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It was originally created as a personal Bible study site by Allan McNabb, who is the owner and sole webmaster. At present, he preaches for the South Livingston congregation of the church of Christ.
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When using the resources on BibleStudyGuide.org, please use the Berean method of Bible study (Acts 17:11). Only believe the teaching after you find it to be true, as taught by God in His word.
House to House began in 1994 with the idea of having churches of Christ throughout the world cooperating to seek and save the lost through direct mail. HTH is a bi-monthly publication that has grown to a circulation of nearly 3 million. It is distributed by over 1,100 congregations in 48 states and 8 foreign countries, and has been translated into four different languages. It has surpassed the circulation of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Oprah Magazine, and the USA Today.
Preachers and teachers often use HTH in their lessons. The President has quoted from it in speeches, and Jay Leno has once featured an issue. Church members use HTH as a conversation starter for countless door-knocking campaigns.
At one time owning a Bible was illegal for the ordinary person, believing it was worse, often resulting in torture and death! Bibles were copied and shared with brethren, they could not be purchased so the only way to have one was to copy the scriptures illegally from a friend. This way for centuries the word of God, the Holy Scriptures, were shared in the vernacular language until the age of printing, and then later, the Reformation. The church of Christ existed prior to the Reformation and were the only people to have the Bible except the Roman Catholic Church who kept it hidden. These pre-Reformation Bibles were the basis for Tyndale's printed English translations (1526 updated in 1530) and from there, the basis for the King James Bible (1611). In 2011 the Anglican Church made much about the King James Bible, but they were amiss in not giving credit to Tyndale, a member of the Lord's Church and also forgot to mention they too at one time would burn a person for owning the Bible. This web-site is a history of those people who kept the Bible alive during the Dark to Middle Ages and later, brethren who called themselves - The Church of Christ.
The Christian Courier is a journal dedicated to the investigation of biblical doctrine, Christian evidences, and ethical issues. The Christian Courier is published in two formats: a monthly, printed edition and an online electronic edition.
The first printed edition of the Christian Courier was published in May of 1964 by Wayne Jackson and the East Main Church of Christ. It continues under the co-editorship of Jason and Jared Jackson.
The online edition began in October of 1998 with the objective of developing an online library of information that would strengthen Christians by supplying quality, biblically-sound materials that were easily accessible around the globe.
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The title for this complete study is "Rays Of Light." It was chosen because each lesson contains only one small "ray" of the complete "Light" available from the inspired Word of God. The preparation of these individual studies led to the compilation of this series of Bible Lessons. I sincerely hope that they will be as beneficial to you as they have been for me.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! XDoclet is an open-source code generation library which enables Attribute-Oriented Programming for Java via insertion of special Javadoc tags. It comes with a library of predefined tags, which simplify coding for various technologies: Java EE, Web services, Portlet etc. Attribute-oriented programming (@OP) is a program-level marking technique. Programmers can mark program elements (e.g. classes and methods) to indicate that they maintain application-specific or domain-specific semantics. For example, some programmers may define a "logging" attribute and associate it with a method to indicate the method should implement a logging function, while other programmers may define a "web service" attribute and associate it with a class to indicate the class should be implemented as a web service.
Building non-proprietary solutions on top of portals is easy with the new portlet API specification and the open source Jetspeed portal server. In this book, Linwood and Minter describe the new portlet API, including security, lifecycles, configuration, and personalization. Several example portlets are developed to give the readers hands-on portlet experience. Linwood and Minter also discuss integrating the open source search engine Lucene with the Jetspeed portal engine, content syndication and RSS, Web services for Remote Portals (WSRP), and single sign on. Because most readers will be integrating their existing systems into a portal, the book covers porting an already written application into the portal environment.
How do developers bring existing applications into a portal? How do developers integrate content management systems and search engines with a portal? And how do developers get started with the Portlet API? Jeff Linwood and Dave Minter show you how to solve these real problems in Building Portals with the Java Portlet API. This book describes the new Java portlet API, including security, portlet life cycles, and portlet interaction with servlets and JSP. The examples will work on any portal that complies with the JSR-168 portlet API. Several example portlets are developed to give you hands-on portlet experience. You ll even learn how to port existing servlet and JSP applications into a new portal environment. The authors also discuss Single Sign-On (SSO) using Kerberos and the GSS-API, syndicating content with RSS, and integrating a charting solution with JFreeChart. Other topics covered are the open-source Apache Jakarta Lucene search engine, personalization, portlet configuration, portlet preferences, and Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP). XDoclet is also used throughout portions of this book.
HIGHLIGHT The first comprehensive guide to developing web portals and portlets with Java Portlet 2.0. DESCRIPTION A 'portal' is a browser-based container populated by small applications called 'portlets'. Good portlets need to work independently, but also communicate with the portal, other portlets, and outside servers and information sources. Whether they're part of internal or web-facing portals, high-quality portlets are the foundation of a fast, flexible, and successful development strategy. Portlets in Action is a comprehensive guide for Java developers with minimal or no experience working with portlets. Fully exploring the Portlet 2.0 API and using widely adopted frameworks like Spring 3.0 Portlet MVC, Hibernate, and DWR, it teaches portal and portlet development by walking the reader through practical examples that incorporate key features and challenges. The accompanying source code can be easily adapted and reused by readers. KEY POINTS • Complete coverage of Portlet 2.0 API • Extensive code examples • Complete coverage of Spring 3.0 Portlet MVC and the Liferay portal server


The range of the Johnson Family’s antislavery involvement is extraordinary. Rowland Johnson’s roles are probably the most prominent. In addition to serving as an officer of the Junior Anti-Slavery Society, he was a member of the Association of Friends Committee on Requited Labor, secretary of the Upper Delaware Ward Anti-Slavery Society, a member of the Vigilance Committee of Philadelphia (who protected freedmen’s rights and resisted slave-catchers), a founder of the Longwood Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (who were militant abolitionists and whose participants included Oliver Johnson, Sojourner Truth, and Bartholomew Fussell among many others), and a Vice-President of the American Anti-Slavery Society (whose other officers included William Lloyd Garrison, Samuel May, Lucretia Mott, Robert Purvis, Thomas Garrett, and Wendell Phillips among other renowned abolitionists).23 Israel H. Johnson was also a founder and officer of the Junior Anti-Slavery Society, a manager of Philadelphia Free Produce Association (which boycotted the products of slave labor), a supporter of the Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons, a manager of the Institute for Colored Young Men,*** an officer of the Friends Association of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity for the Relief of Colored Freedmen, and a manager of the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons. 24 Elizabeth R. Johnson, sister of Rowland and Israel, was a member of the Germantown Freedman’s Aid Association and a contributor to the Ladies Union Bazaar Association Fair For the Benefit of the Colored Orphans Asylum25; Henrietta (Wolcott) Johnson, M.D., Rowland’s wife, was a founder of the Longwood Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends26; and Mary (Marshall) Johnson, Israel’s spouse (whom he married in 1872), was a supporter of the Colored Orphans Asylum and a “liberal contributor” to the Home for the Aged and Infirm Colored Persons.
23 Junior Anti-Slavery Society of Philadelphia, “Preamble and Constitution of the Society,” undated bound volume (ms.), Historical Society of Pennsylvania; American Anti-Slavery Society, Third Annual Report, May 10, 1836; Vigilance Committee of Philadelphia, Minute Book, 1839-44, July 17, 1839, Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, Proceedings, 1853, p. 6; 1854, pp. 3,4,6; 1855, p. 3; 1856, pp. 43f; American Anti-Slavery Society, Annual Report, 1859.
24 Philadelphia Free Produce Association, Minutes of the Board of Managers, 9/20/1845, cited in R.K. Nuermberger, “The Free Produce Movement,” p. 36; Home for Destitute and Colored Children, Minutes of the Board of Trustees, No. 1, 1856-1932, 6/23/1858 and 2/18/1870, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College; Friends Association of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity for the Relief of Colored Freedmen, Circular, November 18, 1865, HSP and Statistics of the Operations of the Executive Board of the Friends Association, etc. Philadelphia, 1864/65; Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons, Annual Reports of the Board of Managers of the Association, 1864-67; Emlen Institute for the Benefit of Children of African and Indian Descent, First Report of the Trustees of the Emlen Institute, Philadelphia, 1873, pp. 1, 14; Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons, Broadside 12/30/1876, HSP.
25 Germantown Freedman’s Aid Association, Minutes of the Meetings, Vol. 2, p. 18, Germantown Historical Society.
26 Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, Proceedings, Philadelphia, 1853, p. 4; see also Albert John Wahl, “The Congregational or Progressive Friends in the Pre-Civil War Reform Movement,” unpublished Ed.D. dissertation, Temple University, 1951. Henrietta (Wolcott) Johnson was an activist in a range of causes: see, for example, her membership in the American Female Medical Education Society, The First Annual Report of the American Female Education Society. Philadelphia: James A. Bryson, 1854, p. 2; other members included Lucretia Mott and Joseph Dugdale.
***The Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons was a Quaker organization organized in 1789 in Philadelphia to operate a charity school for black adults. The Association provided free adult education to blacks until 1904 when it was dissolved and its assets were transferred to the Institute for Colored Youth. The Institute for Colored Youth was later renamed Cheyney University.
SOURCE: United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service National Form 10-900 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Rev. 8-86) OMB No. 1024-0018
In 2015 Johnson House voted to become an empathetic representative in the community – championing challenges directly, or, through other established entities — and formally
launched the CSA. CSA expands our programs by serving as “a place to engage the community, facilitate shared conversation, build advocacy, and act to address
contemporary issues that negatively impact communities.
Mission: Educate, train and empower everyday citizens in the Germantown area and beyond to address racial and human justice issues
Vision: Increase leadership capacity through education and advocacy to decrease racial and human injustices
Strategy: Build on the knowledge, history, and present day experiences of Johnson House and our community partners to increase the number and capacity of leaders who are or want to
work on human and racial justice issues.
Actions: Train, mentor, support, evaluate debrief, reflect


