Saturn & Spleen – Guardians Of The SelfOctober 15, 16, 17, 2021 * On-Line Conference Jointly Hosted By The Rhythmical Massage Therapy Association of North America& The North American Anthroposophic Nurses Association (NAANA)
James Dyson, MD * Alan Thewless * Karen Derreumaux
This course is continuing education for graduates of an Anthroposophic Nurse Foundation Course or Rhythmical Einreibungen Foundation Course or Rhythmical Massage Therapy Training.
Saturn is the most distant of the classical planet of our solar system. It slow movement at the outermost boundary of the planetary spheres is an indication of its foundational influence in an individual human life. Saturn is connected to the strength and stability of our bony structure as well as to the blood renewing forces of our inner most marrow. Saturn’s influence also extends into the highly spiritual organ of the ego organization – the Spleen.
The Spleen’s dynamics in the body are entirely focused on establishing and maintaining the inner household through the blood and the digestive system. Working via rhythmical signatures, the spleen navigates the transformation of self and non-self. To that end karmic events, allergies, autoimmune illnesses and cancers are all fundamentally Saturn – Spleen illnesses.
You can access a PDF version of the course agenda here.
Reading Resources Related To The Organs:
A Grimm’s Fairy Tale that relates to the Spleen: Faithful John
“An Occult Physiology”, Rudolf Steiner, Ph.D, Focus on Lectures given March 23, 1911 – March 24, 1911
"Introducing Anthroposophical Medicine", Rudolf Steiner, Ph.D., Focus on Lectures given March 29, 1920 - April 1, 1920
“Spiritual Relations in the Human Organism”, Rudolf Steiner, PhD, 3 Lectures given in Dornach, Oct 20, 22, 23, 1922, Mercury Press, Spring Valley, NY
"The Healing Power of the Planetary Metals", Henning M. Schramm, Lindisfarne Books, Great Barrington, MA 2013
“The Human Organs, Their Functional And Psychological Significance”,Walter Holtzapfel, MD, Lanthron Press, Callington, Cornwall, 1993“Nutrition from Earth & Cosmos”, Eighteen lectures and essays which consider the significance of nutrition within a spiritual context. Karl König, MD, Floris Books, 2015. Note: This is a new translation of lectures given by KK on the 4 organs – these lectures were previously published in “Living Physiology”, by Camphill Books, 1999.
“If the Organs Could Speak: The Foundations of Physical and Mental Health, Understanding the Character of Our Inner Anatomy”, Olaf Koob, MD, Temple Lodge, 2018.
“The Seven Planets”, Adam Bittleston, Floris Books, University Press, Oxford, 1985
"Functional Morphology, The Dynamic Wholeness of the Human Organism", Johannes W. Rohen, Adonis Press, 2007
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$125. Tuition for members & $150 non-members; whether watching live or only viewing the recording after the conference.
Limited financial assistance is available upon written request.
The main presentations will be recorded & available for viewing for 2 months after the conference. Breakout sessions will not be recorded.
Contact Course Coordinator: Elizabeth Sustick as needed.
Sessions will be recorded!


Worksheets and lesson plans coming soon!
In the mean time click on the button to learn about stories set in Tanzania, or books that feature Muslim culture and characters.
Click on the button for information about Zanzibar, Tanzania and East Africa. Listen to songs! Watch a super hero show! Learn Swahili! You’ll also find some printable pages including a word search and a maze!
I’m still new to the publishing world, but happy to share some resources that have helped me with my journey, including useful websites, organizations that offer classes, and some books for inspiration.


By Roseanne McKee with permission of the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise
Children’s author Dianna Hutts Aston has a tattoo on her left wrist of a heart with wings and above it the words “epiphania” — what her friends in Mexico call her.
Aston earned that nickname because her writing is inspired by epiphanies she has “for things we all know or things that are hidden in plain sight,” she said.
For example, one of her books is “An Egg is Quiet.” This phrase was first spoken by a 3 year old, Dusty Dunn, who was asked one day in Montessori School to tell the class something about an egg.
“An egg is quiet,” was his reply.
Aston’s mother, Candy Shelts, was amused by the boy’s keen observation and relayed the incident to Aston.
One day Aston was picking up eggshells while holding her daughter Lizzie and the memory came back to her and the book “An Egg is Quiet” was the result.
“So, it is because of my mom that these books are going all over the world … to restore the earth,” Aston said. “I can’t take the credit. I’m just the hand.”
One of her favorite literary awards was given by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Award for her book “An Egg is Quiet.”
“This was my first breakout book on what they began to call lyrical science,” Aston said. “… I didn’t even know I was writing science books until AAAS called and said, ‘you won. Let’s do a podcast and come to San Francisco and get your award.’”
Some of her other titles are: “A Seed is Sleepy,” “A Butterfly is Patient,” “A Beetle is Shy,” “A Nest is Noisy” and “A Rock is Lively.”
A friend of hers came up with the description of a rock as “lively.”
The book is “about the evolution of rocks. It tells the whole story,” she said “That’s why a rock is lively — it starts out liquid.”
Among her 15 books, “Not So Tall for Six,” was the result of a conversation with a six-year-old about her height. In the book a girl is bullied but by following her family’s motto — takes the high road.
The favorite book she has authored is “Dream Something Big” about the story of Watts Towers about an Italian immigrant’s dream to ‘do something big.’ Simon Rodia, known as ‘Uncle Sam’ began with something tiny—a single chip of tile that he found on the street, which became the first building block to an astonishing feat of architecture and a national landmark in Watts, Calif. Aston describes him on her website as “a visionary, a pioneer in the art of recycling, reusing and repurposing found objects. He dug through trash piles for things people no longer wanted or overlooked: broken teapots and plates. Shattered bottles and mirrors. Rocks and shells. On the backs of ice cream parlor chairs he saw hearts. In water spigots he saw flowers.”
Rodia’s story is told from the perspective of a girl named Marguerite.
Aston said she hopes through her books she is able to improve the lives of young people, especially those who have disabilities or other life challenges, and teach them how to be good stewards of the earth. Aston began writing in 1996, and a few years later said a prayer to have a meaningful life.
“That’s when things started happening,” she said.
Aston sent a manuscript to a publisher with a no unsolicited manuscript policy and got published. That book was “When You Were Born” with illustrations by E.B. Lewis. The illustrations took longer since the artist the publisher chose, E.B. Lewis, was in high demand, and so another book, “Loony Little” was actually published first. “Loony Little” about the polar ice caps, will be re-released next year on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.
“It’s completely updated with information on the back and activities,” Aston said.
Aston’s book, “The Moon Over Star” about the first manned mission to the moon, gained recognition when it was read to children, first by President Obama, and then by a NASA astronaut.
To learn more about Aston, visit her website http://diannahaston.com/.


Sinopse de The Power of Rituals:
Have you ever thought how small gestures in your daily life can bring a big transformation to your life? Tâmara Castelo explains how. First of all, through a simple test, we will identify your biotype - associated with your metabolism and personality traits - in order to make a personalized plan, which includes the appropriate rituals to rebalance sleep, manage stress and anxiety, the foods that regulate and deregulate each biotype, and practical and delicious recipes. Practicing gratitude, drinking tea, yawning, lighting a candle, applying an essential oil to your pillow to help you sleep better, taking a bath to get rid of anxiety, massaging strategic points in your body, painting mandalas, massaging your head, learning to breathe consciously, are some of the many rituals and exercises you will find in these pages. We all have daily rituals, such as drinking coffee in the morning. But not always these gestures are beneficial to our well-being. Tâmara Castelo
shows you in this book how these small and simple rituals in your daily life will make you live your life in a lighter, more balanced and happier way. This book takes you on a life-changing journey. A journey of liberation to improve your physical and emotional health. To free yourself from stress, fear, fatigue, anxiety, sleepless nights, and toxic overthinking.


