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Ethics is nothing other than reverence for life . . . and data

Ethics may be, by far, the most overlooked aspect of data protection programmes, and not because people do not consider ‘being ethical’ important when processing data but because the regulator does not require processing to be ethical and omits its presence in data protection and privacy regulations, keeping this to non-binding guidance or general recommendations. Not surprising considering that it is neither actively taught to legal professionals during law school, nor explicitly detailed in the applicable code of conducts. When referring to ethical or moral behaviour in a legal framework, religious morals and ethics should be avoided and instead it should be linked to present-day society and the world that surrounds us, taking into consideration modern practices and technologies that each and every one of us is confronted with on a daily basis, plus the fact that this technology is yet to be further evolved. This paper focuses on just a couple of those modern scenarios where ethics should be a key component when it relates to data processing yet is somehow overlooked. When thinking of marketing practices, the days of the salesperson knocking on our doors are long gone, and everything is virtual now. No matter where you go on the Internet, you are confronted with banners and pop-ups, never-ending sections which ask you about your date of birth, your address, or the last time you enjoyed a hot coffee. Sometimes one does not even realise how much data is requested or how one can suddenly feel bad about not providing certain information. Whereas the salesperson knocking on your door talked you into buying stuff you did not need, marketing these days has taken another approach to sell you something, which consists of collecting considerable amounts of data from individuals, exploiting social engineering procedures and thereby manipulating the individual's actual will. In EU legislation, under the GDPR, ‘consent’ must be ‘freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous’, but it is not established how this consent may be induced or collected, leading to obscure practices that would be against that ‘free’ will and are commonly known as ‘dark patterns’. Ethics is not widely considered, legislatively speaking, to generally protect data, but there is one area in which ethics is not only considered but also made a key component and a fundamental aspect to take into account: artificial intelligence (AI). Certain principles are expected to be introduced into any AI system for it to be deemed trustworthy, and from the field of AI, and its focus on ethics, it is possible to learn how to improve, not only automated interactions with a machine, but also how to protect data in general.

Get Real in the Virtual World: Branding in the Metaverse Demystified

: let's dive into the buzz around the Metaverse and why it's quickly becoming the go-to spot for businesses to boost their brand image. So, what exactly is the Metaverse? Imagine a sprawling, digital universe where you can chat, play, shop, or even attend concerts—basically, all the stuff you do in the real world but in a virtual setting. Think of it as the Internet on steroids. It's a game-changer and gaining traction like crazy, thanks in part to tech advancements and, oddly enough, the pandemic. Lockdowns have pushed us to find new ways to connect and do business, and the Metaverse is stepping up to the plate. If you're running a business, you might wonder, "How do I get in on this action?" Good news—you've got options. This chapter is about breaking down the nuts and bolts of making your brand shine in this digital playground. It's not just a place for gamers and tech nerds; it's a full-blown marketplace with real economic value. Building your brand in the Metaverse is like setting up shop in a bustling, digital city. You can create a virtual storefront, host events, collaborate with influencers, and more. There's room for traditional advertising like billboards, but they're likely to be interactive and way more relaxed in this case. You can engage with your audience in ways that were once the stuff of sci-fi

“It’s the small stuff you can’t see”: Stories of mental wellness, community, and leisure told by new arrivants of colour to a mid-sized, South-Western Ontario city

ABSTRACT There is a tendency for new arrivants to experience a decrease in self-reported mental health as they spend more time in their new country of settlement. We wanted to discern whether new arrivants of colour (<10 years) to a mid-sized Ontario city had a similar story. With the knowing that positive and inclusive leisure experiences can buffer stressors for individuals, this research sought to hear about the mental well-being of new arrivants (between the ages 18–64) and the ways leisure enhances or detracts from their perceived mental well-being. Through photo elicitation qualitative interviews with five new arrivants contextualized existing literature in this area and described experiences of isolation, their transition experience, social stress and support, and building social capital through bridging and bonding. From our analysis, a novel finding we called, ”a perception of necessity for leisure” was a novel contribution to the new arrivant leisure literature.