This community houses work produced by South Dakota State University graduate students. The collection includes both born digital ETDs, and digitized versions of printed theses and dissertations from 1883 to 2012.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Identifying Data Centers from Satellite Imagery, Adam Buskirk
Power Management of Remote Microgrids Considering Battery Lifetime, Santosh Chalise
Reflectance-based Calibration and Validation of the Landsat Satellite Archive, Sandeep Kumar Chittimalli
Investigating Grassland and Cropland Conversion Decisions in the Dakotas, 2015 Producers Survey and Analysis, Md Niaz Murshed Chowdhury
The Endophytes of Pediomelum Esculentum: A Unique Case in Legume Evolution, Tyrel Ryan Deutscher
Corncob Grit Application as an Alternative to Control Weeds in Two Crop Production Systems, Mauricio Erazo-Barradas
The Effect of NBA Free Agency on Player Utility, Austin Erikson
Evaluation of Essential Oils (Stay Strong) for Dairy Calves, Kelly Ann Froehlich
The Effect of Copper and Zinc Source on Pre-Weaning Performance of Cows, Health and Performance of Suckling Calves, and Post-Weaning Feedlot Performance, Carcass Composition, and Meat Quality of Calves, Jesse Fulton
Role of Exopolymeric Substances in Biofilm Formation on Dairy Separation Membranes, Nuria Garcia-Fernandez


The Living Library methodology presented in this guide aims to create constructive personal dialogues between people who would normally not have the opportunity to speak to each other and thus challenge common prejudices and stereotypes. It is particularly suitable for large scale public events, such as festivals and other gatherings attended by hundreds or even thousands of people. The Living Library is essentially an opportunity for intercultural learning and personal development aimed at people who have little or no access to or time for non-formal educational programmes.
This guide is published by Council of Europe, intended to provide support and direction to Living Library organisers in Europe. The guide has drawn upon the knowledge and experience of Living Library organisers from across the continent, many of whom have been working with the concept for over 10 years.


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Covid-19 Vaccine Myths vs Facts
WCHD will be at different sites around Warren County this upcoming week at several local libraries offering Covid-19 vaccine. The vaccine clinics include:
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Starfield Colony War
20 years before Starfield’s campaign, the Settled Systems were at war. Here’s everything we know about the Starfield Colony War.
In 2310 AD, the Starfield Colony War between the United Colonies and the Freestar Collective concluded. The uneasy peace between these two factions has lasted for 20 years as of Starfield’s starting date, 2330 AD.
But what started the war? What was it about? How did it end? Is the war over, or is this peace merely a prelude to an all-out faction war? Be sure to read our full guides on the United Colonies and Freestar Collective to decide whose side you want to stand on.
The Starfield Colony War’s history
As one of the major historical turning points in the Starfield universe, the Colony War had a huge impact on the Settled Systems. It is unknown when precisely the Colony War began, only that the largest military power in the Settled Systems, the United Colonies, and the independence-loving Freestar Collective came to blows. Ultimately, the Freestar Collective won and were allowed to retain their independence from the United Colonies.
Starfield Colony War Inspiration
Previous Bethesda titles have often drawn on ideologies, historical events, and counterparts as the basis for their numerous factions. In this particular case, the United Colonies – the largest military and political power of its time – faces off against a colony that refuses to come into the fold – the Wild-West-esque Freestar Collective.
The Colony War, from its main participants, bears a passing resemblance to the American Revolution. Between 1775 and 1783, the British Empire was at war with the Thirteen Colonies, and the colonies, much like the Freestar Collective, won.
This is only speculation, but the parallels between the Colony War and the American Revolution do have some crossover.
Starfield Colony War participants
The two major players in the Colony War were the United Colonies and the Freestar Collective.
The United Colonies are an idealized space republic and considered the most powerful military faction in the Settled Systems. They are a collection of colonies ruled from New Atlantis on the planet Jemison, and likely consider any threat to their sovereignty as top priority.
Conversely, the Freestar Collective is a confederation of three star systems. They are less interested in expansion than they are in personal freedoms and justice. Any who threaten their independence can expect a firm and deadly response.
Starfield Colony War factions
As of 2330 AD, 20 years of peace have passed. Both the United Colonies (UC) and the Freestar Collective (FC) share a common enemy in the Crimson Fleet, but hunting down pirates is unlikely to smooth over tensions between the UC and FC.
It has already been confirmed that you can join any and all of the Starfield factions, including the Crimson Fleet. As a result, the Spacefarer might find themselves having to choose a side.
Bethesda’s Fallout 4 contained four major factions: The Minutemen, The Brotherhood of Steel, The Institute, and The Railroad. Siding with one meant war with the others, and Starfield could follow a similar path.
If true, you might want to read up on the major players in the Colony War like the United Colonies and the Freestar Collective, or you might prefer to skip the conflict entirely and set up a quiet outpost somewhere far away from a Starfield revolution.


Gardeners World – The Science of Gardening
Carol Klein invites us into her garden to unearth the science beneath the muck and magic of gardening.
Carol has been a passionate gardener for over 30 years and, like many gardeners, she's fascinated by what's going on at a deeper level when it comes to her plants. So, Carol turns her beloved garden into a living laboratory and plays host to scientific experts who help her to explore, analyse and observe her soil, compost, seeds, weather, leaves, and flowers.
Carol asks the questions to which many gardeners want answers: Why don't my seeds germinate? How does compost work? What is photosynthesis and why is it important? What happens when we prune a plant? How do insects see flowers? And how can I work out which plants should go where in my garden?
Carol shows that by understanding the science behind gardening, we can all become better gardeners and grow more beautiful and more bountiful gardens.


