of rock 'n' roll singers". Release and reception Absolutely Live sold only 225,000 copies,
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The book series The Saga of Darren Shan features humans, vampires and various other types of fantasy characters. Overview A dark grey cell indicates that the character was not in the property or that the character's presence in the property has yet to be announced. A Main indicates that a character had a starring role in the property. A Recurring indicates the character appeared in two or more times within the property. A Guest indicates the character appeared once in the property. Vampires Darren Shan Darren Shan is the main character of his diary, which is expressed from his point of view. As explained in the last book, "Sons of Destiny", the diary was supposedly transferred from Mr. Tall to the author. In the first book, Cirque Du Freak/Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare, "Darren" says he used no real names in the books. These are just the names used by him in substitution of the real names of the key players in his life (he does this for their protection and in fear of being discovered for his true self). Darren became enamored with Larten Crepsley's spider Madam Octa when he went to the Cirque du Freak, where he also learned vampires were real, Mr. Crepsley was one, and his best friend Steve Leonard wanted to become one. However, when Steve was bitten by Madam Octa, Darren was forced to seek the help of Mr. Crepsley, who agreed on the condition that Darren become his vampire assistant instead. Forced to leave his family, Darren died with his master's help, and joined Cirque du Freak. Many years later, he leaves for Vampire Mountain with his mentor, where he is forced to take part in the Trials of Initiation to prove his worth. He fails in the fourth trial, and decides to escape execution with help from his friend, pacifist and soon to be Prince Kurda Smahlt. As they flee, they come across a group of Vampaneze Kurda has smuggled into the mountain, intending to take it by force, in the hope his people would be spared from the rise of the Lord of the Vampaneze, who has finally appeared. Barely escaping alive, Darren is instrumental in foiling Kurda's plot, and made a Prince for his bravery. He learns after several years at war that he is one of three hunters with the power to kill the Lord of the Vampaneze before the vampires are eradicated. Near the beginning of the quest he is told by Lady Evanna that a Lord of the Shadows will rise at the end of the war between the two clans, and only his identity has yet to be determined - he will either be the Lord of the Vampaneze, or Darren himself. Several months later, the hunters are caught in an elaborate trap created by the Lord of the Vampaneze, resulting ultimately in Mr. Crepsley's death, and Darren learning that Steve Leonard is the Lord. The final confrontation comes two years later, with Darren killing
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Amit Lodha (Hindi: अमित लोढ़ा) (born 22 February 1974) is a 1998 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of Bihar Cadre, currently serving as Inspector General of Police. He has received several awards for his work. He is known for his book Bihar Diaries: The True Story of How Bihar's Most Dangerous Criminal Was Caught. The web-series Khakee: The Bihar Chapter on Netflix is based on that book. Early life and career Lodha is an 1995 alumnus of IIT Delhi. He joined the IPS in 1998. Lodha was posted in the newly created, Sheikhpura District of Bihar in 2005. As of February 2024, Lodha is an Inspector General rank officer in Bihar Police. Controversies In December 2022 Lodha was booked under several sections of Indian Penal Code and Prevention of Corruption Act for entering a commercial deal with Netflix as a government servant and writing the book Bihar Diaries without taking prior permission or approval from the government. Lodha has mentioned that he has done nothing wrong. Controversy has also been created by the media that he was suspended but he has never been suspended, the government has also not released any statement regarding suspension. He is still in service serving as Inspector General (SCRB) in Patna, Bihar. See also Ashok Mahto gang Chandan Kushwaha References 1974 births People from Jaipur IIT Delhi alumni Indian police officers Living people Penguin Books people Indian Police Service officers
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Anees Jung (born 15 December, 1944) is an Indian author, journalist and columnist for newspapers in India and abroad, whose most known work, Unveiling India (1987) was a chronicle of the lives of women in India, noted especially for the depiction of Muslim women behind the purdah. Early life and education Born in Rourkela, and growing up in Hyderabad, Anees Jung is from an aristocratic family – her father, Nawab Hosh Yar Jung, was a scholar and poet, and served as the musahib (adviser) to the last Nizam (prince) of Hyderabad State. Her mother and brother are also Urdu poets. After schooling and college at Osmania University in Hyderabad, she went to the United States for higher studies at University of Michigan Ann Arbor, where she did her master's degree in sociology and American studies. Career She started her career in writing with the Youth Times, a Times of India publication, where she worked as a journalist and editor (1973 to 1980). She has subsequently worked for The Christian Science Monitor and the International Herald Tribune. Anees Jung lives in Delhi. Books Jung published Unveiling India in 1987. It is a travel diary focusing on interviews with women. She has written several subsequent books on the same, talking to women about their everyday lives, including Night of the New Moon: Encounters with Muslim women in India (1993), Seven Sisters (1994). Breaking the Silence (1997) is based on conversations on women's lives from around the world. Others are maltreated by alcoholic fathers or married off early or sexually abused, though some find refuge in schools set up by well-meaning NGOs. A section of this book is part of the NCERT Class 12 English Book in CBSE Schools Jung is noted for her lively and vivid descriptions. Bibliography When a Place Becomes a Person. Vikas Pub. House, 1977. Flashpoints: Poems in Prose. Tarang Paperbacks, 1981. . Unveiling India, Penguin Books, 1987. . The Song of India. Himalayan Books, 1990. Night of the New Moon: Encounters with Muslim Women in India. Penguin Books, 1993. Seven Sisters: Among the Women of South Asia. Penguin Books, 1994. Breaking the Silence: Voices of Women from Around the World. Penguin Books, 1997. Olives from Jericho: Peace in Winter Gardens. UNESCO, 1999. . Beyond the Courtyard: a Sequel to Unveiling India. Viking, 2003 Lost Spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood. Penguin Books, 2005. . See also List of Indian writers Indian literature References 1944 births Living people People from Rourkela 20th-century Indian journalists Indian women columnists Writers from Hyderabad, India Indian Muslims Osmania University alumni University of Michigan alumni Indian travel writers Indian columnists 20th-century Indian women writers Journalists from Odisha Indian women travel writers Women writers from Telangana Women writers from Odisha 20th-century Indian women journalists 21st-century Indian women journalists 21st-century Indian journalists
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The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red is a 2001 novel by Ridley Pearson focusing on the life of the fictional John and Ellen Rimbauer and the construction of their mansion, Rose Red, in the early 20th century. Built on an old Indian burial ground, Rose Red is considered haunted and mysterious tragedies occur throughout the mansion's history. The novel is written in the form of a diary by Ellen Rimbauer, and annotated by the fictional professor of paranormal activity, Joyce Reardon. The novel also presents a fictional afterword by Ellen Rimbauer's grandson, Steven. Genesis of the novel The novel's genesis came as part of a $200,000 promotional marketing campaign for Stephen King's Rose Red television miniseries. Marketing of the film presented the movie as based on actual events. In 2000, two years before the Rose Red miniseries aired, the producers contracted with author Ridley Pearson to write a tie-in novel, to be titled The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red, under the pseudonym "Dr. Joyce Reardon" (one of the main characters of the miniseries). The novel presented itself as nonfiction, and claimed to be the actual diary of Ellen Rimbauer (wife of the builder of Rose Red). The work was originally intended to be an architectural book featuring photos and drawings of the fictional Rose Red house with the supernatural elements subtly woven into the text and photos, but Pearson (building on several references to a diary in King's script for the miniseries) wrote it as Ellen Rimbauer's diary instead. Inspired by the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project, King came up with the idea of presenting the novel as a real one by having "Dr. Joyce Reardon" edit the "diary." King also inserted a reference into the book's foreword that a "best-selling author had found the journal in Maine", so that fans would be misled into concluding that King had written the work. The ruse worked. Fans and the press speculated for some time that Stephen King or his wife Tabitha King had written the book until Pearson was revealed to be the novel's author. To help promote the miniseries and further blur the line between reality and fiction, the book contained a link to a fictional "Beaumont University" Web site where "Dr. Joyce Reardon" was alleged to have taught. The site contains in-universe promotional material as well as an easter egg page with diary entries that were "censored" from the main book. A mockumentary was released by ABC a few weeks prior to the miniseries' release entitled Unlocking Rose Red:The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer. The special utilized actors who only vaguely resembled the ones within the miniseries for Steven Rimbauer and Joyce Reardon to speak about the happenings at Rose Red whilst promoting the upcoming miniseries by Stephen King which was seemingly referred to as a production heavily based on a true story. Excerpts from the novel were read out by an actress for the mockumentary, while a narrator and various
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A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia, is a book written by Anna Politkovskaya and published by Random House in May 2007 discussing Russia under Vladimir Putin. Scott Simon wrote the foreword and Arch Tait translated the writing into English. Harvill Secker published the United Kingdom edition. In some versions Jon Snow, the main news anchor for the United Kingdom's Channel 4, wrote the foreword. History Published after the author's death, it extracts from her notebook and other writings and gives her account of the period from December 2003 to August 2005, including what she described as "the death of Russian parliamentary democracy", the Beslan school hostage crisis, and the "winter and summer of discontent" from January to August 2005. Because she was murdered "while translation was being completed, final editing had to go ahead without her help", wrote Tait in a note to the book. According to Viv Groskop of The Guardian, A Russian Diary has a stronger emphasis on politics compared to A Dirty War and Putin's Russia, and therefore is "less moving and immediate". It