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The Making of a Book: The Debby Atwell Project: A Lessonn in Stewardship
No full textVideo accompanying the book, Many Friends, by the children of Peaks Island Elementary School, under the guidance of author/illustrator Debby Atwell. Videography by Don Perry. Music by Peaks Island musicians. Spring 2001.This bookmaking project and the videotaping were funded by a grant from MBNA to the Peaks Island Branch of the Portland Public Library with additional support from Peaks Island Lions Club, Peaks Island School, Peaks Island School PTA, and the Friends of the Peaks Island Library.Running time: 20 minutes.https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/peaks_vhs/1001/thumbnail.jp
Memorial Sketches of Rev. George B. Atwell
No full textThe Rev. George B. Atwell was a Baptist minister in Connecticut until his death in 1879. There is a frontispiece of him at the age of 85. His serious look sets him a long way from Aesop playing with kids in the street! This book is composed of fifteen chapters written by his children as biographical sketches of periods of his life. During his pastoral duty, he wrote a series of original fables, a few of which were published. He meant to title the collection Pearls for the Poor, Contained in Proverbs and Parables, in Which Fact Is Drawn from Fable. (In fact, Pearls for the Poor still is at the bottom of the cover of this book.) Chapter X, Pearls, offers a good selection of these fables (89-126). Some of the fable subjects include the wrangling of vowels and consonants (90), an argument between the sword and the plough (94), the refusal to share of a man who has stood on another's shoulders to get grapes (95), and an argument between snow and ice (98). The latter takes a good turn when the sun dissolves both, and they find themselves becoming one. There is something humorous about The Short Man and Long Shadow (93). A man sensitive about his height notices at dawn that he now casts a long shadow. Wondering whether the shadow reflects reality, he decides to wait until sunset to check again whether his shadow has become long. Atwell enjoys punning, as when the river tells the fire that he has two banks, from which the fire will receive a check for all that is demanded of him. A turn of the screw worthy of the fable tradition occurs when a hen being sued for custody of her children has a fox as a lawyer, who pleads brilliantly and then demands the children as his fee (109). Atwell likes to pun and play with letters and sounds as when U and I square off in Woman's Rights (116).This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Told by John Walle
Interview with drummer Colin Bailey, who worked with Winifred Atwell in the 1950s
No full textBailey was born in Swindon in 1934. Now lives in California. In Australia in the early 1960s he was a member of the Australian Jazz Quartet. Became an American citizen in 1970. Playing, recording and touring nationally and internationally with Atwell in the early 1950s was a major early break in his music career. As he said to me more than once, ‘I wouldn’t be where I am if hadn’t been for Winnie’. In his jazz, recording and performing career in the US, Bailey has worked with Frank Sinatra, Joe Pass (with whom he recorded 14 albums), Miles Davis (depping for the teenaged Tony Williams who was too young to get a club licence—‘one of the thrills of my life’), George Shearing, Benny Goodman, and many others. He is author of influential drum technique books, and a former music lecturer at North Texas State University. In 1978 (?) Bailey was flown out to Australia from the US as a special surprise guest for Atwell’s appearance on the Australian television version of This Is Your Lif
Passive Neutron Measurements: Some Early Mir/Space Shuttle Results
No full textBellevue, WashingtonWilliam Atwell, Retired Boeing Technical Fellow, Boeing Research & Technology, USAGautam Badhwar, NASA Johnson Space Center, USAThe 45th International Conference on Environmental Systems was held in Bellevue, Washington, USA on 12 July 2015 through 16 July 2015.The origins of this paper date back to 1999 when a draft was prepared by the Authors, but was
not published primarily due to the untimely death of Dr. Gautam Badhwar in 2001. In 2013 the Co-Author, Bill Atwell, resurrected the draft and added some additional neutron measurement data. There has been an increase interest in radiation exposures from neutrons not only due to the biological effects to flight crews, but also the effects to avionics systems. The neutron measurements reported herein extends from 1993-1997 that include measurements on both the Russian Mir space station and the US Space Shuttle. Neutron measurements were made using 1) nuclear emulsions, 2) metal foils, 3) TLD-600 and TLD-700 combination – thermal, 4) CR-39 electrochemical etching, 5) combination of TLD-600, TLD-700, CR-39, and Markofoil detectors, 6) Bonner spheres, and 7) bubble detectors. We present the results of these numerous neutron measurements along with several poignant conclusions including some recent neutron measurements taken on the Mars Science Laboratory