Artificial Intelligence on Property and Casualty Insurance

The property insurance and casualty insurance sector are large insurance sector that protects or covers the stuff you own (like Home, car and trucks). The provider that provides or covers huge amount of coverage to properties (like cars, trucks, motorcycles and property), other constructions, accidents, vandalism, on theft etc. Casualty insurance is that the policy has the liability coverage to protect yourself if you are the one who is legally responsible for an accident that creates injuries to another party or creates damage to the other party’s appurtenances. The property and casualty insurance are combined together into one insurance product under a single policy. With the help of innovative technology growth, Property and Casualty Insurance Carriers are steadily using leading-edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, to avoid an intermediary between the insurer and the customer and directly reaching to the customers and make sure to deliver prompt and accurate services without any interruptions at an affordable cost. Among many examples, we can use one being an example is utilized of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning in the Property and Casualty insurance sector, which is leading towards to have a much greater number of use cases substantial as prevention of fraudulent claims, making fast and accurate business decisions, predictive data analytics, improve customer satisfaction and much more. Mainly this paper talks about emerging technologies like AI, ML which is used and adopted in Property Insurance and Casualty Insurance domain. Artificial Intelligence provides many benefits to insurance carriers, so carriers can improve their process to support their customers. What is an AI: “AI is all about how the digitals and humans can collaborate; how digital can take over tasks they can do much better and faster than human, so human can focus on what only he can do.”

Kyra Markham: Letters to Louis Sheaffer (1962–63)

Kyra Markham: Letters to Louis Sheaffer (1962–63)

Stuff you think you can handle as a parent and stuff you can't'. Understanding parental health-seeking behaviour when accessing unscheduled care: A qualitative study.

BackgroundUnscheduled health care constitutes a significant proportion of health‐care utilization. Parental decision making when accessing unscheduled care for their children is multifaceted and must be better understood to inform policy and practice.DesignNineteen semi‐structured interviews and one focus group (n = 4) with parents of children younger than twelve in Ireland were conducted. Participants had accessed unscheduled care for their children in the past. Data were thematically analysed.ResultsParents accessed unscheduled care for their children after reaching capacity to manage the child's health themselves. This was informed by factors such as parental experience, perceived urgency and need for reassurance. Parents considered the necessity to access care and situated their health‐seeking behaviour within a framework of ‘appropriateness’. Where parents sought unscheduled care was largely determined by timely access, and inability to secure a general practitioner (GP) appointment often led parents to access other services. Parents expressed a need for more support in navigating unscheduled care options.ConclusionsBetter resources to educate and support parents are required, and structural issues, such as accessibility to GPs, need to be addressed to enable parents to better navigate the unscheduled health system and manage their children's health. The discourse around ‘appropriate’ and ‘inappropriate’ access to health care has permeated parental decision making when accessing unscheduled health care for their children. What constitutes appropriate access should be examined, and a shift away from this framing of health‐seeking behaviour may be warranted.Patient or Public ContributionThere was no explicit patient or public involvement. All authors hold experience as users of the health system.

"Surviving out of the Ashes" - An exploration of young adult service users' perspectives of mental health recovery.

INTRODUCTION: Within their emerging adult role, young people will embark on employment, form intimate relationships and live independently. This indicates that how recovery is experienced and actualized in young adulthood may be different from other age groups. To explore young adult service user's perspectives of mental health recovery in Northern Ireland. Semi-structured individual qualitative interviews were analysed using a Gadamerian-based hermeneutic method and interpreted using a novel theoretical framework. The sample comprised 25 participants with an average age of 28years. Five key themes evolved: Services: A Losing Battle Straight Away; From your Foundations to a Step in the Dark; Let Go of the Pain not the Experience; Surviving Out of the Ashes Recovery; and Needs to be More than a Word. The main findings were that recovery involved the reclaiming of their active and purposeful life force. It is suggested that young adults have developed an explanatory model of "use that stuff you wanna bury" to transform an illness narrative to a wellness strategy. This research has implications for mental health nursing so the process of mental health recovery is not presented as a clinical pathway, but a personalized strategy of individual wellness.

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52 | Jacob Eigen When he was a spider exuding thread between rocks, he considered his earlier life as a man and recalled with objective curiosity the belief that pleasure, true pleasure, constituted achievement. “Yes,” he told the fly as he bound it— “I remember lying in bed in Queens and watching snow accumulate on the windowsill, when I didn’t know what I was or what to kill to be happy. I’d bike down Northern Boulevard to the Thai place, thinking of the nights I’d spent on a woman’s couch. The way we’d talk about nothing—the foreign exchange student in her middle school, or the watch I’d look at in the department store while my mother tried things on.” “That was your problem,” said the fly, which looked fearless and elegant now, no longer even beating its wings. “You and your whole species. You tasted the stuff you called love, and then other draughts seemed thin and bitter. Better poetry October Jacob Eigen Jacob Eigen | 53 to do without.” And its eyes glinted as it extended its palpus to suck in the toxins that would dissolve it into bones and fluids overnight. ...