does not focus on Politkovskaya's personal life. According to the book, Russia under Vladimir Putin reverted into an authoritarian society centered around the ruler. Content The book has three parts. The initial section covers the 2003 Russian legislative election and the 2004 Russian presidential election. The following section discusses the insurgency of the Second Chechen War, the Beslan school siege and its consequences, and other events in the second Putin term. She recalled a meeting with Ramzan Kadyrov, Head of the Chechen Republic. The last section describes 2005 pensioner protests. Robert Legvold of Foreign Affairs wrote, "The tragedies generated by the Chechen war are what she knew best and wrote, knifelike, about". Reception Bridget Kendall wrote that the translation was "admirably readable". Andrew Meier wrote in The New York Times that Politskaya's "insightful black humor" is a positive while he criticized elements of the translation and editing, citing references to Russia-related terms unexplained in the text and use of specific British English terms. "Who killed Anna and who lay beyond her killer remains unknown", wrote Snow in his foreword to the book's UK edition. "Her murder robbed too many of us of absolutely vital sources of information and contact", he concluded, "Yet it may, ultimately, be seen to have at least helped prepare the way for the unmasking of the dark forces at the heart of Russia's current being. I must confess that I finished reading A Russian Diary feeling that it should be taken up and dropped from the air in vast quantities throughout the length and breadth of Mother Russia, for all her people to read." Kirkus Reviews stated that the diary entries in the book "may lack total journalistic objectivity, but Politkovskaya more than justifies her bias with this emotional portrait of the dangerous lives of the Russian people." Publishers Weekly stated that it was "A rare and intelligent memoir-if an
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Elliott Merrick (May 11, 1905 – April 22, 1997) was an American writer best known for his memoirs about Labrador. He was also an editor, teacher, farmer and sailor. In addition he wrote for magazines, including The New Yorker and Reader's Digest. Elliott Tucker Merrick III was born into an affluent family in Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University. He worked at his father's firm, The National Lead Company, for a year before deciding he wanted a more outdoor-oriented life. He took a job as a teacher at the remote Grenfell Mission (a medical missionary station) at Indian Harbour, Labrador. He then transferred tonearby North West River where he met his soon to be wife, Kate, a nurse from Australia. He wrote about his time there in Frost and Fire (1939). He penned Kate's memoir, based on her memories of Labrador, titled Northern Nurse (1942). The book was quite successful spending time on The New York Times Bestseller List. His first book True North (1933), is a diary about living in Goose Bay, Labrador. He wrote a memoir Green Mountain Farm (1948) about farm life in northern Vermont, where he lived with his wife and children during the depression of the 1930s. He taught English at the University of Vermont. He was an editor for the Office of War Information and worked with the merchant marine during World War II. These experiences informed his book Passing By (1947). He was later employed by the United States Forest Service in Asheville, North Carolina for 22 years, working as a science editor and publications officer. After retirement he spent time with his wife sailing, from which was published posthumously Cruising at Last: Sailing the East Coast (2003). During the last years of his life Merrick was close friend with the outdoor writer Lawrence Millman, who wrote a short biographical remembrance in 2020. He said Merrick "looked to Thoreau for guidance", and Walden was his "bible". Merrick once said, "Nature, love it or leave it, is all we've got." Works Source: Fiction From This Hill Look Down (1934) Ever the Wind Blows (1936) Frost and Fire (1939) Passing By (1947) The Long Crossing and Other Labrador Stories (1992) Nonfiction True North (1933) Northern Nurse (1942) Green Mountain Farm (1948) Cruising at Last: Sailing the East Coast (2003) References 1905 births 1997 deaths American writers People of the United States Office of War Information Writers from Montclair, New Jersey
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In mathematics, the symmetric derivative is an operation generalizing the ordinary derivative. It is defined as: The expression under the limit is sometimes called the symmetric difference quotient. A function is said to be symmetrically differentiable at a point x if its symmetric derivative exists at that point. If a function is differentiable (in the usual sense) at a point, then it is also symmetrically differentiable, but the converse is not true. A well-known counterexample is the absolute value function , which is not differentiable at , but is symmetrically differentiable here with symmetric derivative 0. For differentiable functions, the symmetric difference quotient does provide a better numerical approximation of the derivative than the usual difference quotient. The symmetric derivative at a given point equals the arithmetic mean of the left and right derivatives at that point, if the latter two both exist. Neither Rolle's theorem nor the mean-value theorem hold for the symmetric derivative; some similar but weaker statements have been proved. Examples The absolute value function For the absolute value function , using the notation for the symmetric derivative, we have at that Hence the symmetric derivative of the absolute value function exists at and is equal to zero, even though its ordinary derivative does not exist at that