I share with you here some of the cookbooks, blogs, food memoirs, and other culinary writings I have found most delicious, intriguing, and helpful over the years. This is a very partial list, as I love many more books than I’ve listed here, but these are the ones I think of first and would take with me to a desert island.
Some are chosen because of the writing; some for the reliability and usefulness of the recipes; some for the romance of time and/or place; some for beautiful illustrations and/or photography; some for all of these.
I have always wanted to gather in one place my favourites from culinary literature. That is part of what this blog is about: pulling together treasures to share, both with those who recognise them and may find pleasure in that recognition, and with those who may discover them for the first time.
I hope you will enjoy these and introduce some of your own best friends.
Madeleine Kamman (see also “Slumped dumplings, and other lessons from the kitchen”, and “Madeleine Kamman’s profiteroles pontresina”)
The Making of a Cook (1971) was my first, and remains my favourite, cook’s bible for intelligent explanations on the science of cooking, and the basics you need to refer to again and again, such as the internal temperatures for cooking meat, as well as some of the best recipes in French cooking I know. I adore Madeleine Kamman’s utter dedication to excellence as a teacher as well as a cook. She provides original research and empirically tested foundation recipes: not a repeat of superficial received wisdom, but a challenge to them, an interrogation of them, a breaking-down of all the steps, so you can be absolutely confident when you rely on Madeleine Kamman’s guidelines to get, for example, pork that is safely cooked but not overcooked to meet some archaic food safety standard.
She will tell you, for another example, the basic proportions and techniques to use for any kind of bavarois you wish to make, or soufflé, or ice cream, so that equipped with those formulae and the reasons for them, you can create whatever you dream of and greet many cooking situations with confidence. Her recipes are firmly rooted in the French tradition, but translated for American cooks (she lived in Boston where she ran a restaurant and taught) and the ingredients available to them. They are such evocative recipes, redolent of place, of realness, of honest food home-made from scratch by women who were still expected to produce the family’s meals everyday. Madeleine Kamman was a feminist writing at a time when sexual politics were in foment, when being in the kitchen became a symbol of oppression. She reclaimed it for women who wanted to be feminists and to cook, and to do so professionally as well as at home. While some of the commentary may be a little outdated, her recipes and techniques are so classically useful and clearly explained that they hold up to time in all the ways one could wish, and equip one to innovate to one’s heart’s content. Her chicken bonne maman is what I want for my last meal — it sums up all of life’s generosity in a simple dish of garlic, potato, onion, excellent stock and an honest bird.
Madeleine Kamman’s When French Women Cook (1976) is a masterpiece of another kind, as beautiful in its prose as in the recipes, which are based around eight women, all superb cooks, who were formative in Kamman’s life: all from different regions of France, all bringing their regional recipes and ingredients into her life along with wisdom and affection. Kamman is a scholar (she studied languages at the Sorbonne) and she has captured in these poignant pages the tastes and stories of places and times past, written down for the first time from her memories of being at the elbow of her Aunt Claire Robert, or Grandmother Eugénie. The recipes will produce tastes you may never have experienced: pigeon with prune farze, for example, a kind of Yorkshire pudding; and they also give the gift of discovering how to recreate traditional tastes encountered on travels throughout France. I use her recipe for Flammkuche, or Tarte Flambé, a kind of onion and bacon pizza, which we first encountered in Alsace. Hers, made with freshly harvested onions in early autumn, is so, so much better even than the good ones we had on holiday, at the source.
In the classical mode you can’t do better for step-by-step visual instructions than those to be found in his two major tomes, La Technique (1976), and La Méthode (1979). They provide photographic illustrations for every basic foundation skill a serious chef or home cook needs, starting with how to hold a knife, or tie a roast. I use him for this technical purpose more than the actual recipes, because the operating philosophy for Pépin, as for Madeleine Kamman, is to learn techniques and methods, not recipes, because then you can apply your skills and knowledge to everything you cook. His recipe for pastry cream, cream puffs, and all its pâte au choux variants, are foolproof. My husband David has followed Pepin’s instructions at Christmas for the most magnificent Paris Brest — an extravaganza of praline crème pâtissière and crème chantilly in an almond-sprinkled pâte au choux ring, to symbolise the famous bicycle race from Paris to the city of Brest. David had never even made cream puffs before, but following the well-illustrated and clear instructions, broken down one by one into manageable stages, he produced a masterpiece first time. David’s Paris Brest always receives rapturous reviews from all assembled whenever he manages to find the full day required to make it, and it is what I look forward to most of all the baked treats of the season. Our nephew James, when he was about 14, claimed he could “eat it forever”. I echo the sentiment.
I love Jane Grigson for bringing the bounty of the English countryside to the table, and her philosophy of putting beautiful ingredients at the centre of ones cooking. In her wonderful Fruit Book (1982), Vegetable Book (1978), and Good Things (1971), you start with your quinces, salsify, lemons, partridges, whatever you have, and she will tell you what to do with them. Her word is reliability and romance both. You know she has done the work for you of considering multiple approaches to an ingredient, and what she has selected to share is going to be both imaginative and simply good. Her collections, if not comprehensive, give you all you need: her suggestions are selective, chosen for quality. Some of the hardest-to-find things can be found in her pages. I went to Grigson for help with medlars when we moved into our home to find it had a mature tree — and I have been following her instructions for jelly ever since, and taking pleasure in her erudite and humorous descriptions of that historical fruit. Her rabbit with calvados, chives and cream, is the best way with rabbit I know. She is not exclusively English, but if I am thinking “English”, I turn to her before anyone else.
Ah, The Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook... This is where my heart meets my past. I have cooked with furious passion nearly everything in this inspiring treatise on how to eat since it was first published in 1982, the year I lived in Berkeley and rented a house from Paul Bertolli, the Chez Panisse chef, during his sabbatical in Italy. Two years later I cooked at Chez Panisse myself, first as a commis in the downstairs kitchen, prepping squid, sweetbreads, and garlic for the celebrated dining room; then moving upstairs to the café. My copy of the book is the most treasured in my collection, and the most spattered, worn and faded. As a pristine first edition it would be worth a small fortune now. As the messily annotated copy it is, it is worth far more to me. The garlic soufflé, almond tart, olive oil and sauternes cake, and leek and goat’s cheese tart, are amongst my most treasured recipes, and the dishes most remembered by friends and family for whom I’ve cooked. Alice Waters’s philosophy speaks to me everyday, as I learned it from these pages and in her kitchen.
Lindsey Remolif Shere’s Chez Panisse Desserts is also a well-thumbed essential in my collection. It’s one of the best dessert collections I know, particularly for sophisticated desserts that rely bringing out the best in excellent produce, and combining uncommon flavours in a way that works.
Sarah Raven has a refreshingly uncheffy approach to growing and cooking food, and I love her intelligent, colourful, flavourful recipes and insights. She was an MD and takes a rigorous, evidence-based approach to the claims she makes for healthy eating. She is one of the most generous experts out there in sharing her intellectual property, and really wants us all to eat better, and more healthfully, more sustainably, with less nonsense attached, and with more flavour. I have a lot of respect for her as a gardener, cook, and teacher. Her style is also brilliantly colourful, pretty, natural and nonfussy. I have all her cookbooks, and dip into Good Good Food more than I do most on my shelves. It’s very good at providing succinct summaries of nutritional information and every dish I’ve tried is delicious. Her raw kale salad with tahini dressing is a firm favourite in our house.
Ruth Reichl’s food memoirs are funny, wise and full of insight into the world of food, from the personal to the public and political. Tender at the Bone, and Comfort Me with Apples, are two of my favourite food-related reads.
Nigel Slater’s cookbooks and columns are always brilliant. I love his writing, and the respect he brings to ingredients and their connection to the seasons. He’s a cook who, like Jane Grigson, has a natural reverence for good food and knows how to get the best out of a butternut squash, say, or a cauliflower, or whatever. He doesn’t go for over-the-top show-offy food, and always encourages me to slow down, think, use every scrap and avoid any waste — not by preaching, but through his respectful, mindful approach. His recipes are reliable and exciting, and he often provides interesting background to enrich his recipes. I also love his memoir, Toast.
Bee Wilson’s First Bite is an important and compelling eye opener about how we acquire our food tastes, and what we can do to change them. Everything she writes is worthwhile. She’s a food scholar and a thinker whose clear analyses and pursuit of evidence can help us navigate the confusion around food we all face in daily life.
Other favourite cookbook authors notable for their excellent teaching as well as recipes
Maida Heatter is the ultimate chocolate cook. Her Great Chocolate Desserts (1980) is, well, great, and has the distinction in my bookshelves of having the second-most spattered pages, after The Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook. My all-time favourite chocolate recipes are contained within these pages. Her New Orleans Chocolate Layer cake has a chocolate pudding layer that a few of my friends claim they would die for, and the Dobosh Torte, Chocolate Pots de Cremes, and Flourless Chocolate Rum Cake (more like a soufflé) are exceptional in their class. What is also truly classy about Maida Heatter is the care she takes to tell you, in a likeable, genuine, conversational voice, exactly what to expect; e.g., “This cake sinks in the middle, but don’t worry! It is covered by cream….” She includes difficult challenges and easy recipes. She also offers very useful tips on what and how to freeze, what you can do ahead, and other information I wish more recipe writers would think to include. She is thoughtful as well as brilliant with chocolate. The latest innovations won’t necessarily be found in her pages (which has no photos, only drawings); but if you want a book where chocolate recipes are reliable and good, then look no further.
Madhur Jaffrey is justly celebrated for her brilliant instructions and perfect spicing for recipes achievable with some effort at home. I love her. I trust her. I admire her hugely for recording with such clarity and accessibility for home cooks one of the richest and most complex cuisines in the world. Her sweet and sour aubergine, lamb on the bone with mint, and mushroom pilaf, are family favourites, along with all the classics, including Rogan Josh, Chicken Madras, pooris, and fresh coriander chutney. Her voice is friendly and intelligent and encouraging. Her stories add to the experience. She takes such care to test and explain, that even the most unfamiliar recipes or ingredients are inviting. As teachers go, she is among the very best, and her recipes are invariably perfectly spiced, soul-satisfying and memorable. I have concluded that these two qualities must go together: those who make the best teachers seem to me also to have the best recipes.
Dan Lepard is a hero in our house for teaching me, and my other half, David, the best things we know about bread-baking. David baked his way through almost every recipe in Lepard’s superb The Handmade Loaf in a year, and almost without exception they were recipes we loved and wanted to make again (and many we have made again and again). Lepard’s concepts are original and accessible; and the recipes are imaginative, tempting, and so completely reliable and clearly written that one can set off into new territory with the confidence to succeed. Dan Lepard revolution the way I bake bread, through his no-knead method and guidance on homemade starters, and he turned my partner in life into an accomplished baker from the first steps to real mastery.
Whimsical and off-beat books on food
I wish I’d written a book on food in children’s literature before Jane Brocket got to it. Her Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer is a generous collection of some classic scenes, such as Lucy’s tea with Mr Tumnus in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (see also my story, Afternoon Tea of a faun), along with her interpretation of some recipes for recreating those meals and treats. She includes many works of children’s literature not familiar to me (and leaves out some of my favourites, so maybe there’s a book left for me after all).
My father was a devotee of Euell Gibbon’s treatise on foraging from nature, and with the guidance of the 1960’s classic, Stalking the Wild Asparagus, we tried fiddlehead ferns, elderberries, bird cherries and even acorns, but wild asparagus was a true delicacy that we looked forward to every spring almost as much as our Easter baskets. My father’s satisfaction in the results was part of the pleasure for us. (See my story here, with a simple recipe.) We loved to see him rejoice in “eating like a king for the price of a pat of butter.”
Again, I’m selecting just a few of many blogs I like and read. The first I fell in love with is Emma Gardner’s lovely Poires au Chocolat, now a useful and inspiring baking archive, full of charm.
Ed Smith’s Rocket and Squash was the second blog I fell for, and he continues to do a wonderful service by summarising the food pages in all the major weekly papers, as well as offering his own original recipes and recommendations in a likeable voice.
I also love the photography on Erin Scott’s Yummy Supper.
Jane Brocket. Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer: a golden treasury of classic treats. Hodder and Stoughton, 2008.
Euell Gibbon. Stalking the Wild Asparagus. Hood, Alan C & Company, Inc., 1963.
Jane Grigson. Jane Grigson’s Fruit Book. Penguin Books, 1983.
Ibid. Jane Grigson’s Vegetable Book. Penguin Books, 1980.
Ibid. Jane Grigson’s Good Things. Penguin Books, 1991.
Maida Heatter. Maida Heatter’s Book of Great Chocolate Desserts. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Madhur Jaffrey. Indian Cooking. Barrons, 1982.
Ibid. An Invitation to Indian Cooking. Vintage Books, 1973.
Dan Lepard. The Handmade Loaf. Mitchell Beazley, 2004.
Jacques Pépin. La Methode. Times Books, 1979.
Ibid. La Technique. Times Books, 1976.
Sarah Raven. Good Good Food. Bloomsbury, 2015.
Ruth Reichl. Comfort Me with Apples. Arrow, 2003.
Ibid., Tender at the Bone. Random House, 2010.
Lindsey Remolif Shere. Chez Panisse Desserts. Random House, New York, 1985.
Nigel Slater. Toast. Penguin Group, 2003.
Alice Waters. The Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook. Random House, New York, 1982.
Bee Wilson. First Bite: How we Learn to Eat. Fourth Estate, London, 2015.