Robert T. Oliphant
Bob Oliphant passed away in June, 2014. He was one of the most optimistic and generous people I've ever met, and one of my best friends. That despite the fact that we never met face-to-face, a typical 21st-Century relationship, you might say.
Born in 1924 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Bob spent most of his childhood in Beaver, Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh, before enlisting in the Army Air Corps and serving as a weather observer in England during World War II and in Germany during the occupation. After the war, he attended Pennsylvania's Washington & Jefferson College with the intention of working as an accountant. Instead, after graduation, he played with several jazz big bands for several years and then with a one, the Crazy Cats trio, touring the Midwest for a decade. Eventually, he returned to higher education for a PhD in philology* at Stanford University with Herbert Merritt. He joined the faculty at California State University in Northridge in 1959, and never left. While publishing the expected complement of scholarly articles, on Chaucer, Shakespeare, the history of English, and philology, he also wrote four novels, Julia, Shangri-La, A Trumpet for Jackie, and the best known, A Piano for Mrs. Cimino, which became a film starring Bette Davis in one of her last roles. Mrs. Cimino was based on the true story of a woman who recovered from dementia through reality-orientation therapy.
Bob also wrote music and text for the performing arts, such as a monologue and four songs based on a Dostoevsky story entitled The Underground Man: A Sermon with Occasional Songs, and a musical score to accompany Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Bob played piano for several hours a day until shortly before he died, and wrote a poem daily to his wife, Jane.
Bob Oliphant was the most prolific contributor to the Nonpartisan Education Review, and a steadfast advocate of our mission. The pieces he wrote for the Review are listed and linked below. They range from several short essays to reference books hundreds of pages long.
More of Bob's work can be found at other sites, such as Education Views, The Moral Liberal, and the Los Angeles Times. Amazon maintains two author pages for him, one for his scholarship and another for his fiction.
The Los Angeles Times, which published so many of his essays and letters to the editor, also published his obituary, which reads, in part:
October 25, 1924 - June 28, 2014 Robert T. Oliphant, a true Renaissance man, passed away peacefully at his home at the age of 89. He is survived by his wife, Jane, two sons Matthew (Cathy) and Jason (Eva), 6 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. Robert proudly served in WWII, received his PhD from Stanford University and taught in the English department at CSUN for 36 years.
What would be Bob's advice to the Nonpartisan Education Group, to which he contributed so much time and energy? Probably, as he so often said to me, "Keep Swingin". I was never sure if it was a baseball or a jazz reference. Maybe both.
We miss you, Bob.
Richard P. Phelps
Robert T. Oliphant's works in the Nonpartisan Education Review (in reverse chronological order)


The IRA Library is organized in two rooms.
Room 514 – third floor hosts the library of PhD Theses and those Master’s Theses that were carried out at IRA. It also hosts the print collection of IRA Technical Report until 2005. Obervatory Communications and some printed collections of astronomical journals that are not easily retrievable on the Web are available as well.
Room 410 – second floor hosts the collection of books (*). The collection can be searched and books can be borrowed by means of the software tool available on the Library computer in room 410. Instructions on how to do so can be found next to the computer.
- Catalogue of IRA Technical Reports until 2019 (with pdf, when available)
- Catalogue of IRA Technical Reports after 2019 (with pdf)
Catalogue of books
Catalogue of Ph.D. Theses (with pdf, when available)
Catalogue of Master’s Theses


1/11 -- Week 1: What is (and isn't) Digital Humanities?
Introduction to the field of Digital Humanities, from its beginnings in Humanities Computing to the current state of the field; how is DH different from (and how does it overlap with) New Media Studies? What is a DH research question?
- Patrik Svensson, “The Landscape of Digital Humanities,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 4, no. 1 (Summer 2010).
Introduction to selected UCLA projects that exemplify certain fields of DH:
- UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology: http://uee.ucla.edu
- Digital Roman Forum: http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Forum
- HyperCities: http://hypercities.com
- Danish Folklore: http://dev.cdh.ucla.edu/~newmedia/DFL/index.html
- Cuneiform Digital Library: http://cdli.ucla.edu/
In-class Problem Set #1: Divided into groups of five, each team will analyze the basic functionalities and technologies of one of these sites. Pay attention to the following: What technologies does the project use to engage with a humanistic problem? What is the humanistic problem that these technologies address? How is the project structured in terms of interface, interactivity, and, to the extent that you can tell, the back-end (ie, data structures and database)? How is the project supported and what stage is it in?
1/12 (2 PM) – EndNote workshop at YRL RC, room 11630F
1/18 -- Week 2: A Very Brief History of Digital Humanities (With Reference to Some Key Thinkers in New Media Studies)
- A Companion to Digital Humanities, eds. Susan Schreibman, John Unsworth, Ray Siemens. Read: "The Digital Humanities and Humanities Computing: An Introduction"; Susan Hockey, "A History of Humanities Computing"; Andrea Laue, "How the Computer Works"; and Willard McCarty, "Modeling: A Study of Words and Meanings"
- Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think" (1945).
- Theodor Nelson, "A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate" (1965), from: The New Media Reader, eds. Noah-Wardrip Fruin and Nick Monfort
- Suggested reading: Peter Lunenfeld, "Generations" (from: The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading): Available as free IPad/IPhone application.
Problem Set #2: Building on the work that your team did in week 1, come prepared to class to discuss the interrelation between the "humanities problem" exemplified by the digital project and the technologies/tools/methods that the project employs. You may need to contact the director of the project if you have questions about the technical documentation or project specifications.
1/24 (1PM), EndNote Workshop (second offering) in YRL RC, Room 11630F
1/25 -- Week 3: The Transformation of the Human Sciences and the Humanities
- Michel Foucault, "The Discourse on Language" (1971), inaugural address to the College de France in: The Archaeology of Knowledge
- Jean-Francois Lyotard, Postmodernism: A Report on Knowledge
- Ramesh Srinivasan, Katherine M. Becvar, Robin Boast, and Jim Enote, "Diverse Knowledges and Contact Zones within the Digital Museum"
- Stephen Ramsay, "Databases," in: A Companion to Digital Humanities
- Lawrence Page and Sergey Brin, "The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web." Available here: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/
- Secondary reading: Todd Presner, "Digital Humanities 2.0: A Report on Knowledge" (available here: http://cnx.org/content/m34246/latest/)
Problem Set #3: How can we connect the practices of DH to the traditions of critical theory (ie, questions of authority and authorship, knowledge legitimation, expertise and credentialing, institutional histories, the nexus of knowledge and power, among other things)? Pick a mature DH project and discuss how it exemplifies (or fails to exemplify) the connection to critical theory.
1/27: YRL Research Commons Open House (11-1) + Grad Student Mixer with DH Faculty (1-2 PM)
2/1 -- Week 4: Radiant Textuality: Transformations of Text and Critical Edition
2/1 (11 AM) – YRL RC Workshop on XML (strongly recommended), room 11630F
- Jerome McGann, Radiant Textuality (selections: pp. 1-28, 53-74, 137-186)
- Willard McCarty: "Finding Implicit Patterns in Ovid's Metamorphosis with TACT"
- Case Studies: The Rossetti Archive (http://www.rossettiarchive.org/); NINES (Nineteenth Century Scholarship Online): http://www.nines.org/; Women Writers Project: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/; Walt Whitman Archive: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/
- Kenneth Price, "Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What's in a Name?"
- Learn about the Text-Encoding-Initiative (TEI): http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml
- Allen H. Renear. “Text Encoding," in: A Companion to Digital Humanities. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/
ASSIGMENT #1 DUE by Friday, Feb. 3: Evaluating a mature DH project. Posted to class blog by the end of the week.
2/8 -- Week 5: The Historical Sciences: Medium and Practice
- Georg G. Iggers, "Historicism: The History and Meaning of the Term," in: Journal of the History of Ideas 56.1 (January 1995): 129-52
- Walter Benjamin, "Convolute N: On the Theory of Knowledge, Theory of Progress," from: Arcades Project (1928-40).
- Alun Munslow, "Deconstructing History"
- Edward Ayers, "The Valley of Shadow" project: http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/
- Digital Harlem: http://www.acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/harlem/
- Suggested additional essays on history and new media available here:
Problem Set #4: Describe the methods specific to investigating historical questions. How would you characterize the changing relationship between narrative and medium? What methods and tools (if any) are not specific or relevant to investigating historical questions?
2/10 (2 PM) – TEI Workshop – YRL RC, room 11630F
2/13 -- 1:30 PM in YRL -"Visualization" workshop with Fredrik Palm of Umea HumLab (and Johanna Drucker)
2/14 -- 1:30 Geo-tools with Yoh Kawano: Google Fusion Tables, Geo-data, and GIS. YRL RC.
2/15 -- Week 6: Distant Readings, Network Analyses, and Data Deluge
- Introductory articles on "culturomics" from Science, "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books" (2010). Available here: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2010/12/15/science.1199644
- Franco Moretti, "Conjectures on World Literature," New Left Review (Jan.-Feb. 2000). Available here: http://www.newleftreview.org/A2094
- N. Katherine Hayles, "How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine" (video)
- Lev Manovich on Cultural Analytics: http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2008/09/cultural-analytics.html
- Lev Manovich, "Trending: The Promises and Challenges of Big Social Data," available here: http://www.manovich.net/DOCS/Manovich_trending_paper.pdf
- Johanna Drucker, Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Winter 2011: v5 n1
- Visualization Tools, such as: Many Eyes: http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/ and Protovis: http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/
ASSIGMENT #2 DUE: Mapping the Digital in your discipline (in teams, assigned in class)
Assignment of Final Project Teams (in-class) and first meetings
2/16 (2 PM) – Copyright Workshop, YRL RC, Room 11630F
2/22 -- Week 7: Thick Mappings and the "Spatial Humanities"
- Selected essays from: David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris, eds., The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship
- JB Harley, "Deconstructing the Map"
- Gregor Kalas, Diane Favro, and Chris Johanson, "Visualizing Statues in the Late Antique Forum": http://inscriptions.etc.ucla.edu
- Digital Roman Forum: http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Forum/
- HyperCities (http://www.hypercities.com) and, specifically, the LA Research Collections: http://www.hypercities.com/LA
- Secondary Reading: Todd Presner, "Remapping German/Jewish Studies: Benjamin, Cartography, Modernity"
Problem Set #5: Has there been a "spatial turn" in your discipline and, if so, how would you characterize it? What's the significance (or insignificance) of spatial analysis (and how is it undertaken) for advancing knowledge in your field? Can you imagine a set of research questions in your discipline that demand spatial analysis? What kinds of tools and technologies would be necessary for pursuing these questions?
2/29 -- Week 8: New Models for Scholarly Publishing, Authorship, and Sharing
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence (read, at least, the chapters on "peer review," "authorship," and "the university"): http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/
- Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular: http://www.vectorsjournal.org/ Please read the introductory editorial statements from several issues and familiarize yourself with a number of projects in your discipline.
- Chris Johanson and Diane Favro, "Death in Motion: Funeral Processions in the Roman Forum," available as multimedia article, with Google Earth models: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jsah.2010.69.1.12
- Roy Rosenzweig, "Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past": http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-media/essays/?essayid=42
- Julia Flanders, "The Productive Unease of 21st Century Digital Scholarship," in: Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.3. (Summer 2009). Available: http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000055/000055.html
- Suggested reading: Christine Borgman, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (MIT Press, 2007) and Christine Borgman, "The Digital Future is Now: A Call to Action for the Humanities" (2009)
In-class team meetings and final preparations for NEH start-up grant projects
3/7 -- Week 9: Intellectual Horizons and Institutional Challenges for 2012 and Beyond
- Johanna Drucker, SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing [selections: Chapters 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, and 3.1]
- Bernie Frischer, “The Ultimate Internet Café: Reflections of a Practicing Digital Humanist about Designing a Future for the Research Library in the Digital Age,” Council on Library and Information Resources, publication nr. 129: 41-55. Available online at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub129/frischer.html.
- Digital Humanities Manifesto: http://www.humanitiesblast.com/manifesto/Manifesto_V2.pdf
Please familiarize yourself with these resources:
- HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Sciences, Technologies Advanced Collaboratory)
- NY Times Series on Humanities 2.0
- MLA Profession: Evaluating Digital Scholarship (2011)
- UCLA Faculty Statement: How to Evaluate Digital Scholarship (2011)
à ASSIGNMENT #3 DUE BY 3/9: A draft grant proposal for a NEH "Digital Humanities Start-up" grant. Your proposal should follow the guidelines set by the NEH and situate your project within the state of your field/discipline.
3/14 -- Week 10: In-class Evaluation and Discussion of "DH Grant Proposals"
We will be joined by members of the DH faculty who will discuss and evaluate the merits of each proposal in dialogue with each group. Each group will be asked to present their proposal for 10 minutes, followed by discussion with the DH faculty and students.