Write Amplification Versus Read Perspiration

In computing, there’s an interesting trend where writing creates a need to do more work. You need to reorganize, merge, reindex, and more to make the stuff you wrote more useful. If you don’t, you must search or do other work to support future reads.

Meat Eating and the Transition from Plant-Based Diets among Urban Indians

Meat Eating and the Transition from Plant-Based Diets among Urban Indians

What a Perfect Kebab Tastes Like

What a Perfect Kebab Tastes Like Paul Mitchell (bio) Lipo's souva van was white with red, green, and blue lightbulbs flashing all round the window. It lured us in. And so did Lipo. Tall with black shiny hair, in a greased-up powder-blue coat, he stood next to his rotisserie cooking souvas, kebabs, hamburgers, chicken rolls, dimmies, chips; whatever hot stuff you wanted. Kebabs were the standout. He piled on the meat, but he didn't put so much garlic sauce on that the bottom of your paper bag got wet and all the lettuce fell through. We hassled Lipo because he didn't have a mo. What's a Lebbo doing without a mo? And then there was his name. When he first turned up and plonked his van in the empty carwash yard across the road from the plant, we saw "Lipo's Kebabs" in blue letters above the window and didn't know how to pronounce his name. I thought Lippo, as in lippy, as my missus called her lipstick. George Callan, expert on everything, he reckoned it was Leap-o, as in jumping around. One night on dinner break, which on night shift is three in the morning, I asked straight out. "Howdya say ya name, mate?" He gave me my change and smiled, which always looked a bit wrong with his one front tooth missing and his face always five o'clock shadow. "It is Lie-poh. What you think?" "Liepoh. Yeah, it's all right, mate. It's a name." "No, I mean, what you think it is?" "Oh, right, yeah ... I thought it was Lippo." Lipo laughed. "Toldja ya fucked up!" George was standing next to me, wallet open. "Lippo! My wife wear!" Lipo said. "They can't get enough of that shit," I said, opening my kebab bag. Smelled hearty. "My wife, she work at airline." I took a bite out of my kebab and talked back with a mouthful. "She a hostie?" "No, a cleaner. All tables." I swallowed chunks of lamb. Tasted so good it was probably illegal. [End Page 400] "Least she's doin' somethin'. My missus, after the boys started their apprenticeships, she just sits around all day. Workin' on the family tree." "Family important," Lipo said, handing a bag of dimmies to one of the kids from the production line. I told Lipo family were important, yep, but they could be expensive when they wanted video games and big-brand sneakers. ________ I'd been working at the plant twenty-four years when Lipo turned up. But you lose track of time. Feels like yesterday the boys were little enough to chuck in the air in the backyard on weekends. Now the three of them are out working, two of them old enough to drive, and only one still at home. They've got bloody dangerous cars if you ask me, with all that extra crap they put in the motors. They do the street drags and I should say something to them, but, Christ, they've gotta have a bit of fun. They all work bloody hard. I'm glad they didn't end up working at the plant. Two on the docks and no night-shift for any of them. Can be rough, nightshift, but I try not to complain. Anyway, I had nothing to complain about compared to Lipo. Christ, what a run he'd had. I could probably get another job, but, shit, Lipo parked near us as a last resort. I got to talking to him most nights. I'd never been much of a natterer, but Barb was a stick in the mud at home, family tree and not much else, so I suppose I was up for a yarn. I nicked off to Lipo's a bit before the tea break so there weren't too many other blokes around. I could have a good old chinwag. Lipo started giving me this Lebbo Greek sort of coffee, no charge. Tasted like engine oil but I had a go. "You like?" "It's good, mate," I said the first time I drank it, trying not to spit it out...