point (due to a "sharp" turn in the curve at ). Note that in this example both the left and right derivatives at 0 exist, but they are unequal (one is −1, while the other is +1); their average is 0, as expected. The function x−2 For the function , at we have Again, for this function the symmetric derivative exists at , while its ordinary derivative does not exist at due to discontinuity in the curve there. Furthermore, neither the left nor the right derivative is finite at 0, i.e. this is an essential discontinuity. The Dirichlet function The Dirichlet function, defined as: has a symmetric derivative at every , but is not symmetrically differentiable at any ; i.e. the symmetric derivative exists at rational numbers but not at irrational numbers. Quasi-mean-value theorem The symmetric derivative does not obey the usual mean-value theorem (of Lagrange). As a counterexample, the symmetric derivative of has the image , but secants for f can have a wider range of slopes; for instance, on the interval , the mean-value theorem would mandate that there exist a point where the (symmetric) derivative takes the value A theorem somewhat analogous to Rolle's theorem but for the symmetric derivative was established in 1967 by C. E. Aull, who named it quasi-Rolle theorem. If is continuous on the closed interval and symmetrically differentiable on the open interval , and , then there exist two points , in such that , and . A lemma also established by Aull as a stepping stone to this theorem states that if is continuous on the closed interval and symmetrically differentiable on the open interval , and additionally , then there exist a point in where the symmetric derivative is
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Equal is a two-hander Korean musical based on the Japanese stage play of the same name by Kenichi Suemitsu. The musical's book and lyrics are by Soovin Kim, with music by Woody Pak. The musical is set in 17th century Europe, during the Black Death pandemic. The story takes place over a week and follows the attempts of Theo, a country doctor, to find a cure for the mysterious illness that is killing his best friend Nicola. Equal held its first theatrical run from December 31, 2021 to February 20, 2022 at Uniplex Hall 1 in Seoul, South Korea. A second Seoul production ran from June 3, 2022 to July 24, 2022, also at Uniplex Hall 1. A number of the 2022 Seoul cast reprised their roles in Equal's first Japanese production, which ran from August 4, 2022 to August 14, 2022 at Tokyo's Hulic Hall. Plot In 1665, while witch hunts and the Black Death ravage the European countryside, childhood friends Theo and Nicola live together in a small cabin. Monday Theo returns home from his shift at the local hospital with pastries for a grateful Nicola, whose mysterious illness prevents him from leaving the house (“‘Cause I Know You”). After Nicola collapses in a coughing fit, Theo leads him back to bed, where he finds Nicola’s locked diary. He teases him about it before being struck with a migraine of his own. Tuesday Nicola writes about Theo in his diary, hoping they’ll be together forever, but worried over Theo’s worsening migraines (“You’re Perfect”). Theo interrupts with a letter from Audette, a mutual childhood friend who Theo believes to be in love with Nicola, and he and Nicola reminisce about their time together as children (“Audette’s Letter"). To comfort a now melancholy Theo, Nicola suggests they reenact a ritual the three friends once attempted in order to save the life of a drowned kitten. He reveals that he still has the magic stone they used for the spell, though Theo has forgotten both the stone and the ritual (“Our Magic Spell”). Wednesday Theo arrives home with an antique book, claiming that he has found the cure to Nicola’s illness: using alchemy, he will transform Nicola into a ‘golden human’ who can live forever (“Golden Human”). Nicola is unconvinced, but Theo is too excited to listen to his objections. He eventually reveals the true reason for his excitement: he’s fallen in love with Marietta, a woman who works at the bakery, and intends to marry her after Nicola is cured. He urges Nicola to write a letter to Audette and confess to her, so that they can both be married and find happiness (“Say How You Feel”). After Theo leaves to meet Marietta again, a heartbroken Nicola pulls out a set of vials and mixes two potions, one red and one black. He contemplates both potions while writing in his diary (“You’re Perfect - Reprise”). Thursday When Theo returns from work, he finds the house empty. Nicola eventually stumbles through
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Few Things Left Unsaid is a 2011 novel by Indian author and engineer Sudeep Nagarkar. Sudeep used to write in his personal diary. One of his friends read it and suggested to write a script on it. The book was launched in Juhu Crossword book store on 13 July 2011 by Cabinet Minister Suresh Shetty. Sudeep was also interviewed by Stack Your Rack magazine and RJ Jeethuraj from Radio Mirchi. An article in the Times of India stated that the book sold more than 8000 copies within one fortnight. Plot Few Things Left Unsaid is about the story of two college mates, Aditya and Riya. They both fall in love after they meet up through their friends. They both were taking some time to express their things; once they both expressed, they moved into the next level in few days. They even take 7 promises as couples take during their wedding. They keep falling deep into the heavenly thing called love. Finally, a break-up takes place due to some twists and turns. References External links Official Website - Book Website on Sudeep Nagarkar 2011 Indian novels 2011 debut novels