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A Bit About Me
I'm a native Virginian who's lived in Texas for the past 16 years. I want to save all the dogs and cats who need homes and I'm obsessed with office supplies and cozy sweaters. From December 1st through the 24th you'll often find me curled up on the couch with a glass of wine watching Hallmark Christmas movies. I enjoy traveling and spending time with my family. I have three human children, ages 18, 16 and seven and four four-legged ones; two dogs and two cats. My hygge goal: a quiet cottage with an English garden, a claw foot bathtub and a library with built-in floor to ceiling bookshelves.


Trinity Postgraduate Review is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed research journal, written and edited entirely by postgraduate students. As we prepare to begin the publication cycle for our seventeenth volume, we are now seeking interested people for positions on the editorial board. As editors, you will be responsible for selecting and editing papers written by your fellow postgraduates for inclusion in the journal, as well as managing a small team of peer reviewers assigned to those papers. As an international academic review that is catalogued in libraries across the world, Trinity Postgraduate Review is an important part of Trinity College Dublin’s research output, and you will have the opportunity to influence its direction and play a vital role in its success for the year.
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The Petroleum Fuels Manufacturing Handbook including Specialty Products and Sustainable Manufacturing Techniques. Written by a global expert in petroleum engineering, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive handbook on the manufacturing, blending, and end uses of petroleum fuels and specialty products. This definitive volume contains in-depth technical information on petroleum processing as well as specifications and test methods for petroleum products. The latest sustainable manufacturing techniques designed to reduce atmospheric pollution and conserve petroleum feedstock are also covered. This is an essential resource for anyone involved in the manufacturing, blending, storage, and trading of petroleum fuels and specialty products.


Jorgenson, M. T., J. G. Kidd, T. C. Cater, and S. C. Bishop. 2003. Long-term evaluation of methods for rehabilitating lands disturbed by industrial development in the Arctic. Pages 173–190 in Methodologies in Evaluation of Socio-Economic and Environmental Consequences of Mining and Energy Production in the Arctic and Sub-arctic. NATO Science Series, ed. O. Rasmussen and N. E. Koroleva, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.


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Parents Evening-Wednesday, 27th November
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Parents Evening is Wednesday, 27th November 3.15-6.30pm for a 5 minute appointment to talk about your child’s work & targets. Appointments can be booked online via the School Cash Office online payments website www.scopay.com. If you haven’t already signed up for this, contact Mrs Walters and she will give you a registration code and you will be able to see available times and book. If you don’t have access to a computer you can contact the office and they will logon and book your appointment for you. There will also be a Scholastic Book Fair where books can be purchased.


When I first received the book I was a bit surprised by it’s size. I was expecting a larger tome, but I was pleasantly surprised upon cracking the cover. Ms. Elliott has compiled a plethora of information for the 21st century vegan girl which is clear, concise, aesthetically appealing and entertaining.
The Vegan Girl’s Guide to Life covers everything from the basic to the complex. The book is broken down into 7 chapters: Understanding What Vegan Is (And Isn’t), Nutrition, Vegan Living, Shopping Like a Vegan When You’re Not Buying Food, Vegan Food, Get Started in the Kitchen: Recipes and Do It Yourself! Short profiles of ordinary vegans and not so ordinary vegans are sprinkled throughout the book. Among the not so ordinary are Chicago’s very own, Leanne Mai-Ly Hilgart of Vaute Couture, and Laviyah of Ste Martaen, as well as several other prominent vegan business women.
Elliott begins the book by describing how she became a vegan, before she goes into veganism basics. Unless you’re new to veganism you can probably skip the first chapter which is filled with facts and myth debunking. If you’re a seasoned vegan you can probably also skip the second chapter, which covers nutrition, however, if you’re newer to veganism, like myself, you’ll find it’s a nice refresher (I find having occasional reminders about nutrition helps me stay on the right track, kind of like going to the dentist twice a year reminds me why I have to floss – even if it is kind of a pain). The third chapter covers everything from fielding questions about your choices to eating out/traveling to getting a 100% vegan tattoo (I knew most inks weren’t vegan, which is why I haven’t been inked yet, but now I’ll be ready if/when I decide to go for it)! “Shopping Like a Vegan When You’re Not Buying Food” (Ch. 4) was by far my favorite chapter. I learned about so many companies that offer vegan products without having to search/sift through the internet for hours. The chapter covers clothing, beauty products (Top 10 Lists by both Elliott and Sunny Subramanian, editor of Vegan Beauty Review), feminine products, cleaning products, and condoms/birth control (however, the book is short, so don’t expect to find info on everything, though it comes close!). Chapters 5 & 6 cover food, the former offers tips on stocking your kitchen & pantry, non-vegan ingredients to watch out for, vegan substitutes and cooking tips, while the latter offers a wide variety of recipes, including contributions from authors, Kelly Peloza (The Vegan Cookie Connoisseur) and Terry Hope Romero (Viva Vegan!, Veganomicon, etc.). Ms. Elliott closes the book with a chapter called, “Do It Yourself!”, I felt some of the information was a bit superfluous (but fun), like the crafts she includes. However, some of the sections within the final chapter were very informative, like the gardening section and the knitting/crochet section (knitting warm vegan items is possible despite what wool purists might tell you).
My only complaints about The Vegan Girl’s Guide to Life are the book’s lack of an index and the ordinary vegan girls’ profiles. Almost everyone profiled has a blog or website listed, unfortunately, some of these links are no longer active. Also, though it was cool to see the similarities and differences between vegans, the profiles would’ve been more relevant to would-be-vegans & current vegans if they contained recommendations or tips, as opposed to the “Funniest Vegan Moment” sections, as many of these weren’t funny. That being said, I found many of the noteworthy vegan girl’s profiles to be very inspiring.
So whether you’re a seasoned vegan, an aspiring vegan or simply curious about the vegan lifestyle, you should check out The Vegan Girl’s Guide to Life.
The Vegan Girl’s Guide to Life
By Melisser Elliott


