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The Gnawer of Rocks by L. Flaherty
No full textFlaherty, Louise. The Gnawer of Rocks. Illustrated by Jim Nelson. Inhabit Media, 2017.
The Gnawer of Rocks, written by Louise Flaherty and illustrated by Jim Nelson, is based on the author\u27s memories of a story she heard as a child from an Inuk storyteller, Levi Iqalugjuaq, in Nunavut in the 1970s. The book, which feels like an incredible mix of picture book and graphic novel, focuses on a traditional story about a creature called Mangittatuarjuk and two young women who fall into her clutches.
Nelson\u27s artwork follows the layout of a comic book, using word balloons and panel captions, which makes for an immersive reading experience following two girls who discover a trail of beautiful rocks outside of camp which lead them from the bright and colourful world of home into the increasingly dark and frightening world of Mangittatuarjuk. The book mixes Inuktitut terms throughout, but does include a glossary at the end.
The story does get both gruesome and horrific in the cave of Mangittatuarjuk, but the story, which would be great for older school children, does include a warning in the author\u27s note. A really great introduction to traditional northern Canadian stories, the book includes an introduction for context and acknowledges the original storyteller as well as the reasons for this type of story and its likely role in the lives of children. An excellent read for children who are already comfortable with scary stories.
Highly recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Kirk MacLeod
Kirk MacLeod is the Open Data Team Lead for the Government of Alberta’s Open Government Portal. A Life-Long reader, he moderates two book clubs and is constantly on the lookout for new great books!
 
Cathcart vs Brooke: a Touring Actress and a Trial of Public Private Identity in the Australian Colonies
No full textIn this article Kate Flaherty examines the sensational contractual dispute that arose
between Gustavus Vaughan Brooke and Mary Fanny Cathcart during their Australian
colonial tour in 1855. She follows Brooke’s attempt to use his theatrical repertoire to
achieve and consolidate a legal victory over Cathcart, but argues that this strategy
ultimately backfired and elicited a form of judgement by the theatregoing public that
countered the judgement handed down by the Supreme Court. Conversely, coverage of
the case in Australian newspapers is identified as shaping reviews and sharpening the
edge of the stage dramas. The article provides a focused instance of the complex interplay
of dramatic works, cultural politics, gendered power, and publicity that characterized
nineteenth-century theatrical touring. Kate Flaherty is a lecturer in English and Drama at
the Australian National University, a member of the International Shakespeare Conference,
and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is author of Ours as We Play
It: Australia Plays Shakespeare (University of Western Australia Press, 2011), as well as
numerous essays on how Shakespeare’s works play on the stage of public culture
Colorado's water: a 1978 report of the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute
No full textPrepared by David C. Flaherty
Fixing Canada’s CPI: A Simple and Sensible Policy Change for Minister Flaherty
No full textFixing measurement errors in the Consumer Price Index is a small idea that offers big payoffs to Canadians and the government. In this paper, the author says if the upcoming federal budget devoted the resources needed to improve Statistics Canada’s measurement of the Consumer Price Index, Canadians would have a truer sense of changes in the cost of living, monetary policy would be guided by a more accurate measure of inflation, and Minister Flaherty would more easily achieve the government’s commitment to balance the federal budget by 2015/16.Monetary Policy, Consumer Price Index (CPI), Statistics Canada, inflation rate
Sisters of Charity of St. Louis History
No full textNotes - A history of the Sisters of Charity of St. Louis written by Sister Joan Flaherty S.C.S.L. (2 pages
Nell Flaherty\u27s Drake
No full textIll will towards one who killed a pet duck.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1915/thumbnail.jp
Where Data Lives: NeSI, taonga and growing repository services
No full textData transfer and data sharing have been a part of NeSI's service catalogue for several
years, but the service priority has always been in support of compute-intensive research
(and related training & consultation). The launching of a national data transfer platform and
a new relationship with Genomics Aotearoa have provided NeSI the opportunity to reevaluate its data service offering.A key project in the Genomics Aotearoa Workplan is bioinformatics capability (Project
1811), which encompasses the development of a national genomics data repository
including bespoke processes for Māori management of indigenous data, which is actively
populated across all New Zealand genomics research activities.GA's functional requirements for this repository include securely storing, preserving and
providing mediated access to genomics data for the longer term. It is also intended that the
repository be interactive and usable by a large number of NZ researchers. NeSI's early
response has been to focus on implementing the base -level infrastructure requirements for
the repository while beginning to investigate platform options and prototype permissions
workflows. This presentation will provide an update on progress to date, including storage and access
management through Globus, and introduce topics from data publishing and discovery
services (from simple metadata to interrogation of genome summaries), to indigenous data
governance requirements, and longevity/persistence.ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) Brian Flaherty is Data Services Product Manager at NeSI. He has a background in digital libraries
digital scholarship, research infrastructure & support and discovery services. </div
Geriatric Nursing Research Digest
No full textMeredith Wallace [Kazer] is a co-editor (with J. Fitzpatrick, T. Fulmer and E. Flaherty). In addition, Meredith Wallace [Kazer] is a contributing author, Exercise, Reminiscence, Parkinson’s Disease, Sleep, Introduction to Pathophysiological Issues in Aging, Introduction to Geriatric Emotional Health .
Book description: This is a key resource for evidence-based nursing care of the elderly. Written by leading experts in the forefront of the field, each entry describes the most significant research in a selected area and illuminates the relevance of this research to clinical practice. Among the to pics covered readers will find articles on health promotion and risk reduction, normalcy throughout the life span, issues in environments of care, geriatric emotional health, pathological conditions of aging, and neurobehavioral and cognitive changes of aging.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/nursing-books/1049/thumbnail.jp
From the "Utopia" Archipelago : about the films of Robert Flaherty and Wojciech Staroń
No full textAutorka porównuje wybrane aspekty twórczości dwóch reżyserów, których dzieli spory dystans czasowy: Roberta Flaherty'ego i Wojciecha Staronia. Amerykański klasyk przybywał z kamerą w odległe miejsca, by odnaleźć Innego, by uchronić od zapomnienia i promować wartości, których ów Inny był nośnikiem. Filmowiec współczesny coraz częściej wyprawia się w odległe rejony, aby uchronić i odnaleźć na nowo samego siebie. Obaj autorzy odwołują się do utopii miejsca. Niczym w utopii "edukacyjnej", najważniejszym celem pobytu poza własnym kręgiem cywilizacyjnym wydaje się w obu przypadkach właśnie edukacja bądź reedukacja. Zwłaszcza Argentyńska lekcja Staronia inspiruje do refleksji nad edukacyjnym aspektem filmów i takim wymiarem dokumentów obu reżyserów, który odsyła do poszukiwania autentyczności - dążenia obecnego w kulturze zachodniej od czasów Oświecenia.The author compares selected aspects of the work of two directors who are separated by a considerable time distance: Robert Flaherty and Wojciech Staroń. The American classic travelled with the camera to distant places to find the Other, to save from oblivion and to promote the values that the Other was carrier of. Contemporary film-makers are increasingly travelling to distans areas to protect themselves and to find themselves again. Both authors refer to the utopia of the place. Like in an "educational" utopia, the most important goal of staying outside one's own civilization circle seems to be education or re-education. Especially Staroń's Argentinian Lesson inspires reflection on the educational aspect and dimension of films and documentaries of both directors, which refer to the search for the authenticity, an aspiration present in Western culture since Enlightenment
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