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The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend is the third book in the Adrian Mole series, written by Sue Townsend. It focuses on the worries and regrets of a teenage (supposed) intellectual. The title is long and often shortened to the more convenient The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole but the three names are part of the full title and represent fictional (or otherwise) actual content of the book. The book covers the same themes as the first volumes although it differs in style from the other books. There are short collections of Adrian's classic diary entries covering important events over a brief period of a few days (such as Christmas, Adrian leaving home, Adrian's first job etc.) during the mid-1980s, but the continuous regular diary entries from the other books are absent. There are also several longer transcripts of radio programmes on Pirate Radio Four, plus collections of letters and correspondence with characters from the earlier books, including Barry Kent, who is in prison. This format means that it covers a longer time span than any other Adrian Mole book at the expense of some detail. The book also contains extracts from Sue Townsend's own diaries together with some of her essays, plus a collection of entries from an unknown teenage girl's diary written in the 1930s in Grantham. Townsend suggests that the girl was called Margaret Hilda Roberts and no one knows what became of her, although most readers will spot that this is a strong and bitter satire about Margaret Thatcher (Margaret Hilda Roberts was her maiden name). Townsend originally created this satire in the first few issues of the newspaper Today, as The Secret Diary of Margaret Hilda Roberts Aged 13. The Adrian Mole section was subsequently published as part of the omnibus edition Adrian Mole: From Minor to Major. References 1989 British novels British young adult novels Novels set in Leicestershire Novels set in the 1980s Adrian Mole novels Methuen Publishing books
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This is a list of notable writers whose readership is predominantly teenagers or young adults, or adult fiction writers who have published significant works intended for teens/young adults. Examples of the author's more notable works are given here. A Atia Abawi: A Land of Permanent Goodbyes Joan Abelove: Go and Come Back, Saying It Out Loud, Lost and Found Hailey Abbott: The Secrets of Boys, Summer Boys, The Bridesmaid, The Perfect Boy Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: Ace of Spades Marguerite Abouet: Aya Elizabeth Acevedo: The Poet X, Clap When You Land, With the Fire on High Richard Adams: Watership Down, Shardik, The Plague Dogs Tomi Adeyemi: Children of Blood and Bone Alexandra Adornetto: Halo, Hades, Heaven Renée Ahdieh: The Wrath & the Dawn, Flame in the Mist Melissa Albert: The Hazel Wood Becky Albertalli: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, The Upside of Unrequited, Leah on the Offbeat Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Jo's Boys, Eight Cousins Lloyd Alexander: The Prydain Chronicles, Westmark, The Kestrel, The Beggar Queen Sherman Alexie: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian S.K. Ali: Saints & Misfits, Love from A to Z Isabel Allende: City of the Beasts, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, Forest of the Pygmies David Almond: Kit's Wilderness, Heaven Eyes, Clay Elaine M. Alphin: Counterfeit Son Adi Alsaid: Let's Get Lost, Never Always Sometimes Julia Alvarez: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Yo!, Before We Were Free Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak, Fever 1793, Catalyst, Prom, Twisted, Wintergirls M. T. Anderson: Feed, The Pox Party Jesse Andrews: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl V. C. Andrews: Flowers in the Attic Josephine Angelini: Starcrossed trilogy Anthony: A Journey, through Time, with Anthony Kim Antieau: Mercy, Unbound Allen Appel: Twice Upon a Time Jules Archer: The Plot to Seize the White House, The Incredible Sixties, Treason in America Jennifer Armentrout: Covenant series, Lux series, Dark Elements series, Cursed Kelley Armstrong: Darkest Powers Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why, The Future of Us Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: Den of Shadows series, Kiesha'ra series Victoria Aveyard: Red Queen Avi: Nothing But the Truth, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Crispin: The Cross of Lead Nafiza Azad: The Candle and the Flame B Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting Helen Bailey: Electra Brown series Catherine Banner: The Last Descendants series Leigh Bardugo: Shadow and Bone, Six of Crows Jennifer Lynn Barnes: The Inheritance Games series, Debutantes series, The Fixer series, The Naturals series T. A. Barron: The Ancient One John Barrowman and Carole Barrowman: Hollow Earth Karen Bass: Graffiti Knight Cat Bauer: Harley's Ninth, Harley, Like a Person Joan Bauer: Rules of the Road, Squashed, Stand Tall, Hope Was Here Michael Gerard Bauer: The Running Man, Don't Call Me Ishmael L. Frank Baum: Aunt Jane's Nieces series Patricia Beatty: Lupita Mañana, Charley Skedaddle, Eight Mules from Monterey, Bonanza Girl, Turn Homeward, Hannalee Margaret Bechard: Hanging onto Max, Star Hatchling, Spacer and Rat, If It Doesn't Kill You David Belbin: Love Lessons, Festival, Denial, The Last Virgin, Dead Guilty Clare Bell: Ratha series