Original Title: Wind Engineering 1983 3aWind Engineering 1983, Part A contains the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Wind Engineering, held in Gold Coast, Australia, on March 21-25, 1983 and in Auckland, New Zealand, on April 6-7, 1983 under the auspices of the International Association for Wind Engineering. The conference provided a forum for discussing topics related to wind energy and wind engineering, from wind characteristics and wind loading to full-scale measurement and modeling of buildings and other structures. Comprised of 36 chapters, this volume begins with an assessment of the wider application of reliability principles in the treatment of wind loading, paying particular attention to the influence of wind direction and the role of full-scale testing in reducing uncertainty. The reader is then introduced to wind characteristics, with emphasis on strong winds and tropical cyclones; wind loading of tall buildings and low-rise structures; and instrumentation and experimental techniques for wind loading. The base balance technique for the determination of dynamic wind loads is described, along with a detailed design method for pneumatic tubing systems and a digital system for the measurement of wind effects on large structures. The final two chapters deal with active modeling of large-scale turbulence and selection of local peak pressure coefficients for wind tunnel studies of buildings. This monograph will be of interest to students, practitioners, and researchers concerned with wind energy and wind engineering.


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The CMS patches are almost entirely in the ruby-openssl level, creating new interfaces. See, https://github.com/ruby/openssl/pull/236 which languishes because of undiagnosed memory leaks in parts of the system that was never changed.
The OpenSSL DTLS API is inadequate for use by the Fountain JRC. It is interfaced through the ruby-openssl wrapper, plus the coap, david and celluloid-io ruby modules, all of which had to have changes to accomodate DTLS.
A significant problem with patching the OpenSSL libraries is that they are also included in most systems. Updating the system to new versions (putting 1.1.1 on a system that has 1.1.0) is often okay but replacing the 1.1.1 code with newer code is often a disaster. With shared library installation, one can install multiple shared libraries in multiple places, but the challenge is making sure that the right libraries get loaded. Since the ruby interpreter comes with a ruby-openssl gem, and it has been compiled against the system libraries, it is trivially to accidentally get two copies of openssl loaded.
In addition, openssl 3.x has been released, but the work on updating ruby-openssl to work with 3.x is not yet complete. See: https://github.com/ruby/openssl/pull/399.
For this reason the simplest way to do this work is to compile ruby-openssl against a statically linked openssl. It is a bit bigger, since it does not share, but since the code would get loaded only once anyway on a system there isn’t really a big deal.
Unfortunately, the extconf.rb mechanism has no clear way to force linking against .a files except by listing them explicitely by path, so there are some paths hard coded into that file, which is really annoying.
The path selected is “/sandel/3rd/openssl-dtls-api”, which hopefully does not conflict with any other aspect of your system. This path is only needed on the system(s) on which ruby-openssl is compiled.
In the Gemfile for highway, fountain and reach, the relative path “../minerva/ruby-openssl” is used.
Note that the code has been patched up to openssl-1.1.1o, which is the latest as of June 2022.
This has been tested on a bare (Linode) Ubuntu 22.04 (LTS) [which uses ruby 3.x], a (Linode) Debian-11 [which uses ruby 2.7], and also an Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS). It also works on devuan.org beowulf, which is my preferred desktop environment.
So, use the following method to install the needed code bases:
# useradd -m -G sudo minerva
Login as the minerva user:
% sudo mkdir /someplace
% sudo chown $USER /someplace
% cd /someplace
% sudo apt-get update -y
% sudo apt-get install libssl-dev ruby ruby-dev git build-essential postgresql-all libpq-dev libsqlite3-dev curl
% sudo systemctl disable postgresql
% sudo gem install rake-compiler bundler
% sudo mkdir -p /sandel/3rd/openssl-dtls-api
% sudo chown $USER /sandel/3rd/openssl-dtls-api
% git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/AnimaGUS-minerva/highway.git
% git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/AnimaGUS-minerva/fountain.git
% git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/AnimaGUS-minerva/reach.git
% git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/AnimaGUS-minerva/ChariWTs
% mkdir minerva
% cd minerva
% git clone -b dtls-listen-refactor-1.1.1o https://github.com/mcr/openssl.git
% git clone -b dtls-1.1.1o https://github.com/mcr/ruby-openssl.git
% (cd openssl && ./Configure --prefix=/sandel/3rd/openssl-dtls-api -fPIC \
no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5 no-zlib no-ssl3 no-tests no-shared linux-x86_64 && \
make && make install_sw )
% (cd ruby-openssl && rake install_dependencies )
% (cd ruby-openssl && rake compile -- --with-openssl-dir=/sandel/3rd/openssl-dtls-api )
% ln -s ruby-openssl ruby-openssl-upstreamed
% cd ../fountain && bundle config set --local path 'vendor/bundle' && bundle install && bundle exec rake -T
% cd ../highway && bundle config set --local path 'vendor/bundle' && bundle install && bundle exec rake -T
Some minor bits of explanation.
The rails apps are configured to be able to use sqlite3 or postgresql, so both development libraries are installed.
For development a postgresql cluster is created in the local directory, so the system postgresql is not necessary to run.
For reasons unexplained, if one does “rake install_dependancies”, then gem tries to load dependancies via https, then discovers that it mysteriously does not have a HTTPS mechanism and gives up. Installing “rake-compiler” as root first, seems to solve this.
The Gemfile references “ruby-openssl-upstreamed” for hysterical raisons, thus the symlink.
This uses the system supplied ruby executable, rather than an RVM one which was previously the best way. The use of vendor/bundle does mean that duplicate gems may be installed, but on an R&D machine, this is hardly a concern.
libssl-dev is required, or eventmachine won’t get built with HTTPS support.
The next article details setting up and testing each component.
There is an animation at: Ubuntu22, but the size of the SVG file crashes the tab on Chrome.