What Happens When Facebook Technology Meets Oil Well Records

A former industry IT expert recently invented a program using open-source social media technology to make the work of inquisitive oil and gas engineers a little more like that of a special agent. Named WellLine, it is the brainchild of Jeff Dalgliesh, the director of oil field digital transformation at Silicon Valley-based Maana, who previously spent 18 years at Chevron as a drilling and completions IT manager. Though similar tools exist, WellLine reflects a couple of important trends taking place across the oil industry’s expanding digital landscape. The first is the speed at which big data solutions can be assembled—in this case, it took less than a single summer with just three people. The other is the expanding encroachment of free and open-source technology into the oil and gas enterprise software domain. “This accelerated pace of development is going to become the norm because a lot of the stuff you’re doing is reusing application components,” Dalgliesh said. “The thing is, if there is good technology out there, just figure out how to use it. That’s Maana’s story—we integrate a bunch of technologies and build applications fast.” Behind WellLine are several non-proprietary query languages, user interface toolsets, and natural language processing (NLP) systems. Each help to thread together thousands of well records from the industry’s most-popular well document management systems and other unconnected databases. This makes searching for well events about as easy and intuitive as checking up on friends and family using Facebook. But instead of birthdays, vacation photos, and marriage announcements, WellLine extracts any desired detail from drilling, production, and intervention reports. A key feature of the product’s dashboard is a chronological timeline (hence the software’s name) of a well that shows every notable event ever recorded. “If you’re a driller and want to see the life history of a well based on all these documents, databases, and production systems, right now you have to go through multiple systems,” Dalgliesh explained. He thinks that by intuitively and quickly unearthing historical data, operators will be better able to flesh out offset-well drilling plans, select workover candidates, or de-risk plug and abandonment operations. Dalgliesh shared details of the new product line for Maana’s platform at the SPE Engenious symposium on upstream innovation in September. The 6-year-old startup has been involved in oil and gas projects since 2016, when it attracted $26 million in venture funding, part of which came from Chevron, Shell, and Saudi Aramco. From the podium, he said that oil and gas companies should start using their data just like a state intelligence agency would. “They would run algorithms on it, and those algorithms would rip it apart, find out who is being talked about, what’s being talked about, and connect it all together,” he said.

“you can’t be deterred by stuff you don’t know about”: Identifying factors that influence graduated driver licensing rule compliance

This study aimed to identify and explore the major mechanisms that influence young drivers’ compliance with the Queensland, Australia Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) (also known as graduated licensing or graduated driver licensing systems) restrictions. Due to the limited research focus on compliance with GDL restrictions, a qualitative approach was utilised. The study consisted of 11 focus groups (N = 60) of young Queensland drivers aged between 17 and 25 years (Mage = 20.50 years, SD = 2.69). Results were analysed using an inductive thematic analysis. Participants had low perceptions of enforcement certainty for the GDL restrictions, due to the difficulty in identifying these behaviours. Enforcement of these restrictions is linked to displaying the provisional licence (P) (also known as intermediate licence) plates, however this was reported to be violated quite often. Surprisingly, a number of the restrictions were unknown to participants, despite the restrictions being in place for over 10 years. The GDL phone restriction, particularly using the phone for Global Positioning Service (GPS) applications and the use of Bluetooth to listen to music, as well as the passenger loudspeaker restriction were the least complied with restrictions. Meanwhile, the zero-alcohol limit was the most complied with restriction. Compliance with these restrictions was linked with perceptions of enforcement certainty and severity, social acceptance, as well as perceptions of legitimacy of the restriction and perceived danger associated with violating the restriction. The punishments for violating these restrictions were widely unknown and several participants stated they were more likely to comply with the restrictions when they found out the severity of the punishments. This study identified differences in compliance with each GDL restriction, as well as detecting a number of factors that influence compliance. These results can aid in the development of countermeasures that may improve GDL rule compliance, and the young driver road trauma rate.

What's happening in Without Borders

We are aware of the increasing shortage of neurologists practicing in the United States,1 but in some low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), such as Cambodia, the number of practicing specialists may be in the single digits. In a recent Global stuff you should know titled “Bringing neuroscience to Cambodia,” Dr. Soma Sahai-Srivastava outlined the need for her summer teaching program and follows with information on the program that will begin its 5th year in July 2018. “In my many trips to Cambodia in the last decade, volunteering solo, I realized that there are no short-term volunteering opportunities for neurology clinical care, unlike other specialties like emergency medicine, pediatrics, surgery, etc. No neurology outpatient clinics or inpatient specialized programs existed until recently. There were only 3 neurologists in the country in 2012.2 The first internal medicine residency program launched in 2011 and there are still no adult or pediatric neurology residency programs. There is one pediatric neurosurgeon and no pediatric neurologists in the entire country. There is a lack of commonly prescribed neurologic medications (e.g., phenytoin and phenobarbital are the only antiepileptics available at the public hospitals). Under these circumstances, I realized that rather than volunteering in clinics treating individual patients, the first priority was neuroscience education and curriculum development at all levels: undergraduate, medical school, and postgraduate.”