The Imatest Push Interface is a library that allows developers to access the image quality analysis routines available in Imatest via function calls that push images to various modules within Imatest. This library is made available in the form of a C++ Dynamic Link Library (DLL) that is available in Imatest Master. With functions in this library, the developer can start up the GUI of Imatest and push images to modules of their choosing and then Imatest will launch the corresponding module dialogs to begin analysis. In essence, the end-user will see the same GUI as if they had started Imatest themselves, but the developer will have the control to initiate tests programmatically.
With the Push Interface, the developer can push single images at a time to Imatest and have the same analysis modules display, and the same calculations, as in the stand-alone version of Imatest. The following modules can be addressed by the Push Interface:
The Imatest Push Interface is included in the installation of Imatest Master 5.0 and IS 4.0-5.0. The relevant files for the Push Interface are located in the /push_interface sub-folder within the Imatest installation folder. Included in the /push_interface folder are the library and header files, a sample Visual Studio 2008 C++ sample project, and documentation of the library function and enumerated data-type definitions.
- Interface layer has only simple data-types as input parameters
- Shares the same *.ini configuration file as the stand-alone executable
- Can push individual planar, RGB images to Imatest for analysis by any module
- Can refresh an image in an existing module, which bypasses region selection
- Can open and close Imatest
- Push images to Multicharts, Rescharts, SFRplus Setup, Multitest, and other modules
Installing the Imatest Push Interface
The Imatest Push Interface consists of two libraries
|imatest_push_mode_library||contains Imatest library functions|
|Master_push_mode_interface||contains Push Interface functions|
The functions needed for operating the Push Interface are housed in the Master_push_mode_interface library. The Master_push_mode_interface library contains functions that generate the various data structures needed to communicate with Imatest through internal calls to functions in the imatest_is_library.
Note that the Master_push_mode_interface library was built statically linked to the imatest_push_mode_library and thus a header file is only needed for Master_push_mode_interface library. The functions in the imatest_push_mode_library should not be invoked directly.
C++ Header and Source DLL Files:
Imatest IS includes C++ header and source files that you can use to link to Push Interface functions. Header files contain function definitions, enum definitions, and the corresponding function in the source file is used to link into the Imatest function that lives inside of the IS_push_mode_interface.dll file. The C++ libraries and corresponding files are located in the <Imatest install folder>push_interfacelibscpp folder. For questions about function definitions inside of the header file, please write firstname.lastname@example.org.
MATLAB and Image Files:
Imatest also comes with the Matlab Compiler Runtime Libraries v9.2. More information can be found at the MathWorks website. The package also contains image files, which are placed on Imatest generated graphics and dialogs. The /images folder should be placed in the run time directory of your program to avoid errors when trying to display Imatest generated graphics. Additionally, some images used by the sample project are in the /push_interface_sample_projects/Data folder.
How to build an executable that utilizes the Imatest Push Interface
- If not already installed, install the Matlab Compiler Runtime v9.2, which can be downloaded from Mathworks.
- Have the Master_push_mode_interface.h and push_mode_IDs.h in the project directory.
- Update your project with the correct include path to <MCR root>externinclude and library path <MCR root>externlibwin64microsoft.
- Build your project.
Note that the Imatest *.dlls and the /image folder must be in the same directory from which you run your project.
Function prototypes and definitions
The Imatest IS Push Interface is initialized by calling it from within your C++ program. The initialization steps are the following:
- Declare and initialize all variables.
- Call init_imatest() to initialize the library functions and Matlab Compiler Runtime (MCR).
- Call start_imatest() supplying the image, test, and chart data and an instance of Imatest will start and analyze the image.
- Call push_imatest()to push single, new images for analysis in a specified module. Repeat as needed when the image is updated in your program and needs to be reanalyzed.
- Call stop_imatest() to close Imatest IS.
- Call terminate_imatest() to terminate the Imatest IS libraries and the MCR.
- Clean up variables,close files and other resources, and exit.
|init_imatest(void)||This function initializes the Matlab Compiler Runtime (MCR) and Imatest IS libraries as well as supplying the first image.|
|start_imatest(uint8_t* image, size_t imageRows, size_t imageCols, size_t imageColors, eTestID_t testID, eChartID_t chartID, int specialGrayID, int numRows, int numCols)||This function starts Imatest IS, which will then analyze the first image.|
|push_imatest(eCommand_t command, uint8_t* image, size_t imageRows, size_t imageCols, size_t imageColors, eTestID_t testID, eChartID_t chartID, int specialGrayID, int numRows, int numCols)||This function allows subsequent images and test commands to be sent.|
|stop_imatest(void)||This function stops Imatest IS after all queued commands have been dealt with.|
|terminate_imatest(void)||This function terminates the MCR and Imatest IS libraries.|
Note that init_imatest() and terminate_imatest() can be called only once per process.
After terminate_imatest() is called none of the library functions can be called for the duration of the process.
The various parameters in the library functions are defined in the table below. All parameters are simple data types, with the various enumerated data types defined for convenience. The parameter command dictates what type of operation to perform (e.g refresh an existing module with a new image or open a new module to analyze the supplied image). The image is supplied by a pointer to unsigned 8-bit data, image, where the data must be column-major, planar-format RGB ( i.e. [R11 R21 R31 .. Rm1 R12 … Rmn G11 G21 G31..Gm1 G12 … Gmn B11 B21 B31 … Bm1 B12 … Bmn] where Xij denotes color ‘X’ at row i, column j.). The number of rows, columns, and colors in the image are supplied in the parameters imageRows, imageCols, andimageColors, respectively.
The module that Imatest opens is dictated by the testID parameter. The chart captured in the image is indicated by the value of chartID, and in special cases where any of the ‘special gray charts’ are used (Multitest and Multicharts only), additionally by specialGrayID. In the special case where a ‘General m x n ‘ grayscale chart was used, the numRows and numCols must be supplied with the number of rows and columns of grayscale patches. If the value of chartIDdoes not equal either of the special grayscale values, then the values of specialGrayID, numRows, and numCols are ignored.
|eCommand_t command||An enum of type eCommand_t that indicates what type of operation to perform, e.g. eCommand_reload_image_only|
|uint8_t* image||A uint8_t* pointer to an image in a column-major, planar-format RGB array|
|size_t imageRows||The number of rows in the image.|
|size_t imageCols||The number of columns in the image.|
|size_t imageColors||The number of colors in the image.|
|eTestID_t testID||An eTestID_t enum that indicates the what test or module to load, e.g. Multicharts.|
|eChartID_t chartID||An eChartID_t that indicates what chart the image is of, e.g. eMulticharts_ColorChecker_24|
|eMultitest_special_gray_t specialGrayID||An eMultitest_special_gray_t enum that indicates which specific Special Gray chart in Multitest used only with eMultitest_Special_Grayscale. If unused set to an arbitrary integer value.|
|int numRows||The number of rows for the general m x n chart used only in conjunction with testID = eMultitest_Special_Grayscale and chartID = eMultitest_special_gray_general. If unused set to an arbitrary integer value.|
|int numCols||The number of columns for the general m x n chart used only in conjunction with testID = eMultitest_Special_Grayscale and chartID = eMultitest_special_gray_general. If unused set to an arbitrary integer value.|
Enumerated data-type specifications
The various enumerated data-types outlined below are defined in the included file push_mode_IDs.h.
The eCommand_t is an enumerated data-type that list the allowed commands. With the exception of eCommand_reload_image_only, the commands will cause Imatest to close the existing module window and open a new module window. The eCommand_reload_image_only command is meant for situations where the location and geometry of the chart within the image has not changed compared to the previous image supplied to Imatest. When eCommand_reload_image_only is sent, Imatest skips the standard region selection window assuming that all the regions are in the same locations in the new image. For example, if in your program the user is changing the color balance of an image that has already been analyzed by Imatest and then wishes to run the analysis on the modified image, then eCommand_reload_image_only would be appropriate. If the modified image has been cropped or otherwise distorted, then eCommand_load_new_image_only would be appropriate. However, if the new image requires a different analysis module, then the eCommand_load_new_test_and_image command would be appropriate.
|eCommand_load_new_test_and_image=1||Causes Imatest to close the current module (e.g. Multicharts) and load a new module with the supplied image.|
|eCommand_load_new_test_only||Causes Imatest to close the current module and load a module with the existing image.|
|eCommand_load_new_image_only||Causes Imatest to load a new image within the existing module – reopens region selection|
|eCommand_reload_image_only||Cause Imatest to reload the image within the existing module – does not open region selection|
The eTestID_t data-type delineates the Imatest modules that can be addressed by the Push Interface. Issuing a given eTestID_t value will cause Imatest to open the corresponding module dialog. This operation akin to the user pressing the corresponding button on the main window and supplying the image under test.
Note that the value of the parameter testID must be accompanied by a congruent value for chartID.
|eTestID_sfr = 1||Addresses the SFR button|
|eTestID_sfrplus_auto||Addresses the SFRplus Auto button|
|eTestID_sfrplus_setup||Addresses the SFRplus Setup button|
|eTestID_rescharts||Addresses the Rescharts button|
|eTestID_colorcheck||Addresses the Colorcheck button|
|eTestID_stepchart||Addresses the Stepchart button|
|eTestID_random||Addresses the Random/Dead leaves button|
|eTestID_star||Addresses the Star button|
|eTestID_logfc||Addresses the Log F-Contrast button|
|eTestID_wedge||Addresses the Wedge button|
|eTestID_multitest||Addresses the Multitest button|
|eTestID_uniformity||Addresses the Uniformity button|
|eTestID_blemish||Addresses the Blemish button|
|eTestID_uniformity_int||Addresses the Uniformity Interactive button|
|eTestID_multicharts||Addresses the Multicharts button|
|eTestID_distortion||Addresses the Distortion button|
|eTestID_dot||Addresses the Dot button|
The eChartID_t type enumerates the allowed charts for Imatest. For Multicharts, Multitest, Rescharts, and SFRplus Setup, a specific chart identifier must be supplied, but for all others that are specialized to a specific chart (e.g. Wedge, Star, etc.) the value eChartID_none should be supplied.
|eChartID_none||For use when the module does not require a chart ID (All except Multicharts, Multitest, Rescharts, and SFRplus Setup)|
|eMulticharts_ColorChecker_24||Multicharts: X-Rite ColorChecker (24 patch)|
|eMulticharts_DigitaL_TargeT||Multicharts: CMP 003.|
|eMulticharts_QPcard||Multicharts: QPcard 201.|
|eMulticharts_ColorChecker_SG||Multicharts: X-Rite ColorChecker SG.|
|eMulticharts_Grayscale_Stepchart||Multicharts: Grayscale Stepchart (linear)|
|eMulticharts_Special_Grayscale||Multicharts: Special Grayscale Stepcharts.|
|eMulticharts_ChromaDuMonde_28||Multicharts: DSClabs ChromaDuMonde 28.|
|eMulticharts_SFRplus_20_patch_color||Multicharts: SFRplus 20-patch color.|
|eMulticharts_UTT||Multicharts: Universal Test Target (UTT) 9×3 Color.|
|eMulticharts_SpyderCHECKR||Multicharts: SpyderCHECKR 8×6|
|eMulticharts_SMPTE||Multicharts: SMPTE/Hale Color Bars (6 patches)|
|eMulticharts_TE226||Multicharts: TE226 HDTV 9×5 chart.|
|eMulticharts_General||Multicharts: General m rows x n columns.|
|eMulticharts_DreamCatcher_48||Multicharts: DSClabs DreamCatcher 48.|
|eMulticharts_ColorGauge_6x5||Multicharts: ColorGauge 6×5|
|eMulticharts_Rez_Checker||Multicharts: ColorGauge Rez-Checker 6Wx7H|
|eMultitest_ColorChecker_24||Multitest: X-Rite ColorChecker (24 patch)|
|eMultitest_ISO_14524||Multitest: ISO-14524 (last grayscale)|
|eMultitest_QPcard||Multitest: QPcard 201.|
|eMultitest_ColorChecker_SG||Multitest: X-Rite ColorChecker SG.|
|eMultitest_Grayscale_Stepchart||Multitest: Grayscale Stepchart (linear)|
|eMultitest_Special_Grayscale||Multitest: Special Grayscale Stepcharts.|
|eMultitest_ChromaDuMonde_28||Multitest: DSClabs ChromaDuMonde 28.|
|eMultitest_SFRplus_20_patch_color||Multitest: SFRplus 20-patch color.|
|eMultitest_UTT||Multitest: Universal Test Target (UTT) 9×3 Color.|
|eMultitest_SpyderCHECKR||Multitest: SpyderCHECKR 8×6|
|eMultitest_SMPTE||Multitest: SMPTE/Hale Color Bars (6 patches)|
|eMultitest_TE226||Multitest: TE226 HDTV 9×5 chart.|
|eMultitest_General||Multitest: General m rows x n columns.|
|eMultitest_DreamCatcher_48||Multitest: DSClabs DreamCatcher 48.|
|eMultitest_ColorGauge_6x5||Multitest: ColorGauge 6×5|
|eMultitest_Rez_Checker||Multitest: ColorGauge Rez-Checker 6Wx7H|
|eMultitest_DigitaL_TargeT||Multitest: CMP 003.|
|eRescharts_SFR||Rescharts: SFR chart.|
|eRescharts_SFRplus||Rescharts: SFRplus chart.|
|eRescharts_Log_Frequency||Rescharts: Log frequency chart.|
|eRescharts_Log_F_contrast||Rescharts: Log-f contrast chart.|
|eRescharts_Star_chart||Rescharts: Siemens Star chart.|
|eRescharts_Wedge_pattern||Rescharts: Wedge pattern chart.|
|eRescharts_Random_Dead_Leaves||Rescharts: Random/Dead leaves chart.|
|eRescharts_Focus_Score||Rescharts: Focus score chart.|
|eSFRplus_Setup_SFR||SFRplus Setup: SFR chart.|
|eSFRplus_Setup_SFRplus||SFRplus Setup: SFRplus chart.|
|eSFRplus_Setup_Log_Frequency||SFRplus Setup: Log frequency chart.|
|eSFRplus_Setup_Log_F_contrast||SFRplus Setup: Log-f contrast chart.|
|eSFRplus_Setup_Star_chart||SFRplus Setup: Siemens Star chart.|
|eSFRplus_Setup_Wedge_pattern||SFRplus Setup: Wedge pattern chart.|
|eSFRplus_Setup_Random_Dead_Leaves||SFRplus Setup: Random/Dead leaves chart.|
|eSFRplus_Setup_Focus_Score||SFRplus Setup: Focus score chart.|
The eMultitest_special_gray_tenumeration delineates the special grayscale charts that are available in Multitest and Multicharts.
Note that a value from this enum must be accompanied by chartID = eMultitest_Special_Grayscale (or eMulticharts_Special_Grayscale ), otherwise it will be ignored by Imatest. Furthermore, if eMultitest_special_gray_Imatest_Dynamicis used, then the numRowsand numColsinput parameters must be specified.
|eMultitest_special_gray_ISO_14524 = 1||ISO-14524 (OECF 12-patch circular) chart|
|eMultitest_special_gray_QA_61||QA-61 (square pattern) chart|
|eMultitest_special_gray_QA_62||QA-62 (square pattern) chart|
|eMultitest_special_gray_ITE||ITE Grayscale chart|
|eMultitest_special_gray_OECF_20||OECF 20-patch circular chart|
|eMultitest_special_gray_circle||Squares arranged in a circle chart|
|eMultitest_special_gray_ST_51||EIA Grayscale (ST-51) chart|
|eMultitest_special_gray_general||General mxn (m rows x n columns) chart|
|eMultitest_special_gray_Imatest_Dynamic||Imatest 36-patch Dynamic range chart|
Included in the installation of Imatest is a sample Visual Studio 2008 C++ project that demonstrates some of the functionality of the Push Interface using the supplied Imatest DLLs. Specifically it demonstrates loading an image into Multicharts, refreshing the Multicharts dialog with a new image, and then closing Multicharts and opening SFRplus Setup to analyze another image.