India is home to one of the earliest records of human wisdom, meticulously preserved and passed down orally for thousands of years before being committed to writing. The Vedas, meaning “knowledge,” document the insight of the ancient ṛṣis, those who could directly see reality for what it is. The Vedic corpus has long been venerated for the probing vision of these ancient seers, and yet the exposition of Indian wisdom has evolved over time in response to changing historical and cultural conditions as well as human receptivity. As a result, Indian classical texts present a rich compendium of approaches to the age-old questions of what it means to be human and to live a fulfilled life in society.
In India, philosophy is called darśana [seeing] because it is the distinct product of the seeing or understanding of the ancient sages who dedicated their lives to observing the world and how their minds formed an understanding of it. Classical Indian thinkers expounded elaborate theories of an unconscious, causal basis of the mind, a cyclical process of time and history, as well as a unitary, limitless source for all life. The diverse schools of thought—from the Upaniṣads and Sāṃkhya to the contemporary social philosophy of Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi—offer students compelling descriptions of the human condition, not to mention vestiges of the stirring debates that ensued between philosophical schools. Learning Indian classics will contextualize Indian Buddhist thought and the classic literature comprising religiously varying themes.
Through close reading of primary texts, students will consider issues fundamental to Indian systems of thought. For example, what is the influence of past karmic tendencies [saṃskāras] on the experience of the present moment? What is the relationship between language and reality? What kind of behavior is socially responsible? Students will read Indian insights into causation, human nature, and the goals of human life [puruṣārtha]. They will explore South Asian perspectives on religious thought and practice, the structure of the human mind and perception, paths to liberation, and limitations to infinite freedom. Through their engagement with the texts, students will grapple with the perennial riddles of existence and human potential.
The Indian Classics strand enables students to develop a sincere appreciation for texts while at the same time encouraging them to critically evaluate the ideas presented. Following Indian tradition, no views are to be accepted unless the students’ direct experience corroborates what they read. By understanding the texts in the spirit of transformation intended by their authors, students will develop the capacity to see the world through a traditional Indian perspective.
In the course of a year, the Indian Classics strand aims to lead students not only in discovering the content of particular knowledges spanning the history of Indian literature, but also in generating the confidence to apply their skills to contemporary discourses. Through their encounter with Indian philosophical systems, students will explore the concept of self, the process of knowing and experiencing the world, and the nature and function of knowledge. Reading classical Indian literature will contribute to the students’ ability to live responsibly, think critically, value diverse perspectives, and troubleshoot from multiple vantage points.
In the first semester, sophomores will read selections from Vedic literature, including the Vedas, Brāhmaṇas, and Upaniṣads, focusing on creation myths, unity and multiplicity, religious practice, self-realization, and concepts of the absolute, death, and desire. Students will then read from different schools of Vedic exegesis, including Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta. Here students will encounter the diversity of traditional interpretations. Students will then read Jaina, Sāṃkhya, and Yoga philosophies, and the epic Mahābhārata and its Bhagavad Gītā, taking up questions of the goals of human life, nonviolence, social duty, devotion, concentration, and nonattachment.
In the second semester, students will read classical Indian poetry, drama, and prose literature, which build on the philosophies studied in the previous semester. In addition to reading Vālmīki’s epic Rāmāyaṇa and the Purāṇas, students will read other Hindu and Buddhist literary works that investigate the psychological influences of past karmic impressions, enslavement to desire, human relationships, and the social conduct of an exemplary human. Students will read such masterpieces as Aśvagoṣa’s Handsome Nanda, Kālidāsa’s Kumārasambhava, Harṣa’s How the Nāgas Were Pleased, and Bhavabhūti’s Rāma’s Last Act.
Students will read the texts in this strand in thematic groups. Beginning with selections of Vedic literature, students will proceed to read a sampling of philosophical schools that interpret theVedas. Vedic literature was composed during the last few millennia b.c.e., whereas the Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta schools developed later as exegetical responses. Students will read the texts in this order because the later texts assume prior familiarity with earlier ones.
The second grouping of texts concerns the epic Mahābhārata, of which the Bhagavad Gītā forms a part, and its philosophical underpinnings, including Sāṃkhya and Yoga. The first two groupings will conclude with modern Indian texts by Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi in order to show that the classical texts, adapted for modern times, are still living traditions in Indian society.
The final grouping of literary texts will be taken up in the second semester, since this set builds on the cultural understanding of previous texts. Classical poetry, prose, and drama will be read to survey the development of ideas over time for the sake of the transformation of the student. This approach effectively conveys the traditional knowledge of South Asia and orients students to learn through sincere inquiry and self-reflection.
Selection of authors and works explored in the Indian Classics strand
Indian Classics 1
- Swami Vivekananda
- Sāṃkhyakārikā by Īśvarakṛṣṇa
- The Mahābhārata
- M.K. Gandhi
- Upadeśasāhasrī by Śrī Śaṅkarācārya
- Yogasūtra by Patañjali
- Bhagavad Gita
Indian Classics 2
- The Rāmāyaṇa by Vālmīki
- Rāma’s Last Act by Bhavabhūti
- The Mahābhārata
- The Recognition of Śakuntala by Kālidāsa
- Handsome Nanda by Aśvaghoṣa
Indian Classics 3
- Devī Māhātmya
- Shivastotravali by Utpaladeva
- Paramārthasāra by Abhinavagupta
- The Enclosed Garden of the Truth by Hakim Sanai
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Hazrat Inayat Khan


This week only I’ve reduced the price of my book, Reverse Type 2 Diabetes in Less Than Six Weeks [Kindle Edition] from $2.99 to just $1.99.
This is the second edition reflecting valuable reader contributions. By the way, if you bought the first edition you can go to your Kindle library and download the revised copy.
This is a quick read and will be helpful if you’re type 2 diabetic or pre-diabetic. Some reviewers wrote…
“This is a straightforward account of how the author responded to being diagnosed with T2 Diabetes. The book is a quick read and gives us an overview of how weight loss, diet and exercise can regulate T2 without the use of drugs. His experiences are insightful and motivational.”
“I was exposed to agent Orange on numerous occasions during my 21 months in Vietnam back in the 1960s, as were many men. Now we are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It is shock but the best thing you can do is educate yourself, get to know as much as you can, through reading books such as this. Know your enemy, learn to fight back through exercise and diet (10,000 step exercise program etc), this does not have to be a death sentence. This book is a great tool and can change your life.”
“The author explains his condition, the dedicated mindset it took to control it, and the hope his experience offers. And he does it in a personal and interesting way. Type 2 diabetics will find it worth their while.”
“This book was easy to read & very helpful with lots of information & slot of reference material given to help live healthier.”
Just click here for more information


String filters provide an easy means to manipulate strings in many ways, without the need to write any additional code. A string filter consists of a stack of string manipulators. When applied to an input string, the string filter causes each manipulator to be applied to the string resulting from applying the previous manipulator. Thus, you may chain an arbitrary amount of manipulators to achieve a desired result.
A string filter expression consists of one or more string manipulators, chained by a '|' (OR) sign, for example:
uppercase|rpad(' ', 30)
In this case, an input string would first be converted to upper case, then padded to the right using ' ' as a padding character.
Arguments of string manipulators should be enclosed in quotes, however, that is not necessary if the argument is a (positive) number or an identifier.
See Ionflux::Tools::StringManipulator for a list of available string manipulators.
Generated on Tue Mar 14 21:07:13 2006 for Ionflux Tools Class Library (iftools) by


Legislative & Regulatory Links
State components no longer have access to Capwiz as of April 2012. All State eAdvocacy activities have been transferred to the APMA eAdvocacy website at www.apma.org/eadvocacy.
Iowa General Assembly
Use this site to check on the progress of state legislation, contact state legislators, examine Iowa law and court rules, contact other state agencies, listen to floor debates, and follow committees.
Iowa Administrative Code
Use this site to find Iowa Agency rules and regulations
Thomas Legislative Services
THOMAS covers three major areas: Legislation, Congressional Record, and Committees. Use this service to keep up with the legislative process.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
The CMS provides health insurance for over 74 million Americans through these programs. This site provides information geared toward beneficiaries, plans and providers, researchers, states, and students.
Iowa Board of Podiatry Examiners
Iowa Board of Podiatry Examiners evaluates the qualifications of applicants for licensure and grants licenses to those who qualify. The board establishes rules and regulations to ensure the integrity and competence of licensed podiatrists and investigates complaints for unprofessional conduct. The Board is the link between the consumer and the licensed podiatrist and, as such, promotes the public health, welfare and safety.
Des Moines University College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery
One of nine fully accredited podiatric medical schools in the nation, The College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery was established in 1982 as one of the colleges of Des Moines University. In addition to links to other parts of the college's site, this site provides a link to the Iowa Podiatric Medical Student's Association.
National Library of Medicine
"Welcome to the world's largest medical library and creator of MEDLINE." This site provides links regarding health information (MEDLINE, MEDLINEplus, and other recources), library services, research programs, announcements, exhibits, hot topics, and general information about the library, and a listing of its staff
OPEIU/Guild Member Benefits
OPEIU website which has links to the White Collar publication, OPEIU Member Benefits and Find a Union Podiatrist.


Dickens Reading Group
Dedicated to reading the works of Charles Dickens in condensed serial installments, as his original readers first read his works. These installments are a good deal shorter than the full length works. The class will be supplemented by a bibliography of films, TV shows and readings about each work, and the UCSC Dickens Project is providing guidance and extra materials. The reading each June would be the selection of the annual Dickens Universe conference at UCSC.
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Migration des Odonates
Bland K.P. 1997 - A precisely timed case of nocturnal migration by Aeshna cyanea (Mueller) (Odonata : Aeshnidae). - Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 109 (5-6) : 154-155.
Gaenzle Schilling E. & al. 2020 - Phenological and isotopic evidence for migration as a life history strategy in Aeshna canadensis (family: Aeshnidae) dragonflies. - Ecological Entomology, 29 septembre 2020.


The Museum answers the need for the collection, preservation and exhibition of national photographic values. Its research is directed into the history of Latvian photography as an inseparable and unique component of Latvian ethnic culture and into its role as part of the overall evolution of photography in the world. The permanent exposition and exhibition gallery together with an archive and library facility covers 363 square meters presently. The collection contains photographs, from those produced by historic processes of the 19th century (such as daguerrotypes), to our times; transparencies, negatives, photographic equipment, documents of archival value, books and magazines. Exobition illustrates the growth and development of photography in Latvia from 1839 to 1941, and contains daguerrotypes, ambrotypes, silver-gelatine photographs, and equipment.