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Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade is a work of non-fiction first published in 2000 by novelist and screenwriter William Goldman. It is the follow-up to his 1982 book Adventures in the Screen Trade. Originally to be called The Big Campfire, the inspiration for the title came when Goldman was in the office of a Hollywood producer who was talking on the phone to one of his associates. Suddenly he cupped his hands over the receiver, snapped his fingers and said "Bill, Bill! Which lie did I tell?" Contents The book begins with more stories about movies he has been involved with, starting with the period from 1982—when Adventures in the Screen Trade was published—to 1986 when he received no movie work. Goldman then tells the unfortunate story of how he became mixed up in the film adaptation of Memoirs of an Invisible Man, before the saving grace of The Princess Bride brought him his first screen credit in nearly nine years. Other adventures are Misery, The Year of the Comet (which he uses as an example of how a movie can become a failure at the script level), Maverick (which he uses as an example of the principle that the best scene sometimes needs to be cut), The Ghost and the Darkness (which he uses as an example of how ego can hinder a film's production and artistic integrity) and Absolute Power (which he uses as an example to illustrate why a movie does not have to be faithful to the book on which it is based). Two films he does not cover are Heat (for legal reasons) and The Chamber, because he did not consider it interesting. The next part of the book has Goldman analyzing scenes from various screenplays he admires including There's Something About Mary, North by Northwest and Chinatown. The next section covers how he gets movie ideas, and details four examples and why he didn't pursue them. "The Old Guy", inspired by the true story about an elderly criminal (eventually made into a 2018 movie, The Old Man and The Gun, apparently without Goldman's participation). Goldman learned of the story in an April 1999 article in the San Francisco Chronicle. "The Good Guy", an original story idea linking characters in the Littleton, Colorado school shooting and the death of JonBenet Ramsey, which took place in Boulder, Colorado. "The Mastermind", expanding on the actual 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa painting, partially based on Seymour Reit's book The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa. "The Dolphin," inspired by a New York Times article about an autistic 10-year-old boy surviving four days lost in an alligator- and snake-infested Florida swamp. The final section is an original screenplay where he examines the writing process and asks other famous screenwriters for their opinions. In between chapters are various musings on a range of topics from why not to open a script with a courtroom scene to how he sets about adapting a book.
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Ellen Forney (born March 8, 1968) is an American cartoonist, educator, and wellness coach. She is known for her autobiographic comics which include I was Seven in '75; I Love Led Zepellin; and Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me. She teaches at the Cornish College of the Arts. Her work covers mental illness, political activism, drugs, and the riot grrrl movement. Currently, she is based in Seattle, Washington. Career Forney received a B.A. degree from Wesleyan University, where she majored in psychology. In the 1990s, she produced the autobiographical strip I Was Seven in '75, which ran in Seattle's alternative-weekly paper The Stranger. She self-published a collection in 1997 with a Xeric Foundation grant. A complete collection was published as Monkey Food by Fantagraphics in 1999. In 2006 she published I Love Led Zeppelin, which collected comics she had done for various newspapers and magazines, and included collaborations with Margaret Cho, Kristin Gore, Camille Paglia, and Dan Savage. It was nominated for an Eisner Award as Best Reality-Based Comic. In 2007 she illustrated Sherman Alexie's young-adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which won the National Book Award. In 2008 she published Lust which adapted personal ads from The Stranger into illustrated/comics form. Her graphic memoir Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me addressed her experiences with bipolar disorder. Specifically, the memoir deals with how Forney perceives her mental illness in relation to her art, as well as her fears about medication diminishing her creativity. Forney also notes the role mental illness has played in other artists lives, referring to a list of artists and writers with depression as "Club Van Gogh." It was published by Penguin Books' Gotham Books imprint in November 2012, and it was a New York Times Bestseller. Marbles featured prominently in a graphic medicine exhibit that Forney curated for the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Forney's 2018 book Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life is a graphic self-help guide, published by Fantagraphics. In it, Forney promotes her personal acronym for self-care: SMEDMERTS, which stands for Sleep, Meds, Eat, Doctor, Mindfulness, Exercise, Routine, Tools, Support System. Other work Ellen Forney is also the artist responsible for "Crossed Pinkies" and "Walking Fingers", two murals in the Sound Transit Capitol Hill light rail station at Seattle. She also is open for commissions such as portraits, wedding invitations, and tattoo designs. More recently, Forney started offering wellness coaching for those who suffer from bipolar disorder. She also connects with audiences about graphic medicine, health, and comics in frequent speaking engagements. Personal life Forney identifies herself as bisexual. She was diagnosed with Bipolar 1 Disorder in 1998. Bibliography MONKEY FOOD: The Complete "I Was Seven in '75" Collection, Fantagraphic Books (1999). I Love Led Zeppelin: Panty-Dropping Comics, Fantagraphics Books (2006). Lust: Kinky Online Personal Ads from Seattle's The Stranger, Fantagraphics Books (2008). The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, Art by Ellen Forney, Little Brown (2007). Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me:
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Scrap Book, formally published as Govardhanrám Madhavrám Tripáthi's Scrap Book, is a diary written by Indian writer Govardhanram Tripathi from 1885 to 1906. It is a repository of the author's wide-ranging thoughts, including on moral and spiritual conflicts. It provides many details about Govardhanram's life and family. Background Govardhanram obtained his LLB degree in 1883 after repeated failures, and moved to Mumbai in 1884 to practice as a pleader at high court. In January 1885, when he was 30, he started writing Scrap Book. He noted in it important points and quotations from books that he read. He wrote in the diary till 3 November 1906, a few months before his death. It is believed that Govardhanram maintained a personal diary also, but this has not been found. Originally spanning seven notebooks, it was edited by (whose name is romanized as Kantilal Pandya), Sanmukhlal Pandya, and Ramprasad Bakshi and published in three volumes from 1957 to 1959. Bakshi published an abridged version in Gujarati titled Govardhanram Ni Manannondh. Contents The subjects of the Scrap Book can be divided in three sections: (1) Govardhanram's speculations and comments on Hindu religio-philosophical texts and concepts; (2) his views on contemporary socio-political issues, issues, institutions and leaders; and (3) problems, resentments and pain in his personal life as the head of Hindu joint family. The notes in the Scrap Book include Govardhanram's personal comments on a wide range of subjects including his personal problems, his nature, emotions, ideals, the problem of his retiring from the active life, Sannyas and Yoga, family life and its problems, perception on the soul, God, life after death, virtue, immorality, bliss, astrology, his own writings, and contemporary events. Reception In Tridip Suhrud's assessment, Scrap Book was outstanding among Indian self-focused compositions that elaborate on the themes and the quest of the medieval Bhakti tradition, giving, perhaps for the first time, a vernacular version of the idea that the self is an experimental locus, where what is recorded, the outer and inner worlds, while fusing in the self can simultaneously be disentangled to create separate dimensions. The most exemplary modern expression of the paradox was, he added, Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography. Scholars including Uttamlal Trivedi and Balwantray Thakore have extensively used these observations while writing on Govardhanram. References External links Scrap Book; Volume I, II, II & IV (part i) Scrap Book; Volume IV (part ii), V & VI Scrap Book; Volume VII Govardhanram Ni Manannondh (abridged version in Gujarati) Books published posthumously Diaries Indian non-fiction books
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"Omphalos" is a science fantasy short story by American author Ted Chiang. It is named after the Omphalos hypothesis and a 1857 book by English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse. It was first published in Chiang's 2019 collection, Exhalation: Stories. Plot The story is told through the prayers and letters of pious archaeologist Dr. Dorothea Morrel and takes place in an alternate 20th century where young Earth creationism is true. Dorothea travels from an archaeological dig in Arisona to give a public lecture on Chicagou, where she explains how dendrochronology has determined the world to be 8,912 years old as well as indicating that the first trees were created fully grown, as they have a ringless core. The museum's latest exhibit includes Atacaman mummies belonging to the first generation of humans—created as adults by God and thus lacking navels. Believing that primordial beings with apparent signs of growth would have been tantamount to deception, Dorothea is passionate that God intended humans to understand Him through science. From a meeting with her cousin, Dorothea believes that an illegal sale of museum relics is taking place. The clues lead her to a post office in San Francisco, where, to her surprise, the thief turns out to be a teen, Wilhelmina McCullough. She is the daughter of Dr. Nathan McCullough, director of the University of Alta California. Wilhelmina explains that she did not steal out of personal gain but to strengthen people's faith before her father's recent discovery is made public. Dr. McCullough reveals to Dorothea that he reviewed a scientific paper by an astronomer who challenges the consensus that the Sun is the only star at absolute rest. Not only does his research indicate that the Solar System moves like any other star, but that in defiance of celestial mechanics, the star 58 Eridani circles a seemingly empty spot every 24 hours, and its center is at absolute rest relative to the luminiferous aether. He reasons that God is miraculously sustaining a geocentric star system around a truly unmoving planet whose inhabitants constitute His true reason for creating the universe. This could mean that humanity is simply a test or an unintended side effect, that humanity is not part of a divine plan, and that suffering (including Dr. McCullough's son's death) is meaningless. Disturbed, Dorothea tells her cousin that she is taking a leave now that she finds her job meaningless. Weeks later, however, Dorothea plans to resume her work, realizing that doing science for its own sake is just as fulfilling—regardless of God's plan. Reception "Omphalos" won the Locus Award for Best Novelette in 2020. It was also a finalist for the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the Theodore Sturgeon Award. The Nation considered the basic premise—a creationist archaeologist in conflict with a creationist astronomer—to be "hilarious", but noted that the story is not a humorous work, and emphasized that Dorothea is an empiricist who uses the scientific method. In The Washington Post, Paul Di Filippo called the story "masterful