Of Books & Tea, Part 2
Some of history’s greatest writers did their best work with the help of tea. Discover them in our three-part series.
Writing is easy, columnist Red Smith once said wryly. “You simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed.”
Even the greatest writers will readily admit that they’ve honed their abilities with a great deal of practice and hard work, which does not, mind you, mean that they turn out page upon page of pristine prose. In the words of Ernest Hemingway: “The first draft of anything is shit.” Penning a masterpiece takes work, dedication, time, and, for many authors throughout history, plenty of tea.
Part 1 of our three-part Books & Tea series covered Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Saul Bellow – if you missed it, read it here. Read on for the stories of three more authors who made tea part of their daily writing rituals.
C. S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia author who once said, “You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me,” described his perfect work day in detail. Strict timing, a disciplined schedule, and the punctual arrival of good tea were a given:
“I would choose always to breakfast at exactly eight and to be at my desk by nine, there to read or write till one. If a cup of good tea or coffee could be brought me about eleven, so much the better. […] At one precisely lunch should be on the table; and by two at the latest I would be on the road. Not, except at rare intervals, with a friend. Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. […] The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four. Tea should be taken in solitude […] for eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”Source
Simone de Beauvoir
Like C.S. Lewis, the writer and philosopher whose legacy includes influential feminist treatise The Second Sex was known for her disciplined work ethic, though de Beauvoir confessed to not being much of a morning person. Every day, though, she kick-started her creative cycle with tea:
“I’m always in a hurry to get going, though in general I dislike starting the day. I first have tea and then, at about ten o’clock, I get under way and work until one. Then I see my friends and after that, at five o’clock, I go back to work and continue until nine.”
Source / Image
The literary giant behind timeless classics Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm took tea so seriously, he published an essay in the Evening Standard newspaper in 1946 on the proper preparation of tea, an 11-point treatise imploring readers to drink only out of cylindrical cups, not use strainers, and never sweeten tea. “How can you call yourself a true tea lover if you destroy the flavor of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt,” he declared.
Orwell wrote his hugely influential and chillingly prescient novel Nineteen Eighty-Four on the wee island of Jura in the Scottish Hebrides, huddled in a poorly heated cottage that was beaten by the howling sea winds, suffering from ever-worsening tuberculosis. In his drive to “get that bloody book finished” with a deadline from his publisher looming, he refused to leave the island to seek medical attention. Eventually too weak to walk, he finished his most famous work in bed, subsisting on mugs of strong tea and hand-rolled cigarettes.
The book was published the following June and became an instant success. Seven months later, on January 21, 1950, Orwell died at age 46.
Source / Image: Vernon Richards