In part one
we setup our Raspberry Pi, installed Mono, and ran our first C# program.
In part two, we will connect a Relay to the Pi and turn it on/off using .NET. Listed below are what you will need to complete part two, in addition to the hardware/software you used in part one.
- PiSharp Raspberry Pi GPIO Library for .NET
First, we will make sure the Pi is turned off and the power cord is disconnected. You can shut down the Pi by running the command below.
sudo shutdown now
Wait for the green LED of the Pi to stop blinking (the red LED will stay on) and then unplug the power.
We are now ready to connect jumper wires to the Raspberry Pi. Identify the GPIO pins we will use for this experiment, locate the 5V pin, the ground (you can select any ground pin, I am using the one closest to the 5V pin), and pin 23 (I am using pin 23 for signal, you are free to select another pin).
Connect the jumper wires to the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins as shown on the image below. Don’t worry about the color of the wires.
Go ahead and connect the jumper wires from the Raspberry Pi to the breadboard. The 5V wire will go to the red row (+), the ground wire will go to blue row (-), and the pin 23 wire can go to any row except the red or the blue rows. I am using row f.
Get the Relay and identify the pins.
Connect another 3 jumper wires to the Relay.
Connect the Relay jumper wires to the breadboard. The wire from the ground pin will go to the (-) pin of the Relay, the wire from the 5V pin will go to the (+) pin of the Relay, and the wire from pin 23 will go to the Signal pin of the Relay.
You will now download Pi#, PiSharp is a Raspberry Pi GPIO Library for .NET, download it from here
After you download Pi# unzip it, open the Visual Studio solution located in the src folder, and build the solution. After build succeeds right click on the PiSharp.LibGpio project, open Folder in File Explorer. Browse to the bin/Debug folder, locate the PiSharp.LibGpio.dll file, and copy it. You will add this .dll to your project.
Start new instance of Visual Studio and create new Console project. I am naming my project GaragePi.NET.
Create new folder, name it PiSharpRef, and paste the PiSharp.LibGpio.dll you copied from the PiSharp solution.
Right click on References and add the PiSharp.LibGpio.dll file. Be sure to use the file located in the PiSharpRef folder.
Add the below using statements to the Program class.
Add the below code to the main method and build the project.
The first line will set the pin 23 to Output. Inside the while loop, we will set pin 23 to high (on) wait for 2 seconds, set pin 23 to low (off), and wait another two seconds. This will be repeated until we exit the program.
We will now go to the Pi and test our experiment. Connect the power cord to the Pi and wait for the Pi to start. After the Pi is up and running, start PuTTY and login to your Pi.
Start WinSCP and login to the Pi. From your local machine locate the debug folder of the GaragePi.NET project and drag it to the pi folder of the Raspberry Pi.
Go back to the Pi and run the GaragePi.NET.exe program.
sudo mono Debug/GaragePi.NET.exe
The Relay will now make clicking sound and the red LED will turn on/off. Congratulations, you can now turn appliances on/off using Raspberry Pi and your .NET skills.
To quit the program press Ctrl + C.
Go to Part Three


Hope you enjoy this audio recording of ‘Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare ‘ – performed by my student Estée Spencer as part of her LAMDA Grade 8 Verse & Prose exam (Gold Medal). You will also find a copy of the sonnet below.
Some interesting links below along with a note of Estée’s other choices. If you have time add your comments and thoughts on this poem in the comments box at the end.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
LINKS – names of other Grade 8 pieces
Books (student offer available on books below- get £10 off on £40 spend)
- Poems by Louis MacNeice << here >>
- How to Build a Girl, by Caitlin Moran << here >>
- The complete Sonnets & Poems by Shakespeare << here >>


Sacred Space: Where Heaven Meets Earth
Why do we feel such emotion when we enter a church, a temple, a mosque, or a synagogue? In these timeless spaces, which our ancestors have bequeathed to us, there is a beauty and mystery, which transport us. Sacred monuments have a complex and coded architecture, which combines science and alchemy, the magical and the profane. But for those who know how to read them, these structures of wood, stone and glass tell the great narrative of human belief. Each of these very different edifices represents the pinnacle of what mankind has created on Earth. By revealing the secret history of the world’s most remarkable religious constructions, this ambitious series in 4K also tells the history of humankind, of our faith, and our genius as builders.
The immense white stupas of Erdene Zuu Monastery seem a natural feature of the Mongolian Steppes, close to Karakorum, Genghis Khan’s legendary capital of his Mongol Empire. They are the silent witnesses of the story of caravan traders along the Silk Road, fringing the greatest and most sacred Buddhist monastery in the country. Partially destroyed and abandoned during the Communist occupation, the remaining temples, a celebration of the architecture of Sino- Tibetan Central Asian architecture, have nonetheless managed to withstand the assault of History and once again sound with the chants of monks who have given it new life.


For my Spring 2016 Multimedia class, we were given the opportunity to create our own projects. After getting a proposal, including a project timeline and budget projections, approved, I created a walking tour of the hamlet of Rush, N.Y., a small town about 30 minutes south of Rochester. Once considered an independent farming frontier, it is now a bedroom community. Ideally this project would exist as it's own mobile application, but due to time constraints I used the responsive design website framework of Atavist to simulate an application experience. For the project I digitized and edited historical images in the Rush Town Historian's Office collection. I captured all present day visuals used in the project. I also wrote the body text and edited photo captions with the assistance of Rush Town Historian Susan Mee.


The AXA Foundation in collaboration with the National Alliance for Caregiving has funded the creation of the AXA Foundation Family Care Resource Connection. This on-line connection is designed to help family caregivers and the professional community who works with families gain access to hundreds of resources on the widest range of issues.
Key topics include: Hands-on skills for caregivers, medical conditions such as Alzheimer’s Disease, Stroke and Parkinson’s Disease, legal and financial information, coping with caregiving and community resources.
The site describes the resources and provides a rating score based on the quality, usefulness to family members, timeliness and accessibility. Reviews are conducted by experts in family caregiving and highlight the strengths and weaknesses of each item. Information is also provided about the cost of items and where it can be obtained.
There is also a special feature, which will let users add their own ratings and reviews of resources they may have used. Searches can be completed by topic or by keyword.
To access the AXA Foundation Family Care Resource Connection go to the web site www.caregiving.org and then click on “AXA Foundation Family Care Resource Connection.”
Gail R. Mitchell


Upcoming First Draughts
First Draughts: Volume III | February 25th – March 6th, 2018
Plays by: Emily Kitchens, Andrew Rincón, Amy Berryman, and Jenny Grace Makholm
First Draughts: Volume II | April 17th – May 22nd, 2017
Plays by: David Haan, Liz Morgan, Justin Robert Yorio, and David H Rosen
First Draughts: Volume I | March 7th – March 28th, 2016
Plays by: Liz Thaler & Eric Saxvik, Michael Sadler, Lizzie Vieh, and Liz Morgan
First Draughts is a developmental reading series, produced by Amios, dedicated to expanding former SHOTZ! pieces into full-length plays over the course of a six-month development process.


Two excellent papers from ACIS 2022 in Melbourne, Australia.
- Rinaudo, N. B., Matook, S., & Dennis, A. R. (2022). ‘Social Media’s Stockholm Syndrome: A Literature Review of User’s Love and Hate’, paper presented at the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Melbourne (Australia). https://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2022/66/
- Hannon, O., Gal, U., & Dar-Nimrod, I. (2022). ‘Aversion vs. Abstinence: Conceptual Distinctions for the Receptivity Toward Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems Within Value-laden Contexts’, paper presented at the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Melbourne (Australia). https://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2022/43/
10 Minute I.S. Paper (TMISP) is the podcast where we cover Information Systems research papers, in brief. You can find out more about the podcast at www.tmisp.org and you can reach out to me, Blair Wang, at www.blair.wang
Please note that TMISP is a personal project by Dr. Blair Wang. TMISP is not endorsed by, or affiliated with, any institution. The comments made on TMISP express the personal reflections and interpretations of Dr. Blair Wang on published research papers, but do not represent the views of any authors, editors, publishers or universities. Thank you for your understanding.
Music used in this podcast: ‘Inspired’, ‘Deliberate Thought’, and ‘Electrodoodle’ by Kevin MacLeod.
Link 1: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired
Link 2: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3635-deliberate-thought
Link 3: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3707-electrodoodle


Elle Decor July August 2014 Cover
The living room of Andrea Raisfeld and William Abranowicz’s house in Bedford, New York, which was renovated by architect Holly Ross. The plaster table is by Stephen Antonson, the chaise and wood side table are flea-market finds, the rug is by Safavieh, and the walls are painted in Benjamin Moore Aura in Dune White; the large painting of Venice is by Kevin Burger, and the photograph over the mantel, Andrea’s Feet (1990), is by Abranowicz.
The entry hall features encaustic tiles inset into wood planks, the chair was found in a Dumpster, and the wallpaper is by Schumacher; the central photograph beyond is by Abranowicz, and the one to the right is by Horst. In the library, a pendant light fixture by Ro Sham Beaux hangs above a table bought at a flea market; the sheepskin throw was purchased at a charity auction, and the painting, After Tintoretto, is by Kevin Burger; the bookshelves are custom made, and the brick replace surround is painted in Benjamin Moore Aura in Lookout Point. Audubon prints, an embroidery piece by Angelo Filomeno, and photographs by Abranowicz, Victor Schrager, Tom Baril, and George Tice, among others, line the walls of the gallery; the cabinet was found at auction. A custom-made cabinet and desk in the office; the table lamp is by Artemide, and the ceiling is stained fir. endant lights by Produzione Privata hang above the marble-top kitchen counter, the bar chairs are by Thonet, and the table is custom made, as are the milk glass–lined cabinets; the backsplash tiles are by Waterworks. In the master bedroom, the chandelier and bench, which is covered with blankets bought during a photo shoot in Bolivia, are flea-market finds, and the photographs are by Mark Klett; the walls are painted in Benjamin Moore Aura in Dune White, and the ceiling in Aura in Chalk White. The tub and fittings in the master bath are by Waterworks, and the floor tiles are from Ann Sacks. The screened porch’s collection of transferware plates was purchased at yard sales, the bedding is by John Robshaw, and the rocker is by Harry Bertoia; the walls are stained cedar.
Photography by William Abranowicz ( Via
Art & Commerce) Renovated by Architect Holly Ross Title: Soft Focus


Dinosaurs of Antarctica
Release Date: February 2020
Synopsis: From the Permian through the Jurassic, journey to the south polar landscapes of Antarctica hundreds of millions of years ago. Roam the primitive forests and thick swamps with bizarre dinosaurs and colossal amphibians. Enter a surreal world of bug-eyed giants and egg-laying mammals—where survival means enduring the sunless, six-month polar winter surrounded by meat-eaters with night vision. Join intrepid Antarctic scientists on a quest to understand the ice continent’s profound transformation—and to predict the future as humans drive dramatic change. Welcome to the lost prehistoric world of Gondwana. Welcome to Antarctica.