Schopenhauer on the character of the world: the metaphysics of will
No full textThe most extensive English-language study of Schopenhauer's metaphysics of the will yet published, this book represents a major contribution to Schopenhauer scholarship. Here, John E. Atwell critically but sympathetically examines the philosopher's main work, The World as Will and Representation , demonstrating that the philosophical system it puts forth does constitute a consistent whole. The author holds that this system is centered on a single thought, "The world is self-knowledge of the will." He then traces this unifying concept through the four books of The World as Will and Representation , and, in the process, dissolves the work's alleged inconsistencies
Aligning and Merging Ontology in Al-Quran Domain
No full textAl-Quran is the main sacred text of Muslims and the primary resource for the Islamic sciences and Arabic language (Ali 1951). Al-Quran consists of less than 80,000 words forming 114 chapters (Atwell et al. 2011). A chapter (Surah) contains a varying number of verses (Ayat). Many researchers have built different Quranic ontologies to facilitate the retrieval of knowledge from Al-Quran, with a minority of these ontologies covering all Al-Quran chapters (Alrehaili & Atwell 2014). The term “ontology” is defined as an explicit specification of concepts, attributes, and relations in a domain (Gruber n.d.). Common components of ontologies include classes (concepts), attributes, relations, function terms, restrictions, and axioms. The concepts are entities of interest in a particular domain. These concepts are structured into taxonomy tree or un-taxonomy tree. Each tree node represents a concept that is a specialization of its ancestor. The concept is related to a set of instances. Additionally, the concept has a set of attributes. Relations are ways in which concepts and instances can be linked to each other. The three common ontologies covering Al-Quran are: Quranic topics (Abbas 2009), Arabic Quran Corpus (Dukes 2013), and QuranA (Muhammad 2012). The Quranic-topics ontology contains nearly 1,100 Quranic concrete and abstract concepts linked to all verses of Al-Quran. (Abbas 2009) used existing Quranic concepts from the Islamic scholarly book Mushaf Al Tajweed. These concepts in the index have an aggregation relationship; the hierarchy of concepts is non-reflexive, non-symmetric, and transitive. Secondly, (Dukes 2013) extracted 300 concepts and 350 relations from Al-Quran. The relationship types connecting concepts using predicate logic are Part-of and IS-A. The ontology is based on a famous book describing Al-Quran called ‘Tafsir Ibn Kathir’ (Abdul-Rahman 2009). Thirdly, (Muhammad 2012) developed an ontology for Al Quran in the scope of pronoun antecedents. This ontology consists of 1,050 concepts and more than 2,700 relations. Additionally, the relationship types connecting concepts are has-antecedent, has-concept and has–a-segment. These Quranic ontologies have different scopes and format, and one ontology does not cover all concepts of Al-Quran (Alrehaili & Atwell 2014). Therefore, these ontologies need an alignment and normalization. Ontology alignment is a process of finding one-to-one correspondence via both ontology entities. The primary goal of ontology alignment is to integrate different ontologies of the same domain (Zaeri & Nematbakhsh n.d.). The main objective of merging Quranic ontologies is to pioneer a research enriching the raw Arabic Quran text with Islamic ontology. Additionally, this combined ontology will help in understanding Al-Quran. Moreover, aligning the Quranic ontologies will increase the coverage of the domain of Al-Quran in various scopes. Furthermore, the alignment will enhance the knowledge extraction from Al-Quran. Three modules are used to align Quranic ontologies: normalization, terminological approach, and structural approach (Euzenat & Shvaiko n.d.).In the normalization process, all ontologies are reformatted to have the same file format. Terminological techniques are divided into string-based and language-based approaches. The string-based approach matches entities based on the similarity between letters of the two words, such as “author” and “authority” being more similar than “author” and “writer.” However, the language-based technique aligns two entities that share the same meaning, such as “newspaper” and “article.” On the other hand, the structural approaches detect correspondences between entities depending on an internal structure of the entity and how it is connected to other entities. In other words, structural method matches entities based on the ontology graph. Most of the existing alignment tools exploit terminological techniques as the initial step, then use the structural techniques to improve the outcomes ontology