Previous edition: 2014.
Originally published as: Principles of anatomy and physiology, .
"The content provided in this textbook is based on Tortora and Derrickson's Principles of anatomy and physiology 15th edition . John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd." --Title page verso.
Accompanied by supplement: Tortora's principles of anatomy & physiology : study guide / Gerard J. Tortora, Bryan Derrickson. (Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ).


|The REMU Library|
REMU has a library of magazines and books of interest to recorder players, plus a large number of musical scores and parts. The library is maintained by Ron Ward. See How To Borrow for borrowing terms and conditions.
|Early Music||A quarterly Journal published by Oxford University Press. It was founded by our own John Thomson and has continued to be published. We have over 65 issues spanning 1973 to 1995. Unfortunately there are some gaps due to borrowers failing to return items|
|Early Music New Zealand||A quarterly founded in 1985 and continuing until December 1987, edited by Adrienne Simpson and others. We have most editions.|
|The Piano-Forte||The history of the piano up to the Great (UK) exhibition of 1851. By Rosamund E.M. Harding (A substantial book). Published by Gresham in 1978|
|Treatise On Harmony||By Jean-Philippe Rameau, translated by Philip Gossett. Published by Dover in a 1971 edition of the 1722 publication.|
|The Recorder Player's Handbook||By Hans-Martin Linde, translated from the German by James C. Maden. Published by Schott 1962.|
|Vestiva I Colli||By Palestrina, edited by H. Capilupi. Five part (SATTB). Six scores. Includes voice parts in English and Italian.|
|Zefiro Torna||By Marenzio. Six playing handwritten scores of four parts (SATB). Includes voice parts in Italian.|
|Zefiro Torna||By Alfonso Ferrabosco Six copies of the five part score. Hand written and 9 pages long. Includes voice parts in English and Italian.|
|Chi Salira per Me||By Wert, edited by Ariosto? Five copies of a four part score (SATB). Includes voice parts in English and Italian|
Much of this music was gifted from other players. Some of it is in editions that have since been superceeded - often by later editions compiled by better editors.
Most of the music is for recorders, or playable on recorders with minimal adjustments to parts. The collection includes works that may not be exclusively for recorders (eg Holbourne's complete PGA collection) but which can with minor adjustments be played by recorders.
Ron has indexed the collection on composer, editor, date of composition, title, and numbers of parts.
We do not publishing an index for several reasons. Direct contact enables Ron to advise you about the quality of the copy and transmission issues that may affect your borrowing. Please contact Ron direct by email or phone 64 4 970-8420 for any enquires.
It may not be essential for people to borrow directly from the collection. It can also be used to find where a particular tune or work is available. If someone wants to find a theme from say Beethoven's 9th then Ron can tell them the tutor book in which it may be found.
The collection currently consists of:
|Solos||1039 solos for various recorders|
|Duets||280 duets for various recorders|
|Trios||455 trios for various recorders|
|Quartets||466 quartets for various recorders|
|Quintets||135 quintets for various recorders|
|Sextets||27 sextets for various recorders|
|Septets||Three septets for various recorders|
|Octets||Four octets for various recorders|
|Accompanied||201 compositions for Recorders with other instruments|
|Keyboard||28 compositions for keyboard only|
|Symphonies||One symphonic score|
The library is available to REMU Members, and to members of the NZ Society Of Recorder Players. Because of the fragile state of some of the items, Ron reserves the right to restrict borrowing.
There is normally no charge for borrowing, apart from postage and packing. Charges for loss or damage will be applied.
Please contact Ron Ward by email or by phone 64 4 970-8420 to arrange a loan.


6 edition of The truth about college found in the catalog.
|Statement||Will S. Keim.|
|LC Classifications||LA227.4 .K45 1997|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||171 p. :|
|Number of Pages||171|
|LC Control Number||97021803|
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George and Ruth Krauss have made a lot of memories at their 156-acre property in an untamed stretch of Routt County just east of Toponas.
They bought the land from a rancher in 1977 and built a cabin on it in the early 1980s. Ever since, it has served as the Krauss family’s high-country retreat: a place to immerse themselves in nature, recharge the batteries and appreciate the simple things in life. They completed an easement with YVLT in the year 2000, ensuring that the property’s striking open scenery and important wildlife habitat on the edge of the Routt National Forest would be protected in perpetuity.
Hot off the printing press, George and Ruth just released a book titled “Toponas Cabin Journals” documenting their family’s experiences at the conserved property. The book was compiled from 12 volumes of hand-written journal entries covering a period of over 30 years, providing a deeply personal and heartfelt look into their daily lives. It also includes a special section featuring the family’s favorite recipes for cabin meals.
To commemorate YVLT’s deep ties to the property, George and Ruth honored YVLT with a copy of Toponas Cabin Journals at the book launch party.
To purchase a copy of your own, contact (303) 674-0670 or P.O. Box 244, Toponas, CO 80479.