NCTB Books of Class 7
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) is responsible for publishing textbooks for students in Bangladesh. The NCTB books are widely used by schools across Bangladesh and are designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter.
The NCTB textbooks for Class 7 are carefully designed to provide students with a strong foundation in various subjects. The books cover subjects like Mathematics, Science, Bangla, English, Social Science, and others. The books are structured in a way that encourages critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
The NCTB books for Class 7 are written by experts in their respective fields, ensuring that the content is accurate and up-to-date. The books are designed to be interactive, with plenty of exercises, activities, and examples to help students understand the concepts better.
One of the unique features of the NCTB books for Class 7 is that they emphasize the importance of practical knowledge. The books include real-life examples and practical exercises that help students connect the theoretical concepts to real-world scenarios.
The NCTB books for Class 7 are also available in both Bangla and English medium, catering to the needs of students from diverse backgrounds. The books are widely available in bookstores across Bangladesh and can also be purchased online.
NCTB Books of Class 7 2023 List
here is the list of NCTB textbooks for Class 7 in Bangladesh along with the subject and PDF Link:
|Sl||Subject Name||Bangla Version||English Version|
|1||আনন্দ পাঠ(বাংলা দ্রুত পঠন)||Download||Download|
|2||English for Today||Download||Download|
|4||বাংলা ব্যকরণ ও নির্মিতি||Download||Download|
|8||বাংলাদেশ ও বিশ্বপরিচয়||Download||Download|
|9||শারীরিক শিক্ষা ও স্বাস্থ্য||Download||Download|
|10||English Grammer and Composition||Download||Download|
|11||তথ্য ও যোগাযোগ প্রযুক্তি||Download||Download|
|12||চারু ও কারুকলা||Download||Download|
|13||ইসলাম ও নৈতিক শিক্ষা||Download||Download|
|14||খ্রিষ্টধর্ম ও নৈতিক শিক্ষা||Download||Download|
|15||হিন্দুধর্ম ও নৈতিক শিক্ষা||Download||Download|
|16||বৌদ্ধধর্ম ও নৈতিক শিক্ষা||Download||Download|
|17||ক্ষুদ্র নৃগোষ্ঠীর ভাষা ও সংস্কৃতি||Download||Download|
|18||কর্ম ও জীবনমুখী শিক্ষা||Download||Download|
It is important to note that these books are subject to updates and revisions by the NCTB, so it’s always a good idea to check for the latest versions of the textbooks.
In conclusion, the NCTB books for Class 7 are a reliable and comprehensive resource for students studying in Bangladesh. The books are designed to provide a strong foundation in various subjects and help students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The practical approach and user-friendly design of the textbooks make them popular among students and teachers alike.


The Virginia Horse Industry Board provides free publications to individuals and organizations that educate, support, promote and provide resources for the equestrian industry and community.
Brochure - "Virginia & Horses - A Natural Partnership"
The four-color, 8-page publication highlights the history of the Board and includes key economic data from the VHIB's 2011 economic impact study.
The study, conducted by the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center with a grant from the Horse Board, provides such statistics as:
The horse industry in Virginia has an economic impact of $1.2 billion
Horse owners spend $873 million annually on horse-related expenses; these expenses average out to $4,060 per horses.
The industry generates more than 16,000 jobs and $65.3 million in state and local taxes.
A Guide to Virginia’s Horse Country
A handy pocket guide contains information on the state’s horse industry and a listing of the major Virginia equine websites is available.
Age 4 & Under Activity Pages, Coloring Pages and Posters
A variety of educational materials for children includes word games and puzzles and a detailed illustration of equine conformation. These materials are excellent for teachers, 4-H leaders, instructors, and anyone interested in learning more about horses and are available in quantities.


By Mike Shanker, CEO, Extraprise
Editor’s Note: The following is the first in a two-part series exploring the key considerations for when to outsource marketing, as well as the how to handle top marketing challenges.
Since Neil H. Gordon’s classic 1964 article, “The Concept of the Marketing Mix,” and E. Jerome McCarthy’s, “4Ps of Marketing,” much has been written about the basic elements of marketing. In addition to the standard Product, Price, Promote, Place attributes, the intervening years have seen many additions and variations: the 5 Ps and 7 Ps, among others.
- Published in Demanding Views


We’re excited to announce the latest release from GigaOM Books, the ebook imprint that we created earlier this year. The Battle for the Books: Inside Google’s Gambit to Create the World’s Biggest Library details the development of the ambitious and contentious Google Books project. Written by Jeff John Roberts, one of GigaOM’s top media and legal reporters, The Battle for the Books is the first effort to chronicle Sergey Brin and Larry Page’s Google Books project, an ambitious plan to scan the world’s entire stock of books in five years. Roberts tracks the birth of the project as well as the ensuing legal and academic battles that eventually led to the project’s demise.
Roberts has been following the Google Books saga for more than three years. The narrative he weaves throughout The Battle for the Books combines his background as an intellectual property and media lawyer with his experience as a reporter and storyteller. It’s a compelling account told through the eyes of the people involved, and it contains exclusive accounts from dozens of figures in the tech, academic, and legal sectors, including:
- Terry Winograd, Stanford professor emeritus and Larry Page’s graduate advisor
- Robert Darnton, the director of the Harvard Library, who led an intellectual crusade against the project and exposed a rift between some librarians and Google
- Robert Miller, the director of Books at the Internet Archive, which launched a book-scanning project of its own and joined a growing number of onetime Google allies in a legal and public relations campaign against the company
Click here to lean more about The Battle for the Books, to check out a preview, and to order this ebook for delivery straight to the digital reader of your choice.


Move a document to a SharePoint Records Center via a workflow
Learn how you can use a SharePoint Designer workflow to move a document from a SharePoint document library on one SharePoint site to a specific SharePoint document libary on a Records Center site in SharePoint 2013.
Once you have set up a Records Center in SharePoint 2013, you may want to automate the process of moving documents to the SharePoint Records Center. For this, you can make use of a SharePoint workflow.
The Send Document to Repository workflow action in SharePoint Designer 2013 allows you to specify a SharePoint Records Center to which a file must be copied, moved, or moved and leave a link.
Note that you do not have to configure a Send To connection in SharePoint Central Administration as in Manually move a document to a Records Center in SharePoint 2013 for this solution to work. The only requirement is that you must use the correct URL for the destination router (so one that has the extension /_vti_bin/officialfile.asmx) when you are setting up the workflow action.
Before you begin, ensure that you:
- Have gone through the steps to create a Records Center site in SharePoint 2013.
- Have created a content type for sending documents to the SharePoint Records Center.
Create a SharePoint workflow to move a document to a Records Center
- In SharePoint Designer 2013, create a new list workflow that runs on the SharePoint document library that contains the documents you want to move to the SharePoint Records Center. Ensure that you select SharePoint 2010 Workflow as the Platform Type.
- Add a Send Document to Repository action to the workflow, and configure it to say:
Submit File using Move to http://win-a5pj1269tfk/dmw/recordscen... with Some explanation (Output to Variable: submit file result)
where you must use the String Builder dialog box to set this destination router in the workflow action to be equal to the full URL of the officialfile.asmx web service for the SharePoint Records Center, for example:
Or if you have stored the URL in a workflow variable/parameter or in a field in a list or library, you could also perform a lookup to find that value and use it in the workflow action.
- Publish the workflow to SharePoint.
In SharePoint 2013, navigate to the SharePoint document library to which you associated the workflow and that contains a document you want to move. Manually start the workflow on a document you want to move.
Once the workflow has run and completed, navigate to the SharePoint Records Center and verify that the document has been stored in the appropriate SharePoint document library.
Create a custom action to move a document to a SharePoint Records Center via a workflow
To make it easier to start the workflow on a document, you could add a custom action to the SharePoint document library via SharePoint Designer as follows:
- In SharePoint Designer 2013, in the Navigation pane, click Lists and Libraries.
- On the List and Libraries page, click on the name of the SharePoint document library to which you want to add a custom action to start a SharePoint workflow.
- On the page for the SharePoint document library under Custom Actions, click New.
- On the Create Custom Action dialog box, enter a name for the custom action in the Name text box (for example ArchiveDoc), select the Initiate workflow option, select the name of the workflow that you created earlier from the drop-down list box, and then click OK.
In SharePoint 2013, you should now be able to see the custom action on the menu for a document and select it to run the workflow to move the document to the SharePoint Records Center.
To access a document's menu, click the ellipsis (...) button behind the document, click the ellipsis button on the context menu that appears, and then select the menu item from the drop-down menu that appears.
- SharePoint Designer workflow: Move a document from one library to another
- Move documents from one library to the next in SharePoint 2010 using Open with Explorer
- Create a content type for document routing to a Records Center
- Manually move a document to a Records Center in SharePoint 2013
- SharePoint workflow to move a document to a folder