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Steven Lomazow and I met at the little café and bookstore, Shakespeare and Company on the Left Bank of the Seine in Paris, France. It is affectionately called the “Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart” and is perhaps the most famous English-language bookstore in the world — a storied gathering place of 20th Century literati (Baldwin, Hemingway, Pound, Joyce, Huxley, Wilder, Lawrence, Fitzgerald, Miller). Steven was awestruck to be where so much literary history has taken place and it was fitting to talk with him here since he is a passionate historian, co-author of the Bibliography of American Literature in Periodicals and curator of what is considered by many to be the finest accumulation of American periodicals, the Lomazow Collection.
Steven likes to say he is a “neurologist by trade and an historian by passion”. He has a fulltime medical practice and a second passion for history and collecting periodicals. He is also a medical and World War II historian. All this is just for starters. Steven is the co-author of FDRs Deadly Secret that reads as a medical mystery he solved; is the author of articles published in peer reviewed medical journals; is researching the history of cancer care and philanthropy; is writing another Franklin D. Roosevelt biography “the way it was”; keeps two blogs; writes and speaks on medicine; is a national trivia champ; serves on the National Council of the Norman Rockwell Museum; is a Trustee of the FDR Library and Museum. (See below in RESOURCES for more detailed information and links.)
I wondered how many hours are in his day, surely more than twenty-four.
For our StudioSeeds conversation I focused on Steven’s passion for collecting magazines and periodicals. His highly-respected Lomazow Collection (also known as the American Magazine Collection) is admired by those in the know and mere mortals alike. It dates from the first periodical to use the word “magazine” in 1731 until today.
SUZE BIENAIMEE: Steven, so good to have you on StudioSeeds. As you know, StudioSeeds is for conversations to explore inspiration and creativity in artists, poets, geeks, environmentalists, scientists, doctors, historians, collectors, philosophers, etc. You cover many of those bases! For our conversation on StudioSeeds.com we will focus on your magazine and periodical collection. I ask you, Dr. Steven Lomazow, what inspires you?
STEVEN LOMAZOW: The short answer is magazines and the hunt for them, however, a passion for collecting is deep in my DNA as I learned recently while watching a Steven Spielberg produced, USC Shoah Foundation video on YouTube of all places. My aunt, Dr. Helen Fagin, was interviewed and she revealed her father, my maternal grandfather, after whom I am named and who perished in the holocaust, “was a collector of books and periodicals”. (My mother never told me; holocaust survivors rarely speak about the details of that time.) This connection to my grandfather is huge as so much family and history was tragically lost; it still chokes me up when I think about how collecting is an important connection to my grandfather and I’ve discovered an insatiable curiosity goes with it.
My passion began at about age eight when my father, who in his youth was a stamp collector, introduced me to collecting stamps and coins.
When I was a kid, I spent hours putting coins in the change machines at the local laundromat to hopefully find coins for my collection; In those days there were still rare nickels and dimes to be found in circulation. I would put a quarter in the machine and sometimes I would get a rare coin or two.
I lost interest in stamps and coins as a college student when the challenge of obtaining new items hit the inevitable financial barrier that confronts collectors and also, there were few surprises left to find.
After entering medical school in Chicago in 1972, I decided to spend my spare time searching for antiquarian medical books. By pure serendipity, a local dealer on Clark Street showed me a first issue of Life magazine as well as what seemed an innocuous “first issue” of Look.
He said: “this is the first issue of Life with a Margaret Burke-White photo on the cover.” It was her classic picture of Fort Peck Dam, so I bought it for five or ten dollars.
Then he said: “here’s the first issue of Look.” It was complete with documentation showing it was, indeed the first issue; Herman Goering is on the cover.
For me, the problem was that inside, it was identified as Volume One, Number TWO!
When I asked why, the dealer couldn’t tell me, saying: “nobody knows, but some think it was pornographic and pulled off the market.”
So the mystery of “Look, Volume One, Number One” got me hooked! From that point, my goal has been to collect the first issue of every important American periodical or at least, a representative copy. I’m not picky about the condition, if something is the only surviving copy, I’m not about to sniffle about that or a smudge or wrinkle.
Look, Volume 1, Number 1, was my first “holy grail”. It took me fifteen years to get an answer to the mystery.
One day I got a call from a fellow who said: “I have something I know you are looking for. I have the first issue of Look.” I said, “no no, no, you have the second issue, volume one, number two”, and he says, “no, I have number one.” That, as you can imagine, got my attention!
He lived at the Jersey shore, so I jumped in my car to meet him. What he wanted from me was a trade and I had a signed copy of the first Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover. He liked it, so we struck a deal. The mystery of the Look, the real Number One was solved. Turns out it was an in-house, pre-publication mock-up issue printed on fragile rotogravure paper. I had it restored and I still have it.
In 1987 my first large acquisition was a major collection of first issues and volumes from the State Street Book Shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Collectors never forget events such as this; it’s very much like the first date with the woman who will be your wife.) Since then my collection has expanded into a “magazine history of America” comprising a compendium of every aspect of American culture as seen through its magazines and periodicals.
It used to be easy to hunt for rare magazines. Every town had one or two antiquarian book stores. I would go to the back of the store and always find the most amazing things on dusty old shelves. Now, with eBay and the internet, the joy of that hunt as well as the musty smell of an old bookstore is an aroma almost totally lost in time.
Learning about each new acquisition is a great thrill. I try to get first and important literary appearances of poets and authors such as Wheatley, Dickinson, Poe, Hemingway, Joyce, Elliot; important first “covers” such as the Saturday Evening Post by Norman Rockwell and even pulp magazines — everything that was published in American periodicals from the beginning to the present.
I also have additional special focus on pulp magazines as they were an important part of American popular culture. Weird Tales, October 1933, with Bat Girl on the cover is a favorite.
I have many favorites, including a Garbo-esque photo of Madonna on her first cover, Island magazine. It is very rare and I found it while walking with my daughter along Broadway in New York City. It was on a street-vendor’s blanket on the sidewalk with other magazines.
Over the last couple of years I have focused on adding magazines from World War II especially the United We Stand campaign from July 1942 featuring the American flag on each cover.
Another reason collecting magazines is fascinates me, is because there is no comprehensive catalog or encyclopedic reference. Nary a day passes that doesn’t bring a new piece of information that enhances my understanding of American history and culture. I also get special pleasure from meeting collectors in all fields and engaging them with fascinating items they may not have been aware of. I surmise this may have started with the pleasure I derived from “show and tell” early in school.
Thanks for choosing me for StudioSeeds. It’s been fun to talk about my passion for collecting!
SUZE BIENAIMEE: Thank you, Steven!
@StevenLomazow, Lomazow Collection on Twitter
LomazowCollection.com — Search the collection as well as very current information and recent additions
AmericanMagazineCollection.com — Another way to access the Lomazow Collection online
Magazine History: A Collector’s Blog by Steven Lomazow, MD
FDRsDeadlySecret Blog by Steven Lomazow, MD
USC Shoah Foundation YouTube video interview with Dr. Lomazow’s aunt, Dr. Helen Fagin, (1917-) education advisor to Elie Wiesel and later appointed chair of the United States Holocaust Council’s Education Committee in charge of developing an educational track for the then future Holocaust Museum. In 1993, President Clinton appointed Dr. Fagin to join the World War II Memorial Committee charged with building a national memorial in the nation’s capital.
ShakespeareAndCompany, also known as “the Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, Paris, France
American Periodicals: A Collector’s Manual and Reference Guide, 1996, Steven Lomazow, MD. A reference respected by professional book dealers and collectors; it. It is referred to as “Lomazow” and something is either in “Lomazow” or not.
Bibliography of American Literature in Periodicals, 19th Century, 1998, Periodyssey Press Periodyssey.com, Steven Lomazow, MD and Richard Samuel West
The Great American Magazine: Adventures in Magazine History, 2014, Steven Lomazow, MD
FDRs Deadly Secret, 2010, Steven Lomazow, MD with Eric Fettmann
Adjunct Professor of History, Kean University, Kean.edu
American Antiquarian Society, AmericanAntiquarian.org
Grolier Club, GrolierClub.org
Ephemera Society of America, EphemeraSociety.org
FDR Presidential Library and Museum, Trustee, FDRlibrary.org
Norman Rockwell Museum, National Council Member, NRM.org
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Dr. Steven Lomazow: Great American Magazine Collection, 1731 – Until StudioSeeds Inspire By Suze Bienaimee