ICAN (International Cesarean Awareness Network) is an organization dedicated to the prevention of unnecessary cesarean sections, helping women recover (mentally and physically) from cesarean section, and advocacy for Vaginal Birth After Cesarean--VBAC. The Southwestern PA chapter serves women and families in the greater Pittsburgh region. We hold monthly support meetings where mothers can come and share their experiences in a safe and validating environment. Our meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM.
January, March, May, July, September, November meetings are held at the Pittsburgh Toy Lending Library.
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Contact us today with any questions!
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I was searching for resources on leadership development that resonate with the studies I have done throughout the past 13 years or so. This is not easy to do. Most Christian authors seem to write with a particular paradigm that does not seem very compelling to me, let alone Christian. Then, one day, I happened upon a new book published in May of 2016, Transforming Pastoral Leadership: Reimagining Congregational Relationships for Changing Contexts by Quentin Kinnison. I was stunned and captivated. I could not stop reading. I think I found what I would call a truly excellent theology of leadership. The first part of the book shows where the other main paradigm fails miserably. The rest of the book shows another way. I was so grateful to finally find a book I could wholeheartedly endorse for leadership from a Christian perspective. Curious, I wondered, who is this author? Upon further investigation, I discovered he is an Associate Professor at Fresno Pacific University. This was astonishing because I was sitting in Fresno at the time! I was at Link Care for rest and Link Care is in Fresno, California! So, I emailed Quentin and he was gracious enough to host me on his campus for a lunch and visit. We share so many common passions around this topic, and I implored him to consider how this book might be adapted for the African context. To be continued...
I Forgive You...I Think...
When someone hurts you, what do you do? What is the Christian response? There are many great resources on forgiveness. This is one that spoke to me recently: The Book of Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu. They outline a fourfold path that I found to be useful: Tell the story, name the hurt, grant forgiveness, renew or release the relationship. This book is embellished with many riveting personal stories the authors tell about how they forgave even in the face of extreme injustice or trauma.
Having spent over 25 years in higher education now, I am always interested in the intersection of faith and academics.
This book, Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey into Christian Faith by Rosaira Butterfield, fascinated me on that level. It is written by a woman who was a tenured Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at Syracuse University and who was also in a lesbian relationship. She served as the faculty adviser for four gay student groups. She was intrigued by why Christians seemed to hate gays, so she decided to do her own research. I won't spoil the story for you, but I will say that the book includes a speech she gave to incoming freshman during which she "came out" as a Christian. The speech is thought-provoking, intelligent, and compelling. The speech itself is worth the cost of the book.
Book Club Time!
My daughters and I all own this book now (25 Books Every Christian Should Read: A Guide to the Essential Spiritual Classics, edited by Julia L. Roller. We intend on reading some of these books (or at least excerpts from them) and discussing them even while I am in Africa. I can't wait.
In fact, we read the last one first, or at least I was the first one done. It is The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen. This is a spiritual look at the story of the prodigal son, with layers of insight. I loved it.
The last two I'll mention in this post are books I read to understand the change in culture. Peter Enns, in The Sin of Certainty, calls us back to the mystery of God. We do not have to have all the correct knowledge to be vibrant followers of Christ. I am afraid the modern era, with all its enlightenment and scientific method, led Christians to think they had to prove everything. This book calls me back to the mystery of God, and it is freeing.
Church Refugees: Sociologists reveal why people are DONE with church but not their faith by Josh Packard with Ashliegh Hope
Perhaps an unintended response to the book called the Rise of the Nones (referring to people who select "none" for religion in a survey), this book explores the growing phenomenon of the increasing numbers of people who are just "done" with church, but who still follow Jesus. This is a must read for anyone in the US.
That's it for my reading summary. I promise to write about something other than books next time...
Thanks for reading.


I’ve received several requests for help with installation of the USBGuard framework on Debian/Ubuntu based systems. I thought that the existing generic instruction (Documentation/Installation) would work, but after I installed a virtual Ubuntu 14.04 machine to try them out myself, I found out that they might be hard to follow for users which are not used to compile and install upstream sources – and search, compile and install sources of the required dependencies.
On Ubuntu 14.04, for example, there’s no package for the sodium library. The available NaCL library can’t be used because it lacks some of the high-level API that libsodium implements and which is used in USBGuard.
Therefore, I’ve decided to bundle the qb and sodium libraries and added ./configure options that allow to use the bundled libraries on systems, where they aren’t available as installable packages. That should be, of course, an exception and the as soon as the libraries become available, you should recompile USBGuard to use the packaged version instead.
To make it easier still, I wrote a short how-to compile & install USBGuard for Ubuntu 14.04 users. It should work for other *buntus and on Debian too, I hope – please let me know, if that isn’t true). The document needs some polishing and I will work on it further.
The most up-to-date version of the how-to can be found here.


Lawrence Chewning is a Christian songwriter, recording artist, and speaker who has shared the message of Jesus Christ for over four decades. His most well known compostions are the Ray Boltz standards, "The Anchor Holds" and "At the Foot of the Cross".
Lawrence grew up in rural South Carolina, the son of a cotton farmer, ginner and merchant. He accepted Christ as his Savior at his boyhood church when he was eight years old. After graduating from high school, Lawrence moved to Anderson, Indiana where he attended Anderson University, majoring in Religion and Social Work.
In Feburary 1970, a spontaneous spiritual awakening occurred in the city of Anderson which resulted in a fifty day revival, consisting of three services a day. Hundreds of people accepted Christ during this time, warranting a full page story in the Chicago Tribune. Lawrence was very active in this revival, traveling on weekends with other students to various parts of the nation in order to give their testamonies.
In the summer of 1970, Lawrence banded together with several other friends and began traveling full time. They called themselves "The Fishermen", and within a couple of years they evolved into a music group featuring original songs penned by Lawrence. During this time, Christian music was experiencing a breath of fresh air as young people began to write and sing of their love for Jesus in a more contemporary style. The Fishermen became part of this movement and began performing in coffee houses, college and high school campuses, Jesus festivals and outdoor concerts throughout the Midwest, the South and the New England states.
During one of the Fishermen concerts at a Christian coffeehouse in Hartford City,Indiana, a teenager named Ray Boltz accepted Christ. Ray went on to become an award winning Christian recording artist.
The Fishermen, and a later band called Lawrence Chewning and Eastland Band, recorded three collections of original compositions in the 70's, working closely with Andrae Crouch and Gary S. Paxton. Lawrence has since recorded six additional solo albums and a DVD of a live concert.
Beginning in 1979, Lawrence co-pastored a non-denominational church in Massachusetts for sixteen years before relocating to his native South Carolina. The year prior to the move South, he penned a song entitled "The Anchor Holds". This song was written during a time of discouragement and personal sadness after his wife suffered her third miscarriage.
Ray Boltz heard about the song, collaborated with Lawrence to write a shorter version, and in 1994 recorded it on his "Allegiance" project. Later that year "The Anchor Holds" was released for national radio airplay and quickly climbed to the #1 position on the Inspirational charts. The song remained in that position for three weeks and was later featured on the WOW 1996 project, which was a collection of the thirty top songs of the previous year. In 2003 "The Anchor Holds" was featured on Bill and Gloria Gaither's"Red Rocks Homecoming" and performed by Donnie Sumner. It has also been recorded by Karen Peck and New River, as well as Jimmy Swaggart. Ray Boltz later recorded three more of Lawrence's compositions, specifically "At the Foot of the Cross," which peaked at # 3 on the Inspirational charts, "I Wouldn't Go Back", and "Carry On".
Lawrence has conducted several Christian songwriter retreats with Lynn DeShazo, a well respected and prolific writer of woship songs and has appeared on the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
From 1994 until 2018 Lawrence Chewning was employed by the State of South Carolina as a social worker, serving at various times as a foster care worker, Child Protective Services intake worker, and for twenty years as an adoption specialist.
Since his retirement as a social worker, Lawrence has become free to accept more speaking and singing engagements and pursue his calling full-time. His most recent recording, entitled "Living in the Shadow" is scheduled for release in August, 2018.
Lawrence and his wife, Trish, reside in Florence, South Carolina. They have three grown children and two grandsons.


This week Channing and I helped kick off Disney’s Magic of Storytelling campaign, an ongoing initiative aimed at inspiring imagination and a lifelong love of reading. We went to a special event at our local Disney store to join Elena of Avalor in reading our favorite books!
While we were there I got to interview a member of the Royal Guard. Jorge Diaz voices the character of “Gabe” on Elena of Avalor and shared with me what it’s like to be a part of such a ground breaking animated series. He also talked about how his own life was inspired by books his mother read to him as a child.
Books are so important to fostering the imagination and learning about new ideas and cultures. I can’t wait until Chan starts reading on her own. I think she’s going to be reading EVERYTHING. Do you have a kid who’s really into books? I think I have one, she just doesn’t know it yet.
“We are so proud to have donated more than 57 million books through our long-standing collaboration with Disney,” said Kyle Zimmer, president and CEO of First Book. “Each year, the excitement around the Magic of Storytelling campaign grows, inspiring millions of individuals to help us bring much-needed new books to children in need.”
Here’s how you can participate in Disney’s Magic of Storytelling campaign:
- One for One Book Donation: Disney will donate one book to First Book for every eligible Disney book purchased at a Disney Store or participating retailer during that store’s participation window. (A list of eligible Disney books and participating retailers are available at magicofstorytelling.com.)
- Share a Shelfie: Disney will also give one book for every “shelfie” — a selfie photo with a favorite book or in front of a bookshelf — shared on Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #MagicOfStorytelling.
- Disney Story Central: Users of Disney’s digital reading platform can download digital books designed for parents and children to read together. Disney will donate one book to First Book for every book read in the app.
- Magic of Storytelling Sweepstakes: Consumers can enter to win a library of 400 Disney books for their school and a personal library for their home in the Magic of Storytelling Sweepstakes. For every sweepstakes entry, Disney will donate one book to First Book. To enter the sweepstakes and for more rules and information, visit magicofstorytelling.com.
- In-Store Events: Celebrate Disney Reads Day on February 4 at Disney Store, Barnes & Noble, and participating retailer locations nationwide. Families and fans can enjoy free family-friendly events like story time, coloring and activity sheets, and themed “shelfie” stations. A full list of participating Disney Store and retailer locations is available at magicofstorytelling.com.
The program kicked off this month with a PSA narrated by Emma Watson, star of The Walt Disney Studios’ upcoming film “Beauty and the Beast,” coming to theaters on March 17.