PomBase is a comprehensive database for the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, providing structural and functional annotation, literature curation and access to large-scale data sets. PomBase is funded by the Wellcome Trust as a collaboration between the University of Cambridge, Universtiy College London and EMBL-EBI.
PomBase and Ensembl Fungi
The manual annotations provided by the PomBase project for Schizosaccharomyces pombe are imported into the Ensembl Fungi division at the beginning of each release cycle.
To cite S. pombe genome data and annotation, please use:
Wood V, Harris MA, McDowall MD, Rutherford K, Vaughan BW, Staines DM, Aslett M, Lock A, Bähler J, Kersey PJ, Oliver SG.


Reading is a Super Skill
Reading is a wonderful pastime for all ages, but it has a lot of benefits for seniors. Reading can delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, for example, which is the leading cause of dementia. Furthermore, as mentioned in our post ‘How to Help Elderly Parents With Dementia Care?’, dementia is common among elderly parents. However, by encouraging them to read, you can help stimulate their brain and improve memory. Reading can also improve attention span, reduce stress, and improve sleeping patterns.
Fortunately, books are currently more accessible to seniors through audiobooks. Artificial intelligence technologies like Alexa can read books out loud, making the experience more convenient for elders who have poor eyesight. While it is not reading per se, listening to audiobooks provides similar health benefits. For instance, a study published in the Benefits of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine outlines that seniors who listen to audiobooks remain mentally active. This is because it is seen as a type of bibliotherapy, which is effective in developing an individual’s self-awareness and empathetic understanding.
Audiobooks are also a way for the elderly to cope with loneliness since it mimics the experience of a loved one reading to them. Loneliness is also linked to health risks in older adults, such as heart disease and a weaker immune system, making listening to stories more important.
Whether your loved one prefers to read or listen, below is a list of great self-help books for seniors:
Best Self: Be You, Only Better
This self-help book tells its readers how the key to creating the most fulfilling life for themselves is within them. Written by life coach Mike Bayer, he teaches his readers to manage their lives from the inside out.
‘Best Self’ is a great book for seniors because it teaches them that they can still achieve their dream life and best self — even at their age. It instructs the reader about how to dig deep within themselves to acknowledge what holds them back. In turn, he informs them how they can break through these to live to the fullest and how to improve your memory as a senior.
From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing: A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Older
This book by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is both inspiring and informative. It’s a guide that inspires its readers to create an aging process for themselves that is filled with adventure, fulfillment, and excitement.
‘From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing’ is perfect for elderly parents because it teaches them how to transform their aging process into one that will focus on their passions rather than anxieties. The author gives elders helpful tips on how to embrace their power to provide value and wisdom to the people around them.
Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels
Written by Loretta Graziano Breuning, this book is a practical guide about habits that trigger happy thoughts. ‘Habits of a Happy Brain’ is filled with simple activities that boost the “happy chemicals” in the brain such as serotonin and endorphins. When active, these hormones can help boost mood.
This book can benefit senior loved ones by allowing them to engage in habits that will lighten their moods. The suggested activities are simple enough for elders to participate in, too. These include simple stretching and finding what makes them laugh. ‘Habits of a Happy Brain’ shows its readers how to live a happier and healthier life, including how to improve their memory— even in their senior years!
The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully
Joan Chittister wrote this book to inform readers about the blessings of aging. The book also celebrates the clear-eyed reality of the aging process by demonstrating how the later years in life are not a burden, but a gift.
‘The Gift of Years’ is perfect for elderly Christian parents and relatives that have fears of getting older. The book tells its reader how to let go of fantasies regarding eternal youth and the anxieties of aging. It shows the elderly how these late years have the gift of becoming fully alive more than ever.
Nearing Ninety: And Other Comedies of Late Life
This book by Judith Viorst is a compilation of poems narrating the joys and sorrows as seniors wait to turn 90. ‘Nearing Ninety’ is stocked with humor that reminds the reader that almost nothing in life should be taken too seriously.
Nearing Ninety can help seniors realize how there are many things to cherish. These include hanging out with loved ones and playing nonstop rounds of Scrabble. Overall, it’s an enjoyable way to remind almost-90-year-olds that there is a lot to appreciate and experience despite their age.
Aging is a natural process in life and these 5 authors have much to say on the highs and lows of aging. The aging journey can come with its own challenges like financial disrupts, dementia, and other health issues. Reading a book off the list will give you some tips on how to improve your memory or handle a myriad of health issues. Hopefully, our lives can be helped and comforted through these times by reading one of these 5 great self-help books. Or catching one on tape!
By, Emma Meyer


On a hunt through a used bookstore, nothing brings me more delight than finding a book I didn’t know existed that’s written by a favorite author. Many years ago, I discovered that Carol Ryrie Brink had written a book called The Twin Cities (The Macmillan Company, 1961).
You probably recognize her as the author of the 1936 Newbery Medal winner, Caddie Woodlawn. You may not have known that although she was born in Idaho, graduated from Berkeley, she lived in St. Paul for 40 years. Her husband, Raymond, was a professor of mathematics at the University of Minnesota. She taught creative writing while she lived here. Hamline University named her as one of twenty-eight outstanding women of Minnesota in 1954.
This book is very much a time capsule and it’s fascinating to read for that reason. With a Euro-centric view of living in Minnesota, the chapters cover figure skating, the skylines and progress of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the indoor gardens, the Winter Carnival, the Minneapolis Aquatennial, the Old Log Theatre, the anticipation of the new Guthrie Theater … and many, many more tidbits. She includes several pages about the native American tribes, all of which have a 1950s lens. Those pages are uncomfortable to read but I appreciate having this perspective on where we’ve come from.
In the chapter “Dinner and a Show,” she writes, “I remember one Sunday when friends from New York tried to take us to lunch in Minneapolis. My husband and I, like our neighbors, were unaccustomed to lunching away from home on a Sunday, but we supposed that it could easily be done. We were as surprised as the New Yorkers to find that most of the restaurants were closed, and that cocktails were entirely out of the question. The only satisfaction that our thirsty friends got out of the adventure was the dubious thrilled of finding themselves in that incredible part of the world known to them as ‘the sticks.’”
She writes about “Jim Hill” in her chapter on the “Empire Builder.” Hill advertised for settlers along his railway so goods and commerce and supplies would flow. He built a fabulous art collection. He believed strongly in education, books, and libraries, so the Hill Reference Library at the St. Paul Central Library was planned shortly before his death. In 1910, Hill published a book called Highways of Progress, in which he wanted to see beyond the present to “anticipate the needs and opportunities of tomorrow.”
It’s tomorrow. We still live in the context of our history … although we’re striving to make forward progress. I’m grateful for the discovery of book treasures like this one.


Koutouloufari, is the perfect getaway to spend a slow-paced vacation.
Start the day with a healthy Cretan breakfast – fresh eggs, cold cuts, oven-baked bread, honey, seasonal fruits and a perfectly brewed Greek coffee at the Snack Bar. Then relax by the sun-soaked pool, leaf of a good book from our library, or refresh into a cool smoothie from our bar.
THE LOBBY BAR | 16:00 - 24:00
Indulge in an extensive menu of bold coffees, refreshing drinks, wines and signature cocktails, curated by the acclaimed Aristotelis Papadopoulos, at our lobby bar, the perfect way to cool off on your Cretan vacation. Get ready to delight your taste buds with varied drinks to suit your mood.
POOL BAR | 8:00 - 10:30 BREAKFAST & 10:30 - 17:00 BRUNCH & LUNCH
Offering a journey of flavors to the local region, the Pool Bar is the perfect daytime meeting point, set amongst the gardens and our pool, to savor delicious Cretan breakfast, brunch and lunch with authentic dishes. Take a break to taste a bite, aperitif or snack with a refreshment or exotic signature cocktails, curated by the acclaimed Aristotelis Papadopoulos, by the pool in a unique environment and chilled atmosphere.
During your visit here, you can be guided at our Wine Cellar and learn more about the indigenous grape varieties and the Cretan vineyards. If you have enough time, we can also arrange curated visits to the vineyards, visiting nearby places with a panoramic view of the vinicultural area, and to the barrel cellar.
Celebrating life and food, we invite you to come, taste and enjoy.
Our library is a vibrant hub of knowledge, offering a diverse collection of books.