SUZE BIENAIMEE: Leah Umansky! We met at Poets’ Walk in Central Park, New York City and strolled under the lush green, majestic, extremely rare American elm trees arching overhead and I asked Leah my favorite StudioSeeds question: Leah, what inspires you?
LEAH UMANSKY: So many things inspire me like reading, movies, television, and pop culture, but ultimately it’s language and words. Even in regards to the TV Shows I love (Mad-Men, Westworld, Mr. Robot, The Crown, Game of Thrones), it’s really just the words and story of those characters. Their stories relate to our own stories. Also, being a middle and high school English teacher influences my writing, as well, but I rarely write poems about teaching. I’m not quite sure why! I also enjoy going to museums and readings, and when I do, I always take notes either by writing in a notebook or dictating into my smartphone (into a free app called WunderList that I love).
When I write, I almost always write on my laptop. I wish I was able to write poems in a notebook but it never works for me. I think I’m just faster at typing and it just comes easier to me at a computer. I often look at my notes for inspiration, on my phone or in one of my many notebooks and journals, to see where that takes me.
Inspiration can come from anything: a comment of a character on television, something I
Like I said, I’m a big annotator — a big dork in that way. So, when I was reading H is for Hawk, the phrase, “straight away the emptied world” jumped out at me. I wrote it down in my notebook. When writing my last book, I struggled with a title, until I came across that phrase in my notebook. I remember looking through my notes and said hmmm, “straight away the emptied world” is sounds just perfect for this book, and very dystopian.
Even with my Mad-Men inspired poems (Don Dreams and I Dream) and my Game of Thrones inspired poems (The Barbarous Century, forthcoming in 2018), those poems came from pausing the “HBO On-Demand” button. When I realized I was stopping and taking notes, I was sort of shocked. I had never written poems about television before. I thought to myself: wait, why am I taking notes?
When I sat down to write for the week, I looked at my notebook and saw this note: “in my next life, I want to be an ad man” and that was the title of the first poem I wrote for my Mad-Men chapbook, Don Dreams and I Dream.
Inspiration struck in very much the same way with my Game of Thrones inspired poems (The Barbarous Century, 2018). The first note I made was because I was so impressed with Ned Stark. I felt he was such a good and strong man. I longed for that sort of decency. My note was, “I want to be Stark-like” and that inspired my first Game of Thrones poem.
The thing about inspiration is that it has to strike me. It’s not like I can say, okay, today I’m going to write a poem about this or that. I never really know what I’m going to write about.
I read a lot, too, and it often shakes up my language. When I read the weekend New York Times, I underline phrases and words, which often find their way into my writing. This helps me so I don’t use the same words I might gravitate to naturally.
In terms of my writing process, sometimes, I’ll sit down to write one poem which will lead to my being inspired and writing three or four poems. Often, if I’m lucky, one or two are strong. Sometimes, none at all are strong, but I might save a line…
In an odd way, I also find rejections inspiring. I’ve made one major goal for myself as a writer. I don’t beat myself up if I don’t write every week, or if I don’t submit every week, but I do send new poems out the same day I receive a rejection. I try to treat it like a game. Often, if the guidelines don’t state otherwise, I’ll send a new batch of poems to the same journal that rejected me and to a different journal. I think more writers need to do this, especially women. Why not? What is there to lose? I find that treating submissions like a game relieves some of the stress of being a writer. It’s a lot of hard work.
You know, what’s funny about pop culture and social media is that some of my Game of Thrones poems, for example, were really popular when they were first published in Poetry Magazine. There are people I’ve become friends with on social media who have tweeted to me: “watch this show, you will get really good poems out of it,” but that’s not the way it works for me. For example, I love the show, Mr. Robot, but I can’t manage a single decent poem from any of the notes I’ve taken. With HBO’s Westworld, on the otherhand, I’ve had the opposite experience. I’ve written around six Westworld inspired poems so far, and some of them will be published this summer (2017).
I had a poem, This is to Calm You When You Arrive, published in the September 2016 of Slice Literary Magazine. The poem was inspired by a couple of different things, one being the 30/30 writing prompt of National Poetry Month, and by my friend and poet, Kaveh Akbar who solicited submissions for an upcoming issue of Pleiades which will feature Franz Wright inspired poems. I wanted to submit a few, so I gave myself an assignment to read more of Wright’s work and see if inspiration would strike. I ended up writing three or four Wright inspired poems. I’m glad to say that some of those poems have been accepted for publication in journals and/or anthologies this year.
So, the following poem, This is to Calm You When You Arrive, in Slice Literary Magazine came out of that assignment I mentioned, but it was also inspired by a tarot card reading. One of the things the reader said to me in the reading is in the poem.
SUZE BIENAIMEE: Thank you Leah! Words! Yes, they are powerful! I also love that you treat publication rejections in a positive way. Thank you for sharing your inspiration with StudioSeeds readers!
Please connect with Leah Umansky in the COMMENTS section of this post.
The Barbarous Century is forthcoming in 2018 from Eyewear Publishing, UK, a new full-length poetry collection
Straight Away the Emptied World (Kattywompus Press, 2016), a dystopian-themed poetry collection
Don Dreams and I Dream, voted one of The Top 10 Chapbooks To Read Now in 2014 by Time Out New York. (Kattywompus Press, 2014), a Mad-Men inspired chapbook
Domestic Uncertainties, (BlazeVOX, 2012), full-length poetry collection
Leah Umansky is a graduate of the MFA Program in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and a graduate of the MA in English Education – Secondary Education from CUNY- Hunter College. Leah earned her undergraduate degree from SUNY Binghamton in English/Creative Writing, where she graduated with honors.
Translations: Game of Thrones (#GoT) poems have been translated into Norwegian by Beijing Trodheim
Collage-artist: Designed her book covers for Domestic Uncertainties, Don Dreams and I Dream, Straight Away the Emptied World
Anthologies: Read Woman: An Anthology (Locked Horn Press, 2014), The American Voice in Poetry (Poetry Center Passaic County Community College, 2010), Golden Shovel Anthology, (Amazon, 2017)
Journals: Barrow Street, Coconut Magazine, Cream City Review, Forklift, Ohio, Harpur Palate, Lips, Magma Poetry, Paterson Literary Review, Ping Pong, Poetry Magazine, Posit, PSA Poetry Review, Slice Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, THRUSH Poetry Journal, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Poetry Review, Pleiades, Coconut Magazine, Cream City , Harpur Palate and LIPs, The Journal, Queen Mob’s Teahouse
Time Out New York: Don Dreams and I Dream, voted one of The Top 10 Chapbooks To Read Now, in 2014 by Time Out New York
The New York Times Poetry Pairing | ‘Khaleesi Says’ Poem by Leah Umansky, article by Shannon Doyne
USA Today’s Pop Candy, Countdown to ‘Mad-Men’. Read a Don Draper-inspired Poem, The Times, by Leah Umansky. Article by Whitney Matheson
The PEN Ten with Leah Umansky is PEN America’s weekly interview series curated by Lauren Cerand
Flavorwire named Leah Umansky one of the People Who Will Make You Care About Poetry by Jason Diamond
Coldfront Magazine On Poetry & Pop Culture: Lisa Marie Basile Interviews Leah Umansky
Huffington Post Deconstructing the Poetry Goddess by Jill Di Donato. Leah Umansky writes:
My favorite women writers are confessional poets. Of course, there are other kinds. I know tons of poets who do not write about themselves in any shape or form. My first book, Domestic Uncertainties, is a memoir of my marriage and divorce told through poetry. In my Mad-Men and Game of Thrones poems, I’m writing about gender and power through the lens of pop culture. Khaleesi and Peggy or Ned Stark and Don Draper take over. But I’m still in there. The poet’s always there.
— Leah Umansky
PRIZES & SCHOLARSHIPS
Honorable Mention for the 2012 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize sponsored by the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College
Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts studying with Christopher Ricks. She was the recipient of a week-long scholarship, 2010.
Books: Wuthering Heights; The Passion; Mysteries of Pittsburgh; Written on the Body; Station Eleven; The Woman Upstairs; English Patient; Tiny Beautiful Things; All the Light We Cannot See; A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing.
Authors: Emily Bronte; Jeanette Winterson; Carole Maso; Anne Carson, Marie Howe, Andrew Sean Greer, Eimear McBride
Website: LeahUmansky.com for more poems and information
Twitter: @BestAmPo Best American Poetry Blog – live tweets a few times a year
. . .Leah Umansky: Poet, Creator of COUPLET_Series, SuperFan Game of Thrones StudioSeeds Inspire By Suze Bienaimee
SUZE BIENAIMEE: Meet Elizabeth Polanco! She is a dancer, writer, world traveler and Spoken Word Artist. (Spoken Word is an oral art that focuses on word play, intonation and voice inflection.) She has performed her Spoken Word Art and dance at universities in the northeast as member of The Collective.
I had the opportunity to meet Elizabeth at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Strolling through the sub-Saharan African art of the Michael C. Rockefeller wing, I asked her the StudioSeeds question: what inspires you?
ELIZABETH POLANCO: Silence. Time. Stillness. Travel.