History defined is simply the past. A passage of time that continually advances and never ends. Our long-awaited future arrives, then departs for the past. So…history is, what it was.
My intention is to trace the history of the United States objectively and not to interpret subjectively, except within my comments. Our national story is a significant undertaking of sifting and sorting through many facts of past events, people, and cultures. I expect an immense range of drama, truth, and opinion from many sources, and its history cannot be interpreted through the mindset of the 21st century but needs to be considered through the perception of those who lived before us. Prejudice and criticism cannot exist here because lives and events from the past were different. Judgment and morals were different. Our reality today is not the same reality to those who came before us, so the purpose of this study is to satisfy my curiosity through discovered insight and meaning in my nation’s history.


In 2008, two of us — Urs and John — published a book called Born Digital. We’ve had two opportunities to update the book since then, first for the paperback edition in 2010 and again in 2016. Now, in 2019, we are working on a related project that will focus on parents as the core audience. The next edition of the book will be entitled Born Digital: The Parenting Guide (Basic Books, forthcoming). As we review the latest research, we will share ideas and insights and test the advice that researchers suggest that parents follow.


STAR WARS >> A Song of Ice and Fire AU
Mad King Sidious still sits the Iron Throne.
It’s been twenty years since Lord Qui-Gon Jinn of Winterfell, Lord Obi-Wan Kenobi of the Eyrie, and Lord Bail Organa of Storm’s End flew their banners against the Mad King, and lost.
It’s been twenty years since Prince Anakin vanished — presumed dead, defeated by his friend-turned-enemy, Lord Kenobi.
It’s been twenty years since Princess Ahsoka fled across the Narrow Sea, to faraway lands, to self-exile, fearing her father’s wrath after pledging her support to the failed rebellion.
No one knows what, precisely, triggered the rebellion. No one knows what occurred between Lord Kenobi and Prince Anakin to make them enemies. No one knows what happened to Lady Padmé of Highgarden. Under the Mad King’s rule, no one dares to ask.
Though protected by his loyal Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, Ser Vader (whose face none have laid eyes on), and staunchly supported by Lord Tarkin of Casterly Rock, Sidious’ legacy is meaningless without heirs.
Lord Bail Organa understands this and bides his time. He readies his men to someday rise again. He can wait. When Lady Mothma of Highgarden steps into her father’s role, he senses a shift in the winds. Mothma no longer supports the ruler in King’s Landing as her father once did, and Bail knows she hopes to avenge her beloved sister, Padmé. Behind the flowered walls of the well-renowned garden, Mothma enlists the help of Ser Draven and begins to raise an army.
To put a final end to murmurs of rebellion, Sidious greenlights a plan guaranteed to keep the Seven Kingdoms under his thumb. Lord Tarkin both funds the project and tasks his maester, Orson Krennic, to oversee it. Facing a dead end, Maester Krennic seeks his former peer, Galen Erso, who left the Citadel years ago to marry Lady Lyra of Riverrun. When Galen refuses, Krennic convinces Tarkin to lay siege to Riverrun. In the ensuing battle, Lady Lyra is killed, Galen is captured, and their missing daughter presumed dead.
Lord Bail’s time to revolt finally comes years later, when a sailor flees Lannisport bearing a grave message. Upon hearing of it, Lady Mothma and Ser Draven send his best knight, Ser Cassian Andor, to locate the message. Taken in by the volatile Saw Gerrera and his Brotherhood Without Banners, the sailor is unreachable — until Ser Cassian tracks down the long-lost Lady Jyn of Riverrun and convinces her to help. The rebellion is then horrified to learn of Sidious’ devastating secret: a seemingly infinite store of weaponised wildfire. Lady Jyn and Ser Cassian lead a mission to infiltrate Casterly Rock and steal the schematics for this weapon in hopes of uncovering a way to combat it.
Hiding in a small boat in Lannisport harbor, Lady Leia of Storm’s End is ready to retrieve the plans. Her attempt to flee Tarkin’s ships forces her north, and a terrible storm carries her even further adrift, until she finds herself far beyond the Neck, further North than she’s ever imagined. With no other choice, Leia heads to the Wall, to Castle Black, where her father has promised her she can find his old friend, Lord Kenobi.
Far away, beyond the Narrow Sea, the Dothraki Sea, and the Red Waste, another force rises. The wind carries whispers: Princess Ahsoka lives and plots to depose her father once and for all. Rumors burn hotter than wildfire: the princess has tamed three dragons, and she’s finally set her sights on Westeros. Whether she’ll ally with Bail’s rebellion remains to be seen.
Luke Snow knows little of the political machinations playing out in the lands far south of his home. All he knows is the hardship of winter on his aunt and uncle’s farm outside Winterfell. He longs to take the black and join his friends on the Wall; the Night’s Watch is said to be the most noble of callings. Yet his aunt and uncle refuse. “Your father was defeated in combat,” they tell him. “Farming is safer.” “Just till the end of the season.” All too soon, his wishes are realized. Though the Night’s Watch meets few of his expectations, he finds a mentor in the Lord Commander Ben Kenobi, who discovers an even greater evil than Mad King Sidious festering far beyond the Wall.
When the cold winds of the North fling rumors of both Leia and Ahsoka at his door, piling like drifting snow, Ben Kenobi must face a harsh truth: the prophecy Prince Anakin believed in is true, and now his sister and his children must rise above the game of thrones and meet their destiny in a song of ice and fire.
A new hope is coming.


Make America Green Again
Go see a Cairo-practor.
he came running jk rowling
Because he was too far out
Don't know why I was carrying it around in the first place.
we can use coughy filters
Ever since, all I can think about is how to win her back.
I guess thats whats I deserve for having a Pure bread dog
Her: knock knock Me: who's there? Her: eye lo Me: eye lo who? Her: eye lo you This is isn't funny but I had to share my lil 2 year old's first knock knock joke
The teacher isn't there on time. A few minutes passed, and she still hasn't arrived yet. James kinda figured, while the teacher was away, he ought to keep writing his novel he's been working on, about cats. James' dream is to become a big shot writer with the desire to have a best-seller. He's written and sent in books before, but no luck. He's tried written short stories, children's stories, poems, and even a few attempted novels. However, none of those were considered good enough to publish. However, this next story that he has planned, he figures it's gonna be HUGE. It's the story about a runaway cat, told from a first-person view of the cat himself. The cat is supposedly trying to figure out how to return home, and how to survive. After giving it much thought, and after receiving the feedback from the other failed attempts, he decided to put his all into his book. It'll be a smash hit. After about fifteen minutes, the teacher finally shows up to first period. The teacher apologizes, "Sorry, I'm late. My dumbass boyfriend doesn't know how to properly set an alarm clock." Upon hearing those words, a light bulb suddenly went off in James' head. Boyfriend… clock… that's it! That's the perfect story! During class, he decided to try and take notes as to the concept of the book in itself. So far, he has the idea of a guy falling in love with an analog clock, something about how digital clocks are about to go outdated, and that he feels nostalgic by them and doesn't want them to fade away… that's what he's come up with so far. Yeah. A story about a guy that has a sexual relationship with an analog clock. It's a strange story, he knows, but he feels it's quite an original story, to the point where it will definitely put him over the top, WAY more than his cat story he's been working on. Once he gets home, he puts way more time and effort coming up with the characters, the plot details, and so on and so forth. Finally, by the time he has to go to sleep, he's already completed two chapters. A few weeks later, he's already completed the book. He's so excited about what he's written, where he feels like a big shot. He feels this will definitely be the book that brings him to success. It's well-written, has great structure, and he feels that he wrote the main character enough to where you'd actually empathize with his romantic relationship about the clock, and why exactly he wanted to marry the clock in the first place. He titles the book "Holding Hands". He sends it in to the first publishing company. A few days later, he gets a call, saying that it was one of the worst things they've ever read. Feeling distraught by this, he decides to try again with a different publishing company. However, a few weeks later, he's given the exact same statement, that it was terrible. He tries over and over again, but nothing really seems to happen. Finally, he decides to give it one last shot. One more publishing company, and if they reject it, he'll scrap the book entirely and possibly resume the cat story that he originally had his eyes on. He sends it in, and… no one contacts him. Days later, not a word. Weeks pass, months. A few years, even. By this point, James has already graduated high school and went to college for writing. His cat story was also rejected, but hopefully he'll be able to write a masterpiece once he graduates and gets his degree. By now, he's also married and has a child on the way. Suddenly, out of the blue, his phone rings. He couldn't believe it. It was the publishing company from a few years back! He answers the phone. "Hello?" A woman answers, "Hello, is this James?" He affirms. She says to him, "I'm just calling to let you know that we've recently read your book you sent us, "Holding Hands"." He says, "Yeah. It's about fucking time."
Because he hated his dam job.
A lovely man. A terrible cabinet maker.
You add Spring water.
Those are the the pie rates of the Caribbean
When I was a young boy, I was walking down a gravel road with my grandpa. I accidentally took a misstep and fell to the ground, cutting my knees. Grandpa gently bent down and began to clean the wound, removing the little pebbles now embedded in my skin as I cried. I'd always heard adults talk about it, but I finally knew what they were talking about. I'll never forget the pain of my first case of kid knee stones.
Because it's an emergent sea.
To be an organ donor
Check the news, The bullet is in critical condition
Looking at it now, I see why.
so I tried it. It doesn't.
Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He’s not breathing so his friend calls 911
''My friend is dead! What should I do?" The operator replies, "Calm down sir, first make sure that he's really dead." There's a silence, then a loud bang. Back on the phone, the guy says, Ok, now what?
Happy Mother’s Day!