Optimize your business travel

Whether you love it or hate it, business travel happens—for an interview or to conduct business in person. When it’s your turn to hit the road, a little planning can go a long way. Transportation. When deciding whether to fly, take a train, or drive to your destination, consider distance, flexibility, how much stuff you need to take, travel companions, whether you’ll need a car at your destination, and so on. Driving allows the most flexibility, but in some cities, parking fees at hotels will significantly offset any financial savings. For most people, if it’s more than a six- or eight-hour drive, they are better off flying. Use a travel-booking website, such as Expedia, Kayak, or Hipmunk, to explore options, but also check the airline sites themselves for better options and prices. Southwest Airlines does not appear on most aggregate sites, so you’ll need to search it separately. Sometimes, shifting

Sneaking Back Inside, and: We Live on a Foreign Planet This One

Sneaking Back Inside, and: We Live on a Foreign Planet This One Christopher Citro (bio) Sneaking Back Inside And with the new organizational systemfor the closets we're finally going to getour act together. I'm not looking so I'm notseeing all the good stuff—my stuff—you'rethrowing out in ways that make you feelbetter and lighter and like you're livingthe right life and which make me a littlesad because it's just more of things goingaway never to return and if I get any lighterI won't even be able to stay here on this planet.I barely feel like I can right now, which iswhy I love trees and dead cars in driveways.We kept them on the edge of our driveway.I don't know what the neighbors thoughtand I don't care. I knocked a window outby accident (sort of) playing with a slingshotI shouldn't have. I snuck into my bedroomwhen no one was looking and pretendedI'd been there all day. I lived in fear andwhen nothing happened I stopped living in fear—at least about that window. We taped it upand on summer afternoons I'd lay acrossthe back seat reading novels listening tothe rain on the roof and basically what I'msaying is do what you want with the closets.I don't care. But if you see me later at theside of the house going through the trashit's because when I went to pull it downthe drive it felt so unusually heavy. I thoughtthere might be a body in there. Maybe mine. [End Page 121] We Live on a Foreign Planet This One It's sunlight eventually. They figured this outlong ago. The flame on the candle. It all ties in.The trick to relaxing is to accept yourself.After all you can't be that bad can you?Just talk together with friends. Don't also siton top of your head listening to everythingyou say and second guessing it right then,later that night, and here and there the next day.If a good day is simply a state of mind, thenstand naked in your front windows, wave helloto the snow crusts along the drive and resolveto improve. Physically first if you feel up to it.We built a sort of little gym in the basementnext to the cat box. We let go drops of sweatwhich fall onto the concrete which hasn't seenthe elements since this house was built umpteenyears ago. They come from the food we eat,the wine and seltzer and tea we drink. Theycome from rain and the sea before that. Theycome from clouds and those little puffs you seefrom people's faces when the mercury dropsand the air outside our houses wants to kill us. [End Page 122] Christopher Citro Christopher Citro is the author of The Maintenance of the ShimmyShammy (Steel Toe Books). His awards include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for Poetry and the 2015 Poetry Competition at Columbia Journal. His poetry appears in Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, The Missouri Review, and Best New Poets. Christopher lives in Syracuse, New York. Copyright © 2018 University of Wisconsin Board of Regents

Auē Rona by Reihana Robinson, and: Between the Kindling and the Blaze: Reflections on the Concept of Mana by Ben Brown, and: Entangled Islands by Serie Barford, and: Night Swimming by Kiri Piahana-Wong