Moments of stillness don’t frequently happen in our society, probably because silence has a way of creating anxiety due to the repressed thoughts that may rush in when we finally stop to think. Despite the conflicting feelings, being still can help us reflect and realize what truly brings us joy and peace. Immersed in beauty, I discovered I was meant to explore the hidden treasures of the world.
It all began for me as I sat by the Guadalquivir River in Sevilla, Spain on a Sunday afternoon, sun-gazing at the beautifully potent Sevilla sun. It was the happiest I had been at that point in my life, in stillness surrounded by the most inspiring view I had ever seen.
My adventure in Sevilla was the beginning of lifelong stories I plan to continue writing.
I am the dreams i constructed within the realm of rem sleep.
I am a burst of energy that glided the physical and 5th dimension.
I am present eternal and profound where no words can encapsulate everything i have been, will become and transform to.
Words, language, concepts compartmentalize and oversimplify who i am. I am more than what you see, more than a check box, more than you can discover, more than just a species, i am that i am.
My travels have taken me to Guayaquil, Ecuador; Cozumel, Mexico; La Vega, Dominican Republic; Cahuita, Costa Rica; Montego Bay, Jamaica; Havana, Cuba; Paris, France; Lisbon, Spain, as well as many places around the United States.
I have found joy in assimilating into cultures and the different lifestyles. I once traveled to learn about the culture and society, but now I travel to connect with parts of myself I don’t get to see in my everyday life. As a poet, writer, and dancer, being creative requires digging deep in oneself, examining what makes us uncomfortable and expressing what make us yearn.
My purpose in life is to use my adventures and those I meet along the way to communicate what can’t be intellectualized and must be in form of art. Exploring the world has helped me understand I am not lost when I wander.
The ties, connections, relativity are super natural. The past becomes a sheer moment spent in today that becomes deja vu as if we’ve lived this story or are living out our destiny. Time transpires all dimensions where there are no more resilient memories but actual specs of time playing out in its synchronicity.
SUZE BIENAIMEE: Elizabeth, thank you for sharing your inspiration and purpose with StudioSeeds readers! Wow: stillness, silence, timelessness and travel — all inspiring through your vision.
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WRITING EXCERPTS BY ELIZABETH POLANCO, Spoken Word Artist:
From Ecstatic Corona:
Dance defined me.
Inside my interior reflecting my exterior, i found myself dancing.
It came natural.
It was liberating.
Dancing was not something i paid to learn. It wasn’t something i strategically practiced; working on my posture, doing proper plies, and fitting all the criterias that make up a dancer.
This is not me.
Not even if i secretly lived out someone else’s passion to exist and belong to could i correlate.
I’ve resurrected my memories weakness, defining OUR present illness.
From Children of the Mercy Files:
I grew up in a fantasy of a world that would allow all dreams. I learned that from them. But my innocence was shattered with the reality of my parent’s failed dreams. The fantasy of having possibilities to achieve my dreams became nothing but nostalgia.
I’ll tell you…she has chased dreams that have hypnotized her, blocking out reality. She reaches, and reaches, and reaches but doesn’t reach. She sleep walks. She moves in her rem sleep, not grounded by gravity.
He worked all the jobs he could and experienced what was to be his life until insomnia hit. Now the scabs on his feet, his shortness of breath, and the glaucoma are a constant reminder of his failure. He is now a mere example of lost value, an unacquired profitability in things like education, English language,— all those things that make you marketable in America.
Our happy moments were followed by lashes of anger, and then the ongoing struggle to maintain a family settled like a fog.
MORE ABOUT ELIZABETH POLANCO
MA, International Relations, City College, New York, New York
BA, Sociology, Queens College of the City University of New York
THE COLLECTIVE: Elizabeth Polanco is part of a multimedia collective where she dances and performs her poetry. The Collective has produced Ecstatic Corona and Children of the Mercy Files performed at Sarah Lawrence College, Graduate Center, Barnard College, New York University as well as being featured in the Remix Media Festival and the Left Forum.
Elizabeth is currently working on a memoir of her spiritual journey in finding connections to her African heritage.
You can reach her through the comments section for this post on StudioSeeds.
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Elizabeth Polanco: Spoken Word Artist, Dancer StudioSeeds Inspire By Suze Bienaimee
SUZE BIENAIMEE: Meet Setsuko Winchester, creator the Yellow Bowl Project as a statement about “Freedom from Fear”. She is American-Japanese, a former National Public Radio (NPR) journalist and an artist/ceramist/photographer.
I find her Yellow Bowl Project very important because it brings to light a dark time in the history of the United States of America — hopefully it will never be repeated.
Welcome to StudioSeeds, Setsuko. What is The Yellow Bowl Project and what inspired you?
SETSUKO WINCHESTER: The Yellow Bowl Project is to remember and bring attention to a time during World War II (WWII) when the US government sponsored a program of forcible removal of a portion of the American-Japanese population from their homes and incarcerated them in internment camps.
I wanted to bring attention to the internment because ethnic differences in our US population led to the assumption of a threat to the United States and I decided to express myself using something I love that brings me great joy: ceramics. Ceramics is part of your blood if you are Japanese. There is a pot for every kind of food and every occasion in your life.
For The Yellow Bowl Project I made one hundred-twenty bowls and each represents one thousand individuals who were incarcerated. I glazed them every shade of bright yellow and the yellow represents the “Yellow Peril”, meaning fear of Japanese as it was expressed.
My goal was to visit and photograph the bowls at each of the ten internment camps. I have now completed that goal.
In addition to the camps, I have arranged and photographed the bowls at other places connected to the concept of “Freedom from Fear” which I call “Iconic American Landscapes”: Four Freedoms Park, Roosevelt Island, New York; Four Freedoms Rotunda at the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts; the steps of the United States Supreme Court, Washington, DC; the Memorial to Japanese American Patriotism, Washington DC; the FDR Library, Hyde Park, New York.
By exposing these places of “fear” we can finally exorcise the shame and guilt and move forward rather than blame the victim or shame the oppressors. In other words, I hope we will always remember and try to forgive.
SUZE BIENAIMEE: Setsuko, well said — thank you for reminding us of the importance of remembering and forgiving as well as bringing a tragic time in US history to light; that kind of violation of basic human rights by either individuals or the government of the United States of America must never happen again.
Again, thank you so much for coming to StudioSeeds. I know my readers will find your Freedom from Fear — Yellow Bowl Project very important.
Please connect with Setsuko Winchester in the COMMENTS section for the post.
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YellowBowlProject.com Setsuko Winchester’s website and blog.
Contact Setsuko Winchester — be sure to mention StudioSeeds.
Densho.org Source for information about World War II incarceration of American-Japanese.
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is the true story of one spirited Japanese American family’s attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention . . . and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States. (from the publisher)
Camp Notes and Other Writings by Mitsuye Yamada. An activist, feminist, and poet, during World War II, Mitsuye Yamada’s Japanese immigrant family was forcibly relocated from their home in Seattle, Washington to an internment camp in Idaho. Yamada’s poetry collection, Camp Notes and Other Writings, speaks to that experience of internment — especially as a woman forced to feel like an outsider in her own country — and documents the racial violence and discrimination she and her family faced after World War II. (from the back cover)
George Takei (Star Trek, Heroes) at FDR Library, 3 p.m., Sunday, February 19, 2017 will be speaking of his family’s internment during WWII. Also, he stared in Allegiance, a Broadway musical, 2016. It was inspired by his life experiences in WWII and follows an extraordinary story of a family’s journey from prosperity in Los Angeles to internment in Rohwer, Arkansas.
Setsuko Winchester: In February of 2017, my photographs will be part of a photography exhibition at the FDR Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY. It will be 75 years since Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, which authorized the Secretary of War and any military commander designated by him “to prescribe military areas…from which any or all persons may be excluded.” This paved the way for what would become the mass forced removal and incarceration of all American-Japanese on the West Coast.
List of the ten Internment Camps of American-Japanese from March, 1942 until their closing in 1945 and 1946.
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This is an index covering a mini-series on how to use the Color Specs Tool within FlexiSTARTER 19.
The Color Specs tool is a great tool when you looking at customizing the details and information of colors, it’s a bit like a color managing tool.
PART 1 – Locating Color Specs
PART 2 – The Color Tab
PART 3 – Adding New Colors
PART 4 – Deleting Colors
PART 5 – Editing Colors
PART 6 – Library Add and Remove Colors
PART 7 – Library Find and Match