Shamanic fiction is also called “living fiction.” It means you're not reading the same-old-same-old stories. These stories are coded with dynamic, powerful, transformative and healing intent. While spiritual in nature, these books are not a fictional exercise in preaching. On the contrary, the pulsating wisdom draws you into the story so that you forget that you are staying up way too late as you turn page after page. Once you have experienced living fiction, you want nothing else. I've been writing this kind of fiction for a decade and my readers love to shout from the rooftops: “It's Alive!” I offer four such novels below. Enjoy...
A Hundred Ways To Sunday
+ Guided Drumming CD
Mary Margaret Hathaway has been told by shamans the world over that she is The One. If only they had been willing to tell her what The One is supposed to do. Following synchronicities like breadcrumbs, she comes to her true beginning on the Navajo reservation in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. With the desert to test her, she meets teachers in the form a 5-year-old boy, a 108-year-old-man, and a host of others in between. A story of the arduous journey to becoming who we really are, A Hundred Ways To Sunday offers hope for everyone who believes there is something more to this world than what our five senses can reveal. A true love story, the healing intent of this story is to help make sense of what often feels like a “wild goose chase” path and open our heart, mind and soul to an expanded reality.
To order this book and/or CD, Click Here.
Attorney Giona Lloyd died for two minutes when she was in law school. She saw no white light, but she did cut a deal. Dr. Angus Lukeman is dying, yet a hopeful reprieve comes from an other-worldly message passed on by a child. Both Giona and Luke must go to Ireland to pass a test they failed in their last lifetime. Together, they find a mythical community in an ever-shifting reality. Though love is the temptation, each must determine what is real and who will succeed at the expense of the other. A story to inspire our path, the healing intent of this book is to open the mind and heart to a greater awareness of the “dreamtime” and to restore trust that a Divine Plan is working in our lives at all times and in multiple dimensions. To order this book, Click Here.
Venus For A Day
Leap and the net will appear. That’s what Sydney Wellington’s best friend advised just before she died. Now, a year and a half post-leap, Sydney’s run out of both money and hope. Going to bed with a prayer to “any god or goddess listening” to somehow make this next day different than all the days gone by, Sydney’s prayers are answered by a great host of deities from a wide range of traditions, with the witty and often vicious Venus leading the pack. What begins as a fun little bargain to nab the hot guy living five boats down the dock becomes a race to the death between a has-been Goddess and a real woman in the making. A passionate story that begins as “chick lit” and soon become deeply probing, the healing intent of this book is to restore a proper relationship to our beauty and body and resolve such issues in a profound way. To order this book, Click Here.
The Mayden Chronicles is a first-draft, chapter-by-chapter work of shamanic fiction. Written and posted--unedited--in real time, this blogsite also hosts videos from Robin about the creative writing process that went with each chapter. The intent was to help young writers (who would fall in love with the mutli-media aspect as well as the storyline) see that all writing starts out with a meager first draft! As it turned out, adults loved it just as much as teens! This story is now complete in first draft, and will be part of a three-book series. The Storyline: Julie Mayden is a wealthy, wild, and B–O–R–E–D 16 year old, until she meets two 88-year-old shapeshifting sisters who offer to teach her the Old Magic of their lineage. Have two hot great-grandsons and a family talent for shapeshifting into wild animals only sweetens the lure. With both magic and wisdom, Old Bea and Miss Anna teach Mayden more than she could ever have dreamed possible. But at what cost? To read “The Mayden Chronicles” (free online), Click Here.


May 23, 2002 at 7 pm
Studio Sylvie Proidl
"The sun scratches outside ..."
Reading by Dimitris Lyacos "Nyctivoe"
and paintings by Sylvie Proidl
The German translation of the book "Nyctivoe" by the Greek poet Dimitris Lyacos was presented in the framework of the 53rd Frankfurt Book Fair's focus on Greece in 2001. This is the poet's first book to be published in German (ctl-Presse, Hamburg). Dimitris Lyacos currently resides in London.
Lyacos tells the story of Nyctivoe in the form of a dramatic poem that is reminiscent of Rilke and Celan, yet joins ranks with the great Greek lyricists of the 20th century. It recalls certain myths from antiquity but never loses touch with today's world.
The interdisciplinary nature of this event was underscored by the artist Sylvie Proidl, who visually translated the book's subject matter into delicate calligraphic art dealing with transitoriness. Dimitris Lyacos introduced his book and read - in both Greek and German along with the translator Dr. Nina-Maria Jaklitsch - selected excerpts from his work. A discussion with the guests and Greek refreshments rounded off the evening.


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In general, most book and photocopies of journal articles, as well as DVDs, CDs, and microforms, can be obtained through Interlibrary Loan.
Moreover, the following kinds of materials are not ordinarily obtainable from other libraries:
- Complete issues of unbound periodicals.
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African American History Month celebrated during Lubin House event
March 23, 2011
Cheryl Wills, the award-winning New York 1 News anchor and reporter who now adds author to her list of achievements came to Lubin House to discuss her new book Die Free: A Heroic Family History.
Die Free is the true story of Wills' journey as she sought to trace her family lineage and discovered that her great-great-great grandfather, Sandy Wills, proudly and courageously served in the Civil War as a member of the United States Colored Troops. "It's empowering to know that one of your fathers did something so amazing, and so powerful," says Wills. "This book is finally honoring him, and indeed, the entire African American experience. Where the unsung heroes, they should be recognized for the wonderful things they've contributed to the United States of America."
Wills' use of a gospel choir during her program ensured the audience stayed engaged from start to finish. Indeed, the energy of spiritual music filled the Pergament room and had attendees clapping along. The half hour discussion was followed by and a Q & A session and book signing.
The event was presented by The Office of Program Development, in association with the Friends of Syracuse University and the Latino Alumni Network of Syracuse University.


Ola Al Tai is a student at Qatar International School, and one of the founding members of the THIMUN Qatar-Afghanistan Initiative. She provides a recap of our second online meeting with students from around the world, including a growing number of students in Kabul.
As our second session of the QLC Afghanistan project commenced, we were all very excited and eager to not only spread our MUN knowledge, but to also engage in a political discussion with these students. Their mentality and view on issues continues to shock and impress us all.
Our session began by reviewing country research. We use a collaborative Google document in which all information can be compiled and accessed by all members of the project. Research is one of the most important skills to acquire in the MUN world. It enables a delegate to speak and represent their country with a huge amount of compassion and confidence as a result of their extensive research. The concept of research is quite a foreign entity to our students in Afghanistan who have yet to have been exposed to various resources and mediums in which they can research such as libraries or the Internet. However we all agreed on one thing: “Knowledge is power.” Not only is this phrase applicable in MUN but in life as well, especially in the lives of these students.
Next we moved on to our questions and answer session. In an effort to initiate a discussion panel between everyone, we had questions prepared to ask the students in Afghanistan. Their answers truly blew us away; they speak with such articulation and wisdom of those beyond their years. Amongst the topics discussed were changes to be made in the educational system in Afghanistan, without any hesitation one of the students stated that she would like to see a curriculum which isn’t heavily reliant on textbooks and memorizing information, rather one that encourages students to think on a broader scale and explore different areas, much like the IB system.
In addition to this the importance of the role of women in the growth of Afghanistan was discussed. It was very refreshing to hear not only the females in the group stress the importance of a woman’s role but the males agreeing to this as well. This is a testament to how alike we all are regardless how far away we live and different the lives we lead are. At MUN conferences we discuss the empowerment of women as well as granting women and men equal rights and this is exactly the kind of plans these students are passionate about implementing in their nation in years to come.