30 STRIKES FOR NIETZSCHE: ZEN AND THE OVERMAN
No full textFriedrich Nietzsche had a complicated relationship with Buddhism; although he held some aspects in high regard, Nietzsche ultimately regarded the religion as decadent, life-denying, and nihilistic. This paper will analyze Nietzsche’s criticisms of Buddhism through an exploration of original and secondary materials and argue that they do not apply, especially when considering the Zen school of Buddhism. Had Nietzsche had a better understanding of several Buddhist principles including its views on ‘nothingness,’ nirvana, the Self, metaphysics, and morality, he would have perhaps seen the parallels in his own philosophy. Additionally, I will argue that there are numerous similarities in the teachings and practice of Zen Buddhism concerning the path to enlightenment and Nietzsche’s ideal of self-overcoming. Considering their metaphysical and existential viewpoints, the practitioner of Zen and Nietzsche’s Overman may not be quite so different as one might first expect
30 STRIKES FOR NIETZSCHE: ZEN AND THE OVERMAN
No full textFriedrich Nietzsche had a complicated relationship with Buddhism; although he held some aspects in high regard, Nietzsche ultimately regarded the religion as decadent, life-denying, and nihilistic. This paper will analyze Nietzsche’s criticisms of Buddhism through an exploration of original and secondary materials and argue that they do not apply, especially when considering the Zen school of Buddhism. Had Nietzsche had a better understanding of several Buddhist principles including its views on ‘nothingness,’ nirvana, the Self, metaphysics, and morality, he would have perhaps seen the parallels in his own philosophy. Additionally, I will argue that there are numerous similarities in the teachings and practice of Zen Buddhism concerning the path to enlightenment and Nietzsche’s ideal of self-overcoming. Considering their metaphysical and existential viewpoints, the practitioner of Zen and Nietzsche’s Overman may not be quite so different as one might first expect
Africville
No full text2 p. : ill. ; 27 cmThis document consists of a photocopy of pages 3 and 4 from a five-page fax sent by Dennise Allen to Yvonne Atwell on June 13, 1995, titled “Africville.” The faxed document pages are numbered 1 and 2. They contain a historical overview of Africville spanning 150 years up to June 1995 and provide details of the ongoing protest occurring at Seaview Park around June 1995
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Targeting Sorting Nexins to Treat ErbB Dependent Breast Cancer
No full textEGFR is one of the most studied oncogenes in human biology with roles in proliferation, growth, and metastasis. This intense study has led to the development of a range of targeted therapeutics including small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors and monoclonal antibodies. These drugs are excellent at blocking activation and the kinase function of wtEGFR and many common EGFR mutants. These drugs have significantly improved patient outcomes with tumors including head and neck, glioblastoma, colorectal, and non-small cell lung cancer. However, these therapies are ineffective for the treatment of triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) even though about half of patients present with an overexpression of EGFR. In TNBC, EGFR is subjected to alternative trafficking which drives the nuclear localization of the receptor. In the nucleus, EGFR interacts with several proteins to activate transcription, DNA repair, migration, and chemoresistance. Previous work in our lab has demonstrated that blocking retrograde trafficking in TNBC cells significantly reduces EGFR driven oncogenic phenotypes. However, this retrograde trafficking inhibitor, Retro-2, blocks all retrograde trafficking with no specificity to EGFR. We then analyzed the retrograde trafficking of EGFR in TNBC and determined that the interaction between EGFR and SNX1 was a critical step for EGFR nuclear localization. We therefore developed a therapeutic peptide, cSNX1.3, that blocks the interaction of EGFR and SNX1 to inhibit the retrograde trafficking of EGFR. cSNX1.3 eliminates nuclear EGFR and reduces EGFR driven oncogenic phenotypes in vitro. Using a transgenic mouse model of EGFR driven breast cancer, we found that cSNX1.3 significantly reduced tumor growth and induces regression in several animals
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