Series: Cardcaptor Sakura
Author: Sakura Garden
Day two of the Twelve Days of Doujinshi brings us a Cardcaptor Sakura doujinshi that DOESN’T feature Sakura and Syaoran for once! (I love those two as much as the next person, but you can only take so much of how much they LOVE each other, wow.) All joking aside, have a story about Touya and Sakura and their sometimes unhealthy sibling love for one another. Edited by ZippyZippy, typeset and translated by yours truly, and scanned by Melfra! Enjoy!
(And don’t be afraid to pop in and tell us what you want to see next!)


Last weekend I had the honour of launching Tania Ingram and Jennifer Harrison’s new picture book Oma’s Buttons.
This beautifully written and illustrated book has been published by Penguin/Viking.
The story tells of the relationship between a young girl and her Oma as they look through Oma’s button tin. For every button there is a link to a special person in Oma’s life.
The Coventry Library at Stirling is a fabulous space for a book launch and the staff there are brilliant at setting up and then packing up afterwards.
I hope the book does well for everyone involved.


Well, here's your chance. Elizabeth Gilbert- the author of the widely successful book “Eat, Pray, Love” and more recently, “The Signature of All Things” – just listed her renovated “four-over-four” Italianate Victorian house from 1869. Liz brings us on a personal tour of her stunning nine-room, four bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom house in the below video.
The tour includes the magnificent library in the attic, featuring a romantic cupola and 360 degree views of Frenchtown & the Delaware River Valley. Elizabeth wrote two of her best-selling books- “Committed” and “The Signature of All Things”- in this famed room, which was written about in both The New York Times and O Magazine.
The home is listed at $999,000.


Sometimes healing comes by waving the white flag of surrender when everyone else is telling you to stay in the fight.
When it comes to battling fear, you’ve fought the good fight. You’ve read all the right books, prayed the right prayers, and wielded scripture as a sword. You’ve worked hard to renew your mind. But there’s no more fight left within you. You’ve been waiting for all the teaching, preaching, and memory verses to bridge the gap between your head and your heart. Maybe you’ve asked yourself, “What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I get this right?” Perhaps you’re clinging to the cross by two splitting fingernails. This book is an invitation to let go…to fall into your Father’s loving arms and rest.
- Step out of fear and into freedom
- Receive a fresh revelation of God’s love
- Find rest for your spirit
Rest for the Weary includes direct Biblical truth and Christian wisdom from beloved writers including C.S. Lewis, Henri Nouwen, Dallas Willard, Andrew Murray, and more. Come as you are. Drop the battle plan and leave the warrior mask behind. True rest, the rest you have been longing for, is found in his perfect love.


This article is Part One of a Two Part series, and considers the institutional beginnings of TAFE and highlights how TAFE came about and concludes by focusing on TAFES distinctive role.
In this piece Professor Wheelahan takes a closer look at how TAFEs are being funded, and the effects of underfunding.
Jim Stanford reflects on the transformation of the world of work and the importance of TAFE in a changing world.
There is a lot of discussion and debate aboutVET FEE-HELP and VET Student Loans. But are these income contingent loans fair?
Anne Jones looks at how we can design education to nurture the capabilities needed for an active and equitable citizenship in a digital society.


Releasing Cetaceans Back to the Wild
MORGAN - The Rescued Female Killer Whale: Animal-rights actvists try but fail to block the export of Morgan the rescued killer whale to a zoo in Spain in a effort to obtain the animal for an experimential released to the wild.
FREE WILLY! FREE KEIKO? A review of the project until Kieko's death in 2003.
INTO THE BLUE: What ever became of Missie, Silver and Rocky? The animal-rights led Into The Blue project released three non-native bottlenose dolphins into the Caribbean in 1991. The fate of these animals remains unknown.
RETURN TO THE WILD by Dr Randy Brill co-author of the US navy report: Brill, R.L. and Friedl, W.A. (1993) Technical Report 1549: Reintroduction to the Wild as an Option for Managing Navy Marine Mammals, San Diego: Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Centre/RDTandE Division.
THE SUGARLOAF DOLPHIN RELEASES: Ric O'Barry and other AR activists are fined for illegally releasing dolphins back to the wild. Full story, background and links.
EXPERIMENTAL RETURN TO THE WILD OF TWO BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS. Randall S. Wells, Kim Bassos-Hull and Kenneth S. Norris. Marine Mammal Science. Volume 14, Issue 1, pages 51–71, January 1998
REINTRODUCING CAPTIVE DOLPHINS INTO THE WILD. (1994) International Zoo News, Volume 41/3, Number 252.
THE REHABILITATION AND RELEASE OF BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS FROM ATLANTIS MARINE PARK: Gales, N., and Waples, K. : (1993) Western Australia. Aquatic Mammals Vol. 19, No. 2


In Paris between the World Wars (1918-1939), photographers began avidly producing photographs made possible by electric lights. Although painters and printmakers had been representing scenes illuminated by electric light as early as the 1870s, photographers only started to do so in earnest after World War I, at a time when electric light became more widespread.
Instead of relying on the brightness of daylight to make their images, photographers began to create pictures in situations where electric light was the dominant form of illumination. In this paper, I will analyze the ways in which the American expatriate and avant-garde photographer Man Ray investigated the visual possibilities afforded by electric light in the recently electrified photographer’s darkroom.
This paper takes as its focus Man Ray’s series of ten photographs, collectively titled Électricité, commissioned by a French electrical company in 1931. In Électricité, Man Ray combines representations of natural and artificial light sources with ethereal silhouettes of electric domestic goods. Not only does Man Ray’s series visualize light and light sources in a multitude of new ways, but also he made the images using his eponymously named light-based Rayograph process. Rayographs, invented by Man Ray in the early 1920s, were created when the photographer projected electric light through objects placed directly onto light-sensitive photography paper in the photographer’s darkroom, sometimes without the need for an intermediary camera-made negative. Man Ray’s enticing exploration of light both as the subject and medium of this commissioned series has been minimally addressed in the scholarship on this prolific artist. My paper will discuss how Man Ray used the electrified darkroom as a space in which to visualize the symbiotic relationship between light and photography.
Jennifer Friess is a PhD candidate in art history at the University of Kansas where she currently is writing her dissertation entitled “Energizing Paris: Photography and Electric Light in the Interwar Period.” She earned a BFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and a MA in art history from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. She has interned at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland. Her research focuses on the intersections of art and technology in the twentieth century.