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Jennifer Niven is a New York Times and international best selling American author who is best known for the 2015 young adult book, All the Bright Places. Life and career Niven grew up in Richmond, Indiana. As well as writing novels, Niven has also worked as a screenwriter, journalist and an associate producer at ABC Television. Her first two books were non-fiction narratives called The Ice Master (published in 2000) and Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (published in 2003). In 2010, she published a memoir of her years in high school called The Aqua Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town. She began writing a series of historical novels in 2009. The first, Velva Jean Learns to Drive, was based on a short film of the same name that she had made. It won an Emmy Award and the Colin Higgins Award for Screenwriting. The series also includes, Velva Jean Learns to Fly, Becoming Clementine and American Blonde. Niven's first young adult novel, All the Bright Places was released in 2015. The narrative follows two teenagers, Violet and Finch who are struggling with mental health issues. It won a 2015 Goodreads choice award for Best Young Adult Fiction and was longlisted for the 2015 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. It has been adapted into a film by Netflix and stars Elle Fanning, Justice Smith, Keegan-Michael Key, Alexandra Shipp, and Luke Wilson. Production on the film began in October 2018 and it was released on 28 February 2020. She released another bestselling young adult novel in 2016 called Holding Up the Universe, and her third young adult novel, Breathless, was released in September, 2020. Bibliography Young Adult All the Bright Places (2015) Holding Up the Universe (2016) Breathless (2020) Take Me With You When You Go with David Levithan (2021) Velva Jean Series Velva Jean Learns to Drive (2009) Velva Jean Learns to Fly (2011) Becoming Clementine (2012) American Blonde (2014) Non-fiction The Ice Master (2000) Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (2003) The Aqua Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town (2010) Ada Blackjack, survivante de l'Arctique, éditions Paulsen, 2019 References Living people American women novelists 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers Novelists from Indiana American young adult novelists American women writers of young adult literature American women screenwriters Screenwriters from Indiana 21st-century American screenwriters Year of birth missing (living people) Writers from Richmond, Indiana
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Mário João Carlos do Rosário de Brito Miranda (2 May 1926 – 11 December 2011), popularly known as Mario Miranda or Mario de Miranda, was an Indian cartoonist and painter based in Loutolim in the Indian state of Goa. Miranda had been a regular with The Times of India and other newspapers in Mumbai, including The Economic Times, though he got his popularity with his works published in The Illustrated Weekly of India. He was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan (posthumously) in 2012. Life and career Early life Miranda was born in Daman, then in Portuguese India, to Goan Catholic parents. At an early age, he would draw caricatures and sketch on the walls of his home, until his mother brought him a blank book. He then began making personalised postcards for his friends, charging them a token amount, in the 1930s and 1940s. He even started getting into trouble at school, for sketching Catholic priests. Mario Miranda's early cartoons presented vignettes of Goan village life, a theme he is best known for even today. He would maintain diaries from the age of 10, sketching the life around him. He studied at St. Joseph's Boys' High School, Bangalore and then did a B.A. in history at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, while focusing on the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). Thereafter he started studying architecture at the behest of his parents, though he soon lost interest. He then began getting small commissions and would sketch people in his private diaries in 1949. He loved good food and red wine in moderation but would mainly visit eateries and taverns to document the lives of the patrons. Career beginnings Miranda started his career in an advertising studio, where he worked for four years, before taking up cartooning full-time. He got his first break as a cartoonist with The Illustrated Weekly of India which published a few of his works. His drawings & cartoons also brought him an offer to work at the Current magazine. A year later, the Times of India offered him a slot, even though they had rejected him at first. Thereafter, his creations, such as Miss Nimbupani and Miss Fonseca, appeared on a regular basis in Femina, Economic Times, and The Illustrated Weekly of India. Mario then won a grant by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and lived in Portugal for year, helping him "broaden his horizons". He then moved to London, working for different newspapers and even working in television animation. During his five years spent there, his caricatures were published in magazines like Mad, Lilliput and Punch. He then travelled to many countries, either working or conducting exhibitions. Return to Mumbai Miranda returned to India for good in the late 1980s and was offered back his old job with the Times of India in Mumbai, where he worked with noted cartoonist, R.K. Laxman. Thereafter, Miranda met artist Habiba Hydari. Habiba was part of Hyderabad based Hydari family and grand-daughter of Akbar Hydari. They got married and
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