Hi! In this guide we are going to work our way through learning Ecto, a database library for Elixir (https://github.com/elixir-lang/ecto).
Ecto is written by the excellent Elixir team so no surprise it is truly awesome to work with. Big shout out thanks to Jose Valim, Eric Meadows, and the other 100+ contributors to Ecto. Great job!
My time with Ecto has been awesome. Ecto is fast, composable, and flexible.
The official documentation can be found at: http://hexdocs.pm/ecto
Why write this guide?
The official documentation does a great job demonstrating the API but sometimes it is hard to know where to look right? This guide is not a replacement for the level of detail provided by the official documentation.
If you are coming from Rails, there can be a few bumps on your road to productivity. Ecto is not Active Record. In many ways it is better!
This guide is all about reducing if not eliminating those bumps!
I want help you to get started shipping code and not spending hours reading documentation searching for answers to simple questions.
What to expect from this guide
We will use Ecto inside a Phoenix application to learn all the common database actions. We will demonstrate the code in working tests that you can run and verify things work as expected. We also will cover some best practices for getting the most out of Ecto.
I structured of the guide so it will be an example reference to come back to as you begin working with Ecto.
Let’s get started!


The AlManarah Library was established to
(1) Address the huge shortage of accessible books in Arabic in order to improve the reading comprehension and cultural experience of Arabic-speaking persons who are print disabled.
(2) Promote the integration of members of our community into higher education and the labor market.
Since its inception in 2010, the AlManarah Library has adapted works for tens of thousands of Arabic-speaking people with disabilities. The Library provides access to a vast pool of recorded books from a wide range of fields, including fine literature, children’s books, and reference works. These audiobooks are produced at our own professional recording studios located in Nazareth.
Today, there are over 6,000 audio books in the Library, accessible to tens of thousands of regular and casual users each month through our website and a mobile app developed specifically for this purpose.
Since 2014, the Almanarah Library has been recognized as a public library for persons with visual and reading impairments supported by the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sports.
In May 2017, Mohammed Ben Rashad Al Makhtum, Governor of Dubai, gave the AlManarah Library a prestigious award, recognizing it as the best initiative contributing to the advancement of the Arabic language and the building of a knowledgeable Arabic community.
In February 2018, at the International Conference held at the United Nations Center in Vienna, the Almanarah Library won the Zero Project Award as an outstanding program facilitating access to information for people with disabilities.6


Dr. Edward Fudge joins me to discuss the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement and the Churches of Christ which have emerged from it. This episode contains part 2 of the interview; see episode 52, “Restored,” for part 1.
- Edward Fudge Ministries
- The Restoration Movement Fulfilled in Jesus Christ, Dr. Fudge’s free online book
- Other Books
- Reviving the Ancient Faith: The Story of Churches of Christ in America, by Dr. Richard Hughes
- The Stone-Campbell Movement: The Story of the American Restoration Movement, by Leroy Garrett
- The Churches of Christ in the 20th Century: Homer Hailey’s Personal Journey of Faith, by David Harrell


H. Hu, X. Li and J. Wu. A Note on the SDP Relaxation of the Minimum Cut Problem. J. Glob. Optim., 2022.
 X. Li and X. Zhang. A New Stopping Criterion for Eckstein and Bertsekas’s Generalized Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers. J. Oper. Res. Soc. China, 2022.
 N. Graham, H. Hu, J. Im, X. Li and H. Wolkowicz. A Restricted Dual Peaceman-Rachford Splitting Method for a Strengthened DNN Relaxation for QAP. Informs J. Comput., 2022.
 X. Li, T. Pong, H. Sun and H. Wolkowicz. A strictly contractive Peaceman-Rachford splitting method for the doubly nonnegative relaxation of the minimum cut problem. Comput. Optim. Appl., 78(2021), no.3, pp. 853-891.
 M. Li, X. Li and Z. Wu. A refined primal-dual algorithm for a saddle-point problem with applications to imaging. Pac. J. Optim., 16 (2020), no. 4, pp. 663-685.
 L. Sun, Z. Jiang and X. Li. Inexact generalized proximal alternating direction methods of multipliers and their convergence rates. Pac. J. Optim., 14(1):101-124, 2018.
 X. Li, M. Ng and X. Yuan. Median filtering-based methods for static background extraction from surveillance video, Numer. Linear Algebra Appl., 22(5):845-865, 2015.
 M. Li, X. Li and X. Yuan. Convergence Analysis of the Generalized Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers with Logarithmic-Quadratic Proximal Regularization. J. Optim. Theory Appl., 164(1):218-233, 2015.
 X. Li and X. Yuan. A proximal strictly contractive Peaceman-Rachford splitting method for convex programming with applications to imaging. SIAM J. Imaging Sci., 8(2):1332-1365, 2015.
 X. Li, L. Mo, X. Yuan and J. Zhang. Linearized alternating direction method of multipliers for sparse group and fused LASSO models. Comput. Statist. Data Anal., 79:203-221, 2014.


Frequently Asked Questions
Does the ZIR-232 have a library of known IR setup codes?
The ZIR-232 has an on-board library of known setup codes for many of devices. The library is organized by the type of device and manufacturer.
For example, if you have a Sony CD changer, you would first indentify the device (i.e., CD player) then the manufacturer (i.e., Sony). The software will then report back to you the four-digit setup code (or codes) registered for a Sony CD player.
If there are multiple setup codes, you can conveniently test individual keys under that code to determine the right four-digit setup code.
To learn more about the onboard library, as well as listing of the devices and known setup codes in the library, refer to the ZIR-232's user's guide. This is available for download from this site.
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Aboriginal Literacy Program Launch - Toronto Library
Today we gathered on Awabakal Country to launch an Aboriginal Literacy Program formed out of a partnership between social purpose organisation Life Without Barriers and Toronto Library.
Lake Macquarie Mayor Cr Kay Fraser opened the event and shared that she still owns the very first books that she was given as a child. Eleven-year-old Kirra Lee Simon did a wonderful Acknowledgement of Country and she was followed by the Biraban dancers who performed three traditional dances for the audience.
The morning was then filled with Aboriginal Cultural Awareness activities for the children, parents and carers in attendance – including storytelling, painting, a musical puppet show featuring native Australian animals, and a possum walk throughout the Library. Branch Librarian Kieran O’Donoghue said, “Toronto Library will be continuing the program in May and June this year with stories in the big blue chair, computer education sessions and even Aboriginal art classes.”
Aboriginal trainee assistant at Lake Macquarie Libraries Maree Simon added, “We intend to reach out to the Aboriginal community in the Lake Macquarie region and invite and welcome them to enjoy the range of activities we offer here. Where better to learn about Aboriginal history and culture than the library!”
Life Without Barriers State Lead for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Initiatives, Les Ahoy said, “This program introduces literacy resources to Aboriginal children which encourages reading and engagement with books, thus improving their literacy skills. Through the program parents and carers will be encouraged to read books with their children. And in doing so, they will be empowered to be the role models for their children.”
Life Without Barriers Chief Executive, Claire Robbs said, “At Life Without Barriers we believe that reconciliation must live in the hearts and minds of all Australians. We must work together to improve education, cultural, spiritual, physical and emotional wellbeing in young Aboriginal and people. We are thrilled to be a part of this wonderful program and partnership that strengthens our community and celebrates the history, cultures and traditions of Aboriginal people.”
See all images here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/LWBAustralia/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1254041208027952
Photographer Credit: Bec Lewis – www.blimaging.com.au


Dr. Mohamed Mohamed Ouda
Sunday, 15 Rajab 1439 AH - 1 April 2018 AD 10:20 AM-12:00 PM Auditorium 3
W-3: Dr. Mohamed Mohamed Ouda
Clinical Psychologist, Mental Health Division
National Guard Health Affairs, King Abdul-Aziz Medical city
Achievements during the scientific process: Clinical interview for children and adolescents, in press- Anglo-Egyptian Bookshop. 2018. X-linked ichthyosis associated with psychosis and behavioral abnormalities: a case report, Journal of Medical Case Reports, 11:267 , 2017. Translation and standardization of Checklist for Autism Spectrum Disorder(CASD) – in press - Anglo-Egyptian Bookshop. Relationship between cultural identity confusion and future anxiety among the university students in Saudi Arabia, the Symposium book, the 3rd International of Psychology Department" Identity and Contemporary Challenges", part 3, Al-Imam University, April 2016. Published book entitled (Diagnostic Guide for Neurodevelopmental Disorders ) , Publisher Anglo Egyptian Bookshop , Cairo 2016. Participation in the translation and publication of " Autism Diagnostic Interview- Revised ADI-R" with a group of researchers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, under permission from the original publisher, publication by Autism Research Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh ,2014.
Parental interview for diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder based on DSM 5
1. Diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder in the DSM-5
2. The latest update on diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder in DSM-5
3. What is the interview?
4. How to evaluate each criteria of autism diagnosis by interviewing parents
5. Identify key questions and supplementary questions for the interview
6. The results of the interview
7. Presentation of the checklist for autism spectrum disorders