Gerry Stellard and Dee Long - Studio 5 - AIR Studios
By the time we were buying our third S900, Akai were at our door offering their latest design, the S1000, for the two of us to create a sample library for. And that’s when we knew we had to give up the Fairlight for good!
All we really wanted was our Series IIX back! Please!
Occasionally I sneak a couple of hours at the LA84 Foundation Library in Los Angeles for my history research. Today was the perfect day to visit, with the Olympics starting in my birth town of London, England. Symmetry.
LA84 Foundation are funded by surplus funds from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. They use the money to keep youth sports alive, through grants, replacing the money that no longer comes from Federal, State, and City coffers. Their library is outstanding, and one of the best sports libraries in the world. Don’t miss it when you visit Los Angeles.
The library also has numerous torches on display from over 100 years of the Olympic Games. The actual Olymic Flame from 1984 still burns in the garden of the foundation on West Adams street in Los Angeles. I understand that all of the flames in the world are all related! I never neglect to touch the flame as I enter and as leave, on every visit. It’s a wonderful feeling. I just wish the Olympic Games were still the high ground of amateur sportsmanship that they were meant to be. Oh well.
Here I am, taking my own candid shot with the flame, this afternoon!
The 1984 Olympic Games flame, and John Jones, July 27, 2012 in Los Angeles.


Rights language is a fundamental feature of the modern world. Virtually all significant social and political struggles are waged, and have been waged for over a century now, in terms of rights claims. In some ways, it is precisely the birth of modern rights language that ushers in modernity in terms of moral and political thought, and the struggle for a modern way of life seems for many synonymous with the fight for a universal recognition of equal, individual human rights. Where did modern rights language come from? What kinds of rights discourses is it rooted in? What is the specific nature of modern rights discourse; when and where were medieval and ancient notions of rights transformed into it? Can one in fact find any single such transformation of medieval into modern rights discourse?
This book brings together some of the most central scholars in the history of medieval and early-modern rights discourse. Through the different angles taken by its authors, the volume brings to light the multifaceted nature of rights languages in the medieval and early modern world.
Table of ContentPreface.- Part I. Rights, Duties and Actions.- 1. Are There Any Individual Rights or Only Duties? On the Limits of Obedience in the Avoidance of Sin according to Late Medieval and Early Modern Scholars; J. Coleman.- 2. Rights and Duties: Late Scholastic Discussion on Extreme Necessity; V. Mäkinen.- 3. Right(s) in Ockham: A Reasonable Vision of Politics; A. S. Mc Grade.- 4. Politics, Right(s) and Human Freedom in Marsilius of Padua; A. Brett.- Part II. Rights and Self-Ownership.- 5. Summenhart’s Theory of Rights: A Culmination of the Late Medieval Discourse on Individual Rights; J. Varkemaa.- 6. Moral Self-Ownership and Ius Possessionis in Late Scholastics; R. Schüßler.- 7. Dominion of Self and Natural Rights Before Locke and After; B. Tierney.- Part III. Towards Modern Rights Theories.- 8. Natural Law and Practical Reasoning in Late Medieval Scholasticism: Shift toward (Early) Modernity; H. Hamilton-Bleakley.- 9. Liberty and Natural Rights in Pufendorf’s Natural Law Theory; K. Saastamoinen.- 10. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Human Rights in Barbeyrac and Burlamaqui; P. Korkman.- 11. The Reasonableness of Lockean Rightholders; S.–J. Savonius.- Index of Names.


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In addition to products, I thought it would be good to include my www.amazon.com
reviews of hair books I've read.
I reviewed Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
by Ayana D. Byrd in November 2010 after borrowing the book from the local library. The review is below.
I picked this book up from my local library and just finished it. It gives a wonder history on African American hair beginning in 1400 in Africa, coming to the Americas and into this century.


IN THE TUNNEL
Trapped in an enemy tunnel,
a young refugee experiences the Korean War firsthand
in this searing story of survival, loss, and hope,
a companion to the Freeman Award-winning novel Brother's Keeper.
Myung-gi knows war is coming: war between North and South Korea. Life in communist North Korea has become more and more unbearable--there is no freedom of speech, movement, association, or thought--and his parents have been carefully planning the family's escape.
But when his father is abducted by the secret police, all those plans fall apart. How can Myung-gi leave North Korea without his dad? Especially when he believes that the abduction was his fault?
Set during a cataclysmic war that shaped the world we know today, this is the story of one boy's coming-of-age during a time when inhumanity, lawlessness, and terror reigned supreme. With only each other, Myung-gi, his mother, and his twelve-year-old sister Yoomee do everything they can to protect one another. But gentle, quiet, bookish Myung-gi has plans to find his father at any cost--even if it means joining the army and being sent to the front lines, where his deepest fears await him.
Can two children escape North Korea on their own?
North Korea, 1950. Twelve-year-old Sora Pak and her family live under an iron set of rules: No travel without a permit. No criticism of the government. No absences from Communist meetings. Don't trust your neighbors. Don't speak your mind. You are being watched.
There is no hope for escape...until war breaks out between North and South Korea. Suddenly, there is chaos, and everyone is fleeing. The Paks' plan to get to freedom is simple: they will walk hundreds of miles from their tiny mountain village to the South Korean city of Busan.
But when a bombing changes everything, Sora must get herself and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, to South Korea alone--across rivers, over mountains, around enemy soldiers and border guards, and even through Pyongyang itself, all while staving off frostbite and starvation. Can two children survive three hundred miles of war zone in winter?
Haunting, timely, and beautiful, this harrowing novel, inspired by the experiences of the author's mother, offers readers a glimpse into a vanished time and a closed nation.


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3 Tools for Teaching Digital Citizenship to Kids
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Teaching digital citizenship is one of the most important jobs elementary librarians have. Giving internet safety and etiquette lessons to younger students is completely new territory in education. Today’s adults didn’t have access to social media or internet interaction when they were in 3rd grade. Today’s elementary students were recently asked to spend a year minimum doing all their learning on internet platforms. No matter your feeling about the age that students should be introduced to the wild world of strangers on the internet, modern kids have been thrust into it. I often tell my students “we’re not going to live in a world where we don’t encounter strangers on the internet, so we need to learn how to do it safely.”
This is where digital citizenship lessons come in. Futurelearn.com defines digital citizenship as “the ability to safely and responsibly access digital technologies, as well as being an active and respectful member of society, both online and offline.” This includes safety, kindness, information literacy, and more. At the kindergarten level, you can even find lessons on balancing time spent on and away from screens, or dealing with big emotions when it’s time to turn off preferred activities. As our children enter into an entirely new way of dealing with the world, we need to prepare them.
This is a great resource for an overall scope and sequence of digital citizenship lessons. Ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade, a huge number of lessons, videos, anchor charts, images, and worksheets are available in different languages, all free with a registered account. I use these lessons ALL the time, and don’t confine myself to the grade levels they suggest. There are amazing videos and songs that support my younger learners, and the lessons for upper elementary kiddos have sparked some of my favorite conversations.
Google’s digital citizenship tools include some really, really cool games. While you’re able to download a curriculum and a pledge that support the 5 main tenets of Be Internet Awesome (share with care, don’t fall for fake, secure your secrets, it’s cool to be kind, and when in doubt, talk it out), the real draw is the highly developed single player games that teach while the students play. My students ask to play these games constantly, and barely realize they’re absorbing important information. I wouldn’t use the games as my sole form of teaching digital citizenship, but they are an awesome hook for many lessons.
PBS Learning Media has been my go to for supplemental videos about holidays and traditions for awhile, but I’ve recently been exploring their Technological Literacy section and there is a wealth for upper elementary students. The huge draw of this site is the way resources are split up by type, which is super helpful when lesson planning on the go — sometimes you need an in depth article, and sometimes you just want a quick video to kick something off. Collections like Things Explained and Above the Noise offer interesting and relevant information geared towards teens but definitely accessible for upper elementary students.
Hopefully you’ve found some resources that will help you bring the basics of digital citizenship to your students or patrons. Looking for more? Check out this list of books to help you become a better digital citizen, and see more of our weekly library features here.!doctype>