Reviewed by: Auē Rona by Reihana Robinson, and: Between the Kindling and the Blaze: Reflections on the Concept of Mana by Ben Brown, and: Entangled Islands by Serie Barford, and: Night Swimming by Kiri Piahana-Wong Leora Kava Auē Rona, by Reihana Robinson. Wellington, nz: Steele Roberts Publishers, 2012. isbn 978-1-877577-85-7, 68 pages, artwork, notes, acknowledgments. Paper, nz $25.00. Between the Kindling and the Blaze: Reflections on the Concept of Mana, by Ben Brown. Auckland, nz: Ana-hera Press, 2013. isbn 978-0-473-26385, 50 pages, glossary, cd track list, cd. Paper, nz $27.99. Entangled Islands, by Serie Barford. Auckland, nz: Anahera Press, 2015. isbn 978-0-473-33082-8, 86 pages, glossary. Paper, nz $24.99. Night Swimming, by Kiri Piahana-Wong. Auckland, nz: Anahera Press, 2013. isbn 978-0-473-24555-9, 50 pages, notes, acknowledgments. Paper, nz $25.00. Pacific Islander poets have long imagined and reimagined stories of origin, land, ocean, and gods in ways that mirror the complex relationships we have with one another and our place as people of this ocean. Reihana Robinson's debut collection, Auē Rona, is a stunning example of the power of imagination and the importance of recasting Pacific stories. Robinson's collection directly addresses the Māori story of Rona—the woman in the moon—in a voice that is powerful, unapologetic, and cutting. Through reimagining the voice and desires of Rona, Robinson sheds a nuanced and unwavering light on gendered constructions of will, desire, and power in the context of Māori storytelling. Robinson centers her collection on the character Rona, whom she briefly introduces in the collection's glossary. In this explanation, the story of Rona "opens as she is collecting water for her children," and, as "a cloud covers the moon; [Rona] falls, spilling the water, and she curses." As punishment for cursing, Rona is "torn from earth and taken to the moon" (64). This first depiction illuminates the multiple positions Rona inhabits, from mother and provider to lover and abandoner. The overview of Rona's story in Robinson's glossary not only functions as an access point for readers unfamiliar with the Māori story but also poignantly presents some of the key commentary, images, and themes that the poet sustains throughout the collection. Rona's story is paired with the first poem of the collection, entitled "How it all began," and the relationship crafted between glossary and poem reveals Robinson's prowess in creating complex commentary on the gendered constructions of stories, archetypes, and power, all of which unfold in the spaces of Robinson's poetic recasting. "How it all began" sets the tone and force of this retelling by rendering the voices of Rona and her lover, the moon. The moon watches Rona as "Husbandless, she / bends her will, [End Page 392] grabs / a calabash, heads off / through the ngaio trees / and mamaku ferns." Rona's response to the moon is both familiar and biting, as she replies, "Stuff you, moon, / boil your pea brain with pūhā" (8; italics original; pūhā is a sow thistle commonly used as a potherb). These first images—a woman bending her will, speaking for herself—establish the kind of work each piece of Robinson's retelling does throughout the collection. Robinson's poems reframe the archetype of the woman in the moon and, in so doing, add new layers of voice and complexity to a female archetype of Māori storytelling. Robinson wields the power of her own unsentimental exploration of Rona's character in order to create a voice where there was no voice, a curse where there needed to be cursing, and a desire where there needed to be desire, unapologetic in its manifestation. While Robinson illuminates female voice and gendered constructions of power in her recasting of a specific Māori story, Ben Brown also enacts a recasting as he explores mana in his debut collection, Between the Kindling and the Blaze: Reflections on the Concept of Mana. It is in the spaces "between" that Brown approaches definitions of mana, and he works with and within multiple "betweens." There is the space he creates as...

Twilight: The Graphic Novel by Y. Kim &amp; S. Meyer

Kim, Young, and Stephenie Meyer. Twilight: The Graphic Novel. New York: Yen Press, 2011. PrintI read the book Twilight the graphic novel volume 2 by Stephenie Meyer and published by Yen Press. It was written in the year 2005, the year I was born. It even has a movie about it!! The movie is really good you should watch it.The story was about this girl named Bella she moved to this town with her dad called Forks. Started school there and in her class there was a boy named Edward they became friends and she found out he was a vampire same with his whole family. And Bella and Edward fell in love with each other.My favorite part of the book was when Bella met Edwards family and when she met Edwards sister Alice. Bella found out Alice can see what is going to happen in the future with her mind. I thought that was really cool.But I didn’t like how the book wasn't the same as the movie because the movie has more details and more action. But people are different so you might like the book more than the movie but other than that the book is really good. Out of 1-5, I rate it a 4.And if you do read the book and if you want to read more here is the author’s website... www.stepheniemeyer.com Highly Recommended: 4 out of 5 starsReviewer: AshlynnMy name is Ashlynn. I love to read nonfiction and fiction chapter books. My favorite place to read is outside or inside in my bedroom. I think reading is important because you can learn stuff you didn't know before and it helps you in school and you can get smarter by reading if you keep practicing.

Scholarly Publishing as an Archaeological Practice

Scholarly Publishing as an Archaeological Practice

Beryl Benacerraf: new AIUM President gets the picture

Beryl Benacerraf: new AIUM President gets the picture