If you’re looking to improve your skills in project management, reading books written by experts in the field can be incredibly helpful. Project management is a complex area, and there are many insightful reads that can genuinely help you up your game. To make things easier for you, I’ve compiled a list of some of the most impactful project management books out there.
1. “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries
Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business.
The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital-efficient, and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute.
2. “Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time” by Jeff Sutherland
If you’ve ever been startled by how fast the world is changing, Scrum is one of the reasons why. Productivity gains of as much as 1200% have been recorded, and there’s no more lucid – or compelling – explainer of Scrum and its bright promise than Jeff Sutherland, the man who put together the first Scrum team more than twenty years ago.
The thorny problem Jeff began tackling back then boils down to this: people are spectacularly bad at doing things with agility and efficiency. Best-laid plans go up in smoke. Teams often work at cross purposes to each other. And when the pressure rises, unhappiness soars. Drawing on his experience as a West Point-educated fighter pilot, biometrics expert, early innovator of ATM technology, and V.P. of engineering or CTO at eleven different technology companies, Jeff began challenging those dysfunctional realities, looking for solutions that would have global impact.
3. “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win” by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford
Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It’s Tuesday morning, and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO. The company’s new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety days, or else Bill’s entire department will be outsourced.
With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize workflow, streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited.
In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they’ll never view IT the same way again.
4. “The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management” by Eric Verzuh
Offering a crash course in project management, this book covers essential techniques, tools, and methodologies necessary for successful project execution.
This book is a comprehensive guide to real-world project management methods, tools, and techniques. Practical, easy to use, and deeply thorough, this book gives you the answers you need now.
You’ll find cutting-edge ideas and hard-won wisdom of one of the field’s leading experts, delivered in short, lively segments that address common management issues. Brief descriptions of important concepts, tips on real-world applications, and compact case studies illustrate the most sought-after skills and pitfalls you should watch out for
5. “Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager” by Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore, and James Wood
If you’re struggling to keep your projects organized, this book is for you. If your team is unable to meet your deadlines, this book is for you. And if you’re consistently managing projects despite having no project management training, this book is definitely for you.
Ideal for those not formally trained in project management, this book provides practical advice for managing projects within various professional roles.
6. “Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High” by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
Effective communication is the bedrock of successful project management. This book equips readers with strategies for navigating crucial conversations and resolving conflicts constructively, essential skills for any project manager.
The first edition of Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene and revolutionized the way millions of people communicate when stakes are high. This new edition gives you the tools to:
- Prepare for high-stakes situations
- Transform anger and hurt feelings into powerful dialogue
- Make it safe to talk about almost anything
- Be persuasive, not abrasive
7. “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable“ by Patrick Lencioni
Lencioni’s book delves into the dynamics of team dysfunction and offers practical strategies for overcoming these challenges. Understanding these dynamics is pivotal for project managers aiming to build cohesive and high-performing teams.
Equal parts leadership fable and business handbook, this definitive source on teamwork by Patrick Lencioni reveals the five behavioral tendencies that go to the heart of why even the best teams struggle. He offers a powerful model and step-by-step guide for overcoming those dysfunctions and getting everyone rowing in the same direction.
Investing time in reading these influential project management books can equip you with invaluable knowledge and insights to navigate the complexities of project management successfully.
Each book offers a unique perspective and a wealth of actionable advice that can significantly impact your approach to managing projects.
Whether you’re new to project management or a seasoned professional, the wisdom shared in these books can serve as a guiding light, helping you steer your projects toward success amidst the ever-evolving landscape of business and technology.


Hi! Welcome to part three of my blog series about teaching money in the primary classroom. Today I’ll be sharing 8 books that you can use to tie in literature during your money unit. All books are suitable for primary grades. If you’d like to check out parts 1 and 2 of this series, please click on one of the links below. Be sure to read all the way to the end of this post for an exclusive freebie!
I mentioned this book in part 1 of my money series. This book by Brian Cleary is perfect when it comes to introducing money. It has fun rhymes that are easy for the kids to relate too and shows different ways to make a dollar.
The Coin Book is one of my favorites to incorporate during our money unit. I referenced it during my reinforcing money post. This book introduces coin values and shows you different combinations to represent different values. As you read further along into the book the counting coin value increases.
Once Upon a Dime by Nancy Allen talks about a farmer who discovers that money grows on trees at his farm. This fun concept provides a great way for students to make connections while learning about money.
Pigs will be Pigs is a funny story about a pig family that wants to go out to eat for dinner. This book provides lots of support for counting coins along with some additional practice that can be found in the back of the book.
Lemonade in Winter is a cute story about two kids who try to sell lemonade during the middle of winter. This story will teach kids about early business skills along with counting quarters. It is a great addition to any money unit.
If you want to save these books for later, feel free to pin the image below. You can also check out my Math board on Pinterest for more great ideas.
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Hampshire County Council’s Ringwood Library is celebrating 50 years since its official opening – with a chance connection to the famous Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The album was released in 1967 – the same year the library opened with two members of staff called Mrs Sargeant and Mrs Pepper.
According to the library’s photo records from the period, the two library assistants worked together around the time of the library’s official opening in April 1967 – coinciding with the famous album release, shortly afterwards, in May 1967.
Hampshire County Council’s Executive Member for Culture, Recreation and Countryside, Councillor Andrew Gibson, said: “It’s quite a remarkable coincidence that both Mrs Sargeant and Mrs Pepper worked at Ringwood Library at the same time as the influential and chart-topping Sgt. Pepper album.
Unfortunately, we don’t know much more about Mrs Sargeant and Mrs Pepper, but I’m sure library staff and visitors at the time would have remarked at the quirk of fate.
“Looking back, we know libraries in the 1960s had a strong emphasis on reference books and enquiry work – all set within a very quiet environment until the hand bell was rung to mark the end of each day.
“Today, our libraries are quite different – vibrant, modern spaces with family activities, cafés, public computers and digital equipment as well as the more traditional book borrowing and quieter study areas.
It’s great to see how Ringwood Library has transformed over the last five decades whilst remaining at the heart of the local community.”
The County Council is investing to modernise libraries across Hampshire, in line with the Hampshire Library Service Transformation Strategy to 2020.
This includes new facilities and services such as self-service book borrowing, coffee shops, and digital technology spaces to explore Lego robotics and virtual reality, to help attract more customers and place libraries firmly at the heart of communities.


3rd MARCH 2011
VAMPIRE VINTAGE BOOK ONE : BELLADONNA IN HOLLYWOOD, the debut novel by Alex Severin is out now!
The VAMPIRE VINTAGE SERIES kicks off with a Hollywood Noir vampire tale about the dirt and the glamour of Golden Age Hollywood, about broken dreams and the destructiveness of envy. Follow Belladonna from the confines of her bedroom in the boonies where she dreams of meeting Dracula actor Bela Lugosi, to the dark streets of Hollywoodland where she meets her fate in the form of an irresistible and beautiful bastard of a vampire named Vivant.
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